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VOL. LIX No. 125NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1957 ~ Per Copy—15#
Dinner Planned
To Honor Visiting
PTA Leaders
The Executive Committee of
the Nome PTA plans to have a
dinner for Mrs. John Homing,
president of the Alaska Congress
of Parents and Teachers, and Mrs.
Ellen Bieler, national field con
sultant.
Members of the Nome PTA who
desire to attend the dinner should
make their reservations with Mrs.
Jim Blanning or Mrs. Gordon Os
borne. The dinner is to be held
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6 p.m., at the
North Star Restaurant.
Following the dinner, Mrs. Bie
ler will conduct a workshop on
PTA operation. This will be in
the Multi-purpose Room of the
Nome School. All committee
chairmen and their committee
members are requested to attend.
The meeting will be open to
the public and any PTA members
who desire to attend may do so.
They will be greeted by Dick
Miller and Alice Osborne, who
will take them on a tour and to
luncheon and in the afternoon
will conduct them on a visit thru
the school.
All PTA members are reminded
that the regular October meeting
of Nome PTA is to be held Tues
day, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.
Billy Graham Suffers
Cuts, Possible Fracture
From Butt of Pet Ram
MONTREAL, N.C., UPi—A pet
ram butted Billy Graham three
times yesterday, knocking the
evangelist 50 feet down a rocky
mountainside and sending him
to bed with cuts, bruises, and a
possible fractured knee.
Graham said he would make a
scheduled appearance at the Polo
Gorunds in New York City next
Sunday “even if*I have to be car
ried there on a stretcher.”
Graham was in a pasture to
feed apples to the three Suffolk
sheep he recently bought as pets
for his children when the ram
went into action.
Pilot and Priest
Found Safe After
Big Air Search
When Pat Bliss and his passen
ger, Father Lawrence Nevue,
were reported overdue at Koyuk
all local bush planes and private
planes took to the air Saturday to
search for them.
Bliss and his passenger left here
Tuesday and were scheduled to
be in Koyuk Thursday with a stop
at Ungalik. It was known they
had reached Ungalik but there
was considerable concern at Koy
uk that the pair had left Ungalik
and were down between Ungalik
and Koyuk, it was reported.
Fortunately they were located
at Ungalik, where they had been
weather-bound since their arrival.
In the meantime, Father Neil
Murphy, former pastor of the
Catholic Church here, was called
from Fairbanks to carry on the
work here. He plans to return to
Fairbanks today.
Visiting VFW Official
Meets Enthusiasm for
Active Local Group
James J. Brunette, adjutant
service officer of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars from Juneau head
quarters, met here with a group
of veterans Saturday evening. He
reports the group seems really
enthusiastic in the formation of
an active veterans group in the
community.
A meeting of the local group is
planned tentatively for tomorrow
evening to elect officers, increase
membership, and become an ac
tive civic organization.
Ottawa Junior Chamber
Wins World Honors
TOKYO 13—The most outstand
ing local chapter at the World
Congress of Junior Chambers of
Commerce was named Saturday
as Ottawa, Canada. Omaha, Neb.,
was selected for a certificate of
merit.
A spokesman announced the
selections at a closing session of
the international meeting.
v Frogman Who Went Diving in
Wine Is the Toast of the Town
RJVA DEL GARDA, Italy, IR—
The residents of this alpine resort
today toasted the frogman who
went diving in a vat of wine.
Thanks to his prowess the juice
of the local grape won’t run in
the streets.
Riva Del Garda boasts a co
operative wine cellar housing 20
huge vats of 52,800-gallon capac
ity each. The farmers now are
bringing in their new wine, which
is piped down into the under
ground vats.
Yesterday a worker went be
low to the corridor adjoining the
vats to inspect things. He found
the passageway three feet <Teep in
new wine. He started looking
around to see where it came from.
Then he collapsed, overcome by
the fumes from the still ferment
ing liquid.
Minutes later a second work
man entered the corridor to find
the first man. The fumes got him,
too.
Other workmen sized up the
situation quickly and rescued
their befuddled comrades. But the
wine continued to rise in the cor
ridor. Then somebody thought of
the frogman. The town is located
on Lake Garda in the Italian Alps
and has several experienced
divers.
Tullio Cestari, 33, put on his
breathing apparatus and waded
thru the heavy flood. He located
the overflowing vat but couldn’t
see what was wrong. So he
climbed to the rim and dived into
the 12-foot-deep tank.
Searching around, lie found dirt
had clogged the valve which
channeled excess wine into an
other vat. He cleaned the valve
and stopped the flood.
Riva Del Garda’s 1957 vintage
will be only 40,000 gallons less
than anticipated.
Bridal Couple Killed
In Plane Crash
Enroute to Wedding
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. UPC-Four
people flying to Las Vegas, Nev.,
where two were to be married,
were killed late Saturday night
when their plane plunged into
China Grade Bluff.
The partly buried wartime
four-seater Cessna trainer was
found yesterday with the bodies
of Kathleen Moor, 19, the bride
to-be, Hilding Andrew Linde, 22,
her fiance, and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Hans Lawson Linde,
47 and 42 of Bakersfield.
A sheriff said the plane appar
ently broke up in the air.
50 Japanese Scientists
Leave for Antarctica
TOKYO, UPt—A 50-man Japan
ese scientific expedition sailed for
the antarctic today aboard the
icebreaker Soya to make surveys
for the International Geophysical
Year (IGY).
The Soya is scheduled to reach
the antarctic Jan. 8. It will leave
a 20-man team who are to re
lieve 11 Japanese now at the
Japanese station on Antarctica.
DEFENSE DEPT. DIRECTIVE
REVEALED THAT CUT SPENDING
FOR RESEARCH BY $170 MILLION
Ingrid Bergman and
Roberto Rosellini Have'
Happy Reunion at Paris
PARIS UP)—Ingrid Bergman and
Roberto Rosellini had a happy re
union at Paris’ Orly Airfield this
morning.
“Oh, I’m so happy,” cried Miss
Bergman. She hugged and kissed
her husband. He stroked her
shiny blond hair.
The Italian film director has
been in India for months making
documentary films for the Indian
government. While there, his
name was linked with that of
Indian movie Star Sonali Das
Gupta.
During a stopover in Geneva
today, Rossellini said any talk of
a divorce from Ingrid as a result
of these reports was “absolute
nonsense.”
► WASHINGTON, UP)—A two
month-old directive which, the
Defense Department made public
only yesterday slashes military
research and development spend
ing *by at least $170 million.
Sen. Monroney (D-Okla), pro
testing, urged President Eisen
hower to cancel the Aug. 17 direc
tive “right now, before we cut off
some idea in mid-brain that might
save the country from destruc
tion.”
Replying to a charge of former
Asst. Defense Secretary Clifford
C. Furnas that former Defense
Secretary Wilson considered the
satellite project as “backgrqpnd
research,” Wilson repeated in ef
fect what he said previously.
Wilson’s comment today: “He
never quite understood the whole
business. He came in late. It was
set up as a scientific project by
the President and the role of the
Defense Department was second
ary.”
The Washington Post & Times
Herald said some holders of Air
Force contracts for basic research
have complained the harm done
to research will be out of propor
tion to the money saved.
A Defense Department spokes
man said Wilson’s intent was for
a careful review by each service
of its research test and evalua
tion programs in the light of the
current economy drive by the
government.
Congress allotted $5 billion for
research during the current fiscal
year. The total included $1,700,
000,000 for basic research and
$3,300,000,000 for research and
development procurement.
The order directed the military
services to make cutbacks equal
to 10 percent of each service’s
portion of the $1,700,000,000. ,But
the department spokesman said
the cuts are intended to come out
of the procurement fund.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
Get First Sight of New York City
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Says Democratic
Leadership Is Poor
NEW YORK, (#)—Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt says the Demo
cratic leadership in Congress has
been “very poor” in recent years.
So fiar as the United States
leadership in general is concerned,
she. says “we as a people have not
been doing enough to bring about
the right kind of leadership in
this country.”
The President’s widow ex
pressed her views yesterday in an
interview on ‘the NBC-TV “Meet
the Press” program.
Asked if she meant that the
Democratic leadership of Sen.
Lyndon Johnson of Texas was
“very poor,” she replied:
“I think Mr. Johnson is one of
the ablest people at’ maneuvering
that we have in the party. He has
maneuvered very well, but I have
seen no real decision as to what
the Democratic Party stood for,
as to where it was actually head
ing, and that is what I think the
Democratic Party has to decide.”
Mrs. Roosevelt was asked if she
agreed with the Democratic Ad
visory Council’s opinion that the
Eisenhower Administration is sac
rificing the nation’s security to
economy.
She replied that the Eisenhower
Administration is a “’business
man’s administration” and, as
such, it is most concerned with
tax and fiscal matters.
Asked what she thought of re
ports that she might be the Dem
ocratic presidential candidate in
1960, she replied: “I am 73 years
old. Wake up.”
NEW YORK, UP)—Queen Eliza
beth’s first words when she got
her first glimpse of New York’s
skyline were: “Isn’t it exciting! I
never realized how closely knit
the buildings were!”
She and Prince Philip showed
keen interest crossing from Staten
Island to Manhattan today aboard
a specially-outfitted ferry boat.
As they passed the Mayflower
II, a replica of the Pilgrim’s craft
of 1620, Elizabeth laughed at the
sailors clambering up the mast
rope Ladders. The sailing ship,
which crossed the ocean last
spring, was rolling and tossing.
“I wouldn’t like to be in the
top of that rigging,” Elizabeth
said to New *York Gov. Averell
Harriman.
Elizabeth laughed, too, at the
pitching of the Army patrol boat
ahead of her. It was loaded with
photographers trying to take her
picture.
A tugboat trailed alongside
with an Army band playing all
the time. The snare drummer was
so intent on his work that, in a
particularly bad roll, he lost one
of his drumsticks but kept right
cm beating with the other as the
lost stick drifted away in the
choppy water.
Philip, a veteran sailor, ap
peared more interested in harbor
craft than in the New York sky
line. “Good heavens,” he said,
“this is a most overwhelming
thing. There’s a bigger show back
here than up front.”
Canada Flu Toll Up
TORONTO, UP)—Canada’s influ
enza toll reached 49 during the
weekend.
The epidemic appeared to be
petering out in the west but was
still strong in central Canada, a
Canadian Press Survey showed.
Supreme Court
Kayos Virginia
Pupil Placement
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Su
preme Court today dealt a death
blow to Virginia’s pupil place
ment act.
The tribunal did so by refusing
to review a decision in two school
segregation cases in which the
state’s 1956 placement law was
declared unconstitutional.
The Virginia pupil placement
act removed power to assign pu
pils from local school boards and
division superintendents and con
ferred the authority on a pupil
placement board.
The circuit court whose deci
sion was appealed said the act
provided no adequate remedy to
Negroes because of the fixed pol
icy of Virgina school officials on
segregation and because -another
act of the legislature calls for the
closing of schools and withdrawal
of state funds upon any departure
; from segregation.