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AGC & Carpenters
To Resume Talks
On National Level
JUNEAU, UP) — The spotlight
shifted to Washington, D. C., to
day for the resumption of nego
tiations in Alaska’s six-weeks-old
carpenter’s strike.
Governor Egan announced yes
terday that representatives of the
Alaska Council of Carpenters, the
Carpenters’ international, and the
Associated General Contractors
would resume negotiations in the
national capitol. They are sched
uled to meet tonight or Tuesday.
Thirteen locals with a mem
bership of, 2,500 have been on
strike since June 27, demanding
a 50-cent hourly pay boost over
the present scale of $4.25 an hour,
plus free board and room at work
camps.
The contractors have offered
28 cents an hour this year and
another 24M> cents next year, plus
improved' travel benefits.
Disaster Teams
Speed to Relief
Blasted Ore. Town
ROSEBURG, Ore., OP — Relief
agencies sped to this stricken
southern Oregon city today as
construction workers battered
down the charred remnants of
blasted buildings.
Eight blocks of the business dis
trict. were reduced to rubble
early Friday when a parked truck,
loaded with 6V£ tons, of explo
sives, blew up. The blast, was
! touched off by a fire in a nearby
building.
At least 13 persons were killed,
more than 100 injured. Property
■damage in a 22-block area around
the blast scene totals more than
10' million dollars.
Financial relief began pouring
in shortly after Oregon Governor
Mark Hatfield established a Rose
burg relief fund. The little west
ern Oregon town of Drain, with
a population of 1,290, contributed
$1,000.
The Red Cross set up an office
to take care of emergency hos
pital expenses and housing. The
Small Business Administration ■ is
taking applications for loans from'
homeowner and businessmen who
can’t get money from other
sources. /
City and state agencies set up
meetings to help get the city back
on its feet.
Newspaper Mergers Limit
San Francisco Daily
Newspapers To Total of 3
SAN FRANCISCO, UPi — Only
three daily San Francisco news
papers were on sale at street cor
ners. today in a city that once
had seven.
Merged Saturday were the two
evening papers — The News,
which had been owned by the
Scripps-Howard group, and the
Call-Bulletin, which had been
owned by Hearst Newspapers.
The other papers, the indepen
dent Chronicle, and Hearst’s Ex
aminer, are both published in the
morning.
The American Newspaper Guild
‘ estimated that more than 150
persons under the guild’s jurisdic
tion would lose jobs. No announce
ment was made concerning the
mechanical crafts.
Hoover, 85 Today,
Offers Khrushchev
Immortal Fame
NEW YORK, UP) — Herbert
Hoover, 85 today, says Nikita
Khrushchev could bring with him
to the United States the greatest
gift mankind as received in 1,000
years — peace.
“But this is unlikely to be the
result of this visit,” the former
President added.
“He could interpret his oft-re
peated statement as to peaceful co
existence,” Hoover said Sunday,
“as eliminating all international
demands, all warnings, all threats
and all conspiracies against free
people.”
Such a move, said Hoover,
could win the Soviet Premier “im-_
mortality among the leaders of
all men.”
But, he added, the possibility
that Khrushchev would make such
a move is remote because “the
tactics of the Communists . may
I change, but their determination
; to dominate the world continues.”
Hoover appeared on ‘*Meet The
Press” over NBC-TV.
Only one other former Presi
dent, John Adams, celebrated
more birthdays than Hoover.
Adams died when he was 90.
The ruddy-faced, white-haired
Hoover has a simple formula for
longevity — work. He illustrates
it today by spending his birthday
at his desk.
He keeps six secretaries busy
with his massive correspondence
and activities in various organi
zations.
SUITED FOR BATTLE
ROCHESTER, N. Y., UP) — Ru
fus Robinson was jailed three
years ago for assaulting Abe
Marion in an argument over
ownership of a suit. Released last
week, he looked up Marion and
resumed the argument. Back in
jail, Robinson declared: “I’m
going to get that suit if I live
long enough.”
Nixon Says The
J
Alternative to Talk
Can Only he War
By JOE F. KANE
WASHINGTON, UP—You either
talk to the Russians or eventually
you are going to fight them, Vice
President Rihard Nixon has told
Amerian television audienes.
“The alternative, to me, is un
acceptable, not only for us, but
to them, and for the world gen
erally,” Nixon said.
Nixon expressed his views Sun
day on the exchange of visits by
top U. S. and Soviet officials
while narrating CBS and NBS
telecasts of films made during his
recent visit to the Soviet Union.
His opinions were in reply to
the criticism that his trip and
the scheduled exchange of visits
by Soviet Premier Khrushchev
and President EisenhoWer are hy
pocritical and immoral.
Nixon said he considered it es
sential, in recognizing the differ
ences between the United States
and the U.S.S.R. that they not
be discussed by trading insults
5,000 miles apart.
“What we should do,” Nixon
said, “is to sit down around the
conference table, so that there will
be no miscalculation on the part
of either side as to the strength
or the will that either side
possesses.”
Nixon gave these impressions
of Khrushchev: He can do pretty
much a he -wants; he is sensitive
about public -opinion outside the
Soviet Union; he likes to do the
unexpected; he is an articulate
defender of his point of view; he
knows how to grab the headlines,
and he doesn’t like to concede
anything.
GULP!
WETHERSFIELD, Conn., UP —
An inmate, Donald Parker, 43,
swallowed his false teeth while
asleep at Wethersfield State
Prison Sunday. The teeth were
removed at a hospital and he was
returned to the prison.
P. O. Department Rewards Navajo Who
Conquered Fear of Superstition, Death
INDIAN WELLS, Ariz., UR —
The postmaster of this tiny Na
vajo i^sservation community will
be honored Friday by the Post
Office Department for defying a
superstition as old as man himself.
The postmaster is Herbert S.
Hukriede, 50, and behind the
award he is to receive is a story
of death, fear and friendship that
goes back to the hot afternoon of
July 15.
That day, Harry Joe, a 17-year
old Navajo, was struck and killed
by lightning while tending a flock
of sheep near his family’s hogan.
His elderly parents found his body
lying under an abandoned wagon.
Joe had been struck dead by
the evil spirit of lightning, they
believed, and an ancient Navajo
superstition came back to haunt
them. They refused to go near
their son’s body.,
Indian police also refused to
touch the corpse.
“They built a fire about 50
yards from the body that night,”
Hukriede recalled Sunday, “but
they wouldn’t go near it. Next
day they asked me to help.”
Hukriede transported the body
to the mission.
“They wanted a Christian burial
for the boy,” he said, “but the
missionary, Glen Davis, wasn’t
due back 'until the next day. It
was pretty hot, so I sent a couple
of the boy’s relatives over to Hol
brook to get some block ice so I
could cool the body.”
On July 17, Davis conducted
the services at an Indian burial
ground beside the mission. Hu
kriede dropped young Joe’s saddle,
his lariat, a few pieces of cheap
jewelry and an empty suitcase
into the grave.
From a hillside a quarter mile
away the dead boy’s family
watched the ceremony. Supersti
tion prevented them from going
any closer.
“They think they’ll go blind or
something if they touch anything
that has been hit by lightning,”
Hukriede explained. “They won’t
even touch a stone or stick that’s
been struck.
Hukriede’s award — for publie
service above and beyond the call
of duty — will be presented by
Assistant Postmaster General Eu
gene Lyone in a ceremony at In
dian Wells.
Mississippi River Bridge Tolls Pilfered
In Small-Change Thefts; Total $750,000
ROCK ISLAND, 111., M — Op
erators of the Centennial Bridge
over the Mississippi River be
tween Rock Island and Daven
port, Iowa, have suspended all
13 toll collectors, after disclosing
a shortage in toll fundi up to
$750,000.
Acting on information supplied
by state authorities and the FBI,
the bridge commission Sunday
suspended the collectors. City
policemen took over their jobs in
the emergency.
Bernard J. Moran, Rock Island
County state’s attorney, said a
wholesale looting of tolls probably
started soon after the bridge,
owned by the city, was opened
in 1940. The bridge is used by an
average of 10,000 autos and 2,000
trucks daily.
The commission decided Sun
day, at a hastily called meeting,
to install automatic toll-collect
ing equipment on the bridge im
mediately.
Franklin Wingard of Rock Is
land, chairman of the commission,
saicFthefts were made possible by
defective design of a treadle sys
tem which automatically counted
vehicles passing over the bridge
and helped compute what each
owed.
Moran said the treadle would
be turned off at certain periods,
and collectors would pocket the
coins taken in during those times.
Two other methods of theft
were used, he said. Many bridge
croS^ngs for which auto tolls were
collected were entered as free
passage by police and other pub
lic officials for which 60 passes
were outstanding.
The third gimmick was record
ing a passenger car-and-frailer
toll f after collecting the higher
three-axle rate fixed for com
mercial truck-trailer rigs.
Tolls on the bridge are 10 cents
for an auto; 15 cents for a car
pulling a one-axle trailer; 35 cents
for a commercial and semi-trail
er; 25 cents for two-axle trucks,
and up to 60 cents for four- and
five-axle truck-trailer combina
tions. _
Thus trucks counted as .passen
ger cars netted 15 cents for the
dishonest collector; five-axle
truck rigs counted as two cars
and one trailer netted 35 cents.
Pope Calling
Church Gathering
In Appeal for Unity
VATICAN CITY, UP) — Pope
John XXIII says the main aim of
the forthcoming Ecumenical Coun
cil will be to strengthen the Ro
man Catholic Church as a first
step toward an appeal to Protes
tants for church unity.
The Pope made this statement in
a speech more than one week ago
to a group of Italian Catholic ac
lished in today’s issue of the Vat
tion leaders. The speech was pub
ican newspaper. A date for the
council meeting has not been set.
“The main aim of the ecumen
ical council will be that of
strengthening and invigorating
the Roman Catholic Church,” the
Pope said.
“Then, when the Catholic
church is in its full splendor, we
will say to Orthodox, Protestants,
etc. . . . ‘You can see, brothers,
this is the church of Christ. Come,
come! This is the way open to a
meeting, to a return! Come to
take, or take back, your place
which, for many of you, is that of
your ancient fathers.
“From a religious peace, from
a reunited Christian family, oh,
what joy! We can expect pros
perity even in the civic and so
cial order of the entire world.”
Newest Satellite Dancing
Wide In Orbital Arc
WASHINGTON, UP> — Explorer
VI is cutting a wider-than-ex
pected swath through space.
Scientists said the extended or
bit was a bonus factor. They an
nounced these statistics on Amer
ica’s newest satellite.
Orit — 2,400 mile at its highest
point, 157 miles at its lowest. Ori
ginal estimates on the maximum
and minimum altitudes were 23,
000 and 160 miles.
Distance — 91,140 miles in each
sweep around the earth.
Time — 12 hours, 45 minutes
per orbit.
The 142-pound satellite was
launched Friday at Cape Canav
eral, Fla.
House Committee Again
.Rejects Gas Tax Bill
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
Ways and Means Committee today
rejected for the second time an
increase in the federal gasoline
tax to keep the interstate pro
gram from coming to a halt for
lack of ’funds.
The committee scheduled an
other effort Tuesday to solve the
highway financing crisis.
The committee turned down a
proposal to four cents a gallon
for the remaning 21 months of the
next two fiscal years which end
June 30, 1961.
The Ways and Means Commit
tee, which is charged with raising
the funds to satisfy authoriza
tions set by the Public Works
Committee, thus was back where
it started July 29.
By its action today, it recon
sidered and put aside a plan
voted on that date to issue a bil
lion dollars of revenue bonds to
tide the highway program over
the short-range financial crisis.
Businesswoman, Planner
For Northward Building
Dies at 77 in Seattle.
SEATTLE, UP) — Mrs. Lois Mc
Garvey, 77, who was active in
Fairbanks business circles from
1911 until 1952, died in a hospital
here Friday after a short illness.
Mrs. McGarvey lived in the
Claremont Hotel. She was born in
Carson City, Mich., and went to
Fairbanks in 1911. She operated
a retail fur store and for the
past 15 years was in the real
estate business.
Mrs. McGarvey was instrumen
tal in consolidating land for con
struction. of the Northward Build
ing, one of Fairbanks’ largest.
She was a partner in Hoover
McGarvey, a real estate firm, and
the Alaska, Inn Motel, both of
Fairbanks, at the time of her
death.
Survivors are her husband,
Franklin, a son, John F., both of
Seattle and Fairbanks, and a
brother, Clarence E. Brooks,
Snohomish.