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VOL. LIX No. 105 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1957 Per Copy—15#
National Guardsmen in Little Rock
Forcibly Prevent School Integration
(By The Associated Press)
National Guardsmen called out
by Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkan
sas forcibly prevented integration
at the Little Rock Central High
School in defiance of federal court
orders today while a crowd of
-white persons shouted “Nigger, go
-back where you belong.”
The federal-state test of powers
reached its climax as the grim
faced guardsmen, 200 strong,
turned back repeatedly a teen-age
Negro girl who tried to enter the
building.
As she walked along the line of
heavily armed troopers, she tried
time and again to work her way
-thru the close-knit formation. At
each instance a soldier stepped
forward to bar her path.
Supt. Virgil Blossom’ said the
school would be open to Negroes
today.
Federal Judge Ronald Davies
said he was taking at face value
Faubus’ statement that the 250
guardsmen were called out . to
Age of Electricity
75 Years Old
NEW YORK, Iff)—The modem
age of electricity was bom here
75 years ago today—Sept. 4, 1882,
—when Thomas A. Edison’s first
central station began operations
at 257 Pearl Street.
I Edison's first station served 50
customers. The electricity cost 24
cents per kilowatt hour, in a day
when men’s white shirts sold at
39 cents apiece. Today the aver
age cost of electricity to domestic
users runs between 2Vfc and 3
cents per kilowatt hour.
GIANT U.S.
DOPE RING
SMASHED
NEW YORK. —A giant inter
national narcotics smuggling and
distribution ring was reported.
smashed today with the opening
in federal court of a sealed indict
ment naming 46 defendants and
16 co-conspirators.
Authorities announced shortly
afterward that nine of them had
been taken into custody, seven in
New York and two elsewhere.
Head of the gigantic operation
'was Harry Stromberg, 54, who
as the ring’s “over-all director”
for more than 25 years, according
to a government spokesman.
The dope syndicate imported
cocaine and opium into this coun
try from France and other coun
tries, and on at least one occasion
it smuggled in about 50 pounds of
pure heroin valued on the illicit
market at $3,500,000, according
to U.S. Atty. Paul W. Williams.
The ring used many “under
handed” methods in its operations
and an untold number of customs
inspectors were “corrupted” by
it, in agreeing to facilitate the
smuggling of narcotics thru the
Port of New York, said Williams.
keep peace and order and not as
segregationists or integationists.
After a five-minute hearing he
ordered the board to proceed. He
issued his first integration order
Friday.
President Eisenhower said at
Washington that Atty. Gen. Her
bert Brownell is looking into the
situation.
The focal point in North Caro
lina shifted from Greensboro to
Charlotte, where a 16-year-old
Negro boy entered a previously
all-white high school today. There
were a few catcalls from specta
tors outside but no unusual reac
tion from pupils and teachers.
Five Negroes entered high
school on an integrated basis at
Greensboro yesterday without in
cident.
One Negro is to enter a white
school at Winston-Salem, N.C.,
Thursday.
Gov. Luther Hodges last night
voiced neither approval nor dis
approval of the steps taken at
Charlotte, Greensboro and Win
ston-Salem. He said, however, he
is convinced “any substantial
mixing of the races in our schools
would result in the destruction of
the public school system.”
Chance Saves
Two Families as
Jet Hits Homes
ST. LOUIS, Iff)—Almost any
other Tuesday at 5 p.m., the
Charles Schneider and Raymond
Meyer familes would have been
at home.
But fate stepped in ahead of a
Navy jet fighter which smashed
into their houses in suburban
Berkeley yesterday, leaving little
but charred ruins.
The pilot, Lt. John R. Renshaw,
of Centreville, Md., appeared to
be shooting for an open space a
block west of the Meyer home. He
was killed.
Schneider said his wife, Ruth,
would be busy getting supper al
most any other Tuesday. Their
children, Linda 8, Charles 5, and
Richard 3Va months, would be at
home. But it was the first day of
school and his wife had picked
out the children’s best clothes.
She told her husband at his office:
“I think when the kids come
home they’ll be all dressed up so
I think we’ll go over to mother’s.
You can pick us up there.”
Almost any other Tuesday, Ray
Meyer would be in the shower,
letting the water wash away the
weariness of a day on a construc
tion job.
But yesterday, Meyer was kept
10 minutes overtime. He picks his
wife up from her job on the way
home every day.
They were just two blocks
away in the car when the plane
hit. It ripped thru the Meyer
home and into the Schneider’s
six-room frame house. It left only
a few upright timbers and four
drawers of untouched clothing in
a scorched dresser.
558 Children Start
School But 625
Are Expected
An enrollment of 625 students
in Nome School was predicted to
day by Superintendent William
Angell. However, yesterday, the
first day of school, 558 students
enrolled—460 in the grades and
98 in high school.
The increased enrollment is ex
pected by the school from fam
ilies returning to town from
camping and from new students.
They expected 525 in the grade
schools and 100 in high school.
More than 60 youngsters were
enrolled in the first grade on
the first day.
Far Reaching
Effects Seen
In Ruling
(By The Associated Press)
A short paragraph that has
been a part of Alaska Liquor con
trol laws for 20 years has been
declared void by a federal judge.
The opinion could have “far
reaching ramifications and a tre
mendous effect” on territorial
liquor regulations, according to
the assistant attorney general
who helped argue the case at An
chorage before a visiting U.S.
district judge from California.
Back in 1937 the Alaska Legis
lature stuck into a liquor control
bill a paragraph which said mu
nicipalities could enact local liqu
or control regulations consistent
with territorial law.
The paragraph remained virtu
ally unchanged thru 10 legisla
tures—and was included also in
the new liquor control law enact
ed by the 23rd Legislature in its
closing hours last March.
That portion of the law became
an issue only this year—and in
the interim, local governments
gradually adopted various regu
lations 'of their own to control
liquor sales.
The enforcement of local clos
ing hours was one of the big items
taken over by virtually every
council of an incorporated area
in Alaska.
Another was the issuance of
local liquor dispensary licenses.
It became almost standard prac
tice that no applicant for a terri
torial license could obtain a per
mit if the city in which he was
planning to do business refused
to issue a local license.
That system apparently now
has been changed.
Russia Turns Down
West’s Package Plan
To End Arms Race
LONDON, Oft—Russia made it
plain again at the U.N. disarma
ment conference today that the
West’s package plan for ending
\he world’s arms race is unac
ceptable.
At the same time, Soviet Dele
gate Valerian Zorin accused the
Western powers of obstructing
agreement on his proposal for an
immediate end to test-firing of
atomic and hydrogen weapons.
ALASKA CITIES LOSE CONTROL
OVER LIQUOR SALE REGULATION
AS RESULT OF NEW RULING
ANCHORAGE, OK—A U.S. Dis
trict Court ruling has nullified all
city ordinances regulating the
sale of alcoholic beverages. As a
result of the ruling, the cities of
Alaska have lost all control over
liquor.
Judge Ernest A. Tolin of Los
Angeles, who was a visiting judge
to the court in Anchorage, ruled
the sole authority to grant or
deny liquor licenses lay with the
Territorial Board of Liquor Con
trol, not with the city councils.
Judge Tolin's decision, has
opened traditionally dry sec
tions of Anchorage to package
liquor stores, taverns and res
alurants serving wine and beer.
The judge’s ruling came in a
suit filed against the City of An
chorage by George D. Y. Woo,
owner of the Rice Bowl Restaur
ant. Woo had received a liquor
license from the Board of Liquor
Control but was denied a license
by the city council.
Attorney John Manders argued
—and Judge Tolin agreed—that
Congress empowered only the
legislature and not the cities to
govern liquor sales.
In effect, the judge's ruling
says that anyone who can get a
territorial license can dispense
liquor within a city.
Prior to the ruling, the city
council employed its licensing
1 powers to limit the number of
[liquor dealers.
Theoretically the council was
guided by a population ratio. In
practice, a public opinion poll
guided the Anchorage council
men in keeping liquor out of cer
tain neighborhoods.
City Manager George Shan
non said Anchorage has also
lost its power to govern the
opening and closing times of
liquor dispensaries. Under the
territorial law, taverns and the
package stores may operate
around the clock.
Under Nome city ordinance the
bars were allowed to open at
8 a.m. and close at 1 a.m. week
days and 2 a.m. Sundays. Liquor
stores were allowed to open at
8 a.m. and close at 9:00 pm.
Shannon said the City of An
chorage will also lose about $5,500
revenue from city retail liquor
licenses and about $42,500 from
city wholesale liquor licenses. He
said, however, the loss will be re
lieved somewhat by a kickback
from increased territorial licens
ing fees.
Shannon also said policing the
bars with their longer hours will
cost more.
Emergency Session of Board Sets
Uniform Retail Liquor Hours
JUNEAU, UR—New uniform re
tail liquor hours in the territory’s
11 population centers may point
to the eventual end of night-long
operations of bars and roadhouses
in rural sections of Alaska.
Another new regulation pro
hibiting bars in cities from em
ploying so-called B-girls also
points toward the day when it
may be illegal in Alaska for tav
erns to hire hostesses to help ped
dle drinks.
However, a final decision ap
parently will have to come from
the legislature—not from the Ter
ritorial Board of Liquor Control,
which yesterday moved to re-es
tablish order in the sale of intox
icating beverages in the cities.
Three members of the board,
meeting in three emergency ses
sions in the office of the govern
or, unanimously adopted these
two new regulations, effective
immediately:
• 1. Liquor sales in all cities of
Alaska with a population of
more than 750 persons are per
mitted until 2 a.m. on weekdays
and until 3 a.m. on Sundays and
holidays. 0& weekdays, all re
tail outlets may open at 10 a.m.
and on Sundays no openings
are permitted until 2 p.m.
2. In all cities of more than 750
persons it will be illegal for any
one to “employ or allow the em
ployment of any female in a bev
erage dispensary establishment
. . for the purpose of drinking,
dancing, or mingling with patrons
of such establishment.”
The court opinion made public
at Anchorage last Saturday threw
wide the doors of many bars and
taverns in Anchorage and Fair
banks over the long Labor Day
weekend, and the emergency ac
tion by the board yesterday was a
move to close them up again.
The regulations apply only to
incorporated municipalities. They
do not affect such communities as
Kotzebue, where local residents
have voted on their own local op
tion to remain dry.
According to the 1950 U.S. cen
sus, the stand by which the regu
lations were applied, the regula
tion hit 11 cities: Nome, Anchor
age, Cordova, Fairbank, Juneau,
Ketchikan, Kodiak, Petersburg,
Seward, Sitka and Wrangell.
Jet Bomber Crashes *
Into Oil Tank
DANBURY Texas, U!>—A B-66
jet bomber crashed into an oil
tank near here last night, setting
off a fire visible for miles.
The three crewmen parachuted
from the crippled plane before
the crash. All were injured, one
critically.
The plane was on a radar train
ing mission when it developed
engine trouble.