22S NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 64 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1956 Per Copy—15*
AVA Will Entertain Travel Agents
Visiting The Territory Next Week
Plans are shaping up for the
entertainment of a group of travel
agents who will be visiting Alaska
June 3 through 9, Frank H. Whal
ey, managing director of the Al
aska Visitors Association, has an
nounced.
About two dozen officers, di
rectors and members of the execu
tive staff of the American Society
of Travel Agents will start arriv
ing in Seattle Friday. The group
Manson-Osberg
Only Bidder On
Kozebue Project
ANCHORAGE, May 25—Bids
totaling $1,706,500 for construction
of White Alice facilities at Kotze
bue and Fort Yukon were submit
ted by Manson-Osberg Construc
tion Co., Seattle—the only bidder
—the Alaska District Corps of En
gineers said today.
Manson-Osberg’s figures under
bid invitation 56-52 were $910,500
for Kotzebue and $796,000 for Fort
Yukon.
Government estimates were
$912,712 for Kotzebue and $683,
446 for Fort Yukon, a total of
$1,596,158 for the two sites.
Col. Carl Y. Farrell, Alaska Dis
trict Engineer, spid that a meeting
is being held with representatives
of the contracting film to work
out certain details on the bids.
The bids include erection of a
tower, tower foundations, equip
ment building, water and sewer
systems, pumphouse and well,
grading and access road.
Statehood Committee Will Provide
2 Provisional Senators, Representative
ANCHORAGE, WV—'The Alaska
Statehood Committee will provide
two provisional senators and one
representative with salaries pend
ing action by the Territorial Leg
islature, the Executive Board has
decided here.
The two senators and one rep
resentative to be elected at the
general election in October will
receive actual travel expenses to
Washington plus $35 a day for
subsistance and expenses.
Payment will take effect Jan. 1
and will continue for not more
than 60 days. The legislature is
expected to meet and make the
necessary appropriation in the
meantime.
Time to Select Candidates
The Executive Board’s action
was taken to fill the interim be
tween the opening of Congress
and the time when the legislature
meets, has time to organize and
take action.
The board meeting was held
here now so its action would be
known to both political parties
before their territorial conven
tions, to select candidates for the
three provisional posts, are held.
Members felt the availability of
this expense fund might have a
bearing on the availability of can
didates.
Funds For Transition Study
In other action, the Executive
Board voted to request the 1957
legislature to appropriate funds
for the committee’s use in making
a study of the transitional prob
lems involved in changing from
territorial to state status.
Members contemplate entering
a contract with the Public Servic
es Administration similar to the
one which produced the constitu
tional studies for the use of dele
gates to the recent convention:
Estimated cost of the project is
$25,000.
Part-Time Employe
Memoers also decided to create
a part-time job paying $150 a
month for the handling of com
mittee correspondence, distribu
tion of copies of the proposed con
stitution, keeping the files and
other properties of the committee.
The employe will also prepare
the 1957-58 ''ommittee budget and
complete a biennial report to the
legislature and take care of other
business. The committee has no
employes at present.
Executive Board members at
tending the meeting here were:
Robert B. Atwood, chairman;
Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Juneau,
secretary; Victor C. Rivers, An
chorage; and Warren A. Taylor,
Fairbanks.
will be entertained in the various
Alaska cities and will hold their
business session June 5 and 6 in
Fairbanks. This will be the first
time the ASTA board will have
met in Alaska.
Juneau, Skagway, Whitehorse
Sunday the group will visit Ju
neau and nearby attractions. Next
day they will fly to Skagway and
board the White Pass and Yukon
Route Railroad for a scenic trip
to Whitehorse. They will fly from
there to arrive in Fairbanks at
6 p.m.
After the two day meeting the
ASTA group will depart on a spe
cial flight via Wien-Alaska Air
lines to Kotzebue, arriving Thurs- i
day, June 7, at 11 a.m., Bering
Sea Time. A full program of ac
tivity is planned for them t^ere,
including skin boat rides, Eskimo
dances, blanket tossing, jump
board contests and other native
entertainment. Arctic shee fish
or reindeer steak dinners will be
served in the Wien-Arctic Hotel.
In Nome June 8
On Friday they will leave Kotz
ebue at 11 a.m. on a special flight
of Wien-Alaska Airlines, arriving
at Nome at noon. There they will
have luncheon at the Bering Sea
Club with the AVA Committee
and the Chamber of Commerce.
Following luncheon there will
be sightseeing of Nome’s gpld
beach and other historical areas
of interest enroute to and from
town. They will leave on a special
flight of Alaska Airline DC-4 at
2 p.m., flying non-stop to Anchor
age via McGrath.
Fred A. Seaton Selected
As New Interior Secretary
WASHINGTON, i/P)—F red A.
Seaton, a 46-year-old Nebraska
newspaper and radio executive,
has been selected to be secretary
of the Interior in President Eisen
hower’s Cabinet, the White House
announced late Wednesday.
Swift Senate confirmation ap
peared assured today for the nom
ination. Seaton has been on the
White House staff as deputy as
sistant to Eisenhower in charge of
administrative affairs.
His selection for the Cabinet
post occasioned some surprise.
Fourteen western Republican sen
ators had publicly backed Under
Secretary of the Interior Clarence
A. Davis to succeed Douglas Mc
Kay. McKay resigned April 15 to
run for the Senate against Sen.
Morse <D-Ore>.
McKay Policies 'Repudiated'
Morse’s colleague, Sen. Neu
berger <D-Ore), contended Eisen
hower had “repudiated the poli
cies of ex-Secretary McKay” by
going outside “the discredited In
terior Department to obtain a
new head.”
Seaton, who described his ap
pointment as a surprise, said he
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favors what Eisenhower terms a
partnership policy under which
local, private and public interests
join with the federal government
in hydroelectric power projects.
Asked specifically if he intends
to carry on McKay’s policies in
the Interior Department, Seaton
replied:
Partnership Policy
“I can’t speak specifically to
that. But, so far as the Eisenhower
power policy and water policy are
concerned, I plan to carry them
on. That includes partnership—I
think it makes sense and pro
gress.”
Many Democrats have criticized
administration power policies as
being pnduly favorable to private
utilities.
Davis announced today he will
stay on the job under Seaton, al
though he previously had told as
sociates he would not remain if
someone else were chosen for the
Cabinet post.
Davis Will Continue
Seaton said Wednesday he had
asked Davis to continue as under
Mary Pickford Grazed
By Bullet From Pistol
Accidentally Discharged
HOLLYWOOD. WV—Mary Pick
ford, sweetheart of the silent
screen, has disclosed that a bullet
grazed her head when a pistol was
accidentally discharged on her
estate.
The former actress made light
of an incident she said took place
Saturday night as she and her
husband, producer Buddy Rogers,
were returning home with Marion
Davies and the latter’s husband,
Capt. Horace Brown.
Miss Pickford said Monday that
Brown was showing his pistol to
Rogers when he slipped in a spot
of oil in the driveway.
The gun discharged, she report-*
ed, and the bullet ricocheted from
the driveway to her forehead. Dr.
Eliot Corday said he treated Miss
Pickford for a slight abrasion.
Former Prime Minister
Of Caucasian Republic
Executed For Treason
M9SCOW Wi—The former Prime
Minister of Azerbaidzhan and
three top officials of that Cauca
sian Republic have been executed
for treason and counterrevolu
tionary activity, it was disclosed
Tuesday.
The four officials were accused
of being accomplices of former
Soviet Police Boss Lavrenty Beria.
The newspaper Baku Worker,
which reached Moscow yesterday,
said they had been charged with
“terroristic acts.”
The chief defendent in the trials,
which the newspaper said was
held publicly in Baku between
April 12 and 26, was identified as
M. D. Bagiroov, former secretary
of the Azerbaidzhan Republic.
City May Apply For
PWA Aid for Water,
Sewerage Systems
Due to the activity and wprk of
the Chamber of Commerce com
mittee headed by Judge Walter
Hodge, the city may now apply
to the Public Works Administra
tion for funds to provide running
water and a sewerage system.
This was announced at the Cham
ber meeting Tuesday noon.
Carl Glavinovich was appointed
to collect necessary data on avail
ability of water and other infor
mation to be forwarded with the
application.
A letter was read at the meet
ing with the information that the
lowest bid submitted on the new
Federal Building was $200,000
over the government estimate and
unless the Chamber and other
civic bodies get busy and make
some representation for Nome the
work will be delayed another year.
Disposition of the old Federal
Building was discussed and the
City of Nome has shown interest
in taking ovef the non-condemned
portion of the building for use as
a city hall.
It was announced that no lunch
eon would be held on Tuesday of
next week as a special luncheon
was being planned for Thursday
when a group of tour agents are
expected to be here for two hours.
All members are urged to con
tact President Stan Morgan for
reservations to the luncheon so
that each guest may h£ve a Cham
ber member as his special attend
ant at the luncheon.
Guests of the Chamber were
Norman Hogg of Vocational Re
habilitation, apd Mr. Robbins of
the General Electric Co., who is
checking over electrical equip
ment at MMM Hospital.
secretary. Davis made known his
acceptance in a statement, saying:'
“As a fellow Nebraskan I con
gratulate Secretary Seaton. The
choice of a Cabinet officer is a
very personal thing to the Presi
dent and it is only natural that he
turn to his close associates in a
matter involving such a personal
relationship.”
Earlier, Sen. Dworshak (R-Ida
ho), who had (been backing Davis
for the secretaryship, had predict
ed Davis would probably resign.
“It would be unfair to the pub
lic lands states of the west to have
both top Interior places filled from
one state,” Dworshak said.
"Fine, Fair Gentleman*
Chairman Murray (D-Mont), of
the Interior Committee, which
will pass upon the appointment,
lauded Seaton as “a fine, fair
gentleman,” and said he sees no
present need to hold hearings on
the nomination.
Seaton served in the Senate for
about a year in 1951-52. Appoint
ed to the Senate after the death
of Kenneth S. Wherry, Seaton did
not seek election.
Neuberger said “It is indeed
fortunate the President has chosen
to select a secretary not connected
with McKay’s policies.” He said
Eisenhower would have picked
Davis for the Cabinet post if the
President “approved of the Mc
Kay policies.”
Morse called Seaton “a fine
public servant,” adding: “Altho
he and 1 do not always agree on
natural resource policies, I have
a very high personal regard for
him.”
Fire At Moto
Residence Causes
Considerable Loss
A stubborn fire in an upstairs
bedroom of the Taylor Moto resi
dence on C Street, just west of
the old Methodist parsonage,
caused approximately a thousand
dollars damage Monday evening
at about 6 o’clock.
Due to a frozen fire main on 1st
Ave. W, hoses had to be hooked
up from 1st Ave. and Division
St. which delayed the arrival of
■the water.
The family is reported to have
been home but did not discover
the fire until smoke was detected
on the first floor.
A small child playing with
matches is believed to have been
the cause of the fire. The family,
which includes seven children,
was able to make up sleeping
quarters in the kitchen and bath
which were at the rear of the
main floor and not water-soaked
like the rest of the house.
Neighbors took the smallest of
the children into their home. The
older children are reported to
have lost all their clothing. •
Driver of one vehicle which
drove over a fire hose during the
fire was fined $75 in city court.