222 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 57 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1958 _ _ Per Copy—15^
Survey Shows How
Nome Prices
Compare
The March Food Price Survey
for the important Alaskan cen
ters by the Experiment Station
and Extension Service of the
University of Alaska shows some
interesting comparisons between
stateside and Alaskan prices.
Although Nome has the highest
average percentage, which is 67
percent above Seattle, it is lower
in price on many commodities.
Round steak is $1.53 in Anchor
age and $1.75 in Fairbanks and
ony $1.42 in Nome. Pork chops
are $1.39 in Anchorage, $1.42 in
Fairbanks and only $1.04 in
Nome. Chicken is the same in
all three cities.
In the butter and eggs depart
ment Nome prices soar; 40 and 47
cents in Fairbanks and Anchor
age against 74 cents in Nohne for
fresh milk but only one cent dif
ference in the price of canned
milk. *
A twenty-four cents difference
in the price of eggs reflects the
air freight rate.
Canned fruit and vegetables are
comparatively about the same
and pork and beans are just the
same in all three communities.
Sugar shows the greatest ex
treme in price with 10 pounds
quoted at $1.56 in Anchorage,
$1.68 in Fairbanks and $2.01 in
Nome.
Two Men Injured,
One Killed, In
Ketchikan Accident
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, UP) — A
Ketchikan .bartender was in
jured fatally and two other men
suffered leg fractures yesterday
when a pickup truck ran off the
highway and rammed a parked
taxicab headon at a night club
six miles north of here.
The bartender, Styg Sylvane,
died in a hospital about three
hours later of internal injuries.
The cab driver, Allen Church
ill, had both legs broken in sev-1
eral places. Douglas Drill, an
entertainer at a Ketchikan cock
tail bar, suffered a fracture of
one leg. Both were hospitalized.
The driver of the small truck,
Pat Enwright. escaped with
minor bruises.
Territorial police said Churchill
was repairing a flat tire on his I
cab in the night club parking1
lot 10 feet from the edge of
the highway when the truck
trashed into it. The impact
carried the taxi 35 feet into a
picket fence.
It was not known whether
Drill and Sylvane were passen
gers or were just assisting
Churchhill in fixing the tire.
Drill and Churchill apparently
were caught between the bump
ers of the two vehicles.
Wife of One of
World’s Richest Men
Wins Separation
LONDON, (#) — Mrs. Anna
Lee Iva Schlesinger, wife of one
of the world’s richest men, won a
decree of judicial separation
after accusing her husband of
adultery with foul women.
Her husband is curly-haired
John Samuel Schlesinger, 35.
Chairman of a South African
corporation, Schlesinger is re
ported to have inherited an em
pire worth 50 million pounds
(140 million dollars) from his
American father.
Frank Whaley
Predicts Biggest
Tourist Year Yet
Frank Whaley of Wien Air
lines has been here for the past
three days making the final ar
rangements with John McNees,
local tour director, for the open
ing of the tourist season which is
about to begin.
Whaley predicts the biggest
season to date will be this sum
mer as tourist bookings by boat
and air are way above last year
at this time.
Among the new planned tours
to Alaska are the twice a week
sailings from Seattle which in
cludes a bus trip to Fairbanks
and a return to the states by air.
This new tour is proving to be
very popular.
One of the outstanding feat
ures of this year’s Nome trip will
be gold panning either on the
beach where good pay is known
to be, or if weather is unfavor
able, a dredge pond has been
staked out for the season.
Irene Cornue Morgan, will
head the Wien activities in Kot
zebue again this year.
House Starts
Own Military
Reorganization
WASHINGTON, UP> — The
House Armed Services Commit
tee, overruling Republican ef
forts to hear more witnesses fa
vorable to President Eisenhower’s
defense reorganization plan, to
day closed its hearing on the leg
islation.
The committee was called to
start work behind closed doors
tomorrow on its own reorgani
zation measure. This is expected
to go along with Eisenhower to
a large extent in giving the Sec
retary of Defense and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff greater control
over combat operations, but not
on administrative changes which
opponents say diminish the im
portance of the separate services.
Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga)
smiled as he told Republican
Reps. Leon H. Gavin of Penn
sylvania and Charles S. Gub
ser of California, “I think the
committee has sufficient infor
mation now to make an intelli
gent decision.”
If the group extended the
hearings, Vinson went on, they
would be repetitious and “the
press and country would say the
committee is engaged in dilatory
tactics.”
The Republicans did not fight
hard to have the hearings con
tinued.
Gubser, who had said he un
derstood spokesmen for the
American Legion and the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce among
other organizations wanted to be
heard, got permission for them to
insert their statements in the
record.
BARTLETT ENDORSES
JUDGE HODGE TO SENATE
WASHINGTON, UPl — A Sen
ate Judiciary subcommittee to
day received endorsements from
Delegate E. L. Bartlett for re
appointment of Walter H. Hodge
as a district judge in Alaska’s
Division No 2 for a four-year
term.
McKinley Park
Suggested Site For
Summit Meeting
WASHINGTON, UP) — Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park was sug
gested by Delegate E. L. Bartlett
today as a site for a suggested
summit conference.
“iln terms of the modern air
age, it is convenient both to
Washington and to Europe,” he
said in a letter to Secretary of
State Dulles.
Without knowing how many
would attend such a meeting,
Bartlett said he was not certain
whether Mt. McKinley Hotel in
the park would be large enough
but said he felt it would “ideally
suit for a meeting of this kind.”
“Additionally,” he said, .“re
quired security measures could
be maintained in Mt. McKinley
National Park with a minimum of
difficulty.”
As any Alaskan knows, Mt. I
McKinley, 20,300 feet high, is the
highest mountain in North Amer
ica.
Red Skelton’s Son
Dies Of Leukemia
HOLLYWOOD,. UP) — Comed
ian Red Skelton and his wife,
Georgia, today found some solace
in the fact that international
publicity on their son’s valiant
but losing fight with leukemia
may help future victims of the
cancer-like disease of the blood.
“I want the thousands of people
who have written us that they
prayed for Richard during his
illness to have faith that God
will answer their prayers,” said
Skelton.
“I believe that good comes out
of everything, even tragedy such !
as ours. Maybe the world will i
know that this disease must be i
licked. I think it is the begin
ning of all cancer.”
The 9-year-old boy died Sat
urday night after a 16-month
fight with the disease. Only
blood transfusions had kept the
child alive in recent weeks.
The Skeltons had spent the day
with him and then gone home
for dinner. A phone call from
doctors brought them quickly
back.
It was a moment the parents
had dreaded for more than a
year. When it came, they were
too stunned t o move. Mrs.
Skelton said she and Red sat
quietly weeping beside the boy’s
frail body for a half-hour after
death.
His father knew earlier in the
day that Richard had little long
er to live.
“He and I watched ‘Mighty
Mouse’ on television in the morn
ing and then leafed through the
Sears-Roebuck catalogue,” Red
said. He wanted a tent and a
camping outfit for his birthday
(May 20). He picked a Mother’s
Day blanket for his mother, too,
“He even added up the cost—
$51.00. ‘Every penny counts’,
he said.”
SON BORN TO THE MARLON
BRANDOS ON MOTHER'S DAY
HOLLYWOOD, W> — Mrs. Mar
lon Brando observed Mother’s
Day appropriately.
She gave birth to a 7-pound,
10-ounce son in Cedars of Leba
non Hospital. The pair married
last October.
Alaska Statehood Bill Will Meet
Its Fate In House In Next 10 Days
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaskan
statehood legislation moved to-;
ward a fateful showdown in the
House this week. Events of the
next 10 days may decide whether
the bill stays alive or dies as
its predecessors have in the past.
Although still bottled up in
the House Rules Committee,
where it is strongly opposed by
Chairman Howard W. Smith (D
Va), the Alaska bill has been
placed on the week’s program
by the House leadership.
Actually the showdown may
not come this week. Listed
ahead of the Alaska bill on the
House program are the foreign
aid bill and a combined state
justice - judiciary appropriation
measure.
Both advocates and opponents
are getting in their final licks as
the floor fight nears.
Smith last week sent a letter
to each of the House members as
sailing the bill as a giveaway with
particular emphasis on provisions
which would permit Alaska to
make its land selections in blocks
of not less than 5,760 acres.
This, coupled with the provision
giving Alaska 25 years in which
to make its selections, would
permit the new state to stand
by and grab off prime mineral
areas as they are found, he con
tended.
Alaska’s unofficial congression
al delegation — “Senf.” Ernest
Gruening and William Egan and
“Rep.” Ralph Rivers—are draft
ing a reply to Smith which they
plan to send all members. They
also have stepped up personal
contacts on capitol hill to mus
ter their full strength.
Rep. Thomas M. Pelly CR-Wash)
sent House menibers a copy of a
statement he had planned to
make before the Rules Commit
tee seeking support for a fisheries
amendment which he plans to
offer to the bill.
Pelly’s amendment would
require that administration of
Alaska’s fish and wildlife re
sources be retained by the fed
eral government despite state
hood until the Secretary of the
Interior certifies to Congress that
the Alaska Legislature “has
made adequate provision for the
administration, management and
conservation of .said resources in
the broad national interest.”
RIOTERS BURN
USIA LIBRARY
IN BEIRUT
BEIRUT, Lebanon, UR — Riot
ers sacked and burned the U. S.
Information Agency library in
Beirut today. It was the second
USIA library to suffer at the
hand of anti-government demon
strators in three days.
Rioters stirred up by foes of
Lebanon’s pro-Western govern
ment burned the USIA library,
many books and furniture Sat
urday in the north coast city of
Tripoli.
A1 general strike called by the
government’s opponents crippled
this capital and major' ports in
the north and south today.
In Beirut a mob smashed
through police guarding the li
brary, hurled more than 1,000
books and furniture into the
street and set the pile ablaze.
Then the rioters set fire to the
inside of the library and des
troyed it.
Russian and U. S. Doctors
Fight Cholera & Smallpox
Epidemics In India
KARACHI, Pakistan, UPl—Rus
sia joined the United States yes
terday in sending doctors and
medical supplies to help Paki
stan fight twin epidemics of
cholera and smallpox.
A Soviet plane brought five
physicians along with tons of
smallpox and cholera vaccine and
laboratory equipment.
Three American doctors from
the U. S. Public Health Service
arrived last night and headed for
the plague area. The United
States also is contributing six
million doses of smallpox vaccine
and other laboratory materials.
FASHION DESIGNER DIES
BIARRITZ, France, UPl — Lucien
Long, the world famous fashion
designer who gave Christian
Dior and Pierre Balmain their
first designing jobs, died in his
villa here Saturday night after a
heart attack. He was 68.
Lelong sold his fashion house
10 years ago and retired.
BPR To Rebuild
ARC Camps
WASHINGTON, UFI — The Bu
reau of Public Roads has asked
Congress for authority to rebuild
1 some of its maintenance camps ,
in Alaska.
Some of those it inherited last
year from the Alaska Road Com
mission, says Bertram D. Tal
lamy, Federal Roads Administra
tor, are “utterly atrocious.”
In testimony released by a
House appropriations subcommit
tee today, Tallamy said that if
Congress grants the desired
authority the bureau plans to
start this year by replacing
camps art Gardiner Creek, Dil
lingham and Eureka.
Each of the projects, he said,
would cost an estimated $200,000
and include frame garages with
concrete foundations and housing
accommodations with concrete
basements, as well as provisions
for utilities.
Tallamy did not indicate how
many installations may be re
placed but said the rebuilding
would be accomplished over a
period of time. Money for the
work, he said, would come from
funds apportioned to Alaska for
federal aid highway work.
U. S. Sets Off 2nd
Blast In Atomic Tests
WASHINGTON, UFi — U. S.
scientists set off another nuclear
test explosion yesterday in the
mid-Pacific. It was at least the
second blast in the current test
series.
A joint announcement by the
Atomic Energy Commission and
the Defense Department said yes
terday’s nuclear test detonation
took place at the Bikini Atoll.
But the announcement provided
no other details.
Last Wednesday, the AEC con
firmed a congressman’s report of
a nuclear test explosion on April
28. But yesterday was the first
time the AEC and Defense De
partment volunteered an * an
nouncement in the current test
series which is expected to last
through the summer.