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VOL. LIX No. 107 ,NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1957 % Per Copy—15^
First U.S. Arms
Arrive Jordan for
Mid-East Buildup
By ANGELO NATALE
AMMAN, Jordan, (tf)—The first
U.S. arms were flown here today
to begin a Middle East buildup
against any threat from pro-Sovi
et Syria.
Jordanian officials and other
dignitaries were on hand to greet
the convoy of eight Globemasters
and Flying Boxcars bringing re
coilless rifles, Jeeps, machine
guns and ammunition.
Five Air Force Globemasters
were the first to arrive over Am
man. They circled the city before
landing at Amman’s military air
port just after noon.
U.S. Ambassador Lester D. Mal
lory was seated in the place of
honor on a special platform with
Deputy Premier and Foreign Min
ister Samir Rafai, Army Chief
of Staff Habis Majali and the Jor
dan Regency Council. King Hus
sein is vacationing in Spain.
Eight Jeeps mounted with re
coilless rifles rolled from each
end of the five Globemasters. An
other Globe master and two fly
ing boxcars followed.
The sixth Globemaster and the
two Flying Boxcars which came
about a half hour later carried
.30 and .50 caliber machineguns
and ammunition for the recoilless
rifles, which are antitank weap
ons.
Both Moscow and Syria charged
the United States was plotting an
attack on Syria, next door to
Jordan.
Miss Colorado
Is Miss America
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., UP>—
What is Marilyn Elaine V&n Der
bur, the new Miss America, like?
The 20-year-old blond, green
eyed beauty from Denver told
newsmen at a breakfast press
conference on the beach yester
day that:
Her main interest at present is
completing her college education
in music; and she plans to use the
$5,000 scholarship that goes with
the title toward that goal.
She’d like to work in music or
on the stage for a year or two
after college, hopes to get married
when she’s 24. After marriage
she wants to continue her work
in music.
Ten judges chose Miss Van Der
bur as Miss America 1958 Satur
day night.
The dimpled beauty queen is
5 feet 8V4 inches, weighs 130
pounds, measures 35-25-36. She
was crowned " by the outgoing
Miss America, Mi ham Ann Mc
Knight before a ation-wide TV
audience and a c.owd of 20,000
in Convention Hall.
She is a junior at the Univer
sity of Colorado, has three sisters.
Her father owns a group of
mortuaries and runs an insurance
business in Denver. * v
Runners-up in the contest were
Miss Georgia, Miss Oklahoma,
Miss California, and Miss Florida.
j 13 Shriners Due
| Nome Thursday
For Ceremonies
Thomas W. Melham of Long
Island, N.Y., imperial potentate
of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, and Thomas M. Fowler,
potentate of the Nile Temple in
Seattle, and a party of 13 Shrin
ers and their wives who have
been having ceremonials in vari
ous parts of the territory are
scheduled to arrive here on
Thursday and will be guests of
the Nome Shrine Club.
They will be met at Nome
Field and escorted to town with
a luncheon scheduled for them.
They will leave again on the
Wien tour about five o’clock.
Health, Education
And Welfare To
Get $9 Million
WASHINGTON MV—Alaska will
receive $9,970,000 in grants from
appropriations made by Congress
for the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare for the
year ending next June 30, a de
partment estimate shows.
Hawaii’s grant is $9,663,170.
Largest single item in the Alas
ka program is $4,200,000 ear
marked for school operation and
maintenance. Another $1,184,000
will go for aid to dependent chil
dren and $1,000,000 for care of
Alaska’s mentally ill.
The breakdown of individual
programs for the year includes:
Cooperative vocational educa
tion $173,855, colleges of agricul
ture and mechanical arts $71,283,
rural library services $44,967,
school construction $360,000, of
fice of vocationalA rehabilitation
$111,186;
General health $63,200, mental
health $25,000, cancer control $7,
900, heart disease control $12,000,
tuberculosis control $36,900, wa
ter pollution control $15,400, hos
pital construction $500,000, waste
treatment works $425,100, disease
and sanitation investigation and
control $638,000, old age assis
tance $729,000, aid to the blind
$40,000, maternal and child health
services $98,662, services for crip
pled children $196,081, and child
welfare services $47,649.
Russia Sets Off
Another A-Blast
rj
WASHINGTON, UP)—Russia set
off another atomic weapon test
explosion in the past two days,
the Atomic Energy Commission
announced today.
The AEC statement said the
shot was of moderate intensity.
It appeared to be the second in
a series started Aug. 22. That first
shot was described as one of sub
stantial power.
Including today’s, the AEC has
announced detection of 25 Soviet
nuclear blasts. The AEC has em
phasized that not all the blasts
known to have been set off are
publicly reported.
I Bartlett Suggests Board
j To Supervise Land
i Withdrawal Under Act
WASHINGTON, UP>—Delegate
' Bartlett today suggested appoint
ment of a special board to super
| of three BLM officers, or a joint
! Alaska under the mental health
I act.
The proposed regulation pro
I vides an authorized officer of the
Bureau of Land Management will
be the judge of what are “reason
able compact tracts . . .”
Bartlett wrote Asst. Secretary
of Interior Rogert Ernst that such
decisions may prove to be most
controversial, and questioned if
leaving them up to one man “may
not lead to considerable confu
sion, difficulties and recrimina
tion.”
He proposed creation of a board
of three BLM officers, or a joint
federal-territorial borad, to rule
on such issues. Bartlett said the
Alaska members of the board,
who would be in the minority,
could be named by Gov. Stepo
vich.
First U.S. Ships
Successfully Sail
Northwest Passage
BOSTON UP)—One Canadian and
three American vessels have com
pleted a voyage thru the storied
northwest passage. It was the first
time ships flying the American
flag had done so.
The Coast Guard here also said
last night that by late next month
the U.S. ships will become the
first to have sailed completely
around the North American con
tinent.
The ships are the Coast Guard
buoy tender Spar, based at Bris
tol, R.I.; the Bramble, based at
Maimi, and the Storis, of Juneau.
They were led by HMCS Labra
dor, a Canadian icebreaker.
The three vessels met the Lab
rador off Alaska in late June and
began negotiating the hazardous
passage. Enroute they dropped
supplies to radar stations along
the arctic route.
$273,000 Goes to
Territory From B.L.M.
JUNEAU—Gov. Mike Stepo
vich was presented with a check
last week in the amount of $273,
884.82 toy J. M. Honeywell, area
administrator of the Bureau of
Land Management.
This check represents the terri
tory’s share of receipts from min
eral leases on public domain lands
in Alaska for the period Jan. 1 to
June 30, 1957 which amounted to
$251,968.98 plus the income and
proceeds from Alaska school land
for the 1957 fiscal year, which
amounted to $21,915.84.
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Distinguished guests in Nome
| today included General Gilman
! Mudgett. commanding general of
the Alaska Command.
He was accompanied by Rep.
Robert L. Sikes, U.S. Congress
man from Florida, and Lt. Gen.
William Lawton of Ft Lewis, Wn.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker Calls
For Common Sense and Mutual
Trust Between Canada and U.S.
LIQUOR HOURS
REMAIN SAME
PETERSBURG, W—New regu
lations on opening and closing
hours of retail liquor outlets will
mean little in this solid south
eastern fishing community, one of
the 13 Alaska cities covered by
the edicts.
Operators of the town’s four
package stores and two public
bars have agreed not to open on
Sundays.
They also said they would not
extend weekday business hours
much past the 11 p.m. closing
time in effect here before the
Territorial Board of Liquor Con
trol set the new hours last week.
The Elks and Moose Club might
keep their bars open until mid
night during the week and until
1 a.m. on Sunday mornings. But
club managers said they had no
intention of remaining open until
2 a.m. during the week and until
3 a.m. on Sundays, as is now per
mitted thruout the territory. %
PRESIDENT
SIGNS CIVIL
RIGHTS BILL
NEWPORT, R.I., UP)—President
Eisenhower today signed into law
the history-making civil rights
bill empowering the federal gov
ernment to enforce the right to
vote with court injunctions.
Only a group of photographers
and Press Secretary James Hag
eryt witnessed the signing. The
President used six pens. He issued
no statement.
The quiet signing came against
the background of the tense inte
gration crisis at Little Rock, Ark.
However, the bill Eisenhower
signed is primarily a right-to
vote measure which has no direct
bearing on that crisis.
The new law repeals a post
Civil War era bill authorizing the
President to use troops to enforce
court orders in civil rights cases.
But Administration officials ob
viously feel Eisenhower has other
powers for the handling of that
situation.
Aside from broad new powers
to enforce voting rights, the new
law will also:
Establish a six-member presi
dential commission to make a
two-year study in the civil rights
field;
Provide for a new assistant at
torney general to head and make
stronger the civil rights division
in the Justice Department.
Eliminate the requirement that
federal court jurors be qualified
under the laws of states in which
they serve. This is designed to
make certain Negroes can serve
on federal juries.
» HANOVER, N.H., W>—Canada’s
Prime Minister, John Diefenba
ker, has called for an approach of
common sense, frankness and mu
tual trust in U.S.-Canadian rela
tions.
Canadians, he said, don’t like
being cut out of the wheat mar
ket by the U.S. program of dis
posing of surplus wheat.
They also don’t like vthe U.S.
tariffs on manufactured goods
and the nature of U.S. capital in
vestment in Canada, he said.
Diefenbaker addressed a sem
inar on Great Issues at Dart
mouth College. He was awarded
an honorary law doctorate.
He said he wanted to caution
the U.S. with “utmost frankness
and goodwill, and in the interests
of the fullest understanding”
against policies that could weaken
economically smaller free coun
tries, such as Canada..
Canada, he said is the United
States’ greatest customer. But he
complained the U.S. is buying
only raw materials or partially
manufactured materials from her
neighbor to the north because
“the U.S. tariff system prohibits
any major import of manufac
tured goods.”
The Prime Minister said U.S.
firms which invest in Canada
should be incorporated as Cana
dian companies and should make
stock available to Canadians.
Diefenbaker served notice, too,
vise land selections to be made by
in continental defense she is not
sacrificing her sovereignty over
the northern areas where air bas
es and radar lines have been set
up.
U.S. Bombers Track
Departing Soviet Jet
But Are Out-Distanced
LONDON, —The captain of a
Soviet jet airliner says two U.S.
bombers tried to shadow his plane
on its return from the United
States but he ran away from both
of them.
Moscow raidio said the TU-104
returned to Moscow from Mc
Guire air base, N.J., in 11 hours
13 minutes flying time for the
5,570-mile flight. The plane cruis
es at 450 to 500 mph. and can
make 560 mph.
The U.S. four-jet B-52 bomber
is rated in excess of 600 mph. %
U. S. weather reconnaissance
units, operating in the area of the
TU-104’s route home, fly World
War' II bombers with speeds of
about 300 mph.
“It was obvious that the Amer
icans were very interested in data
about our aircraft,” the Russian
captain said. He said one U.S.
four-engined plane measured the
climbing rate of the TU-104 and
later another tried to track the
Soviet jet in level flight. Both
were “soon left behind.”