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VOL. LXI No. 110 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1959_Per Copy—154
Imaginative
Protests Made to
Khrushchev Visit
(By The Associated press)
Up and down the land symbols
'of mourning are cropping up and
prayerful services are being held
as some Americans express their
protest or concern over the visit
of Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
But few of the demonstrations
have personally touched the So
viet leader and they are generally
quiet and solemn, not violent.
The American people appeared
to be almost unanimously adher
ing *to President Eisenhower’s re
quest for polite, courteous treat
ment of an important foreign
visitor.
Many of the protests showed
more imagination than anger.
A Hungarian refugee tried to
put a black blindfold over the
eyes of the State of Liberty, but
the cloth dropped from the stat
ue’s crown and was torn away
by the wind.
A paper plant at Holyoke, Mass,
and St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic
Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y., both
flew flags upside down. A cathe
dral spokesman explained the up
side down flag was a distress sig
nal.
A skywriting plane drew a
huge cross over Washington skies
as Khrushchev was driven into
the capitol—“Jusf a symbol of
our faith” sponsored by an anti
communist religious group.
The Soviet Premier may also
have been able to hear the hymn
“Faith of Our Fathers” tolled by
church bells as the caravan went
past the White House.
U.N. Again Votes To
Shelve Seating Red China
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Uf\—
The U.N. Steering Committee to
day brushed aside Soviet objec
tions and voted to shelve for an
other year the question of seating
Red China in the world organiza
tion.
The postponement was pro
posed by the United States.
The vote in the 21-nation com
mittee was 12-7 with one absten
tion. It still has to be ratified by
the full 82-nation General As*
sembly but approval was assured.
The vote on an identical pro
posal last year was 12-7 with 2
abstentions.
Democrats Act to Forestall
Southern Revolt Against
Convention Nominees
WASHINGTON, UP> — The
Democratic National Committee
today adopted a I960 convention
rule designed to lessen chances
of a Southern revolt against the
convention nominees.
The rule is the same one adopt
ed in the 1956 convention. It pro
vides that states in sending dele
gations to the convention under
take to assure that voters of the
state will have a chance to ballot
for the convention nominees, and
that electors will be named who
are pledged formally or in good
conscience to the convention can
didates.
CAB Member
Resigns Saying
Board Ineffective
WASHINGTON, (ffl — Louis J.
Hector resigned today as a mem
ber of the Civil Aeronautics j
Board. He told President Eisen- j
hower that civil aviation is far too
important “to be hobbled by a
regulatory system which does not
work.”
In an exchange of correspond
ence made public by the White j
House, Eisenhower accepted the j
resignation with an expression of I
regret. He thanked Hector “for a
job well done” but made no com
ment on Hector’s remarks about
the board’s role.
“After two and a half years on
the board,” Hector wrote Eisen
hower, “I have come to the belief
that an independent regulatory
commission is not competent in
these days to regulate a vital na
tional industry in the public in
terest.
“It is my belief also that we
are trying to regulate far too
many details of civil aviation —
details which could better be left
to management discretion and the
free play of competitive forces.”
Jupiter Missile Carrying
Miniature Zoo Explodes
After Launching
CAPE CANAVERAL. Iff) — A
Jupiter missile carrying 14 preg
nant mice and two frogs exploded
today 10 seconds after launching.
The shot was to have been a
test of the effects of space .flight
on the tiny animals and several
other biological samples packed
in the nose cone.
The would-be space travelers
met a fiery death when the Jupi
ter blew apart about 1,000 feet
in the air.
Pieces of the vehicle fell back
on the launching area but no one
in the area was hurt.
The Department of Defense an
nounced that the range safety of
, ficer deliberate!^ destroyed the
big missile when his instruments
detected a malfunction.
They Went That-a-Way
NEWARK, N.J., CT)—Somehow,
Emmet Murray and Otto Seiber
went to Tiajuana, Mexico, when
they really wanted to go to
Alaska.
In a postcard received here,
the two Seton Hall University
students explained they “got
slightly off course.” Murray, 19,
and Sieber, 21, left New Jersey in
June vowing, “Alaska or bust.”
Apparently they got as far as
Seattle when they learned a
strike in Alaska had cancelled out
summer construction possibilities.
They didn’t say when they plan
to come home. Classes at the Uni
versity started Tuesday.
Power Failure Make 250,000
New Yorkers Late For Work
NEW YORK, (Jf)—About 250,000
New Yorkers were late reaching
work today when an early mor
ning power failure interrupted
service on the far-flung lines of
the BMT subway for more than
an hour.
BPR Officials to
Hold Hearings On
Nome-Teller Road
There will be a special hearing
on the disputed Nome-Teller road
route on Friday evening at 7:30
when a group of road officals will
be here from Juneau and Fair
banks.
The officials will arrive in the
morning and meet with the NWA
Chamber of Commerce Road
Committee and an open meeting
will be held in the evening.
Several years ago an aerial sur
vey was made, followed by a
ground survey involving consider
able cost. This year it was ex
pected appropriations would be
made to get the job under way.
Instead of the expected progress
a new route was proposed which
the BPR felt was more econ
omical.
The reason for the route being
placed where the survey has been
m^&e was to open up as much of
the known mineral wealth as pos
sible. This includes an iron de
posit known to prospectors as
well as geologists who are or have
been in the area.
Legislators have been invited to
the meeting as well as any in
dividuals who can furnish evi
dence as to which route woud be
better for northwestern Alaska.
Expected to arrive with the
party from Juneau are: William
Neimi, Regional Engineer for
BPR; H. W- Johansen, Di^sional
Engineer for BPR at Fairbanks,
and Richard A. Downing, Com
missioner of the Department of
Public Works for the State of
Alaska.
The meeting will be at the
Grand Jury room of the Federal
Building.
The Chamber Road Committee
headed by Joe Kroninger is pre
paring a brief on all known fac
tors on the surveyed route and
Evert Hough, BPR District En
gineer, is making plans for the
hearing, so that action may be
taken and decisions made for road
work in that area as soon as pos
sible.
Big Communist Meets
Big Capitalist
WASHINGTON, (Jt—“Oh, capi
talist,” said Soviet Premier Nikita
S. Khrushchev.
That was his grinning acknowl
edgement of an introduction at
the National Press Club today to
publisher Wm. Randolph Hearst
Jr.
A big laugh rang out in the
room.
Khrushchev then quoted a Rus
sian proverb:
“Two mountains may never
meet, but two. people can meet.”
Ike Signs Bill Providing Over A
Billion For Military Construction
WASHINGTON, UP) —President
Eisenhower today signed a bill
appropriating $1,363,961,200 for
military construction during the
fiscal year that ends June 30, 1960.
This is $199,238,800 less than
the President had requested for
construction projects at military
bases in the United States and
abroad.
Americans Give Restrained Welcome
To Bouncy, Jovial Nikita Khrushchev
By SAUL PETT
WASHINGTON, Uft—The visi
ble reaction of Americans so far
to Nikita Khrushchev resembles
the attitude of the housewife who
finds that a salesman somehow j
has poked one foot in the door.
He talks. She listens, But shej
isn’t buying.
Khrushchev talked, smiled, i
waved, hugged little girls, winked ;
at photographers. But, among the
people at the airport and lining !
the route into Washington Tues- ■
day, he got little applause, only
scattered waving in answer to his
own waving, and mostly a grim,
curious silence.
The leader of the proletariat
was friendly, smiling, cooperative.
He even allowed himself to be
transported in a big, black capi
talistic Cadillac. But on one point,
he refused to be contaminated.
The invitation to Tuesday
night’s White House dinner clear
ly said, “white tie.” Khrushchev
would have none of it. He wore
the same black business suit he
had on when he arrived in Am
erica,
Unlike most visitors, Khrush
chev was lucky his first day here;
his wife resisted the impulse to
shop.
But Mr. K. got in some sight
seeing. For half an hour he flew
with the President in his helicop
ter, seeing Washington and the
Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
The only other Khrushchev to
tour the town was Sergei, the
Premier’s son. By car, he visited
the Washington monument and
Jefferson memorial. At the tidal
basin he took pictures of some
Negroes fishing. What do you sup
pose he’ll tell the folks back home
about that picture?
Just as Khrushchev’s Cadillac
was pulling away from Blair
House to take him to the White
House for the first time, a street
car got in the way. It was quick
ly rushed off.
If the Soviet Premier wanted"
to know how real Americans
really live, they should have let
him wait behind that street car
for awhile.
Truman Declines Attend
Reception For Khrushchev
NEW YORK, UP>—Harry S. Tru
man said today he has declined
an invitation to attend a reception
for Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Reason: He’s got a date to dine
with his daughter and son-in-law.
The former Democratic Presi
dent told reporters of his decision
as he strode briskly around Man
hattan’s east side on his morning
constitutions!. Truman came here i
Monday for a visit to his daugh- ■
ter, Margaret, and her husband,
newspaperman Clifton Daniel.
Truman said former New York
Gov. W. Averell Harriman had j
invited him to the Khrushchev
reception at Harriman’s ■ town
house.
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
WASHINGTON, iff) — Bouncy
and jovial, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev told Americans to
day they and the Russians would
be better off if they concentrated
on peaceful pursuits — such as
raising fine turkeys.
- “If we don’t give a capitalist
turkey and a Communist turkey
a passport, no one would know
the difference,” quipped the
beaming boss of world Commun
ism during a tour of the Depart
ment of Agriculture’s huge ex
perimental farm at nearby Belts
ville, Md.
If Khrushchev was in a gay
mood, his host, President Eisen
how displayed a more somber
outlook. The President told two
White House callers this morning
he hoped the Khrushchev visit
might do some good toward easing
world tensions.
The visit to the farm preceded
the Soviet Premier’s major ad
dress before an audience of news
paper writers.
The Communist boss, exponent
in his own country of thorough
going agricultural reform, was
told at Beltsville by Agriculture
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson that
capitalism helped the American
farmer develop food production
to a degree unequalled anywhere
in the world.
“Our farmers are free, efficient,
creative and hard working,” Ben
son told the Soviet chief.
Khrushchev dropped a hint of
his primary theme Tuesday night.
In an exchange of toasts with
President Eisenhower during a
White House state dinner, the
Soviet leader noted that the
United States and the' USSR are
too strong to permit quarreling
between them.
British Papers Decribe
Khrushchev’s Welcome
In The U.S. as “Chilly”
LONDON, UP) — British news
papers today described Nikita
Khrushchev’s welcome to Wash
ington as chilly.’
The Soviet Premier’s arrival in
the United States was blazoned
wide and high on the front pages
of almost every national news
paper.
Many British newspaper have
been placing high hopes on
Khrushchev’s meeting with Presi
dent Eisenhower.
U.N. Fact-Finding Mission
Starts To Work In Laos
VIENTAINE, Laos, UP) — Minor
rebel guerrilla fighting was re
ported in northern Sam Neua pro
vince today as the United Nations
fact-finding committee on Laos
went into its first working ses
sion hece.
The U.N. delegates from Japan,
Italy, Argentina and Tunisia sat
down to plan methods and a
schedule for investigating Laotian
charges that the rebellion is being
led and equipped by neighboring
Communist -North Viet Nam.