Two Nome Youths
Taking Part in Army’s
Exercise Moose Horn
BIG DELTA, Alaska, Feb. 15—
Pfc. Allan L. Johnson, 22, and
Pvt. Robert Dickson, 18, of Nome,
Alaska, are taking part in the
Army’s Exercise Moose Horn in
the Big Delta area, 165 miles from
the Arctic Circle.
During the four-week maneu
ver, several thousand troops will
receive practical training in tacti
cal operations and cross-country
movement under simulated com
bat conditions. Winter tempera
tures in the region drop to about
50 degrees below zero.
Also, two methods of arctic sup
ply, airdrop and giant oversnow
tractor sled-trains, are being com
pared.
Both men are regularly as
signed to the 71st Infantry Divi
sion's 4th Regiment.
Private First Class Johnson, a
gunner in Company B, is the son
of Albert Johnson of Nome: He
entered the Army in March 1954
and received basic training at
Ladd Air Force Base.
Private Dickson, son of Eli
Dickson, Nome, is a fireman in
Company K. He entered the Army
in February 1955 and completed
basic training at Fort Richardson.
Fiery Strip Teaser
Boots Policeman
Where It Hurts
SAN FRANCISCO, MP» — She
was only five feet tall, couldn’t
have weighed more than 112—but
fiery as she was, the judge re
minded her that a military police
man’s pants are not subject to
attack.
Strip - teaser Virginia Rosen
berg was arrested on charges of
drunk driving in San Francisco’s
Presidio — a federal offense.
Marine Cpl. Albert W. Schultz,
MP on duty, told U.S. Commis
sioner Joe Karesh that while in
scribing her name in the book
he “felt quite a jolt on the pos
terior.’’ Fellow MP*s echoed that
the stripper packed a hefty boot.
For Miss Rosenberg a $300 fine
and three months suspended jail
term.
GIRL BULLFIGHTER HURT
AGUASCALIENTIES, Mexico CP
—Patricia McCormick, the girl
bullfighter from Big Spring, Tex.,
fell on the horns of a young bull
yesterday, injuring her right
knee. It was her fifth professional
mishap.
Only 25 days ago a bull gored
Miss McCormick in the left thigh
at the same breeding farm where
she was practicing yesterday.
B-52s Grounded
Pending Probe of
Cause of Crash
SEATTLE tfi’i—Grounding of all
Air Force B-52 jet bombers pend
ing an investigation of the explo
sive destruction of one of them
was ordered Friday.
President Wjilliam M. Allen of
the Boeing Airplane Co., designer
and builder of the 600-mile-per
hour hydrogen bomber, described
the move as “a very wise meas
ure.”
Allen said- he believes Boeing
also will ground all B-52s built
but not yet delivered to the Air
Force.
The Strategic Air Command,
which ordered the grounding, de
scribed it as a “routine, precau
tionary measure” which will be
enforced during the investigation
of the first explosion and crash in
B-52 history near Tracy Calif.,
Friday. Four officers were killed
in the accident. Four other men
in the crew parachuted to safety.
Boeing sent seven of its highly
trained engineers to the plane’s
home field at Castle AFB in Cali
fornia to help in the effort to find
the cause of the explosion and .
crash. Air Force experts will try j
to reassemble as much of the
plane as possible from its burned
fragments.
A board of inquiry was assem- 1
bled at the scene where the $8!
million plane was shattered by i
several explosions while high in
the air. The major blast created
an orange fireball visible 75 miles
away and its concussion shattered
windows in 20 Tracy stores, 32,000
feet below the bomber.
One officer aboard the plane
said he was positive “we did not
hit anything and nothing struck
us.”
“There was an explosion when
we were over Sacramento,” the
officer continued. "I think it
knocked out the intercom system.
A few minutes later there was a
second explosion.”
Five From Wrecked
Ship Hilunga Found
Safe on Small Island
VANCOUVER, B. C., MV-Five
men who sailed from here Tues
day in the Canadian government
survey ship Hilunga returned
home yesterday leaving their ves
sel on the rocks off Aristazabel
Island, 400 miles to the north.
The crew was rescued by the
RCAF after spending 30 hours on
the tiny islet where the 82-foot
ship rammed aground during the
early hours of Thursday.
“I think she can be salvaged, if
they get to her in time,” said Capt.
Herbert Dale-Johnson, skipper of
the $125,000 craft.
The entire crew is from the
Vancouver area.
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Fisheries Director Says Territory
Would Have No Trouble Financing
Administration of Fish and Game
WASHINGTON (fl—A lask a’s«
fisheries director told Congress
Friday the territory would have
no trouble financing administra
tion of its fish and game resources
including the valuable commer
cial operations.
Clarence Anderson outlined pos
sible financing arrangements in
testifying before a House Terri
tories subcommittee on bills to
transfer jurisdiction from the fed
eral government.
He estimated the cost of the
program to Alaska at two million
dollars. All but some $380,000 of
this, he said, would come from
existing federal programs, license
sales, and that portion of Pribilof
Island seal fishery receipts which
pending bills would give to Alas
ka for the fish and game program.
The remainder, he said, would
be largely offset by territorial ap
propriations already made to his
department. He said these annual
ly amounted to about $370,000. i
Any additional money which
might be required could come
from tiie more than 2XA million
dollars which Alaska now receives
in taxes from the fishing industry, i
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he said.
Anderson said his agency gives
Alaska a nucleus to take over
control of its commercial fishery.
It has 25 employes, all but three
of which are technical personnel.
He opposed a proposed alterna
tive plan submitted by the De
partment of the Interior which
would give Alask'a immediate con
trol of its sports fish and game
but would reserve federal control
of the commercial fishery until
Alaska has proven its capabilities
in the field.
‘‘If they want to split it, they
should do it the other way,” he
said, noting that Alaska’s program
now is organized toward commer
cial fishing with no organization
to handle game control.
“This is the most unreasonable
split they could have proposed,”
he declared.
Two other Alaskan witnesses—
Miles Brandon, formerly of Nome
and later a Dillingham fisherman,
now attending school here, and
Harold Hansen, Cordova fisheries
union official—urged approval of
the transfer bill.
Russia's Intermediate Range Missile
Should Not Affect Balance of Power
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Only Editorial Staff
Of News-Miner Had
Opinions in Supplement
FAIRBANKS ,MV-C. W. (Bill)
Snedden, publisher of the Fair
banks Daily News-Miner, said to
day the special constitution sec
tion distributed all over Alaska
reflected only the opinions of his
editorial staff.
“Prior to publication, no dele
gate to the convention of member
of the Alaska Statehood Commit
tee had the slightest idea of what
this special section would be, oth
er than an understanding that it
would contain the full text of the
constitution,” Snedden said.
“Our special constitution sec
tion was a part of a regular edi
tion of the News-Miner. The
Statehood Committee contracted
to purchase 50,500 copies of this
section to distribute throughout
Alaska and the States. . . . We as
a newspaper reported the conven
tion and the constitution exactly
the way we saw it,” Snedden said.
He added that the News-Miner
has strong opinions on many mat
ters, but these opinions "are not
and never have been for sale.”
CHANCE UNITES 4 'ITAs'
DALLAS, tf)—Aleta, Lequita,
Vinita and Finita have been living
happily together. But soon Finita
is leaving for a job in Rhode Is
land.
The girls, Aleta Rice, Lequita
Byars, Vinita Chumley and Finita
Gilbirth, say it was just chance
that led them to share an apart
ment.
> WASHINGTON, (JPV—Secretary
of the Air Force Quarles says
Russian possession of an inter
mediate range, 1,500-mile missile
“should not materially affect the
balance of power” between the
East and West.
Quarles also called “highly mis
leading and highly damaging to
our whole position” statements
that ballistic missiles will be an
ultimate weapon against which
there can be no defense.
The air secretary made the
statements before a House Appro
priations subcommittee earlier
this month. The subcommittee re
leased parts of his testimony Sat
urday.
Quarles’ comments on the in
termediate range missile followed
up statements by some Democrat
ic members of Congress that the
Russians already had test-fired
such a weapon.
From another quarter, Mayor
John B. Haynes of Boston said
Friday night the Russians have
developed an atomic missile of
such force as to render obsolete
the United States’ civilian defense
setup.
Haynes said that an “extremely
grave” situation had been out
lined at a conference he attended
in Washington among mayors and
Pentagon leaders.
Anastas Mikoyan, the. Russians*
first deputy premier, told the 20th
Congress of the Soviet Commu
nist Party at Moscow in a speech
made public last night that his
country possesses atom and H
bombs as well as “the means of
bringing these bombs on planes
or rockets to any spot on the
j globe.”
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