_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PBES8_
VOL. LIII. No. 28 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1951 Per Copy— 15c
Lifting The Lid
At Juneau
Tiniday March 6# 1951
(By Jim Huichaaoa)
JUNEAU, </P)—For the second
time in two weeks, the Alaska
Senate yesterday rejected a pro
posal that the legislature ask Con
to allow the Territory to bond it
self for school construction.
The vote against the memorial
by Sen. Gunnard M. Engebreth
(R.-Anchorage) was 8 to 7.
The issue this time was over
asking Congress to amend the or^
ganic act to allow bonding up to
50 per cent of tax revenues from
the previous biennium. Engebreth
estimated his proposal would al
low bonding’ of approximately
$10,000,000.
The meaure previously rejected
was a request to Congress for
bonding up to $12,500,000 forr
school construction.
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The issue still isn’t dead. As a
House-approved memorial by Rep.
Jack Conright CD.-Anchorage) is
sill awaiting Senate action.
Conright’s memorial proposes
asking Congress for permission to
issue $9,000,000 in bonds, but car
ries an amendment specifying the
Territory would not bond without
a favorable referendum vote by
the people. Engebreth also has a
Senate bill proposing a referen
dum at the next election.
Voting for the Engebreth memo
rial yesterday were Sens. William
Beltz (D.-Haycock); Anita Gamick
(R.-Juneau); Walter Huntley, 3rd
Division Democrat; Percy Ipalook
CR.-Wales); Rr. R. M. MacKenzie
CD.-Ketchikan); Steve McCutch
eon CD.-Anchorage), and Enge
breth. Against the proposal were
Sens. Ed Anderson D.-Nome), and
John Butrovich (R.-Fairbanks),
Howard Lyng (D.-Nome); James
Nolan (D.-Wrangell) and Gerrit
Snyder (R.-Anchorage). *
The vote care after Henry Ro
den, Territorial treasurer, said
there wag no way to finance school
buildings except through a bond
issue.
Roden declined to say definitely
he favored the measure. He said
he would have to have more exact
information on school needs.
Engebreth argued that if Con
gress does not grant the Territory
the right to issue bonds before the
next Legislature meets it would
be four years before anything
could be done about school financ
ing if the legislature and the peo
ple both approved the bond issue.
McCutcheon insisted banding
for capital improvements is a good
business practice. Butrovich cited
State and the Federal Government
under bonded burdens and declar
ed *Tm for stalling it off for four
years or forever.”
Snider equipped that proponents
were trying to meet a financial
emergency by “applying the old
Dutch process of trying to fill a
hole by digging deeper.”
Nolan contended loca 1 i t i e s
should be able to meet their own
school financing by doing their
own bonding on earmarked pro- I
ceeds from the cigarette tax. {
The House meanwhile was in
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Lucky “Baby Sitters”
Draw A $2,005 “Fee”_
(iT) JNewsieatures
HIGHEST PAID baby sillers in the world—That's what Capt.
Robert Wayne Wilson, standing, calls his parents, shown here
holding his children and looking at a check for $2,005 for their
services. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson of Houston,* Texas, agreed to
baby sit for the captain and his wife who wanted to compete in a
radio giveaway program ("Break the Bank"). Grandma and
Grandpa were promised half the winnings. The captain and his
wife from Pennsville, N. J., won $4,010. The children, Bradley,
and Desma Jane, seem to wonder what it is all about.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (TP) — The de
fense fisheries and administration
said yesterday it will hold public
meetings at Seattle March 12, to
investigate the need for controls
similar to those of World War II
in some commercial fishing areas
of Alaska.
The meetings will be conducted
by Maurice Rattray, deputy ad
ministrator. Discussions will deal
March 12 with possible concentra
tions in the British Bay area,
March 13, the Cook Inlet, and
March 14, the North and South
Peninsula, including Chignik.
CLEVELAND, (^—Marine Sgt.
William Ellis bummed a ride on
the wrong plane while on furlough
and ended up at Anchorage, Alas
ka, instead of here.
The 30-year-old holder of the
silver star started a furlough |
Tuesday at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
He tyoarded an air force bomber
at March Field, Calif., after being
told it was headed for Dayton, O.
When it landed he found himself
in Alaska.
Ellis, the former commandant
of the Buckeye detachment of the
Marine Corps League, finally got
home Monday.
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ATHENS, (/P) — A firing squad
executed seven communists in
Salonika Monday. They had been
sentenced to death by a military
tribunal after being charged with
attempting to set up a new under
ground movement in Salonika.
CEDAR RAPIDS, la. W—Po
lice are looking for “the Devil”
who stole a pen from the study of
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'Washington Con
gress urges Alaska,
Hawaii Statehood
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (/P), A House
! approved memorial urging Con
| gress to enact Statehood for Alas
ka and Hawaii, was passed by the
! Senate Saturday, 34 to 4.
The measure was opposed by
Sen. William Shannon, Seattle Re
publican. He said he makes sev
eral business trips to Alaska each
year, and asserted the people
“were considerably divided on the
subject.”
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Shannon said he thought the
only reason for any pro-statehood
feeling in the Territory was be
cause it lacked sufficient funds to
run the local government by itself.
Sen. Ed Riley, Seattle Democrat,
said he thought there was no gen
eral agreement on statehood in
either Alaska or Hawaii, and add
ed “the people should be allowed
to decide for themselves without
this state stepping in,”
Sen. A. E. Edwards, Deming
Democrat, told the Senate he had
he said, “that the people from-one
he sadi, “that the people from one
end of the Territory to the other
are in favor of statehood.?.
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PARTIAL SUN ECLIPSE
THIS AFTERNOON
PHILADELPHIA, (JP)—The first
eclipse of the sun this year takes
place late this afternoon when the
moon will cover about 20 percent
of its diameter.
The eclipse will be total to per
sons watching from near the equa
tor in the Pacific and S. America^
Mrs. M. S. Walsh
Chosen
Mother of the Year
For the second successive year,
the Home Arts Club unanimously
elected Mrs. M. J. Walsh the most
outstanding mother in Nome.
This choice rests with the Home
Arts Club annually as part of the
Outstanding Mother of America
choice for the Golden Rule Foun
dation.
Last year’s award for Alaska
went to Mrs. Hering, of Fairbanks,
whose qualifications included the
fact that she was a gold star
mother and a widow.
The Federation of Women’s
Clubs has requested that Nome
submit Mrs. Walsh’s name again
as she is well qualified, having
raised her entire family in Nome,
where all her nine children were
born.
The Nome-born Walsh children
are Joe, Mary, James, Pearse,
Ann, Kevin, Kathleen, Noreen,
and Patricia.
Alaska’s choice for outstanding
mother automatically becomes a
candidate for America’s mother
of the year, which includes a trip
to Washington, D.C.
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Inaugurate Non
commercial Fish
ing Regulations
t{/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, <(JP) — For the
first time in Territorial history,
Alaska will have restrictions on
non-commercial fishing next sum
mer. Secretary of the * interior
Chapman announced yesterday
the 1951 regulations for protection
of Alaska’s commercial fisheries.
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They include the closing ofspeci
fied streams in the Cook Inlet
area, near Anchorage, and in the
upper Copper River, to salmon
fishing— ‘including that for local
use.”
“Only four out of the hundreds
of streams in Alaska have been
closed,” Chapman said, in a news
release.
“Without such protection, the
salmon runs in those streams, al
ready greatly reduced, would be
completely destroyed.”
Chapman said the new regula
tions contain more changes than,
usual, because of changing condi
tions in the fisheries.
Most important change is the
admi§siorj of power boats for the
first time into the Bristol Bay
area. ' ; -
“So that the burden (of Competi
tion by power boats) will not fall
too heavily on the local residents,
the department has opened to set
net fishing all inter-tidal waters
outside of the drift gill net mark
ers,” Chapman said.
“At the same time it has prohib
ited the use of set nets above the
drift gill net markers.
“This, in effect, permits netting
along the shores of the bays wher
ever drift netting is permitted.
“The set net regulations have
been relaxed, also, to allow oper
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - * -
Tuesday, March 6# 1851
(By The Associated Press)
The Allied forward push to take
the key communist defense conter
of Hongchong on the central front
today met increasing Red resist
ance. Element sof the U. 6. First
Marine Division, spearheading the
drive plodded through new snow
to within 11 miles of the town.
Gen. MacArthur reported the
third Chinese field army of about
90,000 men was moving down
from northeast Korea to reinforce
the some 300,000 enemy troops al
ready (believed to be concentrated
south of the 38th Parallel.
Allied ground force ommander
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway
said, however, an enemy counter
offensive did not appear immedi
ately imminent. He added that his
troops “at the moment” could not
stop any such push.
The Marines were punching
north and northeast of recaptured
Hoengsong. The enemy met them
with heavy artillery, mortar and
j machinegun fire, but continued to
fall back slowly.
North Korean Reds, routed yes
terday from Taemi on the east
central front, held on bitterly to
the rugged ridges near there and
air reconnaissance reported more
Reds were moving in to bolster
the line.
A U. S. First Cavalry tank-in
fantry team captured Yongdu on
the western end of the 60-mile
central front line yesterday and
today weer swinging eastward
toward Hoengsong. Heavy Red
fire from the hills to the north
made the lateral supply highway
between the two towns a no
man’s-land.
Elsewhere in the world:
The big-four deputies met for
the second time today in Paris to
try to hammer out an agenda for
future foreign minister talks. Two
proposed programs — one from
Russia and one from the western
Big-Three*—are before the depu
ties.
Nothing has been said about the
hot and cold wars in the Far East.
The West German Republic got
formal permission today to set up
a foreign ministry—the first since
the fall of the nazis — with the
publication of a new occupation
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News of the World
At A Glance —
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Wednesday, March 7, 1951
PARIS—Big'Fetcr deputies went
into third meeting in an atmo
sphere of increasing; gloom over
their failure to ngrea on how fu
ture 4-pcfwer . peace: talks should
be discussed. Former Premier
Henri Queuillev was asked to try
to form a new French cabinet to
end the government crisis over
election law reforms.
ROME—Premier Alcide de Oas
peri won an overwhelming vote
of confidence as Parliament passed
a billion-dollar defense bill. The
whole pro-Communist leftist bloc
stormed out of the bitter debate,
boycotting the voting.