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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX NoTl8 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1958 Per Copy—15^
Western Mining Conference Hears
Report U.S. To Raise Price of Gold
DENVER, UP>—Mining men at
the National Western Mining
Conference here are talking about
a report the U.S. government may
increase the price of gold from
$35 an ounce. All gold mined in
this country must be sold to the
U-S. treasury.
Robert S. Palmer, executive
vice president of the Colorado
Mining Assn., said he has heard
the rumor but can’t pin it down.
Max Bowen, president of the
Gold Cycle Corp., said the ru
mor “is all over Europe. It is
the only explanation there can be
for the strengthening in gold
mining stocks.”
Four members of Congress took
part in a panel discussion Friday
on the economic condition of min
ing in general.
Taking part in the panel were:
, Sens. Malone (R-Nev), Reps. As
pinall (D-Colo), Edmonson (D
Okla), and Miller (R-Neb), all
members of the House subcom
mittee on mining.
Miller said an incentive pro
gram similar to that offered ur
anium miners was needed.
“Ten years ago we were wor
ried about having enough ura-'
nium to make the atom bomb,”
he said. “Then we developed a
long range program with a pfice
incentive. Now we have uranium
running out of our ears.”
Malone said the United States
is wasting 15 billion dollars a
year on obsolete war material.
“If we stop making obsolete
equipment, we can put about 51
billion dollars in B-52s and mis- I
siles, lower the debt limit and!
cut taxes,’ ’he said.
Half Million Dollar
Fire Destroys
Fairbanks Bakery
FAIRBANKS, UFi — Fire de
stroyed the Sanfair Bakery build
ing here yesterday with damages
estimated at half a million dol
lars.
No one was injured in the blaze
that leveled the building of one
of two wholesale bakeries. Four
delivery trucks and a large quan
tity of baking supplies also were
a total loss.
Company president Gerald
Claus said only about half of the
loss was insured.
Fire fighters from Fairbanks,
nearby communities and Ladd
Air Force Base battled the flames
but were unable to save the
building.
Claus said his company would
build a modern bakery immedi
ately.
Japan Air Line Flights
Starting In April Bring
To 21 Daily Pacific Trips
TOKYO, UP) — Japan Air Lines
today scheduled daily flights ac
ross the Pacific starting April 1,
the third airline to do so.
The JAL announcement means
a total of 21 airline round trips
a week between Japan and the
* U.S. West Coast by JAL, Pan
American and Northwest Air
lines.
This is in addition, to trans
pacific flights between Tokyo and
Vancouver by Canadian Pacific
Airlines and between Manila and
the United States by Pan Ameri
can.
RABBITS SET FIRE TO BARN
CABOT, Vt., UP) — Overheated
rabbits are blamed for a weekend
fire which destroyed a barn and
several tons of hay owned by
Glendon Randall.
After a heater overturned in
their hutch, several of the ani
mals, fur afire, streaked like blaz
ing comets across the 'barnyard
and into a hayloft which burst
into flame.
! Broken Water
j Main in Jersey City
Threatens Caveins
JERSEY CITY, UP) — A broken
water main threatened caveins or;
explosions in a third of the city j
today. Authorities closed schools |
and industrial plants in the af- j
fected area and some residents
began moving out.
More than a thousand police
men, firemen, city and county
workers searched frantically for
the break in the city’s 54-year-old
water system as water pressure
built up underground.
Fire chief Thomas J. Maloney
ordered the plants and schools in
the area closed in an effort to
keep water consumption to a
minimum.
The city is a heavily industrial
ized community for some 308,000
persons on the Hudson river op
posite New York City.
The huge Colgate Palmolive
Co. and U.S. Gypsum plant were
among those shut down.
City engineer Harold Ohland
said about 1,500,000 gallons of
water were being lost every hour.
Roy Campanella
Still Paralyzed
GLEN COVE, N. Y„ UP) — Roy
Campanella was reported in good
spirits and in satisfactory condi
tion today but there still is no
improvement in the paralysis of
his lower limbs.
The Glen Cove hospital said the
Dodger catcher, who suffered a
broken neck in an automobile ac
cident Jan. 28, has satisfactory
temperature and is eating and
resting well. But no change has
been noted in his sense of feeling
from the chest down.
DETROIT, UP) — Fireman Carl
Jarema dashed off with the rest
of the fire laddies to a blaze—
then suddenly recalled he had left
two apple pies baking in the oven.
He’s the station cook.
Police at the blaze saved the
day. A radio call to the dispatcher
sent two patrolmen running into
the fire station and they saved
the pies.
Wien To Take Up
Slack In Case PAA
Stops Nome Flight
FAIRBANKS — In a statement
A. E. (Bud) Hagberg, vice presi
dent in charge of traffic and sales
said that Wien Alaska Airlines
plans to pickup any slack on the
Nome - Fairbanks flight if Pan
American’s request for temporary
suspension of service is granted
by the CAB.
Hagberg added that Wien would
probably change their schedule to
provide good connections with
PAA’s flights between Seattle and
Fairbanks.
While most of the slack could
be picked up by Wien’s regular
service, possibly one more round
trip would be added to the sched
ule, Hagberg added.
PAA manager A1 Polet said it
will probably be 30 to 40 days
until notice of CAB action is re
ceived here. He commented that
one carrier flying to Nome and
co-ordinating flights would prob
ably give better service.
Teamsters May
Repossess Dave
Beck’s Home
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., UP) —The
Teamster Union bosses today
were reported considering re
possessing the lavish union
owned home that Dave Beck, the
union’s ex-president, occupies in
Seattle, Wash.
This is one of several “cleanup
moves” reported due for discus
sion by Beck’s successor, James
R. Hoffa, and other Teamster
chiefs gathered here for an exec
utive board meeting.
Beck was due here to plead
against taking away his free
lodgings.
The Teamsters, largest U. S.
union with 1,400,000 members,
were expelled from the AFL-CIO
two months ago on grounds of
coiTupt leadership.
Hoffa, now at the trucker union
helm, although one cf those under
criticism, was reported aiming at
adopting a series of reforms look
ing toward re-entry into the fed
eration.
George Meany, AFL-CIO presi
dent, has made it clear however,
Hoffa himself must forsake any
top Teamster post before the
union will be taken back into the
main body of organized labor.
Hoffa apparently hasn’t the
slightest idea'of quitting.
Stepovich Predicts
Statehood Before July
PORTLAND, UP) — Gov. Mike
Stepovich of Alaska predicted the
territory would become a state
before July.
Gov. Stepovich, here to visit
his mother, Mrs. Olga Fabianich,
said in a television interview:
“This is the time we should get
statehood. I think we should get
it before July—at least I hope so.”
He said the territory was closer
to statehood now than it ever had
been. “The administration is for
it; Congress is for it, and some
of the congressional problems
been overcome,” he said.
Missilemen Say They Could Shoot
A Rocket To The Moon This Year
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
WASHINGTON, UPi — Military
missile experts say the Army and
the Air Force could shoot rockets
as far as the moon this year.
Maj. Gen. John Medaris, chief
of the Army Ballistic Missile
Agency at Huntsville, Ala., said
the Army could put a satellite in
orbit around the moon within
months, if it got permission to
try. Medaris also said on a tele
vision interview that the Army
could send a manned expedition
to the moon in 15 years.
Defense Department missiles
specialists said the Air Forces’
1,500-mile-range Thor missile
could be augmented by additional
rocket stages to send a payload
to the moon this year. So far,
the department has given no or
ders for such a try.
The payload in a moon rocket
would include radio transmitters
for sending back information on
the flight and a spotter charge to
mark the rocket’s impact on the
moon, the experts said.
The Army used its Jupiter-C
rocket in modified form to launch
America’s first earth satellite, the
Explorer. Medaris did not say
what type of rocket would be
used for the much bigger job of
reaching the moon. Because of
such factors as the moon’s own
speedy movements, Medaris said,
it would be much easier to put a
satellite in orbit around the moon
than to hit it.
- As for the Army’s more im
mediate satellite-launching plans,
Medaris said he expects another
try sometime between now and
April 1. This second satellite
would be the same size—around
30 pounds—'but with more ad
vanced instruments, the general
said.
Thereafter, Medaris added, the
Army plans to move ahead in
what he termed “short steps.” He
spoke of future attempts to
launch 100-pound and 500-pound
space vehicles.
He said the timing of an effort
to put up a 500,-pound satellite
with photographic equipment de
pends on “how soon they tell me
to go ahead and give me the
money.”
Roy W. Johnson of General Electric Co.
Named Boss For Outer Space Projects
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, UR —Secretary
of Defense McElroy has picked a
boss for outer space projects and
handed the new Advanced Re
search Projects Agency (ARPA)
its assignment of developing
weapons of tomorrow.
He also has decided tentatively
that the Air Force should pro
vide crew for any space ships of
the future.
Named to head the ARPA was
Roy W. Johnson, 52-year-old vice
president of the General Electric
Co., where he formerly' was in
charge of electronics business.
These developments indicated
that the long - delayed Pentagon
space agency finally was getting
ready for business—the develop
ment of such weapons as military
satellites, anti - missile missiles
and space platforms.
Johnson’s appointment came
after a weeks-long quest for some
executive who would take on the
job. He will take over the ARPA
post on April 1, when he will re
sign from General Electric. Mean
while, he will spend two or three
days a week at the Pentagon.
McElroy said Johnson’s salary
has not yet been decided, that
Johnson hadn’t discussed the mat
ter and that it didn’t seem “par
ticularly important to Mr. John
son.” McElroy described Johnson
as having “impressive experience
and ability as an administrator.”
The defense chief said he still
is looking for a “most highly
qualified scientist” to head a
group to provide technical direc
tion within ARPA.
Johnson said he is not a scien
tist or a technical man, but an
administrator. “I’m going to dele
gate authority,” he said. “I’m
going to pick capable people.”
The ARPA is intended to co
ordinate space research in the
Defense Department and elimin
ate interservice rivalry in this
field.
U.S. and Britain Voice Concern Over .
French Bombing of Tunisian Village
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Iff)—
Tunisia deliberated today whe
ther to ask for U.N. Security
Council action on the French
bombing of a Tunisian frontier
village. Both the United States
and Britain voiced concern over
the explosive situation, but ex
pressed hope it could be smoothed
over.
In Paris, Premier Felix Gail
lard came under attack for allow
ing military men to embroil the
country in a serious diplomatic
battle.
Tunisian ambassador Mongi
Slim delivered a protest from his
government to U. N. Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold. Slim
told newsmen Tunisia was study
ing means of putting the issue
before the Council — the highest
body in the U.N.
In Tunisia, there were cries the
French had committed an act of
war. The French claim the bomb
ing was a localized military move
to wipe out antiaircraft positions
manned by Algerian rebels inside
Tunisia. The Tunisians said 78
persons were killed and 84 were
wounded in the daylight raid on
Sakiet Sidi Youssef.