OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS \
ford Year No. 1 ! 3
NOMF, ALASKA, MONDAY, S3 PT! MHLR
If. 1962
Per C .< ■ p\- 1 5C
Sectv. Udall Savs
Noiise Vocational
School to Get
Federal Help
JUNEAU <7P' —- Secretary of the
Interior Stewart Udall said today
the federal government will make
a substantial financial contribution
toward construction of a Vocation
al School at Nome.
Udall. hitting Juneau as the first
major stop on a whirlwind visit
to Alaska which will take him
to Anchorage and Fairbanks, told
a news conference he hoped the
details of federal aid for the Nome
facility can be worked out soon.
Alaska voters and the state leg
islature have authorized a bond
issue of $1.5 million to build a
Vocational Educational School at
Nome. The state has been seeking
federal participation.
Udall was asked if the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, in congregating
many of Alaska’s native young
sters at Mt. Edgecumbe and
Wrangell Institute, were guilty of
practicing segregation when the
national policy seemed to be in
tegration.
Udall said the implication had
no basis in truth.
“Our objective in Alaska,” the
Interior Secretary said, “is to try
to build schools closer to or at
centers or groupings of natives,
rather than to send these young
sters tens or hundreds of miles
from their homes to school.
“In Arizona, we found that the
native children sometimes get more
out of school when they are group
ed with other native children
than when they attend schools also
attended by non-native children.” |
Udall said the Interior Dept, is I
studying closely the “delicate prob
lem” of whether to permit the
continued operation of fish traps
by the Indian village of Metla
katla.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a
decision rendered March 5, ruled
that the villages of Kake and An
goon must cease operating traps
this year, but said the decision as
to whether Metlakatla could use
traps was up to the Secretary of
the Interior.
The high court said Metlakatlans
were on a federal reservation and
the federal government had clear
authority over them.
Udall also was asked to com
ment on a recent announcement
by Ted Stevens of Anchorage, Re
publican candidate for the U.S.
Senate, that the Department of the
Interior planned to open addi
tional areas of the Kenai moose
range to oil exploration.
“The matter is under study,”
Udall said, “but I have no imme
diate announcement to make on
that. Undoubtedly, there will be
changes, but I’m not prepared to
say what they will be.”
Commenting on Alaska’s future
in general, Udall said the state
was the United States’ last area
of untapped resources.
“If we develop those resources
wisely,” Udall said, “we can build
an economic base for your state.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. UP) —
Albuquerque, encountering one of
its driest years in history, re
ceived its first measurable rain
fall in 55 days Sunday.
The official measurement was
.19 of an inch. The last measurable
rain was .72 of an inch on July
30. Total rainfall for the year
stands at 3.02 inches, thus far
the driest year on record since
1917.
Navy Plane Wreckage
Found on Montague Island
KODIAK i/P — The burned
wreckage of a Navy patrol plane
which disappeared Saturday with
If) men aboard was found today
on rugged Montague Island. A
ground party which reached the
scene said there were no sur
vivors.
The wreckage was first spotted
by a search plane. It was at the
1,900-foot level in heavily timber
ed country near Cape Cleare.
Montague Island is in Prince Wil
liam Sound on the southern coast
of Alaska.
The wrecked two-engine P5M
patrol plane, with a crew from
Patrol Squadron 42, San Diego,
Calif., was last contacted by radio
near the island Saturday.
Rescuers Battle
Raging Seas for
Airerasli Viet inis
LONDON <<P> — Battling raging
seas, rescuers today plucked from
the North Atlantic 49 survivors
of a ditched chartered airlinei
carrying American servicemen anc
their families. A grim search con
tinued for 21 others — including
two children — still missing.
A massive international air-se;
mercy fleet converged on the crasl
scene 500 miles west of Ireland.
The British Air Ministry saic
five of the six rafts carried by th<
Flying Tiger airliner had been ac
counted for.
One rescue ship radioed she hac
sighted a raft but as darkness fell
no further word was received and
hope faded.
The four-engine Super Constel
lation took off from McGuire Air
port, N.J., Sunday bound for Ger
many and ditched at 10:12 p.m.
after the pilot radioed three of the
engines failed one after another
as he struggled to reach a landing
in Ireland.
The Swiss ship Celerina radioed
that she had picked up the 49
survivors.
The survivors — some injured
and all of them suffering from
shock — were transferred from
the Celerina to the Canadian air
craft carrier Bonaventure by heli
copter.
The Bonaventure radioed she
was proceeding toward Ireland
while the survivors received medi
cal care in her sick bay. The car
rier expected to land the people
at Shannon by helicopter Tues
day night.
At the crash scene, meh on
ships’ bridges and crows nests and
in the cockpits of aircraft strained
for a sight of more survivors.
The chartered airliner carried
76 persons — 68 American service
men and their families, and a crew
of eight.
Two dramatic races were in pro
gress.
In one, the rescue ships and
planes were desperately trying to
locate the missing survivors be
fore 10-foot waves, cold and the
darkness of another night could
snuff out their lives.
In the other efforts were being
pushed to get medical attention
to those already picked up, many
of them injured and suffering from
shock and exposure.
America’s favorite menu items
are sandwiches. We eat 100 million
daily. There may be no connection,
but —some 18 million Americans
also have ulcers.
Stock Market
Fakes Sharp Skk!
NEW YORK UP — The stock
market took another sharp skid
today.
Trading was heavy.
Most key issues lost, fractions
to around 2 points. Higher-priced
DuPont dropped 57s to 199.
The “growth” issues were hit
hard. IBM fell 14:!i to 392. Zero/
lost 67s and Polaroid 6->k.
Brokers saw the decline as a
continuation of the Friday selloff
when the Dow Jones Industrial
I Average fell below the 600 line,
| signifying that the uncertain mar
| ket would fall rather than rise,
j Steels, motors, oils, chemicals,
I utilities, aerospace issues, rubbers,
| rails and other major groups join
I ed in the retreat.
The Associated Press average of
! GO stocks fell 3.2 to 216.7 with
j industrials down 4.7, rails down
! 1.0, and utilities down 2.1. It was
i the sharpest loss since June 22
I when the average fell 3.4.
I An estimated S4.6 billion was
! shown from the quoted value of
| stocks listed on the New York
1 Stock Exchange based on the fall
■ in the AP average.
The ticker tape ran late re
peatedly and volume rose to 5
million shares from 4.28 million
Friday. It was the biggest turn
L over since July 12 when 5.37 mil
i lion shares changed hands.
Of 1.289 issues traded, 952 de
I dined and 145 advanced. There
, were 92 new lows for the year
and no new highs.
| Vatican Authorities
Close St. Peter's Doors
Against Unknown Bomber
VATICAN CITY UR — Worried
Vatican authorities closed the great
central doors of St. Peter’s today
to shield the mother church of
Roman Catholicism against an un
known bomber.
Vatican gendarmes stood re
enforced guard as Italian police
and explosive experts sought clues
to the origin of two incendiary
bombs found in the church Sat
urday night. Had they exploded,
the devices could have ruined the
church and destroyed its art treas
ures.
A high Vatican source said there
was little doubt the intended
bombing was directed against the
Ecumenical, or world-wide. Coun
cil opening in the Basilica Oct. 11.
The usual throngs of visitors
were admitted today through a
smaller door, under close scrutiny
of Italian plainclothes police.
The security moves were de
scribed as the tightest in Vatican
history.
The time bombs were found at
the base of the tiers of upholstered
wooden seats installed for the
3,000 prelates who will attend
the council.
Eight workmen who had been
engaged last Saturday in the area
where the explosives were found
were under intense questioning.
THE WEATHER
Mostly cloudy with occasional
light rain. Little change in tem
perature. Low tonight 35. high to
morrow 45. In the last 24 hours:
High of 47, low of 38. Max. wind
12 mph from the north. Sunrise
at 5:50 am., sunset at 5:56 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High
of 43, low of 38. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 57 in
1926, low of 19 in 1908.
Senate Committee
Approves Postal Rate Hike
WASHINGTON (7P> — The Sen
ate Post Office and Civil Service
Committee today approved a $603
million increase in postal rates and
| a $1,054,000,000 increase in pay of
; 1.6 million federal employes,
j Chairman Olin Johnston, D
j S.C.\ told newsmen he is con
; fident the combined measure will
I clear both the Senate ami Hnu-w.
| It is expected to be d< bated in
| the Senate later this week.
The rate increase, which would
include a penny hike on letters
arid all other first-class mail, would
become effective Jan. 7. 1963.
The pay boost would take effect
in two steps - one at the first
j payday after signing of the bill
and the other in January 1964.
The approximately one million
classified Civil Services workers
would get an over-all $636 nillion
pay hike. The 590,000 postal em
ployes would receive $368 million.
Five Days of
Armed Coilfliet
I Ends In Argentina
BUENOS AIRES A" — Backed
by triumphant army rebels. Presi
dent Jose Maria Guido set out
today to bind the nation’s wounds
with a hint of amnesty for all anc
a promise of free elections.
Guido went on the radio Sunday
night, hours after the last resis
tance crumbled in north Argen
tina, ending five days of armed
forces conflict that shook the
country.
Guido himself was thrust into
the presidency last March by the
military high command that took
I a beating from rebel forces led by
Brig. Gen. Juan Carlos Ongania.
Ongania accused the high com
mand of making Guido a virtual
prisoner with the aim of leading
Argentina into military dictator
ship. He and his backers said they
wanted to free Guido from military
dictates and restore democratic
institutions.
Guido switched to the rebel side
in the midst of the conflict. While
he told the nation he alone would
exercise the powers of chief ex
ecutive, he laid down a policy ad
vocated by the rebels.
“There will be elections of new
authorities within the briefest
possible time in free polls,” Guido
declared. “This is the firm pur
pose of the government.”
This echoed a statement by
Ongania’s forces at Campo De ;
Mayo, the nation’s largest garri- j
son, where the army rebellion be
gan last week.
Guido had promised elections,
by October 196”, with new officials
taking office the following May.
Two-Month Tax Take
Grosses $7.0(>0,7(>1
JUNEAU i.P — The State De
partment of Revenue reported to
da vthat gross collections of taxes
and license fees during the first
two months of the current fiscal
year — July and August — were
$7,060,761.
The two-month-take, acting Rev
enue Commissioner R. D. Steven
son said, represented an increase
of $668,595 over collections during
July and August of last year.
The tax and license fee take
last month was $4,417,151 was only
the fourth time in Alaska’s his
tory that such collections have
gone over $4 million in a single
month, Stevenson said.
Holier Ci\<‘s J! K
Slandl>\ Authority
To Call Reserves
WASHINGTON A — Over
whelming appmv '1 : • House
today Kivo President Kennedy
standby authorito. to cal! 150.000
ir ditary reservists to active duty.
The Senate passed the resolu
tion unanimous:.* on Sept. 13.
In Hons de: ate, chairman Carl
Vinson, (D-Ga.i, of the Armed
Services Committee rie . ribed the
grant of authority to Kennedy as
"part of our answer to the crisis
in Cuba."
The House acted after shouting
; down a series of amendments One
by Rep. Gerald Ford, iR-Michd,
i would have- limited the recall of
reserves of the Air Force and the
Navy. Another offered by Ford
| would have expanded the recall
■authority from 150,000 to one mil
I lion men.
Tiie House also def a ted .,ri
amendment by Rep. Bruce Alger,
'R-Texd, that would have elimin
i ated the provision fo recall of
reservist', leaving only authority
for the President to extend enlist
. merits and active dur t..ur< for
i men now in service.
I The roll call vote was 342 to 13.
METHODIST CHURCH
PARSONAGE GUTTED
BY FIRE SATURDAY
Fire completely gutted the in
terior of the Methodist parson
| Rev. Howard DeVore awakened
j to find the front of the house on
j fire and he attempted to put in
| a fire alarm by phone, and roused
his family. He rushed out the back
door and was unable to get in
again and rushed to the bedroom
window to help his wife and two
sons who were cut off from going
out either the front or back doors.
Joel, the 11-year-old boy, who
paused long enough to help his
six-year-old brother out the win
dow, and the last one to get out,
was overcome at the window by
smoke and ha ; to be pulled out,
suffering bu ns and lacerations.
The rest of the family had minor
injuries
The iiiv department fought the
fire most of the night, which
completely gutted the interior and
destroyed almost all of the per
■ r,.i! effects of the family.
Saturday morning the women of
the church set about outfitting the
family which are housed at the
hospital, and tonight a volunteer
group of women will bring scour
ing materials to the church kitchen
to scrub and scour items which
might be salvaged. More volun
teers are welcome stated mem
bers of the steering committee.
The cause of the fire has not
been determined exactly, but it
could have started either at the
front of the house or in the fur
nace room, stated Chief of Police
Robert Oliver.
SELF - PROPELLED . . .
SYDNEY, Australia UP — More
than 100 astonished ferry pas
sengers stepped ashore into the
garden of an apartment after
crossing the harbor Sunday with
nobody at the wheel.
The ferry Lady Ferguson sped
across the harbor at its maximum
10 knots and crashed into the sea
wall.
Two crewmen were aboard —
but the ferry master was still on
the wharf on the other side of the
harbor. An inquiry was ordered.