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VOL. LIX No. 70 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1957 Per Copy—15^
President Tries
Breakfast Series
To Push Program
WASHINGTON. President
Eisenhower, jovial and looking
chipper after his illness, was
breakfast host today to 40 House
Republicans in a new move to get
his bogged-down legislative pro
gram through Congress.
The White House get-together
marked the President’s resump
tion of regular business engage
ments in the wake of the stomach
upset which kept him in bed all
day Monday and sharply restrict
ed his office activities yesterday.
The purpose of the breakfast
series is to put Eisenhower in
closer touch with GOP Congress
members and enable him to do a
bit of quiet missionary work on
behalf of his program.
There were some immediate in
dications the-President still faces
an uphill task in that respect,
even with some members of his
own party.
Rep. Brown of Ohio told news
men after the breakfast that Ei
senhower discussed the adminis
tration’s legislative program for a
short time, particularly a multi
million-dollar measure “to pro
vide for school construction.”
“I told him,” Brown related,
“Ohio is against the school bill. I
said that in Ohio if we voted for
that bill we would all get hung.”
Brown added that the conversa
tion was in a light vein and Eisen
hower laughed heartily.
Brown said he also told Eisen
hower several of those at the
breakfast favored cutting the ad
ministration’s $71.8 billion spend
ing budget for the fiscal year be
ginning July 1.
The congressman had nothing
to say about any presidential
laughter over that.
“Tonsilectomy Airlift”
Now On For Children
Of Seward Peninsula
A tonsilectomy airlift is now
going on for children throughout
Seward Peninsula. The children j
are being flown from their homes
to Kotzebue where Dr. E. S. Ra
beau is operating in the “mass
tonsilectomy” project.
According to Robt. Grant, area
director for AN'S, well over a
hundred children will be flown
to and from Kotzebue during the
operation. The children being
taken from Nome, explained Mr.
Grant, are those who have moved
here recently from villages which
are included in the program.
Jimmy Dorsey
Dies of Cancer
NEW YORK, UP)—Bandleader
Jimmy Dorsey, 52, died today of
cancer. He was the brother of
Tommy Dorsey, also a bandleader,
who died last November.
They formed one of the best
known brother combinations in
the popular music world. A Jim
my Dorsey recording, “So Rare,”
is listed second in a rating of
current hits.
Jimmy Dorsey died in Doctors
Hospital. He had been operated
on in January for a lung growth.
Dorsey was divorced. He is sur
vived by his mother, Mrs. Teresa
Dorsey, and a daughter, Mrs.
Julie Hilton, and a sister, Mrs.
Anthony Visella.
Jimmy Dorsey, like his more
.famous brother Tommy, came out
of the poverty stricken hard coal
regions of Pennsylvania to head
one of the most famous bands in
America. The two brothers were
noted for the music they made
separately and together—and won
almost as much prominence for
the celebnated fueds that kept
them apart.
Amphibious Jeep Starts Out on Last
Lap of Round-the-World Voyage
WAKKANAI, Japan, UPC-An
American and an Australian ad
venturer left the northern tip of
Japan today on the last lap of a
round-the-world trip in an am
phibious Jeep.
Ben Carlin, 45, of Perth, Aus
tralia, and Boye De Mente, 28, of
Phoenix, Ariz., plan to pilot the
bright yellow car across the Pa
cific to the Aleutian Islands and
Alaska, down the Alcan highway
to Vancouver, then on to San
Francisco, New York and Mon
treal.
Carlin and De Mente have been
camping near a U.S. radar base
on Hokkaido island for the past
few weeks, pacing the beach and
waiting for good weather to begin
the 1,350-mile stretch to the Aleu
tians.
Looking like a cross between a
chicken coop and a gypsy cara
van, the Jeep lumbered down the
beach this afternoon and into a
leaden, calm sea. In the water the
men’s heads were only two feet!
above the surface.
The pair estimate the first hop
to the Aleutians will take 14 days
at a steady seven knots.
“We have a big supply of food, |
water and paper bags,” said De;
Mente. One prayer book is in
cluded in the luggage.
The Australian, who already
has written one successful book
on earlier laps of his trip, plans
to settle in Montreal and write
another. De Mente, bearded edi
tor of a Tokyo magazine, plans to
fly back to Japan from Montreal.
He is Carlin’s third partner in the
roundr-the-world venture.
Carlin and his wife set out from
Montreal in 1950, hit the Azores,
West Africa, Spain, France, and
then made a long stop in England,
where they wrote “Half Safe.”
They headed east. Mrs. Carlin
mutinied at Calcutta and went
home to Watertown, Mass. Carlin
continued with another partner
to Japan, where De Mente joined
him. They plan to be in Montreal
in three months.
When the trip is finished, the
Jeep will have traveled 6,500
nautical miles and rolled 27,500
miles on land.
Use of Planes for
Polar Bear Hunts
Posing Problem
"WASHINGTON, (#—.Asst. Sec
retary of the Interior Ross Leffler
said today the use of airplanes in
hunting polar bear at consider
able distances from Alaskan
shores is posing problems.
“The department is seeking
ways to provide additional pro
tection if such action is found
necessary,” Leffler said. He said
an act of Congress might be need
ed to provide authority for any
additional protection.
The assistant secretary said that
during recent months hunters
using planes have located polar
bears on ice floes in the Arctic
Ocean as far as 60 miles from the
Alaska shore, and have then land
ed on the floes to make kills.
Since the hunting is far beyond
the territorial limits, there is a
jurisdictional problem which is
complicated by lack of specific
legislation and by the practical
difficulties of enforcement, Leff
ler said. $
Meanwhile, the Alaska staff of
the Fish and Wildlife service is
seeking more information on the
distribution and abundance of the
polar bear, its habits and other
factors which might be important
in the management of the species.
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Advisory Committee
On Fish and Wildlife
Established
WASHINGTON, UF»—Establish
ment of an advisory committee on
fish and wildlife was announced
Tuesday by Asst. Interior Secre
tary Ross L. Leffler.
The committee will advise the
department on implementation of
the 1956 Fish and Wildlife Act,
which calls for formulating “a
sound and comprehensive nation
al policy with respect to fish and
wildlife conservation groups, and
representatives of sport and com
mercial fishing organizations.
Among the topics slated for dis
cussion are the possibility of pro
tecting the polar bear from being
hunted in Alaskan waters beyond
the three-mile limit.
Nine Mexican Children
Dead in Heat Wave
CIUDAD ALEMAN, Mexico, UP)
—Dehydration resulting from the
current heat wave has killed nine
children in the last three days in
Ciudad Aleman and two nearby
towns in the Papaloapan River
valley of Veracruz state.
Twenty-eight other children
have been hospitalized.
The temperature has soared to
more than 11 degrees.
Stropg Quake in Far East
(By The Associated Press)
A “very strong” earthquake
rocked Vigan, on northwest Lu
zon Island early today, splitting
earth in several places and top
pling part of the cathedral belfry.
The quake lasted 52 seconds.
There was no immediate report
of casualties.
A mild quake rocked Hokkaido,
Japan’s northernmost island, and
Honshu early today. No damage
was reported.
COUNCIL OKs SCHOOL BUDGET
The school budget of $256,635
was presented to the City Council,
$81,038.75 of which was the share
to be paid by the city. The budg
et was approved with little dis
cussion.
It is proposed that the funds be
derived from the following sourc
es: $12,750 federal sources, $43,
318 from property tgxes, $14,470
from sales tax, $1,750 from paid
in hot lunch receipts.
Of the total amount of school
budget, $48,316.00 is for salaries
with the city’s share jumping
from $11,017 to $13,765.00 An
other large portion of the total
budget is for maintenance which
is estimated at $13,000.
Recorcl 81 Degrees
Is Set Yesterday
The temperature recorded by
the U. S. Weather Bureau at
Nome Field yesterday broke the
record for June 11 with 81 de
grees.
Bathing in Bering Sea contin
ues to attract more and more of
both young as well as adult resi
dents who are finding the water
a relief from the heat.
Two Lewis Brothers
Leave for Vancouver
Meeting of Masons
Robert Lewis, presiding officer
of Anvil Lodge F & AM, accom
penied by bis brother, Charles
Lewis, deputy grand officer of
the order, left for Vancouver,
Wash., for the annual meeting of i
the Grand Lodge of the State of
Washington under whose juris
diction the Masonic bodies func
tion in the territory. They will
attend the 100 th Grand Lodge
meeting of the order. Also plan
ning to attend will be Herb Jenks
of Anvil Lodge.
Streets To Be Oiled
The Street Committee reported
that oiling of streets was to start
immediately as a petition was
read from property owners on
First Ave. W who sought this
dust relief from the roads used
by trucks hauling freight from
the dock.
Swimming Pool Proposed
The Nome Scout Committee—
Walter Hodge, Willard Mecklen
burg and Roy Snyder—appeared
before the Nome Cuoncil Monday
evening in the interest of a mu
nicipal swimming pool which
would utilize the hot water from
the power plant. They urged that
the council consider sponsoring
the project so that funds could be
raised from other sources.
Warehouse Rented
The old warehouse on 1st Ave.
east of Steadman formerly occu
pied by the Alaska Road Com
mission has been rented to the
A & G Contractors for the Feder
al Building construction.
Airport Road Repaired
It was announced that tempor
ary repairs were being made to
the Dry Creek fill on the road to
the airport pending possible relief
from the Department of Public
Roads.
Mr. Ed Benecke requested the
city to extend Kings Way east
beyond Mettler.
July 4 Committee Named
Councilman Wilbur Arnold and
Pete Reader were appointed to
head the 4th of July celebration.
MAYFLOWER MERRIMENT
BLOCK ISLAND, R.I., MV-The
swordfishing vessel Theresa re
ported lest night it went so close
to the Mayflower II Monday its
crew could have jumped aboard
the Pilgrim ship replica.
Theresa crewmen said one of
the Mayflower’s crew leaned over
the side and shouted: “Are the
Indians friendly?”
Mayflower II Completes Voyage
Commemorating Pilgrims’ Crossing
By Don Guy & Tom Horgan
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., UP>—
Mayflower II, replica of the orig
inal Pilgrim vessel, came down
the last few miles into Province
town harbor today at the end of
a tow line, bashing her blunt bow
into angry seas whipped up by
a sou’-wester of 40 knots in the
gusts.
Since leaving Plymouth, Eng
land, 53 days ago her Australian
born skipper, world-famed sail
ing master Alan Villiers, had
guided her under sail over 5,000
meandering watery miles.
The Pilgrims in the original
bark required 66 days on a far
more direct route, logging about
3,000 miles.
However, comparisons have no
application in this instance. Vil
liers, veteran of the last of the
windjamming grain races from
“down under” to England and no
stranger to long voyages, delib
erately took his awkward, chub
by charge the long way around
to save time by taking advantage
of wind and current conditions of
which the Pilgrims probably were
in total ignorance.
He shaped a course far south
of the Pilgrims’ track to pick up
the trade winds, followed them
to the West Indies and dropped
Mayflower II into the northerly
flowing Gulf Stream. It all paid
off handsomely.
Thousands of eager spectators
lined the strand and sand dunes
as Mayflower II rounded the tip
of Cape Cod, on a fish-hook-shape
approach to the harbor.
Bare of canvas, she rolled and
tossed and wallowed in the seas.
Sails were furled after the Coast
Guard tug Yankton passed her a
hawser. Without their steadying
influence she had engaged in al
most preposterous gyrations.
A cold drizzle lowered spirits
of spectators already lowered by
failure of the 180-ton bark to ar
rive under sail.