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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 72NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1956 Per Copy—15*
Pravda Complains About
Bureaucratic Red Tape
In Soviet State Machine
LONDON, —Pravda today
complained the Soviet state ma
chine is still too “clumsy and ex
pensive” and called for “an un
relenting war” against bureau
cratic red tape.
The organ of the Soviet Com
munist Party, in an editorial
broadcast by Moscow radio, said
the recent government decrees
handing over fresh responsibilities
to the local union republics is a
“significant” step forward, but
not enough.
“Unfortunately,” Pravda said,
“we still have with us leaders who
* devote their main attention ... to
the compiling of various circulars,
reports, directives and resolutions.
“Such bureaucratic red tape
measures radically contradict the
Leninist principles on how to or
ganize the work of the adminis
trative machine and an unrelent
ing war must be waged against it.”
—
Level of Employment
In Alaska Is Rising;
Less Paid in Benefits
The Employment Security Com
mission reported today that the
employment level is rising in Al
aska and is higher now than it
was last year at this time.
This higher employment trend
is reflected in the increase in pay
roll taxes received by the ESC.
Taxes received for the quarter
ended March 31, 1956, amounted
to $930,000, as Compared with
$787,000 for the same period ot
last year, an increase of 18 per
cent.
The better employment picture,
coupled to the effects of the new
ESC law, has reduced benefit pay
ments. The first 11 months of the j
current benefit year, ending June j
30th. has seen 35 percent less paid j
out to unemployed people than I
during the corresponding 11 j
months of the previous benefit!
year.
Teen-Age Troupe Practices Nightly j
For Will Rogers Jr. TV Show June 2*)
The teen-agers who are to ip
pear on the New York TV show
June 2i ire practicing every night
at the City Hail
The dancers will dance Eskimo
style and then jitterbug to Eskimo
music This was a suggestion of
Sammy Mogg and w under hi*
direction A tape recording made
by Sammy tn 1W3 » being toed
Allan Attatayuk will put on a
* five-minute show of ivory carv
ing. He is preparing a set in se
quence, showing each stage of
carving
The troupe hopes to attend a
major league baseball game while
tn New York A tour of the United
Nations Building and the Statue
of Liberty is planned also
The committee u open to any
suggestion as to what the kids
thou Id see
Don Alder of Pan American
Airway* is planning publicity fur
the troupe at every stop. Any
persons planning a vacation are
Conferees Agree
To Include Alaska
In Road Aid Bill
WASHINGTON —House-Sen
ate conferees on the Federal High
way Aid Bill have agreed to a
Senate amendment to include Al
aska within the program.
The acceptance was reported by
Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) and Dele
gate Bartlett <D-Alaska).
Neuberger said he was advised
the conferences included Alaska
on the basis proposed in an
amendment which he sponsored
in the Senate.
Under this procedure, Alaska
would receive $11,456,000 in fed
eral money in the year beginning
July 1, 1957. Based on estimated
population increases, this would
increase to $15,657,000 in 1969.
Highway conferees are expected
to meet again Wednesday to clean
up remaining conflicts. Unless
they reverse their present stand
on Alaska, and if the report is
accepted /by the House and Senate,
it would mean the beginning of a
solid long-range highway program
for the territory.
Alaska now receives its high
way money in direct appropria
tions from Congress. Under this
system, the amounts have fluctu
ated from as much as $27 mil
lion in 1951 to as little as $4 mil
lion in 1947.
William Holden Unable
To Get Soviet Visa
BERGEN, Norway, Holly
wood star William Holden says he
hasn’t been able to get a visa to
visit the Soviet Union,
The actor, winding up a vaca
tion tour in Europe, said he was
promised the visa “in February,
but it did not appear. Then I was
referred to Stockholm, but I didn't
get it there, eithtr,"
Holden came to Norway instead,
U> fish for salmon and to look
around. So far the only salmon
he*s seen has been kippered.
invited to join the troupe on their
trip in the hope this will make
tor more publicity for Nome.
The troupe will take many sou
venirs of Alaska with them to
display on the show. Items such
as mukluks. jade and ivory carv
ings and jewelry are desired for
the display.
•Mrs Virginia Brown has invited
Sgt Richard August to bring the
troupe to the Theater Tuesday
evening to see "The Will Rogers
Story " The lead is played by Will
Rogers Jr , who is master of cere
monies on the "Good Morning
51ww" on which they youngsters
from Nome will appear
The committee said donation*
for the TV trip .ire ctmu. i m vary
slowly Anyone wishing to donate
may give the contribution to Sgt
August or leave it at the Polite
Station. A financial statement of
complete funds will he published
; in Wednesday's edition of the
t Nugget.
Manson-Osberg To
Build “White Alice’
Kotzebue Facilities
ANCHORAGE—'Manson-Osberg
Co., Seattle, has been awarded a
defense contract totaling $1,706,
500 for the construction of White
Alice facilities for the Air Force
at Kotzebue and Fort Yukon, it
has been announced by the Alaska
District Corps of Engineers.
The work at both sites is simi
lar and involves the construction
of foundations and erection of
towers, construction of equipment
buildings, drilling water wells and
construction of pumphouses, in
stallation of water and sewer lines
and grading and building access
roads.
The Kotzebue station must be
completed by Jan. 12, 1957; the
Fort Yukon project by June 1957.
The White Alice projects are
part of the microwave communi
cation system being constructed
for the Air Force to support the
DEW Line.
Nixon, and Dulles
Confer in Hospital
With Eisenhower
No Discussion of
Presidential Race
WASHINGTON OP—’Vice Presi
dent Nixon conferred with Presi
dent Eisenhower at Walter Reed
Hospital today but reported there
was absolutely no discussion of
whether Eisenhower intends to
remain in the presidential race.
Nixon told a news conference
after the visit that Eisenhower
will “speak for himself” in an
swer to the big question when he
feels the time is right.
Secretary of State Dulles also
visited Eisenhower.
The vice president saw Eisen
hower first, spending about 15
minutes with him. Then they were
joined by Dulles for about five
minutes for a discussion, but it
had no relation to politics.
After the joint conference, Dul
les was alone with Eisenhower for
about 10 minutes on v/hat White
House Press Secretary Hagerty
described as “State Department
mailers."
The President’s doctors issued a
morning medical bulletin before
he received Nixon and Dulles It
said he now weights 162 pounds—
seven pound* less than when he
wa« admitted to the hoe pita l June
g lor an emergency operation.
The bulletin also said he nad
**a good night s rest” with almost
hours of continuous sleep,
continues to progress satisfactorily
and “is ui good spirits.”
Eisenhower remained in bed
while talking with Nixon and
Dulles. Shortly before they ar
rived. he had taken walking ex- j
erctses in the room
After the conference with Nix
on and Dulles, the President spent
20 minutes handling a variety of
government business with Ms
chtet side. Sherman Adams, and
other White House staffer*
Marking another milestone in
the PiesaJtrfit’s recovery, his doc
tors removed the skin stitches
from his utcisson today
12-Year-0 Id Boy Held for Savage
Attack and Strangulation of Girl, 1
-'
Forest Fire Traps
19 British Soldiers
Hunting Rebels
NICOSIA, Cyprus, WV—Nineteen
British soldiers, engaged in a man
hunt for Greek Cypriot rebels
chiefs in the Troodos Mountains,
were trapped by a forest fire yes
terday and lost their lives, British
authorities announced today.
Eighteen others were injured,
some of them seriously, when a
sudden shift of wind blew the fire
at high speed toward the troops.
Many young servicemen were
injured when the blaze caught
their vehicles and the fuel tank
blew up.
About 2,000 British troops had
been engaged in an extensive op
eration in the area for several
days, seeking to close in on George
Grivas, the former Greek army
colonel the British say leads the
terrorist rebel organization Eoka
under the name of “Dighenis."
The British believed they were
about to close the net on Grivas
and 10 other Eoka leaders who
want union with Greece when a
forest fire broke out.
The rebel campaign resulted in
the first death of an American
Saturday'night. U.S. Vice Consul
William P. Boteler, 26, of Wash
ington, D.C., was killed by two
bombs tossed into a restaurant in
Nicosia.
Alaska Gets $15,000 for
Wildlife Reservations
WASHINGTON. <*—'The Inter
ior Department announced today
the allotment of $2,693,493 to the
48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands for
wildlife reservations. Alaska got
$15,000.
Secretary Seaton explained i,he
distribution involves one-fifth of
an accumulated appropriations
backlog totaling $13,467,468.
The backlog was built up from
1939 to 1946, when Congress did
not appropriate yearly the full
receipts from the 11 percent ex
cise tax on sporting arms and am
munition, as authorized the Pitt
man -Robei Ison Act. World War II
took place during this period. \
Ford Foundation Sending
Checks for $26 .Million
To 959 Hospitals
NEW YORK. The Ford
Foundation says checks totaling
$26,080,200 are being mailed this
week to 959 hospitals in the Unit
ed States, Alaska, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico.
The payments are part of $200
million m hospital grants ap
proved by the foundations trus
tees last December Piymenii
totaling $68 million dollars were
man* to 2,000 hospitals m April
and May
The foundation said yesterday
it hopes all eligible hospitals will
have received one half of their
grants by July 31 The remaining
half will be paid in March 1867,
► SEATTLE, tiP—A 12-yea r-old
boy, plucked by police from a pic
nic excursion bus, calmly con
fessed to police last night the
strangulation slaying of 4Vz-year
old Kathryn Ruoff, the daughter
of State Rep. Richard Ruoff.
The little girl’s violated body, a
green and white playsuit stuffed
in the mouth, had been found only
a few hours earlier under the
floorboards of an old, unused gar
age near her home. She had been
missing since Saturday.
Ray John Barker, one of sever
al youngsters who used the garage
as a clubhouse, was taken into
custody by police as the excursion
bus arrived back in town.
The boy was taken to police
headquarters where at first he
stolidly refused to answer ques
tions put to him by Detective Her
bert Swindler. Then, pointblank,
Swindler asked:
“You killed her, didn’t you."
After a short pause, Swindler
said the boy replied with no show
of emotion:
“Yes.”
Swindler quoted the boy as say
ing in a signed confession that he
met the little girl at a street cor
ner near her home Saturday and
followed her when she turned into
an alley and went into the aban
doned gagare.
Young Barker, who lives with
his mother, Mrs. Carmi Meske, a
few blocks from the Ruoff home,
told Swindler:
“I choked the little girl. I don’t
know why I did it.”
He admitted abusing the girl
sexually. He was held without
charge.
The youth was one of a number
of boys his own age who used the
garage as a clubhouse. When the
police discovered that fact, they
painstakingly started a thorough
check on all the boys who were
known members of the club.
Tonsina Arrives
With 3.000 Tons
Cargo For Nome
C7
The M S. Tonsma arrived Nome
yesterday afternoon with approxi
mately 3,000 tons of freight for
Nome including two new barges
and tanks for Lomen Commercial
Co. and also 38 can and trucks.
Some of the Nome freight was
contained in 321 onto*.
The barges were set on duds
on the after deck of the vessel
and after cargo and ballast was
shifted to make it tilt, Lomen
tugs pulled the barges Into the
water. Unfortunately this unload
ing operation wm done «o the
side away from the beach so
that townspeople could not sec it
from shore
The Tonsina will be discharging
here for about a week, then rt will
proceed to St, Michael, due there
about June 25 Then it will go to
UnaiakV-et on June 2S and to Tai
ter about July 2nd It will pro
[ coed from Tetter to Bristol Ba>
to load the salmon pack from mat
I area.