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VOL. LX No. 41 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1958 Per Copy-—IS**
I SUIT FILED TO HALT U. S. ATOMIC TESTS I
Administration Starts
Review of U. S.
Disarmament Policy
WASHINGTON, UR — The
Eisenhower administration has
started an urgent, top level re
view of U. S. disarmament poli
cies in preparation for pre-sum
mit negotiations with Russia.
President Eisenhower person
ally ordered the work speeded
up with a view to early decisions
by the National Security Council
on whether the policies should be
in any way revised.
One result may be a tentative
softening of U. S. requirements
for an agreement with Russia on
suspending nuclear weapons tests
under an international inspection
system. This would mean weak
ening or dropping a link between
test suspension and a cutoff in
production of atomic weapons.
Russia already has announced
on its own a suspension of tests
subject, however, to resumption
whenever any other nation goes
ahead with nuclear testing.
Any U. S. agreement to suspen
sion of tests still envisions an
international pact with guaran
tees through inspection. No fi
nal U. S. decesion on the issue is
expected to be made until the
summer test series is completed.
Largest Man-Made
Non-Atomic Blast
Set For Tomorrow
CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C. UP)—
■ The largest non-atomic blast man
has ever touched off is scheduled
to liquidate Ripple Rock as a
shipping menace tomorrow, if
weather permits.
If the weather is right, en
gineers at 9:31 tomorrow mor
ning will detonate 2,750,000
. pounds of high explosives now
nestled in a network of tunnels
in Ripple Rock.
If things go as planned, the
mighty explosion will rip 370,000
tons of rock off the twin-domed
submarine mountain whose top
lies just below the surface of the
water at low tide in Seymour
Narrows, between Vancouver Is
land and the mainland 100 miles
north of Vancouver, B. C.
Since 1875, two dozen large
ships and smaller ones have piled
on Ripple Rock, at the cost of 114
lives. Seymour Narrows is the
narrowest section of the Inside
Passage shipping lane between
Puget Sound and Alaska, which
is traversed by more than 2,000
large vessels and countless small
ships each year.
Prince William Sound
Point To Be Named
In Honor Of Joe Bush
SEATTLE, UP) — The Military
Sea Transportation Service has
asked the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey to give the name “Bush
Point” to a point of land on
Perry Island in Prince William
Sound, Alaska.
The narqe would honor Capt.
Ellsworth L. /^Joe) Bush, master
of the MSTS’s Seattle-based car
go ship LST-1072.
j WASHINGTON, UP) — A group
I of scientists, churchmen and
i others filed suit today seeking
! to halt U. S. nuclear tests.
The plaintiffs contend the
Atomic Energy Act is unconsti
tutional.
A press release said similar
suit will be filed in British courts
| and attorneys will seek visas at
the Russian embessy here to en
ter Russia to prosecute a suit
there.
The action was taken as anti?
bomb groups demonstrated a||
United Nations Headquarters in
New York, and in England. At
the same time, propaganda pres
sure for the West to join in
Russia’s announced plan to stop
nuclear tests was stepped up in
the Communist bloc nations.
President Eisenhower has de
nounced the Russian move as a
propaganda gimmick.
No early court action on the
anti-test suit is indicated. The
I complaint will take the usual
leisurely route to a judge for a
hearing.
Dr. Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize
winning chemistry professor,
veteran Socialist leader Norman
Thomas, and British philosopher
Bertrand Russell were among
those listed as plaintiffs.
Pauling said he thinks this
country should call off future
tests, set up a system of check
stations under supervision of the
United States and then say to
Russia: “This is what we have
done. Why don’t you do what
we have' done.”
“We have to stop this terrible
trend toward self-destruction,”
Paul said.
Khrushchev Calls On
West To Follow Russia’s
Halt To A-Tests
BUDAPEST, Hungary (ff)—Sov
iet leader Krushchev today called
on the United States and Britain
to follow Soviet Union’s example
and halt tests of atomic and hy
drogen boihbs.
Krushchev also offered to ac
cept international supervision of
a ban on tests if the other nations
found that necessary. But he
did not spell out what kind of
supervision he would accept, and
he repeated the Russian argu
ment that atomic explosions can
no longer be hidden.
“If Eisenhower really thinks
we have stopped atomic and hy
drogen bomb tests for propagan
da reasons,” Krushchev said,
“then why don’t he and other
Western statesmen 'try the same
propaganda and halt tests them
selves?”
The Soviet Premier spoke to
about 150,000 Hungarians massed
in a Budapest square to commem
orate Hungary’s World War II
liberation from the Germans by
the Red Army.
Krushchev spoke following the
first big military parade in Hun
gary since the October, 1056, re
volt.
Referring again to the Soviet
refusal to discuss East European
question at a summit confer
ence, he told the Western powers:
“now gentlemen, don’t step into
anyone else’s garden.”
7V2 Per Cent Freight Rate Increase
Between Seattle And Alaska
Became Effective Thursday
SEATTLE iBh — A new 7 Vz per I
cent increase in freight rates be
tween Seattle and Alaska went
into effect Thursday.
The increase came automati
cally when the Federal Mari
time Board failed to issue a final
order on tariffs filed last year
by the Alaska Steamship Co. and
Alaska Freight Lines calling for
15 per cent increases.
The Board suspended the tar
iffs but granted IVz per cent in
terim increases. The 120-day
suspension period ran out Wed.
midnight, making the original
tariffs effective.
The General Services Admini
stration, representing government
shipping operations, opposed any
increase.
The Territory of Alaska, the
Northwest Fish Traffic Commit
tee and Associated Grocers Inc.,
said a 7Vfe per cent increase would
be acceptable.
The Maritime Board’s public
counsel recommended a 10.6 per
cent increase for the Alaska
Steamship Co. and a 3.2 per cent
for Alaska Freight Lines.
NOME MINISTERIAL
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE
School Auditorium Sunday 7:00 a.m.
Rev. E^gar Bibb . Presiding
Rev. Willard Mecklenburg . Song Leader
Rev. Harriet Brown . Accompanist
PROGRAM
Prelude . Rev. Harriet Brown
Invocation . Rev. Roald Amundsen
Hymn: “All Hail The Power of Jesus Name”
Choral Selection
Scripture and Prayer.Rev. Thos. Knudson
Special Number.Ministers and Wives
Sermon . Rev. Edgar Bibb
Hymn ... Congregation
“Christ The Lord”
Benediction... Everett Bachelder
April 30th Set As Date For Alaska
Statehood Bill To Be Brought
i To The Floor Of The House
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaska
! statehood backers are seeking
I leadership approval to bring the
i admission bill directly to the
I House for action late this month
i if it remains botfled up in the
i House Rules Committee.
This was disclosed by Rep.
O’Brien (D-NY), chairman of the
Territories Subcommittee and a
strong statehood backer.
He said plans to write Rep.
i McCormack of Massachusetts,
House Democratic leader, during
the Easter recess seeking appro
val to bring the bill directly to
the floor April 30 if it has not
been cleared by the Rules Com
mittee by that date.
“We don’t want anyone to say
we’ve been brash or impetuous,”
O’Brien said, “but by that time
the Rules Committee will have
had the Alaska bill before it for
some nine months. That’s plenty
of time.”
O’Brien said he expects the In
terior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee to begin considering the
Hawaii statehood bill for amend
ment around May 1.
The bill was taken from the
Subcommittee and sent to the full
committee yesterday at O’Brien’s
request as an indication of “good
faith” with Hawaiian statehood
advocates.
He said the action could not
be interpreted as any change in
the statehood strategy of keeping
the Hawaii and Alaska bills sep
arated in their progress through
the House.
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13-Year-Old Anchorage Boy Shoots,
Kills Mother, Brother, And Sister
ANCHORAGE, UP) — An oral
admission by a 13-year-old boy
boy that he killed his mother,
his brother and his sister in a fit
of anger left Anchorage police
| and territorial officials wrest
! ling with an involved legal
| problem today.
Under territorial law, accord
! ing to U. S. Commissioner David
I Daines, juveniles under 16 can
| not be charged with a crime.
Daines also said jurisdiction
could not be waived to U. S.
District Court here.
Robert L. Courtney, the son
of a prominent Anchorage sheet
metal contractor, told police af
ter his capture Wednesday night
he shot Mrs. Jesse Courtney;
Jesse Jr., 9; and Bonnie Lowell,
7, after a quarrel with his mother.
Mrs. Courtney was killed out
right in the front yard of the
Courtney home as she tried to
run from her young son and the
! rifle he obtained in the base
I ment of the home. He told of
ficers he shot his brother and
sister because “once I got started
shooting I couldn’t stop.”
The boy, who was suspended
from school three months ago,
said the quarrel developed after
he told his mother he planned to
quit working in his father’s shop.
He went for the gun, he told
police, when his niother indicated
she was going to whip him with
a belt.
After the shooting, the boy
pumped three bullets into a pass-,
ing car without hitting anyone,
stole a car, stole another, ran it
into a ditch, abandoned it then
threatened a man who disarmed
him. Young Courtney broke
away and was picked up by a
30-man possee 90 minutes after
the shooting as he fled on foot
along a highway a half mile from
town.
The boy’s father was in Seattle
when Mrs. Courtney and the two
children were slain.
! Easter For Three
I
Religions Coincide
j In Holy Land
JERUSALEM, UP)—The Easter
hymns of Christians mingled
with Moslem calls to Ramadan
prayers in the old city of Jeru
salem today while Jews across
the ' armistice line in the new
city stocked up for Passover
feasts tonight.
With celebrations of the three
religions coinciding, the Holy City
was bustling with pilgrims on
both sides of the armistice line
dividing it between Israel and
Jordan.
About 5,000 Christians from a
dozen nations gathered in the
Jordan-held old city where Jesus
was tried and condemned by
Pontius Pilate. Breaking up in
to groups according to languages,
they carried heavy crosses along
the route Jesus followed to cru
cifixion. At each of the 14
stations of the cross they stopped
for hymns and sermons.
As the Way of The Cross pro
cession began, Moslems assem
1 bled nearby at the hallowed
dome of rock for the usual Friday
prayers during Ramadan, the
holy month of fasting. The dome
Physician to Explore
High-Fat Diet
Theory Among Eskimos
MONTREAL, UP — A Mon
treal physician, veteran of 17
trips to the Arctic, has left on
another expedition to the North
seeking evidence among the Es
kimos to support his theory that
a high-fat diet is desirable rather
than dangerous.
Dr. Ray Lawson, 43, labels un
proved a current idea that eating
lots of fat is a major cause of
heart and arterial diseases.
He is one of a seven-man gov
ernment medical-dental team
which will travel 15,000 miles
examining and treating the no
madic tribes of the Victoria Is
land region northwest of Hud
son Bay.
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of rock marks the spot where the
prophet Mohammed ascended on
horseback into heaven.
Jews in the new city prepared
for Seder, the feast just after sun
down which opens the week-long
passover festival. The tradition
al spring festival commemorates
the emancipation from Egyptian
slavery of ancient Israef ;s led
by Moses.
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