Russia Suspends
Reduction of Army
MOSCOW UP)—Premier Khrush
chev announced Saturday that
the Soviet Union has suspended
planned reductions in its armed
forces in view of the world situ
ation.
War budgets of North Atlantic
nations are growing, Khrushchev
said ,and the Soviet government
accordingly has decided to in
crease defense allocations for this j
year.
The premier appealed in a \
speech to the leaders of the 1
United States, Britain and France
to “display wisdom” and join in
concluding a peace treaty with
Germany.
“In our time no other step can
be more peaceable than the con
clusion of a peace treaty and the |
elimination of the vestiges of the j
last war,” Khrushchev said.
Khrushchev announced in Jan
uary 1960 that he planned to cut
the strength of the Soviet armed
forces from 3,600,000 to 2,400,000.
He said at the time the Soviet
Union was taking this unilateral
step without delay and without
conditions.
Former Gov. Wallgren
Injured Critically
In Highway Accident
OLYMPIA UP) — Improvement
was reported Monday in the con- j
dition of former Gov. Mon C.
Wallgren, 70, who was critically
injured Saturday in a highway
accident that took the life of a
National Guardman.
The State Patrol said Wallgren
and PFC Gerhard Schock, 22, of
Lacey, Wash., were hit by a pick
up truck after Wallgren had
stopped his car on the Nisqually
bridge eight miles east of here
to fix a flat tire and the soldier
had offered to help.
Schock, who was an active duty
at Camp Murray, died later in
Madigan Hospital.
Wallgren was brought to St.
Peters Hospital here in poor con
dition with both legs broken and
other injuries. The hospital said
Monday the legs had been set and
other injuries were not as serious
as at first believed. His condi
tion was listed as fair.
The driver of the pickup, Alvin
Montgomery, 41, of Redondo,
was charged with negligent
homicide Monday.
Wallgren, who was Democratic
governor from 1945-49 after a six
year term as U. S. senator from
Washington, had been living in
Palm Desert, Calif., but spending
summers at Everett. Mrs. Wall- i
gren recently underwent surgery j
in an Olympia hospital.
Archbishop Vagnozzi,
Apostolic Delegate in U.S.,
Will Make Alaska Visit
JUNEAU UR — The Most Rev.
Edigio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Dele
gate in the United States, is
scheduled to arrive in Juneau
next Saturday on a five-day visit
to Alaska.
The papal representative will
be accompanied by the Most Rev.
Thomas A. Connolly, Archbishop
of Seattle; the Most Rev. Joseph
P. Dougherty, Bishop of Yakima;
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Gerald V. Mc
Devitt, secretary to Archbishop
Vagnozzi; and the Rev. Lawrence
M. Willenborg, secretary to Arch- !
bishop Connolly.
Archbishop Vagnozzi’s party (
will be met at the Juneau air- j
port by the Most Rev. Dermot j
O’Flanagan, Bishop of Juneau.
On Sunday, the archbishop and
his party, accompanied by Bishop
O'Flanagan, will fly to Anchor
age and attend a dinner for Cath
olic military chaplains and clergy
of the Anchorage area.
On Monday, Archbishop Vag
nozzi will attend dedication cere
monies for the Catholic Central
Junior High School in Anchor
age.
The next day the party will
leave for Fairbanks, where it will
be met by the Most Rev. Francis
D. Gleeson, Vicar Apostolic of
Alaska.
On July 20, Archbishop Vag
nozzi returns to Seattle for dedi
cation ceremonies the following
day for the new Providence
Heights College of Sister Forma
tion at Pine Lake, near Issaquah.
WORK TO RESUME AT
NORTHEAST CAPE SITE
Word has been received here
that the work at N.E. Cape, which
was stopped due to union-AGC
difficulties, will be resumed im
mediately as it has been desig
nated an urgent military project.
The work at Port Clarence has
continued without interruption
although it has been noted that
the workmen were all imported
from Fairbanks, Anchorage, and
outside, with only two men from
Nome having been hired to date.
This was brought to the atten
tion of the Chamber of Commerce
at their noon meeting today by
Mayor Roscoe Wilke.
WATER FROM THE MOON
One way of increasing man’s
fresh water supply is to steam it
from the moon, claims an in
dustrial scientist. His theory: The
rock formations on the moon con
tain as much as 5% water. The
water could be condensed by
steaming it from the rocks with
huge mirrors placed to reflect
heat from the sun.
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described below will be sold at public bid, for cash, at the
office of the Clerk of the Superior Court. Federal Building,
Nome, Alaska, at 10 o'clock a.m. on Friday, the 14th day of
July, 1961. Said property is that of the Estate of Philip
Asharuk. deceased. The Administrator reserves the right to
refuse and reject any or all bids.
Lots 4 and 4% in Block 26, in the City
of Nome, Alaska, and together with a
frame dwelling located thereon and
certain contents therein.
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Administrator of the Estate
of Philip Asharuk, deceased
Hoffa Advises
His Critics
To “Get Lost”
MIAMI BEACH — James R.
Hoffa Saturday advised his critics
to get lost. He said he’s whipped
’em and they might as well ad
mit it.
Hoffa, 48, a one-time Detroit
warehouse hand, was elected
overwhelmingly to a second five
year term as president of the
Teamsters, the nation’s biggest
labor union, over only token op
position.
“Seriously,” Hoffa remarked
later, “I think Bobby Kennedy,
his brother the President, the
Secretary of Labor, and the sup
posed Senate Select Committee
ought to recognize now that the
time and effort they’ve put in try
ing to destroy the Teamsters have
completely failed. It was a waste
of time.
“They ought to quit fooling
around and let us operate as a
trade union and as Americans."
Hoffa was asked about his goals
for the next five yars as head
of the 1.7 million Teamsters. He
said he wants to increase the
union’s membership to at least 2
million and return to “the house
of labor,” meaning the AFL-CIO.
The Federation expelled the
Teamsters for corruption several
years ago.
Hoffa said another aim is to
minimize strikes while reducing
the accepted retirement age to 55
years after 20 years of work. The
present Social Security retire
men age is 62-65 years, but Hoffa
has negotiated a 60-year retire
ment age in most Teamsters con
tracts.
Hoffa emerged from the con
vention with possibly the broad
est powers every vested in a labor
union leader and with the big
gest salary, $75,000.
Hoffa Says Teamsters’
Will Be Back in AFL-CIO
Within Six Months,
NEW YORK W) — Teamsters
head James R. Hoffa says his
union will be back in the AFL
CIO within six months.
The AFL-CIO expelled the 1.7
million-member Teamster broth
erhood in 1957 following Senate
testimony that Teamsters’ leaders
were corrupt.
Appearing Sunday night on the
nationally televised NBC program
“Meet the Press,” Hoffa was re
minded by a panelist that he pre
viously had predicted the AFL
CIO would end his union’s exile
within 18 months.
“I said they Should,” Hoffa
responded. “They may be short
sighted for the next 18 months as
they have been for the last 3Vi
years.”
Hoffa, re-elected last week to
a new 5-year term as Teamsters’
president, said he believed “the
Teamsters Union belongs in the
house of labor.”
“We helped build it,” he added.
“We are the largest single or
ganization; we lend strength to
the labor movement.”
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Mining Activities In
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Mining activities in the North
western District this summer ac
cording to the Bulletin of the
Division of Mines and Minerals
included:
The Lee Brothers, moving to
Cape and Buck Creeks, but will
probably not actually get into
production of tin this year. They
are continuing their dredging op
erations on the Solomon River at
the same time.
Grant Nelson is operating two
dredges on Utica Creek.
N. B. Tweet & Sons are dredg
ing on the Kougarok.
The Lucky Syndicate is dredg
ing there also.
Willie Foster is back on his
placer operation and lead pros
pect at Hannum Creek.
Steve Pederson is installing a
jig on his dredge near Council.
Bear Creek Mining Co. is re- ,
ported to be employing a large
number of Eskimos from Kobuk
and Shungnak on its copper de
velopment project at Ruby Creek.
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T’irs< Woman Sailor
Assigned to Sea Duty
Aboard U.S. Transport
SAN DIEGO, Calif. W) — There’s
going to be a woman aboard the
transport USS Mann. She is pret
ty Lt. Charlene Suneson, 27, the
first female Navy line officer to
be assigned sea duty.
“There’s a shortage of male line
officers,” she said. “I think I’ve
been assigned to sea duty so the
Navy can find out what jobs
women can do effectively.”
The pert career woman has
served in the Navy for seven
years. She said she is anxious to
go to sea “because that’s where
the Navy’s mission really is.”
“I look at the assignment as
Navy duty rather than from the
woman’s standpoint as a roman
tic voyage,” Lt. Suneson said.
“But I’m thrilled about visiting
the Far East ports and I plan to
buy silks in Japan.”
She said she is used to work
ing with few women around. She
recently served in Kodiak, where
she was the only woman officer
stationed at the base.
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who have been cured of cancer, Jack Oelker, of Urbana, Ohio, along
with his wife, Martha, and their children, (I. to r.), Sandra, 6, Carol
Ann, 4, and Susan, 8, were chosen as the American Cancer Society’s
1961 Crusade family. Poster will be displayed across the nation dur*
ing the Society’s educational and fund raising Crusade.