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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA
63rd Year No. 8
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1962
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Dominicans
Restore Civilian
Type Government
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican
Republic iff) — Dominicans ex
ulted wildly today over restora
tion of civilian government in a
counter-coup that formally ousted
President Joaquin Balaguer and
imprisoned the strong man who
had imposed military rule.
“Balaguer boo boo! Balaguer
boo iboo!” People chanted in the
streets, to rythmic whistling and
hand-clapping.
People hugged each other, stores
reopened and a carnival air reign
ed in celebration of the quick fall
of the junta imposed Tuesday
night by Maj. Gen. Pedro Echa
varria, the armed forces com
mander.
Rafael Bonnelly, 57, a lawyer
professor, became the new presi
dent, as he had been scheduled
to before Tuesday’s military take
over.
Bonnelly was sworn in almost
exactly 48 hours after he and
three other members of an all
civilian slate council were led
out of the national palace as pri
soners of Echavarria who set ud
« military-junta in the council’s
place.
VJB. Recognise* Restored Regime
WASHINGTON W» — The Unit
ed States announced today it re
cognizes the regime newly re
stored to power in the Dominican
Republic as the constitutional
government of the country. It
promised economic cooperation
and a speedy aid program.
MAMOOK9 INVADE
UHAUUCLEET TONIGHT
The Nome High School team
leaves today for a two-day tour
nament at Unalakleet where they
will play a game tonight and an
other tomorrow evening against
the Covenant High School.
On tiie Nome Team are Mike
Cannon, Stan Andersen, John
Bahnke, Ernie Allak, Wayne Wit
tie, Tex Cbunn, Billy Seegoonick,
Ken Okitkon. Accompanying them
Is coach Allen Bradshaw and
manager John Amundsen.
Three Basketball Games
On Tap far Fans Tonight
The Air National Guard basket
ball team arrives this evening to
play the 1st Scout Battalion team
at 8:30. The group which is ac
companied by a full plane load
of fans from Anchorage will re
main over the weekend, it has
been reported.
The first game of the evening
will be at 7:30 between the Nome
High School girls and the Polar
Curio girls with a second game
at 6:45 between the 7th and 8th
grades, followed by the ANG
game at 8:30.
High School Principle McCor
mick states that there will be no
increase in admission charges for
the triple header.
On the ANG team are Bill Cald
well, gadipe, John and Harold
Two Missing Kotzebue
Seal Hunters Walk In
NOME UP) — Two Kotzebue
seal hunters missing since Jan. 4
walked into the village of Ki
valina today, some 80 miles north
of Kotzebue.
James Kigrook, 35, and Bill
Barr, 33, had been the objects of
an intense air search for the past
few days.
They dropped from sight after
leaving Shishmaref for a cabin at
Cape Espenberg, to pick up a load
of seal meat. The two men’s sleep
ing bags and heavy clothing were
later found in the cabin and it
was feared they had become
trapped on a drifting ice floe.
THREE FEUDING PRINCES OF
LAOS REACH AGREEMENT
FOR ONE NATIONAL GOVT.
GENEVA UP) — The three feud
ing princes of Laos reached agree
ment here today on a formula for
a government of national unity.
The agreement was announced
by neutralist Prince Souvanna
Phouma at the end of a two-hour
meeting of three princes.
Souvanna Phouma said “very
great progress” was made at the
meeting, and there were hopes
a united Laotian government
could be set up before the end
of the month.
But he stressed that the agree
ment still has to be ratified y
rightist supporters of Prince
Boun Oum in Laos.
Near Fairbanks
WASHINGTON UF> — A weather
satellite antenna will be built near
Fairbanks under a contract award
ed yesterday by the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration (NASA).
The Alaska congressional dele
gation was told a $2,077,908 con
tract went to Rohr Aircraft Corp.,
Chula Vista, Calif., to manufac
ture and erect three 85-foot an
tenna systems, one at Fairbanks
and the others in North Carolina
and Newfoundland.
The antennas will be part of
the Nimbus satellite weather fore
casting project.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett said the
President’s budget sent to Con
gress today includes a request for
about $1 million to allow NASA
to operate an already built track
ing station at GiUniore Creek near
Fairbanks.
He said it also asks $550,000
for the Weather Bureau to equip
and establish a transmission sys
tem for a Readout Station near
Fairbanks for which some $5 mil
lion was previously appropriated.
A Readout Station, he explain
ed, is a facility for translating
information received by a track
ing station from a satellite.
Fair. Occasional fog. Low to
night 0 to 5, high tomorrow 15.
In the last 74 hours: High of 22,
low of 6. Max. wind 15 tnph from
the east. Sunrise at 9:21 a.m., sun
set at 3:06 p.m. Temps, a year
ago today: High of 35* low of 20.
Extremes on tills date since «HW:
WEATHER OUTLOOK
High
of 39 in 1931, low of ^6 in
U.S. Postpones
Rocket Shot
To the Moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UR—
A United States attempt to rocket
a payload to the Moon, scheduled
for next Monday, was postponed
today for at least a month because
of technical troubles with the Atlas
booster rocket.
A brief statement said:
“The Ranger 3 lunar launching
scheduled for January has been
postponed due to technical diffi
culties in the launch vehicle
booster. No new launch date has
been set.”
The Ranger 3 firing was one of
three major U.S. space efforts
scheduled from Cape Canaveral
next week. The others are the at
tempt to send astronaut John H.
Glenn Jr. into orbit about the
earth and to orbit five satellites
with a single rocket.
Space scientists had a 5-day
period starting Monday in which
to launch Ranger 3. In this time,
the Moon will be in a favorable
position, some 235,000 miles away.
The trouble in the Atlas booster,
not disclosed, is such that it could
not be corrected in time to achieve
launching in this period. The next
I optimum period begins about Feb.
2.
1 Hanger 3 is intended to take a
166-hour trip to the Moon, relay
ing close up television pictures anc
1 then landing an instrument pack
USeS* hitT^ moonqiuakes an
Ironworkers
Agree on New
Working Contract
ANCHORAGE <£>—Representa
tives of labor and management
in Alaska steel construction have
announced agreement on a new
contract calling for continuation
of the present pay scale.
The announcement was made
at a press conference by Kenneth
Campbell, business representative
of the International Assn, of
Bridge, Structural and Ornamental
Iron Workers Local No. 751, and
A. E. Milner, president of the
Alaska Steel Contractors and
Erectors Assn.
The new contract, which ex
pires July 1, 1063, calls for a labor
agreement to be reached by Feb.
1 each year.
Negotiations this year were
mainly concerned with writing an
entirely new contract to achieve
“a better overall understanding
and clarification of working and
job safety conditions,” the an
nouncement said.
Campbell said the agreement
will cover about 340 iron workers
in the state, all of whom are dis
patched through Local No. 751.
The current pay scale ranges
from $5.11 to $5jS1 hourly.
The Ironworkers contract leaves
only three construction unions
without a working agreement foe
1962. The largest, the Carpenters
Union, a keystone of the construc
tion business, is now in negotia
tions with the Associated Gen
eral Contractors.
Alaska Steam Head
Accuses Sen. Gruening
Of “Unwarranted Attack”
SEATTLE UD — President D.
E. Skinner of Alaska Steamship
Co. today accused Sen. Gruening
of making an “unwarranted, mis
leading and inaccurate” attack
on the company.
Skinner commented in a state
ment on the Alaska senator’s re
marks before the U.S. Senate Jan.
15. Gruening referred to Alaska
Steam’s recent request for rate
increases on certain shipments in
addition to a 10 per cent increase
allowed conditionally in 1960 and
still pending before the Federal
Maritime Commission.
Skinner said Gruening was
quoted in the Congressional Rec
ord as saying “I believe my re
cital will provide ample reason
for the Commission to decide both
rate increase cases in favor of the
public interest — in favor of the
people of Alaska."
“Under our government of
law,” Skinner’s statement said,
“any attempt to influence a judge
or jury outside the proper area
of the courtroom would be dealt
with swiftly and summarily. Here,
however, a United States Senator
used the privileged floor of the
Senate in an open attempt to take
action on matters already pending
before the Commission — action
l calculated to suit the senator^
- own warped opinion on the ‘pub
1 lie interest’.”
cide the cases “on the basis of
legally and properly established
records, without regard to this j
obvious attempt by the senator to
intimidate these representatives I
of our government.” . I
New Orleans Freeze
: Kills Palm Trees
NEW ORLEANS Gf) — Thou
sands of palm trees, including
those along famed Canal Street,
were killed by the record freeze
in New Orleans last week.
Felix Seeger, superintendent of
the Parkway and Parks Commis
sion, said the Commission does
not have the approximately $18,
000 needed to replace than.
The temperature dropped to 12
degrees during the four-day cold
wave, the lowest reading here in
hall a century.
Seeger estimated total damage
to the city shrubbery, flower
plants and trees at $250,000. '
Where Your Federal,
Tax Dollar Goes
WASHINGTON MR — Here is
how your federal tax dollar will
be spent under President Ken
nedy’s fiscal 1963 budget:
National security, including
. space and foreign aid, 63 cents; in
i terest on federal debt, 10 cents
veterans, 6 cents; farm programs
i 6 cents; health and welfare, (
; cents; all other, 9 cents.
* This is where the budget dol
r lar comes from:
Income tax, 53 cents; corpora
- tion taxes, 28 cents; excise (sales!
- taxes, 11 cents; other sources, f
cents.
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Junior Miss
Pageant Set for
Tomorrow Night
Junior Miss contestants start ar
riving today to be the guests of
the Jaycees for the entire week
end.
The lovely home of Carl Gla
vinovich has been generously of
fered to house the girls, who will
be chaperoned by Rev Morgan
and Ruth McLean of the Beta
Sigma Phi.
Tonight there will be a dinner
honoring the girls and judging
will start at noon on Saturday
culminating at the Pageant on
Saturday evening. A brunch is
sponsored for them Saturday
morning by Beta Sigma Phi.
Most of the judges have been
selected from out of town. The
goal is to search for the high
school senior most representative
of her classmates in every Amer
ican community. The standards
set by the Pageant Committee
are exceptionally high. Special
emphasis is placed on these
qualities — character, citizenship,
high school activities, personal
ambitions, and lady-like poise
and demeanor. All of the pageants,
local, state and national stress the
value of education by offering
' college scholarships as the major
s\ awards.
receiving
I smaller wardrobes.
The winner to be announced
Saturday at the Pageant will have
an all expense-paid trip some
time in March to Mobile, Ala.,
and a glorious week of being a
celebrity.
The contestants this year are:
Beverly Mimms, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hodge of Fair
banks; Elizabeth Rogers, Bethel;
Betty June Weber, Anchorage;
Mable Soxie of Unalakleet, daugh
ter of Mrs. Jacob Soxie; Gail Mc
Iver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Mclver of Nome.
The Fairbanks, Anchorage and
Nome girls are sponsored by the
Jaycees of those communities and
the other girls by the Chambers
of Commerce.
The Pageant will not only fea
ture the Junior Miss contestants,
but include other speciality num
bers on the program which starts
at 8:00 pm. with Robert Har
wood as master of ceremonies.
Sunday more fun and entertain
ment is planned for the visitors
by the Jaycees.
Heading the committee for the
Jaycees are Joe Unterwagner,
Virgil Vochoska, Barrow Morgan
and Stan Molitor.
A no-hoet dinner Sunday eve
ning at 7 will culminate the
Junior Miss activities and give
everyone an opportunity to meet
the winner and the other girls.
WASHINGTON Sen. E. L. Bart
lett said yesterday the President’s
budget includes a request for $50,
000 to establish a Commerce De
partment Field Office in Alaska.
A location for the proposed of
fice has not been selected.
8 P.M. SATURDAY NIGHT
School Multipurpose Room
A4xn. $1 - Dance to live Music
NO HOST DINNER SUNDAY
7 p.m. at the Sea view Room
For the Girls In the Paseant