63rd Year No. 73
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1962
Per Copy 15£
Missile Failure
Causes Abort of
High Altitude Test
HONOLULU m — The malfunc
tion of a Thor missile forced the
United States to destroy a gigantic
nuclear device in flight near John
ston Island late Tuesday night
| without exploding it.
The abortive attempt to set off a
nuclear device at high altitude
above the Pacific test site was the
second failure in two tries.
No specific explanation was
given for the failure.
The nuclear device was blown
apart and dropped harmlessly into
the ocean. There was no nuclear
detonation.
Tuesday night’s test was to have
been the biggest and highest in
the United States’ current Pacific
test series. The nuclear package
was classified as megaton-plus
in yield — more powerful than
one million tons of TNT.
Previous announcements said the
detonation was to be at an alti
tude of hundreds of kilometers.
Unofficially, estimates were 200
miles.
A spokesman said it was not im
mediately known how long it will
be before another shot will be tried
at Johnston.
The failure was a disappointment
for thousands of Hawaiians who
lined beaches and highlands, hop
ing to see the big shot.
The test was expected to have
been visible in Hawaii, 750 miles
northeast of Johnston Island,
ROYALTY TO VISIT
SEATTLE’S SEAFAIR
SEATTLE UP — Out-of-town
royalty already is making plans
to visit Seattle during the 13 th
Annual Seafair, July 27-August 5.
Queens from Anchorage, Alaska,
and Snohomish and Port Town
send, Wn, will enjoy Seafair hos
pitality and they will be joined by
at least two-score other girls from
over the state.
From Alaska will come pretty
Mary Dee Fox, 18, ruler of the
Annual Fur Rendezvous in Anchor
age.
Helen Plut, 17, Queen of the
Port Townsend Rhododendron Fes
tival, will come here to take part
in Seafair events and community
celebrations.
From Stanwood will come Nancy
Norgaard, 17, who will represent
the Snohomish County 4-H Fair.
NORDIN IS APPARENT
LOW BIDDER ON VORTAC
SITE TO BE BUILT HERE
,ANCHORAGE UPl The Nordin
Construction Co. of Fairbanks is
the apparent low bidder for con
struction of a Nome VORTAC Sta
tion, the Federal Aviation Agency
announced here today.
Nordin bid $912,984 or $906,084
with an alternate. A total of seven
bids were received on the project.
Contract award is pending study
and evaluation of all bids received.
— E & B Construction Co. are
joint bidders with Nordin, stated
Les Bronson.
FRENCHMAN SEIZED WITH
$247,000 IN U.S. CURRENCY
NEW YORK Utl — A French na
tional trying to leave the United
States with $247,400 cash in a
valise has been sentenced to six
months in jail for refusing to say
where he got the money.
The French man, Antoine Riniere,
42, said he is an international
art dealer. A Federal Narcotics
Bureau agent said he is well known
to the Bureau and had been under
surveillance since his arrival in
this country.
Riniere was detained at Idle
wild Airport Monday night when
he arrived aboard a Swissair flight
bound from Chicago to Switzer
land with a scheduled stop at
Montreal. The plane set down here
because of engine trouble.
Customs agents checked a valise
he carried arid found the cash.
U.S. Atty. Joseph Joey directed
that he be taken before a federal
grand jury investigating a narcotics
smuggling ring.
WALTER WINCHELL WILL
QUIT HEARST PAPERS
LOS ANGELES W) — Walter
Winchell said today that he wants
to quit as a columnist for the
Hearst organization because, he
says, some of his criticisms of
Communism and the Kennedy ad
ministration have been deleted by
syndicate editors.
Winchell started writing for
the New York Mirror 33 years ago.
“I’ll be kicking away $150,000
a year but I’ll do it,” he told a
reporter, “even though . .X j mtmm gg,
years old.”
Winchell said that while his |
columns have been appearing in
full in the Mirror, portions of some
dealings with his anti-Communist
campaign and containing jibes at
the White House have been cut be
fore syndication by King Features.
Both the Mirror and King Features
are part of the Hearst organiza
tion.
In New York, no comment was
available from the Hearst Corp.,
the Mirror or King Features.
I To Survey Nome
Area For Radar
arning Station
ANCHORAGE UD — Preliininary
surveys will be made in the Nome
area this summer to determine
the area’s suitability for construc
tion of another early warning sys
tem radar facility, Lt. Gen. George
W. Mundy, Alaska Commander in
Chief, announced today.
It will be some time before any
decision can be areached on loca
tion of the installation, and esti
mates of construction cost and
numbers of personnel to be re
quired to man the facility will not
be known until all preliminary
studies are completed, the General
said.
Two separate groups of seven
to ten Air Force officials each
will be sent to the Nome area at
different times to make the sur
veys, said Mundy. These groups
will be in the field from a week
to ten days at a time, he said.
Bids Are Opened
On Bonds for State '
Improvements
JUNEAU un — The Bank of j
America, San Francisco, today (
submitted low bids on $6,300,000 (
in General Obligation Bonds to be
issued by the State, for roads and 1
ferries and for improvements at '
the University of Alaska.
John Nuveen and Co., Chicago, 1
entered low bids on a $354,000 GO !
issue for hospital construction and
equipment and another issue of 1
$275,000 for bush airport construe- j
tion and equipment.
The General Obligation Bonds
offered today were a portion of a
$30.5 million GO bonding package 1
approved by the voters on Nov. 1
8, 1960.
The Bank of America offered a '
net interest of $2,365,891 on
a 20-year issue of $5,500,000 for
roads and ferries, at an effective
interest rate of 3.4258 iper cent.
The same firm bid a net interest
of $234,763.50 and an effective in
terest rate of 3.2314 per cent on
$800,000 in 15-year General Obli
gation Bonds for construction and
improvements at the university.
John Nuveen and Co. bid a net
interest of $62,198 and an effective
inerest rate of 2.9422 per cent
for a 10-year issue of $354,000 in
GO Bonds for hospital construction
and equipment.
John Nuveen’s bid for the 10
year, $275,000 bush airport issue
interest, at an effective interest \
rate of 2.9353 per cent.
FLYING PHYSICIANS
HEAD NORTH TO ALASKA
EDMONTON, Alta. UP) — Mem
bers of the Flying Physicians
Assn. Inc., were briefed and ready
to leave here today on a 500-mile
leg of their annual summer cruise
that will take them to Anchorage
i for a three-day meeting.
Thirty-four aircraft carrying 104
persons — doctors and members of
their families freon across the
United States — assembled here
Monday and Tuesday.
They were to take off in groups
of two or three on flights that
would stop at Lake Tetlin, White
horse, Fort St. John, Nelson, Wat
son Lake and other points in north
ern British Columbia, the Yukon
and Alaska.
Dr. Daryle N. Crabb of Denison,
Iowa, cruise chairman, said Tues- :
day some aircraft would arrive in j
Anchorage Wednesday night. ;
others would stop at points along ■
the way for fishing excursions or (
short visits, but would be in An- 1
chorage in time for the opening of
a three-day meeting Monday. ]
Dr. Crabb said participants in <
the annual two-week cruise came 1
from points as far south as Texas.
The association, which makes its s
headquarters at Tulsa, Okla., has
members in Canada and a number '
of South American countries. One j
of its functions is its organization
of a civilian emergency plan :
capable of mobilizing physcians,
nurses, and technicians on short ]
notice and flying them to any dis
aster area.
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SECRET SERVICE CRACKS
DOWN ON U.S.-CANADIAN ]
COUNTERFEIT RING
NEW YORK W — Secret Service
agents and police have struck here >
and in two other American cities '
in a swift attempt to crush a U.S.- <
Canadian ring specializing in ;
counterfeit money orders. <
Three Canadians and a Vermont
man were arrested here Tuesday i
with what a Secret Service spokes- ;
man said was $17,500 in counter- '
feit Canadian Pacific Railway ;
money orders.
The spokesman said $18,100 more i
in counterfeit drafts was taken
from three Toronto men arrested
by Secret Service agents and po- ;
lice in Detroit.
In Buffalo, N.Y., city police an
nounced they were holding four
Canadians who they said had near
ly $9,000 in counterfeit money
orders.
RUSSIAN TRAWLERS SEEN
IN GULF OF ALASKA
SEATTLE UP) — Operations of
two Russian trawlers in Albatross
Gully in the Gulf of Alaska were
observed by men aboard the re
search vessel John N. Cobb, the
U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fish
eries reported Tuesday.
The Russian trawlers were about
160 feet long, and similar in de
sign to North Atlantic side trawlers.
Research personnel estimated one
of the trawlers took about 15,000
pounds of Pacific Ocean perch in
about one and one half hours.
They said the net appeared to
be rigged to fish tour to live teet
off bottom, and the catch was
dumped directly in the hold. No
other species was seen, the Bureau
of Commercial Fisheries reported,
Dave Beck Starts
Serving Five Years
At McNeil Island
TACOMA, Wn. (ft — Dave Beck,
who once consorted with the kings
of industry, entered the world ofi
criminals today for filing two frau
dulent union tax returns.
The 68-year-old former head of
the Teamsters Union surrendered
himself to the UJS. Marshal in
Seattle and then was driven here
to be taken to McNeil Island
Federal Penitentiary.
From the U.S. courthouse the
road to confinement led to a dock
at the little suburban town of
Steilacoom, where a government
launch was waiting to take him
on the 20-minute ride to the island
prison in Puget Sound.
There on this bright, warm sun- ,
ny day he began serving two con- ,
current five-year terms on his con
viction of tax return fraud.
Beck emerged from the mar
shal’s office, jaunty and smiling.
As he strode from the building ;
with a deputy marshal, he told
newsmen:
“You know what MacArthur
said, don’t you? I’ll be back.”
Before his departure for McNeil,
Beck issued a prepared statement
in which he said: “It is the duty
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BELIEVE DRAIN ON GOLD
RESERVES WILL BE LESS
THAN BILLION THIS YEAR
WASHINGTON UP — Under
secretary of the Treasury Robert
V. Roosa said today he thinks the
drain on U.S. gold resei*ves this
year will be less than one billion
dollars.
He told the Senate Banking Com
mittee that he hopes it may drop
as low as $750 million, compared
with about $857 million in 1961
and slightly over $1.7 billion in
1960. To date this year, he said,
it amounts to about $450 million.
Roosa’s figures on the hoped
for reduction in the outflow of
gold were coupled with testimony
that the nation’s balance of pay
ments deficit is currently running
at an annual rate of $1.5 billion,
compared with $2.5 billion last
year and $3.9 billion in 1960.
The deficit represents the
amount by which expenditures in
other countries, including invest
ments, foreign aid and purchases
for imports, exceed dollar receipts
from abroad. The deficit adds to
the potential dollar demand against
the nation’s gold reserves.
Roosa replied with a flat “no’*
when asked by Sen. John Tower,
(R-Tex.), if he sensed “any waver
ing of confidence in the American
dollar abroad.”
ROAD REPORT
The State Highway Department
announced today that in addition
to the road being washed out at
I Crater Creek, on Route 64, the
north approach to the bridge at
\ Pilgrim. River bias atet< been wash
ed out.
The report also said that the
i road is very bad over the Nugget
. Divide and that only one-way traf
fic is possible there.
BIDS SOUGHT FOR
NOME HARBOR PROJECT
Competitive bids are sought for
a project valued at about $50,000
for repair of jetties at Nome har
bor.
Sealed bids will be opened June
28 by the UJS. Army Engineer
District, Alaska at Anchorage. The
work will consist of placing 88
cubic yards of concrete in welded
steel forms. Prospective bidders
can obtain further information
from the U.S. Army Engineer Dis
trict, Alaska, P.O. Box 7002, An
chorage.
WASHINGTON UP) — Alaska's
senators want the Navy to use
Alaska contractors and workers in
stead of its own personnel an Alas
ka construction projects.
An amendment to the military
construction bill to require the
Navy to use local workers instead
of Seabees was introduced Mon
day by Sens. Ernest Gruening and
E. L. Bartlett.
FESTIVAL WEATHER
Mostly fair with a few fog
patches. Little change in temper
ature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 56, lowest 43. Sunrise at 1:19
am., sunset at 10:48 pm.
A year ago today: highest temp.
49, lowest 39. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 74 in 1927,
lowest 29 in 1929.
MUSIC — DANCING — DRAMA — CAST OF THIRTY
FROM THE NOSTALGIC 90 S TO THE SCINTILLATING 60'S
SMALL SCHOOL AUDITORIUM THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
9 O’CLOCK — ADULTS $1 — CHILDREN (under 12) 50c