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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VolTlX No. 129 ~~ NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958 Per Copy—154
Alaskan Harbor To Be Atom-Blasted
Next Summer For Arctic Coal Traffic
JUNEAU, UP) — Alaska offi-«
cials are going to have to figure
out how the 49th State is going
to get along on a 40 million dollar
appetite and a 25 million dollar
income.
Figures compiled by Territorial
Budget Director Richard Freer
give an indication of the money
problem that will face Alaska’s
first elected governor and its first
State Legislature.
When the new State begins op
eration in January,' the Governor
will draft the budget for the fis
cal year running from July 1 to
„ June 30, 1960.
The 60 members of the first
State Legislature, sometime be
fore the start of the fiscal year,
will make the actual appropria
tion.
Virtually every department and
agency of the government is ask
ing for more money than it re
ceived two years ago.
In many cases, the agencies,
boards and commissions have re
quested more than double the ap
propriation they received when
the Legislature last met in 1937.
That last Territorial Legislature
appropriated more than 36 mil
lion dollars for the biennium that
ends next June.
Appropriation requests for
1959-60, the first annual budget
operation under Statehood, total
more than 33 million dollars. And
that sum doesn’t reflect the en
tire expected budget needs.
In addition, the Legislature
probably will have to come up
with about two million dollars to
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P-TA Meeting
Draws 152
Local Residents
One-hundred and fifty-two per
sons were present last evening
at the monthly P-TA meeting in
the multi-purpose room of the
school.
The program was given by the
children of the fifth grade with
Mr. Woodiel as teacher, -and was
thoroughly enjoyed by the par
ents. Mr. Woodiel gave a reading
on “IF” for men, women and
teachers. s»
The group voted to sponsor the i
Teen-Age group which is to be
completely re-organized with
membership cards, and a code
under which to operate. Some
dances are planned but a wider
range of activities is in the plan
ning. The teen-age problems were
explained by Diane Lee, a senior,
and Harry Johnsen Jr., a junior.
It is proposed that the group be
'limited to 13-to-20 year olds.
Mrs. Lela Oman and Tom Tun
gwenuk reported on the hot dog
sales at the Carnival, which
netted $122.95.
The room of Mrs. G. Langhus
had the most parents present,
with Carl Leibig’s room placing
second, and Mrs. Nerland and Mr.
Denny’s rooms tied for third place.
Refreshments were furnished by
the mothers of the second graders
and the committee was headed by
Mrs. Roscoe Wilkie, Mrs. Roy
. Dunlap, and Mrs. J. Maakestad.
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Pope John XXIII
Appeals To World
For Peace
VATICAN CITY, M — Pope
John XXIII appealed to rulers of
nations today to heed the world’s
cry for peace and to turn weapons
of destruction into tools of prog
ress.
“This is in fact the most im
portant undertaking, mostly con
nected with the prosperity of all
mankind,” he said in his first
Papal broadcast.
“Put ourselves, therefore, to
the task with confident courage,
under the reflection of the light
that comes from on high, and
with divine assistance turn your
gaze to the people who are , en
trusted to you and listen to their
voice.”
The new Pontiff of the Roman
Catholic Church broadcast his
appeal from the Sistine Chapel
where less than 20 hours earlier
he was named successor to Pope
Pius XII. —
His call was in the tradition of
Pius XII, who in his 19-year reign
became known as the “Pope of
Peace.”
The 76-year-old Pope — until
Tuesday Angelo Giuseppe Cardi
nal Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice
— spoke iri Latin for 20 minutes
in a firm, powerful voice.
He prayed to God for strength
in his new task and asked the
Virgin Mary for assistance. A few
minutes before his broadcast he
received the homage of 51 car
dinals gathered in the chapel.
Thirteen Dead In
W. Va. Mine Disaster
SUMMERSVTI.IjE, W. Va.,
— Thirteen miners, including
two top supervisory employes,
lost their lives Tuesday in a sec
ond straight coal mining disas
ter. Four others escaped after
being trapped underground.
Only the day before, 22 men
were killed in an explosion at the
Bishop, Va., mine of the Pocd
hontas Fuel Co. on the Virginia
West Virginia border.
Tuesday’s blast centered' a mile
and a half deep in the Burton
Mine of the Oglebay-Norton Co.
Fifty-four men were at work
underground, but 37 were work
ing on the surface-side of the ex
plosion and scurried to safety
without injury.
Tour Of Alaska
Scheduled For Students
WARRENSBURG, Mo., UP) —
Central Missouri State College has
scheduled an educational tour to
Alaska and the Pacific Northwest
next summer.
Five semester hours of credit
will be given for the study torn-,
which will include a full week at
the University of Alaska.
Up to six hours credit can be
earned on the seventh annual Eur
opean^ tour which will take in a
dozen countries.
Pasternak Turns
Down Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UP) —
Soviet author Boris Pasternak to
day refused to accept the Nobel
Prize for Literature. He referred
to “the society I live in.”
Pasternak sent a cable to Dr.
Anders Oesterling, permanent
secretary of the Royal Swedish
Academy, which awards the lit
erary Nobel prizes.
“Because of the meaning attri
buted to this award in the society
I live in, I ought to say no thanks
to the undeserved prize awarded
me,” JPasternak said. “Do not take
my voluntary refusal with any
ill will.”
Oesterling received a cable
from Pasternak Saturday express
ing his gratitude at the Nobel
award.
That cable read: “Immensely
thankful, touched, proud, aston
ished, abashed.”
Today’s cable indicated that in
the meantime something had hap
pened to Pasternak to change his
mind. The author of the novel
“Doctor Zhivago,” which is crit
ical of Communism, has been un
der rigorous attack in the Soviet
press.
Pasternak was named for the
award last week. The Soviet
press asserted the selection was
an anti-Soviet political maneu
ver.
Pravda, the official Communist
Party paper, heaped abuse on
Pasternak and “Doctor Zhivago.”
It said he should reject the
$41,420 cash prize if there were
“a spark of Soviet dignity left
in him.”
The Nobel prize committee pre
sented the Russians with a dilem
ma. It awarded the prize in phys
ics Tuesday to three top-ranking
Soviet scientists. The question
was: would the Soviets let the
scientists accept the physics
award and at the same time keep
Pasternak home?
The answer appeared in the
Soviet press in Moscow today.
The Russians were setting up a
double standard on- the Nobel
prizes.
It said the physics award was
fitting but at the same time it
said it proved that the award for
literature was dictated by “re
actionary political aims.”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Hails Alaska With
Special Edition
SEATTLE, UP\ — The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer saluted Alaska
as the 49th State Wednesday with
a 92-page paper, of which 46
pages were two special supple
ments as an Alaska Statehood
edition.
A painting, “A Star Is Born,”
by Alaska artist Eustace Ziegler,
was done especially for the issue
and was reproduced in color as a
full page cover of one section. It
shows a giant prospector in whose
gold pan shimmers a rich nug
get, symbolic of the 49th star in
the flag.
W. R. Hearst Jr., editor-in-chief
of the Hearst newspapers, wrote
a special column in which he
said “There isn’t enough room . . .
for me to begin to tell you the
wonder of our new State.”
Alaska Has $40 Million Appetite,
With $25 Million Pocketbook
Ike To End
Stumping With
TV Appearance
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UB — President
Eisenhower, back from a three
state campaign tour, will close his
drive for ejection of a Republican
Congress with a nationwide tele
vision-radio address from Balti
more Friday night.
The President returned to the
capital by plane early today after
a day and a half of tub-thumping
for votes in West Virginia, Penn
sylvania and New York.
The Baltimore address will cli
max what generally is regarded
as the hardest hitting campaign
of Eisenhower’s political career.
However, he pitched his poli
ticking on a less harsh note in
New York Tuesday. He spoke at
two rallies of party workers, and
urged election of Nelson A. Rocke
feller as governor and Represen
tative Kenneth B. Keating to the
U. S. Senate.
Rockefeller joined Keating in
telling enthusiastic audiences of
GOP workers that, they, as the
ticket leaders, were happy Eisen
hower came to New York — and
that his visit had helped them.
There had been talk that Rocke
feller, a former foreign policy
aide to Eisenhower, was some
thing less than happy about hav
ing the President campaigning in
the state.
Rockefeller a few days ago,
took what seemed to amount to a
dim view of Eisenhower’s new
campaign technique — his at
tacks on the Democrats as left
wing radicals, as reckless spend
thrifts, and as promoters of in
flation-breeding 'Schemes.
Shortly after the President’s ar
rival in Manhattan, White House
Pres Secretary James C. Hager
ty sought to scuttle talk of any
discord.
Hagerty tagged as completely
false reports that the GOP state
organization — and Rockefeller
specifically — had urged against
Eisenhower’s making any major
political speech in New York.
N. Y. News Says
Democrats Gain
NEW YORK, W — The New
York Daily News says its election
survey indicates a Democratic
gain across the country of at least
10 Senate seats.
The paper also said there was
a longshot chance that Vermont
might elect a Democratic senator.
The News, in a Washington dis
patch, said its survey shows the
Democrats have god chances of
picking up two more Senate
seats for a total of 12, “and an
outside chance of 15 — not count
ing Vermont.”
The News estimate of a gain
of 10 seats by the Democrats in
cludes an assumption that Alas
ka, in its November 25 election,
will elect one Democratic sena
tor and one Republican.
■ SEATTLE, t/P) — A strategic
Alaskan harbor will be atom
blasted at Cape Thompson, above
Kotzebue Sound, probably in the
summer of 1960.
The site and tentative date for
the project were announced here
last night by Sen. Henry Jackson,
a member of the joint committee
on atomic energy.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion, Jackson said, chose the lo
cation for a demonstration of the
peaceful use of atomic power.
To dig the harbor at Cape
Thompson, 250 miles south of
Point Barrow, it will be neces
sary to evacuate a handful of
whites and Eskimos 15 miles from
the scene. Fall-out radiation is
expected to be slight and harm
less within two weeks after the
explosions.
The Cape Thompson area is
above Bering Strait and north of
Kotzebue. It is accessible for
three months in summer, and
locked by Arctic ice the rest of
the year.
“Alaska,” Jackson pointed out,
“is perhaps the prime example in
the world of an area where popu
lation can be expected to in
crease as a result of its magnifi
cent natural resources. *
“Thus there exists an un
equalled opportunity to carry out
these large atomic ‘landscaping
operations’ while the population
is low.”
Describing the project as “a
comparatively simple harbor and
dhannel excavation,” Jackson
said the harbor will open an area
of valuable coal deposits. It also
is comparatively near Naval pe
troleum reseiVe No. 4 whioh em
braces the Point Barrow area.
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Alaska Airlines
Leases Hangar
For Terminal
Alaska Airlines has leased the
big military hangar at Nome
Field, and construction is already
underway for a complete renova
tion of the interior to #make a
modern Air Terminal for Nome.
The new terminal will have a
big passenger waiting room, to
adequately take care of the pres
ent congestion. There will be car
go receiving room, baggage claim
areas, and cargo delivery areas.
All operation facilities of the
Alaska Airlines, including reserva
tion, will be operated from the *
field, stated local manager Del
Kampman, with the downtown
office for information and ticket
office.
Adequate space is being planned
for other interested airlines to
rent space, as well as rental of an
area for a small restaurant or
lunch counter.
The interior is expected to be
finished in December, and the ex
terior as soon as the weather mod
erates in the spring.
The new terminal will elimi
nate the present triangle of oper
ations, stated Hbmpman, as bush
operations will also be at the
terminal.
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