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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOMALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1962
Kennedy Proclaims U.S.
Naval Blockade Against Cuba
WASHINGTON UP)— President
Kennedy proclaimed a U.S. naval
blockade against Cuba tonight,
saying the Soviets have started to
turn Cuba into an offensive mili
tary base capable of raining nuc
lear destruction on all the
Americas.
In an address prepared for
nation-wide television and radio
delivery. Kennedy said the
United States "would regard any
missile launched from Cuba
against any nation in the West
ern Hemisphere as an attack by
the Soviet Union on the United
Stales, requiring a full retalia
tory response upon the Soviet
Union."
But Kennedy, in his dramatic
report on the intensified buildup
in Cuba, did not order any direct
military action at this. time.
He called upon Soviet Premier
Khrushchev to halt "this clan
estine, reckless and provocative
threat to world peace and to
stable relations between our
two nations."
Kennedy challenged Khrush
chev to join in “an historic effort’’
to end the* arms race.
The President announced that
he has ordered reinforcements to
the U. S. naval base at Guan
tanamo, Cuba, has evacuated de
pendents of military personnel
from the base and placed addi
tional units on the alert.
The outlook, he acknowledges,
is risky.
"My fellow citizens," Ken
nedy said, "Let no one doubt
that this is a difficult and dan
gerous effort on which we have
set out. No one can foresee
precisely what course it will
take or what costs or casualties
will be incurred.
“Many months of sacrifice and
self-discipline lie ahead — months
in which both our will and our
patience will be tested—months in
which many threats and denunci
ations will keep us aware of our
danger. But the greatest danger
of all would be to do nothing.”
"One path we shall never
choose," he asserted, "is the
path of surrender or submis
sion."
Kennedy announced a seven
point course of action under which
the United States will ask tonight
for an emergency meeting of the
United Nations Security Council
“to take action against this latest
Soviet threat to world peace.”
In requesting the special session,
Moscow Says U.S. Arms
Buildup is Provocation
Against People of Cuba
KEY WEST, Fla. UP) — A Ha
vana broadcast quoted Moscow
radio today as saying the U.S.
Caribbean arms buildup “has the
character of open provocation
against the people of Cuba.”
“The United States has raised
its armed fist and threatens the
peace of the Republic of the An
tilles,” Moscow was quoted as de
claring.
“The concentration of great
United States forces near the
Cuban coast is not a routine
maneuver. Where can one expect
the next North American provoca
tion?
“Taking into the account the
bellicose actions of the United
States in the Caribbean, it is very
easy to answer that question
today.”
Kennedy said, the United States
would demand prompt withdrawal
of all offensive weapons in Cuba.
A conference with congressional
leaders of both parties, summoned
back to Washington for an emer
gency fill-in. broke up less than
half an hour before Kennedy went
on the air. They had been at the
White House for an hour and a
half.
Earlier. Kennedy presided at
suddenly called meetings of the
National Security Council and the
cabinet.
An air of tension that had grip
ped the capital over the weekend
grew heavier as the day progressed
and evidence of urgent decisions
in the making became clear.
Kennedy said unmistakable
evidence had developed within
the last week to prove that a
series of offensive missile sites
is being established in Cuba. He
called it "that imprisoned is
land." He added:
"The purpose of these bases
can be none other than to pro
vide a nuclear strike capability
against the Western Hemis
phere."
Marine Reinforcements
Sent to Guantanamo
WASHINGTON (T> — Marine
| reinforcements reportedly are being
; sent into the Guantanamo Naval
j Base in Cuba.
I Unconfirmed reports indicated
i today that perhaps as many as
| 2,000 Marines are ticketed to re
inforce that garrison at the U.S.
base, which is hemmed in by Fidel
Castro’s Cuba.
There were indications the re
inforcements might be a rifle bat
talion, which was flown into the
Caribbean area from California.
The Marines have maintained a
j garrison officially listed as about
! 400 men at the Naval base, which
Castro wants.
| These Marines man strong points
j along the 26 mile perimeter of the
| base.
—
1 Bodies of Two
! Sitka Men Found
, Near Plane Wreckage
JUNEAU UP> — The bodies of
j two Sitka men, one a past Alaska
: Department Commander for the
; Veterans of Foreign Wars, were
found near the wreckage of their
light plane in Rust Lake, Chichagof
Island, yesterday.
Dead are Ross Peterson, a fish
erman and carpenter active in
VFW affairs, and Tom Beer, su
pervisor of the State Highway De
partment maintenance crew at
Sitka.
The wreckage of the light plane
in which the two men left Sitka
on a fishing trip Saturday was
spotted in the lake, approximately
50 miles northwest of Sitka, by Bob
File, a pilot for Alaska Coastal
Ellis Airlines.
Peterson’s body was hanging
from a strut of the wrecked plane
and members of the Sitka Civil
Air Patrol who, with State Police,
recovered the bodies late yester
day, said Peterson might have sur
vived the crash, only to die of
exposure.
Beer’s body was found in 15
feet of water under the overturned
aircraft by Walt Dange, a Sitka
fireman and diver flown to the
scene to search the lake’s waters
for Beer.
Seattle ( 2\ Fair
Passes Into History!
SEATTLE f.T — Successful be
yond expectation, the Seattle i
World’s Fair passed into history ;
today and left as part of its legacy
a $50 million civic center and a
gleaming white-arched science mu
seum.
The 10 millionth ticket, count
ing several thousand that weren’t
used, was sold about eight hours
before the gates closed for the last
time at midnight yesterday. Offi
cial:, had said nine million ticket ,
sales were needed for a financial I
success.
More than a quarter of a million
fairgoers crowded on to the 74
acre grounds on the last two days j
alone.
Sunday's crowd of 1124.470
brought the total of paid fairgoers
actually entering the gates to
9,635,067. The big crowd fell short,
however, of the 128,721 visitors
who set the single day’s attend
ance record on Saturday.
Approximately 13,000 crowded
into the Fair’s outdoor stadium for
a climactic program. It featured
fireworks, bands and drill teams.
Opera star Patrice Munsel sang
“Around the World in 80 Days.”
At an afternoon ceremony, the
$10 million six-building U S. Sci
ence Pavilion, one of the biggest
crowd-pleasers of the Fair, was
turned over to the non-profit
Pacific Science Center Founda
tion. It will re-open tomorrow,
with an admission charge of $1
| for adults and 50 cents for chil
dren. During the Fair, it was free
tu lauguuio.
President Kennedy had been
scheduled to appear at the cere
mony in front of the pavilion, but
the White House said he caught
cold and was unable to come. Sen.
Warren Magnuson, (D-Wn.i, ex
tended the President’s greetings.
At 6:49 p.m., Joseph Gandy,
president of the Fair said, “I now
officially commit the Seattle
World’s Fair to history” and
banged his gavel.
From the east end of the stadi
um, the guns of Battery A, 2nd
Howitzer Bn., 1st Artillery, Ft.
Lewis, boomed out a 21-gun
salute to the Fair and to Century
21.
At 9 p.m. the exhibits closed for I
the last time and at midnight, with
carillion bells striking the hours,
other lights all over the fair
grounds began going out as strag
glers headed for the east gate,
the last one left open.
There were two final visitors
to the Fair at precisely midnight.
The honors were shared by A. M.
Lambert, Vancouver, B.C., and
M/Sgt. Donald Stringfellow, who
spent the full 184 days on the
grounds.
Lambert explained that had
closed the Brussels World’s Fair in
1958.
U.S. Orders Commercial
Planes Away from Cuba
WASHINGTON UP> — Aviation
sources said civil aviation was
ordered late today to stay away
from the Cuban area.
The orders presumably went
directly from the White House
and the Defense Department to
the individual airlines and to the
organizations representing civilian
fliers.
At least one airline was uncer
tain whether to cancel or to re
route its South American-bound
flight.
Another cancelled a flight bu1
insisted the action was unrelated
to the Cuban situation.
Catholics Review
Customs of Worship
VATICAN CITY ,1’ Roman
Catholicism today l-cyan . ep
ing review of it.- customs of wor
ship.
A broad-scale plan for liturgical
modifications presented to the
Vatican Ecumenical Council touch
ed off an apparently brisk round
of debate.
"Some defended it,” a commu
nique said. “Others impugned it.”
Details of the plan were not dis
closed. but preparatory reports
have indicated it would mclude a
considerable overhauling of ritual
and worship practices.
Steps to encourage fuller con
gregational participation, to bring
the altar and people closer to
gether and to substitute national
tongues for part of the Latin mas.
have been discussed, among other
measures. Internal renewal of the
church is their avowed aim.
But same of the proposed
changes are also viewed by church
leaders as an aid to helping close
the chasm between Rome and
other denominations.
Kake Man Found Dead
SEATTLE </P> — A man found
dead in the Lake Washington ship
| canal at the Fishermen's Terminal
1 Sunday morning, was identified as
! Clarence Nanauck, 28, of 1743
! Boylston Ave.. cornorer Leo M.
: Sowers said.
| Nanauck, whose parents live in
’ Kake, Alaska, was employed as a
| bookkeeper for the Keku Canning
\ Co. His body had been in the
, water at least a week, deputy cor
I oners said.
I Coroner Sowers ordered an au
topsy.
Hcintzlcman Doubts More
Pulp Mills Will Be Built
In Southeast Alaska
JUNEAU (/P — Former G o v.
Frank Heintzleman said today it
is extremely doubtful that any
more pulp mills will be constructed
in Southeast Alaska in the fore
seeable future.
Heintzleman, who once served
as U.S. Regional Forester for
Alaska, said pulp production capa
city is far in excess of market
needs at the present time.
Two pulp mills, each of which
cost in excess of $50 million to
build, are now operating in the
Panhandle, at Ketchikan and Sitka.
The Georgia Pacific Co. held
an option on a bloc of Admiralty
Island timber for several years
until deciding in mid-1961 it would
not be economically feasible to
construct a proposed pulp or paper
plant near Juneau.
Search Suspended for
Two Juneau Men
JUNEAU UP) — The Coast Guard
suspended its active search last
night for two Eagle River men
missing for more than a week on
a hunting flight from Eagle River
to Montague Island and return.
Pilot Bernard Vaverka and pas
senger Leonard Ivie left Eagle
River on Oct. 13 and were sched
uled to return the following day
They were reported missing last
Tuesday.
Turbulent weather hamperec
search efforts by Coast Guard anc
Civil Air Patrol planes all Iasi
week.
In announcing that it had sus
pended its active search, the Coast
.! Guard said new snow has cut the
possibility of detecting a downed
plane from the air.
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Northwest I’luiir
SITKA P> .- A swift, skillful
rescue at sea today saved 103
.oersoris aboard ; military-charter
ed passenger airliner that ditched
in the ocean off this southeast
Ala - ka city.
The Northwest Airlines DC-7,
with a Tew of 7 and 9f> passengers
—-including men, women and chil
dren — came down w:th propeller
• ' able it 12:58 p.m., off the en
trance to Sitka Sound.
F nr persons were reported hurt
slightly, including a baby.
'Idle dlvbing wa- >n adept that
the plane staved afloat 22 minutes,
while those aboard calmly got into
five 26-man life rafts.
"Apparently there was no panic.”
srdd .Tim Japua of KSA-TV, who
reached the seem; before the plane
rank.
"It looked to me like the pilot
i d;d a beautiful job. The top of
| the wings were just starting to
i be awash when I got th< re. The
1 nose went down first and when
! the tail went over it headed
1 straight for the bottom just like
i a big whale going down.”
1 A Coast Guard plane alighted
I at the scene within three minutes
j of the ditching and an Alaska
| Coastal-EIlis plane circled over
j head. But it was a Federal Avia
! tion Agency supply boat from a
! nearby FAA station that took the
j passengers from the rafts.
| By the time the DC-7C went
down, Jaqua said, everyone was
aboard the FAA boat, the Fedair.
Later they were transferred to the
Coast Guard cutter Sorrell.
I The pilot’s radioed report of
I trouble gave time for planes and
I rescue boats to head for the
scene, about seven miles south of
here.
Fairly calm weather contributed
to the rescue’s success.
“Everybody got out and into
the life rafts with no trobule at
all,” the Fedair’s skipper told
Jaqua.
Marine Maneuvers
Canceled in Caribbean
WASHINGTON UP! — A practice
landing by 6,000 Marines on the
Caribbean island of Vieques was
canceled abruptly today.
The Defense Department said
the practice landing through the
surf and by helicopter had been
called off because the ships of the
Navy’s amphibious force had been
scattered by a hurricane.
The practice landing had been
scheduled for Tuesday as the cli
max of an anti-submarine warfare
amphibious exercise which began
Oct. 15 and is due to wind up Oct.
30. The exercise involves about
40 Navy ships and 20,000 Navy
and Marine men.
The cancellation came against
a background of top level activity
pointing to a possible major move
in connection with Cuba.
Vieques, an island off Puerto
, Rico, is about 500 miles from the
eastern end of Cuba.
It is a regular training area for
l the Marine Corps and the Atlantic
fleet.
j The big exercise which began
i j Oct. 15 was planned late last year.
^ [ Similar drills havt been held about
once a year for some time.
‘•Work is the greatest thing in
the world, so we should always
save some of it for tomorrow.”
— Don Herold.