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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 126 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1955 Per Copy—15*
Eisenhower Gives
His Endorsement
To Secty. Dulles
DENVER, l/P)—President Eisen
hower’s declaration of unquali
fied support for Secretary of State
Dulles in advance of the Geneva
conference highlighted today the
start of his busiest work schedule
since he was stricken.
The President, literally on his
feet again, at least for the pur
pose of checking his weight, let
the whole world know Dulles
“speaks for me with authority for
our country” in the foreign min
isters meeting opening Thursday.
While statesmen and politicians
conjured with this declaration,
Gabriel Hauge and Dr. Arthur F.
Burns started a parade of official
visitors to Fitzsimons Army Hos
pital for a conference on economic
problems.
The stepped - up schedule of
callers followed weekend physical
checkups which found the patient
doing well enough to be flown
east between Nov. 5 and Nov. 12.
Whether there will be a complete
recovery from the heart attack he
suffered 30 days ago, Dr. Paul
Dudley White, noted Boston heart
specialist, reported, can not be
determined for another “two or
three months.”
The President was well enough
yesterday to stand upright un
aided and step onto a pair of
scales. They showed he had drop
ped to 172Vtt pounds, four less
than when he entered the hospital.
San Francisco and Oakland
Rocked By 2nd Damaging
Earthquake In 7 Weeks
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — San
Francisco and the East Bay area
rocked last night with the second
damaging earthquake within
seven weeks.
Windows shattered, telephone
lines went dead, statues fell from
niches in a chapel, dishes fell
from shelves and overhead lights
swayed dizzily back and forth.
At Oakland an apartment house
fire started soon after the quake
and burned to death an 85-year
old woman, Ora Bell.
At Sonoma, the Buena Vista
winery said the jolt shifted a
1,200 gallon wine cask in its
cradle. A seam spit and a geyser
of wine sprayed opt before work
men calked it.
Two pinball devotees declared
the jolt was strong enough to
“tilt” the machin^ they were
playing.
Dr. Charles Richter at Califor
nia Institute "of Technology said
his seismograph at Pasadena
rated the tremor at 5.5, “enough
to cause damage in the immediate
area of source.”
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SEAT CUSHIONS STOLEN
SAN BENITO, T e x a s—San
Benito Boy Scouts found out Fri
day that their good deed policy
apparently was a one-way affair.
Some 690 persons carried home
seat cushions they rented from the
Scouts at a football game.
U.S. Gains 10 V2 Million
In Population 1950-1954
Wth N.Y. Most Populous
WASHINGTON, (# — The Cen
sus Bureau last night reported a
continued migration westward
since the 1950 census but said the
west’s population growth was
“well below” that of the 1940’s.
A Bureau report estimated the
west’s population gain at 14.3 per
cent between 1950 and July 1,
1954. This was about double the
national average.
The nation as a whole gained
10V£ million new residents in
1950-1954—up from 150,697,000 to
161,183,000.
California had the greatest in
crease in new residents during the
four-year period, adding 1,914,000
to make its total 12 Vz million. But
the biggest gainers percentage
wise were Nevada and Arizona.
Nevada figures showed an in
crease of 31 per cent and Arizona
23.8 per cent.
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Alaska reported gains.
New York remains the most
populous state with 15,826,000
residents. California is second.
ALASKA'S POPULATION UP
79,000 IN PAST FOUR YEARS
WASHINGTON, UFi — The U.S.
Census Bureau estimated today
that Alaska’s population increased
more than 79,000 in the past four
years. It estimated the territory’s
population at 208,000, including
military personnel, compared
with 128,643 in 1950.
The National Football
Picture In Seventh Week
By the Associated Press
The upending of such major
teams as Duke, Yale, Boston Col
lege and Colorado, has left only
39 unbeaten-untied college foot
ball elevens going into the 7th
week of competition.
Maryland, rated second in the
nation, heads the list of six teams
which have won six games. Four
of the nation’s top ranked unde
feated squad^ have five victories
— Michigan (No. 1), Oklahoma
(No. 3), Navy (No. 4), and West
Virginia (No. 8).
Idaho State with six games and
Whitworth of Spokane with five
are undefeated in the Pacific
Northwest.
Judge Hodge Awards
Dr. Charteris Judgment
In Apartment House Suit
JUNEAU, U!) — A judgment
awarding recovery of furniture in
the Cathedral Apartments at Sit
ka, plus $240 a month rental for
its use since the building went
into receivership in January 1954
was awarded the former owners
by Judge Walter Hodge Saturday.
The intervening plaintiffs, John
and Martha Cushing and Dr. Wil
liam C. Charteris, all of Sitka,
won the judgment after Hodge
found a “preponderance of evi
dence” entitled them to the furni
ture. Estimated value of the
judgment was'$35,000.
The question of ownership
arose after the Federal Housing
Administration foreclosed on the
apartment building for default of
mortgage payments.
Demo Senators On
Junket Deny They
Got Special Planes
WASHINGTON, UH — Two in
dignant Democratic Senators flew
back from Europe today, demand
ing the Pentagon explain its as
sertion special planes had to be
sent after them and other mem
bers of their party at a cost of
$20,000.
Firmly denying they ever asked
any special transportation, Sens.
McClellan of Arkansas and Sten
nis of Mississippi voiced their in
dignation after disembarking from
a regularly scheduled Military Air
Transport Service Constellation j
that brought them and 42 others
from Paris.
Both said they expect top De
fense Department officials to give
an explanation of stories last
week that they declined to adjust
their schedule to travel on regular
flights.
Referring to the Republican
run Pentagon, McClellan de
clared:
“If there was any intent to em
barrass me, I positively refuse to
be embarrassed by it. It’s their
mistake — there’s no mistake on
our part.”
As the senators flew home on
a regularly scheduled military
flight, the plane specially dis
patched to fetch them from Mad
rid stayed in Europe.
McClellan described himself as
“completely mystified” by the
Pentagon announcement that he
and other senators in Europe and
the Middle East on inspection
tours had demanded special
planes.
“The whole purpose of our us
ing Air Force planes was to save
money,” the Arkansas senator
said.
23 Alaska Post Offices
Closed In Last Two Years
WASHINGTON, U* — Henry
Lewis of the Post Office Depart
ment’s press information office
said today that between Jan. 20,
1953 and Sept. 30, 1955, twenty
three post offices were closed in
Alaska. He said the bulk of these
were fourth class offices where
expenses exceeded income or the
cost of performing service in an
other manner.
Nation’s Oldest Flier, 93,
Takes Family For Ride
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Uft —
“There’s just one more thing to
fly and that’s a blfrnp. I’m work
ing on that now.”
So declared James W. Montee—
believed to be the nation’s oldest
flier — after celebrating his 93rd
birthday Saturday by taking three
generations of his family for a
plane ride.
Montee took over the controls
of a converted C47 after CAA
pilot Robert Lewis got it aloft
Later Lewis landed it.
Montee, a veteran of 4,000
hours in the air, said he has
piloted 53 different types of air
craft, including a jet. He estab
lished Clover Field here in 1922.
Fred Kirkland, Ketchikan,
Chosen Grand President
Of Pioneers For 1956
KETCHIKAN, W — The Grand
Igloo of Pioneers closed a 3-day
convention here yesterday with
the election of Fred Kirkland of
Ketchikan as Grand President.
Cordova was chosen for the
1956 convention and the 1957
meeting of oldtimers who have
spent 30 years or more in Alaska
will be held at Sitka.
Other officers elected here were
Sydney Raynor, Anchorage, first
vice president; Robert DeArmond,
Juneau, second vice president;
Otto Kappan, Cordova, grand
chaplain; Mrs. Theodore McKen
na, Fairbanks, sceretary; Dr. Will
Chase, Cordova, historian; Arthur
Luthro, Fairbanks, treasurer;
Linda Shafer, Fairbanks, record
er, and Thor Osbald, Seward, ser
geant-at-arms.
M. J. Walsh of Nome, Grand
President of the Pioneers, left
here accompanied by Mrs. Walsh
to attend the convention but they
were delayed in Fairbanks by bad
weather throughout the three-day
meeting and could not attend.
He attended the meeting of the
Board of Regents of the Univer
sity of Alaska, however, which
was meeting at the same time,
thereby maintaining a 12-year
perfect attendance.
It is not known if Charles D.
Jones of Nome attended, the
Ketchikan meeting. He flew to
Seattle from here, hoping to get
to Ketchikan in time for the
meeting.
Saar Plebescite
Rejects Plan To
Europeanize Area
SAARBRUECKEN, Saar, UP> —
Frenclr Premier Faure and Ger
man Chancellor Adenauer moved
swiftly today to counter a crisis
brewing between their two na
tions as a result of the Saar’s
2 to 1 rejection of the plan to
Europeanize the rich industrial
valley.
Faure and Adenauer exchanged
telegrams expressing their con
viction that the outcome of the
Saar plebiscite yesterday must
not be allowed to upset relations
between France and West Ger
many.
But already the vote had top
pled the Saar’s pro-French pre
mier and heightened demands
from other German leaders for
return of the German - speaking
coal and steel territory the Reich
held before World War II.
In Bonn, the West German gov
ernment called for “a new solu
tion of the Saar.” A communique
issued after a cabinet meeting
said this new solution “must serve
German - French cooperation and
the aim of European unity.”
The communique left open the
question of whether another at
tempt to settle the ancient dispute
should be made by France and
Germany alone or whether it
would be put to the newly created
7-nation West European Union.
Territorial Taxes
Show $667,650
Rise Over 1954
JUNEAU, l/P>—Territorial taxes
showed an increase of $667,650
for the first nine-month period of
1955 over the same period last
year, Tax Commissioner Karl
Dewey reported today.
Total collections to date are
$12,130,000, about 2Vfe million dol
lars less than the total collections
for the entire 1954-55 fiscal year,
Dewey said.
Increases for the first nine
months were in the raw fish tax,
up $275,000, and tobacco tax, up
$195,000 under an act of the 1955
legislature to eliminate loopholes.
Dewey attributed the increased
collections to tighter enforcement
and new payment procedures,
coupled with higher rates on a
number of taxes.
Dewey estimated about 600
fewer employes in the territory*
than last year. His estimate was
based on the “school head tax”
which was increased from $5 to
$7.50 by the last legislature. De
spite the increase in the tax rate,
collections were $6,000 behind
those for the same period last
year, he said.
* Other tax sources for which
collections were higher for the
first nine-month period included
auto licenses, $13,000, amusement
and gaming, $24,000.
On the “down” side, Dewey re
ported a $60,000 lag in income
tax collections which to date have
totaled $4,393,950.
Liquor taxes were down from
last year about $100,000, with to
tal collections for the nine-month
period $1,036,800.
Plane Missing In Arctic
With 2 Western Electric
Men From Barter Island
FAIRBANKS, —Two amphib
ian planes from the 74th Air Res
cue Squadron and civilian planes
searched northern Alaska yester
day for a missing Interior Air
ways plane with three aboard.
Aboard the missing plane were
the pilot and two passengers be
lieved to be Western Electric ex
ecutive checking on secret DEW
line radar installations in the far
north.
The missing plane left Barter
Island, off the northern Alaska
coast in the Arctic Ocean at 4
o’clock Saturday. It has not been
reported since. The Airways plane
is based at Fairbanks.
Report Russia Builds Jet
Base On Kurile Island
SAPPORO, Japan, Lf) —Fisher
men say the Russians have built
a jet airbase on Kunashiri, the
southernmost Kurile Island and
within sight of Japanese Hok
kaido, Police Chief Saburo Suzuki
of remote Nemuro said today.
If the reports of fortifying
Kunashiri are true, Russia prob
ably will not return the island
to Japan, Susuki commented to
Kyodo news service. Japan has
been demanding return of the
Kurile Islands which the Allies
gave to Russia at the Yalta Con
‘ ference in World War II.