0UKS8T NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 70
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1962
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r.S. Plans to
>o Some Snooping
WASHINGTON (J) — With Rus
sia expected to resume atmospheric
nuclear testing soon, American ex
perts reportedly are preparing to
do a little snooping of their own.
The Russians have four instru
ment ships posted around Christ
mas and Johnston Islands in the
Pacific to gather information about
le American test series which be
gan April 25 and now has reach
ed about the midway point. There
is every reason to believe the Rus
sians have collected considerable
data in the weeks their ships have
been there.
Although neither of the great nu
clear powers says anything pub
licly about its own snooping opera
tions, each has kept close check
on what the other has been doing
in nuclear test blasts over the years
of the atomic weapons race.
The new Soviet series could
come at any time in view df Pre
mier Khrushchev’s recent decla
ration that the American experi
ments have “forced us to renew
our tests.”
r.me nussian tests last ran were
conducted above uninhabited No
vaya Zemlya, a crescent-shaped
island on the edge of the Arctic.
So far as is known, the United
States does not have the kind of
instrument ships being used by
the Soviets to spy on U.S. tests in
the Pacific, but it is believed U.S.
nuclear submarines — which have
proved their ability to operate in
the Arctic even in winter — may
have had a grandstand seat for
the last Russian tests.
STOCK MARKET
FALLS SHARPLY TODAY ^
NEW YORK MB — Succumbing
to the second of two strong selling
waves, the Stock Market fell sharp
ly today, breaking through the
bottom reached by the Dow Jones
Industrial Average in the May 28
“Black Monday.”
Trading was heavy. The ticker
tape ran late on three occasions,
lagging 15 minutes behind trans
actions in the morning and four
minutes at the close.
Stocks rallied after being batter
ed down close to the May 28 low
in the morning.
The “test” of the May 28 low
was what Wall Street expected be
fore the session began. According
to theory, the market must seek
support at lower level after break
ing through two previous lows.
An estimated $3.9 billion was
clipped from the quoted value of
stocks listed on the New York
Stock Exchange, based on the fall
in the AP average.
Volume rose to 5.85 million
shares from 4.69 million yesterday
and was the largest since June
5 when 6.14 million shares changed
hands.
Life Savings Returned
DETROIT MB — Aziz Zarou has
his life savings back today.
They had gone for a ride on the
fender of a car and fallen off into
a downtown gutter.
Edward Kay, 19, found Zarou’s
savings — a stack of $100 US.
Savings Bonds -r and turned them
over to police.
Zarou wait to police headquar
ters with a list of serial numbers
of 40 bonds. Police returned 41
bonds to him.
“Maybe I don't count so good,”
said Zarou who explained he had
left the bonds on a -car fender
while he dug a coin for parking
out of his pocket.
COURT REVERSES BANK
ROBBERY CONVICTION
OF RICHARD WOODRING
SAN FRANCISCO M — The
U.S. Court of Appeals in a 2-to-l
decision has reversed the bank
robbery conviction of Richard A,
Woodring in Fairbanks, for rea
sons that may affect other actions
by interim courts during Alaska’s
transition from Territory to State.
Woodring was charged with rob
bery of a branch of the Alaska Na
tional Bank Jan. 12, 1959. He
wasn’t indicted in the old Territor
ial District Court, which later went
out of existence, until March 11,
1959, after Alaska became a state.
He was tried in the new Alaska
Federal District Court in June,
1960.
Chief Judge Richard H. Cham
bers, writing the majority opinion,
said Woodring and “others simi
larly situated” should have been
re-indicted after Feb. 20, 1960,
when the Territorial Courts were
terminated by Presidential procla
mation.
Chairman of
Committee Says
“Nix” to Tax Cut
WASHINGTON </P> — The chair
man of the powerful House Ways
and Means Committee says he
does not support proposals for an
across the board tax cut;
The statement yesterday by Rep.
Wilbur D. Mills, (D-Ark.), posed
an immediate threat to President
Kennedy’s announced intention of
seeking a tax cut from Congress
early next year.
Mills, who heads the commit
tee that handles all tax legislation
in the House, said while testifying
before another House committee,
“you have not heard me advocat
ing tax reduction this year or next
year.
“I have not committed myself
to that course of action. I have
not said I would be for a reduction
in our total revenues while we are
spending more than we are taking
in.”
Kennedy has' proposed a tax
cut next year as a means of sti
mulating the economy ,, and re
ducing unemployment.
Mills told the House Rules Com
mittee that he favors a broadscale
revision of tax laws which tile ad
ministration is expected to propose
as a companion measure with the
tax cut But he made it plain he
won’t support a measure that might
throw the budget for the next
fiscal year out of balance, adding
to the national debt.
Salmon Prices Reach New High
SEATTLE UP — Salmon prices
reached an all-time high at most
Southeast Alaska ports yesterday,
jumping 5 cents a pound for all
grades except large white which
went up 10 cents.
The Bureau .of Commercial
Fisheries, reporting the increase
and landings today, said large
kings brought 70 cents a pound,
medium 40 cents, small 30, large
white 45 and small white 20.
Landings totaled 49,500 pounds.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Fair with westerly winds 10-15
mph. Low tonight 34, high tomor
row 45. In the last 24 hours; High
of 45, low of 34. Max. wind 13
mph from ESE. Sunrise at 1:24
a.m., sunset at 10:40 pm. Temps,
a year ago today: High of 49, low
of 39. Extremes on this date since
1907: High of 72 tn 1940, low of
28 in 1935,
Search Goes On
For 3 Escapees
Off “The Rock”
SAN FRANCISCO UR — The
search went on today for three
bank robbers who vanished from
tide-swept Alcatraz Island Prison
in San Francisco Bay yesterday
after wriggling through cell wall
vents tediously enlarged with
stolen spoons.
Skillfully made dummies in their
bunks prevented guards from dis
covering their absence for several
hours.
Warden Olin Blackwell said he
does not believe the three men,
led by a convict with an IQ of
132, are alive if they tried to swim
for it.
However, because of the thor
oughness of the trio’s planning to
bust “The Rock,” officials con
cede that the men could have made
it ashore on a makeshift raft.
Nor do they discount the pos
sibility that Frank Lee Morris, 35,
the leader, and two brothers,
-John, 32, and Clarence Anglin, 31,
are still on the island, lurking in
a water’s edge cave.
cvci-wiuciuug semen — co
ordinated by the FBI — has spread
over northern California.
No one is known to have sur
vived an escape attempt from “The
Rock” in its 28 years as a federal
prison, although 35 men tried it
hi ii separate attempts.
It was found that the trio, ap
parently for weeks, had been dig
ging at plaster and cement foui
inches thick with bits of spoons
Their painstaking effort loosenec
a metal cover leading to a venti
lation shaft through each cell wall,
The 8-by-12 inch openings con
nected the cells with a service
shaft a yard wide.
From there it was 30 feet up a
pipe to an air conditioner. This
was dismantled, steel bars some
how torn aside and access gained
to the mess hall roof.
A 50-foot-long drain pipe led
to the ground, about 100 yards
! from the water on the San Fran
cisco side of the island.
From this point, Warden Black
well said, it was anybody’s guess
what the three desperate men did.
WIFFS OF STEAM . . .
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. UR — X-15 pilot Bob White,
testing a new control system 34
miles above the earth, says that
for the first time he saw whiffs
of steam from tiny jets that sta
bilize the rocket plane in space.
“I don’t know why the jets
should be visible,” the Air Force
major said after the flight yester
day. “Perhaps there is more air,
more moisture at that altitude than
we have thought.”
Scientists have said the atmo
sphere, for all practical purposes,
ends at about 90,000 feet. In the
near vacuum expected above that
altitude, the hydrogen peroxide
steam from the jets should disin
tegrate before it can condense into
visible vapor.
The X-15 has exceeded 90,000
feet on more than 20 flights. None
of the pilots, however, had report
ed seeing the exhaust from the
peroxide jets, similar to the ones
that stabilize Mercury astronaut
capsules in orbit.
In two of the three X-15s, the
jets must be operated manually
The advanced model flown yes
terday has a system that make:
their control almost automatic.
White said the new system wil
simplify the pilot’s job when tin
X-15 tries for a 400,000-foot alti
tude later this year.
MISSING COTTER PIN
MAY HAVE CAUSED
MARCH 1 JET CRASH
WASHINGTON VPI — A me
chanic’s oversight, a tiny cotter pin
and a bolt less than an inch long
could have been the ingredients of
disaster in the New York crash
of a jet airliner, the Federal Avia
tion Agency says.
Ninety-five people were killed
when the American Airlines Boeing
707 plunged into Jamaica Bay on
March 1, seconds after taking off
from Idlewild Airport.
The FAA said the bolt, part of
a complex rudder mechanism, may
have slipped out of place when a
nut securing it fell off — for lack
of the little cotter pin.
George C. Prill, Director of the
FAA Flight Standards Service,
said the New York crash “could
have been the result of an instal
lation mistake by one man on one
aircraft.”
“We do not see this as a possible
explanation for any other 707
crash about which we have any
information,” he said. “But it
would not be the first time that
an airplane crashed because a me
chanic left a' cotter pin out of a
bolt.
“You cannot say this is it —
we can never prove it happened
even though it could have hap
pened.”
Prill said the Civil Aeronautics
Board still is investigating the New
York crash and will make th<
final decision on the probabh
cause.
Reindeer Meal for Seattle
SEATTLE UP! — Alaskan rein
deer meat may legally be sold ir
Seattle if it has been inspected and
cleared by state or federal agen
cies, the City Council Safety Com
mittee was assured today.
Dr. S. P. Lehman, county-city
health director, said the city’s
meat ordinance does not differenti
ate between reindeer and other
meat.
NOT FIT FOR A CAT
OR DOG TO LIVE IN . . .
BOSTON i/P) — Cats, and cats,
and cats. Dogs, and dogs, and dogs.
That’s what police found in a
, Kyde Park dwelling when they
broke down the door after neigh
bors complained of offensive odors.
On the ground floor, the officers
counted 11 dogs of all sizes, shapes
and breeds.
Upstairs, there were some 60
cats, black, calico, large, small
all kinds.
Animal Rescue League crews re
moved the menagerie Mid police
took a 63-year-old widow to Bos
ton State Hospital for mental ob
servation.
Police said the animals were
well fed but the house wasn’t fit
for a dog or cat to live in.
LIONS SPONSOR PRINCESS
BALL SATURDAY NIGHT
To get into the spirit of the Mid
night Sun Festival, the Nome Lions
Club is sponsoring “The Princess
Ball” at the National Guard
Armory, Saturday night, June 16,
9 until 1, live music by .Louie!
Green.
In addition to special acts se
lected from “Do You Remember,”
and a twist contest, each candidate
for “Queen of the Midnight Sun
Festival” will perform her special
ty. Tickets will be on hand foi
you to support the candidate o:
i your choice.
Last year’s Queen, Tweet Hardy
will introduce the following hope
fids: Ann Chambers, Peggy Ro
■ berts, Theresa Kunnuk, Mary Jeai
Longley, and Lari Lowe.
Vigil and Search
Goes On For
Missing Girl
TACOMA, Wn. UP) — Say you
are the parents of four happy chil
dren, living in a pleasant home in
a quiet neighborhood. Then one
morning you awaken and find your
8-year-old daughter is gone from
her bedroom.
There is a frantic search. Days,
week and months pass and there
are only false clues and dead ends.
This happened to Mr. and Mrs.
Donald S. Burr the morning of
Aug. 31, 1961. More than nine
months later the case of Ann
Marie Burr still is an agonizing
mystery.
It was cold and rainy that Aug.
31. Mrs. Burr, 33, awakened short
ly after 5:30 a.m. She heard their
youngest child, Mary, 3, crying.
Mary was bothered by a cast put
on her arm after an accident. The
other children, Greg, 5, and Julie,
7, were asleep in a basement bed
room.
When Mrs. Burr looked in Ann
Marie’s bedroom, it was empty.
The Burrs searched every room
and closet in the two-story brick
home. Then they called police.
There was ample cause for alarm.
The front door, locked and latched
; with a night chain the evening be
7 fore, was open. A small living room
2 winAryrtt^ 'bcfOTCf
e 1 also was open. A bench beneath
I the window was overturned.
I Donald and Beverly Burr live
now in a tangled web of confusion,
sorrow and apprehension — hoping
j against mounting odds that their
1 blonde, hazel-eyed daughter may
be alive. No ransom ever was asked.
No ready explanation is available.
Tacoma police are just as puz
[ zled.
5 More than 1,500 persons were
| questioned in the first 21 days of
the search.
Robert J. Drost, detective cap
tain, has a 500-page file on the
Ann Marie case cm a rack above
his desk.
Missing person bulletins have
been sent to every state and to
Canada and Mexico. When Ann
Marie first disappeared, hundreds
of searchers combed the city’s
wooded areas and vacant lots.
Police made a house-to-house
check of the neighborhood. All
known child molesters and sex of
fenders were questioned.
Ann Marie was described as a
happy, intelligent child, somewhat
shy. She was ready -to enter the
third grade in a few days.
Her parents, not wealthy, were
not a likely mark for a kidnaper.
The father is a warehouseman at
nearby Camp Murray.
Rewards for return of Ann Marie
or arrest and conviction of those
responsible for her disappearance
now total $5,000.
TAXI SERVICE BIDS READ
JUNEAU Wft — Three of five
bids submitted to provide exclu
sive rights for taxi and limousine
service to the Anchorage Interna
tional Airport were read at a bid
opening this morning, Richard A.
Downing, Commissioner of the De
partment of Public . Works said to
i day.
i The other two were not read,
- Downing said, because they did
r not acknowledge the addenda,
f Apparent low bid was submit
ted by Marswalk Transportation
r, Service of Anchorage who offered
s- to pay the state 26 per cent of the
>- gross business on bus and limou
a sine service and 30 per cent on taxi
f^res per passenger.