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VOL. LXII No. 78 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1960 Per Copy 15tf
Longshoremen
Vote For S.I.U.
Bargaining* Agent
In an official secret ballot el
ection held today at the Lomen
Commercial Co. warehouse, the
longshoremen voted 26-1 to be
represented in collective bargain
ing with the Alaska Steamship
Co. and Lomen Commercial Co.,
a division of Alaska Steamship
C'o., by the Marine Staff Officers,
Office and Allied Personnel, Sea
farers International Union, AFL
CIO.
Conducting the election was
Dan Boyd, field representative of
the National Labor *61311008
Board. *epresei'rtin<g the Alaska
Steamship Co, and Lomen was L.
C. Wesson, industrial relations
representative. Ira Ahnangnato
3«k and William Willoya acted in
the capacity of observers for the
federal government.
Both parties, the S.I.U. and Al
aska Steamship Co., now have
five days in which to object to
the election. After five days, cer
ification will be issued to the
union to act as bargaining agent
for the longshoremen.
The union now has the power,
after following prescribed legal
procedures, to strike against the
employer, if agreement on wages
and working conditions is not
reached between the parties dur
ing [rending negotiations.
The election was the result of
an organizational drive conducted
by the Seafarers’ International
Union of North America, Pacific
District, under the leadership of
J. O. Willoughby, who filed the
petition for the election with the
Seattle offices of the NLRB last
fall. The SIU also represents
longshoremen in Alaska in the
ports of Petersburg, Haines, Skag
way, Homer, Kodiak, Valdez and
Anchorage.
C-Year-Old Boy Killed In
Alaska Highway Crash
ANCHORAGE, liPI—A six-year
old Anchorage boy was killed and
three other members of his fam
ily were injured when the auto
i« which they were riding over
turned on the highway Monday
nig’ht.
Dead is Gerald Price, his skull
crushed when the car driven by
his lather, James Price, skidded
tm loose gravel, went into an 8
?®ot ditch, rammed an embank
ment and overturned.
Price, S3, a Fairview volunteer
fireman and a garage mechanic,
received injuries to the head; his
wife, Frances, suffered crushed
fingers of the right hand; and
their other son. David, 13 .bruises.
On impact the car doors flew
open and Gerald was thrown part
way out of the right door. When
the car overturned, his head was
crushed between the door and the
frame, Price said. •
WEATHER FORECAST.
Cloudy and foggy tonight and
tomorrow with gusty southwest
erly winds this afternoon. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 37. i
the high tomorrow 45.
Truman \\ ilfidrawsj
As Delegate To
Demo Convention
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., B—For
mer President Harry S. Truman
said today he had resigned as a
member of the Missouri Demo
cratic National Convention dele
gation and would not attend the
party’s nominating session Los
Angeles.
There was no further explana
tion of his action in a telegram
he sent to Gov. James T. Blair
of Missouri, who is at Glacier Na
tional Park, Mont., attending the
annual governors conference.
Truman’s office announced he
had sent this wire: “I have de
cided not to go to the Democratic
convention. I am resigning as a
delegate. I am sorry I cannot be
there with you.”
Truman was one of the 78
delegates with a half vote each.
Truman announced last month
he would support Sen. Stuart Sy
mington for the presidential nom
ination. The Missouri delegation
is pledged to support Symington.
At Glacier Park, Blair said Tru-'
man had telephoned him before
dispatching the telegram, told him
what was in the wire, but offered
no reason for quitting as a dele
gate.
Reporters told him one infer
ence would be that Truman |
thinks the chances of Symington j
for the nomination have evapor
ated, and another would be that
Truman felt he could not give his !
support to Sen. John Kennedy, i
MUSHIN’ THROUGH
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, (Ah—With a re
cess of Congress apparently as
sured, Rep. Ralph Rivers sizes up
prospects for several Alaska bills
before the session adjourns, pro
bably in August.
He sees favorable action “al
most any day” on a bill to allow
the use of federal aid highway
funds to build approaches to l'erry
boat landings.
Another bill with good pros
pects, he said, is one to enable
the state to take parts of tracts on
which there are oil and gas leases
as part of its state land selec
tions.
A proposal to raise from 300,
000 to 600,000 acres the statewide
limit on oil and gas leases allow
ed one interest is almost certain
of passage before adjournment,
Rivers said.
He gave almost no chance to
proposals to provide Alaska with
20 million dollars a year for the
next 15 yeas to build up its high
way system.
A bill to subsidize tin production
and thereby promote tin mining
on Seward Peninsula, “is stalled
in committee because of the vig
orous opposition of the Depart
ment of Interior,” he said. “It has
practically no chance of being en
acted this session.”
“Bills I have sponsored to in
crease the price of gold are like
wise ‘dead’ because of the oppo
sition of the U.S. Treasury De
partment based on present poli
cies of the administration.”
Research Will
Continue On
Alaska Blast
RICHLAND, Wash.. Jfi—Scien
tists from the Hanford Atomic
Works are engaged in a second
summer of field research to help
determine whether it is safe to
blast a ship harbor with nuclear
devices on the Arctic coast.
General Electric Co., operator
of the Hanford project, said a
crew of six men will operate from
a base camp at Ogotoruk Creek,
250 miles north of Nome. The
group will be headed by J. 1.
Davis, manager of the Hanford
Laboratories radioeoology opera
tion.
The experimental excavation
project, tentatively scheduled for
1062, would employ five under
water nuclear explosives, GE of
ficials said. The aim would be to
clear a harbor 750 by 2,000 feet,
with a turning basin 1,500 feet
across.
Tiie Hanford scientists will
study plant, animal and insect
life on the Arctic coast as part
of what Davis called “the most
comprehensive pre-survey to be
made at a test site before a pro
posed nuclear test.”
“If the proposed nuclear test
is completed,” General Electric
reported, “scientists will have the
necessary background informa
tion to evaluate whether any
changes have occurred either
from natural causes or possible
effects from the blast on popula
tions of plants and animals.
“Laboratry experts estimate
that more than 90 per cent of any
radiation created by the detona
tions will be confined because of
the fact that explosives will be
buried.”
Congress Will Go
Back to Work
After Conventions
WASHINGTON, UP — Demo
cratic leaders gave up tthe idea to
day that Congress could wind up
work for the year before the
national political conventions.
They said it couldn’t be done,
and Congress would have to re
turn to session after the conven
tions.
Democratic leader Lyndon B.
Johnsno, who hopes to win his
pary’s presidential nomination,
told the Senate he would propose
a recess beginning Friday or Sat
urday and a return to session on
Aug. 8.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
had already announced on his
side of the capitol a leadership
decision that the work load re
quired a postconvention session.
A recess this weekend will give
the Senate’s Democratic presi
dential hopefuls — Johnson and
Sens. Kennedy and Stuart Sy
mington — freedom to intensify
their hunt for support among the
delegates to the party conclave
opening July 11 in Los Angeles.
The Republican convention will
meet July 25 in Chicago.
Japanese Backers Dedicate 866 Million.
Lumber and Pulp Mill At Sitka Today
By Ernestine C. Veach
Managing Editor. Sitka Sentinel
SITKA, IjP— A 66-million-dollar
monument to Japanese-American
cooperation in developing the vast
timber resources of Southeastern
Alaska was formally unveiled
here today.
It was the new pulp mil! con
structed by the Alaska Lumber &
Pulp Co ,.headed by Tadsio Sasa*
yama, one of Japan’s leading in
j dustrialists.
| Leading businessmen and gov
ernment leaders from both Japan
| and the United States were on
| hand for the mill's 10 a.m. dedi
1 cation ceremonies.
Among those participating were
I Sasayama; Dr. R. E. McArdie,
I chief of the U.S. Forest Service;
I Hugh J. Wade, Alaska’s Secretary
i of State: Taio Ishizaka. president
i of Japan’s Federation of Econ
I omic Organization, and Ekizo
: Kashu, chairman of the Mitsu
j bishi Rayon Co. of Japan.
It was to seek a new source
j of supply for Japan’s rayon in
I dustry, with that country's tim
; ber reserves depleted, that Ja
i panese businessmen turned their
ever to Alaska and the thousands
and thousands of acres of un
touched forest lands awaiting
man’s axe.
Working through the U.S. State
Department, Sasayama's firm ob
tained cutting rights on 5V4 bil
lion board feet of timber on Bara
nof, Chichagof and adjacent is
lands. Sika is located on Rarauof
Island.
Japanese and American money
went into its building, with ttt®
lion's share, or some 36'"2 million
dollars, coming from Japanese in
terests.
Construction on the mill start
ed in the fall of 1957 and on Nov.
(8, 1959, a new Alaskan industry
was born with the production off
the mill's first pulp during a test
run.
Now operating at full capacity,
the mill normally employes some
440 workmen. Another 75 men are
employed in the mill's own log
ging operations and another I$0
men work for independent log
gers who also supply the mill.
Designed to produce 340 tons
of dissolving pulp daily, the mill
has exceeded expectations to tha
point where it has an average
daily production now of 350 tons.
The pulp produced here is
taken to Japan for use by th®
rayon manufacturers in that
country.
Symington Still “Running
Hard" For President
WASHINGTON, If—Sen. Stu
art Symington said today he is
still “running hard as a candi
date" for the Democratic presi
dential nomination with the full
backing of former President
Harry S. Truman.
Symington made this comment
to a reporter on inferences some
politicians were drawing from
Truman’s decision not to attend
the Democratic national conven
tion.
The senator said he talked with
Truman on the telephone today
and knew in advance of his plans.
“He went out oi' his way to as
sure me that this decision on his
part did not in any way change
his unqualified support of my
candidacy,” Symington said.
New Yorkers Untroubled
By Bus Drivers Strike
NEW YORK, (#>—A king-sized
wildcat bus strike dragged into
a second clay but caused little
trouble for New Yorkers long
hardened to inconveniences as a
part of everyday life.
The hundreds of thousands w<ho
normally use the struck bus lines |
shifted to subways and other;
transit facilities. Some even i
hoofed it to work.
The striking bus drivers, who
defied union leaders both in |
launching and continuing their
walkout, showed no signs of giv
ing up. In fact, they strengthened
the tieup by putting picket lines
around garages of their employer,
the city’s largest private bus com
pany.
This halted a number of driv- i
ers, who previously had ignored
the strike, from taking out buses.
Castro Delivers
Ultimatum To
Oil Companies
HAVANA. —Prime Minister
Fidel Castro shipped two barge
loads of Soviet crude oil to the
Texaco refinery at Santiago today
: and odrered his government to
take over the American - owned
plant if Texaco executives refuse
to process the oil.
There was no indication what
action Texaco would take.
The oil showdown followed
I Castro's announcement that he
will seize all American property
in Cuba “penny by penny until
nothing is left” if they United
States cuts its purchases of Cu
ban sugar.
Three oil companies — Texaco,
Esso Standard and the Shell Oil
Co.—have refused to refine the
Soviet crude oil purchased by the
Castra government in exchange
for sugar on the 'ground they have
obligations to their traditional
suppliers, in this case Venezuela.
Castro contends he can buy the
Soviet crude oil for almost SI a
barrel under the Venezuelan pries.
At stake is a 75-million-dollar
investment the three companies
have in their Cuban refineries,
plus an estimated 60 million dol
lars in foreign exchange the Cas
tro government owes them for
crude already imported and pro
cessed.
The three companies told Cas
tro June 6 they could not refine
the Soviet oil. Castro had de
manded they process 300,000 tons
each during the remainder of
1960.
The prime minister was in a
rage when he threatened retal
iation on the sugar issue.
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