Fire Destroys NC Co.
Electrical Plant in
Village of McGrath
ANCHORAGE — Fire last
Thursday night destroyed the
Northern Commercial Company’s
electrical power plant supplying
the village of McGrath but
through the emergency coopera
tion of the Federal Aviation
Agency, residents had almost un
interrupted electrical service.
Larry Smith, FAA station man
ager at McGrath, immediately
threw into service auxiliary gen
erators at the FAA station and
contacted Allen D. Hulen, region
al FAA manager in Anchorage,
for additional units. A 50KW gen
erator at Merrill Field, weighing
800 pounds and a 12V£KW gen
erator belonging to the NC Co.
here, were hurriedly loaded
aboard a FAA C-123 and flown
to McGrath by Jack Jefford.
After unloading the generators at
McGrath, the crew then flew to
King Salmon and hauled an addi
tional generator from there to
McGrath to augment the power
supply. Word of the fire was re
ceived in Anchorage at 6:45 p. m.,
and by 10:00 p. m. the units had
arrived in McGrath.
The FAA generators will re
main in use until other facilities
can be installed.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
William J. Komakhuk
Joins the Army Airborne
Eskimo paratrooper, William J.
Komakhuk, son of Mr. and Mrs.
j William J. Komakhuk Sr., re
- ceived the oath of enlistment from
Capt. Harry Kaelin, U. S. Army,
| Alaska enlistment officer during
| a ceremony at Fort Richardson
] this week. The young Eskimo e i
| tered the Army for three years
; under the “choice not chance”
| program, which insures him a
] place in any Army school for
which he can qualify. After com
pleting basic training at Fort
Ord, Calif. Private Komakhuk has
j elected to attend one of the
j Army’s three airborne jump
I schools.
Seminar for Magistrates
Convenes Here Tomorrow
Sadie Neakok, deputy magis
trate from Barrow arrived here
for the Seminar for Magistrates
which starts tomorrow. Mrs. Nea
kok, who is the mother of 11 chil
dren and a former teacher, is en
joying her visit here and meet
ing with former friends.
L. E. Ost who was scheduled
to attend the meeting from For
tuna Ledge was unable to make
plane connections due to the
spring thaw in that area it was
reported.
All other members are expect
ed to be here in time for the
meeting which starts in the morn
ing.
David Luce, administrative
director of courts arrived from
Anchorage to meet with the
group.
Captain of Ill-Fated
| British Liner Dara
Suspects Sabotage
MANAMA. Bahrain OP — Capt.
! Charles Elson, master of the ill
fated British liner Dara told
newsmen Tuesday that sabotage
was “one of the possibilities” lead
ing to the loss of his vessel.
“I have formed certain tenta
tive ideas of my own about the
explosion but I am not prepared
to say what they are,” he told
newsmen. “Sabotage is not in my
mind but it is one of the pos
sibilities. You cannot rule it out.”
Elson said six of the 16 life
boats were launched from the
Dara shortly after an explosion
below decks as the ship sailed in
the Persian Gulf Saturday morn
ing. The ship sank Sunday despite
efforts to tow it to port.
Because of the flames it was
impossible to get near the other
lifeboats, he said. “I was forced
into the sea because of the deck
burning through under my feet.
I reboarded but was forced off
again. Then I was hit by falling
debris in the sea.
“I reboarded the Dara and was
forced off a third time.”
Later he returned to help fire
fighters.
In London the British India
Steam Navigation Co. announced
revised casualty figures.
The announcement said that
latest reports, though still sub
ject to confirmation, indicated
770 persons were aboard the Dara
as it lay off the Arabian port of
Diabi Saturday. The company said
that 580 had been accounted for,
leaving 190 missing and feared
lost.
Lord Attlee’s Memoirs
Degrade Eisenhower
LONDON (tft — Lord Attlee,
labor leader in Britain’s wartime
government and later Prime Min
ister, now says the Allied Forces
would have been better off under
a British general rather than
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In memoirs published this
week, Attlee said Field Marshal
Lord Alanbrooke, then British
Chief of Staff, would have been ;
better at the job of beating Ger
many. He implied that Eisen
hower got it because an American
had to be chosen and the best
American general was the U. S.
Chief of Staff, George C. Mar
shall.
Said Attlee in a book entitled
“A Prime Minister Remembers.”
“I don’t say that Eisenhower
did not do well but I think Alan
brooke was better.
“I was surprised when the
Americans put in Eisenhower. He
was fairly junior and he’d never
commanded in the field. But it
had to be an American and I sup
pose they thought Marshall was
too important at home. Ike was
a very good fellow; and extremely
good diplomat. The man to get
’em all working together, a man
of courage, who took important
decisions without hesitating. But
not a great soldier, not in any
sense a major strategist. He hadn’t
a very good strategical back
ground or conception.”
Our quotable notables: “All the
discontented people I know,” said
David Grayson, “are trying sedu
lously to be something they are
not, to do something they can
not do.”
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Kennedy-Adenauer Seek
Greater Unity for NATO
WASHINGTON UP> — President
Kennedy and West Germany’s
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to
day discussed ways of achieving
greater unity in the North At
lantic Alliance.
The President and Adenauer
conferred for 90 minutes at the
White House. Also at the meeting
were Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and West Germany’s For
eign Minister, Dr. Heinrich Von
Brentano.
After the session, the first of
what is to be a series of confer
ences, White House Press Sec
retary Pierre Salinger told news
men:
“The talks this morning were
in general a continuation of dis
cussions held between the Chan
cellor and Dean Acheson in Ger
many.”
Acheson, who served as Secre
tary of State in the Truman Ad
ministration, is a Kennedy ad
viser on NATO problems.
Slate Department Apologizes
To Negro Failing to be Served
WASHINGTON (Jf) — The State
Department said Sunday night it
has apologized to Dr. William
Fitzjohn, Charge d’Affairs of
Sierra Leone, who was denied
service in a Maryland restaurant
about a month ago.
A department spokesman said
the Howard Johnson Company,
which operates the restaurant
near Hagerstown, will be asked
to explain what its attitude is
toward the serving of Negroes.
Thought for Today . . .
Progress is a state of human
development where a man pays
a laundry for destroying his shirts
and collars.
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Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crinklaw, Sec.
! Meets First Thursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber op Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
B Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
L E. BOHRER, W. M.
forvin W. Lewis, Sec.
and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Robert Grant
I President
SfeO'frXvl? Dusty Rhode
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Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina Bachelder, President
Jane Poster, Secretary
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Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wra H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
L*.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 165
Meetings - Monthly, Last Tuesday 8 p.m.
Staff Conferences - Each Tuesday 8 pm
Group Hdqtrs. Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones. Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
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