2S NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 55 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1961 Per Copy 15^
COUNCIL ADOPTS
NEW PAY SCALE
The City Council Monday I
night appointed three incumbents j
to city positions for the next year. !
Robert W. Oliver was hired as
Police and Fire Chief, Herb Jenks
as Jail Superintendent, and Harry
Johnsen as Utility Man.
The Council decided to install
the new boiler in the city build
ing as soon as is practicable.
The City Planning Commission
was voted $500 for operating ex
penses for supplies, plats and
maps, etc.
The committee on salaries,
Councilmen Perkins, Herman and
Hedreen, submitted their report
and the new scale was adopted.
Salary of the Police and Fire
Chief was set at $750 to $900
and Chief Oliver’s present pay
was raised to $800 per month.
Patrolmen and jail guards were
raised $25 per month to $575 with
a $25 raise after six months em
ployment and another $25 per
month increment after one year.
The jail superintendent’s pay
was set at $650 to $800; matrons,
$390 to $470, and utility man
$675 to $725.
The Council authorized, for the
jail: the superintendent and three
guards, a cook and three matrons;
and for the police department,
the chief and three patrolmen.
The employes will work a 48
hour week.
The Council: rejected as too
high the bid by Arctic Sanitary
Service to provide garbage dis
posal service; accepted a bid by
Bronson "Water Delivery for
water at one and one-eighth cents
per gallon; accepted a bid by City
Fuel and Transfer for fuel oil—
25 cents per gallon for furnace
oil and 27 cents for stove oil.
Council made a counter pro
posal to the Alaska Dept, of
Health in the matter of sharing
the cost of providing office space
in the MMM Hospital for the
Public Health Nurse. The ADH
proposal called for the city and
the state to each provided $1,800.
The city proposed to provide
$100 a month to be matched
by the state with $200 per month.
Central Construction Co.
Submits Low Bid for
Nome-Teller Road
JUNEAU UP) — The Central
Construction Co. of Seattle to
day submitted a low bid of $779,
230 for construction of another
13-mile section of the Nome
Teller Road.
Central Construction’s bid was
$99,974 less than the state’s esti
mate for the work and almost
$17,000 under the second low bid
of $948,804, submitted by S. S.
Mullen, Inc., of Seattle.
The work involves road con
struction between Bluestone and
Teller including grading and
drainage.
Kenai Post Office Will Be
Dedicaled by Postmaster Gen. Day
WASHINGTON UP) — The
Kenai Post Office will be dedi
cated by Postmaster Gen. J. Ed
ward Day Saturday.
He will be accompanied to
Kenai by Sen. Ernest Guening,
a special assistant to the Post
master General, James F. Kelle
her; and Sidney W. Bishop, con
fidential assistant to the Post
master General.
Day will dedicate the New In
ternational Airport Annex of the
Anchorage Post Office later the
same day.
Russia Increases
Fishing Fleet
Iii Bering Sea
WASHINGTON Ufi — Russia
has increased its Bering Sea fish
ing fleet and has done exploratory
work south of the Aleutian
Islands, a fisheries authority told
a congressional committee yes
terday.
Donald L. McKernan, Director
of the Bureau of Commercial
Fisheries, made the statement be
foi'e the Senate Commerce Com
mittee, during a hearing on the
agency’s fiscal 1962 budget.
Sen. Magnuson committee chair
man, asked McKernan:
“How many Russian ships are
up there now? As many as last
year?”
McKernan replied: “Yes, in fact,
more than last year.”
Questioned by Magnuson, Mc
Kernan told the committee bot
tom fish and king crabs make up
most of the catch made by the
Russians in the Bering Sea.
He added he “had no know
ledge of any conservation being
practiced” by the Russians in the
Bering Sea.
Magnuson told the committee
he hoped Russia would become
a party to a North Pacific Treaty
because “it does not seem possible
that we have any treaty looking
toward conservation of North
Pacific Fisheries with Russia being
a party.”
Rep. Sayor Says Hunting
Regulations Should Be
Put on Marine Mammals
WASHINGTON UP — Rep. John
P. Saylor, (R-Pa.>, today advo
cated government intervention to
protect the polar bear, walrus and
sea otter from what he called
ruthless slaughter.
Saylor asked the House Fish
eries and Wildlife subcommittee
to approve his bill to permit the
Secretary of Interior to enforce
regulations for the hunting of
marine mammals on the high seas.
The number of such killings, he
said, is approaching twice the an
nual natural replacement in the
case of walrus, and is seriously
depleting the polar bear popula
tion on northern ice floes.
Asked why he did not include
brown bears, Saylor said most of
them are within Alaska and sub
ject to state control.
The otter, walrus and polar
bear, he said, are found in inter
national waters and are properly
within jurisdiction of the federal
government.
House Committee Authorizes
A Medal for the Late Dr. Dooley
WASHINGTON UP — A House
committee has authorized a medal
for Dr. Thomas A. Dooley III, a
physician who sparked a program
of medical aid for Southeast Asia
before he died of cancer last Jan.
18.
The House Banking Committee
approved a bill authorizing $2,500
for a gold medal honoring Dooley.
The bill now goes to the House
for floor action.
THE WEATHER
Continued cloudy with fog and
occasional mixed rain and snow.
Little change in temperature. Low
tonight 32, high tomorrow 35. In
the last 24 hours as of 7:00 a. m.
High of 34, low of 32. Sunrise at
3:00 a. m., sunset at 8:59 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
High of 36, low of 30. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of
51 in 1940, low of 8 in 1949.
Control Commission Will
Try to Get Cease-Fire in
Laos on Firm Footing
VIENTIANE, Laos Ufi — Offi
cials of the Control Commission
flew to the rebel-held Plaines
Des Jarres today in an effort to
get the Laotian cease-fire on firm
footing before the opening of the
Geneva conference on Laos Fri- |
day.
Before leaving, chairman Sam
ar Sen of India said he has !
found the situation in Laos con- |
fused but “there are encouraging
signs.”
Sen declined to say, however,
when he felt the commission
could verify a trustworthy cease
fire — a condition Western powers
have laid down for attending the
14-nation Geneva meeting.
“We are going up to make con
tact and find out how the situa
tion is,” he said.
Both sides in the Laotian civil
war proclaimed a cease-fire a
week ago but negotiations for a
permanent armistice and a coali
tion government have been de
layed by failure of the rival
factions to agree on a meeting
place.
There have been a number of
minor clashes on the various fight
ing fronts during the past week,
some with serious implications,
but generally the cease-fire has
been considered effective.
—
All Reservists Would Have
8-Year Military Obligation
In Bill Passed by House
WASHINGTON UP) — All re
servists would have an eight
year military obligation under a
bill passed by the House.
The measure sent to the Senate
j Tuesday would place reserves in
all branches of the armed forces
on the same basis, adding two
years to the obligation of men
from 18V2 to 26 years of age who
enlist in the ready reserves.
The eight-year obligation al
ready applies to those who enter
the reserves under 18M> and to
I draftees who must remain in the 1
reserve six years after two years
on active duty.
The bill also would give the Na
tional Guard the authority already
possessed by other organized re
serves to order 45 days additional
active duty for men who fall be
hind in required training.
FRENCH AIRLINER CRASHES
79 PERSONS KILLED
ALGIERS UP) — A French air- <
liner carrying 79 persons crashed ;
in the Sahara today and Air 1
France said there were no survi
vors. 1
At least five Americans were :
aboard. \
The Air France four-engine
Super Constellation was bound
from the Congo Repulic to Paris.
Air France did not immediately
announce a complete list of pas- :
sengers. There were 69 passengers
and 10 crew members aboard.
Standard Oil of Califronia
Announce Completion of 28th Well
ANCHORAGE UP) — Standard
Oil of California yesterday an
nounced completion of the 28th
well in the Swanson River Oil
Field.
Completed, May 5, the No. 21-27 j
well is expected to have a pro- 1
duction rate of about 450 barrels
of oil a day. It is the 14th well
in the Swanson River unit.
The Swanson River unit is lo
cated on the Kenai Peninsula, 1
about 40 miles south of here.
Eichmann Went Beyond
Hitler’s Plans In
Exterminating Jews
By Thomas A. Reedy
JERUSALEM Ufl — Adolf Eich
mann advanced some proposals
for exterminating Jews that went
even beyond Hitler’s plans, the
orosecution charged today at the
former Gestapo officer’s trial.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Gavriel Bach
told the Israeli court that at one
stage in World War II suggestions
arose within the Nazi heirarchy
that half-Jews in the Netherlands
should be considered full Jews,
and thus be marked for death.
Objections to this idea arose
from the army and even Hitler
himself, Bach said. The argument
was that extension of this princi
ple eventually would force one
quarter Jews serving in the Ger
man army to quit military service.
Bach said Eichmann, however,
advocated classifying half-Jews
as full-Jews and this showed
“Eichmann in certain points was
even more extreme in his ap
proach to the Jewish question
than Hitler himself.
Bach made his accusation dur
ing a day of testimony on the
Nazi extermination of Jews in
the Netherlands and Belgium.
A short, stocky school teacher
testified that the Nazis wiped out
the Jews of Holland and “for
ever made Tuesday a day of
dread.”
To this day, even in the safety
of Israel, “we retain a sensiti
vity to Tuesday,” Dr. Josef Melk
man testified.
That was the day of the week
in Holland when the Jews were
lined up in the concentration
camps at 3 a. m. to hear the names
of those chosen for deportation to
the East.
They all knew, Eichmann said,
this was the end of the road.
$13.^ Million Foundation
Work of Bank Collapses
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. UP> —
Foundation work for a $13.5 mil
lion bank building on Wilshire
Boulevard collapsed with a roar
Monday night.
The scaffolding and concrete
work collapsed into an excava
tion that was to be used an under
ground parking lot for 1,000 cars.
Residents for blocks around
were aroused by the thunderous
vibrations from the collapse. But
no one was injured.
Night watchman Ray Brock ran
from his trailer office at the edge
of the hole and warned traffic
away from a hole that extended
out into the boulevard.
Police said the collapse ap
parently was caused by ruptures
in water mains in the area.
Scores of sightseefs were at
tracted to the scene and traffic
was tied up during the emergency.
Under construction is a a new
United California Bank Building
scheduled for completion next
year.
$14.38 FOR SPACE HOP . . .
WASHINGTON I/P — Astro
naut Alan B. Shepard Jr. made
$14.38 by flying into space last
Friday.
The Navy came up with the
figure today after checking his J
pay status.
As a commander on flying
duty Shepard gets an extra $230
a month but has to fly four hours
a month for it. He draws regular
pay as well, but no special com
pensation as an astronaut.
The 15-minute ride 115 miles
high con”4*' - the four hours.
Floods Ravage
Midwest Area
By Tha Associated Press
Swollen creeks and rivers
cracked levees and left thousands
of persons homeless today, includ
ing 1,250 families in a five-state
rain and flood-ravaged area of
the Midwest.
Twenty-five dead and millions
of dollars in damage were left in
the wake of rampaging waters in
parts of Missouri, Indiana, Kan
sas, Kentucky and Southern Illin
ois. Five persons are missing in
the five-state area; 118 persons
were injured and 68 hospitalized.
Red Cross rescue workers con
verted barracks, garages and
civic buildings into emergency
shelters. They worked around the
clock providing food, medicine,
orders for clothing and household
necessities and shelter to refugees
from 34 counties in the stricken
area. High waters closed schools
and business places, isolated many
communities and made impassable
many major and secondary roads.
The threat of typhoid fever
from contaminated drinking
water worried officials in many
midwestern communities.
Through the night river town
dwellers and flood crews battled
the chruning waters. Volunteer
workers, Civil Defense and Na
tional Guard crews and soldiers
joined in the fight to hold levees.
AT & T Ready to Spend
$15 Million to Launch
Experimental Satellite
WASHINGTON UP> — The
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co. said today it is ready and
eager to spend as much as $15
million of its own money to
launch an experimental communi
cations satellite leading to a com
mercial worldwide system.
James E. Dingham, AT & T
vice president and chief engineer,
disclosed also that the company
last Dec. 14 asked the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration to assign it a rocket to
launch the experimental satellite.
Dingman said the company is
anxiously awaiting the NASA de
cision. He said the company
would be ready to shoot its own
satellite into orbit by the first
of next year.
Polar Expert Balchen Says
U.S. Should Set UP ICBM
Launching Sites on Ice Cap
DAYTON UP> — The United
States should be developing a
chain of multi-purpose defense
bases in the ice cap of Greenland,
a noted Polar and aviation ex
pert believes.
He is Bernt Balchen, the man
who flew the late Adm. Richard
Byrd to Anarctica in 1928.
Balchen spoke last night at a
banquet of the National Aero
space Electronics Conference
here. He has spent nearly two
thirds of his 62 years in Polar
work and is now a consultant for
General Precision Inc., an elec
tronics equipment company.
The Arctic expert believes that
the 8,000 foot high Greenland
ice cap would be the ideal place
to base intermediate ballistic
missiles.
Launching silos could be con
structed there for a fraction of
what they cost in the United
States simply by digging into the
| ice, he said.
Balchen said this country has
1 already mastered the techniques
of building military installations
1 on the ice cap or in it.