TIIE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
COrUCui iNG TO HAVE SUCH A TRUE FRIEND
Tex Hoffman, Director
Rural Development,
Addresses Chamber
The tables were filled for the
weekly luncheon of the Chamber
of Commerce on Tuesday noon
with President Frank Couch pre
siding.
Among the guests introduced
Tex Hoffman. Director of Rural
Development Board. Rep. Jacob
Stalker from Kotzebue and Larry
Bourger, principal of Nome High
School.
Secretary Victor Charles report
ed on the Board of Directors meet
ing held during the week and the
appointment of new committee
heads for the ensuing year.
Chairmen of these committees
are: Legislative, Don Hoover;
Roads, Transportation and Mining.
Carl Glavinovich: Civic Affairs,
Maurice Kelliher; Tourist, Pearse
Walsh; Publicity, Art Sandstrom;
Membership, Howard Crinklaw;
Retail Trade (including Midnight
Sun Festival , Bob Harwood.
New brochures are being planned
which will include a map of Nome
with member businesses receiving
recognition.
Don Hoover reported on the de
velopment of an active Civil De
fense program and the progres:
now being made in the program.
Pete Walsh gave an all over re
port on economic progress, stress
ing the importance of keeping ou
resources of reindeer, mineral
and tourist potential in the fore
ground and the need to keep 01
our toes as many important peopl
who could be of benefit to develop
ment never get past Fairbanks am
Anchorage where they are dis
couraged from coming any furthe
into the northland.
He referred n a visitor comin
this week from Un,.n Carbide, wh
will be a guest in Fairbanks an
whom he has invited to Nome an
this area.
Progress on air strips was r<
ported for Savoonga and Barro1
with the passage of the bondin
proposition and bids for alignin
the Kotzebue runway will be an
nounced in December which wil
bring that air strip up to 5,000 feel
Robert Harwood called atten
tion to the rat control program
now underway by the City oi
Nome and the sanitation engineer,
George Markham, and reminded
everyone that the 13 bait stations
c
George Cooper Jr.
Named Pilot for
Next Spaee Flight !
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. W — »
Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper
Jr. Tuesday was named pilot for •
the next U.S. manned space flight, (
1 a one-day mission scheduled next 1
April. t
The National Aeronautics and 1
Space Administration announced *
selection of the 35-vear-old Air '
Force major for the flight which (
will take him 18 times around
the world. i 1
Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr., the
first American to ride a rocket :
into space, was named Cooper's <
backup pilot. Shepard made a 15- 1
minute sub-orbital space trip on :
May 5. 1961.
Cooper, a native of Shawnee,
| Okla., was the standby pilot on
the recent six-orbit flight of space
man Walter Schirra Jr. Schirra’s ;
■ flight is the longest American ;
manned space mission to date.
, Cooper is the only eligible mem
| her of the seven-man Mercury as
tronaut team who has not made a
j space flight.
j Five of the astronauts have been
j rocketed into space. Donald Slay
. | ton was grounded earlier this
. | year because of a heart flutter.
; which will be publicized, contain
- | poison.
i ; Tex Hoffman, who heads the
? i Rural Development Dept, told of
- | one of the functions of his agency
1 : which was to provide jobs to re
- j place welfare in the interest of
r community improvement and
hoped that legislation would be en
g acted to give approval for increased
0 work along these lines so that
d people can “maintain their self
d respect instead of depending on
welfare wherever possible.”
!- Rep. Jacob Stalker of Kotzebue
v expressed appreciation at being
g invited to the meeting and stated
g he would work along with repre
- sentatives from Nome for the bet
1 terment of Northwestern Alaska.
. i Sen. Lester Bronson talked brief
ly on the coming legislative as
I sembly and urged that the Cham
I ber members noj hestitate to write
/ the delegation on any action want
ed. He concluded his remarks with j
I a clever and original jingle. '
North Pacific Fisheries Commission
Japanese Draw Bead
On Rich Bering Sea
Halibut Stockpile
SEATTLE UP — Rich Bering
Sea halibut stocks were reported
by industry observers Tuesday as
the prize sought by Japan at the
week-long International North Pa
cific Fisheries Commission meet
ing here.
Japan indicated at the opening
session it would press for access to
halibut in North American waters
but made no mention of areas in
volved.
Authoritative sources said, how- j
ever. Japan has "drawn a bead" j
m Bering Sea halibut — and may i
win.
Under the 1953 North Pacific
Fisheries Treaty Japan has ab- .
stained from fishing for halibut
ind salmon east of 175 degress |
vest longitude.
The treaty signed by Japan,
Tinada and the United States, con- :
ains an abstention provision re
dwing fisheries stocks to those j
nations which develop them !
hrough conservation. Fern Japan
o fish for halibut in the Bering i
sea would require modification
if the principle.
The appearance of large Russian
ishing fleets in the Bering Sea the
last several years was said to be
he wedge with which Japan hopes
o win concessions in the same
irea.
Russia is not a member of the
Jorth Pacific Treaty but has two
observers at the conference.
There were no direct reports
>n progress at the commission ses
ions, all of which are behind
losed doors.
Indicative of the high stakes
nvolved is the size of this year’s '
lalibut catch by America and
Canada in the North Pacific—75
nillion pounds worth $60 million.
One source said Japan and
Russia are engaged “in a knock
lown-drag-out battle in the eastern
lering Sea and we’re caught in
he middle. Now Russia is starting
he same kind of an operation in t
he Gulf of Alaska. Japan will i
cant to be in on that, too. Who 1
an say where it will end?’’
A delegate, who declined to use :
lis name, called the sessions here j
‘tough and critical” for the United !
states.
“Unless we can get into a better j
position. I am certain we will
;ee Japanese king crab fleets and
rawlers in the Gulf of Alaska by
spring,” he said.
“At the same time we have to
find a way to deal with Russia.
Every time the Russians expand,
they put us over a barrel with
Japan. The Japanese tell us: ‘But
we are your allies’.”
BOWLING MEETING MONDAY
A meeting of men bowlers has
been called for 7:30 on the evening
of Monday, Nov. 19 at City Hall.
Purpose of the meeting is to elect
officers and form a new constitu
tion for the 1962-63 bowling sea
son.
Two movies about bowling will
be shown, one of them devoted
to trick bowling.
Foreign Fishing Fleets
Fx nee led to Expand
Off Alaska Peninsula
SEATTLE i/P — Foreign fishing
fleets are expected to expand
south of the Alaska Peninsula and
American king crab fishermen will
be caught in an international traf
fic jam. an industry spokesman
said Tuesday.
Lowell Wakefield, a leading king
crab operator in Alaska, and Wal
ter Kirkness, Alaska Fish and
Game Commissioner, said the
operations of Russian vessels are
building up irritation.
The situation was discussed at
the meeting here of the Interna
tional North Pacific Fisheries
Commission, although the problem
was not on the commission's
agenda.
There have been recent reports
of Russian vessels damaging gear
of American crab fishermen.
Kirkness said he doubted the
damage was deliberate, but he
added:
“The Russian fleet didn’t take
any great care, either."
Predicting expansion of foreign
fleets off Alaska, Wakefield said:
"I think it’s just a question of
time until they are there in large
numbers. Russia is building sev
eral new floating crab canneries
now. The obvious place for some
of these to go is in the Kodiak
area.
“We’re going to lose more and
more gear. We arc likely to be like
pedestrians trying to negotiate a
Los Angeles freeway.”
Kirkness said Alaskans are
“quite perturbed” over the Rus
sian operations. He said Alaskan
fishermen hope the State Depart
ment will work out an agreement
with Russia to steer Soviet vessels
away from concentrations of
American crab gear.
Fowler Hamilton
Resigns as Head of
U.S. Foreign Aid Program
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy has accepted the resigna
tion of Fowler Hamilton as head
of the U.S. Foreign Aid Program,
the White House reported Tues
day.
Assistant press secretary Andrew
Hatcher said Hamilton had sub
mitted his resignation as director
of the agency for International
Development over the weekend.
Hatcher said Hamilton will leave
office when a successor is ap
pointed.
He said he has no idea when
Kennedy will choose a replace
ment but said the new director
will not be Sargent Shriver, the
President’s brother-in-law who
heads the Peace Corps.
Shriver frequently has been
j mentioned as a possible successor
! to Hamilton.
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*>c‘n. E. Ii. Bartlett Says
liirh Tempers Could
’rovoke Shooting Ineident
SEATTLE — High tempers
in the high seas could provoke
i shooting incident. Sen. E. L.
iartlett warned Monday as he de
nanded that the United States
>tate Department take steps to
urnish “protection” to Alaska
ishing fleets from Soviet ves
els which last week destroyed
American gear.
"We certainly don't want to
tart a war over a couple of crab
iots,” Alaska’s senior senator
tressed. “That’s exactly what we
ire trying to avoid.
“But Alaska’s fishermen are
ingry. If one of them loses his
emper, there could be shots fired."
Bartlett noted that almost ill
Uaskan fishing vessels normally
arrv rifles aboard.
The Alaskan senat u\ in Seattle
Tonday addressed the opening ses
ion of the 9th anmrd meeting
if the Internatmnal North Pacific
’isherics Commission, was in Ko
dak last week when a Russian
rawler moved through an Amor
can crab-fishing fleet and de
troved about half of the king crab
iots set out from the American
essel Oceanic.
The fishermen, very understand
bly, are extremely angry about
his, Bartlett said. "The way to
void trouble is to give our people
irotcetion — Navy vessels cruising
n the area. The Navy at Kodiak
old me the Soviet people just
iok up and wave when they see
n American warship. I am asking
he State Department to see to it
hat Navy vessels are provided
Tjmediately to see to it that they
on’t do anything else."
Albert Peterson, skipper of the
iceanic, said the Russain trawler
ut through his pots, dragging over
number of pot buoys, and then
jrned around and ran back
hrough more of the American
ear, despite the fact that the
)eeanic turned its spotlight on
ome of the pots as the Soviet
essel approached.
Bartlett said his chief concern
s to avoid any shooting incidents.
“I am not charging that the
tussian destruction was deliber
ite," he said. “I have no way of
mowing that. On the other hand,
he presence of American naval
•essels, I am certain, surelv would
irevent such occurrences."
'rinsing Down the River . . .
EUREKA. Calif. UPI — Mrs.
Robert Harris of Areata, Hum
joldt County, telephoned police:
“Help! My husband is floating
lown the river in his car.”
“That’s all right. Forget my call,
ie’s OK. He’s hung up on a
landbar.”
Police said Harris tried to ford
i/Iad River Monday in his bus
ype foreign car. In midstream
he current caught the water-tight
luto and it was launched.
When the auto struck the sand
jar, Harris climbed out on the
;un roof ( and waited for a tow
ruck to arrive.
Government should
"take from each
according to his
ability and give
to each according
to his need*
Published as A Public Service
Truth
Even when tried at Jamestown
and Plymouth Colony it failed.
Loafers lived off others; hard
working people eased up
starvation threatened. Prosperity
restored only when private own
ership of property and individual
responsibility voted in.
In Cooperation with
Alaska State Chamber of Commerce