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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 65 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1959_Per Copy—15*
Traffic Toll of Dead
Record for Holiday
HOLIDAY DEATHS
(By The Associated Press) '
Traffic — 310.
Drownings — 95.
Miscellaneous — 49
Total — 454.
More than 300 persons lost their
lives in traffic accidents across
the nation during the two-day
Memorial weekend. The traffic
toll of dead was a record for the
holiday and far exceeded the es
timate of 260.
The National Safety Council at
tributed the record number of
traffic deaths largely to extreme
ly heavy travel and to a rash of
multiple accidents that swelled
the toll rapidly.
“It offers a grim challenge to
everyone concerned with highway
safety to step up the unending ef
forts to hold down accidents de
spite mounting travel,” a NSC
spokesman said. “We can only hope
the shock of this awful death toll
will be reflected in fewer acci
dents during the rest of the year.”
Other violent deaths — drown
ings and in miscellaneous types
of accidents — also took a heavy
toll.
The over-all accident death
total for the 54-hour period from
6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday
also topped the toll of 385 for a
two-day Memorial holiday period.
That mark was set in 1953, when
the traffic death toll was 241 the
previous high.
The highway death total also
was far ahead of the 262 counted
by the Associated Press in a test
period survey for a non-holiday
weekend of 54 hours. The survey,
covering the period from 6 p.m.
Friday, May 15, to midnight Sun
day, May 17, also showed 32
drownings and 74 persons killed
in miscellaneous types of acci
dents, for an overall total of 368.
University of Alaska
President To Retire
FAIRBANKS, OP* — Dr. Ernest
N. Patty, president of the Univer
sity of Alaska, announced Friday
he will retire in the summer or late
fall of next year. He did not set
an exact date.
Patty, who has been associated
with the university for nine years,
for the last six years as president,
told the board of regents he
wanted to leave the U-A because
he had reached the normal retire
ment age of 65.
Patty, who is president of Allu
vial Gold Mines, Inc., a gold
dredging operation, said he
planned to continue his mining
activities after his retirement as
president of the university.
HIGH SOVIET OFFICIAL TO
MAKE TOUR IN U. S.
• MOSCOW, OP* — Soviet First
Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov
said Sunday night he would fly
to New York June 28 to open the
Russian Trade Exposition.
Kozlov said he would remain in
America two weeks, visiting
Washington, Detroit and San
Francisco. Asked if he would make
speeches in Washington or else
where, Kozlov said he probably
would accept certain invitations.
Boeing 707 Sets Second
Nonstop Record in Week
SEATTLE, tP) — A Boeing 707
320 intercontinental jet transport
completed the first non-stop Lon
don to Seattle flight in commer
cial aviation history yesterday
when it sat down at Boeing Field
at 3:55 p.m. today.
The jetliner traveled the 4,800
miles distance in 9 hours, 38 min
utes. It was the second record
setting performance in four days
for the 707. Last Thursday the
transport covered the 5,830 miles
from Seattle to Rome in 11 hours
and 6 minutes.
On today’s flight the plane
cruised most of the time at 41,000
feet at speeds averaging slightly
more than 500 miles an hour.
The jet carried 40 persons, in
cluding William Allen, president
of the Boeing Airplane Co.
Bristol Bay Fishing Season
Runs June 22 to July 25
SEATTLE, OPt — Revised regu
lations for fishing in Bristol Bay
have been announced by the Bur
eau of Commercial Fisheries. The
season will run from June 22 to
July 25.
Fishing will be permitted two
and a half days a week if gear
registration levels do not exceed
150 units in the Naknek-Kvichak
area, 60 units at Egegik, 50 units
at Ugashik and 226 units at
Nushagak.
Only one day of fishing each
week will be permitted in thdy
Naknek-Kvichak, Egegik and Uga
shik areas if the fishing effort ex
ceeds these limits.
In Nushagak, two days of fish
ing each week will be permitted
for 227 to 234 units of gear, and
only one day if the gear registra
tion exceeds 234 units.
State Bar Group
Elects Nome Atty.
Alaska President
The First State Convention of
the Alaska Bar Association was
held in Fairbanks on May 27, 28
and 29. Seventy-five Alaskan at
torneys, many accompanied by
their wives, attended this con
vention.
The group was honored by the
presence of Mr. Ross Malone, of
the New Mexico Bar, and presi
dent of the American Bar Asso
ciation. Mr. Malone addressed a
banquet meeting of the Alaska
Bar on Wednesday evening, May
27, and delivered a very interest
ing address, covering his recent
trip to the Soviet Union on behalf
of the American Bar Association.
Also present at the convention
were Judge Frederic G. Hamley,
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, San
Francisco, who gave the address
at the final banquet on Friday
evening, Mr. Glenn R. Winters,
executive director of the Amer
ican Judicature Society, Chicago,
and Charles Osborn, of the Seattle
Bar.
The convention forums, held on
I each of the three days, covered
subjects aimed at continuing legal
education and business matters to
do with the organization and gov
ernment of the Alaska Bar.
The officers of the Alaska Bar
Association elected for the ensu
ing year are: James A. von der
Heydt, Nome, president; John H.
Dimond, Juneau, 1st vice presi
dent; Clifford J. Groh, Anchorage,
2nd vice president, and John R.
Connolly, Anchorage, secretary.
Mr. von der Heydt. as presi
dent, will attend the annual con
| vention of the American Bar Asso
ciation this coming August, to be
I held in Miami, Florida.
Louisiana’s Governor Long Snaps from
Work Load; Resting in Texas Hospital
GALVESTON, Tex., OP — A
doctor indicated today that Gov
ernor Earl K. Long of Louisiana
refuses to cooperate with hospital
authorities in psychiatric treat
ment.
Dr. John B. Truslow, adminis
trator of John Sealy Hospital here,
said “Every attempt is being
made to achieve his cooperation
with continuing studies.” He
would not explain further.
An Air National Guard plane
flew the Governor here from Baton
Rouge, La., Saturday, after Long’s
health broke under the strain of
office. He was flown here after
a tantrum-like outburst before
his home-state Legislature.
Dr. Truslow, in a medical bul
letin, said, “Until his status is
determined, he will continue on
supportive treatment.” The doc
tor defined “supportive treat
ment” as keeping a patient quiet
and comfortable — not treatment
for a specific ailment.
The Galveston Daily News
quoted an unnamed “reliable
source” as saying Long had “a
couple of violent spells” Sunday
and is under the care of two
male nurses in a private room.
In Baton Rouge, Lt. Governor
Luther Frazer took over as acting
Governor, amid a swirl of State
house repercussions to Long’s dra
matic exodus.
His nephew, Senator Russell
Long (D-La), appeared before a
stormy legislative session Sunday
night to explain that the Gover
nor’s health had broken down un
der the strain of office.
The senator, son of the late
Louisiana political leader Huey P.
Long, said his uncle may be away
“for a considerable period of
time.”
“The duties and burdens of his
office have been more than he
could stand,” the senator said.
The senator’s talks touched off
turbulent reactions in the Legis
lature. Six representatives had
opposed hearing him, and because
of the friction, the senator three
times started to walk out.
The Governor last week had
twice rocked legislative chambers
with emotional diatribes against
his political foes, name-calling,
and shouted boasts.
Soviet Premier Aga
To Western Nations
LONDON, (tft — Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev has again
coupled a threat of total destruc
tion for the West in the event of
war with a prediction of capital
ism’s inevitable defeat.
In a speech in the Albanian
town of Vlore, * Khrushchev
warned Sunday night that any
attack on the Soviet bloc would be
“tantamount to suicide.” He said
the West’s “reckless” policies
were hastening “the time when
mankind will be able to bury
capitalism deeply.”
“No matter how much aging
capitalism is trying to prolong
its existence, it is doomed because
it will be replaced by the new
victorious system — Communism,”
Khrushchev declared.
He promised again that Soviet
industrial might would eventually
outstrip America’s industry.
Earlier announcement was
made of a joint Soviet-Albanian
communique on world policy,
signed in Tirana by Khrushchev |
Anthropologists
Will Study Relics
Of Seward Pen.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., UP) — A
Brown University anthropologist
and two aides left by beachwagon
Friday to spend the summer at the
beaches.
Dr. J. Louis Giddings Jr. and
his friends are going beachcomb
ing in Alaska.
Dr. Giddings, who spent last
summer probing the “ridge
beaches along Kotzebue Sound,
expects during geological studies
he will make to uncover evidence
of cultures and civilizations going
'back thousands of years. The
evidence will be in the form of
bones, flints, pollen grains and
other materials which biologists
and geologists throughout the
world can piece together in ar
riving at a picture of the Arctic
area over the unrecorded cen
turies.
The “ridge beaches” which
string the Alaskan coast, repre
sent succeeding periods of life
along the beach, which, because
of fisherman civilizations, are to
be found there, and not inland.
Accompanying Dr. Giddings on
his second trip to the Seward
Peninsula, financed by a $37,300
grant from the National Science
Foundation, are two student assis
tants, William S. Simmons 3rd, of
Providence, and Samuel G. Fried
man 3rd, of Santurce, Puerto
Rico, both undergraduates spe
cializing in geology and anthro
pology.
Meeting Thursday for Those
Interested in Planning A
Museum for Nome
There will be a meeting of the
group interested in a museum for
Nome, at the City Hall on Thurs
day evening at 7:30.
All persons interested are in
vited to attend.
in Threatens Doom
? ‘Aging Capitalism’
and Albania’s Red leader Enver
Hoxha.
The communique repeated stan
dard Communist calls for an end
to colonialism, Red China’s seat
ing in the United Nations, reduc
tion of foreign troops in Germany,
and signing of a nonagression pact
between the North Atlantic Alli
ance and the Communist Warsaw
Pact countries.
It also urged establishment of a
central European zone free of nu
clear and rocket weapons and said
there were improved prospects for
an end to world tensions.
The communique contained one
unusual feature, an expression of
willingness to continue develop
ing relations with Yugoslavia “on
the basis of mutual respect, equal
ity and noninterferences in each,
other’s internal affairs.”
The Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia
have been on the outs for months
because of Yugoslav President
Tito’s insistence on a policy and
brand of Communism independent
of the Kremlin’s dictation.
Atom Power Plant
Headed for Alaska
SEATTLE, UPi — Key compo
nents of Alaska’s first atomic
power plant were loaded aboard
the Alaska Steamship Co. freight
er Chena here today.
The shipment included a $184,
000 reactor “vessel,” $148,000
steam generator, $48,000 pressur
izer and other elements.
The power plant will be in
stalled at the Army’s Ft. Greely
105 miles southeast of Fairbanks.
It will generate 1,700 kilowatts of
power and produce 42 million
British thermal units for steam
heating of buildings.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
Detroit 7, Cleveland 4.
Baltimore 2, Boston 1.
New York 3, Washington 0.
Kansas City 9, Chicago 1.
National League
San Francisco 6, Chicago 3.
Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 3.
Philadelphia 6-1, Milwaukee
0-2.
Pittsburgh 6-14, Cincinnati 2-11.
Pacific Coast League
Phoenix 14, Salt Lake City 8.
Sacramento 5, San Diego 2.
Portland 8, Spokane 5.
. . . Oh, he had to dash off for
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