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VOL. LXI No. 47 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1959 _Per Copy—15*
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By FRANK W. VAILLE
«AP Special Washington Service'
WASHINGTON, UH — Already
the nation’s flyingest state, Alaska,
has need for a 37 million dollar
airport development program to
keep abrest of increased demands
between now and 1965.
That’s the estimate of the Fed
eal Aviation Agency, as outlined
in a recent report proposing 34
new airports and improvements at
more than 100 others through
out Alaska.
Emphasises 'No Commitment'
The agency carefully empha
sizes, however, that its inclusion
of a project should not be con
strued as a commitment of the
federal government to participate
financially in the development.
Initiative for carrying out any of
the work, it said, rests solely with
local authorities.
The suggested $36,990,000 pro
gram would include $35,663,000 for
airports serving predominately
scheduled air carriers. The re
maining $1,327,000 would be for
airports of general aviation usage.
Estimated costs for individual
projects are not provided in the
report.
Highlights of the Alaska po
gram would include:
Gearing the Anchorage Inter
national Airport to handle an anti
cipated 200,000 passengers by
1965, as contrasted with 1957’s
179,000 passengers.
■Preparing Fairbanks’ Interna
tional Airport for an increase
from 88,000 passengers to 120,000
in 1965.
30 New Airfields
Construction of 30 new airports
for scheduled carrier service at
Aleknagik, Eek, Hamilton, Holi
kachuk, Hooper Bay Kaltag, Kasi
lof, Kipnuk, Kwigillingok, Kwe
thluk, Kwinhagak, Manley Hot
Springs, Marshall, Mountain Vil
lage, New Andreafski, Noorvik,
Nunapitchuk, Pilot Point, Pilot
Station, Russian Mission, St.
George Island, St. Michael, Scam
mon Bay, Shageluk, Shungnak,
Sitka, South Naknek, Stebbins,
Teller and Ugashik.
The report anticipates an in
crease in passengers at Annette
Island from 62,000 to 104,000 by
1965.
For Juneau Municipal Airport,
the report proposes taxiways and
an additional parking apron to
handle the planes needed to meet
an expected passenger increase
from 85,000 to 160,000.
Work ai Nome
Nome would have paved run
ways and a segmented circle for
an airport expected to handle 30,
000 passengers a year as contrasted
with 1957’s 19,000.
The report also showed that in
Alaska, where aircraft departures
in 1957 accounted for more than
2Vi per cent of the nation’s total
flying is not for the birds. It rec
ommended no additional airport
development at Chicken, Eagle or
Hawk Inlet.
WEATHER FORECAST
rtePartly cloudy, with Northeast
t TOnds. Low tonight 5, high to
rM^rrow 30. Sunrise at 4:10 a.m.,
^Pset at 7:53 p.m.
Governor Egan Set To
Assume Full Work Load
JUNEAU, UPi — Governor Egan
said Friday night he will take up
the full duties of Alaska’s chief
executive today.
The 44-year-old Governor re
turned to the capitol last Mon
day to participate in the closing
days of the first State Legislature.
However, Egan announced then
that Wade would continue as act
ing Governor.
On the final day of the legis
lative session Thursday, Egan
worked strenuously preparing for
confirmation of his first big list
of governmental appointments.
Later, he said he found his
strength and energy would per
mit him to carry a full work load.
Discoverer II Expected To
Expire In Orbit Today
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Discoverer
II is on the way down.
It may have already perished,
according to an Air Force spokes
man. He said the shape of the
satellite’s orbit indicated it
would burn up in the atmosphere
between 4 a.m. today and 7 a.m.
Tuesday.
Discoverer II was fired into a
Polar orbit April 13 from Vanden
berg Air Force Base, 150 miles
north of here. It ejected its nose
capsule over the Arctic. The cone
is still being sought.
Each orbit has been bringing the
satellite closer to the altitude
where the friction of thicker air
will burn it up. Sunday night it
was 150 miles from the earth at
its closest point.
U, S. - Norwegians Search
Arctic Islands for Ejected
Instruments from Satelite
OSLO, Norway, UPI — A $500 re
ward was offered today to any
civilan finding the container ejec
ted from the Discoverer II satel
lite. The capsule is believed to
'have fallen in the Spitsbergen Is
lands north of Norway.
The U. S. Embassy announced
the reward, offered by the Lock
heed Aircraft Co., makers of the
Discoverer.
The search for the little con
tainer in the extensive Arctic
wastes of Spitsbergen and the sur
rounding sea and ice got under
way last Friday. Nine American
sea rescue planes and two Nor
wegian helicopters are taking
part.
BASEBALL SCORES
(By The Associated Press)
SATURDAY
American League
New York 16, Boston 7.
Cleveland 13, Kansas City 4.
Baltimore 6, Washington 1.
Detroit 5, Chicago 2.
National League
Philadelphia 14, Cincinnati 9.
Pittsburgh 11, Milwaukee 5.
San Francisco 8, St. Louis 1.
Los Angeles 8, Chicago 7.
. Pacific Coast League
Spokane 15-10, Phoenix 11-5.
Seattle 4, Sacramento 3.
San Diego 5, Portland 0.
SUNDAY
American League
Boston 5, New York 4.
Kansas City 4, Cleveland 3.
Baltimore 7-2, Washington 5-4.
National League
Cincinnati 12, Philadelphia 5.
San Ffanvisco 3, St. Louis 1.
Los Angeles 8, Chicago 3.
Pacifc Coast League
Spokane 6, Fhoenix 2.
Scramento 3-1, Seattle 0-0.
San Diego 10-3, Portland 1-2.
Formal Herter
Nomination Sent
To U. S. Senate
AUGUSTA, Ga., (ffi — President
Eisenhower today formally nomi
nated Christian A. Herter to be
Secretary of State.
The nomination of Herter, 64, to
succeed cancer-stricken John Fos
ter Dulles was sent to the Senate
from the President’s vacation
headquarters.
Herter is scheduled to go be
fore the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Tuesday. Speedy com
mittee approval and Senate con
firmation of the nomination have
been predicted.
The President was reported
well pleased by the reception of
the Herter nomination, at home
and abroad.
In his first major assignment in
the cabinet post, Herter will rep
resent the United States at a Paris
meeting of Western foreign min
isters starting April 29. That group
will go to Geneva May 11 for
conferences with the Soviet for
eign minister in an effort to ease
East-West tensions.
Eisenhower plans to end his
two-week vacation Tuesday after
noon and fly back to Washington.
Truman’s Birth -
Place Dedicated As
Public Shrine
LAMAR, Mo., UP) — “It’s like
being buried and dug up while
you’re still alive.”
That was former President
Harry S. Truman’s comment Sun
day when the little house in which
he was born was dedicated as a
public shrine.
“I’m glad they dug me up,”
Truman added with a grin.
He told a cheering crowd of
2,000 that usually “they don’t do
this to former Presidents until
they have been dead 15 years.”
Truman, who will be 75 May 8,
said he was overwhelmed by the
tribute.
The six-room, white frame cot
tage was bought by the United
Auto Workers Union for $6,000
and given to the State of Missouri.
The State Park Board has re
stored the house, furnished it in
period style and opened it to the
public.
Truman was only 11 months old
when his parents moved from La
mar to a farm in Jackson County
near Kansas City. But that makes
no difference to the residents of
Lamar, a town of 4,000 popula
tion 122 miles south of Kansas
City,
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo)
agreed with them in his dedica
tion speech.
“Starting today,” Symington
said, “people will come to Lamar
to study the beginnings of this
man’s life. All can learn that
greatness can be bred in humble
surroundings. All can learn of. the
American ideal of progress by
ability.
“All can learn that here, in our
country, we have been able to
create a very special kind of man
— common and extraordinary,
lighthearted and determined, kind
and firm, able to love his family
and care passionately about the
future of the world.”
Even if Truman never had been
President, he would be worthy of
note, Symington said.
“Because his life and character
have been a mirror of America.”
All Quiet At Montana State Prison, As
Officials Search for Causes of Violence
DEER LODGE, Mont., UP»—Iron
discipline behind their cell doors
took the place of a 36-hour mad
ness for 433 inmates of the Mon
tana State Prison today.
Armed National Guardsmen,
whose early morning blitz foiled
a convict escape try and rescued
21 hostages continued on duty.
The soldiers and prison guards
began a search of the prisoners
Saturday, within hours after the
uprising was quelled. Two con
vict ringleaders died in the furious
action which ended the worst
prison incident in years. A dep
uty warden was slain late Thurs
day.*
Warden Floyd E. Powell ordered
the convicts to their cells without
privileges. They are being given
sandwiches and coffee in their
cells.
Powell said he expects to con
duct extensive convict interviews
to pinpoint the cause of the vio
lence that began last Thursday.
Three members of Atty. Gen.
Forrest H. Anderson’s staff were
here, too, to determine whether
criminal charges will be brought
against any of the surviving rebel
leaders.
Anderson commented Saturday
that the prison offers 19th cen
tury facilities for 20th century
hoodlums.
Gov. J. Hugo Aronson noted
that Montana is planning con
struction of a 10-million-dollar
institution on prison ranch prop
erty near here
An estimated 15 convicts were
said by officials to have planned
and executed the revolt. Warden
Powell 'described thevrebellion it
self as a clever cover for the pris
oners’ efforts to tunnel to safety
— an effort that failed when the
diggers ran into an underground
concrete slab.
The troublemakers, Powell said,
have been isolated. They were
given a change of prison clothes,
a bucket and a mattress.
“Discipline is firm and tight bui
fair,” the warden said.
Soviets Deny They
Are Patrolling
Berlin Corridor
BERLIN, m — The Soviet Em
bassy denied today that MIG fight
ers have begun regular patrols in
the air corridors lining isolated
West Berlin and West Germany.
There was a similar denial from
American officials.
The Soviet Embassy issued its
statement in East Berlin after re
ports circulated abroad that a
Soviet fighter squadron had been
assigned to patrol West Berlin’s
air-lifelines.
“This report is not true,” said
J. W. Beburov, the chief Soviet
spokesman. “There has been no
cjjpnge in the air corridor situa
tion on our side. The only change
has come from the American
side.”
He was referring to U. S. in
sistence that its Air Force planes
have the right to fly to West Ber
lin above the Soviet-specified
10,0Q0-foot ceiling.
Soviet MIGs have buzzed three
U. S. Air Force transports within
the last four weeks when they
flew at altitudes about 10.000 feet,
which Moscow claims must be re
served for Communist aircraft
crossing the corridors.
The United States holds that
its new transports operate more
efficiently at higher altitudes and
will be dispatched to Berlin at
high altitudes whenever neces
sary.
China’s Mountain Glaciers
Will Be Tapped For
Farmland Irrigation
TOKYO, Uf)—Communist China
says that 3,000 scientists have be
gun a vast project to water farm
lands in northwest China by melt
ing enormous glaciers.
Peiping Radio said men and air
planes will spread black materials,
mostly coal dust and burned grass
and wood, on the snowcapped
Ilien Mountains in Kansu Prov
ince.
The black will absorb the sun’s
rays, melting the snow and ice.
Airplanes will bomb critical points
on the glacier.
In two months, the scientists
expect to obtain enough water to
irrigate more than 50,000 acres of
potential farmland.
President Asks
USSR Break Atom
Test Deadlock
GENEVA, m — President Eis
enhower has made a personal ap
peal to Soviet Premier Khrush
chev to take the nuclear test sus
pension talks out of their present
deadlock, it was disclosed here
today.
A letter from the President to
Khrushchev was referred to at
today’s meeting of the three-power
conference. It was understood to
urge serious Soviet consideration
of a Western proposal for a step
by-step approach to the problem
of ceasing atomic and hydrogen
weapons tests.
The disclosure of the letter was
made as if by accident by a So
viet spokesman. U. S. Ambassa
dor James J. Wadsworth refused
to confirm or deny it, but later
Western sources made it clear the
letter had been mentioned.
There was no indication of
when the letter was written. The
Western step-by-step proposal was .
made April 13 after Easter recess.
Under this plan the three pow
ers would first stop nuclear tests
on the surface of the earth, under
water and in the atmosphere to
a height of 31 miles. The problem
of banning underground and outer
space blasts would be left for
later negotiations.
Up to now Soviet delegate Sem
yon Tsarapkin has given a nega
tive response to the step-by-step
proposal. He has clung to the
position that agreement was still
possible in the three-power con
ference for a suspension of all
types of nuclear tests.
First Driving Lesson
MIAMI, Fla., OP* — Deputies
who rushed to a supermarket to
answer a burglar alarm found a
plate glass door smashed and a
tiny, 2V2 -horsepower car inside.
The driver was Gregory Skeen,
5, who had driven straight through
the door.
The boy had been practicing
driving in the store’s parking lot,
police said. He wound up in the
hospital with minor cuts and
bruises.
No charges were filed. The,boy’s
daddy, Maj. Henry B. Skeen, said
he will pay the $300 damage bill.