The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL ABRRARY \ WASHINGTON, D. C. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,951 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1951 'Kitty and Kitchen' Up To Churdhill Solution of Home Front Problems Awaited; New Cabinet Men Named LONDON, Oct. 30— (® —Prime Minister Winston Churchill named six more ministers in his new gov- ernment today and then held his first cabinet meeting to deal with critical foreign and domestic prob- lems. Churchill, smoking one of his big- gest cigars, entered 1 Downing Street about 15 minutes before the cabinet session’ began. A crowd of about 500 persons standing in the narrow street cheered. London newspapers wondered, meanwhile, when the Tory ehicf " would make his first domestic pol- icy move. One paper summed up Churchill’'s most pressing home front problems as “the kitty and the kitchen"—finance and food. The new cabinet ministers in- clude: Harold MacMillan, 57, wealthy book publisher, minister for hous- ing and local government. Lord Leathers, 67, industrialist, secretary of state for coordination of transport, fuel and’power. Harry F .C. Crookshank, 58, min- ister of health and deputy leader of the House of Commons. Selwyn Lloyd, 47, was named minister of state for foreign affairs —the No. 2 man to foreign secretary Anthony Eden in the foreign office. Mrs. Hannah Penttinen Dies on Salmon (reek Trail Monday Night Mrs. Hannah Penttinen, about 61 years old, was found dead on the Salmon Creek trail last evening. She had left the highway about § o'clock for her home at the upper power house. When she failed to arrive men .from the power house investigated and found her body. Apparently she had suffered a heart attack. She is survived by her husband who had recently been discharged from the hospital and was con- valescing at home. Mrs. Penntinen was a long time resident of the Gastineau channel area. No funeral arrangements been announced. Stabbed fo Death As He Sleeps In Guarded Room SAIGON, Indochina, Oct. 30—®— The French Commissioner for the Indochinese State of Cambodia was stabbed to death by a servant yes- terday as he lay sleeping in the bed- room of his heavily guarded palace in Pnom Penh. French police announced that Jean Leon Francois Marie de Ray- mond, who had been commissioner since 1949, was slain by Pham Ngoc Lam, a Vietnamese servant who fled after the crime. An accomplice — also a servant of the palace staff—was arrested last night and confessed details of the crime, police said. Thousands of police, French and Cambodian troops engaged ‘'in a huge manhunt for the assassin. TheWashington Merry - Go- Round (Copy=ight, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Incs) By DREW PEARSON" ASHINGTON—It now looks as if Senators’ secretaries might be put on the investigating griddle. If s0, this column has turned up a let- ter pertaining to the office of Nev- ada’s Senator “Molly” Malone that makes Flo Bratton, secretary to Vice President Barkley, look like a sandwich-snitcher at a Sunday- school picnie. The letter was written by Senator Malone’s administrative assistant, Ben Whitehurst, and proposed that he work for the Long Beach, Calif., harbor commissioners against fed- eral ownership of Tidelands Oil— for fifty grand plus expenses and plus taxes. The funny thing about the letter is that Whitehurst's boss, the Senator from Nevada, is now for federal ownership of Tidelands Oil. Of course, the Senator has had a position on the billion-dollar submerged oil lands which seems (Continued on Page.4) % have \Anchorage Blaze | May Have Been Sef; | Two Lives Are Lost | ANCHORAGE, Oct. 30— (A—Anchorage fire police. of~ ficials called in a military arson expert today to determine if a Sun- day fire which claimed two lives might have been set. Noel J. Robinson, 35, a bartender, and Renee Lee, 22, a night club dancer, died in the fire in Olivera’s restaurant. The building was des- troyed with loss estimated by fire- men at $50,000. Robinson occupied one room on the upper floor of the restaurant. Firemen said he died attempting to escape through a narrow window. Fire and smoke apparently cut off the escape route through other rooms which had large windows. Miss Lee's body was found on the floor in Robinson’s room, firemen said. Jay Kennedy, 35, owner of the restaurant, jumped 16 feet from his own room on the upper iloor and suffered miner injuries and shock. Police said firemen saved canvas pags containing the restaurant’s weekly receipts. \Infanfrymen Beal Back Atfack on Hearthreak Ridge By SAM SUMMERLIN 9 ERS, Korea, Oct. 30—(P—Allied in- | fantrymen in eastern Korea beat (back an attack near Heartbreak Rridge by 1,000 Chinese in predawn darkness today, then drove ahead 1,000 yards in daylight. On the western front United Nations forces gained more than half a mile northwest of Yonchon with little trouble. Reinforced Chinese who had hurl- ed day-long attacks at the allies southeast of Kumsong in the center of the line Monday made only two cmal) prakivg. ottaske Taaddad Both were turned back. In the air war Communist anti- aircraft guns shot down two Am- erican planes Tuesday—an F-80 Shooting Star jet and a reconnais- sance plane. The Fifth Air Force said there was “no chance of pilot {survival.” | For the second straight day Red | jet pilots refused to fight Ameri- |can jets over MIG alley in North west Korea. Anchorage Union ‘To Appeal Couri’s $8,000 Judgment ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 30— (P—A driver’s $8,000 court verdict against the Teamsters’ Union Local and its former secretary is appar- ently headed for a higher court. Defense Attorney Peter Kala- marides says he plans to file an appeal from the Third District Court }jury verdict of last weekend. The deadline for filing does not come until the end of this week. The verdict was for Ralph L. Born against the union local 959 and George Cease, the former sec- retary and trustee. Born alleged that he had been deprived of his livelihood as a truck driver through Cease’s arbi- trary action in issuing him a with- drawal card last September and in refusing later to reinstate him. Born sued for $10,000. The jury awarded him $3,000 actual damages and $5,000 in punitive damages. The defense had contended that Born could have appealed within the union by asking for a union trial of any charges he made against Cease. The jury held that the union trial machinery did not actually consti- tute a bona fide right of appeal. Born testified at the trial that he felt it would be “fruitless” to ask for a union trial. He declared such a trial would have been before “stooges that Cease appointed,” when Born and another member were ousted from the local's gov- erning body. Stock Quotations NEW YORK, Oct. 30—®—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 108%, American Tel. and Tel. 156%, General Electric 55%, General Mo- tors 49%, Goodyear 43z, Kennecctt 82%, Libby McNeill and Libby 87, Northern Pacific 53% Standard Oil of California 50%, Twentieth Century Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 41'%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.75. Sales today were 1,530,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 260.52, rails 79.59, util- ities 45.36. U. S. 8th ARMY HEADQUART-| Postal Rates Bill Signed By Truman Penny Post Card Out Next Feb. 1; News- papers, Magazines Up WASHINGTON, Oct. 30—(®—Pre- sident Truman today signed the postal rate increase bill which dooms the penny post card as a part of a $117,000,000 annual boost in postal charges. The new two-cent rate on post cards goes into effect next Feb. 1. In addition, there will be a 10 percent boost in mailing charges for newspapers and magazines April 1 next year. Two other 10 percent increases on this type of mail will take effect April 1, 1953, and April 1, 1954, making a 30 percent hike in all. An increase in the charge for third class mail—largely circulars and advertising—will take place July 1, 1952. This is achieved by hiking the minimum bulk rate irom one cent to one and one-half cents a piece. Charges for most postpoofice spe- cial services—such as insured mail, special delivery, registered mail and COD deliveries—will go up next Feb: 1. Untie Milifary Piers, BuiN. Y. Strike Still On | NEW YORK, Oct. 30—(M—Insur- ,gent stevedores ended their boy- teott of military piers today, but {dent in the dock strike that has | immobilized the world/s biggest port. For the first time since the bil- | lion-dollar, 16-day waterfront shut- ! down began, defense loading and | unloading jobs apparently were fully manned by regular longshore icrews. | Picket lines disappeared from the | miiltary docks in Staten Island, | Jersey City and at Brooklyn’s huge |army base, where more than 506 | rebel strikers streamed back to work. | But elsewhere along the miles of idle docks, pickets still marched. Only on one Hudson River pier did non-strikers succeed for a second day in circumventing the picket barriers. | At pier 90, where the big British liner Queen Elizabeth is berthed, two gangs of longshoremen shut- tled past a jeering, pushing mob of 250 strikers held back by police. Here and there, fistfights flared about the dock. But there was no general disorder. Police detained one picket temporarily. The more than 20,000 strikers, here and in Boston, are in revolt against a new contract and have defied orders of Joseph Ryan pre- sident of the AFL International Longshoremen Association, to re- turn to work. John J. Sampson, leader of the wilddeat dock strike, agreed yester- day to the lifting of the blockade of military cargoes, but said strikers “will stand united and continue the strike” against other shippirg. 0'Daniel Back from Legion Convention John O'Daniel, commander of the | American Legion post at Skagway, returned yesterday from the Miami convention and left today for his home. O'Daniel makes a plea for unity among the Alaska posts rela- tive to Alaskan affairs. He was suc- cessful in having passed certain resolutions pertaining to Alaska is- sues at the convention. ALASKA POTTERS TO MEET WEDNESDAY The Alaska Potters will meet in the club rooms Wednesday at 8 pm. to glaze ware that has been discue fired. Clay has arrived and there will be leaves for those who wish to make more leaf dishes. A demonstration of stacking for a glaze firing will be given at the meeting. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Nov. 2. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Denali scheduled to arrive south- | bound Nov. 4. jon a personal appearance tour. otherWise, vaete WS GHIY A Smafl| Franchot Tone Spits In Writer's Face, Lands Behind Bars - HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 — (f — Franchot Tone, the movie actor, went to jail today accused of spit- ting in the face of a veteran movie columnist, red-haired Florabel Muir. The booking was suspicion of bat- tery, on a citizen’s arrest signed by the newspaper and magazine writer. The incident occurred at Ciro’s night club on the Sunset Strip. Miss Muir told police the actor, new husband of actress Barbara Payton, came to her table, muttered something uncomplimentary, then said: “Florabel, 'm so mad I could spit in your face. As a matter of fact, I' will.” He did. The columnist said she slapped him and he kicked her in the shins, She summoned sheriff’'s deputies, who took him into custody. Six hours later he was released on $500 bail. Sgt. John Norris said Tone told him: “Sure I spit at her, but I didn’t kick her. It's just been one provocation after another with her.” ' Miss Muir said Tone made no specific complaint before the fuss. Her column contained frequent ref- erences several weeks ago to Tone’s celebrated clash with actor Tom Neal over Miss Payton's affections. He took a thorough beating from the athletic young Neal, but won the heroine at the finish. Married in her home town of Cloquet, Minn., they returned to Hollywood yesterday. She has been DEMANDS JURY TRIAL HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30 — (B — Franchot Tone demanded a jury trial today on charges that he spit| in the face of columnist Florabel Muir in a night club encounter. The actor and the red-haired writer faced each other without a word between them in Beverly Hills Justice court. Whep tha.grve finally wes calied— a~ misdemearnior charge of assaut and battery—lawyer Leis said Tone| was pleading innocent and requested a jury trial. Trial .was set for Dec. the $500 bail was continued. Tone said previously that he would | tell his story in court. He was arrested on Miss Muir’s citizen’s complaint. Mother Trapped in Wrecked Plane 11 and | And Mushroom firidges Monopoly Challenged - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30—®— Haryy Bridges monopoly on west coast dock work from San Diego north to Seattle was challenged to- day in a contract Isthmian Steam- ship Co, signed with the new San Francisco local of Joseph Ryan’s Assn The pact was drawn up in what appeared to be an attempt to end the exclusive jurisdiction over dock work claimed since 1934 by Bridges’ International Longshoremen's and | ‘Warehousemen’s Union, Isthmian only last week hired 53 AFL longshoremen to work its struck ships. Serious waterfront trauble might explode if these men were put to work. Isthmian officials would not dis- cuss details of the contract, but sald’ “it is a better contract than that of the ILWU.” Wages and| overtime rates, they said, are sim- ilar to the $1.97 and $295'. pro- vided in the ILWU’s master west coast agreement. COURT ORDER ISSUED BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30—(P— The Isthmian Steamship Company | today won a court ruling which may enable it to use AFL longshoremen, in defiance of Harry Bridges' union Buperior Judge Clarence W. Mor- ris ruled that the bitter dispute over Isthmian ships was a “juris- dictional strike.” Court observers said this prob- ably would have the effect of caus- inqg¥emoval of a temporary injune- tion issued to Bridges' union against Isthmian, Holding in favor of Isthmian, Judge Morris said the “marine en- gineers beneficial association-Isth- mian dispute did degenerate, if that is the proper word, into a so- called jurisdictional strike.” School Enrollment in Alaska Jumps 1,700 This Year Waiches Son Die | PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Oct. | 30—(#— A mother, trapped upside down for 20 hours in a wrecked plane with +her dead husband, tells of watching her son die as help ap- proached. The mother, Mrs. Maye Morten- sen, 33, and her daughter, Kath- leen, 5, were pulled alive but ser- iously injured from the jammed- up wreckage. | Her husband, Richard G. Mort-/ | ensen, 33, was_killed outright in the crash, and the son, Russell, 3, died many hours later. Officials said they believed the boy suffered a skull fracture. The Seattle family crashed Sun- day night on a wooded ridge near here while returning in their pri- vate plane from a visit to Belling- ham 80 miles to the north. They were not located until yesterday afternoon. “I knew Dick was dead,” said Mrs. Mortensen from a hospital bed. “But Russ lived for a long time as we lay there. I believe he died just | { a little while before the rescuers | came. Perhaps if they had come sooner he would have lived.” Little Kathy’s first words as she was taken from the plane wreckage were: “If I could just sit down.” She was trapped the entire time in a bent-over standing position. Mrs. Mortensen said visibility was good before the accident. “We were just going along and suddenly I heard a big bang,” she said. “That’s the last thing I re- member before we hit.” Officials said they believed the “bang” was when a wingtip hil a tree. The plane continued on & few hundred yards, cut a swalh through trees and landed upsid: down in dense woods. ‘The wingtip was found by a farm- er yesterday and the plane Wwas located some time later. Rescuers virtually had to tear the plane apart to reach the victims. Two hours were required to free them AT THE BARANOF J. C. Dawson of Ketchikan Is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. FROM CORDOVA Richard Ziman of Cordova is al the Hotel Juneau. The enrollment in Alaska’s schools | has increased from a total of 12,896 | last year to 14,697 this year, ac- cording to the Territorial Depart- ment. of Education. Enrollment figures show an in- crease of 194 students in the high schools and 1,507 in the elementary ades. Ninety-seven new teachers have been added as a result of the increased population, 72 in the ele-| mentary schools and 25 on the high school level. \ The Départment of Education has | taken over five schools under the Johnson?0’'Malley act from the| Alaska Native Service. These schools | are at Alitak, Afognak, Copper Cen- | ter, Old Harbor and Ouzinkie. Also} cight schools have been established | on military bases. Figures show 98 schools under the department is year as compared with 94 last| vear., There were nine more rural schools last year than this year, but the mew schools on contract from ANS and the military base schools ncrease the overall total by four. Under the department in Alaska 26 city schools, 59 rural schools, five from ANS, and eight on mili- tary bases. In Alaska there are 10,718 en- rolled in city elementary and high chools, 1,784 in rural elementary nd high schools, 134 in the schools on contract from ANS, and 1,961 in chools on military bases. Therel are 750 teachers of all grades this ear compared with 653 last year. Of the 750, 544 are women teachers nd 206 are men. FROM RUBY Ed Gurtler of Ruby is stopping t the Baranof Hotel. VISITOR FROM ANCHORAGE Barbara Burrer of Anchorage is registered at the Baranof Hotel. OCTOBER 31 High tide 2:08 a.m,, 17.0 ft. Low tide 7:54 am, 19 ft. e High tide 1:57 pm., 18.7 ft. e Low tide 8:32 pm., -3.2 ft. | oo 00 0 0 0 0 0 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS A-Bomb Test Explosion Causes Brilliant Flash ing Cloud *# LAS VEGAS, Oct. 30—P—A bril- liant flash, followed by a mushroom- ing cloud which shot up with the speed of a rocket, markeg the third of the AEC’s current series of atomic tests today. Despite a bright dawn, the flash was visible here, some 75 miles away. ‘Throngs of early risers gathered in knots at every high vantage point "Out with Boys’ Says Crooner, So Wite Given Divorce SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 30 —IP—Nancy Sinatra won a divorce from her crooning husband today without mention of his traveling companion, Ava Gardner. In fact, the dark-haired wife and mother testified that Sinatra ex- plained his prolonged absences from home with the old alibi: “I was out with the boys.” Superior Judge Orlando H. Rhod- es granted the divorce on grounds of cruelty just a year and a month atfer she had won a previous de- to watch. Dennis Schieck, photographer for the Las Vegas Review-Normal, had a vantage point in an airplane fly- ing over Las Vegas, given special CAA clearance despite a general ban AFL International Longshoremen's{on private aircraft within a wide | figure. range of the testing ground. Schieck said that, from his 7,000-foot altitude, he caught a brief glimpse of a skyrocketing fireball, quickly blanketed out by a cloud which he reported ap- peared to be ice-capped. At Henderson, Nev,, 11 miles east of here toward Hoover Dam, houses rattled a few minutes after the blast, but residents said there was none of the noise which accom- panied the second in the series last Sunday. Schieck said an airplane was vis- ible at high altitude shortly before today’s explosion, The light itself was white, much like a giant camera flash bulb. There was a light purple tinge at the start. The mushroom was a beautiful thing, observers agreed. The top burgeoned out, at the apex of a towering stem. There was no shock felt in Las Vegas within the time limit neces- sary for sound waves normally to travel from the Yucca Flat range more than 75 miles from here. That would indicate that it was considerably less severe than several during a series last February, two of which broke windows in Las Vegas. Death March Vet Sent from Hospital To Kerean Front SEATTLE, Oct. 30—(P—Mrs. Eu-| gene Corder says her husband, a survivor of the Bataan death march, | is in Korea by mistake and she!| wants him back. She told a Post Intelligencer in- terviewer: “I knew it would happen. He isn't in condition for army life anymore and never will be. He took too much while in the service befove.”| She said her husband, Cpl. Eu- gene Sturant Corder, 31, weighed only 80 pounds when freed after 3% years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese. “He was wounded and had receiv- ed the Purple Heart medal before being taken prisoner,” she wrote. “When he was discharged in 1946, he was given 60 percent disalility.” He stayed in the reserves and was called into active service last November. Mrs. Corder continued: He was ordered overseas last Feb- cree of separate maintenance. Judge Rhodes approved a property settlement wherein Mrs, Sinatra will get 33 percent of the singer's income up to $150,000 annually and 10 percent when it goes over that Sinatra already has filed for a Nevada divorce. He and Miss Gard- ner romanced during his six weeks required residence in Nevada, and are now in New York City where Sinatra appears on television. Mrs. Sinatra gets custody of the couple’s three children, Nancy 11, Frank, Jr.,, 7 and Christina, 3. Maine Village Isolated by Heavy Snow Fall By Associated Press The village of Millinocket, Maine, is digging out of a six-inch snow- storm—the first of the season. The | fall cut communications and left the paper mill town and eight other communities in Maine unable even to report their plight to the out- side world. Finally, an Associated Press Cor- respondent, Mrs. Dean Chase, got the word to the Portland Bureau, over amateur radio facilities. Tug Has Trouble In Bering Sea According to Information received ! by U. S. Coast Guard headquarters here that ‘the tug Kozebue lost a | barge 40 miles east of Northeast Cape on St. Lawrence Island last’ Sunday. The message came from the motor vessel Peter G and said that two| men were aboard. The Kotzebue, is owned by Archie Ferguson of the Arctic Oil Sales Co., at Kotzebue. The Navy is in charge of assistance operations. Reporf Says Body Found on Beach In Rocky Pass A report of a headless body found on a beach in Rocky Pass, near| Kake, is being investigated by Ralph Smith, U, 8. Deputy Marshal at Petersburg. A telegram from Smith to the U. 5. Marshal’s officé in Juneau stat- ed that he was leaving on the Coast Guard cutter Hemlock today to in- vestigate the report. OPS Liaison Man PRICE TEN CENTS 3 Vessels In Flaming Collision Seven Crewmen Dead, Others Missing; Capfain, Helmsman Die as Heroes BUFFALO, N.Y, Oct. 30—M—At least seven men were dead and five missing today after the flaming collision of three vessels in Buffalo harbor. A charred mass of ‘bodies was found this morning in the cabin of the tug Dauntless. Three bodies had been recovered earlier. The Great Lakes freighter Pen- obscot rammed the loaded oll barge Morania shortly after 9 pm., last night, and the barge exploded. Its 800,000 gallons of gasoline showered the freighter and the tug, which was pushing the barge. The 45-foot, 6,50Q-ton freighter was one of the largest on the Great Lakes. The cause of the accident was not determined. The harbor was dark, but the night was clear. The Penobscot, which had un- loaded a grain cargo Sunday, was leaving the harbor for Detroit and Duluth. The barge was inbound. ‘The Coast Guard said the pile of bodies found on the tug accounted for the six members of the crew that had been listed as missing, The body of one unidentified tug crew- man-had been found earlier. The captain escaped with minor injurfes, Capt. Louls Guyette of the Pen- obscot and his helmsman, Roy Richardson, 56, both of Port Hu- ron, Mich., died herolcally in the freighter's pilot house. Theilr bodies also were recovered earlier. Captain Guyette and his helms- man stayed at ‘their posts to back ;.he freighter away from the burn- Br‘u -fiem-lmm- d‘aek.-‘oum:: eral crewmen weré able to slide down a rope to safety. :‘l‘hle u”‘mhl saved us, the caplain saved us!” Jim l’m an 18-year-old lnn:’um:.' ping for the second time, screamed, tears rolling down his cheeks. Edward Myers, 57, a watchman on the Penobscot, and an old hand on the lakes, told the story of his skipper's herolsm, “The Old Man and Roy stayed in i the tower, put her in reverse and | sent her back toward the dock. They were both dead when we rammed the dock. T tied a line and about 12 of us slid down it.” \Canned Salmon Contrac Awards Over 1% Million SEATTLE, Oct. 30—(P—Contract awards for more than $1,601226 worth of ¢anned salmon were. an- nounced yesterday by the Oakland Quartermaster Procurement Agency. Now Available ruary but was hospitalized becausc of old wounds. % After several months hospitaliza- tion he was suddenly ordered over- seas and 10 days later was on his way to Korea. His letters indicate he has seen frontline duty. For Terrifory A representative of the Office of Price Stabilization will now be available to act as liason man be- tween small business men and the “My husband and I have boti|OPS, the Territorial Office of Price protested to every official possible, | Stabilization said today. All we ever get for an answer is that ‘there must have be:n some|ton, D. C., director of OPS opera- mistake’.” tions in all the territories, said he She sald she has written to both|had appointed Fred G. Hanford, the surgeon general of the army|Alaska Director, as “Small Business and to Rep. Hugh B. Mitcheli (D-|Affairs” representative in Alaska. Wash). Mitchell, she said, replied| “This means that, in accordance he had asked that Corder be given| With terms of the National Defense a complete physical examination |Act, we will set up a procedure to to determine his physical fitness. |render spe"chl assistance to small Mitchell and army sources were | businesses,” Hanford said. “We will not avallable for comment. make available a representative of this office to attend meetings of business men, or any meeting called | ® [ by the governor's office or munici- ® | pal body at which the problems of ® |small businesses are discussed.” ® | Hanford defined a “small busi- ® | ness” as one which is “independently ®|owned and which is not dominant ®lin its field” He added that most ® | Alaska Businesses could be classified ®|as small in comparison with state- ® | side standards. ®| “When developing regulations or © | applying present ones, we want to ® | work with merchants. We want re- ® | gulations to be understandable be- ® | cause an understandable regulation ®|is an effective one,” Hanford said. ®| Hanford said the Juneau office ® | would make speakers available for ® meetings of businessmen or any ® | organization which has an interest o |in the affairs of small businesses. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 39; Minimum, 21. FORECAST (Juneau afd Vicinity) Mostly fair with occasion- ally gusty northeasterly winds tonight and Wednes- day. Low tonight about 30 in town and as low as 25 in outlying areas. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hoars ending 7:30 a.m. today At Aifrport None; since July 11294 inches. ®© 0 00 00 0 00 J. Herbert Meighan of Wuhlna-| Twelve Seattle firms and one from Bellingham shared the awards. Seattle firms were: Kelly-Clarke Co., $89,040; Anderson and Mish- kin, Ltd., $77,584; Peninsula Pack- ers, $123920; Prank B. Peterson Co., $90,480; P, E. Harris Co., $83,- 808; Fidalgo Island Packing Co., $246,808; Kenai Packers, “exceeds $250,000,” Whitney and Co., “exceeds £250,000,” McGovern and McGovern, $155,000; Port Ashten Packing Co., $30,440; Annette Islands Canning Co., $131,336; Bristol Bay Packing Co., $46,560; Pacific American Fish eries, Inc, of Bellingham, $26,250. Strikes af Three Afomic Plants Ends Atier 7 Days OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 30—#— AFL construction workers flocked back to work on three atomic plant jobs today to end a seven-day strike, There was no immediate estimate of the number of werkers on hand, but an Atomic Energy Commission spokesman said all crafts employed cn the projects apparently 'were represented. A steady early morning rain may have prevented some men from re- turning to the jobs, the spokesman added. The end of the walkout was her- alded yesterdhy when leaders of Plumbers Local 103 withdrew pickets from the projects. The plumbers had walked out last Tuesday in a Jurisdictional disgute with members of AFL Carpenters Local 50.