SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 132 vNOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1957 Per Copy—
BOARD OF ROAD COMMISSIONERS
REPORT GIVEN AT CHAMBER
By RUTH McLEAN
Stressing the “fair over-all at
titude of all members of the
Board of Road Commissioners,”
Dewey Goodrich detailed the last
meeting of the Board for the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce at its regular meeting
on Monday.
Mr. Goodrich stated that this
was the most important meeting
in the last two and a half years
because the road commissioners
have been given complete author
ity on spending road appropria
tions. *
Of special interest to the Sew- j
ard Peninsula area, Mr. Goodrich
said, was the promise of Mr.
Swick, BPR engineer, that the
preliminary air survey for High
way 97 will be made next year. At
this time the percentage of allo
cations for spending road moneys
is based on area, tax money col
lected, population, needs, etc., and
Mr. Goodrich said there was much
criticism of this method of allo
cation. “It was felt by some board
» members that the economic con
dition of each community should
be stressed, rather than the
amount of gas tax collected,” Mr.
Godrich said.
Mr. Goodrich advised the Cham
ber that $872,000 will be allocated
to the Second Division for next
year’s roads. After certain sums
are set aside for maintenance, the
survey of the Nome-Teller road,
etc., approximately $650,000 will
be used for construction of new
roads.
Chamber vice-president Jerry
Manning expressed the sincere
appreciation of the Chamber and
the community td Mr. Goodrich
for his capable work in represent
ing this area on the Board of Road
Democrats Win
Many Posts in
Tuesday Elections
New Jersey’s Democratic Gov.
Robert Meyner has won a second
term, defeating Republican state
Sen. Malcolm S. Forbes by about
200,000 votes. Democrats captured
a majority in the state Assembly
which GOP had controlled since
1937.
In Virginia, former Democratic
Atty. Gen. J. Lindsay Almond Jr.
whipped Republican state Sen.
Ted Dalton for the governorship.
Dalton received less than 37 per
cent of the vote in his second try
for the top state post.
New York City’s Democratic
Mayor Robert F. Wagner scored a
landslide win over GOP challeng
er Robert K. Christenberry. In
traditionally Republican upstate
New York, Democrats made a net
gain of five mayors and a Liberal
took a sixth from the GOP.
Democratic mayors David L.
Lawrence of Pittsburgh and John
*T. Hanlon of Scranton won un
precedented fourth terms. For the
first time in 23 years Lancaster
chose a Democratic mayor. The
. GOP lost five mayors in Pennsyl
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Commissioners.
Mr. Manning reported on the
recent annual meeting of the All
Alaska Chamber of Commerce in
Juneau where he was a delegate
from the NWA Chamber. “This
Chamber should have at least one
representative at these annual
meetings,” Mr. Manning stated.
“They are most important.” He
described the full program of
round - table discussions and
speeches given by Dr. Ernest
Gruening, Governor Stepovich
and others. The topic for the con
vention was “mining” and de
tailed reports will be received at
a later date on the business trans
acted at the meeting, according to
Mr. Manning.
The resolution in which the j
NWA Chamber asked the All-1
Alaska Chamber to endorse High-1
way .97 was tabled because it was
considered “regional.” However,
Mr. Manning said it was encour
aging to hear several cities in
favor of endorsing the resolution,
including Valdez, Seward, Peters
burg, Juneau and Fairbanks.
Manning praised the fine work
being done by “Dutch” Derr with
the Alaska Visitors Assn., in pro
moting all of Alaska.
C. L. (Chuck) Cloudy of Ketchi
kan was elected the new presi
dent of the All-Alaska group.
A copy of a letter written by
Charles D. Jones to the Board of
Road Commissioners in staunch
support of Highway 97 was re
ceived by the NWA Chamber. Mr.
Goodrich said: “I can’t stress too
much how important the impact
of Mr. Jones’ letter was one the
Road Commissioners.”
Another letter received by the
Chamber was from President Jim
Walsh describing his temporary
assignment and the countryside
and people of Frobisher Bay, in
Canada, where he is spending a
month. He wrote he has found
many similarities between that
tiny community and Nome.
Mysterious Bright Ball of Fire
Seen in Night Sky Over Kodiak
KODIAK, UP)—A Kodiak police
man and a 15-year-old girl said
yesterday they saw an object re
sembling a bright ball of fire in
the skies over Kodiak at about
10 p.m. Monday night.
Policeman John Boucher, in a
patrol car at the time, said he
saw the object, shedding blue
sparks’and emitting intense light,
fall on Kodiak Island. It was de
scribed as about the sizd of four
basketballs.
“I was near the Kodiak High
School when I saw the school and
schoolgrounds light up with a
greenish color,” Boucher said. “I
looked up and saw a large red ball
falling rapidly. It had a short
vapor tail, chartreuse in color, and
was visible for three seconds be
fore falling behind the school.”
He searched for the object but
could not locate it.
Dolores Gallagher, 15, said she
also saw the object about 10 p.m.
She was waiting in a parked
car for her mother north of the
city limits. “It seemed to be on a
level with the car, travelling from
northeast to southwest and it
seemed very near,” she said. “Blue
sparks were coming from it and
it was curving slightly downward.
I was scared and thought it would
hit the car.”
Officials at the Kodiak Naval
Base said they received additional
reports from civilian sources of an
object seen in the sky Monday
evening.
Spokesmen said they had not
observed anything unusual at the
base but had sighted a possible
meteor at 6:24. a.m. Tuesday. They
reported no radio interference.
Boucher said he car radio was
affected when the object disap
peared. , _
[Senate Group
Will Launch
i
Missile Inquiry
WASHINGTON, (JV-A Senate
subcommittee moved today to
wring out any complacency re
maining in the U.S. missiles pro
gram as President Eisenhower
hurried a report on the nation’s
progress.
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson of Texas announced yes
terday the Senate Preparedness
Subcommittee he heads will
launch, a hard-hitting inquiry into
the missile and satellite programs
this month.
Its purpose will be not to assess
blame for delays, he said, but to
help correct the “errors” he said
have caused U.S. efforts in the
rocketry field to lag behind those
of Russia.
The White House, in a quick
change of plans, announced Eisen
hower will address the nation by
TV and radio Thursday night on
“Science and Security.” He had
scheduled a speech in Oklahoma
City on that subject a week later.
Altho Johnson avoided any di
rect charge that Eisenhower Ad
ministration officials had been
lax about speeding up the satel
lite and missile programs, he said
military experts have set some
completion targets for 1961 and
1963 “when they ought to be
talking about 1958 and 1959.”
MAN WINS FIGHT AGAINST
STORE MANNEQUINS
MOBILE, Ala., UP>—A 50-year
old laborer testified he had drunk
a little too much when he squared
off against three store manne
quins.
Ernest Dully pleaded guilty in
city court yesterday to using the
dummies as sparring partners. He
won the bouts, flooring all three.
Dully then crossed the street to
another store where he stole a
bottle of hand lotion for post
fight treatment of bruised knuck
les, officers testified.
He was sentenced to 115 days in
jail.
Khrushchev Opens Soviet, 40th
Anniversary With Taunts at West
And a Call for East-West Meeting
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! BRITISH TURBOJET /
FALLS IN FLAMES
KILLING ALL 15
BRISTOL, England, 151—A tur
bojet Britannia airliner, pride of
Britain’s commercial aviation,
crashed in flames today on a test
flight killing all 15 aboard.
The big four-engine plane took
off from the Bristol Aviation Co.
field and plummeted into a belt
of woods near the plant.
The plane, the first prototype
of the Marc 300 Britainnia series,
carried 15 crewmen and techni
cians. It had been used for tests
since it was turned out by the
Bristol plant last year.
Nine-Year Old Helps
Pay for New AFA Stadium
DENVER, (51—Nine-year-old
Glenn Wright of Annville, Pa.,
has sent $2 to the Air Force Acad
emy Athletic Assn, to help pay
for a new stadium to be construct
ed at its permanent site in Color
ado Springs.
Glenn’s letter said: “I would
like to go to the Air Force Acad- ’
emy when I get old enough. I am
now 9. I saw in the paper that
you need money for a stadium. So
I would like to contribute this
money.” I
SPUTNIK II
IS SPOTTED
THRUOUT U.S.
By DON GUY
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UR—Rus
sia’s dog-carrying satellite was
sighted by moonwatch teams
thruout the United States this
morning in three passages across
the nation. It appeared to be tum
bling end over end in space.
The Smithsonian Astrophyiscal
Observatory reported so many
good sightings from moonwatch
ers that scientists expected to pin
down the orbit of Sputnik II to a
high degree of accuracy within
24 hours.
The rocket-satellite was seen by
Capt. Laval Tremblay, assistant
operations officer of the Air Force
in nearby Bedford, while flying
over the North Conway, N. H.,
area.
Capt. Tremblay, 19,000 feet in
the air, said he saw the big satel
lite in the south-southwest for
more than’ a minute beginning at
5:04 a.m.
Dr. Fred L. Whipple, Smith
sonian Observatory director, said
numerous reports of changing
brightness of the satellite indicate
the rocket-shaped moon is tum
bling in space.
Some observers placed it at
minus 2 magnitude—or as bright
as the planet Jupiter. They noted
that in a few seconds it would
diminish to fourth magnitude—
the brightness of a relatively faint
star. _
> By HAROLD K. MILKS
'.MOSCOW, (^—Nikita Khrush
chev opened-the Soviet 40th anni
versary jubilee today with taunt?
at the West over Russia’s Sput
niks and a call for a new high
level East-West meeting.
The Soviet party boss, while
suggesting an understanding with
the United States on disarma
ment, denounced what he called.
Western imperialism.
He renewed a charge the US.
was inciting Israel and Turkey
and plotting against Syria.
“Our people have never thought
and do not think to use any means
of destruction if our country is
not subjected to attack by imper
ialist states,” he said.
The Soviet Union, he asserted,
was out-distancing the United
States on all fronts—scientific,
economic, agricultural and indus
trial.
“That’s the kind of friendly
compelttion we want—not arma
ment races,” he said.
He said the NATO summit meet
ing to be held in Paris next month
“promises nothing good in the
cause of peace.”
He also took a dig at U.S. Sec
retary of State Dulles, saying:
“By keeping the world on the
brink of war, as Dulles put it, the
imperialists are trying to make
favorable conditions for the im
perialist monopolies.”
Practically the entire leadership
of the Communist world heard
Khrushchev at a joint session of
the Supreme Soviet (Parliament)
in the giant Sports Palace.
About 17,000 delegates and
guests applauded the 3 hour, 7
minute speech. There were dele
gations from every Communist
country and from Communist
parties in most of the world. ,
Receiving the second biggest
ovation was the Red China chief,
Mao Tze-tung—whose nation, said
Khrushchev, will, in the not dis
tant future, become a “mighty
industrial power,”
Khrushchev spoofed the U.S.
for naming its satellite project
Vanguard.
“The name alone suggested that
they expected to be first,” he said.
“Now our Sputniks are going
around and round the world wait
ing for the American Sputniks to
come up and join them.”
The audience roared with laugh
ter as Khrushchev suggested the
U.S. and other nations hurry and
send up their Sputniks so there
could be a “commonwealth of
Sputniks.”
U.S. Reaction
As Seen by Russian
LONDON, Uft—Pravda said yes
terday that US. reaction to the
launching of Sputnik II “ranges
from sincere admiration to panic,
hysteria and malicious rage.”
This assessment was made by
the New York correspondent of
Pravda in a dispatch quoted by
Moscow radio.
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