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VOL. LXI No. 121 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1959 Per Copy—15*
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Fact-Finding Board Opens Hearings
Hoping For Settlement of Steel Strike
By STANLEY MEISLER
WASHINGTON, UPi — A fact
finding board opens hearings to
day on the nation’s longest steel
strike, hoping to produce a settle
ment rather than just some ad
vice for President- Eisenhower.
Acting under the Taft-Hartley
law, the President appointed the
three-man board to recommend
whether he should seek a federal
court injunction to stop the walk
out for 80 days.
The Steelworkers Union plans
to fight issuance of such an in
junction.
Board chairman George W. Tay
lor, who does not think much of
the Taft-Hartley law, said Sun
day that he and his colleagues
would use the hearings to try to
help management and labor reach
a voluntary agreement in the 90
day-old strike.
“I think it’s our responsibility
to do everything within the limits
of our authority to settle this
dispute,” said Taylor, known as
a skilled arbiter of labor-manage
ment disputes. He is professor of
business at the University of
Pennsylvania and was chairman
of the War Labor Board during
World War II.
The other two panel members
are John Perkins, president of
the University of Delaware, and
Paul N. Lehoczky, Ohio State
University professor and another
veteran arbiter.
Help from the panel was wel
comed by David McDonald, presi
dent of the United Steelworkers
Union. If the panel can help
achieve an agreement, he said,
“We will be most happy.”
Officially the board must de
termine whether continuation of
the strike would cause a natii nal
emergency. In the open hearings,
the steel companies were ex
pected to argue that it would. The
union was expected to argue the
opposite.
The board is to file its report
with the President by Friday.
Under the law, the President
would not be bound by the
board’s recommendations.
Guide Recovering
From Mauling
By Grizzly Bear
GREAT FALLS, Mont., UP) — A
railway machinist and part-time
hunting guide is recovering from
a mauling by a grizzly bear.
Bob Wilkinson, 41, of Great
Falls suffered a lacerated heel
and wrenched knee last Thursday
in a tree-top struggle with the
bear in a wilderness area of north
western Montana.
Wilkinson was tracking elk
when he encountered three griz
zlies. Two of the animals moved
away when they saw Wilkinson,
but the other—estimated to weigh
450 pounds—turned.
Wilkinson turned too—for the
nearest tree
The bear first started to leave
the scene, but returned before
Wilkinson was more than five
feet off the ground The bear
gained rapidly on Wilkinson and
clawed off his boots
“With the boots gone,” said Wil
< kinson, “I could get a good hold
and kept climbing until I ran out
of tree.” The tree was 15 feet
tall.
“I sat there in the three top and
looked down at the grizzly,” Wil
kinson said Sunday night from a
hospital bed, “thinking I had him
licked. Then he started up the
trunk after me.”
The grizzly grabbed one of Wil
kinson’s ankles in his mouth.
Then they both fell—the bear all
the way to the ground and Wil
kinson to branches a short dis
tance off the ground.
• “I thought I was dead. I waited
for him to come back and finish
me,” said Wilkinson.
But the grizzly was through. He
lumbered away.
Biggest Haul In London West End
LONDON, UP)—A daring band
systematically raided a chain of
jewelry stores in fashionable Lon
don streets last weekend and took
jewels worth 500,000 pounds
<$1,400,000).
Police said it appeared to be
the biggest burglary ever carried
out in London’s west end.
Committee Reports
Decision Making
Policies by Govt.
Cost Too Much
WASHINGTON, UP—'The House
Space Committee has told the De
fense Department a cumbersome
process of decision making is cost
ing the taxpayers far too much
money.
The committee said the system
should be reorganized to provide
better management where a pro
gram involves more than one ser
vice.
The criticism was made in a
report over the weekend on the
hearings held six weeks ago on
cancellation of production con
tracts for two newly built boron
type fuel plants.
Specifically suggested the Pen
tagon establish a firm national
program for boron-type fuel re
search immediately, the commit
tee said it could be initiated by
the military services and the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration.
The inquiry was conducted into
cancellation in August of a pro
gram to produce a super jet air
craft fuel. This knocked out Navy
and Air Force contracts for pro
duction of boron compounds, the
basic ingredient of exotic fuels
designed to give extra zip to
supersonic bombers and fighters.
This resulted in the closing of
two plants — one a 35-million
dollar facility at Muskogee,
Okla, and the other a 45-million
dollar plant near Buffalo, N.Y.
The committee agreed with the
Pentagon that the plants should
have been closed because in
creased emphasis on missiles and
new airplane design made the
fuel unnecessary.
But the committee said the
Pentagon was slow in recognizing
the changing requirement.
WASHINGTON, UP— President
Eisenhower today proclaimed
Nov. 11 as Veterans Day. He
asked the American people to re
| member their debt to those who
I “have borne the standard of free
' dom and preserved our liberty.”
Increased Costs
May Force Nome
Close High School
With the steady increase in
school enrollment, the City of
Nome has found itself unable to
carry the financial burden of
supporting the school. It is very
probable that unless aid is re
ceived, Nome in the not too dis
tant future, will be able to offer
only the minimum education re
quired in Alaska—that is, an 8th
grade education.
The possibility of obtaining aid
from the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs will be discussed with Max
Penrod, area director' of schools
from Juneau, and Wayne Pratt,
assistant chief, branch of educa
tion, from Washington, when
they arrive in Nome to study our
situation.
The NWA Chamber of Com
merce has named a committee to
compile facts and figures to pre
sent to Mr. Penrod and Mr. Pratt.
Members of the committee, who
met Saturday evening, are Sen.
Lester Bronson, chairman, Dor
othy fanmons, Ash Craft, Robert
Baldwin, Robert Scott, Werner
Bohrer, George Bayer, Lloyd
Sundstrom, Conrad Potter, and
Mrs. Peg Cornett.
After a general discussion of
the problem the committee de
cided that more detailed informa
tion would be needed. The chair
man requested Mr. Scott to report
on the local tax structure as it
pertains to school financing, and
Mr. Potter to compile statistics on
school enrollment during the past
few years.
These reports will be studied at
the next meeting of the commit
tee to be held shortly before Mr.
Penrod and Mr. Pratt arrive.
THE HARD WAY
ASBURY PARK, N. J., UP —
Christopher Columbus learned in
1492 that discovering America
can be a very tiring thing. Carl
Pisano learned it Sunday.
Pisano, a make-believe Colum
bus attired in appropriate cos
tume, fell into the Atlantic during
a pageant commemorating the
discovery of America.
A Red Cross official fished the
1959 Columbus out of the water
and he proceeded to shore where
he was greeted by “Indians.”
Red Chinese Protest U.S.
Vessel Violated Its Waters
TOKYO, UP—Communist China
protested that an American naval
vessel intruded into its. territorial
waters in the Pingtan area of Fu
kien province today.
♦ Peiping radio said the Chinese
foreign ministry issued its 73rd
serious warning against “military
provocation by U.S. warships.
President’s Committee to
Decide If and Where 1964
World Fair Will be Held
WASHINGTON, UP —President
Eisenhower Saturday named a
committee of three to recommend
a site for a world’s fair in the
United States in 1964 if they
agreed one is feasible.
New York, Los Angeles, and
Washington, D. C., among other
cities have been mentioned for
the proposed exhibition.
The President named Harry
Bullis of Minneapolis, as chair
man of the committee. Members
are Aksel Nielsen of Denver, and
Charles Sawyer of Cincinnati.
Gov. Egan Hopeful Additional
Funds Will Be Allocated For
The Nome Road “Network”
JUNEAU, OTI — Criticism ex
pressed at Nome over proposed
highway construction programs in
northwestern Alaska next year
were described by Gov. William
Egan today as “fairly well justi
fied.”
The 1960 building program, he
told a news conference, still was
considered tentative, and announ
ced schedule “doesn’t mean that
a Nome road has been forgotten
at all.”
The N.W.A. Chamber of Com
merce last week called the an
nounced program unfair. It said
the vast Nome area had more
road funds under territorial sta
tus than were being made avail
able under state highway direc
tion.
Of about 41 million dollars
scheduled for highway construc
tion in the state next year, the
northwestern district was alloc
ated only $1,049,000.
Prime interest in the Nome area
centers on the proposal for con
struction of so-called Highway 97
linking Seward Peninsula with
Fairbanks.
"The announced schedule,"
Egan said, "is not final. It was
completed in order to obtain
commitment of federal aid
money through the Bureau of
Public Roads. It doesn't mean
that other allocations or
changes cannot be made."
In fact, the governor said, he
was hopeful within the next few
weeks that additional allocations
could be made to spur activity
on what he termed “the Nome
network.”
He noted that 3V£ million dol
lars of the 1960 allocations had
not been scheduled immediately,
an indicated, some of that money
may be diverted to the north
western district.
Asked specifically whether he
favored a road link to Nome,
Egan replied:
"I sure do. And I have for
a long iime."
Egan spoke out again today
against proposals to move the
state capitol from Juneau and
said “the chief accomplishment
of this controversy has been to
cause deep and wide sectional
wounds at a time when all Alaska
must be united.”
The governor, in a prepared
statement read at a news confer
ence, told reporters:
“I cannot encourage a move to
devastate the economy of one of
our cities; an action that would
most certainly cause a permanent
breach in our great state.
He said the new state’s con
stitution, activated just last Janu
ary when Alaska became the 49th
state, makes Juneau the capitol
and that he now is “sworn to up
hold its provisions.”
“The Crimes of
Khrushchev” Is
Released Today
WASHINGTON, l#u'Testimony
of nine witnesses on purges, ter
rorism and man-made famine in
the Ukraine during the 1930s and
1940s has been released in a new
congressional report titled “The
Crimes of Khrushchev.”
The report, second of a series
released by the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities,
contains tstimony taken Sept. 9,
10 and 11 prior to the arrival of
Soviet Premier Khrushchev on
Sept. 15 for his U.S. tour.
Nicholoas Prychodko, an en
gineer from Toronto, Canada,
testified he lived in the Ukraine
during the 1930-33 famine.
Prychodko said most of the
Ukrainian food crop was ex
ported on orders from Moscow
because of resistance in the Uk
raine to the Communists. He said
that at that time Khrushhev was
in the Ukraine as “one of the es
teemed executors of Stalin’s geno
cide of the Ukrainian population.”
Petro Pavlovych, former editor
of a newspaper in the Ukrainian
community of Vinnitsa, told of
the 1943 discovery there of 95
mass graves of 9,439 bodies —
victims of a 1937-38 purge when
Khrushchev was first secretary
of the central committee of the
Communist party in the Ukraine.
HOLLYWOOD, UR — Actress
Helen Hayes is to become a grand
mother next May.
Her son, actor James MacAr
thur, telephoned his studio Sun
day that his wife, actress Joyce
Bulifant, is expecting in May.
Quadruplets Born to
Maryland Negro Woman
BALTIMORE, Md., OR —“I’m a
lucky woman. It’s not every
woman God blesses like this.”
That was the reaction of Lor
raine Graves, 30, of Annapolis,
after she gave birth to quadrup
lets Saturday at Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
The negro woman has eight
other children. Among them are
two sets of twins, aged 2 and 8.
The three girls and boy were
reported doing well 24 hours after
the delivery, but Dr. Frank Leake
the obstetrician who delivered
them, said it would take 72 hours
to determine how well.
The heaviest infant weighed 4
pounds, 8% ounces, and the light
est 3 pounds, 8 ounces.
Canadian Viscount Makes
Good Belly Landing With
Jammed Landing Gear
CHICAGO, OR — Forty - three
persons aboard a Trans - Canada
turboprop Viscount airliner em
erged without a scratch and only
slightly shaken after the plane
made an emergency landing Sun
day.
The plane, enroute from Tor
onto to Chicago, made a success
ful belly landing on a foam-cov
ered runway at Glenview Naval
Air Station after circling the area
for two hours.
The pilot tried to lower the
landing gear as the plane ap
proached Chicago and discovered
the gear was jammed. The con
trol tower directed him to circle
until his fuel was virtually ex
hausted, then try a belly land
ing at Glenview.