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VOL. LXII No. 44 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL U, 1960 Per Copy 15<i
Chester Topkok !
Wins Nome Dog
Derby In 3:25.14
Chester Topkok of Teller, with
a total elapsed time of 3 hours, 25
minutes and 14 seconds, is the
winner of the 1960 Arctic Club
Dog Derby, with perfect racing
conditions prevailing throughout
the two-day race. Topkok collected
a'total of $1,050 in prize money.
Trail conditions never were bet
ter, stated the racers, and the
sponsors had arranged check
points at four places along the
trail so that there was a continu
ous report on the progress of the
race on both days.
Front Street had a man-made
snow course, as all snow had been
removed from the pavement. The
race headed east on Front Street,
out Steadman over a 25-mile
course from Gold Hill, and across
to Dexter and back toy way of
Steadman to the starting line.
The roads were open to Dexter
Divide and the top of Anvil,
where many cars enjoyed watch
ing the progress of the teams.
Conrad Potter kept the crowd
informed as to the progress of the
race and other events by speaker
system from the N. C. Store.
Time keepers were Pete Reader
and Bob Lewis; Judge was Carl
Glavinovioh; Trail — Barrow
Morgan, Roy Walker, Dan Walsh,
John Stolpe. Children’s Race —
Maurice Kelliher.
Winners’ Prizes and Total
Elapsed Time:
Chester Topkok, $1,050 .3:25.14
Willbur Sampson, $750 .3:26.20
Eddie Gallahorn, $550 .3:26.30
Isaac Okleasik, $100 .3:33.58
Dave Walluk, $50 .3:55.42
Willie Takak .3:58
Eddie Keelik .4:03.09
Nathan Nagaruk .4:03.15
Paul Tocktoo .4:06.12
Fred Okleasik .4:12.43
Ed Punguk .4:13.13
A colorful and interesting pro
gram book was prepared toy Jim
Blanning and Ash Craft, and sup
ported and financed by the mer
chants of Nome. It contains a
complete history of dog racing in
this area from the time it started
in 1908 under the auspices of the
Nome Kennel Club, and from
which, dog racing has developed in
other parts of the world. These are
still available, and on sale at the
Nome Drug Store and Polet’s.
Awards were made at {he Mush
er’s. Banquet last evening, to the
race winners.
(Continued on Page Threel
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS
SEATTLE AREA
SEATTLE, iff) — An earthquake
of 2V4 minutes duration shook
buildings and swayed light fix
tures in the Seattle area Sunday
night. There were no reports of
damage. Dr. Frank Neumann, Uni
versity of Washington seismolo
gist, said the tremor registered a
low 5 on the Mercalli earthquake
scale of 12.
Sport Jumper Killed When
Parachute Failed to Function
Stormville, N. Y., tff) — Sports
parachutist George Sarris, 27,
leaped from a plane Sunday night
for a 4,000-foot practice jump. The
’chute didn’t open until 100 feet off
the ground and Sarris, a New
York City resident, was killed.
U-W Boxer Suffers Brain
Injury During Bout
MADISON, Wis., UP) — Charlie
Mohr, 22, University of Wisconsin
boxer remained in critical condi
tion today following surgery for
a brain hemorrhage suffered in a
collegiate championship 'boxing
bout.
Mohr, of Merrick, N. Y., was J
rushed to a hospital Saturday j
night after his 165-Lb. bout with !
Stu Bartell of San Jose State in a
National Collegiate Association
tournament.
The fight was stopped in the
second after Mohr took a hammer
blow beating from Bartell. One
tremendous right to the head
lifted Mohr off his feet and
dropped him on his back.
Mohr was up at the count of
two and took a mandatory nine
count. However, after throwing
two strong punches he appeared
too dazed to offer any defense to
Bartell’s attack and fell against
the ropes. He left the ring under
his own power but collapsed 10
minutes later.
PERPETUAL MOTION . . .
TOKYO, OP) — Peiping Radio
said today a Red Chinese telephone
maintenance man has solved the
problem of pedaling a bicycle
against a strong wind. Yang Hsiu
Feng attaohed a small rotary fan
to the handlebars and linked it
by chain to the axle, the broad
cast explained. The stronger the
wind blows, the faster Yang’s bike
goes. The radio said he can av
erage 11 mph. in fhe teeth of a
gale.
Michigan Congressman Offers
Law Forbidding Discrimination
Against Oldsters on The Job
WASHINGTON, UP) — A propo
sal to make it unlawful for an
employer or a union to discrimi
nate against a worker because of
age was advanced today by Rep.
John Dingell (D-Mich).
Dingell’s bill would amend the
labor law to make it illegal to
discriminate against a job seeker
because of age “when the reason
able demands of the position do
not require such an age dis
tinction.”
Beverly’s Newest
Flame Burns Out
In Calif. Suicide
HOLLYWOOD, UP! — Death
ended the story of William (Billy
the Kid) Stanciu, latest boy
friend in the tempestuous life of
Beverly Aadland, the day he be
came 21.
Miss Aadland, the late Errol
Flynn’s last flame, herself nar
rowly escaped death, when the
muscular would-be actor fired a
fatal bullet into his head, she said.
She told police Stanciu forced
his way into her apartment Sat
urday, raped her at gunpoint,
threatened to kill her, then
sobbed, “I love you too much. I
can’t kill you.” — and shot him
self. He died Sunday in a hosital
prison ward.
Stanciu had been booked on
suspicion of rape. Police listed his
death as suicide and have no im
mediate plans for an inquest. An
autopsy is pending.
Beverly, 17, said he asked her
to marry him and she refused,
j “He told me that I had ruined
! his life — that he loved me, but
I didn’t love him, and he was
; going to kill me,” she said.
I “That’s a pack of lies,” asserted
Stanciu’s brother, Kenneth, 22,
another aspiring actor. “Beverly
! asked Billy to marry her a few
weeks ago.”
He asked, “Why would Billy
want to rape her? He and Beverly
have been going together every
night for six weeks. Everybody in
town knows that.”
He said he was certain his
i brother wouldn’t kill himself —
i “He wasn’t that kind of guy. He
had everything to live for.”
The dead man, son of Ro
manian immigrants, had a juven
ile arrest record. Police found him
lying nearly nude in Beverly’s
apartment.
Beverly, a slender platinum
blonde, was held in juvenile hall
under a law permitting detention
in cases where there is a lack of
adequate parental supervision. She
faces a hearing Wednesday to de
termine if she has such super
| vision.
►South African Premier Replacement
Will Stick to Verwoertl Racial Policies
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica, (/P>—Paul Oliver Sauer, chief
of the Nationalist Party in Parlia
ment, took over today as govern
ment leader in place of wounded
Prime Minister Hendrik F. Ver
vvoerd, Sauer promptly pledged
to carry on Verwoerd’s apartheid
policies.
Sauer, 62, is minister of lands
in the cabinet. He takes over the
helm as senior member of the
cabinet, but will not serve as act
ing Prime Minister.
Sauer told Parliament the gov
ernment will continue on its reg
ular program and Verwoerd’s
course, adding “The rest of the
cabinet will see that peace and
order are maintained.”
Even as Sauer spoke, South Af
rica’s white police and courts con
tinued to take sharp action to
quell racial strife and continuing
Negro work boycotts against white
supremacy laws.
Verwoerd continued to show
progress in a Pretoria hospital
from two head wounds inflicted
Saturday by a wealthy white
farmer. An anti-government news
paper suggested he may have
been injured more severely than
i bis doctors admit.
The Rand Daily Mail said the
two bullets “may have caused
damage which could impair his
speech, his sense of balance, his
hearing and possibly his mental
state for some time.”
A medical bulletin said Ver
woerd is still weak but making
progress.
Verwoerd’s assailant, David
Pratt, 52, had not appeared for
arraignment in Johannesburg ma
gistrate’s court by late afternoon.
Legal authorities were reported
to be debating what charges
should be brought.
Authorities in the midst of the
crisis pressed their crackdown on
Negro resistance to South Africa’s
segregation policy. f
There has been no indication
Pratt had any accomplices, but
detectives searohed several homes
in the Johannesburg area in con
nection with the shooting. One
friend said “Pratt hates National
ists, and Verwoerd is Nationalist
No. 1.”
Other friends of Pratt, a gentle
man farmer, said he had shown
no political leanings and described
him as “a nice, courteous and
very generous man.”
/
Honor and Valor Awards
Go to 21 Employes of
U. S. Interior Department
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Twenty
one present or former employes
of the Interior Department re
ceived honor awards today.
Nineteen of the awards are for
distinguished service, the highest
honor the Department confers on
its employes, and two are valor
awards for heroic action by em
ployes which involved the risk of :
their own lives.
One valor award went to Ray- !
mond H. Tremblay, game man
agement agent of the Bureau of
Sports Fisheries and Wildlife at
McGrath. He was cited for the
aerial rescue last June of a pros
pector who had not been heard
from in many weeks.
Tremblay spotted the man on
a river sandbar, made a delicate
landing with his plane though the
river was narrow, and pulled the
man aboard. Then he had to keep
the aircraft on the surface around
three bends of the river to gather
enough speed to fly.
British Newspapers Accuse
European Royalty of
Snubbing Meg’s Marriage
LONDON, OP — Some British
newspapers say European royalty
is boycotting Princess Margaret’s
wedding, and the papers don’t
like it.
The Daily Herald said so far
Queen Ingrid of Denmark had
sent the only royal acceptance. The
Danish court said King Frederik
IX had another engagement that
conflicted with the May 6 cere
mony.
“I come regretfully to the con
clusion that the royal houses of
Europe are boycotting Princess
Margaret for reasons other than
mere inconvenience, prior en
gagements or even protocol,” said
Herald columnist Henry Fielding.
Irked at rumors that Scandi
navia's royalty were not going to
the wedding because Margaret’s
fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones,
is a commoner, the London Daily
Exvress thundered: “The haughti
ness of the Scandinavians merely
arouses laughter. If they do not
come to the wedding, they will
not be missed.”
A spokesman for Norway’s royal
family called any suggestion of
a boycott “sheer nonsense.”
King Olav’s daughter, Princess
Ragnhild, is happily married to a
commoner — a Norwegian ship
owner.
Blue Angel Flying Team
Loses Member in Crash
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
(AP) — A Naval pilot and an air
man apprentice associated with
the famed Blue Angels died Sun
day in a jet plane crash.
The Pensacola Naval Air Sta
tion in Florida identified the vic
tims as Lt. William F. Sherwood,
27, of Wilmington, Del., the pilot,
and Airman Apprentice Roland
McKay, 20, Amarillo, Tex., a
mechanic.
Sherwood was public informa
tion officer for the Blue Angels.
The plane, an F9-F, suddenly
nosed downward, rammed against
a power pole and burst ino flames.
The pilot’s body was burned be
yond recognition in the cockpit. I
McKay’s body was thrown 2001
feet from the plane.
The Blue Angeles, an exhibition
flying team, had taken off a half
hour earlier in faster jets for San
Diego, Calif. ,
Flood Control,
Alaska Navigation
Put Up to Congress
WASHINGTON, UR — Alaska’s
Congressional delegation today ap
pealed to Congress for a step up
in appropriations ifor flood control
and navigation rojects in the 49th
State.
They said it would be a good
long range investment.
Rep. Ralph Rivers submitted
an itemized request for funds to
the House Public Works Appro
priations Subcommittee on behalf
of himself and Senators Bob Bart
lett and Ernest Gruening.
“As our last great frontier,
Alaska is underdeveloped,” Rivers
said in his statement. “So public
works in the form of navigation
projects, flood control, and hy
droelectric power production are
especially important.
“They are important as factors
in encouraging settlement and
utilization of Alaska’s vast re
sources, whioh in turn would
strengthen Alaska as the buf
fer between Asia and North
America.”
The Alaska delegation also
proposed a step up from $100,000
in the budget to $350,000 for gen
eral investigation of the Rampart
Canyon hydroelectric project.
This, they said, is considered the
outstanding potential power de
velopment in all Alaska with pros
pects of producing 3,520,000 kilo
watts to spur industrial develop
ment of the entire region.
Bartlett and Gruening pre
sented identical recommendations
[ to the Senate Public Works Ap
propriations Subcommittee.
Death Valley Prospectors
Feel Hot Breath of Strafing
From Unknown Jet Plane
DEATH VALLEY, Calif., UP) —
Two prospectors say a jet fighter
made a strafing run on their sta
tion wagon on a lonely desert road
in Death Valley.
Paul Nett, 60, and Milo Potter,
81, of Long Beach, Calif., said the
jet approached from behind, fly
ing low.
“We heard popping noises” said
Nett, “and we could see puffs of
dust rising in a long line on the
desert, about 100 yards away.”
The plane disappeared before
the men .could identify it. The in
cident occurred Wednesday, but
wasn’t reported until Sunday.
An Air Force official promised
an investigation, but said it ap
peared unlikely it was an Air
Force plane.
Emergency Lake Landing
Offers Unscheduled
Texas Sunday Attraction
EL PASO, Tex., UPI — Police
Sunday cleared Ascarate Lake
near here of boaters and water
skiers as a Navy P5-M seaplane
circled overhead and then made
an emergency landing.
Lt. M. T. Burke set the (flying
boat down on the 3,000-foot-long
lake after jettisoning almost the
entire fuel load. The seven crew
members, based at Norfolk, Va.,
were uninjured.
Hundreds of El Pasoans with
cameras and field glasses lined the
shore to view the landing.
Burke said the plane, en route
from San Diego to Pensacola, de
veloped engine trouble near Yu
ma, Ariz., but it didn’t get serious
until they were 50 to 60 miles out
of El Paso.