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VOL. LXII No. 43 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1960Per Copy 154
Dog Races Start !
At 1 p.m. Saturday
On Front Street
Believe it or not, there is to be
snow on Front Street on Saturday
for the Nome Dog Derby, which
starts in front of the Alaska Air
lines at 1 p.m. in the afternoon.
The weatherman said so, and he
ought to know.
There are 11 entries already
signed up at the registration desk
at Morgan and Son, and more are
known to be in town ready to
sign up.
Those already entered include:
Willie Takak, from Shaktoolik;
Edwin Punguk, Golovin; Fred Ok
leasik, Teller; Wilbur Sampson,
Noorvik; Eddie Gallahorn, Kotze
bue; Aaron Simon, White Moun
tain; Alfred Adams, Koyuk, and
Paul Tocktoo, Nome.
The route will go east from the
North Star Bakery to Steadman
and turn up to the trail from
Steadman Ave. It will return the
same route.
Children’s races will also be on
Front Street if possible. They will
start immediately after the last
team goes out on First Ave. W.
There will be separate races for
boys and girls, with one dog, in
a series of elimination events on
both Saturday and Sunday, with
cash prizes for the winners. Chil
dren must not have reached their
12th birthday and MUST register
at Morgan’s before 10 a.m. on
Saturday.
Four Escape Injury In
Crash of Light Plane
Near Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, UPl — Four per
sons escaped injury yesterday
when a small plane overturned
while making an emergency land
ing near Anchorage.
The plane, a PA-22, was piloted
by Elmer Smith of Aleknigik.
The passengers included his wife
and two children.
The Air Force at Elmendorf
said the plane flipped over on a
Cook Inlet beach between Lake
Clark Pass and Tyonek when
Smith was forced to land, appar
ently due to engine trouble.
An Air Force helicopter was
sent to retrieve the Smith.s
Their plight has been reported
by an unidentified civilian pilot
flying in the area.
New Prince Christened
At Buck'ngham Palace
LONDON, UP — With water
from the River Jordan, the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geof
frey Fisher, today christened
Queen Elizabeth’s infant son, An
drew Albert Christiah Edward.
The first two names were for
grandfathers of the 7-week-old
royal prince. The last two were
for this great-great grandfathers,
King Christian IX of Denmark
and King Edward VII.
Limited to close friends of the
Queen and her husband, Prince
Philip, the ceremony took place
in Buckingham Palace. At the
Queen’s order, no photographs
were taken for publication — a
distinct departure from custom.
Wilke Requests Recount
Of Tuesday’s Mayor Vote ;
Roscoe Wilke has announced he j
will challenge the returns on the :
recent election tor office of Mayor
of Nome. He sates that he is filing
a written statement requesting the
City Council to make the recount
inasmuch that the contest hinges j
on one vote. The returns were 300
votes for Steffen Andersen and
299 for Roscoe Wilk. One ballot
was rejected, it was reported, and
of the total ballots cast, 19 other
ballots were not counted for this
office.
Two Large Planes Limp
In from Honolulu Run
SAN FRANCISCO, UP>—A C-124
Globemaster bounced safely into
Hamilton AFB, 20 miles north of
here, Thursday night — “on about
an engine and a half.”
Less than 30 minutes later, an
other huge Military Air Transport
Service plane, a C-121 Constella
tion, landed at Travis AFB, across
the bay, with one of its four en
gines out. Both planes were in
bound from Hawaii.
The Globemaster, a four-engine
craft, carried 11 crewmen. The
Constellation carried 84 passen
gers and crew.
It’s not uncommon for the big
planes to continue safely to their
destination with one engine gone.
But the boys in the control towers
had their fingers crossed as they
talked the Globemaster home.
Capt. James R. Kolb, the Globe
master pilot, jettisoned 14 tons of
cargo and asked for help.
The Coast Guard sent two planes
to meet the rapidly descending
plane. The crew prepared to
ditch but the Globemaster re
ported it was holding altitude at
1,500 feet and could make Hamil
ton.
Docile Negroes
Accept New South
Africa Restrictions
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica, UP) — The South African |
government appeared today to,
have blunted Negro defiance of
its racial policy but there was no
letup in the official crackdown.
The African National Congress
and the Pan Africanist Congress
— the only two Negro political
groups of any note — were banned
for one year. The government
acted under emergency legislation
rushed through Parliament after
widespread Negro reaction to the
police killing of 72 demonstrators
nearly three weeks ago.
The government also called up
more military reservists, although
the Negro stay-home strike was
waning.
The situation throughout the
nation was more nearly normal
than at any time since Negro dem
onstrations against carrying passes
flared into violence three weeks
ago.
Thousands of Negroes who
burned their passes at the height
of the campaign of defiance ap
plied for new ones. They must
have these “internal passports” to
move around or work.
Workers streamed in and out
of Johannesburg and most other
cities Thursday without trouble.
Most Negroes appeared to be
working in disregard of the cam
paign of militant leaders to keep
them at home until government
repealed the pass law.
But the calm that prevailed over
the nation was uneasy.
With most of their leaders
jailed, the Negroes so far accepted
with outward docility the revival
of the pass law, which was sus
j pended temporarily.
Top Politicians Read Little In The Signs
From Kennedy's Victory in Wisconsin
They’re still taling about the
Wisconsin primary, and what it
means seems to depend on which
party the spokesman belongs to.
Here are some late comments:
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New
York (Republican!; “it didn’t
sound very decisive for anyone.
I wouldn’t draw any conclusions
from it. I don’t think any major
trends can be drawn.”
However, the Governor said in
New York Thursday, the heavy
Democratic vote in Wisconsin
Tuesday showed “the Republicans
are a minority party in terms of
registration. We might as well
face it.”
Gov. Edmund Brown of Cali
fornia (Democrat): Vice President
Richard Nixon was “the big
loser.” “The Vice President,”
Brown said, was running un
opposed in his own party’s pri
mary, yet drew only 30 per cent of
the total vote in a state where
the Republican vote is tradition
ally heavy.”
Adlai Stevenson (Democrat): “I
congratulate Sen. John Kennedy
(D-Mass) on his victory in Wiscon
sin and also Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey (D-Minn) on his splendid
showing. The total Democratic
vote in Wisconsin was another
I sign that the people demand a
strong liberal candidate and that
the Democrats are on their way
to victory in November.”
Kennedy, who got 56 per cent
of the Democratic vote and car
ried six of 10 Congressional dis
tricts in Wisconsin, was stumping
Thursday in Indiana. He cut his
tour short, however, and flew to
Washington in case the civil
rights bill came up for a final vote
in the Senate today.
Humphrey planned a folksy,
hand-shaking tour of some West
Virginia coal fields today, looking
toward that state’s primary May
10. Again he’ll be up against
Kennedy, and he said, “This time
it’s my turn.”
Rockefeller, speaking at James
town, N. Y., Thursday night,
called for fellow Republicans to
join him in a statewide crusade
in support of the national ticket.
But again he did not mention
Nixon, the only GOP Presidential
candidate in sight.
Asked toy newsmen whether he
would reconsider heading the
ticket himself, Rockefeller said,
“We will odoss that bridge if it
comes.” Rockefeller reiterated he
would not run for Vice President
“under any circumstances.”
Cencus Bureau Official
Meets with Local Crew
Mr. Joe Lahler, technical officer
of the Census Bureau, met with
local crew leaders and enumera
tors here this week to see how the
work was progressing. It is esti
mated, stated Mrs. Don Hoover,
leader for the area, that about
one-third of the community has
been tabulated.
No figures can be released
here, she stated, by the local
group, but it is hoped that there
will be some approximate figures
available next month.
Mrs. Evelyn Conwell, crew
leader for Kotzebue, was also
here for the conference.
Citizen Rebels
Against Census
DETROIT, U?i — “The govern
ment has never done anything for
me. Why should I do anything for
the government?” says George
Kido. And that includes answer
ing a census taker’s questions.
Kido, who lives in suburban
Sterling, his wife and Janet Vu
kovich got into a fuss this week
when Mrs. Vukovich called at the
Kido home to pick up a census
form.
Mrs. Kido answered the door.
“I asked Mrs. Vukovich to sit
in the kitchen but she plunked
herself down in the living room,”
said Mrs. Kido. ‘'I answered some
of her questions, but her attitude
provoked me.”
Kido became angry when Mrs.
Vukovich asked him about bath
room facilities in his home, then
handed him an additional census
form to fill out. He escorted Mrs.
Vukovich to the door and tossed
the form out after her.
Mrs. Vukovich, her supervisor,
Helene Zimmerman, and a state
policeman went to the Kido home
the following day and were or
dered out. They left.
Mrs. Zimmerman said that
when she told Kido he was liable
to a $100 fine and 60 days in jail
for not answering he told her:
“Go ahead and prosecute.”
The matter has been turned
over to the Regional Census Di
rector, who says records show that
in 170 years, the Census Bureau
hasn’t had to prosecute anyone
for refusing to answer questions.
Weather Satellite Sends
Back Pictures of Earth
WASHINGTON, «P) — The
space agency today released new
pictures from the Tiros I weather
satellite showing great stretches
of the area around the Mediter
ranean Sea and one view of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence.
At the same time it was dis
closed that the tape recorder for
one of the two cameras aboard
the satellite has been in trouble
since Saturday. Only direct view
pictures, not stored on tape, now
are obtainable from the narrow
angle camera which shows a
smaller area but more detail.
None of the pictures given out
today showed any Soviet or Red
Chinese territory, though Tiros I
has passed repeatedly over parts
of those countries.
Governor Changes
His Mind On
Labor Chief
JUNEAU, (UP) — Governor Egan
changed his mind again Wednes
day and decided to accept the
resignation of Labor Commissioner
Lewis Dischner.
The Governor’s Office said
Egan advised Dischner, now in
Fairbanks, of the decision by tele
phone. The resignation is effec
tive April 15.
Egan said Bjorn (Gil) Johnson
of Juneau will serve as acting
commissioner succeeding Disch
ner on April 16.
Johnson has served as adminis
trative assistant to Dischner since
last July. He is a member of the
Fairbank Carpenters local and
has a law degree from Gonzaga
University.
Cost-of-Living
Index Will Be
Extended to Alaska
SEATTLE, W) — Studies will be
conducted from now until June 30
in Anchorage and Fairbanks to
bring Alaska under the Depart
ment of Labor cost-of-living
index.
Charles A. Roumessett, acting
regional director of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, said Mrs.
Anne Schmitz, the bureau’s re
gional price economist, will direct
the preliminary work.
When the processing of data in
Anchorage and Fairbanks is com
pleted, the index for the cities
will be compared with housing,
consumer spending and prices ex
isting in Seattle, Roumasett said.
Four supervisors now in train
ing in Washington, D. C., will re
cruit and train part-time person
nel in Alaska to collect informa
tion from householders on spend
ing for “volume items” such as
food and clothing.
Information will be obtained on
retail store prices on “volume
items.” Information already has
been collected on housing in the
two cities, including boeth owner
ship and rental.
Man Impaled With Bridge
Railing Lives to Tell
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., (UP)
— A man who had 138 feet of
rusty bridge railing pass through
his body — and lived — has been
released from the hospital.
Bruce E. Wixon, 24, of nearby
Barryton, left Community Hospital
Thursday.
Wyton was hurt March 27 when
his car skidded on a bridge near
his home and struck the guard
rail. The rusty 1 Vi-inch rail
smashed through the front of the
car, went through the right side
of Wixon’s body and continued on
through the auto.
N. Y. Police Go Lion-Hunling
NEW YORK, UP) — Police are
on the hunt for a pair of 80-pound
lions more than 100 years old.
The animals are bronze figures
that formerly rested in the lobby
of the New York Institute of
Technology. Police hope their dis
appearance was just a student
prank.