63rd Year No. 4
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1962
Per Copy 15^
Kotzebue Votes “Wet”
Voters in Kotzebue voted favor
ing a wet village with a vote of
169 for a non-profit alcoholic
corporation and 142 opposed as
wTell as favoring alcoholic bev
erages to be sold in the commu
nity.
New councilmen elected were:
Bob Baker, 178; Tony Joule, 177;
Jack Jones, 174; John Shaeffer,
162; Rev. T. Osgood, 141; Don
Ferguson, 137; Bess Cross, 135.
Those not elected were Curtis,
Conwell, Hayes, Mullaley, Good
win, Vestal, and Wright.
Commissioner of Public
Safety Advises Nome to
Organize Civil Defense
Martin Underwood, Commis
sioner of Public Safety has been
conferring with local leaders the
past two days on various aspects
of his department which con
cerns policing, fire control and
many other functions including
civil defense.
He was surprised at the fact
that Nome had no local Civil De
fense committee set up and stated
that although Nome would not be
a target for H-bombs, the fall
out from the main targets of
Fairbanks, Anchorage and Ko
diak as well as from bombs in
itiated by our own country,
either aerial or submarine, would
affect us. Small communities
must be prepared not only to care
for themselves in case of such
devastation be must stand ready
to help restore the areas of the
main attack with food supplies as
well as manpower.
People will have to be recruit
ed from the small communities
to get planes, power and commu
nications back as soon as possible
following an attack. Underwood
said he hoped Nome would soon
get an organization planned.
He had hoped to visit Kotze
bue and St. Lawrence Island but
weather conditions have been un
favorable and he left today for
Fairbanks.
He said he does not anticipate
increased state policing for north
western Alaska in the immediate
future.
Find Uranium in Switzerland
BERN, Switzerland UPS—Federal
authorities report the discovery
of a substantial uranium deposit
in central Switzerland.
Rep. Rivers Will Try
To Postpone Payment
Of ESC Fund Debt
WASHINGTON Oft — Rep.
Ralph Rivers said yesterday he
will make a down-to-the-wire
try to postpone Alaska payments
of an unemployment compensa
tion fund debt due this month.
However, it isn’t likely Rivers’
one-ycar moratorium bill will get
through Congress and signed be
fore Jan. 31, when the first in
stallment is payable.
The House was blocked from
acting on the measure by an ob
jection in the final days of the
last session of Congress and it
was put over until the session
opening today.
Musi Be Kepi Pure . . .
(LONDON Oft — The British
Board of Film Censors insists that
nudist films, enjoying a lively
vogue in Britain, must be kept
pure. How? No G-strings. Nudity
scenes must be confined to nuaisl
camps, says the Board, and the
girls in them must be bare.
Kay Says He
Has No Intention
Of Resigning Post
SITKA — State Democratic
Central Committee Chairman
Wendell Kay said today he has
no intention of resigning, as urged
by State Rep. Pete Deveau of
Kodiak.
Deveau, Democratic Majority
Leader in the House of Repre
sentatives, said yesterday that Kay
should quit as chairman if he con
tinues his attacks on Gov. Wm.
Egan and the Legislature.
Replying to Deveau’s demand
that he resign, Kay said:
“Mr. Deveau is a fine Demo
cratic Representative. He is cer
tainly entitled to his opinions,
just as I am entitled to mine.
“However, Mr. Deveau is mis
taken in interpreting my remarks
concerning taxes as an attack on
anyone, particularly the Demo
cratic Legislature. To urge a re
duction in taxes is not an attack.
“I think Mr. Deveau is also
mistaken if he feels that the
people of Alaska do not favor
sensible economy in state govern
ment at the present time. My
many contacts throughout Alaska
indicate that there is very con
siderable such sentiment.
“In any event, to put Pete’s
mind at ease, I have no intention
of resigning as State Chairman.”
Passengers from
Forced-Down Liner
Taken to Moscow
MOSCOW UP> — A special So
viet airliner today brought to
Moscow the 18 passengers of a
Belgian airliner forced down in
the Soviet Union Monday. They
are expected to fly to Brussels,
Belgium, tomorrow.
The group wast met by diplo
matic representatives of Belgium,
Iran, Britain, the United States
and West Germany. The pas
sengers made the trip to Moscow
in a Soviet turbo-prop.
There was praise from the party
for their treatment aground by
the Russians. A New York con
struction engineer, Charles Wie
mer, emphasized “we were never
fired upon” in the encounter aloft.
The airliner, a twin-jet Cara
velle which was enroute from
Tehran to Istanbul, also was re
leased by Soviet authorities. But
a Belgian Embassy spokesman
said mechanical trouble delayed
its takeoff from the southern oil
city of Grozny.
The passengers said the Cara
velle had strayed over the Soviet
border and Russian jet fighters
forced it to land.
The Caravelle landed at a mili
tary airfield' near Grozny Mon
day morning. In the afternoon the
passengers were taken to a hotel.
They said questioning by local
officials was limited to asking
their names, nationalities and des
tinations.
Their baggage was not inspect
ed.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with snow and occa
sional fog. Little change in tem
perature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 24, lowest 10. Sunrise at
9:43 a.m., sunset at 2:37 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
10, lowest -3. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 37 in
11942, lowest -29 in 1934.
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Area Redevelopment
Meeting Jan. 24 In Nome
By Don Hoover
As previous articles have stated,
certain types of loans will he eli
gible under the Area Redevelop
ment Act. The basic requirement
is that they must provide new
employment on a permanent or
long term basis.
Ideas for new business that
would qualify have been sug
gested by s e v e ra 1 different
sources including some of the
villages. A few of these ideas
are: a fish and berry cannery,
leather and fur tannery, a saw
mill (in the areas having com
mercial grade timber), reindeer
processing plant, etc. All of these
are good ideas and some can ap
ply to more than one part of our
district. Either from past ex
perience or repeated requests, we
know that a market exists for
the products of any or all of the
above type industries.
For many years the economy of
this area has depended largely
on gold mining. We are all acute
ly aware that this industry is
fast fading out. However, we must
remember that it is not unusual
for the basic economy of an area
to change. Before the gold mining
days here, the economy was once
based on the whaling industry.'
The ARA now provides an op
portunity for this area to seek a
new type of economy but still
based on our natural resources,
of which we have many.
The actual development is now
up to us. Remember the meeting
for our area will be held at Nome
on Jan. 24, in the City Hall at
7:30 p.m.
JfSlOO-a-Plate
Free Handout
COLUMBUS, Ohio UH — Charles
Meeks, who wasn’t even invited,
walked into the $100-a-plate
birthday dinner for Gov. Michael
DiSalle Saturday and left with
the carnation President Kennedy
had been wearing.
The story came out yesterday
when Meeks called the Columbus
Dispatch to get a copy of a pic
ture of him shaking hands with
Kennedy.
Meeks, president of the United
Auto Workers Citizenship Coun
cil here, failed to receive an ex
pected invitation to the party. He
took several hundred buttons he
had left from his Citizens for Ken
nedy campaign in 1960 and walk
ed into the banquet hall at the
State Fairgrounds.
“I started distributing the but
tons to people at the tables and
even gave some to the Secret
Service men,” he said. Eventually
he climbed to the speakers’ plat
form and shook hands with the
President.
“When the program was over,
I went up to President Kennedy
as he v/as coming by,” Meeks re
lated. “I shook hands with him
again and asked him for the car
nation he was wearing for my
daughter. He gave it to me.”
In between the two Kennedy
handshakes, the General Motors
employe got a free meal—a $100
a-plate handout.
WASHINGTON — Alaska
filed a protest yesterday with the
Maritime Commission against a
freight rate increase sought by
the Alaska Steamship Co. It asked
the increase be held up until a
hearing is held. The rates are due
to become effective Jna. IB.
Rep. J. McCormack
Is New Speaker
Of U.S. House
WASHINGTON UP) — Rep. John
W. McCormack, 70-year-old Bos
ton Irishman, was installed today
as Speaker of the House at the
opening of the new Congress ses
sion.
His formal election to succeed
the late Sam Rayburn of Texas
was the biggest item of organiza
tional routine to be got out of
the way before President Ken
nedy comes before a joint Senate
House session tomorrow to re
port on the State of the Union
and sketch what he wants in new
legislation.
McCormack was elected 248-166
over Rep. Charles A. Halleck of
Indiana, the Republican nominee,
in a straight party vote.
Halleck, who got exactly the
number of votes he had anti
cipated, was a good loser in the
old club tradition. He escorted
McCormack to the rostrum and
told the House it had picked a
worthy successor to Rayburn.
Halleck promised “we (the Re
publicans) will cooperate as best
we can to build the economic and
military strength of our country.”
For both Senate and House it
was a usual opening day of sweet
ness, light and good fellowship.
Battle Lines Will Form
Tomorrow, the battle lines wil
begin taking shape on what Ken
nedy asks from an election-yeai
session expected to bring heatec
contests on at least half a dozer
big issues.
This was the first time since
1940 that the House had met at
mid-term without a Speaker.
House Clerk Ralph Roberts called
it to order and presided until the
election of McCormack.
Outside the halls of Congress,
the climate of the moment was
cold and snowy. The snow and
17-degree cold seemed to have
kept many Congress members
from attending an 8 a.m. com
munion service held annually at
the National Presbyterian Church
on opening day of Congress to
ask divine guidance for the legis
lators.
The church audtitorium was
less than one-third filled. By com
parison, it was filled last year
when former President Dwight
Eisenhower, a member of the
church, was one of the communi
cants. President Kennedy is a
member of the Roman Catholic
Church.
The weather held back too the
throngs of spectators who usually
turn out to see Congress begin a
new session.
Galleries were only partly fill
ed when Vice President Lyndon
Johnson, promptly at noon, called
the Senate to order, breaking up
the handshakings and greetings
going on among the returning sen
ators.
JUNEAU W — The 91-man
Juneau delegation to the South
east Divisional Democratic Con
vention here this weekend voted
last night to back Doug Gray of
Juneau for Southeast District
Chairman.
Gray, former member of the
Legislature and a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention,
operates a hotel in the capital
city.
R. E. Ellis of Ketchikan is the
current Southeast Alaska Districl
i Chairman for the Democrats. His
> *-> expires when the Distric
vcntion starts Friday.
Chang Do-Young, Titular
Head of South Korea,
Sentenced to Hang
SEOUL, South Korea Uf) —
Chang Do-Young, first titular
head of the junta that toppled
civil rule in South Korea, was
convicted today of plotting against
the military government he head
ed. As expected the revolutionary
tribunal set up by his former col
leagues sentenced him to die on
the gallows.
Chang, the army chief of staff
at the time of the May coup and
a hero of the Korean War, agreed
only after the coup was an ac
complished fact to head the ruling
junta and take the country’s pre
miership. Throughout his two
months in office the real power
was held by Gen. Chung Hee
Park, the leader of the coup who
replaced Chang as head of the
junta.
Condemned to death with Chang
on similar charges of counter
revolutionary activity was his for
mer secretary, ex-Col. Lee Hoi
Yung. The five-man tribunal also
ordered life sentences for four
defendents, including two former
junta members’, gave prison terms
ranging from 5 to 15 years to
nine persons and acquitted nine
others.
Death verdicts automatically go
to an appeals court. If upheld
there, they must toe reviewed toy
Gen. Park.
I The revolutionary prosecutor
, called Chang “a sly, base oppor
r tunlst” and accused him of play
j ing both sides of the fence.
Gov. Egan to Take Part
In Dedication of Alaska
Floor in Seattle Hospital
SEATTLE UP) — Gov. Wm. Egan
of Alaska, will take part in the
dedication Sunday of a $3,000,000
addition to Virginia Mason Hos
pital.
The four-story wing includes
an Alaska floor with Indian arti
facts, murals and a rough-cut
wooden map of the 49th State.
The public will be taken on
tours of the new wing from 1 to
4 o’clock Sunday, Dr. Mort Frayn,
hospital director and chairman of
the dedication committee, said.
Persons on tour in the building
when Egan snips a ribbon open
ing the Alaska floor will see it
on closed-circuit television.
Trunk Airlines Report Loss
Of $7,942,000 for November
WASHINGTON UP) — The trunk
airlines reported a net loss of
$7,942,000 in November to bring
their net losses for the year to
$27,097,000, the Air Transport
Assn, said today.
In November 1960, the airlines
lost $5,658,000, but they had a
net profit for the January-No
vember period that year of
$2,482,000.
75-Minute Extension . . .
ROCHFORD, England UP) —
Ronald Meacham, 28, has won
legal sanction for a late night
feast to celebrate the birth of
quadruplets to his wife.
Meacham wants his party to go
on at the Woodcutter’s Arms, the
local saloon. The magistrate grant
ed a 75-minute extension on the
normrl closing time.
The barbecue tomorrow night
will feature a whole pig, three
dozen chickens and a quantity of
. hams. Mrs. Meacham and the
: week-old quads — Christopher,
; Dana, Lucille, and Edward—are
still in the hospital.