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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXII No. 147 NOME, ALASKA MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1960 _Per Copy 15^
The
Report Card
By CONRAD H. POTTER
Superintendent of Schools
Many of our patrons and the
public have expressed their in
terest and views relative to our
Hot Lunch Program. As a matter
of information we would like to
point out, very briefly, what the
operation involves and, in gen
eral, what such a program costs.
The only way we can economic
ally operate a lunch program is
through participation in the De
partment of Agriculture Surplus
Commodity Program. Under that
contract we are bound to adhere
to several hard and fast regula
tions which tend to control the
operation. For example, one speci
fic requirement, which is sound,
insists upon a balanced, nutrition
al meal providing minimum quan
tities of the seven basic foods. On
occasion, this results in a lunch
which, in the opinion of some, is
excessive.
Other contractual agreements
require the proper handling and
storage of surplus commodities.
This can become a burden when
you consider that we do not have
the space. Most schools which
operate hot lunch programs have
adequate kitchens, freezers, and
cold storage facilities. We do not
and must rent, thus adding to our
operating costs.
The agreement specifically for
bids the preparation of food in
and by commercial establishments
unless an exception is granted by
the State Commissioner of Educa
tion. Each year we must request
the permission and seek a com
mercial firm to prepare our
lunches. In any event the costs
are increased considerably and
the food must be transported to
and from the restaurant. We are
fortunate that the North Star
agreed to prepare our food and
for the execellent job they have
been doing.
These are but a few of the
ramifications involved in the pro
gram and will serve to point up
the problem.
This year we planned and at
tempted to operate the program
for an additional two months. Ap
parently we have misjudged the
patron attitude toward the ex
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Forest Rangers Search
For Last Airman in
Zero Temperatures
PLATTSBURGH, N. Y. W) —
Forest rangers battled snow and
zero temperatures today in an at
tempt to track the last of eight
airmen still missing since Friday
night, when the crew parachuted
from its disabled jet bomber into
the Adirondacks mountains.
The search for Staff Sgt. Pierre
Maheux, 27, of Auburn, Maine—
suspended Sunday night as a
snowstorm approached—centered
in rugged terrain near North Hud
son, N. Y., where a parachute be
lieved to be Maheux’s was spotted.
The other airmen were found
alive within a 20-mile radius of
the search area. Some were in
jured in landing in trees, one
severely.
Their B52 crashed in flames
near Barre, Vt., about 100 miles
east of North Hudson
All were taken to Plattsburgh
Air Force Base.
DR. WOOD GREETED
THIS MORNING BY
C OF C MEMBERS
University of Alaska’s president
Dr. Wm. Wood and Mrs. Wood
were greeted this morning by
members of the Chamber of Com
merce on whose invitation their
visit to Nome is being made. The
couple were taken to the North
Star to attend the regular noon
luncheon and are scheduled to
be honor guests at the no host
dinner this evening at 8 o’clock in
the Seaview Room.
Parents of university students,
potential students and alumni and
friends of the university have been
specially invited to the dinner at
which Dr. Wood will be main
speaker.
Tomorrow Dt. Wood will visit
as many of the neighboring vil
lages as possible by bush plane
returning in time to meet with the
staff of the Nome School before
dinner. A seven o’clock dinner is
planned for the members of the
Board of Directors of the Chamber
and the special committee which
made the arrangements for the
visit of Dr. and Mrs. Wood.
If there is time before depart
ure on Wednesday morning the
guests will be taken to the areas
proposed for the new vocational
school.
Reds Send Warning
MOSCOW UPl — The Soviet
Union warned the British Sunday
night that the Scottish base har
boring U. S. Polaris submarines
would be liable to attack in the
event of “an incident” even out
side British territorial waters.
A Soviet news agency Tass
statement said British Prime Min
ister Harold MacMillan is mis
taken in the thinking that only
fhe sub would be the target of a
return blow.
Footpath Is Wore Out
LONDON (#1 — Buckingham
Palace guardsmen have won a
new 35-yard-long strip of pave
ment for stomping out their sentry
duty inside the palace gates. It’s
level, and a boost to morale.
The stiff-backed guardsmen,
moved inside the gates 14 months
ago to protect them from pestering
tourists, had stomped to pieces
the old gravel and stone footpath
between their boxes.
The footing got so uneven all
their training was useless. They
were slipping and sliding instead
of wheeling and dealing.
The palace called for the new
pavement after the guardsmen, in
mild rebellion, dragged out an old
British axiom: “It ain’t the ’eavy
’auling that 'urts the 'orses ’oofs,
it’s the ’ammer, ’ammer, ’ammer
on the ’ard ’ighway.”
Nuts For Jet Engines
TUCSON, Ariz. UP) — A jet
engine will swallow almost any
thing, and as a result often suf
fers from that tired run-down
feeling.
There are numerous cures, but
the cheapest so far is a dose of
walnut shells.
Jet doctors have found they
can restore a patient’s zip by
feeding shells through the air in
take. Once inside, the shells prove
just abrasive enough to clean out
the accumulation of jet fuel
grease, bird feathers, sand and
old newspapers.
Previously a sick jet engine had
to be torn down, cleaned and hand
polished, a lengthy and costly
operation. Now the cure can be
effected in four minutes with a
$9.90 sack of walnut shells.
Heavy Snowstorm
Hits East Coast;
Thousands Idled
(By The Associated Press)
Crippling prewinter snowstorm
snowed under the United Nations
and Wall Street’s bulls and bears
in New York today, idled govern
ment employes in Washington,
D. C., and grounded a freighter
in Chesapeake Bay.
Scheduled morning meetings of
the U. N. General Assembly were
canceled by New York’s heavy
snow.
In Chesapeake Bay, the freight
er Edgar Hogshire, with 11 per
sons aboard, was grounded as the
raging snowstorm struck Mary
land in full force. Two men were
rescued in a separate operation in
the bay during the storm. Two
perished.
The blizzard delayed the open
ing of the New York Stock Ex
change and the American Stock
Exchange in New York and closed
government offices in Washing
ton. Only two offices concerned
with the nation’s security were
kept open.
In New York, with transporta
tion at a standstill, hundreds of
thousands were kept from work
when some highways were block
ed and some commuter trains
were canceled. For the first time in
the memory of veteran employes,
the New York Public Library had
to close its main library.
At midmorning the temperature
in New York was 16 degrees and
the north winds were howling in
gusts up to 35 miles an hour as
snow continued to fall.
The storm, driven by high
winds out of the southwest, also
battered New Jersey, Philadel
phia, Central Indiana, Baltimore,
Kansas City, Boston and many
other cities. At least 15 deaths
were attributed to the storm over
the weekend—four of them in
Philadelphia.
The storm dumped as much as
15 inches of snow in the Philadel
phia area, a foot in New York and
11 inches in New Jersey. Tem
peratures ranged from Sunday’s
high of 81 degrees at Miami, Fla.,
to 20 below zero at West Yellow
stone, Mont.
Unemployment Figures
High for November
WASHINGTON UP) — Unem
ployment topped four million in
November—the highest idle fig
ure for the month since depres
sion days of tne 30s. The number
at work was also a record.
The government reported today
that job changes between October
and November were mainly sea
sonal except for a further decline
of 150,000 in factory employment.
These are the November fig
ures:
Employment—down by 300,000.
The totals were 67,490,000 in Oc
tober as compared with 67,182,
000 in November. The November
total is still a record for the month
despite the decline.
Unemployment—up 450,000. The
totals were 3,579,000 in October
and 4,031,000 in November.
The number of the long-term
unemployed, those idle for 15
weeks or longer, remained un
changed in November at about,
one million. This is ohe-fourth of
the total unemployed.
There are about 200,000 more
long-term unemploy«d now than
a year ago.
No Pre-Holiday Checks
For State Employes
JUNEAU — State employes
won’t be getting their December
pay checks the day before Christ
mas this year as has been a cus
tom in the past few years.
Commissioner of Administration
Floyd Guertin said the increase
in state personnel to 2,400 this
year over 600 at fiscal 1959 year
makes it impossible to process
payrolls in each department and
get them to the office of admin
istration in time for checks to be
made out earlier than the end of
the month.
State employes are paid on a
monthly basis and departments
must process and submit payroll
records by the 18th of each month
for the Administration Depart
ment’s Division of Finance.
“Sure, we could possibly rush
checks through at our end of it
but the current volume of payrolls
is beyond the scope of processing
through the departments a week
ahead,” Guertin said.
Guertin added that it is “vir
tually impossible” to handle the
load any faster than is being done.
The custom in the past few
years has been to present the De
cember pay checks the day be
fore Christmas to employes who
had accrued and five day leave—
enough salary time to cover the
interim to the end of the month.
“State employes will have to get
their paychecks just as employes
of most businesses in Alaska do—
on payday,” said Guertin.
Far Less Raditaion
In Last Orbit Shot
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. UPi — Air
Force scientists said today human
tissue and other biological speci
mens sent up in the Discoverer
XVIII satellite last week en
countered far less radiation than
similar material in the Discoverer
XVII shot last month.
Technicians at the School of
Aviation Medicine at Brooks Air
Force Base began examination of
seven types of human tissue, ani
mal and human blood, bacteria
and radiation detecting equipment
carried in the satellite’s three-day
flight around the earth.
Dr. George W. Crawford, a
nuclear physicist at the school,
said a preliminary examination of
radiation detectors called needle
dosimeters showed that radiation
through which the gold plated
space capsule moved in its 48
trips around the earth was a great
deal lower in intensity than that
which bombarded Discoverer XVII
on its million mile flight.
He explained that the Dis
coverer XVII was shot into orbit
shortly after a solar flare, or ex
plosion of gasses on the surface
of the sun. The flare, described
as near-record in size, caused a
great increase in radiation.
IKE GREETED BY COLD AIR
WASHINGTON UPl — President
Eisenhower returned to Washing
ton today from a weekend visit
to Augusta, Ga.
Stepping out of his plane at Na
tional Airport, the President was
greeted by a blast of cold air. The
field was covered with eight
inches of snow and the tempera
ture was 22 degrees.
“Wowee,” exclaimed the Presi
dent, “and I thought it was cold
down there.”
He hopped quickly into his
waiting limousine and left for the
White House.
Dean Rusk
Appointed
Secretary of State
PALM BEACH, Fla. W — Pres
ident-elect John F. Kennedy to
day picked Dean Rusk, head of
the Rockefeller Foundation, to be
his Secretary of State.
Kennedy also announced the
appointment of Adlai Stevenson as
Ambassador to the United Nations.
And he named Rep. Chester
Bowles, D-Conn., as Undersec
retary of State.
The three appointments were
announced by the President
elect on the patio of his Atlantic
shore home.
Rusk, a Democrat who served
as an assistant secretary of state
in the Truman administration,
was at his side. Stevenson and
Bowles were not present.
Kennedy offered the U. N.
Ambassadorship to Stevenson last
week, but Stevenson asked for
time to think it over—apparently
wanting to know first who would
be Secretary of State.
The announcement of Steven
son’s appointment meant, there
fore, that he was willing to serve
under Rusk.
IJusk, 51, is a native of Georgia
and a Presbyterian. He has been
head of the Rockefeller Founda
tion for nine years.
Kennedy, reading a prepared
statement, said Rusk would bring
to the new administration and his
particular position a long record
of ability in the field of foreign
affairs.
The President-elect mentioned
specifically Rusk’s former asso
ciation with the State Department.
On the new administration’s
foreign policy, Kennedy said he
hoped that it will become gen
erally identified with the concept
of being “for freedom,” and not
simply anti-Communist.
Rusk told the news conference
he is accepting “a compelling and
sober responsibility.”
Capt. Makes Two
Successful Catches
SUNNYVALE, Calif. UPI — For
the second time, Capt. Gene Jones
of Walla Walla, Wash., has been
the pilot of an aircraft that snared
a capsule returning from outer
space.
On Nov. 14, Jones captured Dis
coverer XVII in the “Pacific Ball
park” about 670 miles east of
Hawaii.
Sunday Jones was the pilot of
a plane that captured the return
ing Discoverer XVIII capsule
launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California Saturday.
“It’s becoming almost routine,1'
said Jones, who had substituted
for an ailing pilot.
Suit Against Army
Brings About Discharge
MIAMI, Fla. UH — A Miami
man is getting out of the Army
ahead of time because the service
made him a weatherman instead
of a missileman.
Spec. 4 Fred W. Garlick brought
suit in U. S. District Court in
Texas, charging the Army failed
to honor its recruiting promise
that he’d have a choice of mili
tary schools. He asked to become
a missileman and wound up a
weatherman.
His attorney said Sunday the
Army has decided to give Garlick
a discharge this week rather than
fight his “breach of promise” law
suit.