SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 51 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1956 Per Copy—15*
CAA Asks $170,000
For Repairs To
Nome Field
WASHINGTON, i/Pl—An ap
propriation of $170,000 to re
pair the landing field at Nome,
Alaska, is being asked by the
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion for the year beginning ,
July 1.
The item was disclosed with
release of testimony given be
fore a House Appropriation
subcommittee.
J. H. Tippets, director of
CAA's Office of Federal Air
ways, said the field "has deter
iorated to the extent that some
repairs must be made so that
we can handle traffic at the
place."
Income Tax Refund
Returned to Government
By Patriotic Sergeant
PARKERBURG, W. Va., UP)—)
District Director P. L. Charles of
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
says he has received back a check
for $23.61 from an Air Force ser
geant — the sergeant’s refund
on his 1955 income tax.
Charles said the sergeant is
married, the father of one child,
and earned slightly more than
$3,000 last year.
Accompanying the returned
check, Charles said, was a letter
which read:
“It is with great pleasure that I
give this money to Uncle Sam. I
realize it isn’t much, but on my
wages it is about the best I can do.
“In the past three years, I have
visited 32 countries and those vis
its convinced me that we are the
only ‘real free people’ in the
world. Let us pray that we will
remain free.”
Kefauver Bids
For Alaska Vote,
Asks Statehood
SEATTLE, UPI—Sen. Estes Ke
fauver, here on a quick circuit of
the Pacific Northwest to seek sup
port for the Democratic presiden
tial nomination, did a little woo
ing of the Alaska vote also, and
plumped for statehood for the ter
ritory Saturday.
‘‘I would like very much,” he
said in a speech, “to help the
President and the Republican
Party keep their promise toward
Alaska. And for Hawaii as well.
Here it is almost the end of the
Eisenhower era and Alaska is
as far from being a state as it
ever was.
“Neither have I seen any inter
est on the part of this administra
tion in reducing absentee control
of Alaska’s resources and indus
tries. Neither has anything con
structive been done about reduc
ing the freight rates which have
effectively isolated the territory.
“I am told it is often cheaper to
ship goods from this port to the
Orient for less than it takes to
ship them to Alaska. I am also
told the cost of transporting salm
on from Alaska to Seattle is great
er than the fishermen are paid for
their fish.
“In fairness and decency to the
people of Alaska, and in view of
the needs to further develop your
port here in Seattle, something
must be done about these things.
I suggest that nothing will ever be
done about them by the Repub
licans.”
ICE AT NENANA
IS BREAKING UP
By WALTER MINANO
NENANA, Apr. 28—The ice in
[ the Tanana River is showing defi
nite signs of breaking up. The Ne
nana is cutting across the Tanana
River a quarter of a mile below
the tripod and is opening a large
channel about two miles long
about a mile above the tripod.
A channel is cutting towards
Bluff across from St. Mark’s
Mission. Also, numerous holes are
appearing near the tripod, which
is leaning slightly.
Eisenhower Is Landslide
Winner in Poll of 450,000
High School Students
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. I/P—Pres
ident Eisenhower is a landslide
winner in a nationwide presiden
tial preference poll of nearly 450,
000 senior and junior high school
students, Wesleyan University,
sponsor of the vote, announced
Saturday.
The President received 58.6 per
cent of the total vote, and had
majorities in all but five states.
Adlai Stevenson topped the
Democratic vote, leading Sen.
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, in
24 states and polling a total of
83,100 vote£ to the senator’s 74,
000.
Eighteen votes were counted in
Alaska, 17 for Eisenhower and
one for Kefauver.
Black Bear Quadruplets
Find Foster Home When
Mother Is Trapped
GRAY, Maine. UP)—A rarity of
the animal kingdom—black bear
quadruplets—have found a foster
home at the state game farm here.
According to available records,
the two-month-old baby bruins
are the second quadruplets of
their species ever captured in the
northeast.
Experts say twins are quite
common among black bears and
triplets rather unusual.
The cubs and their mother re
cently ambled out of a den in the
Wild River section of Gilead.
They were spotted by motorists,
who stopped and treed three of
the youngsters. The mother lum
bered off with the fourth.
Game Warden Leon Wilson and
Supervisor Wayne Lindsay saved
the three from bouoty-eager cap
tors and brought them to the game
farm. The mother fell prey to a
trapper but Wilson rescued the
fourth cub.
Cuban Rebels*
Revolt Crushed
HAVANA, Cuba, MV—Cuba’s
Cabinet today ordered a 45-day
freeze on constitutional guaran
tees after 70 civilian rebels at
tacked an army base 60 miles east
of Havana in an apparent bid to
take over the country.
The government of President
Fulgencio Batista said tfte revolt
at #the Domingo Goicuria army
base, just outside Matanzas, had
been crushed swiftly with 11 reb
els killed and a number wounded.
It said only three Cuban soldiers
were wounded.
The army announced former
President Carlo Prio Socarras,
who has been repeatedly charged
with plotting against the govern
ment, had been arrested with a
\ number of his friends.
H-Bomb Warhead
For Missiles Is
Now Possible
WASHINGTON, 1^—The Air
Force says a major scientific
breakthrough has assured hydro
gen warheads “light and handy
enough to be carried by long
range missiles of reasonable size.”
Two Air Force generals testified
that although much engineering
work remains, “no inventions are
required” to perfect intercontin
ental missiles. They disclosed also
a definite schedule of development
has been prepared, and expressed
confidence it will be met.
The testimony was given by
Maj. Gen. S. R. Brentnall, assis
tant chief of staff for guided mis
siles, and Maj. Gen. Bernard A.
Schreiver, who is in direct charge
of the long range missile program.
A House Appropriations sub
committee made public a censored
version of their testimony Sunday.
Brentnall said missile develop
ment was long stymied because of
the size of the warhead. But he
said the . “advent of lightweight
high-yield warheads” has simpli
fied many technical problems and
assured eventual .success.
Schreiver said the big job now
is to plan and put together the
complex system, required to oper
ate accurate missiles. He did not
say how long that might take.
Burma's Socialists In
For Another Four Years
RANGOON, Burma, i/Pi—Prime
Minister U Nu’s socialist, neutral
ist regime has been returned to
power for another four years in
weekend parliamentary elections.
With only 80 of the 200 seats
contested, latest returns showed
U Nu’s Anti-Fascist League had
grabbed most of them. Burma’s
Communists, who have been ac
tive ever since U Nu took office in
1948, showed little strength.
Snake Pops Out of
Drain as Youth Pulls
Plug of Bathtub
ST. LOUIS, (/P>—William Power,
19, likes to catch wildlife, but not
while taking a bath.
He pulled the plug and a snake
popped out of the drain.
Power sat there at first. The
snake started swimming around.
“It scared the daylights out of
me,” he said Saturday. “I was just
paralyzed.”
Before he could scramble out of
the tub, the snake bit him on the
big toe of his right foot. He suf
fered no ill effects. The snake was
a non-venomous type.
Power captured it and is keep
ing it in a goldfish bowl. He gave
away his last two catches, a baby
alligator and a skunk, and doesn’t
expect to keep his new pet after
his mother comes home from the
hospital.
“I know mom won’t let me have
him,” Power said. Mrs. Power is
under treatment for yellow jaun
dice.
CONSUMERS TURN OFF
ELECTRICITY TO PROTEST
BOOST IN POWER RATE
TEHRAN, Iran, tP—Consumers
in Shiraz switched off the elec
tricity after the local company
boosted the rates by three rials
(about four cents) per kilowatt.
Reports reaching here from the
city in southern Iran said 12,000
domestic and business consumers
were protesting the rate rise.
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Khrushchev Says U.S. Is Moving
Toward Cooperation With Russia
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Buffalo Gores Mate as
Hundreds Watch at Zoo
NEW YORK, UP)—A bull buffalo
turned on his mate and gored her
to death at the Bronx Zoo yester
day as several hundred visitors
watched.
Gus Schilling, head keeper of
mammals, said he did not know
what caused the bull’s action.
He said there is no scarcity of
the buffalo, which are actually
American bison, and another pair
will undoubtedly be obtained. -
World Population
Set at 2,652,000,000
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP)—
The' United Nations says the
world’s population in 1954 was
2,652,000,000, give or take as much
as 133 million for possible error.
Some countries don’t report as
well as Ihey might.
Anyway, the world’s population
is bouncing upward at the rate of
40 to 66 million a year, the U.N.
estimates.
The U.N.’s 790-page annual
demographic yearbook gives these
population figures;
Asia, exclusive of the Soviet
area: 1,451,000,000; Europe: 404
million without European Russia;
the Americas: 357 million; Africa:
210 million; Oceania, 14,4 million;
Red China: 583 million; India:
377 million; Soviet Union: 214
million; United States. 162 mil
lion; Japan: 88 million; Indonesia:
81 million; Pakistan: 80 million.
The most populous cities of the
world ranked like this:
New York: 12,300,000; London:
8,300,000; Tokyo: 6,300,000;
Shanghai: 6,200,000; Paris: 4,800,
000.
Democratic Trend
Seen in Results of
Alaska Primary
Juneau, —Alaska’s Democrat
ic chairman asserts that “regard
less of how the election results
are analyzed, they point over
whelmingly to a very strong Dem
ocratic trend in the territory.”
Felix J. Toner of Juneau, the
party’s new territorial central
committee head, made the state
ment in reviewing the outcome of
last Tuesday’s Alaska primary.
“Throughout the territory, the
Democratic candidates lead the
field,” he said.
“In the presidential preference
primary, the Democratic candi
dates received 60 percent of the
vote.”
He cited leads for Democratic
candidates for Congress, territor
ial offices and the legislature, and
added:
“Viewed from the standpoint of
Alaskans, this indicates clearly
two things. First, despite Ike’s
personal popularity, Alaskans as
a whole are definitely displeased
with the negative, lackadaisical
attitude of the entire Republican
administration toward statehood,
particularly ‘statehood now.’ Sec
ond, Alaskans believe that the
Democratic Party represents the
political beliefs and ideals which
Alaskans know are necessary if
Alaska is to be developed and is
to grow.”
' By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, ()F—Communist Par
ty Chief Nikita Khrushchev told
10,000 cheering Russians today the
United States is moving in the
direction of cooperation with the
Soviet Union.
His speech was broadcast and
televised throughout the Soviet
Union from Moscow’s Central
Military Airport, where Khrush
chev and Premier Nikolai Bulgan
in had just landed on their return
from a 10-day tour of Britain.
Both Bulganin and Khrushchev
praised British hospitality and the
results of their negotiations with
Prime Minister Eden. But they,
had scathing words of denuncia
tion for the Labor Party, the Brit
ish socialist movement, which
they accused for following “a re
actionary anti-Soviet policy.”
The bold overture to the United
States indicated that Bulganin and
Khrushchev aim at developing di
rect negotiations with President
Eisenhower on world problems.
It was a strange forum Khrush
chev took to make the overture to
Washington—a scarlet-draped po- '
dium at the airport where only
talk of Britain had been expected.
One of the most attentive listen
ers was U.S. Ambassador Charles
Bohlen, who stood with his left
arm in a sling—the result of a ski
ing accident.
“It seems to us,” said Khrush
chev, “that the U.S.A. is already
beginning to show desirable signs
of moving on the road of coopera
tion. An example was the speech
President Eisenhower made to
American editors <at a meeting of
the American Society of Newspa
per Editors April 21). We cannot
agree with many things he said,
because they did not help good
relations.”
But for most of what Eisenhow
er said, including the President’s
expressed desire for good rela
tions, Khrushchev had only praise.
Eisenhower had said a Soviet gov
ernment genuinely devoted to the
legitimate interests of the Russian
nation “can have friendly rela
tions with the United States and
the free world for the asking.”
“We hope these words will be
strengthened by practical steps,”
Khrushchev said, peering near
sightedly at his text through his
steel-rimmed spectacles.
“Eventually we may reach
agreement on disarmament and
have normal trade and cultural
relations with the U.S.A.”
Khrushchev’s remarks about the
United States were greeted with
stormy applause by the crowd.
Tito to Visit Russia
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, UP)—
President Tito will visit Russia in
June at the invitation of the So
viet government. It will be his
first trip to the U.S.S.R. since
Yugoslavia was kicked out of the
Cominform in 1948.
A group of the Kremiln’s top
leaders visited Tito last year.
RAISE IN PRICE OF MOVIE
TICKETS SETS OFF RIOTS
KAMPALALA, Uganda, (4*)—A
boost of seven cents in the price
of movie tickets set off wide
spread rioting in this east African
city Sunday night.
Police used clubs in a clash
with 1,000 persons who attacked
the movie manager and smashed
plate glass waidows. There was
no official cajnaltv count.
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