™i NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 59 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1959__ Per Copy—15^
BPR Plans No
Nome-Teller Road
. Work This Season
The NWA Chamber of Com
merce has been concerned about
the fact that no bids for road work
have been advertised for either
the Kuzitrin to Coffee Creek pro
ject nor the Nome-Teller road.
The Chamber road committee
wired Wm. Niemi, regional en
gineer for the Bureau of Public
Roads, and received the following
information today:
The status of future road pro
jects in the Nome area:
Kuzitrin River Bridge — The
schedhled advertising date is June
5, with opening’of bids July 7.
Nome-Council Road Rock Pro
tection — Advertising date is
June 19, with bid opening July 14.
Kuzitrin-Coffee Creek
Nome-Teller Road to Sinuk
River — A full field review will
be made of these projects by the
design engineers of the Fairbanks
Division and the Juneau Regional
headquarters to assure that the lo
cation meets the concept of a
pioneer road on a permanent lo
cation which can be improved in
the future to a high standard
highway. Advertising will follow
very shortly thereafter, probably
late in June, with bid opening in
late July or early August.
As you know, construction con
tracts have already been awarded
for the Penny and Snake River
bridges and also for the recon
struction and paving of the Nome
City streets and the road to the
Airport.
In public roads operations, as
the operating highway agency in
the state, we find that we can no
longer plan on advertising all pro
jects in the spring, ready for con
struction in the summer. It be
comes a year-round operation with
contract advertising and award
as rapidly as designs are completed
and reviewed regardless of the
season of the year. There may be
disappointments in our schedule
in some areas, but these are mat
ters beyond our control.
The letter is signed: Wm. J.
Niemi, Regional Engineer.
The NWA Chamber Road Com
mittee was to have met this af
ternoon to. discuss the matter.
AUSTRALIAN BEAUTY WILL
SEE FIRST AUSTRALIAN
BEAR AT SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, UP> — Joy
Lightly, Perth beauty queen, ar
rivng from Australia aboard the
liner Orcades Sunday, told re
porters she never had seen a
koala.
“The first thing I want to do
here is visit your koalas at your
zoo.”
The koalas, recently arrived
from their native Australia, have
been a top attraction at the zoo
in Golden Gate Park.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
New York 3-0, Kansas City 2-10.
Baltimore 8-3, Cleveland 78.
Washington 4-7, Chicago 2-10.
Boston 10, Detroit 1.
National League
Pittsburgh 5-6. Chicago 4-7.
Milwaukee 8, Los Angeles 3.
San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 1.
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 3-1, San Diego 0-5.
Sacramento 3-3, Salt Lake
City 0-2.
Vancouver 8, Portland 5.
Spokane 10-5, Seattle 1-3.
Airport Opening
Ceremonies Set
For Next Saturday
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The formal dedication of the
Nome Airport Building has been
announced for Saturday afternoon
at 2 p.m. with appropriate cere
monies by officials of the Alaska
Airlines and representatives of
the State Chamber of Commerce.
As part of the dedication cele
bration, the Alaska Airlines will
bring in their DC-6C, The Golden
Nugget, on Friday, to remain over
night, and, starting at 9 a.m. on
Saturday, complimentary rides
will be given to the public.
Scheduled to arrive and partici
pate in the dedication as well as
in the Alaska Chamber of Com
merce meeting, will be Charles
Willis, president of the Alaska
Airlines, Richard Gilbert, senior
vice president; LeRoy Peterson,
vice president in charge of sales;
Walter Rollins, assistant to vice
president in charge of public rela
tions; Lee Slay, general sales man
ager; Sid Goodman, district sales
manager of Anchorage; George
Foster, tour director; Roger Haley,
district sales manager from Se
attle; Ed Higgins, manager of spe
cialty sales; George Sahlin, agency
interline manager; Peter Peiper,
sales representative from Seattle;
M. K. Williams, general station
manager; C. L Miller, operation
co-ordinator, and Jerome Karelia,
station manager of McGrath.
Taking part *in the dedication
will be the Nome School Band and
members of the Civil Air Patrol
Cadets.
To help celebrate the occasion,
jets from Galena are expected in
the c-rea on Saturday.
The DC-6C will depart on Sun
'ay afternoon, taking passengers
regularly scheduJcd for the Sat
urday flight, which will be de
layed until that time.
Eddie Cantor
Grieves Death of
Oldest Daughter
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Eddie Can
tor joked about his five daughters,
because he wanted a son.
But when his first-born, Mar
jorie, died Sunday the little com
edian broke down and sobbed so
hard a physician had to put him
to sleep.
Cantor, 67, has heart trouble.
The news was not exactly a
shock to Eddie. He had known,
ever since she entered Cedars of
Lebanon Hospital March 26 —
her second visit there in a year
— that Marjorie was dying of
cancer.
Marjorie, 44 and unmarried, had
never sought to share her father’s
limelight. But she was famous,
she and her four sisters, because
Eddie made them real to the mil
lions in his radio and TV audi
ences.
There was a time when, pub
licly, Eddie was going to fire his
wife, Ida. Then he was going to
see what kind of a trade he could
make with Bing Crosby for one or
more of his four boys.
But those were only public
jokes, to draw him closer to his
fans.
Marjorie’s four sisters, Natalie,
Edna, Marilyn and Janet, were
at her bedside when she died.
She had been ill two years but
the sisters kept the gravity of the
disease from their ailing parents
until Marjorie was hospitalized
for the last time.
Alaska Chamber
Begins 3-Day Meet
In Nome Thursday
The Alaska State Chamber of
Commerce opens its three-day
meeting^ here Thursday.
Many delegates and guests are
expected to be arriving from all
over the state as well as from the
outside. Reservations have already
been received from the following:
George Sharrock, president of the
Alaska State Chamber, who ar
rives today to make preparations
for the meeting; W. R. (Bill)
Wood, secretary for the Alaska
Chamber from Anchorage; J. S.
McKinnon Jr., president of the
Juneau Chamber; Mr. C. C. Baily,
president of the Matanuska Cham
ber of Commerce, accompanied by
his wife; Don Pearson, president
of the Fairbanks Chamber; Ed
Opecensky, manager of the Fair
banks Chamber; Roy Selfridge,
president of the Ketchikan Cham
ber; Roland Thomas, president of
the Dillingham Chamber; George
Beacom, president of the Sitka
Chamber; Mr. & Mrs. Jack White,
delegates from Anchorage; John
Coulter of Valdez; Jim O’Sullivan,
returning from Seattle; Edith Bul
lock, representing the Arctic Circle
Chamber of Kotzebue; Alvin Polet,
of the State Chamber Board of
Directors.
The agenda for the three-day
meet will be published in Wed
nesday’s Nugget. The meetings
will be held in the new court
room.
A public dinner is scheduled for
Friday evening at the multipur
pose room of the school, and an
interesting program has* been
planned. Reservations are now
being taker, for this event.
Formosa Strait
Again Bears Wrath
Of Red Salvos
By SPENCER MOOSA
TAIPEI, Formosa, U?i — Red
China turned its guns on Little
Matsu Island for the first time in
two years Sunday, heightening
Nationalist fears the Communists
may be preparing a new crisis in
the Formosa Strait.
A Nationalist officer and two
soldiers were reported killed as
the Reds lobbed over 444 shells
at the offshore island group at
the northern end of the Formosa
Strait.
The barrage reportedly de
stroyed six civilian homes on the
two islands.
The Nationalist Defense Min
istry said the Red mainland bat
teries were silenced after 90 min
utes by effective counter-fire.
An hour before the Red guns
opened up on Matsu, 10 Commu
nist ships fired on Nationalist
warships which sighted them west
of the little island. The defense
ministry said the Nationalist ships
returned the fire and the Red craft
fled.
A few hours before the Red had
hurled 84 shells at their usual
target — the Quemoy Islands —
150 miles south of Matsu.
It was the first time the Reds
have shelled Matsu since April
2C, 1957.
Nationalist circles have been
predicting for several weeks that
the Reds might try to stage a new
crisis in the Formosa Strait to
warn the West there could be
trouble in this area unless conces-.
sions are made to the Soviets on
Beilin and Germany.
N. Y. Congressman Foresees Alaska As
One of ‘Greatest and Richest States’
FAIRBANKS, Uf) — Alaska
will become one of the greatest
and richest states in the union
“within the lifetime of our chil
dren,” Rep. Leo W. O’Brien CO
NY)-declared today.
O’Brien told the largest grad
uating class in the history of the
University of Alaska that econo
mic benefits stemming from Alas
ka statehood would flow through
the entire nation.
He pointed out, however, that
the rest of the nation must assist
in Alaska’s problems of develop
ment if these benefits are to be
realized.
“We have taken to us a new
brother, but he must be helped as
he struggles with the immense
West Insists Berlin
Problems Related
In Negotiations
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, W) — The Western
powers offered today to discuss
the Berlin crisis with the Soviet
Union apart from other German
issues. But they declared the Ber
lin issue cannot be “settled in iso
lation” from German reunifica
tion and European security prob
lems.
The Western offer was made
in a statement issued in an ap
parent effort to calm a stormy
dispute within the Western camp
over whether to seek a stopgap
arrangement on Berlin.
The row ranged the United
States and Britain against France
and West Germany.
The U. S. and British delega
tions let it be known that they
felt the Soviet Union’s adamant
rejection of the Western package
proposal for German reunification
and a European security system
necessitated negotiations on the
immediately pressing question bf
Berlin.
French and West German offi
cials insisted on continued firm
support for the package program
and a very tough line in negotia
ting with Soviet Foreign Minister
Gromyko.
The joint Western statement
said the Western powers had al
ready stated that “the various
questions included in the plan
can be discussed one by one. But
as they are, in fact, all connected,
they cannot be settled in isolation.”
“As to Berlin,” the statement
said, “the Western foreign minis
ters expect to discuss this prob
lem along the line of the proposals
on Berlin contained in phase I
of the Western peace plan.”
The plan proposes that West
and East Berlin be united by free
elections and the unified city be
guaranteed by the Big Four. This
would be the first step toward
German reunification.
ARMY ENGINEERS TO STUDY
FLOOD CONTROL AT VALDEZ
WASHINGTON, UP) — Army
Engineers have been directed by
the Senate Public Works Commit
tee to study feasibility of flood
control works at Valdez.
The action was taken at the re
quest of Sen. Bartlett. He said
residents seek to have the Valdez
Glacier stream confined to pre
vent flooding resulting from the
sudden release of impounded gla
cial lakes.
new problems of statehood,” he
said. “But I am sure, every ounce
of help we give Alaska, financial
and otherwise, will be repaid in
pounds or even tons.”
First Interest
Turning to a discussion of his
close association with the fight
for Alaska statehood, Congress
man O’Brien said his first stir of
interest in statehood came with
the realization that as chairman
of the subcommittee on territorial
and insular affairs he, as a New
Yorker, had more power over
Alaskan affairs than Alaska’s own
elected delegate and Legislature.
He said he threw his weight into
the statehood struggle during the
Congressional battle over whether
Alaska should be given control
over treatment of its own mentally
ill or whether federal control
should continue.
“The issue seemed simple and
those of us who fought for Alaska
control believed we were doing
the decent, the right, the American
thing,” O’Brien declared. “I, who
wanted only to help the. unfor
tunate, found myself answering
claims that we were part of a
sinister plot to create in Alaska
a million acre concentration camp
to which loyal people could be
whisked in the dead of night, no
matter where they might reside.”
Though , such ideas were absurd,
he said, they were believed by
many.
“This lighted a torch of anger
which made me resolve that a
territory which could be attacked
because it sought only simple jus
tice should be rid of the shackles
which led some to believe that
Alaska was a colony populated
by serfs and inferiors.”
(O’Brien was among five per
sons receiving honorary degrees
at the University’s commencement
exercises today. His Doctor of
Laws citation states the degree
is in recognition of “enduring and
unselfish statesmanship demon
strated in the United States Con
gress for the achievement of state
hood for Alaska.”)
Warns Against Conformity
He warned the graduating class
against mob thinking, mass fixa
tions and the “passion for con
formity” he said exists among
Americans.
“Speak up when the self-right
eous attack unfairly, defend new
ideas and avoid—as a very pesti
lence — condemnation without
knowledge,” he counselled.
He said America is approaching
a point in national thinking
“where indictment is conviction
and a charge is a proven fact,”
he said. “Those who rebel and
dare to challenge commit the car
dinal sin of questioning the status
quo and, therefore, must be anti
American.”
According to O’Brien, Americans
have in their midst a group of
“self - righteous, self - appointed
people who believe they — or
their leaders — are the keepers
of th public conscience.”
“In their arrogance, they would
pin the label of treason on our
highest officials, our courts, our
President and our Congress if they
make a single move contrary to
the dicta of their leaders.”
This group, O’Brien stated, con
siders itself “the annointed of the
Lord, saviours of democracy, ref
erees of public morals and the
last voices of freedom in the land.”