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VOL. LIX No. 129'NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1957 Per Copy—15^
Eisenhower Will Join 14 Chiefs of j
State at NATO Meeting in Paris
By Marvin L. Arrowsmiih <
WASHINGTON, President
Eisenhower said today he plans to
attend the mid-December NATO
council meeting in Paris—assum
ing a majority of the heads of
government of the other 14 mem
ber nations also attend.
Eisenhower told a news confer
ence he would like very much to
visit England on the same trip
but does not know for sure now
whether he will be able to.
Eisenhower’s statement that he
wants to go to the Paris confer
ence amounted to assurance that
he will attend the meeting.
Earlier in the day, the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization an
nounced in Paris the heads of
government of the 15 member na
tions would attend.
The idea of Eisenhower, British
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan
and the other NATO chiefs of
government attending the Paris
conference was first broached last
week during the Eisenhower
MacMillan talks here.
Eisenhower said that at the
Paris meeting he hopes he and the
others attending will be able to
awaken interest in common prob
lems facing the free world.
He obviously had in mind such
recent developments as Russian
progress in the ballistic missile
field and the Soviet launching of
an earth satellite.
16 Airmen
Feared Dead in
Crash of Tanker
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (#>—Ground
and airborne rescue teams today
■combed a sheer northern Arizona
mountainside where a big Air
Force tanker crashed and explod
ed, apparently killing all 16 men
aboard.
They sought to confirm the fate
of eight of the men.
A preliminary check of the
•charred wreckage several hours
after the tragedy Tuesday turned
up eight bodies and no sign of life.
The Air Force said the plane, a
KC97 from Walker AFB, N.M.,
was carrying 16 men on a routine
training flight.
The site of the crash is in rug
ged country about 41 miles east of
the spot where two airliners
crashed into Grand Canyon in
June 1956, killing 128 persons.
Ground searchers had to walk
the last mile and a half to the foot
of the mountain and then faced a
steep climb to the wreckage.
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Vice Squad Alerted
To Vulgar Hip-Grinding
Of Elvis Presley
' HOLLYWOOD, UPL-Elvis Pres
ley, quiver-lipped hero of the
fainting set, performed under the
scrutiny of vice squad officers last
night. They said they found noth
ing wrong with the show, from a
standpoint of propriety, at any
rate.
The officers were dispatched to
the Pan-Pacific Auditorium be
cause of complaints about the pre
vious night’s proceedings. It was
then that about 10,000 of Presley’s
constituents went insane over
their idol’s unique brand of song
and dance.
Many parents who accompanied
their offspring to the production
claimed Presley was manipulating
his hips in a manner that was
vulgar, to say the least.
A local entertainment editor,
Dick Williams of the Mirror, ob
served that the show was like
“those screeching, uninhibited
party rallies which the Nazis used
to hold for Hitler.”
Biggest Shipping Strike
In Japan’s History
TOKYO, (tfi—The biggest ship
ping strike in Japan’s history to
day tied up 157 Japanese vessels
in 60 ports thruout the nation.
The 84,000-member Seamen’s
Union went on a five-day strike
Monday, demanding an average
pay raise of 20% over the current
monthly average of $77.64.
Nome Chamber Invited
To Business Seminar
In Anchorage Nov. 20-22
By RUTH McLEAN
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce has been invited
to attend the first annual Business
Seminar Nov. 20-22.
The Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce has sent an invitation
to all Nome business persons in
terested in promoting better prac
tices ter attend the meeting, which
will endeavor to help the average
business man or woman.
A full program of worthwhile
talks and discussions is being
planned and details will be re
ceived soon, according to first in
formation.
The regular weekly meeting of
the NWA Chamber last Monday
was conducted by Secretary Jim
von der Heydt and he welcomed
three guests, Rev. Charles Powers
of Fairbanks, Sgt. Clark, U. S.
Marine Corps, stationed in An
chorage, and John Amberg dis
tributor of Admiral Products,
from Seattle.
Criminally Insane Patients at
Washington Mental Hospital Hold
36 Hostages in Nine-Hour Revolt
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Flu Epidemic Hits
Washington State
SEATTLE, UP)—The influenza
epidemic gathered momentum in
Washington S tate today with an!
official report listing more than
57,000 cases of respiratory illness
and at least 15 deaths possibly
connected with the flu.
A state health department re
port of 57,808 cases was based on
figures thru last week. It was a
seven-fold increase from 8,412 in
the previous week. Two weeks
ago the department listed only ]
2,582 cases.
Seaton to Decide on Plan to Open
28,000,000 Acres in North Alaska
To Private Mineral Development
WASHINGTON, UP>—Secretary
of the Interior Seaton, armed
with the recommendations of af
fected agencies, is expected to act
soon on a proposal to open a vast
acreage in northern Alaska to pri
vate development.
The area, which since 1943 has
been surveyed exclusively for the
government, includes known na
tural gas deposits and potential
oil lands.
Seaton said last month prelim
inary study indicated the possi
bility of favorable action on the
proposal, which could unlock as
much as 28,000,000 acres to poten
tial development.
One of the basic problems with
which Seaton is wrestling, it was
understood, involves what condi
tions to impose on the released
land insofar as its future develop
ment is concerned.
Present law requires that lands
and leasable minerals within a
known geologic structure of a
producing oil and gas field be
leased by competitive bidding.
Other areas may be leased to the
first qualified applicant.
One group within the depart
ment would have Seaton place
the entire area proposed for re
lease under competitive proce
dures. This, the argument goes,
would increase the revenue re
turn to the federal and territorial
governments and would elimin
ate any contentions of favoritism.
Another view with which Sea
ton is being pressed, however, is
that competitive bidding favors
the bigger, wealthier companies
at the expense of smaller con
cerns. Holders of this view con
tend that development would be
encouraged if lands outside the
known geologic structures were
released on a “first come, first
served” basis. (
Under-Ice Cruise of Sub Nautilus
Yields Much Valuable Information
GROTON, Conn. UP)—Tne atom
ic submarine Nautilus, poking un
der the arctic ice pack almost to
the North Pole, has gathered a
tremendous amount of new infor
mation about that part of the
world.
The sub’s skipper, Cmdr. Wil
liam R. Andersen, said the feat
was accomplished without the
sub ever getting lost even for a
moment—altho it was out of radio
contact with the rest of the world
while under the ice.
The Nautilus took a party of
Navy scientists to within 180 nau
tical miles of the Pole.
Its skipper said the scientists
gained 100 times more informa
tion than all previous air or sur
face explorations, and now know
more about the oceanography and
geology of the Arctic Ocean basin
than anyone else in the world.
Cmdr. Anderson, commenting
on the trip last night, said the
scientists studied many things, in
cluding special devices designed
to solve navigational problems
met in the high latitudes.
The captain said he was not at
liberty to disclose specific findings
because of security reasons.
He said a sub submerged in
water only can receive certain
types of radio signals at shallow
depths but cannot transmit sig
nals without an antenna above
water.
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MEDICAL LAKE, Wash., Mi
Simmering unrest among crimin
ally insane patients at the state
mental hospital blew up into a
dramatic nine-hour revolt that
ended harmlessly last night for
36 hostages.
“It was all a misunderstanding
and there will be no changes in
the program,” said Dr. Garrett
Heyns in two radio broadcasts the
rebels ordered him to make be
fore they would give up.
Albert (Rock) Hutchings, chief
security guard at the building, re
signed Monday at Heyn’s request
and the inmates had read news
paper accounts of it. Heyns said
they apparently thought Hutch
ings’ departure would change the
treatment system.
Not until the inmates heard
Heyns’ voice over their radios in
the big maximum security build
ing would they release their
guards and turn over weapons
that included two makeshift
knives, some razor blades and a
tear gas riot gun.
Heyns, who raced to Spokane,
15 miles away, in a state patrol
car to make the broadcasts over a
commercial radio station, didn’t
say enough in his first statement.
An inmate then asked by tele
phone that Heyns also assure
them that popular E. R. Hodgson
would be retained as medical di
rector of the security unit. Heyns
went across the street to Miother
station and added a promise about
Hodgson in a second broadcast.
When the hostages were re
leased, they came out the gate
one by one and were greeted by
tearful wives who had waited in
the rain for hours. Police had
been prepared to make an armed
assault with rifles and shotguns*
Two Killed
In Crash of
B-47 Bomber
SAUNA, Kansas, (ffi—A B-47
bomber crashed on a hill at the
edge of the bombing range at
Schilling Air Force Base yester
day, killing two of its three crew
men. ' - *
The pilot, Capt. Bobby Hodges,
35, of Okolona, Miss., parachuted
safely. Those killed were Gapt.
Bernard Rinebold, 33, of Macedon,
N.Y., and Capt. Harold Horry of
Wichita Falls, Texas.
The cause of the crash was not
.determined.
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Concessions with Prizes . . . Games of Skill . . . Cotton Candy • • • Surprises!
Fun for Young and Old . . . No Admission . . . 7:30 to 10:00 Thursday Night, .School Gym
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