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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI'I No. 56 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1960Per Copy 15(i
Mayor Outlines
Civic Program
For Nome Jaycees
A capacity crowd turned out I
for the Jaycee banquet Saturday
evening at the Seaview Room, |
with the first president of the |
group, Barrow Morgan as toast
master. He announced that there
were 26 charter members with
State Director being Conrad Pot
ter; George Bell, vice president;
Stan Harhut, secretary; Stan Mol
itor, treasurer, and John Stolpe,
member at large. Heading the
membership committee is Bob
Harwood; publicity, Pete Hahn,
and program, Gary Longley.
The group was officially recog
nized by the International Direc
tor Duane Oliphant, who stated
the organization is 40 years old,
and who brought greetings from
the other six chapters in Alaska.
The pledge taken included pro
motion of private enterprise, anti
sectionalism, civic endeavor in
fields to be chosen by the group.
They have already announced
they will take charge of the Kan
garoo Court during the Midnight
Sun Festival and members have
already starting growing beards.
They also plan to sponsor the soft
ball league and the annual spring
cleanup.
'Mayor Steffen Andersen, speak
ing for the community, congratu
lated the group and outlined how
vitally important they can be if
they dedicate themselves to serv
ing civically. He outlined the fol
lowing projects which the city
needs help on as suggestions for
worthy projects:
1— An adequate swimming pool
for the children, utilizing the
warm water from the U.S.S.R.
& M. Co. power plant. .
2— Making the cemetery some
thing which the community can
look upon with pride rather than
shame. ‘Fourteen years ago, when
I was on the council, we talked
about fixing up the cemetery par
ticularly because it is on the ap
proach from the airport. The city
is willing to help but we need
young men to do1 the planning and
carry the project through.”
3— Library and museum build
ing. “This needs study and plan
ning as there are funds for this
type of thing if you know where
to look for it . . . Nome has a
colorful history which should be
preserved.”
4— Picnic grounds edst of the
seawall. “This is a beautiful
stretch of beach where pople with
out transportation could take chil
dren during the day if it were
cleaned up and all rubbish and
cans removed.”
5— Street signs — how many,
what are the names of the streets,
what kind of signs needed, etc.
“If a group would do the plan
ning and present the facts to the
city, funds would be provided to
carry the project through, as the
city council members alone can
not do it all.”
6— Make a study of all unoc
cupied buildings which should be
condemned. “Find out who owns
them, present the findings to the
city council, and the Health Com
mittee will follow through.”
7— Help organize a bigger and
better 4th of July program.
8— Be prepared with members
of the Jaycees to run for City of
fice—the city needs young men
who have pledged themselves to
civic enteprise.
Bill Beltz’ Condition
Satisfactory After 5-Hour
Brain Operation Friday
ANCHORAGE, Ufl—Alaska Sen
ate President William E. Beltz is
in satisfactory condition after un-1
dergoing a five-hour brain opera
tion Friday at the Alaska Native
Hospital here.
He was placed on the hospital’s
seriously ill list Friday, although
the operation was successful.
His wife is in Anchorage and
remained at the hospital during
the operation.
Beltz entered the hospital about
a week ago for examination.
Shortly before the end of the
last legislative session at Juneau
he collapsed on the Senate floor
and was forced to take a rest from
his duties.
There was no indication when
he would leave the hospital. How
ever, most patients leave a hos
pital about two weeks after a sim
ilar operation, if there are no
complications.
Emily Morgan Passes On
In Kansas at Age of 82
EL DORADO, Kan., (#)—Emily
Mary Morgan, 82, retired nurse
who received the title “Angel of
the Yukon” for her work during
a diphtheria epidemic, died Sun
day in a hospital here.
A 1905 graduate of what now is
known as the Missouri Methodist
Hospital, St. Joseph, Mo., she
spent 15 of her 42 years in nursing
in Alaska.
Miss Morgan was for many
years head nurse in Nome’s May
nard Columbus Hospital.
Alaska’s Six Delegates
To GOP Convention
Pledged to Nixon
ANCHORAGE, lm — Vice Pres
ident Richard Nixon last night
won Alaska’s six votes for the Re
publican Presidential nomination
at the GOP National Convention.
State Republicans, ending a
three - day convention, pledged
Alaska delegates to Nixon on the
first ballot at the Chicago con
clave. Alaska Republicans took
no action to endorse by resolu
tion a possible Vice Presidential
nominee.
Walter Hickel, an Anchorage
contractor, and Tillie Reeve, wife
of an Anchorage airline owner,
were reelected as members of the
Republican National Committee
from Alaska.
W. W. Laws of Nome was named
as one of the delegates, ahd Mrs.
Vesta Sundstrom was named an
alternate.
New Superior Court Judge
To be Sworn In Tomorrow
JUNEAU, iff) — Jay A. Rabino
witz will be sworn in tomorrow
as one of eight State Superior
Court judges, and will leave here
Wednesday to assume his judicial
post at Fairbanks.
The 33-year-old assistant Alaska
Attorney General, named to the
$19,000-a-year judgeship by Gov.
Egan two weeks ago, will be
sworn in by Associate Supreme
Court Justice John Dimond.
Rabinowitz was appointed to
the Superior Court to succeed
Judge Harry O. Arend, elevated
by Gov. Egan to a post on the
three-man State Supreme Court.
APPROPRIATE
MILWAUKEE, UP) —Mrs. Carol
Muther became a mother on Mo
ther’s Day when she gave birth
to her third child, a girl.
U. S. ADMITS WEATHER PILOT SPY
Soviets Gloat Over
Shooting Down of
U. S. Spy Plane
MOSCOW, UP) — Pravda, the
Communist party newspaper, to
day called Francis G. Powers’ jet
flight over Soviet territory fur
ther proof of the necessity for the
highest Soviet vigilance against
attack.
Though officials gloated over
the shooting down of the Ameri
can spy plane, some citizens seem
ed disturbed that it managed to
get so deep into Soviet territory.
Pravda denounced the U. S.
State Department’s explanation as
impudent and cynical and denied
that other nations engaged in
aerial espionage.
"It is certainly no secret that,
given the state of the world to
day, intelligence collection act
ivities are practiced by all
countries, and postwar history
certainly reveals that the Soviet
Union has not been lagging be
hind in this field," the U. S.
statement said.
Premier Khrushchev announced
that the plane, before it was rock
eted down, reached Sverdlovsk,
some 1,400 miles northwest of the
Pakistani border over which it
crossed. The average Soviet re
acted like Americans would at
news a Soviet plane hM beefr in
tercepted over Kansas.
Anger and uneasiness were
heightened by the suspicion that |
other American high-level planes
had penetrated Soviet air space
without being intercepted.
In an attempt to reassure the
people of the invincibility of the
Soviet armed forces, the top mili
tary brass blanketed the papers
with articles proclaiming the na
tion’s ability to crush any aggres
sor.
The Soviet press poured out
fresh details of the capture of
pilot F'rancis G. Powers and lam
pooned the United States in car
toons and articles.
The papers told how workers on
a state farm near Sverdlovsk
came to Powers’ aid when he para
chuted from his plane on May
Day but turned him over to the
authorities when they found he
carried a pistol with silencer, dag
ger, Soviet Union map, Soviet and
foreign money, gold watches and
women’s gold rings, a survival kit,
fishing net, pliers and a saw
edged knife.
Khrushchev has indicated that
Powers will be tried and said he
might hold a news conference on
the case. U.S. Embassy officials
said so far Ambassador Lewellyn
Thompson had not tried to see
Powers.
Powers, a former U.S. Air Force
lieutenant from Pound, Va., be
came a test pilot for Lockheed in
1956. His U'2 jet, which was based
in Adana, Turkey, was one of a
fleet ostensibly used in weather
research by the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion. Apparently Powers actually
was an agent of the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency.
WET WORK
LOS ANGELES, —Lifeguards
rescued more than 700 swimmers
Sunday as hundreds of thousands
from Los Angeles to San Diego
I flocked to beaches in 80-degree
| temperature.
Vapor Trails Over
Canada Assumed
To be Russ Planes
OTTAWA, I® — Vapor trails of
high-flying mystery planes have
led to a general assumption here
that Soviets occassionally make
reconnaissance flights over north
ern Canada and Alaska.
The Canadian press, however,
said that as far as can be learned
there has never been a positive
identification of a Soviet plane
flying over north Canada.
As a rule, all that has been
sighted have been vapor trails,
due to condensation, from planes
so high that they themselves could
not toe seen.
These vapor trails have been
seen over the Queen Elizabeth Is
lands—Canada’s North Archipel
ago—at a time when it was known
that no Canadian or U.S. planes
were in the area.
Authorities here have said they
believe the only purpose of such
flighs would apparently be to take
high-level photographs of airfields
connected with the DEW Line.
It is said that Soviet recon
naissance flights over the Can
adian north began at least as
early as 1954.
Egan Says He Never Heard
Of Russian Planes Making
Flights Over Alaska
JUNEAU, UFI — Gov. Egan said
today he has never received any
reports indicating Russian planes
have made reconnaissance flights
over Alaska.
The Governor told newsmen he
had no knowledge, either infor
mally or through official military
briefings, that would lead to be
lief Soviet planes have penetrated
American air space over the nor
thernmost state.
The Governor told reporters he
had visited Distant Early Warn
ing station in norhern Alaska and
watched as DEW line crews track
ed flights in the air in the north
ern sky.
“I can imagine what we would
have done if the planes had not
been identified as our,” the Gov
ernor commented.
Bartlett Appalled By
Rumors of Cutback In
Alaska Military Strength
WASHINGTON, UP) —Sen. Bob
Bartlett said today it is appalling
to even consider a cutback in
Alaska-based military strength, in
view of the Russian situation.
Bartlett said he cut' short a trip
to Alaska last weekend after
hearing rumors about plans to re
duce air fighter strength at Ladd
Air Force Base.
The Alaska congressional dele
gation is trying to arrange a meet
ing with Defense officials, to get
the facts,” Bartlett said.
“It is appalling, absolutely,”
Bartlett said, “that plahs are being
■made that might cut further the
forces in being in Alaska.
“That this is even being con
sidered at a time when our rela
tionship with Russia has not fun
damentally altered, when Alaska
remains as strategically important
as ever, is beyond comprehension.”
WEATHER—Cloudy with fog and
show showers. Low tonight 30,
high tomorrow 35. Last 24 Hours:
Hi 33, low 30; wind 23 mph from S.
President Calls
Special Security
Advisers’ Meeting
WASHINGTON, WV— President
Eisenhower arranged an unusual
meeting of his top strategy ad
visers for today amid continuing
worldwide clamor over the Am
erican spy-plane incident.
The National Security Council,
headed by Eisenhower, usually
meets on Thursday. White House
press secretary Hagerty told news
men that shifting the weekly ses
sion to today had “no connection
whatever” with the plane episode.
However, it seemed entirely un
likely that the Council—the na
tion’s top security planning unit—
would meet without some discus
sion of the shooting down of an
American plane and pilot by the
Russians.
In a sensational development
over the weekend, the United
States confessed that the plane
was on a spy mission.
Hagerty said the Council meet
ing was moved ahead from Thurs
day because Eisenhower will be
leaving Saturday for Paris to at
tend the summit conference open
ing a week from today.
Eisenhower was reported plan
ning to follow up the incident by
calling on Soviet Premier Khrush
chev at the Paris meeting to join
in scrapping military secrecy.
That move was understood to
stem from a determination not to
take a defensive attitude on the
matter when Eisenhower meets
with the government chiefs of
Britain, France and the Soviet
Union.
On another front, Walter Reu
ther, president of the United Auto
Workers Union, told the AFL-CIO
Industrial Union Department that
the revelation represents “the
most stupid blunder” in American
history.
Reuther said he was not pass
ing judgment on what steps Am
erican intelligence felt are neces
sary. But he said the changing
story was an incredible bunder
that gave the Russians a chance
to “challenge our credibility be
fore the world on everything
else.”
The President is represented as
feeling that the plane incident
dramatizes the U.S. view that the
“iron curtain” system of conceal
ment is a major foundation of the
world’s tension and fear of war.
The U.S. statement disavowed
and personal responsibility of the
President or any other Washing
ton authority for the espionage
mission. It said that an investi
gation ordered by the President
showed that “insofar is the au
thorities in Washington are con
cerned there was no authorization
for any such flight as described
by Mr. Khurshchev.”
Officials would not go beyond
that in reporting what the in
quiry had shown about who was
responsible. The implication was
that some lower official outside
Washington ordered the flight.
N.W. ALASKA POPULATION
Other population totals released
toy the Fairbanks dist ict office of
the census were:
District 21, Barro'J 2,141; Dis
trict 22, Kotzebue, b63; District
23, Nome, 6,253 and District 24,
Wade-Hampton, 3,138.