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Missiles Become
Operational
GREAT FALLS, Mont. UP) —
The Minuteman missile, a test
vehicle for 22 months, officially
became part of the nation’s war
time bombing power Tuesday —
and the first true push-button ca
pacity.
Twenty of the nuclear-tipped
missiles were declared ready for
war duly in their underground,
concrete silos just west of this
headquarters city for Malstrom
Air Force base.
riign-ranKing ah r oax ouicers
were turning over two flights of
the Intercontinental Ballistic Mis
siles to the Stragetic Air Com
mand.
Work is continuing throughout
central Montana to lower 130 other
Minutemen into their launching
holes. All are expected to be opera
tional by summer.
Each missile is programmed for
a specific target and has its own
guidance system to take it there.
Before 1965, after an estimated
10-year expenditure of more than
S3 billion, the United States is
expected to have more than 800
of these three-stage rockets on
station. They include 150 in North
and South Dakota and Missouri
and 200 in Wyoming.
In addition to these, the nation
has a force of approximately 100
Atlas and Titan missiles, plus
numerous smaller-range weapons
such as the Polaris.
The nuclear warhead for the
Minuteman is about one megaton
—much smaller than for the Atlas
and Titan ICBMS.
But the Minuteman offers al
most instant reaction capability
and can be fired in less than 15
seconds. This compares with up to
30 minutes for the Atlas and Titan
which require time - consuming
liquid fuel loading prior to launch.
Among new' paper products being
developed are fire-and-water-re
sistant uniforms; shirts that can
be worn once and discarded; non
skid, long - wearing, frost - proof
coatings for highways.
Soviet Research Worker
Charged with Espionage
Within Kremlin Walls
MOSCOW i/b — Soviet security
authorities have arrested a Soviet
scientific research worker on
charges he gave state secrets to
British and American agents, Tass
reported Tuesday night.
Tass identified the arrested man
as O.V. Penkovsky, an employe
of the State Committee on Coordi
nation of Scientific Research
Work.
“He was connected with the
British and American Intelligence
Agencies and on their orders in
1961-62 gathered and handed them
ecret information about the USSR
on scientific, technical political
and military questions,” it said.
Tass said Penkovsky was main
taining contact with British busi
nessman Grenville Wynne, who
was arrested in Budapest last Nov.
2 and is now awaiting trial on
espionage charges in Moscow.
Moscow authorities said Wynne
had pleaded guilty.
The Soviet citizen also was said
to have been passing secret in
formation through a letter box to
Richard Jacob, an American Em
bassy employe, who was expelled
from the Soviet Union last month.
Tass said an American Embassy
second secretary identified only as
"Karlson” was accused along with
“some other officials of the diplo
matic representatives of the United
States and Britain” of receiving
secret material from Penkovsky.
Searchers Find Last of
37 Entombed Miners
CARMICHAELS, Pa. UP> — The
search is all over for 37 miners
entombed in a shattering explo
sion last Thursday in a soft-coal
mine. Grim rescue crews, after
almost a five-day search, found
the last of the bodies Monday
night.
State mine officials blamed the
explosion on methane gas and coa
dust. All were killed instantly.
The blast occurred Thursday ir
the U S. Steel Corp.’s No. 3 mine
one of the world’s largest mechan
ized operations, 50 miles south
west of Pittsburgh.
U.S. Steel said the entire area—
650 feet underground—had been
explored and there was no signs
of life.
Many bodies remained to be
identified.
Forty-four other miners working
in another part of the mine shaft
at the time of the blast escaped
unhurt.
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Budaprs! Is
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By Loyal Gould
BUDAPEST. Hungry W — “So
you are another wicked American
| imperialist,” the Budapest taxi
driver said with a wry laugh,
i “I’d give anything if I could
he an imperialist and leave this
work er s’ paradise.”
Istvan R., a burly, good na
turecl fellow in his early 40s, had
picked this reporter up in front
of a Budapest hotel. Just before
he dropped me off. he invited me
to visit his home.
“Pick you up tomorrow at 7,"
he said.
Istvan’s lift.' is in sharp contra. '
with that led by the mend.. • <■
Communist Hungary’s new n. -
vileged class. They live in differ
ent worlds.
The worker, for whom Co - wi
nist oste* sibly was crcat :. i
still waiting for his blessing . On
the average, be pays two weeks’
wages for a pair of shoes or a
month's salary for a suit. He may
wait three years for an apart
ment, despite Hungary’s many
housing projects.
Members of the elite, on the
other hand, are eligible to obtain
houses in residential districts in
the hills overlooking Budapest.
They get preferential treatment in
buying the 6.000 to 7,000 cars im
ported annually. They can buy
French fashions and Western deli
cacies.
The road to Istvan’s apartment
led out of brightly lit downtown
Budapest to a grimy industrial
area. Here workers fought again'-'
Russian tanks in 1956.
We turned down a side stree
littered with discarded buildini
material garbage and empty bot
ties. Istvan parked in front of ai
old building, still scarred from th
Hungarian revolution.
1 Up three flights of dimly 1
> rickety stairs. Istvan’s wife, Hon
offered glasses of barack, a brand;
made from apricots, and a pot o
weak coffee to thaw the chill.
“It’s not much," Istvan saic
apologetically, "but it is the besi
coffee I can offer.”
The apartment had two small
rooms, a bath, and what could be
described as a kitchenette for
Istvan, his wife and two teen-age
sons.
Housing, Istvan said, was his
least expense—about $12 a month,
utilities included. His furniture—
a couch, two small tables, a stove,
four chairs and two double beds—
were duplicates of the shoddy of
ferings in Budapest stores.
Ilona said it would be impossible
for the family to live without
pooling Istvan’s $55 a month, her
$40 earned in a factory, and the
$65 earned by the two sons as
machinist helpers.
"Sometimes,” she said. "I am
I at my wit’s end with worry how
' we can get the simplest necessities.
Pork costs $2.50 a pound, if you can
find it. There are always shortages
of eggs, potatoes, fruit and cheese.
And things are so expensive.”
GLUE POT
Soda Fountain
Cigars—Cigarettes
Tobacco
Candy
Fresh Ice Cream
Every Day
JCules Are (iiven
For Baby Sitters
Are you planning to employ a
baby sitter during the Christmas
holidays?
If so, the National Board of Fire
U.nderwirters recommends that you j
sitter with phone
may use in case of
provide the
numbers she
emergency.
She should have <1> the phom
number of the fire department.
'2' the police department, th<
family doctor, and <4> the numbei
of tile phone whe
may be reached.
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other suggestion.
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sense of responsibility
hildren.
2. Inirf'dliee the sit
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’■ i r a brief period to c
ed with, them before ;
3. Alnke surt the s
stands tii at
i.ould get the children out of -'i<
house quickly, 01111 call the fire
department and notify the parents ;
in that order.
4. Show the sitter two alternate |
means of escape from the house,
should there be a fire.
5. The sitter should be instructed 1
to keep the children out of the j
kitchen, if possible, and to keep |
matches out of their reach.
6. See to it that tin sitter has
flashlights to use in case of power
failure.
7. Tell the sitter when you art
planning to return home and tele
phone her if you are delayed.
8. Make arrangements for seeim
the sitter home.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
fii parti.van Committee
Will Take a \eu Look
At Foreign Aid Program
WASHINGTON ,P — President
Kennedy has set up a bipartisan
committee to take a bard, now
look at the $4-billion-a-year for
eign aid program and see if it'
ailing the bill.
To head the blue-ribbon group
Kennedy named Rot. Gen. Lucius
-lay, who for eight critical months
was the President's representative
n West Berlin
One obviou aim of the stud;
was to shape a program which will
gain congressional and public ap
proval in 1963.
The Whitt House aid Monday
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ll to specific and attainable
of econom’c and political
lily in the free world."
Last month. Fowler Hamilton
resigned as Administrator of the
Fen ign Aid Agency, the agency
for international development,
after only one year in the job.
Some officials had criticized him
for shaking up the organization.
When he stepped out, Hamilton
advised the establishment of a
permanent committee to examine
the program’s content and admin
istration and recommend changes.
A White House sources said in
formation of the committee follow
ed along the lines of Hamilton's
suggestion.
WINTER SCHEDULE
FAIRBANKS — NOME — KOTZEBUE
Flight 311/312
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:05 a.m.
Lv. Nome 10:00 a.m. Ar. Kotezbue JO:50 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *2:10 pan.
Flight 309/310
Monday. Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:40 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:20 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:05 a.m.
Lv. Nome 1:05 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *4:10 p.m.
In order to maintain a scheduled airline and conform to our
departure limes it is imperative that passengers check in at the
terminal one hour before departure time:
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, check-in time is 12 noon.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, check-in time is 9:00 a.m.
NOME — N.E. CAPE
Flight 501/502
Monday. Wednesday and Friday
Lv. Nome 10:50 a.m. Ar. Nome 12:20 p.m.
Lv. N.E. Cape 11:50 p.m. Ar. N.E. Cape 11:20 a.m.
NOME — CAMBELL
Flight 509/510
Monday and Friday
Lv. Nome 9:00 a.m. Ar. Cambell 10:20 a.m
Lv. Cambell 11:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 12:20 p.m.
* Alaska Standard Time. All other times Bering Standard
For Information Call:
Dial 2331 -- Town Office
Dial 2239 -- Airport
tirst in Alaska ”