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CITY NEWS Charges Dismissed Charges of trespassing filed against Thomas J. Davie, 21, of 40T Graehl, anc Alfred Monroe oi 312 5th were dismissed yesterday afternoon upon mo- 'tion of assistant district attorney George Allen McGrath. McGrath stated that an inves- 'tigation revealed no evidence of ownership by complainant Jack Moran in the land. Moran had plated "the two city surveyors, under a citizen's arrest and had them booked into federal jail, having failed in ordering them off the premises at 3442. A and Moran Drive, where ihey were survey ing near the new bridge.

Italian Weekend Italian specialties will be served at two USQ weekend Today at 8 p.m., pizza pie will be served prior to a showing of pictures from the two USO trips to Mt. McKin- National Park in July. Tomorrow from 5:30 until 7 p.m., Italian spaghetti and "fixin's" will be served to servicemen, their dependents and guests in the USO Club ballroom. Spot Bid Sale The 5010th Supply Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base is conducting a spot bid sale of heavy equipment, engines, parts and miscellaneous items. They may be inspected until 4 p.m.

Aug. 8 and bids will be opened' at 4 p.m. Aug. 11. Phone is Eielson AFB 73244.

Biggest items- are a crane- shovel and two tank car heaters. USO Pizza Party Servicemen and their, guests have been invited to the Friday pizza party today at the Club, 516 1st Ave. Following pizza buffet at 8 p.mi*," and white pictures, slides and-movies -from the two July--USO tours to Mt. McKinley National Park will Resignation of Stepovich Effective August JL Here's THE To make extra" dollars! Sell those things you no longer use by letting the whole town know about- them. Dial 6661 for a Want Ad Daily News Mil "America's Farthest North Daily Member of The Associated Press VOL.

XXXVI 15c Per Copy FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1958 Twelve Pages ARROW FLIERS be shown at 8:30 p.m. ballroom. in the New Interviewers Jack Sullivan, former aircraft buyer from San Diego, who was in the Air Force at Eielson AFB from 1949 to 1951, joined the Fairbanks office of the Alaska Territorial Employment Service as interviewer this morning. Also recently engaged as interviewer was Ellsworth McAtee from Ketch- Mailed. Too Late A letter from Commissioner Richard C.

Carroll of Fort Yukon to the District Court clerk indicating his intention to run as Republican candidate for the state House arrived too late, the clerk's. office reported. The upper Yukon district has three Republican candidates and two Democratic. Pleads Guilty Nancy Luke pleaded quilty in Magistrate's Court this morning to a charge of drunkenness and was sentenced'to 20 days in jail. She was arrested early yesterday morning by City Police and her President Replies to Governor Eisenhower Says Mike Will Long Be Remembered WASHINGTON, Aug.

1, Mike Stepovich resigned today as territorial governor of Alaska because of his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from the about-to-be 49th state. In a letter to President Eisenhower mailed from Juneau last Monday, Stepovich noted that he had announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Senate. "Because of my desire to remove myself completely having any official of mine interpreted as an effort to affect the result of the forthcoming election, I am hereby, submitting to you my resignation as governor of the Territory of wrote Alaska," Stepo- case was day. continued until to- Jail Sentence sentence of 15 days in jail was imposed on Dorothj Irene Jonas, 22, in Magis trate's Court morning when she pleaded guilty drunkenness.

She was arrestec by City Police in the 500 block on Cushman street a 12:25 a.na. today. Fined $25 A fine of $25 was imposed on Gabriel Vernon Walker, 22, of Ladd Air Force Base when he pleaded guilty in Commission Court mis morning to charge of disorderly conduct, Walker was. arrested by Territorial and City Police at 2:15 today. Barbecue Postponed The barbecue picnic sched- tiled for tonight by the Youth Fellowship group of the first Presbyterian Church has been postponed until Sunday, 5:30 p.jn., at the home of Miss Patsy Wrede, 316 10th Ave.

Game Postponed The Little League game between the Red Sox and Bulldogs at Griffin Ball Park tonight has been called due to ram. Naturalization Off The next naturalization ceremony in District Court will be held in November or (Continued on CoU 1) Effective Aug. 9 The resignation will be 'ef-'i fective Aug. 9. In accepting the resignation, Eisenhower wrote Stepovich: "I know that whatever challenges may face you in the future, you will approach them with the same energy, unselfish dedication to purpose that has marked your public and private career thus far.

Your proven ability to work for the good for all Alaskans and our nation has been amply demonstrated during your service in. our armed forces, as a member of the territorial House and Senate, and as governor. "As governor you have earned the support of a great majority of people of Alaska and will long be remembered as a prime force in finally achieving statehood." 15th Governor President Eisenhower appointed Stepovich as the 15th governor of the territory May 9, 1957. He assumed his duties a month! later at inaugural ceremonies at Juneau. Stepovich, 39, was Fairbanks lawyer and member of the territorial Senate at the time he was named to the job to succeed B.

Frank Heintzleman. Heintzleman, appointed by the President as the territory's chief executive in 1953, re- Ike's Letter Lays It On Line WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, President Eisenhower today proposed a Middle East summit conference within the United Nations about Aug. 12. In a new letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Eisenhower for the first time himself flatly to idea of a top-level meeting, and called on Khrushchev join him there.

At the same time Eisen- BREDGE rains in the mountains near Suntrana brought floods to creeks draining into the Healy River bordering the Alaska Railroad branch into the mining area. Here is a view of thick, cement-like mud flowing down Coal covering tracks and a railroad over the small stream normally a trickle. In the background, center, is the Healy River; in the far background the town of Suntrana. The bridge yesterday was completely covered. Crews are.

working to.restore service branch now. Pholo by Bob Turnbull WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, Robert H. Anderson, general superintendent of transportation for the "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Chicago, today was appointed general manager of the Alaska Railroad. Secretary of the Interior Seaton said Anderson will take over Aug.

15 to succeed John H. Lloyd, who will return to an executive post with the Rock Island. Lloyd has managed the government-owned railroad since Aug. 15, 1956, on leave from his regular job. Seaton said he regretted th loss of Lloyd's manageria talent but was being able to fortunate ir replace him signed to retire to private life Jan.

3, 1957. Waino E. Hendrickson, secretary of Alaska, served as acting governor during the interim between Heintzleman's resignation and the inauguration of Stepovich. Hendrickson will serve again as acting gover- (Continuecf on Page 3, Cot. 2) with a manager of Anderson' extensive experience.

"The public service you have rendered'as the Alaska Railroad is of th first magnitude," Seaton wrote Lloyd, as you conclude your duties I am honored to express to you thanks of your the sincere government as. well as my personal ap preciation. 5 SPUTNIK NEARS EARTH MOSCOW, Aug. 1, is dropping steadily closer to the earth but will survive nearly 18 months Soviet scientists reported today. Boling Lands in Oregon After Epic Nonstop Flight PENDLETON, Ore.

Aug. 1, airline pilot Maron (Pat) Boling touched down lere at 11:52 a.m. (PST) in his bright orange, single-engine plane, ending an epic record nonstop flight- of 6,979 miles rom Manila. His elapsed time unofficial- was 45 hours and 42 minutes and average speed about 52 miles an hour. Boling, near exhaustion but moyed by the success of his wo-day flight from, the southwest Pacific to this northeast- Oregon city, broke the old non-stop, unrefueled record for ingle-engine planes by more than 2,000 miles.

The previous mark of 4,957 miles had been set in 1949 by the late Capt. Bill Odom on a flight from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. Boling, a pilot for 20 years with United Air Lines, set the record in a Beechcraft Bonanza, the same make plane in which Odom made his distance mark nine years A crowd of several hundred people clustered around the 43- year-old flier as he crossed the runway. Boling said with a tired chuckle that he had "about two or three gallons of gas left" when he landed. lower named the threat of 'further indirect aggression" in the Middle East as the real issue for a meeting of chiefs of government, rejecting the Moscow contention that the trouble stems from "aggression" by the United States in Lebanon.

And he turned down in sharp language the idea of any such session outside of the'UN. He told Khrushchev that would amount to an effort to set up a big power dictation such as "you imposed-in Eastern Europe." Expects To Attend Eisenhower advised Khrushchev he- is seeking arranger of Council" session' 'trough' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and that it can be held in New York or some other city but not Moscow. If such a meeting is ranged," Eisenhower wrote, Thibedeau, Passenger Lost Since Saturday Veteran Bush Pilot and Passenger Unreported After Flight- Into Meade River-Area; CAA Notified Jules bush; pilot, beenvreported as missing since Saturday- on a into the Meade" area east of the farthest north Tillage; the Civil Authority here was advised today. Thibedeau, ao Aeronca maroon sedan "plane, No.

N1018H, has, as a passenger Harold Stale, address unknown. They left Barrow at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and were expected to return about noon. It is reported that the! only emergency gear aboard the aircraft was fishing tackle. Tuesday's mail run plane crew to the Meade River area reported that trappers in that area stated they saw Thibedeau's plane on Saturday as it flew overhead.

Territorial Police notified the CAA here today that an SA16 Both Sides Seeking to. break, the deadlock in the plumbers-contractors dispute, federal labor mediator Albin L. Peterson of triphibian aircraft has-been working stead-fly since Ms arrival in Fair- the search for the maroon plane today. The aircraft is from the Air'Rescue- Squadron 2t Eknendorf Air Force Base. Thibedeau has-several-times previously been reported lost for extended periods of time.

Last fall, he was reported lost while hunting wolves in the Meade River area. Authorities on aircraft stated this morning that the plane's RAILROAD FLOOD Thick, gooey mud Coal- Creek flowing into the Healy River covers the tracks and bridge on the Suntrana spur of the Alaska' Railroad. Crews here are looking at flood damage at the point where the branch is closed. In the background is the Suntrana coal mine, now cut off from heavy transportation. These men, under John Alter of Fairbanks, roadmaster, and foreman John Grys, were the first to arrive at the washout.

Photo by Bob Turnbull Racial Controversy Causes Picketing of Supermarket The Fairbanks Civic League, a recently formed organization aimed at bettering "race relations- in Fairbanks," today continued picketing begun yes- of Thrifty's Superman ket on Cushman street to est a charge that the market allegedly practices racial discrimination in hiring policies. The pickets, both Negro- and white, appeared yesterday afternoon at parking lot-of market by city councilman Joe Franich and managed by Darwin Wood. No early settlement of the dispute, heavily tinged with racial appears in sight. Specifically the league, leaded by Aubrey Moring of 65 16th has accused Franch and Wood of backing down an agreement to hire a egro cashier at their establishment after a conference with the of-di- ectors composed of Moring, J. Mrs.

Beatrice Coleman and Charles Purvis. Robert Johnson, another city ouncilman who is. spokesman or the store, this morning said that Thrifty's had once agreed to hire a Negro cashier but had informed Moring later that statements made in the league's bulletin after the conference had made Thrifty's decide not to follow through with the plan. bulletin, Moring.had mentioned Thrifty's in a paragraph headed "Is This Georgia?" and stating that Franich had refused to negotiate with the league. The bulletin; Moring said, appeared before the conference between Franich, Wood and Johnson with the league's board.

Johnson said as far as his firm is concerned, the question-is whether the supermarket should.Ibe "forced into discriminating against any race, creed- or culture." In Referring back to the meeting with the'league, Johnsonsaid: "We were then as we are now in: basic sympathy with their efforts to improve the condition of their own people there's no argument there." He said that Thrifty's has never hiring had a policy discriminatory and had employed a Negro in the past. Employes, he continued, are hired on the basis of qualification, not race, color or creed. Moring, who was on the picket line 'this morning, said that the job situation of Negroes and Natives in Fairbanks is "so bad that they're even afraid to go in and ask." Adding that he had been fired from his janitorial job at the Uni- versity'of Alaska last night, he admitted that he and Johnson had got into a heated 'argument after the League's meeting with Thrifty's management. "I'm willing to concede that everybody in a dispute may use strong language that shoulder should not be that does not hide the truth." Mrs. Beatrice Coleman, league secretary, said the F.CL started in March of this year, to- improve race relations in (Continued on Col.

2) "I expect to attend and par- ue tank holds 36-gallons and ticipate and I hope that you has a potential three to three- and-a-half hour cruising range. the ilt is not known if Thibedeau's do likewise. A few minutes after letter was released, ane "had tanks when hower conferred at the White ft Barrow Saturday. House with Lodge. The ambassador was in Washington for a Cabinet meeting later in the day.

It' put; Eisenhower squarely behind British Prime Minister Macmillan's summit proposal of yesterday and. squarely against French Premier De Gaulle's proposition. Macmillan called for a Security Council meeting Aug. 12 while De Gaulle wanted a session outside the United Nations to begin Aug. 18.

leans Meeting A meeting of the Republican Central Committee for Alaska has been called for Sunday at the Baranof Hotel in Juneau, Robert'B. Groseclose, chairman, announced here today. He said the members would discuss campaign plans for the first state elections. Among those expected to attend are Roberta Rich of Ketchikan, Joe McLean, Fred Eastaugh and Mildred Banfield of Juneau, Tillie Reeve, Walter J. Hickel and Margaret Rutledge of Anchorage, an Larry Meath, Lucille Harkabus and Groseclose from Fairbanks.

Dr. Elvey In Asia Dr. C. T. Elvey, director of the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute, is in Moscow, Russia attending meetings of the International Geophysical Year and the International Astronomical Union.

These annual international meetings draw scientists from all around the world. Elvey is chairman of the aurora and airglow panel of the IGY. He will be abroad for the month of August. Following the IGY and IAU conventions, he will go to Tashkent in Soviet Central Asia on a post-convention tour with IAU, Aug. 21." He will visit in Delhi and and in Hong Kong and Tokyo on his return trip to Fairbanks.

Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with light rain. Low tonight 45. High tomorrow 60. High yesterday 71. Low last night 52.

Noon temperature 57. Sunrise tomorrow 2:54 a.m. Sunset 8:58 p.m. BPR Men Test River Floor For New Bridge Foundation Five men from the Bureau of Public Roads material section were engaged in a daylong study of the Chena River floor today to determine the best material for the foundation of the new Cushman Street Bridge. Using resistivity apparatus, they were.

seeking to find thei depth of the silt, sand and gravel on bottom. Their; information will be used in the 1 design of the new bridge H. W. Johansen, district engineer, said the Army will erect a Bailey bridge between Turner and North Turner Streets in the latter part of August. Bids for'dismantling of the old bridge will be called for next "week, he said.

The new permanent bridge is expected to cost in- the neighborhood of $300,000, ac- fcording to Johansen. It is to have four 1 lanes' and, be located in the same place as the present Cushman Street Bridje. It is planned as a three-span're- inforced concrete and steel I-beam structure similar to the Wendell Avenue'Bridge. first with, one side and with another. He hopes to ari- rahge.a- joint meeting- The big stumbling block is fee question of trages, 40 hour week, and for Saturday work.

The union is asking 35 hour wage increase, bringing the wage of a journeyman plumber or steamfit- ter to $5.10. The plumbing contractors say they cannot offer any more increase than 15 cents per hour and they are firmly against raising 'Saturday pay from the current time-and-a- half, or lowering the 48-hour week. Gale W. Bennett, union business agent, maintains that the 40 hour and double time request are not for purpose of improving conditions- and pay to discourage overtime and Jius employ more men. A jood majority of the members of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No.

375 were unemi- Dloyed before the strike start- id, 196 out of 316, according to union figures. The last meeting of the two negotiation committees was leld almost three weeks ago when Peterson was last in town. Asked why no further meetings were held, a contrac- spokesman explained, 'There wasn't any use. There's no use in sitting down and ooking at each other." The mediator's job is to try to bring the sides together and attempt to reach a voluntary settlement by compromise 3 eterson was conferring with the union negotiators at Carpenters Hall late morning. FLEMMING SWORN IN WASHINGTON, Aug.

Dr." Arthur -S. Flemming was sworn -in today the new secretary of health, education and welfare. "I'm thinkin' of down to the court- bouse and filin' to be an in- jiependent if wife don't "stop nagging me.".