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VOL. LVII No. 118NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1955Per Copy—15*
Statehood Favored
86-18 in Petersburg
Congressional Hearing
KETCHIKAN, (ff)—Members of
the House subcommittee on terri
tories wound up their official Al
aska visit here yesterday with a
trip by air to nearby towns, but
they told about a significant vote
on Alaskan statehood taken Sat
urday night at Petersburg.
The Petersburg hearing at the
schoolhouse had heard the anti
statehood statements of Rep. Ed
Lokken and shrimp king Earl
Ohmer. Then one of the congress
men asked for a show of hands on
statehood.
Those favoring statehood won.
by 86 to 18 with Ohmer holding
up both hands. Lokken had left
and did not vote, they said.
Air Force Academy’s
First Football Team
To Play First Game
DENVER, (ff)—The first team
ever to play football for the new
Air Force Academy will play its
first game Saturday before what
seems sure to be the largest crowd
ever to watch a freshman game in
the mountain area.
The opening foe of the Falcons
—that’s the new service school’s
nickname—is the University of
Denver freshman team.
Academy officials said the ad
vance ticket sale has passed the
12,000 mark. With both Colorado
and Denver Universities’ teams
playing outside the state Satur
day, the cadets’ inaugural game
will have little competition as a
grid attraction.
Rotary and Chamber
Cancel Meetings for
Crew of MK Company
The Rotary Club has cancelled
its weekly noon luncheon for to
morrow so that the Bering Sea
Club can accomodate the crews of
the MK Co., which are busy dis
charging the Fortuna.
The Chamber of Commerce did
likewise yesterday at the Polaris
tor the convenience of these men,
who are housed temporarily sev
eral places in town.
It is estimated that it will take
about a week to complete dis
charging the ship.
Shemya I. To Be Used
Again as Refueling Stop
In Transpacific Flight
SEATTLE, UP—Use of Shemya
Island as a refueling and servicing
stop between Japan and Alaska
on Northwest Orient Airlines’
great circle route will be resumed
between Nov. 1 and Nov. 15.
Northwest will set up ground
control approach facilities and
long range navigation signal, a
radio station, gasoline and mech
anical service facilities. A staff
house will be operated for 35
Northwest personnel.
Air Force and CAA facilities
were removed from Shemya last
year, and Northwest was com
pelled to follow suit. Northwest
began operation at Cold Bay, on
the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula
last July 1. This drastically re
duced Northwest’s payload on
North Pacific flights.
Dodgers, With Series Championship,
Look Like League W inners Next Year
NEW YORK, W—'Their long
cherished dream finally a reality,
the world champion Brooklyn
Dodgers loomed today as the team
which will represent the National
League in the 1956 World Series.
Walter Arston, first of 20 man
agers dating back to 1890 to lead
the Brooklyn club to a world title,
modestly predicted that his team
would be even stronger next year,
than the one which whipped the
Yankees in the series, 4 games
to 3.
“Improved pitching will make
us stronger next year,” the tall,
taciturn ex-school teacher from
Darrtown, Ohio, said during a
quiet moment in the Dodgers’ ri
otous victory celebration after
their momentous 2-0 triumph in
the seventh and final game.
“Johnny Podres (who was so
superb in his two victories over
the Yankees) should develop into
one of the games’ greatest pitch
ers,” Alson pointed out. “He has
all the stuff to make a great one
and he may come into his own
next year. Those World Series
victories should give him the nec
essary confidence. Then we have
Karl Spooner, Roger Craig. Don
Bessent and Sendy Koufax. All
are young, strong and have shown
tremendous promise. And remem
ber, we still have our reliables
such as Don Newcombe, Carl Er
skine, Billy Loes, Clem Labine,
and' others.
Alson did not mention such
standout stickmen as Duke Snider,
Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and
Carl Furillo. All undoubtedly will
be at the old stand next year in-1
eluding the aging, but still bril
liant Peewee Reese and Jackie
Robinson. Junior Gilliam, Sandy
Amoros, Don Hoak and Don Zim
mer, representing the younger el
ement, all figure prominently in
the Dodgers’ future plans.
There’s no denying that all fig
ured prominently in the great
j Dodger victory of 1955 climaxed
by the pulse-pounding triumph at
: Yankee Stadium yesterday that
had the 62,465 nail-biting specta
, tors exhausted at the finish. Even
pthe staunchest American League
! die-hards could not begrudge
i Brooklyn’s finest hour as they
watched the 23-year-old Podres
| pitch a superb game to become
i the first Brooklyn pitcher to win
; two games in a World Series. They
! saw the Dodgers make maximum
j use of their five hits and mar
! veled at the Dodgers’ brilliant de
fense that five times turned the
Yankees back when it appeared
they were about to break through.
At the finish, when Reese, the
stonewall shortstop, threw out El
ston Howard, the big park rocked
with human emotion as the entire
Dodger team raced out on the field
to embrace the gritty young
southpaw.
$16,537,900 Allocated to
States for Development
Of Fish and Wildlife
WASHINGTON, tSV-^Secretary
of the Interior McKay yesterday
announced allocation of $16,537,
900 of federal aid funds to the 48
states for restoration and devel
opment of sport fishery and wild
life resources.
McKay said under the require
ment the states must put up one
dollar for every three dollars of
federal aid they get. A total of
$22,050,533 will be available for
such work by state conservation
departments.
The federal aid funds come
from excise taxes imposed on
arms, ammunition, rods, reels, etc.
SCORPION STOWAWAY
SUMA, Ariz., UP—One F-89D
“Scorpion” jet here for the world
wide Air Force air-to-air rocketry
meet had added sting yesterday.
1st Lt. William D. Evans of Lu
cas, Iowa, found a desert snake
curled up on the nosewheel of his
Alaskan Air Command craft dur
ing pre-flight inspection.
Plumber Designs
Weird Craft for
Floating Shop
SEATTLE, (J*!—Roland Burrows
has come out of the north in one
of the weirdest seagoing contrap
tions a plumber ever hung togeth
er. To folk around Juneau, the
contraption was known as “The
Thing” while it was building.
To terror-stricken fish along the
route from Juneau to Seattle, it
probably appeared as a great
green whale, with its jaws agape
to dredge in little fish and its
stomach already rumbling in an
ticipation.
To plumber Burrows, though,
the contraption’s no “thing” at all.
She’s the light of his life, his self
designed, homemade 46-foot cata
maran dreamboat, the Blue Star.
True to the catamaran type, the
Blue Star is a twin-hull job, with
a gap between the hulls. The Blue
Star, though, is like no catamaran
that ever visited Seattle before.
Burrows spent the past seven
years designing her, he says, and
the past year and a half building
her in his spare time.
She took six days for the run,
j
south, but Burrows sets her top
speed at “about 12 knots as soon
as the wrinkles are out of her en
gines.” He estimates his strange
craft’s cost at $30,000.
She’ll be worth all that, he says,
as a floating shop for the plumb
ing service he calls the Burrows
Welding Co.
And with his floating shop will
Burrows be right there when any
one in southeast Alaska calls for
a plumber? “Well, Burrows says,
“I’ll be just a few hours away.”
He’s sure his Blue Star won’t
break up the way Gar Wood’s ex"
perimental catamaran, the Ven
tura, did off Florida last year.
“Wood’s boat was made of ply
wood and shingles,” Barrows says.
“This one I know is going to hang
together. It’s steel construction,
and I did practically all the weld
ing myself.”
Death of Greece’s Premier Papagos
Leaves Threat of Political Crisis
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Knight Intends to
Head Delegation
From California
SACRAMENTO, Calif., UB—
Gov. Goodwin J. Knight said to
day he intends to head California’s
delegation to the 1956 Republican
National Convention, even if it
means an open fight with Vice
President Richard M. Nixon.
He reiterated that if President
Eisenhower, his first choice, does
not run, he will seek control of
the state’s important bloc of votes
himself as a favorite son—and
only nominal—candidate.
Knight, in an interview mark
ing the start of his third year in
office, made no attempt to hide
his coolness toward Nixon.
He said he had heard rumors
that the Vice President’s home
state supporters are planning to
enter their own slate of delegates
in the June California primary in
the event Eisenhower bows out of
the race.
California voters select conven
tion delegates of both parties in a
presidential primary election. The
delegates must be pledged to a
candidate who has given his writ
ten consent.
Asked if a Nixon ticket would
affect his plans for a Knight
pledged delegation, the governor
replied, “not in the slightest.”
Knight agreed the California
delegation—second only, with 70
votes, to New York’s 96 in 1952—
would be vital to Nixon’s presi
dential hopes but, he said:
“The Republicans of California
will want to be represented by a
completely independent delega
tion devoted to the Republican
Party and not to the ambitions of
any one man.”
John L. Lewis Suffered
Mild Heart Attack
WASHINGTON, (J^-^John L.
Lewis’ trouble has been diagnosed
as a heart attack like the one that
felled President Eisenhower, but
not as severe.
Lewis’ physician said last night
it now appears the 75-year-old
boss of the United Mine Workers
suffered a “very minimum heart
attack” about two weeks ago.
Lewis was admitted to the hos
pital Sept. 22—the day before Eis
enhower was stricken in Colorado.
It was said at the time that Lewis
was in for a rest and checkup.
Ken Hinchey Elected
Mayor of Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Iff)—The voters
of Anchorage elected businessman
Ken Hinchey as they mayor in
yesterday’s municipal election.
Hinchey defeated Jack Scaveni
ous, Anchorage attorney and for
mer territorial representative, by
1510 to 789. He will succeed May
nard Taylof Jr.
The voters approved 1049-969
a bond issue of $600,000 for ex
pansion of the city electrical sys
tem.
» ATHENS, Greece, UP>—Greece
faced the possibility of a serious
political crisis today after the
death of Premier Alexander Papa
gos, the national hero.
Field Marshal Papagos, 71-year
old victor over the Italians in
World War II and the Commu
nists in 1949, died last night of
heart exhaustion following a lung
hemorrhage.
The marshal had been confined
to his home since January with
gastric troubles resulting from
World War II imprisonment in a
Nazi camp.
Members of the Premier’s Con
servative *Greek Rally Party have
planned to meet after his funeral
Friday in an effort to reweld par
ty unity and settle on a successor.
The party, a coalition of various
political groups, had come near to
dissolution in the months since
the Premier’s illness robbed it of
much of his unifying influence.
Only yesterday Papagos had
nominated Foreign Minister Ste
phan Stephanopoulos to be pro
visional premier during his illness
but this automatically ceased with
the Premier’s death.
Because a general election would
mean the end of the party, politi
cal observers expected its diverse
elements to subordinate their in
dividual ambitions in an effort to
agree on a new premier.
U. S. officials in Washington
were distressed to hear of Papa
gos’ death. Americans who had
dealt with him regarded him
highly and found him very friend
ly to the United States. The Am
ericans also feared the effects on
the country if a struggle for power
developed.
Cautious Optimism at
Ike’s Bedside as He
Has ‘Excellent Night’
DENVER, (ff)—President Eisen
hower’s doctors reported today he
had “an excellent night” in his
fight for recovery from a heart
attack.
The bulletin came as a cozy air
of cautious optimism continued to
prevail around the President’s
bedside.
Therfe was no let-up whatsoever
in the physician’s around-the
clock vigilance, because the cru
cial two-week danger period after
a heart attack won’t be up until
Saturday. But the Eisenhower
family and relations are begin
ning to relax a bit.
Frisco Formally Signed
For GOP Convention
WASHINGTON, (ff^National
Chairman Leonard W. Hall today
announced the formal signing of a
contract to hold next year’s Re
publican National Convention in
San Francisco Aug. 20, as origin
ally planned.
Hall predicted the GOP confer
ence will nominate the next presi
dent of the U.S.. But he declined
to speculate on whether Eisen
hower will run, saying this would
be inappropriate at this time.