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VOL. LXII No. 26 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1960_Per Copy 151
Liquor Interests
Propose Change In
Control Board
JUNEAU, UP! — The picture of
Alaska as a land where bootleg
whisky sells for $12 a quart while
licensed beverage dealers lose
money was painted by witnesses
before the House Commerce and
Labor Committee Saturday.
Spokesmen for the Alaska Li
censed Beverage Assn., told the
committee the present liquor sys
tem could lead to numerous evils.
The association has opposed the
present three-man Alcoholic Bev
erage Control Board and the
board’s current uniform closing
hour regulation.
The ALBA is backing a bill to
enlarge the board to five mem
bers and to end regulation of
closing hours outside incorpor
ated limits.
Joseph Walsh of Anchorage,
secretary of the ALBA, told the
commttee the ALBA represented
more than 1,000 licensed beverage
operators in the state. He con
tended the liquor industry was
the largest taxpaying industry in
Alaska.
Walsh said the present board
failed to represent all Alaska
since its members all are from
the Juneau area. He said the bill
proposed to represent all geo
graphic areas with the five-mem
ber board.
Walsh testified some operators
are losing heavily because of the
uniform hours regulation which
prevents sale of alcoholic bever
ages after 3 a.m. on weekdays
and 4 a.m. Sunday and holidays.
The regulation, Walsh said, does
not prevent people from buying
liquor.
“People worry about the polic
ing problem in enforcing closing
hours, ladies and gentlemen, why
don’t we start policing the boot
leggers?” Walsh asked.
Russian Scientist
Provides Seed
For Alaska Wheat
WASHINGTON, UR — A U. S.
propaganda broadcast has stirred
a voice from behind the Iron Cur
tain to recall Russian farm help
to America many years ago.
The broadcast was beamed to
the Soviet Union by Voice of Am
erica transmitters last Jan. 21. It
told of past U.S.-Russian agricul
tural exchanges, including receipt
of wheat seeds in 1914-16 from a
Russian plant breeder named Vic
tor Pissarev.
Surprised U.S. officials found in
the mail a few days later an air
mail special letter from Moscow
signed by Prof. Victor Efgrafo
vich Pissarev.
Pissarev did not acknowledge
listening to the Voice of America
programs which the Soviets have
recently stopped jamming. He
said a friend (unnamedl had told
him of the broadcast, and that it
was he who sent the wheat.
The fast-maturing wheat, which
Pissarev found in cold eastern Si
beria, proved to be what U.S. ag
riculturalists had sought for Al
aska. It is parent of the wheat
grown in Alaska today.
Pissarev in those earlier years,
before the Bolsheviks came to
power, was director of an experi
mental farm station in Eastern
Siberia. He reported he now su
pervises laboratory work at the
Agricultural Science Research In
stitute near Moscow.
I
Senate to Vote On ESC
Proposals Tomorrow
JUNEAU, UP) — The Senate,
scheduled to vote tomorrow, on
unemployment security proposals,
received a split commitee recom
mendation Saturday urging adop
tion of a substitute measure
rather than one offered by the
administration.
Three members of the Senate
Commerce and Labor Committee
urged the substitute bill authored
by Sen. George McNabb who is
chairman of the committee. Sen.
James Noland of Wrangell signed
the committee report but recom
mended acceptance of the admin
istration measure. Sen. Jack
Weise signed the report without
recommendation.
The McNabb proposal calls for
higher allowances to jobless
workers, tax contributions based
on total wages and a change in
eligibility requirements to permit
more workers to collect benefits.
Gov. Egan’s bill provides no in
crease in benefits and favors a
$7,200 annual salary as the base
on which contributions to the job
less fund should be figured.
Committee members supporting
the McNabb substitute were Sen.
A1 Owen of Uganik Bay, and Sen.
Eben Hopson of Barrow.
Air Force Sights
2 of 4 Missing Polar
Bear Hunters
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The Air
Force reported sighting two of
four missing polar bear hunters
on an ice floe in Chukchi Sea 700
miles northwest of here Sunday.
Reports indicated the men were
.not injured. The Air Force said
the two were walking around on
the floe and replied to a dropped
message that they had an air
craft, although no plane was seen.
Two planes disappeared Friday
after taking off from Point Hope.
Pilots of the planes were Leroy
Holden and Warren Johnson of
Anchorage. Their passengers were
believed to be Gordon Eastman
of Omak, Wash., and George
Bauman of Nevada, Mo.
The Air Force said weather
conditions were bad with winds
of more than 70 miles an hour
and poor visibility.
Small rescue planes were being
readied to atteippt a landing on
the ice floe, which is about 65
miles southeast of Point Hope.
Judge Gilbert Declares
Nome Jail Unfit For
Detention of Juveniles
Judge Hubert Gilbert has is
sued an order in the matter of
the detention of juveniles in the
State jail located in the Federal
Building, stating that it is not a
suitable place for the incarcera
tion of minors under 18 years of
age.
He has ordered that no minor
under 18 be held there for in
fractions of the law or the juve
nile code and directs that physi
cal custody be given to the officer
in charge of the Nome branch of
the Welfare Section of the Alaska
Department of Health and Wel
fare until such time as the Com
missioner of Health and Welfare
shall designate some other em
ploye of his department in Nome
to assume such custodial duties.
The order provides however,
that this shall not prevent the
District Magistrate from placing
physical custody of said minor
with the parent or guardian.
African Medicine Men
Picket Billy Graham
NAIROBI, Kenya, tP —African
witch doctors are picketing pre
liminary meetings of Billy Gra
ham’s crusade in Kisumu, where
the American evangelist will ap
pear Tuesday.
The Rev. Joseph Blanco, now
in Kisumu, 165 miles northwest
of Nairobi, advised Graham that
for the past three days native
medicine men have been parad
ing outside the meeting in their
weird costumes, muttering incan
tations.
There have been no incidents in
Kisumu, and Graham will fly
there Tuesday, as scheduled.
Nehru and Chou Agree
To Meet In April
NEW DELHI, W)—Indian Prime
Minister Nehru and Red Chinese
Premier Chou En-Lai agreed to
day to an April meeting in New
Delhi to discuss their border dis
pute.
Both leaders made clear they
regard the talks as exploratory
with the prospect of setting in
motion negotiations for settling
the frontier feud which has
brought bloodshed.
Nehru’s announcement that he
was agreeable to meeting Chou
“sometime in April” drew ap
plause in Parliament.
Mr. K Says He Will Sign Separate
Treaty with East Germany If Big
Four Summit Talks Fail In May
JAKARTA, Indonesia, i/f) — So
viet Premier Khrushchev today
said the Soviet Union will sign a
separate peace treaty giving East
Germany control of West Berlin
if the Big Four summit talks in
May fail to reach agreement on
an over-all German settlement.
Khrushchev spoke at a news
conference following his return
from Bogor, where he agreed to
lend Indonesia a 250-million
dollar credit in an effort to check
this southeast Asian nation’s slow
drift westward.
The Soviet threat to sign a sep
arate peace treaty with East Ger
many never has been abandoned,
and in recent weeks has been re
peated at intervals. But this was
the first time- Khrushchev had
tied it to the outcome of the May
summit conference.
“The question of Berlin is one
of eliminating vestiges of World
War II,” the Soviet leader de
clared. “We cannot talk about
peace without eliminating these
vestiges.”
Khrushchev said the Soviet
Union is trying to convince the
West of the need for a peace
treaty on all Germany. If this is
not concluded, he said, the Soviet
Union will sign a separate agree
ment with East Germany.
If that happens, he said, all
post - war agreements affecting
Germany “would cease to be
valid,” and West Berlin would
come under the authority of Com
munist East Germany “because
West Berlin stands on territory
belonging to the Communist Ger
man Democratic Republic.”
Chileans Give Ike All-Out Weleome
Eisenhower Standing Up
Well to Strain of Tour
BARELOCHE, Argentina* UP) —
President Eisenhower appeared in
good health today as he wound up
the first half of his South Ameri
can tour.
The pace appeared to be tell
ing on the 69-year-old President.
A morning of fishing Sunday in
a mountain stream had left him
looking worn and weary. He ap
peared perked up after a nap.
This morning, ruddy - faced and
sun-tanned, he looked to be in
good shape as he bade goodbye
to Argentine President Frondizi.
Eisenhower Saturday squeezed
in four holes of golf and walked
the course without an electric
cart. Reporters who followed him
regularly thought it was the first
time he had played without a
cart since his heart attack in 1955.
Propose Cabinet
Members Be
Nonpartisan
WASHINGTON, UP) — Legisla
tion to “unconfuse” the public on
America’s military posture and
improve the defense policy-mak
ing machinery was under study
today by Senate investigators.
The Government Operations
subcommittee headed by Sen.
Henry Jackson (D-Wash) which
last week heard top-rung Repub
lican businessmen criticize the
government’s decision - making
precess, weighed proposals affect
ing the State and Defense depart
ments and other agencies.
Sen. Jackson disclosed that he
is considering a resolution calling
on the Secretary of Defense and
armed services secretaries “not
to participate in partisan politics.”
One of the Jackson committee’s
witnesses last week, former Sec
retary of Defense Robert Lovett,
testified that civilian as well as
military officials of the Defense
Department should be nonpoliti
cal and nonpartisan.
'Military men should contribute
to national policy but not make
it, said Lovett, a Wall Street
banker and a Republican who
served in the cabinet of former
President Harry S. Truman.
“I think President Eisenhower
now has a fine opportunity to an
nounce that the Defense secre
taries will not engage in partisan
politics,” Sen. Jackson said.
It was doubtful that Eisen
hower would oblige. He recently
declared that members of the
executive branch have enjoyed
the right to speak at political
meetings since the beginnings of
the nation.
Gold Mining Methods
Described In Government
Pamphlet Selling for 30^
WASHINGTON, MB—The Gov
ernment Printing Office is now
selling for 30 cents, a new Bureau
of Mines report describing meth
ods and operating costs at cer
tain gold placer mines in Alaska.
The publication was prepared
in cooperation with the University
of Alaska’s School of Mines. Four
teen typical placer mines are de
scribed in detail.
The pamphlet was written by
Bruce I. Thomas and William H.
Kerns of the Bureau of Mines,
and Donald J. Cook and Ernest
Wolf of the University of Alaska’s
School of Mines.
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
SANTIAGO, Chile, Wl — Hun
dreds of thousands of Chileans
showered President Eisenhower
with eheers and flowers today as
he rolled triumhantly into Santi
ago on his South American tour.
The welcome burst out beyond
expectations as he reached the
third stop on his tour.
Only one minor incident mar
red his welcome to this econom
ically troubled nation on South
America’s Pacific coast: Commun
ist union workers shouted “down
with the United States” as Eisen
hower and President Jorge Ales
sandri of Chile passed the union’s
headquarters.
The workers had pushed up a
picture of Premier Fidel Castro
of Cuba as the presidential motor
cade approached. After the motor
cade had passed, persons in the
crowd rushed up, stoned the pic
ture and union headquarters. Po
lice kept the incident under con
trol.
Estimates put the crowd’s size
at about half a million.
The turnout was one of the
largest in Chilean history and the
welcome was among the most en
thusiastic Eisenhower has re
ceived on this continent. Factories
along the route emptied as the
motorcade passed and whistles
tooted.
A warm, but conservative,
greeting had been expected, but
as Eisenhower rolled through the
center of the city the masses of
people exploded in cheers. He has
flown over the majestic Andes
from Argentina.
U.S. Ready to Talk
Over Differences
With Cuba Govt.
WASHINGTON, UP) — T h e
United States told Cuba today it
is willing to talk over differences
between the two nations but not
under conditions proposed by
Prime Minister Fidel Castro.
In a formal note again express
ing friendship for the Cuban peo
ple the United States invited Cas
tro’s regime to discuss through
diplomatic channels, the time,
place of such talks and the sub
ject to be discussed.
The State Department note, de
livered to the Cuban foreign of
fice at Havana today, specifically
rejected Cuba’s insistence that
the United States promise no one
sided action against Cuba pend
ing conclusion of the talks.
As set forth in President Eisen
hower’s statement of Jan. 26, the
note said, “The government of
the United States must remain
free in the exercise of its own
sovereignty to take whatever
steps it deems necessary, fully
consistent with its international
obligations in the defense of the
legitimate rights and interests of
its people.
“The government of the United
States believes that these rights
and interests have been adversely
affected by the unilateral acts of
the Cuban government.”
EISENHOWER BACKS
RED CROSS DRIVE
WASHINGTON, W)—President
Eisenhower has asked generous
contributions for the annual Red
Cross-'drive opening Tuesday.
“The Red Cross is truly an in
tegral part of our national life . . .
It typifies the spirit of man help
ing man,” Eisenhower said in a
statement released Sunday night.