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VOL. LXI No. 52 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1959_Per Copy—154
Nenana Guess Lists
Out This Week
By DAN KETZLER
Nenana Ice Classic Manager
NENANA — The big book is
out and being distributed. Have
you found" your name in it? The
pages of the book are turning very
fast. Yours truly has seen his
name slip by with hundreds of
others.
Looks like things are going to
happen in the near future. The
■weather has warmed up from its
below-average temperature and
the ice and snow is beginning to
melt on the sandbars and the
river edges. More and more
people are going to the river bank
and figuring their chances on the
big event. The radio shack has
been set up on the Tanana River
bank, and the million dollar knife
has been whetted for the moment
when the ice starts to move. The
clock and guards will be installed
in the next day or so, and a watch
ful eye will be kept on the ice,
which looks as if it may not move
within the next ten days.
We have received a letter from
Gabriel Mallett, Bouches Du
Rhone, Marseilles, France. He
writes: “The ice was broken the
seventh of May at seventeen hours
and fifty-two minutes.” His pre
diction looks -mighty good. We
will be on the air soon with a
bank-side description of the ice
conditions and the breakup, so
until then, many happy returns
of the minute.
Discoverer III Will
Send Mice Into
Space Flight
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., UPi — Four black
mice sail into space next month in
an American attempt to prove
,. that a living creature can leave
, earth and return alive.
The mice will ride in a specially
designed “life package” capsule
in the nose cone of Discoverer III.
The satellite is expected to be
launched into Polar orbit from
this West Coast missile base in
about 30 days.
The little astronauts will be
chosen from 50 black mice now
under observation at Holloman Air
Force Base, N. M.
Scientists will measure their
reactions to blastoff, weightless
ness and the stresses of re-entry.
The main object, though, is to get
something alive into orbit and
► back to earth again safely.
This has never been done with
any animal.
One unofficial source said there
was about one chance in 100 of
success.
P y_
Russians Say Chinese Got
"‘Abominable Snowman,’
Put Him to Work
LONDON, UP) — Chinese peas
ants captured an abominable snow
man in Kansu Province and even
trained him to work, Moscow Ra
dio reported yesterday. But then
they killed him.
- The broadcast gave no further
► details of this first claim to do
ji. mesticating the snowman, or
“Yeti,” the legendary creature
' who supposedly walks upright
over the high Mountains of Asia
but flees at the approach of man.
•v The Russians admitted that they
themselves, were outwitted on a
Yeti-hunting expedition to the
, Pamir Mountains of Central Asia
last summer.
Floyd Patterson Weighs In
For Bout With British «•
Heavyweight Challenger
INDIANAPOLIS, — Heavy
weight champion Floyd Patter
son weighed 182 Vi pdunds and
challenger Brian London of Eng
land 208, for their 15-round title
fight tonight.
Patterson scaled 184 Vi in his
last start August 18, 1958, when
he stopped Texan Roy Harris in
the 12th round of a championship
contest.
London, a hurly six-footer,
weighed 209Vi pounds the last
time he fought. That was on Jan
uary 12 in London when he lost
his British and British Empire
titles to Henry Cooper in a bruis
ing, bloody fight.
The Briton was cut over the
right eye in that scrap. The wound
has healed neatly.
Seaton Asks Large
N. E. Alaska Tract
Be Made Sanctuary
•/
WASHINGTON, UPi — Congress
yesterday was formally asked to
establish the Arctic Wildlife
Range, to consist of a nine-million
acres area of biologically irre
placeable land in Northeastern
Alaska.
Secretary of the Interior Fred
A. Seaton sent Congress a bill to
carry out the plans he announced
more than a year ago to seek es
tablishment of the preserve.
The area at its largest dimen
sions is roughly 140 miles from
north to south and 20 miles from
east to west. Its northern boun
dary is the Arctic Ocean, and its
eastern edge is the Canadian bor
der. It extends south of the crest
of the Brooks Mountain range
and goes west to the Canning
River .
It would be the nation’s largest
wildlife refuge.
Seaton said the establishment
of the refuge is the only economic
ally feasible opportunity for main
taining a primitive frontier large
enough for the preservation of
caribou, the grizzly bear, the dall
sheep, the wolverine, the polar
bear, and the other animals which
require unrestricted range.
He added that the proposed
range also offers the only oppor
tunity for the nation to preserve
an undisturbed portion of the Arc
tic large enough to be biologically
self-sufficient.
He said the range is a mag
nificent area of wildlife and wil
derness exceeded in size in North
America only by Canada’s Wood
Buffalo scientific study area.
Under the proposed legislation,
hunting, fishing and trapping
would be allowed on the range in
accordance with the laws and reg
ulations of Alaska.
The Secretary would be per
mitted to authorize mineral activi
ty within the area but he could
not dispose of title to the surface
of the land.
SPANISH PLANE CRASH
KILLS TOP ACROBATS
MADRID, Spain, UPi — Five of
Spain’s top gymnasts were among
28 persons killed in the crash of
a Spanish airliner on a hill near
Madrid Wednesday.
The twin-engine DC-3 of the
government-owned Iberie Airline
was en route from Barcelona to
Madrid. Officials blamed bad
weather for the crash.
The gymnasts were bound for
a meet in the Canary Islands,
May Day Devoted
To Workers In
Worldwide Fetes
(By The Associated Press)
Workers celebrated May Day in
many lands today with parades
and festivities against a backdrop
of international tension.
The Soviet Union’s traditional
parade in Red Square saw a beam
ing Premier Nikita Khrushchev
taking the salute shortly after
being awarded the Lenin Peace
Prize.
Boasts of Soviet military might
came from the defense minister,
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, but
the parade was a disappointment
to Westerners looking for new
weapons.
The theme seemed to stress de
fense. Missing were the big rockets
of last year. Instead, an artillery
show was called by Moscow Radio
the “most awesome” highlight of
the parade. It described “antiair
craft equipment as big as factor
ies and twin-barreled self-pro
pelled guns capable of hitting any
thing on earth or in the skies.”
The tensest demonstrations were
in divided Berlin.
More than 300,000 West Berlin
ers turned out for a rally before
the Reichstag — the old Parlia
ment building burned down by
the Nazis in *1933. It is just 300
yards from Communist East
Berlin.
U. S. union leader Walter Reu
ther told the cheering crowd “the
American people — the people of
the free world stand united at your
side in friendship and solidarity.”
A mile away from the Western
rally, more than a quarter of a
million East Berliners marched
before German Communist lead
ers, Red China Defense Minister
Peng Teh-Huai, and Soviet
officers.
In Rome, Pope John XXIII in
a huge Christian observance of
May Day invoked the protection
of St. Joseph — humble carpenter
of Nazareth — for all workers of
the world. The Pontiff called on
his listeners to try to bring the
followers of Marx to Christianity.
Before he addressed the big
throng, the 77-year-old supreme
rule of the Roman Catholic Chuch
celebated mass. It was the fist
time that a Pontiff celebrated such
a May Day mass, and continued
the church’s efforts in recent
years to break Communist and
Socialist monopoly of the holiday.
Nothing Sacred . . .
SAN CARLOS, Calif., UR —
James Sanduval complained to
police that two women and five
men:
1. Parked their auto and two
motorcycles in his driveway.
2. Removed the outdoor furni
ture from his garge and set it
up in his patio.
3. Broke into the house, removed
his liquor and sat comfortably
around in the patio sipping high
balls.
Worse, he said, they took the
liquor with them when he sur
prised them upon his return from
a movie Wednesday night.
He had no idea who they were.
THURSDAY BASEBALL SCORES
(By The Associated Press)
American League
Chicago 4, New York 3.
Kansas City 5, Baltimore 3.
Washington 9, Detroit 1.
National League
Milwaukee \ St. Louis 0.
Los Angeles 6, Philadelphia 4.
Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2.
Anchorage Beauty Reigns
Over Virginia’s Springtime
Apple Blossom Festival
WINCHESTER, Va., M>> — Resi
dents of this northern Virginia
community and thousands of vis
itors pledged allegiance yester
day to the reign of Queen Shenan
doah XXXJII, 18-year-old Sara
Elaine Atwood of Anchorage.
The blonde beauty received her
crown as ruler over the two-day
32nd annual Shenandoah Apple
Blossom Festival from Secretary
of the Interior Fred A. Seaton.
Taking part as minister of
state was E. iL. Bartlett, one of
the two Democratic senators from
the next-to-last state to join the
union.
The queen-elect descended the
steps of the Handley High School
portico for her coronation on the
arm of movie actor Russ Tambjyn.
She took the oath of office from
Bartlett, then received her crown
from Seaton as applause rippled
through the crowd assembled in
the bowl — a natural amphithe
ater surrounded by flowering ap
ple and cherry trees and stately
pines.
Queen Elaine, a sophomore at
Mills College, Oakland, Calif.,
won the heart of this area yester
day with her attractiveness and
dazzling smile. She performs a
royal function today when she
knights television star Gene Bar
ry as “Chief Apple Polisher of the
Apple Blossom Realm.”
U. S. Will Stretch
Neck to Observe
Satellite Orbits
WASHINGTON, UR—The United
States is adding spyglasses to its
’round the world system for bet
ter observation of satellites it
sends into earth orbits or out into
space.
The purpose is to get more pre
cise predictions of space vehicle
orbits and trajectories and of their
prospective life periods.
The Air Force said today it is
installing three huge telescopes,
known as Baker-Nunn cameras,
at Oslo, Norway, the University
of Alaska at College, and south of
San Francisco near Sunnyvale,
Calif. This is an expansion of its
space track network.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, meanwhile,
said new radio tracking stations
are to be built in Alaska, in North
Dakota near the Canadian border,
in Newfoundland, and possibly in
northern Europe. These stations
would form a northern fence for
tracking satellites NASA may
launch into Polar orbits.
The NASA and Defense Depart
ment satellite tracking systems,
though separate, are coordinated.
Arthur Godfrey Takes
News of Cancer Calmly
NEW YORK, UR — Arthur God
frey was told today that the tu
mor removed from his chest
Thursday was cancerous. He
made no special comment on the
news and seemed in good spirits,
according to a hospital announce
ment.
Earlier, the hospital said he
^‘spent a satisfactory postoperative
night with no complications.”
The 55-year-old, red-haired ra
dio and TV star, who underwent
five-hour surgery Thursday for
removal of a lung cancer, slept
under sedation through the night
in the hospital recovery room. His
wife, Mary, remained at the hos
pital.
Mrs. Luce Quits
New Post Over
Morse’ Castigation
WASHINGTON, (#> — Clare
Booth Luce quit today as Ambas
sador to Brazil because of her
public row with Sen. Wayne
Morse.
In a letter to the President,
Mrs. Luce said:
“It is no longer possible for me
to accomplish the mission which
you have entrusted to me.”
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told a news
conference Eisenhower sought to
persuade Mrs. Luce to reconsider
her decision to quit.
In her letter of resignation she
said the “climate of good will was
| poisoned by thousands of words
of extraordinarily ugly charges
against my person, and of destruc
i tion of the mission I was to un
dertake.”
She did not mention Senator
Morse by name, but she noted that
“the American author of these
charges” is also chairman of a
Senate subcommittee which
handles Latin American affairs.
Morse tried to block Senate ap
proval of her appointment but
was defeated by a 79-11 vote in
her favor Tuesday.
A few hours after this, Mrs.
Luce caused an angry uproar by
saying in New York that her
troubles began when Morse was
“kicked in the head by a horse”
in 1951.
Morse called her remark proof
she was not fitted for the diplo
matic post. He implied she was
unstable mentally.
In summing up her decision to
step aside, Mrs. Luce told the
President in her letter:
“Common sense indicates that
the good will and support which
the rest of the Senate has given
will not be forthcoming from the
subcommittee chairman.
“A continuing harrassment of
my mission, with a view to mak
ing his own charges stick, is the
natural course the chairman would
follow. And the sad fact is not
that I, but Brazilian-American
policy would be the victim.
“It therefore seems indisput
able that at this time of grave
economic difficulties in Brazil, the
best interests of that country, as
well as of the United States, will
be served by your selection of
another plenipotentiary.
“Again, I regret with all my
heart that I will not have the
opportunity to be of this service
to you, to our country and to
inter-American relations.”
Victoria C. of C. Wants
City to Remain Victorian
VICTORIA, B. C., UP — Police
and the Chamber of Commerce of
this staid city, which fancies it
self a bit of old England, are ready
to do battle.
The chamber tourist group
wants police to wear the tall Lon
don bobbie’s helmet.
Chamber official Sam Lane
said: “The use of the tall helmet
would counter criticism that Vic
toria is losing its old English
charm and is becoming just an
other American city.”
Lorene Shandley, president of
the Victoria Policeman’s union,
commented: “Policemen will dress
up and act like damned fools if
the tourists group will go around
in three-cornered hats, knee
breeches and wigs.”