22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 90 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 30. 1962 Per Copy 15C
Senators Urged
Take Art ion on
Satellite Measure
WASHINGTON W — Senators
backing the administration’s Com
munications satellite bill argued to
day that unless opponents abandon
their filibuster against it, the
United States could lose the race
for supremacy in space.
Earlier during the Senate ses
sion, Sen. John McClellen said a
powerful unionist has demanded a !
payoff as the price for settlement \
of a strike now holding up work
on 11 nuclear submarines.
He made the charges in asking '
permission for his Senate investiga- i
tions subcommittee to start hear
ings. Subcommittees have been
barred from meeting during the i
current filibuster.
Sen. Robert Kerr, chairman of
the Senate Space Committee, said
there is danger that the advance j
made by the achievements of Tel
star could be frittered away by
obstructionism and dilatory tac
tics in the Senate.
Sen. Warren Magnuson, chairman
of the Commerce Committee, told
the Senate that unless the United
States arrives at a legislative policy
on space communication, it will
be left unprepared for the extra
ordinary radio conference to be
held by the International Telecom
munications Union in the fall of
1963.
“Unless we pass a bill, we will
have no standing in this meeting,”
Magnuson said. ‘‘We are going to
sit in this meeting out in left
field.”
Since last Thursday, critics of
the legislation to create a private
ly owned, government regulated
corporation to launch and own
communications satellites have en
gaged in filibuster tactics to keep
the bill from even coming before
the Senate.
The filibusterers advocate gov
ernment ownership of satellite
communications systems,
ment ownership of satellite com
munications systems.
Their leaders are Democrats who
call themselves liberals. Noting
this, Sen, Stuart Symington said '
that if the Senate doesn’t act at ,
this session, the failure might have
serious political effects on the De
mocratic party in the fall elections. i
Symington said Democrats would
be blamed for lack of action on
a vital issue.
Kerr said senators must not for
get there is a race going on be
tween this country and the Soviet
Union for supremacy in space and
that the United States must not
lose the advantage it obtained by
putting the Telstar into orbit.
SALMON PACK DOWN
JUNEAU UP — Tiie State De
partment of Fish and Game re
ported today that Alaska’s 1962
salmon pack, through July 22, was
1,341,933 cases, more than a half
million cases off the 1961 pace.
By area, central Alaska led in
the amount of salmon packed, with
a total of 696.187 cases. Western
Alaska was next at 458,309 cases
and southeast Alaska reported 188,
437 cases.
HARROW AND WAIXRIGHT
W!I.L incorporate
WASHINGTON .T — A House
Interior subcommittee approved
today a bill which would pcoonit
Harrow and Wainwright, Alaska,
to incorporate and give land to
their residents.
Barrow and Wainwright are
Eskimo villages on Petroleum Re
serve No. 4.
The bill, which goes now to
the full Interior Committee, would
allow the two communities to in
corporate and convey land to resi
dents who for many years have
been considered squatters under
the Alaska townsite law.
Petroleum rights would be re
served by the government.
MISSING COPTER FOUND
FAIRBANKS (#—'The helicopter
owned by Anchorage Helicopters,
Inc., that disappeared a week ago
on a flight from Rampart to Bet
ties, was found late Sunday eve
ning intact, undamaged but out
of fuel.
The pilot has not been located.
Joe Johnson, pilot of the air
craft, had left the site of the ac
cident. but Civil Air Patrol search
ers found a note in which he said
he was leaving the scene in an at
tempt to reach Stevens Village.
The aircraft was under contract
to British American Petroleum
Corp., an oil firm doing field work
in the Arctic near Umiat.
According to the CAP Johnson
has over 3,000 hours of helicopter
time, but this was his first flight
into the Arctic.
Bad weather, which hampered
the search most of last week, clear
ed yesterday to allow an expand
ed search.
FAMILY OF FIVE DROWN
IN BOATING MISHAP
RIGGINS, Idaho (#) — A family
of five, including three children,
drowned Sunday when their boat
capsized running a rapid in the
Salmon River 32 miles east of
here. One woman made it to shore.
Three others in the party were
watching from shore when the mis
hap occurred.
The Idaho County Sheriff’s Of
fice reported the dead were Mi
chael McKenney, 42, McCall, Idaho,
and his mother Mrs. Edith Wade,
68, Fullerton, Calif.; and the small
McKenney children, Ross, Deborah
and Michael, Jr. Mrs. McKenney
was the one reaching safety.
29 LB. 2 OZ. KING TAKES
FIRST PRIZE IN DERBY
JUNEAU W — A 29 pound 2
ounce king landed by Bill Over
street of Juneau took first prize
yesterday in the 1962 Golden
North Salmon Derby.
Overstreet, the principal of a
Juneau elementary school, was the
top angler in a derby marked by
an absence of large fish but graced
by ideal weather conditions.
Overstreet’s fish, caught three
hours before the three-day derby
ended at 6 p.m. yesterday, was the
first top prize-winner under 30
pounds in the 16-year history of
the derby.
Previously, the smallest fish
ever to pick off first prize in the
derby was one weighing 36 pounds
3 ounces in 1950.
SCOTS ARE IRKM) . . .
EDINBURGH. Scotland .? — A
geogr phical goo! in tin* White
Hou.m has a tiumber of Scots irked.
Sei lie in President Kennedy's
office addressed a letter: "Edin
burgh, England.”
Edinburgh is. of course, the
capita] of Scotland.
Calling a Scotsman an English
man is like calling a Alabamian a
Yankee.
What happened was this:
A Scottish newspaper, the Week
ly Scotsman, is running a series
on Scottish clans. When the story
of the clan Kennedy was publish
ed, the editor sent a copy to the
White House.
The editor was delighted to re
ceive a letter from President Ken
nedy’s office, thanking him for for
warding the information about the
clan Kennedy.
But the address on the enevelope
was: "The Weekly Scotsman, North
Bridge, Edinburgh, England.”
That did it.
Under a large headline the cur
rent issue of the paper says:
"Oho, Mr. Kennedy — not a
very good way to make friends
j and influence people.”
I IKE APOLOGIZES
TO THE SWEDES
STOCKHOLM, Sweden t/P — Ex
| President Dwight Eisenhower apol
! ogized to the Swedes for saying
! two years ago that socialism in
; Sweden had resulted in a soaring
suicide rate, an increase in drunk
j enness and a lack of ambition.
Eisenhower told a welcoming
j crowd of 2,000 at the Stockholm
! railroad station he was wrong —
| “I admit it, and I apologize for
my error.”
The crowd cheered.
Eisenhower said his remark,
made in Chicago to a Republican
breakfast, had been based on what
he had read in an American maga
1 zine.
; “Since then,” he said, “I have
i had many friends who have return
ed from Sweden and who have
; told me that I was wrong.”
The former President, his wife
and two grandchildren are touring ;
Western Europe.
BOWLER HAT FOR SAFETY
LONDON (,Tl — Britons were ad- ;
vised today it’s safer as well as |
smarter to wear a bowler hat.
A Home Office pathologist, Dr. ;
Francis Camps, said it also could j
save a man’s life in a traffic ac- j
cident.
Camps spoke to a road safev I
conference. He showed photo- !
graphs illustrating that pedestrians
frequently hit their heads on the j
! ground when knocked down by a !
j car.
The hard brim and crown of a
bowler hat would help lessen their j
injuries, he suggested, “filling the j
same role as a crash helmet for !
motorcyclists.’’
SKY SHIELD III
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. !.P
—All non-military airplanes in j
this countr and Canada will be
grounded for 5Vi hours Sept. 2. :
On that day the North Ameri
j can Air Defense Command’s train- j
I ing exercise. Sky Shield III, will be
j held between 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.,
I EST.
AMI.RICAN I I.AC>l I I AK.Cs
All. - STAR Ci AM ! 9 - i
CHICAGO .? A
homer by Rocky (' : avitn of
Detroit Tigers plu four i>.i. r
try Pete Runnels of Bo. ton and
Leon Wagner of Is - Angeles
powered the American League to !
9-4 victory over the National
League in their All-Star bn . •! all
game here today before 39,359
Wrigley Field.
It was the first American League
victory in the last ,x All-Star
games. The Nationals won the
first All-Star game this year 3-1.
Colavito's blast in the seventh
with Brooks Robinson of Balti
more and Roger Maris of New
York on base came of! Dick Far
rell of Houston.
Art Mahaffev of the Phillies
yielded a homer to Runnels, as a
pinch hitter, in the third with the
bases empty, and another to Wag- \
ner in the fourth with Earl Bat- !
tey of Minnesota aboard.
Wagner was the offensive and j
defensive star of the game. He hit
two singles in addition to the |
homer, and made a fine catch of I
a shallow fly in the fourth off The j
bat of George Altman of the Chi
cago Cubs.
Charles West Nominated Vice
; President of Travel Agents
| SEATTLE m — Charles B.
; West, president of Seattle’s Arctic
Alaska Tours, has been nominated
for the national vice presidency of
the American Society of Travel
Agents. He has been a director
of the 6.000-member Trade Asso
ciation and president of its Pa
cific Northwest Chapter.
DAN BAXTER RESIGNS
A DM INISTR ATI ON POST
JUNEAU — The resignation
of Dan Baxter, director of the
Division of Administration within
the Department ot Public Works,
effective last Tuesday, was an
nounced today by Commissioner
Richard A. Downing.
Baxter told Dmvnin : in his let
ter of resignation that he was
quitting state employment for per
sonal reasons.
Baxter had an extensive career I
with the Alaska Highway program.
Originally employed in Alaska by
the Bureau of Public Roads, Bax
ter later became administrative as
sistant to Frank Metcalf, Terri
torial Director of Highways.
When the state took over its
own road program, Baxter was ap
pointed executive assistant to
Downing. Under reorganization of
the Public Works Department this
year, Baxter was designated Di
rector of the Division of Adminis
tration.
Downing said no successor had
been selected.
ARA APPROVAL
JUNEAU .T — The Area Re
development Administration (ARA>
has approved an overall economic
development plan submitted for
Election District No. 18 (Nome),
Gov. Wm. Egan's Office said to
day .
Approval of the preliminary plan
is an essentional step in eventual
ARA approval of loans or grants
to carry out the area’s economic
development plan.
A! a rim
*s arr Pullrd
()ul of rhailand
. 1KOK. T Mat: T The
in.* of 1,800 IJ.S. M r;ni have
lei; Thailand 1-.* An.era ' Navy
ch:* f . .y.- they can n <>ve brick in t
fa.-’ if needed to defer; i the
c< n.n’rv a rain:- f the Communis*.-’.
Depart tire of Marines Sun
day 1 eft tire defence of Thailand
to the 2,000-man U.S. 27th In
r.m’i.v Wolfhounds. skilled in
inn ,Ie lighting. and the 90.000-naan
Thai army. U.S -trained and equip
ped .
The American forces moved into
Thailand in Me.*, when pro-Com
munist guerrillas in Laos swept
to the Thai border. That was the
guerrillas' last big push before the
formation of a coalition regime
pledged to take Laos out of the
cold war.
Thai officials made plain Sun
day they don’t have much confi
dence in the ability of Laos to
steer a neutral course and prevent
Communist infiltration into Thai
land and South Viet Nam.
Adm. George Anderson. U.S.
Chief of Naval Operations, said in
Bangkok that the Marines could
return to Thailand “with utmost
celerity whenever needed.”
The Marines left their base at
Udon, -10 miles below the Laos
' border, and were flown out to
Okinawa. Support personnel and
heavy equipment wil be sent to
IV:* *kok Tuesday by rail and
moved out by ship two or three
; days !;;•• r.
j The Marines’ departure obvious
; l.v was linked to the 14-nation
agreement signed in Geneva last
week guaranteeing the independ
ence and neutrality , Laos. The
wit: U-awal apparently signified a
lessening of concern in W;.-dung
ton '>v< r thi curity of Thailanii’s
bord< v.
FATAL BAT BLOW
NEW YORK (P — Arnold Bar
rett. 23, was catching in an amateur
baseball same at a Bronx ball
park Sunday. The batter swung
and missed a pitch. The bat struck
Barrett and killed him.
LEGALIZED ABORTION'
THROW N OUT OF COURT
PHOENIX. Ariz. tP — Television
star Sherri Finkbine’s attempt to
legalize her planned abortion was
thrown out of court today.
Superior Court Judge Yale Mo
Fate’s dismissal of the suit means
the Finkbines. their doctor and
their hospital have no guarantee
against prosecution if they go
ahead with a previously announced,
plan to prevent birth of a baby
they fear will be deformed.
It wasn’t known immediately
what action the pretty young
mother of four and her school
teacher husband would decide
upon.
Arizona law prohibits abortion
unless the life of the prospective
mother is in peril.
The couple wants the abortion
because “Miss Sherri." star o!- a
Phoenix TV kiddie show, to. »k
Thalidomide, a drug blamed for
malformation of thousands of
babies, mostly in Europe.
The Finkbines say they don’t
want to risk such i birth.
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