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VOL. LVIII No. 136 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1956 Per Copy 154
Council Approves Water and Sewer
System, Discusses Plans for 2-Room
Addition to Nome High School
The Nome City Council has ap-«
proved by resolution to make ap
plication to APW for funds for
the proposed water and sewerage
system recommended by the Ter
ritorial Health Department and
other agencies for this community.
Mr. Nichols of the HHF has
been asked to participate in mak
ing of the preliminary plans for
the system.
Plans were also discussed for
the two-room addition to section
one of the school for expansion of
the high school. Funds for this
included $35,000 available to the
city for improvements in the
school from AMS. These plans,
however, must be ready before
January 1st and are now being
completed by local contractors.
The city clerk, Carrie McLain,
reported that over $18,000 was
collected in the last quarter in
sales taxes, which is the largest
amount for any single quarter
since the tax was initiated six
years ago.
A complaint was read to the
council on a cesspool overflow |
■which was a health hazard. The
Health Committee was requested
by the mayor to investigate and
report.
A request was received from
the military for AFRS, soon to be
located in the Wallace Hotel, to
receit'e a special low power rate.
The matter was referred to the
Utility Board.
Ordinance 386 was adopted by
the city. It provides for licensing
of peddlers, itinerants, etc., who
come to the community.
The following liquor applica
tions were approved by the coun
cil:
Polar Liquor and Polar Bar;
Odom Co., for wholesale, to be
stored in North Star Bakery;
Bering Sea Club, Board of
Trade, Polaris Bar and Polaris
Liquor Store, Nome Liquor Store.
It was reported that the wiring
of the City Bldg, was well under
way with most of the work being
done by supervised prison labor.
The Police Department report
ed 51 arrests for the month and
$443 collected in fines. Five dogs
disposed. Fifty-four complaints
were answered and investigated;
11 ambulance calls were made;
chree traffic tickets issued and 16
juvenile cases handled.
The chief of police announced
that there would be a drive on
for a few Weeks on tail lights and
head lights.
Seven fires for the month
• tepped up the percentage, but
omy one fire was serious, being
in the Frazier house.
The Health Department report
ed three cases of TB sent to hos
pitals and two cases to be admit
ted; 75 X rays taken in October
and 71 in September. The health
nurse also reported a few scat
tered cases of measles.
The Street Department report
ed the streets in unusually good
condition for the winter.
Strategic Air Command
Movements Not Related
To Crises Overseas
WASHINGTON, Uf*—The Air
Force says reported plane and
personnel movements at Strategic
Air Command bases are normal
training operations having no par
ticular relation to crises overseas.
This statement yesterday was
prompted by questions concern
ing reports that there was unusual
activity at SAC bases in various
parts of the country.
The SAC follows a general
practice of frequently shifting
plane units from one base to an
other in the United States, the
idea being to make it harder for
a potential enemy to pinpoint
their locations at given times.
The SAC, equipped with long
range atomic bombers, holds it
self in instant readiness to retali
ate in the event of an attack on
this country.
Premier Kauai Having Hard Time
Getting Rebels to End General Strike
By ENDRE MARTON
BUDAPEST, Iff*—Hungary’s Rus
sian imposed Premier Janos Ka
dar and Budapest’s chief labor
leaders were reported today to
have agreed on a three-stage
partian withdrawal of Russian
troops and the beginning of talks
to form a coalition government.
But youth leaders of the revolu
tion which brought the Soviet
army and tanks pouring into
Hungary rejected the agreement
unless former Premier Imre Nagy,
still a refugee in the Yugoslav
embassy, returns to power.
Strong Demand for Nagy
The demand for Nagy's return
is so strong and Kadar’s rejection
so widespread it was considered
unlikely the premier could sur
vive. The sincerity of any conces
sions he promises are generally
questioned.
Reliable sources said Kadar had
agreed with the Budapest Central
Council of Workers, representing
all industrial workers in the capi
tal, on a three-stage program of
Russian troop movement:
Three-Stage Program
(1) Withdrawal to barracks in
Budapest; (21 Return to their or
iginal bases, either in the Hun
garian countryside or in Russia;
(31 Start of negotiations with Mos
cow for a review of the Warsaw
Pact and withdrawal of all troops.
(The Communist regime’s Bu
dapest radio announced that “sev
eral workers’ councils” in the
capital had decided to end the
Swiss Ration Gasoline
BERN, Switzerland, Itfl—The
Swiss government decided today
to ban all private motoring on
Sundays, as a measure to preserve
gasoline stocks. Rationing is ex
pected to be introduced next
month.
Youth, 20, Accidentally
Kills His Brother in
Make-Believe Duel
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., HV-Clif
ton Braddock, 20, lost a bet and
his life yesterday in a make-be
lieve duel with his brother, James,
21, who thought he was using an
unloaded pistol.
Police said the brothers were
visiting at the home of a friend,
John F. Winningham, 19. Win
ningham, o Coast Guardsman re
cently returned from overseas,
showed the brothers a pistol,
owned by the Guardman's uncle,
and a bolo knife which Winning
ham had brought from the Philip
pine Islands.
Winningham told police he un
loaded the pistol before showing
it to the brothers, then reloaded
it. They apparently didn’t see the
reloading, he reported.
In a playful mood, Clifton “bet”
James he could draw the knife
before James could draw the pis
tol. Winningham said before he
had time to shout a warning that
the pistol was loaded, both broth
ers drew the weapons and the
pistol fired.
Clifton, shot in the neck, fell to
the floor. James failed in his ef
fort to get Clifton to a hospital in
time.
general strike and had appealed
for a general resumption of work
by tomorrow. Western observers
in Vienna doubted this in view of
the Budapest Central Workers’
Council vote yesterday to continue
the strike until its demands were
met.)
With the general strike still
crippling the nation’s economy in
the wake of the bloody rebellion,
Kadar sought frantically to offset
the demands for Nagy’s return
thru overtures for support from
leaders of the long inactive, non
Communist peasant and small
landholders parties.
60,000 Longshoremen Go On Strike at
At Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports
NEW YORK. LT»—A crippling
strike by thousands of longshore
men today hit New York and oth
er ports along the Atlantic and
Gulf Coasts.
Waterfront activity appeared to
be at a virtual standstill from
Maine to Texas—threatening a
loss of a million dollars a day or
more to shippers
The International Longshore
men’s Assn., independent, with
some 60,000 members, called the
strike as of midnight when its old
contract with the New York Ship
ping Assn, expired without an
agreement on a new pact.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner called
both sides and federal mediators
into session here in ar. effort to
effect an early settlement. He had
pleaded against a stoppage in
“this time of international crisis.”
Union spokesmen said 54 ships
were tied up in New York Harbor.
The ILA formerly was affiliated
with the AFL but was ousted on
the ground that it harbored crim
inal elements. It has been the
target of federal, state and city
investigations.
The ILA has three times blocked
the AFL or AFL-CIO in attempts
to gain control of the port with a
new union.
Negotiations have been going
on since August 1.
A major issue has been whether
a contract reached here should
cover the port of New York alone
or—as the union seeks—other
ports as well.
* * *
SAN FRANCISCO, MV—West
Coast longshorement scheduled
stop work meetings for Monday
as East Coast ports were struck
last night.
International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union offi- :
cials said a San Francisco meeting
would “hear reports and take ac
tion” on negotiations with the
Pacific Maritime Association on
pay increases.
Russia Demands Egypt Be Restored
Pre-Invasion Territory; Peace Keeping
Task Falls on U.N. Secretary General
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Cypriot Gunman Kills
British Correspondent
NICOSIA, Cyprus, WV-A young
British correspondent was shot!
and killed today by a gunman in
Nicosia’s violence-ridden inner
city.
Angus McLeod MacDonald, 27,
correspondent for the Spectator
magazine and other publications,
was the first foreign newsman at
tacked by Cypriot rebels fighting
to unite the British island colony
with Greece. The gunman escaped
Israel Claims
Russians Fought
In Sanai Battle
WINNIPEG UP)—Russian-speak
ing soldiers in Russian-built tanks
fought against Israel in the Sinai
Desert two weeks ago, says Col.
Nachman Kami of the operations
branch of the Israeli army.
Kami, who left Israel 10 days
ago and came here to address an
Israel bond drive, said in an in
terview the Egyptian army was
much better equipped than any
Western country suspected.
“The Russians had supplied
them with everything. They had
Russian tanks, planes, armored
cars, artillery and firearms,” he
reported.
The colonel said Russian was
often heard when Egyptian radio
communications in the battle area
were monitored.
“The amount of Russian on the
radio was particularly heavy in
sections where there were con
centrations of Egyptian tanks,”
Kami said. He added the Israelis
captured none of these tank crews
but they suspected they were Rus
sians.
I LONDON, UP—Soviet demands
that Egypt be restored her pre
invasion territory promptly today
toughened the peace-keeping task
facing U.N. Secretary Dag Ham
marskjold and the Middle East
police force.
The renewed Russian backing
was considered certain to stiffen
Egypt’s position regarding the
role of the international force, al
ready directly counter to firm
stands taken by Britain, France
and Israel.
Hammarskjold was left with
the staggering job of trying to
find some compromise.
The secretary general flew to
Egypt today from the U.N. troop
staging area near Naples for on
the-scene efforts to get the polic
ing operation in action. He was
accompanied by 54 Colombian
troops. They were followed by a
second plane carrying 50 Norwe
gians.
Already in the Suez Canal zone
was the first contingent of 92 Da
nish and Norwegian troops. They
were standing by in barracks be
hind the Egyptian battle lines,
awaiting reinforcements and or
ders.
Russia's latest move in the
Middle East crisis came in the
form of notes from Premier Bul
ganin to the Prime Ministers of
Britain. France and Israel.
The notes demanded that the
three countries pull their troops
out of Egypt immediately, that
Egypt be paid by the three nations
for material losses suffered in the
invasion and that the U.N. police
force be restricted to positions
along the 1949 Israeli-Egyptian
armistice lines. He said the police
force should not be stationed in
the Suez Canal zone.
These demands fell almost
wholly in line with Egypt’s
Still firmly opposed on the ca
nal issue were Britain and France.
They have made clear they will
turn over the positions they hold
on the northern third of the canal
only to a U.N. police force pre
pared to remain along the water
way until a Suez settlement is
reached between Egypt and the
West.
EAST GERMANY
BOOSTS PENSIONS
BERLIN, Iff*—Communist East
Germany boosted pensions 40 per
cent today in an apparent effort
to please the restless population.
The boost was decreed in a law
passed by the Communist-run
Parliament, and resulted from,
promises made by Communist
Party boss Walter Ulbricht during
the height of the Hungarian revo
lution.
The new pension law means
that the aged, the sick and the
widowed will have 30 east marks
added to their basic monthly pen
sion of 75 marks. At the official
East German exchange rate, this
would mean a total monthly pen
sion the equivalent of $47, but at
the rate offered on the free money
market, it would be only $fi.