22E NOME NUGGET
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VOL. LIX NO. t9_ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1957 = Per Copy-45^
Three High School Seniors Awarded
Total of Over $1,450 in Scholarships
Last evening at the Commence
ment exercises of the Nome High
School, Barbara Trigg was award
ed three scholarships—the Gal
vin, Lomen, and Marguerite Gla
vinovich Memorial Scholarships—
or a total of $1,250 toward her
first year of college at the Uni
versity of Alaska.
Paul Glavinovich received the
University of Alaska Room Schol
arship and Stanley Senungetuk
a $200 scholarship from the Col
lege of Puget Sound.
Speaker for the ceremony was
Boyd Harwood, who stressed the
importance and need in Alaska
for leadership in this future state.
Harwood cautioned the gradu
ates to use their education wisely
and advocated the following test
for their guidance: “Is it the
truth? Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build good will and better
friendship? Will it be beneficial
to all concerned?”
Paul Glavinovich. son of Carl
Glavinovich, was valedictorian of
the Class of 1957, and Stanley Se
nungetuk, son of Mr. and Mrs. j
Willie Senungetuk, was saluta- !
torian.
Other members of the class are j
Charles W. Fagerstrom, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Fager- ]
strom; Madeline Mogg, daughter]
of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mogg; and
Barbara Trigg, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerome Trigg.
Diplomas were presented to the
graduates by School Board Presi
dent Ben Young, who also pre
sented certificates to a class of
THAT'S LUCK
DALLAS, GP>—Mrs. Mamie Kir
by discovered five long-forgotten
four-leaf clovers in her home,
then went to see the Dallas Eagles j
play San Antonio in a Texas
League baseball game.
“I thought the clovers might
bring luck,” she said.
Dallas won the game 2-0, but
someone stole Mrs. Kirby’s car
while she watched.
37 eighth grade students.
Graduating from the eighth
grade were Roberta Apok, Laura
Atuk, James B. Bell, Fritz Roy
Carlson, Myrtle M. Chambers,
David Henry Davis, Allan Grant
Doyle Jr., Clarice Hardy, John K.
Herman, Edna Christine Johnsen,
Augustine Kasgnac, Douglas Ehr
ich Lee, Mary Jeanne Longley.
William T. Muller, Charlie J.
Nershak, Robert C. Oksoktaruk,
Maggie Fanek, Dorothy Marie
Russell, Sig W. Savok, Lola Louise
Sheldon, Claudia Jeanne Straub,
Mary Ann Tocktoo, Ruth K.
Towner, Mina A. Tungwenuk,
Bertha Iokienna, Hilda James,
Billy Joe, Carolyn Johnson, Fran
ces Johnson, Juliana Kunnuk,
Mary Mayac, Stella Moto, Lois
Okitkon, Vivian Oxereok, Audy
Peterson, Monica Pullock, Isaac
Tingook.
Britain Continues
H-Tests Despite
Japan’s Protests
LONDON, UPi—Britain told Ja- j
pan today its nuclear tests in the j
Pacific will continue but promised j
to weigh any claims for damages
or losses caused by the bomb
blast.
The British replied immediate
ly to a protest note delivered by
Ambassador Haruhiko Nishi ex
pressing the “regret” of the To
kyo government at the explosion
of Britain’s first hydrogen bomb
in the Pacific Wednesday.
The Japanese note reserved the
right of the Tokyo government to
claim compensation if Japanese
citizens suffer damages or loss.
A Foreign Office spokesman
recalled that Prime Minister Mac
Millan served notice in the House
of Commons yesterday that Brit
ain will continue its nuclear tests.
Britain had rejected two earlier
Japanese requests that the bomb
tests be called off.
Bartlett Hopeful That $10 Million
Will Be Restored to Statehood Bill
WASHINGTON, UP)—Delegate
Bartlett said yesterday he is hope
ful that $10 million—or “at least
$7ti> million”—will be restored to
the Alaska Statehood Bill for land
surveys before congressional ac
tion on the measure is ended.
He made the statement in com
menting on action of the House
Territories Subcommittee, which
yesterday cut $93 million in auth
orizations from the bill now be
fore it.
Chairman O’Brien (D-NY) told
newsmen yesterday he believed
the action would result in making
the bill stronger when it goes to
the House floor. Bartlett agreed
with O’Brien’s analysis but said
he regretted loss of the entire
authorization for land surveys
needed by Alaska.
The committee’s action deleted
$15 million for river and harbor
projects and Land surveys, and
$78 for road construction and
maintenance.
The Alaskan delegate said ac
tion in cutting the road money
will leave Alaska under existing
provisions of the Federal High
way Aid Act.
Under the program, in which
Alaska-was included last year for
the first time, Bartlett said the
state would not receive as much
money for road construction as it
would under the grants, but it
would benefit by being able to
use larger amounts of the high
way aid money for maintenance.
He noted also that the amounts
cut from the <bill were simple
authorizations—“and there’s a lot
of difference between an authori
zation and an appropriation.”
Nome CAP Cadets Will
Help Fairbanks Celebrate
Armed Forces Day
Civil Air Patrol Cadets are
j busy pressing their uniforms and
polishing their buttons as 22 of
them leave early tomorrow for
Fairbanks to participate in the
Armed Forces Day celebration
there.
An Air Force plane is scheduled
to pick them up early tomorrow
morning and return them to
Nome late tomorrow evening.
The group will be accompanied
by Mrs. Josephine Weyer and
Ike Qbermire.
Russia, West Make
Serious Efforts
At Disarmament
WASHINGTON, UV-Harold E.
I Stassen, returning from London,
I said today that Russia and the
| Western powers are seriously try
ing to negotiate a “partial” dis
armament agreement providing
for a cutback in arms, manpower
! and defense costs, and for an in
j spection system,
j Stassen made clear that the
: “first step” goal in the United
' Nations talks is more than simply
! creating a test zone in which
i there would be international aer
| ial inspection of Soviet and West
ern territories.
He said he would report to Sec
retary of State Dulles but did not
know when he would see Presi
dent Eisenhower or consult with
other top officials.
Stassen’s consultations here are
expected to produce important
new decisions on U.S. policy for
negotiating with the Russians.
The London talks were sus
pended yesterday until May 27.
They involve the United States,
Britain, Russia, Canada, and
France.
.
Big Air Movement of
Alaska School Children
Returns Kids to Homes
JUNEAU, UP>—Alaska’s biggest
air movement of school children
—and probably the biggest the
nation has ever seen—got under
way in Alaska’s panhandle today.
“Operation School’s Out” will
enlist most of the territory’s air
lines in flying 900 Indian and Es
kimo children to their homes
throughout Alaska.
The children are from Wrangell
Institute and Mt. Edgecumbe
School at Sitka. The over-all op
eration will require five days, but
the goal is to get each child home
on the same day he starts—wheth
er it is 15 miles or 1,500 miles.
Basilio Is Still World
Welterweight Champ
PORTLAND, t/P)—Carmen Ba
silio, world welterweight cham
pion, punched out an easy fourth
round victory over ineffective
and out-classed Harold “Baby
Face” Jones here last night.
The referee stopped the fight
at 1:56 of the fourth in the sched
uled 10-round bout. Jones, of De
troit, weighed 150, while the
champ was five pounds over the
welterweight limit at 152.
72 Eskimo Guardsmen Enroute to
California for Volunteer Training
SEATTLE, UP)—Seventy-two
Eskimos from the Alaska Nation
al Guard were southward bound
by tnain to Ft. Ord, Calif., today
after a brief squint at Seattle.
They are volunteers for a six
month Army training stint at the
California post. Seattle was warm
yesterday on their arrival on a
Navy transport but there’s some
hotter weather for them in the
south.
By Umiak From Savoonga
Scouts from St. Lawrence Is
land traveled 60 miles by umiak
from Savoonga to Gambell, then
by plane to the.mainland.
Many are leaving in the midst
of the most important time of
year for .them—the seal, walrus
and whaling season—to take part
in this patriotic venture.
The Scouts will be accompanied
Army Strength
In Alaska Will
Be Reduced
WASHINGTON UP)—The Penta
gon said today there will be a
gradual reduction of Army
strength in Alaska as the forces
now there are reorganized under
the atomic age unit concept.
The Army said that major units
of the 2nd Infastry Division,
which have been in Alaska since
July 1956, will be streamlined
under the “Pentomic” division
plan by June 25. Elements of the
division located in the U.S. will
not undergo the atomic age trans
formation until a later date.
The Army maintains that the
Pentomic division, though small
er in total number of men, has
more fire power and can place
more infantry men on the front
lines than the old division formed
with 3 conventional regiments.
on the 2,500-mile trip by Capt.
Robert D. Ellis, 1st Scout Battal
ion adjutant, and 1st Lt. John C.
Doyle, public information officer
fo^ the Alaska Military Dept, and
Alaska National Guard.
Col. Elvis N. Farmer, acting ad
jutant general of the ANG, and
Major William H. Crawford, com
mander of the 1st Scout Battalion,
will meet the group as it arrives
at Ford Ord.
Love Thai Chow!
Two weeks ago B. S. Lee, 27, of
Shungnak in the deep interior of
Alaska, was sniffing below zero
breezes. He is a fisherman, as are
most of the Guardsmen.
Lee’s job is to report all he
hears and sees on his fishing
rounds to Army radio intelligence
posts. 'He lives in a log cabin
i with his mother and sister in a
! village of 200 people, about 100
miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Lee and his buddies will make
a hit with Army cooks. They like
the chow.
“We especially like to eat in
the mess halls,” he said,
j These are no ordinary soldiers.
Fish is Lee’s usual diet.
Heal "Awful"
Ingram Milton, 19, said the heat
was “awful” since the USNS
James O’Hara left Anchorage
Monday. Milton’s home is on the
Noatak river, closer to the coast.
This is the first trip away from
Alaska for most of the men, altho
many have been in the National
Guard a year or more.
The return trip of the seasoned
soldiers will begin just about the
time the hunting and trapping
season begins.
For the men of St. Lawrence
Island and others from remote
villages, the return trip will in
clude travel by dog sled as well
as train, plane and ship.
Hope Wanes for Saving Boy, 7,
Trapped in 24-Foot Dry Well
MANORVILLE, N Y. (M—Hopes
of saving a seven-year-old boy
trapped more than 16 hours at the
bottom of a 24-foot-deep dry well
virtually flickered out today.
A fireman said the boy, alive
for hours after he fell in, seemed
to be entirely covered with sand.
Rescue workers trying to get to
the boy by digging a horizontal
tunnel were blocked constantly
by sand slides.
“I could only see something
that looks like a root,” s. id J. H.
Warner, a fireman, after peering
into the well with a searchlight
at 11:30 aun.
Warner, one of the hundreds of
rescue workers who had been on
the job throughout the night, said
he had looked into the well at
9:30 last night night and could
then see the red jacket of the boy,
Benjamin Hooper, 7.
Workers who had dug a wide
parallel vertical shaft attempted
to work horizontally toward the
boy by installing a tunnel of cul
vert pipe. But sandslides help up
progress toward the boy.
For hours after he tumbled into
the shaft while playing at 7:30
p.m. yesterday, he talked with
his father and rescue crews. Then
at 2 a.m. today came silence that
could have meant sleep—or suf
focation.
Hundreds of persons gathered
in this central Long Island village
to lend a hand in whatever way
possible.
The well shaft was too narrow
—three feet in diameter at the
top and tapering to a few inches
at the bottom—to permit rescuers
to descend.
The boy tumbled feet first into
the well only five minutes after
his father, a truck driver for the
Brookhaven town highway de
partment, had finished digging it.
There was no water in. it.
“Oh, my God, what have I done
to deserve this?” the father cried.
Unable to reach the boy, he
1 called for help.