22E NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
-VOL. LIX No. 73 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1957 Per Copy—15*
White Alice Projects in Nome Area
*lue for Completion by November 1
By RUTH McLEAN
At the regular weekly meeting
of the Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce President
Jim Walsh introduced as a guest
Mr. John McLean of B-E-C-K and
Associates, who are building the
White Alice sites in this area.
Mr. McLean said much of the
information concerning the White
Alice projects and the DEW Line
has been restricted but certain
information is now available to
the public.
According to Mr. McLean, the
waterfront will be busy for the
next week or ten days unloading
ships bringing in supplies and
equipment. The first barge ar
rived Monday evening.
The contracts call for the work
at the three sites in this area to
be completed by November 1st.
At the peak of this summer’s
work, B-E-C-K and Associates ex
pect to employ 100 men, Mr. Mc
Lean said. Because the work is
so close to town, the companies
plan no commissary. Just essen
tial n,eeds are stocked for the
workers.at the other sites.
The Federal Electric Company,
subsidiary of Western Electric
Company, will be in charge of
operation, once the construction
is completed. Their head office is
in Anchorage. Housing is not
planned at the Anvil Mountain
site for the few operating person
nel, Mr. McLean understands. He
also mentioned that each station
will have its own power.
Full Employment
The second guest at the
Chamber meeting was Mr. Lew
Dischner, president of the Alaska
Council of Carpenters, who was
introduced by John McNees. Mr.
Dischner stated that his organiza
tion has 82 Eskimo members in
this area and “every member is
either working or has an oppor
tunity to work at this time.”
Mr. Dischner said he tries to
place local men first when the
employers cooperate. Pointing out
that his union is an organization
of craftsmen, he said that being
a local resident does not make a
man a capable carpenter. How
ever, he said that he has never
had an Eskimo workman dis
charged because of unsatisfactory
work.
In the specialized work de
manded in the present construc
tion contracts in this area, the
local men sometimes face jobs
that are new to them, Mr. Disch
ner explained but with instruction
or working with an experienced
craftsman, their work is soon
more than satisfactory.
The Chamber sent a telegram to
Dewey Goodrich hoping for his
speedy recovery. Mr. Goodrich
has undergone surgery in Seattle.
Walt Sipprell, Nome agent for
the Alaska Steamship Company,
was welcomed back to town. He
outlined the steamship company’s
plans for summer sailings to the
Seward Peninsula.
Visitor's Certificates Ready
Passing around samples of the
new visitors certificates, Wilbur
Arnold advised the Chamber
members that the certificates are
now ready to be distributed to the
shops. A large envelope is fur
nished with each certificate for
easy mailing by the visitors who
buys it for a souvenir of Nome.
Los Angeles Budget
Paves Way for Dodgers
LOS ANGELES, UP—A $2 mil
lion budget item designed to
smooth the way for the Brooklyn
Dodgers to come to Los Angeles
j has won approval of the city
council.
Officially, the council was voting
on Mayor Norris Poulson’s $184,
652,491 budget for 1957-58. But
Council President John S. Gibson
set the tone for the discussion
with his opening remark:
“Our vote is really a decision
on whether we want major league
baseball or not,” he said.
A majority of the councilmen
went along with Gibson and beat
down two attempts to strip from
the budget the $2 million set aside
for grading a site for a major
league ball park in Chavez Ravine
and building access roads to. it.
Buxom Blond
Invades Roval Box
J
And Steals Show
ASCOT, England, C/fl—'The babe
with the biggest bust in Britain
show business gate-crashed the
hallowed royal enclosure at the
Agcot races yesterday. It was sen
sational, and the place may never
be the same again.
The girl with the bust is Sabri
na (nee Norma Sykes), known the
length and breadth of the British
Isles as “television’s dumb blond.”
She has become famous by the
simple process of standing in
front of the cameras and breath
ing. The vital statistic is 41 inches.
Sabrina’s apperaance before the
royal family and among the peers
of the realm created a bigger
shock than the victory of an 8
year-old gelding named Bonhomie
in the day’s feature race. They
won’t let you in the royal en
closure at all if you are divorced.
Dressed in a low-necked flow
ered organdy, Sabrina walked in
to the enclosure without a ticket
while the gate man was groping
arouhd the royal turf for his eye
balls.
“Scandalous!” hissed 17 duch
esses, or it may have been 18.
“•Shocking!” muttered 6 vis
countesses, or maybe it was 7.
“Yes, m’deah,” murmured their
titled escorts as they kept o»n
looking.
Queen Elizabeth II and the oth
er members of the royal family
did not appear to noti.ce.
A reporter who encountered the
show girl asked her what in the
world she was doing in the royal
enclosure.
“Looking,” giggled Sabrina,“ for
the ladies’ powder room.”
| Gov. Stepovich
To Speak Here
On 4tli of July
SEATTLE, UP\—Gov. Stepovich
of Alaska and his wife were in
Seattle Tuesday enroute to Wash
ington, D.C., and the governor’s
conference at Williamsburg, Va.,
this weekend.
The governor and Mrs. Stepo
vich planned to fly east Wednes
day morning.
They plan to be back in Juneau
July 1. The governor will leave
July 2 for Nome to speak at the
Fourth of July celebration.
I The seven Stepovich children
stayed behind in Juneau. The
governor said it was the first long
trip he and his wife have taken
without the children.
LAST STRAW
NORTH SACRAMENTO, Calif.,
UP)—Thieves finally made Mrs.
Grace Sebastian angry.
Police said she told them yes
terday she didn’t care enough to
report the theft of a $100 watch,
$30 in cash, $100 worth of liquor
and some gas from the car over a
period of six weeks.
“But when they took my seven
books of trading stamps I got
mad,” Mrs. Sebastian complained.
“I licked every stamp myself.” I
U.S. May Suspend Nuclear Tests
While Negotiating for Disarmament
WASHINGTON, UPL-President
Eisenhower said today he would
be perfectly delighted to make a
satisfactory agreement suspending
atomic tests while negotiating
with Russia for some permanet
disarmament program. His words
indicated possible major revision
in U.S. policy.
Under questioning at a news
conference, Eisenhower said he
believed—altho he did not want
to commit himself finally at the
moment—that a prohibition on
the manufacture of atomic weap
ons might not necessarily have
to be a part of the package for
suspending tests.
His tentative comment on this
point was contrary to what State
Department odfficials have been
saying privately since negotia
tor Harold Stasson returned to
London.
Their line has been that the
United States would only agree to
suspend tests as part of a first
step agreement which also pro
vided for halting manufacture of
weapons under a carefully in
spected program.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference a three-point proposal put
forward by Russia in the United
Nations talks at London a week
ago deserves the most earnest and
sympathetic study although he
could not yet say how it would
work out.
The Soviets called for a two
or three-year moratorium on
atomic tests, for a commission to
supervise the agreement, and for
inspection posts within the terri
tories of Russia, the United States
and Britain.
Eisenhower said this was a
hopeful sign for the Russians to
put up such a proposal but that
he would want to see one thing to
tails. He added it is one thing to
state a generalization and another
to see how it works out.
Eisenhower began his question
and answer discussion of disarm
ament by stating flatly Stassen
was not reprimanded when he re
turned to Washington 10 days ago.
The allies, mainly France and
Britain, had complained Stassen
was working too closely with So
viet representative Valerian Zo
rin.
States Widespread Heat Wave
Nears End After Claiming 234 Lives
<By The Associated Press)
Thunderstroms moved into the
east in advance of a cold front
today signaling a breakup of the
season’s most widespread heat
wave.
Five days of broiling tempera
tures in the eastern half of the
nation and floods in the midcon
tinent took at least 234 lives. Most
of the 206 heat casualties were
drownings. Floods caused another
28 deaths.
The cold front was expected to
pass across most of the Atlantic
states area today* followed by
cooler and dryer air tonight.
Across the continent, however,
Los Angeles braced for another
scorcher after a record breaking
104 reading yesterday—the hot
test June 18 in the city’s history.
A mass of cool air from Canada
broke the torrid heat wave in the
midwest Tuesday.
“Most of the hot weather now
is in the Atlantic coast states,” the
weather bureau forecaster in Chi
cago said. “Temperatures will be
in the 90s today, but by tomor
row night that cold front should
just about end the heat wave in
the east.”
Another day of 90-degree read
ings would be the eighth straight
day of mid-summerlike weather
for numerous cities.
A survey of the weather
death toll was made by the Asso
ciated Press. These covered the
period since Saturday, as follows:
Heat: Arkansas 5, Connecticut
5, Georgia 4, Illinois 4, Indiana 9,
Kentucky 4, Louisiana 3, Maine 4,
Maryland 17, Massachusetts 5,
Michigan 11, Minnesota 2, Missis
sippi 1, New Jersey 17, New York
25, New Hampshire 6, New Mex
ico 2, North Carolina 7, Ohio 15,
Pennsylvania 22, Rhode Island 2,
South Carolina 6, Tennessee 2,
Texas 8, Birgina 16, West Virgin
ia 1, and Wisconsin 8.
Floods: Illinois 10, Missouri 10,
South Dakota 3, Minnesota 2, and
Kansas 3. i
As temperatures rose to the 90s
in the vast heat belt, there was
a mass rush for air conditioning
relief. When heat-smitten Chi
cago and New York residents put
air conditioning units to work, a
power shortage resulted. In Chi
cago, this meant that household
voltage dropped from ' the stan
dard 120 volts to 113.
This in turn failed to turn parts
of small electrical units—such as
shavers and sewing machines—as
fast as with full power supply.
Trained Fleas Perish
In California Heat
LONG BEACH, Calif., UPi—Flea
trainer B6b Matthews is looking
for some new performers. His last
troupe was wiped out by the cur
rent heat wave.
“They carried on right to the
end,” he said sadly. “I thought
Freddy—he was the weight lifter
—looked a little peaked after the
afternoon show. And Hildegard
couldn’t finish her act. But I did
n’t know how bad it was*
Matthews said all 24 of his fleas
expired when the temperature hit
98 degrees in the amusement zone
at the Long Beach pike yesterday.
“But I’ll get some more,” he
promised, casting an eye at a
passing dog. “After all, the show
must go on.”
'Temperamental Chimp
Removed From Show
ST. LOUIS. Lif)—Roy, long-time
star of the titillating chimpanzee
show at the St. Louis Zoo, has
been removed from the cast.
“He just became too human,”
explained Mike Kostial, trainer
in charge of the show.
“He couldn’t stand to see any
other chimp in the limelight.”
Roy screams and rattles the
bars on his cage when the show
goes on now. He gets particularly
excited when he hears the music
used in his starring numbers.
Roy is 12 and Kostial says he
is the smartest and most versatile
chimp ever to appear in the show.
He had put on several displays of
temperament and finally lost his
role when he chucked an assistant
trainer into the moat
Senate Approves
ILS. Participation
In Atomic Agency
WASHINGTON, (^—Strong,* bi
partisan approval of U.S. mem
bership in the International Atom
ic Energy Agency (IAEA) has
given President Eisenhower an
other policy victory in the Senate.
Democrats slightly outnumbered
Republicans in the 67-19 vote by
which the Senate last night rati
fied the IAEA treaty and ap
proved U.S. participation in the
plan. The proposed agency is an
outgrowth of Eisenhower’s “at
oms for peace” proposals in 1953.
No House action is necessary.
The Senate’s action, which will
be implemented by legislation
now pending before the Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee,
clears the way for the President
to make agreements with the in
ternational agency when it is
formed later in the year.