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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LXI No. 51 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1959 _Per Copy—15*
Secretary Seaton Certifies Alaska Has
‘Adequate’ Plans for Fish-Game Control
WASHINGTON, UP — Secretary
of the Interior Fred Seaton took
steps Monday to assure tansfer
of the administation and manage
ment of fish and wildlife resources
in Alaska to the new state.
In letters to Congress, Seaton
certifed that the Alaska State
Legislature has made “adequate
provision for the administration,
management and conservation of
the fish and wildlife resources of
Alaska in the broad national
interest.”
Seaton said, however, he was
disappointed with some provisions
of the state legislation and that
the Department did not regard
them as “ideal.”
The Alaska Sportsmen’s Coun
cil said that while it approves the
transfer of fish and wildlife con
trol to the new state, it does not
approve all aspects of the bill
enacted by the State Legislature.
The council said it would ask the
Legislature to correct what it
Kentucky Mine Operator
Closes Down After Fight
With Union Riflemen
WHITESBURG, Ky., OP — Mine
guards exchanged about 200 rifle
shots with hidden gunmen firing
into a non-union coal operation
near here before dawn today. No
injuries were reported.
Mine operator Jack Blair said
“I am closing down the operation
and leaving the country.
“I can’t stand it anymore,” he
said.
The outburst was the heaviest
exchange of gunfire in the May
King area where shots have been
fired sporadically almost every
day during the 52-day-old United
Mine Workers strike for a new
contract.
GLEN CARLSON PLANS
SEATTLE WEDDING
SEATTLE, (#) — Notice of in
tention to wed was filed here Mon
day by Glenn D. Carlson, 28,
Nome, and Bernice A. Nelson, 27,
Tacoma.
called these two “major defects”
, in the bill:
1. An ambiguous division of
rule-making authority between
the department head, called a
commissioner, and an eight-mem
ber fish and game board.
2. Direct control by the Gover
nor of the commission and per
sonnel matters “making the de
partment subject to partisan man
ipulation.”
The Alaska statehood act pro
vided that the responsibility for
the fish and wildlife resources in
Alaska would be retained by the
federal government until the first
day of the calendar year follow
ing expiration of 90 legislative
days after the Secretary of the
Interior’s certification.
The Interior Department said
the transfer of authority to the
state, therefore,, will be effective
January 1, 1960, unless Congress
adjourns before the 90 legislative
day period expires.
Family of Eight Dies
In Fire at Barrow Village
BARROW, OR — Nearly all the
residents of this Eskimo village
battled a fire in a combination
grocery-home yesterday, but they
were too late to save a family of
eight.
Mr. and Mrs. Willy Nayakik and
their six children died in the
flames.
Low Armory Bid $441,831
Alaska National Guard head
quarters in Juneau has said that
the low bid on the armory for
Nome amounted to $441,831. The
bid was made by M-K and the
Patti-McDonald Construction Co.
The job is expected to take two
years to complete.
Ten otjier bids were received
for the Nome project, with the
contract award expected in about
two weeks after a review by the
National Guard Bureau at Wash
ington.
The bids ranged from $441,831,
the apparent low bid, to $755,300.
West Will Offer Russians ‘Package Deal’
For Berlin, Unified Germany, at Geneva
PARIS, Iff) -=» The Western for
eign ministers were understood
to have agreed today that they
would take up the questions of
Berlin and a German peace treaty
as a package in Geneva talks with
the Soviet Union.
This indication came after the
first session of the foreign minis
ters of the United States, Britain,
France and West Germany. They
are meeting to harmonize their
positions before the East-West
meeting opening in Geneva May
11.
The reported Western determi
nation to discuss the whole range
of Berlin, Germany and European
security questions is in clear op
position to the Communist posi
tion reiterated only today.
Warsaw Pact foreign ministers,
winding up a conference in War
saw, Poland, opposed.any attempt
to link up the -discussions.
Britain has been waging a lone
fight here against a package deal.
U. S. Secretary of State Chris
tian Herter and British Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd met for
lunch then headed back to fur
ther consultations with French
I Foreign Minister Maurice Couve
de Murville and West German
Foreign Minister Heinrich von
Brontane.
Each delegation was seven
strong, making a total of 28 men.
The Soviet bloc today backed
the British position with a state
ment that anyone trying to tie
the problems of West Berlin, Ger
man unification and European se
curity “into ope knot obviously
strives to hamper agreed deci
sions.”
Soviet Foreign Minister Gro
myko and representatives of the
Soviet Union’s seven European
satellites and Red China, meeting
in Warsaw, repeated Soviet de
mands that (1) Berlin must be
made a demilitarized “free city,”
(2) a German peace treaty must
be written speedily, and (3) Ger
man reunification must be
achieved by negotiations between
the East and West German gov
ernments.
The continuing differences be
tween the Western allies cast U. S.
Secretary of State Christian Her
ter in the key role of conciliator
so often played by his predecessor,
John Foster Dulles.
New City Council
Assumes Duties
The new City Council took over
its duties last Mohday at the reg
ular meeting held in the City Hall,
and the following committees
were appointed to serve for the
1959^1960 Council year: Finance
and Building, Keith Hedreen and
Roscoe Wilke; Fire and Water,
Wilke and Allen Doyle; Police
and Jail, Wallace Mclver and Axel
Edman; Street and Light, Allen
Doyle and Keith Hedreen; Health
and Relief, Axel Edman and Clin
ton Gray; Law and Ordinances,
Clinton Gray and Wallace Mclver.
It was announced that through
the cooperation of the Alaska De
partment of , Health a series of TV
films and "news articles in the
Nugget, a rat control campaign
would get under way. The people
will be kept informed on how to
handle this important health
problem.
Judges appointed for the spe
cial sales tax election on Tues
day were Doris Wilke, Edith Ar
nold, and Caroline Reader. Clerks
will be Omie McCarthy and W.
W. Laws. *
Dr. W. Woodcock was appointed
health officer for _fche year, and
James von der Heydt as legal
counsel.
The Council ordered advertising
for applicants for the positions of
police and fire chief, and utility
man.
The Ministerial Association sent
a letter congratulating the Council
on fire and police control during
the past year.
Fred Larson placed an objec
tion to the $15 city sticker on
station wagons, stating that they
should toe classified as passenger
cars, not trucks. Council moved
to make this change starting Jan
uary 1, 1960.
Methodist Women’s Club
President To Visits Nome
The Women’s Society of Chris
tian Service of the Methodist
Church is to be honored this
weekend, May 2-4, by the visita
tion of Mrs. Helen Tilton of 'Mos
cow, Idaho, president of the West
ern Jurisiction, Women’s Society.
She is making a two-week tour of
Alaska Methodist establishments.
Mrs. Tilton is to be accompanied
by Mrs. Louise Argetsinger of Ju
neau, president of the Alaska Mis
sion Conference Women’s Society.
The monthly W.S.C.S. meeting
will be held Saturday evening at
8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. W.
B. McCarthy, with the visitors pro
viding the program. A short busi
ness meeting will be conducted,
at which time the nominating com
mittee will report.
Mrs. Tilton will speak at the
Sunday evening church service.
The ladies will also visit the other
Methodist institutions in Nome,
which are the MMM Hospital and
the L.W.Y. Community Center
projects, as well as places of in
terest in this area.
All interested women are in
vited to take advantage of this
opportunity to meet these interes
ting people.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Washington 8, Kansas City 3.
All the rest rained out.
National League
All rained out.
Pacifc Coast League
Spokane 13, Salt Lake City 5.
San Diego 4, Seattle 1.
Sacramento 9, Portland 5.
Vancouver 16, Phoenix 6.
Eisenhower ‘Disappointed’ With Labor
Regulation Measure Now Before House
WASHINGTON, <£> — President
Eisenhower called on Congress
today for tightening of the Sen
ate’s labor control bill at three
points.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference that the measure passed
by the Senate has very definite
weaknesses.
He said he is very disappointed
with it.
The President said he believes
the House should write in amend
ments to (1) curb secondary boy
cott, (2),outlaw blackmail picket
ing and (3) clarify the no-man’s
land area where the authority of
the National Labor Relations |
Board and that of the states is
cloudy.
Eisenhower was asked if he
feels it necessary to have such
amendments in light of the bill
of rights for rank and file labor
that was voted into the Senate
measure.
Eisenhower replied that as it
first was offered by Sen. John
McClellan (D-Ark) he thought the
bill of rights proposal was a fine
thing. He said a compromise which
finally was adopted was not a real
substitute for the kind of thing
Mrs. Luce’ Value Is
Not Impaired by
Squabble, Says Ike
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower said today Mrs. Clare
Booth Luce’s usefulness as Am
bassador to Brazil has not been
damaged in any major way by her
row with Sen. Wayne Morse of
Oregon.
The President told a news con
ference that he had a telephone
survey made Tuesday — after
Mrs. Luce hit out verbally at
Morse — and concluded that she
will be welcome in Brazil.
The Senate gave Mrs. Luce a
thumping vote of confirmation
Tuesday despite bitter opposition
by Morse.
Mrs. Luce then said her troubles
began when Morse was “kicked in
the head by a horse,” to which
Morse replied that her remark was
“consistent with an old, old pat
tern of emotional instability” on
Mrs. Luce’s part.
Some Democratic senators who
had voted for confirmation of the
nomination said that if they had
to do it over again, they would
vote against her.
Mrs. Luce’s husband, Henry
Luce of the Time-Life-Fortune
publishing empire, said in New
York he had asked his wife to re
sign the ambassadorship because
of the criticsm.
It was against this background
that Eisenhower was asked whe
ther he thought Mrs. Luce should
take up her post in Rio De Ja
neiro or follow the advice of her
husband and offer to resign.
Eisenhower hesitated a moment
and then joined in a round of
laughter touched off by the way
the question was put — whether
he thought Mrs. Luce should obey
her husband.
Eisenhower then said that al
though Mrs. Luce’s criticism of
Morse may have been ill advised,
it was human.
She made the remark, the Pres
ident said, in the heat of anger.
Then Eisenhower said he feels
there has been no major impair
ment of Mrs. Luce’s usefulness.
that should have been done.
This was Eisenhower’s first
Washington news conference since
March 25. He dealt with these
other topics:
Herler-Dulles — Eisenhower
said that from the onset of John
Foster Dulles’ illness last Feb
ruary, both he and Dulles were in
agreement that Christian A. Her
ter should be named Secretary of
State if it became necessary for
Dulles to resign.
When Dulles was forced to re
sign earlier this month because of
cancer, Herter, who had been serv
ing as acting Secretary, was his
immediate choice for the job, the
President said, provided his health
was up to the burden.
Eisenhower reported his views
on this matter when told there had
been some speculation that Her
ter was his reluctant choice and
that Herter’s prestige had been
damaged because the President
waited four days to appoint him
after Dulles stepped down.
Iraq — The United States is
very concerned about Iraq and the
possibility of complete Communist
domination of that Mideast coun
try. Eisenhower said he doesn’t
know whether he agrees with Al
len W. Dulles, chief of the Central
Intelligence Agency, that the sit
uation in Iraq is the most danger
ous in the world. But he added it
certainly is not an easy situation.
Nixon-Summit — He and Vice
President Richard M. Nixon never
would attend any summit confer
ence with the Russians simultan
eously, Eisenhower said. That
would not be feasible because of
the nature of the American govern
ment and the necessity for the
President to avoid being out of
the country for any length of time.
Montgomery — As for remarks
by his old comrade in arms, Field
Marshal Viscount Montgomery,
that the American leadership un
der Eisenhower has become sus
pect, the President suggested to
newsmen that they read today’s
British newspapers on that
matter.
He didn’t say so, but many of
the papers were critical of Mont
gomery for saying what he did.
Nomination — He is puzzled,
Eisenhower said, by the long delay
in Senate consideration of his
nomination of Lewis L. Strauss to
be Secretary of Commerce. The
President said he never has heard
a single word against Strauss’
character, ability and judgment.
Nuclear Tests — Eisenhower
reiterated that Soviet insistence,
on veto power over control of any
nuclear weapons tests suspension
program is the major obstacle in
the way of East-West agreement.
Sales Tax Increase Will
Be Publicly Explained
At Monday Meeting
There will be a public meeting
in the multi-purpose room of the
school on Monday evening at 8
p.m., to discuss, explain and
answer questions on the proposed
increased sales tax, which will
be voted upon next Tuesday.
The Mayor, City Council mem
bers and City Clerk will be on
hand with facts and figures to
show the immediate need of this
action.