63rd Year No. 57
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1962
Per Copy 15*
Soviet Fishermen
Are Operating In
Halibut Grounds
JUNEAU — The appearance
of a large Russian fishing fleet in
the Gulf of Alaska “clearly indi
cates that this year marks the be
ginning of an accelerated bottom
fishing effort by the Soviets,” Gov.
Wm. Egan said today.
Egan made the comment during
a news conference in which he
noted that the Coast Guard had
sighted a Russian fleet last week
operating in the gulf some 90 miles
east of Kodiak, near historic
American halibut grounds.
The governor said the Russians
were operating in international
waters far outside of the jurisdic
tion of state or federal officials.
Egan said he believed the state
had put together a case “which
would be upheld by any court”
against Japanese fishing skippers
arrested by state agents in Alaska
claimed Shelikof Strait last month.
No date has been set for trial
of tne Japanese.
The governor conferred with of
ficials of the U. S. State Depart
ment in Washington about the case
last week, outlining the state’s po
sition.
“The time has come when we
can no longer continue to keep
giving our resources away,” Egan
said. “It would only be a few
years, with the Japanese disre
gard for conservation and rehabil
itation, before there would be no
king crab or bottom fish left in
thp arpac whsrs tlisy arc fishing
adjacent to Alaska.”
Egan indicated that the State De
partment did not subscribe to
Alaska’s contention that the harm
which might befall Alaska’s fisher
ies because of an intrusion of
foreign fleets more than offset
foreign policy considerations.
“Too often,” Egan said, “our
foreign affairs people seem to for
get that they represent, first of
all, the citizens of the United ;
States.
“There seems to be the feeling
that first and foremost we should
consider the reaction abroad, be
fore we consider the welfare of
our own people.
“Under the circumstances, it
would be hard to blame the Japan
ese for going as far as they can, if
our State Department tells than,
in effect, ‘go ahead and take over
our fisheries’.”
FNA JETLINER DELAYED
THREE HOURS AFTER
RECEIVING BOMB THREAT
ANCHORAGE UP> —A Seattle
bound jetliner was delayed more
than three hours after a ticket
agent received word of a bomb
threat.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents made a thorough search of
the Pacific Northern Airlines 720
jet, then apparently passed the
whole thing off as a hoax.
A FNA spokesman, Ross Wood,
said the agent received an anony
mous call about 50 minutes before
departure from International Air
port. The caller, a man, said
simply:
‘You’re going to blow up.”
The agent immediately notified
the FBI and baggage, cargo and
GOV. EGAN BLASTS
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JUNEAU W) — The magazine |
“For Men Only” was asked by
Gov. Wm. Egan today to correct
a statement in its April issue that
Alaska is a land of plentiful em
ployment and exceptionally high
wages.
Egan, in a letter to managing
editor Louis Sabin, noted that the
magazine had asserted that “Alaska
checks in again as the world’s hot
test overseas job theater,” where
extremely high wages, even for
common laborers, are available.
“At the present time,” Egan
wrote, “Alaska faces the same high
level of unemployment as plagues
many of our sister states.”
The governor said the construc
tion industry, “which includes
those trades cited by ‘For Men
Only’ as offering fabulous sal
aries,” accounted for 45 per cent
of the 5,322 persons who received
state unemployment benefits dur
ing the week ending April 28.
FIND FORTUNE IN METERS
PASSAIC, N.J. UPi — A month
long spree triggered by an oddly
shapped key has ended for three
teen-agers.
Police gave this account:
A boy, 13, found the key on a
downtown street and inserted it
in a parking meter. It worked.
He shared his fortune with two
friends, duplicate keys were
ordered and the way was open to
la seemingly onrilftMi cunniv jrf
When their poekets stopped
jingling, they used their keys, con
centrating on a couple of down
town blocks.
The month of merriment came
to a halt, however, when other
youngster, notified the policeman
on the beat.
A detective collared the three
Saturday. Police withheld the
names but said the boys admitted
looting the meters.
BILL CAMERON ILL
Mrs. Wm. Cameron was called
to Bellingham suddenly yesterday
as her husband, who left earlier
in the week on a business trip
was very ill with pneumonia in
St. Joseph’s Hospital there.
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GOP CENTRAL COMMITTEE
SELECTS GEO. COOPER OF
FAIRBANKS AS CHAIRMAN
The Republican State Central
Committee concluded its meeting
in Nome on Saturday night and
elected George Cooper of Fair
banks as their new chairman. Mr.
Cooper is the Texaco dealer in the
interior city.
Lloyd Burgess of Fairbanks con
sented to act as Republican fin
ance chairman for the primary
and general election campaigns.
The committee also took up
matters relating to the GOP state
convention to be held in Anchor
age in September.
Members of the Central Com'
Edith
mittee attending
Doris Barnes
chairman; John
Mrs. Doris McK
Tillie Reeve, Js
tending the meeting were:
Barnes, Wrangell, vice
Daley, Ketchikan;
McKinley, Palmer; Mrs.
zieeve, Jack Simpson, Rep.
Kendall, all of Anchorage; Mrs.
Bullock, Kottebue; Sylvia
d, Lucille Harkabus, and
Jbnes, all of Fairbanks; and
Co^hill, Nenana; and Hep.
Johnson, Wallace Mclver,
b Oliver of Nome,
of those attending the
departed
y on the \
lour returned to 1
Homesteader Will
Share $42,000 of
Ice Classic Money
ANCHORAGE UP) — A totally
disabled Wasilla homesteader and
his mother are apparently the big
winners in this year’s Nenana Ice
Classic.
Bill Otcheck, the father of eight
children, and his mother Mrs.
Rachel Zuidhof of the Pioneer
Home in. Sitka stand to share
$42,000.
Another group of 39 persons,
employes of the City of Fairbanks
will also share another $42,000, ac
cording to Don Clark manager of
the Nenana Ice Classic.
The guesses of the two groups
were the closest to the actual
break-up Saturday at 11:23 p.m.
Both guesses were for 11:20 p.m.
A total of $84,000 will be distri
bdted as prizes, according to Clark.
Otcheck, who was injured while
working for the Alaska Railroad
as a section hand in 1953, said of
the good news, “This will be the
making of us.”
This year’s prediction was made
by his mother, who has been a
resident of the Pioneer Home for
five years. Otcheck did not have
a guess in this year’s game for the
first time in many years he said
The mother had 20 tickets, but did
not tell her son she had included
his name with hers.
Mrs. Otcheck currently is in low?
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ture corrected. The Otchecks ori
gin ally came from Iowa to tin
Matanuska Valley where they hav<
been for about 12 years. Their chil
dren range from a 10-month-olc
baby to a 16-year-old girl.
Mrs. Zuidhof also knew nothing
of her good fortune until late this
monring. The official book distri
buted by the Nenana Ice Classic
officials listed the ticket as being
in the name of the Rachel Audihop
Co., apparently, officials could noi
read the writing of the name on
the ticket.
“You’re ust kidding,” she said
when informed she was a probable
winner in the classic. She had not
kept track of her 20 guesses, but
she thought “I was close.”
Mrs. Zuidhof said her son did
not know she had placed his name
on the tickets. “I thought this was
my lucky year,” she said.
The woman plans to visit her
son and his family next month.
Missile Blows Up
SAN DIEGO, Calif. Iff) — An
Atlas intercontinental ballistic mis
sle blew up in a test stand Sun
day.
The 90-foot stand, in which the
missile was tethered for ground test
of its engines, was destroyed, along
with a number of nearby fuel
storage tanks. There was no re
ported injuries.
Alaska Salmon Brings 650 a Lb.
SEATTLE (*> — The first troll
caught large king salmon marketed
in Alaska brought 65 cents a
pound, Up 15 cents from last year’s
opening price.
The Federal Bureau of Commer
cial Fisheries received reports to
day on the first landings of the
season. The receipts, mostly tot
Friday or Saturday, totaled 26,000
pounds at six Alaska ports.
Troll-caught kings brought the
same price at all ports — 65 cents
for large, medium 35, and large
white 35 and small white 15. These
were the same prices as last year’s
opening, except for the large.
U.S. DIPLOMATS SEEK
PEACE. TALKS IN LAOS
VIENTIANE, Laos UP> — Amer- j
can diplomats strove today to bring
the warring factions in Laos to i
the conference table but the feud
ing princes so far could not agree
on conditions for resumption of
peace talks.
Reliable sources said the U.S.
diplomatic effort, backed up by
an open show of military might,
was making little headway toward
getting pro-Communist forces back
behind the cease-fire line.
Prince Boun Oum’s royal gov
ernment cabled Prince Souvanna
Phouma, the neutralist leader va
cationing in Paris, to return home
for peace talks.
Souvanna agreed, but only if
Boun Oum sends a delegation ta
the rebel headquarters for talks
with his aides to draft a prelimin
ary agreement.
There was no word of further ad
vances by the pro-Communists
who overran government outposts
in the northwest and sent 2,000
royal troops fleeing across the
Mekongh River to neighboring
Thailand.
After driving 100 miles beyond
the cease-fire line in a week, the
rebels reportedly threatened an
other all-out offensive unless a
political settlement is reached.
RECOVER BODIES OF SIX
MEN MANGLED BY SHARKS
‘ NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. U?i —
. The bodies of six men, all but on<
, mangled by sharks, were recoverec
> from the wind-whipped ocean neaj
. here Sunday. Three others were
missing.
The Coast Guard called it the
worst sea tragedy in Southern Cali
fornia since 1952 when eight per
sons disappeared.
Searchers also recovered a bait
tank and other debris from the 25
foot cabin cruiser on which the
nine embarked on a fishing ex
pedition early Saturday.
The craft apparently became
swamped in choppy seas and sank,
the Coast Guard reported. Winds
ware gusting up to 30 miles per
hour.
Sharks still thrashed about the
bodies when they were discovered
by die fishing boat Mardic.
“There were so many sharks
the men had to lower steel stretch
ers in the water to fish out the
bodies,” said deputy coroner Eu
gene Miller.
“The sharks kept after the bodies
and several even jumped into the
stretchers at the victims as they
were being pulled aboard,” Miller
added.
Miller said autopsies indicated all
six men apparently drowned. Shark
bites could have been an equal
cause of death of five of the men,
he said.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
MOSCOW UPi — Spaceman
Gherman Titov told the Soviet
people today after his return from
the United States that there’s no
place like home.
Titov wrote in Pravda, the So
viet Communist party newspaper:
“Returned home, heaved in a
breathful of dear spring air, and
told the comrades welcoming me,
despite all the comforts of America,
there is no land on earth better
than our dear, wonderful Soviet
homeland!"
Titov said he would never for
get “the friendly smiles and hearty
handshakes of the ordinary Amer
icans, who are well disposed tc
our country.'*
Air Force Group
Here For Armed
Forces Day Doings
Armed Forces Day is being
celebrated here today starting at
noon when Col. F. E. Naughton
will address the Chamber of
Commerce on the importance of
the occasion to the community
and the nation.
Col. Naughton is the deputy
commander of the 9th Infantry
Battle Group, which organization
has been in Alaska since the Rus
sian flag was lowered at Sitka in
1867.
The entertainment group will be
featured at 6:30 this evening on
KNOM-TV and at 8 o’clock will
put on a big show at the School
Auditorium.
Many of the cast need no intro
duction as they have been here
twice before. Major Robert Faulk
ner, who will MC the show, will
be remembered for his magic
tricks and he has something new
up his sleeve. This is called
“Think-a-Tune.” He advises that
anyone can whisper a tune in his
ear and CWO Julius Sanger, the
Starlighter bandmaster, will play
it. This will be Major Faulkner’s
last appearance here as he com
pletes a four-year tour of duty at
Eielson Air Force Base and leaves
in a few days for assignment at
the Pentagon.
Gilbert Martin, concert pianist,
is also among the entertainers
( he is completing his Alaskan tour
[ and is going back to his music
• professionally.
The well-known singing bands
men will open and close the show
and a Spanish Trio will also en
tertain.
This promises to be one of the
best entertainments by the mili
tary ever put on. The show is
sponsored by the U.S. Army add
was planned by Maj. David Money
but the entire cast is from Eielson
Air Force Base and sent courtesy
of the commanding officer, Col. S.
W. Henry.
In the party in addition to those
already mentioned are:
Sgt. Robert Robert A. Carmi
chael, Sgt. Richard A. Brendlinger,
Sgt. LeRoy Kirschenmann, Sgt.
James A. Rinker, A1C Charles R.
Diezman, A1C Charles Miller Jr.,
A1C Antonio U. Munoz;
A2C Walter J. Dean, A2C Fred
erick R. Gebstadt, A2C Charlie E.
Hines, A2C Gilbert P. Martin, A2C
William A. Muntz, A2C Arthur D.
Zicafoose, A1C Michael Rusnak.
Average of A
ANCHORAGE — Alaska Metho
dist University presented awards
to 16 honor scholars and other
honors in an award assembly at
the school.
Among the honor scholars which
required a grade-point average of
A or A -, was Raymond Arnold
of Nan.
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
By Order of Nome Fire Dept.
Due to the fact the Nomeranui
does not have an adequate smoking
room, and that the ever increasing
number of teen-age smokers con
stitutes a definite fire hazard; until
further notice, there will be up
smoking anywhere in the theater
building. Containers will be pro**
vided outside of the theater, where
lighted cigarettes may be discard
ed before entering the lobby. The
above is necessary to maintain a
high standard of safety.
Remember the Nome Fire