Fail - Safe Is Book of
Month Club Selection
Fail-Safe, which Clifton Fadi
m;m rails "the most exciting novel
I have vend in at least ten years,
is the Book of the Month Club
selection for November.
The authors. Eugene Burdick
and Harvey Wheeler, have written
“a perfect thriller, machine-turn
ed and exquisitely calibrated so
as to produce the maximum effect
on the reader's nervous system.
Laid at some unspecified date
in the near future, the story pro
vide.- what Mr. Fadiman calls "a
crucial warning, a danger signal
to t..e human race" It concerns
what could happen when, for nc
good reason but simply by mis
chance. high-speed A m eric a n
bombing planes drop a deadly load
on t:ie Soviet Union.
Rep. Rivers Calls for
Action on Soviet Fishin?
Vest els in Ala ska V/afer*
KODIAK ab — Rep. Ralph J.
Rivers has called for State De
part!' nt action to halt what he
called "transgressions'' in Alaskan
watt -s i>y Russ'an fishing vesscU.
Riser- -aid "d nd,.v if a halt
coul v, : be accumplished through
neg g should be done by
foreibV me.ms.
Rivers said the Soviet fisher
men vi• kited too rig is of Ameri
cans on tac high si as by "callous
ly trawling'’ in are where Alas
kan a-hernuo had set out crab
pots. He sari it was obvious the
Russia:.- knew about the American
crab pots.
Rivers talked with cr ib fisher
men in Kodiak during a cam
paign tour.
lie iiiod Admiral
Slain by Cumman
CHICAGO i.T’ — Paul Joachim,
50. retired roar admiral, was slain
Monday by a gunman who pumped
four bullets into his body in an
apparent holdup attempt.
Police said Joachim, a Chicago
art dealer since his retirement
from the Navy, was gunned down
when he gave battle to a lone gun
man who accosted him as he walk
ed along Lake Shore Drive.
Two witnesses said the gunman,
about U to 20 years old, shot Joa
chim when he resisted, then fired
I throe more shots into his pros
I ‘rate body before fleeing.
The victim’s trouser pockets were
; turned io.sido out, police said, but
’ the :unman apparently failed to
cot any cash. A money clip con
i nin s:>5 was found in Joachim's
; coat pocket.
; Nava; authorities said Joachim,
c .ataan i World War U. served
s exe cm ve officer a the buttle
■ • ,p CSS New Jersey. He retired
m Tuly !‘J54 with the rank of rear
Freighter Tacoma Damaged
LONDON TP -— The Uruguayan
n eight w Tacoma, supply ship for
ac Nazi pork-t battleship Graf
Snco in World War II, was badly
a imaged m a collision near the
ud docks Friday night.
1 i e a.268-ton freighter was holed
below tht waterline and was tied
up to jetty in the Thames at
Purfleet. The other vessel in the
collisa the 7,754-ton British
pasenger ship Socotra, suffered
. only superficial damage, port au
• critics said. Neither vessel re
ported casualties.
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"First in Alaska"
Kosrur i )|Hkration
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3 orniro 1,lassie*
Of Perfection
By Ward T. Sims
SITKA (.4* — The swift and
skillful teamwork that saved 102
men, women and children from a
disabled airliner was hailed Tues
day as a ditching and rescue
operation of classic perfection.
Onh six persons suffered in
j juries — all minor — as the
j military-chartered Northwest Air
1 lines DC-7C came down smoothly
! off Sitka after the pilot radioed
! a runaway propeller would force
j a landing at sea.
I “The whole ship was evacuated
■ in 2’e to 3 minutes," said the
j pilot. Capt. Vinton Hanson of
; Bellevue, Wn.
“There was no panic.” added
stewardess Kathryn Ollinger of
Seattle. “All of the passengers did
just exactly what we asked them
to do.”
Hanson said tie. first indication
! of propeller trouble came when
the plane was about 100 miles
south of Sitka. He declared an
emergency at 12:04. reducing speed
and altering course so as to fly
nearer 10 snuic.
Serving Lunch
"We were right in the middle of
serving lunch." said flight attend
ant Richard Chinnock. also of Bel
levue. Hanson advised Chinnock to
tell the passengers they might have
to ditch.
The pilot said he set the plane
down in the water at 12:54 p.m.
A Coast Guard amphibian plane,
alerted by a radio message from
Hanson, landed beside the DC-7C
within three minutes of the ditch
ing.
“All of the passengers were out
of the aircraft and into the life
rafts by the time the water in the
cabin had reached a point midway
between my knee and thigh,” said
Ruth Fullerton, a stewardess from
Manitoba, Can.
Five 25-man life rafts were used.
The plane stayed afloat for 22
minutes.
Taken Aboard Supply Boat
As an Alaska Coastal-Ellis Air
lines plane circled overhead and
the Coast Guard amphibian stood
by, the passengers and crew were
taken aboard a supply boat from
a nearby Federal Aviation Agency
station.
All were later transferred from
the FAA vessel, the Fedair, to the
Coast Guard cutter Sorrel and
brought to Sitka.
"The survivors told me they
had one engine that ran away and
it caught fire,” said W. Thurmond,
executive officer of the Sorrel.
Quentin Deboer, Sitka manager
for Alaska Coastal-Ellis, said three
Alaska Coastal pilots who flew over
the rescue scene told him: “It
was the finest ditching they had
ever seen, even in filmed ex
amples of how it should be done.”
Said Hanson: “Everything was
in our favor. Sea conditions and
weather were with us.”
Six persons received minor in
juries in the forced landing. They
were treated at the Bureau of
Indian Affairs’ Mt. Edgecumbe
Hospital near Sitka.
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HIGH SPEED TYPESETTING
UNIT FOR PRINTING CHINESE
NEW YORK (/?'—The U.S. Army
has contracted with tire Radio
Corp. of America for a high-speed
typesetting device for use in print
ing Chinese.
RCA. which is developing the
machine, will deliver several of
them to the army under a $65(1.000
: contract.
An RCA spokesman explained
! why the army is ordering the de
vice.
“They are going to use them for
orientation, literature training, and
publications and information leaf
lets in the army's relations with
military forces of other nations."
he said.
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V a \tr Files Libel Suit
A^'nnst Associated Press
OXFORD, Miss. l/P Former
Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker filed a
libel suit against the Associated
Press Monday for St* million, claim
ing he was damaged in stories
about rioting at the Universits of
Mississippi.
Walker, in the suit filed in La
fayette Count;, Circuit Court here,
ask -d SI million actual and SI
million punitive damages.
The stories dealt with Walker’s
role m the night of rioting that
followed the arrival of James H.
Meredith, a Negro, on the "Ole
Miss” campus, Sept. 30.
Associated Press headquarters
said there would be no comment
on the filing of the suit.
How Has Egan Leadership
Helped Alaska Meet Its Obligations
Regarding
FISHER
During These First
Years of Statehood?
ALASKA’S WATERS DEFENDED. Governor
Egan’s determined action against the Japanese
fishing fleet in Shelikof Strait has caused Federal
officials to take a long hard look at their policies
with regard to the North Pacific fishery and their
obligation to defend the interests of conservation.
FISH TRAPS ELIMINATED. In his first major
action upon assuming office, Governor Egan ban
ned the operation of fish traps in Alaska’s waters.
As a result of this long-sought move, nearly 400
traps were shut down which previously had
accounted for nearly 45% of Alaska’s annual
salmon harvest. These fish now are taken by
individual fishermen and mean added monev in
the noekets of Alaskans. '
FISHERIES CONFERENCE CALLED. Alert to
the urgent problems of the fishing industry. Gov
ernor Egan called the first coast-wide conference
of fisheries biologists ever held. Results were such
that the Governor of Washington State has called
a second conference to be held in Seattle to further
the progress begun at the Alaska meeting.
FISHERIES HARVEST INCREASES. Through
the realistic and flexible fisheries management
policies initiated under the Egan administration.
Alaska’s annual salmon pack has increased from
low of 1.770.795 cases in 1959 the last voar of
Federal control, to 3,211.962 cases in 1961. and
more than 3.400.000 cases this year. During the
same period, annual take of king crab, shrimn and
Other shellfish has inr.rr»n<;r>d chnrrdv.
RESIDENT FISHERMEN PROTECTED. Gov
ernor Egan has strongly represented the interests
of .esident Alaska fishermen. An example of this
was his personal appeal to canners and packers at
Seattle last soring, resulting in a 40% reduction
in the amount of Outside gear in Bristol Bay.
HERE IS A COMMON SENSE PROGRAM,
ONE BASED ON ALASKA'S CAPACITY TO
GROW AND EXPAND
THIS MESSAGE SPONSORED
AND PAID FOR BY THE
EGAN COMMITTEE
NOME. ALASKA