22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—-MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
fOrd Year No. 99 NOME, ALASKA MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1962 Per C.opv 15C
Russian Woman
In 'Naval Hospital
From Riji Trawlrr
KODIAK OP — A 32-year-old
woman crew member of a Russian j
trawler was brought to the Kodiak j
Naval Station Hospital here Sat- |
urday for emergency medical j
treatment, a Navy spokesman said j
today.
The woman, identified as Vera 1
Sergeevna Povh, was bleeding in- i
ternally and suffering from severe
abdominal pains upon her arrival
at the hospital. An operation Sat
urday stopped the bleeding and
the patient is reported in satisfac
tory condition today.
The woman, who told authorities
she is married, is the second Rus
sian brought to the naval hospital
for emergency treatment in the
past week.
A 23-year-old seaman identified
as Valentin Alekseevich Shishov,
suffering from acute appendicitis,
was brought in Wednesday. He is
reported in excellent condition.
Mrs. Povh. who was serving!
aboard the Soviet trawler Braslav.
had appeared apprehensive of Am
ericans at first but after a number
of Russian-speaking Kodiak resi
dents had conversed with her she
was able to relax, the naval
spokesman said.
“She’s just a slip of a woman
who wouldn’t weigh more than 95
pounds sopping wet,” he said.
Pictures taken of the big Soviet
vessel show at least six other
women at the rail, the spokesman
said. He said he does not know
in what capacity Mrs. Povh served
on the Braslav.
Shishov was a crew member on
a small trawler, the Arsen.
The large Russian bottom fish
ing fleet, which had previously
fished in the Bering Sea, is now
operating near Kodiak.
RAMSTEAD IS LOW BIDDER ON
STEBBINS, ST. MICHAEL WORK
JUNEAU OP* — Public Works
Commissioner Richard A. Downing
said today the Ramstead Construc
tion Co. of Anchorage had sub
mitted a low bid of $113,440 to
build bush air strips at Stebbins
and St. Michael.
The Stebbins strip will be 2,300 |
feet long, while the strip at St. ;
Michael will be 2.000 feet in length.
The only other valid bid sub
mitted for the work was a joint
offer of $123,000 by Rivers Con
struction Co. of Fairbanks and
Prestwood of Spenard.
Police Find Additional
Fingerprints in Big
Cape Cod Robbery
BOSTON UP) — The discovery of i
additional fingerprints was dis
closed today by one of the chief
investigators seeking the bandits
who took part in the nation’s big
gest cash robbery in Plymouth last j
week.
William F. White, chief New j
England Postal Inspector, told j
newsmen the prints were found on i
road signs used by the robbers to j
detour traffic while they emptied
a mail truck of $1,551,277.
The prints were sent to FBI
headquarters in Washington.
Investigators earlier found fin
gerprints on at least one of the
automobiles used in the precision
planned robbery on Route 3 last
Tuesday night.
White said there are indications
five men and a young woman
were in the team which ambushed j
the money-carrying mail truck.
Young West Berliners
Precipitate Biggest
Red Wall Fight
BERLIN —West Berlin police
(Wished with 5.000 demonstrators
:urging toward the Communist
wail tonight in the biggest fight
so far on the sector border.
Fighting began more than three
hours after young West Berliners
hurled hundreds of stones at a bus
bringing Soviet soldiers to a war
memorial in West Berlin. At least
one Soviet soldier was hurt.
Police charged the demonstra
tors, supported by two water can
non.
Youngsters beat them back with
a barrage of rocks and firecrackers.
The outburst occurred near the
area where a wooden cross was
erected in honor of a young East
German refugee who was wound
ed fatally by East German border
guards last Friday.
The Soviet bus was stoned as it
sped through West Berlin to the
Soviet war memorial.
SOVIETS DETONATE FOURTH
BIG NUCLEAR DEVICE
WASHINGTON I7P) — The At
omic Energy Commission reported
the Soviet Union exploded a nuc
lear device “of several megatons”
in the atmosphere early today. A
megaton is the equivalent of a
million tons of TNT.
The AEC said the detonation wa;
in the vicinity of Novaya Zemlya
This is the fourth nuclear explo
sion reported by the AEC in th<
current series of Soviet tests whicl
began Aug. 5.
Miss International Beautj
Turns Down World Tour
LONG BEACH. Calif. —Tania
Verstak, a reluctant Cinderella, is
turning down a chance to wear the
royal robes she won as Miss Inter
national Beauty.
She is returning to Australia to
continue preparations for a career
as a welfare worker—intent on
helping people who, like herself,
are refugees from Communism.
She has declined offers of lucra
tive film contracts, and she does
not want to tour the world as Miss
International Beauty—an endeavor
which earned her predecessor
$25,000.
‘Tve got as much money as I
want,” she said. She won $10,000
with the title Saturday night. She
said it will go into her father’s
building insulation business in
Sydney.
Tania, 21, felt she wasn’t pretty
enough for the contest, which drew
50 girls from as many nations. The
judges disagreed.
The hazel-eyed lovely fled from
her birthplace. Tientsin, China,
with her White Russian parents
10 years ago. The parents had es
caped as children from Soviet
Communism.
NOME UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
WAS 4.1 LAST WEEK
JUNEAU W — The state's in
sured unemployment rate during
the week ending Aug. 11 was 3.1
per cent. Labor Commissioner Gil
Johnson said today.
The rate compared with 3.5 per
cent during the previous week and
5.4 per cent during the same week
a year ago.
Continuing unemployment was
listed at 1,017. while new unem
ployment totaled 182.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage 3.1
per cent, Fairbanks 4.6, Juneau 1.8.
Ketchikan 2.0, Nome 4.1, Peters
burg 1.5, and Sitka 1.7.
Crowd of 1.000
Joins President
!n Parifir Dip
LOS ANGELES — President
Kennedy, weekending hire, de
cided to take a swim in the Pacific
—and was almost swamped by a
throng of 1,000 admirers.
Bystanders walked into the sea
fully clothed as the President
strode into the ocean in front of
the Santa Monica beach home of
his brother-in-law, Peter Lawford,
It happened Sunday during the
President’s 33-hour visit to South
ern California, a flying trip which
ended before midnight when the
presidential jet took off to return
to Washington where it landed at !
I 3 a.m. !
The mob scene started when the '
| President, apparently without prior
I warning to his security guards, !
■ emerged from Lawford’s beach- j
j front home and set out for the surf
100 yards across the sand.
The house fronts on a public |
I beach at nearby Santa Monica, j
| Some 100 bathers, who had been
waiting for hours for just such an |
appearance, let out a wild cheer.
The cheers brought other bath
ers from out of the sand, from
under blankets, from everywhere.
They closed in on the smiling chief
executive, many trying to shake
his hand. Affably, he obliged for
many.
For 15 minutes he swam vigor
ously. The crowd swam with him.
The Secret Service, late in catch
ing up, watched helplessly on the
beach.
The guards didn’t breathe easily
until a hastily summoned life
guard patrol cruised up near the
swimming President.
As he emerged from the water,
the mob scene was repeated. By
this time there were 1,000 persons
there.
Earlier the President attended
mass at the nearby Church of the
Good Shepherd. Usher Larry Mc
Hugh said the President dropped
a $100 bill in the collection box.
"Even in Beverly Hills,” said
McHugh, “this is noticed.”
Ed Sullivan In Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. i/P> — Ed j
Sullivan, television personality, is j
expected to be in Rochester 10 to !
12 days following gall bladder sur
gery at Mayo Clinic.
Sullivan was reported getting
along well this morning at St.
Mary's Hospital. Tin surgery was
performed Saturday, about a week
after Sullivan arrived for a check- j
up.
j Strike At Space Flight
Center Off-On Again
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. is?1—-A strike
at the Marshall Space Flight Center
apparently resumed today when
workers, after returning to their
jobs briefly walked off again.
A spokesman for the flight cen
1 ter, heart of much of the nation's
} missile and space development
| work, asked if operations at the J
space center were again at a stand
still, replied “It would appear so.”
The strike had lasted a week.
Nearly 1,500 workers employed
by private contractors were under
a federal court order to end their
walkout
The snake was called in protest
against, handful of non-union
electricians on one job.
The spokesman did not know
what would be the next step ir.
j the Space Agency's efforts to end
1 the strike.
Japanese Mineral Survey
Team Arrives In Juneau
I
JUNEAU .•? ■ A six-man J j
in sc minerals survey learn mb : - |
csU'fl in Alaska's mineral resource.- j
arrived in Juneau yesterday and
prepared to split into two sections
for a month-long -turlv of Alaska's
minu al deposits.
One thru-man group, accom
panied bv State Mining Engineer
Bill Race, will inspect mining pro
perties in the Panhandle.
The other three-man group, to
be accompanied lay State Mining
Engineer Martin Jasper, will li •
ovet mineral properties in the
southcentral section of the state.
The six-man Japanese team was
sent to Alaska under the sponsor
ship of Japan’s Ministry of Inter
national Trade and Industry.
TO STUDY NEW U.S.-MADE
RADIATION BELT
WASHINGTON .? —Three gov
ernment agencies have launched a
detailed study to determine whe
ther the U.S. Mercury astronaut
program must be delayed because
of a new man - made radiation
belt around the earth.
The belt was created by the high
altitude nuclear blast the United
States set off in the central Pacific
July 9.
The Department of Defense, Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
I ministration and the Atomic En
orgy Commission said they will
j make the study.
—
S Nuclear Ship
Savannah On
Maiden Voyage
ABOARD NUCLEAR SHIP SA
| VANNAH ;?i — This 22.000-ton
I vessel — the world’s first known
atomic-powered merchant ship —
shoved off today on a maiden voy
age which signaled the opening of
a new ora in com mm cia] passenger
and cargo hauling on the high seas.
The 212-day voyage from his
toric Yorktown, Va., to Savannah.
Ga., also will mark an America.!!
advance in the technological race
with the Soviet Union. The Soviets
have built a nuclear-powered ice
breaker. but their plans to enter
the nuclear-powered merchant shin
field are believed to be still in the
blueprint stage.
The Savannah is not expected
to enter regular commercial ser
vice for about a year and a half.
Meantime it will make demonstra
tion trips including one to the
Seattle World’s Fair in October.
The ship has vast capabilities.
With a single fueling of its mam
moth atomic furnace, it could
cruise for 31:: years, for a distance
of 300,000 miles — much farther
than the distance between the
earth and the moon.
It is fueled by 17.000 pounds of
uranium oxide, the power equi
valent of 90,000 tons of fuel oil.
The ship’s designed speed i - 20
knots—about 23 statute miles per
hour—but she already • as done up
to 24 knots in trial ■ off Yorktown.
PNA SETS 91.6 PCT. ONE-TIME
DEPARTURE MARK WITH 720's
SEATTLE i/P' —Pacific Northern
Airlines set an on-time departure
mark of 91.6 per cent with it?
Peeing 720 jet transports on. non
stop and multi-stop flights during
i July. John Cunningham, PNA vie.
| president, said Monday.
S Tile line had a 90.2 per con'
marl: for its Constellation fleet foi
an over-all, system-wide mark o:
1 90.9 per cent, Cunningham said.
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Srri<ks of l)<kl>nhks
JUXF.AU .p Gov. Will: am A.
Egan ' .-la; c allenged Republican
gubernatorial candicHte Mike
St(. ovi' • tv a seres rji' debate-: ,~o
the -ampaign fo: Alaska's highest
office could be ‘'waged on real
issue- and based on documented
facts.”
Stepovieh, .1 Fairbanks lawyer
and former territorial governor,
•'■a- not immediately available for
comment on Egan’s proposal.
Egan proposed that the debates
be scheduled in every community
in Alaska having a radio station
or a television station.
Egan said arrangements for the
debates, if Stepovieh took up the
challenge, could be made by a
joint committee representing the
two gubernatorial candidates.
Egan said he personally would
like to see each debate carried on
a statewide basis by radio. He also
said he personally believed that a
total of at least six debates would
be desirable.
In announcing that he had wired
I a challenge to Stepovieh. Egan said
he had been disturbed by what he
termed “irresponsible statements
made during the primary, election
campaign” by Republican candi
dates for the gubernatorial nomi
nation, singling out Stepovieh.
Egan said Stepovieh “played fast
and loose with the facts in a man
ner I would not have thought pos
sible by any man running for the
governorship.
“For example, he claimed the
value of Alaska's mineral produc
tion in 1961 totaled 821,858.000.
Vet, thi United States Bureau of
-Mines says the value was $34,
i 708,000.
“He claimed that he left no
bonded indebtedness when he re
signed as Alaska's appointive gov
ernor. But, the truth is that h -
left general obligation bond debts
vt abvut $3 billion, to say nothing
of be $8.2 million debt which he
•”.n ! his lepublican predecessor un
necessarily saddled on Alaska’s
bus i n ess community.
"He claimed that between 1957
and 1961 Alaska's labor force de
clined and the percentage of those
in government service increased.
Hie facts are exactly opposite. Be
tween April 1957 and April 1961,
a total of 10,000 jobs were created
in Alaska, and the percentage of
those employed in government
service declined.”
Egan also said that Stepovieh
was quoted as saying he knew of
no new industry to come into Al
aska since statehood, yet on the
same day his hometown news
paper carried a full-page picture'
story on a new plastic factory
which recently located in Fair
banks.
Approves Revised Drug Bill
WASHINGTON — The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee today un
j animouslv approved President
Kennedy’s proposed revision of the
pending drug bill, saying the
change- would provide safe and in
some instances cheaper medicines
i for the public.
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy with little change
in tempt rature. In the last 24
m>urs: High of 60. low of 45. Max.
wind 12 mpn from the SW. Sun
rise at 4:06 a.m., sunset at 6:02
j p.m. Temps, a year ago today:
I High of 53. low of 43. Extremes
i on this date since 1907: High of 70
* in 1917, low of 33 in 1934.