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President Asks
Creation of New
Aviation Agency
WASHINGTON, UP) — Presi
dent Eisenhower today asked
Congress to create a new federal
aviation agency in an effort to
avert air collisions in this jet
age.
The Eisenhower plan calls for
authority to incorporate addition
al units into the new agency.
That leaves room for it to take
over integration of military air
traffic with the general flying
pattern. Presumably by execu
tive order the President could
transfer from the Defense Depart
ment to the new agency the units
exerting control over military
flights.
Eisehower, in a special message,
proposed the existing Civil
Aeronautics Administration be
’abolished and its functions be
absorbed by the new agency.
“Recent midair collisions of
aircraft, occasioning tragic losses
of human life, have emphasized
the need for a system of air traf
fic management which will pre
vent, within the limits of human
ingenuity, a recurrence of such
accidents,” Eisenhower said.
The President recommended the
proposed new agency “be given
full and paramount authority
over the use of aircraft of air
space over the United States and
its territories, except in circum
stances of military emergency or
urgent military necessity.”
Eisenhower asked for enact
ment of legislation at this session
and at the earliest practicable
date.
Sugar Hart and Gil Turner
Fight To 10-Round Draw
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — Gar
net (Sugar) Hart and his one
time sparring mate and teacher
Gil Turner, battered each other
to a 10-round draw at Connie
Mack Stadium last night.
Turner started out as if to
show he was still the master of
his 22 year old Philadelphia
neighbor but Hart caught fire
in the last half of the welter
weight fight. He had the tired
Turner missing frequently near
the end as he came back to earn
the draw on a widely-split vote.
Eisenhower Will
Not Fire Aide
Sherman Adams
WASHINGTON, W) — The
White House said today Presi
dent Eisenhower has no inten
tion of firing Sherman Adams,
his chief aide who is a target of
House investigators.
At the same time, Press Secre
tary James C. Hagrty said there
will be no White House reply to
an earlier question by a reporter
as to whether Adams’ good friend,
industrialist Bernard Goldfine,
once gave Adams a $700 coat.
Hagerty also said Adams has
rejected reporters’ request for a
news conference at which to
question him personally regard
ing his relations with Goldfine.
Adams acknowledged yester
day that on three occasions he
contacted federal agencies re
garding Goldfine business troub
les with the agencies. Adams
said Goldfine got no favored
treatment from the agencies in
return, and that he—Adams—
sought none.
Adams also acknowledged that
Goldfine paid hotel bills for him
during a period when the weal
thy Boston industrialist was in
trouble before the Federal Trade
Commission and the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
He said, however, it was only
a matter of accepting hospitality
for an old friend, and he had
thought Goldfine kept the hotel
quarters on a permanent basis.
The affair had prompted Rep.
Peter F. Mack Jr. (D-Ill) to say
Eisenhower should fire Adaips.
Mack said that would be in keep
ing with an Eisenhower campaign
pledge for a government “clean
as a hound’s tooth.”
Asked if he could say whether
Eisenhower has an intention of
firing Adams, Hagerty shot back:
“Sure I can. The answer is
of course not.”
Two Children Suffocate
VENICE, 111., — A seven
hour search for two children
ended Thursday with the discov
ery of their bodies in an aban
doned refrigerator.
Police said Bobby Lee Loving,
7, and Sandra Waggner, 5, died
of suffocation, adding the young
sters apparently crawled into the
refrigerator while playing.
Bulldozer Crushes Air Force Officer
During Ground Breaking Ceremonies
SPOKANE, UR — Lt. Thomas
Vrana, 23, the public relations
officer who was run over by a
24-ton bulldozer while taking
pictures of the ground breaking
ceremonies at Fairchild Air Force
Base, died in a hospital last night.
The young lieutenant from
Pittsburgh, Pa., was badly man
gled in the lower part of his
body when the heavy machine,
operated by the base commander,
Col. Willard B. Atwell, pinned
him to the ground after he
slipped during ceremonies mark
ing the start of a $4,000,000 base
housing project Wednesday.
Vrana had jumped up on the
front of the bulldozer to take
a picture of Atwell and slipped
when the machine started to
move. The regular operator
leaped up after the engine stalled
and eased it back off the offi
cer’s body.
Vrana suffered compound frac
tures of both legs, internal in
juries and deep shock. He was
spared instant death when his
head and the rest of his body
fell between the tracks of the
dozer.
Vrana remained conscious
throughout and talked with hos
pital attendants almost up to the
last. There had been hopes that
he might recover, but shortly be
fore midnight he turned to an
attendant and said:
“Just a minute.”
Then he died. His wife Mazie
Ann, and his mother, Mrs. Alfred
Vrana were at the hospital.
The ground breaking ceremon
ies were cancelled after the ac
cident. Vrana’s camera was
smashed and the only pictures of
the day were taken by other
photographers. One of them,
television cameraman Duane
Bock, recorded the accident on
movie film and a dramatic se
quence of it was carried by the
Associated Press wirephoto.
L. E. Hough Is
New District
Engineer For BPR
i
Mr. L. E. Hough takes over the
duties of District Engineer for
the Department of Public Roads
this week, replacing Frank Mor
ris who has been transferred to ,
Fairbanks.
Mr. Hough (rhymes with
rough) is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Washington, class of ’39
and has worked in other parts of
the territory in Douglas, Peters
burg and Ketchikan where he was
city engineer for street, water
and sewer improvements.
For four years he was assist
ant professor of Civil Engineer
ing at the University of Alaska
under President Charles Bunnell
during which time he acted as
city engineer of Fairbanks on the
first concrete paved streets.
He returned to the states in
1948 where he was city engineer
of Aberdeen, Washington and re
turned to Alaska in 1954 for the
Alaska Road Commission where
his first assignment was in Mt.
McKinley Park as resident en
gineer for the new bridge con
struction in the park and on the
Cantwell-Paxson highway.
For the past two years he has
been engineer of bridge and road
construction on the Copper Riv
er Highway from Cordova to
Chitna. He stated that con
tractors working there this year
will complete the highway to 50
miles from Cordova with approxi
mately 80 miles remaining un
finished to connect Cordova to
the highway system.
Mr. and Mrs. Hough are mov
ing this week to their quarters
at the BPR headquarters at
Satellite Field. They have two
sons who are in the states.
1958 May Be Last
Year For Alaska
Salmon Packers
SEATTLE, UP) — Washington
State Fisheries Director Milo
Moore said today 1958 may be the
last year for many of the large
salmon packers in Alaska. He
said “no fish”was the reason.
Moore said the year also may
end the annual run of the Wash
ington and Alaska purse seine
fleet to Kodiak Island and Port
Moller areas in Alaska.
“Predictions are coming true,”
Moore said in a statement, “the
unregulated Japanese high seas
salmon fishery in the Aleutian
area harvesting immature sal
mon during the first or second
year of their life cyele is now be
ginning to show adversely in
Japanese landings as well as our
own.”
Moore said the -United States
so far “has presented only a
token resistance to the Japanese
intercepting North American
stocks of salmon.”
“It’s about time people in high
places pay some attention to the
problem if we intend to sty in
the fish business,” he said.
The fisheries director called
for restricting imports of fish
products caught under conditions
forbidden to U. S. fishermen.
“(It) would help protect the in
herent rights of our fishermen
and would eliminate wasteful
practices by which other nationals
(absorbing our market) deplete
the food resources of the high
seas,” Moore said.
Many Events Scheduled During
Midnight Sun Festival Next Week
The first Midnight Sun Fes
tival Queen contest is well under
way with six contestants al
ready entered.
First to enter was Bunny Doyle,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alleq
Doyle and recent high school
graduate, sponsored by Polar Bar
and Curio. She was soon fol
lowed by “Honey” Scott, daughter
of Sgt. and Mrs. Douglas Scott,
high school student sponsored
by Nomerama theater and KNOM
TV; Suzanne Faberstrom, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fa
gerstrom, sponsored by Bering
Sea Club and Wallace Hotel;
Mary Jo Swanberg, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Swanljerg,
high school student, sponsored
by North Star Bakery and
Breakers Bar; and Jeannie Mogg,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Mogg, recent high school grad
uate sponsored by Trading Post
and Music Box.
Nancy Davis, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan Davis is spon
sored by the U. S. Mercantile.
The contest is open to any
single girls over 16 years of age,
properly sponsored. Blanks are
available at the Music Box.
The crowding of the queen
will be following the masked
ball on June 21st at midnight.
If weather is favorable the dance
and coronation will be held out
doors east of the Alaska Steam
ship Co. office.
The Midnight Sun Festival
will officially open on Friday
June 20th at 2:00 in the after
noon at which time the Story
Book Costume parade will be
held for children and the toy and
pet parade.
This will have a musical ac
companiment by many tiny
music boxes which are being
■ provided by Dorothy’s Shop said
(Johnnie Stephenson directing
the activities. Assisting in the
children’s day events are Rev.
Bibb, Rev. E. Bachelder, Spencer
Strand, Father Nevue, Pauline
Witner, Dave Walsh, Nelda and
Carl Liebig.
Early in the evening of Fri
day, probably about eight o’clock
Eskimo games will be played on
Front Street which will be fol
lowed by the midnight baseball
game under the management of
Keith Hedreen of the Polar Bar.
This event is scheduled to be
held at Nome Field. Good teams
have been lined up it is reported.
Saturday starting at noon, early
day costumes will mingle with
the ultra modern for the Street
Carnival being planned. Start
ing a 5:30 a progressive smorgas
bord will be held at the North
Star, Bering Sea Club and the
Polaris. Tickets will soon be
available.
At eight 'o’clock the masked
ball gets under way by the
Alaska Steamship Co. office if
weather is good and indoors if
weather does not cooperate.
Coronation of the queen will be
Saturday night at 11:30 fol
lowed by the giving away of a
poke of real Nome nuggets at
Midnight.
' Sunday is Marine Picnic Day
of the Festival. Sunday morn
ing from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. the
Chamber of Commerce will be
host to the Anchorage Chambei
of Commerce party arriving here
to participate in this event with
a breakfast at the Bering See
Club.
At two o’clock in the after
noon there will be a boat parade
which preceeds the boat races
of several classifications being
held at Nome River. Chairman
of this event is Barrow Morgan.
Transportation of boats to Nome
River has b,een offered by the
Mortinsen Construction Co. to
those who cannot handle their
own boats.
Oomiaks, airboats and speed
boats of several kinds have been
promised to make this event most
interesting.
During the three day festival
the airlines are cooperating with
midnight sun trips. Munz Air
lines are reported prepared to
take parties of four; Wien Air
lines, parties of eight and Alas
ka Airlines will take parties up
to twenty five.
Everyone is urged to make the
community as festive as possible
, with the wearing of old time
clothes for the women, derby
hats, string ties, fancy vests and
tight pants for the men.
Six Boat Loads
Arrive From
King Island
Six boats of King Island Es
kimos arrived at intervals during
the night from their isolated
winter home. They report that
no one was left on the island
this year, only the dogs who will
forage for themselves and grow
fat on birds during the summer.
This has been a bountiful year
for the islanders who have had
several years of poor hunting.
They have plenty of walrus meat
cached away in their natural
cold storage on the island to last
j them through next winter.
B.C. Fishermen Accept
Cut to End 9-Month Strike
VANCOUVER, UP) — Herring
fishermen, voting to accept a cut
in wages, ended a nine-month
strike last night.
Homer Stevens, president of
the United Fisheries and Allied
Workers’ Union said the offer
was not as much as the union
had hoped but union officials
recommended acceptance to “get
the industry going.”
Two thousand men were af
fected by the strike that began
Oct. 27. 1957, and cost the in
dustry the winter fishing season.
A spokesman for the associa
tion estimated that the strike
cost the province approximately
five million dollars.
State Dept. Writes
Summit Conference
Report to Khrushchev
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
State Department sent to the
White House for President Eisen
hower’s personal study a lengthy
message for Soviet Premier
Khrushchev reportedly pressing
for a speed up in Summit Confer
ence moves.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White said the document
deals entirely with the Summit
Conference and it is also under
study in the department.
White said the Soviet embassy
had informed the department it
knows of no plans for the pub
lication of the message.