Strike by B.C. Seamen
Deprives Coastal Towns
VANCOUVER, Of) — Freight
earmarked for scores of commun
ities along the British Columbia
coastline piled up on the Van
couver waterfont today as the
strike of 350 seamen against
Union Steamships Ltd., entered
its fourth day.
An airlift was in operation from
Prince Rupert, 500 miles north
west of Vancouver, to Moresby |
Island in the Queen Charlotte j
group, where about 400 loggers!
were reported facing a shortage
of fresh meat.
The meat shortage was the first
reported from the 100-odd coastal
communities between Vancouver
and Alaska that normally depend
on Union Steamships’ six passen
ger steamers and seven freighters
for most of their supplies.
The seamen struck Sunday to
back up demands for a 12Vfe-per
cent wage increase and an in
crease of 33 cents an hour in over
time pay. The present basic wage
ranges from $200 for deckhands
to $260 for a chief cook.
Park Service Planning
‘Bigger & Better Things’
With Increased Grants
WASHINGTON, W-^The Na
tional Park Service is making
plans for “bigger and better
things” for visitors to the nation’s
scenic and historic areas as a re
sult of an increase in the money
budgeted for the new fiscal year.
Clarence A. Davis, acting secre
tary of the interior, said Monday
the service will spend the $45,
029,300 allowed for the next two
months to “broaden the oppor
tunities for enjoyment by park
visitors.”
The total is $12,803710, or 40
percent more than was allowed
for the fiscal year which ended
last Friday.
Davis said planned expendi
tures in individual parks in the
new year will include:
Mount McKinley National Park, j
Alaska—$493,000 for improve
ments on the McKinley Park Sta
tion - Wonder Lake Road, replac
ing several substandard wooden
bridges, widening, and improve
ment of alignment
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Ada Jakers,
Rev. and Mrs. Willard Mecklen
burg, Myron Mecklenburg, Wm.
Kerns, Sgt. W. Sowers, Wm. Fox,
Lt. Col. Keating, David Willoya,
Joshua Savok.
To Anchorage: Lionel Drolet,
Rex Kirkendall, Jane Murray,*
Betrice Kost and infant, Guy
Whitney, Clifford Hahn, Harry
Daniels, James Oumauk.
From Unalakleet: Agnes
George.
To Unalakleet: Russell Toot
kayalook, George Wilson.
To Kotzebue: Earl Wilson.
From Moses Point: H. Daniels.
Circumstances also alter faces.
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Two More Years
Needed to Finish
Radar Defenses
OTTAWA, Ont., (fa—Construc
tion of two radar warning lines
across Canada is “really rolling,”
officials say. But it probably will
take two years more to complete
them.
Each of th*e warning systems
will be nearly 3,000 miles long.
The DEW (Distant Early Warn
ing) line runs roughly along Can
ada’s arctic coast. It’s costing $250
millions of U.S. money. The mid
Canada line, along the 55th Paral
lel, is costing $170 million of
Canadian funds. The U.S. and
Canadian governments are coop
erating to bring the projects into
being.
Equipment moves in by both air
and sea. Last winter 4,000 flights
carried 20,000 tons of equipment
to the DEW line, and now the
flights are increasing with better
weather. Twenty-ton tractors and
heavy earth moving equipment
have been taken north in U.S.
C-124s. Commercial carriers also
are helping; they get $8,000 for
carrying five tons of cargo 1,000
miles to the site of a DEW line
station.
Some of the larger stations will
peed 1,000 tons of diesel fuel a
year. That indicates the size of the
job of maintaining the stations
once they’re built.
Though purely military, the sta
tions may provide information for
development of mining or other
industries in the north.
Two Women Killed as
Suspension Footbridge
Crashes 20 Feet Into River
CHEROKEE, N.C. UP)—'Two wom
en were killed and 39 persons in
jured Sunday when a 150-foot
suspension footbridge ripped loose
from its moorings and dumped
some 50 persons into the shallow
Oconaluftee River, 20 feet below.
District Solicitor Thad Bryson
Jr. said his preliminary investi
gation into the collapse showed
“no particular evidence of crimi
nal negligence.”
Chief Osley Bird Saunokee of
the Cherokees, who operates a
trading post near one end of the
bridge, said he saw a group of
boys jumping up and down short
ly before the swinging span col
lapsed.
Wanted—Landlord for
Mt. McKinley Park
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Na
tional Park Service is looking for
a landlord to operate its 88-room
54-bath hotel in Mt. McKinley
National Park, Alaska.
Right now the two-story frame
structure is being run on an emer
gency basis by National Park
Concessions, Inc.
Parks Director Conrad L. Wirth
points out that during the past
few years travel to the park has
| averaged 7,000 persons annually
i with a prospect this will increase
S with the completion in 1958 of the
Denali Highway.
One type U.S. medium bomber
last year was flown 1,500,000
miles in engineering flight tests.
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Convict-Author Granted
Stay of Execution
WASHINGTON, UPi— Supreme
Court Justice Tom Clark today j
granted a stay of execution to
Caryl Chessman, sex terrorist and
convict-author who was scheduled
to die July 15 in the gas chamber
of San Quentin, Calif., peniten
tiary.
A court spokesman, announcing
the action, said stay would re
main in effect until the court
has an opportunity to act on
Chessman’s petition for review of
his case. That probably would be
some time this fall.
Chessman was convicted seven
years ago of attempted rape and
kidnapping but has escaped death
repeatedly through a series of
legal maneuvers.
While in death row, he wrote
a best - selling book “Cell 3455,
Death Row” and has another book
due for publication this month.
The new book is entitled “Trial
By Ordeal.”
Girl Thought Carried off
By Bears Found Unhurt
After 22 Hours in Forest
LIBBY, Mont., —Found un
harmed in a wooden hollow, little
Ida Mae Curtis bounded to her
father’s arms with a cheerful “Hi,
Daddy” late yesterday after she
was lost for 22 hours in a rugged
mountain area south of here.
Searchers found the two-year
old girl only 300 yards from
where she disappeared Sunday
evening.
Fearful his daughter might
have been carried from their tent
by one of several bears seen in
the vicinity, Mortimer Curtis, the
child’s father, broke down and
cried upon embracing her.
Mrs. Curtis, mother of seven,
had said she saw two bears near
the camp where Curtis works as
a logger shortly after Ida Mae
vanished at dusk Sunday.
The youngster was taken to a
hospital, where a doctor said she
was in perfect condition.
Ida Mae was wearing only a
thin shirt, shorts and shoes, but
seemed undisturbed at spending
a chilly night and most of the day
alone in the Kootenai National
Forest.
Peron Says His Enemies
Are Circulating Rumors
In ‘Sedition by ’Phone’
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, UPi
—President Juan D. Peron said
in a broadcast yesterday the ene
mies who failed to assassinate
him in the June 16 revolution are
now circulating rumors in an at
tempt at “sedition by telephone.”
Speaking to his people for the
fifth time since the abortive re
volt of navy fliers and marines,
Peron appealed to opposition poli
tical parties to come to an agree
ment with him and he asked his
followers for a truce in Argen
tina’s political struggle.
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The United States, with a total
of 311,659 active pilots out of a
total 660,449 that have learned to
fly, is probably the most air-mind
ed nation in the world.
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