Thirty-three Students
Will Get Degrees At
U of A Commencement
Thirty-three students are ex
pected to receive their degrees at
the University of Alaska’s Com
mencement ceremony this year.
. Twenty-five are regular bache
lor candidates, two expect to re
ceive their fifth year degrees,
■three expect to receive Masters
.degrees, and three are Military
Branch students receiving their
degrees, the first of these to date.
, ' Commencement, by special vote
of the Board of Regents, has been
advanced one week over the cata
log date and will be held at 10
a.m. on Monday, May 11, in the
university gymnasium. This was
done to permit the non-graduat
ing students, who will still be on
campus, to attend before they dis
burse for the summer.
Also of considerable interest
will be the two speakers who have
been chosen to give addresses ap
propriate to the occasion. The first
of these will be former Dean
Ernest N. Patty and Dr. Merle
Tuve.
Budget Guts Jeopardize
Alaska Health Program,
Albrecht Tells Senate
WASHINGTON, UPI — A Senate
committee was told Wednesday
that budget cuts are jeopardizing
an Alaskan health program.
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Alaska
commissioner of health, asked a
Senate Appropriations subcom
mittee to turn down a proposed
cut ffom $700,000 to $540,000 in
an Alaska health grant.
The bigger amount, he said, is
needed to carry out a prograirf
set up several years ago.
Mink Coater Sentenced
For False Testimony
On RFC 'Financing
WASHINGTON, Ml —'E. Merl
Young Thursday was sentenced to
serve from four months to two
years in prison for lying to sena
tors who dug into his mink coat
buying and high financing while
investigating alleged influence on
RFC loans.
Young and his wife, Lauretta,
came to Washington from Mis
souri a decade ago. He got a job
as a $25 a week government mes
senger and she got a job in the
office of then Sen. Harry Truman
of Missouri. , \
Young rose to a $7,500 a year
post with the Reconstruction Fi
nance Corp. but left it to be the
high-salaried Washington repres
entative of several firms. Mrs,
Young moved on to the White
House as a stenographer when
Truman became President.
The Senate inquiry which
brought Young to court was in
1951. It concerned whether he and
others had exerted influence to
get the RFC to make loans.
The senators developed that a
$9,450 pastel mink coat received
by Mrs. Young was paid for orig
inally by a Washington lawyer
who represented RFC loan seek
ers. Young said he repaid the
lawyer.
FORMER GERMAN FINDS WAY
TO NOME TO WORK FOR
U.S. SMELTING COMPANY
Alfred Kalweit, formerly of
Hamm Westfalen, Germany, was
admitted to the United States
under the German quota and
came all the way to Nome to find
work. Kalweit was Paul Dryden’s
boyhood friend and he dreamed
ed for many years of coming to
America to see his friend. During
World War II he became a prison
er and experienced hardships and
saw many things which most Am
ericans are fortunate enough to
only read about. A cook by trade,
KalvVeit is now employed here
in the U.S. Smelting Co. camp
kitchen.
Arctic Sanitary Service
PHONE RED 181
Two Die, One Survives
In Crash oi Seebee
Near Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN, UP) — The sole
survivor of a plane crash, in which
two Ellis Air Lines mechanics
were killed, was flown here
Thursday night by a Fish and
Wildlife Service plane.
Mrs. Naja Johnson was found
unconscious at the wreckage
which claimed the lives of her
husband and William L. John
ston. The three had left Ketchi
kan on a fishing trip Wednesday.
Their plane crashed later that day
in a mountainous district 30
miles north of here.
. The wreckage of their green
Seebee plane was found by Mart
Hanson of the Ketchikan Air Ser
vice, cliniaxing an all day search
under sunny skies.
Three parties hiked to the scene
with a local physician. They
found Mrs. Johnson conscious.
Her injuries were undetermined.
Johnson is survived by his wife
and daughter.
V
The War In Korea —
SEOUL, UP)—Fifty swift F-86
Sabre jets flying as dive bombers
today blasted the Pyongyang ra
dio station and a big military
headquarters building near that
North Korean capital.
The Fifth Air Force reported
the attack shortly after announc
ing that the Eighth fighter-bomb
er wing is flying F-86s, giving the
U.N. Command four complete
Sabre wings in Korea.
Other Allied fighter-bombers
have cratered at least seven Red
airfields in North Korea in the
past week to keep them out of
operation, an Air Force officer
said.
Chemical Plant Explosion
PEABODY, Mass., UP) — Inves
tigators probed today through the
ruins of what once, was a chemi
cal plant to try to learn the source
of a terrific explosion which took
one life and injured 30 others.
The explosion reduced to rub
ble the American Polymer Corp.
while more than a score of per
sons were at work there Thurs-”
day.
It also blew out every window
and parts of the roof of the Res
inous Chemicals Corp., a subsid
iary firm, located next door.
Boy Scout News
Troop 666 held their regular
Wednesday evening meeting as
Robert Summers sounded assem
bly on the bugle. Edgar Roth led
the opening ceremonies with the
recitation of the Scout Oath and
Law. Following that the troops
did 10 push-ups. The boys broke
up into their respective Patrol
Corners as the Eagles, Flying
Eagles, Hawks and Apaches. All
worked on lashings under the di
rection of the patrol leaders and
supervised by Scoutmaster Enix.
Recreation which followed fea
tured five laps running around
the gym and several knotting re
lays. The meeting closed with the
regular ceremonies as Summers
sounded Taps and the circle for
mation brought the whole troop
together for a final word.
—Paul Glavinovich, Scribe
Cubs' Monthly Pack Meeting
The Cub Scouts held their
monthly pack meeting last night
at the CAA recreation hall with
Hawaii as their theme.
The boys had made leis for
themselves and the leaders were
presented with beautiful Ha
waiian leis, compliment of the
PAA.
Awards were made to Joe Bar
ber, who became a new member;
Lion’s Badge to Grant Doyle and
Regnor Capener; Gold Arrow to
Peter Barber. Cubmaster W. Bar
ber also made awards of twelve
service stars to boys who have
been with the pack more than a
year.
Following tlie meeting Ha
waiian poi was served Alaska
fashion.
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Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
POLAR CURIO SHOP
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
— 486 FIRST AVE. WEST —
Nome, Alaska
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208