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__OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVII No. 107 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1955 Per Copy—15^ .
Alaska Bush Pilot
Regulations Will
Be Reviewed
WASHINGTON, Ufi—A member
of the Civil Aeronautics Board in
dicated today the board would
study complaints that regulations
governing Alaska bush pilots and
operations are too stringent.
Josh Lee, of the CAB, comment
ed in an interview upon his re
turn from summer flights in the
Pacific area.
Lee said he had discussed Alas
ka aviation problems with bush
pilots and bush-plane owners, and
that some of them complained
that regulations were excessively
stringent.
“We have not had time to get
around to some of those problems
yet,” he said, “but we will.”
Lee said Alaskans seemed hap
py that the CAB had renewed the
operating authority of the four
airlines operating between Alaska
and Seattle-Tacoma.
He said civic groups of Anchor
age and Fairbanks are seeking to
interest the Scandinavian Airlines
System in serving their cities on
the proposed polar route between
Scandinavia and Japan.
George Ahgapuk Burned
By Hot Asphalt on Roofing
Job In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE — George Ahga
puk, 44, well-known Eskimo art
ist, was burned on the face and
forearms last Saturday when
struck by a kettle of asphalt on
. a roofing job at Ninth and Gam
bell. He was taken to Providence
Hospital where he was reported
as “doing well.”
Ahgapuk was employed on the
roofing job when he was injured.
St. Lawrence Island
Guardsmen Awarded
Citations By U.S. Army
In an impressive ceremony yes
terday afternoon at 5 o’clock in
front of the Federal Building, 13
men from Gambell were awarded
citations for meritorious service
by the U. S. Army in Alaska.
The awards were made by Gen.
John Noyes, adjutant general of
the Alaska National Guard for
Gen. Collins of the Alaska Com
mand. The men were from Gam
bell, on St. Lawrence Island, and
members of the 1st Scout Bat
talion, Alaska National Guard,
who participated in the rescue
of airmen from a Navy patrol
bomber shot down by Russian
planes last June.
Two of the men, M/Sgt. Willis
Walunga and Sgt. Clifford Ok
nokinok, were awarded citations
for directing rescue operations.
Eleven other men of the battalion
were given letters of commenda
tion for their part in the rescue.
Following the presentation cere
friony, a retreat ceremony was
performed and the men were then
taken back to their encampment
at Dexter.
An interesting sidelight of the
Dexter encampment is that 35
men from Savoonga made the
overland hike from their village
to the airstrip at Gambell in order
to take part in the encampment.
The men made the 90-mile trip,
'with full military packs in about
two and a half days.
STATESIDE WEATHER
Somewhat cooler air spread
over the area from the Rockies
westward and from New England
to the Carolinas. Hot weather
spread eastward, deeper into the
Midwest, after running the mer
cury past the 100-degree mark
yesterday in parts of Kansas and
Nebraska.
Internationally Renowned Artist Here
To Study Eskimo Life for Paintings
A noted painter of more than
40 years’ experience is now in
Nome on the realization of a 15
year-old dream—that of captur
ing on canvas the life span of
the original Alaskans, from birth
to death.
Christian von Schneidau, ar
rived here yesterday from Kotze
bue, and he is busy sketching the
natives of the King Island Village.
Before going to Kotzebue he
spent over a month at Point
Hope sketching the natives there
and he has a portfolio of draw
ings in crayon which he will later
paint in oils when he has more
time.
With Von Schneidau is his at
tractive wife, Signe, who has been
the subject of a number of his
prize-winning oils.
The couple drove to Alaska over
the highway in their trailer-truck
which is now at Fairbanks.
Von Schneidau said he will not
be able to spend as much time
here as he’d like but that he will
return as soon as he can. He in
tends to spend the next year and
a half sketching and painting in
Alaska.
While in Kotzebue he was in
vited by Jack Bullock to make the
trip up the Yukon River from
Tanana to Fort Yukon on one of
Bullock’s river boats and the
painter considers it too good an
opportunity to miss.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
is OPPORTUNITY for ALASKA
Convention convenes November 8th, 1955.
Election of Delegates September 13th.
Your vote shows your interest—Vote wisely.
Your vote for me September 13th will be appreciated.
—John A. “Mac” McNees
DELEGATE FROM THE NINTH DISTRICT
Vote September 13th Election
For Your Delegates To The Alaska State
Constitutional Convention
VOTE for ART (ARTHUR D.) JOHNSON
September 13th as your Delegate, District No. 7,
Alaska Stale Constitutional Convention
Born at Haycock, Alaska, 35 years ago.
Raised and schooled in the Second Division.
Served four years in the Armed Service.
Ten years actively serving you as a bush pilot.
Lives at Unalakleet where he is raising his family.
Knows Alaska’s problems and will serve intelligently
as your Delegate. .
Vote for ART (Arthur D.) JOHNSON
SEPTEMBER 13th
Voluntary Contributions
Made by Townspeople To
Nome School-Boy Patrol
Chief Carl Webb reported to
day that he has received several
voluntary contributions by towns
people for his proposed school
boy patrol. Webb said that about
$100 would be required to outfit
the patrol with white caps, re
flective belts and badges and that
any monies left over from this
fund would be applied on the
high-jinks program to take the
'place of trick-or-treat on Hal
loween this year.
The Chief said the unsolicited
contributions were much appreci
ated and that he will be glad to
accept any more such donations.
Webb said he plans to call a
meeting next week of all inter
ested parties to discuss plans for
the school-boy patrol and the
Halloween high-jinks.
Radford Denies Any Cut in Basie
Military Program of $37,750,000,000
By Marvin L. Arrowsmilh
DENVER, (#—Adm. Arthur W.
Radford said after a conference
with President Eisenhower today
“there will be no changes in the
basic military program calling for
defense spending of about $37,
750,000,000 this fiscal year.
Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, told newsmen
that reports of a cut contemplated
in that program “are not correct.”
Radford, Eisenhower’s top mil
itary advisor, also differed with
former President Truman. A re
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porter told the admiral that Tru
man, in a Chicago speech today,
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had said the Eisenhower Adminis
tration was making “unjustified
and most dangerous cuts” in the
nation’s mlitary power.”
“I don’t know of any such ac
tions and I think I would know
about them,” Radford replied,
adding he wanted to make it clear
he did not read Truman’s speech.
“I think we have basically a
very sound military program,”
Radford said. “From the stand
point of security, the country was
never better off.”
Radford came to Eisenhower’s
vacation headquarters here to dis
cuss national security problems
with the President. The admiral
declined to go into any detail
about those programs, but did say
in response to a question, that he
and the Chief Executive did some
talking about military spending.
Radford added that he also dis
cussed the possibility of trimming
defense spending next year, but
he recalled that Wilson told Con
gress earlier this year that he
looked for military spending to
continue in the neighborhood of
at least $34 billion a year “for an
indefinite time.” Radford said to
day he sees it that way, too.
His statement that “there will
be no changes in the basic mili
tary program was prompted by a
reporter’s question with respect
to published reports that the Pen
tagon was contemplating an ex
penditure reduction of about one
billion dollars.
In calling those reports “not
correct,” Radford went on to say
that “we are continuously look
ing” for ways to save money.
He said his conference with Eis-.
enhower was not prompted by
any emergency.
Helicopters Rescue 26
From Ice-Trapped Sealer;
Six Drift With Ship
ST. JOHNS, Nfld., —Helicop
ters of the U.S. Air Force airlifted
26 men from the ice-trapped Nor
fegian seal catcher Jopeter off
Greenland yesterday. Capt. Kurt
Nakken and a skeleton crew of
six remained behind to keep vigil
aboard the helpless ship.
Capt. Nakken and his men will
await the arrival of the Kista Dan,
a Danish all-purpose arctic vessel.
The 486-ton Jopeter, minus her
propeller, drifted slowly south
ward with the ice off the desolate
coast of Greenland.
Evacuation of the 26 passengers
and crew members ended an op
eration that began Saturday but
dragged through the week, de
layed by poor weather and the
Jopeter’s efforts to save herself.
She had battered through 26
miles of ice when her propeller
broke off six miles from open
water.
Navy’s Winning Nip-and-Tuck Race
With Ice in Far North Radar Sites
WASHINGTON, UP)—Navy offi-<
cials have expressed confidence
they are winning a nip-and-tuck
race with the arctic ice to get a
half million tons of equipment in
place for construction of the far
north radar warning network.
Three-quarters of the tonnage
of steel and other building equip
ment and supplies already are
ashore at strategic points along
the arc of the continent’s rim that
stretches westward from Baffin
Island, the Military Sea Trans
portation Service said yesterday.
But along a 400-mile coastline
stretching eastward from Point
Barrow, on the northern tip of
Alaska, and in Foxe Basin, west
of Baffin Island, ships are still
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struggling to drive through ice
and get loads ashore.
Along that northern coastal
area the huge ice pack usually
backs off from shore under sum
mer winds. This year the winds
have been perverse, pushing the
pack out one day, sending it
grinding in the next.
The ice breakers and MSTS
ships are compelled to hurry in
during the brief periods of open
water, unload as much cargo as
possible, then get out quickly.
Before the cargo carriers could
penetrate the lonely, narrow wat
ers between the Canadian main
land and the islands lying to the
north—like Coronation and Queen
Maud Gulfs—charts had to be
prepared. No maps of use for nav
igating ships, showing the water -
depths, existed.
A Canadian officer, Capt. O. C.
S. Robertson, aboard the Canadi
an icebreaker Labrador, has been
supervising operations in Foxe
Basin, making an end run around
ice fields to head for a landing
area.
Bulldozers clearing sites on the
Melville Peninsula have uncov
ered ancient Eskimo dwellings,
built with whale ribs and some
believed to have been constructed
a-bout 900 A.D.
Five Argentine Officers
Accused of Plotting
Revolt Against Peron
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, lff>
—An army general accused with
four other high-ranking officers
of plotting a rebellion against
President Peron was reported to
be under arrest today.
Authorative sources said Brig.
Gen. Delmiro Felix Videla Bala
guer, head of the Rio Cuarto Gar
rison, was being held at the 3rd
Motorized Regiment headquarters
on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
These informants said it was
likely Balaguer’s associates in the
first reported military plot since
the abortive June 16 revolt were
also under arrest in garrisons
near the capital.
Argentines learned of the accu
sations against the five army offi
cers yesterday when a Peronista
newspaper published on its inside
pages an order for them to appear
for a hearing on charges of con
spiracy.
The notice was dated Wednes
day and warned the five if they
did not appear within three days
they faced the “penalty of being
declared rebels.”
It was the fourth reported con
spiracy against Peron this year.