22 NOME NUGGET
OLDBgT NEWSPAPER IN AI .ASK A —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 80
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1962
Per Copy 15#
U.S. Lifts Travel
Restrictions On
Soviet Visitors
WASHINGTON UFi — The United
States notified Russia today that
it is eliminating travel restrictions
on all Soviet visitors to the United
States. It called on the Soviet
government to remove restrictions
on American visitors to Russia.
Travel restrictions are being
continued on Soviet diplomats and
officials stationed in this country
as well as on Soviet correspond
ents.
Travel of such persons outside
New York and Washington is au
thorized according to the amount
of travel about the Soviet Union
which is permitted to U.S. diplo
mats and correspondents station
ed in Moscow.
The United States acted on its
own in lifting restrictions on the
journeys of Soviet tourists and
special delegations which come
here by agreement with the So
viet government. About 1,500 So
viet citizens come in delegations
each year and another 500 as
tourists for a total of around 2,000.
The number of Americans going
to the Soviet Union presently
totals between 11,000 and 12,000
of whom an estimated 10,000 are
tourists and around 1,500 are mem
bers of exchange delegations.
SOBLEN FIT TO TRAVEL
. . . LAWYERS BLOCK
RETURN TEMPORARILY
LONDON i/P> — Runaway spy
Dr. Dobert Soblen was whisked
from a hospital to London’s Brix
ton jail tonight. The hospital said
he was fit to travel but his law
yers blocked his return to the
United States for at least 11 days.
The 62-year-old psychiatrist was
carried on a stretcher to a waiting
ambulance.
Soblen probably will be lodged
in jail at least until July 17 when
his lawyers go to court to apply
for a writ of habeas corpus.
Papers in the case were served
on the Home Office this morn’ng.
“The legal position is enor
mously complicated,” said a Home
Office spokesman, who declined to
speculate what moves the Home
Office might make.
In Washington, Justice and
State Department officials went
into conference on the affair.
The Home Office has insisted all
along that Soblen is merely in
transit through Britain, not in cus
tody. The Home Office position is
that he must be taken out of the
country by El Al, the Israeli air
plane, which was transporting
him to New York when he inter
rupted the trip with his suicide
attempt.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional light
drizzle. Lowest temp, expected to
night 48, the high tomorrow 55.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 51, lowest 48. Sunrise at 1:42
a.m., sunset at 10:29 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
47, lowest 37. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 68 in 1915,
lowest 34 in 1924.
McNAMARA SAYS RED
GUERRILLAS LOST PUNCH
WASHINGTON UP) — Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara said
today Communist guerrillas have
lost some effectivness in South Viet
Nam in recent months.
The Pentagon chief warned at
news conference, however, that
final victory over the Communists
is years away.
Among other things, McNamara
said, the Communists are operat
ing in smaller forces, indicating
their inability to consolidate on a
large scale.
He said this was because of the
faster reaction of loyal Vietnam
ese troops with the help of U.S.
helicopters which ferry them to
the scene of Communist attacks.
TERRIBLE MESS . . .
PORTLAND, Ore. UP) — A cus
tomer reported the dryer was not
working at a self-service laundry
today.
The owner investigated. Then he
called police. He said he did not
find too much damage, but there
was a terrible mess and he wanted
to try to find out w'ho put the
watermelon inside.
STATE OF ALASKA
WILL BE HONORED
AT C21 TOMORROW
SEATTLE UP) — The State of
Alaska will be honored tomorrow
at the World’s Fair.
Alaska Gov. Wm. Egan and Mrs.
Egan will dedicate the Alaska ex
hibit at 10 a.m., then be honored
guests at Alaska Honor-Day cere
monies at 11:30 in the Plaza of
States.
The King Islanders dancing Es
kimos will perform at 11 in the
Plaza.
Unveiling of a bronze plaque
symbolizing the strong bond of
friendship between Washington
and Alaska will highlight the dedi
cation of the Alaska exhibit in
the National Bank of Commerce
Bldg, at the Fair tomorrow.
Maxwell Carlson, bank presi
dent, also will present a painting
of the building to Egan.
Besides bank officials, Alaska
dignitaries who will attend include
A. H. Romick, Commisisoner of i
Commerce, and Mrs. Romick; Rich- j
A. H. Romick, Commissioner of
Public Works, and Mrs. Downing; j
Frank Vaille, special assistant to
the governor, and Mrs. Vaille; 1
Morris Ford, head of the State’s
Division of Tourism, and Mrs. 1
Ford; and Lt. Gen. George Mundy, !
Commander of the Alaska Com- j
mand, Elmendorf Air Force Base.
The exhibition is located about ,
150 feet south of the Space Needle. |
REP. RIVERS DUE HERE TODAY
Rep. Ralph Rivers is due to ar
rive here today for a one-day I
stopover while in Alaska for a
week.
He participated in the launch
ing of the second ferry for South
eastern Alaska on July 2 and
is taking a quick trip. He stated
that he finds the time available
painfully short, but considers that
his first responsibility is to con
centrate on legislative matters of
importance to Alaska until the
present session of Congress ad
journs.
Three Teen-agers
Get 15 Solid
Whacks in Court
WHITING, Ind. UP> — Three
youths, among nine who were
given unusual punishments Thurs
day by City Judge William Ober
miller, were spanked by two po
licemen and a bailiff.
Each youth got 15 solid whacks,
as ordered by the judge. They
stood before the judge as the po
licemen and a court bailiff admin
istered the spanking with their
hands on the seats of the teen
agers’ pants.
Some 250 persons who jammed
the courtroom witnessed the
spankings given to Steve Shorr,
16; Peter Welcome, 17; and James
Hunt, 16. They, with Daniel Car
dona, 15, had been convicted of
drinking beer and brandy at the
Whiting Beach on June 18.
In addition to the spankings,
Judge Obermiiler ordered shaven
heads and beach cleanup orders,
and writing and studying for ex
aminations on the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitu
tion.
The three youths who were
spanked also were ordered to have
their hair cut not more than a
half inch high and help clean up
Whiting Beach each Saturday until
Labor Day. They will be joined
at the beach by five other youths
who received similar sentences
from the judge last Tuesday and
two others Thursday night.
Obermiiler, an elected city court
judge, has been on the bench about
two years.
FRESH TRACKS FOUND
OF MISSING PROSPECTOR
SEATTLE UP — The wife of a
Seattle prospector reported lost
since June 22 in the Charley River
country, in Alaska’s interior near
Circle Hot Springs, was being
cared for by friends today.
Word had been relayed to Mrs.
Claude L. Brown that fresh tracks
of a man and his dog had been
found in the area last Wednesday,
and that the search was being
pressed.
Brown’s companion, Leo Comer,
32, Everett, Wn., stumbled into a
small settlement at Coal Creek,
near the Arctic Circle, Sunday
after floating down the Charley
and Yukon Rivers on a crude log
raft.
Mrs. Comer said at Everett her
husband had called her as soon as
he found his way out, but she had
little information.
Brown, 52, and her husband had
! been going to Alaska summers for
| a number of years, Mrs. Comer
' said. They left here May 21, she
' said.
POSTPONE THIRD TEST
HONOLULU UP) — The third try
to set off a big nuclear test shot
high above Johnston Island was
put off for another 24 hours today.
A Defense Department spokes
man in Washington said the rea
son was high winds aloft which
might have interfered with the
performance of the Thor missile
carrying the nuclear device.
NIXON IS FOR ALL
GOP CONFERENCE AND
CITIZENS COMMITTEE
NEW YORK W — Former Vice!
President Nixon says he supports
both the All-Republican Confer
ence, organized by former Presi
dent Dwight Eisenhower, and the
recently formed National Repub
lican Citizens Committee.
Nixon and his wife arrived by
plane Thursday from Denmark,
where he addressed a Fourth of
July celebration.
Sen. Barry Goldwater said yes
terday in Washington that hi1 ap
proved of the conference, formed
last Saturday at Eisenhower’s j
Gettysburg, Pa., farm as a Re
publican policy organization.
In a letter sent Monday to Wil
liam E. Miller, GOP National Com
mittee Chairman, Goldwater said:
“President Eisenhower and I agree
on that (the All-Republican Con
ference) but we disagree on the ‘
National Citizens Committee.”
Said Nixon: “I think both organ
izations are additives rather than
being divisive, and an additive is
what the Republicans need.”
POST OFFICE WINS
ITS FIGHT WITH BOBO
PHILADELPHIA UP) — The Post j
Office apparently has won its i
fight with Bobo, the brown boxer
who chases mailmen.
But it took an assist from neigh
bors of Mrs. Eugene Blinker who
owns Bobo.
After the Post Office served no
tice that it was shutting off all
mail deliveries to the entire block
because of Bobo’s attacks, the
neighbors obtained an injunction
restraining Mrs. Brinker from keep
| ing the dog on her property,
j Judge John Boyle issued the in
j junction June 26 and Bobo has
; been packed off to a kennel in
i New Jersey.
JAPANAESE PESSIMISTIC
ABOUT JFK’s OFFER EOR
THEM TO INVEST IN U S.
TOKYO iJ’' — Industrialists and i
government officials today greeted j
with pessimism the Kennedy ad- i
ministration proposal that Japa
nese industries invest in factories
in the United States.
The consensus appeared to be: \
What would be gained by moving j
into a hijjh - wage labor market ;
when we have comparatively low |
wages here at home?
The U.S. government had sug
gested foreign investment in build
ing U.S. factories as a means to
improve America’s balance of pay
ments and to create job oppor
tunities in certain areas.
But the Japanese pointed out
that they too have an adverse
balance of payment situation, a
problem of more dollars going out
than coming in.
A spokesman for the huge Hit
achi Manufacturing Co., electrical
equipment, said the lower wage
paid by the Japanese was the key :
to their survival in international
competition.
He expressed hope the United
States would ease its immigration
laws to permit entry of Japanese
workers. U. S. Embassy sources J
| here, however, stressed the Ken
nedy administration proposal in
I eludes no easing of any existing
' barriers. I
U.S. Sets Off
Biggest Blast at
Nevada Test Site
CAMP MERCURY. New T —
The mightiest nuclear blast yet
fired in the United States —- and
the first announced H-Bomb type
test here — sprayed dirt thou
sands of feet above the desert floor
today.
Touched off at 10 a.m. 650 feet
under the surface of Yucca Flat, in
a test of peaceful use of atomic
energy to make harbors and canals,
it:
1. Flashed brilliantly, visible in
the bright daylight.
2. Sent a cone-shaped spray of
rocks, sand and dust jetting sky
ward, up to 7,000 feet in the opin
ion of witnesses on distant moun
tain tops.
3. Kicked a huge mushroom
cloud to 30.000 feet or more.
Observers who have seen many
tests here said it obviously was
the most powerful ever, more so
than expected. It lacked, however,
the thundering roar of aerial shots
of the past, whose sound was not
muffled by dirt.
The dirt, and dust seemed to set
tle quickly back to earth and the
white mushroom cloud, spiraling
as it rose, quickly drifted north
1 and east, dissipating as it went.
The force was 100 kilotons, equal
to the wallop of 100,000 tons of
TNT.
The blast was expected to scoop
a huge shallow hole, a third of a
mile across and 300 feet deep, in
the floor of the atomic test site
65 miles north of Las Vegas.
No fireball reached the surface.
The Atomic Energy Commission
said in advance that the shot was
expected to be largely contained by
its mantle of rock, with a minimum
of radioactivity fallout.
The test site was closed to un
1 official observers and newsmen
i had to look on from mountains rim
! ming the area.
The AEC, in an official an
nouncement an hour after the
blast, said most dirt fell back to
earth as expected.
“Some of the smaller earth par
ticles,” it added, “formed a dust
cloud approximately 12,000 feet
high which began drifting down
wind in a northerly direction at
the speed of about 12 miles per
hour.
“It was estimated that about 95
per cent of the radioactivity pro
duced was trapped in the ground
or in the earth that fell back
promptly. Most of the small frac
tion remaining was deposited close
to tire crater and within the test
site.”
DID'T EVEN BLUSH . . .
TORONTO UP — Some practical -
joking Shriners left their conven
tion here wondering today whether
they had been had.
They had stopped women in the
street, holding up a pair of pink
panties and asking if they had
lost them.
“Oh, thanks very much, I guess
I did," one unidentified woman
said. She took the panties with
out blushing, put them in her
purse and walked on.
PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT -
HEAR REP. RALPH /. RIVERS WITH THE LATEST INFORMATION ABOUT PENDING GOLD LEGISLATION IMPORTANT TO THIS ARIA.