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The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
u of A Now Has
Recordings By
Pioneer Alaskans

COLLEGE, Alaska = Today or
500 years from now the Alaskan
pioneers of the 1905 and early
1900's will divulge in their own
voices the territorys rich and
colorful past for history research
ers at the University of Alaska
library.
This was made possible this
month by the Midnight Sun
Broadcasting Company's gift of a
large collection of recorded inter-
views with the old-timerS. Their
ranks have thinned even more
since Alvin O. Bramstedt, general
manager of the company, started
the series in 1916. Bramstedt pre-
scented the collection to Dr. Ernest
N. Patty, university president,
and Librarian, John Mehler,
81 started the series because |
believed the considerable avail
able material should be collected
while it still was possible to do
So" Bramstedt explained. 81
knew radio audiences would be
interested in hearing the pioneers
relate from their own lips their
background and experiences. l
also felt that these first hand
accounts should be made avail
able to posterity. When | began
the records in 1916 l planned to
give them to the University of AL
aska so they will be available to
researchers On Alaska history"
Among the recordings is the one
of Rev. FIR. Bellarmine La For
tune, his deathbed account of his
missionary life among the natives
dating from his arrival in Alaska
in 1908. The Jesuit was best
known for his work in the vicinity
of King Island and the Diomedes.
The recording was made in l947
while the 78-year-old priest lay
on his deathbed in ST. Joseph's
Hospital in Fairbanks.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
President Confident
Fair Pay Program Will
Pass A COP Congress-

WASHINGTON, Up : President
Eisenhower said today he is con-
fident a fair pay program for fed
eral employees "can and will be
enacted in the next Congress" if
Republicans retain control.
Eisenhower made the comment
in letter to Republican Reps.
Joel T. Broyhill of Virginia and
Dewitt S. Hyde and Frank Small
Jr., of Maryland.
All three congressman repre-
sent districts bordering Washing
ton with large numbers of fed
eral employees. They are under
fire from Democrats because the
President vetoed a bill passed by
Congress earlier this year giving
a pay raise to most federal work
erS.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
Four Inherit 100000
Apiece But Must Wait
Until They Are SO

LONDON, R - Four adult
grandchildren of the late million
aire shipowner Sir James Card
learned yesterday they will in
herit 100000 pounds ($700,000)
apiece-when they are so years
old. The oldest is now 81.
The will of Sir James, who
was 81 when he died, specified
that his estate be divided equally
among his granddaughter and
three grandsons when they reach
the half century mark.
Mrs. Sylvia Caldwell-S Smith, the
granddaughter, will have the long
est wait. She's only "a. Her bro
theirs are Hugh, %; Edward, 80;
and James, 81.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
New Alaska Native
Cooperative Head Named

SEATTLE - John J. Lichten-
walner, a veteran of AZ years of
government service, will become
new manager of the Alaska Ma
tive Industries Cooperative Assn.
The post has been vacant since
Louis c. Peters was removed as
manager about year ago by the
Interior Department.
LichtenWalner has been head
of the supply purchasing division
since 1913. He has spent part of
his AZ years in government SER
vice in Alaska as chief clerk of
the General Services Administra-
ton purchasing department. In
1943 he became chief officer in
charge of purchasing for all AL
aSka agencies.
Mr.. and Mrs. LichtenWalner
have four children and five
grandchildren.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
BIC. Government Will
Resist Ottawa Interference
In Columbia Dam Project

VICTORIA, BIC, R-Any at
tempt by the Canadian govern
ment to interfere with plans of
the Kaiser Aluminium Co. to
build a Columbia River dam near
Castlegar,B.C., will be resisted in
the courts, British Columbia
Lands Minister Robert Sommers
said Thursday.
Sommers said the British Col
umbia government. will take the
necessary legal action ito pre-
vent infringement on our rights
The American Aluminium firm
and the BIC. government recent
ly reached a provisional agree
ment under which Kaiser would
build a IS million dollar low level
dam near Castlegar to regulate
the floW of water to power plants
south of the power. Under the
agreement, British Columbia
would receive 20 per cent of the
increase in electricity resulting
from the dams.
A news dispatch from Ottawa
last weekend indicated, however,
the government at Ottawa frowns
on the proposal and is planning
new legislation which would stop
the dam.
Sommers said if the Ottawa
government does step in, British
Columbia may build the dam it.
self with Kaiser backing.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
Life Sentence OF
Cpl. Claude Bachelor
Reduced To 20 Years

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, R-The
life sentence given Cpl. Claude
Bachelor, convicted of collaborat-
ing with the enemy in Korea, to-
day was reduced to 20 years.
The announcement was made
by 1t. Gen. l. D. White, COM
handing general of the 4th Army
A review of Bachelors court
martial has been made. The YER
dict that he was guilty of collab-
Grating with the enemy while he
was prisoner of war in Korea
was upheld. The dishonorable
discharge and forfeiture of all
pay and allowances also were up
held.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29

average weekly wage in the terri
tory.
He pointed out that the Labor
Department has recommended in
creasing benefits to go to 81 per
cent of a state or territory's aver
age weekly wage rate.
In Alaska this would bring the
benefits to $73 to- $50 a week
based on an average wage of $121
for employees covered. The pres
ent maximum is only 20 per cent
of the average weekly wage.
While Alaska's maximum dollar
payment is higher in relation to
the states it is next to the lowest
among all the states when COM
pared to the average weekly
wage, Colby said.
He cautioned the delegates to
the Territorial Federation of
Labor that it is as much the re-
sponsibility of labor to be con-
cerned with eligibility require
ments and the prevention Of
abuses as to seek benefits.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
How Now Died Browns Cow?

BOISE, Idaho, tR - Someone
shot and killed Mrs. c. R. Browns
cow with shotgun Wednesday
night. Pheasants and ducks are
the principal game being hunted
with that firearm in this area
now.
impossible" replied a Fish
and Game Dept. spokesman, when
asked if it were possible the COW
was mistaken for pheasant.
"Must have been in self-defense."
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
Mrs. Clyde Godsbe. who has
ALASKA AIRLINES

To Anchorage: Fred Kingik,
Fred Pushruk, John Luke, Marriott
Trigg, Stanley Ahkvaluk, frankie
Nunooruk, Patrick Omiak, Dean
Martin, J. P. Malone, Mr.. Kemp
ton, Herman Porter, w. E. Hixon,
Gene Raguszka, Mrs. and Mrs.
Gerald Williams, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Sherman, Sarah Mcdonald.
From Anchorage: Thomas KEEL
liner, Charles Fagerstrom.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
Dept. of Labor Official Suggests Alaska
Employed Persons Contribute Toward
Terri. Unemployment Insurance Fund

ANCHORAGE, R-A Seattle
Department of Labor official sug-
gests persons employed in Alaska
should be required to contribute
one per cent of their pay to the
the territory's unemployment in
surance fund.
Daniel L. Colby, who heads the
governments Employment Secur-
ity Department at Seattle, also
suggested in an address here yes
terday that benefit payments
from the fund should be liberal
lied.
The fund is now in such a con-
dition that under the present AL
aska law payments may have to
be curtailed, Colby said.
Some increase Tin contribu-
tons is necessary to protect its
solvency," he explained. And if
benefits are to be liberalized it
is even more important to in
crease such contributions"
Besides the one per cent en-
ploye contributions, Colby also
suggested the fund could be en-
larged by:
l. Increasing the employers
contribution rate, which is now
27 per cent on the first $4,000
paid, or:
2. Expanding the wage base so
that employers would continue to
pay 81 per cent on the $4,000,
$4,000 or even $4,000 of the wages
paid.
Colby advised repeal of terri
torial law requiring cutback in
employment compensation to $40
weekly when the territory's fund
reaches the 2 million dollar point.
He said Congress established a
200 million dollar loan fund for
states and territories whose I'M
employment insurance reserves
are nearly exhausted. Under it's
terms Alaska would be eligible
for loan, if, on January l, the
fund is below 2 million dollars.
Colby said he felt the Legisla-
ture should consider eliminating
provisions for dependency allow
ances and raise the weekly bene-
fit rate to percentage of the
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
BLAZE FROM GASLINE LEAK
KILLS KOREANS, INJURIES 80

SEOUL, R Gasoline leaking
from a us. Army pipeline was
ignited by a discarded match this
morning and the resulting flash
blaze killed seven Koreans and
injured 80, Is of them seriously,
the national police reported.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
Miss Barbara Earring. daughter

of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy B. Earling,
formerly CT Fairbanks, has COM
pleted her work with the State
Department in Paris, and has re-
turned to the States. She is teach
ing this year in the Helen Bush
School for Girls in Seattle and
greatly enjoying her new work.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
COOPERATION COMPLETES
CITY DOG SHELTER

The shelter for dogs being built
by the city, at the east end of
town, is being finished today,
stated Herb jerks, through the
cooperation of dog lovers and
material supplied by Herk Ed
wards.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
A T T E N T I o N

A T T E N T I O N
ANYONE interested in helping
with the Pioneer Roof Garden
show-either as performer. nusi-
clan. designer; costumes. lighting.
recording. ETC.. contact Jack Blat-
tier at the us. Nero.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
N O T I C E

N =
Sales Tax reports on retail sales
and services for the quarter end
ing Sept. 80. 1854. must be in the
City Clerks Office by October go.
1854.
Publ. Oct. 20, Is, 20, 1854
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-10-29
PAN AMERICAN ANYWAYS

Arriving Thursday were: Rev.
Williamson, Charles D. Jones, Mr..
Adams, Mrs. Clyde Godsbe. John
Hixson was a round trip passen-
ger.
Outgoing passengers were: Mr..
and Mrs. Walt Sipprell, Captain
Pitts, Sam AhWinona, Clarence
Trigg, Don Engstrom.
Mrs. Clyde Godsbe. who has
been visiting with her mother and
friends in the States, returned
yesterday via Pan American after
a months absence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-27

shi Shoji (Hee-ROH-shee SHAW
ee) and Nobunori Higure (Noh-
boo-NOH-ree Hee-GOO-reh)
have been arrested, according to
the newspaper Asahi (Ahs-AH-
heel. Foreign Minister Katsuo
Okasaki Kah-TSOO-oh Oh
SAH-kee) denied that high
government officials" were con-
nected with Russian spying.
s The Asahi as well as the Kyodo
(Kee-OH-doh) Japanese news
agency report that Red China
win offer Japan q non-aggres-
sion pact in order to WOO the
latter country from the United
States, while japanese interests
are looking to Red China for the
resumption Of commercial rela-
tions. The British Reuters
tROY-ters) news agency reports
from Kalimpong tKah-leem-
pong} on the Indian-Tibetan
frontier, that 100 persons were
buried when the palace Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-27

In washington the Smithsonian
Institution is exhibiting so
models of Leonardo da Winch
Ieh-oh- NARR-doh dab VEEN-
chee), the famed painter Of the
Mona Lisa" (MAW-nah LEE
zah).
CAN Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-27

Panchen (PANN-chen) Lama
a sectarian and secondary spir-
itual leader of Tibet and reputed
tool of Red China, as opposed
to Dalhi Lama tDALL-ah-yee) !,
the generally recognized head of
the Lamas-collapsed after hav-
ing been undermined by floods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-27

Japan. made
q sudden APP
p e ar ance in
Washin ct on
last W e 9 x.
where he has
been granted
political asy-
lum. AS q re-
suit of his dis
clos ures on
the Soviet spy
S y S t e m p.
j a pa n , Two
Foreign Min
/ S t r y en-
nlnvas Hirn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-27
THE BERRYs
BEETLE BAILEY
SPUR LINE
(And how 10 pronounes them.)
By Constantine chekrezi

Yuri A. Rastyoroy or Rasto-
vorov (YOU-ree Rast-VOH-
roff), former Soviet spy, who
deserted last January while in
Evening star., 1954-10-17

Here, i'm the last <AAmercan' article written by the
great dean Of spOrtswers his atime college eleven.
Aso his all-professonal backed and stories he
treasured about Rockne Thorpe and other gron
Evening star., 1954-10-17

With this background, I've often been asked
to rank my all-time oollegians and profess
sionals. Outside of house full of ghosts,
nothing could be more mythical. but III give
it a whirl.
Among the greatest backs of all time are
Ernie Nevers, Ken Strong, Steve Van
Buren,, Cliff Battles, Dutch Clark, Bill
Dudley and Norm Standlee. But three
names leap out at me: Red Grange, Bronko
Nagurski and Jim Thorpe.
2oth csasuzy's ereassss Asaaless
GRANcE was batting runner. once breaking
away for four long touchdown runs in the first
period against strong Michigan team. And
the Galloping Ghost from Illinois could also
block. tackle and handle passes exprtly.
A great many coaches, including Bernie
Bierman, name Nagurslsi as the greatest player
of all time The 228-pounder was star end
and tackle and crushing fullback who could
pass.
That brings US to Jim Thorpe. perhaps the
greatest athlete the 10th century has yet pro-
Evening star., 1954-10-17

duced and the one who got the shabbiest treat
ment.
I can still see Thorpe as Pop Warner
described Jim when he came to Carlisle from
the plains country of Oklahoma: skinny
Indian youngster of about 100 pounds, but
moving like the breeze - no strain. He grew
into 1875 pounds of muscle. blue-steel ligaments,
split-seoond reflexes and keen competitive
brain that gave him supremacy in football
and track and a high ranking in almost every
sport he tried.
As well as being cornerstone of professional
football from 1920-26, he played big-league
baseball. Name the sport. the Indian was a
complete natural. He could play tennis, was
a crack shot and whiz at billiards.
Jim was gentleman. even though there
were times when firewater got the better of
their long feud. But he always listened re-
spectfully to his college coach, Pop Warner
Just before the Carlisle Indians played Brown
on Thanksgiving of 1912. Warner gave Jim
hard riding for drink he had taken that morn
ing to celebrate the pact between the redmen
Evening star., 1954-10-17

l hese excerpts are taken from the late Grant,
land Rice's memoirs. soon 10 be published under
the title of "Ths Tnwuxh And The Shouting"
"A. S. Barnes and Company.
II WAS introduced to football on Christmas
Il day, 1888. at our home ON Vaughan Pike,
near Nashville, Tenn A football. baseball
and bat landed under the tree There was no
glove. My hands have been calloused ever
since
Those three gifts were the Pied Piper in my
march through life. Though was string bean
of six feet and l20 pounds. played sporadi-
cally in the backfield at Vanderbilt University,
succeeding only in accumulating broken arm,
four torn ribs and broken shoulder blade.
These injuries kept me from trying profes-
sional baseball and hampered my golf swing.
l have played. oficiated and covered more
than 500 football games and have a real affec-
ton for the sport. I've watched it develop
from its Neanderthal days of the flying wedge
and battering ram tactics to become game
of speed and finesse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29
7 odoy's Schedules

Stage.
ARENA-"Room Service" $3.50 pm.
CARTER BARRON AMPHITHEATER-"Ice Cycles of 1885,:
$3.50 pm. go
oLNEY-"IIeartbreak House" 24o and $40 pm
AMBASSADOR-"The Bounty Hunter" u.s. $3.50 $685. TAO
and 9:45 pm.
CAPITOL-"seven Brides for Brothers; 1:15 1925
$685. 7:45 and 9:55 pm.
345 $40 and 10: 10 pm
COLUMB1A-Valley Of the Kings; las, 3:4O $40, 7:35
and 9:35 pm.
DUPONT-"The Vanishing Prairie: 1:10 ESQ., 435 6l5
and $40 pm.
KE1TH's The Game Mutny"; 1245 $685. 5:2o TAO and
9:55
LrIIE-One Summer of Happiness; lbs. $685. 4:45 80
8:10 and 9:55 pm
RTHURTurn the Key Softly; 24O AGO. 6:15 sos
and 9:55 pm.
METROPOLTTAN-"The Bounty Hunter; 1:l5 2:5o 4:25
6:15 and 9:45 pm.
oNTARIo-"susan Slept Here; l. s:1o 500 1880 and
9:45 pm. : - -
PALACE Magnificent obsession"; l. 315 $685. TAO and
PLAYHOUSE-About Mrs. Leslie; lis, 800; 525 73o and
9:40 pm
PLAzA-"Rome II O'Clock; l. 2:55 1885, e:2o sos and
$50 pm.
TRANs-LUx-"Man With Million; 1:o5, 2:5o 4:4o $685.
$40 and 9:55 pm.
WARNER-"Ihis Is Cnerama"; $780, $50 and $40 PM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29
By Harry Macarthur

ceedings Of the legislators
our elected representatives.
engaged in the public business
of making laws directly af-
fecting you and me. Issues as
far reaching and as grave as
this are most certainly our
business"
This argument for televised
hearings is pretty much an ir-
REPUTABLE one. The arguments
against television are at an en-
tirely different level and take
off in another direction. DR..
Stanton disposed of them. too.
however.
There is, for instance, the
charge that the presence of
television cameras tends to
turn a hearing into a spectacle,
a circus, or a show. The Stan
ton reply: IF legislators find
it impossible to behave them
selves or measure up to their
obligations when the public is
looking in, the remedy is not
to- bar the public"
Another major argument
against TV in the hearing
room is that it is disturbing
and creates a disorderly at
mosphere. Says DR.. Stanton on
distractions: THE chances
are (the witness) has been
given q subpoena-which in
itself can be a rather disturb
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29
The Case for TV at the Hearing
Dr. Frank Stanton Points Out CHS Editorial hot Your Right
Not the Broudcosers, Is the One Being Inneed

ing experience. He must face
the crowds in the hearing
rooms, the dozens and some
times hundreds of reporters
coming in and out: he must
face the microphones of the
public address system, the
binding flash bulbs of photog-
raphers, the questions of coun-
sci and committee members,
and the knowledge that what
he says and how he looks will
be spread across the land for
millions to see."
Not Necessarily Indecorous
Spread by newspapers and
magazines, that is. DR.. STAN
ton doesn't think the addition
of a pair of TV cameras can
compound the confusion very
much, especially since they
can be unobtrusively placed at
a distance and behind screens.
For the charge that tele-
vision detracts from decorum
and dignity, he had an answer.
too. He simply pointed out that
the British coronation and
many religious ceremonies in
side churches had been tele-
vised without disturbing the
solemnity of the occasion"
1t is hardly likely that DR..
Stanton changed the minds of
his f1rmest opponents in this
matter, but he has stated tele-
visions case most emphatically.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29

we said, "of the endless aston
ishment of everybody that a
thing like this could happen in
a sort of here, of all places
attitude"
- "Of course we would" he
said. eff we were not even more
surprised ourselves"
He's Too Busy
Mr.. Patterson, a small,
smiling, intense man in his
mid-30s could be Stratford's
hero if he were not otherwise
constituted and much too busy.
He is the man who took the
festival idea and made it work
through sheer ignorance, as he
is the first to admit, that such
a thing could not work.
Artistically, he is a kind of
throwback-to his father at
the same age. The father years
ago was an employe of the
Canadian National railway.
When a strike cut Off his job,
he decided he was not going
through that again. So he
opened a book store. He him
self, had no particular en-
thusiasm for reading, but he
made the family read the
books, tell him the stories and
whether or not it liked them.
On the basis of these reports,
he was an eloquent book sales
man and a success until he
decided to make more money
by manufacturing brass prod
ucts. The bookstore still bears
the Patterson name, now more
valuable than ever in the
Canadian arts, although not
to the Pattersons.
AS he buzzes beamingly
around the 1000 seat amphi-
theater. rooted and walled with
canvas, and 81 per cent filled
through nine weeks of Shake
speare and Sophocles, Tom
Patterson would be dazzled by
what has happened if he only
had the time.
Like his father and the
books, he had no special inter-
est in the drama. What he
had instead was a restless feel
ing that he would like to stop
being a half-hearted publish
er'S aide and get his home
town off the ground.
He was by no means alone
in the feeling that its being
named Stratford, and located
on q river named Avon, might
not relate the place to a play
wright named Shakespeare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29

last years success to repeat
the formula. Both foresaw the
perils of a Guinness festival"
It is an old story now on On
tario street, Stratford's main
stem, in Market Square and
in the Players Club which Mr..
Baker operates as a lively fes-
tival adjunct, that DR.. Guth-
rie'S arrival did not solve all
problems.
Now, sitting snugly behind
that fat bank account, every
one recalls that the first sea-
son almost never started for
a sudden shortage of funds.
On the very verge of reality,
the dream was threatened with
collapse. A chill wind of skep-
ticism blew into Stratford.
What arrogance, what foolish
pride had fathered this notion
of Transforming a city that had
enjoyed a small but solid and
respectable way of life for more
than 40 years?
But for once" says Mr..
Patterson glancing back with
a smile. pride took a proud
turn. Stratford people who had
been a1oof suddenly decided
that their city was not going
to suffer the humiliation of
failure in so widely publicized
a project. They dug down into
their pockets and bank &C
counts for the thousands of
dollars needed"
This worked wonders for
Stratford's self-respect, and
for the respect of others, in
GLIDING the Rockefeller Foun-
dation which advanced $40, 900
for the festivals second season.
But it did more. It made
the festival a community prof.
ect, one evidence of which is
that the city's best homes
400 of them-were open every
night this summer to house
1000 festival visitors on de-
mand. This, in a city with no.
tel accommodations for less
than 200 wayfarers, or one
tenth the capacity of the
Stratford festival amphithe-
alter.
Neither the visitor nor the
native of Stratford could be
more dazzled than he is by the
aura of success the festival has
achieved.
Nor could either be more
pleased. =
This is because nothing could
be more right than that Can
ada should have its own ma