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VOL. LIX No. 78 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. JULY 1, 1957 Per Copy—15*
Nome’s Fourth of July Celebration
Features Full Day of Events Plus
Gov. Stepovich and Gen. Armstrong
The 4th of July Committee has ,
announced a full program of i
events for Independence Day, in
fact, Pete Reader said there were
so many things planned that it
was almost impossible to find
time for all of them.
The 4th of July celebration
kicks off with a no-host dinner j
at 7:30 on the evening of July 3, !
honoring Governor of Alaska
Mike Stepovich, and if he is able !
to be here at the time, Lt. Gen. |
Frank Armstrong, commander of i
the armed forces in the Alaska
theater.
Reservations are being taken
at the North Star on a first come
basis. When the capacity of the
dining room is reached the reser
vations will close. All reserva
tions must be in by tomorrow,
it has been stated.
The program on the 4th starts
at 9 a.m. with sports for the chil
dren, followed by the Eskimo
sports.
The parade will start the af
ternoon program of which Sgt.
Granfield is chairman. The par
ade with include the 774th Air
Force Band, and units of the
American Legion, Army, Nation
al Guard, CAP Cadets and Girl J
and Boy Scouts.
The patriotic exercises will fol
low the-' parade and Russell Her
man is master of ceremonies.
The highlight of the program will
be an address by Gov. Stepovich.
Speed boat races and a band
concert are planned for later in
the afternoon, and the CAP will
sponsor a dance in the evening at
the multi-purpose room of the
Nome School.
The 4th of July Committee is
headed by Mayor Steffen Ander
sen and Councilmen Pete Reader
and Wilbur Arnold.
Business houses and homes are
urged to fly their flags and have
their premises cleaned up for the
occasion.
Contributions to pay for the
prizes' for the sporting events
have been received as follows:
$30—The Polar.
$25—Northern Commercial Co.
and Morrison-Knudsen Co.
$20—Wallace Hotel, Nome Drug
Store, M & M Bank, Larry Gal
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R. A. Derr To Be
New AVA Head
FAIRBANKS, —Resignation
of R. A. Dutch Derr as manager
of the Fairbanks Chamber of
Commerce was announced Satur
day. Derr resigned to take the po
sition of managing director of the
Alaska Visitors Association.
Derr has been manager of the
chamber here for the past two
years. He will take on his new
job the middle of August and
will be in Juneau.
He succeeds Frank Whaley,
who resigned last spring to go
into airlines promotion work with
Wien Alaska Airlines.
Tito Appears on U.S. Television,
Says His Views Agree With Mao’s
NEW YORK, \JD—President Tito
of Yugoslavia says his views on
Communism are “to a great ex
tent identical” with those of Red
China’s boss, Mao Tze-tung.
Tito also sees “active coexis
tence” as the key to peace be
tween the West and the Commu
nist countries.
The stocky 65-year-old Yugo
slav leader was seen and heard
throughout the United States yes
terday on a TV interview, with
Edward R. Murrow. The one
hour interview, recently filmed
in Yugoslavia, was broadcast
over CBS TV and radio networks.
Asked about Mao’s recent speech
declaring there is no single path
to Communism and that “contra
dictions” can exist in a Commu
nist society, Tito commented:
"... I’m pleased to be able to
say that our views do not contra
dict with the views outlined by
Mao Tse-tung, but on the con
trary they are to a great extent
identical. I, think that Mao Tze
tung by this speech of his has to
a great extent calmed down the
fear which has existed in the
West from Communism.”
Tito then was asked if he
thought Communism was going
to take on “more of a divergent
nationalist character.”
“It is quite true,” the President
answered, “that development to
wards socialism and Communism
can’t go along one path in the
whole world, but it would be
wrong to call that national Com
munism. The development in dif
ferent countries depends upon
specific conditions, ^historic and
others.”
This belief that Communism
cannot develop in the same way
in all countries led Tito to break
with Stalin in 1948 and set up his
own independent brand of Com
munism.
I Tito and Mao’s views on the
development of Communism are
not in line with those held by
Russian leaders.
The interview was filmed at
Tito’s villa on Vanga, one of the
Brioni Islands in the Adriatic
Sea. His handsome wife ap
peared with him and spoke of her
role as a partisan fighter in the
second world war. Both spoke in
Serbo-Croatian for the most part.
An interpreter translated for the
American audience. Occasionally
the couple spoke a few words of
English, which they understand.
Four Climbers Stranded
Overnight on Ice Wall
Fi,escued Unharmed
GOLDENDALE. Wash., —
Four weekend climbers, stranded
overnight on a gleaming ice fall
high on snow-covered Mt. Adams,
were rescued early today—cold,
tired and hungry but otherwise
unharmed.
The four men, reached by one
of six rescue parties making their
way up the rugged flanks of the
mountain, were found huddled
on the ice fall at the 9,500-foot
level.
An ice fall, or wall, is a wall
of ice with precipitous sides. The
four men were stranded at the
head of the fall, unable to move
in any direction. The ice fall had
a 45-degree slant.
Adm. Stump Extends His Pacific
Military Command to Include All
U.S. Forces in the Far East
TOKYO, UPP-Adm. Felix B.,
Stump extended his Pacific mili- J
tary command today to include i
all U.S. forces in the Far East,
and declared: /
“We have the forces now to
contain an attack that occurs;
anywhere in the world.”
The command change put Air
Force, Army and Navy forces in
both the Asian and Pacific thea
ters under Stump’s headquarters
at Pearl Harbor. It gave the Navy
Senate Territories Subcommittee OKs
Bills for Alaska, Hawaii Statehood
By FRANK W. VAILLE
(AP Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, OR—A Senate
Territories subcommittee today
approved separate bills to grant
statehood to Alaska and Hawaii.
Sen. Jackson ID-Wash), sub
committee chairman, said that he
hopes to bring both bills before
the full Senate Insular Affairs
Committee July 23.
Action on the Hawaii bill fol
lowed an hour’s consideration. It
was approved unanimously by
Jackson and Sen. Kuchel (R
Calif), the only two subcommittee
members present. Sen. Neuberger
(D-Ore), who had been present
earlier for consideration of the
Alaska bill, left his proxy vote in
favor of the measure to admit
Hawaii.
As approved by the committee,
the Hawaii bill would admit to
statehood the entire area now in
cluded within the boundaries of
the island.
Voting for the Alaska bill in
addition to Jackson were Neu
berger and Kuchel. Sen. Gold
water (R-Ariz) was not present.
; Neuberger said he was author
| ized by Goldwater to cast his
[ vote for the Alaskan bill.
The Hawaii bill was amended
to prevent Hawaii—if admitted
to the Union—from enacting any
legislation or taking other action
that would discriminate against
non-residents of the new state.
Several Major Differences
As approved by the subcom
mittee, the Alaska bill contains
several major differences from a
measure previously approved by
the House Insular Affairs Com
mittee.
The Senate bill would author
ize appropriation to the new
state of $15 million for land sur
veys and would give Alaska the
right to select only 103 million
acres of public domain as a tax
PIGEONS FOLLOW SEED
j TUCSON, Ariz., OR—Early last
I week Joe Wee reported that a
i thief had stolen 100 pounds of
pigeon feed from him. Now the
police are looking for 20 of his
jumbo-sized pigeons. Wee report
ed Friday someone had flown the
coop with the birds.
base.
The House bill would give the
now state the right to select 182
million acres but would author
ize no appropriations for land
survpys.
The Seriate bill also contains a
provision, not in the House bill,
which would prevent the new
state from discriminating against
non-resident individuals or busi
nesses.
Maritime Board Jurisdiction
The Senate version also would
retain in the Federal Maritime
Board jurisdiction over water
commerce to and from Alaskan
ports.
.This provision was deleted by
the House committee, thereby, in
effect, transferring control of the
Alaskan water commerce to the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Death Toll From Cameron Hurricane
Now 450, Bodies Still Being Found
LAKE CHARLES, La., (A*)—
Workmen probing the debris of
hurricane- and wave - stricken
Cameron today uncovered many
additional bodies, sending unoffi
cial estimates of the final death
toll upward once again.
The Lake Charles American
Press said the toll would run be
tween 400 and 500, probably
about 450, basing its estimate on
the rapid discovery of more vic
tims during a systematic check of
the surrounding marsh.
Sheriff Ham Reid of Calcasieu
Parish (Lake Charles) said he
now knew of 246 bodies on hand
and “many more are coming in.”
Reid is in charge of maintaining
- the official death list. He gave
his latest figure at a news confer
ence of federal and state civil
defense officials.
The grim news of a climbing
toll broke as Louisiana prepared
a mass burial for the nameless
dead.
47,000 Still Homeless
Thousands of survivors of the
! great storm of June 27 still
clogged makeshift refugee cen
j ters here and in nearby towns,
i From Washington came a Red
Cross estimate of 47,000 still
homeless in southwestern Louisi
ana and southeastern Texas.
A growing threat of pestilence
spurred the mass burial of un
identified bodies. Last night’s
humid air in temporary morgues
here echoed the soft chant of
spirituals as many Negroes be
sought a final moment with their
dead.
Typhoid and Mosquitoes
As far as 80 miles east of the
storm center in Louisiana’s south
western tip, typhoid shots ran
low. Mosquitoes thrived in the
brackish waters swollen by hur
ricane Audrey and her deadly es
cort, a 20-foot tidal wave from
the Gulf of Mexico.
Tens of thousands of dead cat
tle bloated in withering heat.
President Eisenhower’s special
representative on the scene, Val
Peterson, former head of the na
tion’s civil defense, told the chief
executive yesterday by telephone:
“There is a very great health
problem, because of the bodies of
both human beings and animals.
All of the health agencies ar.;
working very hard.”
supreme command in the Far
East for the first time since early
in World War II.
The flag of Gen. Douglas Mc
Arthur’s old Far East Command
was hauled down for the last time
in colorful ceremonies in Tokyo.
The blue and white United Na
tions banner which has flown
alongside it since the Korean War
was bundled up and flown to a
new U.N. Command headquar
ters, subservient to Stump, in
Seoul.
The Far East Air Forces also
ceased to exist. Air Force Gen.
Laurence S. Kuter and Army
Gen. I. D. White, who have head
ed the air and ground forces in
the Far East, joined Stump’s staff
in Hawaii. Lt. Gen. Frederick K.
Smith Jr., chief of the 5th Air
Force, became commander ofU.S.
forces in Japan.
The admiral, here to oversee
the changeover, denied in a news
conference that there is any cal
culated risk in the vast command
shift or in the forthcomirtg with
drawal of U. S. ground troops
from Japan.
In the event of another Com
munist attack, Stump declared,
“the forces in Korea now could
give a damn good account of
themselves and hold the line until
other forces were brought in.”
With the entire Pacific under
one command, Stump said, “there
is less possibility of cross pur
poses and delays or mistake than
with a.divided command.”