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OLDSST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 83
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1962
Per Copy 150
FAA Visitors
Due at Chamber
Meeting Monday
The Chamber of Commerce will
be honored at its noon luncheon
by distinguished visitors on Mon
day from the Federal Aviation
Agency.
Lt. Gen. Harold Grant, Deputy
Administrator of FAA from Wash
ington, D.C., is scheduled to ar
rive here from Bethel about 5:30
on Sunday, accompanied by Allen
D. Hulen, Asst. Administrator and
overnight in Nome, departing di
rectly after the luncheon for Kot
zebue.
Also in the party are Mr. R. C.
Young, chief, Aviation Facilities
Division; D. S. Wolfe, chief, Air
Traffic Division; W. Brubaker,
chief, Flight Standards Division;
G. O. Kempton, chief. Airports Di
vision; Jack Jcfford, W. A. Hanson
and C. W. Johnson, crew members
of the DC-3 and Mac A. Emerson,
regional administrative officer of
the U.S. Weather Bureau.
The party leaves New York to
day and will stop at Anchorage,
King Salmon, Cold Bay, Bethel,
Kotzebue, Galena, Fairbanks, Cor
dova, Yakataga, Yakutat, Juneau,
Sisters Island and Annette.
The visitors will return to
Washington, D.C., on July 23.
New Industry
Takes Shape In
Northwest Alaska
A Lomen Co. barge loaded with
6.500 cases or 190 tons of salmon
packed at Golovin are now in the
harbor to be southbound soon by
Alaska Steamship Co.
The salmon, which is the first
pack in history from this area,
was packed by the Bering Sea
Fisheries at Golovin and is chum
salmon. Much more than this is
expected to be packed before the
season closes.
The floating cannery, in this
area for the first time, has con
trolled fishing. They are allowed
by the Fish and Wildlife to fish
from Monday until 6:30 p.m. on
Wednesday and Thursday through
Saturday. Subsistence fishing is
permitted during the other periods
by local residents.
Unalakleet also has a floating
cannery which is operating suc
cessfully and fish caught for the
Bering Sea Fisheries is brought
in a freezer ship from Moses Point
to Golovin for canning.
Salmon has not been shipped
from Golovin before, but accord
ing to an official report 1,932,865
pounds of herring were salted and
shipped from this community from
1923 to 1941.
SALMON PACK DOWN
JUNEAU UP> — The State De
partment of Fish and Game said
today that Alaska’s 1962 salmon
pack, through July 8, was 563,605
cases, far below last year’s pack.
The total state pack through
July 9 last year was 1,084,864
cases.
The Western Alaska area, with
a pack of 221,236 cases of reds
in Bristol Bay, had a total pack
of 280,919 cases through July 8.
The Central Alaska pack was
231,726 cases, including 150,379
cases of reds.
In Southeast Alaska, a pack of
34,595 cases of chums was the
primary factor in a total pack of
50,960 cases.
PT BOAT 109 IS CENTER
OF A COURT CASE
MIAMI, Fla. UD — The PT boat
being used in the filming of Pres
ident Kennedy’s wartime story is
the center of a court case.
The Amazon Hose and Rubber
Co. of Miami has filed suit asking
that the PT-109 be confiscated to
pay for materials and labor fur
nished between May 10 and June
27.
The suit was filed Thursday
against Miami Shipbuilding Co.,
which reconditioned the boat.
Later, however, Warner Bros, filed
ownership papers and posted a
$5,000 surety bond to insure pay
ment of the bill.
The boat is stationed at Munson
Island about 20 miles east of Key
West where Warner Bros, is shoot
ing the movie “PT-109.”
Soviet Security
Men Seize Ban
The-Bomb Banners
MOSCOW (#> — Russian security
men seized Ban-the-Bomb ban
ners today when two-dozen young
Westerners unfurled them in Red
Square.
The demonstrators, mostly Brit
ish but with a sprinkling of Amer
icans and Scandinavians, had been
warned earlier they would be de
ported if they went through with
their plans to denounce nuclear
testing just beneath the Kremlin
walls.
Leaders of the demonstration
told reporters earlier they had been
informed by Alexander Kornei
chuk, Soviet author and a leader
of the Soviet-sponsored Peace
Congress now going on in the
Kremlin:
“The Congress was held here
under the condition that there
would be free speech inside the
hall but no demonstrations out
side.”
Philip Seed, 32, a British social
worker, said his group had offered
to give up early plans to demon
strate in front of the American
Embassy, if only they could stand
silently in Red Square. This was
refused, he said, then the deporta
tion threat made.
Another leader in the planned
demonstration was Wayne Mills,
28, Saratoga, Calif.
The Russian toughness seemed
to have shaken some of the youths,
who are used to unhampered anti
nuclear marches and demonstra
tions in their home countries.
“I had not expected this. I
thought they would talk to us,”
said Mills.
The group of about 24 walked
quietly to the square from their
hotel in the next block. About
an hour after they got into the
area, their banners arrived. Up to
this point they had not been mo
lested.
In a hesitant manner the group
began to unfurl them but none of
the flock of sightseers near the
Lenin tomb got a chance to read
them.
Painted in blue on white, in
English and Russian, they said
“We demand no more Soviet tests,”
“Condemn Anglo-American tests,”
and “All people against all tests.”
The Russians let them keep the
last one but ordered them to put
it away.
Sahara Heal Wave
ROME Uft — A Sahara heat
wave flowing across the Medi
terranean sent temperatures soar
ing to 114 degrees Fahrenheit in
western Sicily Thursday.
Marv Dee Fox,
J
Of Anchorage,
Is Miss Alaska
ANCHORAGE UP — Miss Mary
Deo Fox, 18, reigning Anchorage
Miss Fur Rendezvous Queen, last
night was crowned Miss Alaska
and will represent the State in the
Miss America contest in Atlantic
City. N.J. in September.
A five-foot-six brownette with
blue eyes, Miss Alaska measures
34-22-35 and weighs 125 pounds .
A receptionist at radio station
KBYR where she has her own
program, “Queen Presents,” the
new Miss Alaska is the daughter
of Mrs. Mary C. Reid of Anchor
age.
Named by her co-contestants as
“Miss Congeniality” was Kathy
Shumanski, Miss Juneau.
Over 400 persons packed the Elks
Hall to witness the Miss Alaska
Pageant in which six of Alaska’s
most beautiful women vied for the
opportunity to represent Alaska in
the contest at Atlantic City.
Miss Jean Ann Holm of Fair
banks, Miss Alaska 1961, placed
the crown and velvet robe on the
new Miss Alaska as her final
official duty.
Other contestants came from
Nome, Fairbanks, Matanuska Val
ley and Point Barrow.
Miss Nome, Ann Chambers, will
leave for Seattle to attend Century
21, as a guest of the Nome Cham
ber of Commerce, after which she
will visit her father, Fred Cham
bers, in California and return to
Fairbanks in time to enter the
University of Alaska in September.
Winnie Is Back to Normal
LONDON (J’) — A medical bulle
tin said today Sir Winston Chur
chill’s temperature has returned
to normal and his coughing spells
have eased.
The 87-year-old World War II
Prime Minister had caused his
doctors considerable worry when
he came down with a bronchial
infection and fever as he fought to
recover from a thigh fracture.
The bronchial infection appar
ently was quenched with anti
biotics soon after it appeared.
POSTPONE DELIVERY DATE
OF ALASKA’S FIRST FERRY
JUNEAU UP — The State Di
vision of Marine Transportation
said today the first of three ferries
to be operated on the Southeast
Alaska Marine Highway system
will not be delivered until mid
November.
The vessel, the Malaspina, had
been originally scheduled for de
livery by Puget Sound Bridge &
Drydock Co. on Aug. 30 and was
expected to make her first run in
early September.
B. E. Lewellen, Director of the
Marine Transportation Division,
said Puget Sound Bridge & Dry
dock had run into “difficulties”
which make meeting the August
deadline unlikely.
Under the construction contract,
the shipyard must pay the State
a penalty of $1,000 a day for delay
beyond Aug. 30, except for reasons
beyond the control of the con
tractor.
Gary Thurlow, Gov. Wm. Egan’s
executive assistant, said the State
is taking the position that the
penalty clause in the ferry con
struction is applicable.
Puget Sound Bridge & Drydock
is also building the two other fer
ries to be operated on the Pan
handle run between Prince Rupert
and Skagway.
C21 PASSES 4-MILLION
ATTENDANCE MARK
SEATTLE W — Attendance at
the World’s Fair passed the 4
million mark today and a pert little
7-year-old blonde from Whittier.
Calif., was ticketed as No. 4,000,000.
Tickets to every attraction on
Show Street and to a concert by
Filipino pianist Benjamin Tupas
were showered upon the delighted
Christine Graham of Whittier. This
is Philippine Week at the Fair.
Some gifts, such as a dinner,
included her parents — Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Graham. Papa Gra
ham appropriated a box of Philip
pine cigars included in Christine’s
loot list.
Not expecting the honor, the
third grade pupil was dressed in
formally in blue jacket, red denim
slacks and plaid canvas shoes.
The four millionth visitor ar
rived just a week before the half
way mark in the Fair’s 180-day
run. Total attendance has been
estimated at 9 million.
Fashion Writers
Keep Tlieir Fingers
Crossed Friday 13
NEW YORK UP) — It’s Friday
the 13th. and a couple of hundred
fashion writers are keeping their
fingers crossed.
Covering style shows never
seemed a hazardous occupation
before, but the women viewing
the New York couture group’s
fall collections are having second
thoughts.
Just as soon as they hit town
last weekend things began to hap
pen.
One editor, who prefers to be
nameless, tried to escape an on
rushing cab and sprawled back
wards on a curb. She required
medical attention, and still finds
it painful to sit through fashion
showings.
Then Isabelle Howe of the Chat
tanooga Times sprained an ankle
during a press party. She limps
to the shows with foot in cast.
Also limping is Opal Crockett
of the Indianapolis Times who fell
down hotel steps.
In the middle of the night Sun
day Norma Vacello of the Roanoke
(Va.) Times rushed to a hospital
for an emergency appendectomy.
And about the same time in an
other hotel, Joy Gallagher of Sa
vannah, Ga., was breaking a toe
on the bathroom door.
Shortly after her arrival, Carolyn
Bengston of the Austin <Texd
American and Statesman brake out
in hives and took her problem to
a doctor.
! “The bill for $50 made me sick
er than the hives,” she says.
Even the models aren't immune.
The other morning Ursula Arnold
tottered and fainted in her long
red crepe evening dress. The dress
was incredibly tight, and she had
been holding her breath all down
the runway when she blacked out
near the end.
Today the fashion parade ends,
and those still unafflicted have
high hopes of escaping unscathed. If
only it weren’t Friday the 13th.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. UP —
The firing of a genuine Civil War
cannon was the official opening
item on the program each day for
the Rutherford County Civil War
Centennial this week. But after
three days the committee dropped
the 6:30 a.m. blast. It wasn’t the
noise. Residents complained the
concussion from the paper and
powder charge in the old relic
was breaking too many windows, i
Bob Keclerick Dies
From Cerebral
Hemorrhage
ANCHORAGE W — Robert D.
Roderick, 37, associate editor
and business manager of the An
chorage Daily Times died early to
day at Providence Hospital.
Death came to the newspaper
executive almost 36 hours after he
was stricken with a cerebral
hemorrhage Wednesday afternoon
at his home. He never regained
consciousness.
A resident of Alaska for the
past 10 years, Kederick was known
throughout the State for both his
newspaper work and his civic ac
tivities. Yesterday he was to have
directed the Miss Alaska candi
dates’ parade for Greater Anchor
age Inc., of which he was second
vice president.
A member of the Anchorage
Times staff since 1957. Kederick,
first came to Alaska in 1952 to
work for the Anchorage News.
In 1953, he joined the Alaska Daily
Empire staff at Juneau, where he
spent four years.
Kederick joined the Anchorage
Times staff as a reporter and
columnist. His first assignment was
a night beat reporter and he sub
sequently covered oil developments,
politics and other stories. Ilis
column, "All Around Alaska,”
focused on many facets of life.
Roderick was born Dec. 11, 1924,
in Hackensack, N.J. Serving with
| the U.S. Infantry during World
War II. he was taken prisoner in
the European theater of operations
and spent some time in a prisoner
of war camp before he ( scaped.
Kederick was married to the
former Rose Nell Altman of Col
umbia. S.C., on Sept. 15. 1958. at
WasiUa. Their son, Robert David
Jr., will be three years old next
month.
Also surviving is his mother,
Mrs. Regina Luzzatti Kederick of
Los Angeles, who arrived in An
chorage last night.
Funeral services are pending at
thi Anchorage Funeral Chapel.
INDIA WILL SHOOT IF
RED CHINESE ADVANCE
NEW DELHI. India -T — A
Foreign Ministry spokesman said
today the Indian borderland post
virtually encircled by about 400
Red Chinese soldiers in lofty Gal
wan Valley would fire if the
Chinese advance any closer.
Previously Indian officials said
the Indian soldiers had orders only
to defend themselves. There has
been no armed clash since the.
Chinese forces suddenly appeared
in the remote, three-mile high 'val
ley last Tuesday and approached
the post from east, west and south.
The spokesman in a prepared
Statement said:
‘‘We hope that good sense will
prevail and the Chinese will, as
in other cases in the past, with
draw from the vicinity of our post.”
The valley is in the Ladakh
area of Kashmir. Red China, in a
note Wednesday claimed the area
is in Red China’s Sinkiadng Pro
vince. and that the Chinese, not
the Indians, were threatened with
encirclement.
The Indians, in a protest, said
the post is more than 10 miles
west of even the border claimed
by Red China.
Informed sources said there were
32 men at the past and there
would be no air dropping of sup
plies to them until the intentions
of the Red Chinese became clear.
The troops were reported to have
supplies for two weeks.