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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 8
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1963
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Harry Truman
Undergoes Operation
KANSAS CITY, Mo. UP) — For
mer President Harry Truman un
derwent surgery for a hernia today.
A spokesman for Research Hos
pital described the surgery as “a
routine operation for hernia repair.”
The rupture was reported on the
right side of the abdomen.
The hospital said there were
no complications in connection
with the operation and that the
former President was in satisfac
tory condition.
Although there were no previous
reports about the former President
having a hernia, physicians said
they had known about it.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with frequent rain or
rain with snow mixed. Little
change in temperature. In the last
24 hours: High of 42, low of 36.
Max. wind 48 mph from the ENE.
Sunrise at 9:26 a.m., sunset at 2:59
p.m. Temps, a year ago today:
High of 22, low of 14.
Alaska Airlines Reports
Net Profit of $369,418
SEATTLE UP) — Alaska Airlines
reported a net profit of $369,418
for the quarter ending Dec. 31,
2, as compared with a loss of
"537,420 for the same period in
951, Charles Willis Jr., president
nd general manager, announced
Wednesday.
Preliminary figures indicate a
'mall net profit of about $30,000
for 1962, he said. Sales for the
vear reached an all-time high of
511,700,000 as the result of record
passenger and cargo traffic.
Space Capsfile Heads North
SEATTLE UP) — A model of the
John Glenn space capsule left here
for Alaska last night on the Alaska
Steamship Co. freighter Catalina.
The 23-foot-long capsule is due
in Juneau Monday.
The copsule will remain in Alas
ka about a month for display
throughout the state under sponsor
ship of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
Personal Income Shows
A Big Jump In 1962
WASHINGTON-Personal
income—boosted by a big jump
in wages and salaries, reached a
peak of $440.5 billion in 1962, the
government reported today.
The record total exceeded 1961
income by $24 billion.
But it fell about $7.5 billion short
of Kennedy administration fore
casts a year ago.
The Commerce Department said
that with individual income and
other personal taxes up $5 billion,
receipts available for spending and
saving increased 5 per cent to
$383 billion. And this, it said, was
almost entirely a genuine pocket
book increase as consumer prices
rose about 1 per cent.
Wages and salaries jumped $17
billion, or 6 per cent over 1961, to
$295.8 billion. Manufacturing pay
rolls advanced $6 billion to $93.6
billion.
The department attributed most
of the increase to recovery from
the 1960-61 recession.
Willie Hoogendorn Gets A Boy Scout Send-Off
ANCHORAGE — For genera
tions, the tales of Indians dancing
for rain, snow, and war have been
chronicled and read. But, in Pro
vidence Hospital, an Indian danced
for an Eskimo.
Joe Marino, a Hopi Indian from
Arizona, danced the Eagle Dance j
for 15-year-old William Hoogen
dorn of Nome. Willie has been in
Providence for two months, as a
result of a bullet found in the
spine suffered while on a hunting
trip in the Nome area.
Next week, Willie will be flown
to Seattle and then taken to Val
lejo Rehabilitation Center in Cali
fornia. The Hopi dance was part of
a good luck ceremony conducted
for the boy by the Anchorage
Chaper of the Order of the Arrow
cf the Boy Scouts.
In Nome, Willie had been jun
ior assistant of Boy Scout Troop *16
and had been elected to the Order
of Arrow by his troop.
When the Order of the Arrow
in Anchorage heard that “brother”
from Nome was to take a long
journey, the members decided that
a good-luck send-off would be ap
propriate.
Willie was a bit confused when
Sister Philias, the nurse on his
floor, told him he was to be taken
to the lobby of the hospital.
Sister Philias wheeled the boy
in front of the fireplace and the
drum began its beat. Joe Marino,
a sergeant at Elmendorf Air Force
Base and lodge adviser for the
Anchorage Order of the Arrow,
began the traditional dance in full
Hopi dress.
After the dance, Laurell Peter
son, John Weeks, Neil Snyder III,
Ron Fradenburg presented the boy
with a hand-carved neckerchief
slide and a good-luck porcupine
foot.
It will be a long journey to
Vallejo, Calif., for a young Alaska
boy, and perhaps the visit will also
be long, but the good luck cere
mony and charm will not be for
gotten . . . nor will be the day
an Indian danced for an Eskimo.
Jaycees Present Informational
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Program On Water and Sewage
Last evening the Jaycees of
Nome sponsored a well organized
informational program on the
bonding issue that comes before
the people next Tuesday with the
Mayor of Nome, Don Hoover, the
Nome City Council and Mr. John
Nichols of the Housing and Home
Finance Agency assisting.
Members of the Jaycees on the
panel were George Bell, Pete Hahn,
Jim Bradley and Ron Engstrom.
The program opened with a film
on city sanitation and a projected
map of the city showing where the
first part of the sanitation system
will be located as well as the
source of water and sewage treat
ment plant.
The following are some of the
most important questions asked and
answered by Don Hoover, Carl Gla
vinovich and Mr. Nichols.
After the system is laid what is
the cost to the home owner to get
it to his home?
Exact figures are not available
but according to the original sur
very in 1957 an estimated $25 a
foot was made.
Is the system in a heated duct?
The system is a closed system
with circulating water at all times
under pressure with a velocity
which will keep it from freezing
and circulates right into the pip<
entering the homes.
The sewage is a gravity flo\
running into a main which is in
sulated and creates its own he£
and has been proven successful i
other Alaskan communities. Botl
water and sewage pipes are sus
pended in an utilidor which is ap
j proximately 3x5 feet.
| What happens if the pump
! breaks down at source of water?
Communists Jeer
Chinese Delegate
At Congress Meet
BERLIN Ut) — Jeering, shouting
Communists halted a speech by
Red Chinese delegate Wu Hsiu
chuan at the East German Party
Congress today after Wu made a
veiled attack on Soviet Premier
Khrushchev’s coexistence policies.
Wu was shouted down after 30
minutes.
Khrushchev was not present to
hear Wu assail “revisionists of the
Tito clique”—the Chinese Com
munist way of criticizing Soviet
leadership.
Throughout the speech the 2,500
delegates and guests from 70 Com
munist parties stamped their feet,
shouted and whistled to show their
disapproval.
This performance clearly under
lined the control Khrushchev has
exerted over the European Com
munist parties in support of his
line that Communism must b<
spread by means of all-out war.
Khrushchev also generated a po
litical storm in the Western hal:
of the divided citv with his invi
tation to Mayor Willy Brandt o:
West Berlin to visit him in Eas
Berlin.
Brandt turned down the invita
tion “with great regret” undei
pressure from the Christian Demo
crats, junior partners with hi
socialists in the coalition govern
ment of West Berlin.
The Christian Democrats argue<
that such a visit would len<
weight to the Communist proposa
for a free city of West Berlin
an idea rejected by the West.
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There will be auxiliary service,
also a 30,000 gallon reserve tank
is in the system in case of break
down which will be located near
the City Hall.
Will the outfall contaminate the
sea life or be injurious?
No, the treatment plant will
make the outfall non-injurious to
humans or animal life.
What about the fire system?
The fire system included is an
improvement over the present one
as it covers more area and will in
clude 15 additional hydrants.
What are plans for expansion?
No district is scheduled in a set
order, but will be extended as
the number of users develop
each area.
Will water be treatd?
Yes, chlorinated at source.
Will installation of system
feet the school budget?
No, as it is paid for by revenue
bonds and does not touch tax
monies.
Any provision for softening of
the water?
No, all money allowed for the
project has gone into giving as
much coverage as possible in the
community, rather than to such
i things as softeners, but the matter
will be looked into to see what it
might cost.
II approved, when does work
start?
If approved, the project should
be completed by January, 1964.
Whaf about local hire for the
work?
These grant monies, under ac
celerated public works, are given
to improve communities and
special attention is given to hire
local people as long as they qualify
for the job.
attention is given to hire local
people as long as they qualify for
the job.
Doctors’ Quarters At
Barrow Hospital Burn
ANCHORAGE UR — Fire be
lieved started by a heating coil
attached to a water line caused
extensive damage to the doctors’
quarters of the Alaska Native
Health Service Hospital at Barrow
Wednesday.
Dr. Kazumi Kasuga, area medi
cal doctor in charge of the ANHS
hospitals, said Thursday the seven
occupants of the wooden frame
building all escaped injury.
Kasuga said there was some fire
damage and extensive smoke and
water damage to the building and
its contents.
The duplex building housed the
families of Dr. Richard Light, medi-'
cal officer in charge at the Barrow
hospital, and Dr. Nelson Wolf, the
dentist.
$1,820,000 for Construction
WASHINGTON UR — The Air
‘ Force released $1,820,000 today for
construction of an operations
building at Elpnendorf Air Force
Base, and told Army Engineers to
get going on it.
Authority to proceed was given
: to the Anchorage District Engi
neers, the Air Force advised Alaska
■ members of Congress.
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NOTICE
Philleo Nash, Commissioner of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Washington, D.C., will arrive in
Nome Monday morning on a trip
through Alaska and has been in
vited to attend the noon meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce.
Frank Couch, Pres.