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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 85
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, Jl.'LY 18, 1962
Per Cupv 15C
Barrow City Council Accuses
Assn, of American Indian Affairs
“Meddling” with Eskimo People
BARROW (J*i—The Barrow City
Council has accused the Associa
tion of American Indian Affairs,
New York, of meddling in the af
fairs of Alaska’s Eskimo and In
dian people.
The Association, through Miss
Laverne Madigan, was the prime
mover in recent meetings of Es
kimos at Barrow and Indians at
Tanana.
Out of the Barrow meeting came
a recommendation that most of
the Arctic slope be set aside as a
hunting ground for Eskimos. The
Tanana meeting recommended the
establishment of Indian reserva
tions.
The Barrow City Council, in a
strongly worded resolution passed
July 14, said:
"This intervention by the As
sociation and attempting to have
the Eskimos of the Arctic and
interior Alaska grab for every
thing through aboriginal rights,
without providing legal counsel,
and above all, without proper
consent of the people is merely
adding confusion to a situation
already confused."
The Council said the AAIA’s
activities in Alaska stemmed from
a speech made at the first Eskimo
Olympics in Fairbanks last year
by State Sen. Eben Hopson of
Barrow, who said he planned to
try to organize Eskimos into a
group similar to the Alaska Native
Brotherhood.
Shortly thereafter, the City
Council said, Mrs. Madigan, execu
tive director of the AAIA, arrived
in Barrow and started laying the
groundwork for meetings with the
Eskimo people.
One of Mrs. Madigan’s top con
tacts, the City Council said, was
Guy Okakok of Barrow.
The City Council said that Mrs.
Madigan, despite all of her trips
to Barrow, has never met with
the City Council or other organi- ]
zations in an effort to obtain the j
views of the people.
“Guy Okakok, of all people, who
is supposed to represent nearly
2,000 people here, has never once
asked for a meeting to draw up
a program or to get general con
sent of the people, the Council
said.
“It is not hard to understand
Democracy In Action . . .
WASHINGTON UFt — Feuding
senators and representatives ag
reed on a temporary peace pact
today which will end the deadlock
which has tied up all appropriation
bills in Congress.
For the balance of this year,
senators agreed to let House mem
bers share in chairmanship of the
compromise committees or confer
ences which adjust differences on
the annual money bills.
Previously senators had pro
mised to hold such sessions in the
old Supreme Court Chamber,
which is about midway between
the Senate and House.
Dropped for this session was a
Senate demand that it originate
part of the dozen or more annual
money bills which supply annual
operating funds for all government
agencies.
The peace pact was formally
signed by five senators and five
representatives.
why the Association is doing this,
because it’s the only way an or
ganization or an individual can
get anywhere when they know
they would be opposed by the
general public.
“As far as Guy Okakok’s and
the Association’s proposal to create
a huge monument or hunting
ground for the Eskimos is con
cerned, every word used in that
proposal is a spoon-fed job and is
not the wish of the majority of
the Eskimos.”
The City Council said the Es
kimo people do not want to be
“pushed aside into reservations
like some people would have you
think.”
"As far as we are concerned,
we want to be treated like every
honest to goodness Alaskan and
any attempt to create reserva
tions for us or something similar
to it is against or basically
against the thinking of the
Eskimo."
Judge Denies CAB
Right to Terminate
Pan Am In Alaska
WASHINGTON UP — A federal
district court judge ordered the
Civil Aeronautics Board not to
revoke or terminate the Alaska
certificate of Pan American World
Airways. The judge criticized the
CAB for what he described as
pre-judging the case.
Judge Alexander Holtzoff said
the board had used a “unique and
curious’’ procedure of first decid
ing to terminate a Pan American
route between Seattle and Fair
banks, then holding hearings with
the burden on Pan American to
overcome the decision.
The hearings sprang from a ten
tative board conclusion, announced
March 19, that one or two car
riers should be dropped from the
four-carrier Seattle-Fairbanks sys
tem. Dropping the financially
strongest Pan American run might
strengthen three competing air
lines and take them off govern
ment subsidy, the Board said.
A domestic carrier’s valuable
franchise “may not be cancelled
or forfeited at the will of the Civil
Aeronautics Board, even if the
Board deems that it would be in
the public interest to do so,” Judge
Holtzoff said.
Judge Holtzoff rejected what he
called the Board’s “ingenious con
tention” that its action should be
considered a “modification of a
larger system rather than revoca
tion of a single franchise.
DOWN THE DRAIN . . .
WASHINGTON UP — Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara or
dered a halt today on construction
of what would have been the
world’s biggest movable radio tele
scope. He said scientific advances
have overtaken it and its cost has
risen 150 per cent.
The 600-foot dish-like antenna
has been under construction by the
Navy at Sugar Grove, W.Va., since
1958. So far, $95.5 million has been
allocated for the project, of which
$41.7 million has been spent. In
all, Congress has voted $126.2 mil
lion for the research station since
1957.
Military Junta
Deposes President j
In Lima, Peru
LIMA, Peru (API — A military
junta seized power in Peru today
and disorders broke out after
members appeared at the govern
ment palace for swearing in cere
monies.
Demonstrators shouting “We
want our civil rights. We have no
legal guarantees” started stoning
police cars.
Police sprayed the demonstrators
with colored water so that agitat
ors could later be identified. No
shots were fired.
The junta took office at mid
day after the early morning arrest
of 72-year-old President Manuel
Prado in a bloodless coup.
The president of the junta, com
mander in chief Gen. Ricardo
Perez Godov, pledged in a nation
wide broadcast “We will return to
our barracks when the crisis is
over. None of us will run for the
presidency.”
The takeover climaxed weeks of
crisis during which the military
sought to block the election to the
presidency of a bitter foe, Victor
Raul Haya do la Torre, Leftist but
avowed anti-Communist.
Godov promised the nation
“honest and clean elections” soon.
The military acted after charg
ing that the June 10 presidential
elections were fraudulent.
U.S. Suspends Diplomatic
Relations with Peru After Coup
WASHINGTON The United
States announced a suspension of
diplomatic relations with Peru,
whose government was taken over
by a military coup early today.
Also brought to a halt is new
U.S. Alliance for Progress aid to
the South American country. Tim
has been running about $75 mil
lion a year.
U. S. policymakers have been
trying to encourage democratic
progress and discourage military
dictatorship in Latin American
countries.
30 RUSSIAN FISHING BOATS
SEEN 50 MILES OFF KODIAK
KODIAK (.P — More than 30
Russian fishing vessels were spot
ted near Trinity Island about 50
miles southwest of here this week
by state officials, it was reported
yesterday.
The fleet—seen from the air by
Alaska Fish and Game Depart
bent officials—was estimated at 30
catcher boats and five factory ves
sels. The boats were about 20 miles
off shore.
They said the Russians appeared
to be trawling for ocean perch.
JUNEAU’S BARANOF FIOTEL
IS SOLD FOR $1,500,000
SEATTLE UP — Sale of the 24
year-old Baranof Hotel in Juneau
to a group of Alaska investors for
$1.5 million was announced today.
Western Hotels, Inc., which will
operate the Baranof for the new
owners, said work will be started
immediately on extensive remodel
ing and renovation program.
The hotel, with 100 rooms and
45 apartment units, was purchased
by Keith Wildes, Robert Booch
ever and Dr. William M. White
head, all of Juneau; Elmer Ras
mussen of Anchorage, and Wilbur
Western, former Juneau resident
now living in San Diego, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace George
and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. O’Brien
were the sellers.
BRITISH HIGH C.Ol RT
DfiNIHS SOBI.I VS ARPI AI.
TO BE SET I R! l
LONDON (JPi—Three high court j
justices refused today Dr. Robert j
Soblen's plea to be set free on i
British soil, but gave him per
mission to appeal the decision.
Court observers estimated the
appeal — even if denied — would
delay Soblen's deportation to the
United States for perhaps six
weeks.
If he loses the appeal, Dr. Sob
len still would have pending a re
quest to the Home Office for asy
lum as a political refugee. The
Home Office has declined to give
any inkling of its attitude toward
this request, but it is thought like
ly it will be granted.
The high court turned down Sob
len’s plea to free him from deten
tion by the Home Office under a
writ of habeas corpus.
The court upheld the govern
ment contention that the 62-year
old fugitive, who fled from a life
sentence in the United States as a
Soviet spy, is an alien in transit
who had been allowed to pause in
Britain only enough to recover
from the stab wounds he inflicted
on himself while enroute from
Israel to America.
EISENHOWER SAILS EOR
EUROPE ON FIRST TRIP AS
PRIVATE CITIZEN SINCE ’28
NEW YORK UP—Former Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower said in
a shipboard interview today that
he would carry abroad a message
that the United States wants peace
but will not be pushed around.
He talked with newsmen as he
and his wife and two grandchil
dren prepared to sail for Europe
on the Queen Elizabeth.
It is his first trip abroad as a
private citizen since 1928.
Eisenhower and his family plan
to visit England, France, Denmark,
Germany, Sweden and Culzean
Castle near Prestwick, Scotland, in
which the British government has
allocated him space for life.
The former president said he be
lieved most Americans are “fine
ambassadors of American hopes .
and aspirations abroad."
He said he resented books like
the “Ugly American,” which dealt
with difficulties in the American
foreign aid program, and added:
“We try to be decent people. I
think we are. I certainly believe
the people of the world are thor
oughly of one mind in wanting
peace.”
In addition to their grandchil
dren, Barbara Ann, 13, and David
Eisenhower. 14. the Eisenhowers
were accompanied by Brig. Gen.
Robert Schulz, the former presi
dent’s aide, Mrs. Schulz; Freeman
Gosden of the “Amos and Andy” ]
radio team, Mrs. Gosden, and their
son, Craig, 13.
The Eisenhowers plan to sail for
home from Cobh, Ireland, on Aug.
24 abroad the liner America.
220 TOURISTS HERE
On Sunday and Monday 220
tourists passed through Nome via
Wien Airlines, Pearse Walsh,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce reported at the noon meet
ing Monday.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy, mostly cloudy
by evening today. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 50, the
high tomorrow 66-72.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 65, lowest 52. Sunrise at 2:21
a.m., sunset at 9:52 p.m.
Extremes on this date since 1907
highest 73 in 1908, lowest 33 in
1911.
Fo\v<*II Thomas Jr.
To IYt\s<*nl Now
Alaskan Film Here
Lowell Thomas Ji. is scheduled
to arrive here on July 21 with his
wife and family for a showing of
his new Alaskan film. "Follow’
the North Star."
This film by Lowell Thomas Jr.,
who is a candidate for the U.S.
Senate, shows our state as a great
land of fascination and adventure
and portrays scenes of walrus
hunting by Eskimos, in the old
way, sea lions, skiing on the Ju
neau Ice Cap. flying over the
North Pole and many other in
teresting Alaskan scenes taken all
over the state.
The film has been shown in
other parts of the state and re
ported upon enthusiastically by
all who have seen it.
Although its purpose was enter
tainment, not economic develop
ment for people in the lower forty
eight, Alaskans are also enjoying
and appreciating the work which
has gone into this film.
Another film, expressly planned
with subjects of economic develop
ment has also been made and made
its premiere at the Century 21
Fair July 7, Alaska Day. This film
is called ■’Alaska. America’s
Brightest Star."
The showing of "Follow the
North Star," will in the Multi
purpose Room of the Nome School
Saturday night at 8 and is open to
the public.
Charles Frazier, of the Billikin
Gift Shop, has announced that he
will have copies of Mrs. Lowell
Thomas’ book. “Follow the North
Star," which she will autograph
following the show on Saturday
evening.
CHURCHILL ABLE TO WALK
LONDON — Sir Winston
Churchill appears to be well
enough to go home at the end of
next week, Middlesex Hospital of
ficials said today.
They said there will be one
more lull examination of the 87
year-old wartime prime minister
by his staff of doctors.
He walked unaided from his bed
to a chair Tuesday.
LOOK — AT THE LICENSE
PENT WATER. Mich. JP — Law
enforcement officials say they
can't do much about complaints
that four nude women have been
driving about this western Michi
gan resort area in a station wagon.
Please, police asked, the next
time someone sees the women will
they please take just a second to
look at the license plate?
JUNEAU VOTERS APPROVE
S3,150,000 CtO BOND ISSUE
JUNEAU CP> — Three General
Obligation Bond issues and one
revenue bond issue, totaling $3
150,000, were approved by Juneau
City voters yesterday.
A $610,000 GO Bond issue for
improvements to the sewer system
was okehed 623-209.
The voters gave a 620-214 ma
jority to another General Obliga
tion Bond issue of $1,765,000 for
improvements to streets and
bridges.
The third GO Bond issue, $400,
000 for acquisition of sites and
rights of way necessary for con
struction of a second small boat
harbor was approved.
The Revenue Bond issue, $375,
000 for construction of a ferry ter
minal at the city dock site, re
ceived a vote of 545-309.