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VOL. LVIII No. 102 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1956 Per Copy—15^
HUGE OIL GUSHER
IN IRAN FLOODS
NEARBY FIELDS
TEHRAN, Iran, UP—A tremen
dous gusher spouting oil 150 feet
into the air and flooding nearby
fields today marked the discovery
of what apparently is a rich new
oil field south of Tehran.
The state-owned National Iran
ian Oil Co. called in British and
American experts to help control
the well throwing 80,000 barrels
of oil a day into the air near Qum,
about 80 miles south of the capi
tal.
Troops and police patrolled the
oil-covered meadows along the
main highway linking Tehran
with the Persian Gulf. Their main
task was to enforce precautions
against fire. Rope-soled shoes
were issued to soldiers and tech
nicians.
Oilmen hoped to cap the well
in about a fortnight and stop the
loss, but the task may take longer.
Nasser Reply
Expected • Tuesday
CAIRO, Egypt, UD—Egypt will
reply tomorrow to the Menzies
committee request for talks on
the fSuez Canal crisis, an official
Egyptian source said today.
President Nasser is expected to
agree to meet with Australian
Prime Minister Robert G. Men
zies’ five-nation committee, se
lected last week by the London
Suez conference to present an 18
nation plan for international con
trol.
Usually reliable sources said
they understood Nasser will agree
to meet the committee in Cairo
with the proviso that Egypt is
not obligated to accept the plan.
Menzies stood by in London,
awaiting the reply. The message
had been expected today, since
sources in Cairo said it was trans
mitted to the Egyptian embassy
yesterday.
Egypt’s reply was framed after
Nasser had a special meeting with
his cabinet yesterday.
Stevenson and Kefauver Fly West
To Start Grass Roots Conferences
By the Associated Press
The 1956 election campaign,
flight-tested at conventions dur
ing the last two weeks, became
airborne today as candidates of
the two major parties flew in op
posite directions across the nation.
Democratic nominees Adlai E.
Stevenson and Estes Kefauver
headed westward toward Santa
Fe, N.M., for the first of a series
of daily meetings with party
leaders that will take them to
Vancouver, Wash., Sioux City,
Iowa, and Knoxville, Tenn., be
fore the return to Chicago Friday.
Vice President Nixon, renom
inated by the Republicans, flew
from his Whittier, Calif., home to
Washington for a series of con
ferences on the Republiian cam
paign in which he will take an
active role.
President Eisenhower continued
his golfing vacation at the Cypress
Point Club, Pebble Beach, Calif,, I
while his press secretary, James
Hagerty, predicted "a more in- j
formal type of campaigning this
year.”
Hagerty said in a TV interview
that he didn’t consider Eisenhow
er’s physical condition a bar to
an active campaign.
“I would say he is no longer a
convalescent,” Hagerty said. But
he declined to give any details of
the part Eisenhower will play in
the campaign beyond saying his
first major political speech prob
ably won’t be mad “until the mid
dle of September.”
Stevenson and Kefauver were
accompanied by their campaign
managers and other party leaders
on their series of visits with Dem
ocratic Party workers in 34 states.
Their grass roots conferences will
give them a chance to see and be
seen in various parts of the coun
try, but they are not expected to
make any major speeches.
Stevenson will opert his formal
campaign Sept. 3 with a Labor
Day address at Detroit and a ser
ies of Democratic rallies there.
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Governor of Rotary
District 151 Is
Nome Visitor
Governor of District 151 of
Rotary, Ralph A. Bartholomew,
accompanied by Mrs. Bartholo
mew, arrived here yesterday for
a three-day visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew will
be guests of honor at a Rotary
dinner tonight at 7:30 at the
Pioneer Igloo.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bartholo
mew came to the Territory in
1915 and they now operate the
Ireland Transfer and Storage Co.
of Ketchikan. They have two
children, a son who is managing
the business while they are on
•tour of Rotary Clubs in his dis-,
trict, and a married daughter in
California.
He has served as mayor of
Ketchikan, councilman and on the
planning commission for his
home city. He is past president of
the Ketchikan Rotary Club and
of the Ketchikan Chamber of
Commerce, He also served in the
U.S. Navy in World War I.
Mr. Bartholomew has the dis
tinction of being the first Alaskan
to be appointed as District Gov
ernor of District 151 of Rotary
which takes in Alaska, the Yukon
Territory, western British Colum
bia and northern Washington.
Another of his varied accom
plishments was being the Alaska
representative on the Friendship
Train in 1948 from the Pacific
Northwest to Germany and Aus
tria.
The committee for tonight’s
buffet dinner emphasizes that it
will start promptly at 7:30 and
will cost $3 a plate.
A short business meeting will
be held after dinner and a short
extemporaneous program has
been planned. President Good
rich announced today that the
meeting tonight will take the
place of the regular Thursday
noon luncheon.
Ralph A. Bartholomew
Father Neil Murphy To
Leave Nome Next Month
Father Neil Murphy of the
Joseph’s Catholic Church, who
has been here for about ten years,
has announced he will be leaving
.Nome sometime in September.
Father Nevue of Fairbanks is
to take his place here while
Father Murphy will be stationed
at Fairbanks.
Father Nevue has been in Fair
banks for about three years and
previously was at Sitka.
Scout Recovering
From Week Lost
On Mt. Rainier
SEATTLE, tff>—Snatched from
almost certain death after a week
in a mountain wilderness, plucky
Richard Mizuhata, 13, rested in a
hospital today and his main con
cern was catching up on the
meals and the comics he missed
in his lonely wanderings.
Doctors said Richard, a Japan
ese-American Boy Scout, was
showing an “amazing comeback”
from his seven days and six
nights with little food or water
on the slopes of Mount Ranier, 50
miles southeast of here.
The search for Richard started
a week ago yesterday after the
boy wandered away from a group
of Scouts who were hiking down
a trail in the rugged Carbon River
section of Mount Rainier National
Park.
Weak from hunger and almost
helpless, he was found Saturday
by Paul Uno, 36, a Seattle mail
carrier and one of a small army
of volunteers who answered the
call of park rangers for assistance.
The boy had lost his sleeping
bag in his wanderings. He had
had only a few candy bars to eat
and had drunk very little water.
Mrs. Cora Koenig Dies
Of Botulism Poisoning
Funeral services for Mrs. Cora
Koenig, 41-year-old Kotzebue Es
kimo woman who died of botu
lism poisoning Saturday at the
PHS Alaska Native Hospital, will
be held in Kotzebue.
Local arrangements were under
the direction of the Mackay Mor
tuary.
U.S. Revelation of Russian Nuclear
Tests and Test Site North of India
Is Challenge to Soviets for Publicity
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., Uft—
President Eisenhower’s announce
ment that the Soviet Union has
resumed nuclear weapons tests—
possibly including a hydrogen
blast—stood today as a challenge
to Russia to publicize such tests
in advance to reduce danger.
Besides the challenge to strip
away intended secrecy, the an
nouncement at the President’s va
cation headquarters here Sunday
also was seen as a move to coun
teract recent Russian propaganda
suggesting this country’s tests of
such weapons amount to a threat
to world peace.
Eisenhower made public an
Atomic Energy Commission re
port advising him that last Fri
day the Soviet Union detonated
"a nuclear device with a yield
less than a megaton." A mega
ton blast would have the force
equivalent to 1,000,000 ions of
TNT.
And the White House, amplify
Suggestions Coming In
On How Nome Could
Celebrate Annual Day
The Chamber of Commerce
committee which is planning for
an annual event to be celebrated
annually have received many sug
gestions.
An interesting letter was re
ceived from former Nomeite
George Beacom of Sitka, who
states that he has been chairman
of an Alaska Day Festival in Sitka
for four years.
He urges Nome to start com
memorating that important his
torical day which is Oct. 18th.
George sent interesting mater
ial to via the Nugget with sug
gestions on the several phases of
the program as celebrated in
Sitka.
Televiewers
Not Interested in
Political Shows
NEW YORK, 141—A television
research organization reported
today the two big political con
ventions flopped as attractions
on home screens.
The survey was made by Sind
linger & Co., of Philadelphia,
which reported it polled 1,000 set
owners daily, altogether cross
sectioning watchers in 238 coun
ties from coast to coast.
These were some of the find
ings:
The politicians were watched
by an average 33 million view
ers, compared to 54 million drawn
by peak commercial shows. One
evening, only one-quarter of the
nation’s sets were turned on.
Films and sports events frequent
ly outdrew the conventions in
communities where non-network
shows were on the air. And radio
listening jumped to a 10-year high
as fans sought musical relief from
oratory.
ing the commission report, said
the latest Russian explosion was
“almost’’ of that caliber—much
smaller than the biggest blast so
far touched off by the United
States.
That blast at Bikini in 1954 is
generally thought to have had a
froce of 15 to 17 megatons, while
this year’s hydrogen bomb test in
the Pacific has been unofficially
estimated to have had the force
of 10 megatons.
In announcing Soviet resump
tion oi tests. Eisenhower said in
a statement he wanted to em
phasize again "the necessity for
effective international control
of atomic energy and such
measures of adequately safe
guarded disarmament as are
now feasible."
He added: “This is a goal which
the United States has consistently
sought and which has received
the support of a large majority of
the members of the United Na
tions.”
The report Eisenhower made
public also officially made known
for the first time the site of the
Russian proving grounds. The re
port to Eisenhower by AEC chair
man Lewis I. Strauss said:
"This proving ground, where
most of the Soviet tests have
occurred, is located in south
west Siberia, north of India.
Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and
west of China. In addition to
this area, the Soviets have also
utilized the area of the Barents
Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean)
for nuclear testing."
Mention of the area north of
India in this first official dis
closure of its location was signifi
cant in the light of neutralist In
dia’s criticism of America’s atom
ic tests.
It pointed up that under the
Soviet policy of secrecy about
such tests, adjacent areas get no
advance warning of radioactive
"fallout” danger. Strauss noted,
on the other hand, that U.S. tests
always have been announced well
in advance and that newsmen—
both American and foreign—have
sometimes been permitted to
watch and report the tests.
Four Swim Far Enough
In Juan de Fuca Strait
To Share $2,500 Prize
VICTORIA, B.C. UPC-Four mar
athon swimmers endured the
Strait of Juan de Fuca long
enough to share $2,500 in prize
money yesterday.
They were denied the right to
$4,000 in prizes by the slashing
whitecaps which forced them
from the strait before they had
conquered the 18.3-mile crossing
between Victoria and Port Ange
les, Wash.
Ben Laughren picked up top
money, $1,000, for covering the
most distance, about 12 miles. He
was in the water 10 hr. 22 min.
Laughren, a hefty Victoria chef,
first crossed the strait a week ago,
making his 12th attempt.