22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX NoT61 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1958 _Per Copy—15?
$80 Billion Budget,
$10 Billion Deficit
Foreseen In 1959
WASHINGTON, UR — Budget
Director Maurice Stans predicted
today federal spending for the
fiscal year starting July 1, 1959
•will increase to about 80 billion
dollars.
Stans made the forecast after
he and President Eisenhower
concluded their first discussion
of the budget for that fiscal year.
As for the budget for the fis
cal year starting July 1, Stans
said he looks for a deficit rang
ing between eight and 10 billion
dollars. And that, he said, does
not take into account the pos
sibility of any tax reduction.
When Eisenhower sent that
budget to Congress last January,
he estimated spending for the
fiscal year at $73,900,000,000.
He also predicted at that time a
surplus of 500 million dollars.
Since then, the business reces
sion has brought a decline in tax
revenues and an increase in gov
ernment spending plans.
Bartlett Urges Support
For Marksmanship
Program In Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) _ Delegate
Bartlett has urged a House ap
propriations subcommittee to
support continued operation of
the marksmanship program of the
national board for the promotion
of rifle practice.
Twelve adult shooting clubs
and three junior clubs in Alaska,
with membership of 1,5-62, par
ticipate in the program, he said.
“The $300,000 requested is
little enough compared with the
wealth in benefits which accrue,”
he said in testimony made pub
lic by the subcommittee today.
“The need for straight and ac
curate shooting is imperative in
Alaska, not only from the stand
point of possible future military
activity but because of Alaska’s
abundance of wild game.” *
He cited and said he concurred
in a statement by A. W. Boddy,
executive director of the Alaska
Sportsmens Council, that the
low proportion of hunting acci
dents in Alaska is attributable
to the proper training acquired
through the program.
Alaska Freight Lines
To Increase Its
Alaska Barge Service
SEATTLE, UP) — Plans for
barge service between Seattle and
major ports of Southeast Alaska
were announced yesterday by the
Alaska Freight Lines.
In the latest stage of mush
rooming barge development in
the North Pacific, Alaska Freight
Lines general manager John J.
Hesselbrock4 announced that his
company will open service to i
Southeast Alaska June 11. Fre
quency of the service was not
stated, but Hesselbrock said a
regular schedule will be estab
lished to include dockside deliv
- eries at Haines, Juneau, Ketch
ikan, Petersburg, Skagway, Sitka,
* and Wrangell.
Tor some years, Alaska Freight
has operated barges twice a week
from Seattle to Anchorage or
Seward.
Early this year it added twice
monthly Alaska barge service
from Portland and monthly ser
vice from California ports.
Huge Japanese
Fishing Fleet Sails
For Alaska Waters
SEATTLE, UPI — Japanese fish
ing vessels headed for Alaskan
waters-have not yet been sighted
by American Navy patrol planes.
Divided into 14 fleets totaling
356 catcher boats, the 13,000-man
expedition sailed from Hokodate,
Japan, on May 13.
Rear Adm. Arnold W. McKech
nie, Commandant of the 17th
Naval District at Kodiak, said
yesterday, that all pilots on regu
lar patrols have been instructed
to watch for the Japanese fleets
“as a routine matter.”
Under a treaty signed by Japan,
Canada and the United States,
the Japanese are permitted to
fish as close to mainland Alaska
as 175 degrees west longitude.
This could take the fleet almost
100 miles east of Adak.
Efforts to get the Japanese to
stay west of 170 degrees east lat
itude broke down just before
the salmon fleet sailed.
This threat to the Bristol Bay
salmon this year is regarded as
so severe that the Fish and Wild
life Service is considering re
stricting American fishing there.
Pflimlin Attempts
To Win Algeria Back
From de Gaulle Backers
PARIS, lff) — Premier Pierre
Pflimlin ordered France’s mili
tary chief to Algiers today, open
ing the government’s drive to win
back Algeria from backers of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle. But from
Algeria came a defiant no.
“We will never move an inch
backward,” said Alain de Serigny,
a powerful member of the French
insurgent junta in Algiers. “We
will accept no one but de Gaulle.”
Lorillot was ordered to confer
with Gen. Raoul Salan, the French
military commander in Algeria,
who has been walking a tight
sope between Paris and the
French civilian and military
junta in Algiers.
De Serigny told an Algiers
news conference that Pflimlin is
wrong if he thinks he can settle
the insurrection in a few days.
He added that de Gaulle “is the
only one capable of maintaining
the unity of the nation.”
Million-and-Half Dollar
Fire Destroys Seattle
Cedar Lumber Co. Plant
SEATTLE, UP) — A $1,500,000
fire that hurled sparks so high
they could be seen for 80 miles
destroyed one of the world’s larg
est cedar lumber mills in Ballard
District Tuesday night.
More than 300 firemen and vol
unteers battled the blaze at the
Seattle Cedar Lumber Manu
facturing Co. for more than four
hours. There were no deaths or
serious injuries.
Jack Wilde, mill superintend
ent, said eight million board feet
of lumber were reduced to ashes,
Twenty Seattle fire compan
ies, .aided by engines from sub
urban areas and the Coast Guard,
battled the blaze. Four fire -
boats poured water on the fire
from the Seattle ship canal.
Fire Chief William Fitzgerald
said the fire started in a dry
kiln but he was unable to explain
its source.
A. POLET IS BETTER
Word has been received from
Emily Boucher in Seattle that
her father, Tony Polet, is im
proving but that his condition is
still critical.
Mr. Polet has been in a nursing
home in Seattle for about two
years /and Mrs. Boucher was
called to his bedside last Satur
day when he topic a sudden turn
for the worse.
Seattle Produce
Tie Up Continues
As Drivers Strike
SEATTLE, UP)—A truck drivers’
walkout kept » 25 Seattle food
warehouses closed Tuesday des
pite settlement of a 19-day strike
of warehousemen.
The warehousemen workers,
members qf Teamsters Local 117,
voted Monday night to accept "a
17Vfe hourly wage increase. The
warehousemen pulled off their
pickets.
But immediately more than
250 truck drivers, members of
Local 174, struck the same ware
houses.
The effect was the same. It
kept groceries and produce from
reaching Seattle stores, where
stocks have been dwindling since
the warehousemen walked out
May 2.
The truck drivers, whose hour
ly scale is $2.29Vfe and $2.39V£,
have been negotiating for weeks
and originally asked a 35-cent in
crease plus 12 fringe benefits.
Meantime warehousemen still
were on strike at about 45 mem
ber firms of the Distributors
Assn., which wholesale mainly
non-food products. The settle
ment was only with produce
houses.
Cardinal Siriich's Condition
Remains Grave Today '
ROME, UP) — Samuel Cardinal
Stritch rested well for the second
night since he suffered a stroke
but his condition today remained
grave.
A brief medical bulletin dis
closed for the first time that the
70-year-old archbishop of Chicago
had a sight fever. It said his
condition was unchanged.
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President of Covenant
Church In America
Speaks Here Tonight
Dr. T. W. Anderson, president
of the Covenant Church of Amer
ica, will be the speaker at a
special service this evening at
the Covenant Church at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Anderson came to Alaska for
the graduation exercises of the
Covenant High School at Una
lakleet. The service this evening
is open to all.
House Begins Consideration Of
Procedure On Alaska Statehood
WASHINGTON, W> — The
House began considering pro
cedure on the Alaska statehood
bill today as advocates of the
measure made their move to by
pass the House Rules Committee.
At the start of the House ses
sion there was no clear-cut in
dication of the bill’s probable
fate. Neither was there cer
tainty th^t it would reach the
House floor.
Statehood supporters will be
exercising a little-used rule which
permits certain bills to be con
sidered by the House without
Rules Committee sanction.
Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va),
whose Rules Committee has kept
the Alaska bill bottled up for 10
months, declined to predict in ad
vance whether opponents could
keep the bill from coming before
the House or, failing that, defeat
it on a showdown vote.
Rep. Leo O’Brien (D-NY),
chairman of the House Terri
tories subcommittee, predicted
the measure would survive prob
ably early parliamentary maneu
vering by the opponents and
pass by six or eight votes.
Alaska’s voteless delegate, E. L.
Bartlett said he was “most hope
ful the House will reflect the will
of the American people and pass
the statehood bill.”
Although statehood advocates
for the most part have sought to
keep the Alaska bill out of bi
partisan politics, today’s move
had some political overtones.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
and Rep. John W. McCormack,
Democratic majority leader, have
endorsed the Alaska bill and
approved exercise of its privi
leged status. Rep. Joseph W.
Martin, House Republican leader,
has said he will oppose the bill
on the grounds Alaska is not
ready financially to support state
hood and should not be given *
consideration ahead of Hawaii.
The Eisenhower administration,
led by Secretary of the Interior
Seaton, has endorsed the Alaska
bill as it has that for Hawaii.
Although supporting the bill,
Rayburn has been quoted in sev
eral quarters as expressing fear
the bill will be rejected by the
House and sent back to the
committee.
A similar fate befell a com
bined Alaska-Hawaii bill in the
House two years ago. A separate
Alaska bill has passed the House
only once, in 1950, and cleared
the Senate in combination with
Hawaii in 1954.
Two Large Blanket
Tossing Skins Arrive
From St. Lawrence
Two large walrus skins have
arrived from St. Lawrence Is
land for the weekly blanket toss
ing event here. They are act
ually one skin split in two, the
larger measuring 41 feet 4 inches
by 12 feet 1 inch, and the smaller
10'2" by 11 "6'.
The larger skin is hanging be
tween the Bering Sea Club and
the Nome Market.
John McNees said today he
plans to get a real big blanket
made up of four skins sewed
together, in the Pt. Hope style.
Both blankets were rigged for
tossing by Paulie Green and
George Washington with rope
donated by the Nets Mortensen
Co.
Blanket tossing will be con
ducted this Sunday by Johnnie
Stevenson, starting at 12:30 in
front of the theater.
Chicagoan Walking To
Wrangell, Alaska, Held
Up By Canadian Red Tape
INTERNATIONAL FALLS,
Minn., iff) — Plans of a 21-year
old Chicagoan to hike from his
home to Wrangell, Alaska, by
way of Hudson’s Bay have struck
at least a temporary snag here.
Canadian immigration officers
have told Robert Koenig that
clearance for the kind of walk
he proposes may take three to
four weeks. This, he says, would
throw his time table off.
Koenig, field representative for
the American Bow; Hunters Assn.,
is waiting the arrival of his agent
from Chichago to try to speed
things up.
He left Chicago March 29 and
has covered 25 miles a day. He
carries a tent, a compass, a gei
ger counter and necessary pro
visions.
His planned long walk would
cover 6,000 miles.
BRAVO HECTOR
WASHINGTON, UP) — Louis J.
Hector took his fellow members
of the Civil Aeronautics Board
sharply to task yesterday for fore
stalling an increase in U. S.
Alaska air fares and for recent
action on fare hikes generally.
Hector said the CAB majority’s
recent suspension of proposed
increases in fares between the
states and Alaska, where the air
lines are losing money, after per
mitting increases on profitable
routes to Hawaii and Puerto Rico,
“just does not make sense.”
In a dissent to the Alaskan fare
increase suspension, Hector said:
“It is our job to keep the civil
aviation industry within the
bounds of public policy estab
lished by law and to encourage
its development in so far as we
are able. We are not obligated
or empowered to run it.”
“Unless we are to maintain
that the air carriers have the bur
den of proving in detail to the
board’s satisfaction the wisdom
of every change in their tariffs,
we must let them set such fares
as their own business judgment
recommends, provided they are
not unjust or unreasonable.”
The CAB majority rejected
airline proposals to increase
fares between Seattle and Ju
neau, Anchorage and Nome 10, 14
and 16 per cent respectively.
“I can find no consistent basis
for the board’s recent actions on
proposed rate increases,” he said.
DEFENSE REORGANIZATIIN
BILL PASSED BY ARMED
SERVICES COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
House Armed Services Commit
tee today unanimously approved
its version of a defense reorgoni
zation bill.
The formal 36-0 roll call vote
merely confirmed the commit
tee’s decision of last Friday to
approve a bill which generally
goes along with President Eisen
hower’s proposals for a s ream
lined command structure.