63rd Year No. 77
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1962
Per Copy 150
tail-jumping Spy
ioblen May Be
lent Back to U.S.
.
JERUSALEM W — Quick ex
pulsion that could lodge him back
in the U.S. hands seemed in prcs
today for Dr. Robert A.
blen, bail-jumping fugitive from
imprisonment in the United
ates as a Soviet spy.
It was learned authoritatively
Prime Minister David Ben
ion’s government is not willing
grant Soblen a visa to stay, in
ael and that, his health permit
g, he is expected to be ousted
The action may come before he
brought to trial on the allega
of entering Israel with false
ers — a charge which Soblen
ies.
Cabinet machinery went into
gear following the arrival
morning of a U.S. State De
ent request that Soblen be
ed to the United States to
serving the sentence he was
iosed to start yesterday.
’The ailing, 62-year-old Soblen,
ed here less than 60 hours
he jumped $100,000 bail in
York, was taken to the hos
in Ramleh prison when he
plained he did not feel well,
doctor testified at his trial last
June that Soblen was incurably
ill with leukemia — cancer of the
blood v— and then_ had 12 mmvfchc
to live.”" .. " y~?T7
Soblen, former supervising psy
chiatrist at Rockland State Hospi
tal in Orangeburg, N.Y., had been
scheduled to show up ip New York
federal court yesterday to begin
the life sentence for 20 years of
spying. The UJS. Supreme Court
refused last Monday to review the
case, and Soblen then fled the
country.
A U.S. district judge in New
>rk ordered the $100,000 bail for
feited when Soblen failed to ap
>ear. Soblen’s wife, a psychiatrist
lose professional name is Dr.
Soble, had posted $40,000
and the, remaining $60,000, in UJS.
Government Bonds, was put up
iy Helen Buttenwieser, a lawyer
and a niece of former Sen. Herbert
H. Lehman, (D-N.Y.).
Mrs. Buttenwieser, a banker’s
wife, said she put up the money
because of her interest in chang
ing bail systems. She said present
systems benefit either the rich or
criminals able to raise bond.
Informed sources said Soblen
made his trip to Israel on a Can
adian passport issued to his broth
er, Bruce — of Beras —• Sobel,
who is dead.
$63,000 for Study of Reindeer
And Fish Processing at Kotzebue
JUNEAU UD — The Bureau of
Indian Affairs has approved a
$63,000 contract for a study of
the economic feasibility of a rein
deer and fish processing cannery
and fur production operation at
or near Kotzebue.
The Alaska delegation advised
the Associated Press at Juneau by
wire from Washington yesterday
that the feasibility study would be
conducted by the Arthur D. Little
X-15 ROCKET PLANE
ZIPS THROUGH HEAT TEST
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. UP> — The X-15 rocket ship
zipped through a heat test flight
today while 400 thermometers be
neath its black skin checked tem
peratures hot enough to melt a
conventional plane.
It was research pilot John Mc
Kay's first trip aboard the sleek
craft since installation of its power
fuL57,000-pound thrust engine. His
last flight was Feb. 1, 1960, when
it was powered by engines with
16,000 pounds thrust.
He hit 3,204 miles and hour and
climbed to 83,000 feet for the test.
Officials estimated the tempera
ture reached 1,000 degrees on parts
of the special steel-nickel alloy
outer surface. Air friction made
the ship hot enough to blister its
black paint and run streaks of
white through a special green ther
mal paint on parts of the fuselage.
Front edges of the tail and stubby
wings turned red hot as did large
flaps used for speed brakes at the
rear of the 52-foot craft.
But it was still below the 1,250
degrees recorded on earlier flights
A conventional plane can go to
about 400 degrees before its metal
begins weakening.
Prime purpose of the flight was to
determine which parts of the
X-15’s surface become hottest. This
will aid in design of future air
craft.
CAPT. 1QHN SHIELDS,
noted' FISHING BOAT
SKIPPER, PASSES IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE (n? — C&pt. John Ed
ward Shields, 80, noted fishing
boat skipper who once got inter
national attention by calling for
rifles to use against Japanese in
the North Pacific, died at his home
here today.
The rifle incident occurred be
fore World War II when Shields
was in the Bering Sea with his
windjammer, the Sophie Christen
son.
Shields had a dispute with offi
cers of a Japanese survey ship
over operation of fishing gear. He
ordered them off his ship and
radioed from Bristol Bay demand
ing that the State Department get
the Japanese out of the area or
send rifles so he could do it him
self.
Shields’ dislike of Japanese fish
ing operations off Alaska was only
slightly greater than his aversion
for government red tape. In 1944
he sent his customers an account
listing 24 government agencies he
had to consult before sending out
one of his ships.
He began fishing for codfish in
the Bearing Sea in 1912 and oper
ated there about 40 years. After
selling his sailing ships, he operated
the Nordic Maid in king crab fish
ing. " -*-£•
Shields is survived by two sons
and a daughter.
Weather Conditions Improve
Improving weather conditions
wore reported over most
Alaska today, although
tions of the state had
rain and clouds.
Rain was reported «
Northway and Annette
U.S. Chamber
Urges Immediate
Income Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON tfJ — The United
States Chamber of Commerce call
ed today for immediate income
and corporation-tax cuts totaling
$5.5 to $7.5 billion as a business
stimulant.
The Chamber acknowledged that
the reduction would further un
balance the federal budget. It was
the first such recommendation in
the business organization’s 50-year
history.
The business organization acted
at a time when organized labor
also called for immediate tax cuts
to stimulate the economy.
President Kennedy told his news
conference Wednesday that his ad
ministration was watching the
economic situation closely and
would recommend an immediate
tax cut if it found one necessary.
The administration earlier had
announced plans for an across-the
board tax cut effective next year.
In a statement today, Chamber
President H. Ladd Plumley said
that a tax cut delay “not only
courts the disaster of a recession
in the U.S. but its spread to Can
ada, already under pressure, and
thence to Europe.” He added:
‘'The free world cannot look
with complacency upon such a
catastrophe.”
The Chamber’s proposal called
for rate reductions from top to
bottom of the individual income
tax scale, but with relatively
larger cuts in the upper brackets;
and a reduction in the present
corporation rate from 52 per cent
to 47 per cent.
The precedent-shattering Cham
ber action imposed new pressure
on the administration to speed the
timing of the tax reduction pro
posals of President Kennedy, which
as of now he plans to make effec
tive next Jan. 1.
The AFL-CIO already is de
manding a quick cut, but with
considerable different emphasis.
Organized labor wants the major
reductions in the lower brackets,
to build buying power at the con
sumer level.
When asked why the Chamber
took the other track, Plumley told
a news conference it was because
the Chamber’s directors believe
that ‘the greast urgency” at this
time is to release funds for pro
ductive investment, rather than
for the building of consumer de
mand.
NORDIN AND E & B
TAKE OVER POLARIS
TO HOUSE EMPLOYES
Nordin Construction Co. of An
chorage, who together with E and
B Construction Co., have the con
tract for the construction of the
VORTAC station for the FAA east
of town, have negotiated with May
Bale for the Polaris Hotel to house
their employes.
Mrs. Bale, who ha^ been in busi
ness here for many years, plans to
go to Seattle where she has an
apartment house and then possibly
return to Sweden where she has
relatives.
Part of the Nordin crew arrived
yesterday, although actual con
struction cannot get under way
until supplies and materials arrive.
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Helen Cheery, operator of Nome’s
Beauty Shop, is taking a vacation
and plane to be outside during the
month of July, Her vacation will
Include several days at the Cen
ittle.
ABSENCE OF PINK SALMON
MAY CUT FISHING TIME
JUNEAU — An almost total
| absence of pink salmon may force
a reduction in purse seine fishing
time in the Icy Strait and western
districts of southeast Alaska next
week, the Division of Commercial
Fisheries said today.
Ed Huizer, management biolo
gist for the division, said fishing
since the opening of the purse
seine season in the two districts
Monday has been generally poor.
Huizer said pinks, which nor
mally constitute the bulk of the
southeastern salmon run, were
running as low as 10 per cent of
the purse seine catch.
The weekly fishing period will
open as usual in the Icy Strait and:
western districts at 6 a.m. Monday.
Any emergency closure, Huizer
said, will be withheld pending an
assessment of test fishing in the
Inian Islands area over the week
end. and results of regular fishing
Monday.
NOME'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
LAST WEEK WAS 11.2 PCT.
JUNEAU UP) — State Labor Com
missioner Gil Johnson said today
Alaska’s insured unemployment
rate for the week ending June 23
was 6.6 per cent, compared with
7.6 the previous week and 7.9 dur
ing the same week a year ago.
Johnson said new unemployment
for the week was 253, while con
tinuing unemployment was 2,158.
The insured unemployment, rate
by area included Anchorage, 6.7
per cent; Fairbanks, 9.1; Juneau,
4.2; Ketchikan, 3.6; Nome, 11.2;
.t'etersburgh, 3.2; and Sitka, 2.V.
Churchill
Doing Fine
After Operation
LONDON UP) — Doctors report
ed tonight the operation on Sir
Winston Churchill’s fractured
thigh bone had been carried out
successfully.
A bulletin at Middlesex Hospital,
said Sir Winston’s condition is
“at present satisfactory.”
Lady Churchill and her daugh
ter, Idana, left the hospital at
8:34 pm. both were smiling. In
reply to newsmen’s questions as
to whether the operation had end
ed, she said:
“Can’t you guess?”
The 87-year-old elder statesman
was rushed to the hospital earlier
today after being flown back from
the south of France. He broke his
thigh bone i?j a fall at a Monte
Carlo hotel yesterday.
A hospital official reported he
was wheeled into an operating
room in London’s big Middlesex
Hospital not long after he was
brought by jet ambulance plane
from the Riviera. He suffered the
injury there when he fell while
getting out of bed yesterday morn
ing.
Two leading orthopedic surgeons
were given the assignment of at
tempting to mend the break, prob
ably by inserting a pin at or near
the hip.
Churchill came back to London
with his leg in a cast but in good
humor. He waved to crowds and
gave the V-for-Victory signs as he
was transported from London Air
port to the hospital.
The old battler, wearing green
pajamas, smiled as his stretcher
was lowered from the Royal Air
Force Comet that brought him
home from his short-lived vaca
tion on the Riviera. Britain’s 87
year-old wartime leader looked pale
t*)t as as ever.
Kennedy Gets
Warm Welcome
To Mexico City
MEXICO CITY Uf) — A vast
throng, estimated by officials at
a million and a half, gave Presi
dent Kennedy a warm welcome
to Mexico today.
Crowds bubbling over with ex
citement, packed along a route
from the airport to Mexico’s pres
idential palace, saluted the U.S.
chief executive with one of the
most triumphant receptions that
could be recalled here.
Cheering and gesticulating
crowds jammed seven and eight
deep along his parade route and
perched precariously on roofs.
Flocks of colored balloons and
storms of confetti lent color.
The outpouring appeared to be
a decided boost for Kennedy’s
Alliance For Progress program of
aiding Latin American social and
economic development.
In two talks, Kennedy told
Mexicans that their country and
the United States share a revolu
tionary past and a common goal
of progress.
At hxs airport welcome he re
ferred to the two nations as “chil
dren of revolution.” Later, at a
luncheon given by President
Adolfo Lopez Mateos, the Presi
dent observed:
“While geography has made us
has ISSnS uo
friends. Economics has made us
, partners. And necessity has made
; us allies. Those whom nature hath
so joined let no man put asunder.”
Two great and independent na
tions, he said, could not always
agree, but they could always dis
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LOSING ITS SHIRT . . .
WASHINGTON t» — The chair
man of the Civil Aeronautics Board
told the House Commerce Commit
tee today the airline industry “is
losing its shirt.”
Alan S. Boyd said the airlines’
precarious financial condition was
the main reason they were left
out of President Kennedy’s pro
posal to free the transportation in
dustry from minimum rate regula
tions.
“This is no time to rock the
boat by letting some maverick
come in and set rates that are too
far out of line,” Boyd said.
He testified in support of Ken
nedy’s bill that would exempt
other carriers from minimum rate
regulation but leave the aviation
industry’s position unchanged.
FULL PROGRAM
I FOR THE 4TH OF JULY
Mayor Don Hoover has an
nounced a full program of events
for the 4th of July,
The patriotic celebration will
start with games for young and
old at 10 a.m. Wednesday morn
ing and some new surprises are in
store, he advises. K „ £
The celebration will continue
through the afternoon culminating
in Eskimo sports of which there
will be several events.
A full program will be an
nounced in Monday’s Nugget
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Fair today and tonight Low to
night 35, high tomorrow 52. In the
last 24 hours: High of 42, low of
33. Max. wind 21 raph from WSW,
Sunrise at 1:27 am., sunset at
10:42 p.m. Temps, a year ago to
day: High of 48, low of 30. Ex
tremes on this date since 1007;
High of 78 in 1011, low of 31 in
1030.
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