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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV NO. 147 _ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1953 Per Copy—15<f
Fisheries Protest Preliminary Permit
For Hydroelectric Aluminum Project
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Work Starts Next
Week On Alaska’s
1st Relief Project
JUNEAU, OP — Work is ex
pected to start Monday or Tues
day on Alaska’s first relief proj
ect for fishermen, a dock instal
lation at Kake.
This was announced Thursday
by Highway Engineer Irving Reed
after Gov. Heintzleman was as
sured from Washington, D.C., that
an allocated $250,000 will be
cleared for relief jobs. The pro
gram is intended to relieve dis
tress caused by a poor salmon
fishing season in the territory’s
First and Third Divisions.
Reed said another project, a
dock at Angoon, is awaiting clear
ance by the U.S. Corps of Engi
neers. He said other jobs now are
lined up in southeast and west
ward Alaska.
All projects will be financed on
a matching fund basis with Al
aska Public Works and the Terri
torial Highway Engineer’s office
cooperating. Reed said maximum
cost of each separate project has
been set at $25,000.
The Anchorage Times corres
pondent in Juneau reported Wed
nesday that federal insistance on
relief projects being justified ec
onomically threatened to hamper
the program. Later it was an
nounced the Interior Department
had assured that general certifi
cation of the projects by the
governor or Publlic Works direc
tor would suffice to clear them.
H. N. Peterson and J. D.
Nelson Retire From
Alaska Line Traffic Dept.
SEATTLE, — The Alaska
Steamship Co., announced today
the retirement of H. N. Peterson
as general traffic manager and J.
D. Nelson as his assistant. W. J.
Menahan will become general
traffic manager Jan. 1, the date of
the retirements.
Peterson started with the Al
askan Line as a stenographer 37
years ago. He is 62. Nelson, 65,
has been with the firm 35 years.
Menahan came to the Alaska
Steam five years ago as assistant
general traffic manager after ser
vice with other lines.
JAPANESE PULP COMPANY
INCORPORATED AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, UR — The Japanese
owned Alaska Pulp and Lumber
Co. filed incorporation papers
Thursday listing capital at one
million dollars.
The papers stipulate that the
firm will purchase land leases,
and will acquire timber on the
lands. General headquarters will
be at Juneau.
JUNEAU, UP)—Governor Heint
zleman says protests against
granting a preliminary permit to
the Harvey Aluminum Co., Inc.,
for a hydroeleotric project on the
Copper River are “premature.”
The governor’s comment came
in response to criticism directed
at him, the territory’s attorney
general and auditor by Ira Roth
well, member of the Alaska Fish
eries Board. Rothwell said the
board feels the proposed Wood
Canyon dam would be ruinous to
salmon runs.
Heintzleman said in reply yes
terday that the Federal Power
Commission’s permit to the Har
vey Company clearly states it
“shall be for the sole purpose of
maintaining priority of applica
tion for a license under terms of
the Federal Power Act for the
proposed project.”
He said the preliminary survey
and possible construction license
cover a period of five years, which
he feels should be used for re
search in ways to preserve the
fish runs if the river is harnessed
for power. The river’s potential
is estimated at one million kilo
watts.
In Anchorage, Atty. Gen. J.
Gerald Williams said he agreed
“100 per cent with the governor.”
“We are not losing any fish by
making the survey,” Williams
said. “The survey will take quite
some time. If and when the re
sults are in and it appears the
fish aren’t going to be conserved,
then it is time to protest. But if
the project appears economically
sound maybe we can afford to
lose some fish if it means the start
of a big new industry.”
Diane Wells Says She
Will Be Tried On Warren’s
Lies—Not Facts of Case
LOS ANGELES, UP — Diane
Wells, the blonde widow who is
accused of killing her husband in
Fairbanks, arrived Thursday for
a rest in a warmer climate before
her trial begins.
The 31-year-old Mrs. Wells re
iterated her assertions of inno
cence and told a reporter she is
confident she will be acquitted.
“My husband and I always
came here for the winter, and the
trial won’t be until February or
March,” she added.
She took up residence in a Los
Angeles hotel.
Mrs. Wells again denied the
story of Johnny Warren, the
Negro jazz drummer, that they
had been having a love affair.
“They haven’t anything to con
nect me with the murder except
that I wSs there—and beaten up
terribly,” said Mrs. Wells. “The
worst thing is that I’ll be tried
on Warren’s lies, not on the facts
in the ease itself.”
Everything All Set For
Big Night At Pioneer
Roof Garden Tomorrow
The Roof Garden Committees
held their final executive session
last evening and indications are
that it will be a big evening.
George Waldheim reports that
he has collected the finest aessort
ment of prizes ever given and that
the Prospectors Cakes will have
many rich claims. He cautions the
public to bite carefully as the
Roof Garden will not be respon
sible for tooth casualties.
Special for the children is a
Fish Pond with many surprises.
As is traditional with the Roof
Garden free coffee and baked
beans will be served by one of
the best camp chefs in Alaska—
George Geamalis. The beans re
cipe dates back to the days when
Nome was a booming mining
camp. Free pop will also be served
to the children.
Two beautiful gold nuggets will
be given away at midnight.
The program, under the direc
tion of Fred Ro'ckman, starts
promptly at 8:00 and a wide var
iety of new talent, both profes
sional and amateur, makes it out
standing and unusual.
Interest in the event has reach
ed Fairbanks and radio station
KFAR will have its manager, A1
Bramstedt and announcer Don
McCune at the show, it is re
ported.
Souvenir programs are being
made up through the cooperation
of all the business houses in Nome
and will be available for mailing
to former Nomeites in the States,
said A. Polet, general chairman of
the event.
Anchorage TV
Station KTVA
Starts Today
. Channel 11, Station KTVA, will
begin a regular 5V£-hour schedule
of commercial telecasting today,
A. G. Hiebert, president and gen
eral manager, has announced.
“Our dedication program will
be scheduled at 6:00 o’clock Fri
day night and will feature the
participation of Anchorage digni
taries as well as military officials
of the Air Force, Army and Navy,”
Hiebert said.
The first commercial entertain
ment program will begin at 6:30,
following the premier, and the full
evening of TV entertainment will
end after 11:00 p.m. upon comple
tion of the Feature Film which
starts at 10:00 o’clock,” Hiebert
added.
“With the advent of our regu
larly scheduled programming, we
hope to bring to our Alaskan
friends the same high quality TV
entertainment they have seen in
the States, plus, as time goes by,
typical Alaskan coverage of events
and activities that can’t be dupli
cated anywhere,” Hieber said.
Slowdown Tactics
Threaten Allied
Efforts Woo POWs
PANMUNJOM, UP) —Allied ef
forts to woo home war prisoners
who stayed with the Commun
ists—including 22 Americans and
one Briton—were threatehed Fri
day by Red slowdown) tactics
which forced suspension of inter
views with South Korean POWs.
Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, In
dian chairman of the Neutral Na
tions Repatriation Commission,
suspended the Allied explanation
program Friday after 25 of 30
prisoners insisted on making their
own explanation to Allied inter
viewing officers.
He said that if the POWs refuse
to accept NNRC conditions for the
interviews “I’m afraid the ex
planations will come to an end.”
The Indian general also an
nounced that a Red request to
interview 250 anti-Reds Koreans
Saturday was turned down be
cause the prisoners refused to
leave their compound.
Special U.S. envoy Arthur H.
Dean said he may fly to Wash
ington before Christmas and leave
the stalled talks on arrangements
for a Korean peace conference in
the hands of his chief aide, Ken
neth T. Young.
The diplomats made no progress
Friday toward removing the big
roadblock to a peace conference
—Communist insistence that Rus
sia attend as a non-voting neutral
rather than as a full participant.
US Presses for Acceptance
Of Eisenhower Plan For
International Atomic Pool
WASHINGTON,GP)—The United
States, undeterred by Moscow’s
initial coldness, weighed Friday
the nature and timing of the next
step in pressing for acceptance of
the Eisenhower plan for an inter
national atomic pool.
Officials speculatively pointed
out two possibilities for action:
1. A formal request may be
made in 'the United Nations dis
armament commission for ap
pointment of a subcommittee con
sisting of nations with atomic re
sources. They would hold secret
talks on the plan, as President
Eisenhower suggested when he
presented it to the U.N. Assembly
Tuesday.
2. Secretary of State Dulles
will have opportunity at a forth
coming conference at Big Four
foreign ministers in Berlin to dis
cuss the idea privately with So
viet 'Foreign Minister Molotov—
if that seems to be a good idea
at the time.
Dulles takes off for Paris Fri
day afternoon to attend a meet
ing of the North Atlantic Treaty
Council. It is expected that while
there he may discuss the next step
on the atomic plan with British
and French officials.
Declaration of
Ownership Must
Be Filed By Dec. 31
ANCHORAGE, UPi — Thousands
of Alaskan property owners were
reminded yesterday they have
only 20 days in which to comply
with a new law passed by the
Territorial Legislature at the last
session.
The law requires land holders
inside and outside of incorporated
towns to file a declaration of own
ership in the U.S. Commissioner’s
office.
Those who fail to do so by Dec.
31 are liable to $5 penalty. Next
July 1 the Territorial Land Com
missioner will have authority to
sell all land not registered by that
time.
To date, only two property
owners in the Third Division have
complied with the law, known as
the Land Registration Act. They
are J. Gerald Williams, the attor
ney general of Alaska, and Stan
dard Oil Co.
To comply with the act, pro
perty owners must submit two
identical sworn statements, giv
ing their name, post office address
and a legal description of the
land to which they hold title.
The filing fee is $1.50. Officials
emphasized that the procedure is
entirely separate from the usual
deed recording. An exception is
provided for persons who owned
property in Alaska prior to July
1, 1949, and who registered that
property under the previous Land
Registration Act.
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Anchorage
area residents swamped the U.S.
Commissioner’s office Thursday
in efforts to comply with the new
law.
Only eight property owners
actually filed ownership declara
tions Thursday but scores of
others kept clerks busy with in
quiries.
Sponsors Request Early
Hearings On Bills To
Set Up Free Gold Market
WASHINGTON, (ffl — Sen. Mc
Carran and Rep. Engle have re
quested early hearings on their
companion bills to establish a free
market for gold.
Since 1934 the law has required
that all domestically produced
gold be sold to the treasury at
$35 an ounce.
McCarran and Engle said in a
statement Thursday they have
written a joint letter to Sen.
Capehart, chairman of the Bank
ing and Currency Committee, In
it they pointed out the establish
ment of a free domestic market
for gold “would provide a prac
tical intermediate step, between
the paper currency basis now pre
vailing and a gold coin basis
which is the authentic mark of a
real gold standard.”
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, DEC. 12
Doors open 7 p.m. — Program Begins 8 p.m.
TO ACCOMODATE THE PUBLIC BOTH EAST AND
WEST ENTRANCES TO SCHOOL WILL BE OPEN
FOOD & FUN FOR ALL ! !