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VOL. LXI No. 86 " NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1959 ' Per Copy—15*
Methodist Bishop Will be '
Welcomed at Reception
Bishop Ivan L. Holt of the St.
Louis, Mo., area of the Methodist
Church will be in Nome tomorrow
and visit the local church.
Bishop Holt, who is on tour, and
who has traveled around the
world, will be welcomed by a re
ception being held at the Commu
nity Methodist Church on Tues
day evening at 7:30 p.m.
The young ladies of the church
will be serving refreshments,
stated Rev. Gerald McCray.
Cuban Farmers
March on Capitol,
To Castro Support
HAVANA, (#> — Thousands of
straw-hatted, machete - carrying
peasants are arrivng early for a
demonstration next Sunday of
support for Fidel Castro and his
agrarian reform program.
The revolutionary leader him
self was in seclusion today. There
was some speculation that he
might not take back the prime
minister’s post he resigned Fri
day. Possibly he might pick some
one to carry out his policies while
he devotes most of his time to the
• land redistribution program. In
any case, he clearly will continue
to boss Cuba..
The farmers were spilling into
Castro’s capital from as far as
500 miles away, answering the call
of their bearded leader for 500,
000 to attend the anniversary
celebration of Castro’s first un
successful attack July 26, 1953, on
Fulgencio Batista’s forces.
The first 5,000 — from Oriente
Province — marched up Havana’s
famed Prado Sunday to a brass
band.
Cuba, meanwhile, rocked along
with a standstill government,
waiting to learn what Castro plans
to do. But the new president, Dr.
Osvaldo Dorticos, told a Boston
radio station by telephone that he
considers Castro still is prime
minister.
The 40-year-old lawyer also
said that former President Man
uel Urrutia, whom Castro forced
out of office Friday, was in no
danger in Cuba and probably
would remain in the country. Ur
rutia was at the heavily guarded
home of his brother-in-law out
side Havana.
Dorticos said the guard had been
requested by the ex-president.
Castro accused Urrutia of near
treason because he had spoken
of a Communist menace in Cuba
after the ex-chief of the Cuban
Air Force, Maj. Pedro Luis Diaz
Lanz, told a U. S. Congressional
committee that Castro and lead
ers of his government were Com
munists.
SUNDAY RESULTS
(By The Associated Press)
American League
New York 6-6, Chicago 2-4.
Washington 7-5, Kans. City 0-6.
Baltimore 2, Detroit 1.
Boston 6-3, Cleveland 5-5.
National League
Los Angeles 8-2, Phila. 4-3.
. Pittsburgh 3, San Francsco 2.
St. Louis 9, Milwaukee 5.
Pacific Coast League
Spokane 8-2, Portland 6-6.
Phoenix 9, San Diego 7.
Sacramento 3, Salt Lake 0.
Vancouver 8, Seattle 4.
AEC Tries 15-Year
Test of Radiation
Effects on Dogs
WASHINGTON, !£i — If they !
can beat the law of averages and
the laws of nature, the Atomic En
ergy Commission’s pack of hound
dogs may become howling scien
tific successes. *
At least one of them will have
to live to the ripe old canine age
of 15 years. If he makes it, he
will be the hottest dog in history.
The law of averages is against
the approximately 400 dogs of the
AEC being used in a 15-year ex
periment on the effects of radia
tion. The average life of a dog,
say commission experts, is 7 to 10
years.
And the laws of nature, as cur
rently interpreted, say that not
even the average dog can stand
the amount of radiation the com
mission’s animals will be exposed
to. But Dr. C. L. Dunhamn, direc
tor of the AEC division of biology
and medicine, said he has “a
hunch that the last dog may live
as long as 15 years from birth.”
If the doctor’s hunch is right,
the beagle or foxhound that sur
vives is likely to be so hopped-up
from radiation that he could tree
a rocket.
Dr. Dunham explained the ex
periments to the House Appropria
tions Committee during recent
hearings on the AEC’s fiscal 1960
budget. The experiments have
been going on since 1951.
Freak Weather Harrasses
Most of U. S.
Thunderstorms dumped more
heavy rain across wide areas of
the east today after scattered out
breaks of violent weekend
weather.
Four persons were killed when
lightning struck a tree on a
crowded Bronx beach Sunday in
New York. Four others were in
jured a few miles away when
another bolt of lightning hit near
the Bronx Zoo.
Heavy rains and fierce winds
smashed power poles and trees
in several Maryland communi
ties near Washington.
The far west, except for some
coastal sections, continued in the
grip of a hot spell. Temperatures
were expected to reach 100 as far
north as interior Oregon during
the afternoon, and go well over
100 again in the southwest desert.
It was a hot night near the Cali
fornia-Arizona border where min
imum temperatures were gener
ally in the 80s. Needles, Calif., had
115 degrees Sunday and Phoenix,
Ariz., 106. To the north, tempera
tures included 99 at Spokane, 98
at Salt Lake City; 97 at Boise, and
92 at Portland.
New Provincial Superior
Named to St. Anne Order
VICTORIA, B. C., UR — Sistei
Mary Angelus, six years superior
administrator of St. Joseph’s Hos
pital here, has been promoted to
Provincial Superior of the Sister
hood of St. Anne with headquar
ters here.
Her territory will include all
British Columbia, Alaska and the
Yukon.
New superior of St. Joseph’s is
Sister Mary Anne Celesta, former
administrator of St. Martin’s Hos
pital at Oliver, B. C.
Sister Mary Angelus succeeds
Sister Mary Luca, who now goes
as superior administrator to St.
Ann’s Hospital in Juneau.
Alice Glavinovich Goes
To Anchorage as Nome’s
Miss Alaska Entry
Queen of the Midnight Sun
Festival Alice Glavinovich leaves
Nome tomorrow for Anchorage, to
participate in the Miss Alaska
Pageant being held there on the
29th and 30th, at which time Miss
Alaska will be chosen, to enter
the Miss America contest.
Queen Alice will be chaperoned
by Caroline Kampmann during
her stay in Anchorage.
The Nome queen is sponsored by
the Tourist Committee of the NWA
Chamber of Commerce.
New Western Offer
Made at Geneva
GENEVA, UP> — In an. effort to
find a way to end the Berlin
crisis, the West proposed to Rus
sia today the creation of a con
tinuing conference of foreign min
isters, with East and West Ger
man advisers, to negotiate a Ger
man peace settlemnt.
U. S. Secretary of State Herter
presented the Western compromise
offer, after rejecting a proposal
by Soviet Foreign Minister Gro
myko for formation of an all-Ger
man committee to negotiate uni
fication and a peace treaty during
an 18-month Berlin truce.
“The purpose of the Soviets in
putting forward the proposal is all
too clearly to perpetuate the par
tition of Germany,” Herter said in
a speech to the Big Four in a for
mal session at the Palace of Na
tions.
He then made the Western coun
terproposal, which would retain
direct power responsibility for
German unification and a peace
treaty, but would specifically pro
vide for increasing contacts be
tween Germany and Communist
East Germany.
Top Japanese Financier
Sees Bright Future In
Alaska Business Venture
TOKYO, — One of Japan’s
top financial and industrial lead
ers said Sunday he was confident
the Japan-owned Alaska Lumber
and Pulp Co. would succeed as a
business venture in the near
future.
Taizo Ishizaka, chairman of the
Federation of Economic Organiza
tions and president and managing
director of several leading indus
trial concerns, told newsmen any
new concern exprienced tough
going the first two or three years.
Ishazaka said he was particu
larly impressed with the facilities
of the Japanese pulp mill built by
the Alaska Lumber and Pulp Co.
in Sitka which he inspected re
cently.
He returned here Sunday after
a three-week visit to the U. S.
Pacific Coast and Alaska.
The new Japanese firm in Sitka
was set up in 1956 as a subsidiary
of the Alaska Pulp Co., and will
produce pulp for Japan’s chemical
textile industry.
Ishizaka also emphasized that
he found sentiment in Alaska
towards Japan and the Japanese
very favorable.
KODIAK, Uft — A baby girl was
born over the Gulf of Alaska Sat
urday while her mother was being
flown to Alameda, Calif., for
emergency treatment.
Lt. Cmdr. H. J. Robinson of
the Kodiak Naval Station deliv
ered the child, born to Mrs. Mary
Lunt. Her husband, Ens. Watson
Lunt, was aboard the Navy plane.
Parched Lips of 9-Year-Old Stranded on
Arid Desert, Asks for ‘Water in Heaven*
MOAB, Utah, GP — Eight
parched people and one pint of
water, a spoonful at a time . . .
a burning sun with only a dis
abled car for shade ... a little
salmon-egg fish bait for food . . .
and, finally, a thirsty child’s ques
tion:
“Mommy, what does it feel like
to die”
That was Diane Scott, 9, trying
to sleep after almost two days of
this. Mommy, 35-year-old Laura
Scott, answered gravely:
“It would be like going to sleep.
You’d just go unconscious and
gradually die.”
“Will I get water in heaven?”
“Yes, honey, all you want.”
Diane didn’t die. Neither did
Mrs. Scott, her husband Virl, 37,
or their five other children, ages
4 to 12. A search plane spotted
them Sunday, where their ear
had stranded them for two days
in the remote country of standing
rocks.
They drove into the rugged,
treeless country Friday morning,
to see the breathtaking view from
Dead Horse Point, a bluff that
overlooks the convoluted Colorado
River Gorge. It’s about 35 miles
southwest of Moab, the nearest
community.
They took some wrong turns and
got lost on Shafer Trail, a boul
der-crowned pair of ruts suitable
only for trucks or jeeps. Scott
said the car’s radiator burst. He
drove on, thinking they were
pointed toward Moab — by now
more than 40 miles to the north
east. Then the crankcase oil pan
ruptured and their car quit.
“We survived by keeping cool
under the dirt,” Scott said after
their rescue, “drinking water,
I about a pint from the radiator,
one spoonful every 2Vz hours. All
we had to eat was some salmon
eggs, and \ye tried to eat cactus
but our mouths were so dry we
couldn’t swallow it.
“We gave the children the ra
diator water after trying to purify
it by straining. ... It had a per
manent type anti-freeze in it, not
the poisonous denatured alcohol
type.
Scott explained that the family
buried themselves in s^nd up to
their necks, to avoid the burning
rays of the sun. Relatives in Moab
reported the Scotts missing when
they didn’t return Friday.
Two fliers, searching for the
Scott's, saw the car near an
“S-O-S” sign made of rocks.
“When two fliers reached us
this morning,” Scott said, “the
kids were bursting with laughter
and then they started to cry
and so did we. I don’t see how
we survived as long as we did and
I’m sure we couldn’t have made
it through today.”
Nixon’s Gathering Peppery
Proverbs for Punch in
Kremlin Parlor Parley
WASHINGTON, MV-'Vice Pres
ident Nixon-awill take along a gen
erous supply of American prov
erbs and a limited ability in the
Russian language when he leaves
Wednesday for Moscow.
Nixon has told friends he wants
to pepper his talks with frequent
proverbs when he meets with
Soviet Premier Khrushchev. He
has been impressed with Khrush
chev’s flair for proverbs.
Nixon and his wife have been
getting a concentrated course in
Russian from Alexander G. Bar
mine, chief, Russian language sec
tion of the Voice of America.
Royal Indigestion Stalls
Whirlwind Canadian Tour
WHITEHORSE, Y. T., iff) —
Queen Elizabeth II was expected
to resume her whirlwind tour of
the Canadian Northwest today
after losing a day because of an
upset stomach.
The Queen’s doctor blamed her
upset yesterday on heat and
weariness. She spent the day rest
ing at the guest house at the
Whitehorse Airport and last night
was reported “tremendously im
proved.”
Elizabeth had been scheduled to
fly to Dawson City and Mayo for
brief visits. Her husband, Prince
Philip, went in her place, telling
greeters in both places that the
Queen was disappointed she could
not make it.
Dawson City’s population of
less than 700 was increased by
several planeloads of Alaskans
who flew in from Fairbanks for
the royal visit.
Today the royal couple were to
fly 700 miles southeast to Yellow
knife, a gold mining community,
then down to Uranium City, in
northwest Saskatchewan, and fi
nally to Edmonton for the night.
Red Revolt Stems
From Arab Unrest
By JOSEPH E. DYNAN
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Ml — Pre
mier Abdel Karim Kussem’s re
gime claims it has smashed a pro
Red revolt and army mutiny in.
Iraq’s northern oil fields, but
press reports to Cairo and Damas
cus say clashes are continuing.
Arab dispatches said hundreds
of casualties had resulted from
the fighting which broke out Wed
nesday, while Iraq was celebrat
ing the anniversary of Kassem’s
1958 overthrow of the Iraqi mon
archy. The entire northeast area
was reported to have been in a
state of near civil war.
Iraq’s military governor, Ahmed
Saleh Abdi, declared in a Bagh
dad broadcast that there had only
been scattered clashes and that
order had been restored.
From Baghdad also came an
appeal by Kassem to “those who
have strayed to go back to the
right road.” In the toughest tone
he has yet used, Kassam declared:
“We will settle accounts with any
and all who attack the liberty of
the people.”
Incidents occurred elsewhere in
Iraq, including a fatal attack on
one of Kassem’s top aids in
Baghdad.
American League Fines
Minoso and Manager
BOSTON, Ml — Cleveland man
ager Joe Gordon and leftfielder
Minnie Minoso were suspended
three days and fined $200 each by
the American League, the Asso
ciated Press learned Saturday.
The action came in the form of
a telegram from league president
Joe Cronin, a reliable source said.
It followed a rhubarb in last Fri
day’s victory over Boston in which
Gordon and Minoso were thrown
out by umpire Frank Dumont.