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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS '
VOL. LX No. 83 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1958 Per Copy—15*
Senate Bill
Would Subsidize
Tungsten and Lead
WASHINGTON, UO — The Sen
ate today rejected an amendment
that would have eliminated tung
sten from a bill to establish gov
ernment-subsidized price guar
antees for various minerals.
The amendment, offered by
Sen. John Williams (R-Del). was
defeated 57-25 on a rollcall vote.
The vote was the first test of
strength on the bill denounced by
Williams as the opening wedge
for a shift to subsidies instead
of tariffs to aid industries hard
hit by imports.
The measure would provide a
stabilization price of $36 a ton for
tungsten.
Domestic producers receiving
less than this in the open market
would be paid the difference by
the government.
Similar subsidy payments are
provided for producers of lead,
zinc and acid grade fluorspar. In
addition, the bill calls for gov
ernment purchases within one
year of 150,000 tons of copper at
the market price, up to 27V£ cents
a pound.
Senators from western mining
states strongly defended the bill
in the face of Williams’ protest
that “once we’ve started this,
we’ve started the mining indus
try down the road to socializ
ation.”
Early Departure Saves
Mountain Climbers From
Wednesday’s Earthquake
VANCOUVER, B.C., A pilot’s
worry over the weather took 10
Canadian mountain climbers out
of Lituya Bay, Alaska, one day
earlier than planned this week.
And it was one day before an
earthquake rocked the area and
a gigantic wave struck the bay.
Three persons were drowned;
two are listed as missing.
The climbing party had just
. accomplished the first Canadian
ascent of 15,300-foot Mt. Fair
weather and was camped on the
beach Wednesday.
The mammoth post-quake, es
timated at 50 to 75 feet high,
swept over the party’s camping
site.
CITY POLICE TO
RIGIDLY ENFORCE
10:00 P.M. CURFEW _
The Chief of Police John Mar
vik announce today that the cur
few at 10:00 p.m. will be strictly
enforced due to vandalism, dam
age to houses and cars and the
threatening of women at very
late hours by boys ranging from
8 to 16 years of age.
Parents are urged to see that
all minors are at home after ten
o’clock.
Polio Shots Are
Still Available Here
Margaret Swanberg, Public
Health nurse, has announced that
400 adults took advantage of the
polio shot program offered here
on Monday evening and received
either their first, or second shot,
through the co-operation of the
Sah Yungah Timmim chapter of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis.
Mrs. Swanberg states that
those who were unable to come
last Monday will have one more
opportunity next Thursday af
ternoon from 1 to 5 p.m. at her
office in the MMM Hospital.
Bartlett Coming to
Alaska for 10 Days
WASHINGTON, UR — Delegate
Bartlett is headed home on the
I first leg of trip which may de
cide the course of Alaska’s ven
ture into statehood.
Before his return in approxi
mately 10 days, he said he prob
ably will have reached a deci
sion on whether to seek election
as Alaska’s first governor or to
run for the Senate.
As Alaska’s voteless delegate
to Congress for the last 14 years,
Bartlett is a kingpin of the ter
ritory’s political scene. As such,
few if any potential candidates
are expected to announce their
plans until* he has made his de
cision.
Bartlett stayed overnight in
Spokape, and goes to Yakima,
Wash., where he will be the two
day guest at the Washington
State Democratic Convention.
He plans to leave Seattle for
Juneau, Monday, be in Anchor
age Tuesday and attend a state
hood dinner in Kodiak Wedesday
before going on to Fairbanks.
Queries About
Alaska Swamp
Bartlett’s Office
WASHINGTON, UR — “What
is raised beside large cabbage
heads?”
The blunt question, contained
in a letter by an Illinois mother,
is typical of the hundreds which
have swept the office staff of
Delegate Bartlett from seeing the
tops of their desks since passage
of the bill to make Alaska the
49th state.
Long accustomed—but not with
out a grimace—to receiving let
ters addressed unknowingly to the
“embassy of Alaska” or Ambas
sador E. L. Bartlett,” even Bart
lett’s longtime employees, Mary
Lee Council and Mrs. Doug Smith,
are getting an insight on the rest
of the world’s lack of knowledge
concerning Alaska.
Many of the letters—perhaps
the largest single group—express
an interest in homesteading in the
new state. This, of course, still
would be possible on federal land
holdings which will continue to
be roughly 70 per cent of Alaska’s
area.
Others have an eye to the 103
million acre land grant to which
Alaska is entitled under the
statehood bill. Apparently in the
impression it will be put up for
grabs.
Some of it may be. Bartlett
and Alaska’s Gov. Mike Stepovich
already have suggested the state
may draft new homesteading reg
ulations covering its own lands
to meet conditions as Alaskans
see them.
But this would be months away,
possibly years in some areas.
Alaska has 25 years in which to
select its 103 million acre en
titlement.
In any event, the report heard
by the Illinois housewife—that
“dwellings are on the land and
ready to be moved into”—isn’t
correct.
But if Bartlett’s staff is too
snowed under (no pun intended)
to answer the land grant prob
lem in its entirety, they can take
solace in the brevity required to
dispose of another of the Illinois
housewife’s queries.
“Is there any snakes or are they
all frozen?”
The answer is no.
Alaskans To Vote
On Statehood
Before August X
SAN FRANCISCO, W> — Gov.
Mike Stepovich said Thursday
he will set a date before Aug. 1
for a plebiscite on Alaskan state
hood—with an emphatic' “yes”
vote indicated.
He said he had received of
ficial notice from President Eisen
hower that the bill to make the
vast territory the 49th state has
been enacted and signed.
Predicting an overwhelming
“yes” vote on the statehood issue,
Stepovich commented:
“The people will accept the
provisions of the statehood bill.
These include the boundaries set
out in the bill and the authori
zation to the President to make
national defense withdrawals of
103,000 acres in Northwest Alaska.
“We want to get our elections
out of the way so that we may
seat our two U.S. senators and
our one representative in the 1959
Congress.”
Stepovich said he hadn’t made
up his mind yet on whether to
run for senator or governor of
the new state.
James E. Hawkins
Director of Alaska
Indian Affairs
WASHINGTON, UP) — The ap
pointment of James E. Hawkins
as area director for the Indian
Affairs Bureau in Alaska was an
nounced by the Interior Depart
ment.
Born at Buenos Aires, Argen
tina, in 1922 of American parents,
Hawkins has spent much of his
adult life in Alaska and is a for
mer executive director of ' the
Alaska Rural Development Board.
In his new post he succeeds
William H. Olsen, who resigned
May 12. He will report for duty
in Juneau about Aug. 1.
Hawkins’ salary will be $12,
770 annually plus a 25 per cent
Alaska cost of living differen
tial.
Hawkins resigned effective
May 23 as director of the
Rural Development Board to
accept a post in West Pakistan as
an advisor for the International
Cooperation Administration.
Hawkins was principal of the
Ninilchik school from -1950 to
1953, and was superintendent
of the Dillingham school from
1954 to 1956.
Three Persons Dea<
In Major Earthqual
JUNEAU, UP) — Three persons*
were reported dead and two miss
ing from a major earthquake
which struck Southeastern Alas
ka Wednesday night.
The report of the three killed
came from the fishing village of
Yakutat, bn the Gulf of Alaska
about 200 miles northwest of here.
The victims were listed as Mrs.
Jean Welsh Walton, head of a
Bellingham, Wash., family which
owns the Icy Straits Canning
Co. Cannery at Yakutat, and Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Tibbie of the
CAA station there.
The three were reported to
have died when about 500 yards
of <he south end of Khantaak
Island rose about 20 feet at the
height of the quake and then
fell into Yakutat Bay. They
were believed to have gone to the
island berry picking.
The missing couple was iden
tified as Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Wagner, of Elfin Cove,. near Ju
neau, who were aboard their 55
foot fishing troller Sunmore when
it was swept by huge waves out of
Lituya Bay on the gulf 125 miles
west of here.
The Coast Guard said it had
a report that the temblor shook
ice off the Lituya glacier and that
the ice smashing may have
caused the wave.
Dr. Don Tocher, seismologist
at the University of California at
Berkely, said the quake was a
major one and had its center in
the Gulf of Alaska.
Dr. Charles Richeter of the
Caliornia Institute of Technology
seismological laboratory at Pasa
dena said that had the quake oc
curred in a populated area it
would have cause a disaster.
ACS Rushes Repairs
To Submarine Cable
After Earthquake
SEATTLE—Fifteen minutes af
ter news that the Alaska earth
quake had disrupted submarine
cable communications between
Seattle and Southeastern Alaska
communities Colonel Frank S.
Ison, commander, US Army
Transportation Terminal Agency
Seattle, and Colonel Carl ' H.
Hatch, commander, US Army
Alaska Communication System,
joined forces to get the cableship
“Colonel Basil O. Lenoir” under
Search Continues For Nose Cone
Containing Space-Traveling Mouse
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UPI—
The Air Force continued a last
resort search in the Atlantic
Ocean for a top secret nose cone
that carried a white mouse 6,000
miles through space, but the re
covery chances appeared to be
slim.
, Officials said they still had no
progress report to make some 10
houi's after three specially
equipped planes began the final
phase of search operation.
A mighty Thor-Able rocket
carrying the mouse in its highly
secret warhead thundered aloft
from the test center Wednesday
night.
The Air Force announced 15
minutes after what appeared to
be a perfect launching that pre
liminary data showed the missile
performed satisfactorily.
Only the Snark, a jet-propelled
missile that travels only at 600
m.p.h., has covered the intercon
tinental distance up to now. It
is not a space weapon, however.
The test rocket—a Douglas,
Thor intermediate range missile
coupled with a modified Van
guard second stage , vehicle—
streaked into the starlit Florida
sky with an ear-splitting roar and
a flash of yellow flame.
The firing was sighted as far
away as Jacksonville, 160 miles
north of Cape Canaveral.
The mouse was nicknamed
“Mia II” for “Mouse in Able”.
The original “Mia” died when
the first Thor-Able rocket be
came lost in space and apparent
ly plunged into the Atlantic last
April 23.
1, Two Missing
Le In S.E. Alaska
way to effect repairs. The Lenoir
is operated by the Transporta
tion Corps and based in Seattle
for the primary purpose of main
taining the submarine cables of
the US Army Alaska Communica
tion System.
According to Colonel Hatch,
there are multiple breaks in the
submarine cable between Juneau
and Skagway which appear to be
the worst series of breaks ex
perienced in the history of the
ACS. These cables provide the
principal telephone and telegraph
link between Seattle and Alaska.
Pending repairs to the cable, pri
ority circuits have been rerouted
via landline facilities and com
munications between Central Alas
ka and the Seattle terminus will
be available on a limited basis.
THURSDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 7-4, Cleveland 4-3
Baltimore 6-3, Kansas City 3-2
Boston 11, Chicago 2
Washington 5, Detroit 4
National League
Chicago 8, Pittsburgh 7
Philadelphia 13, St. Louis 3
Milwaukee 8, Los Angeles 4
Cincinnati 4, San Francisco 0
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 3, San Diego 2
Phoenix 7, Spokane 0
Sacramento 10, Seattle 9%
Portland 6, Salt Lake City 4
Goldfine Accused
Of Contempt
Of Congress
WASHINGTON, UP) — Counsel
for House investigators today
accused Bernard Goldfine of
contempt of Congress after the
Boston industrialist refused to
answer 23 questions about his
financial affair.
The questions had been specially
drawn up to prepare the way for
possible contempt action.
Robert W. Lishman, lawyer for
the subcommittee checking Gold
fine’s dealings with Presidential
assistant Sherman Adams and
federal agencies, charged that
Goldfine was in contempt.
The charge was not immediately
acted on. But the subcommittee
headed by Rep. Harris had taken
steps toward citing Goldfine for
not answering questions which
they said were pertinent to their
inquiry.
Goldfine declared again and
again that these had nothing to do
with the House probe of regu
latory agencies. Harris said the
questions definitely were perti
nent
“I contend that this subcommit
tee has no right to inquire into
the internal affairs of the com
panies concerned.” Goldfine main
tained.
That contempt, Lishman de
clared, consists of a Goldfine “ef
fort to prevent the subcommittees
from performing the responsibil
ities of remedial legislation to
take care of the public interest.”
Harris aimed a shaft at the
■White House, where Adams has
acknowledged seeking information
on Goldfine cases before federal
regulatory agencies but insisted
he did nothing to influence the
agencies.