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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 121 _ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1957_Per Copy—15^
1958 Tour Season
Being Planned
Tom Martin of the Polaris Ho
tel, who has handled the planned
tours of Wien Airlines here, re
turned yesterday from a meeting
with Wien officials in Fairbanks
on plans for next year’s program
and reports that present plans are
similar to last year with the same
five-hour layover in Nome. The
1958 tours, however, will bring
the visitors directly to Nome for
their brief visit and then to Kot
zebue for the overnight stay.
Martin stated that he felt Nome
was not being treated fairly in
that the overnight stop was ex
clusively for Kotzebue and urged
that the overnight stop be made
optional for the tourist either
Nome or Kotzebue. He felt en
couraged, he stated, by Wien Air
lines official Bud Hagberg look
ing favorably on the plan altho
no decision was made.
It was brought out by one of
the officials at the meeting, stated
Martin, that Nome was considered
a poor attraction on the choice of
arctic tour stops. Martin felt that
, more overnight stops would im
prove that situation and he said
that he could guarantee to ade
quately house any tourists that
come next season if he is given
24 hours notice.
Martin said he also felt cer
tain that if Nome was assured its
fair percentage of overnight visit
ors it could plan to expand the
tourist program. At present this
is impossible since there is more
activity than the time allows for
a tundra tour by rail and the
popular mining trip now being
offered.
Milwaukee Braves
Take 7th Game
To Win The Series
NEW YORK, (#1 — Milwaukee
won the World Series, crushing
the Yankees, 5-0. in the seventh
and deciding game behind the
brilliant pitching of Lew Bur
dette. It was the second shut-out
of the series for Burdette. The
Yanks had loaded the bases in
the bottom of the ninth but the
Braves cut off the threat.
There were about 65,000 spec
tators at Yankee Stadium for
this last game and the day was
perfect baseball weather.
MS NORTH STAR
LOADING ISLANDERS
The MS North Star is loading
King Island and Diomede Island
ers today for transportation' to
their winter homes on King and
•Diomede Islands.
Taking the islanders home after
a summer on the mainland is one
of the services of the MS North
Star of the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs.
The ship also brought in 41,000
pounds of reindeer meat from
Nunivak Island which was sold at
the dock last evening to business
houses and individuals.
Annette Dionne
Is First Quint
To Marry
MONTREAL (/P)—Annette Dionne
\ today became the first of the
famed Dionne quintuplets to
| marry.
She was wed to Germain Allard
in a simple, intimate ceremony
amid the splendors of a million
dollar Roman Catholic church—
Notre Dame de la Salette in
downtown Montreal.
The Rev. Germain-Marie La
Lande, provincial of the Fathers
of the Holy Cross, performed the
ceremony and celebrated the
wedding Mass.
Only the parents of the bride
and bridegroom and a few invited
guests, about 20 in all, were in
vited to the wedding and recep
tion.
Annette is 23 and her husband,
a finance company agent, is 24.
Russia Tests Another
Nuclear Device North
Of Arctic Circle
WASHINGTON, (/PI—Russia has
tested another nuclear device at a
point north of the Arctic Circle,
the Atomic Energy Commission
reported yesterday.
“Another nuclear test has been
conducted in the current Soviet
series, the latest test was a small
explosion on Oct. 10 at a site
north of the Arctic Circle.”
The current Soviet tests began
Aug. 23 with what the AEC called
“a detonation of substantial size.”
Blasts on Sept. 9 and Sept. 25
were also reported.
Last Monday, Moscow itself' an
nounced Russia had successfully
tested “a powerful hydrogen de
vice of new design.”
This Fs a ‘Week of Shame and
Danger to America,’ Says Senator
SPOKANE, UP—Sen. Henry M.
Jackson (D-Wash) told the Wash
ington State Bankers Assn, last
night that this is a “week of
shame, of danger, for America.”
With the launching of the Rus
sian earth satellite last Friday,
Jackson said, the United States
finds itself “losing a scientific and
engineering race which we were
determined to win.”
“Each time the Sputnik (satel
lite) passes over our cities,” said
Jackson, “we are reminded of
Soviet scientific capacity.
“The true tragedy is that we
are now voluntarily abdicating
. world leadership to the Soviet
Union.
“It is time for all of us, Repub
licans and Democrats alike, to
; wake up, to stop quarreling, and
j to start acting.”
The direct military significance
of the Soviet satellite is not great,
| Jackson said, but it is a “symbol
of enormous American compla
i cency and enormous Soviet mili
tary and scientific progress.”
Jackson urged President Eisen
hower and Defense Secretary Mc
Elroy to assume personal and im
mediate rtsponsibility for a speed
i up in the U.S. missile effort.
Two Companies
Join in Search
For Alaskan Oil
SAN FRANCISCO, lff»—An
agreement for joint exploration
and development of their land
holdings on the Kenai Peninsula
of Alaska was announced yester
day by Standard Oil Co. of Cali
fornia, Western Operations, Inc.,
and Richfield Oil Corp.
The announcement said Stan
dard would be the operator dnd
would spend $30 million over the
next several years in exploring
and developing the properties.
Richfield last month completed
the first discovery well on the
peninsula, 40 miles southwest of
Anchorage, flowing at a rate of
900 barrels of oil per day.
Location has been made for the
drilling of a second well on the
land unit, about two miles south
of the discovery well.
Japanese Fishermen
Too Near, Say Alaskans
ANCHORAGE (ffl—Witnesses at
a Fish and Wildlife hearing on
Wednesday criticized the near
ness of the Japanese fishery to
Alaskan operations.
Many fishermen said the Jap
anese, who caught some 50 mil
lion fish this summer, were not
only taking salmon which might
otherwise be caught by Alaskans,
but were selling their catch to
American packers.
Satellite Continues Around Earth
Undeterred by Meteoric Shower;
Danger Period Coming Sunday
WASHINGTON, UP>—American
sky watchers reported sighting
the Russian earth satellite again
today as it made three early
morning passes over the U.S.
The man-made moon, apparent
ly undeterred by a shower of
meteoric fragments, neared the
end of its first week aloft still
circling the earth once every 96.1
minutes.
The New Haven, Conn., Moon
watch team, which first spotted
the satellite yesterday, reported
it saw two objects streaking thru
the sky this morning—presum
ably Sputnik and a part of the
rocket that propelled the moonlet
into its orbit.
Has Gone 2,500,000 Miles
Sputnik has traveled more than
2,500,000 miles, according to So
viet estimates, since the Russians
shot it into the upper air last Fri
day night.
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director
of the Smithsonian Institution in
Cambridge, Mass., said there had
been no observation to indicate a
third object is speeding around
the globe. The Russians have said
the satellite’s protective nose cone
also is orbiting, as well as the
spent rocket.
Now Being Bombarded
Moscow radio said last night
No Single or Cheap Road to
Security, Says Charles E. Wilson
SEATTLE, (VR—Former Secre-<
tary of Defense Charles E. Wilson,
hitting at exponents of defense
spending economies, said last
night “there is no single or cheap
road to security.”
In a speech at a Republican
fund-raising dinner—which en
riched GOP coffers by $100,000—
Wilson said the U.S. must contin
ue to spend heavily fdr foreign
aid and defense “until some sound
plan for disarmament is worked
out with proper safeguards.”
Wilson criticized the action of
the last Congress in trimming
$2Vt billion from President Eisen
hower’s request for $38V£ billion
in defense money.
The former defense chief said
the slash was made despite “the
increasing cost trend that we all
know exists.”
“There is no single or cheap
road to security—whether by
heavy bombers, ballistic missiles,
by carriers or submarines, by par
atroopers or guided missiles,”
Wilson said.
In a comment on the earth sat
ellite launched by the Russians
\yilson said:
“I don’t wish to belittle the ac
complishment, but I feel Russia
is using it to try to prove that
Communism is superior to our
way and to try to divert attention
from some of its domestic prob
lems. I hope that our almost near
panic over this will pass in a rea
sonable time.”
5_—
Brucker Reveals
Gen. Maxwell Gave
Training Order
WASHINGTON, UP)—Secretary
Brucker said today Gen. Maxwell
D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, is-'
sued last month’s order—rescind
ed by Brucker the next day—for
special troop training to deal with
situations of the Little Rock, Ark.,
type.
Brucker said Taylor’s order in
structed that our regular divisions
form special task group of 1,000
to 1,200 men.
Brucker made the disclosures
in a letter to Sen. Russell (D-GaJ,
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, who had
asked for a full explanation.
Brucker made the letter public.
The directive was issued by Tay
lor Sept. 25—the day after the
dispatch of troopers of the 101st
Airborne Division to Little Rock
to enforce a federal court’s order
for integration of the city’s Cen
tral High School.
The Pentagon let out word the
next day of the general nature of
the order and there was an uproar
from Congress members. Brucker
ordered the recall of the directive.
Brucker said in his letter to
Russell he rescinded the order
because it “might be subject to
misinterpretation.”
*
i the artificial moon “is now being
! bombarded by micro-meteorites,”
but it appeared no serious dam
age had resulted.
The Russian broadcast said
“since it has been launched, not a
single meteor body has notice
ably harmed our little moon.”
At the U. S. Naval Research
Laboratory here, a spokesman
said the satellite came over as
scheduled last night. He said the
satellite was emitting a steady
signal.
Real Danger Coming
Whipple estimated if the satel
lite’s skin is a half millimeter
thick, it probably is being punc
tured by a meteorite once every
five days. But he said chances are
negligible the sphere will meet
any meteorite big enough to de
stroy it.
Moscow radio said the real dan
ger period for the satellite will
come during three days beginning
Oct. 20, adding this is when the
earth and Sputnik will pass thru
meteor debris left by the Halley
Comet.
Earth Meets Comet Trail
A Naval Observatory scientist
here said the earth cuts across the
orbit of Halley’s Comet every
year about Oct. 20-22, and that a
meteor shower known as Orion
ids results.
Halley’s Comet was named for
the second Astronomer Royal of
England, Edmund Halley, who
lived from 1616 to 1722. He fig
ured that the comet would be vis
ible from the earth about every
72 years. It last appeared in 1910.
It is due again in 1981.
Bright in Last Stages
Radio Moscow said that in the
last stage of its existence, Sputnik
will come closer to the earth and
give off light like a meteor and
“it’s light will be observable for
a long time.”
There have been widely vary
ing estimates as to how long the
satellite would stay aloft. One
Russian scientist estimated that it
would remain airborne for about
four weeks.
Two PAA Stewardesses
Will Be First Women
To Visit McMurdo Base
SAN FRANCISCO, UH—Stew
ardesses! Patricia Hepinstall and
Ruth Kelly depart tomorrow on a
Pan American Airways Strato
Clipper for a brief visit to the
antarctic continent.
They will be there one hour
and then return.
The 9700-mile flight will be the
first commercial one to the anb
arctic. The plane, under charter
to the U.S. Navy, will carry 37
technicians and construction men.
The plane will make fueling
stops at Honolulu, Canton Island,
Nandi in the Fiji Islands and at
Christchurch, New Zealand.
From New Zealand it will fly
to a 6,000-foot ice runway at the
naval air facility at McMurdo
Sound.