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VOL. LIX No. 139 , NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1957 Per Copy—15*
Public Invited to
Statehood Report
Tonight at School
First-Hand Report
By ‘Sen.’ Gruening
Tonight Nome residents are
to get a first-hand report on state
hood from Alaska-Tennessee Plan
“Senator” Ernest Gruening who
arrived at noon today.
The public meeting, sponsored
by the Nome Chamber of Com
merce, will be held in the multi
purpose room of the school by
way of the south entrance.
All three members of the un
official Alaska congressional del
egation who have been in Wash
ington, D.C., since their election
are covering the territory, ac
quainting the people with the
progress on statehood.
Similar meetings are being held
in other parts of the territory by
Sen.” Egan and “Rep.” Ralph
Rivers.
The meeting is noni-political
and Mayor Steffen Andersen will
be in charge.
Gruening will leave Saturday
•for Fairbanks, where he is sched
uled to be honored by a reception
at the Elks Club on Sunday and
speak at the regular Chamber
meeting on Tuesday in Fairbanks.
Members of Boy Scout Troop
666 who were guests of former
Alaska Gov. Gruening in Wash
ington, D.C., last summer look
forward to greeting him in Nome.
High Winds Blow Over
Cordova Radio Tower
CORDOVA, W—High winds
which buffeted this town at the
northeastern arc of the Gulf of
Alaska knocked over the 150-foot
tower of Radio Station KLAM
late Wednesday.
The winds, exceeding 85 miles
an hour, also caused one home to
slide off its foundation, falling
about four feet. No one was in
jured in either mishap.
Adlai Stevenson Now on U.S. Payroll
As Foreign Policy Consultant
WASHINGTON, UP)—1Tpe State
Department belatedly disclosed
yesterday that Adlai Stevenson
was sworn in Wednesday mor
ning as a foreign policy consult
ant on the federal payroll.
The rate is about $50 a day on
days the Democratic leader works
for the Republican administra
tion.
When Stevenson arrived here
to begin talks with Secretary of
State Dulles on U.S. planning for
next month’s NATO summit meet
ing, he was described by State
Department officials as being
non-titled and non-paid.
In a speech in Chicago Wednes
day night, however, Dulles said
Stevenson would be on the gov
ernment payroll “for a long, long
time,” and went on to explain
that a top-level consultant—such
as Dulles himself was under the
Democratic Truman Administra
tion—draws about $50 a day.
Stevenson came to Chicago with
Dulles. He told reporters he will
do all he can to help in his post.
However, Stevenson added he
was “certainly not” a member of
President Eisenhower’s team. He
said he has not been asked to
attend next month’s big NATO
meeting in Paris with Eisenhow
er and Dulles.
“There won’t be a decision on
that until later,” he said!
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Mike Stepovich Visits
Mother in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore., UB—Mike
Stepovich, Alaska governor, ar
rived in Portland from Washing
ton, D.C., last night for a short
visit with his mother, Mrs. Olga
Fabianich.
In an airport interview, Stepo
vich praised Seaton for his prompt
ness in naming a solicitor for
Alaska. Previously the solicitor
for the northwest states has han
dled territorial business.
The new solicitor is Christian
Rogers of Washington, D.C.
Cost of Living
Leveling Off
WASHINGTON, UP)—1The cost
of living held steady in October.
It was the first time in 14 months
the government measure of con
sumer prices has not risen.
A slight drop in food prices was
enough to keep the price index at
the same level as in September—
121.1. This was 2.9 percent higher
than a year ago.
The October index bore out, at
least for the time, Labor Secretary
Mitchell’s forecast yesterday that
the cost of living has leveled off.
Mitchell said the development re
flected the “end of so-called in
flationary spirals.”
Clague said new cars going into
dealer showrooms this month at
higher prices may produce a tem
porary rise in the living cost in
dex for November. But by Jan
uary, he said, post holiday clear
ance sales and the start of dis
counts in auto prices may bring a
decrease.
FEMALE DELAYS MAILS
COVENTRY, England UH—Post
woman Joan'Feeney explained in
court she had 270 undelivered
letters in her home because look
ing after her three children dur
ing duty hours delayed her in her
rounds.
Mrs. Feeney, 35’, was fined five
pounds ($14) yesterday for wil
fully delaying the mails.
States Plagued by
Snow, Cold, Wind
(By The Associated Press)
Wintry cold chilled much of the
nation today in the wake of wide
spread snow and wind storms.
Some places in the West had
the coldest weather of the season.
Fraser, Colo., recorded 37 below
zero.
Some sections of western New
York State shoveled snow that
ranged up to two feet in depth.
Classes were suspended in at least
20 school districts.
Snow piled up nearly, a foot in
Las Vegas as snow continued in
the Texas panhandle and thru
most of New Mexico.
Desert winds of hurricane force
lashed areas in southern Califor
nia yesterday, causing extensive
damage. Travel was halted as tor
rents of sand swept across many
highways. Winds fanned a de
structive fire in the Angeles Na
tional Forest.
It was mild and sunny in Los
Angeles.
New Era of
Alaska Progress
Seen in Move
FAIRBANKS, MV-Action by
Secretary of the Interior Seaton
in opening up the oil and gas
fields north of Fairbanks “should
launch Va new era of progress for
the territory,” the Fairbanks Daily
News-Miner said in a front page
editorial Wednesday.
Noting that nearly one-half of
the land area of Alaska lies north
of Fairbanks, the News-Miner
saw the action as one opening for
development of “the vast un
tapped north-of-the-Yukon coun
try.”
The editorial said, “If we know
Alaskans, it will not be long be
fore they are pushing the frontier
of settlement to and beyond the
Brooks Range.
“We have a feeling that even
most Alaskans failed to grasp the
fact we are in the midst of one of
the great development movements
in American history. Alaska today
is a supremely important and
eventful place.”
Rock ’ii’ Roll Replacing
Zulu Tunes in Africa—
Anyone Surprised?
NEW YORK, \ff>—Rock ’n’ roll
is taking over in South Africa,
according to a Zulu disc jockey.
King Edward Masinga, 41, who
conducts a daily Zulu language
program in Durban, is in the U.S.
on a special State Department
grant to study American drama
and broadcasting.
Masinga said Wednesday his
program in Durban features the
old folk music, but that it is losing
out to rock ’n’ roll. Even the na
tives in the back country, he said,
buy rock ’n’ roll records when
they come to town.
Shippers Protest Alaska Steam’s
Proposed Rate Boost Is Excessive
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, [fff—A trio of
heavy States-Alaska shippers be
lieves Alaska Steamship Co. is
entitled to some freight rate in
crease “but nothing approximat
ing the 15 percent they seek.”
The view was contained in a
brief filed with the Federal Mari
Wofk to Start
Next Year on
Big ICBM Site
WASHINGTON WV-The Penta
gon appeared today to have pin
pointed the first major launching
site for the developing American
intercontinental ballistic missile.
The surprise announcement last
night that work will start by mid
1958 on a multi-million-dollar
missile site near Cheyenne, Wyo.,
capped the developments in the
Expedited drive to obtain and tell
about American progress in new
weapons in the wake of Russia’s
Sputnik launchings:
1. Military experts convinced
Chairman Mahon of the House
Defense Appropriations subcom
mittee that the U.S. has pro
gressed to the point where it is
high time to start producing
shooting hardware of the inter
mediate ballistic missile variety.
Mahon, who a day earlier had
said we are “seriously behind”
the Russians, commented: “I look
for production orders, very soon.”
2. Secretary of Defense McEl
roy stepped up his search for a
tough-minded manager to take
full charge of such future space
warfare weapons as the anti-bil
listic-missile missile over which
the Army and Air Force are bick
ering.
No ICBMs are yet available for
use, but the Air Force has two
types under development. Its At
las 5,000-mile missile is at the
testing stage. Another named Ti
tan is somewhat less advanced.
Inter-Service Rivalry Held Partly
Responsible for U.S. Missile Lag;
WASHINGTON, 13*—Rep. Ma
hon (D-Tex), who contends the
United States is “seriously be
hind” Russia in long-range mis
sile development, said yesterday
that inter-service rivalry is partly
responsible.
“One of our stumbling blocks is
and has been .interservice rival
ry,” Mahon said in an interview
as his House Appropriations sub
committee moved deeper into an
inquiry on the status of the U.S.
missiles program.
“There should be cooperation
and the ‘opposition’ should be the
Soviet Union,” he added.
Meanwhile, a related program
—development of nuclear power
to propel planes and missiles—
was put under one-office direc
tion.
The Defense Department and
the Atomic Energy Commission
announced the creation of an in-;
tegrated project office to handle
the nuclear power work.
Air Force Maj. Gen. D. J. Keim
heads the operation, with a staff
of specialists from the Air Force,'
Navy and Atomic Energy Com
mission. Keirn continues as Air
Force deputy chief of staff for de
velopment of nuclear systems and
as chief of the aircraft reactors
branch of the AEC, with greater
management authority.
The special nuclear power proj
ect is not an immediate concern
of the congressional study.
time Bogrd by Seattle attorney
Fred H. Tolan on behalf of the
Assn, of Pacific Fisheries, Asso
ciated Grocers Co-Op and the
Northwest Fish Traffic Commit
tee.
Today is the technical deadline
for filing of protests with the
board against the 15 percent in
crease asked by Alaska Steamship ■
and the Coastwise Lines on freight
shipments between the States and
Alaska. Unless suspended by the
board, the increase will go into
effect Dec. 2.
While conceding that Alaska
Steamship should have some in
crease, smaller than that now
sought, the joint petition of the
three organizations said Coastwise
has “made no justification or ex
planation of any kind” for a rate
boost.
The joint petition cited the
wintertime lull in shipping to
Alaska and urged the board to
suspend the proposed increases
pending an investigation and a
hearing.
“Any justified increase,” it said,
“could be established before the
main movement starts in March.”
Tolan said conferences with
Alaska Steamship “indicate the
prime basis for this case is not the
‘dollar need’ but an attempt to
adopt a rate base formula pre
scribed for Hawaiian steamship
companies to the Alaskan trade.”
This formula, known as the
“cost of reproduction theory,”
would increase actual book value
of the company about 100 percent,
the attorney general- said, and in
flate the rate base about six or
seven million dollars.
Asserting that Alaska Steam
ship’s fleet has been acquired in
recent years and is in excellent
condition, he declared:
“It is unrealistic and unfair
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