MARILYN MONROE
FIRED FROM MOVIE
SOMETHING S GOT TO GIVI
HOLLYWOOD UPl — Marilyr
Monroe was out of work Saturday
—fired by the same studio thal
made her a star.
The sacking, which caught al
most no one by surprise, came Fri
day only hours after Marilyn no
tified 20th Century-Fox that she
was “ready and eager to return
to work.”
But the studio wasn’t impressed
and called in Lee Bemick to take
over.
In another development, the stu
dio announced it had begun legal
action against Marilyn to recover
$500,000 allegedly lost as a result
of the star’s absentee record in
cluded five performance days in
seven weeks of shooting for the
movie “Something’s Got to Give.”
The picture now is 32 days behind
schedule and more than $2 mil
lion in debt because of Marilyn’s
no-show.
“It’s sad,” said one front-office
executive. “But no studio these
days can afford to have Liz Tay
lor and Marilyn Monroe working
at the same time —especially a
studio that lost $25 million last
year.” .
Miss Taylor’s absences from the
set have helped run the cost of
“Cleopatra” to $30 million — the
all-time high in movie costs.
Set King Salmon Net
Mrs. and Mrs. Tommy Johnson
have set out their king salmon
net at Cape Nome, but have had
no luck as yet. Last year this
time they had caught several, one
weighing over 40 pounds.
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Dream and Dreamers, Even Failure,
Aided In Development of Alaska
By Pvt. James Barner
Man has always had a dream.
Maybe he dreamed of finding a
way to grow crops so he wouldn’t
be dependent on his hunting for
food; or he dreamed of finding a
sea route to the Indies, just as
now the possibility of putting a
man on the moon intrigues us.
Many men have had the courage
to follow their dreams, even to
failure. And sometimes it happens
man finds a measure of success
even in his failure.
The grandaddy of the ACS, the
Alaska Communications System,
was such a dream . . . and such
a failure.
Half a century before the birth
of WAMCATS, the Washington
Alaska Military Cable and Tele
graph System, men in America
dreamed of a communication line
northward, through Canada,
through Russian-America (Alaska),
across the Bering Sea, Siberia and
on through Europe even to China.
They had visions of a great system
tying together the Old World and
the New.
Was a Failure
The first trans-Atlantic cable,
completed in 1858, had been a
failure. Little more than the 90
word message sent from Queen
Victoria to President Buchanan was
transmitted over it. Failures of the
Great Eastern to lay a new cable
in 1865 further discouraged the
United States.
The Western Union Telegraph
Co. completed a telegraph line
from San Francisco to Portland,
Ore., in 1864. With this first suc
cess behind them, Western Union
dreamed its dream. If would build
a teiegraph circuit 5round the
world, 850 miles across British
Columbia. 1,800 miles across the
unexplored wilderness of Alaska,
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40 miles under the Bering Sea,
and 2,450 miles across Siberia
where the line would go on to
Moscow and the world.
Col. Charles Bulkley of the tl.S.
Army engineers was chosen to
lead the adventure. During the
Civil War he had been in charge of
the military telegraph in the south
west and had strung wires through
hostile Indian country.
Explore Regions
The expedition would have to
do more than build a telegraph
line. It would have to explore the
very regions it was to build across
. . . vast unmarked white blanks
on the map.
Russia agreed to build 7,000 miles
of line across Siberia and Russia.
Canadian and American govern
ments voted $500,000 for their share
of the project. President Lincoln
instructed the US. Navy to lend
sloops and cutters for exploration
of the inland passage.
Slowly the party pushed on. A
150-foot right-of-way was hewn out
of the forests of British Columbia
by the Western Union crews. Poles
were erected, lines strung and
routes surveyed. Herds of cattle
were driven along the line and
slaughtered at camps and tele
graph stations for fresh meat.
Huge, awkward two-wheeled carts
carried supplies. The line moved
steadily on.
A trans-Atlantic cable was suc
cessfully laid in 1866. Work stop
ped on the Russo-American tele
graph project. Indians used the
abandoned wire to make suspension
bridges and fishing nets. Glass in
sulators became drinking cups.
But the dream, unsuccessful as
it appeared, did have value to
Alaska.
"Telegraph Trail"
The trail pointed the way over
land across America to Asia. The
right-of-way carved through British
Columbia has been known for
nearly 100 years as the “Telegraph
Trail.” Near the British Columbia
Yukon line it becomes a part of
the Alaska Highway.
Aviators have used the “Tele
graph Trail” as a route to guide
them to Alaska. British Columbian
Indians still lead their packhorses
along trails blazed by Bulkley. The
map shows Telegraph Creek and
the Bulkley River in Canada. Alas
ka boast a lake, a glacier and a
mountain named for one of the
explorers, Robert Kennicott.
And so the dream, and dreamers,
failed. But even in failure, they
found a measure of success and
aided in the development of
Alaska.
WORLD'S FAIR VISITORS
The following residents of the
Nome area visited the Alaska ex
hibit at the Seattle World’s Fair
cm the dates shown.
June 1 — Vassa and Vasilli
Stepetin of St. Paul Island. Harrilyn
Johnson, St. Michael.
June 2 — Emily Boucher and
Joe Rychetnik of Nome.
June 6 — Gail, Jo Ann and Mrs.
Mary Stepp Croell all of Nome.
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Demos Endorse
Ted Kennedy
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. UP) —
Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, 30,
brother the President and of
the Attorney General, today holds
the endorsement of the Massachu
setts State Democratic Convention
for nomination for the U.S. Senate.
Kennedy piled up a big margin
over Edward J. McCormack, 38,
nephew of National House Speaker
John W. McCormack, and Mc
Cormack conceded when the score
reached 691 to 360 in favor of
Kennedy.
The convention endorsement in
Massachusetts is not equivalent to
nomination. The actual nominating
will be done in the party primary
in September.
McCormack came to the micro
phones, listened gratefully to the
cheers of his supporters, and said:
“I want to thank all of those
who had the courage to stand up
and be counted in my behalf . . .
[ will now take my case to the
people.”
This means that even though
McCormack lost here he will fight
Kennedy again in the September
primaries, a right he has under
Massachusetts law.
Scarcely had McCormack left
the platform than here came Ken
nedy, accompanied by his blonde
wife, Joan, to get an even more
rousing reception.
Kennedy said he was sure the
people of Massachusetts will speak
just as the convention delegates
did.
“As of tonight” Kennedy said
“we’re starting the campaign.’
They win hard, and they lose hard
up here in Massachusetts.
Even though Friday night’s vie
tory didn’t prove much — it give
Teddy first place on the ballo
plus a note that the cutiventio
endorsed him.
Charter Bypasses Nome
The NCA F27 chartered by th
Petroleum Club of Anchorage wa
unable to land here Saturday an
continued on to Kotzebue and Bar
row.
Aboard were 42 passengers in
eluding Ted Stevens, GOP candi
date for nomination to the U.S
Senate in the primary election.
MODERN BUCK ROGERS
MAKES DEBUT IN BOSTON
BOSTON — The reason hun
dreds of people gawked upward
and traffic stopped on a Charles
River bridge was — there was a
man floating in the air.
He was dressed in a sort of
science-fiction uniform and corset
with a whopping pack on his back
which let out an ear-splitting roar
from rocket steam jets.
It was a demonstration by Harold
M. Graham, 27, a test pilot for
Bell Aerosystems, of what is called
a small rocket lift device developed
by Bell for the Army,
After rising some 20 feet, he
soared lazily over a parked auto
mobile in the paved parking space
of the Museum of Science Bldg,
and then made a landing in which
he bounced about a foot high.
He wore heavy boots, an orange
brain-bucket helmet, coveralls and
knee and elbow guards. And to
protect his eardrums from the
rocket racket he wore ear plugs.
In his belt and pack were 50
pounds of hydrogen peroxide solu
tion which was turned into a steam
at 1,300-degree temperature.
Graham said the Boston flight
was the first over a paved surface.
He would rather land on soft turf.
In one of his previous flights he
said he traveled from ship to
shore while President Kennedy
watched.
It was Marcus Porcius Cato, Ro
man statesman, who remarked, ,cl
had rather men should ask why no
statue has been erected in my
honor, than why one has.”
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