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VOL. LX No. 154 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1958 _Per Copy—lfr
Remaining In Berlin Could Start
Atomic War, Warns Russian Leaders
By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, UF) — The Soviet
Union warned Thursday that
Western insistence on remaining
in Berlin could kindle nuclear war
that would reach America.
Foreign Minister Andrei Gro
myko continued the Kremlin’s
campaign to force the Western al
lies out of West Berlin by predic
tions of nuclear war if they stay..
He boasted Russia is well armed
tor any trouble.
Gromyko spoke at the closing
session of the winter meeting of
Russia’s parliament, the Supreme
Soviet. He ajso urged a ban on
nuclear weapon tests without con
trols which the West considers
necessary.
Diplomats in Washington said
they found nothing new in Gro
myko’s speech. There was no im
mediate comment from the State
Department.
Premier Khrushchev has de
manded that the United States,
Sundborg Is New
Aide To Gruening
George Sundborg, former news
paper Editor at Juneau and Fair
banks, said today he woud become
administrative assistant to Sena
tor-elect Ernest Gruening.
Sundborg served as an aide to
Gruening during the last election
campaign. He was editor of the
Juneau Independent, a weekly
newspaper, for four years, and
served as editor of the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner from May, 1957,
until last August.
Sundborg, 45, said he would
leave for Washington on Decem
ber 27. His family will join him
next May when his children com
plete their current year in school.
Other members of Alaska’s new
Congressional delegation pre
viously had announced their chief
aides.
Mary Lee Council, long-time
secretary to Delegate E. L. Bart
lett, will become his administra
tive assistant when he moves to
the Senate in January. Represen
tative-elect Ralph Rivers named
Charles W. Hughes, a Ketchikan
lawyer, as his administrative
assistant.
1959 CROP IN HUNGARY
BUDAPEST, Hungary, UP) —
Hungary’s official news agency
carried these two items within a
few hours:
1. The grape crop is so good
there will be about 26 million gal
lons more wine in 1959.
2. A system of out-patient wards
for alcoholics has proved so suc
cessful that two more will be
opened in Budapest suburbs.
Trooper Assists in Birth
After Car Accident
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., UP) —
Mrs. Walter Dredden gave birth
to a baby girl Thursday night
after her husband, racing to beat
the stork, failed to make a curve
and crashed over a concrete
curbing.
Trooper Donald Ebert found
Mrs. Dredden and her baby
trapped in the back of the car. He
got them out and completed the
birth by tying off the infant’s um
bilical cord with the lacing of his
boot.
An ambulance took the Dred
dens to the hospital, where all
were reported doing nicely. They
were unhurt in the accident.
Britain and France pull their oc
cupation troops out of West Ber
lin by June 1, leaving it a demil
itarized free city surrounded by
Communist East Germany. West
ern attempts to reach Berlin with
out East German permission would
be aggression against the Soviet
bloc, Khrushchev warned.
The West has pledged to stick
with the 3,200,000 West eBrliners,
who overwhelmingly voted anti
communist. It contends East Ger
many has no authority to control
Western military traffic to Berlin.
Gromyko said that “any at
tempt at aggression against East
Germany may start a new big
war in which millions upon mil
lions of people would find their
death.”
“The flame of war would inevi
tably spread to the American con
tinent, for today’s military tech
niques have virtually eliminated
the difference between distant
theaters of war and those close
at hand,” he asserted.
No Sign of Life
At Crash Scene
ANCHORAGE, UR — Heavy
duty Army helicopters today were
.scheduled to attempt a hazardous
landing near the wreckage of an
Air Force cargo plane that crashed
high on volcanic Mt. Iliamna
Monday, apparently taking 15
men to their deaths.
The wreckage was sighted on the
snow-covered side of the 10,116
foot mountain yesterday by a vet
eran Alaska bush pilot, Don Shel
don of Talkeetna, who reported to
the Air Force that 'he saw no sign
of life.
Sheldon piloted his small pri
vate plane very low through
seething currents of air to make
certain that the wreckage spotted
Wednesday was positively that of
the four-engined C-54 that had
been the object of a three-day
search.
Sheldon' said the demolished
plane was in a box canyon at the
7,600-foot level. Sulphuric fumes
from the heart of the volcanic
countain rise constantly around
the wreckage, he said.
The Air Force described the
crash scene as being one of the
most inaccessible spots in the
world.
The air over the crash scene is
in constant turbulence, making
air navigation around the area
extremely hazardous. The turbu
lence forced light Air Force heli
copters to turn back.
Mt. Iliamna rises in a wilder
ness of forests and glaciers, and
is located near the base of the
Alaska Peninsula, 130 miles south
southwest of Anchorage.
The mountain is on the route
taken by the C-54 when it left
Elmendorf A F B, Anchorage,
Monday, on a routine supply flight
to the Air Force radar and re
fueling base at Shemya, in the
Aleutian Island chain.
NWA C of C Drafts Resolution For
Formal Objection To Admin. Plan
This Resolution was unanimous
ly adopted 'by the NWA Chamber
of Commerce at its meeting held
this week. All residents interested
in the development of the State
of Alaska are urged to wire or
write Governor Egan immediate
ly, requesting him to give serious
study to the matters- contained
herein:
A RESOLUTION to state the
policy of the Northwestern Cham
ber of Commerce concerning the
proposal of the Public Adminis
tration Service to divide and par
tition the State of Alaska into
three administrative regions.
BE IT RESOLVED by the mem
bers of the Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce.
WHEREAS, the members of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce have been informed of
a summary report prepared by the
Public Administration Service of
Chicago entitled “Proposed Or
ganization of the Executive Branch
of the State of Alaska,” which
said report proposes to divide the
State of Alaska into three admin
istrative regions.
WHEREAS, said proposal is di
rectly contrary to the spirit of the
Constitution of the State of Alas
ka, which was drafted by the
elected representatives of the
people of Alaska and duly rati
fied by a vast majority of all the
voters of Alaska, and which was
based on the experience of those
familiar with conditions peculiar
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Uneasy Peace Marks Yule Observance
(By The Associated Press)
Much of the world today let out
its belt to accommodate Christ
mas overeating, continued its hol
iday into the weekend and looked
forward to New Year’s celebra
tions.
An uneasy peace generally
marked this year’s observance of I
the birth of Christ. There yere
more threats of war from Mos
cow, but the only major fighting
apparently was going on in Cuba,,
between President Fulgencia Ba-1
tista’s army and Fidel Castro’s
rebels.
There was only slight shooting
on the world’s other two active
war fronts — the Nationalist is
lands off the coast of Communist
China; and Algeria, where the
French have been battling a re
bellion.
Total of Traffic
Deaths Approaches
All - Time High
A runaway pace of*fatal traffic
accidents today brought a warn
ing that this may become the na
tion’s bloodiest Christmas holi
day.
“There’s no indication that the
traffic death toll isn’t headed for
an all-time high for any holiday
in the nation’s history,” a National
Safety Council official said.
The record auto toll is 706. That
number was killed during the
four-day Christmas period of 1956.
In that weekend two years ago,
accident deaths from all causes
numbered &84, the highest over
all total in history.
The current Christmas weekend
also is a four-day holiday. The
death count which began at 6
p.m., Wednesday, continues until
midnight Sunday.
The first half of the 102-hour
span brought an unusual number
of fatal fires.
But the highway toll was more
than five times greater than that
in fires. The massive upsurge in
fatal crashes came despite emer
gency efforts of law enforcement
agencies to promote sanity on the
roads. Many police agencies can
celed Christmas days off for their
members and assigned them to
traffic duties with orders to take
drunks from behind steering
wheels.
With an estimated 40 million
cars on the roads during the holi
day, inevitable thousands defied
the conformity of driving rules
devised for safety at highway
speeds.
Often, it was the heedless or un
heeded pedestrian who was
pitched to sudden death.
The count was higher than the
council’s pre-holiday estimate of |
620 deaths during the 102-hour j
holiday period.
The tensions of the old year
were temporarily shelved by the
holidayers
But troops of the Western al
lies and the United Nations were
on watch, keeping the cold war
cold.
American soldiers at the barbed
wire barricades marking the Iron
Curtain in Europe had hot turkey
dinners brought to their posts. In
other parts, of Europe, U. S. ser
vicemen entertained 75,000 or
orphans, refugees and hospital
patients.
In Communist-ruled East Berlin
Julius Cardinal Doepfner preached
a sermon attacking the Red regime
in his first appearance since he
was named a Cardinal of the Ro
man Catholic Churclf.
The Roman Catholic Archbish
op of New York, Francis Cardinal
Spellman, celebrated Christmas
masses for the U. S. forces in
Germany. He said: “More than
we realize do we need the help
of God for only God can quell
the malice of his enemies and
ours.”
U. N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold paid ‘his annual
Christmas visit to troops of the
U. N. Emergency Force in the
Gaza strip, keeping peace between
Israel and Egypt.
It was a 'busy day for Pope
John XXIII. After celebrating
Midnight Mass Christmas Eve in
the presence of the diplomatic
corps of the Holy See, he cele
brated another at St. Peter’s Ba
silica at noon. He then visited two
Rome hospitals. "
Later, receiving 60 orphans and
20 mutilated and crippled chil
dren in the Vatican, he broke
down and cried. Smiling through
the tears he told the children:
“You know, in this life you only
cry twice. The very young, and
the old, they can cry.”
The Viennese talked of a Christ
! mas Eve miracle which spared the
I lives of all 34 persons aboard an
Air Force Constellation that
crashed short of the Vienna air
port and exploded. Five Amer
icans were among those aboard
Clear weather over most of the
United States brought the cars out
in droves, and traffic death moun
ted rapidly. The National Safety
Council estimated there would be
620 deaths diming the four-day
holiday. ,
A bright, folksy Christmas
greeting to the world came from
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. On ra
dio and TV she said, “It seems to
me that Christmas is just the
time to be grateful to those who
add fulness to our lives . . . the
prophets and dreamers, philoso
phers, men of ideas and poets, ar
tists in paint, sculpture and
music. . . .
“Even so, we need something
more. We all need the kind of se
curity that one gets from a happy
and united family.”
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