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VOL. LXH No. 51 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1960_Per Copy 154
Kennedy and Nixon Both Gain Speed!
In Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Runoffs |
Primary results inflated the i
Presidential hopes today of Sen.
John Kennedy of Massachusetts
and Vice President Richard Nixon.
Kennedy, who has several hard
campaigning rivals for the Demo
cratic nomination, outpolled them
all with overwhelming write-in
totals yesterday in the Pennsyl
vania and Massachusetts pri
maries.
Nixon, who has no announced
rival for the 'Republican nomina
tion, rolled up impressive totals
that buried the hopes of those
who wanted to see outbursts of
sentiment for Gov. Nielson Rocke
feller of New York.
Of the two primaries, the one
in Pennsylvania had the most sig
nificance.
In Pennsylvania, where Nixon’s
name was the only one on the
Presidential preference ballot, his
count approached the 951,932
Eisenhower received in 1956.
Nixon had 929,205 votes. Rocke
feller was far back at 9,862.
One of the GOP delegates
elected to the Chicago nominating
convention was Harold E. Stassen,
who tried to head off Nixon in
1956 and has been reported as!
launching a new stop-Nixon drive
this year.
In the Democratic contest Ken
nedy forged farther ahead as the
count neared completion. With
8,514 precincts recorded, Ken
nedy had 170,835.
Behind him trailed Adlai Ste
venson with 26,347, Sen. Hubert
Humphrey with 12,863, Sen. Stu
art Symington with 6,171, and Sen.
Lyndon Johnson with. 2,647.
Kennedy’s victory was npt
binding on the state’s 81 delegate
votes at the Democratic National
Convention in July. Nixon’s vic
tory, however, apparently assured
him of Pennsylvania’s 70 votes at
the Republican convention.
In Massachusetts, Kennedy’s
home state, nearly complete re
turns gave him an overwhelming
majority over the total for all ri
vals. All votes there were write
ins.
Nixon had 54,201 to 4,222 for
Rockefeller.
In the election of convention
delegates, Kennedy won a solid
51-vote bloc. The Republican 38
vote delegation leans to Nixon.
Chena Ice Out Monday
FAIRBANKS, UP> — The ice on
the Chena River went out Mon
day at 5:42 p.m., and four parties
here shared a pool of $7,599.
The ice, which had been rotted
out by drainage from city and
Ladd Field storm drains, moved
out quietly.
However, reports from Nenana
said that the ice there was by no
means ready to go.
Winners were Johnny’s Express
Pool, George H. Becker, George’s
Corner Beverage Store, and Ber
ton F. Manske.
Californian Hopes to Set
Tokyo-New York Record
TOKYO, Ufl—Peter Gluckmann,
34-year-old watchmaker from San
Francisco, took off Friday in a
new attempt to set a nonstop dis
tance solo flight record for light
planes. He left for New York,
8,886 miles away. Present nonstop
solo flight record for light planes
is 7,800 miles.
BOB HOPE HONORED
FOR SERVCE TO INDUSTRY
HOLLYWOOD, IM — Comedian
Bob Hope has been cited by the
Hollywood Women’s Press Club
for “many outstanding contribu
tions to the enterainment in
dustry.”
It was the first time the club has
given the. special award. It named
as its man of the year movie col
umnist Sidney Skolsky.
How to Teach a Seal to Swim?
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., UD —
t’ Anyone know how to teach a
seal to swim?
The Marin County Humane So
ciety wants to find out. It has
a week-old female in a bathtub
and no information about teach
ing procedures.
The seal was found stranded on
a reef by a fisherman last Mon
day.
Primary Election Filings
Mount Slowly in Alaska
JUNEAU, UP — Filings for po
sitions on Alaska’s primary elec
tion ballot continued to mount
slowly with the deadline for en
tries less than a week away,
A three-way Democratic con
test for the four-year southcentral
at-large State Senate seat has de
veloped, but the filing generally
have been light so far in other
districts.
Through ysterday, only 46 Dem
ocratic candidates and 13 Repub
lican hopefuls had laid their
money on the line for the August
9 primary. The filing deadline is
5 p.m. next Monday.
The August balloting is a pre
liminary to the Nov. 8 general
election, at which Alaskans will
fill 52 vacancies in the State Le
gislature and elect a United States
Senator and a member of the U. S.
House of Represenatives.
Among those whose filings have
not yet been received is that of
Sen. Bob Bartlett, who has an
nounced he will be a candidate for
re-election this year. His formal
filing was expected later this
week at the office of the Secretary
of State.
Iranian City Clobbered
By Quake Aftershock
TEHRAN, Iran, UP — Panic
stricken residents again fled the
battered city of Lar yesterday to
escape new quakes which toppled
weakened buildings and added
15 more dead to the estimated toll
of 500. ,•
Persons caught in the latest
quakes described them as heavy.
They said the center of the city
550 miles south of Tehran was in
ruins as a result of Sunday’s two
shattering quakes and the series
of shocks that have followed.
Democratic Club Meeting Thursday
THE PLACE — NOME CITY HALL — : — THE TIME — 8 O’CLOCK P. M.
Ike Warns Soviets
Against Pushing
Summit Ultimatum
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower, in a wide-ranging
news conference, warned Nikita
Khrushchev today against ulti
matums, and pictured ousted
President Syngman Rhee of Korea
as a great patriot who lapsed into
mistakes in his old age.
In effect, Eisenhower cautioned
Soviet Premier Khrushchev that
threats about Berlin could wreck
the May summit conference in
Paris before it gets started. The
President said he will never go
to any conference under the threat
of an ultimatum.
This was his reply to Khrush
chev’s recent declaration that the
Western Allies will forfeit rights
of access to divided Berlin if the
Soviet Union signs a separate
peace treaty with East Germany.
Eisenhower expressed confidence,
however, that Khrushchev won’t
press things too far.
On Korea, Eisenhower was at
pains to say the United States had
no part in inciting the anti-Rhee
riots which led to the resigna
tion of the 85-year-old Republic
of Korea President. j
As for his own role, Eisenhower
told the news conference, the
only thing he did was to tell Rhee
that apparently there had been ir
regularities in the Korean elec
tions, and that the situation which
led to his should be corrected.
Eisenhower spoke of the 85
year-old Korean leader as a great
man, a tremendous patriot, and
the father of his country.
But as Rhee has grown older,
the President said, some mistakes
have been made.
As for his announced intention
to visit Korea next June, Eisen
hower said he plans at this time
to go ahead with the visit.
It was his first news conference
in a month.
Session Laws Completed
With Governor’s Action
JUNEAU, UP) — Alaska’s First
State Legislature wrote 387 new
laws in the two sessions.
The work of the First Legisla
ture, the second session of which
ended last month, was completed
yesterday as Gov. Egan finished
executive action on the last bills
still pending before him.
In the lawmakers’ 81-day ses
sion in 1959, a total of 200 laws
were enacted.
The 65-day lawmaking meeting
this year produced 187 chapters
in the 1960 Session Laws of Alas
ka, including one act passed over
the veto of Gov. Egan, and 10
which became law without sig
nature of the Chief Executive.
A bill legalizing certain forms
of gambling in Alaska was the
one enaced this year over the
Governor’s veto. Three other bills
passed by the I960 session were
vetoed by the Governor after ad
journment of the Legislature on
March 27.
Day-Old Baby Succumbs,
Born After Mother Dies
TORRANCE, Calif., UP) — Doc
tors lost a desparate struggle to
day to keep alive an infant born
after the mother had died of a
bullet wound in the forehead.
Carole Tylor, 24, died early
yesterday in the Tylor home. Her
husband, Marvin, 26, later was
booked on suspicion of murder.
Police said he had admitted firing
the fatal shot.
The couple’s son was delivered
by Caesarean section a half hour
after the mother’s death and died
today after 23 hours and 55 min
utes of life.
Physicians at Harbor General
Hospital said a lack of oxygen be
tween the time of the mother’s
death and the birth undoubtedly
was a contributing factor in the
baby’s death.
Investigators said Mrs. Tylor
was slain after a violent quarrel
over the husband’s drinking.
New South Korean Acting President
Pledges Widespread Political Reforms
SEOUL, Korea, 141 — South
Korea’s acting president, installed
after civil rebellion toppled Syng
man Rhee, pledged himself today
to political reforms. He even
aimed his new broom at what he
called “waste and mismanage
ment” in the U. S. Korean-aid
program.
Huh Chung, named foreign min
ister by Rhee as the regime started
to buckle under revolutionary an
ger, took over the powers of the
presidency early today. Huh and
his cabinet, which thus far has
only two other members, will
serve as a caretaker regime until
a new president and vice presi
dent are elected. The Constitution
requires this to be done within
three months.
Huh, 64, an independent poli
tician and former premier, called
a news conference soon after
Rhee, fulfilling a promise made
yesterday, resigned the presidency
he had held ever since South
Korea became a Republic 12 years
ago.
He outlined this nation’s most
important problems to be dealt
with after healing the wounds in
flicted by more than a week of
bloody civil uprisings. High on his
list were the questions of rela
tions with the United Staes and
Japan.
Huh said he hopes President
Eisenhower will go ahead with his
plan to visit Seoul in June, on his
way home from Moscow, despite
Rhee’s resignation. He also said
he would accept the resignation
of South Korea’s Ambassador to
the United States, You Chan-Yang,
which You announced Tuesday in
Washington.
The Health Ministry announced
that 20 persons were killed and
238 injured in the rioting Monday
night and Tuesday which pre
ceded Rhee’s promise to resign
and the frenzied excitement that
followed his announcement. This
brought the nationwide dead to
150 since the “Bloody Tuesday”
riots April 19 that started Rhee’s
downfall.
Bids Opened for
Building Mental
Health Hospital
JUNEAU, Iff) — The State De
partment of Public Works opened
two bids today for construction of
a 225-bed Alaska Mental Health
Hospital in the Goose Lake area
of Anchorage.
The bids were submitted toy
Lease Co., Inc., of Seattle and a
joint venture of Patti-McDonald
Construction Companies of Kansas
City and St. Louis, Mo.
The apparent low bidder on the
base schedule was a $5,827,000
offer from the Lease firm. The
Patti-McDonald base bid was
$5,992,000.
The two bids were placed
under reiew toy the Public
Works Department and the De
partment of Health and Welfare,
to consider 19 alternate schedules
contained in the specifications.
The state has 60 days in which
to act on the bids, tout a spokes
man said a decision was expected
within a month.
The mental health facility, the
first such hospital in Alaska, has
been in the planning stage for
more than three years. It will be
built from a $6,500,000 federal
grant, some of which already has
been used for site acquisition and
land preparation.
Paul Winsor, State Commission
er of Health and Welfare, envi
sioned opening of the three-story
reinforced concrete and steel hos
pital in late 1962.
The construction and design of
the hospital provides for eventual
expansion to a 400-bed institution
when the need exists and funds
are available.
The state’s mental health ac
tivities are designed to toe fi
financed from a one-million-acre
federal land grant, with revenue
from the land earmarked for sup
port of the program.
Winsor said about 300,000 acres
of the mental health land already
have been selected toy the Depart
ment of Natural Resources.
Rev. McGinnis
Will Head A.M.U.
DENVER, «■> — The Rev. Fred
P. McGinnis, 37, was elected una
nimously yesterday as president
of the Alaska Methodist Universi
ty at Anchorage.
The 21-member board of trus
tees selected the Georgia-born
minister from a field of 19 candi
dates for the $12,500-a-year job.
The University is the first
church-related liberal arts col
lege in the new state. It will start
classes next Sept. 30 on a 505
acre campus and an investment of
$2,600,000 in physical facilities.
The church-sponsored four-year
school will have a faculty of 14
and about 200 students.
The Rev. Mr. McGinnis is cur
rently minister of the First Meth
odist Church of Anchorage and
superintendent of the Alaska
Mission Conference for the Meth
odist Church.
He will relinquish his minis
terial role May 25 to take up his
new duties.