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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 100
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1962
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Two U.S. Atomic Subs Hold “Historic j
Rendezvous” Under North Pole Ice Capj
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy announced today that two
U.S. submarines have completed a
"historic rendezvous” under the
North Pole ice cap.
After their under-ice meeting,
the two submarines surfaced
through an opening in the ice.
The subs are the Skate and the
Sea Dragon.
The hitherto secret dual journey
apparently explains the absence
from a recent White House awards
ceremony of Waldo K. Lyon, Sub
marine and Arctic Research Di
rector of the Navy Electronic La
boratory at San Diego, Calif.
Kennedy opened the meeting
with newsmen by announcing the
exploits of the atomic submarines.
He also volunteered general
comments on the legislative pro
gram he has before Congress, and
emphasized five bills he said are
important and still pending:
1. The farm bill passed by the
Senate, which he said holds out
hope of ending chaos in farm pro
duct controls.
2. The drug safety bill.
3. A consitutional amendment to
outlaw the poll tax. He said a two
thirds vote in the House Monday
is essential because American citi
zens should not have to pay to
vote.
4. The reciprocal trade bill. lie
urged the Senate to pass it with
out restrictive amendments.
5. The United Nations bond bill,
which he said is an issue "not De
mocratic or Republican but Amer
ican.” He said he is confident it
will be approved by all thought
Interior Dept.
Will Stage a
Big Game Sale
WASHINGTON UP) — If you’re
hunting for a gift guaranteed to
thrill even the most jaded young
Indian—
Or perhaps just a conversation
piece to enliven draggv patio
parties—
! The government has them — 233
buffalo and 137 longhorn cattle
They’re part of the Interior De
partment’s annual big game sale.
The animals graze at the na
tional wildlife refuges. Each year
the growing herds have to be
cut down to keep them from taxing
the capacity of the ranges.
For $180 you can have a live
buffalo to call your own. The long
horns will go to the highest bid
ders.
The government also has a deal
for those who prefer their big
game packaged, frozen and ready
for the freezer.
Butchered buffalo will go for
$220 to $270 a carcass — depend
ing on the process used. Quarters
and halves are available, too.
Also for sale are 75 elk — but
only after they have been butcher
ed — at $110 to $145. Minimum
quantity: A half carcass.
The orders for buffalo should be
sent to any of three refuges —
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Re
fuge, Cache, Okla.; Fort Niobrara
National Wildlife Refuge, Valen
tine, Neb.; and the National Bison
Range, Moiese, Mont.
Elk carcass sales will be only
from Wichita Mountains Refuge.
The longhorn cattle will be sold
at public auctions Sept. 20 at the
Wichita Mountains Refuge and
Oct. 9 at Fort Niobrara.
fill members of the House.
Asked about the Russian action
in withdrawing from four-power
occupation of Berlin, the Presi
dent said the central theme of the
U.S. response would be that the
i Soviet Union could not withdraw
j from this responsibility.
Kennedy said the State Depart
| ment already had issued a state
j ment on the subject and, in effect,
I he endorsed this statement, which
declared the Soviets still are re
sponsible for their obligations in
Berlin.
In response to a question about
the Soviet Union’s exploit of put
ting two men into orbit at the same
time, Kennedy commented that
“we are second to the Soviet
Union in long range boosters.”
He said the country will be be
hind for a while, but that before
the end of the decade he expects
it to be ahead. It is costing much
money to catch up after a late
start, he went on. The Soviets
started with a lead and are deter
mined to maintain it, he said.
Electricians Return to
Work at Space Center
WASHINGTON (/Pi — Gordon
Freeman, president of the AFL
! CIO International Brotherhood of
■ Electrical Workers, directed mem
bers of the union's Local 558 to
day to return to work immediately
at the Huntsville, Ala., space cen
ter.
Refusal of the local’s members
to work had halted for more than
a week space center construction,
including work on facilities for
moon exploration.
Freeman acceeded to an appeal
made by Secretary of Labor Arthur
Goldberg who had asked Freeman
for a back-to-work order.
The dispute was the complaint
of the IBEW local members against
working at the space center when
a subcontractor on the project was
operating with non-union workers.
Other AFL-CIO building trades
union members also quit work.
Rita Hayworth Hospitalized
NEW YORK l/Pt — Actress Rita
Hayworth, 42, is hospitalized in
New York City, interrupting re
hearsals for the play “Step on a
Crack,” scheduled to open on
Broadway Oct. 17.
Her agent described the ailment
as complete nervous exhaustion.
But a statement from the hospital
said she was slightly anemic, and
would remain there several days
for a checkup.
Fire Razes Furniture &
Redding Co. In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE l/fl — About 80
per cent of the $200,000 loss in
yesterday’s spectacular fire which
destroyed the Anchorage Bedding
and Furniture Co, here was cover
ed by insurance.
Authorities said today the build -
: ing and contents were insured for
i $172,500.
Investigators for the National
! Board of Fire Underwriters, the
| State Fire Marshal’s Office and
, the Anchorage Police Department
j continued to probe the charred
j ruins to determine the cause of
! the blaze.
Three firemen suffered minor
injuries battling the flames. Thirty
five employes in the building man- j
aged to flee the flast-spreading j
fire without injury.
Police Find Two
Bodies in Trunks
In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO & — A sU rim
er trunk has yielded a second body ■
from under t he* cement floor of a
garage in San Francisco's Ingle- i
side district.
Police, who unearthed the trunk
Tuesday night, said they assumed
the decomposed body is that of ,
Mildren Arneson, 58, wife of 70- |
year-old Jay Arneson, whose body
was found about 12 feet away j
Monday night.
The bodies were found under two j
recently laid layers of cement j
flooring of the home of a couple j
police say took over the Arneson’s j
Santa Rosa, Calif., motel after !
their disappearance.
Mrs. Arneson and her husband |
were divorced but she continued \
to care for him because he was I
an invalid.
Arneson, a World War I Army |
major, had been buried under the |
concrete in the garage of the j
modest frame house. Police said j
he had been strangled with a black
belt still around his neck. They
said they had not yet determined
the cause of the woman’s death.
Investigators arrested the owner
of the house, Ralph Kroeger, 61,
a hod carrier, and issued a warrant
for the arrest of Kroeger's wife,'
Iva, 44.
Chief of inspectors Dan McKlem
said Kroeger denied knowing any
thing about the trunk and also
denied knowing the whereabouts
of his wife. FBI agents said she
had been seen nearby last Friday
in the company of a boy, possibly
her grandson.
Kroeger was booked on a sus- j
picion of murder charge.
Discovery of Arneson’s body and j
the subsequent unearthing of the j
trunk climaxed a long police search
for the Arnesons. Mrs. Arneson
disappeared last December after
telling friends she would sell the
Arneson’s Santa Rosa motel and
go to Brazil. Arneson dropped from
sight in January.
A construction worker’s tip led
to the discovery of the bodies.
New School In Frisco
Won't Open Due to
Racial Controversy
SAN FRANCISCO UP> — The
new Central Junior High School
will not open here this fall be
cause of a race controversy.
The Board of Education made
the decision Tuesday night in a
unanimous vote after weeks of
bitter dispute over how the school’s
population should be divided j
among Negro and white students. }
Central had been scheduled to i
open Sept. 5 with a 60 per cent j
Negro population —- a figure some
critics termed “de facto segrega- i
tion.”
Negro groups, including the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, main
tained the school’s racial makeup
should consist of more whites and |
fewer Negroes.
SOVIETS SET OFF NO. 3
UPPSALA, Sweden 0P> — A new 1
Soviet nuclear test explosion in
the atmosphere was registered to
day by Uppsala University’s Seis
mological Institution.
Uppsala scientists put the
explosion at about nine megatons
—equivalent to nine million tons 1
of TNT. That would make it the j
No. 3 blast in size of the five ex- 1
plosions set off in the current j
Soviet series.
Atomic Ship, Savannah.
Will Carry 32 Passengers
ABOARD SAVANNAH
The Savannah, world’s first atomic- j
powered merchant ship, will go !
into the sail-for-pay business on
Tuesday, Aug. 28. carrying 32 pas
sengers from Savannah. Ga., to
Norfolk, Ya., at a minimum of
SI25 a head.
This was related today as the
Savannah neared her namesake i
city and an anticipated big wel
come at the end of her maiden
voyage to a commercial port.
The 20,000-ton, $53-million shin
is carrying 20 pasesngers. includ
ing Gov. Ernest Vandiver of j
Georgia, on the present trip from ;
Yorktown, Va., but this ceremonial .
trip is free.
Ofifcials of the States Marine
Lines, Inc., New York, which ,
operates the Savannah for the :
government, said 400 persons have j
applied for the 32 berths avail
able on the initial commercial voy- |
age that formally will usher in the |
atomic age of merchant shipping.
The ship will also carry some
commercial cargo.
The nuclear-powered Savannah
could cruise for 3Vt* years on her
present initial fueling of 17,000 I
pounds of uranium oxide.
De Gaulle Escapes '
Macliinegun Atlack
PARIS t/P) — President Charles
De Gaulle escaped a machine-gun
attack from a speeding car Wed
nesday night as he was being
driven to an airport outside Paris,
the Interior Ministry announced.
It was the third reported as
sassination attempt against the
French President in less than a
year.
Last September he narrowly
escaped death in a fire bomb at- j
tack attributed to the Terrorist j
Secret Army Organization then j
fighting his Algerian independ- |
ence program. In June the govern- j
ment announced an assassination
plot had been uncovered on a De
Gaulle whistle stop tour of France.
On Wednesday night a tire was :
shot out on the black sedan carry
ing the 71-year-old president. The
speeding car carrying the attackers
opened up with machine guns near
Villacoubly Air Force Base.
The Interior Ministry spokesman
said two other cars of passersbv
on the road were hit in the burst
of gunfire. One tire of each car
was shot out. A policeman on a
motorcycle was hit by a bullet j
which ricocheted off his plastic j
crash helmet.
There were no reported injuries 1
to the De Gaulle party.
The spokesman said that al
though De Gaulle’s car was hit in
:t tire, it continued on into the air
base. The tire was of a safety self
sealing type and did not go flat.
Underground Explosion
Fatal to Four Workers
PHILADELPHIA — Explo
sions touched off by an accumu
lation of fumes today trapped four
men 40 feet underground in a
storm sewer tunnel in south Phil
adelphia.
Two to three hours after the
blasts the bodies of two of the
men were brought to the surface.
Authorities said the other two were
presumed dead.
Firemen wearing air packs tried
for over two hours to rescue them
but the concentration of fumes
was too great.
Samuel Baxter, city disaster co
ordinator, said at the scene that
the vapors came from gasoline.
Soviets Abolish
(lomniaviflant’s
i )ffire In Berlin
BERLIN W. The Soviet Union
summarily abolished its command
ant’s office in Berlin today and
told the We. tern Allie henceforth
they must deal with the Soviet
Military Command in East Ger
many.
The move, coming at a time of
rising tension in the divided city,
u as apparently a new step in the
Soviet campaign to oust Western
garrisons. The decision appeared
intended to support the Soviet
claim of East German Communist
sovereignty in matters concerning
Berlin except in strictly four
power military affairs.
There was no immediate com
ment from Maj. Gen. Albert Wat
son II, the American Command
ant.
The announcement came two
hours after U.S. military police at
checkpoint Charlie held up three
Soviet armored cars for 45 minutes
at the border crossing point. A
hassle developed as the Russians
insisted they did not want an es
cort despite recent stealings of
Red army buses carrying sentries
to the Soviet War Memorial in the
British sector.
The Soviet announcement said
the Western powers have used the
existence of the Soviet Command
ant's Office as an excuse to inter
fere in internal affairs of East Ger
many.
The announcement declared the
| Western powers are resorting to
I such measures in older to preservt
the occupation regime in West
Berlin as a cover for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization mili
tary base.
Sir Christopher Steel, head of
the British military government
in Berlin, said the abolition of
the Soviet Command appears to
have no great political implica
tions. But he said he wanted to
know more before commenting
further.
LATEST RETURNS
Unofficial returns from 38 of 40
precincts in Northwestern Alaska
give:
For Governor: Democrats, Egan
1,253, Taylor 192, Byer 180, Boyer
20. Republicans, Stepovich 176,
Pollock 164, Martin 142, Fritz 117,
Coghill 109.
For Secretary of State: Demo
crats. Wade 1,514. Republicans,
Ross 449, Gilliland 161.
For U.S. Senator: Democrats,
Gruening 1,399. Veach 193. Repub
licans, Stevens 448, Cook 182.
For U.S. Representative: Demo
crats, Rivers 1,526. Republicans,
Thomas 604, Pratt 74.
For State Senator at large: De
mocrats. Foster 604, Degnan 528,
Nusunginya 473. Republicans, Mar
tin 435, Frazier 204.
For State Senate Dist. P; Demo
crats, Walsh 945. Republicans, Mc
Iver 449.
FORGERY BY PROXY . . .
MIAMI, Fla. l/Pi — A man who
can’t read or write has been sen
tenced to two years in prison for
forgery.
Judge Jack Falk sentenced Willie
Robinson, 29, Monday after hear
ing testimony from Lonnie Arm
strong, 37, who said Robinson
talked him into drawing up a few
checks just to see how it was done.
Armstrong said he thought all
the practice checks were destroyed,
but Robinson apparently held out
a few, endorsed them with an
“X" and cashed them.
Armstrong was put on probation.