Government Will Help
Pay for American-Built
Fishing Vessels
WASHINGTON, OR—President
Eisenhower Monday signed a bill
providing a new program of gov
ernment help for construction of
fishing vessels.
The law would permit payment
of up to one-third of the cost of
ships built in American ports in
competition with vessels built
abroad with cheaper labor.
Maximum total government
payments would be limited to
$2,500,000 annually for a three
year period.
MUSSOLINI'S DAUGHTER
MARRIES TV M-C
RAVENNA, Italy, OP) — Ann
■Maria Mussolini, youngest daught
er of the late Duce, was married
last week to Giuseppe Negri, a
television master of ceremonies,
better known as Nando Pucci.
The Italian neofascist Social
Movement gave the newlyweds
an automobile.
Buffaloed ...
SANTA MARIA, Calif., l*>—All
the callers were apologetic.
“'I haven’t had a drop to drink,"
a man telephoned the State High
way Patrol Sunday. “I don’t ex
pect you to believe this, but
there’s a buffalo on U. S. 101 near
Nipomo and he won’t let traffic
get by.”
Patrolmen hurried 10 miles
north to Nupimo.
The buffalo standing in the
middle of the southbound lane of
the freeway was real enough, and
he was angry and determined no
car would bet by him. Nobody
knows just why. ,
Anyway, patrolmen were re
lieved when he jumped a fence,
pursued by his owner, Jay Doty,
who maintains a small herd of
bison.
NOTICE
Tom and Barbara Martin will
not be responsible for debts of
the Board of Trade after June 1.
The business has been turned OYer
to James West.
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OAKY DOAKS
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Woman Doctor Hiking
Across U. S., Struck Down
Down on Indiana Highway
BRAZIL, Ind., Ub—Dr. Barbara
Mobre, the cross-country hiking
vegetarian, was hit by a car today
but apparently was not hurt ser
iously.
The 56-year-old British physi
cian was hit in the back by a
slow-moving auto as she trudged
along U. S. 40 about four miles
west of this western Indiana
town. Hospital authorities re
ported her in satisfactory condi
tion, pending examination of
X-rays.
The sturdy hiker was knocked
to the pavement but remained
conscious.
Dr. Moore had entered Indiana
this morning from Illinois, in
tending to spend the night at
Putnamville along U. S. 40. She
no longer limped from the sore
ankle which bothered her across
Missouri and Illinois, but she was
sunburned and her feet cal
loused.
The doughty hiker had refused
to be discouraged by the fact two
British paratroopers who left San
Francisco a day before her April
13 starting date were already in
Pennsylvania.
Area Is Organized
Into New Scout District
Conrad Potter, district chair
man, Boy Scouts of America, an
nounced today that he has re
ceived word that this area will
become officially the Bering Sea
District, Boy Scouts of America.
It will be part of the newly
formed Midnight Sun Council of
Fairbanks.
The District boundaries will
probably be the same as the N.W.
Election District, including St.
Lawrence Island, Potter said.
Potter pointed out that under
this new system a greater pertion
of funds raised for Scouting in
this area would remain here and '
eventually the district will have
its own Scout Executive located
here.
The new district organization
is described as a big boost for all
Scouting activities in this area.
CONVENTION SURPLUS
LOS ANGELES, W) — The Los
Angeles Committee for the Dem
ocratic National Convention says
it collected $450,000 to stage the
convention and is now on the way
to a $50,000 surplus.
The committee is nonpartisan
— except for its partisanship for
Los Angeles. The only goal was to
raise money to stage the con
vention.
HAPPY, SNIFFLING
INDIANA HOUSEWIFE
CHOSEN MRS. AMERICA
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., (*>
— “I was so afraid I wouldn’t
make it. I was in bed all day
yesterday.”
The newly crowned Mrs. Amer
ica, coughing with a bad cold but
beside herself with happiness,
was telling how she arise from a
sickbed to attend Friday night’s
glittering finale of the annual
contest to select the nation’s top
homemaker.
Mrs. George Murphy, 31, stat
uesque brunette from Kentland,
Ind., was chosen over contestants
from 49 other states and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The hazel-eyed former model
enjoyed the first fruits of her vic
tory Saturday. Her husband, a
freight terminal manager in the
hometown 80 miles south of Chi
cago, served her breakfast in bed
in their hotel room.
The runner-up was Mrs. Jack
O’Connor, 31, of Granite Falls,
Minn. Mrs. Robert Clemens, 26,
of Savannah, Ga., was third.
DR. McKINLEY & SON TO BE
HERE AT FESTIVAL TIME
Dr. Lee McKinley, dentist from
Palmer, who was here for about
a week, is scheduled to return
on June 17 for 10 days, at which
time he will serve patients with
appointments, and other urgent
cases.
Dr. McKinley and his son Blake
heard so much about the Mid
night Sun Festival that they have
timed their stay to coincide with
Nome’s celebration.
Pan American Transports
Biggest Passenger Load
Seattle to Fairbanks
SEATTLE, UPi — A Pan Amer
ican World Airways Boeing inter
continental 707 jet transport car
ried 115 passengers northbound
to Fairbanks this week, the larg
est passenger load ever taken by
plane to Alaska, Pan American
announced. It was just two short
of the plane’s capacity.
Frigidaire Will Lay Off
1,500 Ohio Employes
DAYTON, Ohio, W) — About
1,500 production employes will be
laid off in two weeks, a spokes
man for the Frigidaire Division
of General Motors Corp. reported
Saturday. He blamed a “nation
wide softness in appliance sales.”
He said the June 24 layoffs will
reduce Frigidaire employment to
about 15,000.
MARINERS BEWARE —
DON’T FOOL AROUND
WITH ALBATROSS!
LONDON, UFl — There’s a leg
end among seafaring men that it’s
unlucky to fool around with an
albatross, said to be soaring spirit
of dead sailors.
Crewmen of the British freight
er Calpean Star believe the leg
end — after what happened to
their ship.
The sailors flew home from
Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday
night, they left the Calpean Star
behind, stranded and derelict.
The Calpean Star’s last voyage
was as a transport with the Nor
wegian Antarctic whaling fleet.
But before that it had gone on
a .voyage to bring back animals
for a zoo in Germany.
One of the creatures was an
albatross.
In Liverpool, someone fed the
bird a sausage. The albatross died.
“After that the Calpean Star
was a hoodoo vessel,” said Henry
Kennedy, 40-year-old greaser.
“The death of the albatross put a
jinx on it.”
The freighter began its fateful
last voyage in August last year.
First the generators failed.
Diesel oil seeped into the water
supply.
The main engine compressor
broke.
The ship drifted for days — like
the ship of the Ancient Mariner,
who shot an albatross with his
crossbow after which he, the ship
and all the crew were cursed.
■In the Antarctic, the Calpean
Star damaged a rudder.
It was towed to Montevideo,
and in the harbor it went aground.
As the old ship lay aground, ah
explosion rent its engine room.
It was abandoned.
Found floating in the harbor
was the body of one of the crew
men, William Rogan, 61. The ex
plosion hadn’t killed him. What
had? The returning seamen
didn’t know.
Even after they had left the
ship, the men said, the curse of
the albatross stayed with them.
Their homeward bound airplane
damaged its undercarriage land
ing at Rio De Janeiro.
CALL MAIN 65 for
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Neon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHARIER MO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON O. REED, VJL
Norvtn W. Lewis. Sac.
Moots First and Third Thursday
of Each Mouth
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Lunchera
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Masts last Tuesday of ovary
month at School.
MINA BACHELDER, President
JANE FOSTER, Secretary
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