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Measure Foi* .v*0 ivi Hon
Nuclear Icebreaker
WASHINGTON. IfA-iRep. Tol
fefson 'R-Wash' asked1' Congress
yesterday to authorize appropria
tion of “such sums as’ may be
necessary’- for construction of a
n iM ear-propelled icebreaker.
He estimated thb vessel would
coSt about 40 million dollars.
In an earlier* announcement he
said Stitch a'ship Would be'of in
estimable value id supplying the
DEW line 'Stations and in ant
arctic operations.
Tollefson, ranking 1 Republican
member of the House1‘Merchant
Maritle Coriiipittee, ^ald he con
templates a Vessel capable of
Cruising 100.000' -miles or more
without, refueling.
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Navy Superfconsteila ion
CfMhfc And Burnt
Killing Nine Crewmen
PATUXENT Md., UT- A giant
Navy transport plane, trying to
make an instrument landing at
fog-shrouded Patuxent Naval Air
Station, crashed and burned yes
terday killing all nine crewmen
aboard.
The R 7 V four-engine : Super
constellation made one pass at
the runway and was waved’ off,
witnesses', said. On its second ap
proach; it started in short of the
ruHwfey: Again it Was1 waved off.
The pilot upp- - enf'- tried to gun
the engines' to gain altitude,1 but
the plane clipped treetops as it
started to rise- and went out of
control. It roared through a patch
of frees for a quarter-mile before
smacking tbe'ghound and’explod
ing with a1 tremendous roar.
The resulting fire burned for
nearly two hours.
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Sgt, ‘Dvtyer Reduced In
Rank 1 or Unanttior'y.ec’
Search for “Shangri-La”
WASHINGTON, i-?*—A military
court Tuesday reduced T. Sgt.
David E Dwyer to a staff ser
geant for thucking his duties to
search, 'with his wife, for a secret
“Shangri-La'.'’
The six-officer court also fined
Dwyer $1’05' a month, for three
months, after he’ pleaded guilty to
being absent without leave from
Nov. 24 tp Dec., W, 1057.
The !4'^-year-oid Divyep and his
wife Emily, 47, vanished from
their iforne’'at ‘ Arliqgtdn, Va4
Nhv. 24 after ’telling neighbors
they intended to explore moun
tains and caves around Lurgy,
Va. '
At first his superiors at the
Pentagon'1 in 'the '2044th' AlrWays
and * Communications Squadron
thought he’ had met with physi
cal''
Blit Hfe turned himself -in to FBI
agents at Phoenix, A rib., with the
explanation he and ' is wife had
been heading for a Shangri-La
in Mexico’. The1 "plage' r^e^brtediy
was described big Mrs. E>Wyer as
one unseen by humans for 1,000
years.' "
Dwyer carne here last fall
from Alaska There' he had been
pervme with the Air Poree
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FOR PICKUP
JOE AMAROK, Proprietor
Hugh Wade Files For
Territorial Treasurer
JUNEAU -ii Hugh J. Wade of
JtrnCku' fiks filed a‘S k1' candidate
for re-election1 !ah territorial trda
siirgr on the Democratic ticket for
the ‘ April ’ primary.
: Wade Was area'1 administrator
of thk1 Alaska' Native1 Service1 be
fore .his election to bis first four
year term as treasurer. His cur
rent term expires next Jan. 1.
“I am filing for a job that may
not eirist if the territory reo Wes
statehood from 1" -Congress' ’1 this
year,” Wade said.' “Needless to
sdg, T‘ wotild be pleased if'my
present tferm Whs the last for a
territorial tree as d^feir.*’
Under the 1 already - approved
constitution for the proposed
state o? 'Alaska," the job of oldcted
treasurer would be abolished.
S.Sp t>enetit Claims For
Dependent Children.
Shottin Be i iied by Jan. 31
JUNEAU—Spcial Security ap
plications for dependent children
should be filed by Jan. 31,! ‘ac
cording to’ V C. Cummins. Social
Security district manager, Alaska
SoCial Security insurance has
provided payments to Children of
retired dr deceased Workers since
T040 and some 1700 Alaskan chil
dren now draw monthly SS ben
efits,' 'according to Cummins. 1
However, until January1 1955
the benefits alvags ended at age
i! The new law allows SS bene
fits of Certaih disabled children
to continue after age 18.
To qualify, the ‘child” must
have been dependent: on a retired
or deceased worker, must be over
1R, mentally1, dr physically dis
abled' add unmarried; 'TbA dis
ability must have started before
agl1 18. "'
'For " example, a ' 34-year-old
woman wis invalided as a teen
ager. She has been Supported and
cardd' for by her mother since her
father died five years ago. Her
SS payments, 873.90 month be
gan last January.
Anphprag^ May
Get All Year
Ship Service
SEATTLE, IT—Alaska Freight
Line.' said yesterday that it 'has
brought ’ a 260-foot steel larding
graft from Japan and strength
ened its bow for use p what will
fee an attempt to open Anchorage
to. year-longdelivery of equip
ment and supplies.
With the reinforced bow, the
freight .line said, the’ landing craft
will be used as an icebreaker.'
Alaska Freight also said it has
iron-barked the barges it sends
north pom Seattle .' to Alaska op
twice-weekly 'scMtJule!|. ' ’
If, the experiment is successful,
the company said, the ErficLmg
craft will he used ‘to clear the
way for larges destined for' An
ehorage. Supplies are now landed
at Seward and Valdez during the
winter months when Anchorage
is iced in
During the summer, the land
ing craft will fee ’ used iorcar^o
runs to 'the Aleutian Islanas and!
other fearren beaches without car
o piers.
WEATHER FO \ST
Fair and quite cold tonight and
tomorrow. Temperatures tonight
and tomorrow, expected to range
between minus. 20 and 30 degrees.
t Nome data last, .24 he: r,s as' of
7’ am. today:'Wind it mph.
from the NNW. Hi chest temper
ature. 0, lowest -27. Sunrise at
9r33 a.m., .-unset at 2:50 p.m.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: high 33 in 1926,
low -37 1111,1934.
JMew .Slack Healers At Cavort's
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Tq TJie People qf Nome
We wish to- express our most sincere thanks
to the voters far theii geneiw v, sun cut n i tes
flav s election, it confirms <»ur belitefc that you are
progressive- u d iwaat to make Nome a letter
place to live. YVe shah do our utmost to prove
ourselves worthy of,,..the trust placed hr us.
Nome Telephone Co., Inc.
NORTH STAR LINING ROOM
Saturday, Jan. 18
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Wednesday. January 15, 1S58 THE NOME NUGGET *
7-:~T-; —;-tr~ -7-;
Auto, Industry Leader^ Expected
Reject (JAW Protit faring t*!an
DETROIT MM—Leaders of fhfe
hut?d’ industry’s big three — Ford.
Chrysler and Gehera! Motors-—
have greeted Walter Reuther's
prdfft-sn^Hng ttitlk with stthtp
words that amount to rejection.
A Ford spokesman called the
plan unrealistic. General Motors
president Harlow' H.: Curtice! Said
It was “foreign to the ebneept Of
thri AiAbrrcan fenteVpriki Ay^
tertt.” 'L.' lit' Col her t, president Of
Chrysler, said it was inflation
ary./1 .
Fbr' a different reason, the
United Auto Work'ers Utl’.on chief
PI so appears headed for opposi
tion frdrn Within his oW*n Union.
The reason. Says -Carl Stellit'd,
4 Caw ••minority” leddcir, is' :Hat
Reuther turned his back bn1 de
mandin'^ a shorter Work Week in
favor of trying for a profit-shar
ing plan in this summer’s bar
gaining.
fetellntol"president of Fobd Lb
cal 600, the largest local in the
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hi sia To Hunt fr or Oil
Iri Northern Vfchar stan
HEW DEI.H:. T.-The Soviet
Union is going! to explore for oil
in northern Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s embassj announ
ced' the Afghan Ministry of Mines
and Industries sighed an oil ex
pl or a ti bh1 here rmer.t w i t h the So
vie.t TechnP Export 'organization
on .Ian. 7. Tt gave no details.
The signing apparently whs the
fblldwup on an ( agreement an
nounced by Moscow radio "ldsi
July 30' When King Mbhaihrriea
Zahir Shah of Afghanistan_visited
Moscow.
-A i. —B—M-J- A - -
UAW, said: '
“You can bel there Will be
plenty of opposition to the Idea
oh' tHe floor' of * the convention—
and I’ll be thebe.”
"The TJAW will convene Jan. 2?
to give forma] approval to the
union's goals in 1958 bargaining
sessions.
■Reutherh plans would give nft
ployes 25 per cent1 of a ctMn^kn'yW
profits above M per cent of net
capita] before timse*.
Arrothet- 25 iHrefet 'WbuM gb
to car buyers in the form of r<*
balds. The rest -- 56 pbfc cPht^
wduld bV keht by' the fcdhipahy,
’ R'ehfhet- said-' Wage ‘'Mfcrea^s^
he named no ffgdre—afeo
sought: ' at'- burgaihihg sestdbns
scheduled to start about April f
Assembly plant -Workers' how av
erage about $2.40 an hour.
MMM HOSPITAL TO GET
TERRITORIAL A^glfeYANCE
FOP 3-MONTf DPFTCIT
Mrs. Audrey fedyer returned
from a. meeting of the Territorial
Foard of Health in Juneau. Shi?
r ;- *" "that Dr. Tfdrjfy Gib&fi
vs* uhanimdusly appointed act
ing corrimissioner of health, re
placing Dr. Charles Hayman, wh6
r< igned. Dr. Gibson wil receive
^ salary of $17,460 a year: ’
.After reviewing 'the ,n^ental
health situation in the territory
the board by resOlutiod endorsed
a' proposal to, use temporary •fa
cilities a{ Valdez 'jfor custodial
care of mental patients who .do
not j require psychiatric care.,
Mrs. F' 'cr also said that the
MMM Hospital ‘ ‘ was ’ granted" an
allotment to cover their three
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