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VOL. LXI No. 147 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1959_Per Copy—15^
State to Add Many
For Highway Jobs
JUNEAU, UP) — The State Pub
lic Works Director said yesterday
design engineers and right-of-way
experts are the first group of
specialists who will be added to
the department when Alaska be
gins its first major highway build
ing program next year.
Commissioner Richard Down
ing outlined some of the expan
sion plans. He said some 40 de
sign and right-of-way men will be
added to the State’s highway staff
next month, in preparation for
the big road program.
Downing estimated about 7,500
separate parcels of land will have
to be acquired by the state to
clear the way for road building
next year.
By next summer, the state will
have added to its payroll nearly
a thousand highway men, many
of whom now are with the Fed
eral Bureau of Public Roads in
Alaska. Included will be mainten
ance men, engineers, designers
and surveyors.
Until next July, the state and
the BPR will work on the high
way planning under a transitional
arrangement.
Some 42 million dollars is allo
cated for highway construction in
the state under the 1960 program.
Bids for the projects are expected
to be called starting early next
year.
PETROLEUM LEASE SALE
OFFERS S. E. ALASKA TRACTS
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Alaska’s
first offshore petroleum lease
sale produced bonus bids totaling
$4,021,031,43 on 32 of 37 tracts
offered in the Cook Inlet and Wide
Bay areas at a bid opening in
the state division of lands office
Thursday.
A joint bid of $1,001,123 by
Union Oil Co. of California and
the Ohio Oil Co. for a 2026-acre
tract south of the Kenai River
was top bid of the day.
Force of Arms . . .
CHARLESTON, W. Va., OP) — A
National Guard tank lumbered
through town Thursday, stopped
in front of the Charleston Gazette
Building and aimed its cannon
at the second floor.
Employes of the newspaper
crowded the windows and waved
white rags in token of surrender.
The crew of the M-3 tank climbed
out, stood around for a while,
then got back in and drove off.
Adjutant General W. E. Glake,
asked for an explanation, said
“We exercise these vehicles every
now and then just to be sure
they’re in good working order ”
The newspaper Wednesday had
carried an editorial questioning
the Guard’s armory program.
CITY-COUNTY MIXUP
LEXINGTON, Ky., UP) — When
Stella Starkey heard burglars in a
drug store underneath her apart
ment, she telephoned both city
and county police.
Because of confusion over the
location of city limits city police
mistakenly thought the store was
in the county. They arrived 18
minutes after the call.
County police thought it was
in the city. They arrived lVfe
hours later.
The safe — minus $1,700 in
cash and checks — was found
abandoned later.
Steel Confab Dropped to
Allow Union Negotiators
Attend Aluminum Talks
WASHINGTON, UP) — Steel la
bor talks have been sidetracked
temporarily to let union negotia
tors try for an aluminum industry
agreement. A contract there
could influence the steel situation.
The government called off
Thursday the steel talks it has
been sponsoring. Director Joseph
F. Finnegan of the Federal Me
diation and Conciliation Service
said the bargaining wasn’t making
any progress despite stepped-up
efforts after President Eisenhow
er’s latest appeal.
No time was fixed for their
resumption.
Finnegan noted the Steelwork
ers Union recently concluded a
labor peace pact with major can
manufacturers, and are negotiat
ing with the top aluminum pro
ducers — Alcoa, Reynolds and
Kaiser.
The aluminum talks have just
resumed in Chicago, ahead of a
January 1 strike deadline. D^vid
J. McDonald, Steelworkers Union
president, had planned to join
the aluminum talks even if steel
negotiations had continued.
“There is no point holding steel
meetings without the key people,”
Finnegan told newsmen.
U. S., Soviets Agree On
Forming U.N. Space Board
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP>—
The United States and the Soviet
Union agreed today on a plan for
setting up a U. N. body to co
operate iri the peaceful uses of
outer space.
The final agreement was
reached by U. S. Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge and Vasily V.
Kuzentsov, Soviet Deputy For
eign Minister, after several weeks
of negotiations.
The plan will be laid before
the U. N. Political Committee for
quick action before the General
Assembly ends its 1959 session
tomorrow.
FINE THING
FORT WORTH, Tex., UP) — The
ceiling fell .in on City Court
Thursday — really.
And Judge W. M. Gilmartin got
plastered — actually.
He was treated for cuts on his
head and hands, but they weren’t
serious enough to damage the
judge’s humor.
“Well, I guess someone didn’t
like the way I fined them,” said
the judge.
Lawyers and others concerned
in the traffic case leaped clear of
the falling ceiling.
EASTERN MOONWATCH
PRODUCES RESULTS
ROCHESTER, New York, UP) —
A three-man moonwatch team
said a brilliant blue-and-white
tailed meteor flashed across the
eastern sky Thursday night and
vanished in a cloud-like explo
sion. One, Russell E. Jenkins, said
the meteor had a tail “that trailed
for what seemed like several
miles.”
LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN . . .
NEW YORK, UP) — The lights
on Rockefeller Plaza’s annual
Christmas tree are glowing again.
About 5,000 persons watched
Thursday night as more than 4,000
red, white and green globes on
the 70-foot Norwegian Spruce
flashed on.
New Alaska Plates
On Sale Monday
JUNEAU — New license plates
go on sale throughout Alaska
on December 14 — Monday.
State Revenue Commissioner
Peter Getz said the plates, featur
ing a combination of white and
royal blue, may be placed in use
immediately, but are required on
all motor vehicles in the state by
February 29.
Differing from last year’s blue
and gold combination, the 1960
license plates for private vehicles
will feature a white background
with royal blue lettering. Com
mercial vehicle plates will be re
versed, a royal blue background
with white lettering.
The new plates are priced as
follows:
(a) For every motorcycle $10.
(b) For every private motor
vehicle including Vz or % ton
trucks not used, or maintained
primarily for the transportation
of passengers or property for hire,
$20. For the purpose of this sub
section, a “private motor vehicle”
includes a vehicle used or main
tained primarily for personal
transportation and for the trans
portation of his personal property.
(c) For every motor vehicle for
hire, operated and known as a
taxicab, $40.
(d) For every commercial motor
vehicle, including motor vehicles
pulling trailers, semi-trailers or
trucks designed, used or main
tained primarily for the transpor
tation of passengers for hire, ex
cepting taxicabs, or for the trans
portation or hauling of property,
including without limitation, such
commercial vehicles as wreckers
or tow cars, hearses, ambulances
and tractors, the actual combined
weight as established by the man
ufacturer’s advertised weight, if
not so determined, it shall be the
responsibility of the owner to fur
nish the true and actual weight,
subject to the approval of the
Commissioner or his agent, of
which is:
12.000 pounds or less — $50.
Provided that motor buses of
twenty or more seating capacity
used exclusively for commercial
purposes in the transporting of
transient visitors and tourists
shall be included in this classi
fication.
12.001 pounds and not over
18,000 pounds — $100.
18.001 pounds and over — $150.
For the purpose of this sub
section, a “commercial motor ve
hicle” is a vehicle used or main
tained for the Iransportation of
passengers for hire, compensa
tion or profit, excepting taxicabs,
or used or maintained by any
person, corporation, firm or part
nership engaged in a commercial
enterprise.
(e) For any two or four-wheeler
trailer including, but not limited
to boat trailers and house
trailers, $4.)
Hawaiian Volcano Now
Just Splashing Lava
HILO, Hawaii, W — Kilauea Iki
crater started splashing lava
again Thursday night in its eighth
eruption since November 14.
“It’s oozing out pretty slowly
this time and splashing up about
25 or 30 feet,” said Dr. Jerry
Eaton, geophysicist.
In earlier eruptions of the vol
cano’s present activity lava foun
tains have spouted as high as
1,600 feet.
Eisenhower Pledges to Impoverished
Peoples A ‘Noble War Against Famine’
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
NEW DELHI, [ff) — President
Eisenhower today called upon all
nations to wage together a “gen
uinely noble war” against hunger
and famine, the scourges of India
and much of this part of the
world.
The President, making three
speeches in the course of a busy
day, continued to be the center
of almost worshipful masses of
people.
“Men right now possess knowl
edge and resources for a success
ful worldwide war against hunger
— the sort of war that dignifies
and exalts human beings,” he de
clared in opening the dramatic
American Pavilion at New Delhi’s
World Agricultural Fair.
In two earlier speeches he:
1. Called for an expansion of
the universal recognition of world
law as a sound basis of peace.
2. Declared summit conferences
of the big powers have less en
during influence for peace than
exchanges of students and people
to-people contacts.
A surging, colorful crowd of
10,000 Indians jammed the en
closed field at the fair to hear
the President term India a mighty
influence for world peace and
pledge American help toward
solving this nation’s critical food
shortages.
Thousands Cheer Ike
Crowds numbering hundreds of
thousands lined the route to the
fair grounds, cheering Eisenhower
as he passed by with Indian Pres
ident Rajendra Prasad in an open
horse-drawn coach under a red
and gold umbrella.
As the ceremonies ended, the
sun was sinking and colored lights
playing on the stand gave a bril
liant glow to Indian dancers in
ornate costumes performing be
fore the President.
Eisenhower was praised by
Prime Minister Nehru as a great
man and a great President.
“You have found yourself in
the hearts of my millions,” Nehru
declared.
Eisenhower said India and the
United Statets are working to
gether to solve India’s food prob
lem.
“Whatever strengthens India
strengthens us, a sister republic
dedicated to peace,” he said.
"4 F" Is Theme of
Eisenhower cited the “Four-F”
theme of the American exhibit at
the 14-nation fair — Food, Fam
ily, Friendship and Freedom.
“Into these four words are
compressed the daily needs, high
purposes, deep feelings and age
less aspirations that unite In
dians and Americans under one
banner — the banner of human
dignity,” the President declared.
Eisenhower pledged that Amer
ica will continue cooperating with
India to achieve a world free of
hunger in which families can live
full, prosperous lives and in which
friendship replaces fear and sus
picion.
“We see in modern agriculture
the most effective instrument for
a better life among all men,” he
said.
Eisenhower told the Indians
that he, himself, plans to be a
farmer after retiring from “my
present form of occupation.”
Lodge Says Khrushchev’s
Grandchildren Will Live
In A Free World
NEW YORK, UR — Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. predicts that Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s
grandchildren will live in a free
Soviet Union.
The U. S. Ambassador to the
United Nations thus reversed
Khrushchev’s recent boast that the
grandchildren of Americans will
one day live under Communism.
Lodge, speaking Thursday be
fore the annual convention of the
Life Insurance Association of
America, also maintained that the
U. S. can outstrip the Soviet
Union in any race — economic
or otherwise.
Cheaper by The . . .
KANSAS CITY, Mo., UR — The
Sopher family had a tonsellectomy
marathon at St. Joseph Hospital
Thursday.
Ten brothers and sisters, from
three to 16 years of age, were
rolled into surgery for removal of
tonsils. Hospital attendants figure
it “must be some sort of record.”
Carla Sopher, 3, was first.
Three hours later, her brothers
and sisters also were without
their tonsils.
Mrs. James Sopher, 36, escorted
each child to the operating room.
Her 37-year-old husband, an ap
pliance serviceman, divided his
time between the four room§ re
served by the family.
Two Sophers escaped, Michael,
10, underwent the operation five
years ago. Pamela, 3 months, was
too young.
Ranks of Unemployed
Grew in November
WASHINGTON, <*) — Employ
ment declined by over a million
in November to 65,640,000. Un
employment rose nearly 400,000 to
3,670,200.
The employment decline was
somewhat greater than seasonal,
but still represented a record
number of Americans in jobs for
the month of November.
The rise in unemployment was
only a bit more than half of what
was seasonally expected
Even so, it was the second high
est idle total for a November
since before World War II.
The November job data was
collected only a few days after
the steel strike was ended in early
November by court injunction.
The figures reflected a sizeable
return of steelworkers to their
jobs, but a considerable dent in
the employment total because of
over 600,000 layoffs due to steel
shortages.
Also November brings a sea
sonal decline in outdoor work
such as construction and agri
culture.
BORDER DISPUTE DISCUSSED
BY IKE AND NEHRU
NEW DELHI, — Prime Min
ister Nehru said tongiht he and
President Eisenhower have dis
cussed India’s dispute with Com
munist China.
At a reception newsmen asked
Nehru whether the two leaders
had talked over India’s border
trouble with China. He replied:
“Well we have discussed that
broadly but in no great deail.”