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VOL, LX No. 148 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958 ~T Per Copy—lfic
Illness Plagues
White House
State Dinner
WASHINGTON, OR — Illness
plagued the state dinner opening
the White House social season
Thursday night.
Two of the guests of honor were
absent because of illnes and two
guests became ill at the dinner
table.
The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower launched thg social season
with a dinner for 80 in honor of
the Supreme Court.
But Chief Justice Earl Warren,
stricken with a virus infection,
and Associate Justice Felix Frank
furter, still hospitalized from a
mild heart disturbance, were un
able to attend.
Then as the elaborate dinner
got under way at the huge E
shaped table decked with pink
carnations, two of the women
guests became ill.
It was reported that Mrs. Eisen
hower personally dispatched one
of three doctor guests, Brig. Gen.
Thomas W. Mattingly, to aid Mrs.
Howard Simpson of Baltimore,
wife of the president of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad.
Mattingly, a heart specialist,
said Mrs. Simpson suffered from
an attack of very rapid heart ac
tion, but it wasn’t serious.
First to leave the table, even
before »ehe had a chance to try
the food, was Mrs. Harold Tinney,
one of a group of Newport, R. I.,
friends the Eisenhowers had in
vited specially.
The nature of her illness was
not disclosed.
ROOF GARDEN CAST
COSTUMES ARRIVE
Russell Hermann, director of
the Nome Repertoire Players
Group announced today that,
contrary to rumor, the costumes
for the cast of “The Lady Known
as Lou,” a melodrama with a
moral, have arrived and will be
worn when the play is presented
at the Roof Garden.
An all star cast with James
Blanning and -Mary Ellen Walsh
playing the lead, supported by
Roscoe Wilke, Barrow Morgan,
Charlotte Hungerford, Earl Owen,
Benny Benefield, Don Lyle and
Ellen Lyle, will present the play
at 8 p.m. sharp, with the two
doors opening at 7 p.m. sharp.
The Nome School Band has
been practicing for weeks and
has prepared several novelty
numbers for the program.
Mr. Hermnn requests that pa
trons please do not talk out loud
during the performance of the
play.
ISLE DE FRANCE DOOMED
PARIS, UFf—The Isle De France,
Queen of the Atlantic for more
than a decade, is headed for the
heap. The French Line announced
that the 32-year-old liner is too
old and expensive to run, and will
be sold for scrap.
Statehood Nixes Pier
Head Survey In Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) — Interior
Department officials said last
night plans are being dropped for
making pier head surveys of Alas
kan coastal waters.
They said that the surveys won’t
be necessary, since Alaska is be
coming a State.
A bill passed by Congress would
have permitted the Army Engin
eers to survey lands lying in tide
flats where piers and buildings
stand. As a Territory, Alaska
could not claim title to the lands
until surveyed.
But Statehood changed all this.
“Alaska will be entitled to the
beds of all navigable waters for
a distance of at least three miles,
so why make the surveys?” com
mented Erl Harrington, cadas
tral survey officer in the Bureau
of Land Management.
Harrington said the Army En
gineers had intended to ask for
$200,000 to make surveys out to
the pier head line, but that the
change in signals meant the money
would not be needed.
Ed Woozley, director of the
Bureau of Land Management,
said Statehood meant Alaska could
legislate and dispose of the tidal
lands as the State wished. As a
Territory, Alaska has no author
ity to dispose of such lands.
Seaton Announces His
Intention To Retire
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HONOLULU, UP) — Interior Sec
retary Fred A. Seaton said today
•he hoped to resign soon and re
turn to private business.
’Seaton, who arrived here last
night for the Western Regional
Republican Conference, gave no
firm date for his resignation.
He told newsmen he wanted to
quit his Cabinet post in the near
future “so I can make up for
time I have been missing with
my family.”
Seaton, who owns several Mid
western newspapers and radio
stations, speaks at tonight’s clos
ing banquet. He will return to
Washington tomorrow.
Fog Closed Sea-Tac
| Airport Last Night
I SEATTLE, UP) — Airfields were
reopened to traffic this afternoon
after heavy fogs forced cancella
tion of flights last night and ear
lier 'today.
A Pacific Northern Airlines
plane enroute to Seattle from An
chorage, Alaska, landed at Belling
ham, Wash., 90 miles north of
here, last night because of foggy
conditions at the Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport.
The passengers aboard the plane
were brought here by bus.
Ski Pants Are Issue In Contract
Negotiations with Stewardesses
SEATTLE, UP) — The problem,
the three stewardesses .explained,
is that area between a shapely
knee and a well-turned ankle.
Employing a time-tested phrase,
they said:
“Baby, it’s cold down there.”
Noni Myers of Anchorage, Mar
ilyn Batey of Seattle and Rose
marie Fliseck ol Kent, Wash.,
were surrounded by an admiring
cluster of newsmen yesterday as
they explained their problem.
Miss Batey, chairman of Coun
cil 77 of the Airline Stewards and
Stewardesses Association, said her
union was in contract negotiations
with Pacific Northern Airlines
which flies Alaskan routes.
A lot of things are involved in
the talks, she 9aid, but two things
the company wants have the girls
in a particular frost.
First, said Miss Myers, the com
pany wants to be able to retire
its stewardesses at the age of 32.
But worst of all, piped up Miss
Fliseck, the airline won’t let its
stewardesses wear ski pants on
Alaska flights.
“There we are, exposed,” Noni
said. “They want us to have just
this thin veil of nylon between us
and the elements at 40 to 60
•below zero.”
And Marilyn chimed in:
“Every other airline that flies
out of Anchorage requires ski
pants,, for comfort and as a safety
precaution. If we crashed in ny
lons, our legs would freeze stiff.”
“The only reason they’ll give
us is that ski pants are not in keep
ing with the decorum of the com
pany uniform,” Rosemary said.
“I asked the airline man what
we should do to keep from freez
ing,” Noni said. “He suggested we
wear adequate underwear. I
said, ‘What do you suppose we
should do to keep warm between
here and there?”
She used her hands to describe
in the air an oval encompassing
the aforementioned shapely knee
and well-turned ankle.
As a reporter tried in vain to
reach airline officials for com
ment, Rosemarie said she was 26.
Marilyn is 32. Noni said only that
she is “quite a ways from 32 yet.”
And the conversation continued:
Noni: “You know, the general
conception of stewardesses is a
bunch of young things tripping
down the aisle. Actually, the pas
sengers prefer somebody that’s in
teresting to talk to.”
Rosemarie: “Somebody mature
and capable. Why, some of the
best stewardesses in the industry
are over 32.”
Marilyn: “They say you get
frumpy and frowzy. Hmph! You
haven’t lost the romance of life
when you get to be 32.”
Chorus: “They haven’t given us
one reasonable reson why we
shouldn’t wear ski pants.”
Reds Make Yet
Another Bid For
Summit Meeting
By ANGELO NATALE
MOSCOW, — The Soviet:
Union put in ..another bid last
night for a summit meeting on I
causes of international tension. It j
included the Berlin situation but
ruled out discussion of German
reunifiction.
The statement from the official
new agency Tass also warned that
any Western use of force to main
tain access to Berlin would be met
by Soviet force and would touch
off a nuclear war.
Some Western officials have
proposed that Berlin be discussed
only in connection with the entire
German unification problem. Tass
renewed the Kremlin stand
against negotiating on reunifica
tion. ^
The Soviet Union reported,
however, its readiness to talk
about a World War II peace treaty
for Germany. Tass added that the
Soviet Union stands for a meeting
of the heads of state, on the con
dition that East, and West are
equally represented, with the aim
of “discussing ripened questions
of consequence toward easing in
terntional tension.”
The West has insisted on search
ing talks at a lower level to in
sure likelihood of agreement be
fore the heads of governments
gathered. The Soviet Union wanted
to get the government chiefs to
do the actual trading.
In Washington, State Depart
ment officials said the Tass state
ment looked like a propaganda
broadside. They said again that
the United States will not be de
terred by threats from defending
its rights in Berlin.
A spokesman for the West Ger
man Foreign Office said in Bonn
that the statements from Tass
and Khrushchev “go up to the
brink of a threat of war.”
The spokesman pointed out that
threatening Soviet statements just
before a NATO conference are
usual.
“However, the new threatening
statements are in an unusually
sharp tenor,” he said.
The NATO foreign, defense and
finance ministers hold their an
nual meeting in Paris next week.
NEW YORK LIGHTS UP
FOR YULETIDE HOLIDAYS
NEW YORK, m — Rockefeller
Center’s traditional Christmas
tree was lighted last night for
the holiday season. The 64-foot
tall white spruce, a gift from East
Madison, Maine, is adorned with
1,000 big red and white globes
plus 2,000 smaller white lights.
It is topped by a huge white star.
Taking part in the annual light
ing ceremony were Governor Ed
mund S. Muskie of Maine and
New York Governor-elect Nelson
A. Rockefeller.
Mixed Reaction
Greets Alaska
Govt. Proposal
JUNEAU, UPi—Mixed reception
greeted the proposal for eleven
departments within the executive
branch of the new state govern
ment.
Comments on the proposal, in
a report issued Wednesday,
ranged from heavy opposition to
warm approval.
Mostly the comments appeared
to depend on hdw the officials
felt their respective departments
had fared in the report by the
Public Administration Service.
Numerous officials declined to
comment. “I have nothing to say
that can be printed,” said one
department head.
Formal objection came from
the Fish and Game Commission,
in session here. It indicated that
continued operation of fish and
game activities under a separate
agency was spelled out in the
statehood act.
Henry Harmon, Welfare Com
missioner, says his board already
is on record against combining
the agency with any other.
Dr. Robert Wilkins,- Anchor
age, a meibber of the Board of
Health, said, “I have nothing fa
vorable to say about the report
and nothing favorable to say
about the people who made it.”
However, Highway Department
officials approved the report and
looked to expanded responsibili
ties if the recommendations are
adopted. The Territorial Police
also generally are in favor of
recommendations concerning the
proposed Department of Public
Safety.
Governor-elect Wm. Egan, re
cuperating from minor surgery
here, declined an invitation to
serve as the grand marshal of the
70th annual Tournament of Roses
at Pasadena.
In a statement issued from St.
Ann’s Hospital, Egan said the in
vitation is outstanding recogni
tion for Alaska. However, after
consultation with doctors and a
review of the work load ahead,
he said he must decline the honor.
Seattle Port
Officials Plan
Alaska Tour
SEATTLE, UT* — The Port of
Seattle is laying tentative plans
for a goodwill trip to Alaska next
spring.
The trip would toe the first such
official visit, to Alaska by the
Port in history, Port General
Manager Howard Al. Burke said
Wednesday. It is proposed that
several members of the Port Com
mission and Port staff make the
trip.
In another direction, the Port
is considering establishment of an
office in New York to generate
traffic for this area.
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