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VOL. LV No. 117 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1953 Per Copy—15?
Yankees Lead
“Deni Bums”
Two Games to One
BROOKLYN, UP — The World
Series shifted from Yankee Sta
dium to Ebbets Field today and
the Dodgers downed the 3-1 fa
vored Yankees 3 to 2 behind the
brilliant pitching of Carl Erskine.
Erskine, who lost the opening
game on Wednesday, set a new
World Series record in striking
out 14 Yankee batters.
In yesterday’s game the Yank’s
won 4-2, thus the Yankees have
a one-game lead over the Dodgers.
Going into today’s game Casey
Stengel’s team held an almost
overwhelming advantage. Not
since they made it a best four of
seven games back in 1922 has any
club ever lost the first pair and
then rallied to win the champion
ship.
Tomorrow’s and Sunday games
will be played at the Dodger’s
home field, and the 6th and 7th
games, if necessary, will be played
at Yankee Stadium.
Another Discarded Icebox
Claims Youngsters’ Lives
WINDSOR, Ont., CP) — A dis
carded ice box claimed the lives
of two more youngsters Wednes
day in the same tragic circum
stances which have killed at least
14 others in the United States and
Canada this year.
Andrew Strachan and Harold
Cobney, both 4, were found dead
in an ice box stored in a shack
near their homes.
J. L. McCarrey Named To
3rd Division Judgeship
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower chose James Lewis
McCarrey, Jr., Friday to be U.S.
District Judge for the Third Divi
sion of Alaska.
McCarrey, whose home is in An
chorage, was named to succeed
the late Judge Anthony J. Dimond.
McCarrey’s recess appoinment
is subject to- confirmation by the
Senate when Congress meets in
January.
(There had been reports for sev
eral days that McCarrey would
get the bench appointment. It has
been linked with reports that Wm.
Plummer will be appointed U.S.
District Attorney at Anchorage,
but there has been no official ac
tion on the attorneyship.
(The Third Division, most popu
lous in the Territory and with the
most crowded court calendars, has
been without any judge since
Judge Dimond’s death. Legisla
tion has been before Congress for
several years for creation of a
second judgeship in the division
but it never has won final ap
proval, despite urgent recommen
dations on its need).
Gen. John E. Hull Takes
U.N. Far East Command
TOKYO, UP)—Gen. John E. Hull
arrived Thursday to take com
mand of United Nations forces in
the Far East and told an airport
news conference he contemplates
“no major policy changes.”
Hull will relieve Gen. Mark
Clark, who returns to the United
States for retirement next week.
State Dept, and Fisheries Commission
Hold Closed-t)oor Meeting Today To
Consider Japanese-U.S. Fishing Treaty
JUNEAU, UP»—A U.S. State De
partment representative and the
Territorial Fisheries Commission
scheduled a closed - door meeting
here Friday to consider “matters
with respect to” the Japanese
UJS. fishing treaty.
C.*L. Anderson, territorial fish
eries director, said the meeting
with Undersecretary of State W.
C. Herrington was requested by
the State Department, which
placed a “confidential” stamp on
the session.
The meeting was scheduled in
the wake of a “fishermen’s re
lief” hearing at which an Alaska
Fisheries Board spokesman vio
lently criticized the treaty—a sore
point with Alaska fishermen after
failure of the summer salmon
spason—and called for revision of
its terms.
Herrington attended the hear
ing and after interviews with fish-*
ing leaders and others and a con
ference with Anderson called for
the private session with the com
mission, Anderson said.
T. Wakefield, an Alaska can
nery owner and crab fisherman
who earlier this week charged the
Japanese with exceeding terms of
the fishing treaty, renewed the
attack at Thursday’s meeting.
Speaking as industrial represen
tative of the Alaska Fisheries
Board, Wakefield told the hearing
conducted by Labor Commissioner
Henry Benson and Delegate E. L.
Bartlett he does not object to a
fishing treaty with Japan.
“My kick is against the terms,”
he said.
Wakefield said he disagreed
with an assertion by Herrington
that the Japanese have prior
rights.
“Whatever prior rights they en
joyed, I say they lost when they
bombed Dutch Harbor in the
Aleutians.”
The hearing' concluded on an
optimistic note with Benson de
claring that while fishermen’s
needs are “severe and the extent
is wide, it’s apparent that someone
is going to do something instead
of just talking about doing some
thing.”
President Invokes
Taft-Hartley In
East Coast Strike
WASHINGTON, OB — President
Eisenhower Thursday invoked the
Taft-Hartley law in a move to
halt the paralyzing east coast do'ck
strike.
He declared the strike imperils
the nation’s welfare and appoint
ed a three-man board of inquiry
headed by David" L. Cole, former
director of the Federal Concilia
tion and Mediation Service.
Eisenhower, in an executive
order, directed the board to re
port to him by midnight Oct. 5.
These are preliminary steps to
seeking from the courts an order
to stop the strike.
Once the chief executive re
ceives the board’s report, he can
direct the Justice Department to
ask a court injunction to halt the
strike for 80 days while attempts
are made to reach an agreement.
The strike of longshoremen
which began Wednesday mignight
was paralyzing east coast dpcks
from Maine to Virginia.
The Taft-Hartley law authorizes
the government to intervene in
cases where the President finds a
strike imperils national health
and safety.
This is the first time President
Eisenhower has invoked the law’s
emergency strike provisions.
Parcel Post Rates
Go Up 35 Percent
WASHINGTON, UP — Rates
went up Thursday for making
long distance telephone calls
across state lines and for mailing
packages by parcel post. The in
crease will cost Americans 218
million dollars a year.
An average 8 per cent advance
in interstate long distance phone
tolls became effective with the
sanction late Wednesday of the
Federal Communications Com
mission. The hikes, effective
throughout the Bell System, will
add about 65 million dollars a
year to charges for the service.
■Parcel post rates went up an
average of 35 per cent, or an esti
mated 153 millions annually. The
advance was authorized by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
last June, but the Post Office De
partment deferred the effective
date until yesterday in order to
give users of the service time to
adjust to the higher charges.
JUST TRASH
DENVER, iff)—A Keep Denver
Clean committee asked sugges
tions from residents here on how
to keep the city clean of litter.
But they didn’t count on one
woman who wrote, asking that
the committee remove her in-laws.
“They’re just trash,” she said.
14-Year Survey Shows School Costs
And Proposed Construction Program
Dan Jones presented to the Nome Rotary Club yesterday a com
plete survey of the new addition to the school which will come before
the voters on October 19 at a special bond election.
Quoting from the well-known educator, Earl McGrath, Jones
stated:
“American education is headed for disaster unless something
is done about school buildings. It was the great educator, Horace
Mann, who said that in an age of remarkable invention the free
public school was the greatest discovery of man. The people of the
United States may take pride in their educational systems—We are
now at a point where 98 out of 100 children of elementary school age
are enrolled in school and about three out of every four of our
youth enter high school.”
Jones explained to Rotarians how in 1940 there were only 166
students in the Nome school, whereas today there are 450 pupils and
19 teachers in place of eight teachers of that early date.
The following chart shows how the school has grown with the
town with a small percentage increase in the amount the city spends
on schools in comparison to its other expenses.
Total Total City's Part of Toted City
School Year Students Teachers School Budget Expenditures Pet.
. 1953-54 450 19 $43,000 $146,500 29
. 1952-53 413 16 32,000 120,300 27
1951-52 362 14 25,000 97,200 26
1950-51 381 14 37,000 125,000 30
1949-50 368 12 26,000 87,500 30
1948-49 337 12 13,000 74,000 18
1947-48 320 11 10,000 102,800 10
f946-47 273 10 14,000 70,500 20
1945-46 230 8 9,500 61,800 15
1944-45 163 8 8,000 53,000 15
1943-44 142 7 8,000 49,000 16
1942-43 151 7 7,000 38,700 18
1941-42 » 162 8 8,000 37,400 21
1940-41 166 8 7,500 35,000 21
Quoting from McGrath again, Jones stated:
“The need for schoolhouse construction today is without prece
dent in the history of the nation. The nation must now choose one
of three courses of action— (1) We can abandon our democratic
educational systems and restrict educational opportunity to the for
tunate few; (2) We can cavalierly permit the present gap between
our professional ideals and our actual practice to widen to the point
of complete breakdown of the schools; or (3) We can take the neces
sary prompt and vigorous steps to bring practice into conformity
with our democratic ideals and heritage.
“Children cannot wait. They cannot be put into educational
cold storage ‘for the duration’ and then later put into some sort of
educational hothouse for forced growth. They will get their educa
tion now, when they need it, as they, are growing up, or they will
not get it at all. The acid test of democracy is its solicitude for the
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Alaska Science Conference
Told of Vast Gas and Oil
Reserves in Arctic Alaska
JUNEAU, L/P)—Vast reserves es
timated at upwards of 100 million
barrels of oil and 900 billion cubic
feet of natural gas have been dis
covered by the Navy in northern
Arctic reaches of Alaska, the
Fourth Alaska Science Confer
ence was told Thursday.
A paper read by George Gryc,
of the U. S. Geological Survey,
said that the Navy’s hunt for oil
on its Barow reserve had resulted
in discovery of two oil and two
gas fields.
The scientists elected Hugh A.
Johnson, of the Agriculture Ex
periment Station at Fairbanks, as
their new president.
Anchorage was chosen for next
year’s convention.
Churchill Announces Eden
Will Resume Duties As
Foreign Secretary
LONDON, UP)— Prime Minister
Churchill announced Friday that
recently-ailing Anthcmy Eden
would resume his duties as for
eign secretary on Monday. Ob
servers figured the announce
ment meant Churchill doesn’t plan
to reshuffle his cabinet’s top lead
ership immediately.
Churchill Friday held his first
cabinet meeting since both he and
Eden returned Wednesday from
Mediterranean convalescences.
During their summer-long ill
nesses, rumors have been rife that
on recovery, Eden would be “kick
ed upstairs” from the foreign of
fice to take over many of the aged
Churchill’s duties.
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