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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 104 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1959 Per Copy—15<^
Pan Am Airways Calls on Government
To Modernize Airways For the Jet Age
WASHINGTON, UP> — Pan Am
erican World Airways said yes
terday the government must mod
ernize “antiquated air routes to
the Orient and other Pacifiic
points” to meet jet age needs.
Pan American said it will file
with the Civil Aeronautics Board
tomorrow arguments supporting
its long - pending application to
serve Pacific points direct from
American cities other than those
in California.
“The range, speed and capacity
of modern jet transports make ob
solete any routing other than dir
ect flights from the great popula
tion and business centers of the
United States.” Pan American’s
statement said.
The airline added that “it is a
sad commentary” that Pan Am
erican is the only carrier, dom
estic or foreign, which has been
confined to California gateways
on its trans-Pacific service.
In making its request for routes
Pan American said they would:
lower air fares to the Pacific;
drastically reduce cargo rates;
stimulate travel to the Pacific by
providing fast direct service along
jet age routings, provide the
strong air link needed for the
support of U. S. military bases;
and deliver cargo, mail and per
sonnel to those bases at substan
tially lower cost to the govern
ment.
Pan American’s brief to the
CAB will be the latest develop
ment in the extensive study the
government has been making of
all trans-Pacific air routes.
Last February, President Eisen
hower ordered all applications by
the various airlines involving the
Pacific be combined into one
study and called for a speedup
of recommendations for strength
ening competitive American flight
service to the Orient.
Pan American said its propos
als would reduce the flight time
from New York to Tokyo from
35 to 16 hours and that from Chi
cago to Hong Kong from 50 to
20 hours.
In general, Northwest Airlines
flies the Great Circle route to the
Far East by way of Alaska.
Pan American holds authority
to fly over the central Pacific
from California with stops at sev
eral islands. It also is authorized
to fly the Great Circle without
receiving or discharging passen
gers from Seattle and Portland.
Northwest has asked permission
to serve San Francisco and Los
Angeles, as well as the Pacific
Northwest. It also has rbutes
within the United States, which
Pan American lacks.
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Contractors Hint
They Will
^Button ’er Up*
ANCHORAGE, OP — Following
the collapse of contract negotia
tions between the Associated
General Contractors and the Al
aska Council of Carpenters Thurs
day, the AGC Friday issued a
statement hinting the construc
tion season is over for virtually
all of its members.
The key phrase of the state
ment making this implication
said, “because of the lateness of
the season, it is manifest that a
great many projects must be pre
pared for the winter.”
The statement read, in part:
“Negotiations with the Alaska
District Council of Carpenters
reached a stalemate Thursday af
ternoon when the committee rep
resenting the Alaska Chapter
AGC refused to agree to the de
mands of the union. These de
mands were for: 40 cents per hour
wage increase effective March 15,
1959, 35 cents per hour increase
effective March 15, 1960. A re
duction from $5.75 per day to $3
per day for the chatges of board
and room and free board and
room on all camp jobs after
March 15, 1961. Substantia] in
creases were also demanded for
travel pay.
“The Alaska Chapter rejected
these demands as being exorbit
ant and excessive but offered to
the carpenters the same percent
age of wage increases and the
same travel pay which they had
agreed to with seven construction
trades with whom they have tra
ditionally bargained.
“The chapter also refused to
Chinese Strongly
Oppose Mao’s
Domestic Policies
TOKYO, (#>—Communist China
today admitted Mao Tze-Tung’s
domestic policies — including the
peasant communes — have en
countered violent and widespread
opposition. There were indica
tions the revolt against Mao was
on the highest levels within the
party.
The announcement said party
workers were among the “rightist
opportunists” who attacked Mao’s
1959 line. However, it did not say
whether any of his top-ranking
associates were involved.
The campaign follows last
week’s confession that the na
tion’s production figures were
exaggerated and this year’s goals
unattainable.
The announcement of the cam
paign to silence Mao’s critics was
carried in Red Flag, biweekly or
gan of the party central commit
tee.
Red Flag hinted that the revolt
against Mao may have been in
the central committee itself.
make any wage increase effective
prior to the date an agreement
with the parties was firmly rati
fied.
. “The Alaska Chapter has no in
tention of unstabilizing the con
struction wage pattern in Alaska
by agreeing to wages and benefits
for the carpenters which are out
of line with the seven other
trades since, for many years,
there has been parity of wage
increases and benefits between
the two union groups,” the state
ment concluded.
Sen. Gruening to
Make 10,000-Mile
Trip In Russia
WASHINGTON, UP>— Two . sen
ators and a group of aides and en
gineers hope to make an on-the
spot study of Soviet water conser
vation and hydroelectric projects
this fall.
“We have asked approval for a
10,000 mile trip inside Russia, in
cluding Siberia,” Sen. Frank E.
Moss (D-<Utah> said in an inter
view.
Moss has been named head of
an expedition of the Senate Com
mittee on Interior and Insular Af
fairs. Chairman James E. Murray
(D-Mont) also named Sen. Ernest
Gruening iD-Alaska) to make the
trip. /
Moss said the group of nine
plan to leave Sept. 9 and be gone
for a month or longer. He has
been conferring with Soviet Am
bassador Mikhail Menshikov here
on itinerary and visas.
Gruening said he hopes to learn
more about the huge hydroelec
tric projects, Krasnoyarsk and
Yenisey. He said this information
should aid his, proposal for a large
Yukon River project, Rampart, in
Alaska with a planned capacity
of five million kilowatts.
Accompanying the senators will
be Michael W. Strauss, former U.
S. Commissioner of Reclamation
who now is a committee consult
ant; Milton C. Mapes of the In
terior Committee staff, and Vic
Reinemer, executive secretary to
chairman Murray.
Want Seward Peninsula
Moose Jaws
The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game is collecting as many
moose jaws as possible from Sew
ard Peninsula and adjacent areas.
“The amount of tooth develop
ment and wear indicates the age
of a moose. If a sufficiently large
number of jaws can >be collected
from various areas of the penin
sula, the status of the local moose
herds can be determined,” stated
Sam Harbo, the Alaska Depart
ment of Fish and Game biologist
for this area.
Durign the present moose-hunt
ing season which runs through
Sept. 30, and Nov. 20-Nov. 30, all
Nome hunters are urged to bring
either half of the lower jaw of
their moose to the Department of
Fish and Game officer in Nome.
“A notation of the date and lo
cality of the hunt should accom
pany the jaw,” Harbo said.
SUNDAY BALL SCORERS
American League
Chicago 6-9, Cleveland 3-4
Washington 3, New York 1
Boston 3, Baltimore 0
Detroit 4, Kansas City 0
National League
Pittsburgh 2-7, Philadelphia 1-6
Los Angeles 7, San Francisco 6
Chicago 6, Milwaukee 2
Cincinnati 6, St. Louis 4
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 8-2, Spokane 6-3
San Diego 7-6, Salt Lake 6-2
Portland 5-5, Seattle 4-2
Sacramento 4, Phoenix 1
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Eisenhower and MacMillan Agree to
Bring France to Cooperae with NATO
LONDON, UP) — Cheered by
thousands, President Eisenhower
returned to London today from
weekend talks with Prime Minis
ter Harold MacMillan that
brought broad agreement -on the
strategy of future cold war nego
tiations.
Qualified informants said Eisen
hower and MacMillan displayed
a resove to' do all they can to
bring French President De Gaulle
back into full cooperation in the
North Atlantic alliance.
Eisenhower’s coming exchange
of visits with Soviet Premier
Khrushchev was said to have been
the most important single topic
covered in the American-British
exchanges.
Diplomats said Eisenhower and
MacMillan decided to shelve a de
cision on East-West summit talks
pending Khrushchev’s visit to the
United States. They were report
ed to have agreed at the same
time that the present pattern of
personal exchanges with Soviet
leaders should continue.
Other subjects covered by the
two men—sometimes with Secre
tary of State Christian Herter and
Foreign Secretary Selwynn Lloyd
sitting in—included:
1. Plans for a new Western ap
proach towhrd an East-West dis
armament program. This ap
proach was said to take into ac
count an American idea that
would make a cutoff of nuclear
weapon production under tight
control a starting point of the
program.
2. A possible compromise for
mula on key issues holding up an
agreement in the Big Three Gen
eva conference on banning of
nuclear weapons test.
3. The East-West deadlock over
the future of Berlin and Ger
many. Eisenhower was said to
have indicated that he will dis
cuss this issue informally with
Khrushchev in Washington next
month.
4. U.S.-British defense matters
and ways of militarily strengthen
ing the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization.
5. Eisenhower’s ideas for a big
new- effort to help raise living
standards in the have-not nations
of the world. Britain already is
pledged to cooperate with the
United States along these lines.
Most of these issue are expected
to arise in one form or another
during the Eisenhower talks with
Khrushchev.
The American-British talks ap
peared to produce an understand
ing that Eisenhower will assure
De Gaulle he can count on the
support of his main allies over
three cardinal issues of French
policy on Algeria; on French am
bitions to become a nuclear pow
er, and on De Gaulle’s demand
for a bigger voice in Allied strat
egic planning and nuclear wea
pons control.
Eisenhower flies to Paris Wed
nesday for a two-day stay during
which he will confer with De
Gaulle.
Chinese Student
Hides 4 Years In
Ann Arhor Church
ANN ARBOR, Mich., UP> — “It
was like death. I talked to my
self more and more,” Cheng Guan
Lim said today decribing his four
year voluntary imprisonment in
the eaves of the First Methodist
Church here.
Cheng, flushed out of his hiding
place yesterday by police, told in
credulous authorities and Univer
sity of Michigan officials he went
into hiding after the Michigan
Navy football game in 1955 to
save face after failing in his
studies in the University’s engi
neering college.
The 28-year-old Chinese stu
dent said he hadn’t spoken to any
one during the four years. He said
he subsisted on scraps of food
picked up from the church kit
chen following social activities.
Cheng, son of a Singapore
school teacher, said he brushed
his teeth with burnt match sticks,
cut his hair with a pair of shears
and trimmed his beard with a set
of tweezers.
His strange existence was dis
covered after private police were
hired to check the church build
ing after complaint of prowlers.
The former student was order
ed held in jail pending an Im
migration Service investigation
concerning his expired student
visa.
Cheng entered the University
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Fire Fighting Plane
Catches Fire At Pprtland
PORTLAND, U?i — A plane
which had been used to fight for
est fires in Alaska landed at the
Portland International Airport
with one engine afire Saturday.
The pilot was uninjured.
John Fletcher, 42, San Leandro,
Calif., leaped out of the plane,
and Air Force firemen extin
guished the blaze wthin 10 min
utes.
The plane, a twin-engine F-7-F
Tiger Cat, is owned by Glenn
Collins Adventure Films, An
chorage.
Fletcher said he was circling to
land for a customs check when
the control tower warned him his
plane was on fire. He landed with
the other engine.
of Michigan to take engineering.
Part of his educational expenses
were paid by the Methodist
Church and by the church’s Wes
ley Foundation.
“I didn’t live up to what they
expected of me,” the 5-foot-7 stu
dent said, “I think this is the
worst thing a man can do. It
makes him a kind of fraud.”
University officials said the
student probably disappeared on
the weekend of Oct. 8-9, 1955.
A University spokesman said
Cheng actually had not flunked
out, but that his average grades
in engineering were not suffic
iently high to permit his transfer
to the literary college, which he
had requested.