WRONG SUBJECT
PORTLAND T — Alaska Gov.
William A. Egan won't be telling
the Western Slates Democratic
Conference at Seattle about waste
at military bases and federal proj
ects.
C Girard Davidson, chairman of
the conference, said today his
Portland office erroneously report
ed Egan would discuss such a
topic.
Davidson said the news release
should have attributed that state
ment to Clifford Warren, chair
man of the subcommittee on con
tracting of the Small Business
Committee. He said Egan has a
high regard for the military in
Alaska.
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DURING AUGUST
COSMIC TEST BALLOON
RELEASES CAPSULES
CARRYING LIVE ANIMALS
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (.T>—A
huge plastic research balloon
launched from Goose Bay, Labra
dor, released its live cargo today
in a wilderness area about 55 miles
northeast of here.
The capsule dropped from the
balloon contained two monkeys,
two hamsters, flour beetles and an
assortment of seeds and nerve
cells.
They were sent aloft to test the
effects of cosmic radiation in space
and traveled across the country at
heights of 112,000 to 128,000 feet.
The 380 - foot balloon was the
second in a series being launched
by the U.S. National Aeronautics
and Space Administration. The
I first was launched July 14 from
Goose Bay on a 54-hour flight to
: within a few miles of the spot
i where the second balloon dropped
its capsule today.
AMERICAN LEGION
CONVENTION AUG. 8-11
Gov. William A. Egan will head
the list of speakers at the 43rd An
nual American Legion Convention.
Hosting the convention is the city
of Cordova on August 8-11.
A full delegation is expected
from all over the state and they
will have the opportunity to hear
from many distinguished speakers.
MORMON OFFICIALS
VISIT HERH ON TOUR
Arriving hero on tour today will
be President Hugh Brown, Second
Counselor of the First Presidency
of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints (Mormons!.
Accompanying him will be Pre
sident Milton L. Weilenmann, head
of the Alaska - Canadian Mission
with headquarters in Vancouver,
B.C.
The distinguished visitors are
overnighting here and plan to visit
Valdez. Kenai, Fairbanks, Point
Hope, Unalakleet and Juneau. Pre
sident Brown was named to his
present position last year. Pre
viously he was a member of the
Council of Twelve Apostles, and
served as an assistant to the
Council.
At the time of his call as a
church authority, Brown headed
the Richland Oil Development Co.
of Canada.
Although the Mormons do not
have a church in Nome, regular
meetings are held in the home of
one of the members.
Looking Ahead
NEW YORK OP) — Snow doesn't
do too well in 80-degree heat, but
the city sanitation department is
looking coolly ahead.
Joining the department’s snow
fighting forces Thursday were 17
new salt spreaders with snow
plows attached. Each machine
weighs 13 tons.
HEAVY CLOUDS, LIGHT RAIN
Two low centers, one over the
eastern interior and the other over
the central Bering Sea, brought
heavy clouds and light rain to
broad areas of Alaska today.
Thunderstorms were reported
over scattered points in the interior
early last night, but they gave way
to light but increasing rain.
Along the Arctic slope, skies
were clear in the east and cloudy
in the west. Bristol Bay had clear
ing skies, while fair skies contin
ued over the northern panhandle.
The southern panhandle had
cloudy skies.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from a low of 45 at Barter Island
to a high of 59 at Fairbanks. The
high yesterday was 83 at Fair
banks.
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Britain Refuses
Dr. Soblen Asylum
LONDON UP — The British gov
ernment refused Thursday to grant
fugitive spy Dr. Robert Soblen
asylum and ordered him returned
to the United States.
Home Secretary Henry Brooke
announced in the House of Com
mons the decision to deport Soblen
to the United States, where he
faces life imprisonment as a spy
for the Soviet Union.
Brooke said Soblen had no valid
claim for political asylum, having
been convicted of espionage in the
court of a democratic country and
was not a victim of political or
racial persecution.
The 61-year-old Jewish psychia
trist previously was expelled from
Israel, to which he fled aboard an
Israeli airliner. He was hospitalized
for a time in London, then trans
ferred to Brixton prison.
Brooke said that, but for the self
inflicted wounds, Soblen “would
undoubtedly and probably have
been refused leave to land and
the airline would have been re
quired to remove him at once on
the plane on which he arrived.”
Soblen. convicted in a U.S. court
of passing war time secrets to
the Soviet Union, has been offered
asylum in Czechoslovakia. Friends
in Israel and Britain have urged
that he be allowed to go there,
saying he is a leukemia vicitim
with only a short time to live.
STI FFFR~CONTROLS
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy promises stiffer govern
ment controls to avert drug
tragedies and urges every woman
in the country to guard against
taking thalidomide.
He asks all women to look
through their medicine cabinets
and turn in any thalidomide they
find to health authorities. The drug
is blamed for thousands of mal
formed births ip Europe.
Kennedy issued the warning,
along with an appeal for Congress
to establish new safeguards against
potentially harmful drugs, at his
news conference Wednesday.
Notice on a Washington bureau
crat’s desk: “The secrecy of my
job doesn’t permit me to know
what I’m doing.”
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pete Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Carl Mickelson, W. M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
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Herb Jenks
President
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of I Very
Month at School
Dorothy Grant, President
Harriet Amundsen. Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Ralph DeLong, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesae Jones, Cm dr.
Meeting* . Eaah Thursday 7:0* pm