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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LX No. 54 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1958 _ Per Copy—15^
Alaska Oil and Gas
Leases Suspended
Temporarily
WASHINGTON, UP) — The In
terior Department said today is
suance of oil and gas leases on
Alaskan lands has been suspen
ded. A spokesman said it is an
ticipated the suspension would be
in effect for only a few days.
The action followed a sug
gestion to Secretary Seaton by
Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM)
that the rental charge for such
leases be doubled.
That would make the rental
total $4 an acre for 10 years—the
same as in the states.
The Alaskan rental charge now
is 25 cents an atfre for the first
year, the second and third year
rentals are waived, arid then the
, rental is 25 cents a year for the
fourth and fifth years and for
each year in the permitted five
year renewal. That aggregates
$2 for 10 years.
Alaska is now having an oil
boom. The department had been
pushing to be in shape about May
1 to start issuing leases on about
four million acres of land—known
as Plot 82 Lands—which had
previously been withdrawn from
such leasing.
The Plot 82 Lands, ultimately
designed to be made .available
for future oil and gas leasing,
total about 20 million acres.
The suspension also applies to
leases on the Kenai Peninsula.
CANADIAN COST OF LIVING
HITS NEW HIGH IN APRIL
OTTAWA, UP) — The Canadian
cost of living index jumped nine
tenths of a point to a record high
in April, propelled mainly by
higher prices for fresh fruits,
vegetables and beef.
The Bureau of Statistics report
ed today that the index, based on
1949 prices equaling 100, ad
vanced to 125.2 last month from
124.3 in March.
Secretary of Welfare Falsom
Takes Extended Vacation
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secre
tary of Wefare Folsom is taking
an extended vacation in Florida
upon his doctor’s recommenda
tion.
A department spokesman to
day said Folsom extended his
regular vacation, which started
April 1, upon the recommenda
tion that he get some more rest.
THE STANDINGS
American League
W L Pet. GB
New York 10 4 .714 ....
Washington 9 5 .643 1
Kansas City 8 7 .533 2Vz
Cleveland 10 9 .526 2Vz
Baltimore 8 8 .500 3
Detroit 8 10 .444 4
Boston 7 11 .389 5
Chicago 4 10 .286 5
National League
Chicago 11 7 .611 ....
Milwaukee 10 7 .588 Vz
Pittsburgh 10 7 .588 Vz
San Francisco 11 8 .579 Vz
Cincinnati 8 6 .571 2
Los Angeles 8 11 .421 3 Vz
Philadelphia 7 10 .412 3Mi
St. Louis 3 12 .200 6V£
Pacific Coast League
Spokane 10 8 .556 ....
Vancouver 10 9 .526 Vz
Phoenix 11 11 500 1
San Diego 10 10 .500 1
Salt Lake City 10 10 .500 1
Sacramento 8 8 .500 1
Portland 7 7 .500 1
Seattle 7 10 .412 2 Vz
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Dennis Crosby, Son
of Bing, Marries
Showgirl Pat Sheehan
LAS VEGAS, Nev., UP> — Den
nis Crosby last night married a
beautiful showgirl dated several
times a year ago by his father,
crooner Bing Crosby.
Dennis, 23, and dancer-di
vorcee Pat Sheehan, 26, were
married in a Protestant ceremony
between her performances at a
hotel night club.
Bing dated Miss Sheehan for
three or four days a year ago
when he was at Las Vegas for
a golf tournament and she was
dancing at the hotel.
Dennis is the first of Bing’s
four sons to marry. All were
reared as Roman Catholics.
The rites were performed at
the Gretna Green Wedding Chap
el by the Rev. James A. Herndon,
pastor of the Las Vegas Church
of the Nazarene.
Miss Sheehan, a shapely blonde,
was Miss San Francisco of 1950.
She has a 6-year-old son by her
previous marriage.
She and the crooner’s son
were having dinner at a Mexican
restaurant next door to the chapel
when they decided to marry im
mediately, Miss Sheehan said
later.
Youth Strips and
Ties Little Girl
In Vacant House
ST. LOUIS, l/P) — The fate of a
youth who left little Kathy
Hampton tied and naked in a va
cant house without food or water
for three days rested today with
a juvenile court judge.
Robert Martin Reich Jr., 15,
told police step by step how he
gave the pretty blonde tot a ride
on his bicycle to the ramshackle
house 30 blocks from her home,
then tore her dress off and tied
her up.
She wriggled free and was
found scratched and dirty but
otherwise unharmed. She had
not been sexually molested.
Kathy appeared little the worse
for the experience but the parents
said they wanted her to be thor
oughly rested before she returns
to school.
The polite, slightly built boy
told officers he was “scared” to
go back to the house and in
tended never to tell where Kathy
was.
“I had no reason. I just did
it,” he said.
Reich is only a shade over 5
feet tall and weighs just 80
pounds. Police said he suffered
from rheumatic heart disease and
missed a lot of school. He at
tends special classes for mental
ly retarded children.
Robert’s father, an epileptic,
is in a mental institution. His
mother has remarried.
Princess Astrid of
Norway Arrives
For 10-Day Visit
NEW YORK, 0P> — Blonde
Princess Astrid of Norway and
a retinue of three arrived by
plane today for a 10-day visit.
The 27-year-old daughter of
King Olav will meet President
Eisenhower for the first time at
a luncheon in Washington to
morrow.
She will fly from, New York on
May 7 to participate in Minne
sota’s statehood centennial cel
ebration. She will return here
for a two-day stay before going
home May 15.
$l,192,108Contracts
Let To Modify
Remote Sites
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Three
contracts totaling $1,192,108 for
modification of radar towers at
remote sites in Alaska have been
awarded by the U. S. Engineer
District, Alaska, which will sup
ervise construction for the Air
Force.
Bids on work at five Air Force
stations were opened April 29 in
Seattle.
Two of the contract awards
were made to Sam Bergeson, Ta
coma, Wash., $338,000 for con
struction at Tin City and $361,000
for Cape Lisburne.
The other contract for $493,108
was awarded to Walsh Co., Spe
nard, Alaska, for construction at
Tatalina.
Bids on two other Air Force
stations—Cape Newenham and
Cape Romanzof were rejected as
too high.
Work on the three contracts
awarded includes alterations to
the radar towers, construction of
new transformer buildings, elec
trical distribution and removal of
existing structures, construction of
quarters and support facilities
with outside utilities, and an
addition to the operations build
ing.
Man Killed, Girl
Friend Captured
After Crime Spree
GOLD BEACH, Ore* UP) — A
pretty 16-year-old girl—sad but
also relieved that police had shot
down her gunman boy friend—
was in jail here today accused of
helping him kidnap five men.
Dorothy Louise Decker of Reno,
Nevada, was captured by police
at the Southern Oregon town of
Carpenterville Saturday night,
after police had killed her cousin
companion, Henry Thomas Hill,
36, in a gun battle.
The shooting at Carpenterville
ended a 24-hour crime spree in
which a police officer was kid
napped and robbed and four
other men were kidnapped, ap
parently to be held as hostages
in a desperate attempt to break
through roadblocks.
The girl said she ran away with
Hill last month and he had
planned a series of robberies.
She told reporters that only one
was pulled off—a $40 holdup of
a service station near Sacramento.
From there they made their
way up to Brookings, Ore.,
where patrolman Pat Sims picked
up the pair and was taking them
in his car to the Brookings jail
when Hill threatened him with a
gun and forced him to drive them
out of town.
Two miles north of town, Hill
took Sims’ gun, his money and a
little food that was in the car and
then Hill and the girl made off
into the brush.
They hid out in a little cabin
they found in the woods and there
captured at gunpoint four young
men who had come to the cabin
for a weekend outing.
Hill forced one of the four to
drive the car in an attempt to
1 get through the roadblocks which
, police had set up.
When brought to the jail here,
Dorothy said that Hill had
threatened to kill her if she tried
to leave him. “But I wasn’t
really afraid of him. I cared
quite a lot for him.”
Continued Failure to Grant Statehood
To Alaska and Hawaii to be Regarded
As Deliberate Flouting of Popular Will
Statehood Should*
Be Put Above
Party Politick
, SAN FRANCISCO, UP> — Mayor
George Christopher declared yes
terday that the question of state
hood for Alaska and Hawaii
should “be put above party poli
tics.” He asked support of the
statehood bill “from all quar
ter.”
Christopher, a Republican, is a
candidate for the U. S. Senate.
In a statement from his cam
paign headquarters today he said:
“If either Alaska or Hawaii
were attacked tomorrow, Amer
ica would join the conflict at
once.”
“Since we are so tied up with
these responsibilities, it would be
constructive to complete the al
liance by total statehood as soon
as possible . . . these territories
are not just base outposts for
reasons of protection, but are in
fact irrevocably allied economic
ally, culturally and physically
with the United States.
“The peoples of these terri
tories have earned statehood.
I The difficulties so far have been
more political than economic.”
“With first one party, then
the other, being in power, it has
been difficult to reconcile the dif
ferences that would bring about
statehood.”
Boston Bans
Rock V Roll
Jam Sessions
BOSTON, WP) — Boston today
banned rock ’n’ roll jam sessions
from public auditoriums after 15
persons were injured in the af
termath of such a jam session at
the Boston arena.
Mayor John B. Hyngs told a
reporter “those so-called rock
’n’ roll musical programs are a
disgrace and must be stopped.
As far as I’m concerned Boston
has seen the last of them.”
The mayor also said that nine
times out of 10 the promoters of
rock ’n’ roll sessions do not hire
enough policemen to take care
of the crowds that attend and
thus are not entitled to licenses.
Police reported that gangs of
teen-agers left the arena after the
jam session and attacked, robbed
and molested passersby in the
south end, where the arena is
located.
Albert Raggiani, 19, a Navy
man suffered several stab wounds
on the chest as he left the arena
with two girls.
Brown said unrest developed
when police ordered the dimmed
house lights turned on at the
arena after fans began dancing
in the darkened tisles.
Alan Freed, New York disc
jockey and master of ceremonies
at the event, apologized for the
bright lights, Brown said, and
told the audience of about 6,000:
i “It looks like the police in Boston
I don’t want you kids to have a
! good time.”
WASHINGTON Un — Support
for Alaskan statehood is so wide
spread in the United States, Sen.
Frank Church (D-Idaho) said to
day, “that our continued failure
to grant it c£n only be regarded
as a deliberate flouting of the
popular will.”
One of the Senate’s most ardent
supporters of statehood for both
Alaska and Hawaii, the Idaho
Senator in a prepared speech
strongly urged action on the
Alaska bill at this session of
Congress.
“For those who really know
Alaska,” he said, “it seems pre
posterous to question her capac
ity to support statehood. Only
those who still retain a mental
image of Alaska as a land of
trackless tundra, swamps and
ice, inhabitated by Eskimos in
igloos, regard this question as
one to be treated seriusly.”
Church said Alaska has met
every test founded in precedent
and tradition for statehood while
the “newly improvised objection
of non-contiguity is specious if
not fatuous.’
The real reason for the pro
longed paralysis in Congress on
the statehood issue, Church said,
can be attributed to such argu
ments as the effect of new sena
tors on the party alignment and
the dilution of the voting strength
of more populous states.
“Each reflects the reluctance of
Congress to share its preroga
tives, or to extend the legisla
tive franchise. Each suggests a
different rationalization for pre
serving the status quo,” he said.
Such arguments, Church said,
have been with us from the time
of our national origin.”
“Had we heeded them in the
past, the United States would
still be comprised of the thin
tier of 13 states that stretch
along the Atlantic coastline of our
mighty continent.”
He said persons who contend
that the United States’ “westward
march is over are now telling us
that ours is a finished country,
and that the union is complete,
but it is not so.
“Our country is not complete
as long as hundreds of thousands
of American citizens, in our two
incorporated territories of Alaska
and Hawaii, are barred entry and
wait upon the doorstep of our
union for the rights which are
their legacy.”
Princess Anne Has Tonsils
And Adenoids Removed
LONDON, — Seven-year old
Princess Anne lost her tonsils
and adenoids today.
The operation was performed at
the Hospital for Sick Children
and a communique announced
the condition of Queen Elizabeth’s
daughter immediately after the
surgery was very satisfactory.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Washington 7-2, Kansas City 3-2
Cleveland 2-1, Bostnoon 1-2
Baltimore 4-4, Detroit 3-0
National League
Milwaukee 7, St. Louis 2
Chicago 5-2, Cincinnati 4-3
Los Angeles 8-15, Philadelphia 7-2
Pittsburgh 6-3, San Francisco 2-4
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 8-3, Salt Lake City 5-0
Sacramento 6-4, Portland 3 3
San Diego 5-1, Phoenix 2 1
Spokane 12, Seattle 5