IS NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 22_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1956 Per Copy—154
Local
Non-Economy
Contributed By
BARBARA ANDERSON
It has been brought into the
open that local men are and have
been refused work here in Nome
on the construction program going
forward for Western Electric and
Morrison - Knudsen. There are
many men in the area who could
do the work, and are qualified as
skilled labor, and yet men for
these same jobs are being brought
in from Anchorage and even from
“Outside.” It is our endeavor and
earnest desire that local men be
given the opportunity to bene
fit from the economy being pre
sented to the area in the construc
tion program.
Pressure is being brought to
bear in the form of letters to
representative people by the
N.W.A. Chamber of Comemrce.
These letters are an appeal to the
contractors, namely, Aner Erick
son, Alaska district manager of
Morrison - Knudsen, Breen Can
ady, project manager, also of M-K
and to Larry Moore, genei'al man
ager of Alaska General Contrac
tors. All these men are located in
Anchorage.
Appeals are also being sent to
the various unions in Fairbanks
for consideration and the hoped
for result that union representa
tives will be sent to this area to
take applications for membership
in all the various trades, as there
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Bulganin Sees
Bed Victory With
Atomic Power Use
MOSCOW, (#1—Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin Tuesday called
on his party to use atomic energy
to achieve victory for Commu
nism.
He claimed the Soviet Union is
ahead of all countries in peaceful
uses of atomic energy and urged
his audience at the 20th Commu
ist Party Congress to keep this
lead.
Bulganin formally introduced
the sixth Five Year Plan and as
sured the delegate that collective
leadership of the party would
continue.
“If the 19th century was the
Age of Steam,” Bulganin said,
“the 20th Century—the Age of
Electricity—is becoming the Age
of Atomic Energy which harbors
unlimited pQtentialities for the
development of productive forces.
“We Communists must fully
place the greatest discovery of the
20th century, atomic energy, at
the service of . . . the cause of
building Communism. . . .”
Bulganin appeared to be reas
suring the 20th Congress of the
party that there is not now and
will not be a struggle for personal
power behind the Kremlin walls.
He praised Nikita Khrushchev’s
references to the peaceful coex
istence of socialist and capitalist
systems, and the form of transi
tion to socialism in various coun
tries.
Korean Orphans Flown
To Hollywood to Take
Part in War Movie
TOKYO, UP)—A spokesman for
Universal- International Pictures
said today 25 Korean orphans will
leave Seoul March 6 for Holly
wood to play themselves in the
Korean War film “Battle Cry.”
He said the orphans are sched
uled to cross the Pacific Ocean via
Northwest Airlines, arriving in
Seattle March 6 and transferring
immediately to a Los Angeles
bound airliner.
Washington Is
Best Remembered
For What Event?
By RUSSELL LANDSTROM
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa.
UP)—What event, real or fancied,
in the life of George Washington
is he best remembered for?
Some plump for the cherry tree
story, with its famous tag-line of J
truth as small-fry seldom tell it:
“Yes, father, I chopped it down
with my little hatchet.”
Many others certainly single
out the dramatic crossing of the
Deleware River from here to i
strike at the Hessian horde in ‘
Trenton, N.J., on Christmas night
in 1776.
| But what about Valley Forge,
and that dreadful 1777-78 winter
of privation? There, if anywhere
in the New World, was stuff for
another Shakespeare to write of.'
Schoolbooks build lasting mem
ories of the account of the Revo
lutionary War’s finale—the sur
render of Cornwallis at Yorktown
—and of Washington’s inaugura
tion as the nation’s first president
and of his Farewell Address.
A look into the records shows
that Lord Cornwallis, who fought
Washington and had good reason
to judge his adversary’s abilities
and exploits, later told his one
time enemy: “Fame will gather
your brightest laurels from the
banks of the Delaware.”
SIX AIRMEN KILLED
IN TWO CRASHES OF
PLANES IN FLORIDA
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., UR
—Six men were killed late yester
day in two crashes of military
planes in south Florida.
Five died when their Boeing
KC97 Stratofreighter crashed and
burned at the Palm Beach AFB,
and a Marine Corps pilot was
killed when his Douglas Skyraid
er fell 100 yards from the end of
a runway at the Marine Corps
Air Station at Opa-Locka.
Witnesses said the left inboard
engine was afire when the Strato
fighter was coming in for a land
ing. The plane struck the ground
on the north side of Belvedere,
Road, nosed into an embankment,
flipped over on its back, skidded
across the road, and burst into
flames.
The Skyraider was returning
from a training flight and was
making its final approach to the
landing strip when it crashed
northwest of Miami and burst into
flames.
Chamber Requests
Union Hiring
Office at Nome
The N.W.A. Alaska Chamber of
Commerce has appealed to M-K
Co. for the establishment of a
genera] local hiring office in
Nome for the construction work
now getting under way in this
area. The appeal was made in a
letter to Aner Erickson, district
manager, and to Breen Canaday,
project manager for the Mcyri
son-Knudsen Co.
The Chamber’s letter stressed
the necessity for hiring the
approximately 200 available local
workers in skilled, semi - skilled
and unskilled jobs, from Nome
as well as from villages through
out the division and Kotzebue
Sound. The communication also
showed that percentage-wise,
close to one third of this group
is classed from skilled to semi
skilled in heavy equipment oper
ation and maintenance, carpentry,
plumbing and in other construc
tion trades as well.
Mr. Don Barker, of M-K, spoke
to the Chamber on the subject
yesterday noon and said that his
company was desirous of hiring
local people if the obstacles men
tioned above could be overcome.
Edith Bullock, of Kotzebue, also
stressed the need for this work by
the natives of the outlying vil
lages. She said she was taking
action by letters and wires to
the various unions concerned ad
vising them of this critical situ
ation in this area.
‘War Declared
Against Europe’s
Long Coldwave
LONDON, OP—Planes from the
Yugoslav air force today bombed
giant icepacks blocking Adriatic
rivers in a “declaration of war”
against Europe’s worst winter in
living memory.
Special teams of rifle sharp
shooters patrolled Communist Po
land in a hunt against mauraud
ing wolf packs driven out of their
lairs by starvation.
The shivering continent count
ed 762 known dead as the sub
zero spell rolled up its 23rd day
with little or no relief in sight.
Crop damage on the continent
ran into hundreds of millions of
dollars. Britain’s big potato stocks
froze solid in Lincolnshire. Pick
ing of green vegetables came to
a halt.
Spanish air force planes finally
succeeded in dropping food sup
plies to nearly 60 persons’ ma
rooned for 15 days atop the high
est mountain on Majorca in the
Mediterranean Balearic Islands.
The group—which reportedly in
cluded six Americans—is prepar
ing a site for a U.S. radar station.
German weather experts said
the freeze-up may be Central
Europe’s worst in 200 years. They
said the average temperature for
the first 20 days of February ran
slightly below the lowest average
for the month since records were
first kept in 1766.
Sen. Russell Urges $1V2 Billion
Increase in Funds for Air Force
Son's Letter and Notice
Of His Death Reach
Mother on Same Day
WAILUKU, Maui, Hawaii, UP
—Mrs. Victoria Gomes got a let
ter and telegram Sunday. The
letter was from her son, saying he
would be coming home; the tele
gram reported that he was dead.
Cpl. Herbert Mamaril mailed
the letter shortly before the ma
rines’ transport plane left Camp
Pendleton for Oakland, Calif. He
wrote:
“We’ll be flying over Friday
morning.” The plane he was on
ci'ashed south of Oakland last
Friday afternoon, killing all 40
marines aboard.
“May the good Lord bless you
and keep you and the family as
you are now,” said his letter.
Freedoms Foundation
Gives 923 Awards for
Advancing U.S. Freedoms
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., •
Freedoms Foundation turned the
spotlight today on what it said
were the best things done in the
U.S. in 1955 “to maintair^the Am
erican way of life.”
Altogether, the foundation hon
ored 923 individuals, organiza
tions and schools for things they
wrote, said and did to preserve
and advance America’s freedom.
There were eight major awards,
but only one went to an individ
ual, David Lawrence, newspaper
columnist and magazine editor.
Other top winners included:
The Boy Scouts of America, Ki
wranis International, the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution,
and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Edwin Franko Goldman,
Famous Bandmaster and
Composer, Dies at 78
~NEW YORK, (4*)—Edwin Franko
Goldman, 78, considered the suc
cessor to John Philip Sousa as the
nation's leading bandmaster and
composer of marches, died yester
day after a brief illness.
His shock of white hair and
jaunty step as he mounted the
podium were familiar to two gen
erations of New Yorkers. Millions
heard his Central Park concerts.
Goldman’s band played free
open air concerts in the city for
nearly 40 years.
The bandmaster wrote more
than 100 marches. His “On the
Mall” ranks second in popularity
only to Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes
Forever.”
Fairbanks' Remote Radio
Station Plan Given Up
WASHINGTON, OR—The House
Armed Services Committee yes
terday approved the Army’s plan
to give up the Fairbanks, Alaska,
remote receiving radio station.
The committee was told it has
been superseded by an unattended
receiving facility. The 660-acre
site and improvements would be
turned over to the General Ser
vices Administration for disposal.
WASHINGTON, UP>—-Sen. Rus
sell (D-Ga' today urged an in
crease “of not less than” \Vz bil
lion dollars ;n new Air Force
funds to meet the increasing air
atomic powers of Soviet Russia.
“Frankly, I would like to go
somewhat higher than that,” Rus
sell said in an interview. He is
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee.
He said he favors stepping up
production of the B-52, an inter
continental jet bomber which he
called “the best deterrent to pos
sible war.” He also suggested an
increase in funds to speed devel
opment of guided and ballistic
missiles.
For hours yesterday Russell
and other committee members
questioned Air Force Secretary
Quarles and Gen. Nathan F. Twi
ning, Air Force chief of staff, be
hind closed doors.
Quai'les and twining described
as “austere” President Eisenhow
er’s budget request for $16Vi> bil
lion in new Air Force funds, but
they said it would be adequate.
Quarles and Twining described
is “the most powerful striking
force ever assembled on earth.”
He also claimed the Air Force
budget “will give us the means to
carry out a sound program to
meet objectives.”
Russell apparently disagreed,
saying: “I greatly fear that we are
taking very long chances with the
security of our country.” Russell
stated that “according to our best
intelligence, the Russians now are
producing long-range bombers at
a greater rate than we are.”
Tokyo Population Rises
TOKYO, l®—1The population of
Tokyo, largest city in Asia and
third largest in the world, hit
8,070,001 last Jan. 1, the city’s
statistics bureau announced. It
increased 262,335 during 1955.
New York and London have
bigger populations.
(Czechoslovak ia
Blame U.S. Balloon
For Plane Crash
LONDON, UPV—The Czechoslo
vak government charged Tuesday
that a U.S. balloon caused the
Jan. 18 crash of a Czech airliner
in which 22 persons died.
The charge was made in a
Prague radio broadcast which
said:
“The cause of a plane disaster
on Jan. 18 in which 22 passengers
were killed and four seriously in
jured was an American balloon
dispatched to Czechoslovak terri
tory from a base in western Ger
many, says an official communi
que.”
Previous official reports of the
disaster made no mention of its
cause, but Prague and other Com
munist capitals have been charg
ing that American balloons are a
menace to airplanes.