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VOL. LVII No. 59 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1955 Per Copy^l5^
Road Commission Gets
New Authority Under
Bill Passed by House
WASHINGTON, 3—The House
yesterday passed a bill which
would authorize the Alaska Road j
Commission to build and maintain
roads and bridges within unin
corporated towns and settlements
in Alaska.
Similar authority also would be
granted under the bill for the con
struction only of roads and
bridges within incorprated com
munities when part of the terri
tory’s through highway system is
involved.
Navy Proposes to Build
Total of Eight Atom
Powered Submarines
WASHINGTON, UP—1The Navy
plans to build an additional atom
ic submarine, bringing the pro
jected total of such craft to eight.
This was reported yesterday by
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash), who said
the Navy had advised a Senate
House Atomic Energy subcom
mittee of its intentions.
The Navy had asked congres
sional authority to build three j
more nuclear-powered subs. The j
change of plans would add one j
to this figure. Four atomic sub
marines were authorized earlier
and one of these has been com
pleted.
Says It Isn't True
U.S. Loses Control
Of Air To Russia
WASHINGTON, (JV- President
Eisenhower said today it just
isn’t true to say the United States
has lost control of the air to
Russia.
Eisenhower was asked at his
news conference about a state
ment by Sen. Symington (D-Mo)
that the Soviets have gained as
cendency in air power.
The President replied that was
a very general statement. He said
air power is a relative thing.
Anybody can gain control of
the air by concentrating at a
given point and within a given
space of time, Eisenhower said.
He added the Germans did that
as late as January, 1945, when
they plastered Allied air fields.
That was in the late stages of
World War II when the Allies
had over-all command of the air.
Eisenhower said that in prac
tice runs the Russians have flown
over Moscow numbers of air
planes. He said there are a few
among these in which the size of
the engines and the size of the
airframes indicate they are cap
able of carrying big loads long
distances.
What the technical condition in
side these bombers is, nobody
here knows, he added.
Nome School Band Concert
MAY 11, 1955 NOME SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 8:00 P.M.
The Star Spangled Banner
Challenger March . Weber
Faith of Our Fathers . Walton-Frank
Prelude in C Minor . Rachmaninoff
I Dream of Jeanie .Trumpet Solo. Foster
Robert Summers
Great Gate of Kiev . Moussorgsky '
Sweet and Low . Barnby
Glendy Burke . Foster
Mocking Bird Hill . Corson
The Rolling Sea .^....Trumpet Quartet. Zamecnik
Robert Summers, Fritz Chambers, David Barber, Ray Arnold
INTERMISSION
Waltz Festival . Arr. by Weber
Donkey Serenade.Saxophone Solo.Friml
Jeanne Boucher acc. by Mrs. Boucher
Forty Winks . Walters
The Brook .Clarinet Quartet. Roden
Charlene Hudgins, Ruth Glavinovich, Alice Glavinovich, Dorothy Russell
Sweet Betsy from Pike.Novelty.Folk Song
Paul Glavinovich and Richard Benson
Here Comes the Parade .March. Weber
Rip Van Winkle ..Overture. Chenette
Waves of the Danube. Ivanovici
Dot and Phil ..March. Fillmore
BAND PERSONNEL
TRUMPETS—Robert Summers, Fritz Chambers, David Barber,
Ray Arnold, John Herman, Roy Carlson
CLARINETS—Charlene Hudgins, Ruth Glavinovich, Alice Glav
inovich, Dorothy Russell, Cheri Galvin, Carol Carlson,
Mary Jeanne Longley
SAXOPHONES—Jeanne Boucher, Rodney Boucher, Helen
Reader, Eddy Johnson, Alan Havens
MELLOPHONE—Wayne Russell
BARITONES—Earl Towner, Grant Doyle
FLUTES: Diane Lee, Joe Barber
TROMBONES: Peter Barber, Jimmie Mays, JoAnn Reed
BELLS—‘Ruth Towner
DRUMS—Mary Lou Amarok, Arthur Martin, Stephen Heath
' BASS—Bob Russell
301 Cadets Named for
Air Force Academy
WASHINGTON, {£*)—T h e Air
Force has named 301 cadets—in
cluding one from Alaska—for the
first class of the Air Force Acad
emy, opening July 11 at Lowry
Air Base, Denver.
The Alaska cadet is Francis
Raymond Winegarner, Palmer.
The successful applications were
selected from more than 6,000
nominated by members of Con
gress.
New Dawn of Peace
May Come From
Big Four Meeting
WASHINGTON, itf—The Eisen
hower administration is preparing
for a top-level Big Four confer
ence with Russia in a belief it
may prove a “new dawn” of peace
is breaking over the world.
President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of State Dulles made that
clear last night in assessing—be
fore television cameras — the
meaning of the Austrian indepen
dence treaty. By that pact Russia
is pledged to withdraw its troops
from Austria.
Dulles predicted dramatic re
sults from this pledge throughout
eastern Europe. Communist satel
lite countries like Czechoslovakia
and Hungary will also want free
dom, he said, adding the joy of
the Austrians over their freedom
will be “contagious.”
The possibility of a “new
dawn” was broached by Eisen
hower, who at the same time
cautioned that this country must
remain strong and vigilant.
Dulles also declared a vital fact
in the world situation now is that
the acceptance of West Germany
into the North Atlantic Treaty the
Soviet Union has suffered its
“greatest diplomatic defeat” since
World War II. The explanation of
Russia’s changed behavior, he
said, may lie in a Kremlin deci
sion to stop trying to block such
developments and “conform to
some of the rules and practices
of a civilized world community.”
But whatever the explanation
from Russia’s side, Dulles said,
the important point is that a “pol
icy of strength and firmness and
the standard of moral principle”
is beginning to pay off for the
West. If the West sticks to that
policy, he said, “we can face the
future with confidence.”
He cautioned both against re
laxation of armed strength and
against the great danger, as he
called it, of expecting too much
from the prospective Big Four
talks between Eisenhower and the
prime ministers of Russia, Britain
and France.
Excessive hope now, he said,
might result in disillusionment,
dismay and even a war psychol
ogy later on.
Eisenhower, who interrupted
Dulles’ report to the nation
from time to time with com
ments of his own, broke in to
say he thought “the American
people are pretty well aware of
what is going on”
Police Round Up Gj
Half Million D(
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Navy Explodes
Small Atom Device
In Pacific Ocean
WASHINGTTN, (JV-'The De
fense Department announced yes
terday the Navy has exploded a
small atomic device under water
off the West Coast of the United
States.
The terse announcement said
nothing about when or exactly
where in the Pacific Ocean the
world’s second underwater nu
clear explosion took place.
But the Pentagon said from
early indications, the test involved
no hazard to the American main
land, any island peoples or any
consumers of fish.
The announced purpose of the
test was to further develop new
anti-submarine weapons.
The test was conducted by a
small task group under the direc
tion of Rear Adm. Charles B.
Nomsen, commander of Joint Task
Force 7, repsonsible for all nu
clear tests in the Pacific Ocean
area.
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Alaska Population
Shrinks 5,000 In ’54
Reversing Trend
SEATTLE, UP)—Alaska’s civilian
population shrank by about 5,000
persons last year, reversing an up
ward trend of the previous five
years, Robert De Armond of Ju
neau said Tuesday in Seattle.
De Armond, special assistant to
the territorial governor, B. Frank
Heintzleman, said the Alaskan
civilian population increased by
5,000 each of the five years prior
to 1954. But last year, 5,000 fewer
moved to the territory than left
for the states.
“This is due largely to taper
ing off in defense construction,”
De Armond explained. ”It is too
early to tell if the trend will con
tinue this year, but I think it
will.”
De Armond said Alaska now
has a civilian population of 200,
000, including 35,000 Indians and
Eskimos. They are spread thinly
over the vast territory of Alaska,
which is 586,000 square miles in
area.
New industries continually are
being established in the territory,
De Armond reported, giving pros
perity to southeastern Alaska
cities. But the tapering off in
defense construction poses prob
lems for such cities as Anchorage
and Fairbanks.
De Armond is interviewing
Seattle people for positions in the
new Alaskan Department of Fin
ance created' by the last legisla
ture. At least two persons, a
director and a budget officer, will
be named later. De Armond will
leave for Juneau on Saturday.
ing Who Plotted
>llar Mail Robbery
LAS VEGAS, Nev., [M—Dozens
of policemen, postal inspectors
and sheriff’s deputies last night
rounded up a gang near the Las
Vegas postoffice, acting on a' tip
a mail robbery was planned.
A consignment of gambling
casino money, reported to amount
to a half million dollars, had been
scheduled for dispatch by mail
from Las Vegas to San Francisco.
But transfer of the money from
the post office to the railroad sta
tion was not made after an in
former told police of an elaborate
mail robbery plan.
Five persons, including a Las
Vegas policeman, were taken into
custody and a quantity of wea
pons and masks seized by the law
enforcement agents who hid in
the vicinity of the postoffice.
Police Chief A. H. Kennedy said
an informer told him two weeks
ago of the robbery plan. He said
one member of the gang was to
have called police a few minutes
before the scheduled 8 p.m. mail
robbery to report a fake burglary
on the far side of Las Vegas. It
was hoped this would draw many
officers away from the postoffice
area. Another member of the gang
was to telephone police about the
same time, pretending he was a
sheriffs deputy, and requesting
that detectives go out to pick up
“two men wanted for local burg
laries.”
Last night a police car, with
out the cash, was ready to go,
manned by two officers and a
postal employe who had been in
formed of the plot and volunteer
ed for the job.
Chief Kennedy said the plans
got fouled up, the calls were
never made and two men who
were supposed to block the post
office driveway didn’t show up.
Nome School Band
Gives Concert Tonight
Parents and friends of mem
bers of the Nome School Band are
looking forward to the concert
scheduled for this evening at 8
p.m. in the school auditorium. It
is expected that those attending
will be surprized at the great im
provement and the increased size
of the band since it started last
year under Robert Heath, music
supervisor.
There will be no admission
charge but the group have placed
a “wishing well” near the en
trance for those who have ex
pressed a desire to help the band
get uniforms next year.
The band club called the Euter
pean Society, have invited par
ents to light refreshments follow
ing the concert.
This Horseplayer Strikes It Rich
CARACAS, Venezuela, —Er
mona Leone de Bomiss, 41, an
Italian immigrant, won $291,000
on a $16 ticket at the Hippodrome
races here, track officials an
nounced today. He picked all the
winners of the final six races in
a special betting pool.
NOME HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS ITS ANNUAL
JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM
SATURDAY, MAY 21 — 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. s — COUPLE: $2.00 — SINGLE: $1.25