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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 4._ NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9> 1957 Per Copy—15^
Grant Jackson
Leaves Tomorrow
To Home in States
Has Had Major Role
In Nome Development
In 53 Years Residence
G. R. Jackson, president of the
Miners and Merchants Bank of
Nome for many years, leaves to
morrow for the states, after a
residence in Nome for 53 years.
He will make his new home in
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Mr. Jackson, one of the last of
the early pioneer businessmen to
retire, was a director of the
N. W. A. Chamber of Commerce
for many years and took an
active part in Nome’s struggle for
survival during those hazardous
years of disastrous fires and
floods. He was also a member of
the Alaska Development Board,
representing the Second Division.
During the years of his activity
with the Chamber of Commerce
he was instrumental in getting
the local harbor built, thus keep
ing Snake River from meander
ing and endangering the business
district. Another important work
of this period was getting the
first boat into Nome when Pacific
Coast shipping strikes were
called. Many times these strikes |
were called at about the time of
the opening of navigation in the
Bering Sea and Nome would be
desperate for fresh supplies. This
of course was before the advent
of our present air transportation.
Intervention of the Chamber
cleared the way for the Nome
ship to sail while the others re
mained tied up.
His efforts in Washington, D.C.
also helped procure the money
for the building of the' seawall
which now protects the city from
Bering Sea storms.
Like many other young men
Jackson came to Nome to seek his
fortune and remained to make it
his home. •
He arrived here aboard the S.S
Senator, a well known ship to
older Alaska residents, and like
most of the other passengers that
crowded its decks, he' had no
prospects for a job.
He relates that his first job in
Nome was as a messenger for the
U.S. Signal Corps and that sev
eral years later he became associ
ated with the Wild Goose Mining
Company.
James Manning, new manager
of the M & M Bank, said today:
“The board of directors and the
stockholders of the Miners and
Merchants Bank join Grant Jack
son’s many friends in wishing
him the very best in the years
to come and thank him for the
opportunity to serve the com
munity he has served well for
so many years.”
The directors further stated
that they indeed feel fortunate
to have acquired a bank that en
joys the good reputation and
sound financial standing of the
Miners and Merchants Bank,
which is directly attributable to
Mr. Jackson’s management in the
past.
Reported that President
Will Ask $17,800,000 for
Air Force in Fiscal 1957
NEW YORK, Lf)—The New York
Times said today that informed
sources had disclosed that Presi
dent Eisenhower will ask Con
gress for $17,800,000 for the Air
Force for the next fiscal year.
A Washington dispatch to the
Times noted that this figure is
$2,400,000 higher than the Presi
dent asked a year ago for the cur
rent fiscal year and about $1,000,
000,000 more than the upwardly
revised estimate he sent Congress
in August.
Japan’s New Government
Would Quiet U.S. Fears
Their Swinging to Reds
TOKYO, (J1)—Foreign Minister
j Nobosuke Kishi today said Ja
I pan’s new government is anxious
j to quiet American fears that Ja
■ pan is swinging toward the Com
I munist or neutralist blocs.
Kishi told a news conference
I for foreign correspondents such
fears stem from a misundersr ind
ing and are the principal reason
for deteriorating U.S.-Japanese
relations.
To clear up such misunder
standings, Kishi said, he or Prime
Minister Tanzan Ishibashi might
visit the U.S. for top-level talks
“if the domestic political situa
tion” permits.
Concerning American bases in
Japan, he said the government is
“pushing for a gradual increase
in its armed forces, and as we
reach our objectives, we hope
that bases now held by the Unit
ed States will be turned over to
us.”
| Kadar Protests
U.S. Decision Not
To Grant Loans
U.S. State Department
Refuses to Suuport
Present Red Regime
BUDAPEST, IP)—S o v i e t- sup
ported Premier Janos Kadar has
protested to a U.N. relief mission
against the United State’s deci
sion not to grant loans or econom
ic aid to the Hungarian govern
ment as long as it is: headed toy
Kadar or anybody else regarded
in the West as a Russian puppet.
The disclosure was made by
Budapest radio after the visit of
the U.N. inspection mission head
ed by Philippe De Seynes, a U.N.
undersecretary
De Seynes left Vienna by plane
last night to return to New York.
A member of the group said
speedy delivery of coal on a large
scale is the only way to end Hun
gary’s present economic chaos,
and the West must decide wheth
er it wants to send food and cloth
ing to the Hungarians indefinitely
or supply Kadars government
with the raw materials Hungar
ian industry needs to get back on
its feet.
U.S. State Department press of
ficer Lincoln White said Monday
that “we will not assist the pres
ent regime in Hungary.” His
statement came soon after Kadar
made a policy declaration that
Hungary must remain under
Communist rule and that his re
gime would press on. “to isolate
and destroy the remnants of the
Hungarian counter-revolution”—
the Soviet term for toe rebellion.
Sen. Kefauver Balked in Effort to Get
Seat on Foreign Relations Committee
WASHINGTON, W—Sen. Estes
Kefauver (Tenn), the 1956 Demo
cratic Vice Presidential nominee,
has been balked again in his ef
forts to get a seat on the power
ful Foreign Relations Committee.
Instead, the spot goes to Sen,
Kennedy (D-Mass), who has four
years less seniority than the
Tennessean. Kefauver won the
second place on his party’s ticket
last August by edging Kennedy in
dramatic balloting at the Demo
cratic convention.
Democratic committee assign
Placid Bull Buffalo
Dies of Ulcers in Zoo
DENVER, Uft—The only bull
among the 10 buffaloes at the
City Park zoo died Monday of
ulcers.
“He was easygoing and so easy
to handle,” Supt. Clyde Hill said.
“Can’t intagine him ever getting
an ulcer.”
The 12-year-old bull, named
Sioux, was born at the zoo. His
career was highlighted last Oct.
19 when he was credited with
saving the life of Joe Brand, 39, a
zoo employee.
Brand entered the buffalo en
closure to move a water sprin
kler and was attacked by one of
the cows. He was being trampled
when Sioux charged and drove
the tows away.
merits were decided yesterday in
a closed-door session of the Dem
ocratic Steering Committee. The
meeting was not announced in
advance and Kefauver said he
was not aware of the session.
“I am disappointed,” Kefauver
told a reporter when informed of
the action. He has sought before
to get assigned to the; foreign re
lations group.
The 15-member Steering Com
mittee is headed by Senate Ma
jority Leader Lyndon B. John
son (Texas) who opposed Kefau
ver’s convention bid last summer.
Johnson said the Steering Com
mittee decisions were unanimous.
One party leader who asked
not to be quoted by name said
geographic considerations played
a part in Kennedy’s selection, as
did the fact that the Massachu
setts senator never before has
been given a committee of his
choice.
Other major changes announced
by the Steering Committee yes
terday placed Sen. Pastore (RI)
on Appropriations, Sen. Gore
(Tenn) on Finance, Sen. Krvin
(NC) on Judiciary, and Sen.
Morse (Ore) on Labor, on which
he served many yeaig previously
as a Republican senator.
Johnson said the Steering Com
mittee sought tc> follow a policy
of giving at least one good as
signment to each new senator.
Democrats Consider Mild Alternate
To Eisenhower Mid-East Proposal
WASHINGTON UP)—Speaker of
the House Sam Rayburn said to
day Democrats are considering,
but are not committed • to, a sub
stitute for President Eisenhower’s
Middle East defense resolution.
The substitute does not men
tion foreign economic aid and it
would not specifically commit the
United States to send troops to
the area to halt Soviet aggression.
It simply asserts a vital U.S. in
terest in the independence and
integrity of Middle East nations
and says this country, if neces
sary, will use armed force to pre
serve the status.
The proposed declaration was
sent to Rayburn by a friend he
declined to identify other than to
describe him as a prominent
American.
The speaker denied in response
to queries that the source was
former President Truman, former
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
or Adlai Stevenson.
Rayburn told newsmen the let
ter and the proposed resolution
Anvil Mountain
Acreage Asked
For Withdrawal
The Alaskan Air Command has
requested the withdrawal of four
parcels of public land totaling
about 48 acres for White Alice
communication sites, it was an
nounced recently by the Bureau
of Land Management.
The areas are 6.89 acres at An
vil Mountain near Nome, 10 acres
at Soldotna on the Kenai Penin
sula, 14.69 acres at King Salmon
airport, and 15.84 acres near the
Sparrevohn Air Force Station.
The Alaskan Air Command is
presently using the sites and is
seeking their continued use for
an indefinite period to provide
intra-Alaska long line communi
cations service to both military
and civilian agencies.
According to the military, the
acreages requested are the mini
mum needed to adequately pro
tect these installations.
Presley Rates A-l
For U.S. Army
MEMPHIS, Tenn., (ZB—It’s a
class I-A rating for Elvis Presley,
the rock ’n roller now awaiting
an invitation from Uncle Sam to
join the Army.
Presley recently was given a
pre-induction examination, and
the Army said yesterday that he
passed with flying colors.
“Physically he’s an A-profile,
and that’s as high as you can go,”
said Capt. Elwyn P. Rowan, o m
mancler of the Army’s recruiting
station here.
The teen-age idol’s mental rat
ing “was about average,” added
Rowan.
By law he can’t be called for at
least three weeks after his exam
ination. Recently it became the
practice to allow six to eight
months before draft notification.
appealed to him as “a sane ap
proach.”
“I didn’t endorse the resolu
tion,” he emphasized. “I haven’t
endorsed anything specific.”
“A lot of people think economic
aid should be left out of this,”
Rayburn said. “There’s a lot of
controversy over it.”
Eisenhower asked for authority
to use up to $200 million annually
for two years for Middle East ec
onomic aid. He coupled that with
a call for standby authority to
use American armed forces to
block any Communist aggression
there.
Rep. Vorys of Ohio, a senior
Republican member of the For
eign Affairs Committee, called it
“a sissy substitute.” He said it
would “give us a vital interest in
every border scrap in the area
without saying anything about
the Communist menace.”
Japanese Ace Killed
When Parachute Fails •
HAMAMATSU, Japan Ufi—One
of Japan’s best pilots, a veteran
of the Pearl Harbor attack, was
killed today in the new Japanese
air force’s first aerial collision in
its three-year history.
Sabre jets piloted by Lt. Col.
Ibusuki and Maj. Gen. Setoyama
brushed while flying in formation
and went out of control.
Both pilots were ejected from
their cockpits but Ibusuki’s para
chute did not open. His body re
portedly plummeted into the
ocean.
Health Board
Chairman Resigns,
Protests Policies
I ANCHORAGE, UP)—Dr. Asa T.
Martin of Anchorage resigned
yesterday as chairman of the ter
ritorial Board of Health because
of what he called the board’s
“reckless considerations and in
consistencies in policies.”
Prime target of his dissatisfac
tion, Dr. Martin said, was a re
cent recommendation by the
board that Alaska’s mental health
institution be located in Fair
banks. He did not attend the Ju
neau meeting where the recom
mendation was made.
“The board ignored the advice
of the Department of Health,”
Dr. Martin said, “and all consul
tants. The decision was not unan
imous but was recorded as an ac
tion of the board.”
Two of the four board mem
bers present when the choice was
voted were from Fairbanks
Dr. Martin also said he was
further aggravated.by the board’s
approval of a blanket permit for
construction of a pulp mill at Sit
ka. No safeguards against water
pollution were written into the
permit, he said.
The Sitka action was taken
here Monday. The board chair
man said six provisions setting
up water pollution safeguards
were agreed upon by territorial
agencies and the corporation af
ter a hearing in Sitka some weeks
ago.