OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 145 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1959 Per Copy—15*
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Alaska Bread
Cliamp Gives
Seattle A Treat
SEATLE, Of) — Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Patrick, who are used
to eating food that comes off the
shelf of supermarkets, had fresh,
home baked bread Saturday
whipped up by a champion.
Thy have as their house guest
Alaska’s bread baking champion
and, thus, are dining better than
usual.
The champion is Jacquelyn
Thompson, 15, of Homer, Alaska,
* the Patricks’ niece.
Jacquelyn, daughter of Mr. and
■ Mrs. Homer Thompson, won the
4-H Club bread baking contest in
her state and a trip to the 4-H
Club convention in Chicago,
which ended Thursday.
The young culinary art expert
got her first instruction in bak
ing from her mother. She now
does all the baking for the family
and suspects that was her moth
er’s purpose in the first place.
She modestly disclaims that her
bread was any better than that
of any of the other Alaska
finalists.
“It was just shaped a little
different, more rounded on top,
she said.
Jacquelyn arrived here Friday
enroute to her home from Chi
cago, and will continue her jour
ney tomorrow.
“I like to bake pizza, too,” she
remarked.
“I didn’t know that,” her aunt
said thoughtfully.
And it appeared Jacquelyn was
headed back to the Patrick
kitchen.
British Columbia
Staggers Under
Winter Downpours
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., —
Four days of torrential rains and
gale-force winds have all but iso
lated a rugged mountainous sec
tion of Northwestern B. C.
One man was killed, another
seriously injured while two more
narrowly escaped serious injury.
_ All but cutoff from the outside
world was this fishing and tex
tile pulp center of 10.000, the
aluminum center of Kitimat, also j
with a population of 10,000, and
the village of Terrace, a lumber
ing center of 2,400.
The downpour, which began
Thursday night, dumped five
inches of rain on the area, 400
miles north of Vancouver. Kitimat
had a record 6V£ inches during
the storm.
Slides rumbled down many
mountains, cutting off road, rail
and long distance telephone and
telegraph links. Only a 'micro
wave telephone link, completed
last summer, connected the cen
ters with the outside world.
Terrace, 95 miles east of here,
had only ham radio communica
tion with the other two' cities.
While reports of the devasta- |
tion reached the remainder of the
province, most residents here
calmly went about their daily
routine.
One veteran resident of this
rugged north-coastal city casually
remarked:
“It isn’t anything to get really
excited about. It happens here
all the time. We can expect at
least two of these storms each
winter.”
Commissioner of
Education Confers
With Local Supt.
Theodore J. Norby, Alaska’s
new Commissioner of Education,
arrived this morning on his first
official visit to the northwestern
part of the state. One of his first
projects after assuming his new
position was to visit every school
in Alaska.
While here, he will confer with
Superintendent Conrad Potter, of
Nome School, as well as with
Robert Baldwin, president of the
State Board of Education.
At noon today he was a guest
at the Chamber of Commerce
luncheon.
Commissioner Nordby plans to
visit every school in the Alaska
system, numbering about 200.
Nome’s is the last major school
to be visited. He will return at
a later date to visit the smaller
state schools in the area.
He said, “the potential of Al
aska is unlimited and I believe
in strong local school boards.”
He explained to the chamber
the importance of a good basic
foundational program on which
the Department of Education can
be built to give all children in the
state as much and as good an ed
ucation as possible as provided
by the Constitution of Alaska.
During the afternoon he was
scheduled to meet with the Nome
Education Association at the
school, and this evening a no-host
dinner is planned so that he can
meet informally with city offi
cials and other interested resi
dents.
Mr. Nordby leaves on tomor
row’s flight.
Valley Forge Shrine
Honors Alaska In
Rites Marking Statehood
VALLEY FORGE, Pa.,UP— The
first Alaska patriotic service was
held yesterday in the Washing
ton Memorial Chapel at this
shrine of freedom.
Henry A. Harmon, director of
the Division of Welfare of Alaska’s
Department of Health and Wel
fare, represented Governor Egan
at the first annual service.
He acknowledged this latest
tribute to Alaskan statehood and
said the people of his state have
the same sence of patriotism that
prevailed among General George
Washington’s troops encamped
here nearly two centuries ago.
State services are held in the
chapel almost every week. Gov
ernors of each of the United States
are invited to attend or send a
representative.
An Alaskan flag soon will be
hung here along with those of
48 other states.
Northwest States Gaining
In Population Growth
WASHINGTON, UP — Popula
tion in the Pacific Northwest
states and Alaska is on the in
crease, according to figures re
leased Sunday by the Bureau of
the Census.
Although Alaska has the small
est population — 191,000 — it
shows the largest increase, a
whopping 48.8 per cent.
The report was based on 1950
figures and those of 1958. It
showed Idaho up 10.7 per cent;
Oregon, 14.7, and Washington
16.4 per cent.
U. S. PRESIDENT OVERWHELMED
WITH PEACE MISSION OVATIONS
Draws Inspiration from
Pope John at Audience
VATICAN CITY, W — Presi
dent Eisenhower paused briefly
Sunday in his world-wide quest
for peace to draw inspiration
from Pope John XXIII.
The President emerged from
his 27-minute audience with the
Pope’s earnest wishes for God’s
blessing upon him. Eisenhower
said he was inspired by the Pope’s
approval of the free world’s ef
forts toward “peace and friendship
in freedom.”
The Pope also expressed “sen
timents of benevolence and ad
miration which we cherish for
the American people.” He said he
rejoiced that the United States,
under Eisenhower, is striving so
actively “toward the lofty ideals
of a loyal and effective concord
between nations.”
The President said: “I thank
Your Holiness for the wordfe you
have addressed to me, my family
and my country. I am also grate
ful for your blessing.”
The President was accompanied
by his son and daughter-in-law,
Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower,
and James C. Hagerty, his press
secretary.
Before going to the Vatican,
Eisenhower and his family at
tended services at St. Paul’s
Protestant Episcopal Church.
On the President’s arrival in the
ancient courtyard before the Pope’s
palace, the Star Spangled Banner
blared forth there for the second
time in history. It had been played
once before when President Wood
row Wilson visited Pope Bene
dict XV in 1919.
The President bowed slightly
when he was introduced to the
Pontiff, and they shook hands.
The Pope, in resplendent white
robes, put his visitors at ease by
valiantly conducting the interview
in English.
The Pope apologized for his pro
nunciation but the President said
it was excellent. This evidently
pleased the 78-year-old Pontiff,
who began studying the language
little more than a year ago.
At one point Pope John remarked
on the “happy and encouraging
coincidence” of the President’s
son and himself bearing the name
John.
Northeast U. S. Lashed
By Snowy Gales
A blustery storm hurled gale
winds, heavy rain and snow at
the northeastern quarter of the
nation today.
Gale warnings were hoisted
from Eastport, Maine, to Block
Island, R. I.
Reports of gusts up to 60 miles
an hour came from the Buzzards
Bay area of Massachusetts.
Rain doused much of New Eng
land and New York state.
Snow whirled through states
bordering the Great Lakes and
flurried as far south as Georgia.
The snow varied from two to
five inches in West Virginia and
western and central Pennsylvania.
A biting wind aggravated the
cold in the south. Thermometers
registered in the middle 20’s in
mountains in northern Georgia.
Snow flurries reached as far into
the deep south as Macon in middle
Georgia.
‘Most Stupendous’ Ovation
At Turkish Capitol
By WEBB McKINLEY
ANKARA, Turkey, — Presi
dent Eisenhower took with him
from Turkey today memories of
the greatest reception ever given
a foreign visitor to the Turkish
capitol.
Eisenhower himself termed the
welcome he received on his arrival
Sunday from Rome “the most stu
pendous I have ever seen in a city
of this size.”
Estimates of the crowds that
cheered him raged from a police
figure of 400,000 to unofficial tal
lies of 700,000.
Bands played,, men danced and
people shouted “Yasha” (long live)
as the President went by, stand
ing bareheaded in an open limou
sine. His arms were outspread in
greeting.
Eisenhower responded enthu
siastically to this outpouring of
spirit.
“I am confident,” he told Turk
ish President Celal Bayer at a,
state dinner Sunday night, “that
the United States, with other
friends and allies, will continue
to support the economic develop
ment and security of Turkey.
“I am certain this combined ef
fort will be successful because no
power on earth, no evil, can frus
trate a people of your spirit.”
Press Secretary James Hager -
ty told newsmen Eisenhower was
completely overwhelmed by the
welcome he got and the scores of
signs on triumphal arches lining
his route.
A joint communique summar
izing Eisenhower’s talks with
Bayer, Premier Menderes and
other Turkish leaders cited the
warmth of feeling the American
executive found.
The statement also urged an
“effective controlled system of dis
armament” and declared the “fu
ture of humanity” depends on
solidarity among the free nations.
Coastal Storms Whip
European Atlantic Ports
LONDON, UP) — Gales whipping
the coast of Britain and Portugal
today may have taken the lives
of 31 men in three ships.
Many other vessels were in
trouble in the Atlantic and off
the British east coast.
An unusual early winter snow
storm tied up sea and land traffic
in the Scandinavian countries,
where six persons died.
Even the mightiest liners
struggled against the fury of the
storm that swept far out across
the Atlantic.
The Queen Elizabeth radioed
after a day and night battering
that it would not reach Cherbourg
until Tuesday morning, 12 hours
late. First-class cabins 40 feet
above the water line were re
ported to have been smashed by
the waves.
All of south Sweden and the
southern Baltics were in the grip
of one of the worst blizzards in
living memory.
In central Norway, emergency
crews worked to clear ice that
stopped a hydroelectric plant and
plunged the homes of 30,000
peole in the Helgeland area into
darkness.
Million Cheer In
Gaily-Decked Karachi
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
KARACHI, Pakistan, (iPt — A
million cheering Pakistanis — by
official estimate — gave President
Eisenhower today the most thun
derous reception ever accorded a
foreign visitor.
Shouting, waving people packed
the streets and the roads from
the airport as Eisenhower arrived
from Turkey on the third stop of
his 22,000-mile Mission of Peace.
The President was deeply
moved by the outpouring of affec
tion and called the Welcome “tre
mendous,” said James Hagerty,
White House Press Secretary.
The nation’s highest award, the
Nishan I Medal of Pakistan, was
presented to Eisenhower tonight.
President Mohammed A y u b
Khan made the award. He read
an accompanying citation praising
Eisenhower for “inspiring leader
ship in enabling the free nations
to develop collective security
against aggression.”
v The award and dinner cli
maxed a day in Karachi that the
President will find hard to for
get — a day of acclaim from Pak
istanis that began when he ar
rived at the airport.
Grinning with delight, the
American President stood erect in
the back of a white convertible
and waved to. the colorfully clad
Pakistanis jampacked along his
route into Pakistan’s largest city.
Each time the American visitor
waved his hat, the crowds re
sponded with delighted roars of
welcome.
“Eisenhower Zindabad!” —
“Long life to Eisenhoewr!” — the
vast throngs roared over and over.
The teeming city of two million
was festooned for carnival. The
Stars and Stripes and Pakistan’s
green and white crescent banner
waved on all sides, from poles
and triumphal arches. A host of
streamers, of every color of the
rainbow, added to the brilliance
of the scene.
Karachi definitely was happy
to see Ike, and Ike to see the city
and its people.
Thousands of Pakistanis pushed
and shoved their wgy into the
broad corner square near the U. S.
Embassy where the President and
his host, President Mohammed
Ayub Khan, changed from the
automobile to a stately red and
gold Presidential coach drawn by
six spanking black horses. The^i
the majestic, slow procession made
its way to the President’s resi
dence, where Eisenhower will
make his headquarters for his
40-hour stay.
Karachi was strung with colored
lights on all sides. As night fell,
it looked like a city adorned for
Christmas.
TY COBB HAS CHECKUP AT 73
ATLANTA, UPi — Ty Cobb, one
of the all-time greats of baseball,
was reported in good condition
and resting comfortably today at
Atlanta’s Emory Hospital.
He was admitted Sunday night
for what his doctor described as
a routine checkup.
! The former big league baseball
I star will be 73 on December 18.