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NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1962
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fTask Force Reveals Natives Want to
Get Out From Under Yoke of Welfare
JUNEAU Ufi
M
The chairman of
a three-man task force studying
native affairs in Alaska said today
the state’s natives seem to be al
most unanimous in their desire
their
to get out from under the yoke of
welfare.
W. W. Keeler of Bartlesville,
Okla., of Indian extraction him
self, said:
“The urge of Alaka natives to
get employment is phenomenal to
me. Everywhere we have gone,
with the exception of one commu
§ nity, we Rave been greeted with
one major complaint, ‘welfare is
tunning us’.”
Keeler, a high official of the
lillips Petroleum Corp., made the
comment in an interview at the
conclusion of a hearing by the
isk force on native problems in
ie Juneau area.
Other members of the task force
James Officer, Associate Com
issioner of the Bureau of Indian
fairs, and Hugh J. Wade, Alas
's Secretary of State.
The task force was appointed
>y Secretary of the Interior Udall
submit recommendations to him
for the development of both the
human and physioal resources of
the natives of Alaska.
ine tasK force will complete its
survey of Alaska native problems
on July i, after visiting most of the
native villages in Western Alaska
and the Southeast Panhandle.
“Another big item brought out
during our trip was the feeling by
natives that their way of life is
being taken away from them by
government regulation, with no
substitution,” Keeler said.
“This is particularly true in
hunting and fishing regulations. In
the Arctic, for instance, the season
on migratory waterfowl does not
until after the birds have
south, yet the natives are
they can’t take the birds while
ley are in the north.”
the hearing today, Mrs.
R. Martin of Juneau, an of
icer in the Alaska Native Sister
lood, tuld the task force:
“Welfare is causing our people
> lose their self-respect.”
She urged the task force to ex
plore means through which welfare
ids could be used instead for
lucation or for establishing new
for the native people.
Alfred E. Widmark of Klawoek,
FORCE TEAM HERE
MAKE SURVEY FOR
>AR WARNING SITE
Preliminary surveys by the Air
( started yesterday to deter
le whether this area is suitable
for the construction of another
radar facility for the “Alaskan
Early Warning System” when a
group of ten arrived Monday night,
ley will be aided by a twin-rotor
The Air Force has indicated
that after the groups complete the
i?ey, considerable time will
before any decision can be
reached m the location of the in
stnce estimates on cost
iction and the number of
to ftian the
cannot be
staUatioii 2
of construe
jp^sonnel
is
but
President of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood, said his organization
feels the primary problem facing
Alaska natives is one of education.
He said more than 200 appli
cants were turned away from Mt.
Edgecumbe for lack of space last
year “and many others didn’t ap
ply for the simple reasons they
knew they couldn’t get in.”
Widmark also said there was a
great need for medical care for
natives and for sanitation facilities
in the villages.
KENNEDY ADVISES
AMERICAN FAMILIES
TO PRAY AT HOME
- WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy said Wednesday the
Supreme Court decision banning
official prayers in public schools
gives American families an oppor
tunity to do more praying with
their children at home.
Kennedy got into the subject of
the Supreme Court’s decision on
school prayers in response to ques
tions about his views on moves in
Congress to amend the constitution
to authorize such prayers.
Kennedy said he would have to
see the bills first to see their ef
fect on the First Amendment. He
said we have a very easy reme
dy, “to pray, ourselves.”
He said the court has spoken
and as a result of the decision he
hopes American parents would in
tensify their efforts at home. He
added that the court had acted, and
the people should support its
finding.
He declared U.S. policy in the
Formosa area is unchanged—that
the United States opposes force in
that area but will defend Formosa
if the Chinese Communists attack
it and will defend Quemoy and
Matsu, the offshore Nationalist
Chinese islands, if an attack ag
ainst them is aimed also at For
mosa and the Pescadores.
A reporter reminded Kennedy
that in his 1960 campaign he in
dicated the U. S. commitment to
defend Quemoy and Matsu might
be modified in view of the mili
tary difficulties of defending them.
The President said that he also
had said in 1960 that there should
be no withdrawal from those is
lands “at the point of a gun.”
Ashed about criticism by former
President Eisenhower on defense
spending and other points, Ken
nedy said: “I think we’re spending
a great deal on defense, and 2 don’t,
enjoy it. But on the other hand,
I think we live in a world where
its important to be strong.”
He noted that “We seem to be
criticized on one hand for not
doing enough to stand up to the
Russians and on the other hand
for spending too much on defense.
I think they should get together.
It seems to me that the grand old
party may be floundering.”
MOONSHINE WATER
GOES ON HIGH SEAS
Moonshine water as gone nauti
cal. Yesterday when the Snake
River harbor was too shallow for
the Eudora to get into the harbor
age and reported it was out erf
Congress Okehs
Tax Cuts on
Travel Fares
& .
WASHINGTON W — Congress
today sent to President Kennedy
a tax extension bill eliminating the
10 per cent travel levy on rail
and bus fares Nov. 15 and cutting
the airline tax to 5 per cent on the
same date.
The Senate gave its approval to
the legislation without debate as
soon as it arrived from the House,
which acted earlier in the after
noon. .
The bill, a compromise of dif
ferent versions passed earlier by
the two Houses, also will continue
some $4.2 billion a year of taxes
which otherwise would have end
ed this weekend.
The bill would avert the ex
piration or reduction at midnight
Saturday of existing taxes on alco
holic beverages, cigarettes, automo
biles and their parts and acces
sories and general telephone serv
ice, as well as corporate income.
The measure also would end the
existing 10 per cent tax on leasing
of certain privately used commu
nications lines, such as teleprinter
systems, closed-circuit television
and community antenna facilities.
Robert Isaac Named Acting
Commissioner of Education
JUNEAU — Robert P. Isaac
today was designated by Gov. Wm.
Egan as acting Commissioner of
Education* pending the appoint
ment of a permanent successor to
Dr. Theo J. Norby.
Norby is resigning June 30 after
serving for two and a half years
as chief of Alaska’s school pro
gram.
Under Alaska law Norby’s sue- j
cessor will be chosen by Egan
from a list of names to be sub
! mitted to the governor by the
State Board of Education.
Isaac, 43, has been employed by
the State Department of Education
for more than 10 years. He was
named Asst. Commissioner in 1959.
U.S. Plans Six
Orbits on Next
Space Flight
WASHINGTON (£)•—The United
States announced today that the
next manned orbital flight will be
planned for as many as six orbits,
sometime later this summer, with
astronaut Walter M. Schirra as the
pilot.
If the mission goes to six orbits
it would involve a nine-hour flight,
compared with the 4VS» hours of
three-orbit missions. The two U.S.
orbital flights so far have been
for three turns.
t The flight plan will call for con
siderable drifting flight to con
serve fuel for re-entry maneuver
ing*
If the flight goes to five or six
orbits it would mean landing about
300 miles northeast of Midway Is
land in the Pacific Ocean, although
the space craft would be launched
from Cape Canaveral, Fla. That is
because of the rotation of the earth
during the extra fiight time.
A four-orbit mission would bring
down about 200 miles east
10-DAY EXTENSION
NEW YORK UP> — A federal
judge has ordered a 10-day exten
sion of his temporary ban against
a strike by Pan American World
Airways’ 500 flight engineers.
Daniel Komblum, counsel to the
Engineers’ Union, said he would
seek an immediate review of U.S.
Dist. Judge George Rosling’s action
by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Rosling ordered the extension
yesterday 20 minutes before the
expiration of his order which last
Saturday ended a strike against
PAA four hours after it started.
Rosling called counsel for Pan
Am and the union back before
him again today for continued ar
gument on the airline’s application
for a full-fledged injunction.
Easern Air Lines — shut down
since Saturday when the engineers
struck it along with Pan Am —
said it would await the outcome
of further court proceedings in
the Pan Am case before deciding
on its course of action.
BILL WOULD PROTECT §g
THE GOLDEN EAGLE
WASHINGTON UP—Sen. Ernest
Gruening urged the Senate Com
merce Committee yesterday to ap
prove a bill to protect the golden
eagle.
Gruening said the bill of which
he isaco-sponsor, not only would
protect a declining species but
would afford additional protection
for the bald eagle, the killing of
which already is illegal.
Because of similarity in appear
ance, Gruening said, hunters some
tunes shoot the bald eagle, symbol
of the United States, mistaking it
for the unprotected coldep eagle.
The Alaska senator said his
state now has an abundance of
bald eagles which it would be glad
to share with other states desiring i
them.
X-I5 ROCKET PLANE SETS
SPEED MARK OF 4,195 MPH
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
! Calif, iffl — The X-15 rocket plane,
| enroute to performing perhaps its
riskiest maneuver, set a new speed
mark of 4,195 miles an hour today
—unintentionally.
Space Agency pilot Joe Walker
surpassed the old mark of 4,093
mph while streaking into the
fringes of space, so he could plunge
back down with the stubby re
search waft’s nose 23 degrees
higher than its tail.
Tne maneuver was to test the
X-15’s stability in a technique fu
ture space craft may use to brake
their return to earth.
The flight plan called for only
about 4,000 mph. But the 89-second
burst of the mighty rocket engine
pushed the X-15 faster than anti
cipated. The speed was achieved
at 96,000 feet, enroute to a maxi
mum altitude of 120,000.
New Home, New Name
LODI, N.J. (ff) — Cindy, the
foundling seal, not only has a new
home today but a new name.
On closer examination, it turns
out Cindy is a he.
Cindy, rechristened. Lindy, left
the., swiming pool of dog warden
Frank Grashman yesterday for the
Coney Island, N.Y., aquarium.
Groshman found the animal
flopping around the Hackensack
meadows last week. Authorities
said Lindy is a rare type Arctic
seal. Only five are to captivity.
“The weather was too warm in
Lodi,” said the examining physi
cian, Dr. Carlton Bay of the
7*: f.
Convicted Spy,
Dr. Robert Soblen,
Reported Missing
NEW YORK m — Dr. Robert A.
Soblen, convicted spy who is due
to surrender for a life sentence
tomorrow, was reported missing by
his wife, the government said
today.
Soblen, 62, was convicted of spy
ing for the Soviet Union. He is
due to surrender in federal court.
The government said his wife
has reported him missing since
Monday.
Judge William Herlands issued
a bench warrant for Soblen’s ar
rest. Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion agents were reported hunting
for him.
The judge also scheduled a hear
ing at which US. Atty. Robert M.
Morgenthau is to ask that Soblen’s
$100,000 bail be forefeited.
Morgenthau said the government
had notified Soblen’s lawyer, Eph
raim London, that Soblen was to
surrender tomorrow at 10 a.m.
But Soblen’s wife told Morgen
thau her husband left their home
here Monday night and had not
been seen since.
Soblen was convicted on July
13, 1961, and was sentenced to life
imprisonment. A former staff psy
chiatrist at Rockland State Hos
pital he appealed but the conviction
was upheld March 13 by the US.
Court of Appeals, although he was
described as a dying man.
' On Monday the U.S. Supreme
' Court denied a review of his case.
* He apparently disappeared shortly
after learning of the decision.
SENATE OKEHS GAS BILL
FOR BARROW RESIDENTS
WASHINGTON W — The Sen
ate passed a bill yesterday to au
thorize sale of gas from the south
Barrow gas field in the Naval
Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to the
native village of Barrow.
The legislation, sponsored by
Sen. E. L. Bartlett now goes to
the House. It would authorize the
drilling of a third well to serve the
civilian population of Barrow, as
well as government installations in
the area.
PRISONERS PROTEST . . .
PERCH ON WATER TOWER
PITTSBURGH UR — Thirteen
inmates are perched on a water
tower at Western State Penitentiary
today in protest over conditions at
the institution.
It was anyone’s guess how long
they would stay there. Prison of
ficials decided to wait them out.
They are on a catwalk about 100
feet above the ground.
Six prisoners scrambled up the
tower shortly after dinner last
night to join a convict who had
been on the tower since Monday.
They had stuffed their pockets
with food.
Then, with buckshot flying, six
more prisoners dashed across the
prison yard and up the tower a
short time later.
The whole thing started Monday
afternoon when inmate Robert
Payne, 29, climbed the tower, pro
testing the treatment of prisoners
in solitary confinement.
He said he wouldn’t come down
until he was assured a chance to
speak with a state official.
On the tower the 13 prisoners
displayed some bedsheets sewed to
gether with this message written
on it: “We are protesting brutality.
Our presents (presence) is to sup
port Payne's allegations and dis
pute the claim of the warden.”