NOME NUGGET
_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX NO. 42 _ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1957 ~ = per Copy^l5^
Eight Persons
Become Citizens
Here Tomorrow
Tomorrow there will be a spe
cial ceremony in the U.S. District
Courtroom when eight persons
will become citizens of the United
States at 2 p.m.
George D. Martin, naturaliza
tion examiner of the U.S. Immi
gration and Naturalization Ser
vice, states that the following
will participate:
Enok Eino Mynttinen, Finland;
John Carametrous, Greece; Carl
Oscar Oman, Sweden, Ingrid Al
lette Valtyrson, Norway; John
Kostas, Greece; Ingeborg Tonette
Handeland, Norway; Angelo Buf
fas, Greece; and Mina May Bach
elder. Canada.
James von der Heydt will ad
dress the group and the American
Legion will participate in the
ceremony, as well as Judge Hodge
end Mr. Martin. I
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Eskimo Tissue
Studied for
Age Change
By CHRIS MacGILL
MIAMI, Fla., UPi—Three Miami
scientists are using tissue sam
ples taken from Eskimos in a
study of the changes which take
place with age in the human body.
In a report made today to the
American Chemical Society, hold
ing its 131st meeting here, the
scientists said they have found
the body’s connective tissues un
dergo “marked changes with age.”
These tissues are found through
out the body surrounded toy other
tissues and organs.
Dr. Harry R. Ellen, Dr. Robert
J. Boucek and Raymond J. Sever,
all associated with the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute here,
obtained their Eskimo tissue sam
ples from the U. S. Air Force,
which is conducting an indepen
dent study in Alaska on the ef
fects of cold weather on the hu
man organism.
The samples the Air Force is
gathering can be used both for
the cold weather study and for
the aging study in progress here.
The samples are obtained by
what is known as the “sponge
biopsy” technique. A very small
sponge is planted under the skin
of a volunteer and allowed to re
main for about four months.
When it is removed, connective
tissue has grown all through it
and can bo subjected to various
chemical tests.
The Hughes Institute, which is
particularly interested in study
ing racial groups which have
shown a low ratio of ailments af
fecting the arteries which supply
the heart, plans to do similar re
search later on the American In
dian, the American Negro and
certain African tribes.
The scientists have found indi
cations that as the Eskimos grow
■ older a greater attraction exists
between the tiny particles of col
lagen in their tissues. Collagen is
a hard p. Aein which supports or
protects bones and such tough
parts of the body as tendons.
Medics Study
Mental State
With Cold
By RENNIE TAYLOR
SAN FRANCISCO, W—Medical
investigators have obtained evi
dence that your mental state can
determine to a considerable ex
tent how your body will be af
fected by extreme cold, says a
Stanford University physiologist.
Test subjects whose hands
were kept submerged in ice water
were made to feel no pain by hyp
notic suggestion, he said.
They were immersed until they
turned white, could be warmed
with a rush of red blood at once.
Men under mental stress feel bit
ter cold more keenly than those
who have no worries.
These findings featured a con
ference on cold injuries held re
cently at Ladd Air Force Base,
Fairbanks, by about 30 specialists
from the United States and Can
ada. The conference was spon
sored by the Josiah Macy Jr.
Foundation, a nonprofit group.
The Stanford physiologist, Dr.
Jefferson Crimson, told about the
findings at a news conference.
The ice water test was reported
to the meeting by Dr. John P.
Meehan of the University of
Southern California.
Dr. Meehan found that after
the hands turn white because the
cold constraints the blood vessels,
they soon regain a degree of color
and then turn alternately white
and red while the immersion con
tinues.
By hypnotizing the subjects,
Dr. Meehan reported, he could
change the alternations. A white
period could be turned into a red
one by suggesting that the. sub
jects hand was not cold and that
he was in no pain.
“It appeared from this test,”
Dr. Chismon said, that the body’s
response to cold is not a low
level nerve action; instead, the
response seems to be subject to
the action of the higher levels of
the brain, and the mechanism is
a complex one.”
Other reports brought out, the
physiologist added, that if there
is such a thing as human acclimi
tization to cold it is a subtle and
complicated change that takes
place in the system, not some sud
den shift of body processes.
(To Be Continued)
PNA Has Served
Alaska 25 Years
SEATTLE UP)—Pacific Northern
Airlines celebrates its silver anni
versary Wednesday.
Starting as a one-man, one
aircraft operation in Anchorage
April 10, 1932, PNA now operates
a fleet of Lockheed Constellations,
Douglas DC-4s and Douglas DC-3s
in States-Alaska and intra-Alaska
service.
The airline employs 550 per
sons in the Pacific Northwest and
Alaska with an annual payroll in
excess of $3,500,000.
Last year PNA flew 117,032
passengers a total of 92,099,000
passenger miles. Cargo ton-miles
totaled 3,364,354 and mail ton
miles, 904,124. Revenue miles
flown were 3,832,052.
School Asked
To Sponsor
Lunch Program
In a letter circulated to box
holders, the Hot Lunch Commit
tee is asking the public to support
them tomorrow evening at the
regular meeting of the Nome
School Board, at which time they
plan to request that the Nome
School Board assume complete
operation of the lunch program.
Their news letter states that
the committee has a credit bal
ance of $1,036.00 on hand and
that 10,935 meals were served for
a 63-day period.
They further stated that they,
as a volunteer committee, cannot
continue to assume those respon
sibilities which rightfully rest
within the administration of the
school.
This is the fifth year this wor
thy project has been in operation,
managed and planned entirely by
public spirited women of the com
munity because they saw the need
for a program so commonly used
by schools in other parts of the
territory and stateside.
This year’s committee was com
posed of Dorothy Emmons, Bar
bara Mecklenburg, Agnes Walsh,
Margaret Swanberg, Bev Blan
ning, Martha Craft, Mairy Diede,
Dorothy Grant, Betty Walsh, and
Jessie Barber.
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Lloyd of ARR
Will Be Speaker for
Alaska Day Program
SEATTLE, UR—John H. Lloyd
of Anchorage, general manager of
the Alaska Railroad, will be prin
cipal speaker at a special “Alaska
Day” luncheon t noon, Friday, at
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
Lloyd will give an analysis of
Alaska’s important defense and
economic welfare as related to its
transportation system, and as tied
in with Seattle’s future.
Lloyd has been general man
ager of the Alaska Railroad since
last year.
MORE SNOW
IN ROCKIES
(By The Associated Press)
The third major spring storm
to plunge eastward from the
Rockies left a heavy bell: of snow
across parts of Indiana, Michigan,
Ohio and New York State today.
Some schools were closed, pow
er lines were snapped and traffic
was snarled. The snowfall ranged
from 3 to 12 inches.
Toledo, Ohio, wallowed under
a 10-inch snow blanket. Ten inch
es of snow also buried southeast
Michigan, closing rural roads to
school buses.
Cold air which dumped as much
as a foot and a half of snow in
Colorado spread across a vast
area. Its collisions with warm,
moist currents prompted precau
tions against tornadoes or severe
thunderstorms in a wide sector
from east Texas to Tennessee.
It was the third major storm
in an unseasonable series coursing
across the nation, but so far had
not caused the loss of human life
or livestock laid to others which
developed the two preceding
weekends.
P.O. TO BE CLOSED
ON SATURDAYS
WASHINGTON (ff)—Postmaster
General Summerfield has tossed
the postal service ball back to
Congress by ordering the nation’s
37,000 post offices to prepare for
drastic mail delivery reductions
starting next Saturday.
Sumrtlerfield said Friday the
cutbacks will get under way at
that time unless Congress, mean
while, gives him $47 million he
contends is “necessary” to con
tinue postal service at present
levels for the remaining three
months of the 1957 fiscal year.
Summerfield issued the instruc
tions only a few hours after
Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) of the
House Appropriations Committee
told the House the postmaster
BOEING TO BUILD
IMPROVED B-52
SEATTLE (ff)—The Defense De
partment will decide’ within 30
days whether future heavy bomb
er production will be concentrated
on improved B-52 jets or Con
vair B-58 Hustlers, the Times
Washington correspondent report
ed Friday.
The newspaper quoted Sen.
Jackson (D-Wash) that top De
fense Department officials made
this report at a closed door meet
ing with Senate Armed Services
Committee.
Jackson said Boeing soon will
begin production of an improved
B-52 with a longer range, the
Times said.
j general was pulling what Cannon
I called “an unadulterated bluff”
• in talking about reduced service,
j and that they’ll deliver the mail.
I The Appropriations Committee
! earlier in the day had voted to
give Summerfield $17 million and
to consider the remaining $30 mil
lion next Friday. But at a news
conference Summerfield described
as “ridiculous” the committee de
cision to defer action on the addi
tional allotment for a week.
The postal chief said he had
planned to make some cutbacks
Saturday, but that it had been
physically impossible to circulate
the necessary orders through the
field in time.
He announced “with great re
gret” that, starting Saturday,
April 13, all post offices will be
closed on Saturdays and Sundays,
and that there will be no mail de
liveries, city, suburban or rural,
on Saturday, except for items
bearing special delivery postage.
Saturday streetbox pickups will
continue on Saturdays, but on
limited Sunday schedules, he said.
Starting April 15, he said, post
offices will limit window service
on week days to a maximum of
hours, and that on the same
day business district deliveries
will be limited to two a day.
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Legislature’s
New ESC Bill
Becomes Law
JUNEAU, Apr. 5, Of)—Revisions
to the Employment Security Act
were signed into law yesterday by
Acting Gov. Waino Hendrickson.
The changes immediately will
pump new money into the terri
tory’s struggling unemployment
compensation fund, and eventual
ly will result in a new five-man
policy commission for the ESC.
Just how long it will take to
bring about new appointments to
the board was uncertain, but a
new controversy could be ahead.
Under terms of the new law, a
total of $134.40 will go each year
■into the unemployment compen
sation fund for each Alaska work
er covered by jobless insurance.
That’s a total increase of $19.20
e person from the last two years.
But the possible controversy
stems from th ewordage of the
act, which provides for new
methods of appointment of the
five-man commission.
In the past, the management
and labor representatives of the
board have been appointed by the
governor, subject to confirmation
by the Legislature. The public
membeh has been selected by the
other four.
Under terms of the new law,
the labor members are to be ap
pointed by the governor from a
list of candidates submitted by
the Territorial Federation of La
bor. The management representa
tives will come from nominations
handed the governor by the All
ALaska Chamber of Commerce.
The public member is to be select
ed from a list prepared by the
Board of Governors of the Alaska
i Bar Assn.
‘America May
Be Next,’ Says
Freed Priest
HONG KONG, UP)—The Rev.
Fulgence Gross, Roman Catholic
missionary freed after six years’
detention in Red China, says he
expects to be dogged by the Com
munists everywhere he goes.
The Omaha, Neb., priest arrived
last night from Shanghai aboard
a British ship. He was freed 10
days ago after completing a sen
tence for alleged espionage. He
served most of his term in a pris
on, being transferred to house
arrest toward the end.
He was interviewed by about
40 newsmen. Asked by one wheth
er he had confessed to the espio
nage charges when he was ar
rested March 29, 1951, he said:
“I prefer not to answer. I don’t
trust any of you.” Some of you
might be Communists. I cannot
trust anyone.”
Later, when he was asked if he
were guilty of the charges, he
said: “Absolutely not. I could not
confess to anything I did not do.”
Father Gross said he hoped to
return soon to the United States
and added: “I will be dogged by
their men (Communists) every
where I go. I fully expect it.”
“The Communists are after in
ternational Communism,” he said.
‘‘Who knows? America may be
next. Let’s not kid ourselves.”