2S NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 128 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1958 _Per Copy—15^
National Leaders Blasting Foes In
Battle For Control Of Congress
(By The Associated Press) <3
The final full week of the
1958 political campaign began to
day with President Eisenhower'
primed for more hammer-and
tongs assaults on the Democrats.
Democratic leaders were pre
pared to punch home more criti
cism of the Eisenhower Adminis
tration in their efforts to repel the
Republican drive to regain con
trol of Congress.
The President’s vigorous cam
paign technique, used in Cali
fornia last week, has heartened
GOP leaders. A number of them
said during the weekend it had
rejuvenated Republicans every
where and brightened GOP pros
pects.
Eisenhower’s aides predicted
the President would keep slug
ging at the Democrats.
However, it was questionable
whether these oratorical fire
works or those by other top Re
publican and Democratic cam
paigners — were having much
effect on the voters they were in
tended to sway.
A check by the Associated
Press uncovered no signs of any
sizable switches in sentiment as
~ a result of this late-stage politi
cal cannonading.
One of the most optimistic of
the Republican campaigners was
Vice President Nixon.
During a Sunday respite in
Minneapolis, Nixon said that in
the past 10 days “there has been
a dramatic upsurge in Republi
can strength and a sharp reces
sion in Democratic strength.”
Nixon attributed what he called
a striking shift of voter opinion
to a recognition that “in terms
of peace, prosperity, honest gov
ernment and progress this admin
istration has done an infinitely
better job,” than its Democratic
- predecessors.
Sen. Theodore Francis Green
(D-R. I.) attacked Administration
foreign policy, saying it “seeks to
appease everybody, pleases no
body, and ends by accomplishing
nothing.”
Republican National Chairman
Meade Alcorn said in Washington
any new Democrats elected to the
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Adams Arrives
Home In N* H.
LINCOLN, N. H., liR — Without
fanfare, Sherman Adams has
stepped out of the White House,
where for six years he was Pres
ident Eisenhower’s chief assist
ant.
He came home to this small
community in the White Moun
tains Saturday night without stir
ring a ripple of excitement.
Adams won’t say what he plans
to do for the present, or in the
future, for that matter.
Adams announced his resigna
tion from the White House job in
a nationwide television and ra
dio talk September 22.
He didn’t fix the date to quit
then, saying only he would stay
on until there had been an order
ly transfer to others of the work
he had 'been doing.
Adams decided to quit under
mounting political pressure after
a House subcommittee dug pub
licly into his relations with Ber
nard Goldfine, a Boston million
aire.
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Two Days Of
Balloting Fail
To Elect Pope
By FRANK BRUTTO
VATICAN CITY, UP) — The
princes of the Roman Catholic
Church failed today, apparenty,
on their eighth ballot in two days,
to elect a new Pope.
Black smoke curled from a
chimney of the Sistine Chapel
for the second time today and
the fourth in two days. It meant
the 51 Cardinals closeted in sec
ret meeting could reach no agree
ment on the man who, in their
estimation, would be the best
teacher and pastor for a half
billion Catholics.
The Vatican Radio did not com
mit itself definitely, but described
the smoke as of such obvious
blackness that one might assume
there was a negative result.
Twenty minutes after the first
puff, black smoke still issued
from the Sistine Chapel chimney,
and enough time had passed to
have brought any newly elected
Pope to the balcony.
Thus, it was evident the Car
dinals hd failed again.
The big crowd, which had
grown to about 200,000 in a rela
tively few minutes, turned away
once more in disappointment. Vat
ican Radio went off the air still
without making its announcement
definite. But there could be little
doubt about the result.
Little Red Schoolhouse
Has New Look
OWENSBORO, Ky., UP) — The
little red schoolhouse was never
like this.
The new two-million-dollar
Davies County High School, for
mally dedicated Sunday, includes:
Air-conditioning in all 90
rooms, a 1,000-seat auditorium
with upholstered seats, a hat
check room, a patio, big mirrors
in the hallways, skyglass, a com
plete laundering service in the
athletic department, parking lot
for 750 cars, acoustical ceiling
and walls, a gym with electrical
partitions so boys and girls can
use it at the same time, and 57
acres of campus, including prac
tice fields for football and base
ball.
Classes began in September.
Jet Service
To Paris
Started Today
PARIS, UP) — Pan American’s
clipper American today inaugu
rated jet passenger service be
tween New York and Paris, but
fog and unfavorable weather de
layed the arrival of the first flight
95 minutes.
The big airliner, with 111 pas
sengers and a crew of 12 aboard,
made the flight from New York
in 8 hours 20 minutes.
The airline plans on a regular
crossing time of 7 hours 5 min
utes. Piston-driven planes take
about 11 hours.
Nixon To Speak
In Alaska Cities
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Vice Pres
ident Richard M. Nixon tentative
ly will arrive here next Saturday
afternoon after making a brief
stop in Juneau.
The vice president’s tentative
schedule for his Alaska trip next
weekend includes spending Sat
urday afternoon and night here
as well as most of Sunday.
His schedule now calls for him
to leave here late Sunday after
noon for Fairbanks, where he will
spend Sunday night until Monday
at 1 p.m., when he leaves for the
south in the chartered Alaska Air
lines plane. .
Nixon’s assistant, Martin Brock,
reportedly met with Alaska Re
publican National Committeeman
Walter Hickel in Seattle to work
out the campaign swing.
Receptions and political meet
ings will be held throughout his
Alaska trip, Republican officials
said.
National Income
Recovers Losses
Of Recent Recession
WASHINGTON, UPI — Incom
plete figures for the year’s third
quarter indicate that the national
income has regained much of the
ground it lost during the reces
sion.
The Commerce Department re
ported this' Sunday as it an
nounced a $1,800,000,000 gain for
the second quarter and said third
quarter figures will show a more
substantial increase.
Banfe Landjs
At N. Y., After
50-Day Flight
NEW YORK, Iff) — Around-the
world-in-50 days, a one-man show
starring pilot Charles F. Banfe
Jr. in his stocking feet aboard a
single-engine plane, has closed af -
ter an extended run.
Banfe, 39-year-old flier from
Palo Alto, Calif., touched down
at Idlewild Airport Sunday in his
low-winged Mooney single-seat
er, to complete in 50 days a 22,
000-mile globe-circling flight he
had planned to accomplish in
eight days.
“Boy, am I glad to be back,”
said Banfe as he climbed wear
ily from the orange and black
craft into a chilling rain. “I
thought I’d never see this airport
again.”
Banfe began his around-the
world flight from Idlewild on
September 6.
He said he flew at altitudes
from 150 to 12,500 feet, and sat
at the controls in his stocking
feet because it gave him a “more
sensitive* feel.”
Banfe’s ambitious plan received
a setback on the first leg — a
planned nonstop hop from New
York to Rome, 4,312 miles away.
A balky fuel pump forced him
to crash-land on the Mediterran
ean island of Corsica, 250 miles
short of his goal.
Bad weather and mechanical
difficulties plagued him the rest
of the way, and he had to make
forced landings 14 times. Various
troubles added 12 unscheduled
cities to his itinerary.
Banfe, married and the father
of four, is on vacation from Amer
ican World Airways. He regu
larly flies the Pacific.
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Heavy Alaska-Wide Campaigning
Expected, For New State’s Election
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Alaska Is A
Leader In U. S.
Population Growth
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Alaska
and Califronia have led the states
in population growth since the
1950 census, the government re
ported today.
The Census Bureau said Cali
fornia registered the largest nu
merical gain, while Alaska —
soon to be the 49th and largest
state — had the biggest percen
tage increase.
Under revised population esti
mates for July 1, 1957, six states
gained more than one million in
habitants since the nation head
count in April, 1950.
California led the list with an
estimated increase of 3,293,000.
The other million-pips gainers
were: Texas 1,464,000, Florida
1.438.000, Michigan 1,334,000,
New York 1,318,000, and Ohio
2.260.000.
New ^York remained the na
tion’s largest state with 16,148,900
inhabitants. California was next
with 13,879,000.
Alaska’s population, estimated
at 211,000, showed a 64 per cent
gain since 1950. Among the pres
ent states Nevada led with a 63
per cent increase.
The census report mentioned “a
continuing and widespread redis
tribution of the population . . .
with the states in the west grow
ing most rapidly and the north
eastern states growing most
slowly.” _
The population of the west in
creased 26 per cent, twice the na
tional average. The northeast
gained 8 per cent.
The north central states showed
the largest numerical gain —
5,700,000.
Red Guns
Open With
Sporadic Fire
TAIPEI, OR — Communist guns
fired only sporadically on the
Quemoys today in Red China’s
new every-other-day war.
This was the first odd-num
bered of shelling days since the
Reds announced they would fire
at will on the uneven days but
on the even-numbered days
would exempt airstrips, beaches
and docking areas so supplies
could be brought in.
Nationalist defense headquar
ters reported sporadic shelling on
tiny Tatan Island in the Quemoy
complex, and light, scattered
shelling elsewhere in the group.
But the volume of fire fell far
short of the old days when the
Reds unloaded thousands of shells
on the Nationalist-held islands
every day.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with snow tonight and
uesday. Northeast winds, 20 to
25 miles per hour. Low tonight
20. High tomorrow 26.
Nome Data Last 24 Hours
Precipitation, trace; month’s
total, 1.35 inches. Temperatures:
highest 21, lowest 11. Sunrise at
7:31 a.m., Sunset at 3:59 p.m.
’ JUNEAU, — The heaviest
political campaigning ever wit
nessed in Alaska is expected in
the month now remaining before
’the first General Election of the
soon-to-be new State.
The balloting is just four weeks
from tomorrow.
“Make no mistake about it,”
says one of the candidates. “This
is the election that counts.”
Everyone seems to agree.
The statement was by -Henry
Benson of Juneau, Territorial La
bor Commissioner and Republican
candidate for Congress in the
November 25 voting.
Benson is one of the 10 candi
dates of the major parties seek
ing the five big election posts. He
has been conducting a full
fledged campaign for weeks.
So has his opponent, Democrat
Ralph Rivers of Fairbanks, who
wants a two-year term to the job
he held in an unofficial status as
a Tennessee Plan Congressman.
The biggest early drive, howev
er, has been made by Ernest
j Gruening, former Democratic
j Governor, who now seeks one of
j the new State’s first U. S. Senate
| seats.
Gruening and his supporters
have been extremely active in
moves to overcome the apparent
lead held by Republican former
Governor Mike Stepovich of Fair
banks.
Stepovich has declined an invi
tation to debate Gruening, and the
Republicans have turned the de
bate proposal on other Democrats.
It would 'be a surprise to al
most everyone if a debate — be
tween any of the candidates —
actually takes place. For the most
part, the campaign swings of the
major candidtes in the final weeks
will not overlap.
The Democratic nominee for
the other Senate post, Delegate E.
L. Bartlett, is on a brief European
tour after a swing through all sec
tions of the Territory.
His early campaign efforts
have been largely in behalf of
other Democrats on the ticket, and
all have been quick to accept
his apparent endorsement.
Bartlett’s Republican opponent,
R. F. Robertson of Juneau, has
been the least active candidate so
far among the major candidates
His efforts have been confined so
far to a few appearances.
John Butrovich Jr. of Fair
banks, the GOP Gubernatorial
hopeful, has been on the campaign
trail since the primary ended.
The Democratic Gubernatorial
choice, William Egan of Valdez,
has made the campaign tour, but
has done no more.
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Nation Celebrates
100th Anniversary
Of TR’s Birth
NEW YORK, OR — One hun
dred years ago today, Theodore
Roosevelt drew the first breath
of a life destined for greatness.
The 100th anniversary of his
birth will be commemorated at
civic observances throughout the
country as a yearlong centennial
celebration reaches its climax.
The celebration began a year.
ago under direction of the Theo
dore Roosevelt Centennial Com
mission, which was established by
act of Congress.