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VOL. LXI No. 122 , NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1959 ._Per Copy—15^
L. A. Suburbs Hit
By Unruly Blaze
LOS ANGELES, UP) — A brush
fire, racing wildly out of control,
burned to the edge of one Los An
geles suburb today and threatened
another.
An unfavorable forecast of high
winds, heat in the 90s and “acute
ly low” humidity made control of
the blaze a question mark.
More than 1,000 men have been
called to the scene in the San
Gabriel Mountains 15 miles north
of here since the fire started at
noon yesterday. Thirteen planes
carrying fire-retarding borate so
lution started bombing hot spots
this morning.
During the early morning hours
flhmes leaped to the doorsteps of
$30,000 and $40,000 homes in the
foothill community of La Canada.
Wind gusts up to 35 m.p.h. were
driving the fire toward another
foothill town, Altadena.
The fire consumed more than
1,800 acres of prime brush, needed
to control runoff of winter rains.
It was out of control along its
entire 25-mile perimeter.
Center of the blaze was in a
rugged, isolated area near Brown
Mountain in Angeles National
Forest. Only one dirt road enters
it, and the fire had jumped it.
This meant no equipment could
be gotten in. The only way it
could be fought was by hand and
from the air.
‘Busload’ Rocket
Planned by Army
FRENCH LICK, Ind., (5) — A
giant rocket capable of orbiting a
satellite carrying a “busload of
trained observers” is being devel
oped by the United States, Maj.
Gen. John B. Medaris said here
Tuesday night.
Medaris, chi^f of the Army’s
missile program, told the Indiana
Farm Bureau Insurance Agents
Convention that the rocket’s clus
tered engines will provide a com
bined thrust about four times
greater than this country’s larg
est intercontinental ballistics
< missile.
Medaris did not specify if he
was referring to the Army’s Sat
urn rocket or some other missile
under development. The Saturn,
being built at Redstone Arsenal,
Huntsville, Ala., will be capable
of a IVl -million pound thrust.
The Atlas, now the nation’s most
powerful rocket, lias a thrust of
250,000 pounds.
O-K for Ladies to Stretch
Height—But at Own Risk
MOBILE, Ala., (5)—Spike heels
are illegal in Mobile but a way
is provided for women to wear
them without breaking
Women will be given
which will relieve the city of
responsiblity in any accident re
sulting from falls on city streets
and sidewalks. The free permit
would apply for all spike heels a
woman owns.
An ordinance adopted by the
city commissioners bans heels
higher than lVi> inches which are
less than an inch in diameter.
The ordinance was proposed
last week after the commissioners
were told that about 50 damage
suits had been filed against the
city during the past two years by
women who had fallen on streets j
and sidewalks.
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Tocktoo Youngster Dies
In Road Accident
The four-year-old son of Steven
Tocktoo was killed this morning
when a water truck driven by
Robert Joe backed over the little
boy and his sled.
The accident took place on 3rd
Ave. across the Frank Martin
residence. It is reported that at
the time the driver entered the
cab of the truck and the boy and
sled were on the sidewalk. Joe
was not aware of the accident
until he saw the boy and sled
crushed on the road as he backed
away from the curb.
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Explorer VII Is
Permanent Fixture
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP) —
America’s new Explorer VII satel
lite is spinning about the earth
every hour and 41 seconds gather
ing data about space radiation ancf
the weather.
A four-stage Juno II rocket
lifted the gyroscope satellite into
orbit Tuesday and it immediately
began transmitting valuable in
formation.
Space scientists were pleased
with the orbit attained — which
takes the Explorer VII 664 miles
from earth at its farthest point
and as close s 346 miles at its
nearest point.
Dr. Homer Newell Jr. of the
National Aeronautics a*nd Space
Admiinstration reported this orbit
is more nearly circular than hoped
for and said it would be an ad
vantage because of the nature of
some of the seven experiments
carried in the instrument package.
Explorer VII is expected to stay
aloft for 20 years, but it will relay
information for only one year.
After that period, an automatic
device will shut off the second
transmitter. This is to prevent the
radio signals from cluttering up
satellite broadcasting wave
lengths.
The main mission of the new
satellite was to study the lower
level of bands of radiation hover
ing above the earth. This data
may help ease man’s way to the
moon.
U. S. Asks International
Police Patrol World Peace
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP) —
The United States called today for
a U.N. study on a system of inter
national and domestic police
forces to preserve peace in the
event of total world disarmament.
The new survey was proposed
by U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge as a parallel to discussions
of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev’s total dsarmament plan laid
before the U. N. General Assembly
September 18.
Lodge told the Assembly’s 82
nation political committee the
United States would join other
members of the new 10-nation dis
armament group in Geneva early
next year in giving to the Soviet
proposals the most serious
scrutiny.
He said, however, that the
United States stil\ does not know
what kind of inspection and con
trols the Soviet Union will accept
and this is a key to whether the
Soviet plan is acceptable.
“There cannot be 100 per cent
disarmament with only 10 per cent
inspection,” Lodge declared.
Water, Sewerage
System Plans Made
Into Real Program
Hope for a water and sewer
age system for Nome has been
renewed by the State Public
Health Department under Public
Law 86-121, which makes it pos
sible for assistance in this com
munity, as it has a large propor
tion of Eskimo people.
The estimated cost of the pro
ject is set at $1,500,000 and it is
proposed to finance it as follows:
$800,00 from the U. S. Department
of Health, Education and Wel
fare; $50,000 from the Depart
ment of Interior; $50,000 from the
Nome School District; $50,000
from the Federal Aviation Agen
cy, and the balance in water and
sewer utility revenue bonds (Home
Finance Agency — Community
Facilities Loan).
A survey of population density
is now underway by the State
Health Department under Harry
Carter, and last evening a com
mittee was appointed from the
City Council to get all the neces
sary information and data together
so that it may be in Washington,
D. C., in time to present to Con
gress in a very few days.
Preliminary • plans and engin
eering for the water and sewer
age system for Nome were pre
pared two years ago and presented
to the Alaska Public Works Pro
gram, who had promised the city
that Nome was first on the list
for this needed imprivement.
Statehood interfered with the
completion of the project. Nome
is the only city of its size in Alas
ka without proper sewerage, and
until this is done it cannot par
ticipate in many development
plans, so vitally needed.
A petition is now being passed
among the Eskimo people so that
the application can be made im
mediately and presented to
Congress.
Reuther Again Installed
As Auto Workers Boss
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., UPU—
The United Auto Workers Con
vention has given Walter P. Reu
ther firm control of the 1,200,000
member union for another two
years.
Amid the hoopla and trappings
of a major party political con
vention, the 2,500 delegates re
elected Reuther president by ac
clamation Tuesday.
Re-elected with him were all
his top officers and executive
board members.
Reuther first was elected pres
ident of the UAW in 1946.
The convention voted a dues
increase from $3 to $5 a month
on a standing vote which Reuther
said showed 80 per cent in favor.
The convention earmarked $1.25
of the $5 rate to build up the
strike fund. When the new rate
goes into effect, union members
no longer will have to pay a $1
special strike assessment.
GOOD LIVING INCREASES
N.Y. HIGHWAY DEATH TOLL
ALBANY, N. Y., UP) — A total
of 48 persons have been killed in
accidents on the New York Thru
way this year — more than double
last year’s toll. The Thruway
Authority said the recession was
evidently an important factor in
holding 1958 deaths to 17. Less
driving and less drinking, they
said.
Presidential Action Delayed in Steel
Controversy, for Completion of Report
WASHINGTON, WV- President!
Eisenhower’s inquiry board today
asked an extension from Friday
to Monday for the time for filing
its report on the issues in the 92
day steel strike.
George W. Taylor, panel chair
man, made the announcement as
the three-man group wound up
for the day its hearing of indus
try’s side of the case. The indus
try is to resume its presentation
Thursday.
Taylor said the panel needs the
extra time to assemble the volum
inous testimony and exhibits and
to prepare a report for Eisen
hower.
Once the President receives the
report he can order the Justice
Department W seek a court in
junction to halt the strike for 80
days.
As the panel continued its hear
ings, David J. MacDonald, the
union’s president, made public a
letter to all of his 3,000 local
unions saying that “without a de
cent contract, we will not return
to work after the injunction
ends.”
This spelled out a union pledge
to resume the strike — against
.which the government would
have no further recourse—some
time in January.
Taylor said he expected to bring
industry and union representa
tives together in a joint meeting
here Sunday prior to completion
of the report for Eisenhower.
The industry’s chief negotiator
said in presenting its position to
the panel today that the union of
fered the country only two alter
natives — “another inflationary
increase in steel, or go without
steel.”
R. Conrad /Cooper, who has
head^L the industry’s negotiating
team throughout the 92-day strike
defined this as the union’s posi
tion in a statement prepared for
a White House fact-finding board.
“Plain hogwash” is what Coop
er called the union’s contention
that the real issue in the strike
is companies’ desire to break the
union...
Girl, 15, Poisons
Parents Who Were
‘Too Critical’
OLATHE, Kansas, GW — The
parents of a 15-year-old girl died
of poison early today, and police
said the girl admitted giving them
the death-dealing potion under
the pretense it was a “thrill pow
der that would give them a
boost.”
Sheriff Lynn Thomas quoted
the girl, Diane Roberts, as saying
her motive was to kill her father
because he had threatened to
kill her. ’
William Roberts, 43, the father,
and his wife, Evelyn, 42, died in
a Kansas City, Mo., hospital
about four hours after they be
came violently ill at their home.
Sheriff Thomas said the girl
told this story:
She bought some roach powder
at a drugstore Monday. Tuesday
night she mixed the powder in
drinking glasses with grape
juice, water, flour and sugar.
“I told them it was a thrill
powder and would give them a
boost.” Dad said ‘It is terrible,’
and they both got real sick and
vomited all over.
“Daddy stood at the bottom of
the stairs and screamed — ‘God
help me, God help me, please take
care of me—’ then he laid down
on the floor.”
She said she then called rela
tives who in turn called a phy
sician.
“I did it because Mom and Dad
were always criticizing everything
I did, the way I walked, the way
I ate, the people I went with,” she
told Sheriff Thomas.
McELROY DISCLAIMS VALUE
OF SOVIET ARMS LETDOWN
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
(ffi — U. S. Secfetary of Defense
Neil H. McElroy said today that
even if the Soviet Union agreed
| to reduce her armament, the mo
ney she saved would be spent on
other means to achieve a Commu
nist-dominated world.
McElroy is on a tour of the
Pacifc.
Kansas Town Celebrates
Birthday of Favorite Son
ABILENE, Kan., UP) — Abilene
High School pupils sang- “Happy
birthday Ike” as their most fam
ous alumnus, President Eisen
hower, left his old home town for
the return trip to Washington to
day.
This was the 69th birthday of
the President, who Tuesday broke
ground for the library which will
house his presidential and mili
tary papers.
The President got plenty of
birthday cakes—one Tuesday and
two more today.
Most of the Abiline High School
student body, including the band,
was clustered around the hotel
this morning. As the President
came out the door, two sisters
ducked under a rope holding back
the crowd and made an unsched
uled presentation of one of the
cakes.
Red Premier Scoffs v at
Western Treaty Alliances
MOSCOW, UP) — Premier Nikita
Khrushchev predicts non-Com
munist military alliances will van
ish “leaving nothing but unpleas
ant memories.”
“The North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization, the Southeast Asian
Treaty Organization, and the Cen
tral Treaty Organization — they
all will disappear,” Khrushchev
declared in a speech published to
day in all Moscow newspapers. It
was delivered Saturday at Novos
ibirsk on his way home from
Peiping.
“Today in reading the bour- -
geois publications,” he said, “it is
impossible. to overlook the calls
of aggressive circles for the
strengthening of NATO, SEATO
and CENTO and the devil knows
what other ATO and ENTOs.
“These people say they must
fight Communist aggression, di
rect and indirect. What is direct
aggression? It is war.”
He said the American defini
tion of indirect aggression is “a
threat on the part of people want
ing to overthrow their domestic
tyrants and establish a power that
would conform to the interests of
the working people.”