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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 7 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1958 Per Copy—15*
NOME TELEPHONE CO. WINS
FRANCHISE BY NINE VOTES
By a nine-vote margin'
the people of Nome yester
day granted the Nome Tel
ephone Co. the privilege
of using the city’s streets
and alleys for installation
of a dial telephone system.
A total of 482 votes were
cast with 275 favoring the
action and 207 opposed.
In order to assure pas
sage of the franchise or
dinance, 55 per cent of the
votes cast must have been
in favor of the proposal.
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NONE FILE YET IN 2ND DIV.
FOR PRIMARY ELECTION
Although Feb. 1 is the deadline
for filing of condidacy for the
primary election in April, and
there have been several persons
in town who have indicated they
will run for territorial, office,
none have filed to date with the
U. S. Clerk of the Court here.
Several present members of the
legislature, former members, in
Nome and other Second Division
communities, and others, have
indicated they would file for ter
ritorial offices in the House and
Senate but as yet none have
made their intentions official.
Delegate Bartlett Adds Support for
U.S. Nuclear Propelled Icebreaker
WASHINGTON, UP)—Ice con
scious Delegate Bartlett today
added his support to congression
al efforts to authorize construc
tion of a nuclear propelled ice
breaker.
Commenting on hearings sched
uled on the proposal later this
month by the House Merchant
Marine Committee, the Alaskan
said he felt the action would be
“statesmanlike and timely.”
“We know Russia started arc
tic research long beforp we en
tered the field,” Bartlett said.
“There is evidence the Soviets
are stepping up their endeavors
in that region of vital strategic
significance. Particularly, they
seem to have devoted much time,
attention and effort to Arctic
Ocean shipping.”
Noting Russia’s recent launch
ing of the world’s first nuclear
powered icebreaker, he declared:
“Again we are behind. We
should catch up.”
Bartlett said he believed it
was particularly appropriate that
the bills presented Congress call
for the proposed vessel to be built
for the Coast Guard.
“The whole world knows of the
humanitarian services performed
by the Coast Guard in its mission
of rescue and aid,” he declared.
“This most assuredly would be a
powerful demonstration of our
intention to use atomic energy
whenever possible for peaceful
purposes.”
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Pentagon Admits
Plane Crashed
With A-Bomb
WASHINGTON, UFi—‘The gov
ernment cast high secrecy today
about any details on its brief ad
mission that on at least one occa
sion a plane carrying a nuclear
weapon crashed without explod
ing the weapon.
The Pentagon, apparently act
ing after consultation with other
government agencies, refused to
say where or when the accident
occurred or to say whether more
than one such incident occurred.
However, there was growing
belief the accident mentioned by
the Air Force Monday occurred
in 1957 in the U.S. and involved
a B-47 medium bomber.
The pilot and co-pilot of a B-29
which crashed and burned Aug. 5,
1957 in California confirmed yes
terday their craft was carrying
the outer casing of an atomic
bomb which did not explode. But
they didn’t say whether the Air
Force was referring to that crash.
He added: “You can assure ev
erybody that while the shape and
weight of atomic bombs may be
carried, there is no danger of a
■nuclear explosion because that
huSh-hush part is always missing
on training flights.”
Soviet Scientist Reports Seeing
Abominable Snowman in Himalayas
MOSCOW, (fft—A Soviet scien
tist claims he saw an abominable
snowman twice last August in the
Pamir Mountains of southeast
Russia.
Several Western expeditions
have sought the legendary crea
ture in the Himalayas, part of the
“roof of the world” that includes
the Pamirs, but have found only
footprints and wisps of hair.
A. G. Pronin told a Leningrad
newspaper he saw a “yeti”, or
abominable snowman, last Aug.
10 an$ 13.
Pronin was a member of a So
viet scientific expetition. He said
he was in a valley near the edge
of the Fedchenko Glacier when
he saw the creature outlined
against the top of a cliff more
than 1,500 feet above him.
He said it was “a man-like
creature walking on two feet,
stooped and wearing no clothes.
He was stocky, with long extrem
ities and his body was covered
with reddish-gray wool.”
“At first I thought it was a
bear, but after more careful study
it became clear this was no bear.”
“Evidently before me was one
of the so-called snowmen. He
walked out of his cave for a dis
tance of some 600 feet and then
disappeared beyond the edge of
the cliff.” He said he watched the
thing for five to eight minutes.
Three days later he saw the
snowman for a few minutes at
the same spot.
I Military Pay Bill
Would Give Raise
Of Six Percent
WASHINGTON, UPV—President
Eisenhower has sent to Congress
a military pay bill which would
give most service personnel a
raise of at least 6 percent, and
also provide for merit increases.
The bill was introduced in the
House yesterday by Chairman
Vinson (D-Ga) of the House
Armed Services Committee, soon
after the White House disclosed
details of administration propos
als for boosting pay of postal and
and civil service workers, as well
as service personnel.
The raises for all groups would
cost about $1,053,000,000 a year.
The administration wants them
to become effective July 1.
Under the Eisenhower program
all military personnel with more
I than two years’ service would get
| a minimum increase of 6 percent
i in base pay.
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Both Parties Optimistic
Over Election Results
In New York State
ALBANY, N.Y., UP>—New York
State chairmen of both parties
came up with optimistic interpre
tations today on the outcome of
yesterday’s special election. The
Republicans held onto a congres
sional seat but lost three contests
for the state legislature.
The GOP state chairman said
the congressman scored a notable
victory in view of bad weather.
He described the result as an
“emphatic vote of confidence in
President Eisenhower as he girds
our nation to meet the Soviet
challenge and to preserve peace.”
The Democratic state chairman
said each of the three Democratic
candidates for the legislature got
higher percentages of the votes
cast than did the party candidates
in 1956. All of this foreshadows
“a Democratic landslide” in No
vember, he added.
Congress Asked To
Boost Debt Limit
To $280 Billion
WASHINGTON, UP) —The Ei
senhower administration Tues
day asked Congress to boost the
275 billion dollars limit on the
national debt to 280 billion.
Secretary of the Treasury Robt.
Anderson asked for the five bil
lion dollar boost in letters to
Democratic and Republican lead
ers of the House Ways and Means
and Senate Finance Committees.
The national debt subject to
the ceiling limitation stood at
$274,250,755,593.28 on Jan. 9, or
just less than three-quarters of
a billion dollars under the limit.
FUCHS PARTY NOW
105 MILES FROM POLE
AUKLAND, New Zealand, W)—
The British transantarctic expe
dition led by Dr. Vivian Fuchs
-today was reported 105 miles
from the South Pole.
Fuchs estimated his 10-man
party would reach the American
base at the pole Jan. 18. The
Briton plans to continue on by
tractor to New Zealand’s Scott
Base on McMurdo Sound, 1,200
miles from the pole, to complete
the first overland crossing of the
antarctic continent.
President Prefers Deficit Spending
To Any Tax Increase This Year
With New $73,900,000,000 Budget
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Nome Hospital To
Get $5,650 Ford
Foundation Grant
Grants totaling nearly $150,000 :
have been given to Alaskan hos- j
pitals by the Ford Foundation, J
with Providence hospital in An-!
chorage receiving $24,300.
All hospitals . receiving the I
grants are privately -supported
and the grants are double the
amounts actually paid in 1957.
Other hospitals receiving the
Ford Foundation fund are: Sew
ard Sanitorium of Bartlett $41,
250; Cordova Community hospital
$5,000; St. Joseph’s hospital, Fair
banks, $18,350; Hudson Stuck
Memorial hospital, Fort Yukon,
$5,000; Ketchikan General hos
pital $16,350; Griffin Memorial
hospital of Kodiak $5,000; Valley
Presbyterian hospital of Palmer
$5,000; Seward General hospital
$5,000.
Maynard - MacDougall Memor
ial hospital of Nome will get
$5,650.
B.C. HYDRO PROJECT
SUSPENDED FOR
WANT OF MARKET
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP)—Work
on a $50,000,000 hydroelectric
metallurgical project in northern
British Columbia is unlikely to
start for some time, Allan J. An
derson, president of Frobisher
Limited, said yestefday.
He said survey work in the
Naas River area has reached an
advance stage but development
will not begin until a market can
be found for the power.
Anderson said altho there is a
lot of power in B.C., “it is proving
expensive to develop.”
“We can’t parcel the power up
and send it away,” he said, and
at the moment there was no mar
ket for it in northern B.C.
“Development work in the
northern areas is hampered by a
lack of population,” he added.
President Says
He’s Feeling Fine
WASHINGTON, UP*—President
Eisenhower said today he is feel
ing fine and never considered re
signing, in a specific way, after
suffering a mild stroke in No
vember.
He said, as he has done on a
number of occasions, that he
would feel obliged to resign if he
or his doctors felt he was not
physically able to carry on his
duties.
Eisenhower made the state
ments in reply to questions at the
first news conference he has held
since he was stricken last No
vember. He said despite three ill
nesses which raised—as he put it
—serious implications, he now
feels very well indeed and would
be on the golf course this after
noon if the weather permitted.
He said his doctors assured him
a few hours after the stroke that
—as he facetiously put it—what
ever intellectual faculties he may
have had would not be impaired.
» WASHINGTON, iff)—President
Eisenhower /aid today he would
prefer a reasonable amount of
deficit spending this year to a tax
increase.
The President, at his first news
conference in 2 Vi months, said he
believes some red ink spending
would be the only answer under
present circumstances if it came
to a choice between that and a
tax increase in order to handle
the proposed new federal budget
In that connection, Eisenhower
noted that his economic advisers
are predicting an upturn from
the current business recession.
Eisenhower was discussing the
$73,900,000,000 budget for the fis
cal year starting July 1 which he
sent to Congress on Monday. On
paper, it is narrowly in balance
with a forecast of a surplus of
a half billion dollars based on an
ticipated tax revenues.
Eisenhower also discussed these
other matters:
Summit Conference—Eisenhow
er said, as he did in his message
to Bulganin last weekend, there
must be adequate advance prep
aration before he would agree to
any new summit conference with
the Russians.
He said he has given no thought
whatever to including Red China
I and its satellites in any summit
conference.
Gaither Report—The President
said he has no intention whatever
of ever releasing the administra
tion’s Gaither report on the state
of the nation’s defenses and the
prospect for the future. That re
port, drawn up by a committee of
advisers named by the President,
reportedly cautions that the U.S
is fast losing military superiority
to Russia.
Eisenhower said he names such
study groups with the proviso
that information given them, and
developed by them, is in a privi
leged or secret category. If there
should be any change in that, Ei
senhower added, he would have
to stop setting up such study
groups.
Dulles—Eisenh»wer vigorously
labeled as trash reports that Sec
retary of State Dulles might re
sign. He said Dulles is the last
person he would want to see re
sign, and added that he regards
the Cabinet officer as the wisest
and most dedicated man that he
knows.
Eisenhower said he is sure it is
the desire of all to whom he has
talked, including other govern
ment officials, that Dulles stay
right squarely on the job.
Fifth Anniversary—A reporter
noted that Eisenhower will ob
serve his fifth aniversary in of
fice next Monday. The past five
years, the newsman said, have
produced for Eisenhower such,
crises as the Little Rock school
integration situation, Russia’s sat
ellite and the rise of Khrushchev
as Communist Party boss in the
Soviet union.
The reporter then asked for the
President’s view of those prob
lems and a forecast of the future.
Eisenhower responded that he
intends to carry on in the three
remaining years of his term ex
actly as he has during the first
five years.
The first five years, he said,
have not been very much rougher
than he had anticipated.