63rd Year No. 124
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 1962
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U.S. Fails for
Third Time to
Scout the Moon
PASADENA, Calif. UPi — The
United States’ third straight at
tempt to scout the moon by tele
vision has failed -— possibly
because of damage to the Ranger
5 lunar rocket by radiation from
recent high altitude nuclear blasts.
The 755 - pound camera - toting
spacecraft, launched yesterday
from Cape Canaveral, ran out of
electrical power eight hours and
44 minutes later.
Scientists said this meant it
would be unable to correct its
course and would miss the moon
300 miles.
It also meant Ranger 5 would
not be able to operate its tele
vision camera nor to land a quake
measuring device on the moon’s
surface.
Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Labor
atory, which built Ranger 5 and
is tracking it through space, said
the spacecraft apparently failed
to draw electrical power from its
wing-like solar panels to operate
its instruments.
Its only source of power then
was a small reserve battery with a
life of eight to nine hours. That
battery went dead just as sci
entists were trying to command
the spacecraft to fire a small
rocket that would re-aim it at the
moon.
Cause of the failure of the solar
power system was not announced,
but there was unofficial specula
tion by some space experts that
the craft’s delicate solar cells
could have been damaged by radia
tion from recent high altitude nu
clear blasts over the Pacific.
Radiation of the kind emitted in
nuclear explosions sometimes is
trapped in the dangerous belt of
radiation surrounding the earth.
Ranger 5 had to go through this
belt on its flight toward the moon.
This was the third straight fail
ure in the hard-luck Ranger pro
gram to scout the moon electronic
ally for upcoming manned moon
ships.
Centennial Committee
Starts Planning For
Celebration In 1967
Members of the recently-ap
pointed Alaska Centennial Com
mittee have begun the planning
which is hoped will lead to a birth
day celebration for the state in
1967.
The group, which met Tuesday
in Anchorage, named Edward A.
Merdes of Fairbanks as its chair
man and Mrs. A. H. Nordale, also
from Fairbanks, as secretary.
Herb Hilscher of Anchorage will
be vice chairman for central Alas
ka and George Beacom of Sitka
vice chairman for southern Alaska.
Henry Roloff, Commissioner of
the State Department of Economic
Development and Planning, said
the group will hold meetings
throughout the state and will
evolve a composite theme for the
celebration in 1967.
The committee has been in
structed to prepare a report for
presentation to the governor prior
the next legislative session. The
report will include recommenda
tions and possible cost of the cen
tennial observance, Roloff said.
Members of the committee in
clude Don Perkins of Nome.
The group will meet next in
Sitka Nov. 23 and 24.
JFK Addresses Letter To
Nevvspaperboys During
National Newspaper Week
DALLAS, Tex. W — The Inter
national Circulation Managers
Assn, released today a letter of
best wishes to newspaperboys from
President Kennedy.
National Newspaperboy D a y
will be observed Saturday, the last
day of National Newspaper Week.
The message said:
”1 am happy to join my fellow
citizens in paying tribute to the
newspaperboys of America.
“Our press plays a vital role in
the education of a democracy. Its
effectiveness must depend in a
large measure on the 700,000 news
paperboys who deliver the news
papers into millions of American
homes every day.
“A newspaper route is the in
troduction to individual initiative
and enterprise for many young
people. That this experience will
prove invaluable in later years
is evidenced bv the many out
standing citizens in all fields of
endeavor who began their working
careers as newspaperboys.”
JFK Indicates Willingness
To Talk with Khrushchev
If He Comes to the U.S.
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy is reported to be send
ing word to Soviet Premier
Khrushchev that he is willing to
have an informal talk on the Ber
lin crisis and other world issues
if Khrushchev decides to come to
the United States in the next few
weeks.
In a meeting with Khrushchev’s
Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromy
ko, Kennedy, sought to avoid
being either encouraging or dis
couraging on the prospective
Khrushchev trip..
Gromyko spent two hours and
15 minutes in a White House con
ference with Kennedy, Secretary
of State Dean Rusk and a number
of advisers on both sides.
On leaving the White House, he
said the exchange of views with
the President on a number of
topics, including Berlin, had been
useful. Neither the President nor
his press officer had any com
ment.
Later, Gromyko and Rusk met at
a working dinner at the State De
partment and continued the dis
cussion.
The talks failed to yield any
evidence of possible accomplish
ment that might come of a Ken
nedy-Khrushchev session. Gromy
ko was reported adamant on the
Soviet demand that the Western
powers abandon West Berlin, and
he talked of a need for a Soviet
peace treaty with East Germany
without indefinite delay
Kennedy and Rusk both tried to
impress him with U.S. determina
tion to defend West Berlin and its
lifelines from West Germany.
Khrushchev made it known
though U.S. Ambassador Foy
Kohler, whom he received in Mos
cow on Tuesday, that he was con
sidering coming to the United Na
tions and that there were a num
ber of things that he would like
to discuss with the President.
VISIT HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Winston Carlson,
parents of Mrs. Charles Samuels,
have been visiting here with their
daughter for the past two weeks
and enjoying their three young
grandchildren. The Carlsons are
from Lake Tahoe, Nev.
Kennedy Makes
Earnest Plea for
Medicare for Aged I
CLEVELAND, Ohio (/Pi — Presi
dent Kennedy brought his off-year
election campaign here today with
an earnest plea for medical aid to
the elderly under social security.
Kennedy has made this point in
almost every speech this fall, but
he put unusual stress on it here.
Only with a Democratic Con
gress, Kennedy said, can this na
tion move ahead. He ticked off a
list of things the federal govern
ment helps in — hospitals, insur
ance of bank deposits, housing —
and said this would be assured
with a Democratic Congress.
Kennedy got an enthusiastic
welcome to Cleveland — a city he
carried by a big margin in 1900,
even though he lost Ohio.
Kennedy had good words for
Gov. Michael Disalle and Sen.
Frank Lausche, both up for re
election Nov. 6.
The President talked for only
15 minutes before hurrying by
motorcade back to the airport to
renew his jet flight, headed for:
An afternoon visit to Lincoln’s
Tomb in Springfield, 111., followed
by a speech at the state fair
grounds.
A speech at an evening banquet
in Chicago.
Here Kennedy is expected to
try to build up more enthusiasm
for Rep. Sidney Yates, who is at
tempting to unseat Evertt Dirksen.
the Senate Republican leader.
This speech is awaited with
special interest. In his official ca
pacity Dirksen drops in on the
President weekly when Congress
is in session, and at least occa
sionally supports Kennedy on key
foreign issues.
Will Kennedy go all-out in de
manding Dirksen’s defeat?
Or will he gracefully couch his
phrases in general terms, as he
so often does, and simply call the
Republicans the bad guys and the
Democrats the good guys?
3.500 TROOPS WITHDRAW
FROM OXFORD. MISS.
WASHINGTON OP — The Army
announced today withdrawal of
another 3,500 regular and Missis
sippi National Guard troops from
Oxford, Miss.
This will leave about 500 regu
lars at Oxford where students and
others rioted nearly three weeks
ago in protest over the admission
of a Negro student to the Univer
sity of Mississippi.
At the height of the crisis the
federal government mustered more
than 23,000 troops in Mississippi
and nearby Tennessee.
Sweeping Injunction Bars
State Interfering with
Desegregation at Ole Miss
ATLANTA UP) — The U.S. 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals issued a
sweeping injunction against the
State of Mississippi and its offi
cials today, barring them from
interfering in any way with the
desegregation of the University of
Mississippi.
The injunction was the only ac
tion on which a decision was is
sued today, although the judges
had under consideration contempt
charges against Mississippi Gov.
Ross Barnett and Lt. Gov. Paul
Johnson Jr.
Chief Judge Elbert Tuttle said
a decision would be issued as soon
as possible in the contempt cases.
But he declined to say whether
the judges had reached a decision.
Stevens Advocates Branch *
Of University Established
In Southeast Panhandle
SITKA — Expansion of the
University of Alaska to include a
branch in the Southeast Panhandle
was advocated today by Ted Ste- ^
vens. Republican candidate for the •'
U S. Senate.
In a speech to a Republican 1
rally here. Stevens said:
"I suggest that one million acres r
of the forest lands of Southeastern j ‘
Alaska be set aside to endow a '
southern branch of the University 1
of Alaska. j i
“We need a school of forestry |
and marine sciences. And we de- j 1
finitely need to establish our Uni- | ’
vorsity of Alaska as a statewide
university.
“Too many of the brilliant young j
Alaskans from this part of Alaska j
leave here to go to school outside j
and never return to Alaska.”
The establishment of a definite
grant of forest lands for the uni
versity would provide an area
within which to practice modern
forestry techniques and stimulate
the study of the problems of the
forest resources industries, Ste
vens said.
As he has suggested in prior
speeches, Stevens said to have ef
fective representation in Washing
ton, Alaska should have bipar
tisan representation.
Overworked
Bank Manager
Embezzles $444,000
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A
woman who described herself as
an overworked, underpaid bank
manager, has been sentenced to 12
years in prison for embezzling
$444,000.
She said she took the money
for religious projects and to help
friends and relatives.
Sabra Rachel Holt, 44, of Dyer,
Tenn., collapsed in tears and had
to be carried from the courtroom
after sentence was pronounced
yesterday in U.S. District Court.
Judge Bailey Brown said Mrs.
Holt was working for “an incon
ceivably low wage for a person
having her responsibility,” but
concluded: “We have got to set
an example for others so they
won’t be tempted in the future.”
Mrs. Holt, a former Baptist
Church leader, spent an hour in an
unusual personal appeal to the
judge telling how she diverted
funds of the Trenton, Tenn., Fed
eral Savings & Loan Assn, where
she was secretary-treasurer.
She said her philantropic acti
vities included sending a mission
ary preacher to Africa, paying for
the education of a ministerial stu
dent, sending a niece to college
and contributing $2,000 a year to
her church.
She also paid sickness and funer
al bills for relatives and manipu
lated accounts to cover up for
customers who couldn’t make pay
ments on their loans, Mrs. Holt
told the court.
During her 24 years of service,
the association grew from a $100,
000 institution to one with assets
of $2.5 million.
When the shortage was found
last May, Mrs. Holt said she was
earning $500 a month.
WEATHER FORECAST
Variable cloudiness with north
westerly winds 15 mph. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 15,
the high tomorrow 25.
Vattlr ! air I Mans
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’Extravaganza*'
SEATTLE <.-P — The Seattle
Vorld’s Fair will pull out all the
tons Sunday for the closing day
f its six-months-long show, al
eady declared a financial success.
President Kennedy, fireworks,
ausic, precision marching and a
1-gun salute all are included in
he big Sunday extravaganza. The:
"air's gates will close at midnight
or the last time.
Meanwhile, the roaring attend
tnce pace continued to pick up as
Seattleites and Washingtonians
bund themselves with only two
nore days to see the innumerable
ittraetions on the fairgrounds.
The turnout Thursday was 70,
169 persons, bringing the total paid
o 9,217,995. There still are about,
100,00 prepaid advance tickets and
annus books still held by pur
chasers.
If early crowds gather outside
the gates Sunday, the opening
hours will be moved up to 9:30
a.m. President Kennedy will ar
rive at 12:30 p.m., instead of 11
a.m. as announced earlier, so as
not to conflict with the Protestant
worship hour.
He will spend about an hour in
the Plaza of the States and at the
Federal Science Pavilion before
heading back to Washington.
The beginning of the end of the
Fair will start at sunset, 5:11 p.m.,
Sunday in the Century 21 Stadium.
The program will end at 7 p.m. a
thousand musicians will play and
Patrice Munsel, opera star will
sing.
All Panama Flag Ships
Forbidden Any Kind
Of Trade With Cuba
PANAMA — President
Roberto Chiari forbade all ships
flying Panama's flag from engaging
in any kind of trade with Cuba.
Chiari’s decree last night was
a major boost to the U.S. cam
paign to clamp an economic block
ade on Fidel Castro’s regime. An
estimated 8,000 ships fly the Pan
amanian flag, most of them
foreign owned.
Foreign owners register their
craft in Panama to reap the bene
fits of lower taxes, lower wage
rates and other advantages.
Ships violating the decree will
lose their Panamanian registry
automatically, Chiari said.
Robert Liddell, real estate man
af Juneau, is scheduled to be guest
speaker at the Nome Rotary Club
next Wednesday, according to in
formation received from Alaskans
United. Mr. Liddell will discuss the
important capital move issue.
EASIER TO FIRE . . .
WASHINGTON — Sargent
Shriver says President may have
picked him to head the' Peace
Corps because he would find it
easier to fire a brother-in-law if
things didn't work out.
Shriver, married to Kennedy’s
sister Eunice, gave the tongue-in
cheek explanation of how he came
to head the Corps at a National
Press Club luncheon yesterday.
Kennedy selected him, Shriver
said, because "everybody thought
it was going to be a political fiasco
and it was easier to fire a rela
tive.’’
Then, in a more serious vein,
the Corps Director said "coming
down here as an unknown and the
brother-in-law of the President
wasn’t the best way to start.”