OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 12i
NO ML, ALASKA, WM)NiM)AV, OC.'OMFR r, 1962
Per Copv 15C
JFK Declares
\\ estern Oregon
A Disaster Area
By The Associated Press
President Kennedy has declared
western Oregon a major disaster
area and Gov. Rosellini has asked
for a similar declaration embrac
ing western Washington.
A Presidential proclamation of
disaster makes federal funds avail
able, mostly for repairing damage
to public facilities. Kennedy
ordered SI million made available
in Oregon.
Officials in both states con
tinued to assess damage from last
Friday’s wind storm, the worst in
Pacific Northwest history. Damage
in Washington is estimated at from
$40 to $50 million.
In San Francisco Tuesday the
National Board of Fire Under
writers said insurance companies
would pay 24,700 claims totaling
$6,365,000 in Washington. This
does not include such losses as
crops, state structures and unin
sured personal damages.
In Olympia, the State Agricul
ture Department said Washington
farms suffered damages of be
tween $8 and 10 million, including
loss of trees it will take years to
replace.
Guest Speakers Listed for
League of Alaskan Cities
1962 Convention at Haines
JUNEAU (tf> — Dr. Robert C.
Weaver, Administrator for the
U.S. Housing and Home Finance
Agency, will head the list of speak
ers for the League of Alaskan
Cities 1962 Convention, president
Wm. A. Besser of Anchorage said
today.
The League’s convention is
scheduled to start in Haines next
Wednesday. It will continue
through Saturday, Oct. 27.
Other speakers include James
Sharkey, General Counsel for the
Area Redevelopment Administra
tion; Floyd Guertin, State Com
missioner of Administration; John
Doyle, Executive Director of the
State Legislative Council Staff;
and State Highways Commissioner
D. A. McKinnon.
An estimated 100 city officials
are expected to register for the
four-day meeting.
Pioneer Women to Mark
Golden Anniversary
Pioneer Women of Alaska and
members of the Pioneers of Alas
ka and their families will celebrate
the golden anniversary of the
founding of the Pioneer Women
Auxiliary with a smorgasbord
at the Pioneer Igloo at 7 p.m. Sat
urday evening.
Anyone wishing further infor
mation may contact Mrs. Joe
Walsh or Mrs. Jim Blanning.
There will be special entertain
ment following the dinner.
New Machine Vends 2,224 Items
SAN FRANCISCO UFi — A vend
ing machine with a capacity of
2,224 items in 204 varieties was
featured at the National Conven
tion of the Automatic Vending
Industry.
The big vendor is manufactured
in the West German plant of Auto
matic Canteen Co. of America.
Also on exhibit was an auto
matic bank depositing machine
tha accepts coins, currency and
checks, returning a validated de
posit slip to the customer.
U.S. Rc Schedules Moon
^I’ot for Thursday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (VP* —
The Space Agency luday re
scheduled the Ranger 5 moon shot
tor Thursday when a change in
direction by tropical storm Ella
promised improved weather con
ditions.
Officials had wiped the launch
ing off the October schedule be
cause of the threat posed by Ella.
Earlier today, NASA said the
scheduled launching Thursday was
tentative, depending on further
weather reports. When the weather
outlook improved, officials made
the schedule definite.
| Hepatitis Outbreak
| Reported at Savoonga
; JUNEAU (fPt — The Alaska De
i partment of Health and Welfare
! said today that an outbreak of in
; fectious hepatitis (jaundice* has
! been reported in the village of
Savoonga, on St. Lawrence Island.
Paul Winsor, Commissioner of
Health and Welfare, said the U.S.
Public Health Service has sent an
epidemiologist, Dr. Alan Dana of
the Communicable Disease Center
in Georgia, to Savoonga.
Dana was accompanied by Dr.
Robert McAllister of the Arctic
Health Research Center, Anchor
age, and nurse Lorraine Singer,
Supervisor for the State Health
and Welfare Department’s north
ern region.
Further action will hinge on the
findings of Dana and McAllister,
Winsor said.
Alaska Day Tomorrow
Tomorrow state offices will ob
serve Alaska Day. The Miners &
Merchants Bank will also be
closed.
Plans Underway
To Airlift Supplies
To Unalakleet
ANCHORAGE — The State
Office of Civil Defense announced
today plans are under way to air
lift supplies of food and fuel into
Unalakleet as an aftermath of a
fire which destroyed the general
store and Trading Post there.
Civil Defense Director Don
Lowell, who flew to the Northwest
Alaska community to assess dam
ages, said it is not yet known what
supplies will be needed to see the
town through the winter months.
Lowell said that certain bulk
items usually hauled in by barge
were destroyed in the fire last
Friday. Since there will be no
more barge trips this year, these
supplies will have to be airlifted,
he said.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Carroll, Adju
tant General of the Alaska Na
tional Guard, said it would be pos
sible to combine the airlift with
training exercises, if such an air
lift becomes necessary. If so, he
said, C-123 cargo ships of the Air
National Guard based here would
be used.
Lowell said no immediate emer
gency exists which cannot be met
by supplies still available in the
village.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Mostly cloudy with snow today
and tonight. Low tonight 26, high
tomorrow 32. In the last 24 hours:
High of 32, low of 25. Max. wind
23 mph from the NE. Sunrise at
6:59 a.m., sunset at 4:34 p.m.
Four Soviet Ships j
Monitor in Paeifir
WASHINGTON — Four So
viet ships in the Pacific are used
both for reporting impact of So
viet test inissile firings into that
area and for monitoring space
vehicles passing overhead. Penta
gon sources said.
This obviously is an addition to
ti.e surveillance they maintain on
U.S. nuclear tests in the Johnston
Island area.
Data on the ships — the Sibir,
Suchan, Sakhalin and Chukotka —
indicates they are converted from
the Donbass-class cargo ships built
in Poland. The conversions were
completed in 1959 and the ships
sent to the Pacific over the north
ern route, presumably during the
summer season in the Arctic when
passage through ice is possible.
Each ship has an over-all length
of 340 feet and all have large,
parabolic mesh antennas for long
range use and other antennas
probably used for receiving sig
nals from space vehicles. Each has
a helicopter platform and hangar
near the stern.
Ben Bella Says Algeria
Will Stand Forever
With Castro’s Cuba
HAVANA (£*) — Premier Ahmed
Ben Bella of Algeria, who says his
new nation will stand forever be
side Fidel Castro’s Cuba, gets a
chance today to look at the Cuban
revolution results he avowedly ad
mires.
In reply to greetings from Prime
Minister Castro, who loosed a tir
ade against “Yankee imperialism,”
Ben Bella said on his arrival
from talks with President Ken
nedy in Washington:
“Brotherhood always reigned
between Cuba and Algeria. Algeria
is and will be with Cuba. History
has willed it that both people
meet on the road to liberation.”
Castro met the Cuban airliner
that brought Ben Bella from
Washington, and declared in his
welcoming address:
“To visit Cuba at a time when
the United States is redoubling its
criminal blockade, when the Yan
kee imperialists threaten to at
tack, is on your part an act of
political firmness and valor.”
Ben Bella in turn praised “the
extraordinary progress” of the Cu
ban revolution. He also noted that
Algeria’s National Liberation
Front had awarded its golden
Medal of Honor to only one per
son—Castro.
AM A Looks For Asian Flu
Epidemic This Winter
CHICAGO UP) — The American
Medical Association said today
there are strong indications an
epidemic of Asian flu will hit the
United States in the winter just
ahead.
The association, which earlier
had warned of the possibility of
an outbreak, said the disease has
been making its wav slowly around
the world from Asia since Jan
uary.
The AMA said nobody can pre
dict how serious the outbreak
will be.
The association said that in the
five years since Asian flu first
appeared in the United States it
has contributed to the deaths of
90,000 Americans. It noted that
the flu itself usually is not a
killer, but that it weakens the j
body’s defense against other dis
eases.
GOP Leaders Say
Cuban Bianco Will Be
Bi" Issue in Elections
WASHINGTON .?■ — Three Re- :
publican congressional leaders have;
attacked the Kennedy administra
tion for “tragic irresolution” in
handling the Cuba situation, do- j
daring it to be the dominant is- |
sue in congressional elections.
The three are Rep. Wm. Mill'T j
of New York, the National Party j
Chairman; Sen. Barry Barry Gold- i
water of Arizona and Rep. Bob '•
Wilson of California, the chairmen j
of the Senate and House Cam-j
paign Committees.
They said in a statement Tues
day:
"If we were asked to state the
issue 'in the Nov. fi election1 in
one word that word would be
Cuba — symbol of the tragic ir
resolution of the administration."
John Bailey, National Chairman
of the Democrats, shot back a re
ply in which he accused the Re
publicans of “lack of memory”
and failure to put forth any alter
natives to administration policies.
He said Communism took over
in Cuba in 1958 during the Eisen
hower administration and added;
“It ill behooves them now to
criticize the firm measure taken
by the President to improve a
situation they themselves permit
ted to occur."
LIONS WILL FETE
“WINDOW ARTISTS”
ON HALLOWEEN
Nome Lions Club members re
mind all pre-high school children
of their Halloween program, which
promises to be one of the biggest
annual community affairs ever
sponsored by a service group. Bob
Smith, general chairman in charge
of the event, says, “There’ll be
prizes for some, but surprises and
fun for everybody.”
Traditionally, Halloween is a
time to indulge in a little mischief
as well as to “trick or treat.” This
year, for the first time, under the
auspices of the Nome Lions, pre
high school children will have a
chance to express their artistic
talents on any of the Front Street
windows — and get a prize for
doing a good job!
Rules for the window-painting
contest are as follows:
The “painting” must be on a
Front Street business house win
dow—on the afternoon and eve
ning of Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The picture must be signed by
the artist.
Use colored soap or water colors
Do Not Use Paint nor Damage any
Building.
Judge will select first and sec
ond place winners on Wednesday,
Oct. 31.
Then—that night, at the Multi
purpose Room of the School, from
7:30 to 9 o’clock, the Lions have
planned a program and movie and
the window artist winners will be
announced. A talent contest is also
being considered.
Prizes will be awarded for the
best and most original Halloween
cus mines.
Members of the Chamber of
Commerce have agreed to act as
judges of the contest.
Remember, the whole program
is open and free to grade school
children. However, a small fee
will be charged for adults who
wish to attend. Everyone will sit
on the floor or stand along the
walls.
If you have any questions—call
Bob Smith, program chairman, at
the Merc—or just ask any mem
ber of the Lions Club.
Rivers ami Thomas
\ ill I)cbale on T\
Iii Anchorage
PETERSBURG (ffl — Plans for
an Oct. 29 television debate in An
chorage between Democratic Rep.
Ralph Rivers and his Republican
opponent Lowell Thomas Jr. were
announced yesterday by Thomas
Thomas and two other Republi
can candidates for major office
appeared at political meetings
here.
Mike Stepovich of Fairbanks,
GOP candidate for governor, said
Gov. Wnn. Egan's administration
seems to depend on advice of state
employes who have not lived in
Alaska long enough to be familiar
with local problems.
Ted Stevens, GOP Senate candi
date. contended Democratic Sen.
Ernest Gruening tried to mislead
voters by belittling committee as
signments of new senators.
"All newly elected Republican
senators,” Stevens said, "have been
given good committee assignments
of their choice.”
Thomas said managers for both
candidates have agreed to terms
and prime TV time has been made
available for the debate.
He said Rivers had failed to re
present the fishermen, "our num
ber one industry." and had failed
in four years in Washington to
solve the problem of native land
rights.
Rivers was silent about Russian
fishing in Shelikof Strait until Gov.
Egan had acted. Thomas said.
Thomas reiterated his recom
mendation that the United States
claim all fisheries out to the edge
of the continental shelf.
He said if elected he would seek
federal tax incentives for business
in Alaska and increased foreign
trade for the state.
Stepovich said he had heard com
plaints from all over the state that
State Democratic Governor’s Ad
ministration “is not paying atten
tion to local areas and their prob
lems."
The GOP candidate said the
Egan administration has spent
$420 million, or about $7,000 per
voter, in the past four years.
"What is there to show for it,”
he asked.
He said red tape and regulations
of the Egan administration are
slowing the pace of investment.
U.S. Helicopters Pour
Rocket Fire Into Guerrillas
SAIGON t£> — Four U.S. Army
escort helicopters poured rocket
and machinegun fire into a con
centration of Communist guerrillas
Tuesday, apparently with deadly
effect.
The helicopters, recently sent
from the United States, are de
signed to help neutralize the in
creasing Viet Cong guerrilla ground
fire that has downed at least two
planes in two days with the loss
of three Americans.
The four heavily armed HU-1
helicopters were accompanying
lightly armed helicopters bringing
out a battalion of Vietnamese
soldiers 55 miles northwest of Sai
gon.
The Vietnamese had been landed
to protect a U.S. helicopter forced
down by mechanical trouble. It
was necessary to destroy the heli
copter. and lurking Viet Cong
guerrillas opened fire as the heli
copters began lifting out the Viet
namese.
The late-model helicopters
swooped into action, their 16
powerful rockets and two .30 cali
ber machineguns blazing.