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VOL. LIX NO. 64 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1957 Per Copy—15^
Plans for New Airport Terminal
Discussed at City Council Meeting
It was reported that the City
Bldg will have a fresh coat of
peint inside and out this year.
The city is also co-operating in
the clean-up week campaign by i
clearing and cleaning empty lots. |
Preliminary plans for a pro- j
posed City Terminal Building at 1
the Nome Airport were discussed
at he City Council meeting Mon- j
day evening. It is being deter- <
mined how much space will be j
needed by those agencies plan- ;
ning to rent space which includes
airlines, C.A.A. and U.S. Weather i
Bureau and possibly others. When
this has been determined, plans ,
may be drawn up to determine !
the type of building needed.
A group of progressive inves
tors requested the city to try and I
get the C.A.A. to release their
lease on city property across the
Snake River on the west side for
a proposed housing project of
homes. Spokesman Stan Morgan
stated that several parties ere in- j
terested in building modem j
homes in this area.
Due to the fact that the Dry j
Creek fill to the airport has been j
washed out, the city is requesting j
that the Bureau of Public Roads
take over this part of the road j
as it is used by all governmental I
agencies and is a necessity to the
airport traffic. Heretofore the
military have maintained the road
it was reported. At present all
traffic is via the Center Creek
Road.
Mr. Ralph Doremus of Molitor
and Doremus explained the need
of a new bookkeeping system for
the city due to the fact that when
the city is bonded for its various
improvements it is necessary to
have an up-to-date accounting of
the worth of the city at all times.
With the present system this is
difficult to do without an audit.
Stores Will Be Closed
Tomorrow, Memorial Day
Memorial Day will be ob
served by the American Legion
Post. The members will meet at
about 10 o’clock tomorrow mor
ning and they will march to the
cemetery for a brief ceremony.
Members of Pioneer Women’s
Auxiliary are meeting at the Pio
neer Igloo at 10 o’clock Thurs
day morning and will be taken
by bus to the cemetery to decor
ate graves.
Business houses are observing
the holiday by closing for the day.
Humphrey Resigns Treasury Post;
Anderson Picked to Succeed Him
WASHINGTON, l/PV-George M. ,
Humphrey today resigned as Sec- |
retary of the Treasury. Robert B. i
Anderson, former Deputy Secre- j
tary of Defense, was picked to i
succeed him.
Humphrey’s resignation was
announced by the White House
thru release of a letter from the
Secretary of the Treasury to
President Eisenhower asking to
be relieved “no later than the
close of the current congressional
session.”
At the same time, Eisenhower
formally sent to the Senate a
Muti-Million Damage
Claims Predicted With
Major League Shift
(By The Associated Press)
Pacific Coast League sources
predicted Thursday the proposed
shift of two National League
baseball clubs to the West Coast
would result in multi-million-dol
lar damage claims and re-align
ment of the Pacific Cost League.
There were estimates that if the
Brooklyn Dodgers actually move
to Los Angeles and the New York
Giants to San Francisco, Pacific
Coast League clubs affected ad
versely would demand reimburse
ment totaling $8 to $10 milli.on.
Under baseball law, a club in
vading another league’s territory
is responsible for damages. If the
amount can’t be agreed upon by
negotiation, a court case may re
sult.
nomination of Anderson to the
government’s top fiscal post.
Anderson, a Texas Democrat,
has served as Secretary of the
Navy in the Eisenhower Admin
istration as well as Deputy Sec
tary of Defense.
Humphrey has been reported
in line to succeed Ernest T. Weir
as chairman of the board of Na
tional Steel. The 81-year-old
founder of the steel firm said he
world that was nearly his entire
of an outstanding man” to suc
ceed him.
Humphrey’s friends have been
saying for months that he was
anxious to return to the business
world what was nearly his entire
life for 40 years until he took the
Treasury post in 1953.
The Ohio industrialist gave up
a $300,000 annual income when
he went to work for the govern
ment at $22,500 a year. (Cabinet
salaries were raised to $25,000
last year.) But his aides insist this
had nothing to do with his deci
sion to step down.
“He has an intense loyalty to
the people and the corporations
with which he was associated,”
one of his aides said recently.
“They have convinced him he can
do omething for them. That’s why
he’s going back.”
Anderson, who will be 47 on
June 4, is some 20 years younger
than Humphrey. The present sec
retary was 67 last March 8, and
his age is one reason Humphrey
is understood to have felt he
should give up the Cabinet job.
Alaska Statehood Bill Approved by
House Insular Affairs Committee
WASHINGTON tfl—'The House
Insular Affairs Committee yester
day approved an Alaska state
hood bill by a 24-6 vote.
Before acting, the committee
knocked out of the bill a provi
sion that Alaskans hold a general
referendum on the question of
whether they wished the territory
to become a state, before any of
| the admission machinery went
into effect.
Subcommittee Provisions Out
Also removed from the bill
was another provision which
would have delayed for five years
after statehood the transfer of
jurisdiction over fish and wildlife
resources to the new state.
Both provisions had been writ
ten into the bill by a subcommit
tee which approved the measure
17-5 last week.
In other actions prior to the
final vote, the committee defeat
ed a proposal by Delegate Bart
lett which would have required
any federal agency to obtain Con
gressional approval before taking
over 5,000 or more acres of public
land for government purposes
during the first five years after
statehood.
Maritime Board
The committee also deleted a
subcommittee amendment which
would have retained in the Feder
al Maritime Board after state
hood its exclusive jurisdiction
over common carriers operating
between the states and Alaska or
between Alaskan ports.
The vote was as follows:
For— Aspinall (D-Colo), Baring
(D-Nev), Berry (R-SD), Cheno
weth (R-Colo), Christopher (D
Mo), Collier (R-Ill), Dawson <R
Utah>, Diggs <D-Mich), Edmond
son (D-Okla), Metcalf (D-Mont),
Miller (R Neb), O’Brien (D-NY),
Pfost (D-Idaho), Powell (D-NY).
Rhodes (R-Ariz), Saylor (R-Pa),
Psychiatrist Says
Freeway Driving Can
Produce Mental Disease
LOS ANGELES, OTV— If you’re
driving down the freeway some
day and you suddenly get an idea
that you’re Napolean Bonaparte,
you’ll just be confirming a theory
advanced by Dr. Robert I. Rieger.
It’s really possible, Dr. Rieger
believes, for a person to come un
glued upstairs while trying to
pilot the family car thru freeway
traffic.
Rieger, on the staff of the state
mental hospital at Camarillo, said
in a news conference yesterday
that such unnerving exercise can
bring out a driver’s latent flaws—
either organic or psychic in na
ture—and can produce full-blown
mental diseases that would not
develop under more serene con
ditions. He added:
“The strain of driving on Los
Angeles freeways, surrounded by
hurtling cars and trucks, is even
greater than that faced by pioneer
families who crossed the country
in covered wagons and fought off
Indians.”
; Sisk (D-Calif), Thomson (R-Wyo>,
j Udall (D-Ariz), Ullman (D-Ore),
| Utt (R-Calif), Weaver (R-Neb),
| Westland (R-Wash), and Engle
(D-Calif).
Against— Haley <D-Fla>, Pil
lion (R-NY), Rogers (D-Tex),
Rutherford (D-Tex), Shuford (D
NC), and Wharton (R-NY).
Challenge by Miller
Action on the referendum
amendment was highlighted by a
challenge by Rep. Miller of a
proxy submitted by Delegate
Bartlett on behalf of Rep. Digg,
during the 15-15 vote which de
feated the proposal.
Miller said the signature on the
proxy was not Diggs’. Bartlett
said he had requested the pi*oxy
and it had been supplied him by
Diggs’ office.
Engle Overrules Challenge
Chairman Engle overruled Mil
ler’s challenge. Diggs, who later
appeared at the meeting, said he
had authorized a member of his
staff to sign the proxy.
In unsuccessfully urging com
mittee approval of the referen
dum proposal, Pillion said he felt
Boy, 15, Robbed
Of $907 Entrusted by
Parochial School
NEWARK, N. J., —Fifteen
year-old Harry Finan was robbed
j of $907 entrusted to him by the
j St. Rose of Lima Parochial School j
j Monday, police reported.
Police said the boy was carry- j
ing the money to the bank in a j
cigar box when an older boy
knocked him down and grabbed ,
the box. The money was mostly I
from a student collection for an
excursion to the Bronx Zoo. 1
i such a vote should be taken to
eliminate confusion as to whether
Alaskans actually want statehood.
Saylor said the proposal was
“nothing more than a delying tac
tic” by those opposing statehood
for Alaska.
Fisheries Delay Rejected
The fisheries transfer delay was
rejected on a 17-14 vote after
Bartlett told the committee “one
of the fundamental reasons Alas
kans want statehood is to take
the fisheries over from a distant
bureaucracy in an effort to check
depletion of the resource.
Engle disclosed he plans to talk
soon to the House leadership
about scheduling the bill for floor
consideration.
“I’m going to move just as fast
as I can,” he said, adding that his
present disposition is to take the
bill direct to the floor without
going into the Rules Committee,
“where we were strait-jacketed
before.”
Shortcut to Floor
He was referring to what hap
pened in 1955. In that session he
threatened to invoke the prefer
ential status available to state
hood bills and bring an Alaska
bill directly to the floor rather
than follow the normal path of
going before the committee. But
he was persuaded to go before the
committee, which eventually ap
proved consideration of a joint
Alaska-Hawaii bill under proce
dure which prevented amend
ments. The House rejected the
bill one-sidedly.
Engle said he does not plan to
hold up the Alaska bill until the
Hawaii proposal is cleared by
either the House subcommittee or
full committee.
! Dulles Comments on Formosa Riots,
Disarmament, German Reunification
WASHINGTON, l#)—Secretary
of State Dulles, speaking of anti
American rioting in Formosa, said
today some better way must be
found to cope with the problems
of stationing large numbers of
Americans in foreign countries.
Dulles told a news conference
the presence of thousands of
Americans on the Chinese Na
tionalist island was in his view a
cause of the rioting.
One way to deal with the prob
lem of resentment by foreigners,
he said, may be to reduce Ameri
can personnel—especially mili
tary personnel—where possible.
Dulles also made these other
comments on world affairs:
1. The United States will accept
for disarmament inspection any
area in the world where an in
spection system can be started
quickly. Because of such prob
lems as thp opposition of German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer,
Dulles said, it may not be possible
to include European territory in
a first stage disarmament agree
ment.
2. The possibility of a Big Four
meeting on German unification
is many months away and is not
something just around the corner.
Dulles said he and President Ei
senhower agreed with Adenauer
to talk with Britain and France
about having a four-power meet
ing on German unification after
any first-stage disarmament plan
with Russia.
3. The U.S. policy of barring
American newsmen from Com
munist China stands unchanged.
Some suggestions for ways to
modify the barrier have been re
ceived, Dulles said, and are being
studied by Asst. Secretary of
State Andrew Berding, in charge
of public affairs. The secretary
did not say what he suggestions
are.
4. Negotiations between the
United States and allied countries
—notably Britain and Japan—on
ways to relax barrier to trade
with Red China have apparently
reached an impasse. Some an
nouncement on the status of the
talks in Paris is expected tomor
row, Dulles said.