THE
NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN AIJV SKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. SI
NOME, ALASKA MONDAY, JULY 9, 1962
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Telstar TV Relay j
Satellite to he j
Financed by Bell
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. UP) —
Telstar, a communications relay
satellite which represents private
industry’s first venture into space
is to be launched Tuesday.
Bell Telephone Laboratories of
the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. built the complex
satellite, and will pay all costs in
volving launching Telstar on a
Thor-Delta rocket and tracking its
orbital flight. The cost is estimated
at $3 million, which Bell is to pay
even if the mission fails.
If all goes well as planned, tele
vision viewers in America and
Western Europe will see the first
live trans-atlantic television pro
grams within a week, with signals
relayed by Telstar.
The satellite’s planned orbit will
range from 600 to 3,500 miles above
the earth. With its more than 15,000
partst, Telstar weighs 170 pounds.
Andover, Maine, which has send
ing and receiving capability, and
Holmdel, N.J., which will receive
only, are the two principal U.S.
ground stations.
JFK URGES SCHOOL
CHILDREN TO EXERCISE
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. UP) —
President Kennedy, citing “fright
ening statistics” showing one
fourth of the nation’s school chil
dren cannot pass a simple fitness
test, urges all schools to require
children to take more exercise.
Kennedy who made the appeal in
a statement issued at his Cape Cod
summer residence Sunday, report
ed some encouragement in surveys
indicating that more boys and girls
were able to pass tests in schools
with organized fitness programs,
and that fewer failed after a year
of physical education.
“There is strong evidence,” Ken
nedy said, “that the threat to the
strength of young America can be
overcome. Yet, the shocking fact
remains that at least 60 per cent
of our children do not participate
in a daily program of vigorous
physical activity. This conclusively
show's how much remains to be
done, and this is the critical time
of the year.”
Kennedy’s statement was based
on a report submitted by Bud Wil
kinson, Oklahoma football coach
and his consultant on youth fitness.
WINNIE IS MUCH BETTER
LONDON (iP) — Swelling in
creased in Sir Winston Churchill’s
injured leg today but doctors re
ported there was no general dis
turbance. His wife said he is much
better.
The swelling was disclosed dur
ing today’s examination at Middle
sex Hospital, where the 87-year-old
former Prime Minister is waiting
for his fractured thigh to knit.
After responding favorably to sur
gery, the leg developed phlebitis —
inflamation of a vien— his doc
tors said this was a common com
plication.
Drugs are being injected into the
affected area of the leg, hospital
sources said.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Partly cloudy. Low tonight 47,
high tomorrow 55-60. In the last
24 hours: High of 52, low of 46.
Max. wind 18 mph from NE. Sun
rise at 1:50 a.m., sunset at 10:21
p.m. Temps, a year ago today:
High of 54, low of 44. Extremes on
this date since 1907: High of 71
in 1946, low of 31 in 1934.
BULLOCK BARGE TO CARRY
SUPPLIES TO ARCTIC
DEW LINE STATIONS
SEATTLE — Barge 539, tow
?d by the tug Mohawk, leaves Pier
17 today for the Arctic Ocean,
carrying food, fuel and equipment
Lo men stationed on the Distant
Early-Warning Line across the top
of Alaska.
Barge 539, a big vessel 299 feet
long, will drop its cargo at remote
posts strung along a 700-mile front
from Cape Lisburne to Beaufort
Lagoon.
A contract to carry supplies to
the Arctic stations was given to
Alaska Barge & Transport, Inc.,
for the sixth consecutive year.
The company is headed by John
L. Bullock, formery of Kotzebue.
Capt, Joseph Sullivan, Seattle, is
master of the Mohawk, which will
stop at Dutch Harbor for additional
cargo.
Ronald Riley of Bandon, Ore.,
will supervise the unloading opera
tions in the Arctic, which will re
quire close coordination by craft
in the air and on the sea and ve
hicles on land.
Two company planes will be
used to find lanes through the ice
for the Mohawk and her tow and
to carry out general liaison func
tions.
To haul cargo over the beaches,
two rolligons and a Nodwell trans
porter, huge vehicles that run on
cleated rubber tracks, will be used.
BFNNY GOODMAN IS
SATISFIED WITH JAZZ
TOUR IN SOVI FT UNION
MOSCOW UP) — Benny Goodman
says he is satisfied his six-week
jazz tour of the Soviet Union was
a success — despite some grumb
ling among members of his band
that he played it too cool.
America’s “King of Swing” drop
ped a hint why he kept the swing
ing low gear. Soviet auothrities
were afraid he’d turn young Rus
sians into real cats who might
get out of control.
“They had read about riots
caused by rock ’n roll and I don’t
think they wanted any of that,”
Goodman said. “Strangely enough
I was accord with the Russians.
That was the last thing I wanted.
I wanted applause from the audi
ence — that was all I wanted.”
Speaking at a farewell lunch
eon for Western correspondents,
Goodman disclosed that both
American and Soviet authorities
had been apprehensive about the
tour which was bank-rolled by the
U.S. government as a goodwill
gesture.
The tour struck a snag that de
layed Sunday night’s final concert
20 minutes when members of the
band demanded to be paid off be
fore going on. There was no ex
planation for the delay in handing
out the paychecks.
Negro trumpeter Joe Wilder of
New York sat out the concert in
protest against a deduction in his
salary for what Goodman aides
said was excess baggage he took
along with him to Moscow.
But a sell-out crowd turned out
at Lenin Sports Palace for the
windup and called the band back
for 20 minutes of encores.
CATANIA, Sicily UP) — Mt. Etna,
Europe’s most active volcano, sent
streams of red vapor shooting
hundreds of feet in the air today.
The northeast crater rumbled
with explosions at the rate of two
a minute. Lava continued its slow
and steady descent of the slopes,
reaching 1,800 feet.
There was no danger to villages
and farms farther down the slopes.
Red-Led Peace
Congress Slaps U.S.
For Altitude Blast
MOSCOW (yp> — The Communist
led World Peace Congress opened
quietly in the Kremlin today but
exploded into life as the United
States exploded a nuclear device
high over the Pacific.
“It is a gift to the Congress,"
jubilantly exclaimed Pravda’s po
litical commentator, Georgi Zhu
kov, as he got the news. Commu
nist propaganda organs and dele
gates set out to exploit the test
to the fullest.
One after another, they collared
reporters or stepped to waiting
microphones of radio Moscow to
denounce “American atom-mani
acs,” “American criminals,” and
“American war-mongers
The Pacific test provided the
means the organizers had hoped
for to direct the delegates’ general
izations about disarmament and
peace into straight anti-american
channels.
Purpose of the six-dav Congress
is to line up as much world public
opinion as possible behind Soviet
foreign policy especially in the dis
armament field.
Before the Congress ends, Pre
mier Khrushchev will address the
more than 2,000 delegates assem
bled from 101 countries, 150 from
the United States. Pravda said
Khrushchev will “dispel much of
the fog generated by opponents of
disarmament.”
Judith Cook, introduced to the
Congress as leader of the women’s
demonstrations for peace in the
United States, told the delegates:
“I add my voice to those mothers
who protest against all kinds of
tests.”
Straight Through . . .
PHILADELPHIA (JR — Joseph
Martucci, 22, ran out of a rain
shower Sunday and into a candy
store — right through a 6-by-8
foot plate glass window. He was
treated at a hospital for minor cuts.
GOVERNMENT FORCES
SUFFER SETBACKS IN LAOS
SAIGON, South Viet Nam UP! —
Government forces have suffered
a series of setbacks in sharp clash
es with Communist guerrillas in
the north, a communique reported
tonight.
In three operations last week, the
Viet Cong guerrillas killed at least
42 South Vietnamese soldiers and
made off with weapons and radios
needed for communications in the
mountains and jungles.
The government also reported a
success. A mopping up operation
in the vicinity of Ban Me Zhuot,
160 miles northeast of Saigon,
ended last Thursday with more
than 50 Viet Cong killed or
wounded.
AIRLINE CRASH IN "
INDIA TAKES 94 LIVES
BOMBAY, India UP! — Airline
officials said today there were no
survivors among 94 persons aboard
an Italian jet liner which crashed
near Bombay Friday.
The report that all 85 passengers
and 9 crew members had perished
was issued by Alitalia in a report
to the Rome headquarters of the
airline.
The announcement came as
search teams bogged down by mud
suspended efforts to remove the
rest of the bodies from a hillside
east of Bombay where the four
jet DC-8 went down in a heavy
monsoon rain.
Alitalia gave no explanation for
the crash.
HILLY GRAHAM DRAW'S
RECORD CROWD AT C21
SEATTLE M —- Evangelist Billy
Graham, whose appearance at the
Seattle World’s Fair helped draw a
record Sunday crowd of 69,578,
replied to Soviet cosmonaut Gher
man Titov’s atheistic “no God in
space.”
Titov said during a visit to the
Fair May 5 he "looked all around
during my 17 orbits of the earth
and saw no God in space.”
In his 45-minute address to a
turnaway throng of about 20.000
yesterday, Dr. Graham referred to
Titov’s remark and said:
“This is like a little earthworm
sticking his head a fraction of an
inch out of the ground and saying
I don’t see any Khrushchev there
fore there is no Khrushchev.”
He said conquest of space is a
great thing but “man will take
his sins and depravity with him.”
But he added “we have the tools
to make the 21st Century the great
est of all centuries.”
An estimated 1,650 converts
answered the 43-vear-old Evan
gelist's call to “make a decision
for Christ.”
Saturday’s turnout of 76,117 was
the highest single day since the
April 21 opening.
REV. JOHN MAAKESTAD
PRESENTED SILVER BEAVER
AWARD BY BOY SCOUTS
Rev. John Maakestad, pastor of
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, was
presented the Silver Beaver award
by the Boy Scouts of America,
Midnight Sun Council today at the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Presentation was made by Ira
Hill, Midnight Sun District execu
tive, who is here to work with
the Scouts who are camping at
Salmon Lake.
This coveted award, the highest
given to adult leaders of Scouting
is presented to one individual each
year by each council, for outstand
ing service. Rev. Maakestad has
worked with Sea Scouts, before
coming to Nome, formed a troop
and was its leader at Shishmaref,
and where he served on the Dis
trict Council while there.
His certificate bears the signa
tures of both President Eisen
hower and Kennedy, who are both
honorary excutives of the Boy
Scouts of America.
STRIKE OF DOCTORS
IN SASKATCHEWAN
ENTERS NINTH DAY
REGINA, Sask. UP> — Provincial
government officials and striking j
doctors remained deadlocked today I
on the ninth day of the doctors’ |
strike against the Saskatchewan
medical care plan as a mass pro
test rally was being organized
here for Wednesday.
The government has not com
mented on the rally sponsored by
the Keep-the-Doctors Committee.
But Prime Minister Woodrow
Lloyd has asked residents to avoid
demonstrations.
A spokesman for the doctors said
they wanted citizens’ support but
did not seek violence.
Most of the province’s 700
practicing physicians have refused
to work under the act since it came
into force July 1. About 200 doc
tors are providing emergency
service at 35 designated hospitals.
The act is designed to provide
medical care for everyone, to be
paid for by assessments of $12
a year for single persons and $22
for families, and by general taxa
tion. There is freedom of choice
in doctors but the doctors must
accept state-regulated fees from
the government.
Blasl Lights I |>
Skv from Hawaii
To Australia
By Claude Burgell
HONOLULU .1* — A powerful
hydrogen device exploded 200
miles above the earth and lit the
reaches of the Pacific from Hawaii
to Australia for six minutes start
ing at 11 p.m. Sunday night '2
a.m. PDT today*.
P. marked success on the third
try by *he United States for the
high-altitude test from tiny John
ston Island.
The Atomic Energy Commission
in Washington at first would say
only that the explosion involved a
a nuclear device. Later it confirm
ed it would be proper to call it a
thermo-nuclear explosion and use
the term thermo-nuclear device.
Hydrogen Bomb explosions are
thermo-nuclear — that is they are
brought about by a fusion of atoms.
Immediately the Soviet Union
dcnonounced the United States for
exploding the one to 10 megaton
thermo-nuclear device. It called it
an aggressive action timed to co
incide with the opening of the
(World Congress for General Dis
armament and Peace in Moscow.
In England, the explosion was
criticized and defended. But Dr. R.
C. Sutcliff of the Meterology Of
j fice Department of Research, said
1 the blast was too high to disturb
! tlie world's weather,
j As anticipated, the explosion ap
* parently knocked a hole in the;
! ionosphere which reflects some
| types of radio signals from place
i to place on earth. Reports from
i Japan indicated 'communications
! were affected. Some places were
! expected to be without radio com
; munications for 32 hours. In Hono
! lulu radio stations were washed
out only briefly.
Eyewitnesses agreed it was the
most spectacular sky show they
had seen. In Hawaii for six min
utes the night became bright as
day. “For two or three seconds,
it was early sunrise. Quickly the
sky reddened from its earlier hues
of white and green to pink, rose
and deep orange. Then just as sud
denly, it was night again."
In Auckland. New Zealand, the
blast produced 10 minutes of pyro
technics. New Zealanders, panicky
or curious, called their newspapers.
An intense glow appeared above
the northern horizon, spreading
across a clear sky to the southern
horizon. Then a luminous red band
widened, shot through with white
shafts of light.
The explosion marked a success
by the United States on its third
try to explode the giant thermo
nuclear warhead carried aloft by
a giant Thor missile.
TOO MUCH COMPETITION
SAN DIEGO, Calif. UPl — Two
Canadian seiners, whose captains
said they left the Bering Sea be
cause of Japanese and Russian
competition arrived today to fish
for tuna.
They are the Pacific Harveste
and Dominator, which will operr t
out of Ensenada, Mexico.
Capt. Bob Karliner of the Pa
Harvester said that Japanese \
Russian fishing fleets have jusi.
about taken over the Bering Sea.
“They make it too tough for Amer
ican ami ' Canadian fishermen to
catch halibut any more,’’ he said.
The Canadian seiners are steel
hulled vessels, built in 1960 at
Vancouver, B.C. Each is 80 feet
long with a fish-load capacity of
150 tons.