SI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 55 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1959 Per Copy—15*
Deputy Secretary
Of Defense Quarles
Dies Suddenly
WASHINGTON, UP> — Deputy
Secretary of Defense Donald A.
Quarles, engineer, businessman
and second ranking civilian in
the Pentagon since 1957, died un
expectedly today. He was 64.
A chauffeur sent to Quarles’
home to drive him to an early
morning television broadcast was
unable to rouse him. A relative
' and officials were summoned
quickly and efforts were made to
revive him. Apparently he had
been dead for some hours, how
ever.
The cause of death was not im
mediately established.
Quarles was alone in his home
at the time. Mrs. Quarles was in
Chicago. He had attended, a dinner
Thursday night and friends said
he showed' no signs of illness
when he left about 11 p.m.
Quarles frequently had been
acting civilian chief during ab
sences of Secretary Neil H. Mc
Elroy. He had been mentioned as
a possible successor to McElroy,
who has announced he is leaving
late this year.
McElroy had planned to leave
today for Geneva to be on hand
at the foreign ministers conference
opening there Monday. He was in
Cincinnati making preparations
for the tirp. But he called off the
trip and likely now will wait until
he gets word from Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter that he
is needed.
President Eisenhower, notified
of Quarles’ death, ordered flags on
federal buildings flown at half
staff.
The President issued a state
ment expressing shock and “a
keen sense of personal loss.” On
behalf of himself and Mrs. Eisen
hower, he extended sympathy to
Mrs. Quarles and the family.
Quarles was born in Van Buren,
Ark., July 30, 1894, the son of a
dentist.
He was an official of the West
ern Electric Co. and a resident of
New Jersey when he entered gov
ernment service.
He was vice president of West
ern Electric and president of San
dia Corp., a subsidiary which op
erates the Sandia Special Weapons
Laboratory at Albuquerque* N.
M., for the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
CAB Suspends Proposed
Fare Reductions By
- Northern Consolidated
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Civil
Aeronautics Board yesterday sus
pended proposed passenger fare
reductions in Alaska of Northern
Consolidated Airlines.
The C.A.B. ordered an investi
gation to determine whether the
fares, to have been effective to
day, would be unreasonably low
or otherwise unlawful.
The C.A.B. said Northern Con
solidated planned to match over
its longer routes the fares of other
airlines over shorter routes. It
said the Anchorage-McGrath-Fair
banks fare of $30 would yield the
airline only six cents a passenger
mile, well below the prevailing
Alaska fare levels.
U., S. Spurns Soviet
Protest of Atomic
Weapons for NATO
WASHINGTON, WV—The United
States today rejected Russia’s pro
test against moves to provide nu
clear weapons and missiles to
some Atlantic Pact countries.
A formal note, delivered in Mos
cow brushed aside Russia’s claim
that such moves represent an
American effort to wreck the Big
Four foreign ministers meeting
due to begin in Geneva Monday.
The note called on the Kremlin
leaders to display the same atti
tude in accordance with the many
Soviet public protestations of such
a desire.
The American note was in reply
to a Soviet protest sent April 21.
In their note, the Soviets charged
that in advance of the Geneva
meeting the United States was
stepping up “nuclear and rorket
arming of certain North Atlantic
Bloc member states.”
The Soviet note complained spe
cifically that American rockets
and nuclear weapons are to be
stationed in Greece, Turkey and
West Germany as a follow up to
arrangements already made in'
Britain and Italy.
THURSDAY BASEBALL SCORES
{By The Associated Press)
American League
Baltimore 10, Washington 1.
. Detroit 3, Boston 2.
National League
Los Angeles 2, San Francisco 1.
St. Louis 4, Chicago 3.
Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 4.
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 2, Vancouver 0.
Portland 10, Sacramento 2.
Spokane 8, Salt Lake City 2.
Seattle 5, Phoenix 4.
Twenty-Seven Gold Rings -
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, UP) —
A Yugoslav marital record holder
has died at the age of 65.
Sredoje Goluskin, from north
ern Serbia, had been married 27
times, Belgrade ftewspapers re
ported. They did not say how
many of his marriages ended in
divorce.
Nenana Ice Out
11:26 This A.M.
The ice wenl out al Nenana
this morning at 11:26 a.m. and
there were 11 winning tickets,
one of which was from Nome.
This was the Anvil Mountain
Shop Co. of Federal Electric em
ployees and consisted of: Frank
Dimmit, Stan Harhut, Gene Cross,
Herk Edwards, Earl Towner, Al
Doyle, Lloyd Sundstrom, Sam
Mog, Tom Johnson, Dallas Eberle,
George Miller, and Ted Johanson.
There were 93,000 guesses
made this year which should
make each of the eleven win
ning ticket holders happier by
about $8,400 before tax deduc
tions.
The other ten correct guesses
were made by M. R. Criger Co.,
W. C. Wilson, Ted Wiley Co., ARR
Heavy Equipment Inc., Haskin &
Haskin, George’s Corner Bever
age, Wm. Brady, Spenard Lounge,
The Jolly Four, and Doris Hans
bury Co.
F.A.A. Request for Garage
Storage Facilities Denied
By House Committee
WASHINGTON, UPt—The House
Appropriations Committee today
rejected a Federal Aviation Agen
cy request for $223,200 for gar
ages and storage facilities in
Alaska.
The projects included facilities
at Annette, Cold Bay, Iliamna,
Talkeetna and Unalakleet.
The five 32 by 40 foot metal
garages proposed for the Alaska
communities would have been used
to house snow equipment and
emergency landing equipment.
ANCHORAGE YOUNGSTER
AMONG WINNERS AT
NATIONAL SCIENCE FAIR
HARTFORD, Conn., UP — A
youth from Anchorage was named
today as among the prize winners
at the National Science Fair.
Among the 79 fourth place win
ners was Jack D. Griffith, 17, An
chorage. He will receive $25.
The formal awards will be
made at a banquet winding - up
the fair tonight.
Eisenhower will Boycott Summit Meet
If Russians Sign Peace with E* Germany
WASHINGTON, (JP) — President
Eisenhower will refuse to go to a
summit conference if the Russians
carry out .their threat to turn East
Berlin over to the East German
Communists.
He will take the same stand if
the Soviet sign a separate peace
treaty with puppet East Germany.
Any such one-sided Soviet ac
tion in the next few weeks un
doubtedly would wreck the Big
Four foreign ministers conference
due to begin in Geneva Monday.
This American attitude became
known authoritatively a few hours
before Secretary of State Herter’s
scheduled takeoff for pre-confer
ence strategy talks with the Brit
ish and French oreign ministers.
Herter himself already has
served notice that the Russians
must match concession for con
cession to end the danger of war.
Despite pressure for a summit
talk regardless of progress in Ge
neva, Eisenhower was reported in
sisting the foreign ministers first
must make concrete gains in eas
ing the Berlin crisis and other
German problems.
This means, informants said,
that mere agreement at Geneva on
a time, place and agenda for a
summit meeting would not be
enough to convince him that a
conference with Russia’s Khrush
chev would be worth while.
Herter outlined America’s posi
tion (for the East-West talks start
ing Monday in a nationally broad
cast address last night.
Herter’s maiden speech won
praises from Senator Mike Mans
field of Montana, the assistant
Democratic leader, as “candid”
and “statesmanlike.”
Senate Considers Forming Commission
To Study Alaska’s Road Requirements
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, UP) — A move
developed today for the appoint
ment of a special commission to
study Alaska Highway problems.
The aim would be to have the
group concentrate on special
problems confronted by the new
state.
The proposal was made by Sen.
Jackson (D-Wash) yesterday while
presiding* over a Senate Interior
Committee hearing on legislation
to smooth Alaska’s transition to
statehood.
The commission would have rep
resentation from the state and
federal governments. Among mat
ters which it could consider, Jack
son said, would be the possibility
of some form of federal mainten
ance payments in proportion to
the military use of Alaska high
ways.
Presumably the commission also
would consider possible courses to
offset the loss of some 200 million
dollars Alaska experienced during
the 40 years it did not participate
in the federal highway program.
Jackson said earlier he felt
there would be justification for
Alaska’s seeking recompense for
that loss.
He emphasized, however, that
he didn’t “want to hold out any
false hopes — but this would af
ford an opportunity to study the
situation.”
The suggestion of a special study
of Alaska’s highway problems
drew an endorsement from the
new state’s Secretary, Hugh Wade,
who earlier had contended the
problem “is too big to be treated
in this bill.”
He said Alaska is not seeking
better treatment than that re
ceived by its sister states, but is
seeking recognition of the differ
ent conditions that exist.
Sen. Bob Bartlett said Jackson’s
proposal has a lot of merit but
suggested that the commission be
required to report its finding dur
ing the summer so as not to delay
the program. *
Harold Seidman, Budget Bureau
spokesman on the Alaska bill,
said the bureau would prefer to
see highway proposals in the
pending bill left intact and the
commission study ordered as a
separate matter. Failure to take
this approach, he said, would
make impossible the transfer of
highway functions to the state i
this year, as contemplated under
the bill.
Basis of the highway difficulty
is the question of whether the
new state would be able to af
ford a program of highway con
struction and at the same time
pay the high costs of maintenance
its weather demands.
Alaska now receives some 13
million dollars annually under the
federal aid program but is per
mitted to use the money for main
tenance purposes. The Adminis
tration proposal would give Alas
ka some 37 millions a year but
require that it finance its own
maintenance, as is done by other
states.
Wade had sought earlier to
compromise the two approaches.
His suggestion was that Alaska be
allocated about 27 million dollars
a year but be permitted to con
tinue use of federal funds for
maintenance.
Bartlett told the committee he
feels Alaska could live with the
road provisions but “it won’t be
easy.”
Bartlett Asks Flood,
Harbor Construction Funds
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Bob Bartlett today asked Congress
to provide $4,003,000 in construc
tion funds for 10 Alaska flood
control and navigation projects.
In testimony prepared for a
Senate Appropriations Subcom
mittee, he urged also that it pro
vide $251,000 for studies of other
Alaska works and $53,000 for op
eration and maintenance on the
Nome Harbor.
Of the requested sum, only that
for the Nome Harbor is contained
in the Administration budget for
the year beginning July 1.
Mother’s Day Officially
Designated By President
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today named next
Sunday Mother’s Day.
“I also call upon the people of
the United States to give public
and private expression of their
love and reverence for the mothers
of America on that day through
their prayers and other manifes
tation of their esteem and devo
tion, and by display of the flag
at their homes or other suitable
places,” he said.
BACCALAUREATE SERVICES
SUNDAY, MAY 10, at 8 O’clock PM.
NOME SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Prelude: Grand March from Aida.Verdi
Diane Lee
Invocation.Rev. John Maakestad
“Truth and Peace” .. C. W. Vandre
Seventh and Eighth Grade Chorus
Baccalaureate Address.Rev. Lawrence Nevue, S.J.
“Fairest Lord Jesus”.Silesian Folk Song
Seventh and Eighth Grade Chorus
Benediction.Rev. John Maakestad
Postlude: Grand March from Aida.Verdi
Diane Lee
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