Work on Bethel Hospital
8 Mos. Ahead of Schedule
! BETHEL — Construction work
on the new, $2,000,000 Alaska Na
tive Service hospital here is about
eight months ahead of schedule,
it was reported this week.
Francis A. Pugh, construction
superintendent for the Bethel
Contractors, a combination of Al
askan and stateside construction
firms, said the big, 60-bed hospit
al should be ready for occupancy
about the first of the year.
Foundation of the big building
has been erected on a wide tundra
flat. A total of 940 pilings embed
ded 10 to- 20 feet deep form the
consti'uction base, while a well
now being dug will furnish the
water supply.
According to reports, crewmen
have dropped the deep well to
about 450 feet, the first 400
through permafrost.
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
AIR FORCE ACCEPTS NEW
B-57 NIGHT JET BOMBER
BALTIMORE, UP) — The Air
Force welcomed a flashy new jet
bomber into its ranks Friday—the
Martin B-57 night intruder.
The new jet plane, planned to
fill a gap in American tactical
bombardment, is a jet bomber de
signed to attack enemy targets at
low level at night.
The Glenn L. Martin Co., build
ers of the B-57, put the bomber
through its paces before top gen
erals of the Air Force at dusk here
Thursday.
ASSISTANT DEFENSE SECY.
ENROUTE TO FAR EAST TO
STUDY MORALE PROBLEMS
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Dr. John A.
Hannah, assistant secretary of de
fense, and Maj. Gen. James F.
Collins left Anchorage Wednesday
enroute to the Far East to study
manpower and personnel morale
problems there.
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Phone BLACK 76 (Shop) or MAIN 52 (Residence)
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Visitors to Nome
Wien’s plane reaching Nome on
Thursday brought visitors from
stateside, coast to coast, from the
Gulf to the northern states.
From Ohio came Mr. and Mrs.
Ivan E. Massar, Estella J. Lotze,
Elizabeth K. Davidson, all of War
ren; Clara Beymer, Akumb; Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert R. West from
Omaha; Mrs. K. R. Kaisch, Fair
banks (stopping overnight at the
Wallace); Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Spohn, Philadelphia; Mr. and
Mrs. R. Miller, Sioux City, Iowa;
Mr. Joseph C. Sweet, Pittsfield,
Mass.; Pierrette Van den Haube,
Seattle; M. Dumont and Louis de
Guiringaug, San Francisco.
Also in the group were Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Park, Raleigh, N.C.
Mr. Park brought greetings from
the Honorable Fred B. Wheeler,
mayor of Raleigh, to our own
good mayor, Steffen Andersen.
Mayor Andersen responded in
kind, invited Mayor Wheeler to
visit Nome.
Mr. Park is the principal owner
and the editor of the Raleigh
Times, for over 40 years one of
the South’s most outstanding and
influential newspapers. Through
out his life Mr. Park has been ac
tively identified with numerous
Raleigh and state enterprises —
civic, educational, religious, busi
ness, musical and other types. He
is a world traveller and gatherer
of facts and news, later to be told
to thousands of readers of the
Times.
He and Mrs. Park enjoyed their
fog-laden visit to Nome, especially
watching the expert fur workers
in the Polet Store. Remaining in
Nome until 2 a.m., both stated
that Nome and its people would
be long remembered.
Overnight visitors at the Wall
ace were Mrs. K. R. Kaisch, Fair
banks; Joseph C. Sweet, Pittsfield,
Mass.; and Ervin Brown, Chil
coth, Ohio.
GP.O Official Doubts
Rothschild Had Access
To Secret Documents
WASHINGTON, UP)—A top of
ficial of the Government Print
ing Office (GPO) said today he
“would certainly question testi
mony that Edward Rothschild had
taken classified and other confi
dential material from the printing
plant.
Philip L. Cole, deputy public
printer, also told a news confer
ence the GPO has not yet decided
what it will do about Rothschild.
Cole, 46, has been with the GPO
for 30 years. He called the meet
ing with reporters to reply to
what he called “completely mis
leading” implications that “car
loads of secrets” have been stolen
from the GPO.
The total amount of classified,
or secret work done by the office,
he said, amounts to only one full
day’s work a year in an annual
output of printing worth 73 to 98
million dollars.
Cole vigorously defended the
GPO loyalty record and said the
big printing office with 7,300 em
ployes “has not been lax in any”
of 35 loyalty cases investigated.
Sen. McCarthy has described
GPO’s handling of security as
“fantastic” and “inconceivable.”
Rothschild was given a loyalty
hearing in 1948 and was cleared
as loyal.
B-50 Bomber Explodes
A giant B-50 bomber on a
training mission was torn apart
by a thunderous explosion early
Thursday and at least 11 of the
12-man crew parachuted into the
Arizona desert. They came down
on the cactus and mesquite-cov
ered slopes of towering Picacho
Peak.
There were conflicting reports
that one, and then two had been
killed.
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France Deposes
Sultan of Morocco
As People Demand
PARIS, UP) — France Thursday
deposed the Sultan of Morocco,
and the French interior ministry
announced it was sending him
and two of his sons into' exile on
Corsica, the Mediterranean isle.
The 45-year-old Sultan, Sidi
Mohammed Ben Youssef, -who has
been giving the French trouble by
his encouragement to indepen
dence - seeking nationalists, was
ousted after the tough Berber
tribesmen of Pasha Thami el Gla
oui of Marrakech, the Sultan’s
bitter foe, began to march in from
the hills on the palace at Rabat.
A fierce civil war threatened
between the fanatical nationalists
supporting Sidi Mohammed, and
the warlike Berber countrymen
who follow El Glaoui.
The French clamped a curfew
on their tense North African pro
tectorate, where press censorship
already is in effect, immediately
after announcing the drastic ac
tion.
The dethronement, said the
French foreign office, was decided
upon because France “found her
self confronted with an unequivo
cal will expressed with extreme
firmness by the immense majority
of the Moroccan people.”
There was no' immediate indi
cation of who would assume the
throne in the turbulent North Af
rican protectorate.
Connection Seen Between
Russian H-Bomb Progress
And Possible Spies in U.S.
WASHINGTON, UP\—Sen. Potter
(R-Mich) said Thursday Russia’s
progress toward the hydrogen
bomb may have been speeded by
espionage in this country that
“would make the Algert Hiss case
look like petty larceny in com
parison.”
Potter said in his statement
that disclosures of “lax and inept”
security measures at the govern
ment printing office give rise to
the question whether these are
“typical of the security procedures
in other government agencies.”
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
— 486 FIRST AVE. WEST —
Nome, Alaska
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month