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VOL. LV1 No. 145 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1954 Per Copy—15^
TB Mass Survey
Will Start In
Nome Next Week
The TB mass survey for the
Nome area will start next week,
incuding not only school children
but military personnel and all
local people over the age of six.
The survey is being made by
the Alaska Health Department
and everyone in the community
is asked to cooperate.
The examination requires but
a few minutes, stated Public
Health Nurse Margaret McDonald,
who is in charge of organizing the
program, and disrobing is not re
quired.
A team of specialists with a
mobile unit will arrive according
to schedule on Dec. 15 and the
public will be notified through
radio and this paper the exact day
they will be called upon to give
a few minutes for their own pro
tection.
Canadian Fighter
Aee Home After
Release by Reds
VANCOUVER, B. C., I/Pi — A
Canadian fighter ace, the horrors
of two years in a Communist pri
son camp behind him, was ready
to set off on the second happiest
flight of his life today.
Sqdn. Ldr. A. R. lAndyi Mac
Kenzie’s happiest flight ended
here Thursday. He stepped from
a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane
from Hong Kong into the waiting
arms of his sobbing but overjoyed
wife, Joyce.
Later today the couple, togeth
er for the first time since the
veteran RCAF pilot was shot
down over North Korea, will
board an RCAF plane for Edmon
ton and Montreal where he will
see his two young sons and two
daughters that he last saw in
November, 1952.
In a hurried press interview
here, he turned aside all ques
tions concerning his experiences
in a Red China prison camp.
His refusal to discuss his life
in prison was in accordance with
strict orders from RCAF head
quarters at Ottawa.
Ottawa sources said the rea
son for the ban was to protect
■other prisoners still held by the
Chinese Reds.
Alaska Territorial Drivers
Licenses Will Cost Double
Starting On Jan. 1st
JUNEAU, IIP) — Alaskans were
reminded today that effective
Jan. 1, territorial drivers licenses
will double in cost, with 2-year
permits costing $4, 1-year for $2.
The new rate was voted in Aug
ust, 1953, by the Board of Road
l Commissioners, effective Jan. 1,
1955.
Canvassing Board Meets
today To Wrap Up Results
01’ Oct. General Election
JUNEAU, <iW — On the eve of
the official canvass of the Oct. 12
Alaska general election, Gov.
Heintzleman has ruled that any
person demanding a recount will
incur the responsibility of pay
ing for it.
The governor announced the
ruling yesterday after being ad
vised by the Attorney General’s
office that the governor is respon
sible for conducting a recount,
not the canvassing board.
The opinion said there is no
statutory provision for payment
of expenses of a recount of elec
tion l'eturns. It held that it is
within the power of the governor
to issue a regulation requiring
any person asking a recount to
post a surety bond binding him
to pay all l-esulting expenses.
The governor ruled further that
any request must be in writing,
by a citizen of the territory and
must designate the precincts
where a recount is desired. In
addition, the estimated cost, in
cash, must be placed in surety.
Alex Miller, Fairbanks, chair
man of the Democratic Central
Committee of Alaska, last month
notified the canvassing board the
committee is asking for a recount
in the Benson-Lannen Labor
Commissioner l’ace.
The canvassing boarh meets to
day at 2 p.m. to wrap up the
official canvass of the estimated
79,439 ballots cast in the general
election. It will keep the meeting
open until the 4 p.m. official
deadline in the hope the Savoon
ga tally boxes, eni’oute blit not
yet arrived, will come in.
Sitka Pioneer Woman Dies
Three Hours After Her
Husband’s Funeral
JUNEAU, (d>i — Word was re
ceived here of the death of Mrs.
Olga Baggen in a Seattle hospital
Thursday three hours after fu
neral services were held here for
her husband, George Baggen.
Mrs. Baggen, 68, was a promi
nent Sitka resident, formerly of
Juneau. Her husband had died
Dec. 2, also in Seattle.
Mrs. Baggen, a native of Nor
way, had undergone surgery two
dyas before her husband’s death.
Baggen was well known as a tug
and barge operator for many
years in southeast Alaska waters.
They had lived at Sitka for sev
eral years.
Mrs. Baggen’s body will be
brought to Juneau for services
and burial. She was a member of
Pioneers of Alaska and the Am
erican Legion Auxiliary in Ju
neau.
The Baggens are survived by
two sons and two daughters,
nine grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
New Japan Foreign
Minister Wants To
Fight Communism
TOKYO, UP: — Mamoru Shige
mitsu, named today as Japan’s
new foreign minister and deputy
prime minister, says his nation’s
“position is quite fixed—we de
finitely are in the democratic
camp.”
Japan “wants to contribute as
a democratic country to the sta
bilization of Asia and the peace
of the world,” says the peg-legged
veteran diplomat who signed
Japan's World War II surrender.
Shigemitsu, a convicted war
criminal, said Japan’s new gov
ernment under Prime Minister
Ichiro Hatoyama hopes to im
prove United States-Japan rela
tions still further.
“The Communists consider us
a greater enemy than former
prime minister Shigeru Yoshida,”
said Shigemitsu in an interview
with the Associated Press.
The new Hatoyama government
“has no fight with Yoshida’s po
sition to Communism, but we
L want to oppose them effectively,”
said Shigemitsu. “Yoshida did
nothing to cope with anti-Ameri
can propaganda launched by fel
low-travelers in Japan, thereby
tacitly encouraging it. We want
to put a period to it.”
Shigemitsu is 65. He was for
eign minister during the war and
served seven years as a war crim
inal before he was pardoned.
He called his conviction “a very
unnecessary thing," but added “I
suppose it was a necessary evil.”
New Red Chinese Airbase
Seen as Threat to Okinawa
TAIPEH. Formosa, UR — Over
30,000 men are working night and
day building a big new Commun
ist air base near the coast of the
Red Chinese mainland which will
threaten not only. Formosa but
also Okinawa, the Nationalist de
fense ministry asserted today.
It located the new base, big
enough to handle heavy bombers,
as 20 miles west of the Tachen
islands, 200 miles north of here
and 430 miles west of Okinawa.
CITIZEN TELLS OFF JUDGE ?
VAN NUYS, Calif., UR—A citi
zen got a three-day jail sentence
for contempt after getting a load
off his chest in court yesterday.
Philip Harvey Banks of Sep
ulveda didn’t wait for his case
to be called. Slamming a rolled
up newspaper on the counsel table
he said he was tired of being
sandbagged and wouldn’t be push
ed around by anyone.
“Were you appointed or were
you a misfit?” he demanded of
Municipal Judge Walter Allen.
The judge ordered the bailiff to
take Banks into custody. A jury
trial on his plea of innocent to
the traffic charge was set for
Dec. 28.
Shipov - 3 Meet With
Lundeberg To Improve
Waterfront Situation
SAN FRANCISCO, W—Repre
senatives of the Pacific Maritime
Assn, are to meet today with
Harry Lundberg, chief of the Sail
ors’ Union of the Pacific, to dis
cuss ways and means of improv
ing the West Coast waterfront
situation.
West Coast ship movements
have been disrupted for the last
44 days, since the Sailors’ Union
of the Pacific and the ILWU,
headed by Harry Bridges, became
involved in a controversy about
who should unload what hatch on
the freighter Pacificus at San
Pedro.
Since that time, Lundeberg’s
sailors have refused to accept
overtime in west coast ports or to
do anything beyond the strict ob
servance of their contract.
The “hard timing" program,
Lundeberg has declared, will con
tinue until shipowners and the
ILWU live strictly up to the sign
ed contracts.
More Cold, Wet Weather
In Prospect For Nation
(By the Associated Press)
Little change from the cold and
wet weather of the past several
days appeared in prospect for
most of the nation today.
Snow flurries continued across
most of the Great Lakes and the
northern half of the Appalachians.
More rain fell along the middle
Atlantic states and in southern
New England.
In the far west, showers were
reported from Southern Califor
nia and Arizona northward to the
Canadian border.
There was one inch of snow on j
the ground at Reno, Nev.
“Irresistible”
Demand” That
Ike Run In '56
WASHINGTON, tft—Sen. Milli
ken (R-Colo) said today there al
ready is an “irresistable demand”
among Republicans for President
Eisenhower to become a candi
date again in 1956.
Millikin, who heads the con
ference of all GOP senators, dis
counted in an interview any major
split in the party because of the
attack by Sen. McCarthy on the
President — a view generally
shared by other Republicans and
by some Democrats.
“I don’t expect any split in the
Republican party and neither do
I expect any third party move
ment,” Millikin said. “There al
ready is an irresistable demand
that the President be a candidate
for another term and I don’t
think he can be beaten if he runs.”
Dublin, Ireland Inundated
By Worst Flood In History
DUBLIN, Ireland, tP — Thou
sands of persons moved back into
their damaged and mud-covered
houses today after the worst flood
in Dublin’s memory.
Falling waters uncovered the
first known fatality. Rescue work
ers found the body of a 70-year
old woman, drowned in her bed.
Streets that were rivers at mid
night dried out by daylight and
Lord Mayor Alfred Byrne an
nounced: “The peak point of fear
is overcome.”
Across the British Isles light
winds and wintry sun took the
place of the raging gales that had
battered Western Europe for two
weeks.
Curtain for Pioneer Roof Garden
Rises P.M. Sharp Saturday Night
Escaping Convict
Gets in Tight Spot,
Shouts tor Rescue
McALESTER, Oklahoma, 1/Pi—
Sam Ramos, 32-year-old convicted
armed robber, thought his plan to
escape from the Oklahoma State
Penitentiary was foolproof, but it
turned out to be escape proof.
Prison officials said Ramos
boltpd himself inside a steel cab
inet outside the main prison wall
after working hours in the indus
trial area. Only a chain link fence
stood between him and freedom—
he thought.
When darkness came he tried
to remove the nuts with which he
had secured the 36x20x20-inch
cabinet. Ramos is 5-feet-8tf>.
He was so cramped he couldn’t
budge to twist the nuts. After 16
hours in the self-imposed prison,
Ramos gave up and aroused the
guards by screaming. He tumbled
out like a pretzel.
By Sen. Howard Lyng
General Chairman Mike Kelly
and his aides, Betty Walsh and
Bob Scott, are full of praise for
their hard-working Roof Garden
committees. They state unequiv
ically that the magnificent efforts
of all concerned will unquestion
ably result in the finest evening’s
entertainment ever produced in
this historic little city on the
northern shores of the Bering Sea.
Ten Acts—count ’em—-a real
Variety Show, Skits, Playlets,
Singing, Dancing, TILDEN the
Gr6at—will hold you enthralled.
Ballroom dancing to the music
of Helen Stevens and her orches
tra, Bingo, Fish Pond, Prospectors
Cakes stuffed with Nuggets,
Wheel of Fortune, huge 5V£~
ounce gold nugget given away,
refreshments for young and old,
fun for the whole family. Come
early and stay late. And remem
ber, folks, the curtain goes up
promptly at 8 p.m. A Night to Re
member!—Let’s Go!
-«b ROOF GARDEN
Entire Evening of Entertainment - Stage Shows -- Dancing - Games - Prizes curtain Pat s 'sharp
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