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VOL. LIX No. 148.NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957 -/ Per Copy—15^
Two Groups Will Join Forces for
, Gospel Radio Station in Nome
Representatives of Denali Broad-i
casters, Inc., and the Evangelical
Mission Covenant Church met re
cently in Chicago to discuss their
common interest in reaching
Western Alaska arid Siberia by
radio. Dr. Clarence Jones, presi
dent of the World Radio Mission
ary Fellowship, served as advisor
and consultant at the meeting.
For several years the Evangeli
cal Mission Covenant Church has
been considering the possibility
of building a radio station in con
junction with its mission opera
tions in northwestern Alaska. Re
cently Denali Broadcasters, Inc.,
revealed a similar burden.
In the meeting just concluded,
representatives of both organiza
tions considered how best to avoid
any possible duplication of effort.
After prayerful consideration
of the interests of both groups, it
was ultimately agreed that the
best method of procedure would
be:
1. That the Evangelical Mission
Covenant Church assume the re
sponsibility of securing a broad
cast license and installing suitable
equipment for Gospel broadcast
ing from Nome, Alaska.
2. That Denali Broadcasters,
Inc., and other evangelical organ
izations be given opportunity to
assist in this missionary radio
effort in accordance with policies
established for its operation.
The primary objectives of the j
Nome station include the broad-1
casting of the Gospel and other I
programs in English. However, a j
greater outreach may be obtained |
by the use of releases in the Eski-1
mo and Russian languages. i
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Russia Puts On Mighty
Propaganda Blast as
NATO Meeting Starts
By ROY ESSOYAN
MOSCOW, UP>—A Soviet mili
tary newspaper announced today
—at the height of a new propa-.
ganda barrage to western Europe
—that the armed forces of the
Soviet Union have been placed on
a “constant alert.”
While Moscow radio kept up
’round-the-clock pounding at the
North Atlantic Treaty Alliance
meeting in Paris as a threat to
world peace, the armed forces
and the Soviet home audience
were told defensive measures
were being taken by all members
of the Communist camp.
The propaganda drive was at a
point of intensity rivalled in re
cent times only by the nervous
days of the crisis over the Middle
East fighting a year ago. Foreign
observers here said the drive is
aimed at stimulating a will for
neutralism in the Western camp.
HUNDREDS OF FISH DIE
IN FLORIDA COLD SNAP
FORT PIERCE, Fla., ISV—Hun
dreds of small fish were found
dead in the Indian River between
Fort Pierce and Vero Beach to
day, apparent victims of the cold.
This was the first time since
1940 that residents remember see
ing large numbers of fish killed
by cold.
At Least Six Oil Wells Scheduled
For Drilling in Alaska Next Year
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U.S. Can Launch
‘Large Satellite’
When It Wants To
WASHINGTON, W>—Pentagon
Missiles Director William M. Hol
aday told investigating senators
today this country will be able to
launch “large satellites” whenever
it wants to do so.
But Holaday told the Senate
Preparedness Subcommittee he
could not go into detail because
“it would be helpful to the Rus
sians” to know exact U.S. plans.
Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson
assured Holaday the subcommit
tee would hear his detailed testi
mony in secret and it would be
screened for possible publication.
Holaday said in his speech he
was trying to point up a need for
this country “to roll up its sleeves
arid go to work” to stay ahead of
the Russia**’threat.
Johnson said the U.S. will face
continuing “international black
mail” by Russia unless it speeds
tile development of “weapons of
dutftflval” 'f
> ANCHORAGE, (JV-Russell E. I
Havenstrite and Associates will
resume drilling for oil at Chinitna
Bay next summer, according to
the Oil and Gas Journal.
The return of Havenstrite to
the active list of oil drillers in
Alaska makes a total of six wells
definitely scheduled and two more
considered possible for 1958.
The announcement makes four
holes assured in the entire Cook
Inlet area.
Richfield and Standard are al
ready drilling Swanson River No.
2 and Humble-Shell are drilling
Bear Creek No. 1.
Standard has also announced
plans to drill about six miles in
land from Anchor Point.
• Other holes assured for drilling
or continued drilling in 1958 are
the Houston No. 3 and the Color
ado Oil and Gas operation near
Yakutat.
Two additional holes are con
sidered likely for the 1958 season.
Plans are being made to resume
drilling at Eureka, and the Bene
dum Co. is considering a hole in
the Kateel area.
Besides these eight exploratory
holes, there is a possibility that
other firms will enter the field
I with additional rigs.
(ALASKA POPULATION
| REACHES 206,000
The UJS. Census Bureau esti
mates Alaska’s population as of
July 1956 as 206,000, an increase
of 60 percent in six years.
During the same six-year per
iod the population of the United
States increased 11 percent and
Hawaii 17 percent.
U.S. Wins Back
Air Speed Record
From Britain
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., m—'The U.S. Air Force
brought the world air speed rec
prd back from Great Britain with
a flight at 1,207.6 mph. over this
desert base.
Maj. Adrian E. Drew, 37, of
Austin, Tex., piloted a McDonnell
F-101A Voodoo twin-jet fighter
bomber to the record yesterday.
He flew 75.5 mph. faster than
the mark of 1,132.1 set by L. P.
Twiss March 19, 1936, in a British
Fairey Delta plane.
Drew also won the Thompson
Trophy by eclipsing the American
record of 1,015.4 mph. set in 1946
by Navy Cmdr. R. W. Windsor in
an F-8U Crusader.
It was the second try this week
for Maj. Drew. He flew at about
1,185 mph. Tuesday but a timing
camera failure nullified the effort.
Eisenhower
Set to Leave for
NATO Meeting
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower was reported in ex
cellent spirits today as he pre
pared to fly to Paris for the
NATO summit conference.
Those who saw the President
said he was of unusually good
cheer despite the formidable task
ahead of him—shoring up the
North Atlantic alliance in the face
of new Russian threats and mis
siles-space advances.
Perhaps significantly, the Pres
ident’s party includes Lewis L.
Strauss, chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission, and Dr.
James R. Killian Jr., recently ap
pointed special assistant to the
President for science and tech
nology.
Others in the party include
Eisenhower’s son, Maj. John Ei
senhower, who will be the Presi
dent’s personal aide; Maj. Gen.
Howard M. Snyder, the Chief Ex
ecutive’s personal physician; the
WAC Capt. Olive Marsh, Snyder’s
assistant; Brig. Gen. Andrew J.
Goodpaster, White House staff
secretary; Mrs. Ann Whitman, the
President’s personal secretary;
and John Moaney, Eisenhower’s
valet.
POPULAR BOOK
DALLAS, tft—Library Director
James Meeks says the book most
often stolen is the Bible. The li
brary tries to keep about 50 copies
of all versions but thefts this fall
have led Meeks to order 40 more.
GIANT B-52 BOMBER CRASHES;
EIGHT MEN DIE, ONE SURVIVES'
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Four Rare Ligers
Born in Bombay
BOMBAY, (£1—Four ligers, the
rare offspring of a lion father and
a tigress mother, were born last
night at the Victoria Gardens
Zoo. Officials said they might live.
The mother is a royal Bengal
tigress, and the father is the star
lion of a circus menagerie. The
animals have been cage compan
ions for two years.
Three of the gray ligers were
delivered in rapid succession. The
fourth arrived some hours later.
The zoo superintendent said
ligers are a rarer phenomenon
than tigons, the offsprings of ti
gers and lionesses. The zoo bred
one tigon 12 years ago but it did
not live long.
Dr. Siple Gets
High Award for
Antarctic Service
WASHINGTON, UP)—Dr. Paul
Siple, antarctic explorer, yester
day received the Army Distin
guished Civilian Service Award
for his scientific leadership in the
South Pole expedition.
Secretary of the Army Wilber
M. Brucker presented the award,
the highest given by the Army to
a civilian employe. *
Siple returned only yesterday
morning from the antarctic, where
he has been serving since October
1956 as deputy to the officer in
charge of the U.S. antarctic pro
grams.
Siple has participated in six
expeditions to Antarctica, the first
when he was a 11-year-old Boy
Scout, chosen to accompany the
late Adm. Richard E. Byrd on his
1928 expedition. Siple’s four years
in the South Polar regions add up
to the longest time anyone has
spent there.
In an interview, Siple said that
Russia launched eai;th satellites
before the U.S.; but this country
succeeded in a major polar feat
where Russia did not.
Windstorm Smashes
Convent School in Sicily,
Trapping 30 Children
PALERMO, Sicily, [ffi—A ter
rific windstorm smashed a two
story schoolhouse today in nearby
Altofonte, trapping 30 children of
kindergarten age.
Rescuers dug out 11 dead, in
cluding Sister Giuseppina Gior
dano, 42, head mistress of the
convent school.
Five other teaching sisters and
the rest of the children escaped
unhurt thru windows in the one
wall left standing.
The storm struck with 75-mile
winds at 9:30 a.m., ripping off the
tile and wooden roof. The roof
broke thru to the first story of
the building and crashed on chil
dren at play. Residents for blocks
around heard the crash.
► SPOKANE, Wash., WV—Eight
men, including the wing com
mander, died in the spectacular
crash of a giant B-52 bomber just
at sunset yesterday, but the tail
gunner miraculously escaped.
The plane, loaded with jet fuel
for its eight engines, was strug- ,
gling for altitude on takeoff. Then
the nose seemed to go straight up,
the bomber tipped over on its
right wing and crashed to earth. N
Exploding jet fuel sent up a
towering mushroom-shaped col
umn of smoke.
The Air Force declined to say
if an atom bomb was aboard the
plane. The Strategic Air Com
mand has said some of its heavy
bombers carry nuclear weapons
on . training mission but that there
is no chance they could explode
in a crash.
The sole survivor, Sgt. Gene I.
Graye of Augusta. Kan., said he
didn’t know how he escaped but
was “lucky to be alive.”
He was- treated in a hospital
for minor cuts and bruises.
Col. Clarence A. Neely, 42, of
Sioux City, Iowa, and Rockford,
111., was one of the victims.
Ironically, it was Col. Neely
who flew the first B-52 to Fair
child earlier this year when the
base .switched from the 10-en
gined B-36 bombers to all-jet
Stratofortress, a $9,000,000 giant.
Seaton Gives Big Cake
To Children’s Hospital
WASHINGTON, UP>—A 220-lb.
birthday cake presented yester
day to Secretary of the Interior
Seaton was delivered yesterday to
•Children’s Hospital.
The cake was a gift of the Fair
banks Chamber of Commerce.
350 Perish in
Iran Earthquake
TEHRAN, Iran, UP)—A heavy
earthquake shook west Iran today
and unofficial accounts reaching
Tehran said at least 350 persons
perished and thousands were in
jured. , . ;
Tehran radio said the towns of
Sahneh and Farsinak were badly
damaged and most villages in that
area were “completely ruined.”
Heavy snowfalls created harsh
conditions for several thousand
made homeless by the tremor.
The government started moving
food and medicine for several
thousand homeless victims into
the freezing area of west Iran.
The earthquake was reported
to be as strong as the shock which
struck Damavand and the Cas
pian Sea area last July, in which
about 2,000 persons perished.
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ATHENS, Greece, UP)—A sharp
earthquake jolted Athens and
surrounding countryside today,
spreading panic among some Ath
enians.
A number of old buildings in
Athens were cracked or slightly
damaged and electricity failed in
a large part of the city for 20
minutes. There were no reports of
casualties.