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VOL. LXII No. 146 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1960 _Per Copy 15<
Rivers Scores
Secty. Seaton On
Land Withdrawal
WASHINGTON M — Rep.
Ralph Rivers yesterday accused
Secretary of Interior Seaton of
“roughshod treatment of Alaska”
in the withdrawal of 11.2 million
acres of public land for a wild
life range.
Rivers said the area included 9
million acres involved in a pro
posal considered in Congress this
year, but which failed to win ap
proval.
He said the executive withdraw
al was given without notice, “and
strikes me as roughshod treat
ment of Alaska during the dying
weeks of the present administra
tion.”
“Apparently,” Rivers continued,
“it made no difference that the
state, speaking through Gov.
Egan, had expressed willingness
to select the acreage in Northeast
ern Alaska for an Arctic Wildlife
Range to be operated by the
state.”
Rivers also voiced objection to
the order of Dec. 1 in which the
Interior Department banned drill
ing or prospecting on wildlife
refuge land under oil and gas
leases without approval of the.
Secretary of Interior and the con
currence of the Fish and Wildlife
Service.
Commenting on the designation
of Rep. Stewart L. Udall of Ari
zona to be Secretary of Interior
in the incoming Kennedy admin
istration. Rivers said he had
“every expectation of a vastly im
proved working relationship with
the Department of Interior.”
Fairbanks Organizations
Send Thanks to Seaton
FAIRBANKS Iff) — Four Fair
banks organizations yesterday
sent messages thanking Secretary
of the Interior Fred A. Seaton for
setting aside three wildlife pre
serves in Alaska, including the 9,
000. 000-acre Arctic Wildlife
Range.
The messages were sent to
Washington by the Alaska Con
servation Society, the Alaska Fed
eration of Womens Clubs, the
Fairbanks Garden Club and the
Tanana Valley Sportsmen’s As
sociation which originated the
Arctic Wildlife Range proposal.
The organizations represent sev
eral hundred members in this
area.
Army to Rename
Ladd AFB
Ft. Wainwright
FAIRBANKS OP) — Ladd Air
Force Base will be renamed Fort
Jonathan M. Wainwright on Jan.
1, when the base is officially
transferred from the Air Force
to the Army.
The announcement was made
today by Headquarters of the
YukonCommand at Ladd which
will be situated at the newly
designated fort.
Renaming of Ladd honors the
general whose resistance to in
vading Japanese forces in the
Philippines won him the medal
of honor, the nation’s highest mili
tary decoration.
Fort Wainwright will be the
Army’s northermost major in
stallation, a position formerly
held by Fort Greely near Big
Delta.
Boy Scout Committee
Meets With Ira Hill
The Bering Sea District Com
mittee of Boy Scouts of America
held its monthly meeting yester
day afternoon at the North Star
and met with Ira Hill, Scout ex
ecutive from the Midnight Sun
Council of which the Bering Sea
District is one of the three active
districts, the other two are the
Arctic District and the Fairbanks
District.
Members of the local district
committee are: Conrad Potter,
chairman; John Maakestad, vice
chairman; Gerald McCray, Roscoe
Wilke, Tom Martin, Don Hoover,
Ash Craft, Art Zylstra, Jim Ban
ning, Father Nevue, Jim McLean,
James St. Armour, R. Amundson,
Maynard Lundborg, Harold Lie,
and Robert Reed. There is one
vacancy on the committee created
by the departure of Willie Foster.
The committee announced that
an Arctic Survival Camporee has
been approved for later in the
winter and Boy Scouts of the sev
eral troops as well as the Ex
plorer Post will participate.
The annual fund raising project
will be in February by the Rotary
Club as in the past. A district
banquet is also scheduled to hon
or several adults in the com
munity who have distinguished
themselves in scouting.
Snow, Cold Weather
In Southern California
LOS ANGELES (Ah — Southern
California, more accustomed to
mid-December heat waves than
cold snaps, shivered today through
the chilliest weather of the year.
Unseasonal snow coated many
desert areas. A foot or more fell
at mountain resorts.
The downtown Los Angeles
minimum today was 40, but read
ings dipped far below freezing
in outlying areas. Big Bear in the
San Bernadino mountains reported
a minimum of 10 below zero to
day.
Up to eight inches of snow fell
in deserts to the east. The snow
line included down the slopes of
the towering San Jacinto .Moun
tains almost to the outskirts of
the winter resort of Palm Springs.
International Monetary
Fund Sells U.S. $300
Million In Gold Bullion
WASHINGTON UPl —- The In
ternational monetary fund has
sold the United States $300 mil
lion of gold, boosting the Ameri
can bullion holding for the first
time in many months.
The IMF said it made the trans
action in order to obtain dollars
to invest in short term treasury
securities. It said it wanted to
convert some of its gold into treas
ury IOU’s in order to earn interest
on part of its reserves.
Since June 30, foreign nations
have purchased about $1.4 billion
of American gold which has given
rise to some fears that a “run” on
gold might develop. The foreign
purchases cut the U. S. gold sup
ply to $17,882,000,000 (B) as of
last Monday.
The IMF’s sale of gold to the
United States boosted the total
American supply back above $18,
177,000,000.
This was the third time in re
cent years that the IMF, an in
ternational institution designed to
promote stable currencies, has
sold gold to the United States.
The first sale was $200 million
in January, 1958. The second was
a $300 million sale in July, 1959.
NOME PREPARES
WELCOME FOR
U. OF A. PRESIDENT
The President of the University
of Alaska, Dr. Wm. Wood and his
wife, will arrive Monday morn- 1
ing for a two day visit in this
area. A program has been ar
ranged by the Chamber of Com
merce.
Dr. Wood will be guest of the .
Chamber at its regular noon
luncheon and honor guest at no
host dinner Monday evening at
8:00 p. m.
All persons planning to attend
the dinner should cooperate with
the management of the Seaview
Room by making their reserva
tions early. Parents of students
at the University are particularly
urged to attend this dinner.
On Tuesday, by bush plane, Dr.
Wood will visit as many villages
in the vicinity as possible and
will meet with teachers of the
Nome school late in the after
noon.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Wood
will be honored with an informal
reception given by Mrs. Boyd
Harwood, wife of the regent of
the University Boyd Harwood.
Members of the reception com
mittee are, Chamber President
Pearse Walsh, Boyd Harwood,
Robert Grant, Robert Baldwin,
Mayor Steffen Andersen, M. J.
Walsh, Conrad Potter, Mrs. Mau
rice Kelliher, Mrs. Emily Boucher,
Sgt. Jim Blanning, George Bayer,
John McNees, Les Bronson, Don
Hoover Bob Blodgett and Art
Johnson.
85 Precincts Still Missing
In National Election Tally
WASHINGTON W) — Sen. John
Kennedy’s popular vote plurality
over Vice President Nixon stood
at 144,844 today out of a total
vote of 68,694,754 tabulated so
far.
The figures compiled by the As
sociated Press are based on of
ficial returns from 42 states and
unofficial returns from all ex
cept 84 precincts in the other 8
states. The missing precincts:
Arizona 75 and West Virginia 9.
The other six states yet to certi
fy official results are Idaho, Illi
nois, Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
With Republican recount efforts
still pending in Texas and Cook
County, 111., the popular vote now
stands:
Kennedy 34,189,718.
Nixon 34,044,874.
Others 460,162.
The Electoral Vote still stands
at 300 for Kennedy and 223 for
Nixon, with 269 required to win.
Republican leaders say they ex
pect Kennedy to have a majority
when the electors meet in the
various state capitals Dec. 19, but
are proceeding with recount ef
forts anyway.
Tom Shaw Passes Away
In Edmonds, Washington
Tom Shaw, well known mining
man of the Council District who
operated the Ophir Creek dredge
for many years passed away at
his home in Edmonds, Wash, at
the age of 85 on Dec. 3 and was
buried Dec. 8 at the side of his
wife, Martha Shaw, also well
known pioneer.
Shaw was associated with Fritz
Mebes and Henry Gumm in Coun
cil and was here as late as the
50s with his nephew at which
time he renewed old friendships
and did some work on his mining
property.
President-Elect Takes
Wife and Baby Home
WASHINGTON UP) — President
elect John F. Kennedy took his
wife and baby son home today
from Georgetown University Hos
pital where John Fitzgerald Jr.
was born just two weeks ago.
Both parents wore happy smiles
as Mrs. Kennedy rode in a wheel
chair to the door of the hospital.
There she got out of the chair !
and stepped into a waiting auto- I
mobile.
Miss Luella Hennessy, Mrs.
Kennedy’s nurse, carried the |
baby, wrapped in blankets so j
closely his face could not be!
seen.
Reporters and photographers
lined a pathway in the lobby and
flash bulbs popped as Kennedy
pushed the rolling ehair through.
“Oh. Jack, please keep going,”
Mrs. Kennedy said as her hus
band paused.
But she was smiling as she said
it.
She wore a pert red beret and
a smart black and white checker
ed tweed suit.
It was only a four-minute ride
to the Kennedy home.
Mrs. Kennedy also got a cheer
from newsmen and bystanders as
the car pulled up in front of the
house. She smiled, murmured,
“thank you very much,” and then
walked quickly into the house.
Kennedy Offers
Stevenson Post of
Ambassador to UN
WASHINGTON UP* — President
elect John F. Kennedy Thursday
offered Adlai E. Stevenson the
post to ambassador to the United
Nations.
Kennedy made the announce
ment in the doorway of his
Georgetown home with Steven
son, the Democratic standard
bearer of 1952 and 1956, standing
by his side.
Stevenson indicated he had
tentatively accepted.
He put it this way—that he has
not accepted as yet pending
further discussion with the presi
dent-elect.
Stevenson added that he had
not “sought this assignment.”
The offer to Stevenson was
made on a busy day during which
Kennedy held many conferences
and announced he intends to pro
pose to Congress the establish
ment of a Department of Urban
Affairs.
Earlier Kennedy had offered
posts in his administration to
Byron Leslie (Whizzer) White of
Denver and John J. Hooker of
Nashville, Tenn., both lawyers.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy with occasional
snow and N.E. winds 10 to 20 mph
increasing to 20 to 30 mph to
night. Lowest temp, expected to
night 15-20, the high tomorrow
20-25.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 33, lowest 24. Sunrise at
9:47 a.m., sunset at 2:02 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
3, lowest -19. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 35 in
1932, lowest -22 in 1923.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. UR — A
man 84 years old has applied for
Social Security benefits for his
son.
L. L. Pettus, who draws Social
Security himself, explained yes
terday that the son, soon to be
65, is recuperating from an illness, i
Gov. Egan Names
Pearse Walsli To
Senate Seat
JUNEAU Ifl* — Gov. William A.
Egan has named a Nome airline
representative to the Senate seat
made vacant by the death of State
Senate President William Beltz.
The appointment went to Pearse
M. “Pete” Walsh who is Wien
Alaska Airline representative and
is President of the NWA Cham
ber of Commerce. Walsh. 41, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Walsh, longtime Alaska residents.
He and his wife, Mary Ellen, are
the parents of three boys, the
youngest of whom was born last
week.
As required by law, Walsh is a
Democrat as was Beltz, and his
appointment must be confirmed
by a majority of the Democratic
members of the Senate of the
State Legislature.
LOCAL COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDS WALSH
By unanimous ballot, Pearse M.
Walsh was recommended for the
senatorial vacancy, by the North
western District Democratic Com
mittee which met last evening at,
the home of Carrie McLain. The1
recommendation has been for
warded to Gov. William A. Egan
for consideration.
Also nominated for the vacancy,
created by the death of Sen. Wm.
Beltz, were Doug Sheppard of
Mountain Village, Axel Johnson
of Kwiguk, Frank Degnan of
Unalakeet, Charles Fagerstrom of
Nome, Rodney Lincoln of Kotze
bue.
Democrats attending the meet
ing were Frank Degnan, Robert
Blodgett, Rodney Lincoln and the
following from Nome; Carrier Mc
Lain, Lester Bronson, Lorena
Gray, Pearse Walsh, Charles
Fagerstrom, Robert Scott and
John McNees. Represented by
proxy were Alfred Hopson of
Barrow, Donald Hunter of For
tuna Ledge, Willie Foster of
Nome and Kotzebue, James Wells
of Noorvik, Clarence Katchatag of
Shaktoolik and Doug Sheppard
of Mountain Village.
Rep. Bob Blodgett of Teller was
unanimously approved for the
vacancy existing on the Central
Committee due to the resignation
of Lorena Gray. Plans were made
for the next State Democratic
Convention to be held here and
the various precincts in North
western Alaska are to be urged
to organize their Precinct Com
mittees and elect their officers
as soon as possible.
The importance of the villages
and precincts taking part in the
Democratic Party at the commu
nity level was stressed and all
questions or names of new officers
for same are to be mailed to Car
rie McLain, who is secretary
treasurer of the Democratic Com
mittee.
Those recommended for mem
bership on the N. W. Democratic
District Committee are; Harold
Lie of Kotzebue replacing Willie
Foster, who has moved to An
chorage; Wilfred Kakarak of Tel
ler replacing Rev. Norval Hegland
who has left Alaska; Stan Harhut
replacing Lorena Gray who has
resigned and Nathan Anawrok of
Unalakeet replacing William
Beltz, deceased.