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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 138_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAlft, NOVEMBER 20, 1953 _Per Copy—15^
Proposition For City Ownership
Of Northern Light and Power Co.
Explained At Wednesday Meeting
The special public meeting,
called by the City Council to dis
cuss the possible purchase of the
Northern Light and Power Co.
last Wednesday evening was
called to order by Mayor Steve
Andersen, who explained the de
velopments to date in the project.
He explained to the taxpayers
present that Mr. O. S. Weaver,
who has been in business here for
50 years, was retiring and wished
to dispose of his light plant.
Through the Grande Co. of Se
attle, the City of Nome had been
approached as the logical pur
chaser, as most utilities of this
kind in the territory are now mu
nicipally owned.
After consulting with Bill Winn,
agent of the company willing to
make the loan and after studying
an engineering report prepared by
Metcalf and Harstad, an engineer
ing firm of Seattle specializing in
this kind of work, the council had
decided in favor of the purchase.
Anderson stated it was now up to
the people of Nome to decide the
issue by voting -next Tuesday.
Bill Winn, representative of the
bonding company, explained that
the city was in no way responsible
or obligated to his company, as
their interest was only in the
plant for which they are advanc
ing the proposed $235,000.
In answer to a query by Clyde
Kammerer, Winn said the pur
chase price was $200,000, as of
fered to the city by O. S. Weaver;
$25,000 for immediate improve
ments to make the plant adequate
to the needs of the community;
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$10,000 for acquisition expenses
(such as engineering firm’s fees
and necessary legal expenses*.
All of the $35,000 will not have
to be expended at this time, but
will be used when called for by
the utility board.
R. Roell, well-known electrical
engineer, voiced the opinion that,
with lower prices anticipated on
power and anticipated increased
use of power, that the city must
set up a wiring code. He also ex
pressed a feeling that the people
should know that cheap power
could not be had overnight and
that money must be spent for im
provements before this long
hoped-for privilege could be real
ized.
Robert Scott raised the question
concerning the $5,000 involved in
deposits on meters. He was ad
vised that these deposits will be
turned over by the Northern Light
and Power to the city.
Howard Harstad, consulting en
gineer, explained many factors in
the improvements of the service
and the need to keep reserves for
a few years at least in the busi
ness as well as lowering rates.
He explained how much power,
now lost, could be sold at lower
rates for the mutual benefit of the
taxpayers and the light plant.
He also explained how the five
or six - member utility board
should be set up so that the mem
bers serve about five years and
alternate, so that only one new
member would be added to the
board every year by election.
Demos To Fight
For Big Boost In
Air Defense Funds
WASHINGTON, OP)—Rep. John
W. McCormack (D-Mass) said
Thursday Democrats will fight in
the next session of Congress for
a two billion dollar increase in air
defense funds to provide radar,
interceptor planes and other de
vices to knock out all but 10 per
cent of enemy bombers in any
sudden attack.
Currently, he added, “It is a
disgraceful situation—in case of a
sneak attack our defenses are
such that 70 per cent of the at
tacking planes can get through.”
Rep. Winstead <D-Miss) a mem
ber of the House Armed Forces
Committee who returned last
week from an eight-week inspec
tion tour of American military
bases abroad, said in a separate
interview he is convinced “we cer
tainly must strengthen our air de
fenses at home as rapidly as pos
sible.”
Navy Super Transmitter
Can Alert I|.S. Forces All
Over World At One Time
JIM CREEK VALLEY, Wash.,
(A*)—The Navy can now pass the
word to all the world.
Into the new naval wireless
transmitter, most powerful in
existence, poured a growing file
of messages today to prove the
globe - girdling claims made for
station NLK, “Radio Jim Creek.”
Should a Pearl Harbor signal
the start of another world war,
the Navy now knows it could
broadcast commands to its forces
wherever they are deployed, in
one single and urgent message.
In the initial test of the 1,200,
000 watt $14,000,000 transmitter
Wednesday, a battleship off Japan
acknowledged the message and a
submarine, boring through the
cold, gray waters of the northeast
Atlantic received the signal from
home. There were other receipt
ing mesages from far away places,
including Africa and the Philip
pines and a battlewagon far down
in the south Atlantic.
U.S. Must Not Lose
Advantage of Air
Power Superiority
DALLAS, UP — Gen. Nathan F.
Twining declared Friday the
United States must establish be
yond question that it recognizes
superior air power and weapons
“give us an advantage over mas
sive Red armies that we must not
and will not lose.”
Twining, Air Force chief of
staff, said this country had a vir
tual monopoly on long-range air
power and its “most decisive wea
pons” six years ago and that
Russia then demanded American
abandonment of this great advan
tage. The Russian army is “still
the same ponderous threat,” said
Twining, and Soviet air power
and new air weapons “have be
come a new threat.”
Twining declared also that the
United States must maintain and
increase its “unchallenged su
periority” in the ability to deliver
air weapons at long range.
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Gen. Dean To Command
6th Army at San Francisco
WASHINGTON, UP*—Maj. Gen.
William Dean, of Korean War
fame, has been appointed deputy
commander of the Sixth Army at
San Francisco, the Army an
nounced Friday.
Dean will take up his post Jan.
1, relieving Maj. Gen. Frank H.
Partridge, who will retire at the
end of the year.
Dean has been receiving medi
cal treatment at the Army’s Wal
ter Reed Hospital here for sev
eral weeks after his release from
more than three years of cap
tivity by the Communists.
He was the first American to
be awarded the Medal of Honor
for valor in Korea, among the
first to be captured and one of
the last to be exchanged after
the armistice.
Johnny Warren Willing
To Take Lie Detector Test
FAIRBANKS, UP* — Everett
Hepp, a Fairbanks attorney, said
Thursday he has been retained as
defense attorney for Johnny War
den, Negro jazz drummer who has
been charged with first degree
murder in the death of Cecil
Wells.
Hepp has been legal adviser for
Warren’s wife in Fairbanks since
the drummer and Mrs. Diane
Wells, widow of the slain busi
nessman, were accused of the
crime.
Hepp reported that Warren has
expressed a willingness to under
go a lie detector test to substan
tiate his claim that he had no
thing to do with the killing of
Wells early the morning of Oct.
17 th.
Alaska Airlines To Drop
Medical Supplies At
Measles-Stricken Savoonga
Alaska Airlines is scheduled to
make a flight to Gambell today,
taking a supply of special medi
cines to combat the measles epe
demic now prevelent in both
Gambell and Savoonga.
As it will be impossible to land
at Savoonga, veteran Pilot Bob
Long will drop the supplies.
The ANS nurse on the island
is Grace Brosson, who rotates be
tween the two villages. She has
reported that both schools are
closed and that the rpajority of
the villagers are now afflicted.
Divorce Action by Mrs.
Woodley Ends 2nd Week
With New Controversy
SEATTLE, (tf)—The divorce suit
of Mrs. Letha Woodley against
Arthur G. Woodley, president of
Pacific Northern Airlines, reach
ed the end of its second week
Friday with a new element of
controversy injected.
At the start of the hearing, it
was described as a suit in which
the wife’s divorce action would
not be contested, and in which the
main issues would be property
settlement and possible support
allowances. The Woodley’s pro
perty is listed at more than a
million dollars in value.
The change in the defense has
come after lengthy introduction
of testimony about the private
lives and actions of the couple.
Mrs. Woodley has alleged abusive
actions and speech by her promi
nent husband. Her attorneys have
been attempting to establish that
Woodley’s actions and speech
have caused acute embarrassment
to his wife.
The defense case for Woodley
opened yesterday. Among the first
day witnesses called for Woodley
were Mr. and Mrs. William Boe
ing, Jr., of the airplane company
family.
Mrs. Boeing testified that Mrs.
Woodley has been a good wife
and housekeeper. She also said
that she never has been present
when Woodley misbehaved in any
way.
Freak Rain and Snow
Storms Sweep Eastern
Mediterranean Area
CAIRO, Egypt, UPl — A freak
snow and rain storm sweeping
the eastern Mediterranean report
edly has caused at least 13 deaths
and wrought destruction through
the ancient lands along its shores.
Twelve persons were reported
killed in, Alexandria, Egypt’s
chief seaport, when heavy gales
the past two days tumbled houses.
Lebanese officials said at least
32 persons, including 17 girl goat
herds, were missing as that Bib
lical land shivered under its
fourth straight night of heavy
rains and snows.
Reds Stall On
Demands Explain
‘Fuzzy’ Peace Plan
PANMUNJOM, UP)—Communist
diplomats fired a stream of abuse
at U.S. ambassador Arthur H.
Dean Friday instead of answering
his repeated demands to explain
their “fuzzy” plan for neutrals to
attend the Korean peace confer
ence.
Dean said the Red “harangue”
probably was just a stall until
Peiping or Moscow send orders
to Communist diplomats meeting
at Panmunjom to plan the con
ference.
The Communist plan calls for
non-belligerent nations to attend
the conference without a vote on
major issues. They apparently
abandoned early demands that
some non-belligerents have full
participation—a plan exactly op
posite the U.N. proposal for a
meeting of only those nations
which fought in Korea.
However, Dean’s pressure on
the Reds to give details of their
proposal indicates the Allies
might be willing to reach some
sort of compromise.
Meanwhile, Communist efforts
to woo home anti-Red Chinese
and Korean POWs remained stale
mated with the Reds and custo
dian Indian Command deadlocked
over the number of POWs to be
interviewed daily.
Fairbanks Newsminer
Publishes 128-Page
Progress Edition
FAIRBANKS, UP) — The Fair
banks Daily Newsminer published
a 128-page progress edition, print
ed in nine colors on a rotary \
press, Thursday.
I The edition was described as
the “biggest newspaper ever pub
lished in Alaska, and the first to
be published in more than two
colors.”
A total of 21,00.0 copies was
printed, with more than 5,000
being reserved in advance in ad
dition to the regular home circu
lation.
It was the first edition of the
newspaper to be printed on the
Newsminer’s newly installed ro
tary press.
NO GOOD MEN NEED APPLY
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, (tf>—Vic
'tor Wagle, 31-year-old father of
three children, needed a job. Now
he has prospects of any number of
jobs at $75 a week after insert
ing the following classified ad in
the Springfield Daily News and
Sun:
“Undependable, sloppy, liar,
cheat, drunkard, allergic to work,
man neads job, $75 week. Mar
ried, three children to support.”
Wagle said he had been swamp
ed with offers including two for
bartending jobs.
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