^•X'V-X'X-X-X"X*X'X>VX'X-VX*VX-X>V>V-X*X'X-X'V>X-X'X*X«'.*VX"V*X'W*V‘X*VX>X>V-X<VVX"VX'VX"X-X-V'X-X'X-X-V-V'X'X*X*X-X«X) •X'X'X-X-X'X-X-X-X'X
Film: “SON OF MAN”
X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X->>-X-X-X-X-X-X • X- 'X. X- X- X^-X*X-X*X-X-X-X*X-X-X-X-X-X-X'X-X-X-X.X-X-X-X-X-X.IX.-X-X-X«X«X-X'X-X*X-X.-X-X-X»X*X-X-x-x-x-x-x*x-x-x-x- x-x
is NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 30 _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1955Per Copy—15^
State Department
Reverses Stand On
Alaska Statehood
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, l^—The De
fense Dept, today reiterated its
opposition to Alaskan statehood.
% It said it has been advised by the
State Dept, it now “defers to the
judgement of the Department ol
Defense.”
Information concerning the ap
parent change of attitude by the
State Dept, on the combined Al
aska-Hawaii statehood bill was
contained in a letter by James H.
Douglas, acting Secretary of the
Force, to chairman Jackson <D
Wash) of the Senate Territories
subcommittee.
The subcommittee had asked
an elaboration of the depart
ment's stand against statehood
for Alaska.
Jackson said he felt the de
partment’s reply was “not the
kind of answer I feel we could
* expect in view of the depart
ment’s strong position against
statehood.
Jackson said he believes, the
State Dept.’s first stand in which
it said statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii would help relations with
colonial peoples in the Far East to
be its “well-considered and ap
parent policy,” adding:
“It is regrettable that the State
Dept, had to compromise its posi
tion with the Defense Dept, in
order to get conformity among
executive agencies. There could
well be good reasons why the
State Dept, would support the
legislation and the Defense
Dept, oppose it.”
Douglas’ letter also disclosed
the Defense Dept, opposes a pro
posed amendment to the state
hood legislation which would
limit the. area in which it could
make special defense withdraw
als.
Would Remove Ban On
Cocktail Waitresses In
Alaskan Eateries
JUNEAU, UP)—A bill to remove
the ban on cocktail waitresses in
establishments where regular
meals are served “in good faith”
was introduced in the Senate
Thursday.
The present law provides that
only men can serve liquor under
any circumstances. The waitress
bill was put in by Sen. Howard
Lyng.
Lyng also submitted a bill for
the creation of a Hospital Ad
visory Counci, to be composed of
members of health agencies and
organizations concerned with
health.
The Senate Finance Committee
put in one for $32,300 in claims
against the territory, of which
$28,500 are for bounty claims.
Ice 30 Inches Thick At
Nenana With 22 Days
Before Contest Closes
NENANA—Archie Holmstrom,
I manager of the Nenana Ice Classic
; states that the other day while
driving his dogs across the Tan
ana river above town he noticed
the ice was open at one spot.
He says he doesn’t know if this
is any indication of an early
breakup but thought it would be
a good idea for all to get their
tickets in soon as there are only
twenty-two more days before the
classic closes.
The weather around Nenana
has been very balmy but cars and
strucks are still driving across the
river every day. The ice under the
tripod is approximately 30 inches
thick with about five feet of
water under that.
N.Y. Financier Says Govt.
Should Do Something
About Stock Market
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON, <jP — A New
York financier-professor said to
day the stock market boom has
reached the speculative stage. The
government should move “care
fully and cautiously” toward do
ing something about it, he added.
“Speculation has not gone too
far as yet, but there may be a
grave danger that it will do so,”
Benjamin Graham told the Sen
ate Banking Committee. He is
chairman of the Graham-Newman
Investment Corp. and a professor
of finance in the Columbia Uni
versity School of Business.
Unlike most other witnesses
who have been heard, Graham
offered some specific advice for
the average investor in his pre
pared testimony:
“The principles of the prudent
investor will require him to
lighten significantly his holdings
of common stocks — the precise
selling policy to depend, of course
on his individual position and
methods.”
Graham said normally Congress
should not “meddle with the
stock market” but that the time
seems now to have come to con
sider taking the “risky and con
troversial” step of intervening.
He proposed that Congress give
the President authority to make
changes in the rate of the capital
gains tax so it could be lowered
and its operations modified in an
effort to increase the supply of
common stock.
Graham said, too, he is inclined
to favor “a fairly rapid advance”
toward putting margin require
ments at 100 per1 cent so as to
halt stock-buying on credit.
ANCHORAGE, W — An Air
Force staff sergeant stationed at
Elmendorf Air Force Base was
killed Wednesday in a sftowslide
while hunting ptarmigan in the
vicinity of Paxon, 250 miles
northwest of here.
Memorial Urges
Special Session
After Adjourment
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, UP* — A House mem
orial urging a special session of
the Alaska legislature to be called
when the present one adjourns
March 25 was in the hands of
Gov. Heintzleman today.
The memorial, passed by the
House Thursday, brought into the
open recent behind - the - scenes
predictions more time will be
needed to break the dead - lock
over employment security legisla
tion.
While the memorial asked the
governor to issue a 15-day ad
vance call for a special^ session, it
did not necessarily mean one will
be held. Lawmakers said it was
passed at this time so that a
special session could be called
now and held immediately after
sine die adjournment of the regu
lar session.
The memorial cited the Em
ployment Security problems as
the issue that might make an over
time session necessary.
The governor declined com
ment when the memorial was del
ivered to his office in midafter
noon.
Meanwhile, the legislators ap
parently had solved another knot
ty problem that had threatened
a deadlock — apportionment of j
! delegates to the proposed consti
tutional convention. A compro
<Continued on Page Three)
7 ~
Glen Wilder Resigns
From The A.H.A.
WASHINGTON, —'The Hous
ing and Home Finance agency
says it has been advised of the
resignation of E. Glen Wilder as
executive director of the Alaska
Housing Authority.
* The agency said Father Paul C.
O’Connor, chairman of the . au
thority, informed the agency that
Gov. Heintzleman of Alaska had
accepted the resignation.
Father O’Connor told the
agency a successor will be named
at the next meeting of the author
ity.
Sir Alexander Fleming,
Discoverer of Penicillin,
Dies of Heart Disease
LONDON, (J*) — Sir Alexander
Fleming, 73, the Scotch scientist
who discovered penicillin, died
unexpectedly of heart disease at
his home today. He always as
cribed the discovery which made
him famous to “pure luck.”
His finding of the drug which
has played a vital part in man’s
battle against infectious disease
brought him worldwide fame, in
cluding the 1945 Nobel prize for
physiology an^i medicine. The
prize was shared with two co
workers. ‘
Mrs. Roy Snyder Is Selected
Nome’s Mother of The Year
At a recent meeting of the€
Home Arts Club, Mrs. Roy ;
Snyder was selected Nome’s j
Mother of the Year.
Mrs. Snyder, the mother of five
children, is the first Alaskan born
Eskimo woman to receive the
honor in Nome. Others who have
been cited in past years are Mrs.
M. J. Walsh and Mrs. W. B. Mc
Carthy.
Anna Nelson Snyder was born
at Kanakanak in 1907. When her
mother died in 1913, Anna was
adopted by Mrs. Corrinne Call, a
Bureau of Indian Affairs teacher.
Mrs. Call and her husband came
to the territory to teach and after
his death, during their first year
in Alaska, Mrs. Call continued the
work alone.
“Mother” Call’s family of or
phaned Eskimo children contin
ued to grow until she had seven
daughters. Today, at the age of
80, she is retired and lives near
Seattle. In addition to her seven
daughters, Mrs. Call now has 21
grandchildren.
After attending her mother’s
schools for several years, Anna
traveled to the States and was
enrolled in the Chemawa Indian
School near Salem, Ore. She was
graduated from Broadway High
School in Seattle. Anna then re
turned to Alaska to work with
her mother as a teacher’s assist
ant in Bureau of Indian Affairs
schools, first at Unalakleet and
then at Nome.
It was in Nome that she met
her future husband, Roy Snyder,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Snyder of Candle. The young
Eskimo couple were married in
Nome in 1924. Mr. Snyder worked
for many years with the U.S.
Smelting Co. and he is now main
tenance foreman for the CAA
station here.
For the past seven years, the
family has been stationed in An
chorage and they returned to
their former home in October.
All the Snyder children were
born in Nome. The oldest daugh
ters, Roberta and Corrinne, are
both graduates of Nome High
School and the Anchorage Busi
ness College. Corrinne is an ac
countant and took advanced train
ing at the Edison Technical
School in Seattle. Roberta is em
ployed in the CAA Regional Of
fice in Anchorage.
Their youngest daughter, Lor
etta, aged 24, was valedictorian
of her class at Nome High School.
She maintained her high schol
astic record at Washington State
College from which she received
a degree of Bachelor of Science
in 1952. While the majority of
pre-med students seek entrance to
medical schools, Loretta, because
of her high grade standing, was
invited to enroll in the University
of Washington School of Medi
cine. She is now in her second
year and when she completes
her training is planning to re
<Continued on Page Two)
Hurricane Winds Rip
Through Eastern U.S.
(By thf Associated Press*
Winds of hurricane force — up
to 92 miles an hour—ripped thru
Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania
today leaving at least two dead,
a score injured and thousands of
dollars in property damage.
The storm that developed over
southeastern Michigan and west
ern Indiana poured eastward like
a giant wedge, producing violent
winds, hail, ^lightning and thunder
before apparently easing itself
out over eastern Pennsylvania.
The storm started fires, uproot
ed trees, tore down power lines,
smashed windows, toppled tele
vision and radio towers and blew
off roofs from homes and plants.
Dust storms swept across the
great plains. WTinds reached a vel
ocity as high as 70 mph in some
areas yesterday. Visibility was re
ported as low as 25 feet in sec
tions of western Kansas. Damage
to winter crops was expected to
be heavy.
GOOD ADVICE
DENVER, (jP)—Sign on rear of
florist’s delivery truck:
“Drive carefully pr—the next
load of flowers may be for you.”
Governor Signs
8 Bills Into Law
JUNEAU, (#>—Governor Heint
zleman advised the Legislature
Thursday he had signed eight
more bills into law and that he
was returning another for re
vision.
He said he was sending back
the House bill to change the Aero
nautics Commission, because un
der -it there is no provision for
staggering the terms of appoint
tees and it would create the un
desirable situation of all of their
terms expiring at the same time.
One of the provisions of the bill
is for legislative confirmation of
the commission members for the
first time, and the governor
wrote:
“I am in accord with the pro
vision. The membership of a
commission of this importance
should have legislative approval.”
Acts of the legislature signed
into law included a bill designat
ing the attorney general to prose
cute criminal cases arising from
territorial tax laws and providing
for any fines to go into the terri
torial treasury. In the past, the
U.S. attorney has handled such
prosecutions and the fines went
to the federal treasury.
In The Days of Old TF *TP WJP TP TPJP T^TI Sunday 5:15, 7:15, 9:15
And Knights were Bold I ft |§ p§9BSW»| a S B® Monday 7:15 and 9:15 •
M-G-M’s Technicolor j% %# | 1||f JS jL AT THE THEATER
ROBERT TAYLOR ★ ELIZABETH TAYLOR * JOAN FONTAINE * GEORGE SANDERS + EMLYN WILLIAMS