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The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Lucky lrishman Wakes Up As
 Last Rites Being Administered

LOUIVILLE, Ky, R - Edward Mcdonald woke up on the operat- ing table at Saints Mary & Eliza beth Hospital. A Catholic priest was administerir last rites.
 ''I thought it was all over," Me Donald said.
 But Mcdonald had the luck of the Irish with him, or, as he puts it, maybe St Patrick was watching over him.
 Mcdonald was shot through the heart O St. Patrick's Day. The wound cloSed behind the bullet. The 31-year-old Irishman is look ing forward to having the lead removed from his back today.
 Surgeons said heart wounds do not always prove fatal and that, in this case, the bullet hit no other vital organs or blood vessels. But they added that chance played large part in McDonald's sur vival
 Tn that brief interval of con- sciousness that might have been
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Statehood Would Cost Alaskans Extra $2,l50,OO0 A Year, Says Rivers

in view of Alaska's inclusion for the first time last year in the Federal Highway Aid Act.
 If removed. from the bill, Riv- CTS said, Alaska would receive only about $13,141,0O0 year from the highway aid program but would be allowed to use as much of that as it required for maintenance and thereby be "un- der less financial strain"
 Other Programs Assumed
 For other programs which would be assumed by Alaska as a state, Rivers estimated:
 State court system, $1,100,O0O of which $50O,00O would be offset by fines and forfeitures
 State land office $75,OOO, offset by revenue from state domain.
 Access road construction and maintenance, $1OO,O0O, offset by otherwise unused gas tax rev. enues.
 Courthouses, jails and offices, $20O,0O0 including servicing of a $4,000,000 bond issue to meet ini- tial building needs outside Ju- neau.
 Legislature, $15O,0O0 alb owe present expense contemplating a 60-member bicameral legislature with annual sessions
 Governor and Secretary of State, $100,000 for salaries and mainten- ance of governors house.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25

his last, Mcdonald thought of his family. He wasn't worried about the Hereafter.
 q had Communion that morn- ing and I had just been given the last rites. I just worried about my family. We have two sons and my wife is expecting"
 Mcdonald entered an inn with a group of friends. They had "a 's5uos Qs!II Sues pug ..sI97q M7J
 Several hours later, the group began levaing. Mcdonald said he heard loud voices inside the tav- ern. He returned and said the bartender, William B. Collier, had a gun pointed at McDonald's cous- in and was threatening to shoot him.
 II told the bartender not to shoot him." Mcdonald said yes terday, land he turned and shot me. I hit the floor, then pulled myself up. They put me in a car and I blacked out. I came to on the operating table"
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Eisenhower and MacMillan Wind Up Meeting With Secret Policy Directives

of causing genetic damage as a result of radioactive fallout.
 Eisenhower also pledged U. s. cooperation with the military com mittee of the Baghdad Pact. This pleased the five members of that defensive alliance against possible Communist aggression - Britain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan. But it stirred up resentment among Arab states opposing the pact ally ing one Arab country, Iraq, with governments outside the Arab League.
 Eisenhower and MacMillan also promised to support U. N. Secre- tary Dag Hammarskjold's quest for a settlement of the disputes with Egypt over the Gaza Strip, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Suez Canal.
 Macmillan told news confer ence the talks had been a great success" because "we've reached a number of conclusions on some large issues. We've ticied up lot of points, and we've set in motion methods of better cooperation on
 questions still unresolved."
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
House Approves Alaska's S First Bonding Program

JUNEAU, LR - The House has approved Alaska's first bonding program under authority granted by Congress last year.
 Late Saturday, the House passed four bills which would authorize 30-year general obli- gation bonds to finance four big building projects. The total amount involved is $4,7OO,OOO.
 The projects include construc- tion at the University of Alaska, National Guard armories at 10 cities, hospital improvements at Anchorage, Fairbanks and Ketchi- kan, and school building at Bethel.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Eight Persons Killed Nm Fight Over Tree

CALCUTTA, India, LR - Eight persons have been killed in a fight in the village of Mali in Jaunpur district for the possession of a very special tree
 Press reports reaching Cal cutta Saturday said the villagers were divided over ownership of a neem tree, a large East Indian plant also called the margosa. It has a bitter bark supposedly with remarkable medicinal properties.
 One group claimed it had bought the tree and started fell ing it with axes. Other villagers denied the tree ever had been sold and maintained it belonged to the village council.
 The report did not say who got the tree.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Vaudeville Gets
 Bear in One Shot

Paul Vaudeville from Boring Sea Club and Harry Pike of An chorage are proudly displaying their polar bear hides which they were able to get after 512-hour hunt out of Teller yesterday.
 Pilots for the trip were Bob Curtiss and Eldon Brandt, who have been able to track down bears for all the hunters who accom- panied them this year.
 Vaudeville, who has been an ticipating this adventure for a long time, says he got his bear after three thrilling landings and take-offs, with one shot from a .270 custom made rifle, some where in the Boring Strait above Diomede Island about 8 miles off shore in patch ice.
 Both pelts measured over eight feet, and will make beautiful trophies.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
BILL TO END HANGINGS GOES TO GOVERNOR

JUNEAU, R mn A bill which would end executions by hanging, and any other form of capital punishment in Alaska, has cleared the Territorial Legislature and now goes to the governor.
 Under the bill, approved by the Senate today on a 12 to vote, the maximum penalty for first de- gree murder in Alaska would be mandatory sentence of life in prison at hard labor.
 The bill, passed by the House month ago, provides the life sentence may be for "any period of years" - meaning a judge could impose a sentence of such a great number of years that a parole would be impossible.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
(By The Associated Press)

The worst spring blizzard in 30 years continued to rage in the Midwest today, paralyzing trans portation and crippling communi- cations in many sections of eight states.
 One major train, carrying 400 passengers, and an estimated 7,500 highway travellers were reported stranded but none were believed in danger.
 Four deaths were attributed to the storm.
 The train was the Union Pacific's City of St. Louis, westbound from St. Louis to Los Angeles. It was mired in drifts ranging up to Is feet near Winona, Kan, about 50 miles from the Colorado line. Snowplows were expected to reach it about noon today.
 Another train, the Rock Islands eastbound Golden State Limited, carrying 92 passengers, wa s reached by rescue parties early today and all aboard taken to Meade, Kan. The train had been snowbound by drifts up to 15 feet between Meade and Plains, Kan, since Sunday. Six coaches of the train were reported covered by snow
 The weather bureau at Kansas
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Severe Blizzard in Midwest Is Paralyzing Communications, Travel

City reported the storm was caus- ing high winds and heavy snows this morning in northern Missouri and southern Iowa as it moved toward Illinois and Indiana. Snow also was still falling in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Conditions had eased somewhat in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
 Forecasts for more heavy snow were in effect from northeastern Kansas and neighboring sections of Nebraska eastward into parts of lower Michigan and Indiana.
 The snow belt was fringed to the south by rain.
 Despite the immediate hard ships resulting from the three day storm, farmers welcomed the moisture In some areas it was sufficient to bring expressions of belief that the prolonged drought had been broken.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
By ARTHUR GAVSHON

FUCKERS TOWN, Bermuda, R President Eisenhower and Prime Minister MacMillan today were reported to have spelled out secret policy directives on key world issues in Europe, the Middle East and Asia aimed at pinning down the revitalized British Amer ican partnership.
 After the windup of the Big Two's four-day meeting, inform ants said a number of solid writ ten understandings lay hidden be hind the generalities of their joint 800-word communique.
 In their 11-point statement, Eisenhower and MacMillan yes terday announced the United States will supply certain guided missiles" to help hard-up Britain streamline it's defenses in the atomic age.
 They also offered to swap Him. tied observer facilities with Rus sia at future nuclear weapon tests - tests which they prom ised to restrain to lessen the risks
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Stiff Competition Likely for Sl,OOO In Dog Races

By mukluk telegraph and other information received here it be- gins to look like the Dog Race on April 14th with it's $1,OOO in prizes, will have a lot of com petition.
 Guardsmen from Sagoonga and Gambell showed much interest while here over the weekend and hoped to send team from St. Lawrence Island if accommo- dation could be had on the plane. One of the local dog team own CTS stated that two teams from Wales are working out, and an- other from Golovin.
 Teams are also interested in Unalakleet, White Mountain, Shishmaref, Shaktoolik and Teller. i Although no entries have regis tered as yet, indications are that there will be more than last year, when eight teams entered.
 Entries last year wre Edwin Punguk, Arthur Trigg, Henry Adams, Paul Tocktoo, John Ko- mok, Billy Nelson, Chester Top kok, Clifford Attatayuk.
 Last years winner, Chester Top kok from Teller, covered the route in 1 hour, 35 minutes; with the runner-up, John Komok, also from Teller, with l hour, AZ minutes.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
Mayor Will Speak
 At Chamber Tomorrow On How City Functions

A special feature of the noon luncheon of the Chamber of Con- merce tomorrow will be a short talk by Mayor Steffen Andersen, on city government.
 Just how the city functions, what the duties of it's elected off, cers are, it's most important pro- jects and the importance of it's work for the development of the community are some of the things Mayor Andersen will discuss.
The Nome nugget., 1957-03-25
By FRANK w. vAILLE

WASHINGTON, R - State hood would cost Alaskans an extra $2,15O,0Oo a year - nolud- ing new tax revenues of $987, ,287 a member of the territory's un- official Congressional delegation said today.
 The estimate came from 'Rep." Ralph J. Rivers of Fairbanks in testimony prepared for House Territories Subcommittee hearing on statehood bills.
 As the hearing resumed on the House side, the Senate Territories Subcommittee also began delibera- tion of the statehood issue with Delegate Bartlett D-Alaska) as it's first witness.
 Bartlett was to be followed by Alaska Sens" Ernest Gruenmng and William Egan, each of whom has appeared before the House subcommittee, and F. J. Rusing, Fairbanks banker.
 SI.l62.7l3 Extra Burden,
 In his statehood cost sheet, Rivers estimated $1,162,713 for what he called the total extra burden on Alaska as a state'' would be offset by non-tax rev. enues which would accrue to Alaska as a state but which are not received by the territory.
 The $187,287 of estimated tax revenue required under state hood, he said, could be raised "by a one per cent tax on property out side of incorporated areas, O, other levies. :"
 In his itemized discussion o1 statehood costs, Rivers proposed doubling the ''present low fee schedule" for hunting and fishing licenses and partial use of rev. enues which pending bills provide the state would receive from the Probilof seal fishery.
 New Highway Costs
 Rivers charged statehood with one million dollars in new costs for trunk highway maintenance but noted that this resulted from use of provisions in the pending bills which would give Alaska 78 million dollars in gradually re- duced amounts over l5-year period for construction and main tenance.
 This provision has brought ob- jections from the Budget Bureau
, 1957-10-12
TOURIST

TOURIST -.
on summary statistical forms
prepared by the immigration
Department and analysed by
the Statistical Office. The End
section deals with shipping &
aircraft movements and is
based on information supplied
by the Port Services Depart
ment and the Civil Aviation
Department. The third section
deals with cargo, statistics be-
ing supplied by the Port Ser
vices Department.
, 1957-10-12

the public at the Ball Park
and there also tokens of APP
probation will be presented
to him.
, 1957-10-12
BRITISH QUEEN


the centennial celebration of
Queen Victoria's designation
Of Ottawa as the Canadian
capital.
The Royal visitors will go
to the United States next week
for an official visit also. The
royal couple will use the suite
reserved at the Waldorf As
toria for her uncle, the Duke
of Windsor, and the Duchess.
, 1957-10-12
ST. THOMAS

will be honored at a luncheon
at Bluebeard Hotel from 1890
to 2. The fee will be So. per
person and $500 per couple,
Valmy will be presented to
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

waking hours at the church and
lives just across the street, 1853
l36th Street, and when he goes
home each night, he is known to
cast searching eye, from his win
dow. before he goes to sleep.
Mother Zion is considered a %
hour day church and DR.. B. C. Robe
son, the pastor, the officers and
members, rely upon Brother" Ma
son to see that every thing is we'll
with this vast holding. The church
is the scene of many events and
there are times when a close vigil
must be kept. At the wedding of
Bishop w. j. Walls, Mr.. Mason was
responsible for the many gifts not
being carried away by thieves. He
sensed that something might hap
pen and requested that detectives
remain throughout the night. His
prophesy proved true. Thieves were
thwarted in their attempt to carry
off rich bounty when they found
police officers were on the scene.
Mr.. Mason tells an exciting story
of having suffered the misfortune
to lose his father while an infant
His mother was left with four chill
dren to raise in the fishing town of
Newbern. He left the elementary
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

nual Sidney Hillman Lectures at
Howard during the 1888 school
year.
The grant was made by the Sid
ney Hillman Foundation, of New
York City, and will enable the Uni
versity to co-sponsor the lectures
for the fourth consecutive year.
The lectures, which are held in
memory of the late president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers Of America, are presented an
nually in some 10 colleges through
out the country. They feature dis
tinguished speakers from the fields
of economics, politics, race rela-
tons, and labor-management rela-
tions. Since being inauguarted at
Howard in 1854, speakers have in
cluded economist Leon Keyserling,
political analyst Sam Lubell, and
Professor James McGregor Burns,
of Williams College. The speaker
for next years series will be an
nounced at later date.
According to Jacob S. Potofsky,
Hillman Foundation president, the
lectures, which were established
in 1919, have served many pur-
poses. "They have enabled out
standing academic and public fig
ures to share their ideas and their
ideals with a wider audience. At
the same time, they have given
the participating colleges the OPP
pCrtunity to bring outside author
tiles to the campus to address
their students. Furthermore, the
several series of lectures have pro-
duced a valuable body of thought
on the public issues of the day,
and enabled the Foundation to call
attention to the principles for
which it stands" Mr.. Pctofsgy
said.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

wide study Of reading is being
made" he said.
Among other things DR., Gray
told his audience that % evidence
does not show conclusively which
specialized method of teaching
reading is best; (2) that all chill
dren and adults do not learn equally
well by any method; 60 that con-
trasting methods emphasize differ
ent staring points in reading, put
ting children on different reads
toward their goals; and ca that
from personal observation and
from research in progress in learn
ing to read, learning is most rapid
when meaning and word recogni-
ton skills are present from the
first"
Special choral music was fur
nished by mixed groups from
Union High School of Gallatin d.
rected by Mrs. Dorothy McKissack
Jordan; and Howard High School
of Chattanooga, directed by Mrs.
Edwina J. Simmons. Howard
High School Band, with James NJ.
Hendrix, band director, gave a
morning concert for the teachers.
Fifteen specialized departmental
groups held sessions in the after
noon with a galaxy of expert con-
sultants and special speakers. Dr.
Gray was special consultant for
the elementary education section.
Oscar Jackson, president of the
Middle Tennessee Teachers Asso-
citation, and principal of Carter
Lawrence School, Nashville, in
stalled the congress new officers
for 1888. They are: Mrs. Ar
Meta G. Wallace, Knoxville, pres
ident; Isaiah Goodrich, Memphis,
first vice president; William H.
Fort. Nashville, second vice presi-
dent; Clarence B. Robinson, Chat
tanooga. third vice president; Miss
{. Y. Russell, Ripley, recording
secretary; Mrs. Evelyn P. Hall,
Gallatin, assistant recording sec
rotary; Mrs. Frances A. Sanders,
Nashville, treasurer; Fred Watson,
Chattanooga, parliamentarian; and
J. H. Parrish, Jackson, executive
committee member
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27
FuIIbright Grants For
'57-'58 Go To Howard
Teacher And AIumna
Professor Booker To
Conduct Research At
Client; Miss Warren
To Study At Vienna

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Howard
University officials today an
nounced the receipt of U. S. Ed
vocational Exchange (Fulbright)
grants for the 1878 school year
by two persons associated with
the University.
They are DR.. Walter NJ. Booker,
professor Of pharmacology in the
College of Medicine, and E. Coletta
Warren, 1850 graduate of the
School of Music. DR.. Booker, who
lives at 1920 Seventeenth Street,
NE, will conduct research in phar-
macology at the University of
Client (Belgium); while Miss War
rem, Of 901 Vinson Street, Will
hanson, w. Va, will study voice
at the Vienna (Austria) Academy
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

of Music.
The grants are among approx
mately 400 which the State De-
partment will award for study
and research abroad during the
next school year.
DR.. Booker, who heads the de-
partment of pharmacology, has
been a member of the medical
school faculty since 1913. Prior
to coming to Howard he taught
at Prairie View A. & NJ. College
in Texas. He holds the BIS degree
from Morehouse College (Ga.), the
MS degree from the University of
Iowa, and the PhD. degree from
the University of Chicago. At
Client he will work with DR.. c..
Heymans, director of the Pharma-
Geological Institute, who won the
Nobel Prize in medicine in 1888.
Miss Warren, who was mem
Der of the Howard Choir during
her stay at the University has
since studied at the Julliard School
of Music in New York City. In
1855 she was selected as "Miss
United States" and her prizes in
cluded tour CT Italy where she
received additional voice training.
She is a soprano.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27
Phi Beta
CONTINUED from Page One

lContinued from Page One)
The Lone Star Regional, Arthur
D. McNeal of Texarkana, Tex, Di-
rector, met at Houston, Tex, April
15th-2Oth with Alpha Beta Sigma
host chapter. Among other bust
ness, the conference discussed, at
length, preparations for the 43rd
Anniversary Conclave of the fra
ternity, re-activation of chapters
and Undergraduate problems.
The conference of the South
western Region, E. Afford Dixon
of st. Louis, Mo-, Director, held
its meetings at LIE Moyne College,
Memphis, Tenn, April 19-21st with
Tau Iota Sigma host chapter. A
joint public program with Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity featured the
Rev. Martin Luther King of Mont
gomery, Ala, as principal speaker.
Business sessions included, among
other things, workshops On the re-
gional structure, chapter respons-
Utilities and re-activation and I'm
dergraduate matters.
The Southern Regional Confer
ence, Alvin j. Mcneil of Itta Bena,
Miss, Director, will hold its SEES
sions at Alabama State College,
Montgomery, Ala, April 26th-27th
with Gamma Beta and Alpha Eta
Sigma chapters as co-hosts. Among
numerous detectives of the confer
ence, chapter re-activation and IN
dergraduate matters will be the
subjects occupying major place
on the agenda. A public program
will feature five minute talk by
each of the regions program d.
rectors; undergraduates of the re-
gion will present a musical.
The Great Lakes Regional, Maui
rice Moore of Chicago, H., Di-
rector, will be held in Indianapolis,
Ind, April 26th-27th. Xi Sigma
will be the host chapter Among
other matters to be discussed will
be: re-activation of chapters, the
formation of new chapters, the a.
doption of a Constitution and By
Laws governing the region, and in
creased emphasis on its Under
graduate program. A social pro-
gram in cooperation with Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity and the Ma
tional Pan-Hellenic Council, meet
ing in Indianapolis, simultaneously,
has been planned for entertainment
of the delegates, and visiting
brothers.
The Southeastern Regional. J.
{. Duncan Of Yanceyville, \. c.,
Director, meets at Saint Angus
tines College, Raleigh, n. c.,
May 3rd-4th, in conjunction with
the Eastern Regional Conference
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27
Vet. churchman
Aids Church

New York City, April - A
native North Carolinian, James A.
Mason, a key figure in the life
of Mother A! M. E. Zion Church,
known as the first church estab-
lished by the denomination.
Even though he was born in
Newborn, N. c., Oct. 10, 1868, he is
still playing an important role. He
is responsible for seeing that every
thing is in place and must lock the
church every night. This means
that he has tremendous respon-
sibility, due to the fact that the
church is one block long and runs
from both street Of 18th, just off
of Seventh Avenue, in the heart
Of Harlem. He spends most of his
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

schools of his native Craven Coun-
ty and began to aid his mother in
caring for the family. He soon
was the proprietor of two places
OF business. He decided that his
opportunity was greater in this
hustling metropolis and landed
here in 1899.
He arrived in Brooklyn and Il
was not long before he took a Job
as a chauffeur. He kept this Job
for 20 years. He joined Fleet
Street A. M. E. Zion Church, now
First Church. He served on the
choir, the Steward Board, Class
Leader and is now a life member
OF the Missionary Society. He is
also Past Exalted Ruler, Brook
Ign Lodge No. 80, /. B. P o. E. of
w.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

Antonio j. Simmons, Nashville;
Allen l.. Johnson, Tuscumbia, Ala. |;
Marvin E. Morris. Anderson, S.
c.; James H. Stewart, Memphis;
John H. Crummie, Northport, Ala. !;
Ira D. Thompson, Cleveland, Miss. /;
and Dymus N. Lawrence, Franklin.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

Havana, Cuba The Second
Cuban Petroleum Congress origin
ally scheduled for May 5 through
May II, has been postponed ac-
cording to DR.. Alberto Diaz Mas
vidal, president of the organizing
committee.
DR.. Masvidal disclosed that the
new date would be announced short
Nv,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27
Sidney Hi||man
Foundation Awards
Howard University
Grant To Continue
Lecture Series
Talks Scheduled For
1888 School Year
Will Be Fourth In
Annual Series

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Howard
University officials today an
nounced the receipt of a $1,000
grant which will finance the an