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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 98 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1957 Per Copy—15<
Hospital Board
Organized to Act |
As Liaison Group
An organizational meeting of.
the members of the newly ap- j
pointed MMM Hospital Advisory |
Board was held at the hospital j
last evening and a tentative set j
of rules and regulations was
adopted.
The board, composed of repre
sentatives of the people of this
area, plans to meet several times
a year and act not only as an ad
visory board but as a liaison
group between professional staff
and the public so that a better
understanding of the needs and
problems peculiar to the commu
nity may exist.
On the original board already
named are Steve Andersen, Who
was elected chairman; Louise
Bockman, elected secretary; Len
nie Mae Nerland, M. J. Walsh,
Bob Baldwin, Freida Larson, Russ
Hermann and Emily Boucher.
Reindeer Herder
Will Make First
Use of Highway
John Kakarak, owner of the
well known Kakarak herd of
reindeer, is in town for a few
days making plans for the first
shipment of reindeer to be
shipped over Highway 97 early in
September.
He has planned his herding this
summer so that the reindeer herd
which now numbers about 2,000
deer will be at the end of the
road in time to slaughter deer for
the Nome market. -It will be
shipped by truck to Nome, ac
cording to his plan.
This will be the first commer
cial enterprise to make use of the
long-awaited road.
Kakarak stated that there have
been more bears in the area than
ever before and several have been
killed which had taken some of
the young fawns this spring.
Fishing Boat Rescues
16 Navy Men From
Blimp Crashed in Sea
NORFOLK, Va., —A fishing
boat today rescued 16 crew mem
bers of a Navy blimp which
crashed during the night in coast
al North Carolina’s Pamlico
Sound.
The crew of Naval reservists
on a summer training cruise
escaped unhurt.
The fishing boat took the sur
vivors’ rafts in tow, headed for
shore.
* * *
A massive rescue team of 50
planes was about to take off to
search for a missing jet pilot
when word came that he had
been picked up by a ship.
A merchant tanker reported
the rescue of Lt. Comdr. Waldo
A. Atkins, 33, of Virgina Beach
from a raft in the Atlantic Ocean.
Senate Group Increases
Funds Requested
To Fight Asiatic Flu
WASHINGTON The Senate
Appropriations Committee has in
creased by $300,000 an Eisenhow
er Administration request for
funds to fight asiatic flu;
The committee did this yester
day in approving a $1,700,000,000
supplemental money bill. Most of
the funds in the bill would go to
pay for military construction in
the United States and abroad.
British Consul
General To Be
Honored Saturday
• A no-host dinner at the North
Star Dining Room is planned for
tomorrow evening honoring Con
sul - General Gordon C. Whitte
ridge and Mrs. Whitteridge.
The guests are expected to ar
rive earlier Saturday. He is with
the British Consulate-General in
Seattle and his territory extends
throughout the four Northwest
ern States and Alaska.
After the dinner, Mr. Whitte
ridge will shown films and speak
at 9 o’clock at the Pioneer Hall.
This is open to the public and
there will be no charge.
However, for the dinner at the
North Star, the N.W.A. Chamber
of Commerce asks all who intend
to attend to make their reserva
tions by calling the North Star.
Mr. Whitteridge was educated
in England and received his de
gree at Cambridge University. He
has been with the Foreign Ser
vice since 1932, serving in Thai
land, Indonesia, Russia and Ger
many as well as in the Foreign
Office in London. His last post
was Bangkok, Thailand where he
held the rank of Counsellor of
Embassy for four years.
He was appointed Consul-Gen
eral in Seattle in August 1956. He
holds two decorations for govern
ment service, the Companion of
the Order of St. Michael & St.
George, and Officer of the Order
of the British Empire.
Contractors Go;
Unalakleet Left
Bigger, Better
Frank Degnan, Unalakeet resi
dent, reports that the several con
tractors who have been busy
there for the past two years are
completing their work this month
and closing their camps.
The new Air Force station is
being manned by a housekeeping
crew and it is expected that a
military force of about 100 men
will be stationed there when com
pleted.
He also states that Unalakleet
now has 14 miles of road, whicn
is a big improvement.
People of that area are hoping
with the increased population
that they may be able to get a
first class post office with a per
manent building site. They are
also looking forward to the con
struction of an ANS high school
so that their children will not
have to go so far from home for
higher education.
Little Ray Larsen
Hit and Killed
On Highway 97
The first fatality on Highway
97 occurred last evening about 12
miles out when Ray Larsen, two
and a half year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Larsen Sr., was
struck by a car and killed. The
tragic accident occurred near
where the Larsen family was
camping.
The car ' which struck the
youngster was driven by Andy
Peterson Jr., who was enroute to
town from the U.S. ditch camp
where his father Andy Peterson
Sr., is ditchman for the U. S.
Smelting Co.
An inquest is being held this
(afternoon at the scene of the
accident.
Lieutenant Acquitted
Of Four Charges of
Negligent Homicide
FT. SILL, Okla., 13—An Army
court-martial board today acquit
ted a 22-year-old second lieuten
ant of four charges of negligent
homicide in the deaths of four
infantrymen June 22.
The four soldiers were killed
and 13 others injured when mor
tar shells fell among them as they
advanced up a hill during an at- j
tack demonstration on a Ft. Sill J
range before several hundred ci-1
vilian and military onlookers.
The defendant, Lt. Rosser L.
Moody, Toano, Va., admitted he
made a mistake in transcribing
firing data which paused six of
nine rounds of 4.2-inch mortar
shells to fall among the infantry
men.
Army Missile
Shot 400 Miles
Into Florida Sky
WASHINGTON, GP>—'The Army
was reported today to have fired
some 400 miles into the sky off
Florfda a missile whose nose re
turned to sea level without being
consumed by heat.
A solution to the problem of re
entry of the atmosphere was said
to have been tested successfully
in a missile firing which took
place in the pre-dawn hours last
Thursday at Patrick Air Force
Base, Fla.
The missile vehicle was a com
bination of several rockets and
mechanisms involved in the Ar
my’s Jupiter missile.
The rocket-powered test mis
sile reached an altitude of about
400 miles, attained a maximum
speed of about 12,000 miles per
hour and traveled about 1,200
miles southwest from Florida be
fore landing within a quarter of a
mile of where military engineers
planned it to land.
A major*problem facing long
range missile men has been to
develop materials to withstand
the tremendous friction heat that
would be generated as the mis
sile’s nose plunged from altitudes
where there is virtually no oxy
gen back into the heavier atmo
sphere of the earth.
House Appropriations Committee
Ignores President’s Warning, Cuts
More Millions From Foreign Aid
Newsmen Feted
On Way to Alaska
KENORA, Ont., (#)—A group of
newspapermen from the United
States has arrived ;'n the Kenora
resort district and were enter
tained by the chamber of com
merce and Department of Travel
and Publicity.
(Nome, Kotzebue and Barrow
are including in their itinerary—
See article on Page Five.)
Traveling in trailers and new |
cars, the group is part of a trailer I
cavalcade to Alaska. One half left |
from Chicago Aug. 10, the other ■
half from Los Angeles. They will
meet at Mile Post Zero on the
Alcan Highway at Dawson Creek,
B.C., for the final leg of the trip.
Six trailers stopped here. The
group plans to spend most of the |
time in Alaska fishing on the |
Kenai Peninsula.
Senate Approves
Neil H. McElroy as
Secretary of Defense
WASHINGTON, (4>t—The Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
yesterday approved the nomina
tion of Neil H. McElroy to be
Secretary of Defense, succeeding
Charles E. Wilson.
Chairman Russell said the vote
was unanimous. The nomination
now goes to the Senate for indi
cated confirmation.
McElroy, president of Procter
& Gamble, testified he will dis
pose of part of his investments
“in order to avoid any possible
confusion between these holdings
and the responsibilities of the
Secretary of Defense.”
McElroy said he plans to resign
as his firm’s president but will
retain his interest in it.
$7,100,000 Approved
For Construction of
Geodetic Survey Ship
WASHINGTON, iff)—Funds for
construction of a $7,100,000 Coast
and Geodetic Survey ship, the
Surveyor II, are virtually assured,
Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash), an
nounced Friday.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee, of which Magnuson is a
member, approved a supplemen
tal allocation of $3,456,000 for
fiscal 1958, matching the sum ap
propriated in 1956.
Surveyor II is slated fro Pacific
Northwest and Alaska service.
The 292-foot ship will have a
helicopter landing platform and
the latest electronic depth finding
and position finding equipment.
SECRET WEAPON?
HARRISBURG, Pa., Iff)—The
Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign
i Wars asked the United Nations
today to investigate the possibili
| ty that Red China or Soviet Rus
j sia launced Asiatic flu germs in
the free world.
P WASHINGTON, UPt—The House
Appropriations Committee yester
day slashed $809,650,000 from for
eign aid funds just as President
Eisenhower made a new_plea—
his third this week—for more
money.
A White House statement said
Eisenhower, “in the conviction
that the national interests of this
country are deeply involved,”
hopes the cut will be restored. It
had been-voted Wednesday by a
subcommittee.
In less than an hour the full
committee stamped approval o»n
the subcommittee action. %
Eisenhower’s statement wasn’t
formally directed to anyone in
particular, but Press Secretary
Hagerty said it was aimed at the
full committee.
That group, however, appar
ently acted without knowledge
of the presidential action. Rep.
Wlgglesworth (R-Mass) said no
letter or communication was re
ceived from the White House.
ftep. Passman (D-La), chairman
of the subcommittee which made
the original cut, said no attempt
was made yesterday to raise the
figures. He said the funds ap
proved are “enough to last the
program for 2V£ years if no more
money is provided.”
In its final committee form the
measure allows $2,524,760,000 in
new money for the overseas pro
gram in the year which started
July 1. With a carryover of $667
million from previous appropria
tions, this gives Eisenhower $1,
288,200,000 less than he first said
was needed.
The sequence was about the
same as Wednesday’s.
Then Eisenhower in a special
news conference, a session such
as he has never held before, ap
pealed for all of the $3,367,083,000
which Congress had set as the
ceiling in an authorization bill he
had just signed. That figure itself
is half a billion less than Eisen
hower originally said was needed.
Eisenhower served notice he
will call a special session of Con
gress to get more money if he
finds U.S. interests are endan
gered by the lack of needed funds.
Sen. Knowland held a last-min
ute strategy session with Presi
dent Eisenhower today and re
ported later they both hope to
get back in the Senate a substan
tial part of the $809,650,000 the
House chopped out of foreign aid
funds.
As finally passed by the House
last night the measure provides
$2,524,760,000 in new money, Ei
senhower had sought the full
amount of a previously passed
authorization bill: $3,367,000,000.
In the teeth of a third Eisen
hower warning that the cuts
would tamper with America’s na
tional interests, the House over
rode all moves to boost funds in
the committee-approved bill. The
vote for final passage: 252-130.