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VOL. LX No. 34 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1958 _Per Copy—15?
President Calls For Speedup In
Spending Anti-Recession Money
WASHINGTON, OP)— President'
Eisenhower today called for an
anti - recession speed-up in the
spending of 2V4 billion dollars in
federal, state and local funds for
construction and rural electrifica
tion projects.
The President set forth the
program in letters to Albert M.
Cole, chief of the Housing and
Home Finance agency, and Secre
tary of Agriculture Benson.
The plan calls for faster spend
ing of $1,248,000,000 in federal
money and $1,007,000,000 in state,
local and private money.
In advance of the White House
announcement Sen. Byrd (D-Va)
joined Republicans in stiffening
opposition to immediate tax cuts
or “make work” spending.
At the same time some GOP
Congress members were saying
the recession already is leveling
off.
Byrd, who heads the Senate
Finance Committee, said in a pre
pared Senate speech the govern
ment is headed toward a 15 bil
lion dollar deficit if Congress cuts |
taxes. He said any large scale'
red ink spending for pump prim- j
ing will “add fuel to the infla- j
tion fire” and further cut the'
value of the dollar.
Even in February, he said, in- I
flation cut the buying power of a
dollar by one-third of a cent—
an annual rate of four cents.
Sen. Dirksen of Illinois, the
assistant Senate Republican lead
er, said in an interview it is ex
actly that threat of inflation
which is delaying a decision by
President Eisenhower and his ad
visers on possible tax cuts.
In his letters to Cole and Ben
son, Eisenhower “directed” both*
officials to carry out the pro
grams Ije set forth.
Armed Force Pay Bill
Would Reward Proficiency
WASHINGTON, UP) — A House
Armed Service subcommittee ap
proved a 'bill yesterday to raise
the pay of practically all career
servicemen and reward proficien^
cy in military skills.
The cost would be 662 million
dollars in the year beginning July
1. But advocates contend the
armed services would be able to
make considerable savings by
halting the exodus of skilled men
who received expensive training.
Air Force To Take
Over White Alice
System March 26
ANCHORAGE — The White
Alice communications system will
be officially accepted and, dedi
cated by the Air Force at a cere
mony at 11 a.m. March 26 at the
Talkeetna Theater on Elmendorf.
The Air Force announced that
the completed $140,000,000 sys
tem will be turned over on that
day to the military by Western
Electric, which built the 33 sta
tions scattered throughout the
territory.
The sites will be maintained
by the Federal Electric Co.
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Half a Million Russians
Invalidated Their Ballots
In Sunday’s Elections
MOSCOW, UPt—More than half
a million Russians voted against
at least one Community Party
candidate in Sunday’s parliamen
tary elections, but it didn’t af
fect any seats.
The central elections commis
sion reported in final returns that
580,641 persons invalidated their
ballots by crossing out the names
of party - picked candidates for
the Council of Union, one of the
two houses of parliament. In vot
ing for the Council of National
ities, 363,736 ballots were de
clared invalid.
There was no indication how
how many voters struck out
names of candidates for both
houses. With 133,796,091 citizens
each voting for both houses, the
votes against the party candi- j
dates totaled about one-third of
1 per cent of all votes.
The official figures on the per
centage of eligible voters who
turned out and of the winning
votes for various party candidates
differed only by fractions be
tween 99 and 100 per cent. Under
the circumstances, however, even
a fraction can be a significant re
flection of sentiment.
The Navy Now Has
A “Flying Saucer”—A
New Electronic Device
SOUTH WEYMOUTH, Mass.,
tP> —The Navy publicly unveils
today a “flying saucer”—its new
est air defense patrol device.
Termed the “strangest shape in
the sky,” the discus-shaped sau
cer rides piggy-back on a huge
radar research plane and is a sky
sentinel that can detect and ward
of enemy attack over vast dis
tances.
The radar flying saucer — the
name the Navy gave it—is ex
pected to bolster greatly the peri
meter of America’s air defense.
The saucer is a 37-foot-wide
radome which rotates during
flight and is carried by a huge
aircraft known as WV-2E, re
sembling a Super Constellation
airliner. The plane was built by
Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
The disc is in effect a super
vision electronic eye that can re
port on objects in the sky from
sea level to 100,000 feet altitudes.
Small Plane Makes Forced
Landing On L.A. Freeway
LOS ANGELES, (#—Freeways
are crowded enough without air
planes using them but a private
craft did just that.
Roger Long, 21, of La Puenta
brought a rented single engine
plane down on the San Bernard
ino Freeway last night when it
ran out of gas.
Motorists got out of the way
and Long taxied the plane onto
an adjacent dirt strip.
The Highway Patrol said the
owner of the plane can apply for
a permit to fly it off the freeway.
U.S. Satellites In
Outnumber
Russian Sputniks
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., on—
Two — actually three — made-in
the U.S. moons whizzed around
the earth today in company with
the sole surviving but already
doomed Soviet Sputnik satellite.
And the United States contin-'
ued to press on with programs to
launch additional space craft.
With Sputnik II given less than
a month of remaining life, Russia
for the first time since Sputnik
I camp into being Oct. 4 was at
a numerical disadvantage in the
international space flight com
petition.
The Navy Vanguard satellite
was launched early Monday into
an orbit that pushed new front
iers out into the unknown.
The Vanguard orbiter repre
sented not one but two satellites.
Its true artificial moon was a
shiny aluminum sphere only 6.4
inches in diameter and weighing
3V4 pounds.
Somewhere close behind it in
an 18,000-mile an hour orbit hun
dreds of miles out from the earth
was the 50-pound, 5-foot-long,
20 inches wide third stage rocket
that pushed Vanguard to orbital
speed.
The Navy estimated that the
sphere would stay in orbit 5 to
10 years. The dead rocket in its
wake will have a much shorter
ride.
Some officials of Martin Co.,
which built the Vanguard test
rockets, suggested that the orbit
peak may be considerably above
the 2,500 miles officially accorded
it, possibly 3,000 miles or higher.
Dr. Milton Rosen, technical
director of the Vanguard project
for the Naval Research Labora
tory said the exact altitude at
tained by the new satellite would
not be ascertained until tele
metry data and other information
received from the sphere had
been analyzed.
Keel Laid For New
“Surveyor” To Be
Ready Spring 1959
SEATTLE, UP)—'The keel of the
new six-million-dollar Coast and
Geodetic. Survey ship Surveyor
will be laid Saturday in San
Diego. The 292-foot ship is sched
uled for completion in time to
reach Seattle for Alaska service
by spring of 1959.
The Surveyor has been design
ed for operations in such remote
areas as the Aleutian Islands and
Bering Sea.
Her hull will be reinforced for
navigation in ice. She will be a
two - masted, single - screw, steel
ship, with a length of 292 feet,
beam of 46 feet and light dis
placement of 2,070 tons. Her
steam-turbine engine will deliver
3,500 horsepower. She will cruise
at 15 knots and have a cruising
range of 10,500 knots, with a 30
per cent reserve of fuel.
The vessel will replace a fam
ous Coast and Geodetic Survey
vessel of the same name which
wass retired in 1955 after 40 years
in service.
Rep. Pelly of Washington Against
Statehood if it Fails to Safeguard
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Rights Non-Resident Fishermen
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Communication Lines
And Road Signs Are
Damaged By Gunfire
In recent months the CAA has
reported that several communica
tion wires have been damaged by
gunfire. It seems likely that most
of the damage was done by shoot
ers who were aiming at birds sit
ting on the wires.
District Attorney Russell Her
mann has said the persons caus
ing such damage can be made to
pay the costs of repairs, whether
the damage was wilful or not.
Sometimes the cost of repairs is
very high, more than a thousand
dollars as it is often necessary to
bring in a crew of cable splicers
and the special equpiment used
to make the repairs.
Considerable damage has also
been done to road-side signs and.
trail and bridge markers. U.S.
Atty. Hermann also advises that
wilful damage to signs, signposts,
markers and communications
wires or poles is punishable by a
very heavy fine in addition to the
costs of repairs and replacements.
The Nome Rotary Club is now
planning on erecting geographical
markers on all the roads out of
Nome. All of the rivers, streams,
and points of historical interest
will have roadside signs, and it is
hoped that the public will appre
ciate this project and hunters will
reffain from damaging them.
Air Force Says Cannon
Shells Came From B-47
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis., UP)
—The Air Force has shouldered
the blame for 20 millimeter can
non projectiles that hammered
into three homes and fell on vil
lage streets Monday night. There
were no injuries.
After flying here for an inspec
tion from Westover Air Force
Base, Mass., Brig. Gen. Don W.
Saunders said in a statement:
“All evidence so far indicates
that the shells were fired by a
B-47 bomber out of Lockboume
Air Force Base, Ohio. Apparently,
for some unknown reason, some
rounds left the guns after the
plane flew in from the Lake
Michigan firing range.”
Capt. E. J. Walsh, Air Force
public relations officer, said that
the three-man crew of the jet
bomber “had no knowledge that
the tail cannon was fired after
leaving the range area.”
Debutante Will Wear Black Eye
At Buckingham Presentation
LONDON, UPl — British debu
tante Rosalie Barnett will be pre
sented to Queen Elizabeth II on
Thursday with a black eye.
Rosalie, 17 and pretty even
with a black eye, acquired the
shiner in an auto accident.
She decided to go through with
the Buckingham Palace engage
ment anyway because after this
year the annual presentations at
the palace are being abolished.
> WASHINGTON, UP)—Rep. Pelly
(R-Wash) says he will vote ag
ainst any bill to grant statehood
to Alaska which fails to safe
guard rights of non-resident fish
ermen. .
“I want to serve notice here
and now,” he said, “that my vote
is not going to be cast for state
hood at the price of sacrificing
the rights of American citizens in
my congressional district to equal
opportunity in Alaska along with
those who live there.”
“Only the action of the federal
court in deciding against terri
torial tax discrimination in the
past has prevented the local Al
aska interests from destroying
their competition and invalidat
ing rights long established,” he
said.
He then referred to Senate Bill
30 passed by the 1&57 Territorial
Legislature creating the Alaska
Fish and Game Commission,
which he said “is under the per
manent and mandatory control of
Alaska commercial fishing in
terests.”
Under this agency, which would
take over fisheries control after
statehood, Pelly said “You can be
sure the way is finally open so
that by regulation and various
devices at long last non-resident
fishermen will be excluded from
Alaska.”
The Seattle congressman said
he plans to go before the House
Rules Committee in its consider
ation of the Alaska bill and ask
that it be sent to the House floor
under procedures which would
permit amendment.
Prison ei “Has a
Ball’’ when Deputy
Sheriff is Stricken
BOZEMAN, Mont., MV—For 14
hours Tony Tarowski, 26, had a
great time as a deputy sheriff.
He wore a badge, 'a deputy’s
jacket and gun. And everybody
turned and looked when he roar
ed a sheriff’s car through down
town streets, its siren blowing and
red light flashing.
But policemen stopped him for
“improper use of an emergency
vehicle.” That led to Tarnowski’s
unmasking as a prisoner—no of
ficer at all.
Sheriff Donald J. Skerritt said
yesterday Tarnowski first climb
ed into the patrol car in St_
Cloud, Minn., for a ride to Mount
Vernon, Wash., to face bad check
charges. His escort, Deputy Sher
iff Glen Whittaker, suffered an
apparent cerebral hemorrhage
nearing Bozeman Sunday.
Skerritt said Whittaker, his
speech badly impaired, watched
helplessly as Tarnowski checked
them into a motel that night and
called for a doctor Monday noon.
The prisoner then identified
himself as a deputy, Skerritt said,
and “had himself a ball” until
the policeman stopped his car
yesterday morning.