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$200,000 Budgeted For Construction
On “Highway 97” For This Year
The Alaska Highway and Pub
lic Works Department has an
nounced its program of construc
tion for 1958 on highways and
harbor facilities.
On the Nome - Kougarok road
$200,000 is budgeted. This project
calls for the graveling of a pio
neer road being constructed be
tween Nome and the Kougarok to
replace the rail tramway which is
no longer functioning. Grading
will probably be completed to the
junction with the Bunker Hill
Tayor road. However, a major
bridge across the Kuzitrin river
will be built in 1959.
On the Nome-Teller road two
'bridges will be constructed at
the Snake and Penny rivers.
Funds allotted were $125,000.
$30,000 is allocated for regrad
ing and paving the road between
the City of Nome and the Nome
Airport while a paving contractor
is here doing work on the air
field.
Territorial funds available to
the Second Division for construc
tion were limited. It was agreed
to make an investigation and pos
sible survey, however, of the Pil
grim Springs road.
Investigation and possible con
struction of small floats and docks
at Kotzebue and Nome were au
thorized.
Tfye annual allotment of $2,500
for toome Harbor dredging was
also approved.
Automobile Price
Labeling Proposed
By Senate Bill
WASHINGTON, UP)—Sen. Mon
roney (D-Okla) today proposed an
automobile price labeling bill he
described as designed to “do
away with the advantage now
held by a few unscrupulous deal
ers.”
He said in a statement the mea
sure he was introducing would
require new cars to have labels
showing, among other things, the
retail price suggested to dealers
by manufacturers.
At present, Monroney said, “the
dealer who is honest about the
so-called ‘list price’ cannot com
pete with the one who ‘packs’
several hundred dollrs extra into
it so he can pretend to give you
more on your trade in.”
Monroney, chairman of a Sen
ate subcommittee on automobile
sales practices, said his bill would
not prevent dealers and buyers
from bargaining over prices of
both new cars and trade-in allow
ances.
But he said it would “arm the
presently bewildered car buyer
with some necessary facts” and
predicted it would result in “im
mediate improvement of the car
market by helping to restore pub
lic confidence in car selling prac
tices.”
Chicken Pox {Attacks 10-Year-Old
Star of Broadway Musical
NEW YORK, UP)— Eddie Hodges,
the 10-year-old singer in “The
Music Man,” is out of the show
with chicken pox.
His replacement, Ronnie Tour
so, lias never had the disease and
has been exposed. So a standby
is being readied to step into the
role if Ronnie, too, gets the pox.
RIGHT TO THE LETTER
PUEBLO, Colo., —A big door
prize. That’s what the Young
Men’s Christian Assn, announced
would be given away to boost at
tendance at its campaign break
fast meeting yesterday.
It was. A. W. Hinds, the win
ner, had trouble carrying it away.
It was a full-size door.
Broken Dam Inundates
Homes Of 300 Persons
In South Carolina
BENNETTSVILLE, S.C., UFV—A
deluge of water swept through a
broken spillway here early Satur
day forcing more -than 300 per
sons to flee their homes. There
were no deaths or injuries.
The overflow spillway of a 10
foot high wildlife reservoir dam
gave way emitting a cascade of
water that inundated a quarter
mile area, almost entirely popu
lated by Negroes.
Startled resident awoke in the
chilly pre-dawn hours to find
water swirling through their
homes and rising rapidly beneath
their beds.
The water reached a height of
five or six feet in places but
by later morning was rapidly re
ceding.
Maynard-MacDougall Memorial
Hospital Receives Award From
Joint Commission on Accreditation
The Joint Commission on Ac
creditation of Hospitals has an
nounced the only two hospitals in
the territory have met the neces
sary requirement for accredita
tion for 1957.
These are the Seward Sanitar
ium at Bartlett, Alaska, and the
Maynard - MacDougall Memorial
Hospital of Nome.
Member organizations compos
ing the Joint Commission are
the American College of Physi
cians, American College of Sur
geons, American Hospital Assn.,
American Medical Assn., and the
Canadian Medical Assn.
Hospital accreditation is a new
term, originating in 1952 and hos
pitals qualifying must have 25
beds; must have only doctors of
medicine practicing who are list
ed by the American Hospital
Assn; keep complete clinical rec
ords; have registered nurses on
duty at all times; surgical and
obstetrical facilities; diagnostic
x-ray services; clinical laboratory
services regular and conveniently
available.
Accreditation is a symbol of
patient safety and as a result pub
lic pressures are being placed on
hospitals to achieve this goal.
To the patient accreditation
means better care and use of
better equipment; accurate rec
ords of an illness and shorter hos
pitalization.
To the hospital, it means few
er administrative problems; an
institution that attracts better
nurses and doctors. And to the
doctor, it means assurance of an
efficient physical plant, qualified
personnel, proper recording.
Nome owes its first accredita
tion, which was last year to the
efforts of Dr. Fred Langsam who
was hospital superintendent at
the time, and its present status to
Opal Catlin, present superintend
ent.
Both hospitals are maintained
by the Women’s Division of Chris
tian Service of the Board of Mis
sions of the Methodist Church.
Reds Return
U.S. Jet Pilot
Downed March 6
PANMUNJOM, UP> — The Com
munists today handed back a U.S.
jet pilot shot down over the Red
side of the Korean truce line.
Capt. Leon Pfeiffer of Kenosha,
Wis., appeared nervous and tense
but in good health as he spoke at
a brief news conference.
. “I am happy to be back,” he
said, smiling weakly. “It is a
wonderful feeling. I am very
tired.”
Pfeiffer parachuted March 6
after his F-86 Sabre jet was hit
by Red ground fire.
He was not hurt and was re
turned to U.N. control at a meet
ing of the Military Armistice
Commission. Air Force security
officers took him to Seoul to
question him about his experi
ences.
Pfeiffer’s plane veered over the
truce line during maneuvers with
the South Korean army on the
U. N. side of the demilitarized
zone. A Sabre jet flying with
Pfeiffer’s escaped.
The U.N. Command acknowl
edged both planes had violated
North Korea air unintentionally,
but it accused the Reds of making
“an unnecessary armed attack.”
New: Hair Lotion Salad Dressing
DENVER, (JV-Charles Coak, 34,
mixed a salad yesterday in a
'bowl used earlier by his wife,
Lillian, 31, for mixing a hair wav
ing lotion.
Both became ill after eating the
salad. But a quick trip to the
hospital remedied the effects.
Both were discharged after treat
ment.
Navy’s Vanguard Rocket Hurls Tiny
3V2 lb. Moon Into Orbit Around Earth
By VERN HAUGLAND
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UPi—
The Navy’s Vanguard rocket
hurled the second U.S. satellite
into orbit around the earth today.
With its back to the wall after
two highly-publicized failures,
the Navy launched the Vanguard
today on one of the most perfect
flights ever seen at the nation’s
missile test center.
Belching and fire and smoke,
the slender gray-green rocket left
its launching pad at 4:16 a.m.
Two hours and 23 minutes later.
President Eisenhower told the
world the trouble-plagued Van
guard had succeeded in the space
mission for which it was created.
His announcement that the
Vanguard’s tiny “moon” was cir
cling the earth with the Army’s
Explorer and Russia’s Sputnik II
touched off a celebration in Navy
circles and among personnel of
the Martin Co., which built the
rocket.
If Sputnik II, with its dead
dog passenger, dives to oblivion
in the near future as expected,
the U.S. will have the only satel
lites in space.
In sharp contrast to previous
Vanguard countdowns, today’s
preparation of the rocket went off
with perfect precision.
So smoothly did the rocket
make its way into space, observ
ers here were certain long before
the President made it official that
the Vanguard had done its job
beautifully.
In Washington, Dr. John P.
Hagen, director of the Vanguard
project, said the 3Vfe pound satel
lite was cast into such an ideal
orbit that it may remain aloft 5
to 10 years.
In its flight at 18,000 to 19,000
miles an hour, its egg-shaped or
bit will swing it as far as 2,500
miles out into space and as close
to the earth as 400 miles.
Because it is so small, the
satellite itself cannot be tracked
except by its radio voice. But its
traveling companion in space, the
five-foot long third stage of the
Vanguard rocket, should be vis
ible to observers at sunset and
sunrise.
Three minutes after the little
moon went into orbit tracking
stations were picking up the high
, pitched tone of its radio signals.
It’s Not Funny For U.S.
Army Officer Mistaken
For Mayor of Nuerenberg
NUERENBERG, Germany, (#1—
A printing error in the local tele
phone book has turned a U. S.
Army captain into the mayor of
Nuerenberg.
But Frederick Brouillette of
Palmer, Mass., is far from happy
about it. Here’s why:
His telephone keeps ringing
and German voices ask politely:
“Am I speaking to the oberbuerg
meister (lord mayor)?”
At first Brouillette thought it
was funny, but after dozens of
phone calls he became angry. He
investigated and discovered that
the Nuerenberg telephone book,
in listing the home telephone
number of Mayor Andreas Ursch
lechter, had listed his own.
Brouillette appealed to a local
newspaper, which printed a sym
pathetic story and gave all the
good burghers of the Nuerenberg
the buergermeister’s correct num
ber.
No Stone For Cornerstone
In French African Desert
DAKAR, French West Africa,
—There was confusion in the
desert town of Nouakchott when
word arrived that French Over
seas Minister Gerard Jacquet was
corning to lay the cornerstone for
a new public building.
The problem was that there was
not a single stone in the neigh
borhood —.nothing but sand for
miles.
An army jet plane was prompt
ly dispatched a couple of hundred
miles and came back in time with
a suitable stone.
Officials firmly declared that
any more stones would be de
livered by some cheaper means.
School ‘Broad’
Will Inquire Into
‘Pupls’ Spelling
CLEVELAND, UP) — A letter
from a group of high school
“pupls” to “the Cleveland School
Broad” has President Charles A.
Mooney up in arms.
It is»’t what the letter said so
much as the way it said it.
Sentence structures and punc
tuation were “appalling,” said
Mooney. One long paragraph con
sisted of a single sentence with
“at least 20” comas, he said.
Mooney found “puples” thru
out instead of “pupils,” “wair”
for “where” and “fill” for “feel.”
The president said he plans to
inquire at the “broad” meeting
today into “just what sort of tests
are being given in spelling.”
He declined to disclose the
name of the school from which
the letter came or the subject
matter. It was a petition with 122
signatures.
Proposes Increasing
Duck Stamp to $3
WASHINGTON, UR—JThe Inter
ior Department proposed today
increasing the price of duck
stamps and earmarking all net
proceds of stamp sales for ac
quisition of lands for wildlife
refuges.
In a report to Congress, the De
partment recommended boosting
the duck stamp price to $3. It now
costs $2.
At the present rate of duck
stamp sales, the department said
in a statement, the proposal
would make available 66 million
dollars in the next 10 years for
preservation of important wildlife
lands “before they are lo~t thru
development for other pu. poses.”