SSI NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 28 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1956 _Per Copy—15^
Local Contractors
Allocated $80,000
'For Route 97 Work
At the Chamber of Commerce
luncheon Tuesday, Dewey Good
rich gave an excellent report on
road construction for the coming
year.
He said $170,000 would be al
located to the Alaska Road Com
mission for their portion ot con
struction on Route 97, locally
called the Nome River Road. He
also said $80,000 is to be allocated
to local contractors on the same
project.
Mr. Goodrich, the Second Div
ision member of the Territorial
Board of Road Commissioners,
recommended that the A.R.C. per
form the advance work in prepar
ing the right of way, culverts,
ditching, etc., and that bids be
let for surfacing and grading of
the road from the point where the
work stopped last fall. This con
tract is to be let on a yai-dage
basis with the contractor furnish
ing guaranteed bond.
It was announced that the
membership drive would get
under way immediately under the
chairmanship of Ben Young.
Other special committees ap
pointed included—for the Alaska
Visitors Assn, membership drive:
Thomas Martin, chairman, Paul
Mandeville, Chuck Reader, and
Barbara Anderson.
On the local information pam
phlet were—John McNees, Emily
Boucher, Bill Barber, and John
nie Stephanson.
George Weyer was added to the
standing committee on Transport-"
ation.
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Unions and Contractors
Start Negotiations on
Master Plan for Alaska
ANCHORAGE, UPV—Representa
tives of seven construction unions
and the Associated General Con
tractors (AGO began negotiations
yesterday on a 1956 master agree
ment for Alaska.
AGC officials attending the
meeting include Larry Moore, the
manager of the Alaska chapter of
the AGC and the AGC labor nego
tiations committee.
A master wage and working
condition agreement is expected
to be worked out for these crafts
at the current meeting.
Byrd Will Discuss
Antarctic Claims
In Washington
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., W>—Rear
Adm. Richard E. Byrd says he
will discuss claims to land in Ant
arctica with officials in Wash
ington.
Byrd, director of the U.S. Ant
arctic Expedition, arrived last
night from Panama and said he
plans to leave Friday for Wash
ington.
“We will discuss claims to the
land that we explore,” Byrd said,
but he declined to say whether he
would recommend the land be
claimed for the United States.
Byrd said there had been no
friction with the Russians or other
nations in Antarctica.
“What communications we’ve
had with the Russian explorers
have been satisfactory and no con
flicts have arisen,” he said.
Byrd said about 200 men are
now in Antarctica, representing
Russia, Argentina, New Zealand,
Australia and the United States.
Eisenhower Says U.S. Foreign Policy
Must Meet Red’s Shift in Cold War
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, UP>—President
Eisenhower today held open the
possibility of inviting Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin to visit the United
States. But Eisenhower said he
had not given the matter any
thought.
Eisenhower also told a news
conference he thought the whole
government would have to study
more deeply the possible need of
changes in U.S. foreign policy to
meet Russia’s new political and
economic offensives against free
nations.
The United States, he said, must
always have a logical, solid, well
thought-out program in which its
friends can believe.
The possibility of a Bulganin
visit arose when Eisenhower was
asked whether there would be
“any benefit in your inviting him
to visit here.”
The questioner pointed out Bul
ganin had expressed a friendly re
action to Eisenhower’s new letter
asking negotiations for a freeze
on atomic weapons production.
Eisenhower’s letter was re
leased by the White House yester
day and within a few hours Bul
ganin told reporters in Moscow
“it was a very interesting letter
and a good one.” He added it
would require much study, noting
he received it only on Monday.
Bulganin said he would reply
to Eisenhower’s letter as soon as
possible.
In summing up policy problems
in the new phase of the cold war,
Eisenhower said he did not be
lieve any American would want
to be weak on the military side,
but the government certainly re
quired more flexibility in eco
nomic policy to meet the new
Soviet thrusts.
Eisenhower, in general, said he
thought the world has awakened
.to the fact that a global war is
getting well nigh unthinkable.
That means some different di
rections in the development of tty
contest which is called the cold
war, he said.
Administration officials said
meanwhile this country will make
several new disarmament propos
als to Russia and the western
powers later this month. The
move would be in line with Eisen
hower’s appeal in the Bulganin
letter to bring “under control the
nuclear threat” hanging over the
world.
Nanooks Win One
And Lose One
In Tournament
ANCHORAGE — The Nome
High School Nanooks basketball
team won their first encounter in
the tournament going on here.
Mnoday they downed the Valdez
Buccaneers 48 to 36. Willie Will
oya scored 19 points, Korky Kost,
8, and Jake Titus, 8.
Coach Bill Ullrich reported to
the Nugget that the Nanooks were
slow in getting started but that
they finished strong.
Tuesday—The Nanooks lost the
second game to the Cordova team
58 to 53 in the final minutes of
play.
Scoring for the Nanooks were:
Willie Willoya 20, Chuck Fager
strom 15, Bob Dunbar 8.
Coach Ullrich said after this
game: “We’ll really have to play
ball from now on.”
The Nanooks play Wasilla in
today’s game.
Wilson Considers
Ordering Step-Up
In B-52 Production
WASHINGTON, UP)—Secretary
of Defense Wilson says he is
thinking of ordering a step-up in
the production rate of the B-52,
an all-jet bomber with a conti
nent-to-continent striking range.
But, Wilson told his news con
ference yesterday, any such move
would not involve an increase in
planned defense spending. The
rates of military plane production
are secret.
Several Democratic senators
have kept up nmning criticism of
administration defense policies,
contending the Pentagon is allow
ing this country to lag behind
Russia in development of modern
weapons such as long-range mis
siles.
In a backhanded slap at his
critics, Wilson said: Let’s get go
ing ahead working at the missile
business and not talk so much
about it.”
He described the missile as
“only one weapon” in the Ameri
can defense arsenal and said its
importance has been overstressed
as a result of the controversy
over the development program.
Some Democrats have described
the intercontinental ballistics mis
sile, goal of much present rocket
research, as the “ultimate weap
on.”
Hurricane Hits Australia
BRISBANE, Australia, UP>—A
90-mile-an-hour hurricane bat
tered North Queensland yesterday
and caused an estimated $2V\ mil
lion damage. The storm was de
scribed as one of the worst on
record.
HIGH WINDS BLOW AWAY
AIRPORT'S WIND GAUGE
PALM SPRINGS. Calif., UP)—
Wind gusts were so strong yes
terday they blew away the airport
wind guage. Their velocity was
estimated at 100 mph.
It’s Up To Nixon Whether He W ants
To Bid for Vice Presidency Again
Two-Year-Old Found
Unharmed After Night
Wedged Under Porch
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., W—
Looking like “a little lump of
sand,” a 21^-year-old girl was
found unharmed after spending a
chilly night wedged under a porch
five blocks from home.
A bath, hot soup and milk re
stored little Virginia Gardner at
Desert Hospital yesterday, but she
was kept there for observation.
About 150 searchers, including
millionaires, Indians and police,
looked high and low in the desert
resort for more than 18 hours af
ter Virginia disappeared Monday
night.
A laborer, Jess Garnica, said he
“heard a baby crying somewhere”
and when he traced the sound he
found Virginia under a porch,
covered by drifted sand. Appar
ently she slept through a howling
windstorm during which the tem
perature dropped to 30 degrees.
Police Sgt. Dale Thompson re
marked upon her resemblance to
a “lump of sand."
“She can’t tell us how it hap
pened but it doesn’t matter, not
now,” said her happy father, Wil
liam Gardner, a postal clerk.
Brothers’ Brains
Win Them $32,000
On TV Quiz Show
NEW YORK, UP)—The brother
braintrust from Hartford, Conn.—
James L. and William E. Egan—
have won $32,000 by answering
questions in any and all categories
on a televisiin quiz show.
The hefty lawyers reached the
half-way mark on CBS’ “The
$64,000 Question” program last
night by identifying the works
and authors after being given the
names of nine characters in Eng
lish literature.
It was the 10th question for
William, 43 and weighing 360
pounds, and James, 40, and 260
pounds.
The Egans will return to the
program next Tuesday night to
tell whether they will try for the
$64,000 grand prize. The question
will be in the popular music cate
gory. At that level they will have
the option of bringing along an
expert of their own choosing to
advise them.
The literary characters they
were given last night and the
works and authors they named:
Heathcliff, of Emily Bronte’s
“Wuthering Heights.” Claudius—
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Lord
Stcyne, of Thackeray’s “Vanity
Fair.” Young Marlow, of Gold
smith’s “She Stops to Conquer.”
Michael Henchard, of Hardy’s
“The Mayor of Casterbridge.”
Christian, of Bunyan’s “Pilgrim's
Progress.” Zenocrate, of Mar
lowe’s “Tamburlaine the Great.”
Patient Griselda, from Chaucer’s
“Clerk’s Tale” in the “Canterbury
Tales.” Jeanie Dean, in Scott’s
“The Heart of Midlothian.”
7 By MARVIN ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Eisenhower said today he has
asked Vice President Nixon to
chart his own course as to wheth
er he wants to bid for another
term.
At a news conference, Eisen
hower declined to say whether he
would favor Nixon as his running
mate if the vice president should
decide he would like to try for
another term.
Eisenhower said he was not go
ing to be pushed into a corner on a
hypothetical question. But he said
he has no criticism whatsoever of
Nixon as a man; as an associate or
as his running mate.
The first question put to Eisen
hower today dealt with what a
reporter called published ^reports
that some of Eisenhower’s advis
ers were urging him to dump Nix
on from the Republican ticket this
year, and that—secondly—t h e
President himself was reported to
have suggested to Nixon that he
consider standing aside this time
and perhaps taking a cabinet post.
Eisenhower hesitated momen
tarily. Then he said forcefully if
anyone ever has the effrontery to
suggest to him that he dump
someone like Nixon, there would
be more commotion around his
office than perhaps ever before.
As for whether he himself had
suggested Nixon consider stand
ing aside this year, Eisenhower
said emphatically he would not
presume to tell the vice president
what he should do.
Eisenhower then said he has
told Nixon that he should be one
of the comers in the Republican
Party—that he is young, vigorous,
healthy and deeply dedicated.
At his news conference last
week, Eisenhower said he would
have nothing to say about his
choice of a running mate until the
Republican National Convention
meets in San Francisco in August.
He coupled that with a remark
that it is traditional for the con
vention to pick its presidential
nominee before there is any talk
of a running mate.
Line of Taxpayers Is
Company for Tippler
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., —A
garrulous fellow fell in line with
taxpayers waiting to make out
their returns at the Internal Rev
enue Service office.
Joking with those nearest him,
he reached the head of the line.
Then he headed to a rest room. In
a moment he returned and took
his turn at the end.
Again he reached the head of
the line. Again he left for the rest
room. That kept up for a couple
of hours.
Finally a government worker
trailed him into the rest room and
watched him lift a bottle of liquor
from his coat and take a swig.
The explanation?
“Well,” said the mystery man,
“You see I don’t like to drink
alone, and I saw this line of peo
ple, so I just fell in.”