Hi NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX ~NoT:10 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1958 Per Copy—15*
No Reason Why
Nome Can’t Have
FHA Housing
By RUTH McLEAN
“I see no reason why you can’t
have housing in Nome under the
FHA program and Ve will do
everything possible to help you
get started this next summer,”
stated William M. Collins, direc
tor of the Federal Housing Ad
ministration in Alaska, to the
members of the N.W.A. Chamber
of Commerce at their meeting
here last week.
Mr. Collins and his party were
in Nome to help work out prob
lems peculiar to this area and
♦hey stressed the importance of
having a modem sewerage and
water system.
Mr. Collins also said that Gov.
Stepovich is vitally interested in
providing improved housing for
Nome and as executive head of
the territorial government, he
will encourage the Department of
Health to waive the requirements
that are not absolute law.
Continuing the discussion of
Nome’s proposed sewerage and
water system, Mayor Steffen An
dersen was guest speaker at the
luncheon meeting Monday and he
advised that the preliminary en
gineering report had been re
turned for a few minor changes.
When it is again received, the |
City will go ahead with the next
ptep toward requesting Alaska
Public Works funds for the proj
ect. Under the APW program,
Mayor Andersen said, federal
funds will pay the entire cost of
the system and the City of Nome
will pay back one-half over a
period of 20 years.
Mayor Andersen said that it
is not the city’s plan at this time
to assess any property owners
just because the new lines will
go by their property, but that
the present plan Is to operate the
system on a revenue basis.
Regular business of the Cham
ber iifbluded tentative plans for
the annual dinner meeting when
the Chamber year ends on Feb.
15. President Jim Walsh appoint
ed Larry Galvin as chairman of
the nominating committee to sub
mit candidates for board mem
bers for the coming year.
President Walsh will extend an
invitation to the Coast Guard
icebreaker to stop here when it
comes into Bering Sea this spring.
Mayor Andersen said the visit of
a ship during the winter months
is an interesting diversion for the
townspeople and that the City
will also extend an invitation to
the Coast Guard vessel.
Ketchikan Man Beaten
And Robbed In Seattle
SEATTLE, UR — Woodrow A.
Wilson, 38, a fisherman from
Ketchikan, reported to police he |
was assaulted and robbed of $175
by three men about 1 a.m. today, j
Police said Wilson reported he ^
was walking on 1st Ave. when!
three man attacked him. The'
Ketchikan man said he was
knocked unconscious by a blow
on the head. j
Wilson planned to leave for
Ketchikan today in the fishing,
boat Annie Moore.
DEPT. OF INTERIOR
PARTY EXPECTED
HERE ON JAN. 30
George Bender, former senator
i from Ohio and now on special as- ;
: signment for Secretary of the In- j
1 terior Fred Seaton, is scheduled ;
to arrived here Jan. ^0. He will,
i be accompanied by Phil Morgan,
I chief 6f the Alaska Affairs Com
: mittee of the Department of the
| Interior.
It was reported they are mak
ing this Alaskan trip in the in
terest of promoting the tourist
business and for the cause of
statehood.
A dinner meeting is in the
planning for Thursday evening,
Jan. 30 under the joint sponsor
ship of the Chamber of Commerce
and the Rotary Club.
Kansas City Hit
By Worst Snow
Storm Since 1912
KANSAS CITY, — Kansas
City and environs are digging
out from under 15 inches of snow
to'day after the worst blizzard in
46 years.
The storm left 17 dead in Kan
sas, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois
as it whipped northeastward last
night.
Its fury was spent but it left
10 to 12 inches of snow.
Most of the deaths were at
tributed either to accidents on i
slick roadways or heart attacks
after shoveling snow or bucking
drifts.
The storm reached blizzard
proportions and concentrated its
worst punishment on an elipse
straddling the Misouri - Kansas
line and bounded by Topeka,
Kan., and St. Joseph, Mo.
Most of the area got at least a
foot of snow. Kansas City’s 15
was the greatest snow depth
since a two-day 15-inch storm
in 1912.
A frigid paralysis still grips
the Missouri-Kansas area today.
Snow drifts up to six feet deep
blocked five major highways and
other main arteries were reduced
to one-way traffic in spots.
Assistance To
Prospectors to
Start This Year
JUNEAU—The Territorial De
partment of Mines announces
that a prospector assistance pro
gram will be started this year as
authorized by the 1957 Territorial
Legislature.
Assistance will consist of maxi
mum allowances of $200 for
transportation and $100 per
month, but not over $300 per
season, for food and equipment.
The TDM plans to put approxi
mately 16 men in the field under
this program if a sufficient num
ber of favorable applications are
received from qualified prospec
tors.
Applications should be reecived
in the Juneau TDM office before
April 1, on which date the suc
cessful ones will be chosen. No
prospecting operation of less than
one month will be considered.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens
and bona fide residents of Alaska.
Application blanks and detailed
information on he program may
be obtained from TDM field of
fices at Anchorage, College, and
Ketchikan, or by writing to the
Territorial Dept, of Mines, Box
1391, Juneau, Alaska.
Pessimism Called
Pathological By
AEC Chairman
NEW YORK, UP> — Lewis I.
Strauss, chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission, says the pes
simism and doubt over U.S. scien
tific prowess stirred up by the
Soviet earth satellite is “almost
pathological.”
He says this country is “far
ahead in nearly all fields of
technical and scientific accom
plishments.”
The United States, he said, is
“well ahead” of all other nations
in weapons and in development
of the atom’s peaceful uses.
Dulles Goes to Middle East With
Declaration of “Deep Concern”
For Communist-Threatened Area
WASHINGTON, GP)— President
Eisenhower sent Secretary of
State Dulles to the Middle East
today with a declaration of “deep
concern” for the security of Com
munist-threatened countries in
the area.
At the same time Eisenhower
made a new pledge of “unwaver
ing support” for the defense prin
ciples of the Baghdad Pact.
Dulles conferred with the
President for 30 minutes some
two hours in advance of his
scheduled departure for the Mid
dle East.
In a statement on his talk with
Eisenhower Dulles said Middle
Eastern countries are under “the
threat of Communist imperial
ism” and the United States is
“glad to help them” in their
collective self-defense effort.
Shortly before Dulles went into
his meeting with the President—
which followed a session of the
National Security Council — the
State Department denounced as
“totally false” a Soviet charge
that Dulles is planning to force
U.S. nuclear missiles bases on
Middle Eastern countries.
The department also branded
as “incredibly arrogant” a So
viet statement yesterday kthat if
the Moslem countries of the Mid
dle East are armed with nuclear
weapons and missiles it will be
an “insult” to their religion.
It said the Kremlin doctrine is
that peoples who believe in a!
God should, on that account, be
militarily inferior to “the ag
gressive athiests” of the Soviet
Union.
House Moves to Provide Billion Dollar
Fund To Speed Up Missile Programs
WASHINGTON, WV-The House
Appropriations Committee yes
terday voted an emergency “time
buying” $§*,410,000,00 0 fund to
speed missile programs and give
more punch to the Air Force’s re
taliatory power.
This is 40 million more than
President Eisenhower requested
two weeks ago.
The addition is all for the
Army, to bolster its missile pro
grams. A last minute revision
doubled the proposed increase by )
allotting 20 million for *vi~ ^r
shing project, aimed to develop a
solid fuel successor lo tne xi^iy s
200-mile range Redstone.
The House will consider the
committe’s action and there are,
I indications of a strong drive to
provide even more money.
The new money will be made
available to the Defense Depart- j
| ment immediately to finance
| space age weapons programs
which are developing faster than
anticipated.
In a report written by Rep.
Mahon (D-Tex), chairman of a
subcommittee that drafted the
measure, the committee said “our
military strength as of today, in
the over-all, is superior to that
of the U.S.S.R.” Although in the
critical areas of space satellites
and ballistic missiles “we are
generally behind” Russia.
In those vital areas, the com
mittee added, “we cannot afford
to be in second place.”
WASHINGTON, MV-Rep. Ma
hon (D-Tex) said today the na
tion should “face the future and
get on with the job” of surpassing
Russian missile and satellite
gains.
Mahon, chairman of the House
Defense Appropriations subcom
mittee, talked with newsmen as
the House called up for expected
unanimous passage the $1,410,
000,000 money bill to help speed
U.S. defense preparations.
The House schedule calls few
passage of the money bill late
today unless a roll call vote is
demanded. That would put it off
until tomorrow. Because some
members were absent on official
business, the House had agreed
to take no roll call votes until
Thursday this week.
The agreement delayed final
House action on a bill to raise the
legal limit on the national debt
to 280 billion dollars. The present
limit is 275 billions, and the debt
is approaching that figure.
The proposal was attacked dur
ing debate yesterday, but the
House shouted down one move
aimed at holding the increase to
three billions. *
Rep. Martin, House Republican
leader, urged Republican mem
bers “not to put our own admin
istration in a straightjacket” by
rejecting the increase.
“We must face the fact that
we have realities to consider,”
Martin said in reference to ex
pected increases in defense costs.
Three Acres of
Gas Explodes Near
Construction Site
FARMINGTON, N.M., UPi—Gas,
lying like a low cloud in a large
natural depression, exploded late
yesterday as a string of about 70
cars started through it. Twelve
persons were injured, seven ser
iously.
The blast knocked June Gor
ham, Farmington, from her car
as a sheet of flame flashed over
an area of about three acres.
She was among 150 construc
tion company employes leaving a
plant being built on the desert
about 30 miles southeast of here.
Paul Miller, 50, Denver, a safe
ty engineer for the company
building the plant, said he had
once been a fireman, but:
“I never saw a fire as hot as
this. When that gas exploded,
heat expansion spread it out and
it seemed to run over the
ground.”
He said- the car in which he
was riding ran down into the gas
in the depression and stalled. He
said he and the others in it
shoved that car and two others
out and then signaled the other
cars to stop on the plant side of
the depression.
A spokesman for the company
having the plant built said some
■ one left a valve open on a liqui
fied gas line leading from the
plant, and the gas leaked out to
the hollow. He blamed a spark
from a car for the explosion.
Soviet Say They Have
Made Full Report On
j Sputnik I To The IGY
BRUSSELS, Belgium, —
Headquarters of the International
Geophysical Year said today that*
so far, it had not received any
Soviet report of information
gleaned from Sputnik I.
Marcel Nicolet, secretary gen
eral of the IGY organization, said
the report probably will reach
him in .early February.
The Soviet news agency Tass
said yesterday in Moscow Soviet
, scientists had made a full report
i to IGY headquarters of the data
obtained from the first artificial
satellite.
Canadian Government
Defeats No-Confidence
Motions In Parliament
OTTAWA, UPl— Canada’s Con
servative government last night
easily defeated two no confidence
motions that never had been ex
pected to pass.
Each motion was worded so
that the other opposition parties
could not support it, thus as
suring their defeat.
1 Finance Minister spoke of pre
senting a budget for the fiscal
| year beginning April 1 that
| would probably have a deficit.
! He said the government was de
; termined to provide a public
works program to meet unem
ployment, even if it meant un
‘ balancing the budget.