OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PI
63rd Year No. 2
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1962
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ARA Meeting
Scheduled for
Nome on Jan. 24
An Area Redevelopment organi
zation meeting is called for Wed
nesday, Jan. 24 at the City Hall.
It is important that as many per
sons as possible attend, from Dis
trict 23.
Area Redevelopment came about
by an act of Congress that be
came law on May 1, 1961. The
purpose of the law is to help
areas of substantial and persis
tent unemployment, such as ours,
to take effective steps in plan
ning and financing economic re
development. The law provides
that new employment opportuni
ties should be created by develop
ing and expanding new and exist
ing facilities and resources rather
than by merely transferring jobs
from one area to another.
The Area Redevelopment Act
proposes to make economic re
development possible by providing
loans to individuals, partnerships
or corporations to create new in
dustries or to expand existing
ones. The law provides that such
loans may be made for as long as
25 years. There are other definite
provisions for providing such
loans, but they will be covered
in a later article.
One of the first requirements
for qualifying for loans under
the Area Redevelopment Act is
that there be a board established
representing the entire area and
that the board submit a plan of
economic development which is
approved by the State and Federal
Area Redevolpment Directors.
The only means of establishing
an Area Redevelopment Board is
for a general meeting of the pub
lic attended by any or all in
terested parties. At this meeting
the Board will be established.
Since the entire Redevelopment
Area, in this case our election
district, must be represented by
the Board, it is therefore advisable
that all of the communities in our
election district make every ef
fort to be represented at this meet
ing.
The organizational meeting for
our election district has been set
for Jan. 24, 1962, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Nome City Hall. It is possible
under the law for the election dis
trict to have more than one
Board but, before this can be
established, there must first be
the meeting which includes the
entire area.
This is the first of a series of
articles which will cover in more
detail how and for what pur
poses loans may be obtained. Let
ters are being sent to each of the
village councils notifying them of
the organizational meeting, and
it is hoped that there will be a
good representation at this meet
ing.
PATNA, India Uft—Prime Min
ister Nehru called off a meeting
of the Congress party convention
today and left in a huff because
of an unruly crowd of gatecrash
ers.
When the crowd surged toward
the platform, Nehru appealed in
vain for order. He tried to jump
down from the safety of the dais
Into the crowd, but was restrain
ed by his security guards.
^ Nehru struck out at those hold
ing him and was only calmed by
his daughter and his sister.
Twenty-five persons were in
jured in the crush. Two were ad
mitted to die hospital and were
placed on the serious list.
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NASA Shows Drawings
Of Apollo Spacecraft
WASHINGTON UR — The Space
Agency made public today draw
ings of the Apollo spacecraft from
which man may get his first close
up look at the moon.
The early model Apollo craft
may enable its three-man crew
to select likely landing areas for
later versions designed to put
human beings on the moon within
this decade.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration also released
three drawings showing the tech
niques of launching a manned
spacecraft into earth orbit,
launching a powerful booster
rocket and supply vehicle into
orbit close behind, and joining
them in space for the long journey
to the moon.
The huge orbiting booster
rocket, starting its motors in the
near vacuum of space after hook
ing onto the Apollo vehicle, would
drop away after accelerating the
Apollo to escape velocity.
The Apollo craft would pro
ceed around the moon, come back
into earth orbit, and then be
slowed so as to re-enter the at
mosphere and return the crew to
earth.
"FOR SALE. CHEAP" . . .
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. UP) — The
following appeared among yes
terday’s classified advertisements
in the Jamestown Post-Journal
under "Wanted to Buy — What
Have You section:
"For Sale Cheap: Four boys,
ages 7, 4, 3, and 1. One husband,
age 31. All in repairable condi
tion. Make offer in Post-Journal.
P.S.—This has been a “bad day’.”
The newspaper said the ad was
submitted by a housewife from
the neaxlby community of Gerry.
Councilmen Get Tangled
Up in the “Twist” . . .
TAMPA, Fla. UP) — Tampa city
councilmen got all tangled up in
“the Twist” but when the show
was over — and it was a good
one — the gyrating dance fad
was still taboo at city recreation
centers.
Councilman Bill Myers made
a game try in a losing cause. He
even gave a demonstration in his
efforts to sway the council to
overrule the Recreation Depart
ment’s ban on the Twist.
Myers, 45, a fellow of medium
build, cavorted a few steps for
the benefit of other councilmen
yesterday and described the dance
tbusly:
“With one foot, you make out
like you’re stamping out a ciga
rette. At the same time, you move
both hands like you are drying
your back with a towel.”
But his exhibition and lecture
failed to persuade enough of his
council colleagues. They upheld
the Recreation Department ban
by a 4-3 vote.
“It isn’t as bad as the Black
Bottom and they didn’t outlaw
that,” Myers contended. “They
used to do the Charleston in short
skirts above the knees. And be
sides, anything as hard to learn
as the Twist, they shouldn’t out
law it.”
Five Africans Hung
NAIROBI, Kenya Ufi — Five
Africans were hanged last night
for the murder of a British house
wife, Norah Osborne.
Mrs. Osborne, 30, mother of
five children, v as beaten and
stabbed to death last May by a
gang of Kikuyus at her home in
Njora, in the Kenya highlands.
BMEWS Sites at
Thule and Gear
Are Activated
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
W) — The Air Defense Command
formally takes control today of
a far-flung alarm cable system
capable of flashing word of a
missile attack within seconds.
The alarm setup is called the
Ballistic Missile Early Warning
System.
Installations at Thule, Green
land, and Clear, Alaska, have (been
completed by the Air Force Sys
tems Command (AFSC). A third
site has been under construction
at Fylingsdale, Yorkshire, Eng
land.
They can warn of attacking
missiles in 10 seconds’ time.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth Bergquist,
Commander of AFSC’s Electronic
Systems Division, said the mas
sive detection radar antennas at
Thule and Clear are the most
powerful in the world.
Their multi-million-watt radar
scans 2,000 miles of Arctic land.
If the radar spots an object
moving, radar echoes are analyzed
quickly by computers which de
termine 'position and velocity of
the object. Its course is calcu
lated, and the warning is flash
ed along two separate routes to
North American Air Defense
(NORAD) Command headquarters
in Colorado Springs.
The information is flashed
within seconds to the Pentagon
in Washington and the Strategic
Air Command in Omaha as well
as NORAD.
The antennas at Thule and
Clear are bigger than a football
field turned on its side. Thule
has four radar reflectors, Clear
three. These are huge chrome
nickle steel arcs facing various
directions.
Tracing antenna dishes 84 feet
in diameter are in use at Thule
and Fylingsdale, revolving fast
enough to scan every direction in
seconds.
After Fylingsdale becomes
operational, it will 'be turned over
to the Royal Air Force.
Prisoner Throws the
Book at ihe Judge . . .
RACINE, Wis. UR — A prisoner
threw the hook — literally — at
county Judge Howard DuRocher
yesterday after his honor had
thrown the book—figuratively—
at him.
Patrick O’Neil, 26, was arrested
last November and admitted about
25 Racine County burglaries, in
cluding some while on parole for
a 1959 conviction.
The judge imposed consecutive
sentences of 10 years on each of
three counts and concurrent terms
on eight other charges.
As O’Neil heard the sentence,
he grabbed an eight inch volume
of the statutes from the lectern
where he was standing and threw
it at the judge shouting, “why
don’t you throw the book at me.”
O’Neil’s aim was poor and his
honor left the room unscathed.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Fair with little change in tem
perature. In the last 24 hours:
High of -3, low of -20. Max.
wind 23 mph from the northwest.
Sunrise at 9:52 a.m., sunset at
2:23 p.m. Temps, a year ago to
day: High of 4, low of -7. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 29 in 1953, low of -40 in
1917.
President to Make
State of The Union
Message Next Thursday
WASHINGTON UR — President
Kennedy plans to address a joint
session of Congress next Thurs
day, delivering his annual State
of the Union Message.
The Senate-House session in the
House chamber, beginning at 12:30
p.m 1ST, will be broadcast and
televised.
This is the only message the
President is expected to deliver
in person. Others, dealing with
the budget, farm program and
other subjects, tentatively are
scheduled to be sent to Congress
late this month.
Robert Bennett, BIA
Area Director, Takes
Over Duties Monday
JUNEAU UP) — Robert Bennett,
newly-appointed Alaska Area Di
rector for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, takes over his new duties
here Monday morning.
Bennett, who is scheduled to
fly in Sunday, replaces James
Hawkins, who will remain here
as special advisor to Bennett for
four to six weeks. Hawkins’ next
assignment has not been an
nounced.
Bennett, the son of a white
father and an Oneida Indian
mother, has been Assistant Area
Director of the Bureau of In
dian Affairs office at Aberdeen,
S.D.
He is a 1931 graduate of Haskel
Institute, (Lawrence, Kan. He
worked for the BIA from 1933
through 1943, served with the
Veterans Administration until
1949 and then rejoined the BIA.
He became superintendent of
the Consolidated Ute Agency in
Colorado in 1954 and was ap
pointed Assistant Area Director
' at Aberdeen in February, 1956.
Bennett and his wife have six
children.
GOP Verne Martin Raps
Gov, Egan on State
Employes’ Wage Plan
ANCHORAGE OR — Gov. Wm.
Egan’s administration has failed
to protect the interests of state
employes in proposing a lag-type
payroll system for monthly paid
state employes, Verne Martin said
today.
Martin, a Republican candi
date for Governor, said in a state
ment:
“This is a method that the Egan
administration can use to borrow
the entire state payroll from the
employes for one-half of every
month, without interest.”
He said the procedure would
seriously affect the credit of every
state employe.
Plans for converting to a lag
type payroll system, subject to
the approval of monthly paid em
ployes, would be paid two weeks
after the conclusion of each pay
period.
Egan declined to comment on
(Martin’s statement,
ABC BOARD RENEWS
809 LIQUOR LICENSES
JUNEAU (R — The State Al
coholic Beverage Control Board
said yesterday it has processed
809 applications for renewals of
liquor licenses which were in ef
fect in 1961.
Approximately 850 licenses
were issued last year.
The Board said some of the li
censes issued in 1961 will prob
ably not be renewed for 1962.
Defense Dept.
Announces Sharp
Cut in Draft Calls
WASHINGTON (A — Defense
Department announced today a
sharp cut in draft calls because
the Army has reached its buildup
goal.
The February draft call was set
at 8,000 men and the March call
at 6,000, all for the Army.
This was the lowest since last
July, just before the U.S. began
building up its military strength
in the face of Russian threats to
push the West out of Berlin.
The January call was 15,000.
The Pentagon said that as a re
sult of higher calls and other ac
tions the “strength objective of
the Army, including provisions
for manning the two new Army
divisions, has now been reached.”
Since the start of the buildup,
the announcement said, there has
been more than a 20 per cent im
provement in enlistments. Half of
the total manpower gains dur
ing the buildup have been from
inductions, it said.
This did not include the call
to active service of 119,000 Army
National Guardsmen and Re
servists.
Sells Traffic Tickets . . .
i ST. JOSEPH, Mo. UP> — Ronald
iSchappell, 23, Kansas City, Kan.,
posted a bond of $34 after he
was arrested on a city warrant
charging delinquent traffic tick
ets.
Schappell told police he is a
salesman of traffic supplies.
Among the items he sells are
traffic tickets.
Minuteman Missile
Scores 3,600-Mile Hit
CAPE CANAVERAL UP) — A
Minuteman intercontinental-range
missile roared out of an under
ground pit today and successfully
hit a target 3,600 miles down the
Atlantic range.
It was the third straight under
ground launching success for the
pushbutton solid-propellant weap
on which is scheduled to be opera
tinal next summer.
The Air Force reported all test
objectives were achieved. Major
goals were all-over performance
of the three-stage vehicle and to
measure temperature, pressures,
accoustics, vibration and shock
effects of the subterranean firing
on the rocket.
A great cloud of fire and smoke
rushed out of the 85-foot-deep silo
as the first-stage engine ignited
at the bottom. Seconds later, the
58-foot rocket zipped through the
smoke and raced toward its tar
get. _ ;
SITUATION NORMAL?
WASHINGTON UP)—The Army
set some sort of promotion record
today, upping nine officers from
lieutenant to colonel. But it turn
ed out to be a typographical
error, including the date of pro
motion—Dec. 32.
Included in the long promotion
roster distributed 'by the Army
were nine names under the head
ing: “Lt. to Col. 32 Dec. 1901.”
Translated from Army lan
guage this means promotion from
lieutenant to colonel—a jump of
four grades—with Dec. 32 as the
effective date of rank.
Army officials said that instead
of “Lt.” it should have read
“Lt. Col.” for lieutenant colonel.
They didn’t have to explain
there are only 31 days in De
cember.