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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 4 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958 Per Copy—15*
March of Dimes
Campaign Starts
The annual March of Dimes
campaign is now on in Alaska as
well as over the States.
This year the work of this area
will be better organized as the
Second Division now has a chap
ter organized with Mary Andersen
as its chairman. The chapter is
named Sah Yung Ah Tim Min,
which in Eskimo means “strength
gone from the body.” -*•
Villages in this area are being
contacted to establish a better
knowledge of their needs in rela
tion to infantile paralysis and its
prevention.
Concentrated effort is being
made to make people in this area
aware of the need of polio shots
and how and when to get them.
A circular with this information
is being sent to all villages which
seek it. It also tells who must pay
and who is eligible for free shots.
A film will be shown shortly at
the Nomerama Theater showing
many of the phases of polio.
A benefit basketball game with
a visiting ANG basketball team
to participate from Juneau in Feb
ruary is scheduled.
Containers will be placed in
business houses for your dimes.
Other special money raising
plans will be announced during
the month.
CAB Hearing Called for
Pan American Crash
WASHINGTON, l#)—1The Civil
Aerqnautics Board today called a
public hearing for Jan. 25 in San
Francisrtj on the crash of a Pan
American Stratocruiser in mid
Pacific Nov. 8.
The Boeing 377 transport went
down enroute from San Francisco
to Honolulu carrying 36 passen
gers and a crew of eight.
On Nov. 14 and 15 the aircraft
carrier Philippine Sea recovered
19 bodies and small pieces of the
wreckage about 900 miles north
east of Honolulu. I
Ketchikan Wins
All-America
City Award
NEW YORK, W)—Ketchikan,
Alaska, and Vancouver, Wash.,
are among 11 winners of All
America City Awards for 1957, the
co-sponsoring Municipal League
and Look magazine announced
today.
Ketchikan was cited for the
manner in which its citizens met
frontier problems and now is
“harvesting, the fruits of a long
term campaign to modernize the
city.”
The citation said “the Alaska
community has adopted a modern
council-manager form of govern
ment, broadened its economic base
with a $56,000,000 pulp mill and,
I in nine years, has made more
: public works improvements than
j in the previous 50.”
U.S. Jet Forced
Down by Albania
PARIS, Iff)—The U.S. embassy
today asked France to get infor
mation on a U.S. Air Force jet'
pilot forced down in Communist
Albania.
The pilot is Maj. Howard J. B.
Curran of Iratt, Kan., and Taco
ma, Wash., who disappeared on
Dec. 23 in a T-33 trainer on a flight
from France to Naples.
The U.S. has no diplomatic re
lations with Albania but France
has a legation there. The French
performed a similar mission for
Britain when the Albanians on
New Year’s Eve forced down a
British cargo plane.
COSMOPOLITAN CLIENTELLE
CONCORD, N.H., UP>—Coins from
Russia, Belgium, France, Holland,
Germany, Argentina, El Salvador,
the Philippines, Portugal, Burma,
Dutch East Indies, Panama, Tu
nisia, Turkey and Yugoslavia were
collected recently from parking
meters, police reported yesterday.
Kremlin Maintains Silence on Report Russia Has Fired
Man-Carrying Rocket 186 Miles High and Got Him Back
MOSCOW, WV-The Kremlin kept
silent today on unofficial reports
that Russia has fired a man-car
rying rocket about 186 miles high
and got the passenger back to
earth.
The official blackout aroused
speculation that the rocket exper
iment, if it did happen, may not
have been a complete success.
The Foreign Ministry, the State
Committee for Cultural Relations
With Foreign Countries and the
spokesman for the Soviet Acade
my of Sciences all said they had
no information on the report.
(Western correspondents in the
Soviet capital reported difficulties
with censorship. Harold K. Milks,
AP bureau chief, advised that one
AP stdry was being held up. The
New York Times reported its cor
respondent in Moscow was cut off
during a phone conversation after
he said a rumor was circulating
that a rocket had been launched
with a man aboard.)
Nonofficial informants, who in
the past have proved reliable, said
the experiment took place a day
or so after Jan. 1 and that the
passenger parachuted back to
earth.
If verified, the experiment could
have as much or more scientific
import as the launching of the
dog-carrying Soviet satellite last
fall. It would mark another Soviet
triumph over the United States in
the space race.
The Moscow sources said the
Russian rocket man parachuted
successfully to earth. They didn’t
specify whether he was alive when
he landed, but newsmen inferred
that he was safe.
Washington reports noted that
a Soviet broadcast Sui^day gave a
fictional account of the launching
of a manned satellite into space
and a radio conversation between
the passenger and the ground sta
, tion.
The reported altitude of 186
miles, while not high enough to
escape gravity pull and put a
rocket into orbit, is nearly eight
times higher than any human has
ever gone.
The world altitude record of
126,000 feet, less than 24 miles,
was set in September 1956 by U.S.
Air Force Maj. Iven Kincheloe in
the X-2 experimental plane.
The U.S. Air Force said recently
it plans to send a man above 100
miles in a new rocket plane now
being built, the X-15. Kincheloe
told an interviewer Monday he
had been assigned to make the
flight within a year.
A human making the rocket
trip attributed to the Soviet pio
neer would hurtle thru the 70
below-zero chill of the strato
sphere into the withering heat of
the ionosphere, there to be bom
barded by cosmic rays and burn
ing X rays and ultra-violet rays
from the sun.
ENGINEERS’ SURVEY REVEALS
WATER-SEWER SYSTEM DETAILS
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The preliminary engineering re
port on Nome’s water and sewer
age system by the Philleo Engi
neering Service of Fairbanks has
been received by the city and
brings the community a step clos
er to its goal of having running
water winter and summer and a
sanitary sewage disposal.
The report points out the need
for the installation of public sew
ers and waste systems and shows
the feasibility of completing the
project long under consideration.
Soil description under populat- |
ed Nome is as follows:
Underneath Nome
“The built-up portion of the'
city is located on a knoll of per- j
manently frozen muck or silt!
about 15 feet or more in depth
which contains thin lenses of ice.
Below the muck lies a deep bed
of gravelly till, according to geo- |
logical reports. Shallow drill!
holes made last fall to a depth of :
12 feet indicated silt or sandy silt
in almost every case with season
Severe Winter Storm Strikes in
Northeast, Taking Toll of 27 Lives
i
NEW YORK, (ff)—A fierce win
ter storm which cost at least 27
lives moved northeast toward the
Canadian maritime provinces to
day after pummeling the East
Coast—from Maine to Florida—
with a staggering variety of ele
ments.
Weathermen termed it “one of
the most intense coastal stoims of
recent years.”
The tempest thrashed the sea
board with avalanches of snow,
Sentences Reversed on
Marines Accused of
Mistreating Prisoners.
YOKOSUKA, Japan, (ff>—'The
U.S. Navy announced today that
convictions of four marines, one
I of them from Alaska, charged with
mistreating Navy prisoners at the
Sasebo base have been reversed.
Acquittals of three others have
been upheld.
In all, eight marine guards have
been convicted of cruelty charges
and six acquitted.
wind gusts up to 75 miles an hour, |
sleet, rain and lightning. In New i
England it snarled automobile
traffic, forced business houses to
close, tumbled power lines and
closed schools.
The biggest snowfall, 191£ inch
es, was recorded at Fitchburg,
Mass. However, it seemed Con
necticut caught the brunt of the
storm. Measurements there ranged
up to 16 inches at Putnam.
Florida, with its citrus crop al- j
ready hard hit by an earlier cold •
spell, was handed another blow, j
Snow fell in the sunny state as far i
south as Lakeland in the heart of j
the citrus growing area.
For the first time in history, the !
Florida weather bureau included |
snow flurries in its state forecast. |
The death toll from automobile
accidents and heart attacks brought
on by snow shoveling:
Massachusetts 9, New York 5, •
Connecticut 4, Pennsylvania 2,
Rhode Island 2, and 1 each for
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine,
New Jersey and Delaware.
In some parts of New England
wind gusts during the height of
the storm reached 75 miles an
hour—gale force.
New York City got only five
incfhes of snow, but that was suf
ficient to keep 1,500 sanitation de
partment men working all night
to clear streets.
PROPOSED THAT LIFE
OF HIGHWAY COMM.
BE EXTENDED TO 1960
WASHINGTON, Uft—1Sen. Mag
nuson proposed today Congress
extend the life of the Alaska In
ternational Rail & Highway Com
mission until Aug. 1, 1960.
Under present law, the commis
sion would be required to submit
a report and go out of existence
this August.
Magnuson also would increase
from $75,000 to $387,500 the sum
which the commission is author
ized to spend in carrying out its
program.
Authorized in 1956 for a two
year period, the commission is
charged with studying the need
and recommending routes for ad
ditional rail and highway routes
within Alaska and between the
territory and the States.
| thaw to an average depth of 4.5
j feet.”
j The proposed area to be served
i is bound generally by the water
! front on the south, West E St. on
I the west, 4th Ave. and King Place
j on the north, and Steadman Ave.
j on the east. First expansion ree
! ommended would be the area.be
i tween Bourbon Creek and Snake
j River, the area west of Snake
River and east of Steadman.
Predicts Growth of Nome
The population survey indicates
that Nome will have a continued
growth for the next 20 years, and
| the survey is backed up with the
i statement that the highway under
■ construction and the oil and gas
exploration in the Kateel area to
the east of Nome are most favor
able to this development.
The report gives four types of
treatment for sewerage disposal,
namely, (1) clarifier and digester,
(2) primary settlement, (3) oxida
| tion ponds, and (4) ocean outfall
! with no treatment. After an ex
! planation of all four types the
i fourth is indicated as the most ec
1 onomical and probably the most
practical with the pumping sta
i tion at the foot of Steadman which
i will be capable of handling all
proposed sewage with a popula
! tion up to 5,000.
City Hall Reserve
The proposed plan would sup
ply water from wells in the bed of
Dry Creek west of West B St. at
city limits; also a 30,000-gallon
hydropneumatic tank at the City
Hall as a reserve tank and to as
sist in maintaining pressure at
that portion of the system farthest
from the wells.
The proposed water pipe is six
inches in diameter, of 12-gauge
steel and would be wrapped in
Fiberglass.
Water and sewage pipes woujd
be in the same wooden utilidor
which they recommend should be
dug in early spring or late fall.
What It Will Cost
The Philleo Engineering Ser
vice estimates that it will costs a
minimum of $10 per month for
water and $6 per month for sew
er service with rates changing ac
cording to the amount of water
used, as in hotels, restaurants and
laundries, which will be the big
gest users.
They further estimate that the
cost of extending the house ser
vice from property lines will be
about $25 per lineal foot for the
combined service.
Detailed maps accompany the
report and may be seen at the
office of the City Clerk.
Wiens Plans Flight
To Little Diomede
Wien Airlines is planning its
first trip of the year to Little Dio
mede Island in the near future,
provided that there is sufficient
freight and passengers.
All interested persons are re
quested to advise the Wien office
and make their reservations and
estimate the amount of freight
they will be sending.