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VOL. LIX NO. 52_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1957 per Copy—154
TELEPHONE SERVICE AIRED
AT CHAMBER MEETING
By RUTH McLEAN <
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce heard a report
at its regular meeting from Stan
Morgan, who was its official rep
resentative at a recent Alaska
Day luncheon given by the Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce.
Some 628 persons attended the
luncheon in Seattle with all but
one Alaska city represented.
The topic for the meeting was
“Transportation” and one of the
guests was Mr. Art Woodley,
whose airline has an enviable
record of 25 years without a fatal
accident. Mr. Woodley stated this
is the result of rigidly high main
tenance standards and pilot train
ing.
The speaker for the Seattle
-Chamber luncheon was Mr. Lloyd,
general manager of the Alaska
Railroad. He spoke on the need
for roads to connect with the rail
road and urged the Seattle people
to help Alaska with legislation to
aid the territory in getting its
road building program started.
Don Hungerford also attended
the Alaska Day meeting.
President Jim Walsh asked Mr.
-Hungerford to telegraph congrat
ulations to the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce on the occasion of
their 75th anniversary.
The summer work of the Bu
reau of Public Roads is well on
its way, according to Frank Mor
ris and the road to the Nome Riv
er bridge should be passable in a
few days.
The balance of the business
period was turned over to an
open forum on the local telephone
service, which is recognized to be
inadequate and unsatisfactory.
In discussing the possibility of
the city purchasing the telephone
system, the Chamber members
were advised that the city cannot
•use tax funds for the purchase of
utilities. Such a purchase must
come from bonding (and the city
is now bonded for the school ad
dition and for the present utili
ties) or from revenue from the
telephone system itself.
The dial systems of two small
Alaskan communities were men
tioned—one privately owned in
Valdez and one city-owned in
Douglas. The common use of pow
er and telephone poles in Nome
presents a peculiar problem in
this community in attempting to
separate the two services. It is
understood that the City Council
meeting in May will include a
discussion of the present tele
phone situation.
rich, Miss Janet Goodrich, and
Dr. J. R. Cumming.
Dr. Joseph Cumming.
Ketchikan Pulp Co.’s
Sales and Profits Up
SAN FRANCISCO, (^—Ketchi
kan Pulp Co., owned jointly by
Puget Sound Pulp and Timber
end American Viscose Co., report
ed net sales today for the quarter
of $5,666,097, compared with $4,
967,426 for the same 1956 period.
Profits were $963,910 against
$374,973 for the 1956 period.
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Sen. McCarthy Has
Acute Hepatitis
WASHINGTON, Ufl—Bethesda
Naval Hospital said today Sen.
Joseph B. McCarthy (R-Wis) had
a fairly comfortable night but his
condition continues to be serious.
McCarthy was admitted to the
hospital last Sunday, suffering
from what was diagnosed as acute
hepatitis, an inflamation of the
liver.
He was taken out of an oxygen
tent Monday night.
Ivory Carver Finds Gold
Nugget On The Street
It’s no idle boast that the
“streets of Nome and paved with
gold.”
Concrete, or shall we say gold
en evidence of this can be
attested by Mark, the ivory
carver.
Mark was standing on the snow
pile east of the Alaska Steamship
office when he was attracted by
a glittering object in the snow.
He picked it up and it proved
to be a shiny rock, reported to be
a gold nugget worth probably $50.
The shiny side of the nugget
showed it had been cut through,
probably by the city snow re
moval equipment, indicating that
the rest of the nugget is lying
somewhere on the streets of
Nome.
Jack Ryan, Editor of
Fairbanks News-Miner,
Announces Resignation
FAIRBANKS MV-John J. (Jack)
Ryan, editor of the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner for the past
six years, today announced his
resignation, effective in June.
Prior to coming here, Ryan was
managing editor of the Anchorage
Daily News, and Alaska manager
for the United Press.
Ryan, his wife Patricia and
their four children will move to
Hawaii.
Auto Workers Union
Buys Truman Birthplace
For National Shrine
LAMAR, Mo., (#—’The United
Auto Workers Union has bought
the house in which Harry S. Tru
man was born and plans to turn it
into a shrine. ,
“Mr. Truman was Missouri’s
only President and has a unique
place in history because of the
policies and doctrines he started
and carried out,” said Russell
Letner, regional UAW director in
St. Louis.
Letner said the $6,000 purchase
price was put up by UAW offi
cers councils in St. Louis and
Kansas City and the international
union.
The five-room, story-and-a-half
frame house is four blocks from
Lamar’s courthouse square. Tru
man was bom there May 8, 1884,
but his family moved away from
Lamar about the time he was two.
NENANA ICE
TO BREAK UP
ANY DAY NOW
By DON TUCKER
Manager, Nenana Ice Classic
FAIRBANKS, UP)—From what I
can see, it looks like the Nenana
Ice Classic and several winners
will aid in balancing the national
budget in the next couple of days.
Several new spots have opened
up in the Tanana River and water
is beginning to overflow on the
ice. The mouth of the Tanana
River is still blocked with ice,
but gradually being worn out by
the current beneath it.
The weather is still freezing at
nights but warming up during
the late morning.
Everyone is making one or two
trips daily to the docks and
checking their guesses.
Daily radio broadcasts will be
gin today at noon from KFAR so
keep an ear out for on-the-spot
news of the Tanana ice break.
Mike Stepovich
May Be Next
Governor
WASHINGTON UP*—Territorial
Sen. Mike Stepovich was reported
today as under serious considera
tion for the governorship of Alas
ka. And Samuel Wilder King was
reported likely to be continued in
office as governor of Hawaii.
Both posts are presidential ap
pointments, subject to Senate
confirmation. They are expected
to be filled on recommendation of
Secretary of the Interior Seaton,
now convalescing at his home
from a spinal operation.
King’s four-year term has ex
pired but under Law he continues
to serve until a successor has been
appointed and qualified.
The Alaska post has been filled
on an acting basis since Jan. 3 by
Waino Hendrickson, secretary of
Alaska. He moved up when B.
Frank Heintzleman resigned be
fore the end of his term to clear
the way for a new appointee to
take office while the Legislature
was in session.
Stepovich is a lawyer. He was
among those recommended to
Seaton by the Alaska Republican
Central Committee.
Interior officials said many per
sons have been suggested for the’
Alaska post but very few for that
in Hawaii.
Others recommended for the
Alaska job are Walter Hickel,
Alaska’s GOP national commit
teeman; Dr. Ernest Patty of the
University of Alaska; Dr. Paul B.
Haagland, territorial senator, of
Fairbanks; John Butrovich, Fair
banks insurance man; EmilKnud
sen, former mayor of Kodiak, act
ing Gov. Hendrickson; Leslie
Nerland, Fairbanks, Elton Eng
strom, territorial senator, Juneau;
! Ralph Robertson, Juneau attor
ney; Wm. Prescott Allen, pub
lisher of the Juneau Daily Empire
and Robert B. Atwood, publisher
of the Anchorage Times.
Russian Disarmament Plan Would
Open Alaska and Western U.S.
To Inspection by Soviet Planes
Lung Cancer and
Cigarettes Facts Debated
NEW YORK, UD—The scientific
advisory board of the Tobacco In
dustry Research Committee says
there is not enough evidence to
claim that cigarets cause cancer
of the lung.
Dr. Clarence C. Little, board
chairman, issued a statement yes
terday in reply to a report re
leased Mar. 22 by a smoking and
health study group organized by
the American Cancer Society and
other agencies.
The study group expressed an
opinion that cigaret smoking is a
“causative factor” in human lung
cancer.
Little said the scientific advis
or board questions the existence
of sufficient definitive evidence
to establish a simple cause and
effect explanation of the complex
problems of lung cancer.”
F-86 Goes “Boom”
Over Town Today
That loud explosion you heard
this morning was nothing more
than the sonic boom created by
one of the two F-86 jets which
put on a short aerial display.
The sonic boom was created
high enough over town so that
no damage resulted.
The sonic boom is caused when
a plane breaks through the sound
barrier, that is, exceeds the speed
of sound, which is about 700
miles an hour.
In this case the F-86 jet went
into a dive from a very high alti
tude and the “boom” was created
directly over town and high
enough so that it did no damage
except to cause some worry and
speculation until the cause was
determined. It also gave all the
supersonic Jills and Jacks an op
portunity to display their knowl
edge of sonic and supersonic
terminology.
Texas Floods Are
Major Disaster
(By The Associated Press)
Rains in the storm-and flood
stricken areas of Texas appeared
diminishing a little today and
some easing of overflows of many
major streams was indicated.
The floods, however, were de
scribed by a federal civil defense
chief as “a disaster of great pro
portions.”
The flooded upper Sabine River
reached its greatest height in his
tory and overflowed at Gladwater
in the east Texas oil fields.
Flood threats appeared easing
on the Colorado, Nueces, Guada
lupe, Trinity and Brazos Rivers
as rains abated after two weeks
of nearly steady downpours..
Thirteen persons have drowned
in the Texas floods and hundreds
have been evacuated.
5 By HERB ALTSCHULL
BONN, Germany, GW—NATO
foreign ministers assembled here
today for a three-day meeting
which Secretary of State Dulles
said “will seek to assure to our
people the blessing of justice and
peace.”
A four-engine plane of. the U.S.
Air Force landed the secretary
and Mrs. Dulles in brilliant sun
shine after a direct flight from
Washington.
Russia’s latest proposals for
disarmament, announced just last
night, were certain to be a major
topic at the talks opening: in Bonn
tomorrow on mutual political
problems of the 15 NATO nations.
Part of the Soviet plan provid
ed for limited acceptance of Pres
ident Eisenhower’s twci-year^old
“open skies” scheme for disarma
ment inspectors to photograph
American and Russian territory
from the air as a check against
preparations for war.
Moscow radio said Soviet Dele
gate Valerian Zorin tolcl the U.N.
disarmament subcommittee in
London his government was pre
pared to open about 2'W million
square miles of its territory in
Europe and eastern Siberia to
aerial inspection if the United
States would open the skies over
almost the same amount of terri
tory in Alaska and the; western
United States.
Altho Zorin did not set forth
the geographical limits of the pro
posed American area to be in
spected, the total specified minus
Alaska would take in most of the
land west of the Mississippi River.
This includes the great industrial
regions of the West Coast, key
naval and air bases, missile test
ing sites and power installations.
In return, the Russian offered
to open up a “vast zone not only
in Europe but also in the Far
East, including the territory of
eastern Siberia and the maritime
territory, Kamchatka and Sakha
lin.” The key question still to be
answered was how far into Euro
pean Russia—location of the chief
S o v ie t might—the hispectors
could pepetrate.
The West knows virtually noth
ing about what is in eastern Si
beria, altho the Russians are re
ported to have atomic installa
tions there and air bases and
other military installations on
Kamchatka and Sakhalin. ,
British officials in London
called the Russian plan “unac
ceptable in its present form.”
France’s delegate to the arms
talks, Jules Moch, said it “leaves
much to be desired.” He com
plained it “opens the ice and
wasteland of Siberia in return for
opening up of a huge part of the
industrial center of the United
States to inspection.
The new Soviet disarmament
plan was advanced for initial con
sideration within the U.N. dis
armament subcommittee which is
meeting in London.