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11 Graduate From
Nome High School
Thursday Evening
Eleven seniors of Nome High
School will close their books this
week for the last time and be
graduated tomorrow evening at
8:00. They are:
Carolyn Glavinovich, Donna
Clarissa Lyle, Roy Wesley Snyder
Jr., Madeline Piscoya, David J.
Bell, Sam A. Mogg, Robert A.
Summers, Robert M. Herman,
Jack F. Muller, Dean W. Martin, |
Milton J. Willoya.
Thirty-one grade school stu
dents will complete their elemen
tary work and be ready for high
school in the fall. This is' the
largest group ever to graduate
from Nome grade school. They
are:
Peter W. Barber, Richard H.
Benson, Aaron W. Bell, Charles
P. Fagerstrom, James N. Foster,
• Johnny E. Ibionna, Allen R. Jack,
Marie Kunnuk, Sigfried Larsen,
Vivian Larsen, Diane E. Lee,
Anthony R. W. Martin, George
Mayac, Floyd O. Nagozruk, Don
ald Outwater, Gerald Trigg;
Teresa Norbert, Cecelia Okpe
aluk, Phoebe A. Omelak, L. Earl
Towner, Joseph Senungetuk,
Sophie E. Tungwenuk, Elin Q,.
Walterson, Betty L. Cavota, Fritz
F. Chambers, Alice A. Glavino
vich, Frances L. Longley, Taylor
Moto, Janet E. Muller, Lee R.
Oman, Helen W. Reader.
The graduation address will be
made by Rev. Reeves Havens of
the Methodist Church and there
will be special music by the
Girl’s Chorus and the trumpet
quartet.
Perfect attendance awards for
all grades will be announced as
well as special awards for gradu
ating seniors.
B and R Tug and Barge
Awarded Contracts For
Selawik, Kiana Airfields
The Department of Aviation,
Territory of Alaska, this week
awarded two contracts to the B
and R Tug and Barge Co. of Kot
zebue for the construction of air
fields at Kiana and Selawik, Alas
ka. The Kiana contract amounts
to $14,821.65 and for Selawik
$9,251.45.
In addition to these, the depart
ment will start approximately
June 15 on a steel mat field at
Wales, Alaska. This will be on a
force account basis with depart
mental personnel and Eskimo
labor.
REQUIRED READING
WASHINGTON, UPI — The U.S.
Information Agency said today
the Budapest Library, in Com
munist Hungary, had requested
a copy of a book entitled:
“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Happiness.”
Along with the request, which
passed through Communist cen
sorship, was this note:
“Since we attach great import
ance in having this publication,
we would appreciate it if you
would kindly send us one copy
of same.”
The book was sent.
Pentagon Says U.S.
Has Air Superiority
Over The Russians
WASHINGTON, UP) — Top civ
ilian chiefs at the Pentagon say
the United States still holds air
superiority over Russia, but Sen.
Jackson (D-Wash) contends the
Soviets are making “alarming
progress.”
The newest chapter of what has
evolved into a “great debate”
over the status of Russian and
American air strength unfolded
yesterday when:
Secretary of Defense Wilson
told a news conference “It is our
aim to maintain a military cap
ability superior to that of any
potential enemy; we can and are
doing this.”
Asst. Secretary of the Air Force
Roger Lewis, at the same session
with newsmen, said “We have
superiority in terms of planes
that can do the job; we have
qualitative as well as quantitative
superiority” in such aircraft.
Lewis said the Russians have dis
played “more bombers than we
thought possible a year ago” but
said they were “not large num
bers—40 or 50.”
Sen. Jackson, chairman of a
Senate-House Atomic Energy sub
committee on military applica
tions, presided at a closed session
with Secretary of the Air Force
Harold Talbott and Gen. Nathan
F. Twining, Air Force chief of
staff.
Emerging, Jackson said he be
lieves this country leads Russia
now in air power; but “We have
consistently underestimated the
ability of the Soviet Union to pro
duce all types of armament in
cluding the atom bomb, hydro
gen bomb and the intercontinental
bomber.” And that “Unless we
make a great effort for all-out
production of jets of all kinds,
both quantitatively and qualitat
ively, our country can be in grave
peril.”
Wilson said “Our programs are
flexible enough so that we can
step up our prodcution on specific
items at any time it is determined
necessary to meet any threat to
our security.”
Power Drum Seining In
S.E. Alaska Is Ruled
Illegal This Year
JUNEAU, MV-The “power
block” salmon seine, along with
the drum seine or any other
stepped up high speed method of
retrieving a set of seine web, has
been ruled illegal for this year in
southeast Alaska, the Fish and
Wildlife Service reported today.
The report said reducing the
time needed to haul a seine would
result in heavier pressure on “al
ready over-fished pink salmon
runs.”
The FWS in 1954 launched a
two-year program of curtailed
fishing in southeast Alaska in an
effort to build up the runs of pink
salmon. More than half the fish
traps in the area have been eiosed
and seining areas constricted.
Power blocks and drum seines
are legal gear in other parts of
the territory.
$176,610 School
Budget Presented
To City Council
At the meeting of the City
Council Monday evening, Robert
Lewis, chairman of the Street
and Fire Committee, reported the
fire main on 1st Ave. W., which
was frozen, has bben thawed and
progress has been made on the
B Street main which was also
frozen.
He also reported that the Vol
unteer Firemen have elected Pete
Reader as their fire chief in case
of fire, pending the selection of
a replacement for W.W. Laws.
Two applications are now being
considered.
Ed Benick has been hired by
the city as driver of the fire
truck.
Councilman Hedreen explained
the need for a new drain in front
of the Nome Hardware Store,
where the street has been torn
up for some time, and asked per
mission to obtain material from
local sources.
Councilman Morgan reported
wonderful cooperation on the
Clean-Up Campaign and particu
larly praised the members of the
Home Arts Club for their leader
ship and support. He reported the
Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are
working on empty lots and so far
most ‘residents have been most
cooperative.
Mayor Steffen Andersen gave
a lengthy report on the meeting in
Juneau when bids were opened
for the new school addition and
which has been reported in the
Nugget previously.
The Nome School budget was
presented, and amounted to $176,
610 of which the city is respon
sible for $49,595. The budget was
tabled until the next meeting of
the council when members of the
school board can be present to ex
plain some of the items.
Ice-Jammed Kuskokwim
Threatens 1,000 Persons
In Five Native Villages
ANCHORAGE, <£» — Swirling
waters of the ice-jammed Kusko
kwim River apparently have
reached their crest, but a new
danger now faces the estimated
1,000 inhabitants of five villages
in the stricken area.
Late Monday high winds began
to buffet the town of Bethel and
four smaller comunities along the
raging lower Kuskokwim, which
began its rampage last Friday.
A commercial airplane pilot
who returned from McGrath
Monday night said he encounter
ed headwinds of 53 knots (65
mph) through Rainy Pass.
The Air Force said none of the
villages had been evacuated yet,
but many residents along the
swollen river valley had been
forced to flee their homes and
take safety on high ground.
Food and clothing, flown by Air
Rescue units from Anchorage and
Fairbanks* have been distributed
among the stricken villagers. Base
headquarters for the Air Force is
at Bethel, where the water Mon
day afternoon was more than a
foot deep on parts of the airstrip.
Great Difficulties Beset Projected
Top-Level Big Four Conference
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Dulles Cautions
That Red Danger
Is Not Over Yet
WASHINGTON, UP> —Secretary
of State Dulles cautioned Con
gress today against interpreting
what he called a “striking re
versal” of Soviet policy as “in
dicating that the ddnger is over.”
He said if this country took
such a view the strength of the
free world would “quickly dis
integrate.”
Dulles told the House Foreign
Affairs Committee there is hope
that the Communists will “adopt
more tolerable policies” but
added:
“We can hope that a new day
is coming; but too often men
have been lured to their doom
( by mistaking a false dawn for
the real dawn.
“We must not make that mis
take.”
President Eisenhower recently
expressed qualified hope that the
current Soviet policies would lead
to the dawn of a new day.
Testifying in support of the ad
ministration’s 3Vfe billion dollar
foreign aid program for the year
beginning July 1, Dulles told the
committee the Soviets now seem
ready for top level talks with the
West.
Recent sharp criticism by Prav
da, the official Communist news
paper, of the West’s ideas for a
conference program, seems to be
based on the main complaint
“That we do not seem to be will
ing to talk long enough,” Dulles
said.
He listed these four examples
of what he termed a “striking
reversal” of Soviet policy: The
Austrian peace treaty, the up
coming pilgrimage of top Soviet
leaders to Yugoslavia, a new
stand on disarmament and appar
ent willingness to hold a top
level conference.
“No one can be confident as
to the meaning of these four re
versals,” Dulles said.
Blonde, Aged 44, Gets
13th Divorce, Prepares
For 14th Marriage
LOS ANGELES, UPl—Mrs. Bev
erly Nina O’Malley, 44, a dimin
utive blonde who has been marry
ing since she was 16, is now plan
ning her 14th wedding.
Yesterday she obtained the
signature of a judge on her final
decree of divorce from husband
No. 13, Raymond Joseph O’Mal
ley. She said she plans to obtain
a marriage license today to wed
No. 14, Gabriel L. Avery, also 44,
a parking lot superintendent.
The judge commented: “On the
basis of the past record, one can’t
have too much confidence in this
latest venture but who knows?
Maybe this one will stick.”
Mrs. O’Malley said: “I always
hope.”
> WASHINGTON, (A*)—1The State
Department is awaiting an official
note from Moscow before decid
ing what is Russia’s real approach
to arranging a top-level Big Four
conference.
Meanwhile it is becoming clean
that great difficulties lie in the
way of working out solutions with
the Soviets on major East-West
problems. Even the kind of Big
Four meeting which should be
held appears to be in dispute.
The Western powers two weeks
ago invited Russia to joindn the
session, which would' bring to
gether President Eisenhower and
the premiers of Russia, Britain
and France. Secretary of State
Dulles, who discussed the plan
with Soviet Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov at Vienna 10 days ago,
expected to have a definite So
viet reply by this time.
But over the weekend the Com
munist newspaper Pravda sharp
ly attacked the idea that the
meeting should last only about
three days, as the West has pro
posed. The Russians said that was
not long enough to deal with prob
lems of substance.
The nature of the problems
themselves is becoming plainer
and that process is reducing some
what the sense of quick progress
toward better understanding
which existed at the time the
invitation was issued.
The Soviets, for example, have
attacked Dulles and Eisenhower
for broaching the idea of discuss
ing the Soviet satellite states in
eastern Europe. Moscow has gone
a long way to emphasize its dom
ination of those countries is not
a subject for discussion. However
both the President and Dulles are
convinced the question is a source
of East-West tension and must be
taken up.
Eisenhower Praises Work
Women In Public Services
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Eisenhower praised the work of
women in public services in an
informal speech today at the last
of a series of eight breakfasts
with women in and out of politics.
The breakfast sessions will be
resumed in the fall when they
fit in with the President’s sched
ule, said Miss Betha Adkins, di
rector of women’s activities for
the Republican National Commit
tee.
In all, 157 women attended the
eight breakfasts. Today there
were 18 from 12 states, Alaska
and the District of Columbia.
Miss Adkins said the discussion
was mostly nonpartisan, with the
President praising the contribu
tions of women in civic affairs
and the armed services.
As usual, the President was
urged by several of the women
to run again next year, but they
got only smiles in return, Miss
Adkins told reporters.
Among six of today's guests
listed as leaders in Republican
activities was Miss Dorothy Prior
of the Anchorage Women’s Re
publican Club.