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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LX No. 75 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1958 Per Copy—15#
Dr. Schuck, Chief
Executive of Boy
Scouts Due Here
Dr. Arthur Schuck, Chief Exec
utive of Boy Scouts of America,
will arrive here Wednesday with
a party of scout executives who
are on a tour of the territory.
They will be guests of the
Nome Rotary Club, which spon
sors Boy Scouts here, at their
noon luncheon.
Expected to be with Schuck are
Sol Levy, past regional chairman;
Dr. O. Christoffersen, past coun
cil president in Seattle; Art
Wiedeman, past council president
of Montana; Olin Sharp, region
al executive and Major Patrick
Castner, Region 11 Explorer pro
ject officer.
The tour is being made, it is
understood, to the Western
Alaska Council for its outstand
ing achievements and to study
scouting methods in Alaska.
Doctor Schuck has been a Scout
since 1913 and became a pro
fessional Scout worker in 1917
and has served on councils in
Pennsylvania and California.
For several years before he
was chosen in 1948 as Chief
Scout Executive, he served in the
national Boy’s Scout office as
a specialist in finance and organi
zation.
He holds honorary doctor of law
degrees from Missouri Valley and
Springfield colleges in Mass, and
honorary doctor of humanities
from Tulsa and Boston Univer
sities.
The group expects to be here a
couple of hours.
Fires In British
Columbia Halt
Highway Traffic
VANCOUVER, B.C., 1® — One
of British Columbia’s worst for
est fires in years has cut com
munications and highway travel
near the B.C.-Yukon border.
Officials at Prince George, re
ported last night that a lodge at
Mile 596 on the Alaska Highway
is in the path of the flames,
which are roaring on a six-mile
front at speeds up to ten miles
an hour.
Prince George District For
ester W. C. Phillips said the
fire “blew its top” Saturday
night, halting traffic on the nor
thern highway and burning five
miles of telephone communica
tions.
The lodge in the path of the
flames is owned by Ted Smythe at
Irons Creek.
The fire was last reported
within three miles of Lower
Post, 450 miles northwest of
Prince George, but the village’s
Indian residential school and 200
population will not be endan
gered as long as a wind contin
ues from the west.
( Phillips reported that only
25 or 30 men are available to
fight the fire.
He said some traffic may be
able to get through at night when
the fire cools, but driving is
impossible during the day. It
was expected traffic will be held
up for several more days.
The fire broke out three weeks
ago just across the Laird River
from Lower Post. It was almost
extinguished by a two-day rain
fall, but erupted again and
jumped the river Thursday.
Embassies Attacked By Demonstrators
Hungarian Refugees
In Melee With Police
NEW YORK, UP) — Hungarian
refugees demonstrating outside
headquarters of the Soviet dele
gation to the United Nations yes
terday tried to crash through
% police lines and trampled several
policemen.
The demonstrators smashed
three windows of the Park Ave
nue building. Seven policemen
and a number of pickets were in
jured, none seriously.
The violent outbreak came,
police said, at what appeared to
be a prearranged signal. It turned
into a melee between 350 pickets
and nearly 100 policmen. Nine
pickets were arrested.
The demonstrators had been
peacefully marching and handing
out leaflets of information of the
federation of former Hungarian
political prisoners before the vio
lence erupted.
Several firecrackers were ex
ploded as about 50 of the pickets
tried to force their way past
past police to the building.
This was the second outbreak
of violence at the Manhattan
building over the weekend.
Anti-Soviet pickets broke two
windows Saturday and three ar
rests followed.
Both demonstrations were to
protest the execution of former
Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy and
thee of his associates, announced
in Moscow last week. Nagy and
the others were leaders of the
Hungarian revolt in 1956.
Throw Sticks And Stones,
By Harold K. Milks
MOSCOW, Iff) — More than
1,000 banner-waving demonstra
tors attacked tjie West German
embassy with stones, sticks and
ink bottles today in retaliation
for an assault on the Soviet em
bassy in Bonn last week.
U.S. newsmen, including this
correspondent, were roughed up
several times as they attempted
to take pictures.
The demonstrators marched to
ward the embassy from several
directions. They seemed well-or
ganized. Suddenly they started
throwing stones and bricks,
smashing embassy windows by
the dozen.
Then came a barrage of ink
bottles that splattered bright
blue ink on the grey embassy
walls. Some of the bottles sailed
through broken windows and
crashed on the floor'inside.
The crowd was in a vicious
mood.
One segment of the crowd pur
sued New York Times correspon
dent Max Frankel into a side
entrance of the embassy.
(Independent reports to Lon
don said Frankel’s camera was
smashed. The demonstration in
Bonn, which provoked the one in
Moscow, was to protest the exe
cution of ex-premier Imre Nagy
and others who took power in
the anti-Soviet revolt in Hun
gary in 1956.
(A similar retaliatory demon
stration was staged Friday be
fore the Danish embasy in Mos
cow.)
Mary Jo Swanberg
Queen of Midnight |
Sun Festival
Mary Jo Swanberg, daughter1
of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Swanberg
Jr. was crowned queen of the
first Midnight Sun Festival, Sat
urday evening.
The coronation was held in the
school auditorium as the uncer
tain wet weather had cancelled
out the street carnival activities
which had been scheduled.
The queen and her court each
received lovly charm bracelets
commemorating the occasion as
well as savings accounts in the
bank from the Festival organi
zation. The queen was the re
cipient of many lovely gifts from
local business houses as follows:
Nome Market, traveling steam
iron; Nome Hardware, traveling
clock; U. S. Merc, vanity set;
Music Box, radio; Polet’s, mink
collar; Molitor and Doreums,
white sweater; Oavotas, sport
sweater; Alaska Steamship Co.,
check for $10.00; Dorothy’s,
blouse and pedal pushers; Billi
ken Shop, coronation ring; Polar
Bar and Curio, camera and flash
outfit; Northern Commercial Co.,
nylon gown and negligee; Polaris
Hotel, certificate; North Star,
meal ticket for two; Theater,
passes for two; Alaska Airlines,
midnight sun flight for queen
contestants.
Queen Mary Jo chose the name
of the winner of a poke of gold
following her coronation, Mr.
Field of CAA.
She w«as crowned by the wom
an with the iongest residence in
Nome, Mrs. M. J. Walsh and re
ceived congratulations from the
queen of Anchorage, Miss Rita
Martin who was present.
Pages to the queen were Wally
Sukanik and Susy Nelson and
emcee was Roscoe Wilke.
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Full-Scale Reform
Needed to Raise
School Standards
WASHINGTON, UP — A two
year study concludes that a full
scale reform movement is needed
to raise American education
standards to the needs of modern
times.
A report by the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, Inc., called last
night for immediate and far
reaching changes in the nation’s
educational system—not just more
money.
The report echoed oft-repeated
statements that American schools
are overcrowded, understaffed
and ill-equipped. It said the
basic problem is one of providing
more money but that other things
must be done, too.
The report suggested these
steps:
1. Testing and guidance pro
'cedures must be strengthened to
push along more talented stu
dents who may be held back by
average or slow groups.
2. Some educational problems
“gravely affecting the national
interest” may require a helping
hand from the federal govern
ment. The time-honored way of
financing education at the local
level may no longer be sufficient
because state and local tax sys
tems are primitive and out of
date.
3. National leaders must grasp
the scope of the job that lies’
ahead.
Senate To Take Up Alaska
Bill On Tuesday Or Wednesday
By Frank W. Vaille
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alaskans
make their bid in the Senate this
week to become the 49th state.
The House-passed Alaska bill
probably will be taken up either
Tuesday or Wednesday. Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Senate Dem
ocratic chief, hopes to complete
action before the week ends.
Statehood advocates seem confi
dent they have sufficient support
to assure passage of the bill.
They are less certain their back
ers will stick together against
possible amendments to the
House-passed bill, thereby elim
inating the need to hurdle pos
sible parliamentary barriers to
obtain House concurrence in the
Senate changes.
Estimates of hard core support
for the bill in the 96-member
Senate range from a low of 52
votes to a more optimistic 60
votes.
Principal opposition is expected
to come, as in the past, from
Southern Democrats who point to
Alaska as the precedent for ad
mission of other offshore areas,
including Hawaii whose racial
mixtures they appose.
Although some southerners are
expected to make lengthy speeches
in opposition to the bill, there is
little expectation for a full
fledged filibuster.
One major amendment feared
by the bill’s supporters would
fie the Hawaii admission bill to
that for Alaska. Advocates gen
erally agree that such a move, if
successful, would mean an end to
admission hopes of either ter
ritory at this sessior).
Chances for a successful move
in this direction have lessened
considerably in recent days with
the anouncement by Sen. William
F. Knowland that he would op
pose any such move.
Bomb Plot Fails
To Disrupt Party
On Trujillo Yacht
LOS ANGELES, UP) — A phony
bomb plot overheard in a sleazy
waterfront dive failed to dis
rupt festivities yesterday aboard
Lt. Gen. Rafael Trujillo Jr.’s lux
ury yacht.
A 12-piece band continued to
blare Latin rhythms as police
bomb squad officers, firemen and
Coast Guardsmen searched the
350-foot vessel from stem to stern.
They also checked dock pilings
where the Angelita is berthed.
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, danc
ing on deck with ex-husband
George Sanders, waved gaily to
the boarding party. Other guests
danced and chatted, apparently
unconcerned.
The haridsome general, son of
the Dominican Republic dictator,
was aboard. But reporters on
the dock did not observe him on
deck during the three-hour search.
The bomb hunt began when a
longshoreman nursing a hangover
reported to the police that he
overheard two men in a bar
claim they had planted a bomb
“just to scare the h— out of
them.”
During the excitement that
followed, the longshoreman left
the police station without leav
ing his name, officers said.
Mariola Bayer, Former Resident
Of Anchorage, Dies In Seattle
SEATTLE, UP) — Mrs. Mariola
Enid Bayer. 48, of Kent died sud
denly Friday in Parrington Hall,
University of Washington, where
she was a delegate at the Wash
ington State Grange Convention.
Mrs. Bayer lived in Anchorage,
Alaska for 30 years and moved to
Kent 13 years ago. She was a
member of Eastern Star, Anchor
age, Survivors include her hus
band, B. Kenneth Bayer, Kent;
a sister, Mrs. Lloyd Pennington,
Fairbanks and a brother, Donald
March, Palmer.
Platform Holding Safety
Men Gives Way
KINGSPORT, Tenn., UPi—Ten
honored guests of the Penn-Dixie
Cement Co. stood on a platform
far a safety awards program Fri
day night.
No one was hurt when the
platform collapsed.
Australian Runs
Mile In 3:55.9,
Tying The Record
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., UFl —
Herb Elliott of Australia has run
another record-breaking race and
started another controversy among
track officials.
The lanky young miler was
! clocked in 3:57.9 in winning his
specialty at the AAU champion
ships Saturday night, shading the
recognized mark of 3:58 set four
years ago by his countryman,
John Landy.
But no one seems to know
for certain whether the Inter
national Amateur Athletic Fed
eration, which must pass on all
world records, recognizes mile
marks in tenths of seconds.
It was dealing only in fifths of
seconds when Landy set his rec
ord four years ago. Landy act
ually ran 3:57.9 too, but it was
recorded as 3:58 because of the
IAAF policy.
However, Pincus Sober, chair
man of the National AAU Track
and Field Committee, expressed
confidence Elliott’s time would
be recognized as a new world
record.
He said the tenth-secfcnd prac
tice was rescinded two years
ago and would not apply to El
liott’s effort as it did to Landy’s
four year ago.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
American League
New York 15, Detroit 0
Baltimore 2, Chicago 0
Kansas City 2, Boston 1
Cleveland 4-1, Washington 3-0
National League
St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 1
Cincinnati 6-6, Chicago 2-8
Los Angeles 4-3, Pittsburgh 1-2
San Francisco 5, Philadelphia 4
Pacific Coast League
Salt Lake City 4-2 Seattle 3-8
Phoenix 3-4, Sacramento 1-0
San Diego 4-1, Spokane 0-0
Portland 6-4, Vancouver 3-5
Get your reservations for the
special CAA anniversary dinner
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce and the City of Nome
to be held tomorrow evening at
7:30 p.m. at the North Star Sea
view Room.
Special price for children's
plate. Prime ribs or beef dinner
at $4.50 plate.