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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 71
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1962
Per Copy 150
Ford Motor Co.
Will Lay Off
Some 35,000 Men
DETROIT \m — Ford Motor Co.,
which will complete closing of its
16 passenger car assembly plants
and lay off 35,000 by nightfall,
said today a strike in a key parts
plant at Cleveland, Ohio, will
cause the idling of an additional
10,000 in its metal stamping di
vision Monday.
While passenger car assembly
will be halted with the close of
today’s shift, Ford said its five
truck asesmbly plants will con
tinue operations next week.
The United Auto Workers Union
called out 3,200 production work
ers at the stamping plant outside
Cleveland June 6, This is a key
plant, manufacturing parts and
stampings for all Ford’s various
lines
The Ohio strike erupted over a
work standards dispute. The UAW
claimed the company set work
quotas too high cn three jobs and
said the company reneged on an
agreement to ease the burden. The
company insists quotas are not too
high and are consistent with those
prevailing elsewhere.
SNEAK THIEF . , .
FAIRBANKS — Hugh Wesley
Readhead, Mile 1, Laurence Rd.,
has reported to State Police the
theft from his home of 20 cents,
two candy bars and two boxes of
.22 caliber ammunition.
Two days ago, police say, he
reported that his house was also
broken into and three bananas,
six pennies and one candy bar was j
taken at that time. itj? v
EVIDENCE SHOWS TNT
CAUSED JETLINER CRASH
KANSAS CITY iff) — The Kan
sas City Star said today in a copy
righted story from its Washington
Bureau that evidence uncovered
by the FBI strongly indicates a
dynamite explosion caused the
crash of a Continental Airlines
707 jet plane May 22 near Union
ville, Mo.
All 45 persons aboard the plane
lost their lives.
“It was learned today that la
boratory tests revealed particles of
dynamite in segments of the cradl
ed plane examined in the FBI
laboratory,” the Star’s story said.
“The explosion, it was said, oc
curred in the lavatory in the rear
section of the aircraft. It was re
ported that the dynamite was
placed in a towel disposal bin in
the lavatory.”
The story added the person who
placed the explosive has not been
identified.
The Star said the FBI is com
pleting a final report which is ex
pected to be made public soon.
NO BIDS RECEIVED
JUNEAU—Department of High
ways advises no bids have been
received as of this time, yesterday,
for the Teller-Lost River Road.
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10-YEAR-OLD BOY FALLS
HEIR TO $30 MILLION
BRUNSON, S.C. Oft — A tall 10
year-old boy who has led an un
obtrusive life in this rural South
Carolina community is heir to the
lion’s share of one of the country’s
largest fortunes.
Walker P. (Skipper) Inman Jr.
was bequeathed more than $30
of the $40 million estate left by
his grandmother, Nanaline H.
Duke.
Mrs. Duke, widow of the founder
of the American Tobacco Co., died
April 12 at the age of 90. An order
admitting the will to probate was
signed yesterday in Surrogate
Court in New York.
Since the death of his parents,
Skipper has lived in this little
commmity near the Georgia bor
der, midway between Augusta and
Savananah, with his uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lightsey,
and his half-sister, Susan Inman.
Susan is a student at the Univer
sity South Carolina.
4 Young Inman is a grandson by
Mrs, Duke’s first marriage to Dr.
William P. Inman of Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Duke, the former Miss Nana
line Hurt ut snsarcOxi, Ga., was a
widow at the time of her second
marriage.
skippers aunt is uons Duke,
who is wealthy in her own right.
She was remembered in her
mother’s will with a bequest of
personal property, jewelry and
clothing, but no cash.
Mrs. Duke left $5 million to
Duke University, in trust for the
benefit of its medical school and
hospital. Other bequests totaled
about $800,000, and the balance
went to her grandson.
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION
IS MOVING OUT TO FAR
FLUNG SCATTERED POSTS
PARIS UR — The battle-proud
French Foreign Legion is moving
out — with kepi headgear set
squarely and rifles ready — to
scattered posts ranging from
French Guiana to the Indian Ocean
island of Madagascar.
After Algerian independence, the
Legion will leave its historic home
at Sidi Bel Abbes.
A government spokesman said
today Legion readquarters will be
moved from Sidi Bel Abbes to a
camp in southern France, near
Marseille.
There the 1st Infantry Regiment,
in the best Legion tradition, will
accept—with a few questions asked
—recruits from all corners of the
world. They will train on Corsica’s
beaches and mountains and keep
alive the Legion’s fighting tradition
under the French tri-color from
the Crimea to Dien Bien Phu.
The 2nd and 5th Infantry Regi
ments will be placed in the Sahara,
along with the 1st and 2nd Com
munications Regiments, to safe
guard France's rich oil interests.
The 5th Para troop Regiment will
be stationed in French Guiana.
A battalion of the 3rd Infantry
Regiment will go to Madagascar,
at the request of the former French
colony.
Fight Engineers
Renew Offer
To Arbitrate
WASHINGTON UP) — Flight en
gineers renewed today their offer
to arbitrate economic and other
contract issues with three major
airlines — but not the key crew
makeup phase of their dispute.
The offer amounted to a re
statement of the position the gov
ernment has described as tanta
mount to a rejection of President
Kennedy’s proposal to arbitrate
all issues.
The big issue is the one over
cockpit job rights — the position
of the engineers under a plan to
reduce the crews on long-range
jets from four to three men by
combining the posts of third pilot
and engineer.
A statement by union president
Ronald A. Brown left unclear the
status of the union’s strike threat
against the three big carriers, Pan
| American, Eastern and Trans
World Airlines.
Brown s statement said tne |
nnirvn’g frfftw ahcnild hp acceptable
to the airlines. lie added that:
“We will give them a reasonable
time to respond before calling a
strike.”
Brown said President Kennedy
was apparently misinformed about
the real nature of the dispute, as
judged on the basis of the Presi
dent’s description of the case at
his news conference yesterday.
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JFK NOT ENTITLED TO
YALE DOCTORATE DEGREE
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. UP>
—A graduate of the Yale class of
1902 says President Kennedy
should not have received an honor
ary degree from the university.
Eugene H. Lehman, President
Emeritus of Monmouth College,
said yesterday he would ask the
class of 1902 at its 60th reunion
in New Haven, Conn., tonight to
adopt a resolution expressing re
gret at the award.
rale presented a uoctorate or
Laws degree to Kennedy, a Harvard
graduate, at commencement ex
ercises last Monday.
Lehman said his resolution
would say that “Mr. Kennedy
neither by virtue of his personal
qualifications nor of his service
to our country is deserving of such
an award from our alma mater.”
“Of course, I do not know what
action, if any, the class may take
on the resolution,” he said.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Mostly cloudy with winds swing
ing from the west to northwest
10 to 15 mph. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 38, the high to
morrow 50 to 55.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 52, lowest 35. Max. wind 23
mph from the west. Sunrise at 1:21
a.m., sunset at 10:43 pm.
A year ago today: highest temp.
43, lowest 36. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 70 in 1925,
lowest 29 in 1930.
EAST GERMANS GUN
DOWN 12-YEAR-OLD BOY
BERLIN (JP) — A 12-year-old
boy trying to escape from East
Germany was shot dead by Red 1
border guards, West Berlin police
reported today.
The shooting occurred last Sun
day, during the Whitsun holiday,
when two groups of East Germans
managed to tunnel their way to
freedom.
Because the shooting took place
on the east side of the Communist
wall, West Berlin police did not
get details immediately.
His death brought the known
number of deaths along the wall
to 36.
Apparently incensed by the
number of successful escapes, the
Communist regime is strengthening
the barricades around West Berlin.
Six concrete bunkers have been
located at strategic points, and to
day they added a seventh — a
covered firing position — facing
the U.S. sector border opposite
Zehlendorf.
At other places on the 100 miles
of frontier they were digging
ditches and putting up more barbed
JFK’s COURT ORDER
STOPS MACHINIST STRIKE
' NEW YORK UP) — The Justice
Department, acting on orders of
President Kennedy, today obtained
a temporary federal court injunc
tion halting a 2 Vz-month strike at
Republic Aviation Corp. The strike
halted production of the F-105 jet
fighter.
The President said it imperiled
the national safety and ordered
the Justice Department to act un
der the provisions of the Taft
Hartly Act.
U.S. District Judge Walter Bru
chausen in Brooklyn issued an
order halting the strike until a
court hearing next Wednesday.
Republic then sent telegrams to
some 9,000 striking employes tell
ing them to report to work on Mon
day.
PRISON OFFICIAL BELIEVES
3 CONVICTS DROWNED
SAN FRANCISCO iJP> — A pri
son official said yesterday he be
lieves three bank robbers who
fled Alcatraz drowned.
But the official, Fred T. Wilkin
son, would not comment on reports
the men had improvised a raft for
their getaway or that two make
shift paddles had been found.
Wilkinson, Asst. Director of the
Federal Buerau of Prisons, came
to Alcatraz to investigate the dis
appearance Monday night of the
three convicts he had known at
the federal penitentiary in Atlanta,
Ga.
Wilkinson said the men would
commit other crimes to keep
going.
“That’s why I have to believe
they drowned. Our investigation
has turned up no sign of life. These
men are human beings. They would
need food, clothes, shelter.”
What’s the Diff?
American English,
Or English English
NEW YORK UPi — An American
says “gasoline” and a Briton says
“petrol,” but Dr. Philip B. Gove
contends that doesn’t mean they
don’t know each other’s tank is
empty.
Gove, editor in chief of Merriam
Webster dictionaries, thus took up
the gauntlet flung in Rome by Sir
David Eccles, British Minister of
Education.
Sir David warned Wednesday
that the English language is in dan
ger of splitting into dialects mutu
ally unintelligible in England, the
United States, Canada and Aus
tralia. He likened the prospect to
Latin’s demise into Italian, French
and Spanish.
As an example Sir David used
this sentence: “I was mad about
my flat.”
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To a New Yorker, he continued,
that would mean, “ I was hopping
I with rage that I had a punctured
| tire,” but to a Lxjndoner, “I amply
Gove contended that air travel,
inter-marriage, exchange of radio
and television programs and the
printed word have brought Amer
> ican English, and English closer
' together than ever before.
You don’t tell a Yankee what a
British “gin and tonic” is any
more than you have a “hot dog”
for a' Cockney youngster, Gove
asserted.
The list of mutually under
stood terms is long: elevator-lift,
bar-pub, baby buggy-pram, mail
post and trolley-tram, for a few.
The Briton knows that the
I American “bloody” is just that
and the American knows that the
I British “bloody” is so grossly vul
gar that this paragraph won’t be
printed in England.
School for 3-Year-Olds . . .
PITTSBURGH UP) — The War
ren, Pa., School Board will start an
experimental program next fall
in which children as young as 3
years and 8 months will be ad
mitted to kindergarten if they are
ready for schooling.
The University of Pittsburgh an
nounced the plan. The university
will cooperate with the school
board in the program.
Dr. Jack Birch of the Univer
sity’s Special Education and Re
habilitation Department said one
aim is to find out what effect
early admissions will have on the
school system in later years. An
other is to prove that some chil
dren are ready for formal school
ing earlier than others.
MAJOR OVERHAUL
The big Cooper-Bessemer diesel
unit of the Nome Light and Power
Utilities is undergoing its first ma
jor overhaul since it was installed
with Fred Stemple, factory engi
neer from the Seattle office of the
company in charge of the work,
stated Mgr. Howard Crinklaw.