^Alaska’s Forests
IWill Put Economy
On ‘Sound Basis’
VICTORIA, B.C., lift—Alaska’s
forests can eventually provide a
“sound basis” for the territory’s
economic development, said Ed
ward Woozley, director of the
Department of the Interior’s Bu
reau of Land Management today.
Woozley, in an address prepared
for the 47th annual Western For
estry Conference, said his bureau
tias the responsibility of adminis
itering some 468 million acres of
the nation’s land, of which 288
million are in the territory.
"Alaska’s unreserved public
land forests provide a promising
pdtential for substantial expan
sion of pulp and paper production,
as well as for saw timber,” he
said. “Adequate hydroelectric
power can be developed near
jnany possible plant sites. And, of
course,' Alaska's tremendous
stfeamflow assures the necessary
•water for pulp and paper proc
essing.’’ .
, More protection is needed
against forest fires, he said. Pro
tective measures have greatly re
duced the 4 to 8 million acres
burned annually over the past 17 ,
years, but “losses are still much
too high.”
Nearly a million acres are still
4abihg blirned over each year, he
said.
SNOW AND HIGH WINDS
HJT PACIFIC NORTHWEST
•SEATTLE. UR—Winter threw a
mantle of white over most of the
Pacific Northwest today and then
ihtffled the cloak of snow with icy !
blasts of arctic air.
jA cold front packing winds up '
tb| 62 miles per hour continued a |
relentless march southward today.
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Doubleheader of
Basketball Played
Tuesday Night
Basketball fans saw two fast
games last night at the school
gym. In the first, the All-Service
Panthers nosed out a hard fight
ing North Star aggregation 52-51.
The North Stars showed up with
some reserve strength and pro
vided tough competition. It was
in the closing seconds of play
that a Panther sunk a foul shot
and put his team in front.
The ACS squad and the Air
Force Panthers have joined forces
and are now known as the All
Service Panthers.
High scorers for the Panthers
were Nestvold 16, Green 10. For
the North Stars, Willy Willoya
15, Caldwell 12, and Ellis and
Norm Atuk 10 each.
In the second game the Nome
High Nanooks showed much pro
mise before going down before
the Polar Hornets 44 to 36. The
Nanooks were slow to get started
but found the range in the third
quarter when they tied the score
at 28-all. However, in the final
quarter the Hornets pulled out
and the fighting high school squad
could* not catch up.
High point men for the Hornets
were Herman 17, Tony Willoya
12, and Dave Bell 11. For the
high schoolers, Kost 14, Titus 8,1
and FagerStrom 7.
No other games will be played j
this week, but on Friday. Dec. j
14, four teams will take to the
hardboards for another evening
of basketball.
Japanese Romeo
Survives Jump
Into Live Crater
TOKYO, W—A desperate Jap
anese romeo crawled to safety
yesterday after spending 15 hours
inside the smouldering crater of
Mt. Mihara, Japan’s suicide moun
tain 50 miles southwest of Tokyo.
His illicit sweetheart was be
lieved dead.
The couple were Tsuenyoshi
Nakashima, 29-year-old farmer
and father of two children, and
Yoshiko Onigata, a 26-year-old
waitress. They decided their love
was hopeless and double suicide
the only way open to them.
They jumped into the smoking
crater at noon Monday. A tourist
who saw them called the police.
Two policemen then were lowered
into the crater and found Naka
shima on a lava cliff 1,800 feet
down. Sulphur fumes and failing
light forced them to leave him
there at nightfall.
Early the following morning the
farmer managed to climb out. He
said he had tried to complete the
suicide but “the faces of my ba
bies loomed in front of my eyes.
I became desperate and madly
scaled the rocks.”
Police said Nakashima would
recover after a month in the hos
pital. Miss Onigata’s body has not
been found.
Nakashima is the second person
this year to escape the crater of
Mt. Mihara. Twenty-two others
have not returned.
Eisenhower Appoints
Douglas MacArthur II
Ambassador to Japan
AUGUSTA, Ga„ UK—President
Eisenhower yesterday chose Doug
las MacArthur II, now a State De
partment counselor, to be ambas
sador to Japan.
MacArthur, a nephew of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, will succeed
John M. Allison in Tokyo. Allison
will return to the United States
for reassignment.
Both MacArthur and Allison
are career diplomats with long
service.
The President, acting at his va
cation headquarters here, gave
MacArthur a recess appointment.
A formal nomination will be sub
mitted to the Senate when Con
gress reconvenes in January.
WIEN AIRLINES
To Fairbanks: H. W. Edwards,
James Donahue, Ronald DeVine,
Paul Shippey, Flora Kigrock, L.
Anseth, R. Hensley, Elton James,
Wbi. Curtis, D. Bennett, B. E.
Russom, James Gray, S. Scroggs,
Hubert Reddick, R. Suess, Robt.
Daffern.
From Kotzebue: Roger Briden
burg, Mabel Dowd, Daniel Soxie.
To Kotzebue: Clifford Jackson,
Merlin Oyoumick.
From Fairbanks: Charles Foltz,
Robt. Fawcett, Leroy Eckhardt,
Robt. Gray, Chas. Arnold, R.
Strickland, Rev. and Mrs. Fred
Vogel, Mary Vogel, Calvin Rotzel.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: David Leonard,
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown, Cliff
Lott, John Norman, James Rodey,
Chas. A. Wilson, Bob Silva, Bert
Connly, Lew Taylor, James P.
McKone, Nancy Goodrich, Wm.
Gates, Mr. and Mrs. Barney
Crosby.
From Anchorage: Norris Swan
son, R.L. Pearce, G. G. Bryant,
Elster Peterson.
From Unalakleet: Andrew Na
shalook, Merlin Oyoumick.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy tonight with oc
casional snow flurries and de
creasing cloudiness and cooler
Thursday. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 10-15 and the
high tomorrow 15-20.
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Interest in Roof Garden
Seen in Anchorage
James von der Heydt, president
of the Nome Bar Assn, and repre
sentative-elect to the Territorial
Legislature, returned Wednesday
from Anchorage, where he attend
ed an important meeting of the
Board of Governors of the Terri
torial Bar Assn.
He reports that considerable in
terest is shown in the Pioneer
Hoof Garden by the people of An
chorage, many of whom signified
their intention to attend.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Carl Adams, Ralph
Late, Collins Avesuk.
Discharged: M. Sonnebom and
infant daughter.
Fine Job Printing a! The Nugget
Academy Award Actor
Borgine Sues Studio for
Understating Film’s Profit
SANTA MONICA, OB—Ernest
Borgnine, Academy Award win
ning actor, has accused Hecht
Lancaster Productions of under
stating the profits of the film
“Marty” by more than $262,000.
Under terms of the original
“Marty” contract, Borgnine said
in a suit filed Monday, he was to
receive $5,000 plus 2Vfe percent of
the net profits for five years.
The suit is the third legal action
he has filed against his employers
in recent weeks.
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VISITORS BARRED
DURING FILMING OF
THE FRENCH LINE’
Visitors were strictly barred
from the sets during most of the
filming of “The French Line,”
lavish Technicolor musical star
ring Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland
and Arthur Hunnicutt, and the
j current attraction at The Theater.
| Director Lloyd Bacon applied
I the taboo because of the intimate
) nature of many sequences, includ
] ing among others, Miss Russell’s
| sensational bubble - bath scenes,
' which she performs while singing
a new song, "Well, I’ll Be
Switched.”
Another reason for the closed
sets ^was because of the scores
of ravishingly beautiful girls
appearing in the production num
bers of Howard Hughes presenta
tation. They were attracting too
many male visitors.
PLAYFUL BEAR KILLED
STODDARD, N.H., W—A 300
pound bear that used to startle
Stoddard residents with his es
capades among the birds and bees
has been shot and killed.
He was bagged last night by
Zigmond Starzynski, a Gardner,
Mass., hunter.
Residents said they have seen
the bear playfully romping after
birds and stealing honey from
trees where there were bees.
After-Christmas Wedding
For Katherine Bjornstad
Katherine Bjornstad has been
visiting here briefly with her
family and stated that her wed
ding has been announced for after
Christmas to Airman First Class
Edward Scott.
The wedding will be held in
Bluefield, Va., after which the
couple will make their home in
Colorado Springs, where the
groom-to-be is stationed.
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