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65rtl Year No. 88
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Arizona Cattleman
Will Stock Two
Alaska Islands
SEATTLE (j'P* — A family which
made cattle ranching history in
the southwest 80 years ago with a
trail ride from Texas to western
Arizona is off on another long
trek.
John Grounds, Kingman, Ariz.,
stockman, is leading his family
in a truck caravan to Alaska. He
plans to look over some islands to
see if they'd make good cattle
country.
“If the islands please us,” he
said yesterday as he prepared to
leave Seattle, “if they meet what
we expect, then we wall buy them
and stock them w’ith good cattle.
But we have to take a close look
and see how the stock does up
there.”
Grounds, whose father once had
ranches in Colorado, Utah and
Nevada, as well as Arizona, saw' an
ad in a Denver Stockman’s publi
cation about an island for sale in
the Gulf of Alaska, so he and his
wife flew over it last February.
They didn’t buy that island, but
they liked the looks of it and the
wild cattle on it, so they made
plans to go back.
With Grounds on this trek is
his wife, their 12-year-old twrins,
Rick and Sue, another daughter,
Lois. 19, w'ho just earned her air
plane pilot license, and his 84
vear-old uncle, Ila Grounds.
Grounds’ wagon train is a bit
fancier than the rigging his grand
father used in driving a herd of
about 1,000 Longhorn steers from
Palo Pinto, Tex., to the area where
Kingman, Ariz., now is located.
For one thing, this modern trail
driver is towing a modern house
trailer and carrying along a 1,500
watt light plant and two freezers
loaded with twro beeves and seven
hogs.
It’s also a little different from
the days w'hen his grandfather, W.
F. Grounds, fought drought, dust
and Indians to ramrod a trail herd
through West Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona and get the famed
WF brand started.
For one thing, about 1,500 pure
bred Angus cattle and many Here
fords range the big Arizona spread
instead of the wuld-eyed long
horns.
Now Grounds wants to see if
the carefully nurtured purebred
cattle can thrive on a new front
ier.
“This trail’s a lot longer than the
one my grandfather followed,” he
said, “but it’s a lot faster and
safer.”
LIVING COST EDGE UP
WASHINGTON UP* — Living
costs edged up in June to another
new record largely because of
higher food prices, especially cost
of restaurant meals.
The Labor Department an
nounced its Consumers Price In
dex rose one-tenth of one per cent
to 105.3 per cent of the 1957-59
base period. This means that the
value of the dollar in retail mar
kets is about 5 cents less than in
the comparative period.
The June living cost rise was
largely attributed to a 9 per cent
increase in prices of fresh fruits
but this was largely seasonal.
Restaurant meals rose one half
of one per cent in the month. The
overall food index is now at a
record high with grocery store
prices up by one per cent from
last year and restaurant meals 2.8
per cent above a year ago.
U THANT DENIES MILITARY
INITIATIVE IN THE CONGO
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP) —
Acting Secretary-General U Thant
denied today that he had proposed
a fresh military initiative in the
Congo to end the secession of
Katanga Province.
At the same time he charged
President Moise Tshombe of Ka
tanga with bad faith in unity ne
gotiations.
Thant’s denial was issued through
a U N. spokesman who was com
menting on reports arising from
Thant’s appearance yesterday be
fore a closed-door meeting of his
Congo advisory committee.
Members of the committee told
reporters that Thant had raised
the question whether the United
Nations should use force as a last
resort to unite the dissident pro
vince with the central government.
A spokesman said today Thant
asked members of the committee
“for their advice as to how the
present impasse could be broken,
including the possibility of seeking
a fresh mandate from the Security
Council.
“It is absolutely incorrect to
say that the Secretary-General had
proposed a fresh military initiative
in the Congo.’’
ARADevelopments
Area Redevelopment officials
met with the local ARA board and
some of the members at a late
meeting last Friday to discuss and
learn more about the loans from
this source for community im
provements.
In the party were Thomas Bich
sel. State Director of ARA; Harold
Williams, chief of the overall ARA
operations, from Washington, D.C.,
and Mrs. Cecelia Gayley, regional
chief of operations.
Mr. Ross Miller, newly appoint
ed BIA representative for indus
trial development was also in the
party.
Mr. Williams told the group that
that are 932 areas now declared
eligible in the United States for
federal types of aid and industrial
grants for public services can be
had for water, sewage, access
roads, ski slides, lodges, motels
and such.
Loans or grants are available
according to the need and where
the public service is of a nature
where it would improve the econ
omic climate of the area.
Mr. Miller with BIA of the new
branch of Industrial Development,
states that six projects for up
grading economy have been
brought before the BIA and three
have been approved with $138,500
appropriated in research funds for
marketing studies, study of rein
deer, marketing of shee fish, and
a tannery in the Norton Sound
area.
Ash Craft, president of the N.W.
Alaska ARA group, left with the
party and visited Hooper Bay,
Bethel, and King Salmon where
he was able to see what people in
these areas need and want.
Kodiak Queen to Seafair
SEATTLE — Another Alas
kan has joined the growing ranks
of visiting queens for Seafair.
She is 18-year-old Polly Perry,
sponsored by the Kodiak area
Chamber of Commerce. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Perry, Corpus Christi, Tex.
All the queens will be guests of
Greater Seattle, Inc., during July
27-Aug. 5 celebration. They wiil
ride in floats at various festivals
and appear at community cele
brations.
JKF Agrees To
Self Determination |
For Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy notified Puerto Rico's
governor today he agrees that the
people of Puerto Rico now should
vote on their preference for in
dependence, statehood or perfect
ing the present commonwealth
form of government.
Kennedy’s views were in a letter
the White House said Vice Presi
dent Lyndon Johnson would de
liver today to Gov. Luis Munoz
Marin. Kennedy appointed John
son to represent the people of
the United States on the celebra
tion today of the 10th anniversary
of the founding of the common
wealth government.
Hundreds cheered Johnson Tues
day night on his arrival in San
Juan.
Munoz had written the President
that he believes the time has come
for growth and improvement of
the commonwealth system.
“It is my purpose,” Munoz told
Kennedy, “to recommend that ad
vocates of both independence and
federated statehood for Puerto
Rico should be afforded the op
portunity to present these alter
native to the electorate, so that
no doubt whatever may be enter
tained either in Puerto Rico, in
the United States or elsewhere
that the basic United States prin
ciple of self-determination has
been thoroughly carried out.”
The President said he is aware
that the commonwealth relation- ,
ship is not perfected and has not
realized its full potential.
The commonwealth is a self-gov
erning entity permanently affiliated
with the United States. In Congress
it has only a resident commission
er without a vote.
Gen. Lemnilzer Named
Allied Commander in Europe
PARIS l# — Gen. Lyman L.
Lemnitzer of the United States to
day was named Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe by the 15
nation North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization.
Lemnitzer, former chairman of
the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, will
succeed Gen. Lauris Norstad, who
resigned Saturday effective about
Nov. 1.
PAA - FLIGHT ENGINEERS
SETTLE LABOR DISPUTE
WASHINGTON i/P' — Pan
American World Airways and its
flight engineers settled their labor
dispute today on terms proposed
by Secretary of Labor Arthur J.
Goldberg.
The agreement, announced by
Goldberg at 2 a.m. following a
six-hour surprise negotiating ses
sion, calls for binding arbitration
of economic issues and settlement
of the tangled jet crew issues along
lines he proposed earlier in the
week.
The airlines are expected to an
nounce shortly reduction of jet
cockpit crews from four men to
three. The flight engineers want
the third job. The airlines want
men trained as pilots to hold it.
Goldberg’s proposal, to which
Pan American and the union
agreed, was that engineers cur
rently working for the air line
would get the job, until attrition
gradually cuts their ranks, at which
time pilot-trained men also would
be employed in the third slot. The
engineers agree to take pilot train
ing, and give up their demand that
engineers be qualified mechanics.
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Ul.'RNING IX ALASKA
WASHINGTON W — Forest
fires started by lightning are rang
ing in the western and central
part of Alaska, the Interior De
partment reports.
The Department’s Bureau of
Land Management in Anchorage
sent word yesterday that 27 fires
so far have been reported and that
seven of them were out of control.
About 250 men were reported
fighting the flames.
Seventeen smoke jumpers and
four fire bombing planes loaded
with chemicals have been dis
patched to help fight the fires, the
department said. Two of the fires
were described as being in such
remote areas that no one yet reach
ed them to start fire-fighting opera
tions.
The department said that the
flames have now spread over
30,000 acres, the largest fire raging
over a 10,000 acre area.
Tender Memories
NEW YORK W — A Cuban re
fugee finally made it to the United
States Tuesday, with his fortune
of tender memories in his head.
Luis Hernandez-Noa, 27, fled
Cuba seven months ago. Before he
left, he had two small diamonds
removed from a ring given him
by his Cuban fiancee and set in
his front teeth.
The diamonds were still there
when Luis arrived from Europe
where he jumped ship after a
voyage from Cuba.
Americans View
Berlin Wall on TV
NEW YORK l.-P' — The awesome
and chilling image of the Berlin
Wall was brought home to Ameri
cans Tuesday night — literally —
as a live telecast of the barrier
dividing the city was flashed to
the United States via Telstar.
The program originated in the
American sector of Berlin where
there is a crossing point for West
Germans to enter East Berlin. It
was carried by the National
Broadcasting Co. as, for the first
time in history, all three major
American networks offered indi
vidual live television news reports
from Europe.
The American Broadcasting Co.
presented its chief European cor
respondent. Lou Cioffi. from Paris,
and diplomatic correspondent John
Scali from Geneva.
Associated Press n e w s m a n
George Boultwood reported in a
cabled dispatch from Berlin that
the East German guards on the
wall showed lively interest as the
West Berlin equipment was set
up.
COFFEE-BREAK MEETING
SLATED FOR STEPOVICH
Local Republicans have planned
a coffee-break meeting with Mike
Stepovieh from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday
afternoon at the Bering Sea Club.
Stepovieh, a Republican candi
date for governor in the Aug. 14
primary, is expected to arrive
here Friday morning. He was Al
aska’s last territorial governor.
Coffee and cake will be served
to all who attend, who will be
given an opportunity to talk to
the candidate in a relaxed and
informal atmosphere.
Entrance to the Bering Sea
Room may be made either thru
the bar or by the apartment en
trance.
Stepovieh has said he intends to
continue on to Kotzbue on Sat
urday.
Crash War Brlhel
Claims Three Lives
ANCHORAGE W- An Anchor
ige man, Robert If. Cline, 36. was
the third victim of the airplane
mash Monday evening 80 miles
iuth of Bethel near the Quinahak
river.
Cline, an electronics *< chnician
employed here with the Division
of Communications, was identified
from possesssions found on his
body, state police officers said.
Other victims of the crash were
Lester Varozza, 28. Kuskokwim
area fisheries biologist who work
ed out of the Anchorage Commer
cial Fisheries Office of the State
Department of Fish and Game,
and the pilot, Tom Conquest, 27. a
life-long resident of Bethel.
Officials are still investigating
the fatal crash which occurred as
the men were counting salmon in
tributaries of the Kuskokwim
river. The plane had been char
tered to the State Department of
Fish and Game by Bethel Charter
Service.
Investigators who reached the
scene yesterday after a delay
caused by rainy and windy wea
ther said the plane had apparently
exploded and burned after going
down in the flat tundra country
with considerable impact.
Cline, who had gone to Bethel
only Monday. was unknown in
that community where he was
seen entering the plane.
With the Division of Communi
cations of the State Department of
Highways only three months, tie
had spent most of that time in the
Kodiak area. His wife and three
children reside here.
Lester Varozza was also a new
comer to Alaska, having joined the
Deparment of Fish and Game here
on May 18. He had spent most of
the time in the Kuskokwim area
and was soon to be moved to
Aniak. He made his home in An
chorage with his wife.
The pilot, Tom Conquest, was
.vorking as a mechanic in Bethel
ior Northern Consolidated Airlines
"or whom he had also flown as a
)ush pilot for a time. The fatal
'light was apparently being made
in his own time, according to
\TCA officials here who said Con
quest had worked with the airline
ntermittently since 1953.
\ Reminder to Politicians
JUNEAU !/P> — Tligrwavs Com
nissioner Donald McKinnon, nn'
ng that 1962 is an election year,
ssued a reminder today that state
aw prohibits general outdoor ad
vertising along Alaska's highways.
McKinnon said his office has al
ready received reports of viola
ions by persons placing political
aosters along highways.
Persons convicted of violating
the law are subject to fines of up
to $500.
ICE CUBE-TOSSING RECORD
INDIANAPOLIS UP — The ice
cube-tossing record changed hands
almost as fast as a melting cube
with two college sophomores claim
ing a mark of 4,236 tosses today.
Philip McGovern, 13, and Carl
Wagner, 18. said they broke the
record
Their claim came three hours
after two Indianapolis high school
girls, Barbara Fenskc, 16, and
Marilyn O’Connor, 15. claimed a
record of 4,027.
CANADIAN SHIP HERE
In the roadstead today to take
on water and fuel is the CHS
Richardson, a Dept, of Mines and
Technical Survey ship of the Can
adian government.