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63rd Year No. 105
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1962
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Earth Tremors
Rock Turkey and
Soviet Armenia
TEHRAN, Iran (/P — Earth tre
mors today rocked Turkey and
Soviet Armenia near the frontier
of Iran as this nation dug out of
the mins of a quake that the Shah
said killed at least 10,000 persons.
The Shah began a tour of the
northwest region which was dealt
a deadly blow Saturday as re
ports came of the new earth rumb
lings within 400 miles across the
Iranian border.
Moderately strong shocks shook
the Turkish town of Igdir, neai; the
Soviet frontier, and damaged about
a quarter of the buildings. There |
were no immediate reports of any
deaths. Igdir has 10,000 popula
tion.
The Soviet news agency Tass said
a fairly strong earthquake hit So
viet Armenia at 3 a.m. and was
followed by 14 weak tremors.
Yerevan, a big modernized city
at the foot of Mt. Ararat, felt the
rumblings. The Soviet news agency
gave no details on possible casual
ties or damage.
The Shah of Iran was on a two
day tour of his quake-ravaged land
where minor shocks have disturbed
villages daily since Saturday,
spreading terror among survivors.
The exact toll probably will
never be known. An official of
the Red Lion and Sun — Iran’s
Red Cross, told of two villages
not even on the map that had
been wiped out.
Twenty eight U.S. C-130 cargo
planes arrived from their Ram
stein, Germany, base with a fully
equipped 100-bed hospital, teams
of doctors and nurses, 10,000 blan
kets and 1,000 tents. The U.S.
planes were the vanguard of large
scale aid promised from abroad.
Senate Committee
Favors Increase of
Postage Rates One Cent |
WASHINGTON W — A Senate
committee has agreed tentatively
to go along with a House measure
increasing first-class and airmail
postage rates by one cent.
After a closed meeting Tuesday,
the Senate Post Office Committee
announced the tentative approval
and a plan to substitute percentage
increases for the penny-a-copy
rate increase the House had voted
for second-class mailing rates for
periodicals.
Chairman Olin Johnson, <D-S.C.>,
said the substitute provision calls
for three annual increases in the
second-class rate — 4 per cent a
year on advertising content.
MOST REV. GLEESON OF
FAIRBANKS NAMED BISHOP
VATICAN CITY l/P) — Pope
John has lifted Fairbanks from
the status of a mission area and
created the Diocese of Fairbanks.
The Most Reverand Monsignor
Francis Gleeson was named its
first bishop.
Fairbanks has been an apostilic
vicariate. Bishop Gleeson had been
a titular bishop since 1948 and
now becomes a full bishop.
Bishop Gleeson is 67 and a
Jesuit. He is a native of Carroll
ton, Mo. There are 18 parishes in
the Fairbanks Diocese and 16,000
Roman Catholics out of a total
population of 81,000.
Senate Committee Approves
Townsites on Mineral Lands
WASHINGTON L'P — The Sen
ate Interior Committee approved
today a bill designed to make it
possible to establish townsites on
mineral lands in Alaska.
It refers specifically to lands at
Barrow and Wainwright, located in
a Naval Petroleum Reserve. The
bill would reserve mineral rights
for the government.
Latin-American Ambassadors Briefed
On Russian Arms Shipments to Cuba
WASHINGTON — The Ken
nedy administration called a meet
ing of Latin-American ambassadors
today to give them information on
Soviet arms shipments to Cuba.
In a statement Tuesday night,
President Kennedy described the
weapons as without significant of
fensive capability and warned the
United States would use whatever
means necessary to prevent the
Fidel Castro regime from taking
aggressive action against any part
of the Western Hemisphere.
Kennedy said Cuba has received
Soviet short-range missiles, tor
pedo boats and communications
gear and that about 3,500 Soviet
military technicians are in Cuba.
There appeared to be greater
concern in Congress than at the
White House and State Depart
ment over the developments.
At the request of the Senate
Foreign Relations and Armed
Services Committees, Secretary of
State Dean Rusk and Secretary of
Defense Robert McNamara met
with the senators and discussed
the situation in a closed meeting.
Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter, Deputy
Director of the Central Intelli
gence Agency, also sat in on the
meeting.
The senators indicated to news
men later that the administration
spokesmen had generally expressed
confidence.
Sen. George Aiken, (R-Vt.), said
that they “seemed optimistic that
we could handle any enemy that
would have the temerity to at
tack us.”
Personally, Aiken said he was
“a trifle discouraged about the
world situation and Cuba.”
He indicated that the officials
had said the Soviet shipments to
Cuba were defensive weapons.
“They are coming in by the
boatload. That’s a hell of a lot of
defensive weapons,” Aiken said.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett said the of
ficials expressed confidence that
they have accurate information on
the Soviet aid to Cuba and that
this country is able to deal with
any moves by Castro’s regime.
Later, Rusk summoned the Latin
American and Organization of
American States Ambassadors to
an off-the-record meeting on the
Cuban situation. The State Depart
ment press officer, Joseph Reap,
described this as a briefing on late
developments, rather than a call
for new action.
In another development pos
sibly related to the Cuban situa
tion, the Czech ambassador made
an afternoon appointment at the
State Department.
Czechoslovakia represents Cuba
here in the absence of U.S.-Cuban
diplomatic relations. Among un
finished diplomatic business is a
Cuban reply to last Saturday’s U.S.
protest against shooting at a U.S.
Navy patrol plane 15 miles off
the Cuban coast.
Sen. Goldwater
Says: We Should
Be In Cuba Tonight
TACOMA, Wn. OF — ‘-If it were
loft up to the American people we
would be in Cuba tonight,” Sen.
Barry Goldwater, of Arizona, said
in an interview here today.
Goldwater added, however, that
he would recommend sending
Marines to Cuba only as a last re
sort. He said he favors a blockade
instead.
“I don't think Russia would
fight for Cuba, but as long as we
are not going to protect ourselves
Russia is going to take the ad
vantage we give her,” the senator
said. ‘‘Cuba is not a military
threat; it is a threat against the
Latin-American countries.”
Goldwater said he feels reports
of what President Kennedy is
doing about the situation in Cuba
are confusing.
“He has to do something about
Cuba,” Goldwater added. “I told
him he had to do something the
day the invasion failed. We don’t
have to worry about Castro, but
something has to be done about
Communism.”
The Arizonian flew here from
Seattle, where he addressed about
350 persons at a $25-a-plate fund
raising breakfast.
In the Seattle talk, he said he
favors letting businessmen declare
their own tax write-off period on
the cost of new plants and equip
ment.
“If everyone wrote it off in one
year, which they wouldn't do, the
Treasury would suffer, but it
would stimulate business.” he said.
Large Hoard of Gold
Removed from Ft. Knox
WASHINGTON </P — For the
first time in 17 years, a large
amount of gold has been removed
from storage at Ft. Knox. Ky., in
order to meet foreign demand for
U.S. bullion.
The Treasury said today recent
shipments from the Ft. Knox de
pository represented the first sig
nificant reduction since 1945 in
the amount of gold stored there.
Officials would not disclose tire
value of the bullion which has been
moved from Ft. Knox to the
Treasury’s Assay Office in New
York City. According to some ac
counts, which were neither con
firmed nor denied, the total ap
proached $500 million.
Before the shipments were made,
the Ft. Knox bullion hoard totaled
$12.5 billion.
Chris Berg Apparent
Low Bidder for Airport
At New Andreafsky
JUNEAU OP) — Chris Berg Inc.,
Seattle, submitted apparent low
bids of $439,579 and $495,421 to
day for construction of a trunk
airport to serve the lower Yukon
area.
The new airport, to be located
near New Andreafsky, will have a
4,725-foot runway and will be 200
feet wide. It will be capable of
handling large, multi-engine air
craft.
Berg’s first bid was for Schedule
A, involving less airport stripping
than called for in Schedule B of
the bid call. The contractor will
also be required to build a six
mile access road.
The state estimated the cost of
the work at $392,965 and $443,231.
Britain Denies Soblen's
Final Plea for Deportation
LONDON '/? — Britain today
rejected Robert Soblen's final plea
for clemency and ordered the fugi
tive spy deported to the United :
States “as soon as practicable.”
His deportation probably will
take place Thursday but the time j
has not been announced.
Soblen, who faces a life sentence j
in the United States for wartime :
spying for the Soviet Union, has |
been on the run since June.
He jumped §100,000 bail, fled to |
Tel Aviv, was expelled from Israel !
and landed in Britain July 1 after ;
slashing himself while aboard the ;
Israeli airliner that was flying him
to New York.
British courts four times reject
ed the 61-year-old psychiatrist’s
pleas that he should be allowed to
remain here or at least be allowed
to go to some other country of his
choice. Communist Czechoslovakia
offered him a visa, it was reported.
In a final effort to avoid de
portation, Soblen’s lawyers this
week presented Home Secretary
Henry Brooke with a 20-page
memorandum arguing Soblen’s
case.
Informed sources said it argued
that Soblen’s guilt had not been
firmly established and that in any
case he suffers from leukemia—
blood caner—and so should be al- j
lowed asylum on humanitarian!
grounds.
17 Persons File for
Offices in Proposed
Bristol Bay Borough
JUNEAU (J*1 — Seventeen per
sons have filed for offices in the
proposed Bristol Bay Borough
Secretary of State Hugh Wade
said today.
Voters of the 1,200 square mile
area surrounding the Bay com
munities of Naknek, South Naknek
and King Salmon are to cast bal
lots Oct. 2 on whether to incor
porate as a second class organized
borough.
The will also decide whether the
borough, if incorporated, should
have an appointed borough man- I
ager or an elected borough chair
man.
The lone candidate for borough
chairman is Henry Hazenberg of
Naknek.
There are only five candidates
for the five positions on the Bor
ough School Board, Jilda Monsen,
Kathryn Ostrowsky, Mabel Regan
and Celeste Tibbets of Naknek
and Edward Johnson of King Sal
mon.
There are 11 candidates for the
five positions on the borough as
sembly, Joseph Huard, Milton
Johnson, John Lundgren, Ken
neth Middleton, Melvin Monsen,
Harold Ostrowsky, Harry Shaw
back, and Norman Tibbets of Nak
nek and Richard Jensen, Melvin
Johnson and Josefina Seiler of
King Salmon.
Terms all run for three years.
The election will be the first
of its kind in Alaska’s history,
implementing the local govern
ment article of the constitution.
SOLDIER KILLS SELF
FAIRBANKS (Jt — An Oregon
soldier stationed at Ft. Wainwright
killed himself Tuesday after seri
ously wounding a waitress in a
downtown arcade, police reported.
Military authorities identified
the soldier as Albert Lee McGurik
of Beaverton.
Officers said McGurik fired two
bullets from a small caliber pistol
into Emma Sue Webb, then turn
ed the gun on himself.
Mariner 2 Streaks
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On \ew (bourse
PASADENA. Calif. .4* — The
United States’ Mariner 2 space
craft streaked toward Venus to
day after changing to a new course
scientists say will take it within
9,000 miles of the mystery planet.
The course change was made
Tuesday in a spectacular maneuver
1.5 million miles from earth.
Aboard the 447-pound vehicle
are instruments that may tell
whether life could exist on Venus,
virtually a twin of earth in size.
If these instruments work as de
signed during a 30-minute fly-by
Dec. 14, Mariner 2 will score a
significant first in space for this
country. The Soviet Union’s Venus
probe last year missed the cloud
shrouded planet by 62,000 miles
—and its radios were dead.
An electronic whiff of Venus is
all U S. scientists ask of Mariner
2. Unsterilized, it was never in
tended to impact Venus but to miss
it by 10,000 miles and go on into
a giant orbit around the sun.
The 12-foot-tall spacecraft,
launched Aug. 25 from Cape Can
averal went through an intricate
maneuver to overcome a bad start.
A rolling motion bv its Atlas
Agena booster during liftoff sent
Mariner 223,000 miles off course.
Scientists at the U.S. Space
Agency’s Jet Propulsion Labor
atory here spent days measuring
I the amount of error. Then, at 3:49
j p.m. Tuesday they started sending
: a series of radio messages that
commanded the spacecraft to a
point its nose in a different di
rection and then fire a small liquid
fuel rocket in its tail. This sent
Mariner 2 streaking toward Venus
at a speed of 6.687 miles per hour.
“Everything worked just as de
signed.” the Mariner project man
ager Jack James, exultantly told
a news conference.
CREATOR OF LONE RANGER.
FRAN STRIKER, IS KILLED
BUFFALO, N.Y. UP) — Fran
Striker, whose creation, the Lone
Ranger, thrilled school kids and
adults, was killed last night in an
automobile accident.
Striker, 58, was driving alone
when his car and another collided
on Route 16 about 12 miles south
of Buffalo. Two persons in the
other car were injured.
The Lone Ranger, western mask
ed man who fought for law and
order, was the hero of a comic
strip, a 28-year-old radio show, 18
books, four movies and a tele
vision series.
Striker created two other comic
book and radio heroes, “The Green
Hornet” and ‘‘Sgt. Preston of the
Yukon.”
Strong Earthquake
Shakes Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY- UP) — A
strong earthquake rocked Salt
Lake City this morning. It knock
ed down the ceiling of a least one
house and left cracks in some
buildings.
There were no reports of any
injuries. Police said several per
sons suffered heart attacks dur
ing the sharp tremor.
It came six days after an earlier
earthquake rolled through north
ern Utah, causing damage estimated
between $500,000 and $1 million.
The California Institute of Tech
nology estimated the quake’s mag
nitude as 5 on the Richter Scale
that lists major quakes at 7 or
more.