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OU>£ST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 48
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1962
Per Copy 154
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Democrats
Invade Nome
This Weekend
The delegates to the Democratic
Convention will be arriving all day
Friday it is expected, with regis
tration taking place at the terminal
as the flights arrive. A flight from
Anchorage is scheduled to arrive
at 10:00 a.m. Guests arriving on
Saturday will register at the
Armory where the convention will
open on Saturday morning, at 9:30.
The Democratic Committee has
announced a no-host dinner at the
North Star on Friday in the form
of a buffet, continuing throughout
the evening as the flights arrive.
Among the special events plan
ned will be a tea for women dele
gates honoring Mrs. Herschell C.
Loveless, wife of the former gov
ernor of Iowa on Saturday after
noon. This will be held at the
apartment of Mayor Don Hoover.
Other special events will be an
nounced later.
The big public event will be a
banquet at the school on Saturday
evening with former governor
may be obtained from Nome Dem
ocratic Club members.
Following the banquet the Young
Democrats are sponsoring a dance
at the ANG Armory.
Following is a list of Democrats
known to be coming and for whom
housing has been arranged by Ernie
Gustafson. It is possible that more
housing win be needed than is
now planned. Ernie Gustafson
would appreciate the names of any
one having an extra bed in their
home which could be used in an
emergency.
Irene Ryan, Helen Fischer, Nancy
Nichols, Mrs. Myrtle Nichols, Flor
ence Lancashire, Harriet McBride,
Helen Hennings, Aileen Carr,
Blanche MeSmith, Ruth Dodds,
Edna Thomas, Frances Guertin,
Justine Parks, Alice Harrigan;
Wendell Kay, Russ Meekins,
Scott Hamilton, Joe Armstrong,
John Roderick, Joe Rothstein,
James Hurley, Mr. and Mrs. Ai
Owen, Mr. and Mrs. Yule Kilcher,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacFarland,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hedberg, Mr.
and Mrs. Don Carr, Bill Moran,
Frank Mullens, David Ring;
Nick Begich, Sol Urie, Seward
Shea, Bob Capps, Mr. and Mrs. Ale
wine, Bertram Curry, Louie Fields,
Bob Veach, John Rader, Gordon
Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Herchel Love
less, Gov. Wm. Egan, Rod Spen
love, Carl Nunn, D. S. Van Sickle,
Joe Josephson, Seaborn Buckelew,
John Andrews,
Mr. and Mrs. Steve McCutcheon,
Bob Dixon, Jess Carr, Ward Sims,
Mary Reischl, Katherine Nordale,
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Emmal, George
Allan, Mary Buckland, Ferrell
Campbell, Me Bride, Stanley Mc
Cuteheon, Frank Peratrovich, Bill
Montgomery, Alice Harrigan, E. L.
Holloway, Eugene Steffen, Delores
Rbguszka, Tex Hoffman, Harold
Munson.
Kendall Seeks Re-Election
JUNEAU UFi — Secretary of State
Hugh Wade said today that nine
more persons have filed declara
tions of candidacy for the State
House at Representatives.
All are newcomers to the state
political scene except for Rep.
Bruce Kendall of Apchprage, who
filed for re-election from Election
District 8.
Kendall has served continuously
in the House since 1958 and was
Republican floor leader during the
1981-62 legislature.
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Jacqueline Cochran Flies
Jet Across the Atlantic
HANNOVER, Germany (A*) —
Jacqueline Cochran flew a four
engine jet 5,120 miles from New
Orleans to West Germany at an
average speed of 489 miles per hour
Sunday and claimed 49 new filght
records.
The noted American flyer—first
woman to break the sound barrier
— said her Lockheed Jetstar
“Scarlett O’Hara” had reached a
top speed of 620 mph during the
three-leg flight.
Miss Cochran, wife of financier
Floyd Odium, took off from New
Orleans with three companions at
1:20 a.m. Sunday and landed at
Hannover at 3 p.m. after refueling
stops at Gander, Nfld., and Shan
non, Ireland.
The National Aeronautics Assn,
said her claim of 49 records was
the largest ever submitted for a
single flight.
Miss Cochran previously had set
33 national and international rec
ords. Sixteen of these are still un
broken.
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13,000 Wisconsin
Troops to Visit
Century 21 Today
SEATTLE U!) — Wisconsin’s 32nd
Infantry Division, trained for mass
assaults since its call-up last fall,
stages one today.
Target: The Seattle World’s Fair
The 13,000 men of the lairicc
Red Arrow Division, stationed ai
nearby Ft. Lewis, were given leave
to attend the Fair this Wisconsin
Day. Many have their families with
them.
On hand to greet them will be
Wisconsin Gov. Gaylord A. Nelson,
Sen. Alexander Wiley, (R-Wis.),
and all the present or former Wis
consinites here for the Badger
State’s big day at the Century 21
exposition.
The highlight will be the un
furling of the Wisconsin flag at
the Plaza of States — the first flag
to be raised among the 50 event
ually to fly here. Next: Idaho to
morrow.
The military “invasion” is ex
pected to keep attendance high on
the Fair’s first week day. Satur
day’s opening-day turnout was
51,510, yesterday’s was close to
43,000.
Easter Sunday brought the first
visit of royalty to the exposition.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
and Empress Farah of Iran toured
the grounds and $10 million UB.
Science Pavilion, and were honored
at a luncheon atop the 600-foot
Space Needle.
The royal couple made a one
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Angeles to start the final week of
their three-week stay in this coun
try. Both praised the Fair.
A pat on the back also was
given by Robert Moses, president
of New York’s 1964 World’s Fair,
who said, “this is all you have
claimed for it and more.’’
The fabled luck of the Irish
failed the Lord Mayor of Dublin,
Robert Briscoe, at the start of his
visit yesterday afternoon. The
trouble-plagued World of Tomor
row theme show, showing how man
will live, eat, work and play in
the year 2,000, had another elec
trical failure just as he started
through with Seattle Mayor Gor
don S. Clinton.
From out-of-staters the only
; grumbles heard were about “Dry”
Sunday. Under Washington law, no
drinks or bottled liquor or beer
I can be sold on the Sabbath.
Pilot, Whose Jet
Killed Two People,
Is Exonerated
SEATTLE (fft — You are an Air
Force pilot in a picked group flying
over the Seattle World’s Fair in an
opening-day salute.
Directly over the 600-foot Space
Needle, the engine of your F-102
jet Interceptor quits.
What do you do?
Capt. Joseph Wildt, 33, of Cin
cinnati, was faced with this de
cision Saturday.
What he did, he said yesterday,
was break away from formation,
try unsuccessfully to start his
j plane, then attempt to dive it into
Lake Washington and, at the last
possible moment bail out.
Something went wrong. The
plane plowed into a residential
neighborhood, starting a fire whicl
killed an elderly couple, destroyec
two house and damaged foui
others.
The dead were Howard Smith
68, and his wife, 63.
Wildt was picked up by a pri
vate boat. He is in good condi
tion ih the hospital at Paine Field
where he is stationed. He has j
small abrasion over his right eye.
“I hesitated as long as I coult
and still realize any chance of es
caping the aircraft,” he said in ai
interview. “I just knew it wa
going into the water when I baile<
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Instead it lifted momentarily
cleared a low hill and crashed ini
the area of moderately price
homes.
“He did everything right a
briefed,’ said Lt. Col. Wyman E
Anderson, leader of the nine-plan
formation which flew the aeria
salute. “We’re glad he made it.”
Wildt has been flying F-102i
since January, 1957. He put in 85(
hours in them before this, his firs
bail-out.
SON DROWNS IN POOL
MEMPHIS, Term. UP) — Stev<
Alien Lewis, 3-year-old son o:
rock ‘n’ roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis
drowned in a swimming pool at th
Lewis’ suburban home Sunday.
Steve was the son of Lewis an<
17-year-old Myra Gail Browi
Lewis, the singer’s third wife. Thei
marriage in 1958 caused an up
roar that canceled a tour in Eng
land for Lewis. Myra, Lewis’ cou
sin, was 13 at the time.
Elmo K. Lewis of Ferriday, La
Lewis’ father, said the child wai
in the kitchen with his mothei
when he wandered away. After t
search of the house, Mrs. Lewis
called a neighbor to search th«
pool.
"Law Day UAA."
JUNEAU lm — Gov. Wm. Egar
today proclaimed May 1 “Law Day
U.S.A.”, and May 19 “Armec
Forces Day” in the State of Alaska
START DRILLING
Fred Pancratz, A1 Doyle, Walls
Parker, and E.W. Vanderbilt hav<
taken a drill out on the Bering Se;
where they have a gold minin*
off-shore lease and are the first U
start drilling.
A1 Doyle stated this morning tha'
the sampling being taken is througi
44 inches of ice and a 2 inch pip*
is being used.
John Larsen, experienced driller
is in charge of the drilling rig.
The rig being used is a Key
stone drill rented from the USJ
R & M Co.
The four men have named thei
mining operation the Nome Gol<
Coast Mining Company.
Minuteman and Polaris Missiles
Expected to be Tested With
Nuclear Warheads tn the Pacific
WASHINGTON M — The Min
uteman intercontinental ballistic
missile and the submarine-launched
Polaris rocket are expected to get
their first trials with nuclear war
heads in the new U.S. test series
about to begin in the Pacific.
Informed sources suggested this
probability today as T-Day — the
date for triggering the first U.S.
atmospheric tests in nearly four
years — appeared Imminent.
The Minuteman and Polaris rate
ahead of all other weapons, since
they will form the core of U.S.
nuclear striking power in the years
ahead.
Both missiles have been tested
with dummy warheads, but never
mated with their nuclear tips.
Other rocket-type weapons de
veloped since the 1958 test series
also are due to be tested with
[ nuclear warheads.
. Thousands of men and scoi'es of
ships of U.S. Task Force 8 are
speeding preparations for the nu
clear explosions in the air over the
. Pacific. The tests are expected to
. begin this week.
Some officials said the first blast
l could come within 48 hours.
. Talk About Credit
DAYTON, Ohio UR — On some
j thing like a dollar down and a
. dollar a week, a Dayton couple
I living on a $147 a month retire
ment check, furnished their two
mAw bnuco
I Foar washing machines, five re
frigerators, a deep freeze, an elec
trie dishwasher still in the crate
five new cedar chests filled with
linen, two new cedar wardrobes,
a bedroom suite, a new living room
suite never used, two electric
mixers, two electric and one man
ual wall can-openers, a portable
typewriter and typing table, a food
blender and electric drink mixer
still in boxes, a permanent deco
rated Christmas tree which was
never used, two telephone tables,
a crated chaise lounge, new kitchen
furniture, a clothes dryer, two
vacuum sweepers, an electric ice
cream freezer, 12 foot-tubs, a
radio-phonograph combination —
and much more.
“We just wanted it. That’s why
we got it,” explained Mrs. Thomas
Hill.
The hoard was discovered when
the police chief in nearby Jeffer
son township went to the home
to serve eviction papers. Mrs. and
’ Mrs. Hill hadn’t paid their $40
| a month rent in three months.
i HONEST BURGLAR . . .
ATLANTA UD — In an act with
1 few precedents, a repentant bank
robber returned by mail today the
entire $12,030 of his haul.
A startled bank clerk, Mrs. Ruby
iiuuj y vpcucu vac vi iwu pav-xvagcd
in which the bandit sent back the
^ assortment of $1 to $100 bills he
took at gunpoint Friday from a
branch office of the Bank of
Georgia.
’ Mrs. Roby took the other package
! to her supervisor and they opened
1 it together.
’ “The amount was exact down to
1 the last dollars ” observed vice
president James Dickson Jr.
The packages were turned over
[>■ to the FBI.
• The holdup was the 25th of a
bank or Savings Loan Assn, in
1 Georgia in 13 months. Loot has
mounted to $300,000.
> ROME (I) — Elizabeth Taylor
and Richard Burton slipped out of
• tourist-jammed Rome Saturday for
1 a quiet Easter together at a sea
side resort 83 miles north of Rome.
U.S. Launches
Ranger 4 Rocket
On Moon Shot
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UR —
The United States successfully
launched the Ranger 4 spacecraft
into space today and scientists
hope to guide it to a landing on
the moon Thursday.
Ranger 4’s mission is to take
closeup television pictures of the
moon and put an instrument pack
age on its surface to collect sci
entific data.
America’s most powerful space
booster, the 10-story-tall Atlas
Agena B, blasted away from Cape
Canaveral at 3:50 p.m. EST with
the gold and silver spacecraft in
its nose.
Over the first critical stages, the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration announced, the
booster performed as planned and
hurled Ranger 4 on the start of its
intended 65-hour voyage to the
moon, now 229,541 miles away.
Should Hit Moon Thursday
However, several complex man
euvers must be accomplished on
a split-second time table to achieve
the hoped-for 8:50 a.m. Thursday
rendezvous with the moon.
The failure of any one of them
could prevent the vehicle from
reaching the moon—just as Ranger
3 did when excess speed caused it
to miss by 22,862 miles.
Ranger 4 in effect was launched
irum an oruiung space pianunu—
the Agena B second stage of the
rocket which settled into an 18,000
mile an hour orbit 100 miles above
’ the earth six minutes after launch
ing. i' ^
After coasting through space for
another six minutes, the Agena B
engine re-ignited over the south
Atlantic Ocean and at the proper
instant a spring device kicked the
space craft free.
The rocket’s lift-off from the
earth with its 730-Ib. payload ap
parently was flawless.
Busy Week of Launchings
The shot is one of three major
I launchings scheduled this week by
the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. The second test
flight of the Saturn super-booster
is set for Wednesday, and a U.S.
British international satellite is
ticketed for firing Thursday. The
maiden flight of the high-energy
Centaur rocket, postponed a fifth
time Saturday, also may squeeze
into the crowded schedule.
Sixteen hours after launching, if
all is going well, a tracking station
at Goldstone, Calif., will send a
signal to fire a mid-course motor
to correct the vehicle’s position and
jockey it onto a collision course with
the moon.
Early thursday morning, when
Ranger 4 is to be 5,000 miles from
the moon’s bright side, the 730
pound craft is to execute a terminal
manuever to point its television
camera at the lunar landscape.
The camera begins operating at
an altitude of 2,400 miles and trans
mits a picture to Goldstone every
10 seconds for 40 minutes down to
an altitude of 15 miles.
The spacecraft then ejects a 12
inch sphere wrapped in a 24-inch
coating of shock-absorbant balsa
wood. A tiny reverse rocket at
tached to the 883-inch ball slows
the speed so it will land at a
velocity of 80 to 120 miles an hour.
The main body of the payload
crashes at 6,000 miles and is de
stroyed.
The instrument package contains
a seismometer, temperature gauge
and radio transmitter designed to
relay data to earth for at least 30
days.
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