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VOL. LVIII No. 147 ~NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1956 Per Copy—15*
Six New Air Force
Electronics Installations
To Be Built in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, UPV—Plans for
six new Air Force electronic in
stallations, at a cost estimated at
$20 million has been announced
here by the Corps of Engineers.
Col. Pierre V. Kieffer Jr., the
Alaska district engineer, dis
closed the new project after his
return from conferences in Wash
ington D.C.
The new facilities will be on
the Alaska Peninsula and in the
Aleutians.
HIPPOS ARE VICTIMS OF
HUNGARIAN FOOD SHORTAGE
VIENNA, (fll—The Budapest ra
dio reported today two hippopot
amuses in the Budapest zoo have
died because of “food difficulties.”
Search Thwarted
For 62 Missing in
Canadian Plane
VANCOUVER, B.C. UP)—For the
second straight day, low-hanging
clouds thwarted searchers in the
hunt for a Trans-Canada Airlines
plane that vanished with 62 per
, sons aboard Sunday night.
Even a helicopter couldn't get
thru for a search of an inland
mountain area. It had to turn
back after traveling less than 10
of the 85 miles to Sumas Moun
tain.
The search focused on the
mountain after a boy and two
men reported seeing, at long
range, an object which possibly
could be a piece of wreckage from
an airliner.
However, the helicopter pilot
said he had made a “tree-by-trbe
search” of the mountain Monday
without seeing anything resem
bling wreckage. It has snowed at
upper elevations since then, mak
ing any search doubly difficult.
RCAF search leaders discount
ed earlier reports of lights having
been seen on two peaks farther
to the east on the night of the
crash. v
Outlawed Irish Group Causes
Million Dollars Damage in Ulster
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, OP
—The outlawed Irish Republican
army staged a mass raid on 12
points in British North Ireland
today, causing an estimated mil
lion dollars worth of damage.
Before they were beaten back
by the Royal Ulster Constabulary
the invaders blew up a $100,000
British Broadcasting Corp. radio
transmitter, two buildings and
two bridges, set fire to a court
house and tried to capture a mil
itary barracks.
They set off what police de
scribed as a “night of terror”
along a line stretching almost 200
miles across Northern Ireland
(Ulster'. Five of Ulster’s six coun
ties were affected.
A policeman was wounded
slightly and five raiders were
captured before the invaders fled.
Police said at least three of
those who escaped were wounded.
The constables found two bul
let-riddled cars, machineguns and
hundreds of rounds of ammuni
tion.
Heavy detachments of constab
ulary, and helicopters and police
were thrown into the hunt for the
fleeing invaders. Barbed wire
roadblocks were thrown up at the
wooded and mountainous border
with the Irish Republic. But po
lice ,said the main body of the
raiders apparently had escaped
across the border.
Police said the raid apparently
was a show of strength on the
part of IRA leaders to discourage
any discontent by dissident fac
tions within its own ranks.
Breakaway groups within the
IRA have recently staged minor
raids on British customs posts.
The main purpose cf the under
ground organization, outlawed by
both the British and the Irish Re
public—is to have the six coun
ties of Ulster made a part of the
Irish Republic.
U.S. Charged
With ‘Subversive’
Aetion in Hungary
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (fl—
The Soviet Union formally laid
before the U.N. General Assem
bly today a complaint charging
the 'United States with “subver
sive action” in the Soviet domin
ated countries of eastern Europe.
The move came as delegates to
the 79-nation Assembly rallied be
hind an American-backed resolu
tion condemning Russia for tam
pering in Hungarian affairs.
U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. replied to the Soviet
charge with this statement:
“Let Moscow admit United Na
tions observers to Hungary and
the world will soon know whether
ithis Soviet charge is true or
false.”
Specifically, the Soviet delega
tion proposed that the Assembly
add to its agenda an item entitled
“Intervention by the United
States of America in the domestic
affairs of the peoples’ democracies
and its subversive activity against
those states.”
Such charges had been made by
the Russians in previous sessions
of the Assembly and rejected as
unfounded.
Three more sponsors—Spain,
Turkey and Colombia—put their
support behind the resolution to
condemn Russia, bringing the to
tal sponsorship to 20 countries.
CHRISTMAS GIFT SHOWS
YEAR OF MUCH WALKING
GARDEN CITY, Kan., UPC-Last
Christmas Merle Thompson’s wife
gave him a pedometer, a gadget
which gives a rough measure
ment of the distance its wearer
walks.
Thompson has been wearing it
only while working on his job as
caretaker of Gardendale, a hous
ing project with 160 apartments.
The pedometer shows since last
Dec. 27 he has walked 2,114 miles.
SECURITY COUNCIL
RECOMMENDS JAPAN
BE ADMITTED TO U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Wl—
The Security Council today rec
ommended unanimously that Ja
pan be admitted to the United
Nations as its 80th member.
The Council’s action opened the
way for quick final action in the
79-nation General Assembly. Ap
proval was only a formality.
The approval of Japan came
after more than four years of
waiting. The application, first
submitted July 16, 1952, had been
vetoed four times by the Soviet
Union.
The United States had been
one of the strong backers of Ja
pan’s membership bid. Chief U.S.
Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
said before today’s vote that the
United States would warmly wel
come Japan’s admission.
Britain Calls For
Super Parliament
Of Atlantic Nations
PARIS W>—British Foreign Sec
retary Selwyn Lloyd today called
for a kind of “super parliament”
with limited powers to serve the
Atlantic community.
The British statesman’s propos
al before the North Atlantic
council was part of a three-point
program for developing the polit
ical bonds between the 15 mem
bers of the NATO alliance.
Lloyd was speaking on a three
power report which urged the
allies to foster non-military co
operation.
He presented three elements
for “the grand design” of the At
lantic community:
1. An assembly on parliamen
tary lines with powers and func
tions assigned to it by member
states.
2. A high political and military
directorate furnished by NATO
itself—with the Western Europe
an Union <WEU> of seven states
as a component.
3. Economic cooperation thru
such groupings as the Organiza
tion for European Economic Co
operation <OEEC>, the European
Payments Union, the European
coal and steel community, the
“Euratom” project for pooled de
velopment of atomic energy, and
the proposed free trade area in
Europe.
MISFORTUNE STRIKES
FAMILY OF NINE
WACO, Tex., UP)—Mr. and Mrs.
I
Granville Whitlock decided to sell
the family cow yesterday so they
could buy Christmas presents for
their seven children.
They took Brownie, the cow, to
a friend’s house to see if he would
buy it. They told the children i
they were going to visit a sick
friend.
When they got back, their
rented home was burned down.
The children, ranging from 9
months to 15 years, v/ere saved,
but most of the family’s posses
sions were lost.
Whitlock, ?4, is partially dis
abled by a World War II arm in
jury and his eyesight was dam
aged by an acid explosion in 1947.
Local Organization Proposed To
Develop Seward Peninsula Mining
-4
Drive On Here
To Aid Refugees
From Hungary
^rom the Office of the Governor, Juneau j
President Eisenhower has re- 1
quested the American Red Cross
to assist the Hungarian refugees
now pouring into Austria.
This is the largest mass move- I
ment that has ever been known
and these people are in desperate
cirmumstances. They are not only
homeless, but they left their
homeland with only what they
could carry on their backs;
The people of Alaska, I am
sure, are eager to help in this
great humanitarian project which
will furnish food, medical sup
plies and other aid to these un
fortunate people.
You can help by making a
contribution through your lo
cal Red Cross chapter.
If your friends in the local Red
Cross organization have not been
in contact with you, I suggest that
you go to them immediately with
your contributions. Let us do our
part in helping the freedom-lov
ing Hungarian refugees.
* • •
'(Editor's Note: Rev. Willard
Mecklenburg, local chairman,
has already made an appeal
through this paper and contri
butions are being mailed or
handed to him.)
—
Egyptian i»roup
Admits Killing
British Officer
PORT SAID, WWThe Egyptian
underground says it kidnaped
and killed a young British lieu
tenant.
The report was brought to Brit
ish headquarters last night in the ,
face of British insistence that the
lieutenant be returned quickly— i
and alive.
The British-French occupation
command awaited firmer evi
dence before conceding the offi
cer had been killed. But British
Lt. Gen. Sir Hugh Stockwell, the
occupation chief, let it be under
stood that some action would fol
low if the officer was not given
up alive.
The kidnaping was the latest
of a string of actions by the un
derground to harrass the rapidly
diminishing British and French
forces, in the process of with
drawing from Egypt at the de
mand of the General Assembly
Lt. A. G. Moorehouse, leader
of a patrol that captured seven
Egyptian Commandos Monday
night hiding in a dentist’s apart
ment, stopped his Jeep in the
same street yesterday morning to
talk to a man.
An Arab boy said he saw three
men force the British officer into
a taxi at the point of the lieu
tenant’s own gun.
The car was found later—its
interior bloodstained. A gag and
dope were inside.
By RUTH McLEAN
At the regular weekly meet
ing of the N.W.A. Chamber of
Commerce yesterday President
Stan Morgan introduced a dis
cussion of the forming of an
organization for the development
of Seward Peninsula, especially
in mining. The organization
would be made up of sharehold
ers who will pledge to invest a
specific amount in a stated per
iod. At the end of this period
the organization would have suf
ficient capital to invest in pros
pecting for minerals or for de
veloping a new business in the
Nome area. Several Chamber
members commented on the sug
gestion.
Carl Glavinovich pointed out
that a group organized in this
area to eventually develop poten
tials is well worth while and
people in this community should
get behind mining, which is our
main economy. He considered the
idea a gamble but an intelligent
one which should benefit the en
tire peninsula.
Boyd Harwood believes that
the community is capable of de
veloping but until the source of
our minerals is found, we cannot.
“We as individuals cannot do it
but to the city as a whole it
can be important, and it doesn’t
have to apply to mining alone.
We face so many things that are
too big for us to handle individ
ually. We dream of potentials but
unless we know they are there,
we can never progress,” Harwood
said.
This investment should not be
made with the idea of making
money, but with the hope of
helping the community, Dewey
Goodrich stated. There are people
who have made their money here
and want to invest it here, people
who believe in the city, in the
community and in the peninsula.
“Could housing be one of the
developments?” asked Virginia
Brown. Such an investment is
too much for one individual.
James G. Manning of the Al
aska National Bank of Fairbanks,
agreed that multiple-unit housing
is needed here but we must have
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•Hot Lunches Will
Be Served in Multi
Purpose Room
The Nome School Board voted
last evening to allow the multi
purpose room'in the new school,
to be used for the hot lunch pro
grab in January, February and
March.
A group of about 40 persons
interested in the hot lunch pro
gram attended the School Board
meeting to request the use of the
multi-purpose room.
The hot lunch committee has
announced that the lunches will
cost the children 30 cents apiece
and will be well-balanced, sub
stantial meals with a consider
able variety of menus. These will
be published so that parents may
see what their children will be
served for lunch.