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VOL. LXI No. 140 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1959 Per Copy—15^
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New Peak In
Living Costs Set
WASHINGTON, UP) — Living
costs rose to a new peak in Oc
tober.
It was the sixth new record set
in seven months.
The Labor Department an
nounced today that its consumer
price index rose two-tenths of one
per cent to 125.5 per cent of the
1947-49 base period. This is lVfc
per cent higher than in October,
1958. ‘
As a result of the rise, ’ about
1,250,000 workers will get pay in
creases under labor contracts
which call for cost-of-living ad
justments. The rise for most of
them will be a cent an hour.
A major factor in the cost-of
living increase was in transpor
tation — higher dealer sales
prices for new 1960 model auto
mobiles, plus the effect of the new
cent-a-gallon federal gasoline tax
imposed in October.
Food costs declined three-tenths
of one per cent, but all other ma
jor groups of goods and services
went up.
One lower-priced food is the
traditional Thanksgiving fare. Of
ficials said that turkeys are sell
ing this year at nearly 5 per cent
less than a year ago.
The decline in food prices re
flected lower costs for pork, eggs,
fresh fruits and poultry. Fresh
vegetables were about 4 per cent
higher than in September.
Clothing prices increased four
tenths of one per cent, reaching
their highest average level in re
cent years.
A factor increasing clothing
prices is higher costs of shoes, re
flecting a relative scarcity and
consequently higher prices for
hides and leather.
October also saw further in
creases in costs of medical care,
men’s hair cuts and television
sets.
Soviets Complain Western Planes
Buzz Russian Fishing Vessels
LONDON, (#l — Soviet Mer
chant Marine Minister Viktor G.
Bakayev complained today that
Soviet freighters and fishing
boats are being buzzed by West
ern military planes in the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans.
Low-Flying Aircraft
Perils Studied at Chicago
CHICAGO, UP) — The peril of
low-flying aircraft to residents of
dwellings near busy airports was
being studied today by investi
gators of a flaming crash of a
cargo plane near Midway Air
port. «•
There were 11 fatalities in
Tuesday’s tragedy. There were
three aboard the Trans-World
Airlines Super-H Constellation
that crashed three blocks short
of a runway. The other eight vic
tims were asleep in dwellings
smashed and set afire by the
crippled plane.
Thirteen other persons were
injured.
An apartment building and
three homes were demolished as
though a bomb had struck the
peaceful neighborhood near the
airport handling more than 1,200
takeoffs and landings every day.
Much of Chicago’s air traffic,
including movements of all jet
craft, has been diverted in the last
few years to O’Hare International
Airport on the city’s northwest
side but the problem of low
still remains.
Midway is a mile-square ter
minal on the southwest side
which aviation authorities said
enjoys a good safety record in
terms of the volume of traffic.
Laid out in the pioneer days
of flying when the speed, size
and numbers of today’s aircraft
were in the realm of science fic
tion, Midway was in a sparsely
populated area.
But the city has grown around
it. Many of those living nearby
derive their livelihood from the
port.
BARTLETT PROTESTS SLOW
RETURN OF MAIL
WASHINGTON, — Senator
Bob Bartlett protested yesterday
that the Post Office Department
is returning improperly addressed
air mail letters to and from Alas
ka by surface mail.
Such a policy, he said, can hold
up important mail to cause un
necessary hardship.
He asked Postmaster General
Arthur Summerfie’d in a letter
to revise this policy and return
undelivered mail to and from
Alaska by the same means it
was sent. *
UNITED THANKSGIVING SERVICE
10 a.m. Thanksgiving Day
COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH
PROGRAM
Welcome by host pastor .Gerald McCray
Congregational Singing .... led by Duane Carriker
“To God Be The Glory” and “We Praise Thee Oh God”
Prayer ..*... Everett Bachelder
Duet.Pastor and Mrs. Bob Leight
Scripture Reading. Pastor John Maakestad
Special Song. Covenant Church Group
Message .Pastor Orval Schmidt
Benediction . Pastor Gerald McCray
Thanksgiving In
Washington Means
Big Clean-Up Day
SEATTLE, UP) — A huge clean
ing-up job faced hundreds of
western Washington families this
Thanksgiving eve as flood waters
continued to recede.
Thousands of acres of low
lands were still under water, but
optimistic weather forecasts in
dicated the worst was past.
Sheriff’s deputies and Coast
Guardsmen patrolled the hard
hit Snohomish River and Green
River Valleys, patching dikes and
aiding homeowners.
Rivers, which raged out of con
trol Sunday night, continued to
drop back into their channels. The
freezing level in the mountains,
which had risen to 10,000 feet at
the height of the floods, was ex
pected to fall to 4,000 feet, effec
tively stopping any further snow
melt.
Many families began to head
back to their flooded homes to
begin the massive mopping-up
job which faces them. Farm and
dairy lands were damaged in the
millions of dollars.
Despite the havoc wreaked by
the surging rivers, only one and
possibly two persons died during
the storm. A woman motorist was
killed Sunday night in a car-truck
accident. A wealthy Ellensburg
man is still missing. His empty,
wrecked car was found along the
Snoqualmie River near a huge
washout.
Pope John Jokes, ‘Poor
Me I’m 78 Today!’
VATICAN CITY, UP) — Pope
John XXIII, chuckling over his
“dangerously advanced” age, cele
brated his 78th birthday today
with a general audience for 6,000
persons.
The sturdy Pontiff, who looked
hale, put in a busy day on his
birthday. He told the audience in
the Vatican Hall of Benediction:
“When you are six years old,
you become seven. When you are
15, you become 16. Life goes on
steadily.
“But we are already far along.
When you become 60 to 70 you say
this is much. At 76 to 77, it is
very much. When you reach 78
you say this is a dangerously ad
vanced age. At 78, 79, 80 — you
say poor me.”
There is no special celebration
of the birthday, but the Vatican’s
yellow and white banners were
flown over the 108-acre city state
in honor of the day.
UTAH SMELTER WORKER
LEAPS INTO FIERY FURNACE
GARFIELD, Utah, UP) — A
smelter worker leaped into a fur
nace of molten copper Tuesday
night at the Kennecott Copper
Corp. plant here. The body was
consumed. Justice of the Peace
D. S. Walker said the death of
Clarence Roberts, 61, Magna, ap
parently was a suicide. Other
workers told Walker that Rob
erts had been despondent.
Congressman Reports U. S. Forces In
Philippines Suffer Abuse from Natives
By WILLIAM F. ABROGAST
WASHINGTON, UP) — Repre
sentative Phil Weaver (R-Neb)
said today American armed forces
in the Philippines are victims of
looting, extortion and assault —
sometimes with approval of Phil
ippine authorities.
He reported finding these con
ditions during a recent tour of the
Pacific area as a ihember of the
House Approbations Subcom
mittee.
He said the conditions he found
in the Philipines are “winked” at
or openly approved of by per
haps the most corrupt govern
mental organization in the world.”
At the Pentagon a sokesman
said Weaver is “entitled to his
own opinion” but those . opinions
“are not shared at the Defense
Department.”
The State Department made no
comment.
A spokesman for the Philippine
I Embassy questioned whether
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Weaver had been in the Philip
pines long enough to sum up the
situation.
Weaver urged the United States
to reappraise its defense position
in the Pacific “with a view to
abandoning the Philippine Islands
as a defense base,” and moving
operations perhaps to Thailand.
Weaver claimed American
troops stationed in the Philippines
“must live and work under ex
tremely difficult conditions, sub
ject to false arrest by Philippine
authorities, and the victims of
condoned thievery, looting, black
mail, extortion and assault.”
He accused the Philippine gov
ernment of having embarked on
an open program of harassment
of American officers and men. He
said personnel living away from
the protection of an established
American base must hire armed
guards to protect their property ' 1
and prevent their families from
“being molested or murdered.”
Alaska toy be Scoured
For Albino Buffalo
WASHINGTON, UP — Alaska
will be scanned for a white buf
falo. An albino buffalo named Big
Medicine, tourist attraction at the
National Bison Range in Mon
tana, died recently at the age
of 26.
Seeking a replacement, the
Lake County Development Coun
cil wrote Senator James E. Mur
ray (D-Mont). Murray got in
touch with Senator Gruening, the
Federal Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice and the Alaska Fish and
Game Department. He asked
them to be alert for reports of an
albino. It’s possible, Murray
said, that the Big Delta Bison
herd in Alaska might yield one.
N. Y. BANS TEENAGE CUTUPS
NEW YORK, UP — The City
Council has passed a measure
that would make it illegal for
persons under 21 to carry knives.
There were no votes against
the bill Tuesday but one council
man abstained. He said such a
law couldn’t be enforced.
Church Family Safe from
Ordeal In Oregon Wilds
BEND, Ore., Iff) — A family of
three reached safety Monday
after being trapped in the snow
for three days on a backwoods
road.
The Rev. Laurence Loftus, 28,
said he and his wife and their
baby were stalked by a wolf and
numbed by cold in their foodless
ordeal.
Aside from exhaustion, howev
er, all three were pronounced in
good condition. A search had
started for the family Sunday
after }he minister failed to turn
up at his Methodist church at
Sweet Home in western Oregon
to conduct services.
Millionaire Deputy Sheriff Quiis
AKRON, Ohio, Iff) — Akron’s
millionaire deputy sheriff has
quit his job.
Sheriff Russell Bird said Fred
erick H. Hale of Akron, who in
herited $1,200,000 two years ago,
resigned after an argument with
another deputy.
N.W.A. CHAMBER ENDORSES WIEN PLAN
FOR DIRECT NOME-TO-JUNEAU FLIGHTS
The Chamber of Commerce
has unanimously endorsed the ap
plication of Wien Airlines to the
Civil Aeronautics Board for a
scheduled route from Fairbanks
to Juneau.
This service has already been
endorsed by the Fairbanks Cham
ber of Commerce, and will spe
cially aid the residents of coastal
Alaska, including Nome, Unalak
leet, Barrow and Kotzebue, as at
the present time it is necessary to
remain overnight at Fairbanks or
Anchorage on all flights to
Juneau.
The new service promises to
make it possible for daily flights,
all in the same day, direct from
Nome to Juneau. The proposal
also eliminates the stop at
Whitehorse, Y. T.
It was announced at Chamber
meeting Monday that bids would
be let in January for the first leg
of the long projected Nome-Teller
Road from Penny River to the
Sinuk.
Joe Kroninger of the Road Com
mittee also announced the Cham
*ber was working on a strong
stand on having the Nome-Fair
banks road become part of the
international road system. The
proposed Nome-Fairbanks route
was displayed on a map received
from Juneau.
Dr. Fraser, president of the
Arctic Circle Chamber of Com
merce, of Kotzebue, was a visitor
at the Chamber luncheon, having
been on a trip through the vil
lages of this area, examining the
eyes*of school children.
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