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Construction Go-Ahead
For Kotzebue Hospital
Gets Cold Shoulder
WASHINGTON, Iff)—A recom
mendation that the government
take steps to “unfreeze” money
appropriated for construction of
four Indian hospitals appeared
likely to remain just that—a rec
ommendation.
The four affected hospitals and
amounts appropriated for their
construction over the past several
years include: Kotzebue, $2,404,
000; Gallup, N.M., $3,283,000;
Shiprock, N.M., $1,304,400; and
Sells, Ariz., $860,000.
The “unfreeze” recommendation
by the Surgeon General’s advisory
committee at a recent meeting has
had a cool reception from Health,
Education and Welfare Depart
ment officials.
Public Health Service spokes
men have been reluctant to dis
cuss the matter, other than to
say that a go-ahead on construc
tion would be counter to the Ad
ministration’s current policy de
signed to control inflation.
Asked to outline the policy,
James F. Kelly, departmental
budget officer, referred to a pres
idential announcement “that only
the most urgent projects should
proceed in order that competition
for material and labor should not
be engaged in by the government
and the inflationary pressure
would be decreased.”
A department spokesman said
engineering and architectural
work on the four buildings is pro
ceding, but none is ready for con
struction.
About a Week
Needed to Cover
New Federal Bldg.
Progress on the new Federal
Building is continuing with the
necessary outside work about
completed sufficiently for winter.
About one more week is need
ed, it is reported, to complete
closing in the roof.
Concrete has been poured for
the second floor walls as well as
for the vaults necessary for rec
ords in the offices of the U.S.
commissioner and U.S. district
clerk.
Progress on the new ACS build
ing indicates that the basement
may be completed before winter
sets in. The concrete will be
poured as soon as it arrives to
complete this first section. Occu
pancy is not planned until next
year at this time.
National League Votes
To Extend Deadline
For Dodgers’ Moving
NEW YORK, iff)—'The National
League voted unanimously yes
terday to extend the Brooklyn
Dodgers’ deadline for moving to
Los Angeles thru Oct. 15.
Yesterday had been set origin
ally as the latest time when Dodg
er President Walter O’Malley
could make the announcement
that he intended to shift the
franchise.
O’Malley, lacking a clear-cut
proposal from Los Angeles offi
cials, said before the special meet
ing on the eve of the World Series
he would ask for a one week’s
extension.
He didn’t have to make such a
request, however. After he had
explained the situation, John Gal
breath, president of the Pirates,
proposed a resolution extending
until Oct. IS the time for filing a
letter of intent. The resolution
was passed unanimously.
Airliner Flies
Nonstop London
To San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—A com
mercial airliner flew into San
Francisco today nonstop from
London. The Trans World Air
lines Constellation carried 46 pas
sengers and mail.
The TWA flight 871 left Lon
don at 9:06 a.m. PST, Tuesday.
The plane touched down at San
Francisco at 8:25 a.m. PST.
The flight was 5,357 miles.
Weather and wind conditions
were good thruout the flight and
the captain decided it was unnec
essary to make the customary re
fueling stop at Frobisher Bay,
northeast of Hudson Bay, about
halfway between London and
San Francisco.
Red Tide Threat
Spreading With
Many Fish Killed
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., UP)—
The threat of the fish-killing red
tide is getting more serious here.
The total number of fish esti
mated killed over an area of 20
square miles is more than six
million. And the plague has
spread northward to a new area,
off the Indian Rocks Beach.
The count of the red tide organ
ism—Gymnodinium brevisv—is
approaching the danger point in
the Sarasota area.
The St. Petersburg beaches can
expect many more carcasses to
come ashore from the masses of
dead fish in the Gulf of Mexico.
“The weather dealt us a heavy
blow yesterday,” John Evans of
the US. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice said. Rain and wind ground
ed spray planes just when results
where beginning to show from the
dusting with copper sulphate.
Newspaperboys
Day Proclaimed
By Governor
Whereas the freedom of the
press is of great importance to the
well-being and security of the na
tion; and
Whereas over 57 million news
papers are delivered every day by
more than 700,000 carrier boys,
indicating the trust newspapers
place in the boys is not poorly
founded; and
Wherfeas the newspaper carriers
in the Territory of Alaska are
faced with unusual problems of
climate and terrain peculiar to
this part of the world;
Now, therefore, I, Mike Stepo
vich, Governor of the Territory
of Alaska, do hereby proclaim
Saturday, October 5, 1957, as
NEWSPAPERBOY DAY in the
Territory of Alaska; and
I further call upon the citizens
of this vast Terditory upon that
date to bestow the honors and
recognition so richly earned and
deserved by these enterprising
young men thruout the Territory
who serve you thruoot the year,
keeping you an alert and in
formed citizen.
In witness hereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
Seal of the Territory of Alaska to
be affixed.
Done at Juneau, the Capital,
this 23rd day of September, 1957.
(SEAL)
s/ MIKE STEPOVICH
Governor of Alaska
TONSINA UNLOADING
DELAYED BY SURF
The SS Tonsina arrived in the
roadstead yesterday but has not
been able to discharge due to
heavy surf.
However, it was anticipated that
that work would begin at noon
today, starting with handling of
cold storage, according to Alaska
Steamship Co. agent Walter Sip
prell.
Yankees Win First
Game of World
Series 3 to 1
NEW YORK, UP)—Lefty Whitey
Ford limited Milwaukee to five
hits in the opening game of the
world series as the Yanks pound
ed Warren Spahn to cover in the
sixth inning, to win 3 to 1.
A crowd of 69,476 packed Yan
kee Stadium and saw the Yanks
hammer Spahn for two clinching
runs in the sixth.
Bright sunny weather greeted
the world series combatants. As
advertised Whitey Ford started
the game for the Yankees and
Warren started for Milwaukee.
It was Ford’s third consecutive
series opening assignment. His
previous series record was four
wins and two losses. Spahn, who
split two decisions in the 1948
series, against Cleveland, was en
gaging in his first opening game.
Confidential Case
Ends In Mistrial
With Jury Split 7-5
LOS ANGELES, (JV-Deadlocked
after two weeks of unproductive
wrangling, the jury in the Confi
dential magazine criminal libel
conspiracy trial was discharged
last night.
A juror disclosed that the jury
stood 7 to 5 for conviction.
And the same juror said the
jury heard a rumor Sunday that
one of its members had been
bribed. The report stemmed from
a remark overheard by a juror as
she walked thru the lobby of the
hotel where the jury was quar
tered.
Said presiding Judge Herbert
V. Walker: “A 5 to 7 jury doesn’t
look like anyone was bought.”
Declaration of a mistrial dropped
the curtain on an inconclusive
climax to a two-month legal bat
tle over whether Confidential, its
sister scandal magazine Whisper,
and other defendants conspired to
libel celebrities and to publish
lewd and obscene stories.
But this was only the first act,
said Dep. Dist. Atty. William L.
Ritzi. “The case will be retried,”
he said.
Scientists Checking
On The Old Adage
“An Apple A Day ...”
EAST LANSING, Mich., UP>—
The old adage “an apple a day
keeps the doctor away” is being
given a scientific check.
Dr. E. H. Lucas, professor of
horticulture at Michigan State
University, is conducting a three
year check on the effects of apple
eating on the general health of
students. The check is now in its
second year.
Some 500 students are volun
tarily cooperating in the experi
ment. The general health of the
volunteer students is being com
pared with a similar group not
given apples.
Gov. Faubus Changes Wording of
Agreement for Troop Withdrawal;
Guard Will Continue at School
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Around The World In
One Day Foreseen
Within 20 Years
LOS ANGELES, — An air
craft executive predicts that
within 20 years supersonic air
liners will toe flying around the
world in one day.
B. F. Coggan, vice president of
the Convair plant at San Diego,
said Magellans of the future will
make the one-day earth-circling
trip in safety and comfort un
known today.
Speaking before the Society o/
Automotive Engineers Monday,
Coggan said the Air Force and
several airline executives have
also predicted that planes capable
of circumnavigating the earth in
less than 24 hours are not too far
in the future.
Record Peacetime
Budget Increases
To $72 Billion
WASHINGTON, to—President
Eisenhower’s record peacetime
budget has grown a bit bigger—to
$72 billion—.but the Administra
tion hopes to reduce spending to |
$70 billion in the year ending
June 30, 1959.
Budget Director Percival F.
Brundage announced the economy
target for next year after issuing
his midyear review yesterday. It
showed estimated spending for
this year up by $200 million from
Eisenhower’s January estimate,
and the prospective surplus down
by $300 million, to $1V£ billion.
Those figures, covering the 1958
fiscal year would not justify tax
reduction, Brundage told report
ers, but added the following year
may be better, fiscally speaking.
If enough savings are achieved
and the personal income of Amer
icans continues to rise as expect
ed, Brundage said, Congress
could consider tax relief “next
spring”—altho not to take effect
until midyear or thereafter.
Civil Service Cmmn.
Plans Cost-of-Living
Survey in Alaska
WASHINGTON, to—The Civil
Service Commission disclosed to
day plans to start its annual cost
of-living surveys in Alaska, Ha
waii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands later this month.
The surveys are for the purpose
of determining pay differentials
for federal workers in the four
areas. Commission Chairman Har
ris Ellsworth advised Delegate
Bartlett the Alaska studies would
be made in Juneau, Anchorage,
Fairbanks,* Ketchikan, Adak and
Ft. Greeley.
VICE PRESIDENT'S BROTHER
GOES OUT OF BUSINESS
LOS ANGELES, to—The cor
poration that owns the five res
taurant-gift shops operated by F;
Donald Nixon, brother of Vice
President Richard Nixon, will sell
the stores for the benefit of its
creditors.
F. Donald is president of the
corporation but his brother has no
interest in the chain.
► LITTLE ROCK, Ark., (£>—Gov.
Orval Faubus said today he is
“standing pat” on the wording he
used to accept President Eisen
hower’s terms for withdrawing
federal troops from Little Rock
Central High School.
The President had rejected
Faubus’ wording of acceptance
yesterday and said troops would
remain until the assurance from
Faubus coincided with the state
ment worked out by a committee
of Southern governors.
“They write their statements
up there,” Faubus said. “I write
my statements here.”
This apparently left the efforts
of the four Southern governors,
acting as a committee for the
Southern Governors’ Conference,
in impasse, since Faubus said he
had agreed to two main points
worked out by Eisenhower and
the Southern governors:
1. That he would accept “full
responsibility for maintaining law
and order.”
2. That “I would not obstruct
orders of the court” for integra
tion.
The hitch developed over Fau
bus changing the exact wording
which had been worked out.
He added “by me” to the pre
pared statement that there would
be no further obstruction to the
court’s order for integration. This
left in doubt the question whether
someone else might obstruct the
order.
The President rejected Faubus*
change of wording, said troops of
the 101st Airborne Infantry Divi
sion that protected nine Negro
students at Central High last
week would remain in Little
Rock.
The paratroopers have not been
on guard during school hours for
two days, their guarding chores
taken over by the federalized Ar
kansas National Guard.
Chamber Making
Plans to Confer
With CAA Chief
At the regular meeting of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce Monday tentative ar
rangements were made to confer
with James T. Pyle, CAA admin
istrator, during his visit to Nome
this Saturday.
The Chamber board will com
plete the plans this week, as def
inite arrival and departure times
for Mr. Pyle’s party are received
by Bill Barber. President Jim
Walsh said Mr. Pyle would have
comments of interest to the gen
eral public as well as to Chamber
members.
Other business for the day in
cluded an enthusiastic apprecia
tion to Fairbanks for the highly
enjoyable and successful trip over
the weekend by many Chamber
members.
President Walsh stated that the
delegates were overwhelmed with
the wonderful hospitality of the
Fairbanks Chamber who not only
put on a fine banquet but took the
visitors into their homes.
Jerry Nerland and Don Pear
son, president and manager re
spectively of the Fairbanks Cham
ber, and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Webb
even got up in time to be at the
airport at 4 a.m. to see the Nome
delegation off an the return flight.