OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
65rd 'S ear No. 110
NOMi:, ALASKA, MONDAY , SI P I ! MBI R r, 1962
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Nine New Astronauts Are
Added to Nation’s Space Team
HOUSTON, Tex W — Nine new
astronauts, including two civilians
were added to the nation’s space
team today.
The new group boosted to 16
the number of astronauts who will
man the space flights for which
President Kennedy has set a goal
of reaching the moon in this
decade.
Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of
the Manned Spacecraft Center, for
mally presented the new group to
the nation at an afternoon press
conference at Cullen Auditorium
on the campus of the University
of Houston.
Gilruth said the nine already
have been assigned to a compre
hensive training program at the
center to prepare them for pos
sible space flights.
Two Civilians
In addition to the two civilians,
the group includes four Air Force
officers and three Navy officers.
All have test pilot experience.
The civilians are Neil Arm
strong, 32, a native of Wapakoneta,
Ohio, and currently a test pilot
with the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, and Elliot
See Jr., 35, a native of Dallas, Tex.,
and experimental pilot for the Gen
eral Electric Co.
The Air Force men are:
Maj. Frank Borman, 34, a native
of Gary, Ind., an instructor in the
Aerospace Research Pilot School
at Edwards AFB.
Capt. James McDivitt, 33, a na
tive of Chicago, an experimental
flight test officer at Edwards AFB.
Capt. Thomas Stafford, 32, a na
tive of Weatherford, Okla., chief
of the Performance Branch at the
Experimental Test Flight Division
of the Aerospace Research Pilot
School at Ewards AFB.
Capt. Edward White II, 32, a na
tive of San Antonio, Tex., an ex
perimental test pilot at Wright
Patterson AFB, Ohio.
The Navy officers are:
Lt. Charles Conrad Jr., 32, a na
tive of Philadephia, a safety of
ficer for Fighter Squadron 142.
Lt. Cmdr. James Lovell Jr., 34,
a native of Cleveland, Ohio, a flight
instructor and safety officer at the
Naval Air Station at Oceana, Va.
Lt. Cmdr. John Young, 32, a na
tive of San Francisco, maintenance
officer for Fighter Squadron 53 at
the Naval Air Station, Miramar,
Calif.
The seven Project Mercury as
tronauts selected in April 1959 in
cluded three Navy officers, three
Air Force pilots and one Marine
pilot.
Secretary Udall
Will Visit Nome
JUNEAU (A*) — Secretary of the
Interior Stewart Udall will spend
the week of Sept. 23rd in Alaska.
In a wire to the Associated Press
at Juneau, Rep. Ralph Rivers said
the Alaska congressional delega
tion was told by the cabinet of
ficer that he will visit as many
communities as possible during
his short trip. Udall hopes to stop
briefly at Metlakatla, Ketchikan
and Juneau on Sept. 23rd; Anchor
age Sept. 25th, Fairbanks Sept.
27th and Nome Sept. 28th.
Udall will make side trips to
Glacier Bay National Monument,
the Kenai Peninsula and the
Matanuska Valley enroute. He will
return to Seattle Sept. 29th.
Average Age 32.5 Years
The average age of the new as
tronauts is 32.5 years, as compared
with 34.5 for the 1059 group at the
time of the selection.
Gilruth said selection of the
nine test pilots today culminates
six months of extensive evalua
tion of qualifications of 253 volun
teers from among military and
civilian applicants.
Gilruth did not indicate how
much training will be necessary
before any of the new astronauts
can make an actual space flight.
He said assignment of flight
crews will depend upon the con
tinuing physical and technical
status of the nine and upon the
future flight schedule require
ments.
“The new flight test personnel
will, however, have an important
role in the manned spacecraft pro
gram, in addition to any flight
participation,” Gilruth said.
“This role will include contri
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43,000-TON ITALIAN
jOCEAN LINER LAUNCHED
GENOA, Italy UP) — The 43-000
j ton Michelangelo, the biggest
j Italian ocean liner built since
World War II, slid down the ways
in this north Italian port Sunday.
The Michelangelo, 825 feet long
with accommodations for 1,850
passengers and a crew of 720, is
scheduled for service on the North
American run by the summer of
1964.
A sister ship, the Raffaello, is
under construction in Trieste.
Castro Deploys About
6,000 Troops Near
Guantanamo Naval Base
GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE,
Cuba UPi — Fidel Castro has de
ployed about 5,000 to 6,000 troops
near this U.S. base in eastern
Cuba, according to intelligence
reaching American Navy and Ma
rine commanders.
But U.S. military authorities be
lieve these regulars, bolstered by
thousands of militiamen, are there
to keep the Cuban people in check
rather than to mount an attack
on this vital American fleet base.
Guantanamo’s command doubts
the likelihood of any serious Cuban
threat to the 45-squarc-mile base,
but the entire military force of
about 3,000 men has been trained
to fight if trouble comes.
So far little of the new military
gear the Soviet Union has sup
plied to Castro’s regime has show
ed up near this U.S. enclave. Rear
Adm. Edward O’Donnell, base
commander, said his patrols have
not sighted any missile-armed
topedo boats which President Ken
nedy said have been sent to Cuba.
O’Donnell reported Soviet-made
trucks are operating outside Guan
tanamo’s fence, but they have
been in the area for some time.
Persons suspected of being Com
munist bloc nationals, including
some Asians, have been spotted
near the base.
Castro has perhaps 100 Soviet
made Mig fighters, but there have
been no intrusions of Guantana
mo’s air space since the spring
of 1961.
Most of Castro’s forces in this
area are stationed some miles
from Guantanamo’s 26-mile peri
meter, but the Cubans maintain a
line of one and two-man outposts
within 100 yards of the base fence.
Massachusetts
BOSTON — Massachusetts
voters decide Tuesday whether
there are too many Kennedys in
public life or if another of the clan
should have a crack at high public
office.
That seemed the overriding is
sue today as Edward M. Kennedy,
30, brother of President Kennedy,
and Edward J. McCormack, 39,
nephew of House Speaker John
McCormack, climaxed a whirlwind
campaign for a short-term U.S.
Senate nomination.
At stake in November ballot
ing is the remaining two years of
the term Kennedy left behind to
become President.
Two Republicans will fight it
out at the polling places for their
party’s nomination and the op
portunity — if Kennedy should
win this primary — to take the
dynasty issue to the voters for a
second round in the general elec
tion.
They are George Lodge, former
Assistant Secretary of Labor, and
Rep. Laurence Curtis, 10-year
member of Congress whose dis
trict was reapportioned out of ex
istence.
Millions of words have been
! poured out by the candidates at
street rallies, clambakes and on
television about the issues of the
campaign.
But the man on the street seems
considerably more interested in the
question of whether Teddy Ken
nedy should have a chance to join
his President brother and his
Attorney General brother in hold
ing major office in Washington.
The first go-around on this mat
ter w'on’t be decided entirely by
Democrats. Young Kennedy de
monstrated a way with the party
organization by winning its state
convention endorsement for the
nomination.
But there are 1,200,000 registered
independents in Massachu setts.
Ordinarily they don’t bother about
primaries. But this time a sub
stantial number of them seem to
be steamed up by the Kennedy
McCormack contest. Independents
outnumber the 900,000 registered
Democrats and 600,000 Republi
cans.
Flight Engineer Snaps
Pictures of Pilots
Asleep in Plane Cockpit
WASHINGTON UB — A flight
engineer who said he took photo
graphs of airline pilots reading
and sleeping in the cockpit said to
day he kept quiet about them for
more than a year because of
threats to his family.
“Perhaps I’m a coward,” said
D. K. Carson of Hicksville, N.Y.,
“but these are the reasons these
(pictures) did not come forward
entirely voluntarily.”
Carson’s Flight Engineers’ Union
is on strike against Eastern Air
Lines, for which he worked when
he said he took the pictures of
pilots sleeping, reading news
papers and letting stewardesses sit
at the controls while in flight.
Carson was called before a Gov
ernment Operations Subcommittee.
Carson and Ronald Brown, pres
ident of the Flight Engineers Inter
national Assn., testified jointly.
Brown said similar pictures had
been taken by W- J- Miller of Los
Angeles, a flight engineer for]
Trans World Airlines.
Soviets Won't Renew
Relations With Allied
i Commanders in Berlin
! MOSCOW (/Pi — Tho Soviet
I Union tonight declared it will not
| renew relations with the tnr e
I Allied military commanders in
! West Berlin.
In a statement published by Tass,
; the Soviet government described
i West Berlin as a NATO base
i threatening the security of the
| socialist countries.
The government statement re
jected an American, British and
French contention that Berlin re
mains under four-power control.
The Western Allies made the
statement Aug. 24 shortly after the
Soviet commandant of the city
I was withdrawn and his duties were
turned over to East Germany.
The Soviet statement charged
the four - power administration in
Berlin ceased to exist in 1948,
when it said, the three Western
commanders set up a separate
military kommandatura in West
Berlin.
The Soviet Union has nothing
to do with these unilateral actions
of the Western powers and cannot
bear responsibility for their conse
quences,'’ tlie Soviet statement said.
GOP State Convention In
1964 to be Held In Nome
Charles Frazier returned from
Anchorage where he attended the
State Republican Convention as c
member of the GOP Central Com
mittee.
He announced this morning that
he extended an invitation for the
1964 convention to he held in
Nome and the invitation was ac
cepted.
The date of this convention will
be announced at a later date.
Mr. Frazier reports that about
200 delegates and alternates were
in attendance and other Nomeites
included Doris Wilke, committee
woman; Wallace Mclver. Grace
Johnson and WAV. Laws.
To<la\ is 28lh
Xnnivrrsarv Of
Big m \ i itv
Twenty-eight ye.'irs ago today
1 the business district and part of the
residential sections of the commu
nity were glowing embers and the
narrow planked streets became
memories <>f a stampede town,
i Nome fought back immediately
! and by nightfall temporary eating
places and even a store were
opened. Within two months Nome
was back in business.
For the benefit of newcomers
1 in the community who have heard
about the big fire of 1934. it is re
membered that a strong gusty wind
was blowing and the Golden Gate
: Hotel in which the fire was start
ed was located where the Dunbar
j and Gilbert homes are now lo
: eated on 1st Ave.
In four hours' time the firemen
! had lost their hose and the fire
! had wiped out Front St. and 1st
i Ave. from Steadman Ave.
j ft. advanced up 1st Ave. West on
both sides of the street as far as
i C St. and and was finally checked
I at the corner of 1st Ave. West and
I D St.< where Dr. J. Shadier now
I lives*.
: The last home to go, which was
j demolished by dynamite to make
I a fire break, was that of Mrs.
; Emily Boucher. A bucket brigade
i from the Snake River kept the
1 fire from spreading further after
i the two-storv home was dyna
! mited.
PIONEER WOMEN TO
MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY
| Pioneer Women of Alaska met
' last Friday evening and started
| making plans to celebrate their
! 50th anniversary, on Oct. 18.
The Pioneer Women Organiza
which has member groups through
out the State of Alaska originated
in Nome.
The celebration is scheduled for
Saturday, Oct. 20 and Mrs. Joe
Walsh was named chairman for
the event.
GOP’s Approve 57-Plank Platform
By Ward Sims
Associated Press News Analyst I
ANCHORAGE — Delegates!
to the Repulican party’s 1962 State j
Convention scattered for their
homes last night after giving their
approval to a 57-plank platform
and 18 resolutions.
The Republican State Central
Committee, meeting following the
convention, selected Nome as the
site for the 1964, Presidential elec
tion year, convention of the party
on a date still to be selected.
Nome's invitation to host the
1964 meeting was extended by
State Central Committeeman
Charles Frazier of Nome, prior to
the close of the convention.
The four-day meeting, one day
longer that originally scheduled,
ended on the same note of har
mony which became evident 1mm
the first session Thursday. There
were no major floor battles.
The convention originally had j
been scheduled to wind up Satin
day night, with a banquet address j '
by Leonard Nadasdy, Chairman of 1 ’
the National Young Republican 1
Federation.
But. the convention delegates , 1
found themselves far behind sched- c
ule late Saturday afternoon and 1
State GOP Chairman George i
Cooper of Fairbanks decided to r
continue the meeting Sunday. £
In one of their major planks,
the Republicans urged immediate
construction of the Snettisham.
Bradley Lake, Swan Lake and
Rampart Canyon hydro-electric
projects, “if proven to be the best
source for low cost power.”
In another major plank the GOP
urged an aggrt .••sive program to re
store Alaska'- fisheries and protect
them against foreign encroach
ment "with regulation and con
trol of fishing by and for resident
Alaska fishermen.”
The convention delegates urged
t hat the price of gold be increased
by permitting the private owner
ship of gold and legal provisions
for a free market for newly mined
commercial gold.
In a plank dealing with marine
transportation, the GOP said it
apposed "any federal legislation
which would amend the maritime
aws of the United States to i'ur
her restrict, limit or prohibit
'oreign shipping from participating
n trade between Alaska and for
eign nations provided such trade
vould not be detrimental to the
mtional interest.
Following up a plea made by
jowell Thomas Jr., Republican
andidate for the U.S. House of
tepresentatives, in a speech Sat
irdav, the convention approved a
esolution urging federal sanctions
gainst ships or shipping firms in
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