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NATO Wants
Missile Bases
On Land and Sea
PARIS, UPi—Gen. Lauris Nor
stad, Supreme Allied Commander
in Europe, said today NATO mili- j
tary circles want intermediate
range * ballistic missiles based on
both land 'and sea.
He told a news conference the j
seaborne launching sites could
take the form of submarines, sur
face vessels or even floating plat
forms that could be constructed
off the coasts of NATO powers.
Norstad said he expected to
make in a matter of weeks the
necessary military recommenda
tions as a first step to the estab
lishment of missile bases in
Europe.
The commander said he expects
from 6 to 10 squadrons of 15 inter
mediate range missiles each will
be established in Europe. These
figures did not include the four
missile sites contemplated in
Britain, he added.
As a result of last week’s sum
mit NATO conference, he predict
ed, the Western allies will have
the missiles in Europe in good
time to meet the growing Soviet
threat from scientific advances.
Bartlett Is Opposed to
Relaxed Fishing Rules
WASHINGTON, L3V-Plans to
relax commercial fishing regula
tions in southeast Alaska next
year met with opposition today
from Delegate Bartlett.
The proposed action by the Fish
and Wildlife Service, Bartlett
said, is against the judgement of
most of the fishermen in the area.
He said the action would place
an important segment of the Alas
ka industry “in a dangerous posi
tion.”
The Fish and Wildlife Service
had written Bartlett that a good
run of pink salmon is expected in
1958 on two grounds: (1) a good
escapement in 1956, parent year
for the 1958 run, and (2) research
showing that the survival of fry
from 1956 spawning was good.
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Sanatorium Plans
For Treatment
Of Other Disease
SEATTLE, iff)—Riverton Hospi
tal, oldest tuberculosis sanatorium
in the Pacific Northwest, next
month will accept patients with
other chronic and acute disease, a
hospital spokesman announced
last week.
The change will become effec
tive with transfer of the last 50
Alaska natives now receiving
treatment for TB to the Tacoma
Indian Hospital. This is expected
to begin about Jan. 15, altho the
transfers may not be completed
for another two months.
For the past three years, Alaska
natives have made up the greatest
part of the hospital’s patient load.
Nearly 300 have been cared for
under a program of the federal
government which now is coming
to an end.
Under the federal program, a
huge backlog of TB patients has
been reduced, by care in Wash
ington and Alaska hospitals, to a
point where hospitals in the ter
ritory can handle the current load.
Riverton expects to continue to
care for some tuberculosis patients
sent here by the Alaska Dept, of
Health, and for private tubercu
losis patients.
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Plane Uses Highway
For Landing and Takeoff
HOPE, B.C. U")—Robert Thomp
son of Anchorage taxied his light
plane along the trans-Canada
Highway yesterday near Yale, 15
miles north of here, and took off
to continue his flight to Fairbanks.
A low cloud ceiling forced
Thompson to land on the highway
Friday an hour after taking off
from Chilliwack, 40 miles south
west of Yale.
He got permission from the De
partment of Transport to use the
highway as a runway. It was
thought earlier the plane, a Piper
Super Cub, would have to be
towed to an airport near here.
Cardinal Spellman
Starts Visits ta
Overseas GIs
TOKYO. UR—Francis Cardinal
Spellman, Roman Catholic arch
bishop of New York, moved at
top speed thru a full schedule to
day on his annual Christmas visit
to GIs around the world.
The cardinal, who arrived yes
terday from Anchorage aboard a
crippled airliner, called on U.S.
Ambassador Douglas MacArthur
II and Lt. Gen. Charles D. Palmer,
commanding general of the U.S.
Army in Japan.
The 68-year-old prelate also
met patients at the U.S. 5th Air
Force headquarters at Fuchu air
base and at Campa Zama.
The cardinal, who is military
vicar of the U.S. armed forces,
leaves tomorrow for South Korea.
The four-engine airliner which
brought the cardinal came in with
one propeller feathered. The pilot
alerted the airport and six Japan
ese fire engines converged -on the
scene, but the big ship landed
without mishap.
Higher Tariff Rates
To Hawaii Reflect
Freight Rate Increases
SEATTLE, UP)—New tariffs re
flecting a nine percent increase in
freight rates between the Pacific
coast and Hawaii were filed with
the Federal Maritime Board by
the Matson Navigation Company
Saturday.
The new rates will become ef
fective Jan. 20.
Rising costs of operation—for
wages, fuel, repairs, maintenance
—made the increase necessary,
the company said.
Pope Pius’ Christmas Message Implies Endorsement
Of Western Proposals for Controlled Disarmament
By FRANK BRUTTO
VATICAN CITY,' UR—Pope Pius
XII called on mankind yesterday
to halt the arms race lest it lead
to disaster and endanger the fate
of “the earth itself.” He implied
he endorses the West’s proposals
for controlled disarmament.
In his 19th annual Christmas
•message to the world, the 81-year
old pontiff counseled Christians
not to fear Russia’s current tri
umphs in the Sputnik field.
Such records, the leader of the
Roman Catholic Church declared,
were “often of very short dura- j
tion.”
The pontiff’s speech, beamed to |
a host of nations by the Vatican’s j
powerful new radio transmitter,
; was believed to be the most wide-1
ly broadcast message in history.
As he did last Christmas, the
Pope affirmed man’s right for
self-defense, but he called on the
governments of the world not to
be misled by pride in a race for
arms supremacy.
The cost of an aims race is ru
inous, he warned.
“Such quantities of material,
such sums of money derived from
savings and the result of restrict
tions and toil,” he said, “such ex
penditures of human labor taken
away from urgent need, are con
sumed to prepare these new
arms.”
“Even the wealthiest nations,”
the pontiff cautioned, “must fore
see the times in which they will
regret the dangerously weakened
harmony of the national economy,
or are in fact already regretting
it, tho endeavoring to conceal the
fact.”
Without calling them by name,
the Pope endorsed the North At
lantic alliance, the United Nations
and Western disarmament pro
posals, saying:
“The divine law of harmony
strictly imposes on all rulers of
nations the obligation to prevent
war by means of suitable interna
tional organizations, to reduce
armaments under a system of ef
fective inspection, to deter who
ever should aim at disturbing the
peace with the most fully guaran
teed mutual dependence between
the nations which sincerely desire
it.”
28 Crewmen Lost
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In fMortii Sea
| LONDON, UP)—'Rescue officials
held slight hope today for the 28
crewmen missing from a Scottish
freighter which went down dur
ing a mercy mission in a raging
North Sea storm.
Royal Air Force planes despite
bad weather resumed the search
at dawn for. survivors of the
1,991-ton Narva, which sank yes
terday. A
The Narva, enroute to Sweden
from Aberdeen, Scotland, with a
cargo of pulp, ran into trouble
about 120 miles southwest of
Stavenger, Norway, while report
edly going to the English coastal
vessel Boswell, in difficulty in
the same area.
The 865-ton Boswell also sank,
but its 14 crewmen were picked
up by an English trawler about
150 miles east of Kirdkleness, in
Kincardineshire.
A Norwegian passenger ferry
reported she sighted a distress
light signal from the Narva but
that the freighter disappeared in
darkness about 4:40 a.m. before a
lifeboat could reach her.
New Koyukuk
Basin Map Out
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Geo
logical Survey today announced
publication of a new geologic map
of a 4,000-square-mile area of the
Koyukuk basin in Alaska.
The Interior Department said
the map is designed to serve in
creasing interest in the oil possi
bilities of the area.
The portion of the basin mapped
is west of the Yukon River, be
tween the Kateel and Kaltag
Rivers.
Field studies, including trav
erses along parts of the Kateel,
Gisasa, Nulato and Kaltag Rivers,
were made during the summers of
1954, 1955 and 1956. Photogeologic
studies provided additional data
on intervening areas.
Rocks in the area covered by
the map consist of sandstones,
siltstone, and shale of cretaceous
age, and are of marine, littoral
and nonmarine origin, the survey
reported.
Copies of the map, entitled “Pre
liminary Geologic Map of the
Nulato and Kateel Rivers Area.
Alaska,” can be purchased from
the Geological Survey at 75 cents
each.
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2,000-MPH. LONG-RANGE BOMBER
ORDERED BY U.S. AIR FORCE
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Big Aluminum Company
Backed by Britain Starts
Operations in Canada
BAIE COMEAU, Que. Iff)—Can
adian British Aluminum Co., Ltd.,'
one of Britain’s largest postwar j
investments in Canada, started
operations today. 4
In several years, the firm is ex
pected to produce 180,000 short
tons of ingot a year. The equip
ment put into operation today is
capable of turning out 45,000
short tons a year.
The entire project, which got
under way less than two years
ago, is expected to cost more than
$130 million.
British Composer
Eric Coates Dies at 71
LONDON, UP)—Eric Coates, the
British composer often referred
to as “the uncrowned king of light
music” in Britain, died Saturday
in a hospital at Chichester after a
short illness. He was 71.
Coates’ suites, marches, ballets,
rhapsodies and songs are familiar
to all British radio listeners.
Perhaps his best known orches
tral work was “London Suite.”
Cutter Storis
Back in Kodiak
After Historic Trip
KODIAK, CD—The Coast Guard
cutter Storis, one of three Coast
Guard ships to circumnavigate
the North American continent this
past summer, docked here Satur
day with appropriate welcome.
Navy and Coast Guard officers,
civic officials and wives and chil
dren of some of the ship’s person
nel were on hand as the 230-foot
ice-covered ship tied up to com
plete a West-East trip across the
arctic and around the continent
by way of the Panama Canal.
The Storis will be stationed
here. Her first home port after
commissioning in 1942 was Bos
ton. Subsequent duty has included
Greenland patrols, ice- breaking
assignments on the Atlantic coast
and Great Lakes, Bering Sea pa
trols and duty out of Juneau giv
j ing medical aid and care to Alas
ka natives and Coast Guardsmen
I in various areas.
> WASHINGTON, OB—The Air
Force said today it has ordered
manufacture of a bomber capable
of flying more than 2,000 miles
an hour for long distances.
A spokesman said it is an ar
rangement for North American
Aviation to produce prototype
planes looking well ahead in de
velopment, but not yet a contract
for quantity production.
It is understood the bomber
will use an advanced fueh pro
ducing more thrust than the fuels
burned in conventional jets.
The Air Force left hazy the
question,whether the craft will be
powered by something approach
ing a true rocket motor.
It said the bomber “will be ca
pable of speeds in excess of 2,000
miles an hour for long distances
at ceilings of over 70,000 feet.”
By comparison, the B-58, the
most advanced bomber now in the
Air Force arsenal but not yet be
ing produced in quantity, is re
puted to have a speed in the
neighborhood of 1,300 miles an
hour and a ceiling of 50,000 feet.
An Air Force spokesman said
the new plane, which previously
was referred to as the WS<-lilA,
is intended as a long range devel- .
opment from the B-52 family of
bombers. This standard craft,
now a mainstay of the Air Force,
is reported to have a speed in the
neighborhood of 700 miles per
hour.
The spokesman said Air Force
Secretary James H. Douglas had
awarded the contract for the new
bomber on the recommendation
of the Air Force chief of staff,
Gen. Thomas E. White.
He said it also had the unani
mous recommendation of the Air
Force research and development
officials. Research on the craft
began in 1955.
‘Sandy’ Smith and
Robert Dey Recall
Nome 57 Years Ago
(Alaska Yukon Sourdough News)
Alexander Malcolm “Sandy”
Smith has been in Salinas, Calif,
a guest of Sourdough Robert I*.
Dey. The two reminisced over
their experiences together a mere
57 years ago, when both lived in
Nome.
They are both members of the
Alaska Yukon International Sour
dough Association.
Sandy was born in Inverness in
the highlands of Scotland and has
travelled and prospected a great
portion of his life from Labrador
to the Sea of Okhtosh. He is an
engineer and a member of the Ex
plorers Club in New York. He dis
covered, in 1914, what is now No.
4 Naval Oil Reserve at Point
Barrow.
While in Salinas he addressed
the Monterey Bay Mineral Soci
ety. His great knowledge of the
outdoors, his experiences as he
staked the , so-called “Mountain
of Jade” on the Ambler, a tribu
tary of the Kobuk River, was an
evening members of the Society
will live over and over.
Sandy will be heading for Alas
ka soon to his cabin in the wilder
ness and will be just as happy and
at home there as he is in the lux
ury of his Florida abode.