Ecumenical Council Prays
For Catholics Beyond
Communist Iron Curtain
VATICAN CITY — With
Roman Catholic’ prelates from
around the world gathering for
the 21st Ecumenical Council, pray
ers were said today for Catholics
beyond the Communist Iron Cur
tain.
At a solemn ceremony in the
Basilica of St. Mary Major, Juan
Cardinal Landazuri Ricketts, Arch
bishop of Lima. Peru, said the
"Church of Silence" would parti
cipate in the spiritual victory that
would result from a successful
council.
"The Church of Silence" is the
name given by the Vatican to its
faithful in Communist lands. Re
lations between the church and
the Communist countries contri
buted a somber note on the eve
of the council opening Thursday
in St. Peter’s Basilica.
There was an air of expecta
tion and hope for the meeting that
will bring together 2,000 Cardinals,
Archbishops, Bishops and other
prelates. It is the church's first
general conclave in 92 years.
At least 170 bishops and arch
bishops in Red-ruled countries did
not or could not make the trip to
Rome. Only about 50 prelates and
their aides had managed the trip.
Many refugees from Communism
attended the mass at St. Mary
Major.
20.000 MILES INSTEAD . . .
WASHINGTON (T> — The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration revised earlier esti
mates for its Venus-bound Mar
iner 2 today and said the space
probe will miss the planet by
110.000 miles instead of 9,000.
The Space Agency said this is
still within the pie-shaped target
area extending from 5.000 to 40.
000 miles from Venus, “well with
al the region where the scientific
planetary experiments are expect
ed to be very effective."
WASHINGTON — Congress
lias sent to President Kennedy a
bill providing full - time Secret
Service protection for the Vice
President.
The measure approved Monday
by the Senate also authorizes pro
tection for Vice-Presidents-Elect
and for a former President for a
reasonable time after he leaves
office if he requests it.
Kennedy had asked for the leg
islation last April.
A chorus from the Ukranian
seminary in Rome sang during the
service. The singers were the chil
dren of refugees from the Soviet
regime.
The fact that some prelates
from what the Vatican calls “the
Church of Silence" were allowed
to come to the council indicated
that Communist leaders felt obliged
to make some grudging concessions
to the Catholic world of opinion.
•'A;'. Saw. Snaashois
Taken When Planes
Were On the Ground
WASHINGTON !/P — Eastern
Airlines says snapshots allegedly
••howin.e stewardesses at the con
trols of airliners in flight were
| taken while the planes were on
the ground.
But the airline s.aid Tuesday that
it has gone as far as it can in its
investigation because the flight en
gineer who produced the photo
graphs refuses to cooperate.
Robert Turner, Eastern’s senior
executive vice president, told the
Federal Aviation Agency that
“firm and positive steps” have been
taken to make certain that not
even circumstantial inferences will
arise in the future that could re
flect on the conduct of its flight
personnel.
Turner said the airline is ‘'de
termined to get at the facts” in
connection with photographs iden
tified by flight engineer D. K.
Carson as having been taken on 18
Eastern flights between May 1959
and July 1961.
Flight engineers are on strike
against Eastern and a key issue in
the dispute is whether pilots or
engineers should hold the third job
in jet cockpit crews.
Turner said the photographs
contained implied accusations
; against 14 persons. Four of the 14.
I he said, have been identified after
an investigation.
Americans drink an average of
189 bottles of soft drinks a year
Justice Dept. Reports
Many Students Involved
OXFORD, Miss. W — The De
; partment of Justice gave Univer- 1
: sity of Mississippi officials today
a summary of what it called “com- :
‘ petetit evidence" that a number of
I students were involved in the de
! vastating riot Sept. 30.
A department spokesman said
| the evidence was turned over to
Leston Love. Dean of students.
Love declined comment.
The evidence relates to fewer
| than half of the 20 students who
were questioned the night of the
riot in which two men were killed
and scores injured after federal
forces brought Negro James Mere
dith to the Ole Miss campus.
Robert Rosthal, deputy chief of
the Department’s General Criminal
section, said these were all the
student cases the department so
far has processed from the mass of
statements and other evidence ac
cumulated.
He would not give the exact
number of students involved in
this first submission to the uni
versity but said similar informa
tion on others will be forwarded
soon.
Meredith, meantime, skipped his
usual breakfast at the school cafe
teria without explanation, and
headed into his eighth day of
classes with no reported incidents.
Rosthal would not name the stu
dents involved in the Justice De
partment report, nor go into de
tails on the evidence gathered on
them.
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Bear Facts . . .
Recently several people were
fined in the Kotzebue area after
having killed grizzly bear cubs.
For the benefit of those who do
not know the regulations, the fol
ic,win.; information was obtained
from Joe Brantley, the law en
forcement agent of the Fish and
Game Department.
In addition to securing a license
to hunt, persons killing bears must
report their kill to the Fish and
Game Dept., so that the animals
may be tagged. There is a 30-day
period to give this information dur
ing which time the agent will do
the tagging. It is not necessary to
make a trip to the office of the
Fish and Game Dept, as they will
send an officer to the place where
the animal is located when they
are notified.
The most important reason for
tagging is for the biological study
which is being made. One of the
interesting features of the study
is to determine the age of all ani
mals taken. On bears, grizzly,
brown or polar, this is done bv the
length of the hair on the back of
the bear’s neck.
Female bears with cubs are
never in season.
Saturn Launch Pad
And Tower Completed
BARTOW, Fla. UP> — Frank
Murphy and Associates, Bartow
steel fabricating firm, announced
it has completed a launching pad
for the Saturn rocket, this na
tion's largest.
The pad awaits inspection and
transportation piecemeal to Cape
Canaveral.
The firm has been working
since June on a $750,000 contract
to build the pad and a service
tower. The tower already has been
delivered.
The company said two million
pounds of steel went into the
project.
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BERING SEA LIONS CLUB
Sven Larsen, Pres.
Tom Balone, Secty.
Meets Every Tuesday
at 7:00 p.m.
During October at the Polaris
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pete Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 2
Order of Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Carl Mlekelson, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets first and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Roy Snyder
Peasldent
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Inst Tuesday of I Very
Meath at School
Dorothy Grant, President
Harriet Amundsen, Secret ary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
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Meats let aad 3rd Wednesdays
Ralph DeLong, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, lecW.
Civil Air Patrol
'"13”’ Northwestern Group
Nome Cadet Squadron
let Lt. Jeeee Jones, Ckndr.
Meetings . Eaah Thursday 7:03 pm.