OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
6~rd Year No. 119
NOMI-, ALASKA, MONDAY, ()(. i ( )!?i :{ v 1962
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Many Distinguished Visitors
Here In Nome for OVR Conference
The Second Annual Review Con
ference of the Nome Rehabilita
tion project got underway this
morning at 8:30 and adjourned at
noon so that the participants
could attend the Chamber of Com
merce luncheon.
This afternoon’s program was
changed due to the fact that Dr.
Fred McGinnis, president of the
Alaska Methodist University could
not be present as well as Dr. A.B.
Co Iyer, who was also detained. In
their place a film was to be shown
and Dr. Gilbert Barnhart, Division
of Demonstration and Training,
Grants, Office of Vocational Re
habilitation from Washington, D.C.,
participating.
Dr. Colvar and Dr. McGinnis
will present their part of the pro
gram tomorrow afternoon at 1:30
instead, it has been announced.
A no-host dinner is planned for
this evening at 7:30 at which time
Mr. Donald Snowden, Industrial
Division of the Department of
Northern Affairs and National Re
sources from Ottawa, Ont., Can.,
will present “The Canadian Ap
proach to Problems of the Arctic.’
The sessions continues through
out tomorrow beginning at 8:3C
a.m. and the afternoon session al
1:30 and are being held at the
Pioneer Igloo. All persons inter
ested in the broad field of rehabili
tation are invited to attend.
Distinguished visitors and loca
persons participating included:
Mr. Steffen Andersen, Chairman
of Hospital Board, Maynard-Mac
Dougal Memorial Hospital, Nome;
Dr. Gilbert Barnhart, Division
of Demonstration and Training
Grants, Office of Vocational Re
habilitation, Washington, 25, D.C.;
Dr. John Barrow, Project Di
rector 1961-62, Vanderbilt Univer
sity Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.;
Miss Emma Burris, Executive
Secretary, Woman’s Division of
Christian Service, Board of Mis
sions of the Methodist Church, 475
Riverside Drive, New York, 27,
N.Y.;
Mr. Victor Charles, Supt. of
Nome Public Schools, Nome;
Dr. A. B. Colyar, Medical Of
ficer in Charge, Arctic Health Re
search Center, P.O. Box 960, An
chorage;
Mr. Ashby Craft, President of
Supreme Court Refuses
To Review Annexation
Case In Anchorage
WASHINGTON UP) — The Su
preme Court refused today to re
view action bv which Fairview
Public Utility Dist. No. 1 was an
nexed to Anchorage, Alaska.
The action was questioned in
an appeal by the district and five
persons who said they acted as
directors and taxpayers of “the
illegally annexed area.” They ap
pealed from an Alaska Supreme
Court decision that upheld the an
nexation.
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered
dismissal of the appeal, but gave
no reason.
The appeal was filed by Fair
view Dist. No. 1 and these indi
viduals: William Moore, Fern Wil
liams, Glenn Eagon, A1 Otter and
Pauline Truex. The appeal ques
tioned among other things, if an
nexation by state legislative act
deprived residents of the annexed
territory of the right to vote on
annexation.
Nome School Board, Nome:
Mr. Carroll Craft, Director. Of
fice of Vocational Rehabilitation,
Juneau:
Miss Dorothy Craig, Counselor,
: Office of Vocational Rehabilita
tion, Fairbanks;
Dr. Robert Fenstermacher, Ad
ministrator, MMM Hospital, Nome;
Mr. Carl Olavinovich. Manager,
US. Smelting and Refining Co.,
Nome;
; Dr. Grover Hartman, Executive
Secretary, Indiana Council of
j Churches, 1022 N. Meridian St..
Indianapolis, Ind.;
i Dr. .J. William Hilman, Vander
i bilt University Hospital, Nashville,
Tcnn.;
Mr. Don Hoover, Mayor, Nome;
; Dr. Rudolph Kampmeier, Van
| derbilt University Hospital, Nash
| ville, Tcnn.:
Dr. Kasami Kasuga, Chief Medi
! cal Officer. Indian Health Area
; Office. Anchorage;
Dr. Fred McGinnis, President,
Methodist University, Anchorage;
Dr. William Mills Jr., President,
Alaska State Medical Assn., An
chorage;
Mr. Robert Mines, Regional Su
pervisor, Division of Mental
Health, Fairbanks;
Mr. L. E. Parsons. Secretary
Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped, Juneau;
Dr. F. J. Phillips, Anchorage;
Dr. John Schadler, Medical Di
rector, MMM Hospital, Nome;
Miss Lorraine Singer, Public
Health Nursing Supervisor, Alaska
Division of Health, Fairbanks;
Mr. Donald Snowden, Industrial
Division of of Department of
Northern Affairs and National Re
sources, Ottawa, Ont., Can.;
Mrs. Margaret Swanberg, Nome
Health Center, Nome;
Miss Gisela Truestedt, Physical
Therapist, MMM Hosoital, Nome;
Dr. Rodman Wilson, Anchorage;
Dr. William Wood, President,
University of Alaska, College;
Miss Elsie May Smith, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Nome.
Egan Appoints Committee
To Seek Participation In
Educational TV Programs
JUNEAU (jP — A 10-man com
mittee appointed by Gov. Wm.
Egan to investigate means of
qualifying Alaska for participation
in the Federal Educational tele
vision program has scheduled its
first meeting in Anchorage Fri
day.
The federal program authorizes
grants to states for educational
television purposes.
The members of the committee
are Dean Arthur Buswell of the
University of Alaska, chairman;
B rnard Park, Principal Fairbanks
High School; Richard Peter, News
Director, KINY and KINY-TV, Ju
neau; Prof. Frank Bing, Alaska
Methodist University, Anchorage;
John Griffin, Manager, Station
KTVA, Fairbanks; A. G. Heibert,
President and General Manager,
Northern Television, Inc., Anchor
age; Alvin Bramstedt, President,
Midnight Sun Broadcasters, Inc.,
Anchorage;
R.D. (Chuckl Jensen, President
and General Manager, Ketchikan
Alaska Television, Inc.; Dr. Charles
Ray, Dean of the College of Be
haviorial Sciences and Education,
University of Alaska; and Robert
Isaac, Acting Commissioner of the
State Department of Education.
L .S. Navy Vessel
i Patrolling Off Kodiak
i
i KODIAK 'TP — A U.S. Navy
i vessel is now patrolling the area
off the southeast shore of Kodiak
Island where in recent weeks a
number of American fishermen
have lost fishing gear as a result
of Soviet trawling.
And as this community awaits
the arrival of Gov. Win. Egan
and high State Department offi
cials, a 25-year-old Russian sea
man, who has been undergoing
emergency medical treatment at the
Kodiak Naval Station is preparing
to return to a Soviet ship off the
Island.
A Naval Station spokesman,
Cmdr. Richard Stacer, said the
USS Kodiak is on patrol off Sitka
lidak Island “and its mission is
to stay out there and make its
presence known.”
The vessel is an LSM 'Landing
Siiip, Medium*.
Stacer said the Navy is also
maintaining daily flights along the
eastern shore of Kodiak Island. He
said the Soviet trawler fleet of
some 1-1 large vessels which had
been operating off southeastern
Kodiak near Two-Headed Island, a
prime American fishing ground,
has moved to another area and
contact with it, as of yesterday
afternoon, had been lost.
Anti-Castro Cubans
Attack Castroites At
U.N. Gates Today
NEW YORK t/P* — Anti - Castri
Cuban demonstrators attacket
Castro supporters with rocks anc
fists at the United Nations gates
today.
Police, who had watched the
demonstrations all day in fear of
trouble occassioned by the address
of President Osvaldo Dorticos to
the U.N. General Assembly, quick
ly moved in to separate the rival
groups.
Officers took four persons into
custody.
NOME UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
LAST WEEK WAS 6.0 PCT.
JUNEAU UP) — Labor Commis
sioner Gil Johnson said today the
state's insured unemployment rate
for the week ending Sept. 29 was
3.0 per cent, the same as the rate
for the week before but under the
5.4 per cent rate for the same week
in 1961.
New unemployment during the
week amounted to 319, while con
tinuing unemployment totaled 975,
Johnson said.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 3.3
per cent; Fairbanks, 2.6; Juneau,
2.3; Ketchikan, 2.5; Nome 6.0;
Petersburg, 4.0; and Sitka, 1.4.
Giants Even Series by
Downing Yankees 7-3
NEW YORK UP> — The San Fran
cisco Giants defeated the New
York Yankees 7-3 in the fourth
game of the World Series today
on Chuck Hiller’s grand slam
homer in the seventh. This evened
the series at two games each.
Hiller’s blast, the eighth in
series annals but the first ever
made by a National League player,
was made off Marshall Bridges,
the third Yankee pitcher.
The fifth game of the series
will be played hero tomorrow.
Wednesday will be an open date
with the sixth game set for Thurs
day in San Francisco. Jack San
ford will pitch for the Giants and
Ralph Terry for the Yankees to
morrow. Both are right-handed.
Alaskan v oters May
Cast Ballots Through
Personal Representatives
JUNEAU ,.p - Secretary of S' .*
! F11:■ n W 1 i aid today t'i a pi r.
’.vho want to cast gem-mi electa.;
1 !lots through a personal ropre
sentative may submit applicat!
starting Oct. 17.
Applications for this type <<
voting, Wade said, will be accept
ed throned Nov. 5. Votin : in ‘in
manner will run from Oct. 1
through Nov. fj. election flay.
The period for applying
atul casting absentee hah e
person opened Sept 27 and -v.
continue through Nov. 5.
Wade's office darted avs >•in
mailed applications for absents
ballots Aug. 8 and will continue t
do so through Nov. 2. Mailed at
sentee ballots will be acceptc
only if they have postmark ■ Set
27 through Nov. 0.
Qualified voters may also app
and vote absentee ballots throui
magistrates and deputy mag
strates.
Gov. Egan Is Special
Guest of Lions Club Here
Governor William Egan was
special guest at the Lion Glut) di
ner Friday evening as Distr
Governor Mel Harris initiated
ficers and new members into 1
Bering Sea Lions Club. Also
guest was Nome Rotary Presid
j Roy Snyder, and Mrs. Snyc
Mrs. Harris accompanied !
J ! husband to Nome for the occas
11 and another special guest was I
Dishner, a past president of t
North Pole Lions Club.
Mr. Harris complimented t
Nome Lions for their securing
the 1963 State Lions Conventic
here next spring. He said that
is unusual because this club is tl
youngest in the district.
Mr. Harris, in his address <
the evening, stressed the work th;
Lions International is doing fc
world peace, with 630,000 merr
bers throughout the free natior
of the world. One of the most el
fective instruments for worlc
wide understanding, he said, i
the Lions’ student exchange pr<
gram. Another is the Lions’ per
chant to discuss mutual problem
"with the man next door."
After the dinner the local boar
of directors met with Governo
Harris to set in motion plans fc
the 1963 convention which is ex
pected to bring 400 visitors t
Nome in Mav.
Tentative Settlement Reached
In Strike at Ketchikan Pulp Co.
KETCHIKAN '/P — A tentative
settlement was reached Saturday
in the seven-day-old strike at the
Ketchikan Pulp Co., Thorne Bay
plant.
The settlement calls for an aver
age wage increase of 10 cents an
hour. The strike had idled 175
loggers.
International Woodworkers of
America Union officials said they
expect the loggers to return to
work in about ten days if the new
contract is ratified by union mem
bers.
JOHN OSBORNE SUCCUMBS
TO HEART ATTACK TODAY
John Osborne, of the BIA main
tenance department, who has beer
south on vacation and for medica
treatment, returned this morning
and suffered a heart attack. H<
passed away before noon today
He was accompanied home by hi;
wife and son.
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XITED NATIONS. X.Y. P —
I- an uproaroii' moota , of th«
f C. !.■ r.i A. -mbly *odav Cuba
- c■.!!<■'I on t United Nation.- to
n-r..'.;! a, an act of aggr< ion any
7 naval blockade of Cuba bv the
United States.
Out le ■; the rn< ;ti :h f U.
S. Delegate Adlai Stevenson de
i : F Hei Castro r*. gime by
Soviet weapons and
! !:nel had turned his island
e i country into a springboard for
0 : aggression to overthrow the Am
i- i erican system.
d The Cuban position was pre
t. senti-d by President Osvaldo Dor
ticos in a bitter spteok interrupted
y repeatedly by anti-Castro heck
dr lers. He •;talienged Stevenson ♦.»
l- stand up and give guarantees that
there would be no U.S attack on
his country.
Stevenson, deferring to U.N. tra
dition. refused to answer the chief
, of state directly in the Assembly.
He told a news conference the
a j United States would never com
n- 1 mit aggression against Cuba,
ict j But he added he wanted to make
rf. : it clear that the United States
he would act quickly to stop aggres
a sion launched by any other coun
?nt try against the Western Hemis
er. 1 ; ’here.
rer . Stevenson said the U. S. already
on had begun to take measures to
ou j shut off the shipment of arms and
he j war materials to Cuba and pre
j parations are under way for a
^e ! collective defense of the hemis
of 1 Phere.
m \ He added, however, it is ab
it surd to say that these self-pro
,e I tective measures are aggressive or
; warlike. If Cuba really wants to
yf j resume friendly relations with its
lt ! neighbors, he said, it might start
r ! by severing its ties with the So
I vict bloc.
s | In grave tones. Dorticos re
. ' minded the delegates Soviet For
eign Minister Gromyko had warn
q i od any attack on Cuba means war.
_ : Dorticos’ reference to a U. S.
. | naval blockade brought a prolong
s ed burst of applause from the
Soviet bloc, a small group of Af
1 rican delegates and some visitors
in the public galleries.
r The anti-Castro hecklers were
_ ! all Spanish speaking, presumably
,y \ Cuban exiles. Much of the ap
; plause in the galleries came from
; iron curtain members of the U.N.
‘ Secretariat who had left their
| desks to hear Dorticos speak.
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Second Fairbanks Girl
Dies from Recent Fire
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. dP» — A
second daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Welch of Fairbanks died last
night iri Brooke General Hospital
from injuries suffered in a butane
explosion at their home Sept. 3.
She- was Halina Welch. Her sis
ter, Candace, 7, died at Brooke on
Sept. 15. Both had second and third
degree burns over 80 per cent of
their bodies.
Mrs. Helena Welch, mother of
the children, is still in the hos
pital with second and third de
gree burns over 35 per cent of her
body. The father is hospitalized
with minor burns.
The couple and their children
were evacuated by a Travis AFB
turboprop plane from Fairbanks
Sept. 7 and brought to the burn
treatment center at Brooke Hos
pital.