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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 102
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1962
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Spaceship Mariner
Is Venus-Bound
PASADENA. Calif. (fPi — Sci
entists tracking the American inter
planetary space ship Mariner 2
said today latest caluculations
showed the Venus-bound craft to
be headed for what they predicted
would be a brilliant success.
The report came from the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, which said: |
“New calculations based on i
tracking data from Mariner 2 that
the spacecraft is on a ti'ajectorv
that can be corrected to make it
fly by Venus within a distance of
10,000 miles as planned.
“The normal dispersions in the
Atlas Agena launch vehicle put
the 447 pound spacecraft 250,000
miles off its course to intercept the
planet. This deviation, however, is
well within the correction capa
bility of the mid-course motor on
Mariner.
A spokesman said one of the
principal missions of the space
craft is to fly by Venus at a dis
tance of 10,000 miles and conduct
experiments to learn more about
the mysterious planet. He added:
“In order to compensate for the
trajectory deviation, the Mariner
has to change its attitude in space
in response to a command from
the ground and fire its mid-course
motor to add a velocity of about
80 miles an hour to the space
craft’s speed.
“The mid-course motor has a
capability of adding 120 miles an
hour to the spacecraft’s velocity.’’
The tracking station said the ar
rival time at Venus is expected
to be within the first two weeks of
December.
TEEN-AGER KILLED
IN ABANDONED SCHOOL
EASTON, Pa. OP) — A 15-year
old boy was killed and five other
teen-agers were injured Sunday
when a two-story brick wall col
lapsed on them as they played in
an abandoned school being torn
down.
Authorities said the victim, Eu
gene Guzzo, was crushed beneath
tons of brick as he walked across
a plank spanning a 10-foot deep
hole in the building's basement.
Firemen and members of a res
cue squad dug for several minutes
to reach him.
Communications Bill
Passed by the House
And Sent to the President
WASHINGTON UF> — The House
passed today and sent to President
Kennedy the communications satel
lite bill authorizing a private,
profit-making corporation to run
the global system.
The vote was 371 to 10.
The House acted under a pro
cedure requiring a two-thirds vote
of approval, with debate limited
to 40 minutes.
It accepted the Senate admend
ments to the bill.
Rep. Oren Harris, (D-Ark.l,
chairman of the House Commerce
Committee, told the House the bill
was “perhaps the most important
piece of legislation we will have
in this Congress.”
He said President Kennedy had
assured him the Senate amend
ments were completely satisfac
tory.
Rep. Wm. Fitts Ryan, (D-N.Y.),
led the opposition. He said the bill
means “that we hand over to a
private monopoly the fruits of vast
public expenditures.”
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Congress Submits
Amendment of Poll
Tax Law to the 50 States
WASHINGTON i.T — Congress
submitted to the 50 states today
the question of making it uncon
stitutional to require payment of
poll taxes as a qualification for
voting for federal offices.
Final congressional action was
taken when the House passed a
resolution, previously approved by
the Senate, submitting the issue
to the states in the form of a
proposed amendment to the Con
stitution. The vote was 294-86.
Presidential action on the reso
lution is not required.
If ratified by 38 states within
seven years, the amendment would
become operative and the five
states now having poll tax laws
no longer could enforce them ex
cept in elections involving state or
local officials.
The five states are Alabama,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and
Virginia.
Russia Says 6Niet’
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To Latest Western
Test Ban Plan
GENEVA t/P — Britain and the
United States today proposed a
treaty for an unpoliced ban on
nuclear tests in the atmosphere,
under water and in outer space—
and the Soviet Union immediately
turned a cold shoulder on the idea.
The Western powers proposed to
continue working for a treaty to
ban tests in all environments—but
w'ith provisions for international
on-site inspection of suspicious
tremors which might indicate
underground tests.
Less than two hours after the
West offered the partial ban at the
17-nation disarmament conference,
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Vasily Kuznetsov turned thumbs
down.
Kuznetsov told the meeting he
would study the Western draft
treaty for a partial ban excluding
underground tests, but his subse
quent remarks left no doubt his
government would reject it.
U.S. Ambassador Arthur Dean
presented the Western proposal at
the 7th session of the 17-nation
disarmament conference.
Dean also put before the confer
ence a second British - American
draft treaty to ban tests in all en
vironments for all time.
Dean said that this draft in
cludes ideas expressed by the neu
tralist delegations at the Geneva
conference and takes account of
improved Western methods of de
tecting underground explosions.
But he stressed it also provides for
international inspection on the site
of a suspicious earth tremor, a pro
vision that assured in advance its
rejection by the Russians.
Cloudy Skies Cover State
Cloudy skies covered most areas
of Alaska today, and rain was re
ported at many points around the
state.
Rain fell along a belt from Bris
tol Bay to the Kuskokwim Valley
and the eastern interior, the Gulf
Coast, northern Cook Inlet, and
the Susitna Valley and the north
ern portion of the Panhandle.
Cloudy skies blanketed the Cop
per River basin, the Kodiak area
and the northwest corner of the
state.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from a low of 33 at Barrow to a
high of 56 at Annette Island. The
high yesterday was 69 at Cold Bay.
$50,000 Reward
For Solution of
Cape Cod Robbery
WASHINGTON </?' — Postmaster i
J. Edward Day raised to $50,000 j
today the reward offered for the i
solution of the $1.5 million Cape
Cod mail robbery.
Day told a House Government j
Subcommittee investigating the
case that he is ordering the entire ;
amount appropriated by Congress |
to his department for reward of- !
fers to be posted on this one case, j
A reward of $2,000 previously
had been offered.
As for how the bold, record
breaking robbery was possible,
Day said there was a combination
of unfortunate circumstances, in
cluding what he called a misin
terpreted relationship with the
Massachusetts State Police.
Day said the postal employes
had conducted four previous suc
cessful runs carrying currencies
from banks over the same route.
He said they were under the im
pression from instructions given
to them that State Police cruisers
would be observing their progress.
But he said checks made after
the robbery showed none of the
employes had at any time observed
a cruiser anywhere along their
route.
ine ruuuery was puiii-a uu rtug.
14. A post office truck carrying
pouches of money picked up at
Hyannis and Buzzard’s Bay, Mass.,
was stopped on a highway by cars
blocking the road.
Bandits then disarmed the two
post office guards and forced them
into the back of the truck, drove
it off and later looted it. The guards
were not harmed.
Ross Says He Is Not
Being Forced to Resign
FAIRBANKS UFi — Robert A.
Ross, Republican candidate for
Secretary of State today answered
charges leveled by George Sund
borg, administrative assistant to
Sen. Ernest Gruening that he is
being forced to resign as candidate
for the state position.
Sundborg had charged at a De
mocratic meeting at Anchorage
that Ross was being “pressured”
by the Republican State Central
Committee to resign from running
for the office of Secretary of State
in order to allow defeated guberna
torial candidate Howard Pollock of
Anchorage to take his place on the
ticket.
In a prepared statement to the
News-Miner Ross said:
“Sundborg is grasping at straws
again. The Republican Central
Committee has not pressured,
asked, or even hinted I should re
sign. Chairman George Cooper, of
Fairbanks, sent me a letter as he
did all successful statewide candi
dates offering the committee’s
support.
“I was attending a Republican
convention in Nome which is not
the same as attending a Demo
crat convention in Nome. It was
in Nome that the Demos forced
one candidate to withdraw and
another not to file. (Ross said he
was referring to John Rader, who
had filed for governor and then
withdrew and Wendall Kay who
had apparently had intentions to
file, but didn’t).
“The Demo party hacks will be
making a lot of wild charges be
fore November and this is only
the first. They are desperate, they
know they are going to be out of
office in November and they fig
ure their only chance is to attempt
to divide the Republicans.”
Four Ketchikan Men
Die In Lijjht Plane Crash
KETCHIKAN ',■?) — Wreckage !
of a Ketchikan plane missing sin -e j
Tuesday with four men aboard |
was located Sunday in a small
mountain lake five miles northeast
of here. There were no survivors.
The bodies were recovered by a
rescue party, including a skin
diver, flown in by helicopter.
The victims were Carl Manzoni,
31, veteran bush pilot employed
by the Webber Air Service, and
three commercial fishermen, Dan
Olsen, 23, Don Stenford. 23, and
.Joe Diamond III, 26. All were from
Ketchikan.
The new six-place Cessna 185 is
believed to have crashed shortly
after takeoff on what was to have
been an hour's flight. The men
had planned to look for goats for
a later hunting trip.
An oil slick on the lake, sighted
by Ed Lemke, an observer aboard
an Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines
plane, led to the discovery of the
lost plane. It was in about 20 feet
of water.
Federal Aviation Agency in
vestigators were enroute here from
Seattle to look for the cause of
the crash.
Ditstrict Magistrate Rick Lauber,
one of the rescue party, said evi
dence pointed to an explosion or
fire before the crackup. Lauber
said Manzoni’s left arm was badly
burned and the other bodies were
singed.
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Chamber Luncheon Will
Honor President Wood of
U of A Here on Thursday
“Back To School” will be the
theme on Thursday when the
Nome Chamber of Commerce hon
ors the staff of the Nome Public
Schools, and Dr. and Mrs. William
R. Wood of the University of Al
aska.
The no-host luncheon will be
held in the Seaview Room of the
North Star Hotel at noon Thursday,
Aug. 30. All interested citizens are
cordially invited and University
alumni are especially urged to at
tend, said Pearse Walsh, president
of the Chamber.
Reservations may be made by
phoning Mrs. C. M. Reader at
2314 on Wednesday—at least by
10 a.m. on Thursday. Mr. Charles,
superintendent of the Nome Public
Schools, has made reservations for
the school staff. All others, includ
ing chamber members are re
quested to phone Mrs. Reader.
Soviets Set Off Another One
UPPSALA, Sweden UP) — A new
Soviet nuclear test in the atmo
sphere above the Novaya Zemlya
region was registered today by the
Seismologic Institute at Uppsala
University.
Swedish scientists estimated the
blast power at about 14 megatons,
or the equivalent of 14 million tons
of TNT.
SHELL SEISMIC SHIP UDORA
AGROUND AT UNGA ISLAND
JUNEAU UPV—The 104-foot seis
mic vessel Udora, owned by the
Shell Oil Co. and carrying at least
six men, radioed today she had
run aground near Unga Island, in
the Aleutians 350 miles southeast
of Kodiak, and was taking on
water.
The Coast Guard dispatched a
patrol plane from Kodiak with a
portable pump and instructed the
plane to remain near the Udora
until the motor vessel Southwind,
which radioed it was in the area,
arrives on the scene.
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{ .S. Charts
To Blamr for
Berlin Wall Riots
MOSCOW .? — The United
States, in a note today, held the
Soviet Union responsible for shoot
ing and disorders along the Berlin
Wall and again invited it to a
four-power conference to deal with
the problem
The note, delivered to the
Foreign Office, replied to a Soviet
note to the United States Friday
which protested stoning of Soviet
troop buses in West Berlin and
warning that “necessary measures”
would be taken.
“The U.S. government under
stands the concern of the Soviet
government about the stone throw
ing at Soviet personnel,” the
American note said, “but the So
viet government cannot expect to
escape censure for, or to avoid the
consequences of, permitting bru
talities to occur in the sector of
the city for which it is respon
sible.”
The note cited what it called the
“wanton provocations” in the
Eastern sector.
“It should not be necessary to
remind the Soviet government,”
it said, “that the present tensions
in Berlin have been caused by the
illegal erection of the wall and the
senseless cruelty of the police of
the Soviet sector.”
The note called attention to the
shooting of an East German youth
Aug. 17 by East German police,
who let him bleed to death with
out aid. It recalled also that on
Aug. 23 “another young German
was shot in the back by the polce
on the Soviet sector.”
He was taken to a West Berlin
hospital but died there.
“Despite these wanton provo
cations,” the note continued, "the
U.S. authorities in Berlin are main
taining law and order in their sec
[ tor. All traffic, including that of
members of the Soviet armed
forces, is moving without incident.”
It then repeated its invitation,
given several times in the past, for
Soviet officials to meet officials
of France, Britain and the United
States “to find ways of reducing
dangerous tensions and restoring
normal conditions in Berlin.”
Tugboat Agnes Foss
Is Icebound in Arctic
JUNEAU W — The Coast Guard
said today that it had dispatched
the cutter Storis to aid the tug
boat Agnes Foss, icebound in the
Arctic Ocean some 40 miles east
of Barter Island.
The master of the tug told the
Coast Guard he was fast in the
ice approximately one mile off
shore, but was in no immediate
danger, although he required as
sistance.
Headquarters of the 17th Coast
Guard District said the Storis, on
a fisheries patrol in Bristol Bay,
would rendezvous with the cutter
Northwind in the Bering Strait to
take on additional supplies before
entering the Arctic Ocean.
It was not known here how many
men were aboard the Seattle-based
Agnes Foss.
Gruening Due Here Wednesday
Sen. Ernest Gruening, accom
panied by his assistant, George
Sundborg, are scheduled to arrive
here from Kotzebue on Wednes
day. Les Bronson who is local cam
paign manager for Sen. Gruening,
said plans for their stay had not
been firmed up as yet but would
be announced later.