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VOL. LVII No. 98_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1955 Per Copy—15*
Touring American
Farmers Reach
Siberia ‘Dustbowl’
RUBTSOVSK, Siberia, UP) —
American farmers, finally on So
viet virgin lands as they neared
the end of their tour, took a sharp
critical look at what may prove
more dustbowl than grainland
despite intense Russian effort.
Soviet Agriculture, the news
paper of the Agriculture Ministry,
reported on the group, under the
leadership of Des Moines editor
Lauren K. Soth. The paper chuck
led at the rapid progress Soth is
making in learning Russian.
It said hundreds of Siberians
which greeted the Americans
were surprised when Soth burst
out in Russian:
"‘We are extending special
greetings to the citizens of Rubt
sovsk from the American people.
Thank you for your warm recep
tion. I should like to say more
to you in ' the Russian language
but I have not yet succeeded in
learning it . . . we would like to
observe your virgin Lands very
closely and tell the American peo
ple what you are doing on these
frontiers.”
He got a round of applause. Soth
wrote an editorial in the Des
Moines Register and Tribune
which initiated the present tour.
Eskimo Carvers’ Work
Displayed By National
Museum of Canada
OTTAWA, UR—Issa the Smiler,
an Eskimo from Port Harrison in
northern Quebec, has never been
in a museum but peope who have
are getting to know his work.
Issa is a carver. Several of his
works have been selected for the
permanent collection of the Na
tional Museum of Canada.
Issa’s carvings will go on dis
play, in Toronto this month as
part of what the Northern Af
fairs Department has billed as
the finest collection of Eskimo
art ever exhibited. Sixty pieces
from the National Museum and
60 from the Canadian Handi
crafts Guild will be exhibited in
the Northern Affairs Depart
ment’s “Meet the North” display
at the Canadian national exhibi
tion.
The National Museum collec
tion recently went on tour thru
the United States.
Most of the carvings are from
native soapstone, common in
some areas of the far north.
Others are whittled from granite,
bone and ivory. The dominant
motif is the hunt—hunters har
pooning seals, shooting polar
bears, attacking walrus.
149 DIRECT DESCENDANTS
SURVIVE MRS. KENNEY, 93
RAINELLE, W.Va., UR — Mrs.
Mary Frances Kenney, 93, died
at the home of a son in this
Greenbrier County community
yesterday, leaving 149 direct de
scendents among her survivors.
Mrs. Kenney leaves besides her
son, L.A. Kenney, a brother and
sister, four other sons and six
daughters, 62 grandchildren, 75
great grandchildren and one
great-great grandchild.
Navy Ship Carrying
DEW Line Supplies
Is Holed In The Arctic
WASHINGTON, (if)—The Navy
said today one of its ships, push
ing up beyond the Arctic Circle
with equipment to establish ad
vance radar warning stations, hit
an uncharted iceberg or rock and
tore a two-foot hole in her hull.
The mishap occurred two days
ago near Port Bell, Alaska. The
Navy was informed the ship took
On a small amount of water which
was pumped out. The damage has
been repaired and the ship is
under way. It is LST No. 287,
owned by the Navy and operated
by civilians.
The vessel is part of the larg
est Arctic operation ever attempt
ed. All told 117 ships in the
Pacific and the Atantic are in a
dramatic race with mounting ice
to get supplies in for the radar
stations that are being set up
across the frozen top of North
America.
The Pacific task force includes
51 ships, operating out of Seattle,
San Francisco and the Long
Beach area.
Ships in the combined two
ocean task force are transporting
about 750,000* tons of cargo and
four million barrels of petroleum
products.
They have about a month in the
northernmost reaches before ice
freezes over again.
B.C. Sourdoughs
Head For Reunion
At Eureka, Calif.
VANCOUVER, B.C., — The
pioneers who carved out a rich
history in the frozen northland
are heading for the scene of an
other gold rush today.
Remnants of the hordes who
trekked north in search of a gold
en fortune, who “Cremated Sam
McGee” and made sourdough
pancakes on the winter trail are
enroute to California and the 24th
reunion of the International Sour
doughs Association Aug. 18-21.
About 1,500 members of the
association are expected at Eu
reka, Calif., supply center of the
California gold fields when the
gold fever was sweeping that
state.
Thomas A. Lamb of Vancouver,
B. C., International’s president,
heads a delegation from British
Columbia.
Premier Bennet of British Col
umbia said: “The current activity
in the northland is a tribute to
your hardy enterprise . . . your
reunion symbolizing a true uni
versal brotherhood.”
Few of the originals from the
“Trail of ’98” Will be around to
take part in the reunion. But
modern day sourdoughs, and
others who roamed the north
early in the century are happy
to swap tales and recount ex
ploits.
A sourdough may never have
panned for gold, or climbed the
Chilcoot Pass, but at some time
he must have watched the freeze
up on the Yukon River—and re
mained to watch it crumble in
(the spring.
Engineer Explains
Feasibility Sewage
System For Nome
Amos Alter, sanitary engineer
for the Department of Health,
met with the City Council and
members of the Nome School
Board informally last evening and
explained the feasibility of a
drainage and sewage system for
Nome. Mr. Alter is particularly
interested in an effective drain
age system for the school.
He explained how successful
the new system has proven in
Fairbanks and how it has sur
mounted the permafost problem
with constant running water in
stead of the utilidors which at
one time were considered the only
practical solution.
Mr. Alder said that villages
will be served by the Department
of Health with special agents
working out of Nome to institute
a program of education the na
tives in ways and means of im
proving the sanitation in their
villages.
Several villages will be chosen
to work out pilot programs, he
%
stated, with Health Dept, engi
neers working with the native
councils to improve conditions.
Don Hungerford will make his
headquarters at Nome, it is ex
pected.
Dick Hoomgrin is in charge of
the rural program, which has al
ready been started at Bethel. Also
working on this project is Larry
Parker, also of the Health De
partment.
Troopers and Guardsmen
With Orders To Shoot
Quell Rebelling Convicts
LINCOLN, Neb., —A 12-hour
prison rebellion at the Nebraska j
State Penitentiary collapsed to
day when armed troopers and Na
tional Guardsmen marched into
the cell block with orders to
shoot to kill if necessary. No
shots were fired.
Gov. Victor Anderson said
about 225 prisoners who had set
fire to six prison shops and spent
the night smashing furniture and
equipment in their cell block of
fered “no difficulty at all” after
Warden Joseph Bovey told them
at 6 a.m. to be back in their
cells within two minutes or the
troopers would shoot.
When the troopers and guards
men marched into the cell block
they foqnd all prisoners within
their cells.
Four or five of the prisoners
involved in the rioting were
among the eight prisoners who
seized two guards last March
and holed up in the Security
Building for 3Vz days before they
were starved out.
The total loss was estimated at
between $50,000 and $100,000.
No guards were injured.
NEW USE FOR COSMETICS
TAIPEH, Formosa tf)—Formosa
police ruled Tuesday that only
those prostitutes who have passed
a venerial disease test may wear
cosmetics. That’s to distinguish
them from those who fail the test.
Rock-Hurling Koreans
Hit U.S. Officer Guarding
Czech and Pole Inspectors
SEOUL, UP) — Rock - hurling
South Koreans injured an Ameri
can Army officer today as they
again turned their wrath against
U.S. troops guarding inspection
teams of the Neutral Nations
Supervisory Commission.
2nd Lt. Wayne N. Hansen of
Augusta, Ka., was hit on the head
as South Koreans hurled a bar
rage of rocks and stones at eight
U.S. Army vehicles crossing the
causeway between Inchon and
Wolmi Island, where neutral
truce inspectors are housed.
Army doctors said Hansen sus
tained a slight brain concussion
but described his condition “as
not serious.”
The incident, latest in the series
of South Korean demonstrations
demanding ouster of pro - Com
munist Czech and Polish mem
bers of the NNSC, flared into vio
lence as 100 South Koreans tried
to block Army supply trucks
going to Wolmi.
It came just as last week’s mob
rioting and demonstrations against
NNSC personnel appeared to have
subsided, and as U.N. and U.S.
Far East Commanding Gen. Li..
Lemnitzer was enroute to Seoul
city airport for the return flight
to his Tokyo headquarters.
Lemnitzer last weeked warned
President Rhee American troops
would protect all the members of
the NNSC from violence.
—
Hoover Accuses
Demos of 4Smear’
Of His Commission
WASHINGTON, W> — Herbert
Hoover says President Eisen
hower already is acting to put
into effect the administrative
changes recommended by the
commission he headed.
The former President accused
Democrats of “an infamous
smear” in charging his commis
sion on governmental reorganiz
ation was partisan, its task forces
were “stacked,” and the admin
istration is trying to detach itself
from the commission’s recommen
dations.
The Democratic statements ap
peared Monday in the monthly
Democratic Digest, published by
the Democratic National Commit
tee.
Hoover, replying in a statement
released herje yesterday, said they
were made by “someone ignorant
of the whole workings of the
commission.” Both Republican
and Democratic members of the
commission, he said, certified that
“my work was fairly and pa
tiently conducted.”
To the statement that the task
forces, especially that on public
power, had been stacked to “turn
back the clock” of government
policy, Hoover replied:
“Public power pressure groups
were not represented upon the
water resources task force for the
simple reason that I also refused
to appoint representatives of the
public uilities. We are conducting
an objective inquiry and not a
Donneybrook Fair.”
W aterpo wer Expert
Will Hold Hearing
In Nome on Sept. 19
WASHINGTON, W—Sidney Me
Farland, irrigation and reclama
tion expert for the House Interior
Committee, will go to Alaska on
Sept. 7 to study the territory’s
water resources and will hold a
session at Nome Sept. 19.
His inspection will be in line
with a new law authorizing a con
tinuing investigation of Alaskan
water resources, committee aides
said Tuesday.
One site to be inspected by Mc
Farland will be the government’s
new Eklutna hydroelectric plant
near Anchorage.
McFarland also will lay the
groundwork for a series of hear
ings to be held by an interior
subcommittee beginning at Fair
banks on Sept. 15. Other sessions
will be at Nome Sept. 19, Anchor
age Sept. 20. Kodiak Sept. 26,
Juneau Sept. 27, and Ketchikan
Oct. 2.
In addition, the subcommittee
headed by Rep. O’Brien (D-NY)
will visit Point Barrow, Kotzebue,
Palmer, Seward, Homer, Cordova,
Dillingham, Sitka, Wrangell, Pe
tersburg, Craig, Hydagurg, Kla
wock and the Metlakatla Indian
Reservation.
12-Year-Old Girl Spells
Her Way Into $8,000 On
CBS Television Show
NEW YORK, WV_A 12-year-old
schoolgirl spelled her way into
$8,000 last night by clicking off
antidisestablishmentarianism on
the CBS television show “The
$64,000 Question.”
Gloria Lockman’s grandmother
will decide whether the junior
high school student tries the
$16,000 question next Tuesday or
settles for the $8,000.
If she tries for the $16,000 and
fails, she will receive a $4,000
college education trust fund as a
consolation prize. The regular
consolation prize is an expensive
automobile, but the rule was.
altered in view of Gloria’s age.
Gloria, a Negro, who finished
34th out of 62 finalists in the
National Spelling Bee at Wash
ington, D.C., last May, smiled as
she picked spelling as her cate
gory on the TV show last night.
Gloria, a ninth grade student
at Booker T. Washington Junior
High School, Baltimore, was ac
companied on the program by
her grandmother, Mrs. Bertha
Key, with whom she lives in Bal
timore.
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TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
National League
Cincinnati 11, Chicago 2
St. Louis 3, Milwaukee 2
Philadephia 12, Pittsburgh 3
New York 5, Brooklyn 3
American League
New York 13, Boston 6
Chicago 5, Kansas City 4
Detroit 7, Cleveland 0
Baltimore 7, Washington 2
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 4, Sacramento 1
Oakland 8, San Francisco 0
Los Angeles 3, Hollywood 2
Seattle 5, Portland 3