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Q14HMH1 NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 103
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1962
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Kennedy Is
Not for Invading
Cuba at This Time
WASHINGTIN (.¥> — President
Kennedy said today “I am not for
invading Cuba at this time.” He
said such an act “could lead to
very serious consequences for many
people.”
Kennedy got into a discussion of
the Cuban situation at a news con
ference when asked about a state
ment by Sen. Homer Capehart, <R
Ind.t, that Russian soldiers have
landed in Cuba and that the
United States should invade.
The President said:
1. “We have no evidence of
troops” from Russia having arrived
in Cuba. He said the Communist
bloc military personnel who have
arrived in Cuba — an estimated
1,500 or more — are not “troops in
the usual sense. Others have de
scribed them as technicians or ad
visers.
2. “We have no information as
yet” that the Soviets have sent
anti-aircraft missiles to Cuba and
will be manning them. State De
partment officials said last week
it was possible such surface-to-air
missiles had arrived in Cuba.
3. The United States has told
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allies whose vessels are reported
ly carrying Rusisan goods to Cuba
that they should “consider the mat
ter very carefully” and discourage
such shipments.”
U.S. Senate Favors
Entertainment Deductions
WASHINGTON UP> — The Senate
voted 54 to 39 to permit entertain
ment deductions on taxes for good
will purposes so long as the spend
ing is connected to the purpose
of the business involved.
The roll call kept in the tax
recession bill a Senate Finance
Committee amendment designed to
soften the impact of House lang
uage aimed at broad good will
entertainment deductions.
President Kennedy’s original ex
pense account proposals were fig
ured to yield $250 million addition
al a year, the House bill $125 mil
lion, and the Finance Committee
version $60 million.
The Senate bill preserves two
features of the Houe version which
the administration supports: A $25
limitation on business gifts and
a requirement for detailed sub
stantiation of the business purpose
of a claimed entertainment deduc
tion.
Sen. Gruening Will
Address Nomeites Tonight
Sen. Ernest Gruening, accom
panied by George Sundborg his
administrative assistant, arrived in
Nome this morning from Kotzebue
and Barrow and was scheduled to
leave for Teller this afternoon.
He will speak with the voters
of this area this evening at 8 at
the Pioneer Hall and give the pro
gress on his road bill which is
so important to this area as well
as power developments, explain
ing some of the benefits that will
be felt here.
Howling Tornado Strikes
Louisiana Coastal Town
CAMERON, La. — A howl- j
ing tornado struck this Louisiana j
coastal town late Tuesday night, j
causing at least two fatalities. Au- j
thorities say the death toll may
go higher.
Sheriff’s deputies formed search
parties to roam through debris,
although heavy rains hampered
rescue operations.
At least 50 persons were reported
injured.
Streets in Cameron — where
nearly 500 persons died in a 1957
hurricane — were flooded. Nearly
eight inches of rain fell within a
six-hour period.
Cameron, which has a population
of about 2,500, is on the marshy
Gulf Coast in extreme southwest
Louisinana.
A tornado alert for the entire
southwestern Louisiana area ex
pired at 5 a.m. with no additional
reports of twisters.
“This was worse than Audrey,”
one refugee told a newsman. “No
warning. All of a sudden that tre
mendous howling noise.”
U.S. and Britain Refuse
Soviet Test Ban Proposal
GENEVA UP) — The Soviet
Union today proposed that all three
nuclear powers end atomic weap
ons testing at the beginning of
next year.
Vasily Kuznetsov, Soviet First
Deputy Foreign Minister, suggested
the test cut-off to the 76th ses
sion of the 17-nation disarmament
talks.
U.S. Ambassador Charles Stelle
and British Minister of State Joseph
Godber categorically turned down
the idea immediately.
Western sources said Kuznetsov’s
remarks made it clear he was pro
posing an unpoliced moratorium
which is completely unacceptable
to the West.
Tremors Rock Greece and Italy
ATHENS, Greece UP) — Relief
teams rushed aid today to thou
sands of persons made homeless
by earthquakes in Greece and
Italy.
Tremors Tuesday rolled in an
arc from northern Greece, through
the Peloponnesus and southern
Italy and up to the Alps.
Viet Nam War Totals
38 Americans Dead
WASHINGTON UP) — The Viet
Nam war, in which U.S. military
men are serving as front-line ad
visers and aircraft operators —
and being shot at — has resulted
in a casualty list of 38 Americans
dead.
The tally is shown in the most
recent Defense Department report,
through Aug. 20.
Eight have been killed in action,
28 died of wounds, and two died
while prisoners of the Viet Cong
Communists.
All but one, an Air Force man,
were Army.
In addition, 23 American mili
tary men have died from accidents,
natural causes and so forth. Of
these 11 were Army, 11 Air Force
and 1 Navy.
Two Major Brush
Fires Scorch San
Fernando Valley
LOS ANGELES l/P> — One of
two major brush fires burning
north of the populous San Fer
nando Valley burst through fire
fighting lines early today and
burned within four miles of the
other blaze.
The breakthrough occurred in
the Los Pinetos Canyon district.
The twin blazes were among five
brush and timber fires burning in
California w'hich have blackened
30.000 acres in recent days.
Six aerial tankers began dropping
fire-retarding borate solution on
the blazes this morning as 1.300
men fought them on ground. More
than 110 fire trucks and 15 bull
dozers were being used in the
battle.
The two fires broke out within
an hour of each other Tuesday 40
miles northwest of downtown Los
Angeles. Within a few hours they
had consumed hospital buildings,
oil storage tanks and 25 structures
on Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch.
Flames advanced on two vital
Nike missile sites and a powder
works containing an estimated 100
tons of explosives was saved by
only a narrow margin.
One blaze had a perimeter of 25
miles and had blackened 8,500
acres. The other — currently re
garded as the more troublesome —
had consumed 8,000 acres and in
creased its perimeter to 22 miles.
One fire swept over the San
Gabriel Mountains into the San
Fernando Valley, destroying an in
firmary on the grounds of Olive
View Sanitarium in Sylmar.
A fleet of ambulances, buses and
cars evacuated 80 patients, most
of them tuberculosis victims.
Some patients, rushed from sur
gery, still were unconscious, bot
tles of blood plasma suspended
above their stretchers.
A Veterans Administration hos
pital two miles to the east also was
threatened, but none of the 400
patients had to be evacuated.
BIDS REJECTED FOR FIELDS
AT STEBBINS. ST. MICHAEL
JUNEAU UP) — The State Di
vision of Aviation said today all
bids submitted for construction of
bush airstrips at Stebbins and St.
Michael, on Norton Sound, have
been rejected as too high.
Eugene Roguszka, Director of
Engineering and Construction for
the division, said new bids would
be opened Sept. 13, with the work
scheduled for completion during
the 1963 construction season.
DON'T KNOCK IT . . .
WASHINGTON (/Pi — The rules
for success in politics are many
and colorful, and Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy has added another —
“don’t knock having a brother as
President.”
The subject came up Tuesday in
a chat between Kennedy and 50
college students in his office. One
student wondered whether having
a brother in the White House was
a disadvantage in his job.
Replied the Attorney General:
“No — a great advantage. I don’t
knock it.”
C ommunist China C loses
Border With Hong Kong |
HONG KONG /P> — Red China
closed its border with Hong Kong |
today minutes after a bomb ex
ploded on the Chinese side of the i
border station at Shumchun.
The British closed off their side
of the border immediately after.
The explosion was the seventh
in a series of blasts that have rock
ed border stations facing Hong
Kong and the nearby Portuguese
colony of Macao in recent weeks.
Observers believe the explosions
are the work of an organized anti
communist t e r r o rist movement
taking shape in Red China’s
coastal Province of Kwantung.
CLARK SQUIRE FINED
FOR DRUNKEN DRIVING
SEATTLE (/Pi — Clark Squire,
67, member of the State Tax Com
mission and former Collector of
Internal Revenue for Washington
and Alaska, was fined $125 Tues
day for driving under the influ
ence of liquor.
Acting Traffic Judge Herbert
Onstad dismissed a reckless driving
charge.
Squire testified he had taken
four drinks of whiskey over a 5V->
hour period, but denied he was in
toxicated. He said a defective
clutch on his car caused him to
drive erratically.
He was arrested May 6 after
police said he ran two red lights.
Egan Pleased That
Stepovich Accepted
Debate Challenge
JUNEAU l/Pi — Gov. Wm. Egan
said today he was “pleased” that
Mike Stepovich. Republican candi
date for governor, had apparently
accepted a challenge by Egan to a
series of public debates.
In a telegram to Stepovich, a
Fairbanks attorney and former ter
ritorial governor, Egan said:
“I have read your wire and am
pleased at what I interpret as your
acceptance of my challenge for a
series of face to face public de
bates.”
j^gan said he had named a three
man committee consisting of Frank
Chapados of Fairbanks, Eugene
Guess of Anchorage and Joe Roth
stein of Juneau to work with a
similar committee designated by
Stepovich on details of the de
bates.
The governor said he had ac
cepted offers by the Fairbanks
Junior Chamber of Commerce, the
International Brotherhood of Pulp,
Sulphite and Papermill Workers
and the Alaska Forum to sponsor
debates at Fairbanks, Sitka and
Juneau, respectively.
“I am certain that these con
frontations, from a common plat
form, will indeed provide the
people of Alaska with a clear cut
choice as to which of us is com
petent to be governor of Alaska.”
In a telegram to Egan yesterday,
Stepovich had criticised the gover
nor for not releasing the state’s
1961 financial report.
In his reply, Egan said:
“1961 financial report of which
you express concern was issued
about 11 months ago, showing a
healthy $17 million balance.”
Pessimistic Doctor
Slashes and Douses
Bride with Acid
SAN .JOSE, Calif. .*> — A ! .-au
tiful blonde bride was slashed and
doused with acid by her doctor hus
band because he believed she was
unfaithful, chief of dectectives
Bart Collins said today. "I did it
to frighten her — to put the fear
into her against being an adult
eress,” Collins quoted Dr. Geza
de Kaplanv 36-vear-old former
Hungarian freedom fighter.
“She’s not going to die. I just
wanted to take her beauty away.”
He was booked for “investigation
of attempted murder.”
Doctors at the county hospital
said there was little chance of Mrs.
Hajha de Klapany, 25, surviving.
Collins said the woman was
found nude last night in the
couple’s swank apartment.
Collins said the doctor said he
stripped her nude when she re
turned from San Francisco early
last evening and bound her hands
with electrical wire and surgical
tape.
Collins said the doctor used an
3-inch butcher knife to mutilate
her left breast and then poured
acid over her body.
Dr. de Klapany, descendant
of a landed Hungraian family and
a freedom fighter in the 1955 up
rising against the Communist re
gime, then called an ambulance
and the police.
When police arrived Mrs. de Kla
pany was screaming hysterically,
with third degree acid burns over
her torso, arms and thighs.
Overseas Assignments
WASHINGTON UP — The Peace
Corps said Tuesday 1,508 of its
volunteers are scheduled to leave
for overseas assignments in 25
countries in the field.
Will Open Bids Sept. 5
For Lower Yukon Field
JUNEAU — Public Works
Commissioner Richard Downing
said today that bids will be opened
Sept. 5 for construction of a trunk
airport on the lower Yukon River.
The airport will be located six
miles west of St. Marys and a mile
and a half north of the Yukon
River.
Work will include construction
of a 4,725x200-foot runway and
six miles of access road.
The new airport, which will be
capable of handling large, multi
engined aircraft, will be construct
ed under the federal aid to air
ports program, with the state
matching federal funds on a three
to-five basis.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with occasional showers.
Westerly winds 15-25 mph from
northwest diminishing tonight.
Low tonight 35, high tomorrow 40
45. In the last 24 hours: High of
51, low of 47. Max. wind 33 mph
from WSW. Sunrise at 4:33 a.m.,
sunset at 7:30 p.m. Temps, a year
ago today: High of 57, low of 44.
Extremes on this date since 1907:
High of 67 in 1941, low of 27 in
1927.
Meet Sen. Ernest Gruening Tonight
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