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VOL. LVII No, 42NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1955 , , Per Copy— 15<t
POPE PIUS WAVES
HIS BLESSINGS TO
PRE-EASTER CROWDS
VATICAN CITY (^—Framed in
his studio window, 79-year-old
Pope Pius XII today raised his
arms in blessing over a vast pre
Easter crowd jamming St. Peter’s
Square.
The tens of thousands massed
in the bright sunshine knelt when
the ^rvhite-robed pontiff appeared
and gave his blessing.
Then, rising, they cheered and
applauded until he returned and
stood in sight for three or four
minutes, repeatedly raising his
arms in benediction.
It was one of the largest crowds
that has seen the Pope since he
was forced to cancel general aud
iences because of serious illness
last December.
More than 100,000 thronged
through St. Peter’s, the world’s
largest church, for the Good Fri
day rites commemorating the
death of Christ on the cross. The
basilica holds 40,000, and continu
ous services throughout the morn
ing were packed.
House Group Sees
Morningside San.
Before Hearing
PORTLAND, (jP)—A three-mem
ber House subcommittee inspected
Morningside Hospital here yester
day in connection with a hearing
scheduled for April 20 on bills af
fecting care of Alaska’s mentally
ill.
At present some 360 Alaska pa
tients are cared for at Morning
side, a private hospital, under a
contract with the Interior Dept.
The subcommittee will consider
legislation authorizing construc
tion of a mental hospital in Alaska
and setting up new commitment
procedures.
On the subcommittee are Reps.
Westland (R-Wash) and Green (D
Ore) and Delegate Bartlett (D-Al
aska). They are accompanied on
the inspection by Dr. Henry G.
Schumacher, mental health con
sultant with the regional Public
Health Service office in San Fran
cisco; George Abbot, committee
counsel, and Melvin Murphy, ex
ecutive director of the Mental
Health Assn, of Oregon.
Alaska’s mentally ill have been
cared for at Morningside since
1904.
$5,000,000 ALLOTED
FOR DUST DAMAGE
WASHINGTON, (#— President
Eisenhower Thursday allotted five
million dollars emergency funds
to deal with dust storm damage
in seven states.
The states are Colorado, Kan
sas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tex
as, Nebraska and Wyoming.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, announced that
the President is earmarking the
five million dollars from his dis
aster relief fund pending congres
sional action on an administra
tion request for $15 million to
deal with windstorm darage.
| Prizes Raised in
Dog Team Races;
Kids to Race Also
The Easter Dog Race scheduled
for Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock
and starting in front of the Fire
Station has seven entries to date.
They are: William Nelson, Paul
Kakarak, Pete Larsen Sr., Ralph
Olanna, Ben Herfnan, Clifford
Attatayak, Franklin Okitkan.
Rules and regulation are the
same as those that governed last
week’s race but due to the gener
ostiy of the merchants, the prizes
have been increased.
First prize will be $60; second
$40; third $25 and fourth $15.
The trail to Nome River is re
ported to be in excellent condi
tion and a good race is promised,
.stated Arctic Club officials who
are sponsoring the event although
I the merchants are putting up the
cash for prizes.
Following the dog race, chil
I dren’s one-dog sled and one-dog
ski races will be held on Front
Street. %
Three prizes will be awarded
in each event: $5, $3, and $2 and
the children who plan to enter are
reqeusted to register at the Nome
Builders. No one will be allowed
to race unless they register.
Entries so far are: Wayne Rus
| sell with Prince, Dorothy Russell
I with Frosty, and Lurisse Lowe
, with Pasquale.
Coast Survey Vessel Will
Chart Alaskan Waters
j SAN FRANCISCO, (/Pi—The Geo
j detic Survey vessel Bowie, es
i pecially equipped for charting the
I marginal seas, departed Wednes
! day for a six-month cruise of Al
askan waters.
Cmdr. Hermann C. Applequist,
25-year veteran of the Coast
Guard’s Coastal Survey Service,
is commander. He said the ship’s
principal work would be charting
and rechecking sea lanes for com
mercial vessels.
,
' Seafarers Vote 4 to 1
For Affiliation With
Lundeberg AFL Unions
SAN FRANCISCO, W—Climax
j ing a four-year fight for control
i over seagoing cooks and stewards,
I unlicensed seafarers voted nearly
| 4 to 1 for affiliation with Harry
Lundegerg’s AFL unions rather
than with Harry Bridges’ inde
pendent longshoremen.
Lundeberg’s union hailed the
result as meaning “the last finger
hold of organized Communism on
American ships has been smashed
i and broken.”
Bridges’ union, ousted from the
CIO for left-wing tendencies, pre
pared to challenge the election in
higher courts.
The vote was another stride in
the Norwegian-born Lundeberg’s
drive for control over all unli
censed maritime personnel on the
West Coast. Eighteen months ago
he had jurisdiction only over the
sailors. For 15 years he had been
at grips with Australian-born
Bridges.
Eskimo Dancers to
Welcome Visitors
Easter Weekend
About seventy-five tourists are
scheduled to visit Nome for the
Easter weekend. One group will
arrive today and stay overnight.
Special entertainment is being
arranged by the Polaris Hotel
with Eskimo dances this evening
at 8:30 to which the public is
invited. This dance will be held
in the Polaris.
Tomorrow evening Eskimo
dances will be held at the Rioneer
Hall, stated Tom Martin, who is
making the arrangements, as there
will be too many guests for the
Polaris. He states that the public
is invited to come and there will
be no charge. The time scheduled
is 9 p.m.
Tours have been planned for all
three groups and dog rides or fish
ing if desired.
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U. S. Antarctic Expedition Being
Planned for 1956-58 by Navy and '
Scientists for Study & Observation
WASHINGTON, —A year of
construction work and another
two years of scientific observa
tions in the antarctic lie ahead for
the Navy and civilian scientists.
Detailed plans were announced
by the Navy yesterday for the
three-year expedition which will
be under general supervision of
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd,
retired. The extent of Byrd’s ac
tual participation in the project
remained uncertain.
One main observation post is to
be built next year and two others,
one as near the South Pole as pos
sible, are to be constructed later.
Both ships and planes will carry
men and supplies to the area.
Capt. George Dufek will com
mand a task force of five Navy
ships—two ice breakers, two car
go ships, and an oiler—which will
i set out late this year and arrive in
the antarctic in January 1956.
This task force will start con
struction of a base camp and one
snow runway, unload masses of
supplies, and start back a month
later. A group of 121 officers and
men, including a group of special
trained Seabees, will remain there
to complete this work.
The first planes will fly in
j October 1956, and the Seabees
| will set up the other two observa
tion posts. The construction crews
will be flown out then, and the
civilian scientists will be flown in.
The first group of scientists will
leave this country in November
1956, in the second of four round
trips the Navy will make during
the three-year expedition. The
work will continue until early in
1959.
$2,000,000 Taken From General Fund
For Unemployment Security Fund
Eisenhower Believes
:
Military Secrets Have
Been Published in U.S.
WASHINGTON, Uh—'The White
i House said today President Eisen
j hower believes “technical military
secrets” have been made available
“to the enemy” through publica
tion of such information in this
country.
James C. Hagerty, presidential
press secretary, told newsmen
Eisenhower is disturbed about* the :
situation.
Hagerty declined, however, to
discuss the question of whether
Eisenhower’s views are related to
new Defense Dept, information
control directives put into effect
last week by Secretary of Defense
Wilson.
Hagerty said he was not gding
to discuss the situation in the
Pentagon.
Hagerty was asked at a news
conference for comment on a New
York Herald Tribune story saying
the President “is deeply concerned
over what he regards as an exces
sive flow of military information
from this country to the Soviet
Union.”
BIRD AND TRUCK REVIVE
MEDFIELD, Mass., (j¥>—Ernest
Simpson opened the hood of his
pickup truck when it wouldn’t
start yesterday—and found an ap
| parently dead rooster.
He removed the rooster and the
engine started up. A few moments
later the rooster also revived.
Governor’s Bid
For ESC Loan j
Turned Down
WASHINGTON, OP—Governor
Heinztleman of Alaska wired the
Labor Dept, yesterday requesting
a $3,466,000 loan for the territory’s
empty Unemployment Compensa
tion Fund. The request was turned
I down.
Secretary Mitchell replied the
loan could not be granted now in
asmuch as Atty. Gen. Brownell
ruled there is no legal basis for
Alaska to obtain such a loan from
the department’s Unemployment
Trust Fund.
The trust fund is used to pro
vide loans without interest to de
pleted state unemployment funds.
Brownell ruled last week, how
ever, that Alaska’s Organic Act
prohibits the territory from such
a loan.
Mitchell told fh« governor the
department would have no objec
tion to the territory transferring
two million dollars from its Gen
eral Funds to meet unemployment
claims. The secretary said he un
derstood such a transfer is pro
posed in legislation introduced in
the territorial legislature.
Legislation to authorize Alaska
to borrow from the Federal Trust
Fund has been introduced in Con
gress.
By BOB KEDERICK
I JUNEAU, Ufi—A Good Friday
| adjournment of the special ses
I sion of the Alaska legislature was
arranged for 10 a.m. today, on the
12th overtime day.
Late yesterday, both House and
Senate approved a free confer
ence committee report authoriz
ing the transfer of two million
dollars from the territorial Gen
eral Fund to the empty Unem
ployment Security Fund. The
measure, final major one of the
session, was then sent to Gov.
i Heintzleman.
The amount sought was origin
| ally a million dollars but it was
j doubled, spokesmen explained, to
I carry the fund over until the ex
j pected passage by Congress of a
law to allow a federal loan.
The House vote was 20 to 1,
with only Speaker Wendell Kay
opposed, but before the vote, sev
eral Democrats severely criticized
both the measure and the gov
ernor.
The hour set for adjournment
was the deadline placed by the
i governor in his final extension of
| the special session last week.
The lawmakers also acted on
several minor measures Thursday
President Preference Primary
One, introduced in both of the
branches and quickly passed all
in one day, was a bill setting up
a presidential preference primary
for Alaska. Rep. Richard Greuel,
j sponsor, said it would perhaps
encourage presidential candidates
to visit Alaska during their cam
paigns and put Alaska more in
the national spotlight around the
time of election.
The House declined, however,
on a 13 to 5 vote, to override the
governor’s veto of a bill whieh
would have exempted heavy con
struction equipment from the mo
tor vehicle license tax. A two
thirds majority of the 24 mem
bers had to approve.
In the debate on the unemploy- ^
ment security loan, Democratic
spokesmen charged that Gov.
Heintzleman solicited Atty. Gen.
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!
Sally Carrighar Leaves
To Work In Fairbanks
Sally Carrighar, who has made
her residence here for the past
two years, writing about Alaska
and Alaskans, has sold her home
to Jim von der Heydt and leaves
today for Fairbanks where she
will continue her writing.
Miss Carrighar states that she
plans to return and that she has
enjoyed making Nome her home.
She is at present working on an
other Alaskan book that requires
her full time and she finds house
keeping problems distracting. She.
said she intends to return when,
she has more leisure time.
■ The current issue of Saturday
Evening Post has an excellent
article by Miss Carrighar on how
to understand animals and be un
derstood by them. It is illustrated
with a fine picture of her.
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