SHI NOME NUGGET
NEWSPAPER IN AIJVSKA—MF.MBRR ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 82
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1962
Per Copy 150
Telstar Relays
TV Programs
Across Atlantic
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
NEW YORK UP) — Telsiar, Am
erica's chatterbox new satellite,
zoomed through lonely space to
day on its pioneering mission to
bring the world a new voice, ears
and eyes.
In a triumphant baptism Tues
day night, it sent television pic
tures spanning the Atlantic to
France and England, as well as
into U.S. homes. It relayed a tele
phone call from Maine to Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson in
Washington as loud and clear as
the best of local calls.
Then for an encore, the versatile
Telstar—only a yard wide—simul
taneously transmitted news stories
at a 1,000-word-a-minute clip, re
layed photographs perfectly and
supplied two-way telephone calls
with perfect aplomb from a 3.000
mile height in space.
Remarkably clear television pic
tures were received in France,
and were relayed by tape into
French homes today.
French television officials plan
ned to beam a return program to
the United States late tonight or
early Thursday French time, which
is six hours ahead of New York in
Eastern Standard Time.
In Britain, faint and fleeting
pictures were picked up as Tel
star received, amplified and re
radiated the program beamed into
space from a powerful horn anten
na in the little town of Andover,
Maine. The first telecast via space
opened with a view of the Ameri
can flag rippling in the breeze.
Telstar's first feats were a pro
digious demonstration of things to
come in a future worldwide satel
lite communications system to
meet mounting demands for tele
phone, news, business, and tele
vision circuits spanning oceans and
continents.
Praising this joint venture of
private industry and government—
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co. footed the entire $4 million
cost of building, launching and
tracking Telstar—Newton Minow,
chairman of the Federal Commu
nications Commission, remarked:
"Now we have increased oppor
tunity to increase the flow of in
formation among all nations, to
surmount the walls of ignorance
and prejudice and to use mass com
munications hopefully to avoid
mass destruction."
Telstar was designed and built
by the Bell Telephone Labora
tories.
GALLEHER RUNS CLOSE
RACE WITH STORK ON
FLIGHT FROM UNALAKEET
Munz - Northern Airlines came
close to passing out cigars this
morning as a result of an emer
gency flight made last night to
Unalakleet.
At midnight Dick Galleher re
ceived word from the FAA that a
woman was being evacuated from
St. Michael by pilot Frank Ryan
and was being brought to Unala
kleet to be transferred to a plane
to bring her to the Nome hospital.
At 12:35 a.m., Galleher, accom
panied by Dr. Schadler and nurse
Miss Wilson departed for Unala
kleet.
The return trip was made “with
all haste,” landing in Nome at
about 3 a.m. At approximately
3:15 pilot Galleher was advised by
the hospital that “It’s a Girl” and
that the mother, Mrs. Christine
Washington was doing fine.
PROBLEM” TEACHER
WILL TEACH IN ALASKA
ERIE, Pa. (/P!—George Pease, the
Problems of Democracy teacher
who was fired for refusing to
chaperone an after-school bowling
group, is going to teach in Alaska.
Pease said he has accepted a
one-year contract for the 1962-63
academic year “out of economic
necessity.”
Pease explained he has been un
able to work since his dismissal
by the Millcreek Township School
Board last December.
Pease appealed his dismissal to
Dr. Charles Boehm, state superin
tendent of public instruction, who
reversed the school board’s de
cision.
But the board appealed to the
Erie County Court and the court’s
decision is still pending.
Pease will receive a salary of
$7,050 for his year in Alaska,
about $2,000 more than he got at
McDowell last year. He taught in
Alaska once before, in the 1959-60
school term.
Pease will leave Aug. 19 for the
school session starting Aug. 31.
The State Department of Educa
tion at Juneau, said Pease has been
assigned to the high school serving
the Glennallcn area.
MUD—2,800 TONS OE IT
SHIPPED TO ALASKA
SEATTLE UP — Perhaps in ex
change for the cargoes of gold that
once streamed through here from
Alaska, Seattle this week is ship
ping the 49th state a cargo of—
mud.
The mud—2,800 tons of it—will
be loaded aboard a chartered barge
by the Pacific Western Line this
week, along with 1,500 tons of
cement and some general cargo.
The barge is scheduled to sail Fri
day to Anchorage.
Actually, this isn’t the first mud
Alaska has imported.
This is drillers’ mud — inert
ground rock brought in from Mon
tana and Nevada and processed to
help provide solid drilling cores
or to plug holes of oil well drill
ing operations. The mud will be
handled through the Post of Seat
tle’s long idle bulk-loading facility
at Pier 43.
WINNIE GETTING BETTER
LONDON UP)—Despite complica
tions, Sir Winston Churchill ap
parently is making such good pro
gress that his doctors decided to
day to skip further medical bulle
tins until Friday.
An afternoon bulletin said Sir
Winston is “making satisfactory
progress and there is nothing fur
ther to report.”
Churchill this morning checked
the racing news in London papers
after watching a movie from his
hospital bed Tuesday night.
NOMH HARBOR BUSY
The Nome Harbor has been very
busy the past few days with sev
eral boats and heavy equipment
as cargoes on barges.
The ocean tug Nez Perce with
the barge 546 in tow, discharged
here and headed north.
The Avik with an oil barge is
in the harbor. Both boats belong
to Jack Bullock.
The Lucille of the Lomen Com
mercial Co., made a trip to Koyuk,
Dime Landing and Moses Point
and returned with a barge loaded
with RCA vehicles late Monday
night.
The tug Lucille is now headed
for Golovin to pick up a load of
canned salmon.
Mass of Canadians
Back Up 700 |
Striking Doctors
REGINA. Sask. UP) — Thousands
of citizens from all parts of Sas
katchewan converged on this pro
vincial capital today for a demon
stration against the government’s
compulsory medical care plan.
Leaders of the protest move ex
pressed confidence there would be
no violence, but some officials in
dicated concern by issuing appeals
for calm .and restraint.
Cavalcades were expected from
all leading cities and towns. Esti
mates of the number of persons
taking part ran as high as 20,000
to 30,000. They planned to mass
before the provincial legislative
building to voice opposition to the
medicare plan.
The demonstration is sponsored
by the Keep Our Doctors Commit
tee, most vocal group backing the
doctors strike which began July 1.
A majority of the province’s 700
active physicians have joined in
the strike against the controversial
plan, claiming it opens the door
for government control of the med
ical profession.
Premier Woodrow Lloyd said he
would not appear before the dem
onstrators, but that he would re
ceive a small delegation if they
asked to be heard.
MOST OF STATE CLOUDY
Extensive thunderstorm activity
was reported over wide areas of
interior Alaska last night and skies
remained cloudy over most of the
state today.
Northwestern Alaska had general
overcast and light rain and the
same weather pattern extended
south along the west coast to Bris
tol Bay. The Aleutians had clouds
and rain.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from a low* of 32 at Barter Island
to a high of 56 at Kotzebue. The
high yesterday was 74 at Fair
banks.
31 Negro ‘Freedom
Marchers’ Arrested
ALBANY, Ga. UPi — Thirty-one
Negroes were arrested today as
they began a “freedom march’’ to
pray for Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., Negro integration leader sen
tenced to jail.
The small group of demonstra
tors was given an opportunity to
disperse but they refused. Police
Chief Laurie Pritchett, with a
contingent of 18 officers, then
marched them to jail.
The police earlier had warned
that any demonstration against
the imprisonment of King would
bring arrests.
The demonstrators were booked
on charges of parading without a
permit, obstructing traffic and
congregating on the sidewalk—the
same charge lodged against more
than 700 Negroes jailed last De
cember in similar marches.
King, president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy,
conference treasurer, were convic
ted Tuesday of violating an ordin
ance forbidding parading without
a permit. They decided to go to
jail rather than pay fines of $178.
Both King and Abernathy began
a 24-hour fast today “to purify
our own spirits” for the 45-day
jail terms. Their sentences stem
med from a series of demonstra
tions against segregation last year.
SENATE DI ALS (IK'S
TAX REVISION BILL
A SHARP SETBACK
WASHINGTON uF—The Senate
Finance Committee today voted
10-5 to knock out of President
Kennedy's tax revision bill the
withholding system on dividends
and interest.
The vote was a sharp setback
for the President. He had counted
on the withholding provision, as
the biggest revenue source in the
bill, to pay for benefits promised
to business.
It was a victory for the commit
tee’s veteran chairman, Sen. Harry
Byrd, D-Va., who lias vigorously
opposed the withholding plan, and
for many thousands of savers and
investors who swamped senators
with mail in opposition to it.
The committee gave the admin
istration a tentative victory, how
ever, on the other major provi
sions in the bill—a 7 per cent in
vestmen credit as an incentive to
companies to modernize their ma
chinery and equipment.
POLLOCK SAYS "THOSE
WHO KNOW ME BETTER
KNOW BETTER
ANCHORAGE i/P — State Sen.
Howard Pollock of Anchorage
who is seeking nomination as Re
publican candidate for governor,
has answered a charge made by
an opponent he is a “Socialist.”
Pollock said he has already been
labeled a ‘‘.John Bircher." and “the
Barry Goldwater of Anchorage.”
“Now,” he said. “It’s the other ex
treme—a Socialist.”
The Anchorage attorney said he
falls “somewhere in between —
where 9S per cent of Alaskans are.
The record will attest to the fact
that I’m a strong middle-of-the
road Republican."
Referring to Verne O. Martin's
Socialist charge. Pollock said the
situation reminded him of a story
in which a prominent Hollywood
actress, asked by a reporter if it
were true she wore falsies, replied:
“Those who know me better know
better.”
TRIGG CATCHES TWO MORE
WHALES AT CAPE NOME
Two more whales are reported
to have been taken by Jerome
Trigg at Cape Nome, and many
people have been down to see
them. These two are reported to
be belugas 'small white whales'*,
making a total of four to date.
The meat is being sold to Merc
Meat for local consumption and
the balance dried for dog feed.
This is the second season that
Mr. Trigg has experimented with
whale nets but this year he
doubled the si/e of his net.
TUG NEZ PERCE HOOKS
OLD ANCHOR AND CHAIN
IN ROADSTEAD MONDAY
The Tug Nez Perce, while an
choring out in the roadstead Mon
day, hooked onto another anchor
about a half mile out. Upon in
spection it was found to be a
very old anchor with about 100
feet of chain of ten-inch links
which appear to have been hand
forged.
One of the links is being sent
to the University of Alaska, it is
reported, to endeavor to establish
how long it has been in the Bering
Sea or where it originated.
The Nugget received several
calls asking that something be
done to keep the anchor in Nome
for the Nome museum, however
the Nez Perce, which is operated
by Jack Bullock, carried it on its
trip north.
Oil itinl Gas Lease
Bonus Bids Nel
State SI 5.731.030
ANCHORAGE -P — Th, state’s
ninth and largest competitive oil
and gas lease sale here today
brought bonus bids totaling unof
ficially $15,731,030 from oil indus
try representatives.
The bonus total was about a
million dollars more than taken in
by the state in it. sale last Decem
ber. But acreage offered in today’s
sale commanded slightly lower
prices than that offered in Decem
ber.
Two choice tracts drew bids to
talling $5.5 million.
A tightly packed crowd in the
Z. J. Loussac Library basement
brought gasps in unison as Lands
Division Director Roscoe Bell an
nounced a bid of $3,032,000 by Pan
American Petroleum Corp. for one
tract.
But the gasp was even louder
when he announced the next bid
on the same tract was $3,307,000
by the Shell Oil C'o., Standard Oil
Co. of Calif., and the Richfield Oil
Corp.
Total bids on this one tract
which went to the Shell group ex
ceeded $7.25 million.
Second high bid was made bv
Union Oil Co. of Calif., and Ohio
Oil Co. who bid $2,201,763 for a
Cook Inlet tract.
Bidders paid about $49 per acre
in today's lease sale and $53 per
acre in last December's sale.
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TO CLOSE 80 MILITARY BASES
WASHINGTON — The De
fense Department is closing 80
military installations in 29 states
and Canada because they are no
longer deemed necessary.
Facilities involved originally
cost the government $273.8 mil
lion. the department said. By clos
ing the bases and selling them as
surplus, the government is expect
ed to save $5,410,000 a year in
maintenance expense.
( ruiadians Accused
Of Violating S.E.
Alaska W aters
JUNEAU — Gov. William
Egan said today the Coast Guard
will start immediate aerial patrols
over Portland Canal, where Can
adian fishermen have been ac
cused of violating U.S. territorial
waters.
Egan said headquarters of the
17th Coast Guard District advised
him the plane assigned to the Port
land Canal patrol will be equipped
with photo equipment to record
violations by Canadian boats.
If it is found that a water pat
rol is necessary, Egan said, a
Coast Guard patrol boat will be
assigned to the area.
There were indications the
Coast Guard does not plan to make
arrests or seize Canadian violators
pending a thorough study of the
legal questions involved.
Egan said state Fish and Game
agents had discussed the alleged
violations with Canadian author
ities in Prince Rupert recently.
Canadian authorities expressed
the view, Egan said, that the vio
lators were probably fishermen
from the southern British Colum
bia coast who had moved north
because of poor fishing and were
unfamiliar with the waters of
Portland Canal.
Portland Canal is a long strip of
water which separates Alaska from
British Columbia at the southern
end of the southeast panhandle.