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NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1962
Gen. .Harkins
Sizes Up Combat
Forces in Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand UPi — Gen.
Paul D. Harkins flew here today
to size up the new U.S. combat
force in Thailand and said there
is no basic easing of the crisis in
Southeast Asia.
The general, over-all commander
of the force in Thailand and the
U.S. Military Assistance Command
in South Viet Nam, planned to
visit the Marine outfit camping in
a paddy field only 30 miles south
of the Laos border.
The danger of Communist ag
gression from Laos prompted Thai
land’s government to request the
sending of an American force.
The U.S. buildup or armed might
in this pro-Western oriental land
moved swiftly and smoothly toward
a planned peak of 5,000 Army men
and Marines.
Most of the 1,800 Marines who
landed here yesterday already had
been flown to Udon, a few miles
south of Vientiane, the Laotian ad
ministrative capital.
Truck, jeeps and other equip
ment, flown in big C-130 Hercules
transports, flowed in at 15-minute
intervals today as crowds of
friendly Thai stood by.
Asked if the Marines would shoot
suspected Communist infiltrators
from Laos, Harkins saidf
“No. The troops do not have the
right to fire on suspect infiltrators
as of how. The troops are here un
der the SEATO agreement at the
request of the Thai government.
We go where they think it is
best.”
The landing in Bangkok of 1,800
combat-ready U.S. Marines was
completed last night within 18
hours after the first Leatherneck
touched shore. A continuous airlift
ferried them to northeast Thailand.
Another 500 Marines and Army
infantrymen began leaving Hawaii
at daybreak, bound for this south
east Asian kingdom in jet trans
ports.
KHRUSHCHEV CONDEMNS
AS UNWISE U.S. MARINE
LANDINGS IN THAILAND
OBNOVA, Bulgaria W) — Pre
mier Khrushchev today condemned
as unwise the dispatch of U.S.
Marines to Thailand.
Though U.S; armed forces may
be in Southeast Asia for 15 years,
“they will be kicked out — it is
just a question of time,” he said.
Referring to President Kennedy’s
order for the Marine landings in
Thailand, the Soviet leader de
clared in a speech to about 3,000
collective farmers in this central
Bulgarian town:
“That is not a proof of great in
telligence and it is an unwise de
cision . . . this is another case
of capitalists fearing the new.”
Alternately addressing the farm
ers and Western newsmen covering
his six-day visit to Bulgaria,
Khrushchev denounced American
policy in Laos and Viet Nam and
accused the United States of spill
ing blood there to prop up pro
Western regimes.
Khrushchev noted that an agree
ment for the action had been
reached between Secretary of State
Dean Rusk and Thailand’s Foreign
Minister Thanat Khoman.
“But who has chosen this min
ister?” Khrushchev asked. “It was
not the people. He was designated
by the remnants of capitalism in
that country.”
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U.S. GOLD RESERVES DIP
ANOTHER $30 MILLION
NEW YORK U!) — The outflow
of U.S. gold reserves last week
amounted to $30 million — the
same as the week before—statistics
of the Federal Reserve Board dis
closed today.
The decline was the fourth in
the last five weeks and brought
the loss for the year to $455 mil
lion. At this time last year the de
cline totaled $364 million.
The latest decline reduced the
U.S. stockpile to $16,435,000,000,
again the lowest since Aug. 16,
1939 when it totaled $16,335,000.
The dip in the last five weeks
has amounted to about $175.5 mil
lion.
As customary the Federal Re
serve declined to identify the
foreign country or central bank
that bought gold in the latest
period.
FESTIVAL COMMITTEES
ARE TAKING SHAPE
Johnnie Stephenson, recently ap
pointed manager of the 5th Mid
night Sun Festival, states that com
mittees are shaping up and much
interest and cooperation is being
shown for this annual event.
Charles Frazier has volunteered
to be chairman of an emergency
housing committee, as many out
of town people are expected this
year. This influx is expected, as the
people attending the Century 21
Fair will find this event listed in
the summer attractions for Alaska.
Rotary Club is being asked to
handle beach mining near town
with a real rocker on hand and
pans for the visitors.
The Mother’s Club has volun
teered to have its usual Baby Show
as well as an exhibit booth for
Eskimo crafts and Eskimo food,
as its samples of Eskimo ic cream,
were thoroughly enjoyed last year.
The Kegoayah Kozga Club has
volunteered to have an Art Show
and would appreciate knowing who
plans to exibit early so enough
space can be provided.
Harris Nothstein was selected
I to supervise the Reindeer Barbe
I cue and several people have volun
tered as wandering minstrels—for
local color.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are
being asked to assist with the
marshalling of the Red Rper Pa
rade.
Sharon Bell will have charge of
Coronation Ball decorations and
Jim Blanning will M.C. that event.
Public Warned
Several Grenade Simulators have
turned up in the Nome area and
everyone is warned that these ob
jects are very dangerous.
The simulators were left behind
by the troops in the war exercises
here last winter. They are used
for training purposes but must
be considered as highly explosive.
They are gray in color and cylin
drical in shape—about four inches
long and an inch in diameter.
These simulators are very dan
gerous and as the name implies
they simulate the explosion of a
hand grenade and must not be
handled by untrained persons.
National Guard officers said to
day that under no circumstances
are these objects to be picked up
or handled for they explode with
sufficient force to cause great in
jury and could possibly blow a per
son’s hand off.
Anyone finding these simulators
are asked to call the State or City
Police or the National Guard so
that they may be safely disposed
of.
Japanese Fishing
Problem in Alaska
Presently Unsolved
SEATTLE UP) — A high Japan
ese official has left Washington,
D.C., for Tokyo without, having a
full-scale talk with U.S. officials
about Japanese fishing in Alaska’s
Shelikof Strait, the Times said to
day.
In a dispatch from Washington,
the newspaper said Ichiro Kono,
Japanese Minister of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fishing, did not meet
with Undersecretary of State
George ball during his three-day
visit in Washington.
Kono did meet with Secretary
of State Dean Rusk, but Rusk was
not familiar with the Shelikof
Strait controversy and did not
mention it, a State Department
spokesman was quoted.
The spokesman said it had been
decided to continue talks through
the American Embassy in Tokyo
because Kono was not empowered
to negotiate.
A representative of Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall said
Alaska’s impoundment of Japan
ese vessels was referred to briefly
during a meeting between Kono
and Udall. The representative said
Kono brought up the subject
“in a most casual way” and he
and Udall agreed such incidents
should be avoided in the future.
Sen. S. L. Bartlett commeniscL
“I a mamazed and shocked, be
cause we Alaskans left our receni
meetings with Undersecretary Bali
with a definite understanding that
the Alaska fishing problem would
be discussed with Kono and that
real and urgent attempts would be
made to bring about a settlement
which would remove Japanese
fishing fleets from waters imme
diately adjacent to the Alaska
i Coast.”
Kennedy Has
Restrained Clash
With De Gaulle
WASHINGTON UPi — President
Kennedy wants French President
Charles De Gaulle — and other
European leaders — to understand
that as long as the United States
carries the ultimate burden of
Western Europe’s defense it will
participate fully in the “great de
cisions affecting war and peace”
in Europe.
Kennedy, in an open but re
strained dash with De Gaulle, laid
out the U.S. side of the great trans
Atlantic debate in a speech last
night and a news conference yes
terday afternoon.
In effect he told De Gaulle that
Europe cannot have a blank check
to draw on U.S. defensive power
when disaster threatens, but by
pass this country in the earlier
stage of policy decisions.
Administration offitials say De
Gaulle’s policy line at a news con
ference in Paris Tuesday indicates
he wants a decreasing U.S. role
in European affairs though Europe
would rely on American nuclear
power for its ultimate protection.
At the news conference Kennedy
challenged De Gaulle’s decision to
make France an independent nu
dear power saying it would lead
to * “dangerous situation” in the
world and would weaken NATO.
He called for greater unity in Eu
rope, induding British participa
tion in the Common Market, but
said this should be achieved with
in the larger framework of an At
lantic community.
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HOFFA PLEADS INNOCENT
TO ASSAULT CHARGES
WASHINGTON M — Teamsters
President James R. Hoffa pleaded
innocent and asked a jury trial to
day on a charge he assaulted a
union aide, Samuel Baron. The
trial was set for June 19.
Hoffa, accompanied by attor
neys, appeared briefly in Munici
pal Court.
Also there was Baron, sporting
a cut eyebrow and bruised face.
Baron charges that he was twice
floored by blows from Hoffa, and
shoved over a chair, in a fracas at
union headquarters yesterday
morning.
Hoffa’s chief lawyer, H. Clifford
Allder, asked Judge Thomas C.
Scalley for a jury trial on the as
sault charge. This had the effect
of an automatic continuance. The
court then set the June 19 trial
date and Hoffa and Allder quickly
left the courtroom.
Hoffa refused to discuss Bar
on’s charges with reporters, but
bantered with them on other mat
ters.
Baron told newsmen he was still
groggy. He also said that he had
received a series of telephone calls
throughout the night asking him
to withdraw his charge against
Hoffa and “go away for a couple
of weeks.”
Baron said he wasn’t going to
withdraw his charge, remarking,
“I just wish I was 30 years young
or ”
150 pounds. He has been field di
rector for the Teamsters Warehouse
Division.
HIGHWAY BEING OPENED
Highway 97, to be known in the
future as Highway 64, is being
opened from both ends by crews
operating out of Nome and also
from the other end. The far crew,
headed by Bob Emmons, is operat
ing from Cottonwood and is be
lieved to be on the north side of
Golden Gate, but was handicapped
last night by drifting snow.
The crew working out of Nome
is about nine miles out in the Joe
Gulch area, going toward Dexter.
Nuclear Sub Commander Relieved
SAN FRANCISCO UH — Cmdr.
Ernest Barrett, skipper of the nu
clear-powered submarine Permit,
has been relieved and another of
ficer is being sent from Washing
ton, D.C., to take command of the
new warship.
The 12th Naval District, an
nouncing the shift, said the changes
resulted from a collision off the
Golden Gate May 9 in which the
Permit and a Matson freighter
were damaged during the sub
marine's pre-commissioning trials.
The new commander will be
Cmdr. Robert H. Blount.
BACHELOR’S NIGHTMARE
SYDNEY, Australia —Eighty
five young Greek girls, all single,
and one lone Greek bachelor ar
rived in Sydney today on a chart
ered immigrant flight from Athens.
“I don’t know how it happened
that I was the only man on the
plane,” said George Gnessoilis, 29.
‘It was a bachelor’s nightmare—
3 days, 21 hours, 49 minutes. Like
any bachelor, I like girls. But
85 of them was just too much.
| “I only had to look thirsty and
[ six of them ran to get me a drink.
[After we left Bangkok I almost
asked the captain for a parachute.”
George said he would stay with
his brother In Sydney and “I don’t
want to see another woman for
at least a month—and then she’d
better not be a Greek.”
Orbit Flight
Is Postponed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UR —
The world orbit flight of Navy Lt.
Cmdr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter
has been delayed three days until
next Tuesday to improve reli
ability of the parachute system on
his spacecraft, Aurora 7.
The surprise announcement of
the delay came late last night after
a mission review meeting attended
by Carpenter, operations director
Walter Williams and other top
Project Mercury officials.
Discussion centered on a ques
tion raised nearly three months
ago: Why did the small stabilizing
parachute on John Glenn’s capsule
unfurl at 27,000 feet instead of the
intended 21,000 feeet?
Mercury officials apparently
were convinced at that time that
it was a random failure, not likely
to happen again, and no parachute
changes were made in Carpenter’s
capsule.
But at last night’s hastily-called
meeting, Williams reviewed com
pletely the Glenn three-orbit flight
and, a National Aeronautics and
Space Administration spokesman
said, “began to ask questions about
the parachute deployment.”
Williams wanted to know' if
there was a possibility the small
parachute could pop out even
sooner, perhaps during orbit. If so,
it would bum up on re-entry and
lose its value as a stabilizing force
for the capsule. '
Engineers were not able to ex
plain the malfunction to William’s
satisfaction, the spokesman said*
and after a 2 Vi hour session, Wil
liams decidede to postpone the
flight to provide a backup para
chute deployment switch.
The correction involves install
ing a second aneroid barometer
switch which is sensitive to altitude
changes.
Concerning the postponement,
Carpenter was quoted as saying:
“This is part of the continuing
process of greater reliability —
taking advantage of past flight ex
perience — and it gives me a
chance to work with confidence.”
RUSK DON’T THINK SO . . .
WASHINGTON UP) — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk said today that
if the Communist countries would
leave independent Asian nations
alone the United States could get
out of those areas quickly.
He was responding indirectly
to a prediction from Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev that American
troops will be kicked out of Thai
land and Southeast Asia in gen
eral.
Rusk was told, as he flew in
from an out-of-town speaking en
gagement, about the prediction
Khrushchev made in Bulgaria.
Asked whether American troops
will be booted out, the Secretary
of State told newsmen “I don’t
think so.”
THURSDAY'S RESULTS
National League
St. Louis 1, San Francisco 0
Philadelphia 9, Cincinnati 6
Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 2
Los Angeles 5, Houston 4
American League
New York 2, Boston 1
Baltimore 6, Los Angeles 4
Pacific Coast League
Portland 11, Tacoma 3
Spokane 2, Seattle 0
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with rain and fog and
little change in temperatures.
Sunrise at 2:30 am. sunset at
9:26 pm.