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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL.'LXI No. 129 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1959_Per Copy—154
DC-6 Seattle Run !
Starts with Airport;
Open House Mon.
Charles Willis, president of
Alaska Airlines, and Dick Gil
bert, vice president of the airline,
are expected to be here on Mon
day for the inauguration of reg
ular DC-6 service from Nome to
Seattle and Portland.
Mrs. Willis will accompany
her husband.
Local station manager Joe
Fisher stated that there will be an
open house at the airport on
Monday morning at 10:15, during
the time the big pressurized plane
is on the ground, and until take
off time, at 11:30.
The public is invited to help
celebrate the occasion Monday
morning, when coffee and pop
will be served. Everyone is wel
come.
The Golden NUgget will be
leaving Nome Field regularly
on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday at 11:30 a.m., and the
flight goes via Anchorage and
Fairbanks, arriving in Seattle at
4:30 the following morning.
On Tuesday, Joe Fisher states,
the plane will go on to Portland.
Alaska Airlines brought its
first DC-6 to Nome to help cele
brate the opening of the new ter
minal last spring, and the Golden
Nugget flights were postponed
until after the airfield surfacing
was completed this fall.
This is another step in the fast
changing service for Alaskans by
the expanding Alaska Airlines.
Mr. Willis arrives from Wash
ington, D. C., where he headed
a committee last week for the
first United Nations Ball, with
representatives from the 82 coun
tries in the United Nations as
guests. Mr. Willis was appointed
by President Eisenhower to head
that committee.
This open house will also be
an occasion to meet and greet the
new station manager, Joe Fisher,
who replaced Del Kampmann last
week.
Bering Seaeoast
Armories Furnish
Civic Centers
SEATTLE, (ff) — Armories
built along the Bering Sea and
Arctic Ocean for Eskimo Scouts
of the Alaska National Guard
have become centers of commu
nity life, Clyde Hovik, Seattle en
gineer, reports.
The 48 buildings, 20 by 60 feet
in size and of galvanized steel,
were erected as defense installa
tions for the First and Second
Scout Battalions of Alaska. Man
son-Osberg Co., Seattle, had the
$1,050,000 contract.
Hovik, the firm’s general super
intendent, said on his return here
from several months in Alaska,
that they are main points of ac
tivity in the villages of 100 to
150 persons. Natives’ earnings ip
erecting them also gave the com
munities much economic help.
Each armory has its own elec
tric generating system, two oil
heating units and interiors are
finished in hardboard, he said.
The parts, assembled here, were
shipped last summer to distribu
tion points like Bethel, Nome and
Kotzebue.
One is on Little Diomede Is
land, less than two miles from
the Soviets’ Big Diomede, he said.
RESERVATIONS POUR
IN FOR CONVENTION
A partial list of registrations
for the League of Alaskan Cities’
9th convention has been received.
Included are representatives from
several of the 21 Alaskan cities to
be represented at the meeting
here from Nov. 5 to Nov. 7.
Among the reservations to date
are:
From Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
Ted Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Franich,
City Manager C. Norby, Mr.
Crow, Jack Berry and Mayor Dr.
Paul Haggland.
Anchorage: City Manager and
Mrs. George Shannon, Roy Nigh,
William Bessner. Brad Phillips,
Victor Fischer, City Attorney
Robert Lewis, Mayor George
Byer, Leonard Peck, Frank Har
ris, Robert Smith, and John Ault,
planning directly for Anchorage.
Also attending will be Alaska’s
Chief Justice Buell -Nesbett and
David Luce, administrative direc
tor of the State Court System, and
Charles Hughes, director of the
Division of Local Affairs, and
James Fitzgerald, Commissioner
of Public Safety.
Ketchikan: Mr. and Mrs. Pink
erton, Mr. Hardcastle, and City
Manager Robert Sharpe.
Sitka: Magaret Federoff, Mr.
Cushing.
Kotzebue: Mayor Earl Shen
nett and Evelyn Conwell.
Cordova: John Alexander, Julia
Nordman.
; Juneau: Larry Parker.
Seward: City Manager Jerry
Hedricks and two councilmen.
San Francisco: Paul Emmerte,
Regional Administrator for the
Civilian Facilities Administrator,
and Annabel Heath, Regional Ad
ministrator for the Housing and
Home Finance Agency.
Palmer: Rep. James Hurley,
and Lucy Mick, executive secre
tary of the League, and Emily St.
Pierre.
University of Alaska: Dr. Brook
Graves.
General Motors
Is Out of Steel
DETROIT, Mich.j WV—The steel
strike will put huge General Mo
tors out of the car-building busi
ness next week.
The world’s largest manufactur
ing company has run out of steel.
Most of its auto assembly lines
are closed, or will be by tonight.
The company says 185,000 em
ployes will be idled.
Even more layoffs will come
next week as the remaining as
sembly plants at Flint and Wil
low Run, Mich.; Kansas City, Mo.,
and Oakland, Calif., run out of
parts.
How long the shutdowns last
depends on when fresh supplies
of steel become available. Indus
try sources say it will take at
least three and possibly up to
five weeks after steel production
begins before sufficient parts can
be made to bring assembly lines
into operation again.
Normally, automakers consume
15 to 20 per cent of all steel
output. It takes about two tons
of steel to build a car.
Beck Bemoans Publicity
Ruins His Business
SEATTLE, I— “It was good,
honest labor,” Seattle’s best
known parking lot attendant said
yesterday. “I was doing pretty
good until the papers found out
about it.”
Dave Beck, 65, onetime Team
sters Union chief, was explain
ing that he was retiring from
personal operation of his down
town parking lot.
Too much publicity, he said,
and too many curious people.
“People weren’t buying parking
tickets, they were just dropping
by to talk,” Beck said.
Operation of the lot, located
across the street from Beck’s for
mer Teamsters’ headquarters, hgs
been turned over to. a friend,
1 Beck said.
Eisenhower Played Golf While War
Rumbled on Leaderless, Says Briton
LONDON, (#) — A new book
of wartime memoirs says General
Dwight D. Eisenhower played golf
instead of guiding Allied military
preparations at a crucial stage of
World War II in Europe.
The book is based on the diar
ies of Field Marshal Viscount
Alanbrooke, who as Sir Alan
Brooke was chairman of the Brit
ish chiefs of staff in the war.
The second installment of his diar
ies and correspondence is in
corporated in “Triumph in the
West,” which goes on sale here
Monday. It was compiled by Sir
Arthur Bryant from the private
papers of Alanbrooke, now living
in retirement in the south of
England.
In Washington, White House
Press Secretary James C. Hager
ty was asked for comment on
Alanbrooke’s statements. Hager
ty’s reply was:
“I don’t even have a no com
ment.”
In the first installment, Alan
brooke rapped Eisenhower as a
man whose strong, point was
charm rather than military abil
ity. He also criticized the wartime
leadership of Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, saying his
drive made him troublesome and
“He never faces realities.”
The new Installment, quoting
from diary notations of Novem
ber, 1944, said there was “a very
unsatisfactory state of affairs in
France with no one running the
land battle.”
“Eisenhower, though supposed
to be doing so, was on the golf
links at Rheims — entirely de
tached and taking practically no
part in running the war,” Alan
■brooke wrote.
There is a contention that short
comings in American leadership
threw away a chance to end the
European war in 1944.
Alanbrooke puts much of the
blame on Eisenhower, picturing
him as a poor strategist.
Summing up his. impressions of
Eisenhower, he wrote: “A past
master in the,art of handling al
lies, entirely impartial and con
sequently trusted by all. A charm
ing personality and a good coordi
nator. But no real commander.”
Contrasted with this estimate
was highest praise for General
Douglas MacArthur, American
commander in the Pacific.
“MacArthur was the greatest
general and the best strategist
that the war produced,” Alan
brooke wrote.
Steelworkers Reach Agreement with
Third Small Producer; Continue Talks
By JOHN MOODY , j
PITTSBURGH, Pa., iff> — The
United Steelworkers — heartened
toy agreement with a third small
company — try again to make
peace with major steel firms in
the 108-day nationwide steel
strike.
The union and Granite City
Steel Co. signed a new labor pact
last night. It followed the same
pattern as union agreements with
Kaiser Steel Corp. and Detroit
Steel Corp. earlier in the week.
Granite City, the nation’s 17th
largest producer, employs 3,250
workers in mills in Granite City,
111., with capacity to produce
1,440,000 tons of steel’a year.
The newest agreement came
several hours after top-level ne
gotiators for the union and the
industry’s big 11 companies failed
to make any progress in a meet
ing that lasted nearly three
hours.
Government mediators told the
top negotiators to meet in Wash
ington Monday unless they can
reach agreement before then. A
settlement before Monday seemed
unlikely.
A Taft-Hartley injunction to
end the dispute for at least 80
days also is hanging over the
heads of the negotiators and the
half million strikers. Enforce
ment of the injunction has been
delayed by the union’s appeal to
the U. S. Supreme Court.
The three contracts signed so
far provide package increases
valued by the union at 22 cents
an hour during the 20-month"
agreement periods. All three com
panies say they do not expect any
immediate prices increases.
The big producers say such
agreements would force them to
raise steel prices and thus con
tribute to inflation.
Saturn Project To
Be Provided With
Double Funds
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WASHINGTON, UP*—’The giant
Saturn space rocket program will
get twice as much money next
year, if Congress approves. But
Dr. Wernher von Braun, who
heads the project, wants even
more.
Von Braun and Roy Johnson,
retiring head of the Pentagon’s
Advanced Research Projects
Agency, disclosed Thursday that
Congress will be asked to appro
priate 140 million dollars for Sa-<
turn in the next fiscal year, double
this year’s amount.
The Satfirn project and von
Braun’s team of scientists are
being transferred from Army
jurisdiction to the civilian Nation
al Aeronautics and Space Admin
istration, Johnson said, however,
the Defense Department, with
NASA’s approval, will make the
appropriation request for the next
year.
Von Braun, at an informal
news conference with Johnson,
said the Saturn project could ab
sorb 250 million dollars next
year.
He said it “will cost the tax
payers less in the long run if we
spend more earlier.” He added
he hoped that “under the new
sponsorship of NASA he will get
more steam behind Saturn.”
South African Government
‘Protects’ Citizens from
Harmful Effects of TV
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
frica, (jP — The South African
government says it is going to
protect the country’s white chil
dren and all its colored people by
keeping television out.
“We must not forget television
is nothing but a miniature movie
brought into the home and over
which parents have no control,”
Post and Telegraph Minister Al
bert Hertzog told a Johannesburg
paper.
FRANKFURT, Germany, UP> —
Elvis Presley has been released
from the hospital after a bout
with tonsilitis.
The U. S. Army said the 24
year-old rock ’n’ roll idol left
the hospital here late Thursday.
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Vicious Attack Injures
Teacher in N. Y. School
NEW YORK, UP — A husky 14
year-old schoolboy battered a wo
man teacher to the floor with his
fists Thursday after she slapped
his face for calling her an ob
scene name.
The teacher, Carmelita Gil
lespie, 39, was treated at a hos
pital for a brain concussion,
blackened eye, and facial cuts
and bruises.
Her assailant, Julie Martinez,
was held on $1,000 bail pending
hearing on a charge of juvenile
delinquency.
‘Most Powerful’ E-l
Rocketdyne Now Being
Tested by Air Force
LOS ANGELES, UP — The Air
Force says it is now testing its
most powerful rocket engine to
date — the 400,000-pound-thrust
Rocketdyne El.
Details of the heretofore secret
engine were disclosed by Air
Force spokesmen Thursday. They
said the El is not presently sched
uled for any specific space ve
hicle. A cluster of four Els could
theoretically put a 25,000-pound
object into a 100-mile orbit or
place a one-ton object on the
moon.
Canada’s ‘Flying Saucer’
To be Tested in California
TORONTO, UP) — The Canadian
built ‘'Flying Saucer” plane will
be tested at Moffet Field in Cali
fornia.
Because suitable facilities are
lacking in Canada, the plane will
•be shipped to California by the
A. V. Roe Co., its makers.
The plane is called the Avrocar,
after the manufacturers. Circular
shaped, it can take off vertically
and eventually, according to the
manufacturers, will maneuver at
high speeds. It is being developed
for the U. S. armed forces.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy with snow
showers. Little temperature
change. Low tonight 18, high to
morrow 32.
Nome Data Last 24 Hours
Temperatures: highest 35, low
est 9. Maximum wind 45 miles an
hour from the north. Sunrise at
7:44 a.m., sunset at 3:45 p.m.