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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 41 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1961 Per Copy 15c
LYW Community Center to Celebrate
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50th Anniversary This Coming Week
P'ifty years ago the Women’s
Division of Christian Service
started its work in the Nome area
with a national project called the
Lavinia Wallace Young Mission.
Appropriate ceremonies will be
held this coming week to com
memorate the anniversary.
Sunday morning the service at
11:00 at the Community Metho
dist Church will include special
recognition for those persons who
give their time to this worthy
project, Conrad Potter, LYW
Board Chairman, will present up
to date information on the work
done.
On Wednesday evening the LYW
Community Centqr will have open
house from 8:00 until 9:30 to com
memorate the occasion.
The LYW was named for the
Bureau Secretary of Alaskan
Work, Lavinia Wallace Young,
who was responsible for secur
ing the funds used for obtaining
the first Methodist Hospital here,
which was in the now empty
building north of the Gillis home
on C St. Later the name was
adopted for use of the Community
Center only.
The community work origin
ated as an industrial home and
orphanage about 20 miles west of
Nome at Sinuk River and de
veloped under the leadership of
Rev. and Mrs. Wm. Baldwin. Un
der their leadership a missionary
boat “New Jersey” was acquired
and used for hunting as well as
freighting supplies.
At the invitation of government
officials the work was extended
to Nome with Miss Harriet Bar
nett beginning the work. Rev.
and Mrs. Wm. Baldwin who had
been stateside on furlough re
turned in 1912 and began a
twenty year service of missionary
work in Nome. In addition to
his work as minister to the Eski
mo congregation who had their
own church (where the Metodist
parsonage now stands) Mr. Bald
win did social work and also
served for a while as superintend
ent of the Methodist Hospital,
known as the Maynard Columbus
Hospital.
In 1949, anticipating the in- j
tegration of the Methodist Eski
mo and white congregation, a so
cial worker was sent to organize
the program as a community cen
ter also on a integrated basis,
instead of strickly for Eskimos.
In cooperation with the exist
ing governmental agencies the
present social, welfare and cloth
ing program help meets the phys
ical needs of the many under
privileged families in the com
munity.
The recreational program strives
to combine recreational and edu
Council of Bishops of
Methodist Church Oppose
Aid to Private Schools
BOSTON UP* — The Council of
Bishops of the Methodist Church
has reaffirmed its opposition to
tax support of private and paro
chial schools.
The council issued a statement
yesterday after a closed four-day
meeting.
The issue of federal funds for
other than public schools has
caused considerable comment from
political and religious leaders
since President Kennedy pro
posed aid for public secondary
schools only.
cational activities where the need
is greatest.
The present programs are ad
ministered by one full time pro
fessional worker, Esther McCoy,
who has been here for 12 years.
One full time non-professional
worker, Nancy Cabinboy, 12 stu
dents and 13 adults as volunteer
teachers, and countless others for
less time consuming tasks. The
local adminstrator is aided by an
advisory board composed of the
following:
Conrad Potter, chairman; Mar
garet Swanberg, secretary (offi
cial representative of Public
Health'; Robert Grant and Elsie
Mae Smith, (official representa
tives of BIA'; Louise Bockman,
(official representative of ADPW';
Beth McCray, (official repre
sentative of local WSCS); Lydia
Bell, (official representative of
Methodist Sisterhood).
Representing the community at
large are:
Curtis Chunn, (youth); Wilda
Reed, Lottie Bahnke, Lorena
Gray, James Oksoktaruk and
Ernie Bohrer.
Assistant teachers for this year
are:
Roberta Beauchamp, Hannah
Miller, Mary Sorenson, Lilly
Walker, Dora Walluk, Wilda Reed,
Beth McCray, Lottie Bahnke,
Ruth Towner, Vesta Sundstrom,
Mary Barrow’ and Roberta Sny
der.
Junior teachers are:
Carol Miller, Edna Ahmasuk,
Jo Chambers, Ida Cabinboy,
Susie Savok, Sally Walker, Shar
on Reader, Mina Tungwenuk,
Clinton Gray, Jr., Richard Atuk,
John Bahnke, Jr. and Billy
Nuipok.
JFK and MacMillan Fear
Crises Between Soviets
And Western Powers
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy and British Prime Min
ister Harold MacMillan reported
ly fear the development of a
series of crises between the
Western powers and the Soviet
Union this year.
These views are reported to
prevail in spite of encouraging
progress recently made toward
agreement on a cease-fire in the
civil war in Laos.
A generally somber outlook for
East-West relations emerges from
information made available by
U. S. and British officials on the
discussions of the two allied lead
ers here during the past two days.
The talks were recessed today
while MacMillan flies to Boston
for an address at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
A final session of the two men
and their advisers will be held
at the White House Saturday
morning after which they plan
to issue what one official called
a business-like statement on the
range of their discussions.
Lt. Col. John Eisenhower
On Leave to Aid Father
WASHINGTON UP — Lt. Col.
John Eisenhower has been placed
on leave without pay to help his
father, former President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, “in sorting and re
viewing the documents related to
the Eisenhower Administration.”
Announcing this yesterday, the
Defense Department said the
younger Eisenhower requested the
1°v'’ It is for an indefinite peri
od.
U. S. Plans to Send
Additional Troops
To “Hotspots*’
WASHINGTON UP — The Army
plans to send thousands of addi
tional combat troops to overseas
“hotspots” in the next year as a
means of countering Communist
thrusts.
At the same time, the Army
will train 3,000 men in guerrilla
warfare tactics for use in nations
friendly to the United States.
Army leaders gave details of
these intentions yesterday to a
closed door hearing of the Senate
Armed Services Committee. Later
the testimony of Gen. George H.
Decker, Chief of Staff, and of
Secretary Elvis J. Stahr Jr. was
made available to newsmen with
military secrets deleted.
Decker told the committee 3,400
men will be added to the U. S.
7th Army, which now is part of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation shield in Europe. He also
forecast an increase of more than
5,000 men in the Pacific “to
meet the threat of limited war
and for assisting our allies in
countering sub-belligerency.”
U. N. Troops in Congo
Are Down to C-Rations—
Fresh Food Boycotted
ELIZABETHVILLE, The Congo
UP — The U. N. leader in Eliza
bethville was down to C-rations
and just a little fresh food today.
A U. N. spokesman said sellers
of bread and other fresh foods
still were carrying on the econo
mic war Katanga President Moise
Tshombe ordered Tuesday after
his troops’ attempt to take full
control of the Elizabethville air
port.
U. N. officials said Tshombe, at
a conference Wednesday with
Gen. Dean McKeown, the U. N.
military chief in the Congo,
agreed to suspend the economic
sanctions against the 1,000 U. N.
troops and civilian employes. But
Tshombe issued no orders to his
people to that effect, and many
still observed the boycott.
Water and electric power,
switched off for two days, have
been returned to most U. N. es
tablishments.
Telephones have been connect
ed again in the U. N. headquar
ters.
But shops and restaurants are
still refusing to sell to U. N.
troops and they still are not ad
mitted to any hotels.
MOLLY OF "FIBBER McGEE
AND MOLLY" DIES OF CANCER
ENCINO, Calif, {fft — Marian
Jordan, the wry-voice Molly of the
long-runner “Fibber McGee and
Molly” radio show, died of can
cer today. She would have been
63 April 16.
The comedienne died at her
home this morning with her hus
band and costar, Jim Jordan, at
her bedside, as well as their two
children, Jim Jr., and Mrs. Kath
ryn Newcomer.
The family said that Mrs. Jor
dan was discovered to have an
overian tumor a year ago. In re
cent years the Jordans had been
semi-retired, making only a few
appearances on the NBC radio
show, Monitor.
Fanfani io Visit Kennedy
WASHINGTON UP)—1The White
House announced today that Ital
ian Prime Minister Fanfani will
visit President Kennedy June 12
and 13 for a “general exchange
of views on world problems.”
Fast, Modern Cargo
Fleet Proposed
For Alaska Trade
SEATTLE — A construction
subsidy to build a fast, modern,
efficien ocean cargo fleet for the
Alaska trade was proposed by
Sen. Warren Magnuson, (D-Wn.i,
Thursday.
Magnuson, who heads the Sen
ate Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce, also would
give consideration to an operat
ing subsidy for the Alaska fleet,
he told a news conference.
“Operating costs keep going
higher, and the steamships require
higher rates,” he said. The rates
already are almost prohibitive to
people in Alaska and in Hawaii
and Puerto Rico.”
D. E. Skinner, president of the
Alaska Steamship Co., who has
long opposed the principle of fed
eral subsidies, said:
“We would be willing to study
any proposal for subsidies. We’d
be glad to sit down with any gov
erncent agency and discuss what
would be the result of a construc
tive or operating subsidy. Up to
now it seems that everybody’s
subsidized in transportation do
mestically except the water car
riers.”
Skinner also said there is no
assurance that cargo rate increases
might not be required despite
federal construction subsidies.
Without federal aid, he said,
Alaska Steam has built up a fleet
of 14 freighters, none more than
19 years old.
At a luncheon before the press
conference, Skinner protested such
activities as the Alaska Native
Service operation of the freighter
I North Star and Alaska’s subsi
! dization of a ferry service. He
said such activities might lead to
| the demise of ocean transporta
I tion lines.
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ALASKA UNEMPLOYMENT
TAKES ANOTHER DROP
JUNEAU UP — The State De
partment of Labor said yesterday
that Alaska’s insured unemploy
ment rate took another drop last
week, to 19.1 per cent of the
average 31,209 workmen covered.
Labor'Commissioner Gil John
son said the rate was 1.4 per
cent under the rate for the previ
ous week, but still higher than
the 16.2 per cent rate for the
same week a year ago.
New unemployment claims
dropped to 347, with 59 persons
exhausting their unemployment
benefits.
Teen-Age Boy Killed
In Traffic Accident
Buried as “Unknown”
CENTREVILLE, Ala. UP — An
unidentified teen-age boy, killed
in a traffic accident March 27, was
buried Thursday. His grave mark
er says simply: “Unkonwn.”
The boy, believed to be 13 or
14 years old, had hitched a ride
in a car which crashed into the
Cahaba River. The driver swam
to safety.
Coroner Jack Lee said residents
of this Alabama community raised
money to pay for a grave marker.
It will contain the boy’s photo
graph in hopes that some day he
will be identified.
Investigators said the boy told
persons with whom he had ridden
that he was hitchiking from the
Carolinas to California to go into
the service.
B.>2 Jet Bomber
Shot Down With
Sidewinder Miss ile
GRANTS, N. M. l/R — A New
Mexico National Guard F100 to
day accidentally shot down a huge
B52 jet bomber with a Sidewind
er missile while on a training
flight in west central New
Mexico.
The Public Information Office
at Kirtland Air Force Base, Al
buquerque, confirmed that the
eight-engine bomber was shot
down accidentally by an F100 jet
fighter from the 188th Fighter
Squadron of the New Mexico Air
National Guard.
The Air Force statement said
“the F100 was on an authorized
intercept mission.”
It made five passes at the B52
and then loosed the Sidewinder
missile on the sixth pass, down
ing the bomber.
An Air Force spokesman said
the two aircraft were working
together as a team on practice
maneuvers.
“Something happened,” was the
terse comment.- There was no ela
boration.
In Washington, Air Force head
quarters said that eight men were
aboard the bomber. It said the
plane was at 35,000 feet when hit
by the missile.
The Sidewinder is a heat-seek
ing guided missile which steers
itself toward a target, using in
fra-red radiation from an aircraft
engine as its point of guidance.
The Air Force did not release
the name of the pilot of the FI 00.
Early this afternoon, searchers
in the San Mateo area north of
Grants said they had not yet pin
pointed the site of the crash.
A standard B52 is powered by
eight Pratt and Whitney J57
turbojet engines and has a wing
span of 185 feet and length of
156 feet.
The 200-ton plane is capable
of operating above 50,000 feet at
speeds about 650 miles an hour
and is a long-range global bomber.
The “Stratofortress” is valued at
about $8 million.
DCS Flys From Tokyo to
Anchorage in 5 hrs.42 min.
ANCHORAGE tP — Northwest
Orient Airlines claimed today
that one of its DC8 jetliners flew
from Tokyo to Anchorage yester
day in the record time of five
hours and 42 minutes.
“We believe that’s an all-time
record for any type of commercial
aircraft on that route,” said Clayt
Schule, district operations mana
ger here for the airline.
The timing of the flight began
when the plane lifted off the run
way at Haneda airport and
ended when it settled onto Inter
national Airport here yesterday.
The previous record for the
Pacific hop, five hours and 57
minutes, was set several months
ago. “We established that too,”
said Schule.
He attributed the record flight
to good tailwinds.
Canada Comes Up With
$3,780,000 For United Nations
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. W —
Canada has come to the rescue
of the hard-pressed United Na
tions with a contribution of rough
ly $3,780,000. The payment yes
terday cleans up the Canadian
debt for the U. N.’s regular 1961
budget.