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VOL. LX No. 73 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1958 Per Copy—15^
House, Lukewarm On Labor Measures,
Requested Work On Labor Control Bill
WASHINGTON, UP) — Both the
Eisenhower administration and
organized labor called on the
House today to get busy on a
broad labor control bill passed
by the Senate.
AFL-CIO President George
Meany urged the House to pass
a welfare fund data disclosure
bill, approved earlier by the Sen
ate, and then speed consideration
of the labor relations bill which
the Senate passed last night.
The House so far has taken a
lukewarm attitude on any labor
measures this session but has
been conducting committee hear
ings.
Secretary of Labor Mitchell
expressed satisfaction that the
Senate adopted some amendments
urged by the administration, and
called on the House to speed
action on the rest of the admin
istration labor proposals pend
ing since January.
Key provisions of the bill
would require detailed financial
reporting by unions, union lead
ers, middlemen and employers,
provide for union trusteeships
over locals after 18 months, bar a
person convicted of a felony from
serving as a union officer un
less pardoned, make it a federal
crime to embezzle union funds,
ban use of union funds to pro
mote an individual candidacy in
an election, fix criminal penal
ties for failure to file the reports
or for false entries in them,
prohibit a loan of more than
$1,500 from union funds to a
union officer or member, and ban
organizational picketing designed
to shake down an employer.
Unions also are given in the
bill two provisions they long
have wanted. One would permit
replaced strikers to vote in a
bargaining election; the other
would legalize agreements signed
by a building trades union be
fore the job begins.
60 Air Force Cadets
To Visit Fairbanks
On Tour Of Pacific
FAIRBANKS, UP> — Sixty mem
bers of the first class of cadets
attending the Air Force Academy
at Colorado Springs, Colo., will
arrive in Alaska Saturday in the
course of a tour of the Pacific
area which will carry them to
Japan, Okinawa, Hong Kong and
many island battlefields of World
War II.
The 60, with four instructors,
will fly to Elmendorf Air Force
Base at Anchorage Saturday
from McChord Air Force Base.
They will go on Sunday to Ladd
Air Force Base near Fairbanks,
visit the University of Alaska
campus and inspect the Ladd in
stallation. Then they will re
turn to Elmendorf, and fly to
Adak and Tokyo.
The cadets will be graduated
next year in the first class to
finish work in the new academy.
A similar group will tour the
Atlantic area at the same time.
Seattle Woman Urges
Further Restrictions
On Imported Salmon
WASHINGTON, UP) — A Seat
tle woman carried a plea yester
day from Puget Sound fisher
men’s wives to Washington’s
senators for government action
to reduce Japanese inroads on
Pacific fishing industry.
Elizabeth Strand, president of
the Women’s Auxiliary of the
Puget Sound Gillnetters Assn.,
told Sens. Warren G. Magnuson
and Henry M. Jackson, Washing
ton Democrats, that her organi
zation opposes further importa
tion of Japanese canned salmon
She also urged their aid in
requiring that cans of imported
salmon be embossed on the ends
with the name of the country
of origin.
Mrs. Strand told the two sen
ators that wives of many fisher
men have found it necessary to
go to work to aid in the family’s
support because of the decline
in the U. S. fishing industry.
$16,000,000 Vancouver Bridge Under
Construction Collapses, Killing 16 Men
VANCOUVER, B. C., UPi — Two
sections of a nearly finished
$16,000,000, six-lane bridge col
lapsed mysteriously yesterday in
a tangled mass of steel, plunging
at least 16 workmen to their
death.
It was 3:42 p.m. on a hot, sun
ny, windless afternoon when the
two end sections of the second
Narrows Bridge over Burrard
Inlet gave way without warning.
The end of their shift was near
for upwards of 40 construction
workers on the steel lacework of
the pier-supported sections.
Suddenly with a muted rumble
the temporary front supports of
the foremost section crumbled
and dropped the jutting end of
the bridge 200 feet into the tide
churned inlet separating Van
couver and North Vancouver.
A huge crane which had been
hoisting girders to the top of the
bridge shuddered like an awk
ward bird, then toppled over and
plummeted into the mass of tan
gle wreckage in the water below.
Workmen on the span were
shaken off like Lilliputians from
a giant’s back. Some were
caught and killed in the tortured,
twisted beams. Others were
crushed beneath tons of steel and
concrete after they dropped into
the 40-foot deep inlet.
The toll would have been even
higher if the workmen had not
all been wearing lifejackets, as
required on the perilous bridge
project across the treacherous
inlet.
Cause of the collapse was not
known nor was a damage esti
mate available.
The giant two-mile bridge
four miles from downtown Van
couver was more than two-thirds
finished and was to have been
opened for travel in the autumn,
relieving traffic congestion be
tween Vancouver and its rapidly
growing northern suburbs. Con
struction work began two years
ago.
Rescue efforts were almost in
stantaneous. Frogmen from
neighboring skin-diving clubs
probed the murky, rushing wat
ers for the dead and injured.
Tugs and pleasure craft clustered
thickly on the surface.
Ambulances, hearses from half
a dozen funeral homes and police
patrol cars shuttled the living
to nearby hospitals, the dead to
mortuaries.
Midnight Sun
Flights Arranged
During Festival
Midnight Sun Charters are be
ing arranged for all interested
persons in connection with the
Midnight Sun Festival on June
20th, 21st, and 22nd.
Two charters will be arranged
on each of the three nights if
enough people are interested and
weather permits. Takeoffs are
planned from Nome Field at 11:30
p.m. and 12:30 p.m. each evening
Friday through Sunday.
Bus transportation will be pro
vided from in front of the Alaska
Steamship Office, departing at
.11:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. All
interested are asked to sign up
at the North Star Restaurant,
indicating their date and time
preference. All flights will be
made in multi-engine aircraft and
will be for approximately one
hour.
The price per person will be
from $12.50 to $15.00, depending
on the number of people signing
up for the flights. This will in
clude bus transportation to the
airport and return. Watch Fri
day’s Nugget for the exact sched
uled of flights. Those signing
up first will be given first con
sideration.
Hawaii Statehood
Bill “Gone” For
This Session
WASHINGTON, M — A par
liamentary snarl in the House
Insular Affairs Committee today
deferred action on the Hawaii
statehood bill.
The committee voted to sched
ule the bill for consideration
jagain after it votes next Wednes
day on a bill to authorize the
Frying Pan-Arkansas Reclama
tion Project in Colorado.
Rep. John P. Saylor (R-Pa) said
the committee action means
“Hawaii statehood is gone” for
this session of Congress.
Saylofc said it would take at
least two weekly meetings to dis
pose of the Frying Pan project—
twice defeated in the House—
and two more to act on Hawaii
Statehood. He said there would
not be time enough remaining in
this session to get the Hawaii
bill to the House floor.
Rep. Leo O’Brien (D-NY),
chairman of the subcommittee,
said the most that could be hoped
for this year is a favorable com
mittee vote on Hawaii statehood.
TUESDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Chicago 4, Boston 0
Detroit 9, Washington 2
New York 4, Cleveland 0
Baltimore 4, Kansas City 1
National League
Philadelphia 9, Los Angeles 6
Pittsburgh 6, San Francisco 1
St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 4
Milwaukee 6, Chicago 3
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 4, Spokane 3
Portland 0, Vancouver 5
Salt Lake City 10, Seattle 1
Sacramento 6, Phoenix 3
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT
PROVIDENCE, R. I„ —Gov.
Dennis J. Roberts asked for
questions from the floor after a
speech to 1,200 women last night.
After a long silence, Roberts, a
bachelor, quipped: “That’s my
trouble. No girl ever asks me
the question.”
President Admits Adams Imprudent
But “Needs” Him To Continue As Aide
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower said today Sher
man Adams was imprudent in his
relations with Bernard Goldfine
but “I need him” to continue as
top Presidential aide,.
•Eisenhower made it plain at a
news conference that he has no
intention of firing Adams, al
though he did not say so in so
many words.
In anticipation that the Presi
dent would talk about the hot
test Washington subject of the
moment, newsmen were packed
into the conference room.
At the outset, Eisenhower an
nounced he had a statement he
wanted to read.
Then reading from typewritten
large cards, Eisenhower said
Adams had been imprudent, as
Adams himself acknowledged in
testimony yesterday before a
House investigating committee.
Despite that imprudence Eisen
hower said, he has reached these
personal conclusions:
1. I believe that the presenta
tion made by Gov. Adams to the
Congressional committee yester
day truthfully represents the
pertinent facts.
2. I personally like Gov.
Adams.
3. I admire his abilities.
4. I respect him because of his
personal and official integrity.
5. I heed him.
Eisenhower then went on to
say:
“Admitting the lack of that
careful prudence in this inci
dent that Gov. Adams yesterday
referred to, I believe with .my
whole heart that he is an invalu
able public servant, doing a dif
ficult job efficiently, honestly
and tirelessly.”
After reading this statement,
Eisenhower said he would have
nothing further to say regarding
the Adams-Goldfine case.
President Expected
To Sign Civil Service
Pay Boost Bill
WASHINGTON, UP> — The
House Tuesday passed and sent to
the White House a bill giving a
10 per cent pay raise to 1,021,000
Civil Sfervice and other govern
ment workers. President Eisen
hower is expected to sign it.
The pay hike will cost an esti
mated 542 million dollars a year.
Since it is retroactive to last
Jan. 1. an estimated 250 million
dollars in back pay will be given
to employees next month.
The measure also creates 599
new top jobs, some 300 of them
scientists and engineers. The
Senate approved the bill last
week.
The President already this year
has signed a bill giving a 10 per
cent salary increase to about
half a million postal workers.
Lockheed Transport
JetStar Flies 6,700
Miles In 17 Hrs., 50 Min.
BURBANK, Calif., UP — Bor
der to border and coast to coast
in 17 hours and 50 minutes.
That’s the record of a Lock
heed JetStar, a new utility trans
port plane.
The plane, piloted by Ray
Goudey and Bob Schumacker,
took off from Edwards Air Force
Force Base, Calif., shortly be
fore midnight Monday. It
touched down in Washington,
Massachusetts and Florida before
returning here yesterday. The
actual flying time: 14 hours 50
minutes. Its average speed 456
m.p.h. for the 6,700-mile flight.
The jet made stops at McChord
AFB near Tacoma, Wash., West
over AFB near Chicopee Falls,
Mass., and McCoy AFB near Or
lando, Fla.
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Midnight Sun Festival Program
All Events at Front Street and Lane’s Way
If weather unfavorable, at the School Gym
FRIDAY — CHILDREN’S DAY
2:00—Pied Piper Parade leaves school grounds.
2:30 to 4:30—Children’s festival games and
showing of children’s costumes.
8:00—Eskimo games and dance.
10:30—Midnight Sun Baseball game at Nome Field.
Midnight Sun Flights
SATURDAY — ALL DAY — CARNIVAL DAY
5:30 to 7:30—Progressive Smorgasbord. Tickets
and limited reservations at Bering Sea Club.
8:00—Masked Street Dance
11:30—Coronation of the Queen of the Midnight Sun
12:00—Awarding of the Poke of Gold.
Midnight Sun Flights
SUNDAY —
8:00 to 10:00 a.m. — Nome Chamber will entertain
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce group at a
breakfast at the Bering Sea Club.
2:00 p.m.—Boat Races—Schedule and place to be
announced in Friday’s paper.
The Festival Committee will donate reindeer for a Bar-B-Q
If someone will volunteer to take charge of the event