THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 141
NO.'li , ALASKA, \\ l.iJN'.Sl)A^ , S()\ LMHI l 2S, 1962
Per Copy 15C
Former Queen YVilheJmina
Of Netherlands Passes
APELDOORN, Netherlands UP)—
Former Queen Wilhelmina of the
Netherlands, the last of Europe’s
Victorian queens, died in her sleep
early today. She was 82.
Queen for 50 years, she reigned
through the zenith of the Dutch
empire and exile during the Nazi
occupation of her homeland. She
abdicated in 1948 as Netherlands’
rule in the East Indies neared its
end. Her daughter Juliana became
queen.
The former queen had suffered
from diabetes and in recent weeks
developed a heart condition.
Queen Juliana was at the palace
with her mother, but other mem
bers of the family were scattered.
Like England’s Queen Victoria,
Wilhelmina was called to the
throne at the age of 18, mairied
a German consort, was a stickler
for the formalities and conven
tions, and practiced homely vir
tues as an example to her people.
Price of Tin Cans Will
Go Up January 1
NEW YORK dP> — The price of
its metal cans goes up Jan. 1, Con
tinental Can Co. announced Tues
day.
The increase will be about one
per cent, compared with an aver
age price boost of around 2 per
cent a year ago.
Continental’s decision came after
it and American Can Co. signed
two-year contracts with the United
Steelworker. No price announce
ment was made by American Can.
KENNEDY AND MIKOYAN
WILL MEET TOMORROW
| WASHINGTON dP) — President
Kennedy will meet Soviet Deputy
Premier Anastas Mikoyan in. Wash
ington on Thursday, the White
House am unced Tuesday. They
are certain to discuss the latest
negotiations toward a final Cuban
| settlement.
i It was understood Mikoyan also
, would confer with Secretary of
I State Dean Rusk.
lhe Chamber at Work
V(n ational School Report . . .
The on-again off-again State Vocational School to be located
at Nome by the vote of the people with a bonding proposition two
years ago is beginning to become an actuality, according to advices
received from Leonard Lowell, Division of Buildings of the De
partment of Public Works, it was announced at the Chamber of
Commerce meeting Monday.
In a letter to Sen. Pete Walsh, he states that the final draw
ings and specifications will be made by Dec. 1 and the advertising
bids by Dec. 15 with bids to be opened in February in plenty of
time for the successful bidder to have his supplies on the first
boat in June.
§1,500,000 was voted for this project in this bonding propo
sition and Sen. Walsh stated that the Northwestern Alaska delega
tion to the legislature will ask for an appropriation of $3 million
more for dormitories, and other supporting facilities.
Power and Light Report . . .
The school will require approximately a 25 per cent increase
in power usage from the Nome plant, stated Howard Crinklaw,
manager of the Nome Light and Power, which will necessitate a
feasibility study for the plant which is now underway.
Whether to increase the size of the plant where it is now
located or to erect a new building for a bigger plant in another
location is under consideration.
The need for this w'as also being considered due to the plan
ning now underway for government agencies which will need more
power.
Water and Sewage . . .
Mayor Don Hoover reported on the Nome sewer and water
project, stating that the accelerated public works program recently
approved by Congress allows communities such as Nome, funds on
a 50 per cent grant basis as long as such a community applies an
epual amount toward some other needed public project.
Application has been made for funds from this program
naming several needed projects for the city toward which the
money would go. This included modernization of the Light and
Power plant, school enlargement, a municipal building and im
proved harbor facilities. Mayor Hoover reminded the members
of the Chamber, that before any action could be completed, the
people of the community must vote on whether or not they want
a modern community. This may be done by special election or
at the regular election in April.
Superior Court News . . .
Judge Hubert Gilbert was welcomed home and stated that
he would be here only a week as the court cases scheduled from
Bethel were postponed due to the illness of the defense attorney,
Fred Crane.
He will return to Anchorage for a month and then go on
vacation, returning here late in January.
Machinists Strike
At Lockheed Corp.
BURBANK, Calif. W —The In
ternational Association of Machin
ists struck Lockheed Aircraft
Corp.’s vast aerospace facilities
from Honolulu to Florida today.
With hundreds of pickets outside
company gates, a union spokesman
declared:
“From our viewpoint, the plants
are down from border to border.
Nothing is being manufactured.”
Key tf> the union-company dis
pute: a proposal to hold an elec
tion among Lockheed employes on
the union shop. Under a union
shop, opposed to the company, all
employes must join the union.
Huge traffic jams developed on
access roads to the Lockheed facil
ities in several places, including
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
j Some sources said the strike
against the aerospace giant might
rIoln-17 tnet firinm; T V
vital nuclear - armed submarine
launched Polaris missiles,
i More than 16,000 AFL - CIO
| machinists walked off the job at
: 12:01 a.m. after negotiations broke
! down despite efforts by federal
! mediators.
The struck plants include Lock
| heed - California Co. facilities al
I Burbank and Van Nuys, and Lock
heed Missiles & Space Co. instal
lations at Sunnyvale and V a r
Nuys and the missile test cente:
at Vandenberg Air Force Base
Other struck plants are at Cap
Canaveral and at Honolulu.
Negotiations broke down abou
an hour before the strike began
The chief unresolved issue wa<
whether employes would be per
mitted to vote on setting up a
union shop—under which all elig
ible workers would be required tc
join the union to keep their jobs.
The company said it was un
alterably opposed to compulsory
unionism. The union, noting a
uruun snup erection naa Deen re
commended by a special presiden
tial board, would not accept a con
tract without such an election.
WASHINGTON WV- President
Kennedy late today invoked the
Taft-Hartley Act in the strike of
the Machinists Union against Lock
heed Aircraft Corp.
By executive order, Kennedy
created a three-member board of
inquiry to look into the dispute
and report to him by next Monday.
The creation of such a board is
the first step in setting machinery
into a motion possibly seeking a
court order to stop the walkout.
CD Alert to Be Held
Monday, December 3
Nome Civil Defense Director
Donald M. Hoover has announced
that a test Civil Defense alert
will be conducted in Nome, at
2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3. The
Nome Civil Defense organization
whch is now finalizing plans
which can be put into effect in
the event of natural or man
made disasters, is conducting
the practice alert to acquaint
residents with the alert signals.
Further information concerning
the forthcoming test and in
structions to residents will be
disseminated later in the week.
Democrat and GOP Leaders Both
Confident Tiiev Wili Take Over
Leadership of House fn January
FAIRBANKS <.-F — Two men’
' who very likely will head the*
fight over the Speaker .-hip of the 1
Alaska State House of Representa
tives, Democrat Warren Taylor
and Republican Bruce Kendall, said
today that their respective parties
would definitely take over the
leadership of the House in Janu
. ary.
A half and half split in the 40
member House stands now. but a
recount of House votes from ‘hr e
election districts has been requeu
ed and could possibly change the
whole picture. Predictions from
local guessers are that the split
will remain after the recount of
votes, however.
District 8, Anchorage, has 14
House seats that are being re
counted: District 16. Fairbanks,
has seven going through the same
procedure; and District 10, Kenai.
! is being recounted at the request
19 Americans
i
Die in Brazilian
Airliner Crash
LIMA, Peru UP — Rescue work
• ers labored today at the slow anc
- I arduous task of bringing dowi
j from a rocky peak the bodies o
t j 97 persons killed in the crash o
■ j the Los Angeles-bound Braziliar
1 jetliner It was aviation history's
j eighth worst disaster.
Nineteen of the dead were list
ed as Americans. There were no
j survivors — and no immediate ex
planation -— of the crash in good
i flying weather minutes before the
i Boeing 707 was to make a pre
| dawn landing at Lima’s airport
A Peruvian cabinet minister, a
high Cuban economic official and
a California oil executive were
among the 80 passenger victims. 1
The plane carried a crew of 17.
The U.S. Civil Aeronautics
Board in Washington announced it t
was sending a high official to join :
Peruvian authorities in the in
vestigation of the crash. A spokes
man said the U.S. agency wants
“to learn anything we can from
an accident, no matter where it
occurs, because these are our
planes.”
An official of the Brazilian air
line, Varig, said “everything was
apparently going normally" when
the captain suddenly declared, “this
is an emergency.”
Nothing more was known of the
plane until its wreckage, scattered
over a smoke-blackened area
about 200 yards square, was found
about 10 hours later on a 2,400
foot hill near the Inca ruins of
Pachacamac, 15 miles south of
Lima.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Fair and colder. Lowest temper
ature expected tonight -12, high
tomorrow 3.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 10, lowest -6. Sunrise at
9:10 a.m., sunset at 2:23 p.m.
of Demon;.4- hoping to unseat a
Republican who is just IB votes
abend of his losing opponent
Democrats are requesting the
Fairbanks vote while Republicans
in Anchorage are calling for that
recount.
One Seat Insures Majority
Both parties hope to gain one
more seat in tbi- race to insure a
majority and thus 1- id r-iiip in
th« House.
Kendall said in Anchorage in an.
ev.cluri'- mtcrvvw with the Fair
banks Daily News-Miner that the
20 Rcpubli an elected to 'he
Houst of Represe: 4 fives have a
mandate from the people of Alaska
to lead the House this session. He
reasoned that even though a De
mocrat administration and Sen
ate have apparently been elected
a majority of voters cast their bal
j lots for Republican House candi
' dates. This then demonstrates that
1 more Republicans voted in the
1 election, he said.
; He continued: “Republicans be
* lieve that a political party should
1 not shun responsibility when they
Ihave it, as in this case in the
House race. Can the Republicans
deny the overwhelming majority
of voters? Or can the Democrats
thwart it11 he asked.
He referred to the Anchorage
- and Fairbanks votes. The total Re
publican House members’ vote in
these two areas was 91.173 as com
j pared to a total vote of 61.477 for
I the Dcmocrns. The closeness of
j the total State House race, Kendall
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India Hushes More
Troops to Strengthen
Her Border Defenses
NEW DELHI. India W — India
rushed more troops to strengthen
her border defenses today while
engaging Communist China on the
diplomatic front.
U.S. Air Force transports moved
men and supplies toward the lines
where the Chinese cease-fire con
tinued in effect for the seventh
day.
Prime Minister Nehru’s govern
ment was trying feverishly to re
build Indian forces shattered by
the lightning Chinese offensive in
the Himalayas.
Diplomatic missions were wing
ing to capitals of key African and
Asian neutralist nations to plead
India’s case and to counter Pe
king's massive propaganda drive.
Observers waited to see if the
Chinese troops would withdraw
i from the northeast frontier ter
ritory and parts of Ladakh on Sat
urday as they promised to do in
their cease-fire proclamation of
Nov. 21.
Even if they do withdraw, the
Indian government is still talkin
about putting its border picket
back where they were before the
Chinese advance in October. The
Chinese said any such Indian ad
vance would violate the cease-fire
and would be met by Chinese bul
. lets.
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“SPRING FEVER”
A THREE ACT FARCE PRESENTED BY THE NOME HIGH SCHOOL
8 o’clocjt the evening of Thursday, November 29, in the Small Auditorium, Admission $1