22S NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX NO. 60 _ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1957 Per Copy—15*
Returning Gov. Mike Stepovich
Gets Rousing Welcomes From His
Portland Kinfolk and Fairbanks)
PORTLAND, UP—Kinsmen of
Alaska’s Gov. Michael Stepovich
made a sizable group at the Port
land airport Friday as they wel
comed the territory’s new chief
executive back to his boyhood
home.
His mother, Mrs. Olga Fabian
ich, who once said it was her
fondest hope that her son would
become Alaska’s governor, had
tears in her eyes as her son
hugged her and looked down into
her face.
Stepovich, Fairbanks lawyer,
was appointed governor the week
before last by President Eisen
hower, and this was the first
chance his family had to wish
him well.
They did it volubly at the air
SCHOOL BUS GUILTY
RENO UPt—All kinds of vehicles
get caught in Reno’s radar speed
traps.
Friday it was a school bus—
for, of all things, going too fast
in a school zone.
Champ Jumping
Frog Wins $1,000
For Owner, 15
ANGELS CAMP, Calif., tIV
The new world champion jump
ing frog is a San Joaquin delta
bullfrog named Beans.
Owned and trained by 15-year
old Caroline Voitich of Stockton,
Calif., Beans spanned 12 feet and
7 inches in his three allotted hops
yesterday and won the 31st an
nual Jumping Frog Jubilee.
The contest commemora'tes the
famous yarn, “The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras Coun
ty,” toy Mark Twain.
Beans got the glory; Miss Voit
ich gets $1,000.
But his performance was far
short of the world record of 16
feet 10 inches set in 1954 by a
frog named Lucky, owned by Ray
Weiner of Angels Camp.
Placing second yesterday was
Mr. Dill, sponsored by the Na
tional Pickle Packers Assn. He
leaped 11 feet, coaxed by Holly
wood starlet Peggy Dietrick.
The frog Won Long Hop, flown
from Formosa, failed even to
place.
Brothers Get Together
For a Smashing Time
MIAMI, Arizona, —The Brig
ham brothers got together for a
really smashing time Friday
night.
James Brigham of San Manuel
and his wife drove some 50 miles
to see brother Clyde. James, who
hadn’t bothered to tell Clyde he
was coming, stopped along the
highway for a minute.
Along came brother Clyde
home from work and wheeled
into the rear of James’ car.
Mrs. James Brigham was hurt
somewhat, but the brothers were
all right. The cars? They were
completely smashed.
port. Then they went on to the
home of an uncle and aunt where
an open house lasted well into
the night.
Stepovich said he plans an im
mediate study of taxes which he
considers becoming so high as to
be a threat to business expansion.
And, he said, he thinks federal
regulations lock up too much of
Alaska’s resources. They should
be released “at the proper time
to stimulate further sound devel
opment.” he said.
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FAIRBANKS, UP*—Alaska’s nrst
native-born governor will 6ome
“home” to a giant welcoming this
evening.
Mayor Douglas Preston will
head a huge welcoming party of
civic and military leaders of the
Fairbanks area when Stepovich
arrives by plane at 5 p.m. for the
largest reception ever planned in
Fairbanks, his home town.
Also on hand will be Mrs. Step
ovich and the couple’s five oldest
children.
The Fairbanks National Guard
detachment will provide an honor
guard and 105 howitzers from the
Army’s Yukon Command will
boom out a 17-gun salute for the
new governor.
Music will be furnished by an
Air Force band. Then he will be
taken by caravan to the down
town area for more welcoming
ceremonies.
Stepovich told his wife by tele
phone from Washington, D.C.,
Sunday that his inauguration has
been set for June 8 at Juneau.
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CUTE GEORGIA CHICK
LIKES CATFISH
GAINESVILLE, Ga„ UP)—Nine
teen-year-old Ruth Avanelie Ly
can of Atlanta, whose shapely
measurements were recorded at
34-22-35, Friday night was named
“Miss Georgia Chick” in a con
test at the Georgia Poultry Festi
val.
Her favorite food, she told an
interviewer—catfish.
Dog Carries Note to Bring Rescue
To Master Isolated With Stroke
FAIRPLAY, Colo., \3—Several
weeks ago, 75-year-old Andrew
McGregor was told by friends
that the irritable dog that shared
his mountain home would be the
death of him.
Today the elderly pensioner is
alive because of the dog.
Altho still in an oxygen tent at
Fairplay Community Hospital,
McGregor was reported holding
his own after spending four days
in his remote cabin four miles
east of Bailey without food or
water.
He suffered a stroke which par
alyzed his left side last Wednes
day. He waited for someone to
stop by until Friday, then called
his faithful pet.
McGregor pinned this note to
his collar: “I can’t walk. Help me.
McGregor.” He then told the dog:
“Find somebody.”
The animal trotted four miles
to Bailey, but everyone thought
him too wild to pet.
On Saturday, however, 14-year
old Dick Dinsmore of Denver, in
Bailey on a fishing trip with his
parents, called to the dog in a
friendly fashion.
The shaggy black and white
dog allowed Dick to pet him.
Then the boy noticed the note.
Deputy Ray King went to the
cabin to find the elderly man
slumped in his rocking chair.
McGregor’s dog has resisted ef
forts of Bailey residents to give
him shelter aAd spends his time
running between the town and
his master’s cabin. He has been
seen to eat food left for him.
Contractors Expect
To Employ About 300
Men Here This Summer
B-E-C-K, McLaughlin and As
sociates have opened their Nome
headquarters in the Air Force
hangar at Nome Field and will be
working on the White Alice proj
ects here, also at Wales and Tin
City this summer.
A spokesman stated that at the
peak of the season probably about
300 men will be employed.
Coast to Coast
Super Sabre Flies
In 3 Hrs. 38 Mins.
McGUIRE AFB, N.J., UR—An
F-100F Super Sabre jet Sunday
flew from Palmdale, California,
to this base in 3 hours 38 minutes
to set a new unofficial transcon
tinental record.
An Air Force spokesman said
the plane left California at 9:13
a.m. local time and landed here
at 3:51 p.m. local time.
The old unofficial record of 3
hours 44 minutes 53.8 seconds
was established March 9, 1955, by
an F-84F jet plane flying between
International Airport, Los Angel
es, and Floyd Bennett Field,
Brooklyn, New York.
The F-100F was piloted yester
day by Maj. Robert Risner of the
Tactical Air Command, 479th
Fighter Day Wing at George Air
Force Base.
Commercial Airliner
Makes Record Speed
Seattle to Anchorage
SEATTLE, A new speed record |
for a commercial airliner flight
to Anchorage was reported yes
terday by Northwest Orient Air
lines.
The line reported one of its
new Douglas Imperials (DC-73)
flew the 1,472 miles from the Se
attle-Tacoma Airport to Anchor
age at 358 miles an hour. The
time of 4 hours 6 minutes was 43
minutes faster than the previous
record of a Boeing Stratpcruiser
in 1953.
The DC-C7 carried 78 passen
gers and a crew of six.
AFL-CIO Executive Council Finds
Dave Beck ‘Guilty as Charged’ of
Misusing Teamster Union Funds
WASHINGTON, UJV-The AFL
CIO Executive Council today
found Dave Beck “guilty as
charged’’ of misusing Teamster
Union funds.
George Meany, AFL-CIO Pres
ident, announced the finding and
I said the council had made per
manent its previous temporary
removal of Beck as an AFL-CIO
officer.
Meany told newsmen:
“Whether Beck stole the funds
or borrowed them, the record
shows he took advantage of his
position as a trade union official
to use money belonging to his
members for his personal use and
MOHAWK STYLE BARRED
WATSONVILLE, Calif., UP)—
What a difference a few hairs
make.
Sophomores Bill Roberts, 18,
and Pete Baclig, 15, of Watson
ville High School got Mohawk
Indian type haircuts on a bet.
Principal Ernest Crook disap
proved, but said if the boys had
all their hair cut off they could
return to classes.
Oklahoma
Hard Hit by
4 Days of Floods
Dry weather helped to ease the
danger from flood in the storm
stricken areas of the southern
plains today, tout rail fell in many
other parts of the country.
Oklahoma was hard hit by four
days of floods, with at least nine
deaths and damage estimated at
$25 million. The Arkansas, Wa
shita and Cimmaron and many
smaller Rivers and streams over
flowed.
Tulsa escaped serious flooding
from the surging Arkansas, with
overflows in only some lowland
areas. However the town of Bixby
was hard hit, with 800 of 2,300
residents reporting flood damage
to their homes.
Rivers in Kansas and Texas
also subsided, with only scattered
reports of minor flood threats.
Oklahoma state officials said
road damage alone will cost from
two to five million dollars. Up
wards of 40 state and federal
highways have been closed be
cause of smashed bridges and
high water.
MacIntyre Nominated
Air Force Undersecretary
WASHINGTON, (fl—President
Eisenhower today nominated Mal
colm A. MacIntyre of New York
to be undersecretary of the Air
Force.
MacIntyre, 49, a lawyer whose
home is in Scarsdale, N. Y., would
succeed James H. Douglas, who
has been elevated to secretary of
the Air Force.
He served as an Air Force
colonel in World War II and now
is a member of the New York law
firm of DeBoise, Plimpton & Mc
Lean.
profit.”
Meany said Beck had been
found guilty unanimously for
“gross misuse of union funds en
trusted to his care.”
Unanimous Finding
Meany said whether Beck had
violated any state or federal laws
“dealing with theft, misappropri
ation of embezzlement” was up to
the authorities and not for Beck’s .
fellow labor leaders to pass on.
But there was no question, said
Meany, that Beck violated basic
union rules for honest handling of ‘
union funds.
Meany said Beck’s post as an
AFL-CIO vice president and ex
Executive Council member is now
vacant. He said the council may
name someone else this week to
fill the positions, not necessarily
from the Teamster Union.
Back Door Exit
Beck spent only about half an
hour with his union colleagues.
He refused to answer their ques
tions about the vast web of testi
mony produced before the Senate
Rackets Committee that he had
misused large sums of the union’s
money.
The teamster president came to
the session with a statement chal
lenging the council’s right to sus
pend him, calling its action a
“nullity” and demanding that it
^ drop ouster charges.”
When Beck left, he took a back
door route to the basement of the
AFL-CIO headquarters building
and sped away in an automobile,
giving newsmen no chance to
question him.
Gromyko Spells
‘Fair Solution’ to
Aerial Inspection
MOSCOW, (tf)—Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko says a
“mile-for-mile” plan is the only
“fair solution” to the question of
open skies aerial inspection of
armaments.
Gromyko told reporters Friday
the Soviet Union never will ac
cept an “open skies” plan for in
spection of all Russia in exchange
for inspection of all the United
States.
He reaffirmed a proposal pre
sented by the Soviet Union at the
London disarmament conference
April 30. Under that proposal, the
Soviets would open almost 3,000,
000 square miles of Siberia to
aerial inspection if the U.S. opens
an area covering all Alaska and
all the U.S. west of the Mississippi
River.
Gromyko was asked to com
ment on the fact that the Soviet
Union has more than twice the
area of the U.S. and a “mile-for
mile” plan conceivably could end
up with all the United States
opened up in exchange for less
than half of the Soviet Union.
Gromyko said:
“From our point of view, this
would be fair and anything else
would not be fair at all.”