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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV NO. 80NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1953 _Per Copy—15^
Portable Town of 50
Persons To Be Set Up
By Oil Exploration Co.
SEATTLE, UP — Construction
equipment and materials for an
oil town of 50 persons are on the
way to Icy Bay, Alaska, in the
Foss 162, a converted medium
landing ship, towed by the tug
Agnes Foss.
The 500 tons of equipment
aboard the barge includes five
trailers for living quarters. A port
able galley, a prefabricated hous
ing unit for recreation quarters
and other structures. The ship
ment is due at Icy Bay, north of
Yakutat, next Saturday.
Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.
of Oklahoma City will erect the
buildings, prepare a landing strip
on the nearby beach, and make
other improvements at the site,
which will be headquarters for
oil exploration work to be carried
on jointly by the Phillips Petrol
eum Co. and Kerr-McGee.
The oil exploration will be the
first in that area of Alaska, and
will be made under arrangements
approved by the Department of
the Interior.
Some 16 investors, more than
half of them in Tacoma, were paid
a total of $500,000 by the Phillips
Company for the exploration
rights on a total of 1,024,403 acres
of land they had leased.
Forest Fires Consume 40,000
Acres of Timber In L.A. County
LOS ANGELES, tP — Southern
California’s worst forest fire in 11
years roared unchecked on sev
eral fronts Monday after consum
ing more than 40,000 acres of
timber and brush in Angeles Na
tional Forest in the rugged San
Gabriel mountains.
Foresters held little hope of
controlling the flames — which
also have destroyed eight dwell
ings—before Wednesday.
Harmon Aviation Awards
Won by Mme. Auriol, Col.
Balchen and W. Massic
NEW YORK, LS’) — Jacqueline
Auriol, daughter-in-law of the
president of France, Col. Bernt
Balchen, and dirigible test-pilot
Walter Massic Saturday were
named winners of the Harmon
International Aviation A\vards.
Mme. Auriol won the same
award last year.
The “perpetual American
awards for outstanding interna
tional achievements in aeronau
tics” are announced annually on
Independence Day. The trophies
traditionally are presented later
in the year at 'the White House,
by the President. They are con
sidered the top awards in aviation.
Mme. Auriol was named the
“world’‘s outstanding aviatrix”
for bettering her own world jet
speed record for women last Dec.
21.
Balchen, a U.S. Air Force pilot,
was honored for Arctic explora
tion, rescue work and other oper
ations, including many polar
flights in 1952.
Massic, of Akron, Ohio, was
cited for outstanding piloting and
test flying of airships, including
conduct of all flight tests on the
non-rigid airhsip N-l, largest of
its type in the world.
5 and One-Half Inches
Of Rain Grounds All
Allied Planes In Korea
SEOUL, UP) — Allied planes
stayed on the ground Monday and
battlefront action was limited to
brief patrol skirmishes as rain
storms lashed Korea from one
end to the other.
Up to 5V& inches of rain has
soaked tills war - torn peninsula
since early Sunday from storms
that swept in from the China Sea.
For the first time in more than
a year, all Allied planes in Korea
— even weather reconaissance
flights—were grounded.
Along the 155-mile front, infan
trymen struggled in ankle-deep
mud to keep water-logged bunk
ers from caving in. A number of
bunkers already were reported
collapsed.
Supply traffic crept slowly to
ward the battleline over dirt
roads turned to a quagmire.
Juneau's 4th of July Queen
Wins Free Trip to Seattle
JUNEAU, UP)—Page Whitehead,
15, presided as queen over Ju
neau’s July 4th celebration. Sel
ection of Miss Whitehead, daugh
ter of a Juneau physician, entitles
her to a free trip to Seattle with
her mother.
Pan Am Will Occupy
New Facilities at
Se - Tac International
SEATTLE-Pan American World
Airways will occupy its new $750,
000 hangar and office building at
Seattle-Tacoma International Air
port July 15, John W. White, re
gional director, announced last
week.
The following day all the com
pany’s U.S. - Alaska service, to
gether with its transpacific flights
to and from Hawaii, the Orient,
Australia and the Philippines will
be operated from the new base
at Se-Tac.
Pan Am has had office space
in the main passenger terminal
building and leased property at
the new multi-million-dollar air
port facility since it was opened
three years ago, but their inter
national operations have contin
ued from Boeing Field pending
completion of their own mainte
nance - flight service - administra
tion building.
Approximately 300 Seattle-based
employees and flight crew mem
bers will be affected by the move.
27 of 42 Fairbanks Eating
Places Are Struck On 4th
FAIRBANKS, UPi — The holiday
weekend fare for Fairbanks area
restaurant patrons was a slim one
as a cooks’ and waitresses strike
closed about % of the restaurants.
The employes walked off their
jobs in about 27 of 42 restaurants
in support of a wage increase de
mand. Fifteen cafes accepted the
Culinary Worker’s Union terms.
The union is seeking pay raises
averaging 15 per cent. The major
ity of operators have contended
business is off 20 per cent from
last year and they cannot afford
to grant the pay increase de
mands. They offered five cents an
hour increase across the board,
but the union members voted to
reject it.
Rhee Rejects
Face-Saving
Compromise
SEOUL, MB—‘The U.S. has of
fered South Korean President
Rhee a face-saving two-point com
promise to win his approval of a
Korean peace, but Rhee so far has
rejected it, an authoritative South
Korean source said Monday.
A spokesman' for the U.S. em
bassy denied such an offer had
been made.
The South Korean source, who
insisted on anonymity, said Rhee
is standing pat on his demand to
renew the Korean fighting if a
po'st-armistice political conference
fails in 90 days to make headway
on unifying Korea.
The source told Associated
Press correspondent Bill Shinn
that Rhee’s demand is the stumbl
ing block of the 11-day talks be
tween Rhee and assistant secre
tary of state Walter S. Robertson,
President Eisenhower’s special
truce envoy.
The compromise reportedly
provides for the U.S. to:
1. Agree to join South Korea in
walking out of the conference if
after 90 days it had made no pro
gress toward peaceful unification
of Korea.
2. After such a walkout, “dis
cuss” on a diplomatic level re
sumption of the war, with the un
derstanding that any action would
have to be ratified by the U.S.
Senate.
Robertson declined to indicate
whether he is making headway in
persuading Rhee to accept a truce.
Baltimore Monument
Honoring Sen. McCarthy
Smeared by Vandals
BALTIMORE, UP—A red swas
tika was smeared overnight on the
monument dedicated to' Sen. Mc
Carthy by Temus (Tim) Bright,
Baltimore automobile dealer.
Police Sgt. Elmer Healy and
Patrolman Joseph Stransky found
the eight-foot granite monument
defaced on a routine patrol past
Bright’s showrooms.
Lipstick had been used to
change a part of the inscription
to read: “ . . . destroyer of Am
erican freedom.”
The words “Statesman, senator,
and super-patriot” also had been
altered with crayon into' obscen
ities.
Bright, who has filed his candi
dacy for the Republican nomina
tion for governor in next year’s
elections, dedicated the monument
Safurday on the sidewalk in front
of his automobile agency.
The city had denied Bright’s
application to place the monument
temporarily in the middle of
wide North Avenue and hold the
ceremonies there.
Prince Akihilo of Japan And
Pope Pius Exchange Gifts
VATICAN CITY, UP — Crown
Prince Akihito of Japan, follow
ing the example 30 years ago of
his father, Emperor Hirohito, ex
changed gifts with Pope Pius XII
Monday.
The gifts were given in a pri
vate audience at the Vatican pal
ace.
Chief Overeas Information
Service Resigns Post
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower accepted the resigna
tion of Dr. Robert L. Johnson as
chief of the government’s Over
seas Information Service Monday.
In a letter to Eisenhower dated
July 3, Johnson—whose agency
has been under fire in connection
with the “book burning” contro
versy—said he was stepping aside
because “two months ago my doc
tors advised me that the strains
of this post were proving too
much for me.”
Eisenhower, in a letter dated
Monday, wrote Johnson he was
accepting the resignation because
“My first thought is for your
health.”
Johnson’s letter to the Presi
dent, made public by the White
House, said he accepted the post
as administrator of the Interna
tional Information Administration
because the call came at a time
“when the need was so critical
and the necessity for reorganiz
ing our international information
program was so urgent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Says
Sen. McCarthy Has Done
“A Great Deal of Harm”
ATHENS, Greece, liP) — Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared
here Monday that Sen. McCarthy
has done “a great deal of harm
to my country.”
But, she added, “I am speaking
as a Democrat, of course.”
Mrs. Roosevelt held a news
conference here just before leav
ing by plane for Belgrade on the
next leg o'f a world tour.
Answering foreign Smd Greek
reporters’ questions on McCarthy,
chairman of the Senate Investi
gations subcommittee, Mrs. Roose
velt said:
“You have to feel very free in
the United States these days to
disagree with him.”
She credited him, however,
with “perhaps creating something
which is essential”—public realiz
ation of the danger of Commun
ism.
She added: “But he has made
the great mass of people blindly
afraid ... he will cast a shadow
over anybody . . . People in the
United States today are afraid to
be different, to disagree with
neighbors because of the possible
consequences.”
Olivier’s Bedroom Burgled
Of $19,600 Furs, Jewelry
LONG CRENDOM, England, UR
— Thieves climbed a ladder to
the bedrooms of the Laurence
Oliviers and made off with furs
and jewelry valued at 1,000
pounds ($19,600), they reported to
police Monday.
Sir Laurence and his ailing wife
Vivien Leigh, discovered the theft
at their country estate when they
retired from entertaining- Sir Wil
liam Walton, the composer, and
Lady Walton.
It was the third time the Oliv
iers have been victimized in three
years. The last theft three months
ago was in their London Chelsea
home when burglars -stole Miss
Leigh’s “Oscar,” awarded for her
performance in “A Streetcar
Named Desire.”
Nomeites Parade
Our Vast Potential
Before Governor
Friends of Governor Heintzle
man and many who wished to
meet the governor gathered at the
Bering Sea Club, filling it to cap
acity last Friday evening for an
informal banquet arranged under
the chairmanship of Mrs. Pete
Reader.
Mayor Steffen Andersen was
toastmaster and Ralph Lomen pre
sented a short informal resume of
some of the outstanding economic
potentialities of this part of the
Second Division.
Speaking of the great potential
in minerals of all kinds, Lomen
said: “In minerals, you name it—
we have it!” Putting gold at the
bottom of the list because of the
unfair price set, he placed strate
gic minerals of all kinds at the
head of the list with tin topping
them all and prophecied that
Nome and vicinity would someday
be a second Malaya Peninsula for
mineral ouput. Lomen named the
tourist industry as the second in
dustry, as well as fishing on a
commercial basis.
Naming Sigfried of Golovin, as
an example he said any Eskimo
could be a wealthy man with
reindeer and deplored the law
that prohibits a white resident to
own reindeer.
In response, Governor Heintzle
man stated that the time was ripe
and this was the golden opportun
ity to realize some of the things
that for 50 years have been poten
tialities and it was his earnest de
sire to help this division as much
as he has the other divisions where
he’ has worked.
A group of Republicans met
with the Governor at noon on July
4th for an informal meeeting and
after the events of the afternoon
he was the dinner guest of Dewey
Goodrich, president of the Cham
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Seward Pilot Disappears
On Flight to Seattle From
California in Own Seabee
SEATTLE, UPl — A search was
under way Monday for V.D. Tra
kowski, 31, a Seward, Alaska,
commercial pilot, who disappear
ed last Wednesday on a flight in
a single-engine amphibious plane
from Bishop, Calif., to Seattle.
Trakowski operates the Alaska
Scenic Air Service and planned to
fly to Alaska to fly patrol on fish
traps. He has done charter flying
in Prince William Sound.
His wife, who- came to Seattle
by car with his parents, said he
apparently had not filed a flight
plan.
The Oregon State Patrol re
prted checking relatives at Oregon
City on the chance he might have
stopped there.
Mrs. Trakowski reported him
missing to the Civil Aeronautics
Authority when he failed to keep
an appointment here. The party
expected to spend a few days in
Seattle and then the younger Tra
kowskis were to fly to Seward
with their nine-year-old daughter,
Susan. His parents are Mr. and
Mrs. J. V. Trakowski of Rich
mond, Ind.