2E NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 74 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1957 _ Per Copy—15#
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. BUYS
LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO.
Ralph Lomen, president of
the Lomen Commercial Company,
and D. E. Skinner, president of
the Alaska Steamship Company,
today made the following an
nouncement:
The entire capital stock of the
Lomen Commercial Company has
been purchased by the Alaska
Steamship Company effective this
date.
H. G. Gabrielson has been re
tained as general manager, and
no changes are anticipated in the
name, personnel or policies of Lo
men Commercial Company, ex
cept that Mr. Lomen will retire
from active participation and de
vote his interests toward develop
ment of mining and the natural
resources of Seward Peninsula.
Robert J. Behnke, vice presi
dent of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
is now in Nome to confer with
Gabrielson, local Alaska Steam
ship Co. agent Walter W. Sipprell,
and the local shippers to ascer
tain what improvement or chang
es can be made to benefit the
service.
Behnke stated:
“The Alaska Steamship Co. is
proud to acquire this long-estab
lished Nome company. We feel
that ownership of the Lomen
Commercial Co. will make it pos
sible to offer consignees and ship
pers in the Norton Sound area a
more completely integrated ser
vice which will benefit all con
cerned. *
“We are pleased to have Lomen
personnel in the Alaska Lines or
ganization and know that we can
all work closely together to pro
vide the service which is so im
portant to the area.”
Canada’s Conservative
Party Back in Power
After 22 Years
OTTAWA, (A*>—The' Conserva
tives, under Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker, took over the gov
ernment of Canada today for the
first time in 20 years. The party
defeated the Liberals of Louis St.
Laurent in an upset June 10.
Governor General Vincent Mas
sey formally accepted St. Laur
ent’s resignation 90 minutes be
fore Diefenbaker was sworn in.
The Conservative Party came
out of the June 10 election with
110 members—not a majority in
the 265-seat Commons. The Lib
erals have 105 members.
Giant Tornado
Hits Fargo, NT).,
Killing Ten
FARGO, N.D., (£>—A giant tor
nado, striking from a lethal cloud
towering more than 10 miles high,
smashed thru 100 blocks of a
Fargo residential area last night,
killing ten persons—six of them
children in one family.
Damage was estimated at at
least $15 million.
At least 85 persons were in
jured, some critically.
The massive, black funnel
lashed a swath of devastation 20
blocks lcng and five wide.
Mayor <■ Herschel Lashkowitz
made the damage estimate.
He said 500 homes, a high
school and four churches were
destroyed and that many other
buildings and vehicles were dam
aged.
The mayor said he was asking
federal aid to provide housing for
2,000 persons made homeless by
the storm.
The dead include six children
of the Gerald Munson family.
They ranged in age from 1 to 16.
The mother was hospitalized with
shock.
Doctor Bill of $1,500 in Rescue of
Boy From Well Criticized as Too High
By EDWARD NICKERSON
MANORVILLE, N.Y., UP—A doc
tor’s $1,500 bill for services dur
ing and after the rescue from a
well of little Benny Hooper Jr.
five weeks ago drew strong fire
today from high medical officials.
Dr. Edwin S. Hamilton of Kan
kakee, 111., chairman of the trus
tees of the American Medical
Assn., asserted that “we strongly
disagree” with the action of Dr.
Joseph H. Kris in submitting his
bill
Dr. Hamilton said the associa
tion feels “not one doctor in a
thousand would have charged a
fee.” His statement also said:
“The AMA feels the physician
in the Hooper case was rendering
a public service and acting in the
noblest tradition of medicine
when he stood by while the boy’s
life hung in the balance. It is im
possible to evaluate such service.”
Dr. Kris had said yesterday he
felt his charge was a fair one. He
said he had consulted medical col
leagues and the medical society,
and was told he would be foolish
not to seek payment.
He said he was asking only half
what he normally would receive
for his services—$30 an hour. He
explained he spent eight days and
approximately 100 hours on the
case.
Dr. Kris has been credited with
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playing a key role in saving the
life of the tot, who fell down a
narrow 24-foot well shaft dug by
his father in the yard of their
home.
Dr. Kris supervised the admin
istration of oxygen to the boy
thru a tube for nearly 24 hours
while scores of rescue workers
dug a tunnel to extricate the
youngster.
The boy’s parents have said
they just aren’t able to pay the
bill now.
Plans Outlined
For Road Building
In Nome Area
The Bureau of Public Roads is
getting into high gear, stated
District Engineer Frank Morris,
with the bulldozers going to dou
ble shifts this week.
The road work, Morris ex
plained, is being done in stage
construction along several parts
of Highway 97. These will be
connected when the culverts ar
rive on the first boat.
The work is being stretched
out so that the Kougarok roads
may be connected to the Dexter
road as soon as possible. Once the
road is connected, the finishing
and grading will be started.
Assisting Mori'is is Don Lean,
resident engineer; bulldozer fore
man Barney Crosby; Ralph Smith,
scraper foreman; Jerry Carrol,
culvert foreman; and Harry
Bourne, inspector of truck hauls.
Don Lyle is Second Division
district mechanic and Carl Mich
elson is shop foreman.
U.N. Command
Voids Armistice
Ban on Weapons
By DON BALDWIN
PAN&UNJOM, Korea, 1^—The
U.N. Command today voided the
Korean armistice ban on new
weapons to match the Communist
buildup in North Korea.
Murray Snyder, U.S. assistant
secretary of Defense, said in
Washington the new arms wTould
include jet aircraft which can
carry atomic arms, but “at this
time no atomic weapons are being
given to ground forces.” He re
fused to say whether atomic am
munition would be stored at Ko
rean bases for use against an at
tack.
The U.N. side declared it would
continue to observe “fully” the
cease-fire provision and all other
points in the 1953 armistice
agreement.
The Communist command
promptly charged the U.N. with
“attempting to make South Ko
rea a new base and prepare for a
new war.”
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen.
Homer L. Litzenberg, senior mem
ber of the U.N. command, notified
the North Korean and Chinese
Communists of the U.N. decision
at a meeting in the truce hut in
the demilitarized zone. Litzenberg
said the Red reply was “milder
than I expected.”
PLANE BUZZES ALARM
BRIDGETON, N. J., dfl—When
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Williamson
heard a plane repeatedly circling
low just above their roof, they
ran out to see what the trouble
was.
The trouble was a fire in their
chimney. They told police the pi
lot had apparently buzzed the
house to warn them.
Firefighters quickly extinguished
the blaze. Williamson estimated
the damage at several thousand
dollars.
Five Boys From Nome and One
From Savoonga Will Join 42,000
Scouts at Valley Forge Jamboree
JAMBOREE BOUND are five Scouts from Nome Troop 666. They
are (right to left) Ray Arnold, Life Scout; Rod Boucher, Life Scout;
Joey Barber, 1st Class; David Barber, Star Scout, and Tom Boucher,
1st Class. Not pictured is Bill Barber, Scout executive, an Eagle
Scout who will accompany the boys.
Kenneth Bechtel, national pres
cient ot the Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca who visited Nome on Mother’s j
Day, liked Alaska so well during
his short stay that he came back
again, bringing his two sons, Pete
and John, with him.
They were accompanied by C.
Lethin, from Alaska Boy Scout
headquarters at Anchorage, and
D. C. Winkler, another young
man from California.
The party flew to St. Lawrence
Island, where plans were com
pleted for a Savoonga Boy Scout,
Allen Alowa, 1st Class Scout, to
attend the Jamboree with the
local group.
Savoonga has a troop of 26
boys, fully uniformed and led by
Daniel Alowa, who is blind.
Scout Alowa is 16 years old
and will be picked up by the U.S.
Air Force Saturday with the
Nome boys for his first trip “out
side.” He will travel by oomiak 76
miles from Savoonga to meet the
plane at Gambell. The trip was
made possible through the gener
osity of the president, Ken Bech
tel.
The Nome boys will be picked
up by the same plane for Fair
banks, then to Anchorage and
Kodiak.
At Whittier they board the
USS Funston for a five-day boat
trip, which will be followed by
a train trip to Washington, D.C.,
New York, Chicago and Detroit.
Special treats for the 76 boys
from Alaska and their 10 leaders
include such things as a National
League ball game at Yankee Sta
dium, the Statue of Liberty, Ni
agara Falls, and many more sur
prises.
Forty-two thousand Scouts will
gather at Valley Forge for the big
10-day encampment which has
taken over a year to plan.
The Nome group will be gone
over a month and include:
Bill Barber, leader, and his
sons David and Joey; Ray Arnold,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ar
nold, Rod Boucher, son of Mrs.
Emily Boucher, Tom Boucher,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Bou
cher.
Mr. Bechtel and party leave
today for Anchorage, Pt. Barrow,
and then to southeastern Alaska
to fish before heading for Valley
Forge.
ALASKA AIRLINES RESUMES
FAIRBANKS NIGHT FLIGHTS
SEATTLE, (J1)—Alaska Airlines
will reinstate its Sunday night
flights to Fairbanks starting June
23, Don Churchward, Seattle dis
trict sales manager, said yester
day. Daily nonstop flights to Alas
ka thus will be offered, departing
Seattle-Tacoma International Air
port at 11:50 p.m.
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$250,000 Damage Suit
Slapped On Hank Bauer,
Yankee Outfielder
NEW YORK, UP)—A $250,000
damage suit was added today to
the legal troubles of Hank Bauer,
New York Yankee outfielder,
stemming from his visit to the
Copacabana night club.
The 34-year-old athlete, ap
peared in felony court on a charge
by Edwin Jones, 42, a delicates
sen store operator, that Bauer
feloniously assaulted him in the
club. Bauer has insisted he did
not hit the man.
Bauer waived a hearing before
a magistrate and chose to place
the case before a grand jury
which is expected to hear evi
dence next week with Bauer’s
teammates among the witnesses.
A dozen of Bauer’s young fans
were on hand at the courthouse.
They shook his hand and wished
him luck.
The husky, former marine was
tight-lipped.