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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXII No. 49 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1960 Per Copy 15tf
Mayor Briefs New
Council in Issues
Up for Action
A special meeting of the Nome
City Council Thursday evening
seated the new Council members,
who are Bob Herman, Don Per
kins and Dick Galleher. Outgoing
members of tne Council were Wal
lace Mclver, Axel Edman and
Roscoe Wilke.
The Mayor, Steffen Andersen,
and the City Clerk, Bob Scott,
succeeded themselves in office.
At the meeting, the business of
the old Council was closed, with
several items being tabled for the
new Council. Some of these were
the contract with the State Juven
ile Department for housing of ju
veniles; meeting with Utility
Board on rates; disposal of BIA
emergency funds allocated for
school relief; leasing to Harbor
Engineers.
The date for delinquent taxes,
both property and sales tax, was
set for July 15. The yearly audit
was received from Molitor & Dor
emus.
Name’s perennial mayor called
the first meeting of the new
Council to order, and cautioned
them in the use of city monies,
and called their attention to some
of the most important issues which
will come before them:
1. Completion of city plat, trans
ferring of deeds and placing it be
fore the people for acceptance.
2. Re-assessment of city prop
erty.
3. Collection of delinquent sales
and property taxes.
4. Establishment of uniform
wage scale for city employes.
5. Closer understanding of the
duties of utility and school boards
by special meetings together, and
explanations by the City Attor
ney, so that further friction may
be avoided.
The Mayor also thanked the
outgoing members of the Council
for their work and earnest desire
to improve the community. He
then appointed the 1960 commit
tees as follows:
Finance & Building — Gray,
Herman; Fire & Water—Hedreen,
Perkins; Police & Jail — Doyle,
Galleher; Streets & Lights, Her
man, Doyle; Health & Relief —
Galleher, Hedreen; Laws, Ordi
nance & Printing — *Perkins,
Gray.
New Design for New State
Highway Markers Brings
Awards to 3 Youngsters
JUNEAU, UP) — A new design
for state highway marker signs
will be adopted along roadways
of Alaska late this year.
The new design will show route
numbers superimposed over the
eight stars of the Big Dipper and
the North Star, as depicted on the
Alaska State Flag.
The new design was approvedtby
Gov. Egan and members of his
cabinet, as the result of entries
submitted by school pupils in a
state-wide contest.
Three youngsters each of whom
proposed a similar design, were
judged winners of the contest and
each soon will receive $50 for the
prize suggestions.
The three co-winners were Vic
tor Ashenfelter of the Sixth
Grade of the William H. Seward
School at Seward; Patricia Ann
Stutes, a Seventh Grade pupil at
the Anchor Point School, and Sid
ney A. Eilertson of Spenard, a
student at Anchorage High School.
De Gaulle Greets
Eisenhower in
First U. S. Stop
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, 1*1 — President
Eisenhower enthusiastically wel
comed French President Charles
De Gaulle to the United States
today amid the colorful pomp and
ceremony of full military honors.
De Gaulle flew in from Toronto,
Canada, for four days of talks
with Eisenhower on strategy, for
next month’s meeting of Western
leaders with Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
Eisenhower welcomed De Gaulle
as “a man who in war and peace
has proved such a great friend of
all those who love human dig
nity and are dedicated to the wel
fare of human beings every
where.”
'Recalling 200 years of frien
ship and affection between the
people on this continent and thfe
people of France, Eisenhower said
it is a “hapy circumstance that
your visit here today is symbolic
of that affection which the two
peoples have for one another.”
De Gaulle reminded the hun
dreds on hand to see his arrival,
as well as the President and the
official welcoming party, that he
was last in Washington 15 years
ago.
He expressed appreciation “from
the bottom of my heart” to Eisen
hower whom he called his “dear
and illustrious friend” for the in
vitation to come here again.
“It is proof one does not resist
| President Eisenhower,” he said
with a broad grin.
De Gaulle and Madame De
Gaulle spent four days in Canada.
After their stay here, they will
visit New York, San Francisco
and New Orleans before leaving
the country.
State Will Regulate Alaska
Air Carriers, Under Newly
Signed Legislation
JUNEAU, l/P) — A bill provid
ing for state regulation of Alaska
air carriers was signed into law
today by Gov. Egan.
The measure, a controversial
issue before both sessions of the
First State Legislature, puts intra
Alaska air commerce under the
state Public Service Commission
beginning Jan. 1 of next year.
The Governor also approved a
separate bill to place regulation
of motor freight carriers in Alas
ka under the Public Service Com
mission.
The new laws were among eight
enacted by the Governor, raising
to 167 the number adopted so far
this year as a result of the 1960
lawmaking session that ended last
month .
Hung Jury Dismissed in
Income Tax Evasion
Trial of N. Y. Rep.
NEW YORK, OP) — Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell’s income tax eva
sion trial ended today with a
deadlocked jury unable to reach
a verdict.
Feeral Dist. Judge Frederick
Bryan dismissed the eight women
and four men on the jury at 3:30
p.m. They had been out more
than 24 hours.
There was no immediate indi
cation from the government whe
ther or when it will retry owell.
A short time earlier, the jury
had reported it was unable to
reach an agreement. Judge Bryan
sent them back for one more try.
Rockefeller Still
Avoids Endorsing
Nixon Candidacy
By ART EDSON
PHILADELPHIA, Oft — Nelson
Rockefeller of New York today
spoke some of the kindest words
he’s given so far to Vice President
Nixon, but he still refused to go
the Whole way and endorse him
for the Republican Presidential
nomination.
Rockefeller, here for a major
foreign policy address, told a
news conference:
“Dick Nixon has been a very
good friend of mine for many
years.
“He has done an absolutely su
perb job as Vice President.”
But when asked if he would en
dorse Nixon, once again Rocke
feller said he would support no
candidate in the primaries or be
fore the national convention.
And he left little hope for
those who still seem to think he
may somehow, some way chal
lenge the Vice President, now the
only man in the field for the Re
publican nomination.
“I’m not a candidate,” he said,
“Nor will I be.”
In his speech, Rockefeller said
America’s national conduct in the
20th Century has been one of im
provisation, “inspired less by our
beliefs than by the threats of
others.”
“In the 20th Century,” the Re
publican Governor said, “we have
tried largely to substitute military
acts for economic acts for the vital
and lacking political acts of crea
tion.”
No effort must be spared to
lead the way to “rational and en
forced disarmament,” he declared.
Bartlett Questions Interior
Officials on Proposed Vast
Northeast Wildlife Range
WASHINGTON, W) — Whether
a nine-million-acre Arctic wild
life range should toe set up in
Northeastern Alaska got another
going over before a Senate Fish
eries Subcommittee today.
Today’s hearing, presided over
by Sen. Bartlett, was to get ad
ditional information from the In
terior Department.
The department wants the area
retained as undisturbed as pos
sible.
Bartlett asked Interior Depart
ment witnseses why such a range
could not be established under
authority of the Secretary of the
Interior.
They said the department would
have only two choices under pres
ent law — either closing the area
entirely to mineral exploration
and development or to allow such
activities under existing mining
and leasing laws.
Special legislation is needed,
they said, to enable the depart
ment to allow mining but not re
linquish surface rights in order
that the area may be disturbed as
little as possible.
Bartlett discussed the possibility
of amending the bill to provide
for a five-member commission to
study the area, especially the
wild life, and recommend boun
daries that would best meet the
needs of the state and nation.
Racial Distinction in California
SAN FRANCISCO, (>P» — Jeffer
son A. Beaver was elected presi
dent of the San Francisco Housing
Authority Thursday, the first Ne
gro ever to head an agency in the
city’s government.
Candidate List Grows for State Primary
ANCHORAGE, UR — The filing
pace stepped up yesterday, with
eight candidates filing in Superior
Court or announcing their inten
tion to run for office.
Two incumbents were among
those seeking to win a spot in the
next Legislature.
Rep. Blanche McSmith (D-An
chorage) will run for her House
seat in District 10, Anchorage.
Rep. James Fisher (D-Anchorage),
the other incumbent, said he in
tends to run for his seat in the
same district.
Two Republicans, Brad Phil
lips and Ron Rettig, filed for the
same post — the District G An
chorage-Palmer Senate seat held
toy Sen. Seaborn J. Buckalew (O
Anchorage).
Phillips, owner of 1 a travel
service, was the GOP’s candidate
for Secretary of State in 1958.
Rettig is a Certified Public Ac
countant.
N. J. (Nick) Begich, a Ft. Rich
ardson school principal and a poli
tical science and history teacher
at University of Alaska branches,
filed against Sen. Irene Ryan (D
Anohorage) for the Democratic
primary. He seeks her at-large
Senate post.
Other filings, all Democrats
seeking House of Representatives
seats, include:
Quincy Benton, Homer, for Dis
trict 12, Kenai-Cook Inlet.
Colleen Roguszka, Anchorage,
for District 10.
Eudora M. Preston, Kodiak, for
District 13, Kodiak.
Anchorage Democrats Earl Hill
strand and Helen Fischer, tooth
members of the Alaska House in
the First State Legislature, have
been listed as opponents for their
party’s nomination to a state Sen
ate vacancy.
One of the two lawmakers will
be chosen as the Democratic can
didate for the Nov. 9 general elec
tion as the result of nominating
ballots cast by South Central Dis
rict precinct chairmen.
Ballots containing the names of
Mrs. Fischer and Hillstrand have
been mailed to district Democrat
ic precinct chairmen. The poll pre
sumably will be completed in
time for the unsuccessful candi
date to file for nomination to an
other legislative opening in the
primary.
In other pre-primary action,
Mrs. Hildred Hermann of Juneau
filed as a candidate for the Re
publican nomination to a Fifth
District House seat from Juneau.
Charles iM. Jones, a Craig Dem
ocrat, filed for renomination to his
First District Prince of Wales seat
in the House.
Forbes L. Baker, a Fairbanks
Republican, filed as a GOP candi
date for nomination to a 19th Dis
trict House seat from Fairbanks.
In another filing, the Secretary
of State’s office at Juneau an
nounced receipt of the formal dec
laration of David Newton Boyer,
of Kenai, as a Democratic candi
date for nomination to the LJ. S.
House of Representatives seat
now held by Ralph Rivers.
Rivers already has filed for re
nomination on the Democratic
ticket in the August primary.
Mendenhall Ice
Will Be Site of New
Resort Village
SAN JOSE, Calif., UP) — A 45
million dollar housing develop
ment and resort hotel within a
half mile of the 40,000-year-old
Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska will
be started this summer, a San Jose
firm announced yesterday.
Advices from Juneau, the pro
ject site, quote a state spokesman
as saying this probably will rank
as the largest single private
housing-hotel development ever
undertaken in Alaska.
The 457-acre development by
Stone and Schulte Inc., will in
clude 2,002 homes and a modern
shopping center, the firm’s public
relations head said. The six-mil
lion dollar resort will spread over
57 acres and will include a 330
room, garden-type hotel, a ski run,
golf links, tennis courts, swim
ming pool, four dining rooms, an
auditorium and a yacht club.
The company says it has re
ceived more than 100 requests
from Alaska state employes for
two-and three-bedroom homes in
the $18,000 to $25,000 price brack
et. An announcement said as many
homes as possible will be put un
der construction before winter
rain and snow set in.
The partners, Donald L. Stone
and Lewis H. Schulte, said a spot
survey indicated “a dire need for
immediate housing.”
Stone, firm president, said he is
thinking in terms of a planned
community of rambling ranch
style homes each different from
its neighbor. He said the long
range construction would include
churches, schools and small rec
reational parks.
Schulte says the Juneau ven
ture will be the beginning of
many years’ activity in Alaska.
1,600 Have Been Jailed In
So. African Drive to Wipe
Out Negro Discontent
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, UPV
— About 1,000 heavily aimed sol
diers and police poured into the
Big Langa Negro settlement near
Cape Town today and arrested 200
men and women.
In the second raid on Langa in
three days looking for suspected
trouble makers, police and troops
sealed off a large section of the
settlement, then moved in with
seven armored cars.
Police said they seized a large
number of knives, clubs and big
stocks of illegal liquor. Those ar
rested will be charged with il
legal residence, vagrancy and not
possessing the pass books required
of all nonwhites.
Justice Minister Francois Eras
mus told Parliament earlier today
that nearly 1,600 persons, includ
ing 94 whites, have been jailed in
the government’s, drive to quell
racial strife in South Africa.
HUMILIATED 1
LAKELAND, Fla., UP) — Ten
prisoners at the city stockade are
on a bread and water diet today
— punishment for a sit-down
strike they staged in protest
against wearing uniforms while
on work details.
The prisoners claimed they
were not criminals and that the
uniform humiliated them.
In the past, misdemeanor pris
oners assigned to garbage details
and work on city streets have
worn their own clothes.
That Was No Lady I
SAN PABLO, Calif., UP) — Two
teen-age girls robbed the cashier
at the Rancho Drive-In Theater
last night. The movies were:
“Teen-Age Monster,” and “Who.
Was That Lady?”