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VOL. LVII No. 60 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1955 Per Copy—15*
Zone Chairman
Of The Clean-Up
Drive Are Named
The Clean - Up Campaign has
met with enthusiastic response
and a good attendance was at
the special meeting at the City
Hall last evening.
The following Zone Chairmen
have been appointed, who will
name their own assistants.
Zone 1—Sand Spit and Belmont
Point—Mrs. William Brown.
Zone 2—Dry Creek to Stead
man Ave. from River St. to Third
Ave.—Wallace Mclver.
Zone 3—Dry Creek to Stead
man from Third Ave. north—Mrs.
William Cameron.
Zone 4—Steadman Ave. to the
City power plant — Mr. Viggo
Walterson.
Zone 5—Power plant east thru
King Island Village — Everett
Bachelder.
Any problems arising in these
zones will be referred to the Zone
Chairman and it is important that
all small gatherings of rubbish
' be put into containers of some
kind. Those cleaning up are urged
not to use old oil drums as they j
are too heavy for the truck drivers
to lift.
The pick-up will start Monday
morning.
Eighth grade students under
Mr. H. Tripp have furnished post
ers as reminders that clean - up
time is here.
Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts
have plans to clean up specially
designated empty lots.
Syzygy Doesn’t Bother
13-Year-old National
Spelling Bee Winner
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Eisenhower gave Sandra Sloss, 13
year-old national spelling bee
winner, another word to spell to
day and she passed with flying
colors.
The word was “syzygy,” which
the President said lost him a con
test as a boy.
Sandra, from Granite City, 111.,
won the national contest yester
day by spelling “crustaceology.”
She went to the White House to
day and had her picture taken
with the President along with her
mother, Mrs. William Sloss, and
two of her teachers, Sister Chry
sostom and Sister Serena.
The President asked how many
rounds it took to win yesterday
and the word missed by her last
opponent. Then he gave her
syzygy, a word which came up in
the contest. She spelled it cor
rectly without hesitation.
In case you’re interested it
means “joined together,” and it
also can be spelled “syzigy.”
Seattle Firm Reported
Awarded Contract For
Nome School Addition
James Walsh, local Pan Ameri
can Airways agent, has received
word from the Juneau office of
his company that the successful
bidder on the Nome school addi
tion was a firm named Boen,
Egge, Cummins & Coon of 3647
Stoneway, Seattle, Wash. No
other details of the bid opening
are available at this time.
Yale Student
Spurns $400,000
Inheritance
By JAMES DEVLIN
NEW YORK, —A Yale uni
versity senior who says he has
“two hands and a head” of his
own has won the right to reject
$400,000 left to him by his father.
Surrogate William T. Collins,
quoting ancient Roman philo
sophers as well as the law, up
held the decision of Eugene F.
Suter Jr., 22, of New York, to
renounce the fortune. Trustees of
the fund had opposed his action.
The young man, son of a mil
lionaire inventor and machinery
manufacturer who died in 1943,
has no other source of income.
But he told the trustees of the
estate acceptance of the fund
would violate his “moral and
political” principles.
He received about $36,000 in
come from the trust on his 21st
birthday but immediately gave it
away: $11,000 to the American
Friends Service Committee; $5,000
to the Socialist Party; $1,500 to
the U.S. Grant School for Negroes
at Yale; and most of the rest to
his mother.
Collins, declaring he made his
ruling “reluctantly,” said the law
was not concerned with the wis
dom or motive of Suter’s renun
ciation, but only with its legality.
He said the law supports Sut
er’s “insistence that as a member
of a free society, with a freedom
of choice, he cannot be yoked by
this inheritance.
Institutions frequently have
spurned gifts which they deemed
hostile to their purposes, and an
individual has the same right, said
Collins.
Collins held the trust will con
tinue, with the principal being
held by the trustees until expir
ation of the trust period, or ex
piration of periods specified in
the will.
The young disdainer of wealth
worked on a Vermont farm last
summer. He has said he has no
specific plans for the future ex
cept to “go west someplace.”
| Polio Inoculations
Not Likely To Start
Until Next Week
WASHINGTON, (/FI — Current
uncertainty over when the pro
gram of mass inoculations against
polio can get into full swing
seemed likely today to continue
at least until next week.
The Public Health Service pro
vided no elaboration on its bare
announcement of Wednesday
that re - clearance of embargoed
i batches of Salk vaccine would be
delayed pending further study.
A spokesman said late yester
day: “The best you can assume is
that it will be next week before
there are any further releases.”
The health service declined to
comment on the possibility that a
technical advisory committee on
dosage, meeting today at nearby
Bethesda, Md., might recommend
some change in technique which
would have the effect of stretch
ing the dwindling cleared sup
plies.
The national conference of
state epidemiologists, meeting in
Atlanta, had asked the health
service for an opinion on whether
it might be possible to reduce
the current dose of one cubic cen
timeter for a shot.
One change in dosage was put
into general effect shortly after
the April 12 announcement that
the Salk vaccine had been found
to be safe and effective. Children
who took part in last year’s trials J
were given three injections each, j
The current dosage is two shots j
spaced a few weeks apart, with
a third booster injection about
seven months later.
Flooding Rivers Rampage
In Four Southwest States
By the Associated Press
Flooding rivers surged thru
towns and farms in parts of four
states today in one of the most
destructive floods in years in the
southwest.
At least five persons were dead.
Four school boys were killed dur
ing a thunderstorm at Kingsville,
Tex., when a lightning bolt struck
down 42 younsters. A Colorado
woman drowned.
Mass evacuation was in pro
gress at two southeast Colorado
cities, where the state Civil De
fense director declared an emer
gency. Scores of homes and busi
ness stores were abandoned to
rising waters elsewhere in Colo
rado, Oklahoma and Texas.
Despite the destructiveness of
the four-day storm, it brought the
first substantial moisture of the
year to once-rich agricutural and
ranching areas. Texas logged up
to 15 inches of rain and Olahoma
12.
Refusal To Grant Statehood To Alaska
And Hawaii Makes Mockery of the Way
The United States Preaches Democracy
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COFFEE PRICES
ARE COMING DOWN
NEW YORK, [ffi—Coffee prices
are coming down again.
The two biggest independent
distributors of coffee, General
Foods Corp! and Standard Brands,
reduced wholesale prices today
and some chain stores said they
will pass on the reductions at re
tail right away.
General Foods trimmed the
price of Maxwell regular coffee
by four cents a pound at whole
sale, dropping it to 88 cents. It
cut Kaffee Hag and Sanka by
five cents a pound and knocked
two cents off the price of the two
ounce jar of instant coffee
Standard Brand’s Chase & San
born also was reduced four cents
a pound.
15 “Davy Crocketts”
Enroute To Alaska To
Prospect For Uranium
NASHVILLE, Tenn., UD — Fif
teen Nashville Davy Crocketts
G955 style) took off yesterday for
the “wild frontier” of Alaska and
a search for uranium.
Three trucks, a station wagon
and three jeeps rolled out on the
first leg of the journey. The first
stop will be St. Louis for the pur
chase of U.S. Army surplus sup
plies.
E. C. Gasser, World War II pilot
and leader of the Gasser Alaska
Expedition Co., Inc., said the ura
nium search will be made in a
secret area, known only to him
self.
Financial backing for the ex
pedition was obtained by selling
$100,000 worth of stock to some
700 persons, Gasser said.
Cordova Boy Dies From
Injuries When Run Over
By Truck On School Picnic
CORDOVA, Uft—A school picnic
had a tragic finale 18 miles west
of here yesterday when the stake
sides of a flat-bed truck gave
way and spilled a number of the
25 student riders.
Some of the students jumped
and others fell but Bob Shellhom,
13, attempted to hang on. He was
dragged beneath the rear wheels,
receiving injuries from which he
died five hours later.
Six others were injured but all
are recovering.
The accident is the first traffic
fatality in history for Cordova
or vicinity according to Cordova
1 Police Chief Bob Nippell.
> WASHINGTON, (JV-Refusal to
grant statehood to Alaska and
Hawaii “makes a mockery of the
way we preach to other nations
advising them to practice democ
racy,” Sen. Neuberger (D - Ore^
said last night.
“We can talk unctuously about
self-rules and local sovereignty *
but we will be judged by the
world according to what we do.
We have told Alaska and Hawaii
that they can’t govern themselves
and the world will remember
that.”
He said under Canadian stand
ards Alaska probably would be
admitted as a full self-governing
province without too much
trouble. Prince Edward Island,
with barely half Alaska’s popula
tion, is a province.
Neuberger also noted that Can
ada gives a full voting member
of its national parliament to the
Yukon Territory’s 10,000 residents
while the United States restricts
Alaska’s 170,000 population to one
non-voting delegate who “sits as
a mere spectator when rollcalls
are taken in Congress.”
By this procedure, he said, “we
thus have let Canada put us to
shame in the actual practice of
freedom and self government.”
Neuberger also said he felt
“ashamed” one of Oregon’s con
gressmen—Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore)
—voted in the House recently to
send the combined Alaska-Haw
aii statehood bill back to com
mittee.
He said the opposition to state
hood “is bound up in ancient
prejudices.”
“It stems from mistrust by op
ponents of statehood of such
racial groups as Indians, Eskimos
and Japanese. It stems from the
fears of the canned salmon and
gold mining industry that they
may have to shoulder a fair load
of taxes for schools and social
welfare. .It stems from the so
called ‘political superiority’ of
congressmen from the big eastern
states who don’t want two sen
ators given to Hawaii or Alaska.”
The net result of this opposi
tion, the senator said, is to make
“hypocrisy” of this country’s urg
ings to the world about democracy
and self-government.
JUST DROPPED BY
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Ufi — Elva
Anthony, 21, said goodbye at the
home of friends and stepped out
of a second-story window by mis
take.
He was released from a hos
pital yesterday after treatment of
head bruises.
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