22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 66 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1958 Per Copy—15jf
Russia Complains U. S. Navy Keeping
Too Close Watch On Fishing Fleet
WASHINGTON, UFl — The
State Department has notified
Russia—in response to a Soviet
complaint—that the U. S. Navy
is keeping close watch on ship
ping in the ocean appproaches to
the United States.
Moscow had protested that
U. S. aircraft had buzzed Soviet
trawlers in international waters
near the grand banks southeast
of Nova Scotia.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White said the Soviet
complaint was made about mid
April and that it received a
prompt answey. *
Privately, informants said that
the behavior of the Soviet trawl
er fleet along sea and air routes
between th U. S. east coast and
Europe is suspicious in some re
spects.
The Russian vessels were said
to be in waters which are not
normally heavily fished. They
seem to have a large amount of
electronic detection equipment
such as radar. The i number of
vessels is constant, one arriving
as another departs.
American officials have been
wondering what, besides fishing,
a half dozen Russian vessels may
be doing about 100 miles off Ca
nada’s east coast.
Warehousemen *
End 26-Day
Seattle Strike
SEATTLE, UPl — Warehouse
men who got a 35-cent hourly
two-stage wage increase re
turned to work today at 44 Seat
tle firms that serve the North
west and Alaska.
About 600 members of the
Warehouse Drivers and Helpers
Union have been out since May 2
at the warehouses which handle
such goods as steel, paper and
plumbing supplies.
The settlement yesterday came
four days after a 26-day strike
ended at grocery and produce
warehouses.
The agreement with the ware
house drivers included a $15.50
monthly health and welfare plan
and three weeks vacation after
10 years’ employment. The 35
cent wage increase applies over
two years.
High Cost of Chivalry
Or—Never Trust A
Lady With Ripped Skirt
ELIZABETH, N. J., UP) —
Ladies-in-distress may just as
well keep away from Meyer
Jaconson’s tailor shop in the
future.
He found the cost of chivalry
too high.
Jaconson told police a woman
entered his place here Saturday
and asked him to repair her
ripped skirt.
When he did, the woman re
donned the skirt, threw her
arms about Jaconson in a gesture
of thanks and left.
Some time later, the tailor dis
covered that his wallet, contain
ing $60, was missing from a hip
pocket.
Wonder What He Does
In His Spare Time
PURCELLVILLE, Va., UP) — Dr.
Keith M. Oliver, lets very little
interfere with his recreation as
outfielder with the semi-pro Pur
cellville baseball team.
Take yesterday for instance,
During the coifrse of Purcell
ville’s 6-5 victory over Warrenton
in 12 innings, Oliver took time
out to deliver two babies and
minister to a woman who suf
fered a heart attack.
Oliver belted two hits in his
abbreviated appearances at the
plate. He almost scored the
winning run, being thrown out
in a close play at the plate in the
10th inning.
| Gen. de Gaulle To
Govern France
For Six Months
•PARIS, (ffi — The French Na
tional Assembly voted 322 to 232
to grant Gen. Charles de Gaulle
sweeping powers to govern by de
cree for six months.
The measure was sent immed
iately to the French Senate where
de Gaulle supporters hope to ram
it through today and clear the
way for the new premier’s trip
to Algeria to restore the govern
' ment authority over the rebel
lious territory.
In the final version of the
measure, de Gaulle’s supporters
accepted amendments restrict
ing *the general’s power to gov
ern by decree i nsuch fields as
civil liberties, labor legislation
and social security, however, the
bill incorporated almost ev
erything the general asked to en
able him to govern for six months
while the assembly takes a paid
vacation.
The general maintained con
stant contact with the assembly
through cabinet members re
porting to his downtown hotel
headquarters. He was reported
perturbed by committee bicker
ing. But the general’s forces
thus far had the votes to beat
down amendments which would
hamstring his program.
The emerging legislation varies
only slightly from the full powers
the assembly implied it would
grant when it voted the general’s
investiture yesterday.
Two Killed In Crash
Of Reeve Airlines
Plane In Aleutians
ANCHORAGE, W — A Reeve
Aleutian Airways C-46 crashed
into the North Pacific Ocean
near Dutch Harbor Saturday,
killing the two men aboard.
Bob Reeve, president of the
airline, identified the dead as
Sherman Krause, about 36, Seat
tle, and Capt. Bruce Deeter, An
chorage.
In Seattle, a friend of Krause
said Krause was a veteran Alas
ka bush pilot. Krause went north
about two months ago to work
as a mechanic or co-pilot for
Reeve Aleutian.
The two-engine plane, on a
supply mission to Distant Early
Warning Line stations, crashed
shortly after takeoff from Drift
wood Bay, near Dutch Harbor in
the Aleutian Islands chain.
Reeve said he did not know
what caused the plane to crash.
0 Cab Rescues
r
j Dyeing Woman
1 Virginia Brown was in the
; middle of a hair dyeing project
when the power was turned off
by the service man who was
making repairs to the line.
When, she learned that it
would be off for about half an
hour she was frantic as fifteen
minutes was the maximum time
the treatment could remain in her
hair without a rinse. She re
lates that she sent an SOS to
the Q Cab for water because no
power meant no pump for the
water in the building. Their
response was immediate and a
[ large bucket of very- hot water
was promptly delivered, but it
was too hot. Virginia appealed
again to the Q Cab who gallant
ly rushed over with a large can
I of cold water to cool the hot
water.
j Mrs. Brown who is spearhead
j ing .the project to make Nome
| colorful th'is summer by wearing
costumes of the 1900’s during the
\ tourist season stated that the res
1 cuing of a “damsel in distress”
j shows that the spirit of the
I frontier still exists in Nome.
j House Kills Bill
i
j For Controversial
Hells Canyon Dam
j
j WASHINGTON, UPC-The House
i Interior Reclamation Subcommit
j tee today voted down a contro
versial bill for federal construc
tion of a dam in Hells Canyon,
the deepest river gorge on the
continent.
I Rep. Wayne Aspinall (D-Colo),
| subcommittee chairman, said the
| adoption of an unfavorable re
port killed the Senate-passed
measure.
A 15-13 vote apparently ended
a years-long fight over whether
the federal government or the
Idaho Power Co. should build
dams in the Hells Canyon stretch
of the Snake River bordering
Idaho and Oregon.
The multi-million-dollar high
federal dam would have flooded
the sites of three dams Idaho j
Power plans to build under a
Federal Power Commission li
cense which was granted dur
ing a bitter controversy that was
taken to the Supreme Court.
Th company has one dam
nearly built, another under con
struction.
Elvis On Two-Weeks
Furlough Before
Taking Tank Training
MEMPHIS, UP) — Pvt. Elvis
Presley, the drafted million dol
lar-a-year- rock ’n’ roll singer,
lounged around home today on a
brief vacation from reveille and
drill.
The 23-year-old teen-agers de
light is on two-weeks furlough
before returning to Ft. Hood,
Tex., for training as a tank
crewman, with duty in Germany
looming in his future.
He joked briefly with fans
during an encounter at the gate to
his $100,000 suburban mansion
yesterday. “My motto will be
‘have tank, will travel,’ ” he told
them. Sharpshooter medals for
rifle and pistol marksmanship
shown on the front of his neat
Army uniform.
Presley arrived home Saturday
about midnight, driving one of
his Cadillacs.
Snlit Among Southern Senators
Forecast On Alaska Statehood Vote
Alaska Morally Entitled
To Statehood
VISLIA, Calif., UP) — Under
secretary of Interior Hatfield
j Chilson said Thursday the matter
] of Alaskan statehood “is a moral
issue and morally they are en
titled to statehood.”
Chilson said the Department of
Interior “is very pleased with
the House approval and is hope
ful that both Alaska and Hawaii
I will receive statehood.”
!
! House, Senate Versions
of Civil Workers Pay
liaise Bill Differ
WASHINGTON, UPl — The
House today unanimously voted
! 10 per cent pay raises for a mil
, lion classified federal employees
j at an estimate annual cost of
' 542 million dollars.
It sent back to the Senate by
j voice vote a bill giving civil ser
| vice workers the same size pay,
j hike recently voted for 530,000
postal employees. As in the
case of the postal raises, the civil
service workers’ increases would
be retroactive to last January,
i The House debated its bill less
than an hour. Chairman Thomas
Murray (D-Tenn) of the Civil
Service Committee told the House
“we must treat our employees
fairly,” while Rep. Joel Broyhill
(R-Va.) said the 10 per cent raise
was “the minimum” that should
be approved. Broyhill noted that
Congress voted 11 per cent raises
last year but President Eisen
: hower vetoed the action.
The Senate has approved a 7%
per cent raise for the white collar
workers.
The matter would have to be
settled in a joint conference.
| Bing Crosby and Phil Harris On
' Way To Alaska For Fishing Trip
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP) —
Crooner Bing Crosby and comed
ian Phil Harris passed through
here yesterday on the way to
Alaska for a fishing trip.
With other friends they drove
up the coast from California.
After Alaska, Bing said, he
plans to fish a little in B. C.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New .York 10, Boston 4
Washington 5, Baltimore 2
Kansas City 6, Cleveland 2
National League
Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 1
Los Angeles 1, Chicago 0
San Francisco 7, St. Louis 2
Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 1
Pacifgic Coast League
Spokane 3-2, Salt Lake City 1-4
Sacramento 7-1, Vancouver 6-9
Phoenix 9-8, Portland 3-1
Seattle 2-4, San Diego 0-3
Senate Passes Bill To Increase
Fisheries Loan Fund to 20,000,000
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate has passed and sent to the
House a bill to increase the gov
enment’s fisheries loan fund
from 10 to 20 million dollars.
The fund, set up in 1956, is
used for loans designed to stimu
late development of a strong
fisheries and fish-processing in
dustry.
The original 10 million is about
exhausted and applications still
are being received.
WASHINGTON, UP>—Sen. Mike
Mansfield (DuMont) said Sunday
he believes “we will be able to
pass the Alaskan statehood bill
through the Senate.”
Mansfield added in an inter
view that this is conditioned
upon defeat of expected efforts
to tie in .statehood for Hawaii
At the same time Mansfield .
said reports of determined op
position of southern senators to
statehood for either or both ter
ritories “has been overempha
sized.”
“I think that when we reach
a showdown vote you will find
the southerners split with part
of them voting for it,” he added.
Mansfield is assistant Democratic
leader of the Senate.
Chairman James E. Murray
<D-Mont) of tHe Senate Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee
said that group should have the
Alaska bill ready for Senate
action shortly.
Murray is urging Senate con
sideration as quickly as possible.
Senate Republican leader Wil
liam F. Knowland of California
has a pledge of similar Senate
consideration for the Hawaiian
statehood bill if he agrees not to
try to tie the two together.
Senate Democratic leader Lyn- >
: don B. Johnson of Texas has
! been sifent on this request.
“It would be a mistake to tie
the two together,” Mansfield
said. “It would, mean that both
would be held back another
session. Personally, I favor state
hood for both.”
Dodgers Are
Heroes -- In
L.A., At Least
LOS ANGELES, UP) — The
hottest issue here in tomorrow’s
California primary election is
proposition B. That’s B as in
baseball.
The issue is:
Shall the Dodgers get 300
weed grown acres of city-owned
land in Chavez Ravine in which
to build a baseball stadium?
Proponents say the site, near
the confluence of the metropolis’
freeways and about a mile from
city hall, is ideal.
“Giveaway!” cry opponents.
In return the city would get
Wrigley Field and the 10-acre
site on which the forrper Pacific
Coast League park lies.
A noisy crowd of several thou
sand welcomed the Dodgers home
from a 2 Vz-week road trip last
night as though the National
League cellar dwellers were
world champions.
Two bands blared. Vendors
sold Dodger pennants. Players
were introduced as they stepped
from the plane. Fans carried
placards marked “vote for base
ball.”
Man Injured While Cleaning
Gun To Shoot His Wife
INDIANAPOLIS, UP) — A police
report today saifi officers were
called to Methodist Hospital
when Leon White, 22, came in
with a bullet wound in the hand.
Asked what happened, police
said he replied:
“Nothing much. I was clean
ing my pistol to shoot my wife
and it went off.”
He was charged with being
a disorderly person.