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VOL. LVI'I No. 68 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 8, 1955 Per Copy—15^
2 More Remote Stations
Added to Alaska Chain
Of Defense Installations
Two more complete military in
stallations are being added to the
chain of seven U.S. Air Force sta
tions on which construction is
■planned to start this summer, the
Alaska District Corps of Engi
neers announced last week.
Located at isolated points strung
across the territory, construction
on the nine remote stations prob
ably will run around $25,000,000,
Col. Carl Y. Farrell, Alaska dis
trict engineer, said.
The latest installations in the
defense network are:
Indian Mountain Air Force Sta
tion, located near the small settle
ment of Hughes in the interior;
Sparrevohn Air Force Station,
back of the Cairn Mountains in
the south central interior.
Jet Passengers
Will Cross UJ5.
In 11 2 Hours
SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
The Douglas Aircraft Co. plans a
jet transport designed to cross the
, United States in 4Vz hours and |
span the Atlantic in 6V£ hours.
The jet-powered DC-8 will be
in the air by December, 1957,
Donald W. Douglas, president of
the company, said Tuesday. He
said deliveries to airlines should
begin in 1959.
Douglas termed it America’s
first jet transport designed for
passenger service. He said that it
would carry 80 to 125 passengers
at top speeds in excess of 550
miles per hour.
Drawings of the d£-8 show a
sleek liner with four jet pods
mounted below the swept-back
wing, which will be 134.6 feet
wide. The transport will be six
feet longer than its wingspread.
The DC-8 will be nearly 200
miles an hour faster than the pro
pellor-driven DC-7 “Seven Seas”
model.
New Car-Plane
To Be Tested
EMPORIA, Va., 141—Charles
Pritchard, a railroader by profes
sion, is set to try out. Friday a
wingless aircraft he developed be
cause he remembers “once when
I had to walk five miles from an
airport to town.” He says he’s
worked “to develop something
like this for 10 years for air travel
and highway travel.”
The craft looks something like
a plane—minus the wings. The
“rocket air ship,” as Pritchard
calls it, is 21 feet long 98 inches
wide, weighs about 800 poijnds.
He figures the craft can be taxied
on roadways.
The body of the plane is made
entirely of aluminum. Each side
has baffles (or fins) of varying
length. From a technical stand
point, Pritchard points out the
fins “hold air in the proper chan
el over the hull of the ship to give
the hull its lift.”
$200,000 May Push
N ome-F air hanks
Road 35 Miles
JUNEAU—A half million dollars
in road expenditures for the Nome
and Fairbanks area was decided
upon here last week at the con
clusion of a four-day session of
the Territorial Board of Road
Commissioners.
The sum of $250,000 for each
division of the territory was
loaned to the road agency by theJ
legislature in its last session for
development of trunk roads. The
funds were to be repaid out of
gas taxes.
With divisional representatives
for the First and Third Divisions
unable to attend, earmarking of
trunk road monies was limited to
the Nome and Fairbanks areas
until the next meeting schedule
at Nome in June.
At Nome, the 17 miles of what
is known as the Nome Trunk Line,
reaching back from the beach into
the hills for the beginning of what
Seward Peninsula residents hope
will one day be a highway to Fair
banks, is to be extended as far as
$200,000 will permit.
If all goes well, Highway Engi
neer Irving McK. Reed hopes the
$200,000 will extend the Nome
road to 35 miles.
Another $50,000 will be used
for work on a projected road from
Nome to Teller.
Nike Guided Missile
Proved Successful in
Adverse Weather Tests
OTTAWA, (#!—Canadian army
headquarters reported today that
subarctic tests had proved the
Nike, ground-to-air guided missile
developed in the U-S., is success
ful in the most severe weather.
The Nike is designed to locate
and destroy enemy aircraft by
means of an electronic brain.
Six months of tests were con
ducted near Churchill, Man., on
the western shore of Hudson Bay
by Canadian artillery and engi
neer personnel. Previously, the
missile was tested in New Mexico.
The army said the northern
tests were aimed at determining
the Nike’s performance in low
temperatures and whether it
would require modification in
such conditions.
Coonskin Cap Craze
Causes Wild Coon Chase
MT. CLEMENS, Mich., (^—Po
lice here are wondering whether
the ’coonskin cap craze among
smallfry hasn’t gone too far.
Two patrolmen were summoned
at midnight to the home of a wo
man who reported a boy in a
brown sweater and wearing a
Davy Crockett hat had climbed a
tree in her yard and hadn’t come
down.
The policemen called up the
darkened tree. They got no re
sponse. They summoned firemen.
A fireman climbed a ladder to
the top of the tree.
Down came the fireman with
this report:
A raccoon was sleeping in the
top branches.
CAA Officials Say No
Funds Available For
Nome Field Repairs
A special meeting of CAA
heads, here to look over the Nome
airport, and members of the Board
of Directors of the Chamber of
Commerce was held yesterday
morning at the MMM Hospital.
In the official CAA party were
D.D. Thomas, director of Federal
Airways; D.F. King, chief of the
Planning Division from Washing
j ton, D.C.; A1 Hulen, regional ad
ministrator; Frank Newman, de
puty administration from Anchor
age, and J.C. Hooper, CAA chief
of plants and structures.
The group is on a two weeks
survey of the territory to deter
mine the needs of the area. A sur
vey crew is also at Nome Field
and is headed by Cliff Isberg who
will determine what has to be
done and how the field is to be
repaired. It was explained that
until now the Air Force has Jiad
charge of the field and the CAA
has had only the maintenance.
It was stated that the CAA now
holds a lease until 1999.
Spokesmen for the party ex
plained to the Chamber board
that they cannot promise any
thing until the survey is com
pleted and that they know of no
emergency funds on hand to make
immediate repairs.
Also in the party but not at
the meeting were:
H.E. Matz; E.C. Rogers, deputy
chief of flight inspection; H. S.
Chandler, deputy chief of air
ways operations; Guy Dorsey,
deputy chief of personnel, all of
Washington. D.C.
From Anchorage were Gerald
Whittaker, chief of airways oper
ations, and Jack Jefford, chief of
flight inspection division.
11th Judicial Circuit
Would Serve Alaska
WASHINGTON (^—Creation of
an lilth judicial circuit with head
quarters at Seattle was suggested
today as an answer to mounting
court burdens in the Pacific
Northwest.
Sens. Magnuson and Jackson,
Washington Democrats, proposed
a bill to authorize the new circuit.
The four-judge bench would
have jurisdiction in Alaska, Idaho,
Montana, Oregon and Washington.
The four states and Alaska are
now part of the 9th Judicial Cir
cuit Court of Appeals at San
Francisco which also includes
California, Nevada, Arizona, Ha
waii and Guam.
Gull-Like Bird Banded In
U.S. Is Caught In Japan
SENDAI, Japan, (ffi — To the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Washington:
You are hereby notified that
flabbergasted Japanese fishermen
have found a metal ring on the
leg of a big gull-like bird cap
tured in the Pacific about 50 miles
off Japan over the weekend.
The ring bore the inscription
“Notify Fish & Wildlife Service,
Washington, D.C.” Prof. Masa
kichi Hatanaka of Tohoku Uni
versity said he never had heard
of a bird flying all the way from
the United States.
Reds Invite Adena
Eisenhower Sure
Stand With W<
Von der Heydt Will
Represent 2nd Division
On Bar Assn. Board
J U N E A U—Alaskan attorneys
who will make up the first gov
erning board of the Alaska Bar
Assn, created by the 22nd Legis
lature, were announced last Sat
urday by the Alaska Bar Commis
sion.
First Division members named
to the -association’s governing
board are Norman Banfield and
M. E. Monagle of Juneau, and
Charles Cloudy of Ketchikan.
Second Division: James A. von
der Heydt, of Nome, who is the
only attorney in the Second Divi
sion and is automatically entitled
to membership on the board.
Third Division: John Connolly,
Edward V. Davis, and George
Grigsby.
Fourth Division: Julien Hurley
and Charles J. Clasby.
The commission was set up by
the legislative act to promulgate
rules for the election of the board
members, conducting the election
and canvassing the returns.
Thousands Idle in
Wildcat Walkouts;
Deadline Sunday
(By the Associated Press)
Wildcat walkouts idled thou
sands of General Motors workers
in several cities today, highlight
ing developments on the nation’s
busy labor scene.
While General Motors negotia
tors were believed drafting a new
wage offer in Detroit, crippling
walkouts hit GM plants in Cleve
land, Linden, N.J. and St. Louis.
A wildcat work stoppage also
plagued Ford’s giant Rouge plant
at Dearborn, Mich.
The Ford and GM walkouts
idled more than 52,000.
Elsewhere, there were these la
bor developments:
L The CIO United Steelworkers
began pushing their demands for
a “substantial wage increase”
through the steel industry. Nego
tiators sat down in Pittsburgh
with representatives of Bethle
hem Steel Corp., the nation’s sec
ond largest producer.
2. The Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen announced in Chicago
it will demand a $2.50 across-the
board daily wage increase for its
215,000 members. Present scales
range from $13.45 per day for
passenger brakemen to $19.07
for footboard yardmasters.
3. The CIO-UAW disclosed in
Chicago it will seek the guaran
teed annual wage for some 60,000
members in the farm equipment
and other industries in Illinois
and Indiana.
The strike deadline at General
Motors has been moved up to
Sunday midnight while negotia
tions continue on UAW demands
for a guaranteed annual wage.
t
uer to Moscow;
: Chancellor Will
jst in Any Meeting
t WASHINGTON, GR—President
Eisenhower said today he has the
utmost confidence that West Ger
many’s Chancellor Adenauer will
stand by the Western world in,
any dealings with Soviet Russia.
Eisenhower volunteered the re
mark at his news conference in
taking note of Moscow’s bid for
establishment of diplomatic and
trade relations with the newly
sovereign Republic of West Ger
many. The Kremlin yesterday in
vited Adenauer to visit Moscow
to discuss those matters.
Eisenhower said it is only nat
ural Russia would extend such an
invitation, in view of what the
President termed recent develop
ments in western Europe.
The invitation, Eisenhower said,
seems to him to be a logical ges
ture on the part of Russia. He
added the decision whether Aden
auer accepts is one which must
be made exclusively by West Ger
many.
Manpower Reserve
The President spoke out em
phatically against adding anti
segregation amendments to ad
ministration legislation to create
a new military manpower reserve
program. Such an amendment was
tacked onto the bill in the House
and the action caused the measure
to be sidetracked a few weeks
ago.
Eisenhower said he is hopeful
the Senate will be able to take the
initiative on the bill if the stale
mate in the House cannot be
broken.
Big Four
Eisenhower said he certainly
would not insist on limiting any
“at the summit” Big Four meet
ing to three or four days, as he
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Sights Lowered in
Vaccine Program
WASHINGTON, I* — Surgeon
General Leonard A. Scheele con
firmed last night that it probably
will not be possible to inoculate
all children aged 1-19 against po
! lio this summer, as originally
hoped.
“Making and testing vaccine is
a difficult and delicate process,”
Scheele said in a nationwide ra
dio-TV report on the Salk vaccine
situation. “You can’t make virus
es meet deadlines. You cannot
force scientific work to meet dates
on a calendar. And it must be
kept in mind that the entire proc
ess of manufacturing a batch of
vaccine takes about 90 days.
“This is a reason why we can.
give you no precise estimates of
how much vaccine will be avail
able at any given time.”
Stressing that the government
policy is “safety, not speed, ex
cept as the latter is compatible
with safety,” Scheele told of the
studies which led to adoption on
May 27 of revised manufacturing
| and testing standards.
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