NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVI No. 98 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1954~~~ . Per Copy—15?
U.S. Steel Corp.
Looks Over Alaska
Ore Possibilities
ANCHORAGE, UP) — United
States Steel Corp., the nation’s
biggest steel producer, is looking
over Alaska’s iron ore possibili
ties, the Anchorage Times re
ported yesterday.
The newspaper said a geologi
cal team for the firm quietly be
gan work this summer on Prince
of Wales Island, west of Ketchi
kan, and is working north. A
number of magnetite iron deposits
are known to show on the island.
The party is headed toy Dr.
James A. Noble, a California Tech
professor and consulting geologist
for U.S. Steel.
Preliminary reports compiled
from research of all published
geological and mining literature
already have been completed for
the firm on all the territory’s
known iron deposits, the news
paper said.
The Times said the possibility
that the ultimate goal of U. S.
Steel may lie in actual production
of iron and steel in the territory
is indicated by the fact that the
firm’s representatives picked up
a maximum limit of two lime
stone claims per month in south
east Alaska throughout last win
ter. Limestone is an essential ele
ment in steel-making.
Congress Hopes To
Adjourn Today
WASHINGTON, (^ — Congres
sional thoughts roamed to vaca
tionland, home and campaign pol
itics today as Senate and House
entered what just about every
body said would be the last day
of the session.
All the really big, controversial
bills were out of the way—passed
or pigeonholed—and a couple of
“must” items still left didn’t loom
as barriers to a speedy adjourn
ment. I
Senate majority leader Know
land of Califorina, calling col
leagues to session at the earliest
this-year hour of 9:30 a.m., dis
pensed with time-taking opening
routines in a move to get Congress
on its way home by evening.
Democratic leader Lyndon John
son of Texas noted a number of
senators have plane reservations
waiting.
Seventy-eight-year-old Senator
Neely (D-WVA). complained in a
loud voice to fffllow senators last
night that they’d spent altogether
too much time talking so far.
Pointing to two thick stacks of the
Congressional Record, he shouted
that his colleagues “are guilty of
talking senators to death—we've
talked three or four to death this
session.”
Neely couldn’t have been criti
cizing the Senate for its tempo
yesterday, however, or the House
either.
KNIFE MORE TO THE POINT
BIRMINGHAM, England, UP) —
Mrs. Elsie Nolan, 34, pawned her
wedding ring to buy a carving
knife.
And with that knife, police told
a court here, she stabbed, her
husband to death as he slept be
cause he kept her short of house
keeping money. <
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Ike and Mamie Tree To
Be Planted In Memorial
Plot Containing Nome Soil
Earth from the 48 states and
Alaska will receive an Ike and
Mamie Eisenhower tree on the
27th of August at Gettysburg at
the U.S. Tank Corps re-union.
The ground and tree will be
placed at the site of the 1918
Tank Headquarters. Commander
of the 1918 headquarters was
Major Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Alaska earth was chosen
from the golden beach of Nome
by a member of the U.S. Tank
Corps, George R. Goshaw, who
served at Gettysburg under Eisen
hower in 1918. The earth was dug
by Corp. John Shumaker, U.S.
Army, whose home is about 70
miles from Gettysburg, in Har
risburg, Penn.
Corp. Shumaker, a gifted tenor,
and soloist at the Community
Methodist Church, spends his
leisure hours off-duty digging for
gold like a real prospector with
a home-made sluice box and no.
2 shovel.
Genera] Foods
Cuts Coffee Price
10 Cents to $1.12
NEW YORK, UP)—The Maxwell
Division of General Foods Corp.,
the nation’s biggest coffee roast
er, hopped on the 10-cent-a
pound price cut bandwagon today
Maxwell House sent telegrams
to' its nationwide sales organiza
tion ordering the 10-cent reduc
tion effective Monday. This brings
the wholesale list price for Max
well House regular ground coffee
down from $1.22 to $1.12 a pound.
The Maxwell House action
made virtually unanimous a 10
cent price slash which has snow
balled nationwide since smaller
distributors started on Monday
following easing of foreign ex
change regulation by Brazil.
Some of the price cuts have
been bigger. Among these was a
20-cent cut by National Tea Co.
in Chicago, which dropped the
price of its house brand coffee
to 99 cents.
Air Force Shifts Personnel
Processing Center To
McChord From California
PLEASANTON, Calif., UP)—The
Air Force has announced it will
shift its personnel processing cen
ter for Alaska-bound troops from
Parks Air Force Base here to
McChord Air Force Base near
Tacoma, effective Nov. 1.
An Air Force spokesman at
Parks said that under the new
plan officers will report directly
to McChord for air shipment and
airmen will report to the naval
receiving station in Seattle.
However, Air Force personnel
sent to Far East stations will
continue to be processed at Parks,
the spokesman said.
The announcement came as a
San Francisco delegation met with
Defense officials in Washington
in an effort to have troopship op
erations restored to the San Fran
cisco Bay area. The Army had
recently moved its staging area
for shipping personnel to the Far
East from Camp Stoneman to
Seattle.
Season Opens
Today for Deer,
Goat, Ptarmigan
JUNEAU, I/Pi — Hundreds of
hunters took to the hills in south
eastern Alaska Friday with the
opening of the 1954 deer and goat
hunting season.
In a major departure this sea
son, the Alaska Game Commis
sion is permitting a bag limit of
three bucks instead of two as in
past years. Also for the first time
nonresident hunters are not re
quired to have a guide for deer
hunting.
The bag limits for goats is two
for the season.
Hunting time for both deer and
goats runs through Nov. 22.
Friday also opens the hunting
season for grouse and ptarmigan
with a bag limit of 15 in aggre
gate and not more than 10 grouse.
Resident hunters pay a $2 li
cense fee. Nonresidents hunting
big game pay $50. Both include
game fishing privileges.
Fairbanks Reports
Second Polio Case
FAIRBANKS, IB—A mother of
three children was hospitalized
here Thursday for treatment of
polio.
Dr. Joseph Ribar, Fairbanks
city health officer, said the case
was diagnosed as mild with no
paralysis. Her immediate contacts
have been inoculated with gamma
globulin, Dr. Ribar said.
The only other case under treat
ment here is an 8-year-old strick
en three weeks ago. The young
ster has paralysis in both arms
and legs, Dr. Ribar said, but is
improving.
Hickel Must Be Certified
By Central Committee
To Attend GOP Parley
JUNEAU, (B—Ray Beach, Alas
ka Republican Central Commit
tee secretary, said yesterday that
Walter Hickel of Anchorage will
not be seated as national commit
teeman until he is certified by
Elton Engstrom as national com
mitteeman and by himself as sec
retary.
He said, however, there is no
doubt about nickel's right to meet
with the Republican National
Committee next week as the
proxy holder for Robert McKanna
of Fairbanks, who announced his
resignation in favor of Hickel,
who was elected committeeman in
last spring’s primary.
FAIRBANKS HUNTERS FACE
MEAT STORAGE PROBLEM
FAIRBANKS, (B — Fairbanks
nimrods were warned they may
face a serious meat storage prob
lem before the end of the 1954
hunting season which gets under
way here Friday.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
and Tanana Valley Sportsmen
Assn, said all commercial cold
storage lockers are expected to be
filled by the end of the month.
MUNSAN, Korea, (B — The
Communists told the U.N. today
they intend to start Sept. 1 re
turning 4,011 bodies of Allied
troops buried in North Korea.
Two More Polio Cases
In Anchorage-Seward
Area Bring Total To 81
ANCHORAGE, UP — Two more
po'lio cases were diagnosed yes
terday in both the greater An
chorage and the Seward areas.
It brought to 81 the total of
1954 cases in this area in the
j current outbreak of the malady
in epidemic proportions and rais
ed the Seward total to 49.
There have been nine deaths
here.
The new Anchorage victims are
a 10-month-old girl, with para
lysis, and a non-paralytic 5-year
old girl.
North Dakota Attorney
Appointed Judge For
The Fourth Division
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower has nominated Ver
non D. Forbes of Wahpelton, N.D.,
to be U.S. district judge of Al
aska’s Fourth Division. Forbes,
48-year-old attorney, would suc
ceed Harry E. Pratt, retired.
The Forbes nomination was an
nounced last night.
Air Force Assn.
Urges U.S. Draw
Line of Aggression
OMAHA, UP) — The Air Force
Association urged today that a
“line of aggression” be drawn—
and Soviet Russia be attacked
with nuclear weapons if she
crosses it.
The organization of almost
40,000 air power enthusiasts —
largely veterans or members of
the Air Force—also called upon
the Executive Department, the
Defense Department and the Con
gress to “take immediate steps to
insure that our retaliatory force
is speedily built and maintained
at proper levels of effectiveness.”
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air
Force chief of staff, said the U.S.
already has sufficient reason for
war—“if we are seeking war.”
vBut this is a time for coolness
as well as firmness, and a time
for deliberation as well as readi
ness,” Twining to'ld the associa
tion in a prepared address.
Earlier Robert Murphy, deputy
undersecretary of State, said the
cold war appears to be entering
a new phase—a }ull in Soviet
directed action.
Dr. Fred Langsam Named
2nd Vice President Of
Alaska Medical Assn.
FAIRBANKS, UP)—Dr. William
P. Blanton of Juneau is the new
president of the Alaska Territor
ial Medical Assn.
Dr. Blanton, a veteran of many
years in the territory, was named
to the office this week at the
association's meeting at Mt. Mc
Kinley Park. He succeeds Dr.
Paul B. Haggland of Fairbanks.
Other officers named were Dr.
G.J. Phillips, of Bartlett, first vice
president; Dr. Fred Langsam of
Nome, second vice president, and
Dr. Robert B. Wilkins, Anchor
age, secretary-treasurer.
Forty five* doctors from all
parts of Alaska attended the
meeting.
$20,000 Cannery
Payroll Is Stolen
From PNA Office
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Theft of
about $20,000 in a payroll money
bag from the Pacific Northern
Airlines freight office here was
disclosed yesterday.
It was one of the biggest thefts
ever staged in the Anchorage
area. The payroll money was for
delivery to the Libby, McNeil and
Libby cannery at Kenai.
The daring burglary occurred
some time early Wednesday mor
ning. Anchorage police kept it
quiet for metre* than 24 hours •
during their preliminary investi
gation.
George Sharrocks, Anchorage
PNA manager, said no other
freight was touched. He said he
had no knowledge the cash ship
ment had been received and that
it had been handled in a com
pletely abnormal manner by a
new cargo clerk.
The clerk, who has been dis
missed, told police he got busy
after the money was delivered
and forgot to obtain the signa
tures usually required on valu
able cargoes. Sharrock discovered
the theft by a check of freight
bills .
The airline officials said large
cash shipments ordinarily are not
accepted until just before a
plane’s departure time. In this
case the cash apparently was in
tended for the Tuesday afternoon
flight but arrived too late. The
break-in was discovered by a
merchant patrolman.
Senate Votes 5 Pet. Pay
Raise to Federal Workers
Despite Threat of Veto
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Uhe Sen
ate voted today a 5 per cent pay
raise for upward of two million
federal workers.
The bill was passed 69-4 after
a losing fight by Sen. Knowland
to attach a hike in postal rates to
help meet the cost of the pay
boost.
House actiijn was anticipated
quickly.
Knowland, the Republican floor
leader, told the Senate that Presi
dent Eisenhower could be expect
ed to veto the bill unless there
was a postal rate increase to off
set in part the cost of the pay
rise.
Some Democrats nevertheless
hooted at the idea the President
might veto the pay raise.
McKay Appoints Oregon
Highway Officials To
Survey Road Commission
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of the Interior McKay yesterday
announced appointment of Chas.
N. Reynolds, Oregon State High
way Commissioner, and W. C.
Williams, assistant Oregon State
Highway Engineer, as members
of a survey team to study the
Alaska highway situation.
McKay said the men will look
over all operations of the Alaska
Road Commission and rr\ake re
commendations for improvements
in the organization.
The team is to leave for Alaska
Sept. 1, accompanied by a staff
assistant from the Interior Dept.