m NOME NUGGET
___OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL, LIX NO. 49_ NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1957 per Copy^l5^
DEWEY GOODRICH REPORTS ON
ROAD COMMISSIONERS MEETING
By RUTH MacLEAN
Of interest to the members of
the NWA Chamber of Commerce
and to the community was a re
port made at the regular weekly
meeting of the Chamber by Dew
ey Goodrich on the most recent
meeting in Juneau of the Board
of Road Commissioners.
The duties and scope of activity
for this group have been enlarged
and they are now known as the
Alaska Highway and Public
Works Department. The terms of
the five members, one from each
•division and one member ‘for the
territory at large, will be stag
gered so that there will always be
four old members serving. These
members will be appointed by
the governor and confirmed by
the Legislature.
A director of highways, recom
mended by the Board of Highway
Commissioners, will be in charge
of roads. At the present time, Lee
Hubbard is the acting director.
Mr. Goodrich stated that the
new Alaska Highway and Public
Works Department confirmed the
1957 schedule for road building
in Alaska as prepared earlier by
the Board of Road Commission
ers. Of particular interest in
Nome are the plans to extend
roads into mining areas in the
Second Division.
Chamber President Jim Walsh
welcomed Sen. John McNees on
his return from attending the
1957 Legislature in Juneau. Sen.
McNees commented on the activi
ties of the Senate and House and
mentioned that the legislative
body may hold their fall meeting
in Nome. He and Rep. von der
Heydt are members.
Wilbur Arnold, chairman of the
tourist committee, submitted his
rough drafts of the proposed visi
tor’s certificate for the considera
tion of the Chamber members.
The final decisions will be made
by the Board of Directors.
The Chamber received a lengthy
letter from the Bureau of Land
Management in Juneau, confirm
ing the fact that there will be no
Land Office in Nome at this time.
Guests at the luncheon meeting
were Cy Randall and Dick Palm
quist.
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Plains States Receive
Warm, Moist Weather
(By The Associated Press)
Warm and rather muggy weather
—the first of the season in many
areas—prevailed in the central
and southern plains and in most
sections east of the Mississippi
River today.
Showers and thunderstorms al
so hit broad areas in the summer
like air.
In the plains states, rainfall i
was light and there was some
snow in sections of Wyoming.
Many rivers and streams in the
south central states were reported
running bankfull or overflowing
and flood warnings have been is
sued in sections of Texas, Okla
homa and Arkansas.
Bulganin Writes MacMillan on How
To Relieve ‘International Tension'
LONDON WP)—A long, amicably
phrased letter from Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin to Prime Minister
MacMillan on disarmament, the
Middle East and European peace
aroused no perceptible enthusi
asm in Britain today.
The British Foreign Office was
said to consider the letter friendly
in tone but not necessarily signif
icant. British press reaction to the
letter was generally cool.
Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik
delivered the 8,000-word commu
nication to MacMillan over the
weekend. Moscow radio broadcast
the text this morning.
To relieve the present “unde
sireable aggravation of interna
tional tension,” Bulganin set forth
a number of proposals. His main
recommendations included:
1. “Immediate banning of atom
ic and hydrogen weapon tests.”
No mention was made of Russia’s
five nuclear tests reported this
month, but the letter recommend
ed that the question of the tests
“be separated from the general
problem of disarmament and set
tled independently, not making
this settlement contingent on
agreement on other aspects of the
disarmament problem.”
2. New discussions of the pro
posal made in 1955 by then Prime
Minister Eden for the creation of
demilitarized “sanitary zones” in
Europe. Bulganin also called for
companion talks on such “corre
sponding” Russian proposals as
that for a 1,000-mile aerial survey
zone centered on the iron curtain.
Bulganin envisioned these as
.steps toward an all-European sys
tem of collective security to re
place the NATO and Warsaw
pacts.
3. The great powers should join
in “denouncing the use of force”
to settle disputed issues in the
Middle East.
4. British-Soviet talks to ex
pand trade and “cultural and sci
entific-technical exchanges.”
Schoolboy Quiz Whiz
Stops at $192,000 to Take
Strain Off His Parents
NEW YORK, UP>—Schoolboy
science wizard Robert Strom re
luctantly retired from TV quiz
show competition Last night v^ith
a record $192,000 in winnings.
The 10-year-old Bronx boy
walked off with the biggest bank
roll won by any contestant on a
television quiz program He broke
the old record last week on CBS
TV’s “The $64,000 Question.”
On last night’s show Robert’s
father, Albert, announced that
the family had decided the boy
should stop. The father said the
TV appearances weren’t much of
a strain on Robert, but were a
terrific strain on his parents.
Asked how he felt about quit
ting, Robert grinned and replied:
“Well, what can you do with
parents?”
Anchorage Voters
Refuse Sales Tax
For Sixth Time
ANCHORAGE (ffi—For the sixth
time Anchorage voters have
turned down a sales tax. The vote
yesterday was 2,491 against, and
2,026 in favor.
The Anchorage independent
school district sought the two per
cent tax to obtain revenue to pay
off a proposed $5,000,000 bond
issue which wuold have been
used in the main for new school
buildings.
The tax was expected to raise
$1,600,000 annually. Supporters of
the tax predicted that without
more school revenue, the school
district will be forced to increase
its double shifts; reduce the qual
ity of the teaching program, and
boost the number of students per
classroom.
Organized labor opposed the
tax.
A sales tax had been rejected
by Anchorage voters five times
previously, altho in earlier elec
tions the supporters had outnum
bered the opponents. The meas
ure failed to pass, however, be
cause a two-thirds majority was
required to gain approval.
For yesterday’s election, only a
simple majority was needed.
CAUTION—WET PAINT!
MIAMI, Fla., Iff)—William H.
McCormick parked his car legal
ly and went about his business.
When he returned, his car was
in a bus zone and he had a traffic
ticket.
Asst. City Manager Ray A.
Williams tore up the ticket yes
terday after McCormick com
plained the yellow bus zone paint
had been applied to the curb after
he had parked his car.
Partial Eclipse of The Sun Will Be
Visible Here Next Monday Afternoon
Guard Chooses
66 Volunteers for
Half-Year Training
Sixty-six volunteer young men
from villages all the way from
Stebbins to Barrow have been
chosen for a six-month training
course by the Alaska National
Guard.
This select group will leave on
May 19th for Fort Ord, where
they will receive infantry train
ing. All men are new to the
Guard and this is a rare oppor
tunity for the group who are
mostly between the ages of 18
and 20.
They will be accompanied to
Fort Ord, Calif., by Capt. Bob
Ellis and Maj. W. H. Crawford of
the First Scout Battalion.
A complete list of those partici
pating will be published later.
There are none going from Nome.
Capt. Ellis stated: “This is a
wonderful 'opportunity for the
boys who have never been state
side.
$3,000 Lesson Proves
Safe Was Safe /
DETROIT, UP)— Mrs. Tillie Mor
rin didn’t trust the office safe.
So she put only a few dollars
in it and kept the bulk of the
firm’s ready • cash hid in filing
cabinets.
Yesterday burglars broke into
the bar and janitor supply com
pany she owns in Detroit.
They tried in vain to crack the
safe. But they found and took
every last dollar of the $3,000 she
had hidden in the filing cabinets.
U.S. Ship Pays
Suez Canal Toll
Under Protest
SUEZ,' UP*—'The President Jack
son, first American flagged ship
to enter the Suez Canal since it
was blocked last fall, started thru
the waterway today from the
southern end.
The ship’s agents said the $10,
295 toll for movement thru the
103-mile canal was paid in U.S.
dollars—as required by Egypt’s
new canal regulations—but under
protest. The U.S. State Depart
ment previously had suggested
such a procedure for American
vessels using the canal.
A veteran Egyptian pilot of the
nationalized Suez Canal Author
ity was assigned to pilot the Pres
ident Jackson thru the tricky
curves and currents and past the
sandspits of the canal.
'® I By The Associated Press)
A partial eclipse will darken
the sun next Monday, April 29,
with the moon’s shadow moving
in a great arc over the earth’s
surface and visible at Alaska and
United States points from Nome
to Minneapolis and Denver.
Weather permitting, Alaska and
western Canada will see a con
siderable area of the solar disc
I covered. Denver, however, will
lose only about one-twentieth of
the sun.
In the Arctic, anyone within
200 miles of the North Pole will
see an annular or “ring” eclipse,
with the moon not big enough to
cover all the sun and a bright
ring of sunshine around the
moon not big enough to cover
all the sun and a bright ring of
sunshine around the moon.
The eclipse will be the first of
four this year, two of the sun and
two of the moon. It will probably
have value to scientists making
radio telescopic observations but
will be of little importance to as
tronomers, said Dr. Leland Cun
ningham of the University of
California Monday.
Alaskans will be darkened
more by the moon’s shadow than
the United States. At Nome the
eclipse will start at 12:38 p.m.
Nome time and end at 2:50 p.m.
and at its maximum nearly half,
or 47 per cent of the sun’s sur
face will be covered.
j Sir Anthony Eden’s
I Condition Improving
BOSTON, UP)—Continued im
provement was reported today in
the condition of British former
Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden.
The 59-year-old statesman was
operated on for bile duct obstruc
tion at New England Baptist Hos
pital April 13 after a flight from
New Zealand, where he had been
resting.
The daily bulletin signed by
the surgeon who performed the
operation said Eden “is becoming
more active about his room. A
more liberal diet is being taken.”
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR
DOESN'T TRUST BOOKS
PICKED BY BUREAUCRATS
INDIANAPOLIS, UP)—State li
brarian Harold F. Brigham won’t
get to ask for nearly $156,000 in
federal aid which he says is sore
ly needed to provide library ser
vice in rural areas in Indiana.
Gov. Harlod W. Handley, a Re
publican, refused him authoriza
tion for the petition yesterday.
Handley said Indiana readers
might be “brainwashed” with the
books hand picked by Washing
ton bureaucrats.
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