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VOL. LIV No. 59_NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1952_ . Per Copy—15*
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U. S. Submarine
“Nautilus” To Be
Atom - Powered
WASHINGTON, <£>)— The keel
of this nation’s first atomic-pow
ered submarine will be laid next
month
The Navy said the work on the
history-making vessel will be done
at the Electrical Boat Co., a divi
sion of the General Dynamics
Corp., plant at Groton, Conn.
The actual starting date will be
made known soon, the announce
ment said.
The atomic sub is to be named
“Nautilus” after the fictional craft
described by Jules Verne in 1869
in the novel “Twenty Thousand
Leagues under the Sea.”
The first experimental submer
.sible, of the inventor Robert Ful
ton, carried the same name in
1801.
The Nautilus will be powered
by a thermal reactor plant de
signed by the Argone National
Atomic Laboratory and the West
inghouse Electric Corp. The pow
er plant is being built at Arco,
Idaho.
A second atomic power plant
for submarines is being devel
oped by the Atomic Energy Com
mission and the General Electric
Company at Schenectady, N.Y.
The General Electric-built pow
er plant, known as an intermedi
ate energy reactor, will be used
in another submarine and the
Navy and AEC plan tests to de
termine which of the two power
plants are the most useful.
It is expected that the first
atomic-powered sub will be ready
for testing some time in 1954.
In The Air War . . .
SEOUL, (/P) — Allied planes
silenced 20 Red guns and dam
aged two tanks Thursday in close
support strikes along the 155-mi.
Korean battlefront, the Air Force
said Friday.
Clear weather permitted Allied
planes to fly 1,220 sorties.
A main target was a big vehicle
repair center near the Red capital,
Pyongyang. '
Other U.N. planes ranged al
most to the Manchurian border,
cutting Red rail lines in 65 places.
In all, the Air Force said, 30
gun positions were silenced, 201
rail cars destroyed and 100 Com
munist buildings destroyed.
Seattle Fishermen Jump
Halibut Fishing Season
KODIAK, Alaska, CP) — Six
Seattle fishermen pleaded guilty
of violation of halibut regulations
in the U.S. Commissioner’s court
at Kodiak Wednesday and were
fined a total of $1,175.
The vessel, Alma J., skippered
by Capt. Stanley C. Johansen, was
caught attempting to catch hali
but before the season opened. A
Coast Guard plane spotted the
vessel with halibut aboard on
Tuesday.
Photographs were taken of the1
vessel and it was directed by loud
speaker from the plane* to pro
ceed to Kodiak.
Capt. Johansen was fined $300
and each crew member $175.
Segment of Dry Dock
Being Built Near Haines
Collapses, Work Stopped
ANCHORAGE, </P)—The Army
Corps of Engineers announced
Thursday that a segment of the
dry cargo dock under construc
tion at Lutak Inlet near Haines,
Alaska, collapsed at 8 a.m. last
Saturday.
No explanation of the delay in
announcement was given. The an
nouncement was made only after
repeated inquiries were made of
the Engineers when a number of
rumors came from Alaskan points.
Two workmen were thrown
from one of the three cells which
broke open. One was slightly in
jured.
The $1,855,000 dry dock project,
in southeastern Alaska, was 50
per cent completed at the time of
the failure. Work was stopped
pending a study of the cause of
the failure and possible methods
of correction by the Alaska Dis
trict Engineers.
The foundation consists of 16
cells of steel sheet piles each 64
feet in diameter.
The gravel fill in the cells slip
ped into the inlet when the cells
broke open. Army Engineers re
gional headquarters at Portland,
Ore., said Friday it had received
a report estimating the damage
at $75,000.
Wrangell High Graduate
Chosen Outstanding
Student of All Alaska
WRANGELL — Wrangell High
School and town were accorded
new honor last night when grad
uating Carolyn Mickelsou was
awarded the Territorial Elks $400
Scholarship Award as the out
standing student of aJJ Alaska.
Chosen by a committee of the
Dept, of Education at the Univer
sity of Alaska on a record of
marks, dependability, and citizen
ship Carolyn had a straight A
from the first grade through high
school. Exalted Ruler Don House
presented the award to Carolyn,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mickelson, local gillnetter.
On March 14 Wrangell High
won the All-Alaska basketball
championship in a playoff with
the Anchorage team.
Reds Negotiators Dare
Allies To Formally Break
Off Armistice Talks
By SAM SUMMERLIN
MUNSAN, <£>)—For the ninth
straight day Bed truce negotia
tors blasted the Allies and again
virtually dared them .to formally
break off the armistice talks.
Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, se
nior Allied delegate, spoke for
only two* minutes of the 30-min
ute session. He used his time to
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“reject finally and formally” the
Red proposal calling for exchange
of 132,000 captured Reds for the
12,000 Allied captives in Com
munist hands, and suggested a
recess until the Reds have some
thing new to offer.
North Korean Gen. Nam II re
plied:
“Unless you formally declare
the termination of these armistice
negotiations, you have no reason
to object to the normal holding
of conferences.” - :
Alaska Delegates to
GOP Convention
Challenged
ANCHORAGE, </P) — A fight
over methods of electing Alaska’s
three delegates to the National
Republican convention looms in
the wake of an Eisenhower-for
President meeting here^
The group approved a Absolution
calling for a territorial convention
to name the delegates. J.C. Morris,
meeting chairman, said the reso
lution will be presented to the
GOP Central Committee at its
Saturday meeting in Juneau. Sev
eral Anchorage Republicans were
expected to go to Juneau to press
for action on it.
The resolution said the Central
Committee elected delegates to
the national convention without a
territorial meeting “thus depriv
ing all Republicans in Alaska
of their rights to nominate and
elect delegates.”
Morris made a speech bristling
with criticism of Albert White of
Juneau, general counsel for the
Republican Party in Alaska.
It was the 1952 version of a
long - standing feud within the
party which for many years split
it into factions under the labels
of “whites” and “blacks.”
Morris declared a new Repub
lican party may be needed in
Alaska to get rid of what he called
political boss rule. He asserted it
will be “recognized when Gen.
Eisenhower is nominated and
elected president.”
Unity, Spiritual Strength
More Important Than
Guns, Planes, Ships
LONDON, {ff) — Gen. Eisen
hower said Friday the unity and
spiritual strength of the free
world are more important than
tanks, guns, planes and ships.
The supreme commander, Al
lied powers in Europe, spoke
briefly to newsmen before leav
ing after a two-day farewell visit
to Britain.
“We are going to preserve the
peace only if we give great atten
tion to three factors,” he said.
“The first and most important is
the spiritual strength of ourselves,
our people. How much do we
prize peace and freedom and se
curity, and how much are we
ready to pay for it in terms of
our individual sacrifice?
“The next thing is economic
strength,” without which, he said,
there could be no military
strength.
“Finally of course we have mili
tarly strength,” Eisenhower added.
“We cannot focus our eyes too
narrowly just on tanks and guns,
planes and ships. Those things
alone cannot preserve the peace,
and they certainly cannot pre
serve freedom.”
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Open House at Nudist Colony
LONDON, (/P)—British nudists
Friday invited the- public and
press to attend an "open day” at
their North Kent Sun Club near
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Dartford May 24. The visitors can
keep their clothes On but they
can’t take any snapshots. -
Restrictions Removed On
91 Octane Gas for N.W.,
Alaska and Hawaii
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The gov
ernment Thursday removed quan
tity restrictions on deliveries of
what is commonly described as
91 - octane aviation gasoline in
Washington, Oregon, California,
Alaska and Hawaii for flights
made in or between those areas.
That grade of fuel is used pri
marily in small and medium size
aircraft.
Automobile of U.S. Consul
At Tunis Is Fired Upon
By Unknown Assailant
PARIS, </P)—U-S. Consul Gen
eral John D. Jemegan of Tunis
said his automobile was fired
upon by unknown assailants in
the Tunis suburbs early Friday.
Two bullets smashed into his
car, which he was driving, but
none of the occupants was hurt.
Jemegan reported to American
officials in Paris that at the time
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of the incident, about 1 ajn., there
was no sign of life in area, no
signal of any sort for him to stop,
no barricades in the road and no
lights shown.
The French news agency, in re
porting the same incident earlier,
said the car was fired upon when
it accidentally passed a French
road block.
The consul general said Gen.
Jean de Hauteclocque, French
resident general in the French
protectorate, had expressed his re
grets at the incident.
Postpone Plans for
Civilian Around
Clock Skywatch
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The Air
Force Friday postponed plans for
the Civilian Ground Observer
Corps to maintain an around-the
clock watch on the skies for un
identified planes.
Operation “Skywatch” was or
iginally scheduled to start Satur
day and continue for an indefinite
period. It was postponed because
of opposition by the defense di
rectors in many of the 27 states
involved.
Informed officials said 24 of the
27 state directors had expressed
concern that it would impose
hardship upon civilian volunteers
in many areas where lack of num
bers would require some indiv
iduals to spend many hours week
ly watching the skies.
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, act
ing Air Force chief of staff, said
in a statement that the Air Force
would study the problem in an ef
fort to “reduce hardships” on the
part of civilian volunteers before
rescheduling a 24-hour skywatch
ing operation.
He Posted "Ceiling" Prices
NEW HAMPTON, la., (/P) —V.
E. Messersmith, ^wner of the
"Little Butch” cafe in New Hamp
ton, took literally the Office of
Price Stabilization’s order to post
his ceiling prices.
He posted them — on the
ceiling.
GRADUATION EXERCISES
FRIDAY, MAY 16
8:00. P. M.
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Processioned.Grand March from Tannhauser
(Miss Irene Connie)
Invocation.Rev. Paul Carlson
Salutatory.....Katherine Bjomstad
Song.*."Song of the Night"—Verdi
(High School Octette)
Valedictory..Wilfred Boucher
Graduation Address.Mr. Dan Jones
"FAITH" '
Presentation of Class.Supt. O. G. Boe
Presentation of Diplomas.Mr. Robt. F. Baldwin
(Representing School Board)
American Legion
School Award.Mr. C. R. Kammerer
(Commander of American Legion)
Solo. ’ 'Obstination''
(Mr. Ray Hawk accompanied by Robert Baldwin)
Benediction.Rev. Paul Carlson
Postlude.Grand March from Aida
(Miss Irene Comue)
NOME HIGH SCHOOL
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Class of 1952
Wilfred A. Boucher Isaac M. Larsen
Katherine G. Bjomstad Lawrence R. Okptaluk
Clarence Willoya .
Eighth Grade Graduates
Vincent Abloogalook
Anna M. Ailak
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Albert J. Aukoa, Jr.
Dianne M. Boucher
Lucy A. Fagerstrom .
Helen M; GLavinovicb
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. Arlene X Hawk
Donald F« Miller
R07 Nelson
Don T.^'wton
James
Margar^
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