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The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Air Force Loses MatadOr Rocket Over Desert

ALAMOGORDO, N. M., R TT The location of the remnants of an errant military rocket appar- ently may remain locked un- known in the high Rockies of Colorado or the Colored Desert reaches of Utah.
 Yesterday the 3912-feet-long Matador escaped remote controls operated from Holloman Air De- velopment Center. Officials said it had about an hours fuel left.
 They said they believed 1t scared northwestward over five sixths of New Mexico and prob ably landed in southwest Colo rado or southeast Utah. The re- zion is sparsely populated, land where industry is based on ranch ing, mining, logging, natural gas and oil.
 The Air Force planned to give up it's search this morning for the big missile, which has a wing span of 27.9 feet, a ceiling of more than 35,000 feet and a speed in excess of $50 miles an hour.
 Spokesmen for the Air Force said the search would be aban- doned b cause continuation would cost more than the mis- sile is worth" They said it did not carry an explosive warhead and was equipped only with in Struments.
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
By the Assoc,ared Press

The Arab bloc in the United Nations pushed ahead with plans to ask for sanctions against Is rael today as a result of Premier David Ben Gurion's refusal to withdraw Israeli troops from the Gaza and Gulf of Aqaba coast al strips without guarantees.
 United States officials said they would agree to Ben Gurion's re- quest for further talks, but would not urge any more delays in the U. N. Assembly. The As sembly was scheduled to take up the sanctions question this after noon.
 In a speech to the Israeli Knes- set ParliamenD last night, Ben Gurion said Israel would call home her last troops from the in vasion of Egypt if U. N. troops are stationed at Sharm Fl Sheikh to keep the Gulf of Aqaba open to Israel, and if it is certain Egypt will not return to com mando raiding bases in the Gaza Strip of Palestine.
 He said Israel had decided to
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22

WASHINGTON, R-Rep. Daw- son R-Utah) has accused Demo- cratic members of the Alaska Legislature of playing politics" with the appointments of Acting Gov. Waino Hendrickson.
 He warned indirectly that the Legislatures actions might hinder realization of Alaska's statehood aims.
 In a House speech yesterday, Dawson strong Statehood supporter took note of recent stories in an Alaskan newspaper Anchorage Times).
 One reported the Democratic controlled Legislatures rejection of 36 nominations submitted by Hendric6son. The other reported a proposal by Wendell Kay of Anchorage, former Alaska House speaker, to strip patronage pow CTS of the Alaska Governor ito
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Queen Officially Titles Husband as Prince Philip

LONDON, R - Queen Eliza beth II tonight officially created her husband, the Duke of Edin- burgh, British prince.
 A brief announcement in the London Gazette, the court jour- nal, said:
 ''The Queen has been pleased to declare her will and pleasure that His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh shall henceforth be known as His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edin- burgh."
 The Duke has been popularly known as Prince Philip but up until now this has not been an official title. Philip was born a Greek prince but before his mar riage to Princess Elizabeth he re- nounced the title
 Up until now Edinburgh has been No. 30 on the roll of nobility. His own son, 8-year-old Prince OndrleS, IS IlSLGQ flrSt after the Queen and then come the royal dukes - Gloucester, Windsor and Kent.
 The new move tended to dra- matize denials of rumors of a rift between the Queen and Duke.
 The action was taken by many as the Queens first step toward emuIating her great, great grand mother, Queen Victoria, in even tually proclaiming Edinburgh her official Prince Consort."
 Edinburgh returned to England yesterday from a 35,0OO-mile glo- bal tour that wound up with his wife joining him in Portugal for an official state visit.
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Dispute Over Pay of Alaska Delegation Given To Legis. Committee

JUNEAU, LR LII The task of set ting the dispute over pay of Alaska's unofficial Congressional delegation has been given a con- ference committee.
 The action was taken yesterday after the Territorial House re fused to go along with Senate amendments restricting the sal aries and expenses of the provi- sional Senators and Representa- tive.
 House Speaker Richard Greuel named three Democrats to the committee - two who disagreed with the Senate, and one favored the Senate amendments. Named were Representative Seaborn J. Buckalew of Anchorage and John von der Heydt of Nome, who op- posed the Senate version, and Ken Johnson of Anchorage, who faored it's adoption.
 The Senate named two Demo- crats and a Republican to the committee - Republican Edith Bullock of Nome and Kotzebue, who voted against the bill as a whole, and Democrats Robert Ellis of Ketchikan and Frank Peratrovich of KlaWock.
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Alaska to Assume Responsibility for Mental Health

WASHINGTON, LR - The In terior Department announced yes terday that on Feb. 25 Alaska will take over responsibility for the care of those in Alaska who are legally adjudged insane.
 Transfer of the responsibility from the Department to the Ter ritory is being made under 1856 law The law includes provisions for federal grants totaling 1212 million dollars over a ten-year period to aid Alaska in establish ing and operating a modern men, tai health program.
 The Interior Department has been responsible since 1905 for contracting for the care and treatment of Alaska's mentally i'll. Since 1910 this responsibility has been carried out through a contract with the Sanitariu1n Co.,, operator of the Morningside Hospital in Portland, Ore.
 The Department said this con- tract is being assigned to the Territory, effective Feb. 25.
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22

FAIRBANKS, R III Death has ended the stranger er-than-fiction career of a wealthy Fairbanks recluse who prowled trash piles while carrying titles to half a mil lion dollars worth of property in her shopping bag.
 Tiny, ragged Mrs. Hulda Ford died in a hospital here yesterday of an ailment which doctors at tributed mainly to malnutrition. She was 83.
 A dance hall girl in the gold rush days, Mrs. Ford was one of the few to parlay her earnings into a fortune. The Daily News Miner described her as one of Alaska's richest women - if not the richest.
 But in her declining years "her mind seemed to slip,' as the old timers put it. The old sourdoughs described her as having been vi Wacious and beautiful as a young woman of the gold camp era.
 Her death may lift. the shadow of mystery from her fortune. For years she has been collecting rents from stores and disposing of expensive properties. Specu- 1ation has been that her income would have exceeded $100,000 ir some years. Where it went Ina! been a topic of intense local in terest for many years.
 Mrs. Ford was born in Minmea- polls in 1873. She was dance hall girl in Montana before an
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Top-Drawer Gourmet at 1

PHOENIX, Ariz., R - Spinach should be no trouble now for 12-month-old Moi Hollingsworth. This is what they pumped out of the tots stomach at the County Hospital:
 Roach poison, cigaret butts, washing powder and bathing oil.
 His parents, not waiting for their gourmet sons verdict, took him to the hospital yesterday after finding him playing ''in a mess of stuff" in a top drawer Doctors said he will be all right.
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Low Bids Announced for Building of Two DEW
 Line Installations in Ter.

SEATTLE, LB - A Seattle firms bids for building two DEW line stations in southwest Alaska are $1,461 ,O29 under the total of the government estimates and $3,245,374 under the highest pair of bids.
 The bids were opened by the Alaska District Office of the Corps of Engineers here yester- day. Nine bids were submitted.
 The low bidder was Manson Osberg Co. Its bid for the install lation at Cold Bay, near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula, was $3,628,890. Its bid for similar job at Cape Sarichef, about 100 miles to the west on Unimak Island, was $3,717,S34.
 The firm also said it would knock off $1O0,0OO if it receives both bids.
 The projects are the first two of six planned. in an extension of the defense warning system to the Aleutiams.
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Chemical Tank Explodes At Texas Paper Company


 HOUSTON, Tex, uR LII The ex- plosion of tank containing 125,- 900 gallons of caustic soda rocked the Champion Paper and Fibre Go. plant at nearby Pasadena, Tex, today, injuring at least five persons.
 The tank was located outside the causticizing unit at the plant, on the Houston Ship Canal. Cause of the explosion was not imediately determined.
 Pasadena is an industrial com munity about 8 or 10 miles di- rectly east from downtown Hous- ton.
The Nome nugget., 1957-02-22
Mrs. Ford Dies of Malnutrition In Fairbanks at B, After Varied Life, Leading from Dance Halls to Seclusion

swering the alluring call of the north. She went to Nome with the stampeders of 1900. She was dance hall girl there and pur- chased hotel She named it the Sheldon, presumably after Shel- don Ford, whom she had married at Spokane, Wash, at the turn of the century. They later were divorced in Nome.
 With a poke full of gold, she came to Fairbanks in 1906 after the Nome rush petered out. She went into business in this new born settlement with am early day general store, then bought prop erty and buildings in the grow ing town through the years. They skyrocketed in value during the boom that started here with World War II.
 A banker here estimated her property at close to the half mil lion mark. She always kept with her the shopping bag in which she, carried the titles .- amd in which she also carried such scav- enger items as old string and bottles.
 A sister and a niece in Seattle are believed to be her only heirs In the past decade, Mrs. Ford has refused to pay income taxes. Internal revenue agents grew weary of arguing with her and simply bided their time. They are expected to file liens against her holdings.
 Legends of an ill-fated love af- fair long have circulated among Alaskans, but old-timers insist she never was interested in any man after divorcing her husband.
 She was wary and suspicious of all men in her later years but she was known to have given as much as S25,OOO worth of prop erty to persons that won her trust
 Mrs. Ford had suffered from stomach abcess in recent days Friends had tried to make her go to the hospital. She refused stub bornly.
 Tuesday she was found lying helpless in a room in an old hotel building. She was rushed to hospital but her condition was beyond hope. Physicians asked her if she didn't want to make out a will. She shook her head feebly and replied mo-"
 That was Hu1da Ford's last word.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29
News and Opinion

Under the guise of news
casting" some television an
nouncers are injecting too
much personal opinion into
their news reports, and the
result may we'll be a general
public distruSt of TV as a
dependable news medium.
Newspapers-and radio. too
Learned long ago that
straight news and personal
opinion must be substantially
kept separate. The news COL
umns. for the most part, are
left for the reporting of news.
The editorial pages carry the
opinion. Thus the reading
public does not confuse the
two. Editorials are set in a
different style from the
news columns and the per-
sonal columns of the analysts
are given different typo
graphic treatment, so that the
reader knows he is getting
opinion, not straight news.
Not so on most TV news
casts. The viewer often can
not tell whether he is getting
personal views or straight
news.
Bruce Harrison,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29
Ethel S. Bowie.

1t may come as something
OF a shock to young people
to learn that the folk songs
OF Stephen Foster are being
censored by the major net
works in this country, both
TV and radio. Being old
enough to recall the original
words as they were SUNG
when l was growing up. I
have known about this for
several years. Such censor
ship takes away the real
meaning of such songs as
Old Black Joe, Suwannee
River. My Old Kentucky
Home, etc. as we'll as more
recent songs in the so-called
popular music class which
lnclud e Mississippi Mud.
Basin Street Blues, and
others.
Since the censorship goes
TO this extent, why not
censor the folk songs sung
by Berl Ives such as Bluetail
Fly. The f1y's offspring might
resent this reference to color.
as actually the fly's tail might
have been green, white.
black, or even yellow.
DiSgruntled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29
Leadership

/ have been a citizen of
the District of Columbia for
more than 40 years. l have
been associated with, worked
with and grown to love and
respect many colored friends.
A number l have seen lead
exemplary lives of piety and
devotion far beyond the con-
ception of the ordinary hu-
man intellect.
1t is sad indeed, to me. TO
see a race that could so
easily be guided in the right
direction. being forced to &C
cept dubious leadership.
God grant that soon some
with a true interest in the
welfare of these souls will be
given the foresight to guide
them toward lives OF self
respect. respect for others,
Sobriety, morality and trust
in God, instead of faith in
people just using them as an
instrument and claiming to
be advancing them"
Ethel S. Bowie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29
HeIIs Canyon Aqoin

The last word has not yet been
spoken about Hells Canyon, but there is
hope that we have seen the last really
threatening effort to obStruct produc-
ton of power in the immediate vicinity
of the controversial Oregon-Idaho site.
BY 1914 vote Scrapping bill author
izing Federal development of the project,
the House Interior Committee appar-
emily has killed any prospect of congress
Sional approval this year for a public
power program along that part of the
Snake River. BY September, 1858, the
Idaho Power Company has promised in
itial production of electrical energy from
two dams it already has we'll under con-
Struction along the site The company
is licensed, also, to build third dam as
part of the overall program for supply
ing much-needed power to the region.
AS President Eisenhower said in a
letter to Committee Member Westland,
Washington Republican, it would be "un-
fortunate indeed, particularly at this
stage of the development, if the Con-
greSS should negate the license Cover
ing all three damS) and authorize the
alternate development of a federally
financed project. Both time and cost
factors were cited effectively by the
President in explaining his position.
The private development, he pointed
out, will not only quickly provide much
needed power at no Federal cost" but
will also produce substantial Federal,
State and local tax revenues. BY con-
traSt, shift now to Federal develop
ment-which Congress repeatedly has
failed to authOrize-"could not possibly
help to meet prospective increased power
requirements for at least five or six
years and would cost the taxpayers an
estimated 5000 million.
Basically an theological controversy
between public and private power devel-
opment advocates, the HellS Canyon dis
pute in recent months has become. more
than anything else, political battle
AS such, it is not over and probably will
remain an issue at least through the
1858 elections. Meanwhile, it would be
costly and harmful action to force
abandonment of the Idaho company's
project The House committee has voted
wisely and it would be we'll if this we're
the real end of the matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29
CostiIIo's Leuocy

The assassination of President Car
los Castillo Armas has robbed Guatemala
and our inter-American community of
valiant champion of freedom. 1t was
only three years ago that he saved his
country from the very real threat of be-
Ing brought under the domination of a
full-f1edged Communist tyranny. There
after, living up to the bright promise
implicit in his victory, he proceeded, step
by step, to construct genuinely demo-
cratic government guaranteeing civil
liberties and dedicated to the task of
promoting general prosperity.
So it is great tragedy that this
good and able young leader has been
cut down, at the age of AZ, before having
had a chance to carry out all his inSpir-
ing plans for the building of such
democracy The very violence of his
passing suggests the possibility that
Guatemala may now have to cope with
troubled period of uncertainty or in
stability, a state of affairs in which
extremists may try to stage comeback.
The fact that the assassin appears to
have been a Communist, as we'll as a
mailman, certainly tends to feed the fear
that the Reds, though small in number,
may attempt to stir up unrest and strife
of type that could be serious. Despite
this, however, most signs indicate that
grieving Guatemala will hold fast to the
freedom promoting legacy left by Presi-
dent Castillo
At any rate, the temporary new
President, Luis Arturo Gonzalez, has
given voice to firm assurances on that
score. He will carry on in Office at least
until the special national election Sched-
uled to be held four months from now,
and he will carry on as man known
to be strong anti-CommuniSt devoted
to the democratic process. Moreover,
he apparently will be able to count on
the army's full support. This should
insure that the good work done by Carlos
Castillo ArmaS will not be undone by the
subversives who may still be plotting in
Guatemala.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29
Civil Rights History

Since the civil rights bill
now holding the attention of
Congress and the Nation
hanks back to the old law
passed over President john
sons veto in 1866, and pro-
poses to revitalize that dead
implement, it is worthwhile
to note this comment by
Woodrow Wilson in Division
and Reunion:
In March, Congress sent
to the President a civil
rights bill pronouncing pen
alties against all interior
ences with civil rights of any
class of citizens. and giving
to the United States the right
to prosecute. and to Federal
courts alone the right to try
all such offenses. The Presi-
dent vetoed the bill as both
unwise and in excess of the
constitutional power of Con
gress."
We know, of course. that it
was passed over that veto by
a rugged Congress. We know.
too. that it was followed by
even more drastic legislation:
one law reached even into
the cemeteries and tried to
unrebelize the dead. We know
how these same unrepreSent-
alive representatives sought
to wreak their Astounding
vengeance upon the author
of these vetoes by impeach-
ment.
If we skip the 10 years Of
that period during which
these laws presumably OPP
Grated. we come to the day
when they were declared I'M
constitutional by 70 less a
parsonage than Justice Brad
ley of the Supreme Court. a
man who had changed his
mind: for he had been howl
ing with the pack of radicals
when the laws we're passed.
Thus the brave and clear
eyed position of Andrew
johnson was indicated. Is
Mr. Eisenhower courageous
enough to profit by the wis
dom OF MessrS. johnson and
Bradley?
Ann J. Duval.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29

The Supreme Court has
not yet ruled that a man
can be compelled to join a
labor union which enforces
theological conformity in
contravention Of the First or
Fifth Amendment: in Looper
V. Georgia Southern Railway
Co. the Supreme Court Of
Georgia ruled that a number
of railway workers need only
to prove the political use Of
union funds to sustain their
right to nonunionized EN-
ployment.
When this case arrives IN
Chief Justice Warren's court
he must decide whether Fed
eral law requires that a rail-
road worker Join a union
even If that union is engaged
in political and other activi-
ties not related to collective
bargaining. Imagine the re-
action OF Justices Warren,
Brennan, Douglas ct al when
they are faced with these
words of the Georgia court
I'VE do not believe one car
constitutionally be compelled
to contribute money to sup.
port ideas. politics and candi-
dates which he opposes. We
believe his right TO immunity
from such exactions Is su.
perior to any claim the unior
can make upon him"
1t will be interesting TO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-29
Don't Worry About Desks

A young career diplomat named Guy
Virgins is worried about the future of
desks in the State Department. Writing
In the current issue of the Foreign Serv-
ice Journal. he notes with alarm that
all too many New York executives (big
wheels in the Madison Avenue set) are
getting rid of these time-tried bits of
furniture in an effort to increase eff
cheney and think more clearly. This
troubles him. It makes him fear that
such goingS-on may persuade Mr., Dulles
or some succeeding Secretary of State
to try the same sort of experiment at
all levels of the departments operations,
high and low.
But let Mr.. Virgins rest easy He
has no reason to worry, and we feel
pretty sure that we know what we're
talking about We say this because we
have lived through the experience of
watching one of our own men, right
here in our own establishment, under
take to do, as far back as a decade ago,
exactly what those high-preSSure char
acters in New York are trying to do to-
day. This fellow just got suddenly fed
up with all the accumulated clutter-old
letters news clippings, magazines, en-
baSSy publications, governmental docu-
mentS, and so on and so forth-on the
big top of his big desk. A nervous and
impulSive type, he there and then de-
cided to become deSkleSS, and deSklesS
he became, with nothing to work on but
a very small library table. This table,
he reasoned. was so tiny that things
couldn't possibly pile up on it. Instead,
he would daily be forced to file away. or
throw away, every bit of the stuff that
people sent to him (Some of it quite good
and valuable) And when he had come
to this conclusion with much enthusiasm
at the time. he said both to himself and
to everybody around him that hence
forth, as sure as day follows night. he
could be counted upon to live a more
orderly life. life full of efficient action
and clearer thought
Actually. however what really hap
pened? Well, to make a long story
short, this admirable citizen-after hav-
ing tried doggedly for nigh on to half
decade to get along with his little library
table-found the accumulation still ac-
cumulating to such an extent that he
had no room on the top of that table
for either his forearmS or hands. So he
threw in the sponge, desperately appeal
Ing to our establishment to return his
big desk to him. as was promptly done,
some years later. much to his pleasure.
He is happy now, more or less, but he
feels that his sad and almost soaring
experience should be lesson to every
body including especially those fellows
up in New York, who are now making