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VOL. LVII No, 121NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1955Per Copy—15^
BOAT NEWS
The M.S. Fortuna completed
discharging supplies for contrac
tors last night and departed for
Seattle.
The M.S. Tonsina is now dis
charging at Unalakleet.
The MJS. Coastal Rambler is
discharging freight here.
The M.S. North Star of the
ANS is discharging freight down
the coast and has not reached
Nunivak Island yet to take on
reindeer meat.
Atomic Agency
In United Nations
Gets Rnssian Nod
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (*—
Western sources said today they
were encouraged by Russia’s con
ditional endorsement of an inter
national agency to carry out Pres
ident Eisenhower’s atoms-for
peace plan.
Soviet First Deputy Foreign
Minister V. M. Kuznetsov offered
a resolution to the U.N. General
Assembly’s key Political Commit
tee yesterday expressing hope
such an agency could be set up
soon within the U.N. framework.
But he added the provisos the
proposed body must be subject to
the Security Council and its big
power veto on major security
questions and also must be open to
all countries, including Red China
and East Germany.
The United States wants the
proposed atomic body to have the
status of a specialized U.N. agency
and strongly opposes any veto
authority by the major powers
over the agency’s normal func
tions. However, Washington rec
ognized that any question vitally
affecting the security of a state
would have to come before the
Security Council.
The Western informants empha
sized that although the Soviet
delegate hammered away for the
conditions Moscow wants imposed
on any atomic agency, he did not
indulge in any diatribes.
Eisenhower Sends
Letter to Bulganin
On Disarmament
DENVER, (jP)—President Eisen
hower took command anew of the
American program for world
peace today as medical ^bulletins
reflected increasing progress along
the slow road to complete recov
ery. A 7 a.m. (MST) medical bul
letin carried the familiar cheerful
note:
“The President had another
good night’s sleep of eight hours.
His condition continues to pro
gress satisfactority
His 25-minute bedside confer
ence with Secretary of State Dul
les yesterday produced a new let
ter on disarmament to Soviet Pre
mier Nikoli Bulganin. And it also
brought another warning the U.S.
will not reduce its military power
without guarantees Russia will do
likewise.
The President’s heart stood the
conference so well that his broth
er, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, was
invited- to fly in to see him.
What Eisenhower wrote Bul
ganin, in a pafe and a half letter,
will not be disclosed until the
Russian Premier has received it in
Moscow. But Dulles told a Denver
White House news conference:
“We do not anticipate any re
duction of our total power unless
we can be sure that there is a cor
responding reduction elsewhere.”
Elderly Couple Die of
Heart Attacks Together
NEW PALTZ, N.Y., UP)—Mrs.
Frank Waldron called a doctor
early today and asked him to hur
ry to her home, saying her 80
year-old husband was suffering
a heart attack.
The doctor arrived a short time
later to find Waldron, a retired
carpenter, lying dead on his bed.
Beside him was his 78-year-old
wife. She, too, was dead.
Authorities said later both had
died of heart attacks at approxi
mately the same time.
Would Be Costly Error to Bar Women
At Arctic Radar Bases, Says Canadian
EDMONTON, Alta., Uf)—A Can
adian air force expert on the north
says it would be a costly mistake
to make arctic radar stations out
of bounds to women.
Squadron Leader Scott Alexan
der told the Defense Medical As
sociation that more attention
should be paid to personnel prob
lems that will come with manning
the Distant Early Warning radar
line in the Canadian Arctic.
“None of the responsible bodies
seem to be planning quarters for
married couples.” he said.
“Married couples tend to stay
two or three years in the north,
while single men barely speak to
one another after being confined
for six months.”
Under these circumstances, the
airlifting of unmarried employes
to and from the Far North would
involve huge cost.
Alexander, a former mounted
policeman who is commanding of
ficer of the RCAF survival train
ing school here, also said use
should be made of the 2,000 Eski
mos living on the arctic coast.
“They can become about the
world’s finest mechanics,” he said.
He recommended that only
those who believe they would like
the life be accepted as DEW per
sonnel.
Some persons, he said, can be
“annoyed out of proportion” by
such things as crude sanitary fa
cilities.
The 3,000-mile, $250,000,000
DEW line—which is being built
by the United States—is expected
to be in operation in late 1957, al
though the target date for com
pletion is secret.
A good part of the radar equip
• ment.is automatic and as few as
1,000 men may be needed to man
it. It apparently has not yet been
decided whether manning will be
done by Americans or Canadians
or both.
Red China Says 47 Are
Free to Leave But Have
Not Applied for Exit
TOKYO, (4*)—Communist China
said today 47 Americans behind
the Bamboo Curtain are free to
leave any time they apply for de
parture and said it is examining
the cases of 19 other Americans
accused of crimes.
The official Peiping radio quot
ed People’s Daily, the official
party newspaper, as saying the 47
have not applied for exit permits.
The broadcast said in accord
ance with its agreement with the
United States at Geneva, Red Chi
na “is now examining their cases
<the 19) one by one according td
Chinese legal procedure and . . .
will inform the British charge
d’affaires in Peiping of the result.”
Under the agreement, the Brit
ish diplomat was selected to act
for any American wishing to leave
Red China.
School Girl Killed
In Plunge From
Fair’s Ferris Wheel
DALLAS, Texas, UO—A high
school girl was plunged to her
death here yesterday at the state
fair of Texas when a pivot on a
90-foot-high ferris wheel broke
and dropped her seat to the
ground.
Cynthia Combest, 17, a member
of the Memphis, Tex., high school
band, was dead on arrival at Bay
lor Hospital. Two companions in
the seat with her—Kay Leslie, 15,
and Barbara Allen, 14—were in
jured critically.
Thousands of fair-goers gasped
in horror or screamed as they saw
the girls, dressed in their band
uniforms, in the death plunge.
Two other youngsters received
minor injuries when they were
struck by the falling sky wheel
seat.
“They just fell on me and
knocked a gash in my head; they
fell right through to the bottom,”
sobbed Mollie Balfour, 13. Bobbie
Winchester, 13, also was hit by
the seat.
Witnesses said the seat was near
the top of the big double wheel
when the pivot broke and dropped
the seat onto the fair midway.
Russia Warns Iran
Joining Western Pact
Mav Worsen Relations
LONDON (#)—The Soviet Union
warned Iran today that her adher
ence to the Turkey-Pakistan
Iraqi defense pact might endanger
relations between the two coun
tries, Moscow' radio reported.
A broadcast heard here said So
viet Foreign Minister Molotov
called in the Iranian ambassador
in Moscow and told him Iranian
accession to the pact “contradicts
the good neighborly relations be
tween Persia [sic] and the Soviet
Union and certain treaty obliga
tions of Persia,’’
The Soviet Union is Iran’s
northern neighbor. She has a
friendship treaty with Iran which
gives the Soviet Union the right
to march into Iran if she considers
the latter has become a base for
an attack on Russia.
Nome Has Barely Enough Power,
Will Get 600-kw. Unit Next Spring
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Kefauver Commends U.S.
Aid Program in Far East;
Flies to Anchorage Oct. 13
TOKYO, (tf)—Estes Kefauver
<D-Tenn), completing a world
tour, said today U.S. foreign aid;
in general is “an excellent pro
gram” but added “we shouldn’t
give the impression we’re going |
to be there forever.”
Kefauver’s trip took him to
Russia and through Southeast
Asia. He arrived in Tokyo from
South Korea today and leaves to
morrow for home via Anchorage,
Alaska..
Kefauver said in an interview
he told South Korean President
Syngman Rhee that recent dem
onstrations against the Korean
truce commission “could be inter
preted as anti-American.”
“President Rhee seemed con
cerned at that,” Kefauver said.
He described U.S. soldiers there
as “the finest representatives Am
erica as anywhere.”
Regarding foreign aid in gener
al, Kefauver said:
“We want .all these nations to
get on their own feet. We should
put more stress on economic aid.”
Gruenther Urges
Integration of
Europe Air Forces
PARIS, (tf)—Gen. Alfred Gruen
ther Tuesday urged the free na
tions of Europe to integrate their
air forces to meet any surprise
attack by Russia.
Speaking to the defense minis
ters of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), the su
preme commander described the
present air command system as
“archaic.”
The integrated air force com
mand he advocated would allow
the West to be alerted and get off
the ground with much greater
speed than now possible.
Gruenther said the integrated
command should be divided into
four main areas: northern Euro
pean, central Europe, Mediterra
nean and Britain.
Under the present NATO setup
the various air forces are under
national control. This also applies
to civilian warning systems.
A spokesman at Gruenther’s
closed meeting at his headquarters
12 miles west of Paris said the
integrated plan has not been pre
sented to all the countries in
volved, but added:
“I imagine it will go forward
rather quickly.”
Gruenther told the ministers
that in quantity and quality
NATO was behind planned sched
ules, but added:
“If war should come today, Oct.
11, we probably would win, but I
can’t guarantee this will always
be the same in the future.”
Gruenther said much new think
ing is taking place in NATO con
cerning the greater dispersion of
irfields with smaller number of
aircraft assigned to each field.
’ Power problems were discussed
Monday evening at the City Coun
cil meeting with questions being
answered by Utilities Manager
Luther Dunbar and Board Chair
man Tom Martin.
They explained to the satisfac
tion of the Council that until a
new unit can be added to the
present plant no additional power
can be allocated to any part of
town, nor is there any use in sur
veying the outside line service
until this unit is installed.
The spokesman for the board
stated that it is planned to install
a 600-kilowatt unit in the spring
and then the city will have ample
power for all present needs. The
unit is estimated to-*cost around
$85,000 but will be paid for over
a period of years. Until then there
is barely enough power to supply
present needs.
Police Report
During the month of September
there were 24 arrests, $330 collect
ed in fines, and 7 dogs disposed of.
Forty-nine complaints were in
vestigated and 11 juvenile cases
were handled.
Fire Department Report
Two fires were reported for the
month. Alaska Airlines’ hangar at
the City field, from the entrance
conduit in the electric supply line.
One home fire, smokestack fire.
A total of $47 was paid to volun
teers.
The fire chief reported that over
100 homes and businesses were
visited for fire inspection with
the violation of dirty stacks being
the most common.
United Nations Day, Oct. 24*
will be observed by the city in
some appropriate manner, it was
announced.
League of Alaska Cities meeting
will be held in Palmer on Oct. 29,
30 and 31. John McNees, who will
be in Palmer at that time on other
business will represent the city.
He was instructed to gather
material and suggestions on how
other cities compiled their ordi
nances and to see what could be
done about individual shippers
who avoid the city sales tax which
is now not covered by the ordi
nance.
IRAN LINES UP
WITH MIDDLE EAST
DEFENSE ALLIANCE
TEHERAN, Iran, —Iran lined
up officially today with the Westr
ern-backed Middle East Defense
Alliance, closing a major gap in
the anti-Communist world’s de
fense chain south of Russia.
The Iranian government an
nounced its adherence to the
Baghdad Pact which already
unites Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and
Britain in a mutual defense agree
ment.
With Iran, the Middle Eastern
group forms a solid land belt from
the Mediterranean to the Hima
layas. The North Atlantic Alliance
extends the chain on across south
ern and western Europe, the At
i lantic and North America.