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VOL. LXII No. 20 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1960_Per Copy 15<*
Fishermen Urge I
No Compromise at
Law of the Sea
SEATTLE, (#1—Washington and
Oregon officials and spokesmen
for the fishing industry have
urged the United States to take a
no-compromise stand on the issue
of territorial extension when the
International Law of the Seas
Conference opens in Geneva next
month.
When the problem arose at last
year’s conference a number of na
tions favored extending the tra
ditional three-mile limit to 12
miles. The United States opposed
the plan and no action was taken.
This year Canada has announc
ed it will propose extension of the
territorial limit to six miles, with
fisheries jurisdiction to 12 miles.
The plan has brought criticism
from U.S. fishermen who would
lose the right to work the rich
fishing grounds off the British
Columbia coast.
At a public hearing called Sat
urday toy Milo Moore, Washington
State Fisheries Director, Oregon
officials said they would work
with Washington to retain histori
cal fishing rights off Canada.
Albert Day, director of the Ore
gon Fish Commission, said:
“The fish off British Columbia
are produced to a large extent by
streams in the Pacific Northwest
and the taxpayers here are foot
ing the bill.”
George Johansen, secretary of
the Alaska Fishermen’s Union,
and Herald O’Neill, of the Assn,
of Pacific Fisheries and Puget
Sound Salmon Canners, Inc., crit
icized the State Department,
which has indicated a willingness
to accept the Canadian proposal.
“We do not want the govern
ment to give away our fishing
rights,” Johansen said.
At a public hearing held here
last month, William C. Herring
ton, special assistant to the Sec
retary of State, indicated the U.S.
might accept a compromise for
reasons of national security. He
and Navy officials pointed out the
12-mile limit would render the
lU.S. fleet useless in many situa
tions.
42 Deaths Attributed To
Winter’s Worst Storm
(B]) The Associated Press)
A new storm dumped up to 9
inches of snow in parts of Okla
homa today as the eastern quar
ter of the nation staggered under
the impact of the winter’s most
violent weather.
Snow drifts rose 10 feet high in
parts of New York State as high
way crews battled to keep roads
open. All city schools were closed
in Syracuse where more than 20
inches of snow fell.
Deaths from the weekend of
stormy weather, mounted to at
least 42. Most of them were at
tributed to heart attacks while
shoveling snow or in accidents
on icy or snow-slicked highways.
Travel was sharply curtailed.
Thousands of autos and trucks
were abandoned on snow-clogged
highways. Scores of air flights
were cancelled. Train and bus
service slowed. Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt was among the hun
dreds stranded in the worst storm
in 10 years in southwestern Penn
sylvania.
Hundreds of schools from Ohio
into Kentucky, Virginia and
North Carolina were closed.
The severe winds churned up
abnormally high tides against the
New England coast.
Nome’s Entry Leaves
Tomorrow For Anchorage
Fur Rendezvous Races
Tomorrow the winner of the
1959 Nome Dog Derby, Chester
Topkok, leaves for Anchorage
with a team of 11 dogs to compete
in the Rendezvous Dog Races.
Topkok is sponsored by the
Nome Arctic Club and Alaska
Airlines and will be accompanied
by Roscoe Wilke as manager.
Nome’s entry, Isaac Okleasik,
placed third in the races last
year.
Also known to be going to An
chorage for the Rendezvous and
taking advantage of the special
excursion rates being offered by
Alaska Airlines, are Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Cannon, Mrs. Bachelor and dau
ghter, Mischa Charles, Belinda
Simon and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Johnson, and Lorena
Gray.
A group of dancers are also
scheduled to leave tmorrow to
participate in the entertainment
at the Rendezvous and will put
on several shows.
Hawaii Transition Will
Affect Alaska
WASHINGTON, (51 — Proposed
legislation to complete Hawaii’s
transition from territorial status
to statehood would make some
changes affecting Alaska.
The Budget Bureau submitted
the proposals to Congress today.
They add up to a considerably
longer measure than a similar bill
passed last year for Alaska’s
transition to statehood.
Some of the provisions affect
ing Alaska were omitted through
oversight in the Alaska bill. They
came to light in a several-month
study of changes needed to
smooth Hawaii’s transition to
statehood.
Both Alaska and Hawai would
be brought under the Agriculture
Department’s soil bank program.
At present the program applies
only to the two new states if the
Secretary of Agriculture deter
mines that the national interest
requires it.
Both Hawaii and Alaska would
toe brought into the national sys
tem of interstate and defense
highways, but only Hawaii would
receive an immediate allocation
of highway mileage and construc
tion funds.
Under the legislation vessels
subsidized by the Federal Mari
time Administration could be
built or repaired in Hawaii and
Alaska, as well as in the other
states.
Nehru and Chou En Lai To
Talk Over Border Dispute
NEW DELHI, India, (51—Prime
Minister Nehru has invited Red
Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai to
talk with him in New Delhi on
the Chinese - Indian border dis
pute.
Nehru’s agreement to meet with
Chou reversed the Indian Pre
mier’s previous stand that such a
top - level negotiating session
would have no value as things
stood in the border dispute.
India and China are disputing
51,000 square miles of Himilayan
territory between northern India
and Tibet.
Despite India's insistence that
the largely unihabited territory is
hers, the Chinese have sent troops
into the area and have clashed
with Indian border guards and
patrols.
Undefended Nome
Coast Stirred By
Flame in Skies
At five o’clock last evening a
flaming object was seen traveling
eastward across the southern
horizon. It was also reported hav
ing been seen at Unalakleet, St.
Michael, and Tin City.
Military authorities were con
tacted at Elmendorf AFB but
they denied having any knowl
edge as to what it might have
been.
U. S. Army officials contend
that defense installations are not
needed along the coast of north
ern Alaska. This is another ex
ample of how jets based on the
coast of Alaska could have quick
ly intercepted and identified such
an object. The coast of Alaska is
just as close to the coast of Si
beria as the Russian outposts are
to Alaska. The Siberian coast is
just as sparsely populated and
just as cold. Yet, the Communists
think it important enough to have
not one but many defenses on its
eastern coastline while Alaska
has none, even with the knowl
edge that America has never been
an aggressor in time of war.
Egan Freezes
Lotteries Bill
JUNEAU UP) — The bill to
legalize ice pools and other
forms of non-profit- gambling in
Alaska ran into an Administra
tion freeze Friday.
Governor Egan announced At
torney General John Rader felt
the bill would be difficult to ad
minister in its present form.
The bill has been passed by the
Senate and approved by the House
with certain amendments and
was to be returned to the Senate
for concurrence with the amend
ments when it became known the
Administration was opposed to
the present form.
Sponsoring legislators are work
ing with the Attorney General’s
office to add more explicit lan
guage to the measure and to
specify exactly what types of ac
tivities would be sanctioned by
the bill.
Sen. John Coghill, a co-sponsor
of the bill, said Democratic policy
makers in the 'Legislature prob
ably will decide whether to
amend the present bill in confer
ence committee or to write a new
bill after the legal review is
completed.
Coghill agreed with Egan that
the bill which emerges will be a
stronger measure with closer re
strictions on sanctioned activities.
House Committee OK’s
1960 Alaska Funds for
Interior Department
WASHINGTON, UP) — Interior
Department requests for money
to be spent in Alaska during the
year starting July 1 were ap
proved Friday by the House Ap
propriations Committee.
The bill includes $837,900 for
fire control in Alaska, an in
crease of $200,000 over the amount
provided in the total for the pres
ent fiscal year.
The committee also approved
the six-million-dollar transitional
grant asked in the President’s
budget to help the state make the
changeover from a territory to
Statehood.
A budget request for $2,070,000
to administer the Pribilof Islands
was allowed, an increase of $ 130,
000 over the present fiscal year.
New Magistrate May
Assume Duties This Week
James G. St. Amour, recently
appointed District Magistrate for
the Second Judicial District, ar- |
rived to prepare to assume his
new position here, expected to
take effect this week.
The effective date is determined
by the Administration Office,
Alaska State Courts, pending the
appointment of Judge Walter
Hodge as Federal Judge for
Alaska.
The new Magistrate comes
from Great Falls, Montana, where
he was a practicing attorney, and
has been in Anchorage since 1954.
He is a veteran of World War II,
U.S.A.F. His office will be in the
present location of the U. S.
Commissioner.
Judge Gilbert, who made the
appointment, has had the difficult
task of necessarily having to
choose someone outside this area,
as there were no qualified at
torneys in this district available.
It is important that the Magistrate
be an attorney, as none of the
deputies in the villages have had
legal experience, and will be de
pending upon him for advice and
help.
Two Employment Security j
Measures In Legislature !
JUNEAU, (/Pi—Here is a com
parison of two Enployment Se
curity measures now before the
Alaska Legislature:
Governor Egan’s bill calls for
a variable tax rate based on con
tributions on the first $7,200 in
salary paid to each covered work
er. The present taxable base is
$4,200.
Sen. George McNabb, an op
ponent of the Egan measure, said I
the $7,200 base is meaningless be
cause he claims it is above the
average wage paid in the state.
A measure introduced 'by Rep.
Bruce Kendall (R-Valdez) has the
endorsement of McNabb and Hen
ry Hedberg, a member of the
labor lobby.
Briefly, Kendall’s bill bases the
employment security program on
a tax formula determined from
the average annual wage paid in
Alaska. It would also increase
benefit payments virtually across
the board, providing for 26 weeks
of jobless pay to an unemployed
worker at about half of his nor
mal pay.
The program would be fin
anced with an increase in the em
ployer tax rate of 3:3 per cent of
the average annual wage in the
state, now about $6,800. There is
no provision for an increase in
the tax rate for employes, now
one half of one per cent, but the
amount of contributions would
depend on the average annual
wage.
Kendall’s proposal would not
provide for paying off the exist
ing debt—about 9 million dollars.
He says that can be done only by
a direct appropriation, which he
proposed in an earlier bill.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy today with snow, im
proving late tomorrow. Winds
east to southeast, with gusts 15
to 25 miles per hour. Warming
temperatures.
Nome data last 24 hours: Preci
pitation .03 inch, month total .07
inches. Temperatures — Highest
-6, lowest -22. Max. wind 13 miles
an hour from the east. Sunrise
at 7:51 a.m., sunset at 4:34 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures a year ago today — High 25,
low 15. Extremes this date since
1907: Highest 35 in 1941, lowest
-37 in 1957.
Japanese Groups
To Study Race
Origins In Alaska
TOKYO, UPi — Two groups of
Japanese scholars begin leaving
for Alaska this month to make an
assault on Mt. McKinley and
probe into the migration of primi
tive races between North America
and Asia.
A six-member team from Tok
yo’s Waseda University, led by
Professor Takamasa Yoshizaka, is
leading the one-shot attempt to
conquer the unsealed southwest
buttress of 20,800-foot-high Mt.
McKinley, the highest peak in
North America.
A separate team of 16 scholars
from the Meiji University of Tok
yo is launching a long-term sur
vey into the geography, animal
and botanical life, and the racial
cultures of Alaska for comparison
with their findings in Japan and
other portions of northeast Asia.
In the survey, the Japanese have
the collaboration of the Univer
sity of British Columbia and
Washington University. It is part
of a far-ranging project to trace
the migration of primitive races
between the continents of North
America and Asia and discover
the origins of Japanese culture.
The first group of the Meiji
team plans to leave Tokyo by
plane for Anchorage on April 1.
The Waseda party plans to
leave Vancouver by boat Feb. 28.
Base camp will be at the 10,100
foot point on the Talkeetna Gla
cier.
Subsequent trips to Juneau,
Sitka, Fairbanks, Point Barrow,
Kotzebue, Point Hope, Nome, the
Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Is
land will cover the coastal topo
graphy, and the racial cultures
and backgrounds of the Eskimos
and Indians.
Khrushchev Calls
Western Aid
‘Colonial Slavery’
BHILAI, India, — Nikita
Khrushchev told Indian steel
workers today that the emergence
of a strong Communist bloc is the
only reason the West is granting
economic aid to undeveloped na
tions.
For the second day the Soviet
Premier hammered on the theme
that Western aid is a new version
of old “colonial policies.’ He spoke
at a steel plant being built here
in central India with Soviet
assistance.
Khrushchev charged in an ex
temporaneous speech at a banquet
Sunday night that Western aid to
India and other undeveloped
countries is designed to hold them
“in capitalistic slavery.”
Speaking from a text toay, he
declared: “The Soviet Union and
the West have two different ap
proaches to aid. The Soviet Union
strives to achieve economic aid
which promotes economic inde
pendence. But some people in the
West utilize assistance as a wea
pon of a new colonial policy.”
Khrushchev accused the West
of being interested primarily in
supplying consumer goods and
keeping new nations without in
dustry. He contrasted this with
Soviet policy of giving aid to spe
cific industrial projects. Western
aid actually has bolstered the en
tire Indian economy, and particu
larly agricultural production in
the underfed nation of 415 million
population.