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CLINTON GRAY _____Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
How here’s the plan. John, you remove the point cons. Mary,
you remove the magazines. Mabel, you remove the newspapers***'
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And fourth, my Lord, when we’ve finished, you keep it clean.
It’s Ciean-Up Time
said
tfnPHIS IS THE DIRTIEST main street I have ever seen/
* a visitor Friday. And he was probably right.
In defense, however, he probably has never visited a com
munity which has the litter and filth piled up for eight months
before anything could be done about it.
We would like him to come back in about six weeks when
it has been all picked up, cleaned up and straightened up, we are
sure he will be equally surprised at what can be done by a com
munity which is really going out this year to be the cleanest
town in Alaska.
For the Midnight Sun Festival our streets must be clean
and youth groups on the alert to see that none of their groups are
offenders in putting litter on the streets. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts,
church groups, should all unite in this goal of a clean street of
which they are proud.
NOW IS THE TIME TO START l
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As the Thor neared the firing
altitude — believed to be 30 to 40
miles — a safety officer of Joint
Task Force 8 ordered the rocket
destroyed. The announcement said
only that the tracking system mal
functioned.
The failure followed two 24 hour
postponements of the explosion —
the first of three or four blasts in
the current Pacific series. The
postponements were not officially
explained but reports in Honolulu
blamed cloudy weather and pos
sible technical difficulties.
Joint Task Force 8 had no word
when another shot will be attempt
ed. “They want to analyze this
one before they say anything fur
ther,” a spokesman said.
The United States went ahead
with the shot despite a Soviet gov
ernment charge from Moscow Sun
day that the test would “carry the
nuclear arms race into outer space,”
The Moscow complaint said the
high-altitude blast could disrupt
communications, endanger astro
naut flights and “change the
weather.”
A spokesman for Joint Task
Force 8 said, “let them compain.
They know more about these tests
than we do. That’s what we’re
trying to find out.”
"The Reivers” hy John Faulkner
Is Book of the Month Selection
Few would dispute William
Faulkner is one of the most origin
al American writers of the century.
What is not frequently recognized
is his gift for comedy. A strain of
robust, indigenously American hu
mor runs through much of his
work, and nowhere is it more evi
dent than in his new novel, “The
Reivers,” the Book-of-the-Month
Club selection for July.
The word “reiver” is derived
from a Scottish word “reive,” to
rob or despoil, and thus means
“robber” or “plunderer.” Mr.
Faulkner’s use of the word, how
ever, is more affectionate than
literal. The “reivers” of his enter
taining story (which he subtitles
“A Reminiscence”4 are an 11-year
old boy named Lucius Priest and
Lucius’ two companions, one
Boon Togganbeck, a burly chauf
fer and handyman with the mind
of a child, the other a shrewd,
philosophical Negro who always
introduces himself as Ned WiUians
McCaslin Jefferson Mississippi.
NOME SANITARY
FAA Studies
Ways to Combat
Airplane Bombing
By Vera Haugland
WASHINGTON UP) — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency said Satur
day it has under wav a nuartpr
million dollar research program
aimed at combatting airplane
bombings.
A major portion is centered on
the possible seeding of all ex
plosive materials with inert radio
isotopes. The presence of such ma
terials could be detected with
Geiger counters.
Other possible measures include
use of X-rays and fluoroseopes,
moisture analysis magnetic re
action, and even training animals
to detect the distinct odor of nitro
glycerine.
The agency long has refused to
discuss sabotage prevention pro
grams for fear of publicity that
might stir psychopathic individuals
into action.
However, the recent suspected
bombing of a Continental Airlines
jet plane has convinced some of
ficials it is time to answer
queries on this subject — to de
monstrate that the agency is not
standing idle.
An FAA spokesman said the
agency’s current budget provides
about $50,000 for the studies.
Primarily the work has involved
the radioistopoes approach under
a project started by former FAA
Administrator E. R. Quesada, with
the cooperation of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
This study was completed by
Catholic University last fall. A
report, still not made public, has'
been presented to FAA Adminis
trator N. E. Halaby.
Recently the FAA decided to
undertake laboratory studies to
test solutions suggested by the
Catholic University project.
The FAA has set aside $125,000
for this study in the fiscal year
starting next month, and a like
sum for the fiscal year following.
The work would be aimed at de
termining how much “branded”
material would be required to
identify it through luggage. An
other question is the duration re
quired of the radioactive material.
The work will include studies at
the FAA Experimental Center at
Atlantic City, simulating bomb de
tection efforts.
One technique under study is
placing airplane luggage in an
inverted bomb shelter. Microwaves
then would be introduced to ex
plode any triggering caps present.
The FAA acknowledges all of
the techniques have drawbacks, and
none may be completely effective.
The nuclear seeding of U.S
explosives, for example, would not
solve the problem of bombs fash
ioned in other countries or made
of black powder drained from or
dinary shotgun shells.
Nor would it solve the fact that
most of the materials for dangerous
explosives may be purchased at a
comer drugstore.
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IKE BLAZES AWAY AT
JFK’s ECONOMIC PROGRAM
WASHINGTON ttf) — Former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
has blazed away at the Kennedy
administration’s economic program.
He said he and other Republican
leaders are “deeply concerned
about the direction in which our
economy seems to be going.”
Eisenhower s/pened -tiro on his
successor’s domestic policies at a
news conference after a political
council of war Friday with GOP
congressional leaders and eight of
his former cabinet members.
Too much control is being vested
in the federal government, said
Eisenhower, and some people
seem to be losing faith in the
ability of individual Americans to
make their own decisions.
“No central group can sustain
the strength of a free economy and
the liberty guaranteed by our
founding fathers,” he declared.
The way to stop the trend, Ei
senhower said, is to elect a Re
publican House this year, “and
that is what we expect to do.”
Repeatedly he struck at what he
called administration spending
policies and measure such as the
farm bill, which he said helped
centralize federal control.
Eisenhower did not directly
blame the Kennedy administration
for the recent tumble of the stock
market. He said he was baffled
but its causes but suggested one of
them might be “a lack of confi
dence, come of which could be
traced to the government.”
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U.S. SOLDIER SHOT AND
WOUNDED IN GUN BATTLE
IN SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL, South Korea (ff) — The
U.S. Army said Saturday an Amer
ican soldier guarding the Korean
truce line was shot and wounded
in a gun battle between troops of
the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and
.three, Communist North Korean
spies. One Communist agent was
killed.
The wounded American was hit
twice in the arms and once in the
head, but was in good condition,
an Army spokesman said.
The soldier’s name was with
held.
The spokesman said the action
had occurred late Friday about
three miles south of the demili
tarized zone.
A group of American soldiers
preparing to return to their com
pound stumbled across the three
Koreans hiding in holes near the
1st Cavalry Division area, the
spokesman said. One of the Reds
pulled out a pistol, yelled, and
fired three or four times, hitting
one American.
The other Americans rallied and
began closing in on the Commu
nists. Two of the agents fled after
dropping their knapsacks. The
third was found dead, apparently
killed by his companions.
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