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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ATJVSICA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL LX No. 80 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1958 Per Copy—15^
NOME
958
of July
OGRAM
10:00 a.m. — CHILDREN’S SPORTS
American Legion Post 19, Bob Emmons, Chairman
- 25-yard Dash (Girls 5 to 7).$3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Boys 5 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
30-yard Dash (Girls 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Boys 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Girls 10 to 11). 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Dash (Boys 10 to 11). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-legged Race (Boys 10 to 12). «.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-legged Race (Girls 10 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 10 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 10 to 12). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Tire Roll Contest (Boys 10 to 12).... 3.00 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Boys 4 to 5). 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race Girls 4 to 5). ,2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 6 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 6 to 7). 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 8 to 9). 3.00 2.00 1.00
100-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 10 to 11). 3.00 2.00 1.00
100-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 10 to 11). 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Egg Race (Married Women Only) 3.00 2.00 1.00
Pie Ealing Contest (Boys and Girls 8 to 12) 3.00 2.00 1.00
FREE ICE CREAM FOR THE CHILDREN
Under Direction of Nome Volunteer Fire Department
12:30 p.m. — ESKIMO SPORTS Sam Mogg. Chairman
High Kicking (Men). 6.00 4.00
High Kicking (Women). 6.00 4.00
Blanket Tossing (Men). 5.00 2.00
Blanket Tossing (Women). 5.00 2.00
Old Eskimo Trick—Ak-loo-nok-tuk
Tug of War, Married Women vs. Single Women
Tug of War—Married Women vs. Single
2:00 p.m. — PARADE
Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Tourist Committee
(Assemble back of the Federal Building at 1:30 p.m.)
For The Best Float, of C Tour. Comm, will give a prize of $50.00
For The Best Decorated Bicycle. 5.00 3.00
Nome CAP Cadets, Any Scout Groups, Any Other Groups That
Would Like To Join
3:00 p.m. — SPEEDBOAT RACES AT NOME RIVER
Weather Permitting. Barrow Morgan and Les Keller, Chairmen
9:00 p.m. — 1 a.m. AMERICAN LEGION DANCE
At School Gym. Admission. Adults $1.00 Students .50
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE
Mayor Steffen Andersen, Councilmen Rosco Wilkie and Dick Miller
Public Address System—Arctic Club Announcer—Gordon Osborne
Fund Raising Campaign—Nome Rotary Club
Polar Bear On
Oregon Beach Is
Really A Whale
NEWPORT, Ore., UPl—It wasn’t
a dead polar bear that washed
up on the beach here last week
end. It was part of a whale, re
ports Dale Snow of Newport, bi
ologist for the State Fish Com
mission.
The object—about seven feet
long and weighing about 600
pounds—was thought at first to
be a polar bear because t it ap
peared to be covered with white
fur.
But the fur turned out to be
long strings of tissue.
Just to make sure, Snow
chopped into the object with an
ax. There was no skeleton.
Snow said the object fooled
him at first. It appeared to be
the body of a polar bear which
had been rolled in. such a way
by the surf that its head and feet
were hidden.
Russian Rowing Crew
Beats Washington Huskies
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Eng
land, UP — The University of
Washington varsity crew was de
feated by the Trud (Labor) Club
of Russia today in a preliminary
heat of the Grand Challenge Cup
event. The Russians won by one
and one half lengths in the or
dinary time of six minutes, 49
seconds for the mile and 550
yards course.
The defeat eliminated Wash
ington from the competition.
The race was rowed in a ter
rific thunderstorm. Thunder re
verberated up and down the
Thames Valley and rain poured
down on the river, raising a thick
mist so that the oarsmen could
only be seen dimly at a distance.
The Russians took an early lead
and held it at three quarters of
a length for about a half mile.
Then Washington put on a ser
ies of desperate spurts but the
Russians matched every effort.
Immigration
Inspection To Halt
SEATTLE, U) — Alaskans are
going to be freed earlier than
they had hoped of the immigra
tion inspection they have re
sented so long.
John P. Boyd, district director
of the United States Immigration
Service, says the inspections will
not continue until Alaska official
ly is named a state. He has re
ceived instructions to discard in
spection of travelers from Alaska,
effective immediately upon sign
ing of the statehood bill by Pres
ident Eisenhower.
Mike Predicts Two
Million People In
Alaska In 10 Years
NEW YORK, UB — Gov. Mike
Stepovich of Alaska predicted
last night the population of the
state-to-be would rise from cur
rent estimates of 215,000 people
to more than two million with
in 10 years.
The Republican governor also
foresaw an era of great prosper
ity for the fledgling state in an
appearance on a special CBS-TV
news report, “The 49th State”.
“There is only one way for
Alaska to go,” he said, “and
that is up.”
Territories which have become
states in the past traditionally
have shown huge population
gains, Stepovich said.
The release of 'great tracts of
land from federal control will
lead to widespread progress in
the state, he said.
Also appearing on the program
were Robert Atwood, editor of
the Anchorage Times; senator
elect and former governor Ernest
Gruening; senator-elect William
Egan and congressman-elect Ralph
.Rivers.
The Alaskan delegates to Con
(gress are all Democrats.
Stepovich arranged to leave
later tonight for Milwaukee.
After a short stay there he will
pick up his family at Saratoga,
Calif., en route to Alaska.
Thank You,
Rep. Boyle
Washington, D.C.
Nome Nugget
Nome, Alaska
My hearlful congratulations
to you and the people of
Alaska on the momentous
occasion of statehood. The
long and hard fight to achieve
this goal is now a matter of
history. Your sister states
welcome you into the com
munity of states of our great
democracy.
I look forward with great
anticipation and delight in
joining my Alaskan col
leagues on the floor of the
House of Representatives this
coming January.
It is with personal pride
that I supported this histor
ic measure. As an Ameri
can citizen and a congress
mem I consider it an out
standing moment in my ca
reer to have wholeheartedly
supported and voted for
the Alaska statehood bill. To
you and our new slate good
luck and God's speed for
fruitful days ahead.
Charles A. Boyle,
Member of Congress
12th Dist. Illinois
Eisenhower Submits to Congress
Agreement for Exchange Atomic
Secrets Between England and U.S.
WASHINGTON, UF> — Presi
dent Eisenhower submitted to
Congress today an agreement for
an exchange of atomic weapons
secrets between the United States
and Britain to help meet the
military challenge of Soviet
Communism.
The agreement was made under
legislation the President signed
yesterday. The agreement must
lie before Congress for 30 days
before becoming effective. This
gives the lawmakers an oppor
tunity to examine it and possibly
'propose changes.
In his message to Congress
Eisenhower said cooperation be
tween U.S. and British scientists
and engineers—which produced
the world’s first atomic bomb—
had “proved most fruitful” in
World War II.
He continued that the countries
of the free world must again pool
their resources to a much greater
degree “notably in the field of
military applications of atomic
energy.”
He recalled that he had told
Congress early this year that it
was wasteful for friendly coun
tries to duplicate work when they
could share information. Con
gress, Eisenhower added, had re
sponded with changes in the
atomic energy law “on the basis
of which this government has
just concluded an agreement with
the government of the United
Kingdom which provides the
framework for closer cooperation
on uses of atomic energy for
mutual defense purposes.”
Ambassador From
Rhode Island On
Way To Alaska
NEW YORK, {ffi — An unof
ficial good will ambassador from
the smallest state in the union left
by plane last night to carry
greetings to Alaska, soon to be
come the largest state in the
union.
Linnaea LaPointe, 13, of Cov
entry, R.I., left Idlewild Air
port for Seattle, en route to Ju
neau, the Alaskan capital. She
is due to arrive at noon tomorrow.
Linnaea, a blue-eyed, blonde
eighth grade pupil, sold cider
and Christmas wreathes to fi
nance her trip.
She prepared to leave with the
key to her suitcase tied to a
string around her neck and with
$5 in' her purse. An unidenti
fied textile manufacturer from
her home town slipped her a lit
tle extra money as she left.
“I’ve always wanted to visit
Alaska,” she told reporters at
the airport. But she wasn’t sure
she wanted to live there.” I’m
very, very happy where I live,”
she said.
She will spend the’ summer
with her aunt, Mrs. Eugene
Dowell of Anchorage.
Linnaea had with her three
cartons of Rhode Island-manu
factured gifts, which she plans
to present to Mrs. Michael A.
Stepovich, wife of Alaska’s gov
ernor, for their eight children.
Fighting In Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (#> — Rebels
launched a counter-attack today
at the main east-west highway
from Beirut to Damascus and
dueled for control of another road
supplying government forces
fighting southeast of Beirut.
In the northern port of Trip-(
oli government troops surrounded
between 500 and 1,000 rebels who
hoisted white flags yesterday.
The government commander said
some of the rebels already had
surrendered there.
Th attack on the east-west high
way began last night when Druze
mountaineers of Socialist Kamal
Jumblatt seized the hillside over
looking the resort town of Aley.
From Aley th^ capital of Beirut
can be seen five miles downhill.
Witnesses said the rebels by
early today had occupied the
section of Aley where the most
luxurious villas are located.
Nikita Calls For
Protection From
Surprise Attacks
MOSCOW, UP> — Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev called today for
an East-West conference of mili
tary and civilian experts to work
out an agreement to prevent sur
prise attacks by one nation upon
another.
Khrushchev made his proposal
in a letter to President Eisenhow
er delivered in Washington yes
terday and released at a foreign
ministry news conference in Mos
cow this afternoon.
He suggest^ the United States
and the Soviet Union take the
initiative in calling the confer
ence, that the conference be held
in the near future and that the .
participants including the United
States, the Soviet Union “and
possibly representatives of some
other governments.”
An agreement against surprise
attack has been one of the Krem
lin’s several standing proposals
for discussion between East and
West. Khrushchev’s latest reiter
ation of the proposal took it one
step further—to a possible con
ference of technical experts.
At the same time, it revived
a general subject, dormant for the
past few weeks, of an East-West
summit conference. v
15 Students Help
Village of Beaver
To Rebuild
/
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — Fifteen
young people are spending the
summer six miles from the Arc
tic Circle helping to rebuild an
Indian and Eskimo village under
mined by the Yukon River.
They are going to build 12
cabins as part of a project to re
locate the tiny village of Beaver,
Alaska, back from the river.
The project is being sponsored
by the American Friends Service
Committee, a Quaker agency
with headquarters here.
These modest cabins will be the
first homes the 110 villagers have
had with windows, floors and
wall partitions.
The eight girls and seven boys,
most of them college students,
flew recently from Seattle to
Fairbanks and completed the
trip to Beaver in small planes.
They came from seven states.