SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No714 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1958Per Copy—15^
BOTH PARTIES FILE
FULL SLATES FOR
PRIMARY ELECTION
With the filing yesterday of
four candidates for the primary
election, both parties have filled
their slate on the ballot.
Filing for the Senate were:
Chas. D. Jones and Carl Glavino
vich, Republicans; for the House,
Rep. Eben Hopson, Democrat, of
Barrow, and Alfred Mazonna, Re
publican of Nome.
The Second Division filings,
then are, to date:
For the Senate — Republicans,
Jones and Glavinovich, and
Democrats Wm. Beltz and Jim
von der Heydt.
For the House: Democrats Hop
son, Les Bronson, Frank Degnan,
•and Republicans, Mazonna, Rep.
Clinton Gray, and Art Johnson.
If there are no further filings
all will be nominated and their
names will appear also on the
general election ballots. There
are two seats open in the Sen
ate and three in the House.
Alaska Barge Lines To
Start Twice-Monthly Run
From Portland on Feb. 10
SEATTLE, UP)—The first barge
in Alaska Freight Lines’ twice
monthly service from the Colum
bia river to Alaska is scheduled
to sail Feb. 10 from Portland.
Alaska Freight also announced
that its tug El Sol, enroute to
Corpus Christie, Tex., with 2Vz
million board feet of lumber
aboard two barges, had ridden
out a 90-mile gale off the coast
of Mexico.
Mrs. F.D.R. Sees
Self Portrayed
In Stage Play
NEW YORK, UP)—Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt marked the 76th an
niversary of her husband’s birth
last night at the opening of a
new play built around him.
The 73-year-old widow and her
four sons, sitting apart in the
Cort Theater audience, attended
the opening of “Sunrise at
Campobello” and saw themselves
portrayed on stage in earlier
phases of their lives.
Mrs. Roosevelt called it fine
entertainment and expressed de
light with the acting of Ralph
Bellamy as the late President
Roosevelt and Mary Fickett as
herself. But the widow added:
“It has no more to do with me
than the man in the moon. I don’t
recognize myself on stage. I have
no feelings of reality about it. It
might just as well be about some
one from mars.”
Former movie executive Dore
Schary wrote the play. It covers
Roosevelt’s fight against his crip
pling polio handicap after he was
afflicted in 1921 at the family
summer home in Campobello,
New Brunswick, Canada.
It ends with his re-emergence
as a national political figure at
the Democratic national conven
tion in 1924 at Madison Square
Garden. The final curtain falls
as Roosevelt, . erect on braces,
makes his famed “happy warrior”
speech to place the late A1 Smith
in nomination for the Democratic
presidential candidacy.
Eisenhower Gives GOP Campaign
Keynote: ‘Five Years of Prosperity’
Reds Reported
Ready To Launch
Larger Satellite
NEW YORK, CP — The Nejv
York Times said today the Soviet
Union is preparing to launch a
huge rocket, probably in an at
tempt to lift its third artificial
satellite, according to reports be
lieved to be reliable.
The story said the Russians, in
their preparation to launch the
huge rocket, were reported to
have begun at least one count
down.
In the count-down, begun in
advance of the established time
for launching, every working part
of the missile is checked until a
final state of readiness is de
clared and the switch or button
pressed.
The Times said it was esti
mated by experts in Washington
that the Soviet launching will be
attempted within a few days,
possibly within less than a day,
if the count-down is satisfactory.
“The consensus of the experts,”
it was reported, “is that the So
viets will try to raise into orbit
around the earth a vehicle that is
substantially heavier than the
first two satellites.”
By D. HAROLD OLIVER
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower told Republicans to
day they can campaign on a “five
years of prosperity” platform de
spite the current business reces
sion.
The President told a breakfast
sponsored by the Republican Na
tional Committee that the econ
omy will pick up later this year
because it “remains basically
strong and the American people
remain basically confident.”
“This is a period of consolid
ating the gains of recent years,”
Eisenhower said. “Many people
are paying off installment debts.
Many businesses are trimming
inventories. The economy Is
catching its breath for a new ad
vance after the fast expansion
of recent years.”
Eisenhower did not predict a
Republican victory in the con
gressional elections next Novem
ber, but he said:
“We all know that the political
prophets have already got out
their short pencils and made a lot
of mathematical calculations
about the odds the Republicans
are up against in various states
and districts.
“But these calculations over
look the decisive element: what
counts is not necessarily the size
of the dog in the fight—its the
size of the fight in the dog.”
George (Seawall) Bender Tells
Nome: ‘Promote Your Winterland’
George Bender, former senator
from Ohio, who presented the bill
in Congress for the Nome seawall
in about 1948, which resulted in
a federal expenditure of a mil
lion dollars for the protection of
the community, arrived in Nome
yesterday on his first trip here.
He saw the seawall for the first
time, too, from the air.
Mr. Bender spent the day visit
ing with businessmen of the com
munity and seeing the “best
known town in Alaska” in all its
winter glory.
Last evening at a banquet held
in his honor by the Chamber of
Commerce and the Rotary Club
at the Seaview Room of the North
Star, he said:
“Promote your winterland—it
is more beautiful thatn Switzer
land where Americans spend mil
lions of dollars every year. Am
ericans spend more money on
travel than all the rest of the
world combined.”
He predicted that the state
hood bill would come before Con
gress within the next month and
be acted upon before June.
He said: “Statehood will be the
greatest step to progress for the
territory it has ever had. Every
home in America will be talking
about Alaska as they buy a new
flag with 49 stars on it. Ninety
five per cent of Americans don’t
know Alaskans speak the same
language they do!”
Bender praised Grant Jackson
and Carl Lomen for their untir
ing efforts in Washington to get
the necessary backing for Nome’s
seawall. He said, '“As long as
Nome lives, the names of Jack
son and Lomen should live. They
did this town a real service.”
Bender, now a special assistant
to Interior Secretary Seaton, re
vealed that his forebearers were
Moravian missionaries in Alaska
which gives him a particular in- j
terest here.
He said that both parties have
pledged support for statehood. “I
know President Eisenhower, Sec
retary Seaton, and Delegate Bart
lett have a great zeal for state
hood. I have written to every
congressmen and senator of every
state and of both parties since
my arrival in the territory that
Alaskans are ready for state
hood.”
James Walsh, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, acted as
master of ceremonies, and he ex
! pressed appreciation to the dis
tinguished guest from the people
of Nome for his inttrest and ef
forts in obtaining the seawall for
Nome, and presented him with a
I paperweight made from the rails
j of the famous Kougarok railroad
which is being replaced by High
| way 97.
Phil Morgan, former U.S. At
! torney in Fairbanks, and now
chief of the Division of Alaskan
Affairs in the Department of the
Interior, who is accompanying
Mr. Bender on his Alaskan trip,
spoke briefly at the dinner and
I at a short interview over KNOM
J last evening.
The two men left today for
! Fairbanks, Anchorage and south
j eastern Alaska.
Charles Starkweather, Killer of 11,
“Always Wanted to be An Outlaw”
GERING, Neb., U& — Charles
Starkweather, 19, has made an
oral confession to 11 killings by
gun, knife and clubbing while
interjecting the remark “I always
wanted to be an outlaw,” Sheriff
Merle Karnopp said last night.
Kamopp, sheriff of Stark
weather’s home town of Lincoln,
Neb., said Charles “cool as a cu
cumber” gave the confession as
the two sat in the back seat of
a car taking Starkweather on the
first lap of a journey home.
Starkweather is charged with
first degree murder in Lincoln,
where seven of the 11 persons
were slain.
Kamopp said Starkweather as
serted his 14-year-old girl friend,
Caril Fugate, who.was with him
this week as 10 persons were
found slain, had nothing to do
with the killings.
Karnopp related that Stark
weather, speaking freely and
without a sign of remorse, told
him:
“I always wanted to be a crim
inal, but not this big a one.”
At Lincoln, the big question
remained: Why? Why this se
quence of wanton, senseless kill
ihgs?
Interviews by Associated Press
reporters with nearly a score of
people who had known Stark
weather — schoolmasters, friends,
relatives, employers—brought one
observation repeatedly: Charlie
wanted recognition.
A former girl friend put it this
way:
“I felt sorry for Charles be
cause everyone else shunned him.
He is a redhead and bow legged
and people seemed to push him
around. They always gave Chuck
a bad deal.”
Bartlett Seeks Increase In
Living Cost Allowance
For Workers In Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) — Delegate
Bartlett said today he is seeking
a meeting to urge administration
support for his bill to increase
cost-of-living allowances for fed
eral workers in Alaska.
Under existing law, the allow
ance is limited to 25 per cent of
the employe’s salary. A Civil Ser
vice Commission announcement
W’ednesday, however, showed the
cost - of - living index at Juneau
was 41.7 percent above the Dis
trict of Columbia. Fairbanks was
66.8 percent higher and Anchor
age 56.7 per cent above the na
tion’s capital.
Bartlett’s bill would remove the
statutory ceiling and permit pay
ment of allowances reflecting the
true differential.
Benson Criticizes
Republican Policy
Toward Alaska
FAIRBANKS, Wf—.Labor Com
missioner Henry Benson yester
day ended all speculation as to
whether he would run for terri
torial elective office again and at
the same time criticized the Re
publican set-up in ^laska.
Benson said he was not run
ning for the office of commis
sioner of labor again or for any
other elective office.
At the same time, he said he
was supporting John Butrovich
of Fairbanks for delegate—reluc
tantly.
In a telegram to the News
Miner, Benson said: “responding
to your personal inquiry please
be advised I will not be a can
didate for any elective office. I
am supporting that former Re
publican John Butrovich for dele
gate. This support is given despite
the fact that Butrovich is com
mitted to making a one - party
Democratic jurisdiction.
“There will be no Republican
victory in view of the decision
at top level to trade Alaska for
complete Democratic support. In
short, Alaska will be Democratic
from now on out to satisfy con
gressional leadership and elimin
ate any semblance of Republicans
! in Alaska. This is in line with or
! ders of Lee Potter and adminis
tration officials who have ex
pressed policy in regard to
Alaska.”
In Fairbanks Butrovich said:
“I have still a job to do as a
senator in the legislature and
have no intentions for running
for delegate. I am looking no fur
ther ahead than the Alaska Leg
islature.”
15 Teams Formed
For Bowling
League Here
A new form of recreation far
Nome was tested Wednesday
night when employes from the
Federal Bldg., and from Air
lines bowled a three-game series
at the bowling alleys located in
the former Air Force gym at
Nome Field.
Earlier this 'winter several per
sons combined efforts to refinish
the three alleys, install lights and
an oil furnace.
The Federals won the series,
with Joe Kroninger scoring all
even 500 and a high for a single
game of 191. Janet Caldwell of
the Federal building, and Mary
Honsberger of the Airlines, led
the women bowlers.
Later Wednesday evening, the
Bank team won a game from the
N.C. Co. five.
Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m.
| the BPR team is matched against
! the National Guard and on Sun
| day afternoon the Trading Post
i and CAA are scheduled, with the
! North Star Grill meeting Mor
; gans in the evening,
j There will be a meeting for all
persons interested in a bowling
league at 7 p.m. Monday night
1 at the City Hall. So far, 15 teams
have expressed an interest in
forming a league.