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OjUMBPr NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 69
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1962
Per Copy 15#
Shell Oil Co.
Seismograph
Vessel is Here
Seismographic exploration for
oil will be conducted this summer
in the waters off Nome with the
arrival Friday night of Shell Oil
Co.’s “Eudora.”
The exploration is being directed
by Mr. Galen Sturgeon of Hay
ward, Calif., and Mr. Atch Curry
from Shell’s office in Anchorage.
The Eudora left Anchorage on
May 19 for Nome.
The vessel is tied up in Snake
River and is captained by Rudy
Tomasio with a crew of six men:
Mate Don Cramer; electronics
man H. P. Bronting; cook George
Hoffman, and Frank Allen, Wen
dell Phillips and Carl Brady.
Two shore stations have been
set up, one about seven mile down
the coast and the other at Satellite
Field. With the seismographic
equipment aboard the Eudora they
/ will be able to accurately plot any
discoveries by triangulation.
The vessel had more than its
share of misfortunes on the way
north. They had to put into Kod
iak for repairs and left there on
rMay 27, arriving at Dutch Harbor j
on the 31st. They had quite a!
time with the ice between Nunivak
Island and Cape Romanzoff. Just
out of Dutch Harbor their radar
want nn+ of ordffi, thsi? -£s
thometer went out of commission
just out of Kodiak, and about 50
miles from Nome, their radio went
on the blink. ~
It was at Kodiak that the chlp
picked up their mascot, a pup
named Mukluk.
They reported seeing lots of
walrus and seal in Bering Sea and
a number of Japanese and Russian
fishing vessels.
Man Who Discovered "Valley
Of Ten Thousand Smokes,"
Dies At 80, After Brief Illness
WASHINGTON W — Robert F.
Griggs, a botanist who discovered
the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes in Alaska in 1915, died
after a brief illness at Carroll Hall
Sanitarium in Kensington, Md.,
Friday.
The 80-year-old specialist in
ecology was alsd the namesake of
Mt. Griggs in Alaska’s Katmai
National Monument.
Griggs, a native of Connecticut,
came here in 1921 as a professor
of botany at George Washington
University. He founded the botany
department which he headed until
his retireemnt in 1947,
AIR FRANCE JET CRASH
PASSENGERS CARRIED
$5,950,000 INSURANCE
NEW YORK UP> — The 130 per
sons killed June 3 in a Paris jet
liner crash carried $5,950,000 in
surance, the Institute of Life In
surance estimated today. The
crash was the worst single plane
disaster in aviation history.
Of the total insurance, $3,950,
000 was in all types of life insur
ance and the remaining $2 million
in travel accident policies. The
Institute said this is very likely
the third largest total for any
plane accident.
An Institute spokesman said the
amount was considered large since
there were so many women pas
MT. TRIDENT ERUPTS
MT. TRIDENT ERUPTS IN
VALLEY OF 10,000 SMOKES
KING SALMON UPl — A 6,010
foot high volcano in the Valley of
10.000 Smokes, Mt. Trident, is re
ported to have erupted late Sun
day, blowing volcanic ash high in
the sky.
There was “one big poof” and
then a number of smaller ones and
earth shocks were felt as far away
as Dillingham, according to North
ern Consolidated Airlines station
manager Bill Tolbert.
He said all the usually snow
covered peaks to the north of Mt.
Trident were blackened with vol
canic ash. He said local pilots had
flown to the area and one, guide
and charter pilot Ed Sieler, had
flown to within about 10 miles of
the volcanic activity.
A Navy pilot reported at Kodiak
last night that Mt. Katmai, 6,715
feet high, had erupted and was
filling the sky with ash. This
mountain is about four miles from
Mt. Trident.
Tolbert was sure it was Mt. Tri
dent which had blown its top but
he said he could not observe the
area today from King Salmon be
cause of haze.
Tolbert estimated that the ash
been blown to an altitude of about
40.000 feet.
The Valley of 10,000 Smokes is
on the Alaska Peninsula about 100
i miles northwest of the community
remote place.
A party of French volcanologists
had climbed the principal peaks in
the valley only four days ago, Tol
bert said.
JFK CALLS ON CRITICS TO
' STOP SPOUTING CLICHES”
By Whitney Shoemaker
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (M—Presi
dent Kennedy called on his critics
today to stop spouting ‘‘ancient
cliches” and join efforts with the
government to pump new life into
America’s economy.
In the serene atmosphere of a
Yale commencement, Kennedy de
clared his administration is not
antibusiness but made it dear the
government intends to do its part
in trying to block recession and
generate prosperity.
Standing under a canopy of Yale
blue in the ivy-hung Rectangle of
the University’s Old Campus, Ken
nedy said some of the arguments
he has heard lately sound like old
records, long playing, left over
from the middle 30’s.
The debate of that era was sig
nificant and productive, he said.
“But it took place in a differ
ent world with different needs
and tasks,” the President said.
Kennedy received a warm wel
come after arriving by plane from
New York. He came to receive an
honorary law degree, one of 14
honoraries presented at Yale’s
261st commencement.
Without identifying his antagon
ists from the worlds of business
and politics, Kennedy said debate
is healthy although up to now
somewhat barren.
Serious consideration of con-1
temporary issues has led postwar
Western Europe to unrivaled ec
onomic progress,” he said.
“But let us not engage to the
wrong argument at toe wrong tone
between the wrong people to toe
wrong country — while the real
problems of our own time grow
and multiply,” Kennedy said.
GOP Must Win
Or Lapse Into
Minority for Years
AiBIH1 VffJH >
By JACK BELL
SEATTLE US) — Republicans
were warned by their national
chairman today the party must
win in 1962 or face “a great dan
ger of lapsing into minority status
for many years.”
Rep. William E. Miller of New
York added that without victory
next fall “I don’t think the GOP
nomination for President in 1964
will be worth much.”
But he predicted the Republi
cans will gain control of the House
and pick up several Senate seats
in November, including those of
Democrats Wayne Morse of Ore
gon and Frank Church ofr Idaho.
Miller also said President Ken
nedy’s call for income tax cuts
next year will lead to inflation
unless they are accompanied by a
slash-in government spending.
The Republican chairman made
the statements at a news confer
ence shortly before calling to order
a two-day meeting of his party’s
national committee in this world’s
fair city.
Miller exuded optimism, as did
committee members who are
counting heavily in stock market
uneasiness and the Billie Sol Estes
scandal t
elections.
Miller said any tax cut without
less government spending, “par
ticularly in the area of the wel
fare state,” will deprive the Am
erican people of its benefit by
cheapening the dollar.”
“I think the issue is on our
side,” he said. “It is we Republi
cans who have constantly insisted
on less government expenditures
and reduced taxes.”
The issues, as spelled out by
Miller and other committee mem
bers, revolve around what they
called a lack of confidence by the
! business community in President
Kennedy—as exemplified by the
stock market’s gyrations—a re
puted effort by the President to
enlarge executive power and a new
GOP slogan that there are ‘too
many Kennedys in government.”
RIVAL LOATIAN PRINCES
AGREE ON COALITION
GOVT. TO END CIVIL WAR
KHANG KHAY, Laos UP) — The
rival Laotian princes agreed to
day on the cabinet for a coalition j
government aimecr at ending the '
civil war and adding Laos to the !
ranks of the world’s neutral na- ,
tions.
Neutralist Prince Souvanna
Phouma, the premier - designate,
announced the agreement, climax
ing negotiations instituted by the
14-nation conference on Laos at
Geneva 13 months ago.
Premier Prince Boun Oum of
the present royal Laotian govern
ment is stepping out of govern
mental affairs, happily, he said.
However, the strong man of his
regime, Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, will
, sit in as deputy premier and min
ister of finance under Souvanna.
Another deputy premiership and!
the economy portfolio will go to
Prince Souphanouvong, chief of
the pro - Communist Pathet Lao
and half brother of the premier
designate.
Though domestic problems stil
abound, the three princes and theij
JUDGE AND MRS. GILBERT
ARRIVE BACK IN NOME
Judge Hubert Gilbert and Mrs. ;
Gilbert returned to Nome Saturday
after an absence of several months.
During his absence from Nome
Judge Gilbert attended a Judicial
Council meeting in Juneau early in
May. From there he went to Van
couver, B.C. for the Rotary con
vention.
He and Mrs. Gilbert went to
Seattle on May 9 and spent sev
eral days at the Fair. They then
drove down the coast to Laguna
Beach, Calif., and spent a week
resting.
They drove up to Edmonton,
Alberta, for a visit with their
daughter, Mrs. Frank Hoggan, and
their four grandchildren.
The Gilberts drove on up the
Alaska Highway, arriving in An
chorage on June 2.
Judge Gilbert took care of judi
cial business in Anchorage and
Fairbanks. He expects to remain
here until fall.
Dave Beck May
Have to Serve Time
For Tax Evasion
WASHINGTON — The Sup
reme Court refused today to re
view the conviction of Dave Beck,
j former Teamster Union president,
on charges of ruing raise fed era:
tax returns for the union for 195(
and 1952.
The high tribunal, in a May 1'
decision on another appeal, af
firmed conviction of Beck on ;
charge of embezzlement of $1,901
from the sale of an automobile
owned by the union. He was sen
tenced to 15 years’ imprisonmem
on the embezzlement conviction
The sentence was pronounced in a
Washington State Court.
Beck was convicted on the tax
charge in Federal Court in Tacoma
' in 1958. He was sentenced there
to five years in prison and fined
$20,000.
In Seattle. Charles S. Burdell,
Beck’s attorney, said the 66-year
old former labor leader “very pro
bably may have to go to prison
shortly.”
Beck could not be reached for
comment.
The U.S. Circuit Court in San
Francisco on Jan. 20, 1962, upheld
Beck’s conviction of filing false
tax returns for his union. At the
same time it set aside his convic
tion of evading more than $240,000
h income taxes. The Circuit Court
called for a new trial on the eva
sion charges, on which Beck had
aeen sentenced to five years and a
540,000 fine.
KENNEDY SUMMONS
BUSINESS LEADERS
FOR CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy today summoned a group
of business leaders, including Ro
ger M. Blough, for a conference
tonight to discuss the balance of
payments and gold problem.
Those to attend include mem
bers of a committee formed by the
Business Council, formerly known
the Business Advisory Council.
Kennedy and Blough were the
[principals in a bitter controversy
1 over a $6-a-ton increase in th<
\ price of steel earlier this year
which was rescinded in the fac
of criticism by the President.
SEATTLE Ub — Attendance i
Choice of Ed
Kennedy Raises
‘Dynasty’ Issue
BOSTON UPf—Massachusetts Re
publicans threw the dynasty issue
at the Democrats today over their
convention choice of young Ed
ward M. Kennedy, the President’s
brother, for the U.S. Senate.
The GOP, with a dynasty prob
lem cf its own, moves into Wor
cester for its convention Saturday.
The. chief Republicans rivals for
the U. S. Senate nomination are
George Cabot Lodge, son of the
former United Nations ambassador
and the 1960 GOP nomination for
Vice President; and U. S. Rep.
Laurence Curtis, completing his
10th year in Congress.
At stake is the Senate seat
Lodge’s father once held until John
F. Kennedy defeated him in 1952.
The younger Lodge told a group
of convention delegates Sunday at
his father’s home in Beverly: “I
have been lumped with the dy
nasty by my opponent. The dy
nasty issue is a good issue and
one that I can particularly press
against the Democrats.”
“I have no brother in the White
House, nor do I have an uncle who
iis Speaker of the House, nor have
I had a close relative in high elec
tive office for 10 years,” he added.
The line about having an uncle
[ who is Speaker of the House was
) a reference to the man Edward
defeated at Springfield for the con
j. vention endorsement — Massachu
. setts Atty. Gen. fedward J. Mc
2 Cormack Jr.. a nephew of House
3 Speaker John W. McCormack of
? Massachusetts.
' Curtis, who will be 69 in Sep
t tember, hammered away on the
issue of “immaturity.”
“Now that Ed Kennedy has been
endorsed,” Curtis told a campaign
meeting, “It is clear that the Re
publican party will lose one of its
biggest issues unless it has a can
didate who can tight hard on the
issue of immaturity.”
NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN
! CARRYING FAIR VISITORS
DERAILED, KILLING ONE
MISSOULA, Mont. MB — A Nor
thern Pacific luxury train shot off
a mountain curve in western Mon
tana Sunday, killing a child and
injuring 219 of its 350 passen
gers.
Only two of the 17 cars remain
ed on the rails on the dawn de
railment, which may cost the rail
road a million dollars.
The other 15 cars of the Seattle
to-Chicago North Coast Limited,
carrying many visitors home from
the fair, catapulted down a 100
foot embankment 15 miles north
west of Missoula.
The nose of one car smashed
deep into a ditch, scooping up mud
that buried Terese Ann Dooms of
Ekalaka, Mont. Terese, who would
have been 3 on June 30, was the
first North Coast Limited passen
ger to be killed in 62 years.
The derailment came a little
more than three months after the
same train, westbound, ran off the
tracks and into a lake near Athol,
Idaho. Two crewmen were killed
in that wreck. Its cause is still a
mystery.
Most of the passengers were
sleeping or lust awakening at 4:40
am. as the train crashed a mile
short of a trestle that spans a
300-foot canyon.
Investigators are looking into
the possibility: of air brake failure.
Reports from passengers and train
personnel suggested the,