OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
6in.i Year No. i’2
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCI'OBLR 15, 1962
Per Gov !5<?
Wm. Herrington
Doesn't Believe
Russ Deliberate!v
Destroyed Traps
ANCHORAGE (.-?> — A State
Department spokesman told Alas
ka businessmen yesterday that he
does not believe Soviet fishermen
operating off Kodiak Island de
liberately destroyed American crab
traps.
The statement came from William
Herrington, a fisheries and wildlife
expert for the department. He took
part in a panel discussion during
a meeting of the State Chamber of
Commerce.
Herrington traveled to Kodiak
earlier last week to meet Ameri
can fishermen who said they lost
crab gear when a Soviet fishing
fleet moved in.
“I’m inclined to believe it was
not intentional,” he said. The Rus
sians are apparently fishing at
night, he said, and destruction of
crab traps perhaps was the result
of “carelessness and lack of con
sideration.”
Herrington said better marking
for American crab traps would be
a “constructive move.” He said
none of the American fishermen
with whom he talked actually saw
Soviet trawlers pass over buoys
set out to mark crab traps, ap
parently because the American
fishermen were at anchor when
the Russians were fishing.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett told the busi
nessmen the federal government,
will continue insisting on keeping
the abstention principle in the
International North Pacific Fish
eries Treaty.
He said he learned the Japanese
do not like the principle, but it
“is vital to our case.” Japan, the
United States and Canada are
parties in the treaty.
The principle calls for absten
tion from fishing for a particular
kind of fish by other treaty nations
if one nation is fully using the
stock and more fishing would in
terfere with a sustained yield.
Under the treaty, the Japanese
agree not to fish for salmon east
of 175 degrees west longitude.
HARRY GABRIELSON PASSES
Harry Gabrielson, associated for
many years here with the Lomen
Commercial Co., passed away this
morning at his home in Fairfax,
Calif., after a lingering illness.
He is survived by his wife,
Pauline Gabrielson, whom he mar
ried in Nome, who advises friends
planning to make memorial gifts
to make them to the Fairfax Can
cer Society.
Mr. Gabrielson was a member
of Anvil Lodge, F & AM, No. 140.
Mr. Gabrielson will be remem
bered to many of the older resi
dents for his musical talent and
entertainment abilities which he
shared generously, taking part in
many programs over the years.
Lana Turner Gets 5th Divorce
JUAREZ, Mexico — Actress
Lana Turner was granted a Mexi
can divorce today from her fifth
husband, businessman Fred May.
Judge Miguel Guerra of the
First Civil Court in Juarez grant
ed Miss Turner the divorce follow
ing a brief hearing this morning.
Incompatability was listed by
Miss Turner as the grounds for
the divorce, but both parties
agreed to the action.
The actress and May were mar
ried in November 1960, and se
parated a few weeks ago.
Anchorage Will Get
Dept. Commerce Office
ANCHORAGE W — James G.
Morton, Asst. Secretary of Com
merce, said today a Department of
Commerce Field Office will be
opened in Anchorage as soon as
possible.
He spoke at the State Chamber
of Commerce Convention being
held here.
“We are moving now to estab
lish our newest field office,” he
I said. “It will be here in Anchor
| age and will give us continuing
i contact with the businessmen of
! Alaska.”
Morton said “we won’t waste
any time” in setting up the office
here.
He urged Alaskan businessmen
to spread the word of Alaskh’s op
portunities.
"Alaska’s greatest resource is her
people,” he said. "And her great
est need ' more people. I am
sure that if you can spread the
story of the opportunities Alaska
offers people will find their way
here.”
I
Cuban Patrol Boat
Sunk Off Havana
MIAMI, Fla. (/Pi — Six men the
Coast Guard said sank an armed
Cuban patrol boat and made off
! with two wounded militiamen were
questioned today by federal agents
at the Immigration Detention Cen
ter in suburban Opa-Locka.
The men were taken from Cay
Sal, a British isle in the Straits
off Cuba, by a Coast Guard cut
ter Sunday night. They had sought
refuge at Cay Sal after the raid.
Immigration officials said the
six would not be available to news
men for questioning “for the pre
sent.”
The two militiamen were flown
from the tiny island off the south
east Florida coast to Miami by
Coast Guard helicopter. They were
listed in fair condition at a hos
pital after surgery for bullet
wounds.
District Immigration Director
Edward Ahrens said one of the
two, Sgt. Filiberto Suarez Lima,
40, asked for asylum in the United
States. The other man was identi
fied as Cpl. Miguel Cao Mendina,
about 30.
Ahrens said the two told Immi
gration officers they and two
other military men were on patrol
duty in an 18-foot boat Friday
night, off Varadero Beach, east
of Havana.
Cao and Suarez said a larger
boat opened fire on them, sinking
their vessel and wounding Cao in
the groin and Suarez in the leg. The
patrol boat sank, and men on the
larger boat lifted the two militia
men from the water. The other two
men were swimming to shore when
last seen, Suarez said.
The six walked off the Coast
Guard boat at Key West, climbed
into waiting automobiles, and were
whisked off to Immigration offices
for questioning.
One had a bandage on his hand,
but none of the disheveled group
appeared to be seriously hurt.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Mostly cloudy with occasional
light snow. Partly cloudy tonight.
Winds 15-30 mph. Low tonight 18,
high tomorrow 32. In the last 24
hours: High of 33, low of 26. Max.
wind 29 mph from the north. Sun
rise at 6:53 a.m., sunset at 4:41
p.m. Temps, a year ago today:
High of 31, low of 23.
Catholic* Council
Plans to Discuss
Mixed Marriages
HOME iy?l — Roman Catholic
clergymen here expressed belief
the current second Vatican Coun
cil will discuss the question of
mixed marriages and the vows
the Catholic Church demands of
non-Catholics who marry Catho
lics.
Some Protestant, churchmen have
expressed hope that the Catholic
Church in the current council
might soften its insistence on such
vows, but Catholic sources avail
able today expressed doubt any
such change will be made.
Sources close to the conference
said there is talk of the church
also giving status and recognition
for the first time to other denomi
nations and ending the tradition
ally aloof attitude of the church
of Rome.
Protestant groups have been !
working quietly for a revision of
the Catholic attitude on both these
points, regarded as wounding by
other Christian churches.
The Archbishop of Canterbury,
Dr. Michael Ramsey, last week
referred to the conditions imposed
for mixed marriages as “very pain
ful" to practicing Anglicans.
The Archbishop said he was
thinking of the Catholic invitation
to the non-Catholic husband or
wife to abandon his faith and the
insistence that children of mixed
marriages must be brought up as
Catholics.
Informed sources said the Coun
cil also will review the system of
allowing only a shortened service
for mixed marriages. These sources
said use of the full Roman Catho
lic liturgy may be authorized.
To many observers here, the
the most fascinating aspect of the
Council is the change it represents
in the Catholic attitude to the
other Christian churches. Ex
changes between Pope John XXIII
and other Christian leaders have
rarely been so cordial.
The Russian Orthodox Church
has two observers here for the
first formal contacts between the
churches for nearly 10 centuries.
Another 16 churches or religious
bodies are represented in talks
with Vacitan Secretariat for church
unity, official contact on a scale
that has never been attempted
previously.
People
In the News
Former President Dwight D. Ei
senhower celebrated his 72nd
birthday Sunday in Gettysburg,
Pa., quietly. The general attended
church services in the morning,
then retired with Mrs. Eisenhower
to the Gettysburg home of their
son, John, where the family spent
the day.
President Eamon De Valera of
Ireland, just turned 80, told re
porters who visited him in Dublin
that he drinks a bottle of stout
every day with his lunch and said
if he had his life to live over
again he’d be a teacher. “It is
splendid to get to know things
yourself and then teach them to
other people,” he said.
Dirk Stikker, NATO Secretary
General, is making a normal re
covery from an operation he under
went Oct. 8, the State Department
says. It has been disclosed that
the operation at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center at Washington in
cluded removal of a malignancy
located in the large intestine.
Baby Girl Born
Alter Mother s Death
BERLIN, Nil,, m—An 8-pound
girl, bom half an hour after hen
mother’s death in an automobile
accident, gathered strength in a
hospital today and doctors gave
her a good chance of survival.
The infant was delivered by a
surgeon who rushed to St. Lou;
Hospital when told that, although
the mother had died, the full-term
baby showed signs of life.
The child’s father, Gerard Ber
thiaurne. 29. said the baby will be
named Cecils' after her mother
Dr. Leandro Beaudoin delivered;
the baby Sunday morning. He said
the infant was normal and ap
parently healthy.
Ceeile Berthiaume, 28. died ■
when her car struck a utility oole
as she drove alone to mass. She 1
died of a fractured skull in an j
ambulance on the way to the hos- !
pitab
West Coast Digs
Out of orst Storm
SAN FRANCISCO UP — The j
West Coast from San Francisco to j
British Columbia mopped up today
after hurricane winds and tor
rential downpours left at least 47
dead and scores homeless in one of
the vast area’s worst storms of
the century.
Damage amounted to uncounted
millions in northern California and
western Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia. Not even a rough
estimate of the total loss could be
tabulated.
Parts of major cities and many
small towns in the 75,000-square
mile storm area still were with
out telephone service. Emergency
phone crews were flown into the
area in chartered planes to patch
the lines today.
The storm, whiplash tail of two
dying typhoons, struck the coast
Thursday night, battering Oregon
the hardest. It lost its punch Sun
day as it moved inland and ran
up against the Rocky Mountains.
The job ahead: Caring for the
homeless, more than 150 families
in Oregon alone. Restoring broken
gas lines, power lines and tele
phone service. Clearing sewers,
streets and highways of storm
debris — tons of mud, windblown
trees, straightening billboards and
sign posts, shoring up sliding
houses, shoveling silt out of others.
Oregon’s Gov. Mark Hatfield
estimated storm losses in his state
at more than $150 million.
No tally had been made of the
loss in Washington or California
but it was expected to reach into
the millions.
Premier Bella of Algeria
Receives Warm Welcome
WASHINGTON UP> — President
Kennedy today gave a warm White
House welcome with full military
honors to Algeria’s Premier and
acting chief of state, Ahmed Ben
Bella.
The President assured the Al
gerian revolutionary leader that his
new country has a great role to
play now, not only in Africa but
throughout the world.
Kennedy assured him the United
States would work with Algeria in
search of peace for the world.
Ben Bella thanked the Presi
dent for what he called a clear
and courageous stand many years
ago for Algerian independence
when Kenedy was a senator in
1958.
fustier Dept.
■\sl\s (losirt to l ine
Barnett 8100.000
NEW ORLEANS /?' - The Jus
iee Department asked the Federal
Appeals Court today to fine Mis
• issippi Gov. Ro.-s Da met* $ 100,
)(»() for failing to purge hi n elf of
-•ontempt in the Jam* s Meredith
lesegregation case.
And it a k< ■ 1 the court to im
pose a daily fine of $10,000 in the
puture until Barnett complies fully
with court orders in the ca-e.
An attorney for the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People ur. • d the arrest
of Barnett and Lt. Gov. Paul John
son Jr., for contempt. The NAACP
did not ask for a fine.
The suggestions of the Justice
Department and the NAACP were
included in briefs filed at the 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' re
quest.
Barnett and Johnson both were
held in contempt of the court’s
desegregation orders for blocking
the enrollment of Meredith at the
all-white University of Mississippi.
But the court held off imposing
any penalties, saving it would give
them a chance to purge themselves.
The Justice Department, in its
brief, called for a fine of $100,000
against Barnett to cover the period
from Oct. 2 to Oct. 12 — the dates
between contempt hearings.
Hereafter, the Justice Depart
ment said, the court should order
Barnett to pay $10,000 daily until
he fully complies with orders forc
ing Meredith's enrollment.
The Appeals Court called for the
briefs to be submitted today as the
judges sought to determine If the
two Mississippi officials had purged
I themselves of contempt.
1,280 Students
Enroll at U of Alaska
COLLEGE — University of Al
aska enrollment figures for the
on-campus, college-credit courses
total 1,230 for the fall semester,
President William Wood announ
ced today. Of these 1,159 are in the
regular academic program and 121
enrolled in the evening program.
“Maximum use of facilities —
lecture halls, laboratories, offices,
residence halls, student union
building—is the result of the large
increase in the number of students
over last year’s resigstrants,” Dr.
Wood stated. In 1961 at this time
of year, 983 were enrolled and in
1960, 921 were enrolled for the
fall semester.
Giants Tip Yanks 5-2
SAN FRANCISCO UP — Or
lando Cepeda snapped his batting
slump and left-hander Billy Pierce
fired a strong 3-hitter today as
the San Francisco Giants squared
the World Series at three games
apiece with a 5-2 victory over the
New York Yankees and Whitey
Ford.
Snapping Ford’s five-game series
winning streak as Cepeda rapped
three hits and drove in two runs
to lead the way, the Giants forced
the weather-plagued series into a
showdown seventh game tomor
row.
The Giants took command of
the thrice-postponed sixth game
today in the fourth inning with a
three-run burst triggered by a wild
pickoff throw by Ford, who hadn’t
lost a World Series game since
the 1958 competition against the
Milwaukee Braves.