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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS __
VOL. LVIII No. 20 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1956 Per Copy—154
Eight Million Dollar All-Jet B-52
Explodes in Flames, Killing Three
TRACY, Calif., W>—An all-jet
B-52 bomber exploded high over
northern California late yesterday
killing at least 3 of the 8 crewmen
aboard. It was the first crash of a
B-52, the Air Force’s new 8 mil
lion dollar intercontinental nu
clear weapon carrier.
Four men parachuted to safety.
Three bodied were recovered in
the widespread, burned wreckage.
Another airman was missing.
The big plane, based at nearby
Castle AFB, was on a training
flight to familiarize crewmen of
the earlier B-36 propeller - jet
- bombers with the newer and fast
er craft. .
“There was an explosion when
we were over Sacramento,” said
Maj. Harold F. Korger of At
water, Calif., one of the four sur
vivors. “It knocked out the inter
com system. A few minutes later
there was a second explosion. I
bailed out. We were at 32,000
feet.”
The B52, which has a wing
spread of 185 feet and eight huge
Pratt and Whitney turbojet en
gines, flew apart in three great
flaming sections after the second
explosion.
“I didn’t open my chute until I
had dropped quite a distance be
cause I had stripped off my hel
met and had no oxygen supply.”
Korger suffered burns and a
fractured arm.
The other three survivors para
rhuted to safety about 65 miles
southeast of San Francisco. Their
injuries were minor.
NANTUCKET WANTS TO KEEP
CHARMS OF 19th CENTURY
NANTUCKET, Mass., UP*— The
island of Nantucket, 30 miles out
in the Atlantic, wants no shiny
chrome or glass store fronts
among its weathered buildings.
The townspeople have appoint
ed two five-man commissions to
police building and renovations
with an eye toward preserving
Nantucket’s early 19 th century
charms.
Wolverine Have
Taken Over
Village of Council
Council was believed to have
been a deserted village this winter
until Peter Lee made a trip in to
check on his property, recently.
He reports that he found tracks
of wolverine everywhere and in
every house. He checked and
found wolverine in the homes of
David Henry, Charlie Strom. Ju
lian Tatpan, Jean Gaily, Mrs.
lone, Blackie Olson and Clyde
Glass.
Lee managed to kill three and
• had a narrow escape in one of the
cabins which was dark. A wolver
ine was crawling toward him and
was only four feet away when
Lee shot it just as it was about to
attack.
Peter Lee now makes his home
in White Mountain.
Arthur Trigg of Nome also re
ports he shot a wolverine on Safe
ty Lagoon not long ago.
Visitors Assn, to Release
New Folders on Alaska
For Wide Distribution
JUNEAU—The Alaska Visitors
Assn, is in gear for this year, the
wheels are turning and the “show
is on the road.” This is the result
of previous groundwork and ac
tion taken at the recent AVA
meeting in Fairbanks.
Frank H. Whaley, managing di
rector, is in Seattle this week ar
ranging for new Alaska folders,
checking over the copy for the
first travel agents manual on Al
aska, national travel publicity and
advertising scheduled for state
side magazines.
These manuals are to go to
about 2,000 travel agents and car
riers. Press information kits will
be sent to 350 newspaper travel
editors in the U.S.
Whaley’s immediate plans call
for visits to Kotzebue, Nome, An
chorage, Palmer, Valdez, Cordova,
Skagway, Sitka, and Ketchikan,
where he will put on slide and
movie shows to stimulate interest
in support of the Alaska travel
industry.
Deal Is Off to Ship
18 Training Tanks
To Saudi Arabia
(By the Associated Press)
The United States backed down
today on a deal to ship 18 training
tanks to Saudi Arabia, and France
announced suspension of all light
arms shipments to foreign buyers.
Middle East tension was a fac
tor in each case.
The British Foreign Office said
Britain will continue selling arms
in the Middle East. They go to
both Israel and Arab nations. But
informed officials in London said
Prime Minister Eden’s govern
ment may have to reconsider if
Washington and Paris prolong
their embargoes.
The U.S. State Department an
nounced shortly after midnight:
“All export permits of arms to
the Middle East are being tem
porarily suspended pending fur
ther examination.”
But the only pending permit
that Press Officer Lincoln White
could recall was that covering 18
Walker Bulldog tanks, 25-ton
trainers, awaiting shipment from
New York for Saudi Arabia, oil
wealthy member of the nine-na
tion Arab League.
In New York, 30 young Zionists
who had gathered outside a pier
gate in the early morning dark
ness to prbtest the shipment burst
into song and swung into a folk
dance, the “Horali*.”
The Israeli embassy in Wash
ington had termed an announce
ment yesterday that the tanks
were to be shipped to Saudi Ara
bia “utterly beyond our compre
hension.” The United States has
put off action on Israel’s request
for $50 million worth of American
arms, saying it wished to avoid an
arms race.
Edgar Eisenhower
Predicts His Brother
Will Seek Second Term
EL CENTRO, Calif. UPC-“Know
ing the Eisenhowers and the way
their minds work, I think Dwight
will run,” said Edgar Eisenhower,
predicting that his brother will
seek a second term.
“He has a job which isn’t fin
ished,” the Tacoma, Wash., attor
ney told newsmen yesterday.
“And he doesn’t like to leave any
thing unfinished.”
The President’s brother was
here for a banquet honoring Sec
retary of Agriculture Benson.
U.S. Army Private
Released From
Soviet Captivity
BERLIN, UP—U-S. Army Pvt.
Sidney Ray Sparks, 23, of Tenn
ville, Ga., was released from four
years of Russian captivity today
He was turned over to Army auth
orities in East Berlin.
Sparks had escaped with two
other privates Dec, 4, 1951, from
a West Berlin guardhouse. He was
being held to face charges of be
ing AWOL, stealing money, and
assaulting a German cab driver.
Three days after the escape,
East German Communist authori
ties said the trio had sought polit
ical asylum. But Austrian prison
ers returning from Russian labor
camps last June said they had
seen Sparks in a Soviet camp.
They said he told them the So
viets arrested him in Berlin in
1951.
The two men who escaped to
the east with Sparks were Ray B.
Schultz, of Batavia, N.Y., and
Charles J. Scott, Decatur, 111.
Schultz returned from East
Germany in June 1952. He was
court-martialled, given a dishon
orable discharge and sentenced to
five years in prison. Scott has not
been heard from since his flight.
House of Commons
Votes to Abolish
Death Penalty in Britain
LONDON, UP—The House of
Commons ordered Prime Minis
ter Eden’s government last night
to draft a bill abolishing the death
penalty in Britain.
Eden indicated he hoped the
deputies would change their mind
when voting time comes again.
The House voted 293-262 to di
rect the government to introduce
legislation removing capital pun
ishment from the statute books,
either permanently or for some
specified trial period to allow re
consideration.
Real Wolves In Italian
Movie Scare 'Reel' Thing
ROME, UP — An Italian movie
company imported four wolves
from Linz, Austria, and was ready
to depart for the Abruzzie Moun
tains and film a tale of actress
Silvano Mangano being snow
bound and threatened by wolves
there.
The trip was postponed. Ad
vance agents wired that the Ab
ruzzie was snowbound—and that
half-frozen wolves were a men
ace in the location orea.
Bartlett Opposes Proposal To Give
Alaska Control Over Only Game And
Sports Fishing In Lieu of FWS Control
WASHINGTON, UPt—A proposal
that Alaska be given control of
its game and sports fishing to
'prove its capabilities of adminis
tering valuable commercial fish
ing got only a lukewarm reception
today.
The proposal was advanced by
the Department of the Interior
yesterday as the House Territor
ies subcommittee began a hearing
on six bills to transfer control of
all Alaska’s fish and game re
sources to the territory.
Chairman O’Brien (D-NY>, who
introduced one of the six pending
bills, described the department’s
alternative as a “rather small,
halting step . . . which could be
another delaying tactic” in the
continuing fight to give Alaska
a hand in administering its own
resources.
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska»
said he considered it “very bad.”
He said he felt “the important
thing is to get the commercial
fisheries and if we take this al
I
ternative we’ll be told for another
five or ten year to wait and see
how it works out.’’
Rep. Pillion (R-NY> said Alaska
“ought to get the whole thing at
one time—jurisdiction over all *
fishing.”
The New Yorker agreed, how
ever, with department criticism
of a provision in each of the pend
ing proposals which would give
Alaska from 50 to 70 percent of
the net proceeds of the Pribilof
Island seal fishery with which to
finance its fish and game pro
gram.
He said he believed it should be
determined how much Alaska will
need to finance the program and
some means be written into the
bill to give it that amount, rather
than tying it to a program whose
receipts fluctuate.
The department’s alternative
would give Alaska immediate
control of its sports fishery and
its game resources. It would assist
the territory to assume this pro
gram by appropriating $500,000
in each of the first two years af
ter Alaska takes over.
In opposing turnover of com
mercial fisheries to Alaska, John
L. Farley, Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice director, said declines in
salmon yield have made this a
“critical period” in the industry.
“I feel very strongly that this is
no time to change this restoration
program,” said Farley. “It is the
responsibility of the federal gov
ernment to continue its present
intensive efforts toward rehabili
tation of Alaska’s fisheries re
sources, utilizing its experienced
staff and country-wide facilities
in this effort.”
He said that “from all indica
tions” the fisheries resources may
be restored within the next few
years to the point “where the Ter
ritory or State of Alaska can eas
ily and without undue financial
burden assume full responsibility
for this great resource.”
e * *
The Nome Chamber of Com
merce has recently come out in
favor of the proposal that Alaska
be given control of its fish and
wildlife.
Movement Developing
To Replace Nixon
If Eisenhower Runs
NEW YORK, (iP —* The New
York Times said today a move
ment is developing within the
Republican party to persuade
President Eisenhower to accept
another vice presidential running
mate if he decides to seek a sec
ond term.
A Washington dispatch by
James Rest on said the movement
to replace Vice President Nixon
is “without support from the
White House” so far.
The idea being discussed, the
story added, is to transfer Nixon
to a regular cabinet post in any
second Eisenhower administra
tion.
Prayer of Sioux
Chief Spoken by
Millions Today
NEW YORK, —“Oh, Great
Spirit, whose voice I hear in the
winds, and whose breath gives
life to all the world, here me."
Millions of Christians today
spoke these words, part of a
prayer written by a Sioux Indian
chief. It goes on:
“I come before you, one of your
mdny children. I am small and
weak. I need your strength and
wisdom.”
The prayer was chosen for use
in “World Day of Prayer” ser
vices, being observed today in
churches in 20,000 American com
munities. It continues:
“Let me walk in beauty and
make my eyes ever behold the red
and purple sunset. Make my
hands respect the things you have
made, my ears sharp to hear your
voice.”
Many churches in 134 foreign
countries, to which the annual
event has spread since its start in
1887, also used translations of the
Indian prayer.
“Make me wise, so that I may
know the things you have taught
my people, the lesson you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.”
“I seek strength not to be su
perior to my brothers, but to be
able to fight my greatest enemy—
myself.”
The observance, on the first
Friday ir* Lent, is sponsored in
this country by the United Church
women of the National Council of
Churches. Its theme this year is
“One Flock, One Shepherd,” from
John 10:16, but the chorused plea
will be in the words of the late
Sioux chief Yellow Lark:
“Make me ever ready to come
to you with clean hands and
straight eyes, so when life fades
as a fading sunset, my spirit may
come to you without shame.” j