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VOL. LIX No. 108 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1957 Per Copy—15^
PHONE RATE
INCREASE
CONTINUED
The Alaska Telephone & Tele
graph Co. petition for a raise in
rates was continued by the Nome
Council until a more detailed list
of properties and Valuation of
same could be prepared and pre
sented.
New Liquor Laws
The Council discussed the ter
ritorial liquor laws and the
changes it made in the commu
nity and a conference was sched
uled with the U.S. District Attor
ney before any action was to be
taken.
Liquor License Application
The Council was requested to
transfer the liquor license of the
Breakers Bar now held by Bob
Renshaw to Ruth Brechan. The
matter was tabled until this eve
ning at 7:00 p.m., when a special
meeting of the council will decide
who should hold the license.
Property Requests
Robert Apok Sr. made applica
tion for a lot on the new exten
sion of Third Ave. where lots
have recently been made avail
able. Richard Small made appli
-cation for E Vz Lot 26, Block 67.
Hoffa Challenged
As Successor
To Dave Beck
SETATLJE, UP)—The four men
who want to succeed Dave Beck
as president of the teamsters
union have presented their rea
sons to the policy committee of
the Western Conference of Team
sters—but only the committee
knows its reaction.
One by one they confronted the
37-member committee yesterday,
outwardly confident but obvious
ly in a position of 3-against-l.
The three are Thomas J. Hag
gerty, secretary-treasurer of a
Chicago local; Thomas J. Hickey,
New York, an international vice
president of the teamsters; and
Rep. John F. Shelley (D-Calif),
i former president of the California
■ Federation of Labor,
j The one against whom their
i shafts were aimed was James R.
Hoffa, Chicagoan and target of
recent Senate investigation.
Hickey told the committee the
teamsters were faced with the
problem of deciding “what we
are going to do to stay inside the
AFL-CIO or are we going to put
1 ourselves in a position where we
get kicked out of the organized
labor movement.”
Mining Congress Hears Calls for Tax
Reduction, Return to Gold Standard
U.S. Mining Industry in
‘Perilous’ Condition With
Smelters Going Full Blast
VANCOUVER, IB—A Royal
commission to investigate the
mining industry in British Col
, umbia was advocated yesterday
by the International Union of
Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers.
Delegates to the union conven
tion said mining companies are
exploiting B.C. mineral resources
at their own discretion and under
too little government control.
As a result the economy of the
province has been severely af
fected when mining towns be
came ghost towns and raw ore
was shipped for processing to the
United States.
One union official said the min
ing industry in the U.S. is in a
“perilous” condition with all the
mines in the Rocky Mountain
area “on the verge of shutdown.”
“The ironic thing is that the
smelters are running at full blast
using ore imported from overseas
where wages are much lower,”
he said.
Baltimore Bridge Washout
Maroons 40 on Roofs
BALTIMORE, (#>—Two inches
of rain fell on Baltimore yester
day. A section of a main down
town bridge was washed out, ma
rooning more than 40 workers on
the rooftops of three East Balti
more trucking films.
Firemen working three row
boats took the workers off the
roofs of the one-story buildings
as waters swirled up to depths of
six feet.
> SALT LAKE CITY, UP)—Rep.
Baker (R-Tenn) called today for
a reduction in taxes as fast and
as far as economic conditions and
the need for national defense will
permit.
Baker, in a speech prepared
for delivery at the convention of
the American Mining Congress,
said the House Ways & Means
Committee plans a long, searching
look at taxes next January. He
told the miners to be prepared to
present their views.
Rep. Dawson CR-Utah), at a
meeting on public lands yester
day, said a House committee in
vestigation into the public land
holdings of the military services
produced hair-raising discoveries.
He said the Army, Navy and
Air Force hold 27,000,000 acres
of public land—“the equivalent
of a strip of land 14 miles wide
stretching from New York City
to San Francisco; it means they
control an area larger than the
entire state of Ohio ... no won
der our hair stood on end.”
A resolution scheduled to be
submitted to the convention to
day said, in effect, the United
States should return to the gold
standard.
Dr. Franz Pick, publisher of
Pick’s World Currency Report,
said he doubted if the U.S. ever
will return to the gold standard,
even if the price of gold is in
creased by 100 percent.
Pick said the U.S. could not re
turn to the gold standard because
there is not enough gold on hand
to back the currency in circula
tion. “The U.S. monetary policy
has done a perfect job of debase
ment,” he said.
Congressional Inquiry
Into Momingside Finance
To Start Next Monday
PORTLAND UP)—A congression
al investigation of the Moming
side Hospital of Portland will
open here Monday, Sept. 16.
Arthur Perlman, staff director
of the House Government Opera
tions Committee, said Rep. Chu
doff (D-Pa) will head a subcom
mittee looking into finances and
care of mental patients there.
The hospital has 370 patients,
about 98 percent of them from
Alaska. The hospital takes care of
the Alaska patients under a con
tract with the territory.
The investigation follows com
plaints of Rep. Edith Green, an
Oregon Democrat, about the fi
nancial pperations of the hospital.
Pan Am to Make
1st Commercial
Antarctic Flight
WASHINGTON, WV-The Navy
says Pan American World Air
ways will make the first commer
cial flight to the antarctic, leaving
San Francisco Oct. 12.
The big Boeing Super Strato
cruiser will carry 37 officers and
specialists who will take part in
Operation Deep Freeze, a scient
ific expedition to the south polar
region.
In an announcement Monday,
the Navy said Pan American will
be paid $43,000 for the flight.
One purpose of the flight, the
Navy added, is to demonstrate the
feasibility of commercial air op
erations into the area. Navy and
Air Force planes have made a
number of flights to the antarctic.
Rammed Dredge
Sinks; 3 of 50
Crewmen Die
COOS BAY,. Ore., UPC-A 268
foot Army dredge sank in the
Coos Bay channel before darkness
last night, minutes after it was
rammed by a Norwegian freight
er. Three of the 50 dredge crew
men died, one was missing, and
six were injured. —
Dredge Capt. Carl Heil said the
freighter “seemed to drift down
on us; it seemed to hit us twice,”
as the ships, were passing in the
narrow channel.
The Viking figurehead of the
freighter tore thru the dredge’s
port side, knifing into a passage
way. The general alarm sounded
as the dredge went down with
two of its three water-tight bulk
heads ripped open.
A dramatic <boat and helicopter
rescue was under way within
minutes.
Only two hours before the crew
of the dredge, the Rosell, had
been presented with a plaque for
two years of accident-free opera
tion. The dredge was valued at
$450,000.
Most of the crew were below
deck eating dinner at the time.
They rushed to the deck and some
began climbing the rigging as
eight-foot swells broke over the
deck.
Governor of Arkansas Summoned
To Court for Barring Integration
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Five Appointed
By Stepovich
To Govern ESC
JUNEAU UP)—The names of the
five men who will govern the
Alaska Employment Security
Commission were made public
today by Gov. Stepovich.
As expected, he picked three
Fairbanks men as commissioners
and gave the other two ESC posi
tions to a Juneau hanker and a
Dillingham- fishing union leader.
The governor called the new
commission to Juneau Sept. 30
for its first meeting. The last com
mission meeting was held in Jan
uary, before the 1957 Legislature
scrapped the former ESC board
in an amendment to a bill ap
proved in the dying hours of the
23rd lawmaking session.
The Rev. George Boileau was
nominated as public member of
the new commission, and middle
man between the two labor and
two management commissioners.
Father Boileau, a Jesuit priest
who is pastor of the church the
Stepovich family attended in
Fairbanks, was nominated for
commission membership by the
Alaska Bar Assn, for a term end
ing Feb. 1, 1960.
As labor members, Stepovich
selected Frank Emberg, Dilling
ham, and Tom Canafax, Fair
banks.
Management posts went to W.
T. (Dutch) Kegley, executive vice
president of the First National
Bank of Juneau, and to Denny G.
Breaid, Coal Sales Corp. manager,
of Fairbanks. *
The management members were
nominated by the Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce.
Pro-Integration Audience
Boos Little Rock Mention
WESTBURY, N.Y., (^Singer
Fran Warren stopped a show last
night when she mentioned Little
Rock.
Playing in a Long Island sum
mer stock presentation of “South
Pacific,” Miss Warren followed
the script when she was asked
where she was from.
“Little Rock,” she replied—just
as Rogers & Hammerstein wrote.
The audience booed so long at
mention of the city where a
school integration dispute is rag
ing that the show was tempor
arily stymied.
NORMAN THOMAS FULFILLS
LIFE-LONG AMBITION
BOUND BROOK, N.J., Iff)—-Fre
quent Socialist candidate for
president Norman Thomas had a
good time last night moderating a
debate between a Democrat and
a Republican.
“For the first time in my life,”
he quipped, “I can stop ‘both a
Republican and a Democrat from
talking.”
t> (By The Associated Press)
LITTLE ROCK
Quiet prevailed at Little Rock,.
Ark., today where federal author
ities served a summons to court
yesterday on Gov. Orval Faubus,
! who ringed Central Hijgh School
with National Guardsmen to balk
integration.
Faubus, described as extremely
tired, cancelled all engagements
| for today, including an hour-long
radio program.
The governor would not say
whether he would appear person
ally in court at the hearing on the
government’s plea for a tempor
ary injunction against him. If this
is granted, the judge can set a
hearing for a permanent injunc
tion.
The court petition and order
were the first concrete acts by
federal authorities seeking to
break the battle of wills in the
nation’s most serious challenge of
federal powers.
Federal District Judge Ronald
N. Davies issued the order on pe
tition of Atty. Gen. Herbert
Brownell. Davies then directed
federal attorneys to write the
petition. ^
Faubus told a press conference
at the cepitol later that a reduced
force of National Guardsmen
would continue to surround the
high school and prevent Negroes
from enrolling. He said he cut the
number of Guardsmen from 200
to 100 because tensions have less
ened.
NASHVILLE
Integrated classes resumed for
the third day at Nashville, Tenn.,
today and police moved quickly
to prevent further disorders cli
maxed by the bombing of a gram
mar school yesterday (See story
on Page 4).
Northern segregationist John
Kasper and 10 Negroes were ar
rested.
Described by himself as a rab
ble rouser from New Jersey, Kas
per was arrested shortly after
midnight and jailed on charges of
inciting to riot. It was his third
arrest after the school dynamit
ing.
The Negroes taken into custody
at Nashville, two of them chil
dren, were charged with carrying
pistols and shotguns in areas near
the integrated schools.
The mayor and school officials
sought a federal injunction
against further activities by Kas
per at Nashville.
* * *
BIRMINGHAM
Violent efforts to integrate the
schools at Birmingham, Ala., were
followed by the hanging of one
dummy and burning of another
at separate white high schools
today.
Small crowds which gathered
at several schools were dispersed
by police.,
A Negfo leader in Birmingham
said Negroes there would cease
further attempts to enroll in
white schools at this time.