NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 69 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1959_Per Copy—15^
• Creole State
■ Lawmakers Assure
Gov. at Prorogue
• BATON ROUGE, La., (£> —Gev
jrnor Earl K. Long, in telephone
;alls from a psychiatric clinic in
Halveston, Tex., yesterday called
m the Louisiana Legislature to
>ass bills he had sponsored and
aid he hoped to be home soon.
The calls, apparently made with
4 termission of the Governor’s phy
icians, came one day before the
•, legislature’s final adjournment.
• ong was flown to John Sealy
lospital in Galveston May 30
’ fter venting his wrath before the
!' legislature with profanity. He was
•ommitted June 2 by Mrs. Long.
Both the House and Senate, act
• ng within minutes of each other,
’ . jassed a resolution urging the
3-year-old Governor to continue
rcatment as long as necessary to
ecover completely.
;lr Long's physicians reported earli
■ -r this week they had made no
. >rcgress in trying to diagnose his
Uness — “We still can’t tell what’s
he matter with him,” said one
y ioctor.
•V Physicians said Long continued
•v o deny efforts to gain his co
il peration.
\ : House Speaker Robert Angello,
't ,'ho spoke to Long in one call, told
1: he Governor that most of his
" 1-ills had Dassecl in the Legislature.
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rune 14 — Flag Day
• il Sunday is Flag Day. It is not
'Accessary to have a new flag. Any
1 umber of stars — from 13 up
9 -
, /ard — may be flown legally, as
i.^jng as the banner is in present
ble condition.
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Refusal of Passport
| To Trouble Spots
Court
WASHINGTON, ® — The U. S.
. ourt of Appeals yesterday up
eld the right of the State De
artment to deny passports to
; .mericans to travel in Red China
ad other areas it regards as po
'ntial trouble spots.
The ruling was handed down in
ie case of newsman William
J torthy Jr.
Worthy visited Red China in
)56 and Hungary in 1957, and
as denied renewal of his pass
' art when he refused to agree to
jide by restrictions against trav
, ing to these countries again.
,: He brought suit for the pass
’ Srt.
\ The court’s unanimous decision
- written by Chief Judge E. Bar
•; ?tt Prettyman, said the Secretary
State has the authority to set
ide Communist-controlled areas
i which Americans are forbidden
' travel.
v Prettyman said the worthy case
•’ no wise resembles the csases in
hich the Supreme Court has
id the State Department could
iJ . .t deny passport applications,
i. He wrote that in these cases
e Supreme Court ruling was
•’.* at the State Department could
t refuse passports because of
K e beliefs and associations of the
S plicants.
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Nation’s Employment Up
WASHINGTON, OP) — Employ
ment rose by a million in May to
a record 66,016,000 for the month.
Unemployment fell by 238,000 to
3,389,000.
Announcing the figures today,
Secretary of Commerce Lewis L.
Strauss and Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell said they re
flected further substantial im
provement in the nation’s job
picture.
An unusually large pickup in
factory employment accompanied
a May seasonal rise in farm work.
| Japanese Oil Men
! Investigate Alaska
For Development
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Two Jap
anese geologists representing the
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co.,
Ltd., of Tokyo, are here to begin
l a preliminary survey of potential
Alaska oil areas with a view to
future exploration.
C. T. Takahashin, president of
the C. T. Takahashi & Co., Inc.,
of Seattle, importers and expor
ters, is accompanying the two
geologists, who will be in Alaska
from two to three weeks
Takahashi described as “excel
lent” the prospects of the Japan- ;
ese firm's actively seeking oil in |
the state. The enterprise “will be
good for Alaska,” he said, adding
that Japan has great need for
petroleum imports
Hidezo Aimono, chief of the
exploration department of Japan
petroleum, estimated that Japan
itself produced only 2,000,000 bar
rels of petroleum at home each
year, about 20 per cent of her
needs.
Traveling with Aimono is Tat
sumi Shiraishi, a geologist em
ployed in Japan Petroleum’s ex
ploration department.
While in Alaska, the pair will
confer with local people and make
trips to the Kenai Peninsula, Cop
per River area, and the Nushagak
Kuskokwim River basins.
They will wind up their survey
in Juneau, where they will con
fer with the Governor and Phil
Holdsworth, Commissioner of Na
tural Resources.
Takahashi, who was instru
mental in having Japanese textile
manufacturers invest fn the Sitka
pulp mill, said the mill construc
tion was proceeding ahead of
schedule. “There has been fine
cooperation from everybody,” he
said. He predicted the mill would
begin operation in November or
December.
Starkweather Gets
Stay of Execution
WASHINGTON, UP) — Justice
Charles Evans Whittaker of the
Supreme Court today granted a
stay of execution to Charles
Starkweather, 20-year-old mass
killer from Nebraska.
Starkweather had been sched
uled to die in the Nebraska elec
tric chair on Friday morning.
Whittaker said that counsel for
Starkweather would have until
June 17 to file a petition with the
full supreme court, asking a re
view of his case.
Hoffa Monitors
Armed With
Recourse to Court
WASHINGTON, UP) — The U. S.
Court of Appeals today armed
U. S. Federal District Court with
powers to enforce its cleanup or
ders on President James R. Hoffa
and other officers of the Team
sters Union.
In a unanimous decision, the
appellate court said District Judge
F Dickenson Letts was within his
rights in modifying a consent or
der wnich terminated litigation
to bar Hoffa from taking office.
Under the order, Hoffa was al
lowed to take ofice but a three
member board of monitors was set
up to watch over the unions’ af
fairs and make recommendations
for restoring democracy to the
union.
In its opinion today, the appel
late court said the commendations
of the monitors are not self-en
forcing, but that they may go to
Judge Letts for orders putting
them into effect.
If Hoffa and the other Team
ster officials. fail to comply with
recommendations, the appellate
court said, the monitors may re
port this act to Judge Letts.
In essence, this means that
Judge Letts may take punitive ac
tion through contempt proceedings
to force a cleanup in the Onion.
Theft of Jewels Reported By
Mrs. Robert Montgomery
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Police said
today that jewel thieves stole
$100,000 in jewelry from the wife
of actor-producer Robert Mont
gomery sometime Tuesday.
WEATHER — Cloudy with occa
sional drizzle, fog. Low tonight
35, high tomorrow 43.
Senate Committee Bucks
President On Foreign
Development Borrowing
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
defied President Eisenhower today
by approving a five-billion-dollar,
five-year program of develop
ment loans abroad, to be financed
by borrowing.
A 10-2 vote adopted the bor
rowing plan favored by chairman
J. William Fulbright (D-Ark).
It was the first major vote by
the' committee on the President’s
$9,930,000,000 foreign aid bill.
Eisenhower had protested any
financing of the foreign aid pro
gram that bypasses Congressional
appropriations committees.
Hospital Strike
Pickets Clash with
‘New York’s Finest*
NEW YORK, UP) — Fifty police
men, swinging nightsticks, and
about 100 pickets clashed Tuesday
in the first outbreak of mass vio
lence in the month-old hospital
strike.
Seven pickets were arrested. No
serious injuries were reported.
Leon Davis, president of the
striking union, called for an in
vestigation by Mayor Robert F.
Wagner.
The brief flareup occured at a
medical school graduation cere
mony near one of the seven hos
pitals struck by nonprofessional
workers.
The trouble broke out when
police formed a solid wall to move
the pickets away from the grad
uating procession. Doctors and
students were not involved.
"Sound Dollar -- Plenty of Them.' Ike's I
Prescription for I960 G.O.P. Victory j
By JACK BELL «
WASHINGTON, UB — A sound
dollar — with plenty of them
available for GOP campaigners —
is the prescription of President
Eisenhower and Vice President
Richard Nixon for a 1960 Repub
lican victory.
In a turnout that astonished its
Senate and House sponsors, Re
publicans overflowed two large
banquet halls at a $100-a-plate
dinner Monday night to honor
party members of Congress who
survived last November’s GOP
debacle, and many who didn’t.
What seemed of more practical
importance than anything said by
either Eisenhower or Nixon — or
a long series of other GOP speak
ers, was the solid fact that the
dinner chalked up more than
$300,000 net for party purposes.
The two Congressional campaign
committees will split the amount,
60 per cent to the House group
and 40 per cent to the Senate unit.
Eisenhower told the applauding
Republicans that he is not fighting
to balance the budget just to
claim that as an accomplishment.
This, he said, is no effort to pinch
pennies.
“At this moment,” the President
continued, “we are engaged in a
highly important battle for a
sound dollar- - This is a fight to
make sure that a dollar earned
today will tomorrow buy for the
housewife an equal amount of
groceries.”
To carry on this fight, he said,
“we will need money.” But he said
money alone will not do the job.
He contended that for Repub
licans “sound, stable, progressive
government for this country is the
greatest cause that we could pos
sibly have today.”
Flexing their muscles for the
first time in the kind of a dinner
that Democrats have made tradi
tional, Republicans showed they
have lost none of their enthusiasm
for Eisenhower and can generate
some of the same kind for Nixon.
Nixon was introduced by Rep.
Richard Simpson of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the House GOP Cam
paign Committee, as “He who will
succeed President Eisenhower” in
the White House.
The Vice President told the
diners, that, to be frank about the
whole thing, the Republicans can’t
win “without the sinews of war
which money will provide.” He
said the Republicans must fight
for “sound dollars, and plenty of
them.”
Council Increases
City Staff, Nips »
School Budget
A discussion of the school bud
get for 1959 brought out a state
ment from the city attorney, Jim
von der Heydt that, due to the fact
it was doubtful that sales taxes
could be collected from liquor
sales, there would be little gain in
city funds with the 3 per cent
sales tax. On the strength of this,
the proposed school budget of $84,
030 was cut back to the amount
granted for last yrtir’s school bud
get, which was $73,548.
An assistant utility man was
authorized by the Council at $550
per month, and an additional pa
trolman for the police and fire
department for the summer
months.
The Council approved the new
rates for the Nome Power and
Light Utilities, which starts with
14 cents per kilowatt, which is one
cent lower than before the change.
The lowest rate for big users is 7Uj
cents, which is raised from 5 cents.
This should provide an additional
$8,000 revenue. Allowance for
home refrigerators and deep
freezers will also continue as pre
viously.
Permission was granted for the •
Midnight Sun Festival officials
to rope off areas of streets and
sidewalks for Festival activities.
A change in the car sticker li
cense was approved to allow sta
tion wagons the same rate as pas
senger cars in 1960.
Sales Tax Up July 1
The new 3 per cent sales tax
will go into effect on July 1, and
necessary ordinances were passed
by the Council to make it effec
tive. A break-down of the collect
ing scale for the tax will be made
available to the business houses
very soon, it was decided at the
Council meeting on Monday
evening.
Petition for Sidewalk
A petition was received by the
Council, signed by a group re
questing a sidewalk to the MMM
Hospital. The matter was turned
over to the street committee.
City Hall To Gets 'New Look'
The City Hall is to be painted
as soon as possible. Bids are being
called for, so that the work, or
part of it, can be done before the
Midnight Sun Festival begins on
June 19.
Orville Dickman requested per
mission for the use of city pro
perty on either side of the revet
ment for loading freight in the
river.
The City Warehouse, formerly
the A.R.C. Garage, has been rented
to Patti McDonald Construction
Company for storing of material
to use in constructing the Alaska
National Guard Building.
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'BACILLUS' TRIPS CHAMPION
SPELLER FROM ANCHORAGE
WASHINGTON, UR — The first
seven rounds of increasingly
tough words eliminated more
than half the 70 regional spelling
champions today in the 32nd an
nual National Spelling Bee.
The Anchorage entry, Georgette
Wadsworth, 14, tripped in round
5, on “bacillus.” 1
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