Firearms Taken From
Non-Union Workers at
Minnesota Packing* Plant
ALBERT LEA, Minn., — No
charges are being filed against
nine non-union workers in whose
cars weapons were found as they
arrived to reopen the Wilson Co.
meat packing plant here Monday.
The workers were held in jail
until O. Russell Olson, Freeborn
County attorney, ruled Monday
night that they could not be
charged with contempt because
they had not been officially
served with a District Court order
barring firearms near the plant.
The nine were jailed after Na
tional Guardsmen under direction
of Sheriff Everette Stevern dis
covered the guns during inspec
tion of the cars of 200 workers
entering the plant.
“I have decided the benefit of
doubt must be given these men
and no statutory criminal action
will therefore be taken,” Olson
said. He warned future violations
would bring action.
Other than finding of the wea
pons, the reopening was without
incident. It marked first slaught
ering done at the plant since mar
tial law was declared December
11 in the wake of violence be
tween United Packinghouse Work
ers pickets and 500 non-union
workers Wilson had been using.
A federal court ruled last week
that closing of the plant under
the martial law edict was illegal.
The union has been on strike
since November 3.
Negotiations seeking to resolve
differences between Wilson and
the union were resumed yesterday
in Chicago.
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS
AT PIONEER HOME
The following is the birthday
list for January of the guests at
the Alaska Pioneers Home, Box
198, Sitka. Most of these residents
are far from their old haunts and
friends, and all would appreciate
being remembered on his or her
own special day, by cards, letters
or even gifts from their old
friends, or even strangers. For
some, this could be the last birth
day.
January 1—Gust R. Carlstrom,
born 1879, from Fairbanks; 2—
Manuel Soares, 1879, Craig; 5—
Dave Brown, 1881, Anchorage;
7—Alma Troseth, 1886, Fairbanks;
10—Joseph Kittinger, 1875, Ju
neau; 15—Ida L. Garner, 1879,
Petersburg; 16—Henry Warang,
1894, Naknak; 18—Carl F. Jensen,
1873; Sitka, and Fred Todd, 1897,
Anchorage; 19—Walter H. Eck
lund, 1877, Dillingham; 22—Willis
Hoagland, 1866, Wrangell and
Anna Lemon, 1889, Fairbanks; 23
— Carl W. Stoeckel, 1887, Wran
gell, and Mrs. Elizabeth Woods,
1878, Klawock; 27—Mrs. Edith
Barrow, 1882, Douglas; 28—Chas.
Burg, 1883, Juneau; 31—Samuel
E. Gardner, 1873, Fairbanks, and
John Pearson, 1881, Nome.
RETIRED CGS OFFICER
DIED ON CHRISTMAS
SEATTLE, (JN—Capt. Frederick
B. T. Siems, 71, retired Coast and
Geodetic Survey officer well
known in Pacific Northwest mari
time circles, died of a heart attack
on Christmas Day.
IN THE PROBATE COURT
FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT
SECOND DIVISION,
STATE OF ALASKA
In the Matter of the Estate of
ANTONIO POLET, Deceased,
ALVIN A. G. POLET and
EMILY P. BOUCHER. Co-Executors.
No. 1110
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That, by
order of the Probate Court for the
Cape Nome Precinct, Second Division.
State of Alaska, the undersigned have
been appointed Co-Executors for the
Estate of ANTONIO POLET, Deceased.
All persons having claims against said
estate should present them, with proper
vouchers, within six months from the
date hereof to the undersigned, at the
office of COLLINS & CLASBY. Attor
neys for said estate, in Fairbanks,
Alaska, which office is hereby desig
nated as the place where the principal
business of said estate will be conducted.
DATED this, the 30th day of De
cember, 1959.
ALVIN A. G. POLET,
EMILY P. BOUCHER,
Co-Executors.
■ Pub. Dec. 30, 1959. Jan. 5, 13, 20, 1960.
Methodists View Plans
For New Church
Last evening about 75 mem
bers and friends of the Commun
ity Methodist Church gathered at
the Seaview Dining Room to see
the plans for the beautiful new
church to be built here next sum
mer.
The present church, which was
built at the turn of the century,
was found by engineers several
years ago to be impractical to
rehabilitate due to permafrost
conditions.
Rev. Fred McGinnjs, who heads
Methodist work in the state, re
viewed the plans and helped the
local building board on, minor
changes in the planning before
the actual construction gets under
way.
Also at the dinner was Dean
Heller of the Alaska Methodist
University who gave a short re
sume of the plans for the first
year of the college, which is to
open in the fall, telling some
thing of the scope of the educa
tional program and new teaching
methods to be employed. Dr.
Heller, who comes from an east
ern university, is a former Alas
kan, having attended the Uni
versity of Alaska in 1928.
This evening at 6:30 high school
seniors will hear about Alaska’s
new college from Dr. Heller and
Rev. McGinnis, who is acting
president.
Dean Heller is the nephew of
Lynn Smith who lived in Nome
during the early pioneer days and
later was U.S. Marshal at Fair
banks.
WHAT HE DOES WITH
HIS FREE TIME . . .
MARYSVILLE, Calif., OPl — In
a busy two hours early today,
trusty Charles V. Van Vorst broke
out of Yuba County Jail and bur
glarized three service stations,
two cafes and offices of the Cali
fornia State Division of Highways.
Police caught up with him on
his sixth job, one of the cafes.
His total loot was about $170 in
cash, they said.
Van Vorst, 20, was serving time
on three counts of burglary. He
had been made a jail trusty
Christmas Day.
Castro Arrests
Include Havana
Diario Editor
HAVANA, W> — Officials have
arrested more than 35 persons,
including the former director of
the conservative newspaper Diario
De La Marina, the newspaper
Revolucion said yesterday.
Revolucion, the newspaper of
Prime Minister Fidel Castdo’s
revolutionary movement, asserted
Eugenio De Sosa Chabau, 43, for
mer director of Diario De La
Marina and former owner of the
Santa Regina sugar mill in Oriente
Province, headed a group of 26
persons who plotted seizure of
the naval arsenal at Casa Blanca
across the bay from Havana. Cas
tro has often criticied Diario De
La Marina as being counter
revolutionary.
Nine other persons, including
one woman, were seized in a sec
ond group which Revolucion said
was plotting to acquire dynamite
for terroristic uses. The report
said the arrests were made after
Castro agents penetrated the
group which met on a Honduran
ship.
Earth Treirors Reported
HOLLISTER, Calif., OP) — A
rolling earthquake shook this
north central California agricul
tural area Monday evening,
toppling boxes from shelves,
shaking ornaments from Christ
mas trees and alarming Hollis
ter’s 6,000 residents.
No noticeable damage was
reported.
CORDOVA AIRLINES GRANTED
ADDED MAIL COMPENSATION
WASHINGTON, OP) — The Civil
Aeronautics Board has granted
Cordova Airlines $11,509 in addi
tional pay for carrying mail in
Alaska from December 9, 1957,
through September 30, 1958.
The payment brings the total
in mail compensation for Cordova
for that period to $477,696.
YEAR END OBSERVANCE
AT LUTHERAN CHURCH
Thursday December 31, a fam
ily social and watchnight service
are planned at Our Savior’s Lu
theran Church. The social will
begin at 9 p.m., with games in
the quonset. The watch-night serv
ice will be held in the church,
beginning at 11 o’clock, and end
ing at Midnight.
Heavy Snows, Gales, Lash
Eastern Section of U. S.
(By The Associated Press*
A blockbuster storm dumped
heavy snow on the northeastern
quarter of the nation yesterday.
Power lines snapped under a
burden of ice. Travel slowed or
stalled in snow that ranged up to
a foot in depth.
Nineteen deaths were reported
in the nation. Included were New
York 3, Massachusetts 3, Maine 3,
Kansas 2, Wisconsin 2, Iowa 2.
and Oregon 4.
It was the worst storm of the
winter in New England. Lighter
snowfalls were reported west
ward as far as the Mississippi
Valley.
Many chilled homes lacked light
and heat after ice broke power
lines. Many plane flights were
canceled. Buses ran behind
schedule.
Gale warnings were hoisted
along the New England coast.
Scores of accidents on perilous
highways were reported in the
northeastern quarter.
A freeze followed 36 hours of
rain and iced streets in Detroit. A
sleet and freezing rain felled
trees and broke power lines in
central Michigan.
Four University of Washington
students were killed when their
car crashed into a truck on an icy.
foggy road near Eugene, Ore. The
victims were bound for the Rose
Bowl football game in Pasadena.
Calif.
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you THROUGH
ALL THE REAR
As the bells ring out the
old year and herald the
new, we send our greet
ings to all and trust God’s
richest blessings will be
Meta Muller
Jimmy Sirloak
Jennie Attatayuk
Helen Senungetuk
Margaret Russell
Lyda Rohn
Emily Boucher
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 480
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Dee’s Cafe
NEW YEAR’S EVE MENU - 9 P.M. TO 6 A.M.
Tossed Green Salad — Choice of Cocktail
Combination Chinese
Sweet & Sour So?’"-°"iV
Chicken Chow Mein
Combination Seafood ^o11
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Ham Fried Rice
Shrimp Foo Yur.
combination Italian Plate
P-n’s Own Homemade Ravioli
O^d Country Style
Spaghetti, Caruso
Chicken Cacciatori, Palermo
Veal Scalloppini, Casini
Risotto with Sausage
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