NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 119 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1957 Per Copy—15*
OPENING SERVICE HELD IN
NEW LUTHERAN CHURCH
companied toy his wife and fam- |
ily from Teller, Bertha Stedje,
Teller, and Rev. and Mrs. John
Maakestad and family from
Shishmaref.
The new church is patterned
after many of the modem Luther
an churches in the states. It is a
■combination of Gothic and mod
ernistic design with a sharply
pointed roof visible for several
blocks. It is a decided asset to the
appearance of B Street, improving
the area near the MMM Hospital.
A large, glassed foyer keeps out
the cold winter air and yesterday
was filled with the overflow of
persons who more than filled the
225 seats in the church.
A soundproofed glassed-in “cry
ing room” takes care of mothers
with small children so that the
service will not be interrupted.
Altho the Lutheran Church has
been active in northern Alaska
in the mission field for many
years it is the most recent church
group to organize in Nome, hav
ing opened their chapel about
three’years ago.
According to the pastor, Rev.
Thomas Knudson, the first Lu
theran missionary to northern
Alaska came to Igloo about 65
years ago. Later the mission
moved to Teller Mission and is
now in Teller.
As the Eskimos from these vil
lages migrated to Nome it was
felt necessary to open a church
here.
Rev. Knudson states that the
community is welcome to visit
and enjoy the new sanctuary.
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
was officially opened yesterday
with a special morning service in
its beautiful new building which
has been under construction for
the past year by Gordon Dufseth
of Fairbanks, Alaska.
The service started with a pro
cessional from the chapel where
services have been held since the
church started here about three
years ago.
The procession was headed by
a color guard under the direction
of Walter (Friesz.
Music from the new Hammond
organ played by Alec Mclmnes
filled the church. The piano was
played by Mrs. R. Casperson.
The organ was a gift to the
church from Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Rehdar and the piano was a gift
from Mr. Mclnnes.
Gordon Dufseth, contractor,
contributed to the service by sing
ing a solo.
Out-of-town guests who ar
rived to participate in the dedi
cation were Rev. V. Hegland, ac
Russians Claim
Setting Off New
Type of H-Bomb
LONDON (#>—The Russians an
nounced today they have success
fully exploded a new type of hy
drogen bomb. The announcement
said “a powerful hydrogen device
of new design” was tested at a
great altitude yesterday.
The announcement was made
over Moscow radio while the
world was still looking in stunned
amazement for the Soviet man
made moon circling the globe.
The - emphasis the Soviet an
nouncement put on the “new
desyn” of the latest hydrogen
bomb attracted especial attention
here. And the speed with which
the Russians disclosed the explo
sion—the next .day—was signifi
cant.
Usually they wait—or even
keep the tests secret even after
they are detected outside the So
viet Union. The last previous re
ported Soviet nuclear test was on
Sept. 24.
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U.S. Scientists Conduct
Russians on Tour of
Naval Research Lab
(By The Associated Press)
U.S. scientists, who hope the
Russians will share any scientific
knowledge gained thru the satel
lite, gave a group of foreign sci
entists a tour of the Naval Re
search Laboratory today.
The visitors, here for an inter
national conference on rocket and
satellite programs, included three
Russians—A. A. Blagonravov, A.
M. Kasatskin, and Sergei M. Po
loskov.
U.S. reporters were not permit
ted to accompany the scientists
Warsaw Still
On Edge After
Student Uprising
WARSAW, W*—Truckloads of j
militiamen stood at the ready Sat- !
urday as students massed outside
Warsaw’s shuttered Polytechnic
School.
The city was calm but on edge
after two nights of street fighting.
The students, protesting press
censorship and rough police tac
tics, were joined by other Poles '
in a battle Friday night against '
club-swinging police. There were i
casualties and arrests, but no fig
ures were announced.
The trouble was sparked by the
Communist government ban on
the student newspaper Po Prostu
because of its anti-party line pol
icy. Saturday the party meted out j
punishment for the student edi- [
tors: expulsion from the Commu- !
nist Party.
The Internal Security Corps pa
trolled the streets in threes, with
carbines on their backs. Heavy
police detachments and trucks
loaded with factory militia were
stationed at the ready thruout the
city. Police truck with out-of
town license plates were seen.
The bustle and activity of the
city were like any other day but
there clearly was a mark of anxi
ety in Warsaw.
Communist boss Wladyslaw
Gomulka met with 50 top editors.
They were reported to have dis
cussed a letter from the editorial
board of the banned student pa
per which declared militia meth
ods would bring back a fear re
gime. The letter was adoped by a
meeting of 2,000 students in the
Polytechnic School.
Satellite Being Tracked
At Nine Points in
North & South America
* WASHINGTON, UP)—U.S. scien
tists are tracking the Russian sat
ellite with signals recorded at
nine points in North America and
South America.
The information received at
these points is sped into Washing
ton, where it is fed into an elec
tronic brain.
The receiving points, known
as “minitrack stations” are lo
cated at Blossom Point, Maryland,
Ft. Steward, Georgia; Havana,
Cuba; Quito, Ecuador; Lima,
Peru; Antofagasta, Chile; Santi- j
ago, Chile; Antigua, British West
Indies, and San Diego, California.
Search Continues for
Four CAA Workers
In Piper Tri-Pacer
ANCHORAGE, UP)—The search
continued today for four CAA
employes missing on a flight from
Summit to Fairbanks in a Piper
Tri-Pacer.
The four men—Frank Hall, Lu
ther Camay, Jimmy Shuthes, all
of Anchorage, and George Hottle
of Talkeetna—have been missing .
since Thursday night.
Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and
private planes are taking part in i
the search.
The missing men are believed j
to have gone on a hunting trip.
Altho Hall did not file a flight1
plan, he told friends he expected
to reach Fairbanks by 5 p.m. on
Thursday.
RUSSIANS LAUNCH
MAN-MADE MOON
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Refueling Problem
Will Be Solved for
Flight Over Poles
WASHINGTON, (^—Backers of
a round-the-world flight via the
South and North Poles expressed
confidence yesterday thejr would
solve the problem of refueling in
the antarctic.
So far the Navy has refused
them permission to refuel at Mc
Murdo, site of the U.S. base sup
porting American scientific stud
ies in the South Polar region.
But William F. Savage of Wash
ington, a manufacturers’ repre
sentative in charge of the flight
plans, said “we are pursuing the j
question further and expect to
negotiate it in a manner satisfac
tory to all.”
Savage estimated * the flight
would cost around $260,000.
He said it was not a stunt but a
serious effort to prove that Amer
ican businessmen can fly to any
part of the world. Backers of the
flight, he added, represent a cross
section of American business and
will be identified soon.
He said they are particularly
interested in the antarctic be- j
cause of the still untapped natur- j
al resources believed to be buried j
under the snowy Wastes.
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THREE SCIENTISTS AT ALASKA
UNIVERSITY FIRST AMERICANS
TO SPOT RUSSIAN SATELLITE
FAIRBANKS, UP—Three young
scientists at the Geophysical In- j
stitute of the University of Alaska j
yesterday were reported as being |
the first Americans to see the
Soviet earth satellite.
Robert S. Leonard, Joseph Pope
and Dr. Giamcarlo Rumi observed
the satellite with the naked eye
for five minutes Sunday starting
at 4:53 a.m., Alaska Standard
Time, Dr. C. Gordon Little depu
ty director of the institute, said
today.
A Harvard scientist said'the ob
ject sighted over Alaska may have
been the third stage of the rocket
used to fire the satllite and not
the satellite itself.
Dr. Richard E. McCrosk, a lec
turer in astronomy and research
fellow at Harvard, said reports of
its brightness indicated it was of
the fourth magnitude, whereas
the size and distance given by the
Russians indicated a seventh or
eighth magnitude of brightness.
Dr. Little, however, said the
three men who said they saw the
object were sure it was the satel
lite as the radio signals were re
corded at the same time they
spotted it.
Leonard and Pope are graduate
students at the University of
Alaska. Dr. Rumi is a member of
the institute’s staff.
The satellite was first seen at
an elevation of 10 degrees north
of west. It crossed the sky, reach
ing a maximum elevation of 60
degrees and then disappeared
into the sunlit southeastern sky.
Leonard, who was the first to
see it, had predicted correctly the
exact spot where it would appear.
The three men were at the Bal
laines Lake receiver site of the,
institute, a mile north of the uni- !
versity campus.
When the three heard the sat- j
ellite’s radio signals they rushed j
from the building. They had no
difficulty spotting the satellite
against the dark sky as the sun’s
rays from the east reflected on its
mirrored surface.
Leonard said it was a point like j
a star and was brighter than the
planet Jupitor. It moved slowly
across the sky like a shooting star.
Dr. Little said the orhit of the
satellite appears to be inclined at
65 degrees relative to the equator.
This brings the satellite to within
one mile of being directly over
the station here seven times in j
each 24 hours.
Dr. Little said the 65-degree
inclination indicates the Russians
have “power to burn” for launch
ing the satellite.
A plane from nearby Ladd Air
Force Base will go up tomorrow
morning to try to observe the
! satellite from a greater height.
' Propaganda
Value Seen
In Beating U.S.
By HOWARD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, WV—The Soviet Un
ion announced Saturday it has
launched the earth’s first man
made satellite 560 miles out in
space and it now is circling the
globe at tremendous speed.
The dramatic claim Russia had
beaten the United States in the
satellite race came in in an an
nouncement saying the artificial
moon was launched Friday by
multiple-stage rockets.
The instrument-laden globe was
described as 23 inches in diameter
and weighing 185 pounds. The
announced weight is about nine
times that of a projected 22-inch
U.S. earth satellite.
The launching came just three
months and four days after the
opening of the International Geo
physical Year, a concerted pro
gram by the world’s scientists to
learn more of the earth’s secrets.
The Soviet news agency Tass
said the moon can be observed by
simple optical instruments in the
evening or early morinng. Soviet
scientists tracked the tiny satel
lite by radar and radio.
The man-made moon carries no
propellant. The thrust of the last
rocket sent it speeding off at
about 18,000 miles an hour. This
speed is sufficient to offset the
pull of gravity. It thus keeps cir
cling the earth just like the real
moon does.
“The successful launching of
the .first man-made satellite
makes a tremendous contribution
to the treasure house of world
science and culture,” the Tass an
nouncement said.
“Artificial earth satellites will
pave the way for space travel and
it seems that the present genera
tion will witness how the freed
and conscious labor of the people
of the new socialist society turns
into reality the boldest dreams of
mankind.”
The announcement, coming on
the heels of the Aug. 26 claim the
Soviet Union had successfully
tested the first intercontinental
ballistics missile, is expected to
have an impact both in the Soviet
Union and abroad.
Soviet IGY Chairman Ivan P.
Bardin and his associates said
June 18 Russia was not in a race
with the United States to be first.
But the propaganda value of be
ing the first is great in these days
when many nations are inclined
to choose between the two lead
ing powers of the world.
High Water Saturday Night
Threatened Dry Creek Road
High water Saturday night
threatened the Dry Creek fill of
the road to Nome Field with the
culvert running full and the
water level with the, road. How
ever the water receded Sunday
morning. *