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VOL. LIX No. 133_ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1957 per Copy—15#
2,700,000 WORKERS
LOST TIME IN OCT.
DUE TO ILLNESS
WASHINGTON, UPt—1The gov
ernment reported today an un
precedented 2,700,000 workers lost
working time in October due to
illness, chiefly Asian flu.
The monthly combined employ
ment report of the Commerce and
Labor Departments showed a
slight increase of 300,000 jobs in
October to a total of 66 million.
Nearly all the change repre
sented a recovery in the farm
work force from September’s un
usually low level which resulted
from bad weather. Non-farm em
ployment remained virtually un
changed, instead of showing a
customary fall pickup.
Total unemployment, which
normally declines somewhat at
this time of year, remained un
changed at* 18Vi> million between
September and October.
Midtown N.Y.C.
Disrupted by
Burst Water Mains
NEW YORK UPV—Bustling Man
hattan, one of the busiest places
on earth, was thrown into a snarl
of confusion last night and today
by a flood—from broken water
mains.
The huge conduits snapped at
five different places. Subways
were shut down, forcing thou
sands of persons to seek other
means of transit. Midtown base
ments were flooded, causing some
buildings to turn off heating
equipment. Water supplies of oth
ers were disrupted.
Torrents of water bursting up
ward from broken mains gushed
down streets, ripping up pave
ment and cascading into subways.
At one point late last night the
famous Metropolitan Opera House
was marooned on an island cre
ated by streets full of water all
around it. Formally attired pa
trons halted at opera exits in per
plexity.
At nearby Times Square, thea
tre crowds gathered on the fring
es of the flood.
Subways were shut down, forc
ing thousands of persons to seek
other means of transit.
The five water main breaks
occurred over a wide area, but
the troubles apparently were un
connected. The causes were not
known.
Eisenhower Selects Members of
New Civil Rights Commission
WASHINGTON, Iff)—President
Eisenhower’s selection of the
members of a new Civil Rights
Commission opened the way to
day for an early start on its
thorny task of seeking to prevent
racial discrimination.
The difficulties confronting the
six-member commission, provided
for by the Civil Rights Act passed
by Congress last August, have
since been underscored by the
inflamed feeling aroused by the
scjiool integration controversy in
Little Rock.
Eisenhower, who only recently
said he was having trouble finding
men of the caliber and stature he
wanted, announced the appoint
ments late yesterday.
Retired Supreme Court Justice
Stanley Reed was named chair
man.
Tike appointments ere subject
to confirmation by Congress, but
in the meantime, the members,
armed with power to subpoena
witnesses, can swing into action
as soon as they get organized.
Still to be named by Eisen
hower, also subject to Senate con
firmation, is a full-time staff di
rector at a salary of $22,500 a
year. i
Named as v^e chairman of the
Civil Rights Commission is John
A. Hannah, president of Michigan.
State University and a former as
sistant secretary • of defense.
Other members are John S.
Battle, former governor of Vir
ginia; J. Ernest Wilkins, a Negro
and an assistant secretary of
labor; the Rev. Theodore M. Hes
burgh, president of the Univer
sity of Notre Dame, and Robert
G. Storey, dean of the law school
at Southern Methodist University
in Dallas.
I‘Sen.’ Gruening
j To Report Here
On Statehood Plan
Sen. Ernest Gruening (Alaska
Tennessee Plan) is scheduled to
visit Nome Nov. 22, when he will
report at a public meeting what
has been accomplished in the pro
motion of the cause of Alaskan
statehood by his colleagues, Sen.
Bill Egan, Rep. Ralph Rivers and
himself during the recent session
of the U.S. Congress.
Egan and Rivers are making
similar reports to the people of
other sections of the territory at
this time.
Sen. Gruening, former govern
or of A&ska, is an eloquent and
able speaker with wide experi
ence in public life. His report
should be very interesting and in
formative.
Arrangements have been made
to hold the proposed meeting in
the multi-purpose room of the
Nome grade school.
The meeting will be strictly
non-partisan.
Heavy and Wasteful Hunting Is
Depleting Alaska Walrus Herds
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At Least 12 Dead
In Tornadoes
On Gulf Coast
(By The Associated Press)
At least a dozen persons died
last night in a rash of tornadoes
which ripped thru communities
along the Gulf Coast.
Rescue teams poked thru the
wreckage today in a search for
more victims.
Early estimates placed the num
ber of injured at over 200.
Three of the dead were at Alex
andria, La., where a storm de
molished a 10-block area. Two
were dead near Carencro, south
west of Alexandria, and two oth
ers were killed near Crowley.
The bodies of a man and his
wife were found clasped a short
distance from their home in
Greenwood, Miss.
EISENHOWER NAMES SCIENTIST
TO HEAD U.S. SPACE PROGRAM
MANY STORES
WILL BE CLOSED
ON VETERANS’ DAY ,
Many business houses have
announced they will observe
Veterans' Day on Monday by
remaining closed as requested
by Gov. Siepovich in his Vet*
erans' Day proclamation. All
Federal and Territorial offices
will observe the holiday.
66 Algerian Rebels
Killed in Past 24 Hours
ALGIERS, UP)—Sixty-six rebels
were killed thruout Algeria in the
past 24 hours and a large quantity
of arms and ammunition seized,
French authorities reported today.
Military courts in Algiers, Or
leansville and Constantine sen
tenced four terrorists to die on
the guillotine after convicting
them of a series of attacks.
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON (JV—Heavy and
wasteful hunting practices are
cutting down Alaska’s walrus
herds, Fish and Weldlife spokes
men said today.
A telegraphic report from the
Alaska regional office of the Bu
reau of Sport Fisheries and Wild
life, made available here, ex
pressed conviction the combined
kill by Alaskan and Russian Es
kimos during the past year “con
siderably exceeds the reproduc
tive capacity of the herd.”
Altho no reliable figures on the
walrus take are available, the re
port said the best estimate would
place the kill by Alaskan Eskimos
at approximately 2,500.
Still others may be slain this
month during the animal’s south
bound migration. A few are taken
each month in Togiak Bay.
Of the estimated 2,500 wal
rus killed so far this year, the
report said, "not more than
1,500'' have been recovered by
the native hunters.
"More carcasses washed on
beaches this year than for sev
eral previous years," the report
said.
The report added that the bod
ies have been found “all the way
from Bristol Bay to Barrow.”
Officials in Washington said
the service has been considerably
concerned for several years over
Eskimo hunting practices, both
as to the manner of hunting ana
the number taken.
Such practices include hunting
with rifles, which permits the
slain animals to sink in the water,
rather than with harpoons; kill
ing of animals merely for the
tusk ivory without utilizing the
meat and skins; and killing of fe
males with nursing young.
Altho walrus hunting was just
this year opened for the first
time to ncn-natives, reports indi
cate it has added little to the
hunting pressures upon the herd.
Only four such licenses were
issued during the year, three to
non-residents, but only one or
two were successful in obtaining
trophies.
* By Marvin L. Arrowsmiih
WASHINGTON, MV-President
Eisenhower says Russia quite
likely leads America in some
areas of missile development. And
he has appointed a scientist ex
pediter to the job of pushing this
country ahead in this age of outer
space weapons.
The President told the nation
last night he is giving that big
job to Dr. James R. Killian, presi
dent of famed Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology.
At the same time he said the
Defense Department is strength
ening the hand of its own missiles
coordinator, William M. Holaday.
In a coast to coast TV and radio
address, Eisenhower said the So- j
viets not only ar£ quite likely!
ahead in some missile and special
weapons areas, but “are obvious
ly ahead of us in satellite devel
opment.”
"We frankly recognixe," he
added, "that the Soviets are
building up types of power that
could, if we were attacked,
damage us seriously. This is be
cause no defensive system today
can possibly be air-tight in pre
venting all break-throughs of
planes and weapons."
But on the reassuring side, the
President said this:
“As of today the over-all mili
tary strength of the free world is
distinctly greater than that of the
Communist countries.”
He went on to recount a nuclear
superiority in which “we intend
to stay ahead; a family of 38 dif
ferent kinds of missiles in opera
tion or development; and such
other U.S. strong points as atomic
submarines, powerful air fleets,
aircraft carriers and atomic depth
bombs.
Eisenhower announced his ap
Hop es Rise
For Break in U.N.
Arms Deadlock
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., W—
Hopes rose today for a break in
the disarmament deadlock
Russia and the West reportedly
took a second—and more favor
able—look at India’s compromise
plan aimed at reviving the stalled
arms talks.
Both side^ conferred with In
dian Delegate V. K. Krishna
Menon. Menon wants to almost
double the size of the disarma
ment commission to try to get
Russia to drop her threat to boy
cott the 12-nation body and its
five-nation subcommittee.
Both Russia and the West had
brushed off India’s plan two days
ago.
Russia apparently saw the plan
as a face-saving way to retreat.
The U.N. Political Committee de
feted her proposal that all 82 U.N.
members be included in the arms
talks, but some observers figured
that demand was a bargaining
maneuver designed to get a small
er increase.
If the big powers concur, the
plan appeared certain of approval
by the rest of the member states.
They are well aware that it would
be futile to resume the arms talks
without Russia sitting in.
| pointment of the 53-year-old Kil
lian in the first of a series of
“chins up” speeches designed to
bolster the confidence of Ameri
cans in the nation’s scientific de
velopment and defense generally.
The President spoke out af
ter a round of criticism by fome
members of Congress and oth- ,
ers that the administration has
been too complacent about
Russia's satellite and ballistic
missile progress. A Senate sub
committee is planning an inves
tigation of the situation.
Eisenhower told his TV-radio *
audience he was laying out the
facts, “the rough and the smooth.’*
And he said he was empower
ing Killian, who has a record of
government service, to prevent
needless delays, to crack down
against any interservice rivalry,
and to give high priority to hush
hush programs which the Presi
dent merely hinted at.
At Cambridge, Mass., Killian
said he intends to move as rapid
ly as possible to marshal the best
scientific and engineering judg
ment and creative talent in the
United States and make it avail
able to the missile field.
Eisenhower said:
"I have created the office of
special assistant to the Presi
dent for science and technology.
This man, who will be aided by
a staff of scientists and a strong
advisory group of outstanding
experts reporting to him and to
me, will have the active respon
sibility of helping me follow
thru on the program . . ."
Eisenhower said he and Defense
Secretary McElroy have agreed
that any new missile or related
program originated from now on
will, wherever practicable, be pi\t
under a single manager and be
administered without regard to
the separate armed services.
The President also said he will
propose to Congress legislation to
remove legal barriers which block
exchange of certain technological
information with friendly coun
tries. There is a legal barrier only
with regard to atomic informa
tion on the making of weapons.
If such legislation is passed, he
plans to push for a scientific com
mittee within NATO for pooling
of research efforts along the lines
of a preliminary agreement which
the President recently reached
with British Prime Minister Mac
Millan. Similar action in the
Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza
tion (SEATO) and in comparable
organizations also will be studied.
Fairbanks Mayor Resigns
To Become Kodiak
Clerk and Treasurer
KODIAK, —Douglas Preston,
54, is resigning as mayor of Fair
banks to become clerk and trea
surer for the city of Kodiak, City
Manager Bill Poland announced
here last night.
Preston has lived in Fairbanks
35 years and served twice as
mayor. He is an accountant with
the Northern Commercial Co.
Preston was quoted as saying
he is making the change because
he likes small cities—“I watched
Fairbanks grow so that you have
to drive 100 miles to get away
from people.”