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VOL. LVII No. 58_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1955 Per Copy—15*
$38 Million Federal
Fund Proposed To
Provide Vaccine
WASHINGTON, l/P) — The
Eisenhower administration today
proposed a 28 million dollar fed
eral fund to help the states pro
vide polio vaccine for children in
low income families.
The plan is aimed at carrying
out a pledge by the President to
see to it no child goes without
the Salk vaccine because of par
ents’ inability to pay.
It was one of eleven recom
mendations submitted to the
President today by Welfare Sec
retary Oveta Culp Hobby. The
White House said Eisenhower ap
proved the report, drafted by top
administration experts in the field
and endorsed the recommenda
tions.
The plan for financial aid to
the states would cover children
and young people up to 19. It
would become effective after com
pletion of the program of free
inoculations for first and second
graders being carried out by the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis. That program is being
resumed in many areas, after re
lease of vaccine from two labor
atories during the weekend after
a re-check by federal experts.
The administration also pro
posed an additional two million
dollars for extra inspectors and
technicians in the Public Health
Service to insure “maximum pre
cautions in continued testing of
the vaccine for safety and poten
cy.”
The report stressed Mrs.
Hobby’s view that distribution of
the vaccine would continue on the
present voluntary basis, as insur
ing what was termed the greatest
speed, fairness and effectiveness.
Salk Polio Vaccine Arrives
And Inoculations To Start
Soon To lst-2nd Graders
The Salk polio vaccine has ar
rived here stated Public Health
Nurse Margaret McDonald, and
it will be administered very soon
to first and second grade' stu
dents.
Nine thousand units have been
released to the territory and the
program will start immediately in
all schools. The inoculation pro
gram was held up last week on
orders of the U.S. Surgeon Gen
eral pending a recheck of proced
ures. The Alaska vaccine is from
the Parke-Davis laboratories.
Vaccine from the Cutter labor
atories resulted in several cases
of polio after inoculation. Em
ployes of Cutter, 465 of them,
however, to show their faith in
their product, had all their child
ren inoculated.
Any parent opposed to having
their children inouculated are ad
vised to send a note to the public
health nurse or get in touch with
her immediately.
American League
Chicago 3-5, Washington 0-4
Baltimore 4-0, Cleveland 1-5
Kansas City 4-4, New York 3-8
Boston 10-3, Detroit 4-9
National League
Brooklyn 7-4, Cincinnati 1-11
Chicago 5-4, New York 2-9
Milwaukee 6-1, Philadelphia 5-9
St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 1
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 1-3, San Francisco.
11-2
Hollywood 1-2, San Diego 4-11
Seattle 5-5, Los Angeles 7-0 *
Oakland 4-5, Portland 5-2
Marciano Is 8-1 Favorite ..
To Knock Out Cockell
In Title Fight Tonight
SAN FRANCISCO, UP> — Un
defeated Rocky Marciano puts his
treasured world heavyweight title
on the line for the fifth time to
night and practically no one
thinks that challenger Don Cock
ell of England will take it away
from the blockbuster from Brock
ton, Mass.
The 30-year-old champion has
never been beaten in his 47 fights,
dating back to his ring debut in
July 1948, and the betting people
are laying 8-1 that Rocky will run
the incredible string to 48.
Few, indeed, give the pudgy,
26-year-old hog farmer from
Horam much of a chance to last
the full 15 rounds.
Marciano’s blasting fists, they
believe, wil make the British Em
pire titleholder No. 42 on the
Rock’s kayo record.
The scrap is set to go on at
10 p.m. EST, in San Francisco’s
largest football arena, Kezar Sta
dium.
Promoters Jimmy Murry and
Lou Thomas, in conjunction with
the International Boxing Club,
remained hopeful that 40,000 fans
will pay $400,000 for seats scaled
from $5 to $40. Less optimistic
observers looked for a turnout of
30,000 and gate receipts approach
ing $300,000.
Wife Wants Poker-Playing
Hubby Arrested So Police
Raid 5 Games, Jail 25
BALTIMORE, UP>—'This is the
story of Sergeant Vincent Serio
of the Baltimore vice squad, a
woman who said she was starving,
and a fast-floating husband.
Sergeant Serio got the first call
from the woman late Friday
night. She told him her husband
was spending all his money in
poker games and she was starving
as a result. Where was he? asked
the sergeant.
She gave him an address, and
he dispatched two patrolmen to
the spot. They broke up a card
game, hauled six men to jail.
But the phone rang again. “You
didn’t get him,” said the same
voice. She explained she had
learned her husband had floated
from the game before the police
got there. But §he gave Sergeant
Serio a new adckj’ess.
Off went the vice squad again.
They broke up two games, took
in nine players.
But the phone rang again. Same
woman, same complaint, new ad
dress.
The next call brought in 13
more sporting gentlemen. It made
a grand total of 25 players ar
rested in five card games.
The woman never did give the
police her name, but Sergeant
Serio figures they got her hus
band in the last haul. She didn’t
call back.
CAR PLOWS INTO SQUAD
MARCHING TO KP DUTY
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., (#> — A
car plowed into a formation of
basic trainees marching to KP
duty at Lackland Air Force Base
before dawn yesterday, injuring
29.
Nine were hospitalized with
fractures. The others were treat
ed for minor injuries. A3C Roger
K. Simpson was listed as the
driver. He said darkness and light
mist kept him from seeing the
men until it was too late.
Authorities said Simpson was
not speeding.
Austrians Jubilant
Over Freedom
After 17 Years
VIENNA, Austria, UP)—Austria’s
independence treaty shows that
world peace may be achieved by
negotiation, Chancellor Julius
Raab said today.
“Freedom for Austria was of
the greatest importance and joy
for Austria,” he told a news con
ference. “But not only that. It
indicated that pending world
problems can be solved—or, at
least, that the powers can sit at
the same table.
“I regard this act as a lessen
ing of the cold war and a step
toward world peace.”
As he spoke, the flags of the
big four powers whose troops had
occupied his country for 10 years
were lowered and only Austria’s
red and white banner remained
where five flew yesterday.
Raab said the United States,
Britain, France and the Soviet
Union have made no commitment
on when they will withdraw their
70,000 occupation troops. The
withdrawal of the troops, includ
ing about 10,000 Americans, need
not be completed until 90 days
after all five governments have
ratified the treaty signed yester
day.
But, said Raab, the armies are
beginning preparations to leave
and some installations may be
turned back to Austria sooner.
Jubilant Austrians celebrated
until dawn today the signing of
the pact pledging their freedom
after 17 years of hot and cold
war and restoring Austria’s sov
ereignty for the first time since
it was annexed by Hitler’s Ger
many in 1938.
Tito Assures West He
Will Not “Change Sides”
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (£) —
President Tito has assured the
West that his coming conference
with top leaders of the Soviet
Union does not mean Yugoslavia
is “changing sides.” He still in
tends to keep his country out of
all blocs—Western, Soviet or neu
tral “third force,” he declared.
Speaking at the north Adriatic
port of Ptila, Tito said yesterday
he wants good relations with both
the West and the Soviets. He pro
mised there will be no secret deals
“behind the curtains” at his meet
ing in Belgrade late this month
with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin, Communist Party Chief
Nikita Khrushchev, and Deputy
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromy
ko.
Communist Migs Appear
Near Matsu Islands
TAIPEH, Formosa, UR — Com
munist Mig jets today made their
second appearance in two days
near the Matsus and clashed with
Nationalist propellor planes, the
Air Force announced.
Two Migs bearing down from
the north swept within 20 miles
of the islands at the north end of
Formosa Strait, headquarters
said. This was the closest ap
proach Red Chinese jets have
made to the Matsus.
The Air Force said two pro
pellor planes challenged the fast
er Migs at 12,000 feet. The Migs
made three passes at the Nation
alists in an 11-minute dog fight,
a communique said.
There was no claim the Migs
were damtged and the communi
que said the Nationalist planes
returned safely to base.
$141,000,000 Spent On Alaska Roads
By A.R.C. In Past The Seven Years
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Democratic Legislative
Program Ignores Ike's
Recommended Measures
WASHINGTON, UP> — Demo
cratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson
of Texas outlined a legislative
program proposing passage of
highway, housing, minimum wage
and other bills but ignoring sev
eral of President Eisenhower’s
major recommendations.
Johnson told reporters he will
call the Senate Democratic Policy
Committee together early this
week to discuss the schedule
under which the Senate may go
to work late in the week on a
Democratic substitute for the
President’s 101 - billion dollar
highway program.
Besides the highway, housing
and minimum wage bills, John
son said he expects the Senate to
approve bills for foreign aid,
health research, draft extension,
military reserves, and pay in
creases for government workers;
a House-approved bill to close tax
loopholes and the regular depart
mental money measures.
Johnson’s program apparently
would ignore in this session presi
dential recommendations for a
postal rate increase, Taft-Hartley
labor law revisions, amendments
to the immigration laws, reinsur
ance of private health plans, a
proposed constitutional amend
ment to reduce the voting age and
creation of a national transporta
tion policy.
House Members Launch
Drive To Built A Second
Atomic Merchant Ship
WASHINGTON, (A**—Key mem
bers of the House Merchant Mar
ine Committee today launched a
drive to build a second atomic
merchant ship- in addition to the
one already proposed by President
Eisenhower.
Chairman Bonner (D-NC) said
the ship proposed by Eisenhower
to sail around the world as an
exhibit of peaceful atomic energy
uses would be some kind of “in
ternational side show, carnival or
Mississippi River showboat.”
Bonner declared the committee
is more interested in an experi
perimental ship which would help
the merchant marine develop
atomic vessels that would be ec
onomically feasible and “actually
carry some freight.”
Bonner said he was introducing
a bill to authorize the second
ship, which would require a com
pletely different type of atomic
reactor from the one planned by
Eisenhower.
Dynamite-Laden Ship
Disabled In The Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, (A* — The
Coast Guard cutter Wachusetts has
reached the disabled dynamite
laden motorship Rican Star 800
miles due west of here and is
checking the ship’s condition.
The Rican Star, of Costa Rican
registry, yesterday reported her
engines had broken down and
that she had a slight leak in her
I engine room. The cutter and a tug
from Victoria, B.C., were sent to
her aid.
The 495 - ton ship, of Costa
Rican registry, was going from
Vancouver, B.C., to Sydney, Aus
tralia, with 300 tons of dynamite.
> JUNEAU, (#> — Alaskans were
told Saturday night by an Interior
Department official that more
than $100,000,000 has been spent
in road construction in the terri
tory in the past seven years.
The occasion was the Golden
Anniversary banquet of the Alas
ka Road Commission.
The speaker was D. Otis Beas
ley, administrative assistant sec
retary of the Interior.
Beasley said the program start
ed in 1948 is about 84 per cent
complete, with more than 800
miles of black top surfacing in
place.
He added that the Alaska road
building program, which was
speeded up because of the critical
international situation which de
veloped soon after the end of
World War II, also extended the
basic road system through con
struction of the $28,000,000 Sew
ard-Anchorage highway.
Beasley said a network of all
weather routes now connects the
ice-free ports of Valdez, Seward
and Haines with the principal cit
ies and military installations of
the interior.
The most northerly point on the
2,900 - mile interconnected system
is Circle, which is also the north- *
ern terminus of the Pan-Ameri
can Highway being constructed
I through North, Central and
| South America. Circle is 50 miles
j south of the Arctic Circle.
Beasley recalled that when the
commission was created in 1905,
there were less than a dozen miles
of passable wagon roads in the
entire territory. The principal
road was the military trail from
Valdez to Eagle, located and built
in 1901. Over this trail pack
horses in summer and dog teams
in winter carried mail twice a
month.
The Interior Department of
ficial said that through 1954,
$189,000,000 had been appropriat
ed to the Alaska Road Commis
sion. Of this amount more than
$141,000,000 has been made avail
able during the past seven years.
There was only $48,000,000 ap
propriated during the previous 43
years.
During the same 7-year period
in which 800 miles of paved road
came into existence, 961 miles of
new roads were constructed by
the Commission for Alaskans.
Beasley £>aid tribute to Alaska
Road Commissioner Angelo Ghig
lione, saying he has received wide
recognition from national engi
neering societies for his per
manfrost work. Beasley said the
experience of the Commission
indicates construction in the sub
Arctic can be undertaken at rea
sonable cost and opens the way
for increased use of these areas.
MOUNTIES RECAPTURE
MOST-WANTED CRIMINAL
ALERT BAY, B.C., M — The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Saturday captured a Vancouver
bank robber who walked out of
jail March 20 with a visiting
church choir.
The fugitive, William Allen Bab
cock, 32, was described as one of
Canada’s most-wanted criminals.
Babcock was convicted for his
part in the $27,000 holdup Jan.
14 of the Royal Bank of Canada
in suburban Burnaby.
He was captured at Smith Inlet,
about 60 miles north of Alert
Bay, aboard a stolen 60-foot troll
er, the Sea Explorer.