222 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LX No. 52 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1958 Per Copy—15^
No Compromise
On Defense Dept.
Reorganization
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Presi
dent Eisenhower said today that
any basic compromise on his De
fense reorganization plan would
mean a retreat to a dangerous
degree of military ineffective
ness.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference he is not rigid about the
wording of any Defense reorgan
ization bill.
But he said it would be all
wrong to change the basic prin
ciples of the plan he sent to Con
gress.
While the President was stat
ing his views the proposal con
tinued under fire in a hearing
before the House Armed Services
Committee. Influential members
of that group oppose its con
centration of authority in the of
fice of the Secretary of Defense
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Just before the news confer
ence opened Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, Army Chief of Staff, con
ceded in the hearing that the
plan could reduce the civilian
secretaries of the individual
armed services to the status of |
flunkeys.
But Taylor said that wouldn’t
happen unless authority carried
in the bill was misued.
Eienhower said either we are |
going to do the aright thing or we
are not.
He said every single concession
possible to make toward the in
dividual pride and morale of
each of the services had been
made before he submitted his
program.
Eisenhower said a nation’s mil
itary strategy must be devised as
an entity—a unified thing—and
it is not the function of the sep
arate armed services to direct
spch unified control.
Critics of thev reorganization
plan were arguing that the Pent
agon is more in need of efficient
operation than of new legislation.
Would Curb Power
Of Supreme Court
In Subversive Activities
WASHINGTON, UP*—1The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee today
approved a bill to curb the power
of the Supreme Court in the field
of subversive activities. The
vote was 10-5.
The measure, the subject of
nearly two months of sharp con
troversy in the committee, now
goes to the Senate. If called up
for action there, it appears cer
tain to touch off another bitter
row.
PLEASE SEND ME AN ELK
CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., UP* —
The McDowell County man spoke
right up in his letter to the State
Conservation Department:
“Please send me an elk. If
you don’t have any more elks
to give away, send me a bison.
I will stand the crating and ship
ping cost.”
The bison is extinct in West
Virginia and the department said
it had no elk to sell or give
away. A spokesman theorized
the man must have read about
some western state, where the
animals are sold or given away
to reduce their numbers on graz
ing land.
25 Vz Million Acres of Oil
Leases Worth $6,350,000
In Yearly Rental to Alaska
JUNEAU—The Bureau of Land
Management added up the latest
figures on Alaska’s oil land boom
and reported that applicant^ for
mineral leases filed Since last
July 1 now cover 25 Vz million
acres.
The applications, on 10,500 sep
erate lease offerings, are worth
$6,350,000 at the 25-cents-an-acre
annual rental rate. The terri
torial government gets 90 per
cent of the revenue from the
leases actually issued.
M. O. Allen, lands and miner
als officer for the BLM’s Alas
ka area, said about 5,000 of
the lease applications, covering
11V£ million acres, have been is
sued since the Richfield Oil Co.
announced a production well on
the Kenai moose range south of
Anchorage.
The leases already issued, Al
len said, had a value of $2,900,000
—of which the territory already
has collected $1,142,000.
U. S. Ready For
Better Relations
With Nasser
WASHINGTON. UP) — The
Treasury Department announced
today that it has unfrozen some
30 million dollars of Egyptian as
sets which were tied up in this
country at the time of Suez
crisis.
The Treasury Department said
it noted after being advised by
the State Department that the
United Arab Republic and the
Suez Canal Co. have signed an
agreement settling* the dispute
which stemmed from Egypt’s
seizure of the canal in 1956.
The agreement signed in Rome
yesterday provides, that the Uni
ted Arab Republic—a union of
Egypt and Syria—will pay ap
proximately 82 million dollars for
the seized waterway and other
facilities in Egypt. The com
pany keeps assets outside of
Egypt.
Meanwhile, the United States
was reported about ready to
launch a cautious campaign for
friendlier relations with Egypt’s
President Nasser.
President Not Sure
Beginning Of End Of
Slump In Sight
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower said today the
April decline in unemployment
cannot be interpreted as meaning
for sure that the nation is on
the high road to recovery from
the recession.
But he said he believes there
is continuing evidence the busi
ness slump is flattening out.
Asked at a news conference
about the possibility of an anti
recession tax cut, Eisenhower
stuck to his previous position—
that the situation must have more
study and analysis before a de
cision.
This conference was Eisen
hower’s sixth weekly session in
a row with newsmen. His rec
ord set in 1954, is eight xonfer
ences in a row.
In contrast to last week when
his temper flared a couple of
times, Eisenhower was in a most
ly jovial mood today. But he
spoke out emphatically and force
fully several times, particularly
regarding bjs controversial de
fense reorganization plan.
Two Cherrys
-Hit Jackpot
Nome has a couple of lucky
guessers on the Nenana Ice Clas
sic as Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cherry
of the Cherry Barber Shop are
among 17 who guessed right on
the minute the ice went out.
It is estimated they can spend
ing about $6,000 in the near fu
ture. Cherry who has lived in
this area for the past ten years
stated, “We’re going to spend it
right here in Nome.”
NENANA, Iff) — The ice swept
away the tripod in the Tanana
River here at 2:56 p.m. yesterday,
dividing $104,500 among 17 per
sons and groups who had guessed
the breakup would occur at that
time.
The tripod toppled over and
laid on its side for more than an
hour ahead of the time it tight
ened the wire sufficiently to pull
the pin and stop the clock.
The breakup was described as
the most freakish in history,
owing to the absence of high
water in the river.
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Spring Atomic
Tests Aim For
Cleaner Bomb
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower said today the
policy of his administration is
to have cleaner nuclear bombs.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference that 40 per cent of the
efforts in forthcoming Pacific
tests will be devoted toward
eliminating as much as possible
of the fallout from smaller nu
clear weapons.
The President made his obser
vation about American policy in
response to a request for com
ment on a recent statement by
Sen. Anderson (D-NM) that the
United States is making some of>
its bombs _ dirtier while it talks
publicly of producing clean
weapons.
Eisenhower said so far as he
knows no military officer ever
suggested making bombs dirtier.
The whole policy, he said is
to have cleaner bombs—ones that
do not deal out such horrible
mass destruction.
He said the proportion of fall
out from nuclear weapons de
pends at this time largely on the
size of those weapons and point
ed out that it is inverse to the
size.
Eisenhower said the big hydro
gen bomb can be produced so
that it has only 4 per cent fall
out. On the other hand, the fall
out from very small bombs is
about 100 per cent.
Some of the forthcoming tests,
Eisenhower indicated are being
directed toward cleaning up these
smaller weapons so they can be
used for tactical purposes.
j Mayor Appoints New
Committee Heads
New committee heads named
by Mayor Anderson at the inaug
ural meeting of the City Coun
cil last Thursday are as follows:
Finance and Bldg.—Dick Mil
ler and A. Bohrer, Fire and Water
—A. Bohrer and Pete Reader,
Police and Jail—Pete Reader and
Roscoe Wilke, Streets and Lights—
Wallace Mclver and Avel Ed
man, Health and Relief—Roscoe
Wilke and Dick Miller, Laws and
Ordinances—Axel Edman and
Wallace Mclver.
Early Returns Indicate Republican
Inroads In Democrat Majorities
Nome Results
Following are the results of
Tuesday’s Primary Election in
which 486 ballots were cast in
Nome.
Delegate to Congress
Bob Bartlett (D) .333 |
Walter Peirce OR) . 78
Paul Robison OR) . 50
Commissioner of Labor
Thomas Moore (D) .174
Dale Hirt CD) . 21
Russell Young (D) . 49
John Van Housen (R) .173
Treasurer
Hugh Wade (D) .140
Dorothy Tyner OD) . 33
L. W. Peck (D) .:. 24
Karl Dewey (R) .223
N. Koponen (A) . 18
Territorial Senators
Jim von der Heydt (D) .229
Willie Beltz OD) .198
Carl Glavinovich (R) .264
Chas. D. Jones (R) .i83
Representatives
Lester Bronson (D) .258 •
Keith Hedreen (D) .191
Frank Degnan (D) .109
Eben Hopson OD) . 89
Clinton Gray (R) .244
Art Johnson (R) .238
Alfred Mazzonna (JO .....169
Other precinct results will be
printed as they are received.
Noatak Woman And
Two Children Sent
Home By Fresno County
FRESNO, Calif., UP) — Fresno
County spent $450 for a plane
ticket today to send a pregnant
Eskimo woman and her two
children to Alaska.
Welfare Director Reed Clegg
said Fresno County decided it
would be economical for the
county to send Mrs. Agnes Towk
sjhia and her two youngsters to
Alaska, because she would have
become eligible for welfare pay
ments on July i if she stayed in
Fresno County.
Clegg said Mrs. Towksjhia
wanted to return to Noatak, 200
miles north of the Arctic Circle.
She told 'Clegg she left Noatak
last June because her husband
beat her. She came to Fresno
with a man who later abandoned
her and the two children. Clegg
said the man was not identified.
Pay Raise For
The Armed Forces
Seen In June
WASHINGTON, UP) — Unani
mous Senate action practically
guaranteed • a early pay increase
for the nation’s fighting men to
day—possibly by June.
The Senate, with little debate,
passed a broad military pay in
centive bill 87-0 yesterday and
returned it to the House for prob
able compromise talks.
All indications, however, point
ed to an early agreement. „ At
the rate the bill is now moving,
this could mean pay increases
becoming effective possibly in
June. They would go into ef
fect one month after President
Eisenhower signs the legislation.
Both House and Senate ver
sions carry out President Eisen
hower’s key recommendations for
making military careers more at
tractive financially 'to skilled of
ficers and enlisted personnel.
JUNEAU, Uft — Voters of Alas
ka pulled no big surprises in
yesterday’s primary election.
Slowly mounting returns from
the territory’s 285 precincts
showed today just about what
everybody expected from ballot
ing that was generally light.
E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Alaska’s
non-voting Delegate to Congress
for the last 14 years, was not
opposed for Democratic renom
ination to his eighth term—’but
he was running away from all
candidates.
One of the surprises of the
primary has been the strength of
Walter H. Peirce of College, a
political newcomer who was
seeking the Republican Delegate
nomination on a platform ad
vocating commonwealth status for
Alaska.
The GOP nod, however, seemed
well in hand for Paul Robison,
an Anchorage lawyer and a state
hood supporter, who was lead
ing Peirce by a 2-1 margin.
However, Peirce was making
a closer race of it than most ob
servers had expected. Most of
his strength was coming from
Southeastern Alaska, where state
hood has had fewer followers
than it has in Alaska’s other
judicial divisions.
In other territory-wide races,
incumbent Treasurer Hugh J.
Wade seemed assured of the
Democratic nomination for an
other term. ,
Wade had what appeared a
safe lead over two other Demo
cratic candidates, Dorothy Ty
ner of Anchorage and Leonard
Peck.
Karl F. Dewey, former Terri
torial Tax Commissioner, was un
opposed for the GOP nomination
as Treasurer.
Thomas Moore of Anchorage
apparently had the Democratic
nomination for, Territorial Labor
Commissioner in hand. He ap
peared safely ahead of fellow
Democrats Russell K. Young of
Anchorage and Dale Hirt of
Juneau.
Cross voting is permitted in
Alaska primary, and party trends
for the general election are some
times difficult to observe in the
spring balloting.
However, on the basis of the
early returns, it appeared that
some Republican inroads had
been made in heavy Democratic
majorities that have prevailed in
the last four years.
Republican candidates in some
legislative races were polling
heavily, but it still was too early
to tell whether there were in
dications of major GOP gains.
TUESDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
New York 5, Detroit 1
National League
Milwaukee 8, Chicago 4
Philadelphia 7, San Francisco 4
Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 2
Pittsburgh 7, Los Angeles 1
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 5-3, Phoenix 3-1
Vancouver 8. Salt Lake City 4
Portland 7, Sacramento 5
THAT'S FOR THE BIRDS
MANCHESTER, England, UPl —
A sparrow put a four-engine KLM
airliner out of commission for
six hours Monday night.
The bird was sucked into a
small tube in one of the engines,
knocking out the wing de-icing
system.