Senate Testimony Reveals
Soviet Airstrip In Cuba
WASHINGTON, UP) — Former
chief of Cuba’s military intelli
gence told Senate investigators
today that Soviet technicians are
building a gigantic airstrip in a
swamp on the southern coast of
Cuba.
Col. Manuel Carrillo said the
strip is 12 miles long and about
260 yards wide. He- said his in
formants told him the concrete
base is so thick it could support
any type of plane.
Ugalde, a one-time field com
mander of Fulgencio Batista, tes
tified before a Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee. The group
is examining what it termed Com
munist danger to the United
States from the Caribbean.
Ugalde said military missions of
.experts from the Soviet Union,
other Iron Curtain countries and
Eed China “are now all over the
island of Cuba.”
British Commonwealth
Ministers Discuss South
African Racial Policies
LONDON, Uf) — Private talks
on South Africa’s racial policies
began today between leaders of
the British Commonwealth and
Foreign Minister Eric Louw of
South Africa.
Alhtough the violence stirred up
by white supremacy rule in South
Africa is not a formal item on the
agenda of the Commonwealth
Prime Ministers Conference, it
dominates all other topics.
The 11 Commonwealth leaders
hope through private conversa
tions to convince Louw of a need
to modify the South African gov
ernment’s relationship of its Negro
population.
South Africans Will Deport
Foreign Undesirables
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, UP)
— The South African govern
ment announced yesterday it has
taken powers under the state of
emergency regulations to deport
any foreign citizen it finds unde
sirable. No appeal will be per
mitted.
These provisions are contained
in an amendment to the emer
gency regulations published in the
Government Gazette.
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Pulitzer Prizes Goes to
Author of Work About
Washington Politics •
NEW YORK, UPI — “Advise and
Consent,” Allen Drury's story of
politics in Washington, Monday
won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize in
fiction.
“Fiorello!” a musical, won the
Pulitzer drama prize.
The Los Angeles Times was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize gold
medal for pulic service for a suc
cessful newspaper campaign to cut
down the smuggling of narcotics
from Mexico into Southern Cali
fornia and other order states.
CALL OUT FOR ROAD BIDS
Word has been received here by
contractors that bids will be call
ed for the construction of a road
in Kotzebue to be 3rd Ave., join
ing 2nd Ave. and going to Rprik
Street.
Bids are also being called for
the Teller road, from Penny
River to Sinuk, to be opened on
June 6.
The fire alarm yesterday was
the result of an overheated stove
in the residence of James St.
Amour. By error, the alarm was
sounded for the airport instead
of the west side of town
Roy Nelson, who has just com
pleted his service with the U. S.
Marines, is the new patrolman
for the City.
Margaret's Wedding Will Cost
Britons About $70,000
LONDON, W> — Princess Mar
garet’s wedding Friday will cost
about $70,000. But it is possible to
get married in Britan for as little
as $1.50 plus a minimum of $4.50
for a ring. Even a license isn’t
needed if 21 days’ notice is given.
Bob Herman at Nome Hardware
has been puzzled by the sudden
jump in sales of plant food. Could
it be that some of the boys are
using “Vigaro” to produce better
foliage for the Midnight Sun
Festival Jaycee Beard Growing
Contest???
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Charter Banquet
NOME JAYCEES
Saturday, May 7
8 p.m.—Seaview Room
All Civic Minded Persons
Cordially Invited
Tickets available at
The North Star
Castro Government
Arranged Flight of
U. S. Planes Over Cuba
WASHINGTON, UP) — A federal
grand jury at Miami, Fla.,
charged Wednesday the flight of
an American private plane to
Cuba last March 21 was arranged
toy the Fidel Castro government.
Deputy Atty. Gen. Lawrence
Walsh, who announced the indict
ment in Washington, said it named
William Shergalis, one of the
American pilots aboard, and Hec
tor Garcia Soto, a representative
of the Cuban Air Force in Miami,
with having acted as agents in
this country of the Castro govern
ment without registering under
the foreign agents registration
law.
U. S. Will Sell Surplus
Grain to India Under
‘Food for Peace’ Plan
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today signed a huge
“Food for Peace” agreement to
supply India with 17 million tons
of surplus grain — the largest deal
of its kind in history.
The agreement calls for the
United States to sell India 587
million bushels of wheat and 22
million bags of rice during the
next four years starting July 1.
India will pay the equivalent of
$1,300,000,000 in rupees for the
grain. Most of the money will be
loaned back to India for its eco
nomic program.
“We are fortunate in having
this means of sharing our abun
dance,” Eisenhowed said.
TEEN-AGERS SHOW
APPRECIATION TO
MR. AND MRS. JERRY ELAM
A group of teen-agers surprised
Mr. and Mrs. J&ry Elam with a
farewell party this week as an
expression of appreciation for the
many kindness performed by the
Elams during their stay in Nome.
(Mr. and iMrs. Elam have been
willing chaperones and have al
lowed the young people to use
their home and their boat and in
many other ways have done much
good for the youth of Nome.
Mr. Elam works on Anvil
Mountain for Federal Electric
and will return here after a va
cation but Mrs. Elam will remain
in the sunny south with their
three children.
CALL MAINtiSfor
Arctic Sanitary
_Service
Registration For High
School Will Be Held
At School on Friday
On Friday of this week, pre
registration will take place for
High School next year. Those
students in town who are not now
in school must register if they
plan to attend high school next
year.
Those planning to enter the
Senior Class will registered from
1 to 1:30 p.m.; Juniors, 1:30 to 2;
Sophomores, 2 to 2:30, and First
Year High, 2:30 to 3 p.m.
Starting on Monday, achieve
ment tests will be given in all
grades, stated Superintendent
Conrad Potter.
Parents are urged to take spe
cial note of this, and have their
children in school and on time
during this period.
NOME'S ENTRY IN SPELLING
CONTEST RETURNS HOME
The word “nullity” was the
downfall of Nome spelling champ
Marcia Conklin, who returned
home today, stating that attend*
ing the Anchorage Spelling Bee
was a wonderful experience. She
brought home two prizes—a hand
tooled wallet, and a beautiful
graduation dress and slip. The
prizes were for her 9th place
standing in the contest, and for
being the contestant traveling the
farthest.
Marcia says that Alaska’s new
spelling champ is not only a good
speller, but the kind of a person
who will represent Alaska well in
the national competition.
Algebra Aptitude Tests to be
Given 7th and 8th Graders
Algebra aptitude tests are being
given this week to Seventh and
Eighth Grade students. Those stu
dents who qualify in the Seventh
Grade, will have the opportunity
of taking algebra in the Eighth
Grade, and those in the Eighth
will take high school algebra.
DE GAULLE RETURNS
TO FRENCH CAPITOL
PARIS, UPl — President Charles
De Gaulle returned to France to
day from his 17-day tour of Can
ada, the United States and French
territories in the New World.
Not In The Script . . .
NEWTON ABBOT, England, UP>
— Henry Blythe, 61, who claims
to have helped 47 persons pass
driver’s license tests through hyp
nosis, can’t understand why his
technique failed with his daughter
Sally. Sally, 18, had an explana
tion: “I don’t think it had any
thing to do with Dad. I just went
over the sidewalk w h,e n I
reversed.”
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Lana Turner’s Daughter
Cheryl Conies Home
After 3-Day Disappearance
LOS ANGELES, W)—“You can’t
run away forever.”
With these words, 16-year-old
Cheryl Crane — actress Lana
Turner’s daughter — ended her
latest flight from authority.
She and two other girls es
caped Friday from the El Retiro
Home, a county-operated girl’s
school in suburban Sylmar.
Monday, after subsisting three
days “mostly on beans,” Cheryl
called her father and said they
wanted to go back to the school.
Steve Crane, Beverly Hills res
tarauteur, picked them up near a
supermarket a mile from the El
Retiro Home.
Cheryl became a ward of the
court two years ago after she fa
tally stabbed John Stompanato,
her mother's lover, in Miss Tur
ner's Beverly Hills home.
At 13 she had run away from a
girls’ school and was found wan
dering alone on skid row in Los
Angeles.
The girls said they spent the
weekend at the home of a friend
whom they wouldn’t identify.
Price Surveys Will Start
In Two Alaska Cities
SAN FRANCISCO, UR — The
Labor Department’s survey of
consumer spending and retail
prices in Anchorage and Fair
banks will start about May 16.
Charles Roumasset, acting re
gional director of the .Depart
ment’s Bureau of Labor Statistics,
said yesterday four survey super
visors are due in Alaska this week.
They wilLhire and train inter
viewers in Alaska.
Roumffsset said that the bureau
plans to continue price studies in
Alaska on a regular semi-annual
schedule in the future. The state
will be included in the national
consumer price index after the
current index revision program,
extending over the next four
years, is completed.
SOVIET AIR COMMANDER
TO VISIT AMERICA
MOSCOW, UR — Marshal of
Aviation K. A. Vershinin, com
mander in chief of the Soviet Air
Force, will arrive in Washington
May 14 to visit America during
U. S. Armed Forces Week, the
Soviet press announced today. He
is returning the visit Gen. Nathan
Twining made to Russia in 1956.
Nome Directory
, Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy MatRin
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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BYRON O. REED, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewli, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
LAsk Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
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Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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