More Than Mail
Involved In
Contract Renewal
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many more things than mail, and
a lot of them cannot be delivered
by plane,” Townsend said.
“The villages are small. It one
place—Chjrnofski—I think there
are only two' families. A ship
without a mail contract can’t af
ford to serve places like that, and
the people obviously can’t afford
to charter a ship to carry their
supplies. And they can’t pay what
it would cost to get supplies by
air.”
The Garland makes a trip each
month to the Aleutians. She loads
cargo in Seattle and picks up the
mail in Seward. The mail contract
is for $233,000 a year.
Seattle, as well as the Aleu
tians, has a stake in the opera
tion, Townsend said. He listed
some of the Garland’s expenses as
about $150,000 a year for wages
of crew members living in Seat
tle, $35,000 to $40,000 for provi
sions bought here, a like amount
for fuel, and about $20,000 a
year spent with shipyards.
Atom Wastes Disposed Of
By Burial At Sea
Encased In Concrete
SEATTLE, i—The radiological
engineer of the Hanford atomic
plant, James M. Smith, said Fri
day the plant disposes of some
of its radioactive wastes by bury
ing them a* sea encased in con
crete.
Smith told the Industrial Waste
Conference the sea burial method
was used for solid radioactive
waste and that gas or liquid waste
generally was dilluted and dis
persed.
Smith said Hanford engineers
constantly check the waters of
the Columbia River after the
water is used in the atomic cool
ing precesses.
WIEN AIRLINES
Arriving from Fairbanks: Sgt.
Munsen, R. Watson.
MMM HOSPITAL
Discharged: Penny Smith, Ron
ald Schultz, Mabel Walluk.
Fairbanks Aunt Named
Guardian Of $230,000
Estate Of Marquam Wells
FAIRBANKS, (At—The probate
court of this interior Alaska city
Friday named an aunt as guardian
of the estate of little Marquam
Wells, the pawn in the Wells slay
ing and suicide case.
The court named Mrs. Edna
Westbrook of Fairbanks, a sister
of the slain automobile dealer, as
guardian of the estimated $250,000
share of the estate left to the boy.
Mrs. Westbrook also has a peti
tion in the Los Angeles court for
the guardianship of the boy — a
petition that is being contested by
Well’s mother, Yvonne Ward of
San Francisco.
A copy of the Fairbanks court
order is scheduled to go to the
Los Angeles court. Marquam is in
Los Angeles.
Mrs. Westbrook contends juris
diction is rightfully in the court
here because Fairbanks is the
boy’s legal residence and was his
parents’ residence. The will of
both parents named Mrs. West
brook as their guardian choice.
Beta Sigma Phi Meeting
By CAROLINE READER
Beta Sigma Phis held an extra
ordinary meeting Friday evening
at the Alexander residence.
First, all the members went
over to St. Joseph’s Church to
view the inspiring slides of the
scope and work of the Little Sis
ters and Little Brothers of Jesus
and to listen to a brief history of
the order given by one of the
Liitle Brothers.
Convening again at our meeting
place, we handled the business for
the evening, discussing plans for
the installation of pledges, com
ing rummage sale and Founder’s
Day.
Refreshments were then served
with each member having brought
something for all the others.
Bill Brown a Grandfather
Bill Brown local engineer in
charge of Nome Harbor, is a
beaming grandfather today with
the announcement that his daugh
ter, Isabelle Losvar, is the mother
of a daughter born in Seattle on
March 21st.
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Wilson Limits
Recording Of
Telephone Talks
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Secretary
of Defense Wilson has instructed
his department that no telephone
conversations are to be recorded
unless the person on the other
end knows it and consents.
Wilson’s directive, which in
general forbids the use of record
ing devices unless specifically
authorized by the secretary of a
service, was issued on March 11,
the same day an Army report al
leging improper pressure by Sen.
McCarthy and an aide, was given
to several senators.
H. Struve Hensel, Defense De
partment general counsel appear
ing before the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee Thursday, testi
fied there had been no mechanical
recordings of conversations be
tween the Pentagon and the Mc
Carthy investigators, but that
some talks may have been taken
down by stenographic transcript.
McCarthy at one stage in his
dispute with Army officials im
plied there might be recordings
of some such conversations.
The Defense Department, a
spokesman said Saturday in an
swer to questions, started prepar
ing the directive some time last
January and it finally became
ready for printing and distribu
tion on March 11.
Potter Says Schine
Will Be Questioned
On Army Favors
WASHINGTON, IjP—Sen. Pot
ter <R-Mich> said Saturday Pvt.
G. David Schine, a drafted former
aide to Sen. McCarthy will be
asked under oath if McCarthy
or others really did get the Army
to give Schine special favored
treatment.
McCarthy’s permanent Investi
gations subcommittee has voted
to investigate the row between
McCarthy an/I Army officials. In
volved are accusations that Mc
Carthy and Roy Cohn, subcom
mittee counsel, exerted improper
pressures to win special favors
for Schine, and McCarthy’s coun
ter-charges of “blackmail” against
top Army officials.
Potter, a member of the sub
committee, told reporters he will
insist on testimony by Schine and
some of his fellow soldiers to
show whether the wealthy young
draftee ever got any of the special
favors that have been reported.
The Michigan senator, a decor
ated hero who lost both legs in
World War II, said evidence of
special favor “would not neces
sarily reflect on Schine, but it
would reflect on the Army.”
“I understand,” the senator said
“that after a certain period he
became a good soldier.”
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Identifier Of Diane Wells
Files Suit For False Arrest
Against L.A. Police Dept.
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Suit for
$20,000 false arrest damages was
filed Friday against the City of
Los Angeles and its police depart
ment by William Colombany, for
merly of Fairbanks, Alaska.
Colombany identified the body
of Mrs. Diane Wells of Fairbanks
after she committed suicide in a
Hollywood hotel March 9.
Colombany’s suit said he was
lured from his apartment here
Jan. 27 to a Hollywood bar, where
he was arrested on suspicion of
murder and held in jail without
being allowed to telephone his
lawyer or his mother.
Colomibany contends he was
questioned by Alaska police and
permitted to leave Alaska and
that there was no cause for his
arrest.
Jewelry Worth $19,000
Stolen From Jane Wyman
WEST LOS ANGELES, UP) —
Movie actress Jane Wyman has re
reported the loss of $19,000 worth
of jewelry and $50 cash.
Police said the actress and her
husband, Frederick Karger, in
formed them burglars entered
their home early Friday, and took
a ruby necklace, a diamond ring,
a watch and Miss Wyman’s wed
ding ring.
IT'S A FAST TRACK!
BEAUFORT, N.C., UP)—A high
way patrolman flagged down a
speeder near the junction of
Highways 70 and 101.
“Don’t you know the speed
limit?”
“Sure,” the driver replied, “it’s
70 miles an hour. It says so on
that sign there.”
Teh cop looked at the marker
for highway No'. 70.
“Good thing I caught you be
fore you reached Highway 101,”
he muttered, making out a ticket.
The average American used
about 14 lbs. of coffee in 1953.
McCarthy May
Leave Committee
Temporarily
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as well as prosecutor and judge”
the Democrats will carry a fight
against such an arrangement to
the parent Government Opera
tions subcommittee.
McCarthy returned to Washing
ton last night from a four-day
speaking trip in the Midwest. In
his wind-up talk, at Oklahoma
City Saturday night, he said he
thinks President Eisenhower “is
doing the best job he can (but) I
don’t think he is a superman.”
If the President were running for
office now, McCarthy said, he
would be “compelled” to cam
paign for him.
Sen. Monroney (D-Okla) noting
that McCarthy referred to him in
the Oklahoma City speech as
“your little Lord Fauntleroy” and
a “waterbo'y for the leftwingers,”
said:
“I expect Sen. McCarthy feels
anybody so old-fashioned as to
still ibelieve in the Bill of Rights
and the Constitution may be a
Fauntleroy, and those still old
fashioned enough to believe in
trial by jury and presumption of
innocence may be dangerously
left-wing as Thomas Jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln.”
Icebreaker North Wind
Returns With Ice Samples
After 11,000-Mile Cruise
SAN DIEGO, Calif., UP) — The
perishable product brought back
in deep freeze from the Arctic by
the U.S.‘Coast Guard ship North
Wind was ice.
The samples, gathered in the
frozen Bering Sea, will be ana
lyzed at the naval electronics
laboratory here.
Ending a three-month research
cruise, the North Wind, an ice
breaker, arrived Friday. It cruised
11,000 miles, 2,500 of it through
ice.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
SAMPLE FREIGHT RATES
VIA ALASKA STEAM AND WIEN
FROM SEATTLE TO NOME
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per 100 lbs.
GROCERIES: canned goods. 12.55
GROCERIES: bakery goods . 12.90
MEAT . 16.31
LIQUORS . 14.76
For further information call
Wien Alaska Airlines
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