63rd Year No. 155
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\I.ASKA, MONDAY, D OiMBf.R SI, 1962
Per G>p\ ! SC
Winter Lashes
East Coast With
95-Mph Winds
Winter lashed the eastern part
of the nation with furious winds
and cold today, in the last hours of
the year, wreaking widespread
destruction and death.
Transportation was snarled,
utility services damaged and some
whole communities crinpled.
Temperatures plunged below
zero in many places.
Roaring winds, up to 95-miles
an-hour, tore down power lines,
overturned vehicles, ripned off
rooftops, snapoed rvower lines and
broke plate glass windows.
Hundreds of travelers were re
ported stranded in storm-battered
Maine, with buses and automobiles
frozen up along the roads.
Tn Dover, N.T., firemen stood bv
helplessly, their water tanks and
equipment frozen, while flames
destroved a store and a home.
Nearly all of New England reel
ed under the impact of the blizzard,
but Maine seemed the hardest hit.
Two feet of snow fell on Bangor
with 15 inches already on the
ground.
planning outdoor ceremonies, de
spite the bitter weather, to inau
gurate Gov.-elect John H. Chaffee.
But an Army band said it couldn’t
play because the cold would split
instrument reeds.
In Maine, howling winds piled
up drifts as high as 20 feet. Ban
gor, a city of 50,000 and the state’s
third largest, was described as
virtually paralyzed.
The Bangor Daily News failed
to publish its morning paner today,
for the first time since 1899.
RANK AMATEURS . . .
CHICAGO W — “Rankest ama
teurs I’ve seen in years,” said one
city detective.
He was talking about the burg
lars who used a screwdriver, a
sledgehammer, a chisel and an
electric drill over the weekend in
a bungled attempt to open a
70-year-old safe in a doughnut
factory.
Police said the safe was unlock
ed, until the burglars inadvertant
ly locked it had the combination
written on top, and was empty.
Bob Hope Peeved
At Customs Inspection
HOLLYWOOD UP — Bob Hope,
somewhat peeved, said today, “the
only hardship on our annual
Christmas tour was going through
Customs at Los Angeles Interna
tional Airport.
The comedian and his troupe of
60, including Lana Turner and
Janis Page, was detained for more
than two hours Sunday after ar
riving on a non-stop Air Force
flight from Guam.
“They went through all our
baggage and took a look at each
piece of dirty laundry,” said Hope.
“It’s the first time such a thorough
search has ever been made of one
of our tours.”
A Customs agent said “it’s regu
lations,” as he and colleagues went
through the entertainers’ baggage
piece by piece.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued fair. Low tonight -27,
high tomorrow -18. In the last 24
hours: High of -15, low of -25.
Max. wind 8 mph from the SE.
Sunrise at 10:01 a.m., sunset at
2:07 p.m. Temps, a year ago todaj:
High of 14, low of 1.
(Skier Revived A Her Being
Buried By An Avalanche
SEATTLE (.ft — A young skier
buried by an avalanche for 4a
j minutes was revived Sunday with
I artificial respiration and applica
i tion of oxygen.
Jeff Ross, 18-year-old Seattle
youth, was found under five feet
of snow after the slide on Stevens
Pass, Ross, found face down, had
no serious injury.
The slide, which swept a swath
150 feet wide and 1,200 feet long,
was spotted by Ranger Atlee
Schimelenig as it started.
He gave a warning shout, and
| skiers scattered below the threat.
A ski patrolman, Adolf Mark
witz, and a ski center employe,
Mike Mignacco, were momentarily
trapped at opposite sides of the
slide.
Soon more than 100 persons were
searching for Ross, who had been
close to the two men who were
almost caught bv the slide. Gary
Cyrus, a skier, stepped on a ski
pole partly buried in the snow,
and digging concentrated in that
spot. Ross soon was uncovered.
He was taken to a shelter where
a doctor examined him and said
his condition was good.
| Pillage and Terror
Rage In Katanga
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo UP
— President Moise Tshombe’!
troops battled U N. Congo units ir
north Katanga today, challenging
a U.N. claim of lightning victory
in this third military campaign
against the secessionist province.
The United Nations claimed full
control of the area of Elisabeth
ville, the capital, in the south. But
incidents of pillage and terror pro
moted unrest. The U.N. command
ordered looters shot on sight.
Consolidating gains, the United
Nations ordered Katanga pilots to
surrender by noon Tuesday and
give up their planes which had
survived U.N. strafing attacks.
Tshombe himself, who has vow
ed to fight to the end against
forced reunification of the Congo,
was reported to have returned to
Katanga. He took off in a Rhode
sian air force transport from Salis
bury for an unannounced destina
tion after an overnight visit to the
capital of the Central African
Federation.
Officials in t^e Rhodesian bor
der town of Ndola said Tshombe
flew to Kolwezi, 150 miles north
west of Elisabethville. Katangans
at Ndola expressed belief he plan
ned to reform his government in
Kolwezi and organize his armed
forces to carry on the fight. They
believed cabinet members accom
panied him.
New Year Traffic Toll
Nunninsr Mu°h Lighter
Than Was Exoected
The traffic fatalities were run
ning lighter than expected Monday
in t'-e third day of the nation’s
New Year weekend.
The National Safety Council has
estimated 420 to 480 persons may
be killed in traffic accidents dur
ing the 102-hour New Year holi
day period. The record traffic toll
for a four-day New Year period
was 409 in the 1956-57 observance.
Traffic 2r>5
Fires 55
Miscellaneous 54
Total 314
I New Year Arrives
|For Millions Amid j
A Troubled World !
The end of an internationally j
tense 1962 and the start of an un- ;
j certain 1963 arrive tonight for;
countless millions around the
troubled world.
For many, the midnight transi
tion from the old to t'o new will
bring joyful reflections. For others,
it will spark sad recollections.
Millions will flock to churches
to raise their voices in song and
nraver—thanking God for the
blessings of the old year and ask
ing his guidance through the year'
to come.
Others will sing out the old and j
I shont in the new at entertainment j
j snots ranging from cozy corner j
| taverns and tiny dance halls to big i
city auditoriums and nigM clubs, j
To get to their parties, some will j
| trudge through inches of snow I
: Others will walk palm-lined boule- j
! vards under balmy summer-like
. skies.
Many will be oblivious to the
I uagic instant. They are the very
| sick, the very young, the very
j tired.
The moment will go virtually un
noticed by those assigned to the
task of keeping the vital services
of a complex society rolling.
Some will die around the stroke
of twelve. Others will be spanked
into life.
1 Particulars emphasis has been
; put on highway safety with hotels,
coffee shops, expensive restaurants
; and churches offering free lodging,
coffee and a moment of rest for
those whose celebrating might
leave them incapable of safe
driving.
Members of the Adaman group
will usher in the New Yar bv an
assault on the 14.110-foot Pike’s
Peak in Colorado. From the sum
mit, the group hopes to set off a
fireworks display at midnight.
Clearing Up Of Money
Problem Clears Way For
Liston-Patterson Rematch
NEW YORK UP — At least one
major roadblock — money — was
cleared today for a possible Sonny
Liston-Floyd Patterson rematch for
the heavyweight boxing champion
ship.
But the method used to clear it
may hurt Patterson almost as
the first fight did.
Promoter Tom Bolan said the
l government had aoproved a settle
ment of tax claims against the last
fight Sept. 25 in Chicago, in which
; Liston knocked out the then cham
pion in the first round.
Under the settlement by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
all but $400,000 of the more than
^2 million impounded the nmht of j
the fight will ho released, Bolan '
said.
A plan to pay Patterson his !
estimated purse of more than $1
million over a 17-year period had
to be junked, Brian said. The guv
j ernment agreed on a two-year pay I
I neriod, which will up Patterson’s \
! tax payments a .great deal.
i For Nome Vocational
| School to be Called Jan. 15
i
! The State Vocational School to
I be located here will go to bid on
Jan. 15 after several delays. The
last delay was due to the electrical
designer, a firm in Portland. The
information was received this
morning by Sen. Pearse Walsh.
Kennedy Says Communists
WiB Lose Their “Bet” for
\ World of Communism
i
Y I'VV YORK <.•? — President 1
Kennedy writes in t ’■ io current
issue of Look magazine that the
Communists will lose their “bet” ,
‘hat the world will become Com- j 1
rnunist. | •
History, said Kennedy, “has al
ready refuted the myth of the : !
inevitability of Communist vie- |
tory. i 1
“Our bet,” he went on. “is that I '
the future will be a world com- I ’
munity of independent nations ■ 1
with a diversity of economic, po- | i
litical and religious systems, united 1
by a common respect for the rights i
of others.”
Rut the President warned “we 1
would be foolish to think that we (
can realize our own vision of a 1
free and diverse future without un
ceasing vigilance, discipline and
labor.” ;
He added: “Above all. we must
both demonstrate and develop the
affirmative power of the demo
cratic ideal — remembering al- 1
ways that nations are great, not 1
for what they are against, but 1
what they are for.”
Kennedy wrote the article at the
request of Daniel P. Mich, the
magazine’s vice president and
editorial director, according to a
Look spokesman. It is against
Look’s policy to discuss what pay
ment if any, the President re
ceived for the article, the spokes
man said.
Look For 1963
| Tax Cut to be More
[Than $4 Billion
WASHINGTON UF> — Walter
Heller, chairman of President
Kennedy’s Council of Economic
Advisers, has indicated the tax
cut the administration will request
of the new Congress will total more
than $4 billion.
“What is required is not a small
cut of $1 billion or $2 billion, but
a substantial cut. A $3 billion cut
won’t do the job,” Heller said in
an interview Sunday.
Heller described the slill-un
veiled administration tax plan as
a big balanced program. Included,
he said, will be a large reduction in
the lower brackets, a cut in tax
rates above 65 per cent, more in
centive for investment and a re
duction in corporate rates.
Opponents of tax reduction have
argued that lower levies would
balloon the federal deficit. On this
noint Heller said the choice was !
further deficits with a weak '
economy or tax reductions with ,
some temporary deficits and a
growing expanding economy.
S'iM Waiting . . .
SANTA ROSA, Calif. UP> — Phar- !
mnerst Jo' n Swire heard an authori- |
tative voice when In* answered the!
telephone at his drug store:
"This is an ag;. nt of the FBI,!
We have information that your !
store is going to be held up in a 1
few minutes. We have the place
under surveillance and we will ar
rest the man as soon as he comes
out. Cooperate with him in every ;
way so we can get evidence.”
A shabbily dressed man walked ;
in a few minutes later and an- I
non need he was staging a holdup, i
He took $50 and some narcotics
and calmly walked out.
Swire is still waiting for the
FBI. '
’AAA Krltirtunl lo
!!(‘sumc Aiormal
Service lo Cu!>a
HAVANA tf - A cool reception
erected today the Castro govern
ment's offer to let more refugees
en to the T'nited States if Pan
American Airways r -sun od flights
between Havana and Miami.
A Pan American spokesman in
New York said the line had little
ties're to resume norma! service
to Cuba. He said the company had
lost heavily on its flights to Cuba
in recent years because of restric
tions and limited travel to the
island.
The State Department banned
private and commercial flights to
Cuba during the Cuban crisis. The
ban is still on alt ough it was
lifted temporarily when the Cuban
invasion prisoners were ransomed
and flown out.
“The revolutionary government,”
said a communique from Prime
Minister Fidel Castro’s office, “will
maintain its policy to authorize
Lhe departure from the country
for all those desiring to leave as
soon as the Pan American Airways
resumes its flights to Cuba which
it suspended by a decision of
North American authorities.”
Official sources denied reports
that Castro had agreed to allow
more relatives of the Bay of Pigs
invaders to follow the prisoners to
the United States. James Donovan,
the New York attorney who nego
tiated the release of the prisoners
and nearly 1.000 of their relatives,
said Saturday, that Castro had
Castro had agreed to let an addi
tional 2,500 relatives go to the
United States.
Donovan said as each installment
of the $53 million worth of ransom
food and drugs for the prisoners
was delivered, another group of
relatives would be released.
U Thant Calls For Quick
Action to Carry Out
Unification of Katansra
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (JB —
Secretary-General U Thant of the
United Nations called today for an
immediate freeze on all troop
movements in the Congo’s Katan
ga Province and quick action to
'arry out his plan for unification
}f the country.
In a detailed policy declaration,
rhant said that the fighting in the
Slizabethville area had been ended
ind that the situation in the Ka
anca capital was virtually normal
igain.
He made no mention of the mili
ary situation elsewhere in the
secessionist province, but said that
he end of fighting in the Elisa
Dethville area opened the way for
'esumption of negotiations.
Thant suggested that he was
giving the Katanga officials a two
rock deadline for aceeotance of
a is conciliation plan calling for a
*cdoral-1ype government
Ho insisted that it is not the
(’ N. policy to seek to unify the
Co" 'o by use of military force but
that the U.N. forces would respond
quickly and vigorously if they
were attacked bv Katanga forces.
Thant maintained that the U.N.
attacked last week only after being
fired upon repeatedly.
Wien to Haul 3 Million Pounds
Of Freight to Umiat
Announcement was made today
that Wien Airlines has been
awarded a contract by three oil
companies to haul 3 million pounds
of freight to Umiat between Jan.
15 and April 15.