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VOL. LXI No. 57 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1959 Per Copy—15<fr
Bartlett Insists On
AEC Proof It Needs
Land Withdrawal
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Bob Bartlett urged the Interior
Department Wednesday to require
, a showing of need by the Atomic
Energy Commission before setting
aside any land for a proposed nu
{ clear blast in Alaska.
: The agency is considering a
plan to blast out a harbor on the
Arctic coast as a demonstration of
the peaceful use of nuclear power.
In connection with that project,
it has asked Interior to set aside
a large area of Alaska for its
use.
(Bartlett recently asked the de
partment to hold a public hearing
in Alaska on AEC’s proposal. In
reply, he received a letter from
Fred G. Aandahl, Assistant In
terior Secretary, in which he said
Aandahl expressed belief a public
hearing was neither necessary nor
desirable.
In asking that the department
obtain assurance of need, Bartlett
said he was doing so inasmuch as
the scope of the project has been
reduced since the original land
request was made.
Bartlett said he was not oppos
ing the AEC project but was re
iterating his position in respect
to large land withdrawals in
Alaska;
“It has always seemed to me,”
he said, “that these withdrawals
tend to be unnecessarily large and
perhaps the agencies state a need
for more land than is actually re
quired, simply because there is
so much of it available.”
Hearing on Light and
Power Rates Continued
Until Monday, June 8
A rate hearing on power and
light was held following the
Council meeting on Monday, and
was well attended. Much interest
was shown by individuals as rep
resentatives of business firms. It
was the concensus of opinion that
flat rate for refrigerators and
deep freeze units should be re
tained regardless of what rates
will be established. The matter
whs tabled to enable the Utilities
Board to present comparative
costs and revenues which would
result from the rate change. The
matter is to be brought before
the council again on its meeting
of June 8.
Debbie Deserves
Delicious Desserts
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., UP) —
Three boys, between 5 and 6,
locked themselves in an automo
bile trunk near a swimming polo
party.
Debbie Wilson, 5, heard their
muffled weeping and went to Mrs.
Harry Hemstalk, owner of the car
and the pool. Debbie had trouble
making her understand what was
wrong. But her earnestness finally
impressed the woman, who rushed
to the car and released her son,
Kip, Stephen Fredericka and Rob
ert1 Perona.
The patents then decided on a
reward.
That’s why Debbie was eating
ice cream and cake at intervals
all day Tuesday.
PEGLER REMARRIES AT 65
NEW YORK, UP) — Newspaper
columnist Westbrook Pegler was
married Monday to Pearl W.
Doane. He is 65, she is 47. It was
her third marriage. Pegler’s first
wife died in 1955.
John Marvik Is Appointed
Fire, Police Chief After
Hassle With the Council
A spirited meeting of the City
Council was held Monday, with
more community participation
than has been expressed for a
long time.
Three applications were re
ceived for Chief of Police and Fire
Department: Clyde Glass, James
Carter and John Marvik. On mo
tion of Councilman Mclver, John
Marvik’s name was submitted, and
the motion died for lack of a sec
ond. Councilman Doyle submitted
the name of Clyde Glass to the
council by motion, and the only
dissenting vote was that of
Mclver.
There were three applications
for utility man: Steve Dickson,
Walter Simon and Harry Johnsen.
Harry Johnsen, who has held the
position for several years, was
unanimously selected.
Patrolman Chaffins was ap
pointed Acting Chief until Mr.
Glass would be available on
June 1.
Tuesday morning, due to so
much expressed sentiment and
feeling pro and con for the choice
of the chief of police, Clyde Glass
resigned, and a special meeting
was held late yesterday afternoon,
at which time there was consid
erable heated discussion from the
citizenry on the choice of chief.
The Council met at noon today
and by unanimous ballot ap
pointed John Marvik to the posi
tion of chief of the Police and
Fire Departments at a salary of
$750 per month.
Eddie and Liz
Enroute to Spain
For Honeymoon
NEW YORK, m — Eddie Fisher
and Elizabeth Taylor, winging
their way to a European honey
moon, stopped off here between
planes today, and professed them
selves very happy.
The couple literally had been in
the clouds almost ever since their
wedding late Tuesday in Las
Vegas.
First they flew to Los Angeles,
then they took a jet for New
York. A crowd of about 200 per
sons gathered to watch them leave
the plane at Idlewild Airport.
Reporters carried on a kind of
running interview as the couple,
hurried through the throng to a
limousine.
One asked the actress how she
felt.
“What do you think?” she asked
in return. “It’s my wedding day
and I feel wonderful.”
Fisher broke in: “We’re a little
weary but we’re very happy.”
When photographers asked
them to embrace for pictures, Miss
Taylor declined and said: “We’re
saving that for ourselves.”
* The couple was scheduled to
leave by plane late today for
Spain, but Fisher said he had to
complete passport arrangements
and their departure might be post
poned.
He said'he and his wife expect
to be abroad three or four months.
After they reach Madrid they
will take a charter plane to Barce
lona and board a honeymoon yacht
which has a cabin styled after
Christopher Columbus’ quarters on
the Santa Maria.
At Las Vegas yesterday the two
were married in brief Jewish rites
3Vi> hours after obtaining a divorce
fom actess Debbie Reynolds.
Eisenhower Hopes
Russia Will Quit
Furtive Tactics
WASHINGTON, iff) — President
Eisenhower said today the Soviet
Un.on seems to be pushing a prop
aganda drive in seeking admit
tance of Ted satellite nations to
the Geneva foreign ministers con
ference.
Eisenhower told a news con
ference he is very hopeful the
Russians will abandon any such
propaganda tactics so the confer
ence can get down to fruitful ne
gotiations.
Eisenhower had been asked to
evaluate the Soviet efforts thus
far to win seats at Geneva for
Communist East Germany, Poland
and Czechoslovakia. These efforts
have kept the foreign ministers’
conference from getting to discus
sion of real problems.'
Eisenhower replied it is very dif
ficult to find out what is going
on behind someone else’s forehead.
During the news conference,
the President discussed these
other matters:
Appointees—For the third week
in a row, Eisenhower pictured
himself as rather baffled as to why
the Senate is delaying confirma
tion of some of his key nominees
or federal posts.
He made that remark when
asked whether he thought the op
position in the Senate, mainly
among Democrats, is assuming
some sort of pattern.
Spending — Eisenhower enthu
siastically welcomed a question as
to whether he has less concern
now than earlier in the year about
what he has termed reckless
spending proposals in Congress.
Making it clear he still wants
the budget balanced, Eisenhower
said the country is in the midst of
a business upturn and the na
tion ought to be trying to build up
surpluses and reduce the national
debt. He labeled as unconscionable
the fact that interest alone on that
debt totals eight billion dollars
annually.
Missiles — As for complaints
that money is being wasted in de
velopment of duplicate missiles,
Eisenhower said need to avoid
any waste in such areas is one of
the most critical concerns of
everyone in the administration.
Pipelines will be Employed
In Moving Wood Pulp
To Canadian Paper Mills
NEW YORK, iff) — Canadian
newsprint producers are trying
out pipelines and helicopters as a
cheaper means of getting wood
from forests to their mills.
Pipeline transportation is made
possible by chipping the wood into
small pieces and then flushing it
through the pipes by water, ac
cording to the Newsprint Infor
mation Committee.
Tests have shown an eight inch
pipeline can supply a good-sized
newsprint mill with all the wood
it needs. Newsprint makers think
pipe transportation may prove
more economical than' the tradi
tional method of carting logs to
lakes and rivers and then floating
them downstream to the mills
But the use of helicopters to
carry dangling bundles of pulp
logs out of forest tracts inacces
sible. to trucks has not yielded any
savings, the newsprint committee
says. Costs so far have run xoo
high.
Capital Airlines Suffers Two Passenger
Plane Tragedies in 1 Hour on East Coast
Mysterious Atlantic
Crash of 3 Jets
Puzzles Air Force
MYRTLE BEACH, S. C., UP) —
Three F-100 Super Sabre jet
planes hurtled into the Atlantic
Ocean off the South Carolina coast
before daylight today, apparently
killing all three pilots.
Searchers spotted wreckage and
oil slicks, but officers at Myrtle
Beach Air Force Base had no
ready explanation for the cause
of the crash. Observers said they
saw no collision.
The three planes, part of a
night navigational and refueling
training flight, had a rendezvous
over the ocean with a fuel tanker
plane. Another pilot on the mission
reported seeing the three jets “de
scending rapidly in a turn imme
diately prior to hitting the surface
of the ocean.”
The ceiling at the time of the
crash was reported as 3,900 feet
broken. This is a little better fly
ing condition than overcast. Visi
. bility was 5 miles, winds moderate
and no rain or fog.
Trade Association Asks
Cooperation In Canadian
U. S. Joint Development
SEATTLE, [to — Endorsement
of joint U. S.-Canadian develop
ment of the Columbia River and
a plea for better transportation
connections with Alaska were
voted by delegates to the Pacific
Northwest Trade Association Tues
day.
Both projects were the sub
jects of resolutions passed unani
mously as the association con
cluded its 41st general conference
here.
One resolution commended the
work of the International Colum
bia River Engineering Board and
the International Joint Commis
sion in nearing an equitable solu
tion to development of the Co
lumbia.
In the second resolution the as
sociation urged increased activity
on the part of the Alaska Inter
national Rail and Highway Com
mission named by Congress in
1956. The government of Canada
and its provinces were asked to
cooperate in furthering the work
of the commission.
At a conference luncheon prior
to the business session, Dr. Nicho
las Nyradi, former Hungarian
finance minister, told members the
issue between the United States
and Russia will “be decided in
the field of economics.”
STRONG SUN EXPLOSION
DISTURBS EARTH RADIOS V
SACRAMENTO PEAK OBSER
VATORY, N. M., — An explo
sion on the sun, described as one
of the strongest radio flares ever
recorded, kicked up a magnetic
storm in the earth’s atmosphere
Sunday.
Now it is dying out. Astrono
mers say they expect the last of
it Thursday, along with the last
of accompanying radio trouble.
Harry Ramsey, chief observer
at this mountain top observatory
in south central New Mexico, said,
“The solar flare was about 100,000
miles in length and 50,000 miles
wide.”
' BALTIMORE, UP) — A Capital
Airlines Viscount turboprop air
liner, flying non-stop from New
York to Atlanta, blew apart in
storm-swept skies over Maryland
late Tuesday, spraying wreckage
and the bodies of 27 passengers
and four crewmen over a two
mile area.
Civil Aeronautics Board inves
tigators, probing through the
twisted fragments, said at noon to
day that the plane was blown
apart by a forceful explosion. But
Speculation whether the explosion
was inside the fuselage or out
side, possibly in a wing, would be
“premature.”
Less than an hour before, an
other Xapital Airliner, a Four
engine Constellation, plunged over
a 200-foot embankment at the
Charleston, W. Va., airport and
burst into flames, killing two
persons and injuring at least six.
One official at the Civil Aero
nautics Board said it was the first
time in his memory that a single
airline had had two fatal crashes
in one day.
The Constellation crashed at
Charleston at 4:26 p.m. The Vis
count tore apart at 5:18 p.m. while
flying at about 14,000 feet 15 miles
east of Baltimore.
No one saw the plane the instant
it disintegrated with a fiery flash
— the sky was covered with low
scudding rainclouds. But aviation
engineers and others speculated
that a sudden, violent downdraft
or updraft tore off part of a wing,
rupturing a fuel line which
spewed kerosene fuel into an en
gine. The gas apparently ignited
with a roar, tearing the plane to
pieces.
The Viscount is powered by
four turbojet engines, which turn
a propeller shaft and a conven
tional propeller.
The fields were being combed m
by scores of C.A.B. investigators
and other officials for clues as to.
what actually happened.
A Capital official in Washington
said that while there was no indi
cation of a bomb explosion
aboard, the possibility would be
checked out.
At Charleston, W. Va., rain was
falling slightly when the big Con
stellation came in for a landing.
The plane seemed to turn before
it slowed down, witnesses said,
and it tumbled off the brink of the
hill. Then it burst into flames.
TWO EARTHQUAKES
RECORDED AT FORDHAM
NEW YORK, (#) — Two moder
ately strong earthquakes, possibly
centering in the Aleutian Islands,
were recorded late yesterday on
Fordham University seismographs.
The Rev. Joseph J. Lynch, uni
versity seismologist, said the first
occurred in an area about 5,100
miles from New York and the sec
ond about 5,300 miles. He said he
was unable to determine the direc
tion but believed the shocks oc
curred in the Aleutians.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
(By The Associated Press)
American League
Cleveland 7, New York 6.
Chicago 4, Boston 3.
Washington 7, Detroit 4.
National League
Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 1.
Chicago 7, Milwaukee 3.
St. Louis /, Cincinnati 4.
Pittsburgn 6, San Francisco 5.
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 6, Spokar.e 5.
Portland 5, Phoenix 3.