Pay Boosts Ordered for 350,000
Enlisted Armed Forces Specialists
WASHINGTON, UP)—Secretary
of Defense Wilson has ordered
pay boqsts for 350,000 enlisted
specialists. But they may not start
getting the added cash until the
first of next year.
Officials said it would take sev
eral months for the Army, Navy
and Air Force to decide which of
their technicians are eligible for
pay increases ranging from $12
to $50 a month. The boosts would
be limited to about 15 percent of
enlisted strength.
Wilson signed the pay increase
order Wednesday after receiving
formally the report of a commit
tee he had named to study the
military pay structure.
The committee, headed by Pres
ident Ralph Cordiner of the Gen
eral Electric Co., also proposed a
Supreme Soviet
Makes New Bid To
End Nuclear Tests
M O S C O W, OP)—The Supreme
Soviet today called on the United
States Congress and the British
Parliament to work for immediate
termination of nuclear weapons
tests.
The Russian equivalent of a
parliament proposed establishing
a three-power pariamentary com
mission to exchange opinions and
try to wrok out the best way to
'ban tests of hydrogen and atomic
weapons.
As usual, the legislators adopt
ed the resolution without a mur
mur of dissent after hearing For
eign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
It was Gromyko’s maiden speech
as foreign minister in the Su
preme Soviet.
Gromyko said it was premature
to draw any conclusions about the
outcome of disarmament talks in
London, and that Russia was
compelled to go on producing
atomic weapons “because of the
competition imposed by the ag
gressive circles of certain coun
tries.”
The disciplined deputies also
unanimously approved Commu
nist Party Chief Khrushchev’s
plan to decentralize the vast
Soviet industrial administrative
machine.
Bids Invited for Building
Water Storage Tanks
At Cape Lisbourne
Contractors have been invited
to submit competitive bids on
water supply storage tanks, at
Cape Lisbourne Air Force Station,
Alaska, according to the Alaska
District Corps of Engineers.
Work will consist of construct
ing two steel 400,000-gallon water
tanks with connecting frame
pumphouse, all supported on re
inforced concrete floor slab and
footings, a connecting concrete
utilidor, cleaning, insulating and
covering of tanks, interior and ex
terior painting and interior and
exterior electrical mechanical and ,
heating systems.
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12 New Super-Airways
To Be Opened for
Transcontinental Flights
WASHINGTON UP)—Planes fly
ing across the country soon will
be following 12 new super-air
ways.
James T. Pyle, Civil Aeronau
tics Administrator, said Wednes
day two of the airways are ready
now and the other 10 will be
completed in 18 months.
A CAA spokesman said the
idea is to simplify handling of
nonstop flights. He said there are
now 50 or more transcontinental
air routes.
The system ultimately will link
New York and Washington with
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
i general overhaul of the military
pay system with a view to weed
ing out the less capable personnel
and encouraging the better men
to remain in service.
Wilson took no action on this,
but said study would continue.
Besides the pay increases for
j enlisted technicians, Wilson also
adapted a recommendation for
; lump sum bonus payments to re
I serve officers who remain on ac
tive duty beyond their normal
tours. This would become effec
tive starting July 1, 1959.
Unlike the technician pay raise,
the bonus plan requires congres
sional approval.
The technicians’ pay boosts will
be distributed this way: Air
. Force $19 million, Navy $15 mil
! lion, Army $11 million, Marine
I Corps $4 million.
Wien Airlines
From Fairbanks: D. Lavel, John
Latarski, T. Rosburg, M. Fran
fourth. B. Chrestman, J.H. Green,
W. C. Matzur, G. E. Shafer Fred
Pankratz, Gordon Munger, Chas.
Kendall.
To Fairbanks: Lee Williams, All
Polet, Robt. Smith, L.E. Bowers,
B. Hofer, V.H. Helton C.. Peter
son. Clarence Halverson, Janet
Douglas, J. D. Crawford, Mrs.
Werner Bohrer, H. Little, Harold
Johnson, John Kubanji, J. Egyed,
James Brittingham J.F. Merrill.
From Galena: Mike Kelly.
From Kotzebue: Isaiah Geary,
Jim Geary, R. Hooitt, D. Smith.
To Kotzebue: D.A. Pearson, Dr.
and Mrs. Lathrop, D.N. Baker, Ed
Balik, .June Balik, J. Woodland, j
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Methodist Church
Committees for
Next Year
At the quarterly conference of j
the Community Methodist Church
held here Monday evening, Wil-1
liam H. Cameron was re-elected
president of the Official Board.
The following committees were
named for the next year:—
Trustees: Robert Baldwin, 1958;
Roy Snyder, 1958; William Cam
eron, 1959; Charles Fagerstrom,
1959; Wilbur Arnold, 1960.
Stewards: A. Polet (honorary) j
Frank Lambrecht, Fred Bockman,
Lucie Nagozruk, Mrs. Charles Fa
gerstrom (Communion), Don Hun
gerford (charge lay leader), Mrs.
Ray Pruitt, Mrs. Robert Grant,
Mrs. A. Nerland (CM).
Finance: Robert Baldwin (CT),
Omie McCarthy (WSCS treasur
er), Richard Small (SS treasurer),
Rev. Mecklenburg, Jerry Man
ning (member at large).
Auditor: Mrs. Carrie McLain.
Treasurer: Robert Baldwin.
Building plans were reviewed
and work will start very soon for
the complete insulation of the so
cial rooms which are used for
man}' community purposes as
well as Sunday School and church
social activities.
Following the meeting, a recep
tion was held, sponsored by the
Women’s Society of the Metho
dist Church.
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Gray Whales
Heading North
To Bering Sea
The gray whale is now heading
north to its summer feeding
grounds in the Bering Sea in a
migration that will get little pub
lic observation, according to the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
This whale, a scenic attraction
on its journey south close to shore
during the winter, makes its
northward migration almost un
noticed—the thousands of mi
grants being spread over too wide
an area in the Pacific and usually
too far from shore to attract at
tention. On its way southward it
travels in a relatively narrow cor
ridor seldom more than three
miles from shore.
During the recent winter Fish
and Wildlife observers at the La
Jolla, Calif., station counted 1,782
of these animals migrating to
their wintering ground along the
coast of Lower California.
Some of the whales even round
the tip of the long peninsula and
feed not far from the main coast
of Mexico.
Once plentiful, the gray. whale
was harvested to the point of near
extinction. Now it is protected by
international agreement. Present
ly it is estimated there are about
4,000 adult gray whales and 500
calves, altho conditions make an
accurate census difficult.
Mrs. Emily Romig,
Nome Pioneer,
Dies in Seattle
SEATTLE, W—Mrs. Emily
Romig, 86, an Alaska pioneer,
died in Providence Hospital here
Wednesday after a long illness.
Mrs. Romig made an overland
trip to Alaska in 1896 the first
woman to travel the Edmonton
Trail.
She lived in Nome from 1899 to
1909, and in Anchorage from 1915
to 1941, after which she and her
husband moved to Colorado.
Mrs. Romig related her Alaska
adventures in a book: “Life and
Travels of a Pioneer Woman in
Alaska.”
Her late husband, Dr. J. H. Ro
mig was the subject of a book
which described his life as an
early-day Alaska physician. He
was once mayor of Anchorage.
Mrs. Romig moved to Seattle in
1952. She lived at the Caledonia
Hotel. She was a member of the
Pioneers of Alaska and the “Am
ethyst.”
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Van C. Griffin, Seattle; two step
sons, Robert Romig and Dr. How
ard Romig of Anchorage; two
stepdaughters, Mrs. Art Daily and
Mrs. Margaret Hanna, both of
Oakland, Calif., and 20 grand
children and 10 great-grandchil
dren.
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