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Schirra Docs It,
Girdles Globe
Six Fimes Today
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. UP) —
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr.
girdled the globe six times today—
the longest U S. space jaunt yet—
and splashed to happy landing in
the Pacific.
The jaunty spaceman, who had
quipped his way around the earth,
was plucked from the sea by the
aircraft carrier Kearsarge and was
pronounced in excellent condition,
physically and psychologically. The
landing was about 275 miles north
east of Midway Island.
In a remarkable demonstration
of pinpoint accuracy, the Sigma
7 capsule landed within four miles
of the planned landing zone and
only about 9.000 yards from the
Kearsarge, main recovery ship.
The flight lasted 9 hours, 13
minutes — two minutes longer than
planned — and covered about
150,000 miles.
Helicopters immediately rushed!
from the carrier and dropped frog
men into the water to attach a
flotation balloon to the base of
the capsule to stabilize it.
The capsule landed at 4:28 p.m.
and 42 minutes later the Kearsarge
pulled along side and lifted it,
with Schirra inside, aboard. A
small whale boat was dispatched
from the carrier to assist with the
recovery.
The astronaut reported he was
in excellent condition and as he
sat in the capsule awaiting re
covery he radioed: “That was a
sweet little bird.”
In the Navy tradition, Schirra
asked the commander of the Kear
sarge permission to come aboard.
The commander sent back word
that the 39-year-old Navy com
mander would be welcome.
Schirra’s round and round the
world flight carried the U.S. space
banner to its highest position yet
in the man-in-space race.
SF Giants Win
National League Pennant
LOS ANGELES UP) — The San
Francisco Giants won the National
League championship today, scor
ing the winning run on a bases
loaded walk in a four-run ninth
inning rally that beat the Los An
geles Dodgers 6-4 in their sudden
death playoff for the pennant.
The Giants, winners of the best
of-three playoff, 2 games to one,
meet the American League cham
pion New York Yankees in the
first game of the World Series at
San Francisco tomorrow starting
at 8 a.m. Nome time.
Darrell Brewington
Elected Mayor of Fbks.
FAIRBANKS GP — Claiming
that the City of Fairbanks could
be run a lot better than it has
been, Councilman Darrell Brew
ington has defeated incumbent
Mayor Joseph Ribar by an unoffi
cial tally of 35 votes.
The results retires Ribar from
the municipal scene and means
that an appointment will be neces
sary to fill Brewington’s two-year
unexpired term on the City Coun
cil.
Incumbent Art Sexauer won
handily in his bid for a three-year
term as councilman.
Howard Alexander and Stanley
Sailors face a runoff for City
Council on Oct. 16.
Voters Approve
Incorporation of 2nd Class
Borough at Bristol Bay
JUNEAU (/Pi — Residents of the
Naknek, South Naknek and King
Salmon areas voted yesterday,
124-49, to incorporate as a second
class borough, the first in the
state’s history.
The vote came almost a year to
the day from the effective date
of the borough act passed by the
1961 session of the legislature. The
effective date of the borough act
wast Oct. 1, 1961.
In voting to incorporate as the
second class Bristol Bay borough,
residents of the 1.200-square mill
area also decided to have an ap
pointed borough manager rather
than an elected borough chairman.
Named to the five-man borough
assembly wire Norman Tibbetts,
Harry Shawback. Melvin Monsen
and John Lundgren of Naknek and
Richard Jensen of King Salmon.
Elected to the five-member bor
ough school board were Kenneth
Middleton, Jilda Monsen, Kathryn
Ostrowsky, Mabel Regan and
Celeste Tibbets, all of Naknek.
4,000 ’Troopers
Withdraw From
‘Ole Miss' Campus
OXFORD, Miss. UP — Nearly
4,('00 armed troops were with
drawn from the University of Mis
sissippi as James Meredith wen'
through a third day as the firs'
forcibly integrated Negro studen
in the school's 114-year history
But federal officials cocked e
troubled eye toward possible dis
orders on the coming weekend.
Some 8,000 heavily armed sol
diers remained to keep tight con
trol of the oak-circled university
campus. Tension still hung in a
well-nigh visible cloud, but acti
vities returned to near normal after
early week riots claimed two lives.
However, during the night an
effigy of Meredith was burned,
bottles were thrown and several
armed persons arrested near the
campus.
Nearly 30,000 southerners, most
of them with ingrained hatred of
racial integration, were expected
here for Saturday’s homecoming
football game between Ole Miss
and the University of Houston.
The Justice Department con
sidered the possibility of cancelling
the game, or having it transferred
somewhere else. Memphis and
Mobile have offered stadiums.
Salmon Lake Camp Sites
May Soon Be Opened
To Public Entry
People who staked out summer
eamps along Salmon Lake will be
able soon to prove up on their
land according to an announce
ment by Les Bronson who said
that the action has come about
through a resolution he sponsored
during the last legislature.
According to information he has
received, the state will not make
a selection of land at Salmon
Lake from federal lands opened
to them, and that-the Power Site
Classification there has been part
ly revoked.
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment had a survey party in that
area during the summer investigat
ing small tract lots and it is un
derstood that there are about ten
conflicting filings there. When
the results of the survey are made
known, it is expected that the
tracts available to public entry
will be outlined.
Sen. Byrd Charges
While House
With Collusion
WASHINGTON - Sen. Harry
Byrd, tD-Va.), has charged col
lusion between the White House
and the federal courts in breaking
the racial barrier at the Univer
sity of Mississippi.
He denounced President Ken
nedy's action Tuesday in a Senate
speech.
"Where, and under what cir
cumstances, will the government
of 'he United States next use mili
tary force against our own people
1o enforce federal court orders,”
Byrd asked.
"The use of military force for
such purposes," said the Virginian,
"is even more offensive to our
form of government when ele
ments of the judicial branch arc
obviously acting — not independ
ently of — but in collusion with
the executive branch which com
mands the military force.”
Byrd declared collusion was clear
| “by the nature of the Department
of Justice activity before federal
courts and judges involved which
is being reflected in the detail of
an increasing number of orders
and decrees they issue.”
He said adherence to ‘‘checks
and balances, and the division of
power on which our system of
government rests” may haw
Spared bloodshed.
Asked for a comment on the
‘‘Ole Miss” situation. Vice Presi
dent Lyndon Johnson of Texa:
said ‘‘our government cannot lone
endure unless responsible Ameri
cans abide by the decisions of our
courts.”
The real issue, he said, was
stated by the President Saturday
night “when he called upon the
people to comply with the de
cision without violence.”
Chairman James Eastland, <D
Miss.), announced he has invited
Sen. John Stennis, (D-Missd, to
take part in a Senate Judiciary
Committee investigation of “all
events at the University of Missis
sippi since U.S. marshals and Army
troops moved in.”
Stennis, not a committee mem
ber, said he was pleased indeed
to accept.
Former City Manager Is
Top Anchorage Votegetter
In Councilman Election
ANCHORAGE (JPt — Anchorage
voters have approved the $6 mil
lion telephone revenue bond issue
with 378 votes to spare and have
given one of three council seats to
a former city manager.
C. A. Hostetler, long-time city
employe, was the top vote getter
of 17 candidates seeking three
year terms on the council. Hostet
ler was fired as city manager this
past spring.
Sewell F. Faulkner, a real es
tate salesman, and incumbent E.
N. Courtney, general manager of
the Alaska Housing Corp., won the
two other council seats.
The phone bond issue was ap
proved, 2388 to 2010.
In the Anchorage Independent
School District election, incum
bents Mrs. Marilyn Wilkins and
grocery chain store owner Keith
Lesh were returned to three-year
terms by wide margins.
Attorney Clifford Groh won a
one-year term. easily defeating
two opponents.
Voters rejected a $2.35 million
school bond issue, 2899 to 2366.
Kanakanak Couple's
Lost Plane Spotted
.JUNEAU .?■ — til. Co:i-l Guard
.id today a civilian pilot had spot
ted a Kanakanak couple whose
downed plane was found on the
tundra at Upnuk Lake, 100 miles
north of Dillingham, yesterday.
The pilot, whose name was not
known here, radioed late yesterday
lie saw Dr. John Paul Dittrich, 27.
and Mrs. Laura Privratsky, 28,
walking on the tundra some 82
miles from the spot where the
plane was sighted.
Dittrich, a dentist at the Alaska
Native Hospital at Kanakanak. and
Mrs. Privratsky, a clerk, left
Dillingham Friday on a huniine
trip and were to have returned
Sunday morning.
A note found in the plane in
dicated Dittrich and Mrs. Pri
vratsky were going to attempt to
walk to a cabin some 20 miles
distance.
I Sen. Bartlett Pleased
With CAB Decision on
Juneau-Fairbanks Route
I WASHINGTON (/P> — Sen. E. L.
I Bartlett said yesterday he is
pleased the Civil Aeronautics
Board has approved severance of
the Wien Alaska-Pan American
Airlines transfer issue from the
Pacific Northwest-Alaska air serv
| ice case.
i “This is what we have been
! seeking," Bartlett said in a state
| ment. "If the two matters stayed
1 j linked together, the Wien case
■ I might not have been decided for a
; I long, long time and what is want
'! ed is early action.
“Pan American has expressed
! willingness to sell to Wien Alaska
I A i r 1 i n e s its Fairbanks - Juneau
j route segment, and Wien has
j given assurances that it will, if
authorized to operate the route,
give more frequent service be
tween the interior Alaska city
and the capital.
“Now vice chairman Robert T.
Murphy of the CAB informs me
that a hearing examiner will be
assigned to the case and likely
a pre-hearing conference will be
held. This is all good news.
Boiler Explosion
Kills 20 Persons
In New York
NEW YORK UP) — A boiler ex
plosion today killed at least 20
persons — most of them women —
in a New York Telephone Co.
building.
At least 70 others were injured,
and some were believed trap
ped in the rubble strewn by the
terrific blast.
The explosion occurred in a
boiler room adjoining a cafeteria
at the noon hour. Some women
at work on the first floor report
edly were blown through windows
to the street. Other plunged into
the basement through a gaping
hole left by the blast.
Policemen dug through the ruins
while firemen fought flames in the
basement and on the first floor.
Fire Commissioner Ed Thomp
son told newsmen:
‘•The boiler blew. It left its
■ moorings and catapulted through
l the wall of the boiler room. It ran
i through the cafeteria, leaving
• nothing but rubble and manglec
bodies. It was total destruction.’
i The two-story building houses
; an accounting center near the
northeast tip of Manhattan. Abou
i 500 persons — most of them worn
en — worked there.
Six Sur\ i\ r
f) l)av~
hi (fiilf of Alaska
CORDOVA — Six crewmen
from the Alaska Rou.tabout,
thrown into the Gulf of Alaska
when their 117-foot ship capsized,
told today of five harrowing days
: in a lifcraft, drifting a* the mercy
j of the sea.
The Alaska Roustabout, a con
i verted Navy landing craft being
: used as a work boat, turned turtle*
■ last Friday while enroute from Icy
Bay to Seward.
Dr. John Chapman. Cordova
l pin. ician who me* the Coast
Guard cutter Sedge when it
brought the six men here late yes
j terday afternoon, <i i all were
! suffering from exhaustion and salt
j burns.
j The six were held overnight at
i the Cordova Community Hospital,
j They were scheduled to be taken
; to Anchorage for furtkei observa
i tion today.
A representative of the Foss
Launch & Tug Co. of Seattle, own
j er of the Alaska Roustabout, de
I dined to comment on the possible
I cause of the mishap until after a
| board of inquiry has completed an
: investigation.
The Alaska Roustabout, which
; had been hauling oil drilling equip
I ment in Icy Bay, left there on Sept.
20 and was scheduled to arrive at
' Seward on Sept. 28, the day it
; turned over. The ship was re
ported missing Monday.
C..pt, Donald Gordon said the
men pitched into the sea when the
vessel rolled but managed to clam
ber aboard a rubber liferaft.
During their five-day ordeal,
I Gordon said, the men took turns
rowing toward shore. During the
: night, they slept exhausted under
| a plastic tarpaulin.
Their only food and water came
| from emergency rations in the life
■ raft.
The overturned Alaska Rousta
| bout was spotted by a Coast Guard
I aircraft late Monday, drifting in
; the Gulf some 70 miles southwest
of Cordova. No trace of the men
was found that day.
At 12:10 yesterday afternoon, a
searching Coast Guard plane sight
ed the liferaft bobbing in the Gulf.
The plane dropped flares and
smoke bombs to guide the Sedge to
the scene.
Abusive Language
' Would Bring a $50 Fine
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BOSTON tPi — A spectator di
recting abusive language toward
a participant in a sporting event
would be subject to a $50 fine un
der a bill filed in the Massachu
setts legislature yesterday by Rep.
James Condon, (D-Boston>.
In an obvious reference to
Washington outfielder Jim Pier
sail, Condon said he was prompted
by a recent incident in which a
baseball player “became so in
censed at the continued stream of
filthy words directed at him he
! attacked his tormentors."
. Piersall charged into the stands
! in Baltimore after a heckler. They
never came to blows.
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WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with occasional light
rain and snow. Little change in
temperature. In the last 24 hours:
High of 44. low of 39. Max. wind
30 mph from the SSE. Sunrise at
6:17 a.m., sunset at 5:23 p.m.
Temps, a year ago: High of 34.
low of 22. Extremes on this date
since 1907: High of 52 in 1954,
low of 14 in 1919.