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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 21NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1956Per Copy—15^
Enthusiastic Response Given Theater’s
CinemaScope Preview On New Screen
A group of invited guests Sun-'
day enjoyed a preview of the
new CinemaScope being installed
at The Theater.
The remodeling for this big
improvement has been under way
for the past two months and the
preparations for the first show
ing are now in the final stages.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Brown
have gone all out to give Nome
the best in motion pictures, equal
to any offered in the larger cities
of the territory. They have not
only invested in new equipment
but have improved the theater
with an elevated screen so that
the pictures can be seen from any
seat in the house. The ceiling has
been raised for better acoustics
and much improved ventilation.
An improved and enlarged en
trance and waiting rooms are in
the planning so that standing in
line outdoors will no longer be
necessary.
The preview Sunday included
the showing of one reel each
from “The Student Prince” and
“Rose Marie.”
The new projection equipment
utilized the new Pantar sweeping
lens and the new screen is the
wide screen type, two and a
half times wider, in order to
accommodate the wide - screen
CinemaScope projecting.
The guests were most enthusi
astic in their response to the new
source of entertainment.
Mt. Brown expressed apprecia
tion to all who have contributed
with their talents, training and
experience for the improved and
modern theater. He also said that
the showing was only a sample
of bigger and better improve
ments, which will be announced
later.
GERMAN AIRLINE REVIVED
FRANKFURT, Germany, UFV
Lufthansa announced today it will
start daily flights to New York
April 22, and to Brazil and Argen
tina by Aug. 15.
The revived West German air
line plans nine flights weekly for
the North American route.
RCAF Jet Missing
Over North B.C.
EDMONTON, Ufl—An RCAF
T-33 jet training plane is missing
on a flight over northern British
Columbia and the last word from
the pilot said he was going to bail
out, the Air Force said here last
night.
The lone occupant of the jet
was flying from Annette Island,
Alaska, to Fort Nelson, B.C., a
distance of about 400 miles.
Search planes are concentrating
at Fort St. John, B.C., 350 miles
northwest of here on the Alaska
Highway.
Annette Island is 600 miles
north of Vancouver. The aircraft
landed there Saturday after the
weather closed in.
The Air Force said visibility
was poor in the Fort Nelson, area
and was expected to hamper the
search.
George Ahgupuk Will
Present One-Man Show
In San Jose, Calif.
George Ahgupuk, well known
Eskimo artist, will leave Anchor
age Feb. 25 for San Jose, Calif.,
where he will present a one-man
exhibit under the sponsorship of
the Rosicrusian Order (AMORO.
The Rosicrucian Order, with
headquarters in San Jose, pre
sents well known international
artists in shows throughout the
year.
Born and raised in Shishmaref,
a village on the Bering Sea coast,
Mr. Ahgupuk was one of the ear
liest Eskimos to bring Alaskan art
into its own.
The artist will spend a month
in San Jose for the show and will
stop in Seattle on his return trip
to Alaska .He plans to visit rela
tives and friends including Wil
bur Walluk, an Eskimo artist now
living in Seattle.
Prolonged Cold
Brings Famine,
Misery to Europe
LONDON, UP—Dwindling food
stocks brought fresh misery and
the spectre of famine to ice-en
shrouded Europe today. Vegetable
prices rocketed as spring crops
rotted under a three-week pall of
snow.
The known death toll rose to
676 in the worst winter in living
memory.
The Seine River was frozen
from bank to bank 25 miles south
of Paris. The Thames was iced
solid outside Windsor Castle,
where Queen Elizabeth II was
weekending after her three-week
tour of tropical Nigeria.
In Rome, potato prices doubled
to nine cents a pound. Olive oil
hit an all-time high of 90 cents a
quart.
Road patrols reported traffic
conditions in Britain the worst
ever and warned motorists -to
“keep off the roads unless you
absolutely must travel.”
France had the highest death
toll of 159. Italy was next with
88, followed by Turkey, Yugo
slavia, Britain, Holland, Denmark.
French Agriculture Minister
Andre Dullin reported that 3V£
million olive trees had been killed
by ice in southern France.
Farmlands in Turkey and Yu
goslavia were flooded.
Heintzleman Appoints
Two To Fill Vacancies
On Employment Com.
JUNEAU — The two vacant
management positions on the Em
ployment Security Commission
have been filled.
Gov. Heintzleman Friday an
nounced he has appointed C. W.
Snedden, publisher of the Fair
banks News-Miner, and Charles
Kidd, executive vice president
of the First Bank of Sitka, to fill
the vacancies.
Greece’s Pro-West Group
Holds Unsure Victory
Over Red Faction
ATHENS, Greece, —Support
ers of pro-Western Premier Con
stantine Karamanlis have won a
majority in the Greek Parliament
despite the fact they trailed in the
popular vote. Today’s returns
gave them 156 seats to 137 for the
Red-tinged opposition, which had
nearly 200,000 more popular votes
Ex-Premier George Papandreou
of the opposition declared the ad
verse popular vote and the small
Parliamentary' majority won by
Karamanlis will force the govern
ment to call a new election soon.
Pro-government newspapers to
day carried jubilant headlines de
claring that Communist efforts to
break Greece’s bonds with the
United States had been frustrated.
Business houses will observe
George Washington's Birthday
Wednesday by closing all day.
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Bar Assn. Council
Still Opposed to
Cameras in Courtroom
CHICAGO* liT)—Opposition to
photographing, broadcasting o r
televising court trials was reaf
firmed yesterday by the Ameri
can Bar Assn.’s council of the
Section of Judicial Administra
tion.
The group recommended adher
ence to Canon 35 of the Code of
Judicial Ethics, which holds that
judges should not allow such ac
tivities.
The action was unanimous in
the light of current proposals to
admit cameras, radio and TV
equipment to courtrooms, the
chairman said.
SEATTLE, —Dungeness crab
catches in Washington coastal
waters this winter have been the
best in many years, the State De
partment of Fisheries reports.
Excited TV Actor
Ad Libs Profanity
NEW YORK (JV—An actor got
so worked up during a tense mob
scene in a television melodrama
last night that he forgot himself
dnd ad libbed some profanity.
About 500 viewers called the
NBC studios after the show. Some
complained about the swearing.
Others praised the vivid perform
ance.
NBC apologized to all callers. A
spokesman said later that the act
or’s slip was “perfectly under
standable,” though wrong.
The actor, Lloyd Bridges, was
starred in the Alcoa hour play
“Tragedy in a Temporary Town.”
In the big scene, American con
struction workers strung up and
beat a boy accused of attacking a
girl. Bridges’ “son" had confessed
to his father that he was the at
tacker. Bridges rushed out to
challenge the mob.
The script called for Bridges to
shout at the mob that they were
bullies and “pigs.” In the heat of
the performance, Bridges added a
couple of profane words in front
i of “pigs."
Opponents Tag Mental Health Bill
“Anti-Religious’ and an Attempt to
Create ‘Political Siberia’ in Alaska
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Eisenhower Prolongs
Vacation in Georgia
THOMASVILLE, Ga. ,UPi—Pres
ident Eisenhower today decided to
prolong his vacation until Friday
or Saturday.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told newsmen
meanwhile “there isn’t a thing to
it’’ in commenting on a report
that Eisenhower had decided to
announce late Friday, after the
stock markets close, whether he
will seek a second term. The Pres
ident has indicated he will dis
close his political plans around
March 1, possibly at a news con
ference.
Hagerty said today he was as
suming that Eisenhower’s next
news conference will be Feb. 29
in Washington. Feb. 29 is a Wed
nesday and Eisenhower usually
meets with newsmen Wednesday
mornings when he in the capital.
Air Force C-I24
Drops Food, Fuel
To Little Diomede
ELMENDORF AFB, Alaska, Iff)
—An Air Force C-124 cargo plane
Friday dropped 12 tons of emer
gency supplies to the hard-pressed
natives on Little Diomede Island,
which sits astride the Bering
Strait only 30 miles from Soviet
Siberia.
The supplies were parachuted
to the island at the direction of
Alaska’s Gov. B. Frank Heintzle
man, who said the natives were
running dangerously short of food
and fuel and other necessities.
Martin Olson, local bush pilot,
made the first landing from Nome
on Diomede Island last Saturday
and brought back mail.
He reports the villagers were
excited and happy over the airlift
the day before which dropped 54
parachutes over the village with
food and fuel.
Olson stated that the field is
about 1,500 feet long, having been
extended by the villagers to make
it possible for a small aircraft to
land.
He plans to make several trips
to Diomede when the weather im
proves and retrieve the para
chutes for the USAF.
The shortage results from a re
fusal by the Eskimos to unload
cargo from the M.S. North Star
last October. A copy of the letter
from the ship’s captain received
by the governor’s office relates
how the Eskimos refused to un
load the cargo when the vessel
called at 9 p.m. one evening. The
following morning the ship was i
forced to leave the island because ,
ice in Bering Sea filled the an
chorage, threatening damage to
the ship.
The Eskimos, the captain said,
were “too tired” to unload the
vessel.
> By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP)—A House
passed bill, criticized as “anti
religious” and an attempt to cre
ate a “political Siberia’ in Alaska,
comes before the Senate Territor
ies subcommittee today.
The proposal would revise Al
aska commitment procedures for
the mentally ill and provide mon
ey for the territory to build hos
pitals and treatment centers to
take over the program now han
died by the federal government.
Endorsed by President Eisen
hower in his State of the Union
message, the bill passed the House
without fanfare after lengthy
committee hearings. A move to
require Alaska to match money
it would receive under the bill
was beaten down on the House
floor.
Since House passage, however,
various senators and the Senate
Insular Affairs Committee have
been bombarded with letters pro
testing that the bill is “anti-relig
ous” or that the million acres of
land which Alaska would receive
is to be fenced and used as a
“Siberia” for mentally ill persons
from all states to which the vari
ous governors could send political
enemies.
Advocates of the bill have de
nied all such allegations. Sen.
Jackson (D-Wash), chairman of
the Territories subcommittee, and
Del. Bartlett <D-Alaska> have said
they are “at a loss” to see how
the bill affects religion.
And the land grant, they point
out, actually is to be used by the
territory to aid in financing the
treatment program. The grant is
similar to that given all western
states for school purposes or the
railroads in early days to encour
age extension into undeveloped
western areas.
In addition to the million acres,
the bill would give Alaska $6 mil
lion for construction and another
$0Vti million, in declining amounts
over a 10-year period, to ease the
territory into assuming the full
cost of the program.
Alaska’s mentally ill now are
treated, at government expense,
at the private Momingside Hospi
tal in Portland, Ore.
Scheduled to appear before the
committee are Sen. Neuberger
and Rep. Green, Oregon Demo
crats, and Del. Bartlett, all of
whom have introduced bills on
the subject; Wesley D’Ewert, as
sistant secretary of Interior, and
others.
EDWARD H. BUTLER DIES
BUFFALO, N Y. OR—Edward H.
Butler, editor and publisher of
the BuNalo Evening news for 42
years, died in his sleep Sunday.
He was 72.
Butler was widefy known for
his achievements in the newspa
per, radio and television fields.
A lifelong Republican, Butler
was a delegate at each GOP Na
tional Convention from 1920-48.
He was a close friends of former
President Hoover.