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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
VOL. LX 11 No. 93 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1960 Per Copy 15(5
State Establishes
Highway Dept.
Office at Nome
T.D. Sherard, Director of High
ways and Chief Engineer, has an
nounced that for the purposes of
economy, efficiency and better
public service, a new highway
district with headquarters at
Nome is being established. The
area included within the Nome
district will be all of the Second
Judicial District of Alaska.
Sam Johnson has been announ
ced in the directive as the district
engineer. The Nome district will
operate under the direct super
vision from the headquarters of
fice in Juneau and independent
of the Fairbanks district. This
will relieve some of the overload
now being carried by the Fair
banks district and expedite work
in the northwestern area.
This is a change which has been
needed urgently for a long time
and for which the Chamber of
Commerce has battled, and legis
lators have battled.
It was with much satisfaction
that Lester Bronson, who received
the good news first, made the
announcement here yesterday as
this has been one of the projects
on which he has given much ef
fort and time, while serving as
senator from this district.
Nixon Flies to Seattle
After Two Days Of
Campaigning in Hawaii
HONOLULU, — Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon departed
today for Seattle after a two-day
campaign swing through Hawaii,
opening his bid for the presi
dency.
Nixon is due in Seattle at 5 p.m.
on his original schedule in spite
of a 70-minute delay.
The delay resulted when his
Pan American Airways chartered
DC7 plane had a magneto fail
ure and he switched to another
plane.
The Vice President ended his
stay here with a declaration that
the United States will always lend
its strength to the free countries
of the world.
Nixon closed his campaign
whirl of the 50th state with a
speech setting forth these aims
for U.S. diplomacy:
—Build military power not only
equal to that of any potential
enemy, but greater.
—In dealing with other govern
ments, “be firm without being
belligerent.”
—Strive constantly for programs
to reduce international tensions—
but always from a position of
strength.
Japanese Crown Prince and
Princess to Visit United Slates
WASHINGTON, OP) — Japan’s
Crown Prince Akihito and Prin
cess Michiko will visit Honolulu,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, New
York, Chicago and Seattle as well
as Washington during thqir good
will visit to the United States
Sept. 22-Oct. 5.
| Two Voting Precincts
In Nome Vicinity In
Tuesday’s Primary
| Election Commissioner Carrie
McLain, in response to queries on
voting stated that there are two
voting precincts here next Tues
day. One will be at the City Hall
for people living within the city
limits and the other for the peo
ple outside of city limits in the
Cape Nome precinct. The out of
town polling place will be at the
Hough apartment in the State
Highway headquarters near
Satellite Feild. Judge there will
be Verna Michelson, as chairman
with Jane Perkins and Christie
Waldheim.
Judges in the Nome precinct
are Mrs. Clyde Godsbe, chairman,
Lois Mclver, and one other judge
yet to be chosen. Clerks are Lillie
Lewis and Omie McCarthy.
Polls are open from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m.
I Gen. Miehaelis and Gen.
Mian Hayaud Din of
i Pakistan Visit Nome
! Gen. John H. Miehaelis, Com
| manding General of the U. S.
Army Alaska and Maj. Gen. Mian
Hayaud Din, military attache to
the United States from Pakistan,
were visitors here last night en
route from Gambell to Anchor
age. At Gambell they had visited
the troops from CB 15th Battle
Group, 23i'd Infantry, who have
been engaged in a training exer
cise for the past month. They ob
served the training in progress
and had lunch aboard the landing
ship supporting the operation.
Gen. Miehaelis and Gen. Hay
aud Din were each presented a
carved ivory cribbage board on
behalf of the citizens of Gambell
by Herb Appasingook, president
of the Village Council.
The party was met at the Nome
Airport by Mayor Steffen Ander
sen and a group of citizens. The
mayor welcomed them to Nome
and presented both the generals
with carved ivory keys to the city.
After a short tour they departed
from Elmendorf AFB.
In the party were Col. Pearson
of USARAL, Col. Schofield, In
! spector General USARAL, Col.
Hicks, commanding officer 1st
Battle Group, 23rd Infantry, Lt.
Col. Edens, Engineer USARAL,
and Capt. Lawrence, aide to Gen.
Miehaelis.
Maj. Larry Flanagan and Capt.
Jim O’Rourke met the group at
Northeast Cape and accompanied
them to Gambell and back to
Nome.
Gen. Hayaud Din is in Alaska
with the group of 37 military at
taches from Washington, D.C. He
was very impressed with Alaska
and the warm reception in Nome.
Gen. Miehaelis expressed his de
sire to return at his earliest op
portunity for a longer visit.
Fairbanks Central Labor Council
Opposes Capital Move
FAIRBANKS, (TP)—Members of
Fairbanks Central Labor Council
last night voted to oppose Initia
tive No. 1.
U.N. Cancels Plan
To Send Forces
Into Katanga
LEOPOLDVILLE, U.N. Sec
retary General Dag Haramar
skjold today cancelled a plan to
send U.N. forces into Katanga
province.
He announced a new meeting
j of the Security Council will be
held to consider the situation in
the Congo.
Hammarskjold said Dr. Ralph
Bunche, his deputy, had brought
back word from Elisabeth ville
that U.N. units could be intro
duced into the Katanga only by
the use of force. This, he said,
would be against the principles
laid down by the Security Coun
cil.
The announcement here said
that local authorities in Katanga
insist, and give evidence, that they
would show force against U.N.
units. t
Kefauver Scores
Landslide Victory
NASHVILLE, Tenn., UPI — Sen.
Estes Kefauver won a third term
with a stunning landslide victory
in Thursday’s Tennessee Demo
cratic primary, in which civil
rights was the overriding issue.
The race, billed as the tightest
of the lanky 57-year-old senator’s
career, turned into his greatest
triumph as the state’s voters made
it unmistakably clear they pre
[ ferred his liberal philosophy to
i that of Judge Andrew Taylor, a
strong advocate of segregation
and states rights.
The outcome had been watched
nationally for an indication of the
depth of Southern reaction to the
civil rights proposals adopted by
the Democratic National Conven
tion. Taylor sharply criticized this
platform plank, while Kefauver
said only that it went a little too
far.
Kefauver, termed his victory an
emphatic answer to “the detrac
tors of the South, who tried to
I say that we are a backward
j people.”
The senator, who skyrocketed
to national fame as a result of
his crime - busting investigations
in the early 1950s, said Tennessee
by its vote showed the Democratic
presidential ticket, headed by Sen.
John Kennedy “will win the al
legiance of Americans every
where.”
U.S. PAYS JET INVENTOR
GODDARD MILLION DOLLARS
WASHINGTON, OP) — Fifteen
years after the death of rocket
pioneer Robert H. Goddard, the
government has agreed to pay a
million dollars for infringing on
his patents.
The money, with the consent of
Dr. Goddard’s widow, will go to
the Daniel and Florence Guggen
heim Foundation in New York—
a non-profit organization which
financed most of the inventor’s
research between 1930' and 1941.
Fisheries Research
Team Making Study
In Bering Sea
Two representatives of the State
Fish and Game Department are
here to conduct a survey of the
fish potential in Bering Sea,
along a shelf offshore where local
fishermen have caught shrimp,
crab and other fish.
The survey is being made by
Chuck Jensen, technologist, and
Wm. Smoker, researcher, and will
do exploratory fishing and some
oceanography for about 10 days
using the tug Helen W of Teller
skippered by Teddy Reed. The
results will be of interest in estab
lishing facts as to whether com
mercial fishing is possible in this
particular area of Bering Sea.
A request for research of the
fishing potential has been made
many times over the years by the
Chamber of Commerce and other
civic bodies and was authorized
at the last session of legislature.
In 1922 when the sailing vessel
Fred Wood was becalmed off
Nome, Captain A. H. Moore put
the crew to work fishing and it
was reported at that time that
over a ton of codfish and some
halibut was packed and salted.
Kennedy Says Treatment
Of Negroes at Home Will
Affect African Relations
NEW YORK, 0P>—Sen. John F.
Kennedy, in the first public
speaking appearance of his cam
paign for the presidency, told
foreign - language newspapermen
that the civil rights issue is a
key to United States relations
with the emerging nations of Af
rica.
“If we move ahead on civil
rights and provide equal oppor
tunity for all Americans,” it will
have “a great effect” on relations
with Africa, he told a questioner
at the Overseas Press Club.
The Democratic standard bear
er said the large U.S. negro pop
ulation “can serve as an asset
when those immigrants who are
negroes are given full and fair
and equal treatment.” Otherwise,
he said, treatment of negroes here
can be a debit in dealing with
African nations.
Carrier Jet Takes Off
With Wings Folded
WASHINGTON, (ItI — Imagine
the airborne Navy flier’s surprise
when he looked out and found
the wings of his carrier-type jet,
plane partially folded down.
He brought the ship to safe
landing however, with only very
minor stresses and strains to the
craft, said the Navy in reporting
the incident that occurred over a
land base near Naples, Italy, on
Aug. 2.
The pilot climbed the F8U Cru
sader jet to 5,000 feet and flew
for about 24 minutes before set
ting down.
The plane has a normal wing
span of 35 feet 8 inches. For
storage aboard an aircraft carrier,
6 feet 7 inches of each wing tip
folds back to a vertical position.
Bomb Obliterated
Hiroshima 15
Years Ago Today
WASHINGTON, W! — Fifteen
years ago tonight an explosion ob
literated a city, signaled the end
of a global war and spawned a
lethal fear that still colors the
future of mankind.
In the new Japanese city of
Hiroshima people of all faiths will
pause for a minute of silent pray
er at 4:15 p.m. today in memory
of some 70,000 who were killed
outright and many others who
were injured in the explosion of
the first atomic bomb.
Elsewhere in the world the an
niversary may pass virtually un
noticed. But it will be remember
ed by the 10 surviving American
servicemen on board the B29
“Enola Gay.”
They delivered the payoff of
a World War II program that cost
the United States two billion dol
lars. Since then, many times that
amount has been spent in making
vastly more lethal nuclear wea
pons or in seeking to devise
means to counteract them.
Only three men aboard the
bomber that ushered in the mili
tary atomic age are still on active
duty. The pilot, now Brig. Gen.
Paul W. Tibbets Jr, commands
the Strategic Air Command’s 6th
Air Division at MacDill Air Force
Base in Florida
The bombardier, Lt. Col. Thos.
W. Ferebee, is squadron electronic
maintenance officer at MacDill.
The flight engineer, M/Sgt. Wyatt
Duzenbury, is stationed at Barks
dale Air Force Base, Shreveport,
La.
Mr. K Again Suggests .
Summit—But After
November Election
MOSCOW, liT)—Soviet Premier
Khrushchev told Prime Minister
MacMillan of Britain today he
would like to discuss disarma
ment, a nuclear test ban and the
future of Germany — the basic
problems of our times” — at a
summit meeting.
But, he added, such a meeing
“can hardly be expected” before
the U. S. elections in November.
Then he went on, Tass reported.
“If the Soviet government does
not meet with understanding later
and if obstacles to agreement on
these questions will be put up, we
shall conclude a peace treaty with
the 'East) German Democratic
Republic.”
He accused MacMillan of tak
ing a hostile stand toward R.ussia
by backing what he termed the
aggressive policies of the United
States.
“How can we have any respect
for such a position?” the Soviet
premier asked MacMillan in a
15-page letter couched in charac
teristically blunt terms.
Khrushchev was answering a
personal letter from MacMillan
July 19, in which the British
leader warned that Soviet foreign
policy appeared to have taken a
dangerous new turn.
Meet The Republican Candidates!
Nome High School Gym — Saturday, 8 p.m. — Refreshments Served — Dancing Follows — Admission Free
CHARLES FRAZIER — ART JOHNSON MYRTLE JOHNSON — TOM MARTIN
Guest Speakers Sen. John Coghill and Edith Bullock ★ “Flying Dentist Movie” by Dr. Lee McKinley, candidate for U.S. Senate