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VOL, LVIII No. 76_' NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1956 Per Copy—15*
Bartlett Backs Suggestion
For Passport Office
In Puget Sound Area
WASHINGTIN, W>—Delegate
Bartlett today endorsed a sugges
tion the State Department set up
a passport office in the Puget
Sound area for the western states
and Alaska.
Adding his backing to the sug
gestion made earlier by Rep. Tol
lefson (R-Wash), Bartlett wrote
Scott McLeod, head of the De
partment’s Bureau of Security
and Consular Affairs, that the
proposal has more than “passing
merit.”
Bartlett said several Alaskans
had encountered delays in obtain
ing passports in recent weeks. He
cited the case of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward M. Benson of Metlakatia,
who he said had to postpose a
trip to Europe when the passport
office sent a passport to the hus
band but not to the wife.
Asserting a passport office on
Puget Sound would be more ac
cessible to a-number of western
states and Alaska than is the of
fice in Washington D.C., Bartlett
declared: "If such an office was
established and was given the
authority to issue passports, the
burden here in Washington could
not help but be relieved . .
SENATE CONFIRMS NAMING
FOR NOME POSTMASTER
WASHINGTON, —'The Sen- j
ate confirmed today the nomina- |
tion of Margaret P. Bohrer as
postmaster at Nome, Alaska.
Dulles Says
Moscow’s Control
Is Weakening
Soviet Leadership
Put Into Almost
Impossible Dilemma
WASHINGTON, W—Secretary
of State Dulles said today he be
lieves Moscow’s control over Com
munist parties outside Russia has
greatly weakened since the down
grading of Stalin.
Dulles told a news conference
there is grave dissatisfaction
among party leaderships outside
Rus#ia, and also within the Soviet
Communist Party, with the re
gime of Khrushchev-Bulganin.
The Soviet leadership, Dulles
asserted, has been put into an
almost impossible dilemma.
As he defined it, the failure of
International Communism to ex
pand control over new countries
in recent years made it impossible
to justify strong-arm methods of
leadership.
Yet the declining use of such
methods, he said, has created de
mands for freedom among Com
munists in and out of Russia. This
weakened the central authority
very gravely.
At the same time, Dulles said
these changes create serious prob
lems for the West. He made a new
appeal for Western unity and
strength, and declared these are
essential in order to deny Com
munism future victories.
$33 Billion Highway Construction
Bill Awaits Eisenhower’s Signature
4Engine lanker
Plane Crashes,
Burns. Killing 11
ROSEWELL. N >1 Bursting
into flame just seconds after take
off. a four-engine Air Force re
fueling tanker crashed and ex
ploded last night, carrying tl men
to a fiery death
The tanker, a Boeing KC-07,
was loaded with highly in flam
mable fuel for a jet bomber re
fueling above southeastern New
Mexico.
Every member of its crew per
ished
The plane was based at nearby
Walker Air Force Base, a Strate
gic Atr Command installation
where refueling missions are
flown in great numbers daily
Workers m the Walker tower
•aid the plane took off “In good
shape at i SO p m 'Mi>T‘
A few minutes later, the lower
tnrw reported to base officials,
the plane "appeared to burst into
flames It was too far away to tell
whether the fire was in the en
gines or in the fuselage
About to mites south of the
base, and four minute* after the
takeoff, the giant tanker, one of
the Air Force’s moat modern re
fueling aircraft, banked off. spun
to the ground in an open field
and exploded.
v WASHINGTON, (#—Congres
sional sponsors of the giant high
way construction bill predicted
today he nation’s motorists may
be riding on some of the new su
perhighways by the summer of
1958.
The $33 billion measure com
pleted its congressional course
yesterday and was sent to Presi
dent Eisenhower He is expected
to sign it promptly, possibly late
this week.
With it goes a higher $14,800,
000.000 tax bill for the next 18
years for motored America to
make the 12-year program pay
as-you-ride
There has been speculation dur
ing the long, rough ride of the biU
through Congress that it might be
at least three years before any
noticeable construction could take
place on the 41,000-mile feur-lane
interstate system, the key provi
sion of the bill
However, Sen Francis Case *R
&D* who has worked on the bill
this year and last, told a reporter
•Wc may be surprised at how
speedily the states get going on
tfci*.”
Case said he believes that tr
fiscal 1957 the 11 month perwd
which starts next Sunday, moat
| of the work on the interstate *>*
tern would involve planning and
j purchase of rights of way.
But he said many states already
have made such progress on this
preliminary work with lim‘ted
fund, already available
j PRAVDA ARTICLE
| MARKS RADICAL
SHIFT IN POLICY
MOSCOW Ufi—'Pravda today re
printed an article demanding to
know what the present Soviet
leaders did, if anything, to stop
the excesses of the last years of
Stalin’s rule.
The organ of the Communist
Party reprinted an article which
Eugene Dennis wrote for the New
York Daily Worker asking the
question.
It was the first time the cur
rent leadership has been publicly
criticized here, even by implica
tion, and marks a radical shift in
the traditional Soviet propaganda
attitude.
New Weapon Will
Revolutionize
Anti-Suh Warfare
WASHINGTON, (^—Secretary
Charles S. Thomas said today the
Navy has recently developed and
“has on hand an anti-submarine
weapon which will revolutionize
anti-submarine warfare.’’
He also told a Senate subcom
mittee:
The Skywarrior bomber has a
combat radius of 1,500 miles—
permitting a round trip of 3,000
miles—and can operate at ex
treme altitudes in all weather,
carrying “high - yield nuclear
bombs."
The ship-borne Regulus bom
bardment missile has a range of
500 miles and a faster and longer
range Regulus is well on the way.
The new Seamaster jet powered
seaplane, now undergoing tests,
will be able to perform as well as
any bomber of its size and "can
•carry megaton «hydrgen> weap
ons."
Thomas testified before the
Senate subcommittee headed by
Sen. Symington, which is making
a study of U.S. air power with
particular reference to its strength
in relation to Russia’s air force.
Practical Joker Gets
Interview With Queen;
War Office Fumes
LONDON, wP—Queen Elizabeth
U was the victim of a practical
>oker yesterday as she reviewed
309 holders of the Victoria Cross,
She met the holders of the
award, many bowed with age and
some in wheel chairs, at a cere
mony in Hyde Park, But one man
m a chair, with whom she chat
ted, wasn’t a Victoria Crow hold
er at all
He was Thomas Meagher, a car
attendant at a theater He was
chuckling about hi* escapade to
day while high brass at the War
Office, which arranged the pag
eantry, fumed
Meagher, *4 year-old veteran,
showed up at the park wearing
what looked Like a Victoria Crus*
ribbon, A policeman, noticing that
he limped, hustled Meagher into
a wheel chair In a moment the
Queen was at ht% sale She asked
whether he was going to a dinner
for the Crow holders, snd seemed
concerned when he said he didn’t
feel up to it
Heintzleman Will Be Here For 4th;
City Saves $9,000 On School Budget
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman is
expected to be in Nome on the
the Fourth of July and is being
invited to deliver the address at
our celebration, it was reported
at the Council meeting Monday
evening. Maj. Robert Cahill of
Nome Field has assured the city
that an Air Force band will be
here also for the 4th of July.
A revision of the school budget
will save the City $9,000 accord
ing to a report from the Nome
School Board. This change was
due to the fact that although the
school now has over 500 stu
dents, less than 500 are covered
by local taxes, which places the
school in a different bracket as
far as matching funds go. The
city, thus will be required to pay
only 20 percent, instead of 25
percent/ of the total budget, or
$51,000 instead of $60,000.
City Hall Being Remodeled
The City Hall building is under
Air Force Leaders
Visiting Moscow See
Jet Factory and School
By VEBN HAUGLAND
MOSCOW, (jft—Western air force
leaders toured Soviet aircraft fac
tories in the Moscow area today,
starting with a jet-engine plant.
Gen. Nathan Twining, U.S. Air
Force chief of staff, and fellow
tourists went through the huge,
ramshackle plant on Moscow’s
outskirts.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the visiting
officers toured the Zhukovsky Air
Engineering Academy on what
one of them called their "best day
yet.’’
The school, in central Moscow,
offers a five-year course for train
ing technicians of the Red air
force. It has an annual enrollment
of about 2,000.
Twining described its program
as well balanced "between good
theoretical courses and good prac
tical courses.
"They have concentrated every
thing into one ball of was for five
years," Twining said. ‘ We have
no school like this. It’s a good sys
tem but ours is good, too. They
accomplish the same purpose."
National Convention of
Jaycm Whoop It Up
At Mammoth Party
KANSAS CITY UR—The Jay*
cees converted a humdrum
June evening into New Year's
Eve last night, tossing a mam
moth party which probably wu,*
the biggest, noisiest shindig this
city ever saw.
Some 7,500 people, give or take
a thousand, jammed the huge
basement floor of the one-block*
iquarc Municipal Garage for ear
u>u* treats offered by «Ute dele
gallons to the National Junior
Chamber of Commerce conven
tion
The Jay cees liberally sprinkled
gastronomic delights with beauty
There were Mas America, Sharon
Kay Ritchie of Colorado, M m
Alaska, and five or * ether
tdlists
remodeling to comply with the
juvenile program. A separate
room is being added to both the
men’s and women’s jail quarters
as well as showers in the women’s
quarters. It was reported that
most of the labor has been per
formed by prisoners.
The CAA has requested use of
the city bulldozer and grader for
moving the road to Nome Field
west of the cemetery. During the
winter the present road is direct
ly under the hill and fills up with
snow, causing much maintenance
and delay. The CAA will move
the road closer to the river, away
from the hill, hoping to cut down
on snow removal costs.
Nome-White Alice Cable
A special committee of the
council was appointed to study
the feasibility of allowing the
U. S. Engineers to lay a cable
from the Federal Building to its
White Alice project near here.
The committee will check care
fully to be sure that the route
planned will not conflict with city
drains and fire mains.
The Council is considering put
ting the old ANS school building
up for sale in the near future.
Progress on the City Ball Park
has been temporarily delayed due
to the city equipment being used
for hauling gravel and repairs to
other parts of the city.
Bush Pilot. 40, Killed
In Crash of Beaver
STEWART, B.C., uft—A ground
party yesterday found the wreck
age of a Beaver plane which the
day before crashed, killing bush
pilot Harold W. Kellough, 40.
The plane crashed and burned
at the foot of a glacier about
three miles southeast of Grarvduc
mining camp while on a 30-mile
flight to Stewart.
Big Three Offer
Steelworkers New
Contract Proposal
NEW YORK, Jk—The nation’s
big three steel firms today laid a
new contract proposal before the
United Steelworkers Union m an
effort to head off an industry
wide strike at midnight Saturday.
There was no immediate infor
mation aa to what the new pro
posal contained, but it was be
lieved to call for a three-year
contract with an hourly pay in
crease of 10 cents an hour for the
first year
A previous industry proposal,
calling for a five-year contract
with a 7 Vvc«nt hourly pay boost
the first year, had been rejected
by the union aa unsatisfactory.
Negotiators for the three ma
jor steel firms and the union die
played great amiability as they
went into today's session, at which
the new te,.r«* -ere suggested.
I , Earlier, one of the firms had
announced it would start banking
! furnaces tonight at Clary. Irwi,
f and tomorrow in the Pittsburgh
! area against the possibility a# «
•trike.