63rd Year No. 72
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1962
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BIA Task Force
Hears Pros-Cons
Of Local Residents
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
committee known as the Task
Force, held a session this morning
in the Court Room with W. Keeler,
principal chief of the Cherokees,
as chairman.
Also present were: James Of
ficer, Asst. Commissioner of the
BIA, Washington, D.C., Robert
Bennett, Area Director, BIA; Burke
Riley, Dept, of Interior; Hugh
Wade, Secretary of State; and
Ruth Blake as speaker.
Mr. Keeler explained the
changes underway in the BIA pro
gram and the reorganization now
underway to improve its services.
First speaker for the local na
tive people was Paul Green of
Kivalina, Kotzebue and Nome, who
explained the need of some change
in the duck and geese open season
and how the open season in the
fall comes after the birds have gone
south, so that there really is no
legal time for the people of North
western Alaska to ever get the
birds which are in abundance here,
and an important part of the diet
for isolated villages.
becona speaker was Arthur Na
gozruk Jr., who gave a fine pre
sentation of the educational needs
of this area and how regional
schools for higher education are
needed. He felt that housing in
private homes would not be suc
cessful as the young people would
need strong counselling in meeting
readjustment problems.
He strongly opposed the con
sideration of taking aboriginal
rights as he did not think that this
was the time to go back to asking
for these rights when Eskimos want
equality and other advantages far
beyond those conditions which go
with reservations. He stated that
the Eskimo youth of today do not
speak the Eskimo language nor do
they adhere to Eskimo food and
Eskimo economy, and urged that
the bureau intensify the program
to study potential resources and
help the natives become educated
to lead and help in the adminis
tration of the development of the
potential.
Speaking on the welfare program
of the BIA he stated that it is
very ineffective and practically no
emphasis is put on rehabilitation
with “indifferent personnel and in
adequate facilities”. He explained
this stating that in the villages
untrained people handle the appli
cations and the trained worker
must spend too much time in desk
duties instead of being in the field
investigating the need, and under
standing the problem.
Mr. KoDert Bennett, told of a
new executive being added to the
BIA staff who would be a specialist
working on area redevelopment
and explained that arts and crafts
would be studied in the interest of
potential market as well as the
development of these skills in other
fields. Another specialist will work
on the developing of the reindeer
industry.
Rep. Grace Johnson spoke out in
protest against the type of organi
zation fostered in the villages
where the council and non-profit
stores are non-taxable and dis
criminate against private enter
prise. She feels that private enter
prise will soon be lost and this
will be felt by the whole
Rev. Fred Savok criticized the
loan system of operating the BIA
stores whereby more and more
credit is given and the people don’t
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BRISTOL BAY APPLIES FOR
SECOND-CLASS BOROUGH
JUNEAU — The Local Boun
dary Commission notified Secretary
of State Hugh Wade today it has
accepted a petition for the incor
poration of a second class borough
in the Bristol Bay area.
The borough, which would be
the first to be organized in the
State since passage of the Borough
Act by the 1961 legislature would
include the communities of Nak
nek, South Naknek and King
Salmon.
Under the provisions of the
Borough Act, Wade is required to
prepare for an election in the
proposed area to determine if the
qualified voters of the area actually
want to incorporate a borough.
The petition for incorporation
of the borough was received by the
State Local Affairs Agency last
Dec. 27 and the local Boundary
Commission subsequently conducted
public hearings in the area.
INGO TAKES EUROPEAN
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
GOTEBORG, SWEDEN W —
Buoyant Ingemar Johansson took
the European heavyweight title
under his care today and said he
earned a rest before challenging
either Floyd Patterson or Sonny
Liston for the world champion
ship.
Johansson was back as the pride
of Sweden after demolishing tough
Dick Richardson of Wales with an
eight round knockout last night.
Ingo, boxing with cool calcula
tpry despite a cut left eye, de
throned the Welshman with a dis
play of sheer power punching.
More than 50,000 fans cheered
him to the deep blue sky.
Johansson, riding high after
three knockout victories since he
went on the comeback trail, told
reporters:
“I want to fight Patterson or
Liston, whoever wins the title
match in September.”
Postpone Shot
HONOLULU UPl — Adverse
weather conditions today postponed
for 24 hours a scheduled high al
titude nuclear explosion above
Johnston Island in the Pacific,
Joint Task Force 8 announced. The
test had been scheduled for late
tonight or early tomorrow Hawaii
time.
Scientists say communications
throughout the Pacific will be dis
irupted for almost two days after
the shot, 50 to 500 times as power
ful as the atom bomb dropped on
Hiroshima. It will be exploded
some 200 miles above the Pacific.
In New York, the Congress of
Scientists on Survival appealed to
President Kennedy Sunday to call
off the high test because of “pos
sibilities of hazard for mankind
and his environment.”
The group told the President in
a telegram such tests “will disturb
the Van Allen Belt,” bands of high
energy particles several hundred
miles above the earth.
The 20th announced detonation
' in the current series in the Pacific
was exploded Sunday in the area
of Christmas Island, some 1,200
miles south of Honolulu.
Salmon Pack Running
Ahaad of Last Year
JUNEAU W — The 1862 Alaska
salmon pack, in its early stages, is
running slightly ahead of the 1961
pack, the State Department of Fish
, and Game said today.
The pack through June 10 of this
year was 35*000 cases, compared
with a pack of 33,552 cases through
June 11 of 1961.
Blame Worst
Air Disaster On
Crew Error
WASHINGTON UP) — Most of
the blame for history’s worst air
disaster — the collision of two
airliners over New York City
which took 134 lives 18 months
ago — was placed on the crew
of one of the planes. A govern
ment report said the crew made a
distance-judging error.
The Civil Aeronautics Board said
in an accident report that the
probable cause of the fiery colli
sion was the United Air Lines
DC-8 flew beyond the area for
which it had been cleared, a hold
ing pattern over Preston, N.J.
Contributing factors, the CAB
said, was the plane’s high rate of
speed and a new routing issued
just before the accident by the
New York air route traffic control
center.
A United spokesman said the
report had just been received, and
there would be no comment until
executives have studied it.
On the morning of Dec. 16, 1960,
the United jet, inbound from Chi
cago with 77 passengers and a crew
of seven, collided in snow-choked,
graying skies over Staten Island
with a Trans World Airlines Lock
heed Super Constellation, enroute
from Dayton and Columbus, Ohio,
with 39 passengers and five crew
members.
The jet was on an instrument ap
proach to Idlewild International
Airport, the propeller-driven craft
under radar guidsacs to T ° Guard
ia Airport,
On blazing impact, the United
liner plunged into a crowded
Brooklyn neighborhood and sia
; persons on the ground perished
1 The TWA plr-ne came down ir
flames in an open field on Staten
Island. Of the 128 persons aboard
the two planes the sole survivor
was a boy, but he died later of in
juries.
After a lengthy investigation the
CAB today issued its report, trac
ing the flight patterns of the two
planes and attempting to assess the
causes of the disaster. It found
that when the DC-8 crew informed
the Idlewild approach control sta
tion that it was coming on the
Preston intersection the plane
actually was some nine miles be
yond the point.
THREE ROYAL CANADIAN
MOUNTIES SHOT TO DEATH
KAMLOOPS, BJB. A rifle-toting
man shot and killed three Royal
Canadian Mounted Police on a
downtown street here today*.
A man suspected of the killing
was shot to death by police who
pursued him into the rolling hills
about a mile south of this interior
British Columbia town. Police said
he resisted arrest.
Names of the victims were with
held.
The slayer fled on foot into the
hills south of here. Mounted Po
lice and Game Department officers
sought him on foot and a helicop
ter tried to spot him from the air.
The shooting occurred about 9:30
am. outside the Government Bldg,
where welfare offices are housed.
Witnesses said the man came out
of the building, stopped to talk
with George Ferguson, a Game De
partment man, and threatened
him with a high-caliber rifle. Mem
j bers of the department staff, also
! in the same building, saw the in
cident and called police.
When the three mounties arrived
the man opened fire, killing them
with a rapid volley of shots.
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SECTY. RIBICOFF SAYS
MEDICAL PLAN IS SHAKY
WASHINGTON W — Secretary
of Welfare Abraham Ribicoff con
cedes the administration’s medical
care for the aged plan is in shaky
health, and says he’s ready for
legislative surgery on it.
The president of the American
Medical Assn., meanwhile, has
charged passage of the measure
would undermine the nation’s
health care standards. Dr. Leonard
W. Larson said that has been the
outcome in every country that
tried “politically controlled medi
cine.”
Larson said Sunday the adminis
tration’s program would swiftly
mushroom into socialized medicine.
Ribicoff said Sunday night in
a television interview that while
the medical care bill is in diffi
culty in the Ways and Means Com
mittee “I really think we have
an opjoortuniy to come out with
a favorable report.”
Ribicoff said the administration
is prepared to accept changes in
the bill, but will not compromise
on its central feature — financing
under the social security system.
He said that “goes to the very
heart of the program.”
MIDNIGHT SUN FESTVAL
HEADQUARTERS OPENED
The Midnight Sun Festival has
opened official headquarters on
Front Street near the State Wel
fare Office. Here the big ice cake
win uc set up with its beautiful
imbedded nugget which is known
as Alaska’s smallest ice pool.
Those taking early chances will
l get them at a discount stated man
lag® Johnnie Stephenson.
A The ice block is out of the U.S
, Smelting Dredge pond and th<
cube is estimated to be 18xl8xli
j inches.
| Disavow Peace Agreement
r - ORAN, Algeria LPi — The Secrel
Army Organization in western
Algeria tonight disavowed the
peace agreement worked out by
Algiers representatives of the or
ganization and Algerian provision
al executive members. A Secret
Army tract in Bone, in eastern Al
geria, also refused to accept the
accord.
“Keep your arms. Continue to
fight,” the nightly pirate broad
cast of the Secret Army told Oran
residents.
PILOTS CAUTIONED
WASHINGTON m — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency has cau
tioned pilots against skin diving
within 24 hours of a planned flight.
The agency has circulated a
warning that flying a pressurized
aircraft within 24 hours after skin
diving can result in decompression
sickness, known as bends.
The FAA said the crew of one
aircraft, flying in the late after
noon after a day of diving to
depths of 20 to 30 feet, became
incapacitated in flight.
“Fortunately, the flight engineer
had greater tolerance and was able
to fly the aircraft,” the FAA said.
“Twelve hours later, however,
he too was stricken.”
98 More Cases Filed
-JUNEAU m — The file of cases
pending before the state’s judges,
magistrates and deputy magistrates
increased by 98 during the month
of April, State Courts Administra
tor Thomas B. Stewart said today.
There were 4,745 cases in the
pending file at the start of April.
The courts terminated 1,410 cases,
but 1,508 new cases were filed,
leaving a pending file of 4,843 at
the end of the month.
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LaOiiau Prince
May Walk Out
On Coalition
VIENTIANE, Laos — Neu
tralist Prince Souvanna Phouma
arrived today with new demands
that stalled his installation as pre
mier of a coalition regime, a cere
mony planned for this morning. In
formants said he threatened a
walkout unless a settlement is
reached by Thursday.
They said Souvanna protested
against allowing the National As
sembly, dominated by pro-Westem
deputies, to have even a minor
voice in the coalition agreement.
Souvanna’s demands were loud
ly endorsed by his half-brother,
Prince Souhpanouvong, leader of
the pro-Communist Pathet Laa
rebels, who has been named to a
deputy premier in the coalition.
Remaining behind in Red terri
tory, Souhpanouvong denounced
“American Imperialism” and ac
cused the United States of trying
to wreck the coalition even before
it could be installed.
Thus trouble again threatened
this Asian nation, which has known
little but trouble sinue the French,
made it independent in 1949.
Informed sources said Souvanna
raised his unexpected objections
after he and Souhpanouvong made
a flying trip Saturday to Hanoi,
capital of Communist North Viet
Nam. North Viet Nam has poured
| men and material into the Pathet
Lao drive against the royal gov
I eminent.
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"PRINCESS BALL" HONORS
QUEEN CANDIDATES
: The Nome Lions sponsored the
3 “Princess Ball at the Army last
Saturday night honoring all the
Midnight Sun Queen candidates.
Tom Balone, the MC, introduced
1 the girls. The only candidate to
1 perform was Ann Chambers with
; “Somebody Stole My Pal."
Can-can girls Betty Jocius and
June West were enthusiastically
received. The hilarious Lion can
canners Jack Carpenter, Steve
Willson, Sven Larsen and Dave
Money brought the house down.
Since the Princess Ball will
probably be the last dance to be
held at the Armory for a long
time, due to construction of the
! new floor, it was most fitting that
the Lions held the dance in sup
port of this worthy community
cause.
Bossy the Cow
Heads for Nome
SEATTLE Iff) — A life-size
papier mache cow, purchased re
cently at a Seattle police auction,
has been sent to pasture in Nome,
Carl Oberg, of 7708 East Green
Lake Drive N., bought the cow,
just why he knew not.
Residents of Nome read about
the cow as they laid plans for their
annual midnight Sun Festival
opening Thursday. Festival spon
sors, always hard pressed for a
standout attraction for their chil
dren’s parade, regarded the cow
as the answer to Nome’s children,
most of whom never have seen a
cow.
Nome residents wrote Oberg, who
replied that he gladly would con
tribute the cow to the cause.
So today, Bossy was put on
an airplane for Nome, where the
Midnight Sun Festival will pay
the freight and take over owner
ship.
Alaska.