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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 80 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1956_Per Copy—15^
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Governor Heintzleman Highlights The
July 4th Patriotic Exercises at Nome
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Alaska to Receive
$28 Million In Next
3 yrs. for Highways
WASHINGTON, UR — Alaska,
which for the first time will re
ceive its road money by alloca
tion rather than appropriation, is
entitled to $28,600,000 in federal
aid for highway construction over
the three years.
This would be on top of the
$11,425,000 which Congress ap
propriated for this fiscal year
prior to including the territory
in the new highway program.
Alaska has no mileage in the
interstate system but by a special
provision written into the laws it
will be permitted to match fed
eral aid in the other three types
of aid on a 90-10 basis.
Effective with the current year,
which started July 1, allocations
over the next three years include
(in round numbers*:
Interstate (none*; Primary
$1,100,000, $7,800,000, $8,000,000;
Secondary $800,000, $5,300,000,
$5,400,000; Urban $10,000, $100,
000, $100,000.
Kidnaped Baby
Reported Alive
In Phone Call
WESTBURY, N.Y., —A per
son believed to be the kidnaper
of 3-month-old Peter Weinberger
telephoned the parents’ home to
day, saying the baby was alive
and well.
Morris Weinberger, the baby’s
father, said the call came at 9:40
a.m. and that he told the caller:
“Am ready to meet your de
mand, awaiting your call.”
It was not made clear just why
the response was worded in such
fashion, and Weinberger revealed
little else about the conversation,
or whether he would seek to
make a private effort to get the
baby back.
Police have said they could not
legally pull out of the case, but
that their prime concern is the
safety of the baby.
Weinberger’s son was taken
from a carriage at the back of
their fashionable home here on
Wednesday afternoon while the
mother had stepped into the
house a moment.
A note was left, demanding a
$2,000 rartSom.
Police baited a trap for the
kidnaper yesterday with packag
es supposedly containing' ransom
money but mostly containing pa
per in bill size.
However, no one showed up to
try to take either of two packages
placed at spots in the vicinity of
the Weinberger home.
Weinberger, a prosperous whole
sale drug salesman whose hand
some brick and clapboard ranch
house is located in a Long Island
suburb not far east of New York
City, paid he had the cash ready
to turn over to the. kidnaper.
* The highlight of the day-long
celebration on Independence Day
at Nome was the address by Gov.
B. Frank ‘Heintzleman who pro
phecied that the pioneering spirit
of Alaskans will guide them into
becoming a great state.
He reminded the audience as
sembled on Froqt Street for the
patriotic exercises that the Con
stitution, drawn up early this
year, is merely the framework on
which to build the state and that
it depends on each individual to
take an active part in the govern
ment.
“We will solve the problems
which arise by working togettier
from Ketchikan to Barrow,” the
governor declared.
He reviewed some of the pro
lems confronting the state, par
ticularly those of this area.
Gov. Heintzleman said he will
work for the restoration of min
ing and suggested that a tax in
centive could do the same tor
mining as it has done for oil in
the territory.
He also said that better water
transportation and more access
roads will be of major import
ance.
The great need for an armory
at Nome was expressed and the
community was urged to work
toward getting more public as
sistance for a National Guard Ar
mory so there will be adequate
facilities for training, this import
ant part of the defense program.
Among the important problems
confronting the new state are
those of caring for the mentally
ill within the state; welfare and
its many categories for the young
as well as for aged dependents.
He said both funds and facilities
must be provided.
Gov. Heintzleman called atten
tion to the growing juvenile de
linquency problem and the need
for institutional care which can
no longer be provided for Alaska
in the States.
John McNees, master of cere
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NAMES OF WINNERS
OF JULY 4TH RACES
Following are winners of the
sports contests in the 4th of
July celebration on Wednesday:
25-yard daah. girls 5-7: 1st
prize, Patsy Longley; 2nd prize,
Jo-Marie Weyer; 3rd prize, Mer
rill Swim.
25-yard dash, boys 5-7: Stephen
Griego, Johnny Green, Joe Cur
ran.
30-yard dash, girls 8-9: Emma
Avasuk, Sally Siegwart, Frances
Omelak.
50-yard dash, boys 8-9: Victor
Hudgins, Clifford Bell, Allan
Kimoktoak.
50-yard dash, girls 10-11: Carol
Carlsen, Diane Wilke, Vicky Cas
tell.
75-yard dash, boys 10-11: John
ny Bahnke, William Nuipok, Bob
by Lee.
75-yard dash, girls 12-14: Val
erie Adams, Ruth Towner, Dor
othy Russell.
100-yard dash, boys 12-14: Billy
Muller, Jerry Cavota, John Her
man.
25-yard satk race, boys 10-13:
Billy Muller, Johnny Bahnke,
Charlie Nershak.
25-yard sack race, girls 10-13:
Clarice Hardy, Dorothy Russell,
Jo Chambers.
25-yard 3-legged race, boys 10
13: Billy Muller and Johnny Her
man, Mike Simon arid Richard
Aluk, Robert Oksoktaruk and
William Nuipok.
25-yard 3-legged race, girls 10
13: Carolyn and Frances John
son, Clarice Hardy and Dorothy
Russell, Sharon Reader and Jo
Charn'oeis.
Shoe scramble. 13 yrs. and un
der: Roy Carlson, Billy Muller,
Dorothy Russell.
15-yard tricycle race, boys and
girls. 3 years Paul Nicholson,
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BABY HIPPO DIES IN ZOO
UNWANTED BY MOTHER
CINCINNATI, UR—The Cincin
nati Zoo’s 82 pound baby hippo
potamus, which was bom June
15 — unwanted by her mother,
Maude — is dead.
The unnamed little hippo died
of neglect, Supt. Clarence Smith
said.
Maude didn't like her young
ster from the start, and began
banging it about almost from the
minute it was bom.
She wouldn’t feed it, so the
infant hippo was given milk in a
•bottle. It wasn't enough.
Twining Says U.S. Air Power Is
Ahead of Soviet Russia’s in Quality
Says U.S. Must Keep
Moving to Stay Ahead
WASHINGTON, MV-Gen. Na
than Twining estimates that this
country is ahead of Soviet Russia
in the quality of air power and
can stay ahead, but his statement
seemed unlikely today to still ad
ministration critics.
Twining, the Air Force chief of
staff, reported to President Eisen
hower at Gettysburg, Pa., yester
day on the eight-day visit to Rus
sia and then told newsmen there
is no question about the superior
quality of U.S. air power.
He attached a carefully worded
time qualification on his apprais
al, however. Twining said the
U.S. has a better air force now
and should be abla to remain
ahead in the next few years and
that the administration's military
at this time.
Twining said also that Russia
might surpass the U.S. by 1960 if
this country does not keep mov
ing.
"Gen. Twining’s report sounds
encouraging,” said Sen. Salton
stall iR-Miss>, senior minority
member of a five-man Senate
committee trying to judge the
relative air strength of this coun
try and the Soviet.
But Sen. Jackson (D-Wash),
who has maintained that the ad
ministration is proceeding too
slowly to Build up long-range
striking power, said that he has
some pointed questions to ask
when Twining appears again be
fore the «ir power subcommittee.
“There is no dispute about our
toeing ahead today in air power,”
Jackson said. “The controversy
is how we will stack up in 1958,
1959 and I960.”
Japanese Scientist Finds Evidence
U.S. Tests in Bikini Area Involved
Firing of Guided Missile or Rocket
Badly Burned Child
Brought From Savconga
In Emergency Flight
An emergency flight was made
to Savoonga yesterday to take a
child who was badly burned to
the Kotzebue hospital.
The Civil Air Patrol was
alerted and the Morrison-Knud
son plane, flown by Howard
Mays, and accmpanied by Flight
Surgeon Dr. Hecking of Air Force
Search and Rescue, attempted a
landing but the field was inade
quate. The Air Force Albatross
plane then landed in Bering Sea,
and the child was brought out to
it in a skin boat, stated Hap Lan
caster of CAP.
The child was brought here,
given first aid and a transfusion
and sent on to the Kotzebue
Native Hospital. ,
No details of how the accident
occurred were learned by the
rescue group.
Extra $1.4 Billion
Recommended for
Military Projects
WASHINGTON tfl—'The House
Appropriations Committee today
recommended a supplemental ap
propriation of $1,398,450,000 for
military construction projects in
the year which began last Sunday.
The amount is $357 million
above the budget request.
The recommended appropria
tion includes $1,228,000,000 for
the Air Force and $165,000,000
for the Navy. Additionally, the
committee proposed the Navy
get $235 million and the Army
$193 million in transfers from
previously appropriated funds.
The Coast Guard is allocated
$5,450,000 for loran stations.
Appropriations recommended
by the committee for various
projects outside the continental
U.S. in the Alaska area are:
Ladd AFB $1,688,000; Whittier
$2,849,000, Wildwood Sta. $352,
000, Navy at Adak (Alaska Sta.)
$2,351,000, Kodiak $2,613,100,
supply facilities at Adak $5,000,
000, Fort Richardson $2,333,000.
The committee rejected $3,627,
000 for a nuclear heating and
power plant planned jointly by
the Army and the Atomic Energy
Commission with a test plant in
Alaska. It said that actual con
struction could not be started be
1 fore the fiscal year starting July
1, 1957 and allowed $500,000 for
design purposes.
Dser Dies In Jump From 3-Story
Building In Massachusetts Town
FITCHBURG, Mass., W) — A
four-point buck weighing about
80 pounds came to an unusual
end yesterday. He leaped to his
death from a 3-story business
building on Main Street.
Main Street is located at the
foot of a slope and the rooftop
easily is accessible from a hill
An eye witness said the deer
walked “nonchalantly” off the
roof to a sudden death.
* TOKYO, (fl—A Japanese scien
tist said today a reported July 3
nuclear test may have involved
a guided missile or a rocket car
rying a nuclear warhead. A sci
entific colleague disagreed.
Japan weather bureau officials
early this week said a nuclear
blast apparently had been set off
July 3 in the Bikini Atoll testing
grounds. The United States,
which opened tests in that area
in May and said they would con
tinue through June, has not con
firmed the reported explosion.
Today, Kameo Ito, chief of Ja
pan’s Yamagata weather observa
tory, said he believed the report
ed blast involved a guided missile
or rocket. He said his opinion was
based on his belief that the ex
plosion took place 35 kilometers
(21.7 miles* in the air. The ac
knowledged altitude record for
an airplane is 63,668 feet, slightly
more than 12 miles.
Ito quoted a theory on sound
waves as the premise for his be
lief. He said it holds that sound
waves between 6 and 20 miles in
the air strike a barrier and are
bounced back with their ampli
^ide and cycle weaker than if
they had been started below six
miles.
Japanese weather bureau re
ports of a possible July 3 explo
sion stemmed from atmospheric
pressure waves “conspicuously
weaker” than any others record
ed here in the present series of
tests, bureau officials said.
The Japanese weather bureau
and other Japanese sources have
reported that nuclear test explo
sions apparently took place in the
Bikini area May 28, June 13, 26,
and July 3. The U.S. Atomic En
ergy Commission has declined to
confirm or deny that the tests
took place on those dates.
Ito’s report was the first specu
lation that AEC tests might have
involved missiles capable of car
rying nuclear warheads. Some
Japanese sources have said Sovi
et nuclear .tests in Siberia indi
cated they may have been
launched by rockets or missiles.
Champ Laid Low
In Family Romp
BROCKTON, Mass. Retired
heavyweight boxing champion.
Rocky Marciano fought 49 times
on his way to the title, never lost
a bout and never was hospitalized.
He is today, however, after a
bit of romping with his wife or
daughter. The Rock wasn’t avail
able immediately to confirm
whether his buxom wife Barbara,
or his daughter Mary Ann, not
yet 4 years old, caused the dam
age.
At any rate Marciano entered,
the hospital today for treatment
of his back.
There were two reports as to
how he injured himself: <1) He
suffered a crick while tossing
Mary Ann in the air and catching
her; (2) He and Barbara engaged
in a wrestling for fun match
while sitting on the floor watch
ing television.