SSI NOME NUGGET
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63rd Year No. 86_ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1962
U.S. Nike-Zeus
Scores First Hit
On ICBM Missile
WASHINGTON (/PI—The United
States successfully tested an anti
missile missile yesterday in a his
toric development of the missile
age.
The Army anti-missile, called
the Nike-Zeus, was fired from
Kwajalein Island in the Pacific
and intercepted an Atlas missile
which had been launched from
California, 4,500 miles away.
It was a demonstration that it
is possible to knock down inter
continental ballistic missiles, with
their nuclear warheads, which have
posed a threat that both sides in
any great new war could rain de
struction on each other.
A brief announcement of the
successful test was made by the
Defense Department. At the same
time, it said an earlier test, at an
undisclosed time, was “not a com
plete success.”
The Pentagon statement said
neither the intercepting missile nor
the target carried a nuclear war
head.
The trajectory of an ICBM car
ries it several hundred miles aloft
with a top speed during flight of
about 16,000 miles an hour.
The department declined to say
directly whether the intercept re
sulted in destruction of the target.
But a spokesman said that “there
would have been destruction” if
fully armed weapons had been
used.
In a separate statement, Secre
tary of Defense Robert McNamara
said, “this event evidences the ex
tensive and continuing nature of
the U.S. program to understand the
capabilities and limitations of anti
missile systems.” He added that
“it shows that we speak of such
matters from knowledge.”
This appeared to be directed at
recent claims by Soviet Premier
Khrushchev of Soviet achievements
in the missile field.
McNamara’s statement added,
“concurrently and in a coordinated
fashion, the U.S. has been carrying
out a program to insure that our
missiles will penetrate anti-missile
systems which might be encounter
ed.
“These programs give us con
fidence that our missiles would be
able to penetrate any such system
which has been developed by any
one.”
Defense officials were asked by
newsmen if the wording of the
announcement meant that this was
the first successful intercept of an
ICBM by anyone.
They said that it was the first
one +hey knew about, but declined
to sav flatly that Russia has not
achieved similar success.
8 WHALES TO DATE
One Nome resident has gone in
for fishing in a big way. Jerome
Trigg reports that night before last
he had three belugas in his nets
and one oogruk. This makes a
total of eight whales since the
nets were set.
Edible whale meat from the
whale are on sale at the Merc
Meat, who will also be handling
shipments of the choice delicacy,
called muktuk, out of town.
r
i ARMY TO FIRF ROCKFTS
OVFR POPULATFD ARFAS
WASHINGTON UFi — The Army
j has decided to test fire unarmed
I rockets over sparsely populated
' areas of the southwest because the
j missile have outgrown the White
; Sands testing range in New Mexi
| co.
! The test firings will begin in
I the middle of 1963. An Army an
i nouncement Thursday said the
j missiles will carry no explosives
| in their dummy warheads.
The White Sands test area has
i a maximum length of 100 miles,
the Army said, and that doesn't
permit full-scale tests of its long
range rocket weapons.
Rockets would be fired from
launching sites outside the test re
servation, with White Sands as
the target. On the way, the missiles
would travel over areas with an
average population of 1.5 people
per square mile, the Army said.
Instrument sites are planned
along the missile routes so that
the test flights can be monitored
and the rockets destroyed in the
air if anything goes wrong.
Launch sites are being surveyed
in Blanding, Utah, area; near Ft.
Wingate, N.M.; and around Datil,
N.M.
Ray Pagenkopf Named Asst.
Supervisor of Public Welfare
JUNEAU — Commisioner
Paul L. Winsor of tho Department
of Health and Welfare today an
nounced the appointment of Ray
C. Pagenkopf as public assistance
supervisor for the Division of
Public Welfare.
Pagenkopf, who holds a masters
degree from the University of Wis
consin, has been a field worker for
the Montana Department of Wel
fare for the past five years. He
is married and has four children.
LT. GEN. LAURIS NORSTAD
SUBMITS RESIGNATION
AS COMMANDER OF NATO !
WASHINGTON UFV—Gen. Lauris
Norstad has asked to be relieved as j
U.S. Commander-In-Chief in Eu- j
rope and Supreme Commander of j
NATO forces about Nov. 1 and
will retire from the military serv
ice.
Norstad’s request and President
Kennedy’s acceptance were an
nounced today by the White House.
Norstad, 55, noted in a letter
to the President that he had been
“in one field of activity and in one
position somewhat longer than is
the normal practice in military
services.”
As to the timing of his depart
ure, he said that for the moment
“there is no unusual pressure on
my office.”
Norstad has served with the
North Atlantic Alliance for 12
years — the last six as Supreme
Allied Commander in Europe.
There was no announcement
from the White House of a suc
cessor. There were reports Gen.
Lyman L. Lemnitzer, now chair
man of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of
Staff, might draw the assignment.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Presi
dential military adviser, also was
mentioned.
Norstad is an Air Force general,
and he said he is asking the De
fense Department to be placed
on the retired list next November,
after 36 years of srvice.
| $300-Million
Relief Bill Readies
! Kennedy’s Desk
WASHINGTON UP — An admin
istration bill aimed at encouraging
families on the relief rolls to make
themselves self-sustaining finally
has reached President Kennedy’s
desk.
The Senate sent it to the White
House Thursday night by voice
vote after a brief debate.
The final $300-million version
gives the President most of what he
wanted in the way of revised wel
fare laws.
But the legislators added a con
gressional favorite of the last
decade — an increase in federal
matching funds available for
monthly relief checks.
When the bill reached the Sen
ate floor late last month the ad
ministration decided to try to hitch
onto it the President’s social se
curity health care plan for the
aged. This failed Tuesday on a
52-48 vote.
The bill is of high importance
to a number of states because it
extends retroactively to July 1 a
program of federal funds for pay
ments to unemployed parents of
dependent children. This means
they will be reimbursed for ex
penditures made under this pro
gram so far this month.
Other key provisions will:
Effective Oct. 1, increase by
84 a month per recipient federal
matching funds for the needy,
aged, blind and disabled progams.
Raise from 50 to 75 per cent the
federal share of the cost of train
ing programs aimed at rehabili
tation of relief recipients.
Authorize states to set up work
and training programs for able
bodied relief recipients.
Make available federal aid for
day care of children of working,
mothers.
Allow the states to disregard the
first $10 earned by an old age as
sistance recipient, plus half of the i
next $40, in figuring his monthly !
relief payment.
RAIN. DRIZZLE AND FOG
Rain, drizzle, low clouds and
fog were common over wide areas
of Alaska again today.
Areas of inclement weather in
cluded the southeast Panhandle,
the North Gulf Coast, the Prince |
William Sound area, the western
portion of the Arctic slope, the
Bering Strait area and the Aleu
tians.
The remainder of the state en
joyed clear to partly cloudy skies. |
Overnight temperatures ranged j
from a low of 41 at Nome to a
high of 61 at Fairbanks. The high ;
yesterday was 86 at Fairbanks.
SALMON STILL BEHIND
JUNEAU dP — Alaska’s 1962
salmon pack climbed to a total of
971,747 cases during the week end
ing July 15, but was still far be
hind the pack during the same
period a year ago.
Fish and Game Department
statistician Phil Chitwood said the
pack through July 16 of last year
was 1,465,813 cases.
An extreme poor harvest of reds
was the major reason for the sharp
drop from last year’s pack.
I
I
HOI SI COMMITTi i
OKIHS HARROW GAS HIM.
WASHINGTON .? — A House
Armed Services Subcommittee.* up
proved today a bill which would
make natural gas available for
sale to residents of Barrow, Alaska,
and to federal institutions and non
fcetera 1 communities in the Point
Barrow area.
The bill already passed by the
Senate, would authorize the Navy
to develop the south Barrow gas
field in the Naval Petroleum Re
serve for the purpose.
Capt. Kenneth C. Lovell of the
Navy testified there is no oil in
the reserve at Point Barrow and
not enough gas for any pacticahle
use other than local fuel require
ments. There are two gas wells
now drilled and a third would be
necessary if the bill were passed,
he said.
I Cost of the well would be
amortized by sale of gas to the
community, he said. He added that
50 cents a thousand cubic feet
would be a fair wholesade price.
Martin P. Mangan, Asst. Com
missioner of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, said it was undesirable
and unnecessary to have the gov
| ernment distribute the gas and
i that a community-organized eo
I operative could be the vendor.
HAPPY NEWLYWEDS
I new YORK Said the bride
j trembling with excitement: “Everv
| time of your life can be a happ\
' one.”
Said the smiling bridegroom:
“At least 200 people have tolc
me how wonderful Anna is, an,;
any one who wants to say how
wonderful she is can say it again.
I love to hear it.’’
The bride was Anna M. Rosen
berg, 60, prominent Democrat
and U.S. Asst. Secretary of De
fense in the administration of
President Harry S. Truman.
The bridegroom was Paul G.
Hoffman, 71. noted Republican and
managing director of the United
Nations special fund. He formerly
was president and board chair
man of the Studebaker Corp
The couple was married here
Thursday in a 20-minute ceremony
at All Souls Unitarian Church. The
bride is divorced and has one son.
Hoffman is a widower with six
children.
DEFICIT OF $6.3 BILLION
WASHINGTON — The gov
ernment wound up fiscal 1962 with
a budget deficit of $6.3 billion, or
$700 million less than was esti
mated in January, the Treasury
and Budget Bureau announced yes
terday.
Both income and spending were
lower than was foreseen in Presi
dent Kennedy’s January budget
message to Congress. Receipts were
lower by $700 million and outlays
bv SI.4 billion.
Near Drowning ai Moses Pi.
Allen Jack, formerly employed
while a Nome school boy at the
MMM Hospital, almost drowned
yesterday at Moses Point while he
was swimming. Fortunately some
one was watching and was able to
rescue him and administer first
aid. He was brought to the hos
pital here for treatment. Allen had
just returned from military ser
vice.
I KOI /f Bl \ CAB DRIVF.R
HI XS OVI R OW N SON
! FAIRBANKS — Homer Rus
j sell, Kotzebue taxi driver, yester
j day had the heart breaking experi
ence of accidentally causing the
death of his two - year - old son,
Jaybee, by backing into the child
| with hi.s cab, it was reported today.
Russell, while backing his cab
! out of a stand to answer a call,
! felt a bump, and when he investi
] gated, found the youngster near
the rear wheels with a bad head
j injury. He rushed the child to the
hospital, but he died on arrival.
The boy is survived by five
brothers and sisters, the oldest
nine. The mother, Margaret Rus
sell. is on tiie clerical staff of the
Kotzebue hospital.
BRITISH COURT TO
CONSIDER SOBLEN'S PLEA
LONDON T — The British
Court of Appeals today agreed to
consider Dr. Robert Soblen’s plea
to be set free in Britain instead of
being sent back to the United
States to face life imprisonment
as a Russian spy.
The hearing was set for next
Thursday.
Soblen, 61. was refused a grant
of habeas corpus by the Queen's
Bench Divisional Court last Wed
nesday.
He has been taken to a hospital
in London July 1 after knifing
himself aboard a plane bound from
Israel to New York.
British authorities contested the
habeas corpus plea on the grounds
that Soblen had never officially
oeen admited to this country.
Celebrezze Nomination Confirmed
WASHINGTON W — The Sen
ate today confirmed President
Kennedy’s nomination of Mayor
Anthony J. Celebrezze of Cleve
land to be Secretary of Welfare.
Celebrezze. 51. a Democrat, suc
ceeds Abraham Ribicoff. who re
signed last week to run for the
Senate from Connecticut. This is
the first change in the Kennedy
cabinet.
W ON’T GO HOME
MOSCOW — Donald Mac
Lean, British Foreign Office of
ficial who defected to Russia in
1959, said today he has no inten
tion of going td the bedside of his
ailing mother in England.
MacLean, 49, who lives in Mos
cow, replied with a crisp “No"
when asked by telephone if he is
going to Britain.
A report from London Thurs
day said his 82-year-oH mother,
Lady MacLean, is seriously ill at
her country home.
MacLean and another British
Foreign official, Guy Burgess, de
fected to Russia at the same time.
Scotland Yard has obtained war
rants for their arrest if they re
turn to Britain or go to a country
with which Britain has an extra
dition treaty.
Maakeslads Leave Today
Rev. and Mrs John Maakestad
of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
left today for their new home in
California. Enroute they will visit
at the Century 21 Fair before Rev.
Maakestad enters special training
for hospital chaplaincy for which
he has been enrolled.
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