SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 27 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1957 Per Copy— 15(S,
Mark Abloogalook Says Dog Saved Him
From Freezing in Night on Ice, After
Rescue by Searching Bush Pilots
Mark A'bloogalook, wno was
caught out on the Bering Sea ice
when it moved out during the
blizzard Friday, says he owes his
life to his dog whose warmth kept
him from freezing to death during
the storm Friday night.
Abloogalook, one of several
crab fishermen who were out on
Bering Sea fishing Friday, found
himself adrift when the strong
Pat Bliss Held for
Assault and Battery
Pat Bliss, mining man of Hay
cock was arraigned on a charge
of assault and battery by secret
indictment by the Grand Jury
and pleaded not guilty.
Also in Court:
Chester Adloadt of Wales was
arraigned this afternoon on an
indictment of assault with a dan
gerous weapon, and Fred Crane
was appointed attorney for him
toy the Court.
The Grand Jury returned four
true bills this afternoon: U. S.
vs. Joel Koenig and Bill Kinnee
veauk; U. S. vs. Joel Koenig, Ray
Lee and Bill Kinneeveauk; U. S.
vs. Joel Koenig; U. S. vs. Louis
Chasse and Margaret Fleener.
FORMER SEC. OF AIR FORCE
TALBOTT DIES IN FLORIDA
PALM BEACH, Fla., UP) — Har
old E. Talbott, capitalist and for
mer Secretary of the Air Force,
died suddenly early Saturday at
the home of Mrs. Harry Pane
Bingham, where he was a house
guest.
Alaska Highway
System OK’d
JUNEAU, U") — Federal High
way Administrator F. C. Turner
has approved the Alaska Highway
System, making possible federal
aid road funds for the first time
in the Territory.
This was announced Saturday
by Acting Gov. Waino Hendrick
son.
Hendrickson says the Com
merce Department and the Bureau
of Public Roads accepted the road
system for the Territory without
change.
It was drawn up by Acting
Regional Engineer for Alaska, A.
F. Ghiglione; Highway Engineer
Irving Reed, and the Territorial
Board of Road Commissioners,
with the approval of the acting
governor.
The system as approved in
cludes 1,959 and one-tenth miles
of primary highways. There are
3,077 miles of secondary roads on
the new system—including 2,063
miles of so-called “class A” sec
ondary roads, and 1,015 miles of
“class B” roads.
The Territory was included in
the Federal Highway Aid pro
gram by the last Congress—the
first time Alaska has been eli
gible for matching funds.
More than 45 million dollars is
scheduled to be spent on high
way construction and mainten
ance in the next 5 years in Alaska.
north wind broxe the ice from the
shore and in a few hours had
moved far out to sea, leaving a
wide stretch of open water. It
was too stormy for a boat to be
launched or for a rescue plane to
be dispatched. At that time it was
believed that more than one fish
erman had been caught out, tout
the others managed to get off the
ice as they were farther to the
east where the ice stayed closer
to the shore for a longer period of
time.
Saturday morning veterans of
many rescues Martin Olson of
Munz Air Service and Bob Ja
cobs of Alaska Airlines flew to
his rescue. Olson, flying a small
Piper Pacer, landed first and
picked up the exhausted, hungry
and very wet man, and was
closely followed toy Jacobs in a
Norseman, who picked up the sled
and dog. They found Atoloogalook
huddled down on the ice to keep
out of the wind, thoroughly
soaked from the sleet and spray,
but otherwise unhurt from his
adventure, the dog having kept
him warm throughout the night.
Olson and Jacobs have many res
cues to their credit and are both
very modest when an attempt is
made to enumerate them, but his
tory will place them both among
the skillful bush pilots of Alaska
who have saved many lives.
2nd Division Democrats Back Their
Rejection of Nome Mayor for Board,
With Opinion of Attorney General
JUNEAU, UR — Acting Gov.
Waino Hendrickson vetoed a 'bill
Saturday dealing with guberna
torial appointments. It was his
fifth of the session and was six
pages long.
The vetoed bill was in two
parts—giving the Governor the
right to withdraw from consider
ation the name of a nominee for
appointment to a Territorial board
or commission, and giving the
Legislature pocket veto powers
over the appointments. The latter
part of the bill said any nominee
who is not acted upon by a joint
session of the Legislature auto
matically is rejected.
As Hendrickson pointed out in
his veto message, the bill was in
troduced after a joint session of
the Legislature on Feb. 4. That
session was called to act on con
firmation of some 95 appoint
ments to boards and commissions.
One of those was Karl Dewey,
nominated by Hendrickson for a
new 4-year term as territorial tax
commissioner. However, Dewey
suffered a heart attack the day
before the joint session.
At the suggestion of the Demo
cratic leaders, Hendrickson with
drew Dewey’s name—with the
: understanding it again could be
‘ submitted later in the session.
Hendrickson said there were
“a great many valid reasons . . .
why a governor might desire to
! withdraw a name after it had
been submitted to the Legisla
ture.”
Prince of Netherlands
Cracks Sound Barrier
Over California Desert
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Prince
Bernhard of The Netherlands
piloted a two-seater version of
the supersonic F102 fighter
through the sound barrier over
the California desert Friday.
An Air Force pilot rode with
the Prince on the 45-minute flight
from the Palmdale Airport. Bern
hard said his government may be
interested in acquiring some of
the all-weather intercepters for
the Dutch Air Force.
Honey Helpful as; Cure
For A Hangover
GENEVA, N. Y., Iff) — The New
Yoi’k State Agriculture Experi
ment Station says that a table
spoon or two of honey will make
a drunken person sober.
The same treatment may be
helpful in routing a hangover, the
station reports.
The agriculture unit said in its
current news bulletin that the
sugars in the honey would cause
a chemical breakdown of the al
cohol in the <>ystem.
GREEN WALLS MATCH
SECRETARY'S SWEATER
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UP) —
State legislators returned to the
capital today after a six week
recess. One assemblyman found
his office painted in a shade of
green which matched his secre
tary’s favorite sweater.
JUNEAU, UP)—Second Division
Democrats offered an attorney
general’s opinion today to sup
port their action i/n rejecting the
appointment of Nome Mayor
Steve Andersen to the Board of
Juvenile Institutions.
Andersen was one of nine per
sons who were refused confirma
tion last night by the Legislature
for appointments to territorial
boards and agencies.
Sen. John McNees (D-Nome)
sought the opinion and received a
written report that “such an ap
pointment to the board might sub
ject Mr. Andersen ‘to removal as
mayor of Nome, since board mem
bership and his role as contracting
office for the City of Nofne are
incompatible offices.”
It added that Andersen, “on ac
ceding to his position on the
board, may be obliged to vacate
his position as mayor of Nome.”
Four Air Force Officers
Dead in Calif. Crash
RIVERSIDE, Calif., — Four
Air Force officers were killed in
the crash of a six-jet B47 bomber
on takeoff from March Air Force
Base Saturday.
Flames from- the wreckage de
| stroyed an unused, barracks.
i Killed were Capt. Cordia G.
Simpson, 34, Tucsion, Ariz.; 1st
Lts. Glen A. Kackley, 28, St.
| Louis, Mo.; Hanney Hobub, 27,
! Schulenburg, Tex., and John W.
Loock, Rochester, N. Y.
Five Die in Alaska Airlines Plane
Crash on Olympic Peninsula Mountain
PORT ANGELES, Wash., UP> —!
Investigators sought an explana
tion today for the mystery of how
an Alaska Air Lines plane car
ried five persons to death on an
Olympic Peninsula mountainside
in daylight and good weather.
The Alaska Airlines four-en
gine transport met disaster late
Saturday only 18 minutes from its
Seattle-Tacoma Airport destina
tion. It was on the home leg of
a flight of more than 1,500 miles
from Fairbanks.
Searchers found the charred
wreckage Sunday at the 2,000
foot level about 30 miles south
east of here. The bodies of the
two passengers and three crew
members were brought here.
Ironically, both the passengers
were taking quick trips to the I
States to visit their mothers —
one because the mother is critic
ally ill; the other for a birthday
surprise.
Miss Constance Reppert, 24, was
on a three-week leave for a sur
prise visit for her mother’s birth
day at Elkins, W. Va. Miss Rep
pert was a recreation' director at
Army, anti-aircraft sites in the
Fairbanks area.
Former Negro Slave
Dies at 118 Years Old
NEW IBERIA, La., <tf> — A 118
year-old former Negro slave,
Mrs. Louisa Breaux, died at home
here yesterday.
Her survivors included 13
grandchildren, 35 great-grandchil
dren, and 23 great-great-grand
children.
Baptismal records show Mrs.
Breaux was born in October,
1838. Last year she attributed her
long life to going to bed at dark,
getting up about 9 a. m. and rest
ing during the day.
Lomens Offers
$500 Scholarship
To Nome Senior
It has been announced by Wil
liam Angell, superintendent of
the Nome School that the Lomen
Commercial Co. is offering a
$500 scholarship to a graduating
senior from Nome High School
this year.
The Lomen Commercial Co. has
designated Mr. Angell, and his
choice of two of his staff to make
the selection based on ability to
assume a college course; need of
financial assistance, character and
spirit f cooperation to develop a
useful citizen.
The scholarship will be limited
to attendance at an institute of
higher learning within the Ter
ritory.
The administration of the
funds is left entirely to the dis
cretion of the committee, and the
award is to be made “without
prejudice as to race or creed.”
Mr. Angell states that there will
be five graduating seniors this
year, Charles W. Fagerstrom,
Paul Glavinovich, Madeline Mogg,
Stanley Senungetuk and Barbara
Trigg. Mr. Angell also said that
there will probably be 12 next
year, increasing to over the 20 the
following year.
Leroy Kellye, 38, a carpenter
at Lad Air Force Base, was fly
ing south because of the illness of
his mother in Palestine, Texas.
The crew members were Capt.
Larry Curri of Seattle, the pilot;
Lyle Edwards, Seattle co-pilot,
and Elizabeth Goods of Roblin,
Manitoba, the stewardess.
The plane crashed against a
timbered slope after the pilot had
radioed at 5:16 p. m. that he was
flying “visual,” which meant it
was clear enough for him to fly
without instruments.
The weather bureau reported,
however, there were clouds over
th Olympic Peninsula area from
2,000 to 4,000 feet.
Conjecture was that the plane
flew Into a cloud bank to dis
aster.
An airline* spokesman said the
plane was “very close to its
course, if not on it.”
The “big unknown” was why
the veteran pilot was flying so
low. There was not report from
the plane of any trouble.
The bodies were recovered Sun
day by a party that was landed
I by hleicopter on a road about a
mile away from the crash scene.
I The crash was discovered early
! Sunday by a Coast Guard heli
! copter pilot.
The bodies of three of the vic
tims were still in the plane’s
burned cabin.
The plane had cut a swath
through heavy timber before hit
ting the slope.
Two Civil Aeronautics Board
investigators flew from Washing
ton, D. C., to join West Coast CAB
men in the inquiry into the crash.
Currie, described by air-line
officials as “one of the best pilots
in the business,” had been with
Alaska Airlines about ten years.
School Basketball
Group Home After
2 Victories, 1 Loss
The Nome High School basket
ball team was scheduled to arrive
home this noon with Wien Air
lines, having won all but one of
their games during the B tourna
ment.
According to coach Ullrich
Nome received the runner-up
trophy and Charles W. Fager
strom and Korky Kost brought
back outstanding awards.
In the game Friday the Nan
ooks downed Greeley 57 to 26. All
team members played. Scoring:
Vernon Carlson 14, Chuck W. Fa
gerstrom 13, Chuck Snyder 7,
Korky Kost 5, Jake Titus 6, Paul
Glaviinoviofc 4, Chuck P. Fager
strom 4, Stanley Senungetuk 2.
In the final game Saturday
evening Valdez topped Nome 49
to 32. The boys played good bas
ketball, but had difficulty mak
ing baskets. Scoring: Kost 11, C.
W. Fagerstrom 9, Stanley Senun
getuk8, C. P. Fagerstrom 4.
The coach for the Valdez team
was a former Nome teacher,
Reino Kangas.
The games were played at the
Lathrop High School gym in
Fairbanks.