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East Germany
Offers Gestures
Of Conciliation
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
BERLIN, UFi — East Germany’s
Communist regime seemed today
to toe pushing the soft sell in an
effort to coax recognition from
the West. The West wasn’t buying.
After belligerently echoing So
viet Premier Khrushchev’s de
mand that the United States, Bri
tain and France give up their pro
tective occupation of West Berlin,
the East Germans made two con
ciliatory gestures:
1. They unexpectedly freed
tourist George S. Milroy of Ann
Arbor, Mich., after holding him
for four weeks as an apparent
pawn to force the United States
to negotiate for his release.
2. East German party boss Wal
ter Ulibricht announced in a
speech that he was prepared to
deal reasonably with the Western
powers in Berlin if Russia makes
good on her threat to withdraw
from the present four-power occu
pation setup.
A Soviet withdrawal presum
ably would be followed by East
German interference with road,
rail and barge traffic between
West Germany and the Western
Allied garrisons in West Berlin.
Willy Brandt, mayor of West
Berlin, in a calming speech Sun
day night said he did not believe
the Communists were ready to at
tempt a new blockade.
Brandt said the Communists
started their new tactic for two
reasons — to choke off the stream
of East German refugees into
West Berlin and to injure West
Berlin’s economy.
Khrushchev’s get-out-of-Berlin
declaration a week ago gave the
East German Communists a late
campaign talking point in yester
day’s election of a new rubber
stamp Parliament. With only the
Communist-approved slate pre
sented the only question was how
many of the 11 million voters the
Reds could get to the polls to vote
yes. In the 1950 and 1954 elec
tions, the Communists claimed
more than 99 'per cent endorsed
their ticket.
Nome Council Meeting
Restricts Parking
At a special meeting of the
Nome City Council at noon today
it was announced that the pro
perty .requested on the south side
of Front Street in front of the
site for the ANG armory had
been made available for the proj
ect by owner Boyd Harwood.
The Council also found it neces
sary to restrict parking on Front
Street from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
to make it possible for the BPR
to keep the down town area
cleared of snow throughout the
winter. The \area affected by this
restricted parking includes all of
Front Street and B Street to 3rd
Ave., as far as the school.
BOB HOPE PRESENTED
MURRAY-GREEN AWARD
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., UP) —
Bob Hope was presented the 1958
Murray-Green award of the AFL
CIO Sunday night at a banquet in
Beverly Hills.
George Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO, said the award was
given to Hope for his contribu
tions to “hundreds of worthy
causes and benefits” and for en
tertaining U. S. Servicement.
Hope said the $5,000 presented
with the award will be used to
establish a scholarship.
Diane Lee To
Vie In Junior Miss
Pageant At Ala.
Miss Diane Lee has been ap
proved by the Nome Chamber of
Commerce to represent Alas a '
the All American Junior
Miss Pageant at Mobile, Alaba aa
in (March.
This contest is Open to high
school seniors. Since her applica
tion has been approved by the
Pageant committee, Diane will be
leaving in March with expenses
.paid to represent not only Nome
but all of Alaska.
The winner will be judged on
personality, beauty and talent.
Beauty will ibe judged in for
mal gowns and sports clothes.
Talent is also termed as accom
plishments such as singing, de
bating, dancing, ability to play
musical instruments, etc.
Diane will stay in a private
home with her hostess as official
chaperone during her stay at the
pageant.
America’s Junior Miss Pageant
is a non-profit organization of
civic minded business leaders in
Mobile and is sponsored by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The first prize is a $5,000 cash
scholarship with $3,000 and $1,000
prizes for the runners up. Third
and fourth places will receive
$500 awards.
WEATHER FORECAST
Variable Cloudyness and cold
through Tuesday. Occasional light
snow today. Low tonight 10 to 15,
high tomorrow 5 to 10.
23 New Cardinals
Named By Pope
By ALLAN JACKS
VATICAN CITY, UP) — Pope
John XXIII today named 23 new
cardinals, including the Archbish
ops of Boston and Philadelphia.
The two U. S. Cardinals-desig
nate are Msgr. Richard James
Coshing, 63, Archbishop of Bos
ton, and Msgr, ohn F. O’hara,
70, Archbishop of Philadelphia.
Amlette Cicognani, Apostolic
delegate to the United States, who
is stationed in Washington, D. C.,
also was nominated to be a
prince of the cfouroh.
The Vatican said the present
members of the College of Cardi
nals would meet in secret consis
tory December 15 to confirm the
Pope’s nominations. The Pontiff
will present the red hats of their
rank to the new Cardinals in a
private ceremony December 17 and
a public consistory honoring them
will foe held December 13. Ten of
them are non-Italians.
The consistory, first of Pope
John’s reign, will increase the
membership of the College of Car
dinals for the first time in almost
four centuries, from 70 to 75. The
present 70-member college, a
complement established by Pope
Sixtus V, has 18 vacancies.
Francis Spellman of New York
and James Frances McIntyre of
Los Angeles are the present Amer
ican Cardinals.
Throughout the 19-year reign
of the late Pope Pius there had
been speculation he might increase
the size of the College of Cardi
nals to cope with the increasing
administrative problems of the
expanding church. Many of the
present 52 Cardinals are aged and
infirm, and their average age is
73.
SECTY. SEATON REVEALS G. 0. P.
PLANS FOR NORTHWEST ALASKA
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Mathias B. Pedersen,'
Alaska Gold Miner,
Dies In Seattle
SEATTLE, Iff) — Mathias B. Pe
derson, 80, retired Alaska gold
miner, died Saturday in a nurs
ing home of a heart condition. He
had been ill for a year.
Pederson was born in Sweden.
He came to the United States in
1887. He served in the Spanish
American War and spent many
years gold mining in the Nome
and Council areas before retiring
and returning to Seattle in 1943.
Hagerty Reveals He
Sometime^ Gives Out
‘Background Stories’
WASHINGTON, Iff) — James
Hagerty, White House Press Sec
retary, says he sometimes “leaks”
news to the press but prefers to
call it something else.
In a filmed television program
Sunday, Hagerty said he used the
term “background stories” for the
information he sometimes gave
segments of the press.
He had been asked by British
journalist Malcolm Muggeridge:
“Can you say with your hand on
your heart that you never delib
erately arranged a leak?”
“Of course I can’t and I
wouldn’t,” Hagerty replied.
‘^Now, it’s your definition of
what you call a leak, and I think
we might be arguing over the
words here,” Hagerty said.
Then Hagerty said leaks by cer
tain members of the government,
whom he did not name, had added
some more gray hairs to my
head.” Other disclosures of infor
mation, he said, actually were
background stories.
Top Republican Tells of Schools and
Public Works Construction for Area
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR FRED SEATON,
accompanied by his secretary Leola Tise, Anthony
Lausi, Director of Territories, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Step
ovich, Mr. and Mrs. John Butrovich, Mr. Bill Smith of
Time Magazine, Marilyn Atwood of the Anchorage
Times, Albert Colegrove of Scripps-Howard News
papers, T. V. LeVeque of the Fairbanks News-Miner,
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Col. Thomas Carroll
0£ Alaska Guard
Promoted To General
President Eisenhower has pro
moted Col. Thomas P. Carroll to
brigadier general in the Alaska
National Guard last week. The
President has also reappointed
Carroll as Alaska’s adjutant gen
eral. General Carroll maintains
headquarters in Juneau.
Russian Ship Docks
At Vancouver, B. C.
VANCOUVER B. C., UPi — The
Russian scientific research vessel
Vityaz docked here Saturday to
take on supplies and fuel. She
heads /back out to sea Wednesday.
The public will toe allowed
aboard today to inspect marine and
oceanology exhibits, with com
mentaries being given in English.
Her captain is 42-year-old I.
Sergeev. Sixty scientists on board
are headed by Dr. N. Sysoev of
the Institute of the Academy of
Science, Moscow.
The 5,500-ton Vityaz, out of
Vladivostok, has been sounding
the depths of the North Pacific and
checking marine life since 1949.
Kodiak Receives Secretary Seaton and
Party After Flight To ‘Banana Belt’
By JAMES LEVEQUE
News-Miner Staff Writer
KODIAK, UP) — Secretary of In
terior, Fred A. Seaton last night
slapped the Democrats and
boosted the Republicans on two
acts — one an act of commission,
the other an act of omission.
The act of commission was
Statehood. Seaton told the Kodiak
Island people that nationally
more Republican legislators had
voted for it than Democrats, and
reminded them it was under a
GOP Administration that the Ter
ritory became a State.
The act of omission had to do
with fish traps. Seaton, who’s re
cent act abolishing the salmon
corrals has been called “a phony,’’
said that if abolition could have
been accomplished at any time in
the past, the Democrats should
have done it.
Secretary Seaton then went on
to boost Mike Stepovich, Repub
lican candidate for a U. S. Sen
ate seat. On the Statehood issue,
he said that Stepovich was not,
as charged, a “Johnny come late
ly,” and that as early as 1953 the
Fairbanks Republican had gone
on record as favoring it.
The plane load of Republican
politicians in one day made it
from long-underwear country at
Nome to the banana belt area of
Kodiak in a few hours of hop
skip-and handshaking, were rested
here last night.
They landed in Nome Saturday
afternoon under clouds which
seemed to have an active partisan
interest in keeping them out.
Shortly after 9 o’clock Sunday
morning, the party plane left for
the trip to Kodiak, stepping at
Unalakleet and also at Bethel, on
the Kuskokwim River.
Unalakleet greeted Secretary
Seaton and his Alaskan retinue
with an Eskimo language version
of “Sweet Bye and Bye.” Candi
dates were introduced in the Mis
sion Covenant Ohure• and bubble
gum distributed to youngsters.
One elderly Eskimo woman
rushed up to Secretary Seaton
and, all aglow, said “I meet you
big shot. I miss church, but I
meet big shot.”
Bethel the next stop, went all
out for the Republican travelers
with a buffet in the school housr*
It was there that Seaton discov
ered the principal, E. G. Skeen,
and Mrs. Skeen, and he had been
classmates Nat Kansas State Col
lege.
In Kodiak, the Secretary of In
terior talked with Benny Ben
son, who in 1927 as a 13-year-old
Aleut boy created the eight-star
design which today is Alaska’s
flag.
Throughout the trip, Seaton
made announcements at each vil
lage and briefed^ residents of In
terior Department projects which
would affect them.
and Bob Grosclose, Republican
National Committeeman, arrived
here Saturday afternoon dur
ing the light snowstorm, and
were met by a delegation of Re
publicans and other interested
Nomeites, who escorted the party
to town. \
At a press conference held im
mediately upon arrival, in the
foyer of the North Star Hotel,
Secretary Seaton announced a
program for this area plainly in
dicative of much planning and
progress to Northwestern Alaska.
Nome To Have Native School
Educational plans revealed that
Nome is to have a native school
program correlated with the pres
ent program and necessary build
ing construction to promote the
keeping of students whose homes
are in this area, at home, rather
than transporting them all to Mt.
Edgecumibe, as now is being done.
Secretary Seaton announced
that not only Nome, but Kotzebue
and Unalakleet would have new
schools under this program with
High Schools at these two points,
as well as at Barrow. These will
be known as regional schools.
Noorvik is to have their school
rebuilt and expanded to teach up
to the eighth grade. The schools
in Kotzebue and Unalakleet will
be six class-room schools, with
science and home economics
courses included. Hooper Bay will
also have a regional school. |
“All these projects have been
approved, and construction will
get under way in 1960 and 1961,”
Seatoh stated.
In Kotzebue next summer, a
$3,000,000 hospital gets under way
by the BIA to replace the present
inadequate hospital.
In Nome the Alaska National
Guard Armory is assured with
bids to be let early in the spring
for a $480,000 construction pro
gram.
Extension of Alaska Public Works
He also pointed out that as soon
as the new Congress convenes
should Mike Stepovich be elected
the first appropriation asked for
will be the extension of the APW,
with the Nome Sewer and Water
System having priority on the list
of projects. Also in the picture for
construction is a Federal Build
ing for Kotzebue, probably in the
calendar year of 1960-61.
When questioned as to what
will happen if one Democrat and
one Republican Senator are elec- "
ted, Seaton told of the combina
tion of Senator Kennedy (D) and
Saltonstal (R) of Massachusetts,
and what good work they had
done for their state and for Alas
ka. He also cited Arizona, with the
same sort of a team in Congress.
Mike Stepovich stated that he
was sure that should he be elected
anything he would present for
Alaska “would be good for Alas
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