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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA,—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 108NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1955Per Copy—15^
Alaska Fisherman
Urges U.S. Extend
Its Coastal Claims
SEATTLE, UP)—An Alaska Fish
ermen’s Union leader is urging
congressmen that the U.S. should
state action to extend its coastal
water claims as one step toward
helping the North Pacific fisheries
problem.
George Johnson, secretary -
treasurer of the independent
union, included the suggestion in
recommendations he made in a
letter to Washington State con
gressmen.
In suggesting that the govern
ment should review the coastal
waters limit, he pointed out that
the claims of nations now vary
from 3 miles to 200. He cited the
200 - mile claim of some South
American nations as justification
for an extension of jurisdiction
claims off Alaska.
Johnson cited the success of a
United States-Canadian Commis
sion that began regulating hali
but fisheries in 1932 and a sim
iliar commission on Fraser River
salmon.
The 1954 halibut catch was the
largest in history and the Puget
Sound Sockeye catch last year
was the largest since 1913 as a
result of the work of the com
missions, Johnsen said.
McCutcheon Would Have
Legislators Alternate
Between Three Cities
ANCHORAGE, (JV-Steve Mc
Cutcheon, candidate for delegate
to the State Constitutional Con
vention, would like to see the pro
posed new state’s legislators move
about a bit.
He proposed Friday in a speech
to the Lion’s Club that the bien
nial sessions be rotated between
Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks,
and Ketchikan, giving the people
a chance to see their lawmakers
in action.
His plan would be effected by
erecting state buildings in each
of the cities.
COMMISSION FINDS EGYPT
GUILTY OF INFILTRATION
GAZA, Egypt-held Palestine, (jP)
—The Egyptian-Israeli Mixed Ar
mistice Commission today found
Egypt guilty of an Israeli com
plaint that a number of Egyptians
infiltrated 25 miles inside Israeli
territory near Beersheba, killing
one Bedouin and running away
with 100 sheep on Aug. 31.
A DAY FOR "9s"
ROANOKE, Va., (JV-Friday, on
the 9th day of the 9th month and
at 9 p.m., Mrs. C. S. Wilkerson of
Roanoke, whose name contains 9
letters, gave birth to a 9 pound
baby boy.
Sen. Jackson Denies
Saying There Was Gap
In DEW Radar Line
SEATTLE, UP)—U.S. Sen. Henry
Jackson, CD-Wash) said here yes
terday the recent reports quoting
him as saying there was a gaping
hole in the DEW radar network
being built across the Arctic were
incorrect.
He said in a radio interview
that the published report appar
ently resulted from a misunder
standing.
What he actually tried to em
phasize in the earlier statement,
he said, was that a gap in the
defense network existed in the
absence of the Distant Early
Warning network across the top
of North America. When the radar
network is completed in 1956 or
1957, he said, the gap would be
filled.
Jackson recently returned from
flights to some of the installa
tions.
“Marilyn Monroe” Shape
For Airplanes Increases
Speed By 25 Per Cent
WASHINGTON, UD — The Na
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (NACA) says a 25
per cent increase has been
achieved in the speed of a plane
through and beyond the speed of
sound by changing the shape of
the fuselage.
The fuselage is made smaller at
the point where the wings are
attached. NACA called the new
concept “area rule,” and said it j
produces the airplane shape
known variously as coke bottle,
wasp waist and “Marilyn Mon
roe.” __
Invented by Richard T. Whit
comb, a 34-year-oid NACA scient
ist, the design already is in use
in two supersonic airplanes and
is being used also for a carrier
based airplane type now being
readied for production.
NACA said the narrowness of
the one section of the fuselage
tends to offset the added area of
the wings and thus cuts down the
drag-causing turbulence when a
plane reaches J;he speed of sound, j
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
New York 6-2, Cleveland 1-3
Boston 6-2, Chicago 2-7
Kansas City 4-2, Baltimore 3-4
Detroit 8-0, Washington 0-1
National League
Cincinnati 9-5, Brooklyn 0-3
Milwaukee 5-9, Philadelphia 4-1
Chicago 7, New York 5
St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 5
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4-0, Los Angeles 3-9
San Francisco 8-4, Sacramento
5-9
Hollywood 7-5, San Diego 6-6
Portland 6-5, Oakland 5-2
18-Year-Old Miss
Colorado Named
Miss America
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., W —
Teen-aged Miss Colorado who re
fused to get flustered and yearns
to be an actress doned her newly
won Miss America 1956 crown
today with the outlook that “if
you think success, then success
will come to you.”
The titian-tressed coed — 18
year-old Sharon Kay Ritchie —
has a philosophy to help her thru
the exciting year-long tour that
lies ahead.
Sharon, wrho taught Sunday
school in the First Christian
Church at Gand Island, Colo.,
where she lived most of her life,
went to New York City last night
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Forest A. Ritchie.
She is a sophomore at Colo
rado Women’s College.
New she plans to study at the
Pasadena, Calif., playhouse in an
effort to make her dream of being
an actress a reality.
There are no romantic entangle
ments yet for Sharon, who is 5
feet 6 inches tall and tips the
scales at 116 pounds. As for her
other vital statistics, she measures
35-23-35 at the bust, waist and
hips.
Sharon, in gaining the crown
from her Miss America predeces
sor, Lee Ann Meriwether of San
Francisco, is in line for $50,000
in prizes and personal appearance
fees.
Having a beauty queen in the
family is no novelty for the
Ritchies. Sharon’s sister, now
Mrs. Merle Strever of Denver,
was second runnerup in the Miss
United States competition held in
California this year as part of the
Miss Universe contest.
Government Maps Costing
Fifty Cents Show Sites
Of Uranium Deposits
WASHINGTON, UP — For 50
cents, any would - be uranium
prospector now can buy a govern
ment map showing areas known
to be richest in the atomic-age
ore.
Secretary of the Interior Mc
Kay yesterday announced avail
ability to the public of a new
map showing uranium deposits.
The map, plotting the locations
of the most important deposits,
was prepared by the Geological
Survey for the Atomic Energy
Commission.
It shows the principal uranium
deposits to be located in Arizona,
New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wy
oming and South Dakota. Such
deposits are found in sandstone
and limestone formations, the
I survey said.
Names of Candidates
In Tomorrow’s Election
At the Special Election which
will be held tomorrow, follow
ing are the candidates for dele
gate to the Constitutional Conven
tion—
From Election District No. 9—
the 2nd Judicial Division, there
are four candidates, four to be
elected: Maynard Londberg, How
ard Lyng, John McNees, and
Pete Reader.
In Election District No. 7—the
Cape Nome and Wade Hampton
Recording Districts, there are five
candidates, one to be elected:
Frank Degnan, Arthur Johnson,
W.W. Laws, Father Paul O’Con
nor, and James von der Heydt.
There are 23 candidates for
delegate from the Territory at
large, seven to be elected:
R. Rolland Armstrong, Eben
Gordon Bailey, William E. Beltz,
Edward D. Coffee, Jerome L. De
Bruyn, Byron A. Gillam, William
J. Gordon Jr., Richard J. Greuel,
Mildred R. Hermann, Clarence P.
Keating Jr., Alaska Linck, Steve
McCutcheon, Katherine Nordale,
William L. Paul, Ralph J. Rivers,
Robert E. Sheldon, Howard D.
Stabler, Hadley Stephens, Alice
Stuart, George Sundborg, Warren
A. Taylor, J. H. Van Housen, and
John M. Weir.
The polls, at the City Hall,
open at 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.
No Survivors Found
Of 13 Crewmen Missing
In B-29 Superfort
TOKYO UR—'The U.S. Air Force
said Saturday night there were
apparently no survivors of the 13
crewmen missing in their B-29
Superfort since Thursday night.
The Air Force said an unopened
parachute found 80 miles south of
Miyako Island _ belonged to the
missing plane. Miyako is some
200 miles southwest of Okinawa.
Unopened rafts, oxygen bottles
and flight box lunches were found
Friday in the same area.
Air Force, Navy and civilian
search units were fanned out over
a 20,000-square-mile area. The
plane was last heard from at 8
p.m. Thursday while on a routine
run.
PRICE RISE EXPECTED FOR
KIDS' SOCKS, ADULTS' HOSE
NEW YORK, (#1—You’ll pay at
least 5 cents a pair more for
kiddies’ socks in January and
February and the increase will be
greater for adults’ hosiery. The
boost will be caused by a rise
of about 5 per cent in factory
prices by hosiery makers. The
manufacturers say increased costs
for raw materials, packaging and
bank credit necessitate the rise.
They point out also that minimum
wages will rise in March from
75 cents an hour to a dollar.
China Announces
It Will Release
All Americans
GENEVA, UO — Red China an
nounced Saturday that Americans
now in China are being freed to
return home—10 of them “within
a few days.”
An agreement concluded by
U.S. ambassador U. Alexis John
son and Chinese ambassador
Wang Ping-Man after 14 meetings
here since Aug. 1 said the Chinese
Reds “recognize that Americans
. . . in China who desire to re
turn to the United States are en
titled to do so . . . and will fur
ther adopt appropriate measures
so that they can expeditiously
exercise their right to return.”
The two ambassadors also
reached agreement on the repat
riation of Chinese in the United
States and provided for British
and Japan mediation to facilitate
departures of all who wish to go.
The text of the agreement made
no reference to the number of
persons involved, but the State
Department said at the begining
of the negotiations about 40 per
sons were being held in China.
The Chinese announced Tues
day that 12 not charged with any
offense were free to leave at any
time. Those remaining numbered
25 in prison and three in house
arrest. Most of the Americans
have been held for several years,
some of them since 1951.
Housing Agency Will
Foreclose 450-Unit Anchor
Park Project In Anchorage
WASHINGTON, UP) — Allan
Oakley Hunter, general counsel of
the Housing and Home Finance
Agency is going to Alaska Oct. 1
to assist in foreclosure proceed
ings against the operators of a
government-financed rental hous
ing project at Anchorage.
The trip, involving a five mil
lion dollar federal loan, is the
first of its kind for Hunter since
the former Republican California
congressman assumed his duties
as chief legal officer of the gov
ernment’s far flung Housing op
erations last January.
Hunter said in an interview he
expects to be in Alaska about 10
days working on pre - trial ar
rangements with the U.S. District
Attorney in Achorage.
The forecloseure suit was filed
in Federal District Court in An
chorage when sponsors of the
450-unit Anchor Park project fail
ed to make payments on a loan
made by HHFA through the Al
aska Housing Authority.
“Like any other mortgage hold
er,” Hunter remarked, “the gov
ernment must take steps to pro
tect its investment.”
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
is OPPORTUNITY for ALASKA
Convention convenes November 8th, 1955.
Election of Delegates September 13th.
Your vote shows your interest—Vote wisely.
Your vote for me September 13th will be appreciated.
—John A. “Mac” McNees
DELEGATE FROM THE NINTH DISTRICT
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Vote September 13th Election
For Your Delegates To The Alaska State
Constitutional Convention
VOTE for ART (ARTHUR D.) JOHNSON
September 13th as your Delegate, District No. 7,
Alaska State Constitutional Convention
Born at Haycock, Alaska, 35 years ago.
Raised and schooled in the Second Division.
Served four years irt the Armed Service.
Ten years actively serving you as a bush pilot.
Lives at Unalakleet where he is raising his family.
Knows Alaska’s problems and will serve intelligently
as your Delegate. .
Vote for ART (Arthur D.) JOHNSON
SEPTEMBER 13th