Communication Networks
Have Alternate System
WASHINGTON Uft — A retain
ing wall collapsed early this
month and wrecked a commercial
communications complex in Kan
sas City, Mo. For more than eight
hours, 10,000 circuits — including
long distance lines — were
broken, some linking up missile
sites and air bases.
If one accident could do this,
what could a nuclear attack do to
the military’s communication sys
tem for coordinating the retalia
tory and defense action? Could
it stay in operation?
Yes, a spokesman said Thurs
day, “it will function under war
time conditions of attack.”
Why does the Defense Depart
ment think so?
Because the repeated tests of
systems are made under simulated
conditions — and because of the
duplicate, alternate, backup net
works.
In the continental United States,
the Defense Department uses
commercial .communications cir
cuits extensively. It also has
available its own military cir
cuits. Merely pressing buttons in
command posts at the Pentagon
links it instantly with other head
quarters and bases overseas and :
home.
American Telephone & Tele- i
graph has a center to monitor all
circuits used by the military and
to report instantly whenever a
primary circuit goes out and start
up alternate circuits.
Facilities include surface wires,
underground cables, microwave
relay for telephone and tele
graph. A break in a circuit auto
matically switches the line to an
alternate system.
C0MIN'
From Fairbanks: Mrs. Richard
Lee, Dorothy Young, Capt. Con
don, Bob Lyle.
From Kotzebue: Ralph Seward,
Harold Sun, Alec Sheldon, Wm.
Nix, Ethel Moses. g&£| .
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To Fairbanks: Gloria and Rose
Ann Cloud, Con Potter, Ralph
Seward, George Hayes, Julian
Rice, Ben Peterson.
To Kotzebue: Simon Koenig,
Wm. Nix, Sgt. Clegg, A/1C Dohl
and Justus, A/2C Bahnke, Con
ges, Owens and Carreras.
Worth remembering: “If Di
ogenes were alive today, he’d go
around searching for someone in
his right mind."
Reserve Decision
On Retirement of
Judge Earl Cooper
ANCHORAGE (/Pi — Tne three
member Alaska Supreme Court,
at the conclusion of a 45-minute
hearing today, reserved its de
cision as to whether or not Su
perior Court Judge J. Earl Cooper
should be retired from the bench.
The Alaska Judicial Council
recommended to the high court
last month that Cooper be retired
because of physical disability.
When Chief Justice Buell A.
Nesbett announced at the con
clusion of today’s hearing that the
matter would be taken under ad
visement, Cooper requested that
the court, if it decides to retire
him, defer doing so until “some
sort of retirement bill is passed
to help me.”
Cooper explained that the State
at the present time has no retire
ment plan for judges, and if one
subsequently is established by the
legislature, after he has been re
tired, “it will do me no good.”
Dr. Robert Wilkins, who had
testified before the Judicial Coun
cil earlier, was called to give
testimony today before the court.
He said he had no reason to
change his earlier findings, which
were that for physical reasons the
judge should not continue on the
bench.
Cooper suffered a stroke last
April and was hospitalized for a
time. He returned to the bench
briefly and then took a three
month leave of absence in Octo
ber. He returned to the bench in
January. Since that time he has
had a limited court schedule.
Wilkins said Cooper suffers
from a partial paralysis of the
left side of his body and has high
blood pressure.
REACH AGREEMENT
PARIS UFI — President Charles
De Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer have reached agree
ment on the basic steps to take
toward achieving European po
litical unity, informed sources
said today.
De Gualle returned last night
from a hastily arranged meeting
with Adenauer in Baden-Baden,
Germany, and sources said he was
pleased with the results of their
talks.
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Anchorage Will Be
Divided Into 31 Precincts
JUNEAU (R — Secretary of
State Hugh Wade told the House
State Affairs Committee Wednes
day that Anchorage would be di
vided into 31 precincts for the
1962 elections, an increase of nine
over 1960.
Wade was the only witness to
show up for a committee public
hearing on proposed revisions in
the Election Code of 1960. Only
two spectators made an appear
ance.
Wade told the committee that
Anchorage’s city clerk, Ben
Boeke, had asked that some pro
vision be made in the code for
locating polling places at sites
adjacent to, but not in, the pre
cincts they serve.
Wade said that Boeke informed
him that in two precincts in An
chorage, adequate polling places I
cannot be found.
Underworld Czar
Dies Suddenly . . .
Leaves Fortune in Vase
When notorious Matt Zarco is
killed in an automobile accident,
Secret Agent X-9 moves swiftly
to seize possession of his palatial
estate for the government.
But only the racketeer’s butler
knows that Zarco had hidden
$560,000 worth of uncut heroin in
a Botticelli urn.
The federal government pre
pares to auction of Zarco’s art
treasures as a means of collecting t
the underworld czar’s unpaid
taxes. But Zarco’s fellow
racketeers in the dope ring plan
to force the butler to reveal where
the valuable cache of heroin is
hidden.
Will Phil Corrigan, Secret
Agent X-9, be able to foil tne
gang’s efforts to seize Zarco’s
butler—and the drugs?
Don’t miss this dramatic story
in the Nome Nugget starting
Monday, Feb. 19.
VERNE O. MARTIN IS
FIRST REPUBLICAN TO
FILE FOR GOVERNOR
JUNEAU <R — Anchorage at
torney Verne O. Martin yester
day became the third person to
announce his candidacy for the
governorship of Alaska, Secretary
of State Hugh Wade said today.
Martin filed for the Republi
can nomination.
The first two persons to file,
David Newton Boyer of Kenai
and Warren A. Taylor of Fair
banks, are both Democrats.
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Mrs. Emma Lyle is Laid
To Rest at Belmont Point
Mrs. Emma Lyle, was laid to
rest today from the Community
Methodist Church, having spent
a lifetime in Nome, where she
has been mother, grandmother
and great-grandmother with some
members of all generations re
siding in the community.
During her four-score and 12
years she has seen many changes
in the world, in Alaska and in
Nome, where she has been a
resident since 1904. Her kind
ness and cheerfulness have en
deared her to both young and
old.
The service today was conduct
ed by Rev. Gerald McCray of the
Community Methodist Church of
which she has been a member
since arriving in Nome. Special
music was sung by Mrs. Robert
Baldwin and Mrs. Howard Huffer
with Robert Baldwin at the organ.
Past Matrons of the Order of
Eastern Star, who served as offi
cers during her 50 years as a
member, held a closing ceremony,
Mrs. Bon Davis opened the cere- j
mony with a violin solo, “Star
3f the East”, and Past Matron '
Helen Dunbar closing it with!
‘Star Taps.”
Representing the Order were
Werner Bohrer and Mrs. Jack
Reed as Past Matron and Patron;
Mrs. Emily Boucher as Chaplain,
and Star Points, Beverly Morgan,
Mildred Harwood, Jane Perkins,
Betty Edwards and Lillie Lewis.
Pallbearers were Charles Lewis,
Carl Mickelson, Luther Dunbar,
Wm. Cameron, Herb Jenks and
Thomas Martin.
Robert Lyle, youngest of the
Lyle 'boys, arrived yesterday. He
is project engineer with the U.S.
Army at Anchorage.
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B.C. Highway Will Be
Brought Up to Standards
VICTORIA, B.C. UP — High
ways Minister Paul Gaglardi said
the British Columbia government
will see that Highway 16 Is
brought up to standards to meet
the truck service expected to re
sult from a ferry link between
Prince Rupert and Alaska.
He was asked to comment on
a statement in Smithers by A. N.
Ritchie of Juneau, Traffic Man
ager for the Alaska Highways De
partment Marine Division.
Ritchie was quoted as saying
he doubted if major transporta
tion companies would allow their
big trailer trucks to travel the
northern trans-provincial high
way from Prince George to
Prince Rupert if it is not im
proved.
“The truckers will be taken
| care of,” Gaglardi said. “We’ll
! look after the highway.”
Senate Honors Perairovich
JUNEAU W — A resolution ex
pressing high esteem for Senate
President Frank Peratrovich was
endorsed unanimously by the
members of the upper chamber
today.
Following through, the Senate
gave Peratrovich a standing ova
tion when it adjourned for the
day.
FRENCH TO CONTINUE
TESTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PARIS UFl — France will con
tinue nuclear testing until it has
an arsenal of rocket-mounted
thermo-nuclear bombs by 1970,
Defense Minister Pierre Messmer
said today.
Messmer wrote in a magazine
that the thermo-nuclear bombs
and strategic ballistic missiles
would follow development of
French atomic bombs, which he
; said are to be operational from
! a fleet of planes by 1965.
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