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VOL. LXI No. 143 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959 Per Copy—15^
Mr. K. Chides
‘Drooling’ Enemies
of Communism
BUDAPEST, Hungary, UP) — So
viet Premier Khrushchev indi
cated today that he sent troops
and tanks to put down the 1956
revolution in Hungary over the
opposition of some of his Krem
lin comrades.
“At the time of the counter
revolution in 1956,” he told a
meeting of workers, “we thought
in the Soviet Union on how we
could help Hungary’sf working
people against the counterrevo
lutionary forces.
“Some Soviet comrades showed
anxiety that any aid would be
misconstrued. But we said that
in time they would see we were
right and we had to help the
working class.”
Khrushchev declared that in
1956 “the saliva of the imperial
ists was running in their mouths
at the prospects of Hungary leav
ing the Socialist camp.”
“They thought that one by one
they could sever the Socialist
countries from their united base,”
he added.
The Soviet leader took time out
from Hungary’s Seventh Com
munist Party Congress to address
workers at Budapest’s Ganz-Ma
way Engineering and Railroad
Factory.
Khrushchev said the external
forces of imperialism no longer
constitute any danger to the Com
munist bloc.
“Our strength is greater than
theirs. Our armaments are better.
Our rockets are on the moon.
Theirs have fallen into the sea,”
the Soviet leader said.
Khrushchev said a relaxation in
international tension was not due
to “imperialist efforts, but to ours.
We will see that the warming up
process continues.”
World’s Largest Logging
Machine Is Transported
To Sitka Mill
SEATTLE, UR — A 135,000
pound piece of equipment, de
scribed by its builder as the
world’s largest logging machine,
has been sent to Sitka for use by
Alaska Pulp & Paper Co.
Washington Iron Works of Se
attle, which built the equipment
for Alaska Pulp, said it is de
signed to operate from a float and
log off hillsides. It has line ca
pacity to reach out 3,200 feet.
The mammoth machine, the
builder said, is a combination
slack line and interlocking skid
der. It has 10 big drums for rig
ging and changing lines as the
machine moves along the shore
and hauls logs from the hillsides.
The machine is being taken to
Sitka aboard the barge Griffin,
towed by Washington Tug &
Barge Co.’s tug Captain.
SOVIET EXCHANGE STUDENT
HAS LOW OPINION OF
U. S. 'THEORY' COURSES
MOSCOW, UR — A Soviet ex
change student who studied elec
trical engineering at the Univer
sity of California today said So
viet students are “head and shoul
ders” above American students
whose training is “primarily of a
theoretical nature.”
Writing in the journal “Mos
cow Youth,” O. Bondin said
“There is not a single day of prac
tical work in industry during the
four-year study course.”
New Metals Find'
Made on Hill
Near Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Molyb
denum, a metal used in toughen
ing steels and one which is on
the federal government’s strategic
metals list, has been found in the
Hays Glacier about 80 miles
northwest of Anchorage.
The deposit, located on a large
hill, was discovered by prospector
Dick Clement. A government as
say has indicated the ore is rich
in the valuable metal.
In addition to molybdenum, the
assay report also indicated sub
stantial quantities of gold, lead,
iron, arsenic and sulphur, accord
ing to Clement.
Clement, who has been in
Alaska 11 years and who has done
much summer prospecting, made
the find September 21 after
having landed in the general
area August 26.
The mountain attracted the
prospector because of its highly
colored exterior. However, he was
not certain of its worth, he said,
until he received the results of the
government assay recently.
If the area proves commercially
feasible for mining, it will be only
the second area in commercial
production in the United States,
Clement said.
The other is at Climax, Colo.,
where the ore is found at less
than one per cent of volume. The
area containing the ore encom
passes about three square miles.
It has been named the Clement
Lode and comprises 56 claims to
taling 120 acres.
At the present time six mining
engineers and surveyors are com
pleting the surveying of the area
in six feet of snow. The work is
expected to be completed during
the next few days.
The 34-year-old prospector
came here from Marshalltown,
Iowa. During the winters he has
worked as a heating unit repair
man. During the summers, he had
gone out into the bush to prospect.
Alaska Fishermen’s Union
Seeks Higher Prices
ASTORIA, Ore., LSI — The
Alaska Fishermen’s Union wants
higher prices for the bottom fish
its members catch.
Business agent Swan Ohman
said Tuesday the union will press
for price increases of a cent a
pound for perch, flounder and
rock cod.
Increases ranging up to two
cents a pound will be asked for
some other species of bottom fish,
he said.
FOURTH NUCLEAR SUB
LAUNCHED AT N.H. BASE
BOSTON, UP — The fourth
Skate class nuclear-powered sub
marine — the USS Seadragon —
is to be commissioned Saturday
at the Portsmouth, N. H., naval
shipyard. The 269-foot twin-screw
attack submarine is equipped to
carry missiles. Her prospective
commanding officer is Lt. Cmdr.
George P. Steele III of Wash
ington, D. C.
FOGGED IN
LONDON, UP — Fog was so
thick in Britain during the night
that two swans got lost and made
a forced landing in a garden in
suburban Stamford Hill. Police
kept them in custody overnight
and released them on the River
Lea today.
State, Federal Officials
Arrive for Airport Check
Public Works Commissioner
Richard A. Downing and a large
party of state and federal officials
arrived Nome today. Mr. Downing
is on a trip to inspect 13 in
termediate airports to be turned
over to the State of Alaska.
Provision for the airport trans
fers, 17 in all, was made in the
Alaska Omnibus bill enacted by
the last Congress.
The party will check such mat
ters as communications, access
roads and general airport equip
ment.
In addition to Mr. Downing,
state officials include T. D. Sher
ard of the Highway Dept., Eugene
Roguska, director of aviation, C.
L. Buck, director of communica
tions and Milton Donner, avia
tion consultant;
The party of Federal Aviation
Agency officials are: A1 Hulen,
regional administrator, George
Weitz, Kenneth Roney, Norman
Lowenstein, E. G. Fisher, Vernon
Euberg, David W. Carr and Willis
Bavery.
‘Do Not Open ’Til . .
Cargo Carried to South
Pole Operation Deepfreeze
BOSTON, W — The Coast
Guard Icebreake Eastwind left for
Antarctica yesterday. Deep in the
hold of the 269-foot vessel are
2,500 frozen cookies in cases
marked “Do not open until Christ
mas.”
The cookies, a dozen each for
the 200 crewmen and civilians
aboard, were baked by the Coast
Guard Officers Wives Club. The
ship will be in mid-Pacific at
Christmas time.
The Eastwind will take part in
[ “Operation Deepfreeze 60” to re
supply U. S. scientific outposts
| in Antarctica.
Boatswain’s Mate Oliver W.
Brannan of Okron, Colo., struggled
up the gangplank carrying eight
small Christmas trees.
Sulphur Gas Floors
6 Men at Sitka Pulp Mill
SITKA, UP) — A seepage of
heavy, pungent gas at the new
Alaska Lumber and Pulp Mill at
Sitka sent six men to the hospital
for checkups yesterday.
The gas, sulpher dioxide, spread
into the mill yard and seeped into
a building adjacent to production
facilities where the chemical is
used in turning out pulp.
Mill Manager Tom Stein called
the incident minor, and blamed
the seepage on failure of a valve
to close properly. Production at
the big 60 million dollar mill be
gan just two weeks ago.
Three of the six men affected
by the fumes were admitted to
te Sitka Community Hospital for
observation.
Wife and Family Wiped
Out by Misused Heater
NEWARK, Ohio, OP) — An un
vented gas space heater they
were using to warm a house they
had just moved into ended the
lives of two young women and
three children.
William Thurman came home to
find his wife, Jean Marie, 27,
their children, Nancy Lynn, 4,
Terrance Allen, 2, and Timothy
Randall, three months, and a girl
who lived with the family, Mem
phis Mae Mabe, 19, all dead.
Dr. Carl Frye, deputy coroner,
ruled the cause was carbon mon
oxide poisoning from the heater.
Eisenhower Implies Government Will
Act to Settle Crippling Steel Dispute
By STERLING F. GREEN |
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower implied strongly to
day that the government will take
decisive action to settle the steel
strike if management and labor
fail to agree before the Taft
Hartley injunction expires.
He added that unless the par
ties can get together in a settle
ment which is in the public in
terest, somebody is going to lose
something.
The President said further that
it would be a bad day for the
United States if the government
was obliged to step in and abridge
the right of free collective bar
gaining.
The President indicated he in
tends to insist again, in a sched
uled nationwide telecast tomor
row night, that the two sides get
together.
Eisenhower said his interest in
the matter is not an interest in
either employer or employe ex
cept that all involved are part
of America.
And it is vital to the American
people, he said, that some settle
ment be reached before the in
junction now in effect expires on
January 26.
Threatens Balanced Budget
In speaking of the effects of the
steel strike, Eisenhower said it
has placed budget balancing in
a very precarious position in the
current fiscal year by reducing
tax revenues.
But he said his administration
still is trying to balance the bud
get for fiscal 1960 — the govern
ment year that ends next June 30.
In 1961, he said, the govern
ment should not only balance the
budget but achieve a small sur
plus to start repayment on the
federal debt.
U. S, Would Not Interfere
On another issue, the President
said the United States will never
have a positive political doctrine
on whether its foreign aid funds
should be used for birth control
projects by the recipient nations.
This government has no inten
tion of interfering in the internal
affairs of other governments, he
said, adding:
“If those governments want to
do something about this admit
tedly difficult and even explosive
problem, that is their responsi
bility.”
The question was raised by a
reporter who recalled that a study
group’s report on foreign aid ear
lier this year suggested that this
government, on request, might
help in the formulation of plans
to deal with population growth in
countries whose resources could
not keep up with the birth rate.
The President said he could not
imagine a subject which would
be a less proper political or gov
ernmental function or responsi
bility.
The subject has the greatest re
ligious significance to some de
nominations, Eisenhower said, and
while he has no quarrel with the
position of the Catholic Church
on birth control, he believes it has
nothing to do with this govern
ment’s contacts with other , gov
ernments.
Latest Alaska Well
Runs 428 Barrels
In Flow Test
ANCHORAGE, (iP» — The com
pletion of another oil well in the
Swanson 'River Unit was an
nounced yesterday by Standard
Oil of California, Western Opera
tions Inc.
The SRU 12-27 flowed at the
rate of 428 barrels of oil and 42
barrels of water on an 11-hour
flow test during the night.
Crews are now laying a flow
line to production tanks for this
fifth well in the field, officials
said.
Plans call for the rig to be
skidded over about 25 feet so it
can drill a directional hole which
will tap the Hemlock producing
zone about one-half mile south of
the surface location. This well
will be designated the SRU 14-27.
It probably will not be spudded
before December 10, however, as
some mechanical repairs have
been scheduled for the drilling
rig.
Standard’s other drilling opera
tion in the field, the SRU 32-22
well was drilling at 8,302 feet
early yesterday.
Standard is acting as operator
for the field in which Richfield
Oil Corp., Ohio Oil Co., and Union
Oil Co. of California share an
interest.
MASS. MAY PUT CURFEW
ON YOUNGER DRIVERS
BOSTON, W) — Drivers under
18 years of age would be barred
from Massachusetts highways be
tween 8 p.m. and 7 a.m., under
a bill before the Legislature.
Oldest Lennon Sister Will
Marry Hometown Boy
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Diane
Lennon, oldest of the four sing
ing Lennon Sisters on Lawrence
Welk’s TV show, plans to marry
a boy from down the block with
whom she has grown up.
She and Dick Gass, 22, will be
married some time next summer,
she said Tuesday — her 20th
birthday. He is an Army para
trooper stationed at Ft. Bragg,
N. C., and scheduled to be dis
charged from the service next
June 1. His family and the Len
nons have lived half a block
apart in suburban Venice for 13
years.
Dianne said she won’t continue
her career after marriage. She
said her sisters Peggy, 18; Kathy,
16 and Janet, 13, “probably will
continue as a trio.”
Four Killed in Norway
Crash of U.S. Military C-47
OSLO, Norway, UP) — A U. S.
twin-engine military plane
crashed and burned in woods
north of Oslo today, killing all
four persons aboard.
The C-47 plunged into the trees
only 100 yards from where three
lumberjacks were at work.
The lumberjacks were unable
to get near the burning plane.
The plane left this morning
from Fornebu Airport, Oslo, for
a northern Norwegian airport. It
crashed only a few minutes later
as it was making a turn in poor
visibility.
The plane was attached to the
U. S. Military Assistance Advisory
Group in Oslo.