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63rd Year
No. 151
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Britain Will
Build Polaris
Armed Sub Force
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
NASSAU, Bahamas (/PI — Presi
dent Kennedy and British Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan an
nounced today a historic decision
to create at once a nuclear force I
and put Polaris - armed British
submarines in action under thei
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- j
tion banner b.v 1970.
The far-reaching agreement to !
give the Western alliance a broad- |
ened nuclear shield takes effect in
two stages:
—The United States and Brit
ain agreed to set aside immediately
an undisclosed segment of their i
bomber forces for use by NATO i
which would decide the emergency !
missions and targets.
—The United States agreed to
provide Britain with intermediate
range Polaris missiles — minus
warheads—for use on British sub
marines.
lnese lorces will be committed
to the new multi-nation NATO
nuclear force and the United
States will assign to NATO one
Polaris-armed submarine for each
similar undersea craft equipped by
the British.
Announcement of the Nassau ag
reement followed four days of
talks between the two leaders.
Both considered the document the
most important and portentous
product of any of their six meet
ings.
The earliest date at which Brit
ain could begin buying American
made Polaris missiles would be
1970, since no especially-equipped
submarines could be built before
then. Britain will pay for all mis
siles supplied but will not share
U.S. development costs of $2.5 bil
lion.
The British will furnish their
own Polaris warheads.
The agreement represented a
long step toward the solution of
two problems which have plagued
the two countries for many
months:
—To give Britain an acceptable
substitute for the now discarded
Skybolt nuclear missile which
would have been launched from
Britain’s Vulcan bombers.
—It marked a first step toward
possible resolution of the prob
lem of western European nations
developing independent nuclear
forces. The Nassau agreement pro
vides a framework under which
France, Britain and other Western
allies can pool their nuclear punch
under common direction.
U.S. Offers French
Polaris Missiles
NASSAU, Bahamas UP — Presi
dent Kennedy sent a personal let
ter to President Charles De Gaulle
today offering to provide France'
with Polaris missile's on the same
terms as those agreed upon here
with Prime Minister MacMillan
for a British Polaris force.
U.S. officials said they did not
know what De Gaulle’s reaction
would be. But President Kennedy ,
was described as very hopeful he
would accept.
France would buy Polaris mis- :
siles without warheads, which the .
French themselves would supply. ’
The French would also provide the !
submarines from which the mis- <
siles would be launched. ]
Pan Am-Trans World
Airlines Propose Merger
NEW YORK (/E—Pan American
World Airways and Trans World
Airlines proposed Thursday to
merge into the nation’s largest air
carrier.
The announcement, by Juan T.
Trippe, Pan Am president, and
Charles C. Tillingnast Jr., presi
dent of TWA, capped nearly a
year of merger talks.
Directors of the two companies
approved merger terms in simul
taneous meetings. The agreement
was to be filed with the Civil
Aeronautics Board in Washington
without delay.
The merger would have no ef
fect on Pan American and TWA
operations in the Pacific North
west, Bill Marsh, Pan American
public relations representative in
Seattle, said.
TWA has only a sales office in
Seattle. Pan American employes
300 persons in Seattle and oper
ates daily flights to Honolulu and
Alaska and a weekly polar flight.
GO Bond Issue for
Juneau-Dcuglas Schools
Snapped Up By Bankers
SEATTLE UP) — Concern that
new revenue efforts by southeast
ern Alaska cities might face diffi
culty because of efforts to move
the capital from Juneau did not
extend to underwriters yesterday
as four financial houses contended
for two issues of the Juneau-Doug
las independent school district.
The district offered a $776,00C
issue of General Obligation bonds
and $628,000 in General Obligation
refunding bonds.
Barcus Kindred Co. of Chicago
was the apparent successful bid
der with an offer of 3.4310 per
cent on the first issue and of
3.4192 per cent on the refunding
bonds.
The next closest bid, a combina
tion offer for both issues, was that
of A. P. Kelly Co., New York,
at 3.56 per cent, giving Barcus
Kindred a substantial margin.
The district, which includes the
cities of Juneau and Douglas and
surrounding territory within an
area of some 260 square miles. It
has a combined senior and junior
high school and four elementary
schools, three of them new, and
a fifth to be built next year.
Tito Fails to Settle
Differences with Nikita
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia UP) —
President Tito of Yugoslavia, on
his way home today from talks
with Soviet Premier Khrushchev
in Moscow, made clear they failed
to settle all major differences be
tween them.
Tito told Yugoslavia newsmen
traveling on the train with him
that after his talks with Soviet
leaders on Kremlin foreign policies,
he policies are somewhat clearer, j
But Tito indicated he intends I
to pursue his independent brand ]
if Communism. That policy led |
to his break with Moscow during j
he Stalin regime though relations |
lave taken a turn for the better
since.
THE WEATHER
Mostly cloudy with occasional
snow. Low tonight 20, high to
norrow 25. In the last 24 hours: |
digh of 20, low of 1. Max. wind
26 mph from the ENE. Sunrise t
it 10:04 a.m., sunset at 1:58 p.m. j
remps. a year ago today: High 0, I
ow of -20. Extremes on this date j
;ince 1907: High of 36 in 1913, j
ow of -29 in 1957.
U.S. Military
Mission In Congo
Wrets Opposition
| LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo IT
! —Lt. Gen. Louis Truman and a
U.S. military mission arrived here
l today amid a storm of opposition
protests in the Leopoldville Parlia
ment.
Gen. Truman is here to assess the
UN. Congo’s army’s needs for
military equipment. But extreme
Nationalist Conyole.se members of
Parliament earlier in the day ar
oused his mission of being the
forerunner of an attempt by the
Urited States to set un “once
again a military base in the Congo
with the complicity of the United
Nations.”
An opposition resolution pre
sented in the lower House called
on the president of the House to
to write a protest letter to U.N.
Secretary-General U Thant against
Gen. Truman’s mission.
The House also called unani
mously for release of ex-Deputy
Premier Antoine Gizenga within
hours. Gizenga, who set up a
Communist-backed secessionist re
gime in Stanleyville last year, has
been held since February on the
island of Bula-Bemba in the Con
go River.
U.S. Military Mission In
Congo Attacked By Soviets
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UPI -
The dispatch of a U.S. militar;
j mission to the Congo was attacke
, by the Soviet Union Friday as a
’ “arbitrary and unilateral action
likely to lead to serious complica
tions.
The Soviet charge was made b;
Deputy Foreign Minister Valeriar
Zorin at a news conference. H<
said the U.S. move was not in th<
interest of the Congolese people.
Strengthening Effort
For Unification Plan
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JH —
Adlai Stevenson declared today
that the sole objective of the U.S.
military mission to the Congo is
to strengthen the efforts of Sec
retary-General U Thant to carry
out his unification plan.
The U.S. chief delegate told a
news conference he knew of no
Soviet interference in the Congo
and said there were no political
implications in the Congo visit of
the eight-man U.S. mission.
“As to Soviet interference,” he
said, “as far as I know there isn’t
any whatever. I hope I am properly
informed on that subject.”
Stevenson’s remarks were made
as Robert Gardner, the U.N. chief
in the Congo, headed back there
to push Thant’s plans for unifi
cation.
NAVY WILL LAUNCH
ANOTHER TRANSIT SATELLITE
WASHINGTON ifr- -The Transit
navigation satellite launched into
orbit last Tuesday is a flop, but
the Navy hopes to put another one
aloft soon too help ships pinpoint
their positions at sea.
The Defense Department said
Thursday the satellite, which was
to have been the first in a system
of orbiting navigational aids, is
electronically dead. Its radio com
munications system and other elec
tronic equipment never started
working.
The Navy said it hopes to have
the full transit system of four
navigational satellites in operation
sometime next year.
7!iroe Ear^hciutkos Are
Eccordcd at T of C alifornia
BERKFLEY. Cal f. <T - - The
University of California recorded
at least three strong earthquakes
early today. The university seismo
graph station said each disturbance
occurred on a separate continent
all nearly within an hour period.
The first ouakc was reported at
12:4!) n.m. T,ST. about 2.300 miles
northwest of Berkeley, in the Aleu
j Ran Blare: . and was followed by
j two mod( ratelv strong after shocks.
In Juneau, hearlquarters of the
i 17th Coast Guard District said it
! had received no reports of dam
! age in the Aleutians or at Kodiak.
1 headquarters of the 17th Naval
District.
Another shock occurred 5,200
miles northwest of here at 1:44
n.m.. presumably on the island of
| Honshu in Japan.
The third earthquake was rec
orded at 1:54 a.m., about 5.000
I miles southeast of here in either
i central Chili or Argentina.
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| Safety Council Predicts
i Heavy Traffic Toll
CHICAGO IT1 — For millions of
Americans, the Christmas holiday
begins today with the windup of
office and factory chores.
Christmas is next Tuesday and
the matter for a majority of work
ers was a four-day holiday in
cluding the weekend and Mondaj
when little commercial activity i:
’ expected, and ending at the closi
7 of Christmas day.
^ The long weekend is expecte
^ to include holiday trips for count
less families bent on joining rc
‘ unions, and thereby, the Nations
Safety Council says, hangs an un
usual traffic accident peril.
1 With heavy highway travel, un
favorable winter driving condition;
1 in many areas, and thousands of re
laxed and inept drivers on the
roads, the Council said, traffic
fatalities are likely to run be
tween 650 and 750.
The estimate covers a 102-hour
period from 6 p.m. local time to
night until midnight Tuesday. The
Council also estimated that be
tween 27,000 and 33,000 persons
will suffer disabling injuries dur
ing the period.
Honolulu Gets a
Tidal Wave Alert
HONOLULU UP — A tidal wave
alert was canceled early today
after a 45-minute flurry of excite
ment that sent seacoast residents
scurrying into the hills.
Hawaii Civil Defense headquar
ters said the wave failed to ma
terialize. It based its information
on the fact that Midway Island,
which would have been hit first,
was unaffected
Midway Island is about 1,200
miles northwest of Honolulu.
The wave had !>• on anticipate 1
as the result of an earthquake in
the vicinity of the Aleutian I
lands followed bv a sir:os of after
shocks.
$34.6 Million to Federal Electric
Co-p. for DEW Line Maintenance
JUNEAU UP — The Air For •
advised the Alaska conge dona!
delegation today UfU> mil'ion is
being obligated to the Federal Elec
tric Corp. for operation, mainte
nance and support of the Distant
Early Warning System.
In a wire to the Associated Press
at Juneau, the delegation said $15
million had previously been ob
ligated by letter contract for a
total of $34.6 million.
| Noiih* Is hi l r^rnt
jNml of Now
!’oh(t Facilities
The growing problem of load
I im* of the electric system \vn ‘he
| • sin topic of discussion of the
j U'ilit.v Board < the None Light
and Power at their rcs.l: r rr.eet
ng h» 1 1 this past week. The
ioveh 'merits of the past year and
i •ho continued requests for power
| for the coming year has exceeded
| the planned load estimates by a
i very large margin.
During the later par- of I960
and during the first part of 1961
a study was made as to what
! the future requirements of the
| sy.-tem would be. This study was
j and is a guide to a planned and
orderly construction schedule which
I : outlined over a period of years
: termintaing in 1968. However
j construction of various federal
j and state facilities, which were
i not known at the time of the study,
i have increased the loading on the
system and diesel plant to where
they are operating at nearly peak
capacity, leaving none or very
little margin for the addition of
any future loads.
Requests for power for the com
ing year are very close to the
present output of the plant. The
largest request being for the new
Alaska State Vocational School,
this request for the initial installa
. tion will equal nearly 500 KW
; with more to be requested during
the later stages of development of
j the school. Various FAA installa
_ tions will take an additional 150
. KW or more, other installations
] will bring the total additional
. loading required to the 1,000 KW
mark.
It was pointed out by the mana
, ger to the Utility Board that the
construction of the Vocational
School will bring to Nome a con
siderable number of new families,
for which housing will have to be
constructed and this in it self will
increase the demand on the electric
facilities.
The manager of the utility, Mr.
Howard Crinklaw, was instructed
by the Utility Board to make a
J study and to report to the board
as to what the requirement will be
to handle the increase. Various
methods of financing are also
under consideration by the Utility
Board.
] Palmer Teacher Is
■Finalist For Teacher
j Of the Year Award
NEW YORK (1* — Airs. Alma J.
P.lunck, a school teacher at Palmer,
Alaska, was named yesterday as
(■tie of 10 finalists in the '‘National
readier of the Year" awards pro
gram.
Tin project is sponsored jointly
by the C nine:! of Chief State
School Officers, the US. Dent.
>i hia iti< n and a iv Lena! tra"a
: ini■ (Look*.
’n . Plunck, who holds a bache
‘ l ms -tc r's de roe in Edu
ri from the University of
A! ~ka, teaches retarded and slow
Taming children in the Palmer
school system.
A member of the Alaska Edu
cation Assn, and the Nat: mnl Edu
. cation Assn., as \vo’i as serving
: as president of the Palmer Edit'ca
| tain Assn, Airs. Blunek attd her
husband km on a ;>80-acre farm
south of Palmer.
Selection of the National Teacher
| of the Year will be made after each
| of the 10 finalists has been inter
viewed and observed at work.