isi NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
6.4rd Year No. 79
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, |l i.Y 4, 1962
Per (.oju 15C
President Meets
Governors on 4th ;
In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA UP — On this |
date 18G years ago, in colonial
Philadelphia, the nation’s freedom
was proclaimed with the Declara
tion of Independence.
Then the Liberty Bell rang out
the news.
Today, at Independence Hall, the
bell was silent, since it cracked
long ago. But with the sun bright
in the blue summer sky, President
Kennedy joined most of the na
tion’s governors in reaffirming the
principles of the founding fathers.
About 100,000 by police estimate,
jammed into the ten-square-block
Independence National Park area
to see and hear the President and
the array of governors. The chief
executives of 42 states and terri
tories were on hand.
Flags of all the states fluttered
in the breeze.
All around the hall stand build
ings of America’s colonial past,
some exactly as they did in the
time of Washington, Jefferson and
Franklin. Others are rebuilt in the
architecture of 1776.
Inside the hall, Kennedy set a
hand upon the Liberty Bell, ap
pearing to be moved by a sense
of history.
He spent an interlude with the
governors in the Supreme Court
room of Congress Hall, moving
down a double line of the chief ex
ecutives and saking hands with
each.
Egan Proposes
12-Mile Limit
JUNEAU l/P — Alaska has asked
the National Governors’ Confer
ence to approve a resolution ask
ing the federal government to re
assess its position in regard to a
three-mile limit on territorial
waters.
The resolution was presented by
Gov. Wm. Egan at the annual con
ference of state chief executives
at Hershey, Pa.
The Alaska resolution, contend
ing that increasing numbers of
foreign fishing vessels are continu
ally moving closer to the Ameri
can coast, urged that the President
and Congress:
1. Declare that the United States’
territorial waters extend 12 miles
seaward for the purpose of fisheries
regulation and
2. Declare that the nation’s ter
ritorial waters extend six miles
seaward for all other purposes,
“such as measurements to be made
under the baseline concept adopted
by the International Court of
Justice.”
in addition, the Alaska resolu
tion asked that “appropriate agen
cies charged with responsibility for
the protection of the nation’s ter
ritorial waters be directed to give
vigorous and diligent enforcement
at all times against encroachment
upon these waters by foreign na
tionals.”
The resolution, presented by
Egan after he issued a long state
ment in support of the proposed
measure, said foreign fishing fleets
operating close to America’s shores
“do not follow established princi
ples of conservation with the re
sulting effect that efforts to con
serve fish by imposing limitations
on only American fishermen come
to naught.”
Result of Fishing Activity
Egan’s resolution was a direct
result of increasing fishing activity
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■ Soblen Not Ready To Travel
! LONDON OP — Dr. Robert Sob
, len probably will not be well
j enough to travel to the United
! States “for at least another two
| or three days,” a hospital spokes
| man announced Tuesday.
The fugitive spy who tried to
commit suicide to escape a life
sentence in the United States spent
a fairly comfortable night and the
improvement in his condition was
maintained, the spokesman said.
Soblen, convicted of spying for
the Soviet Union, forfeited $100,
000 bail and fled to Israel last
week. He slashed his wrists and
stabbed himself in ho stomach
Sunday as an airplane returning
from from Tel Aviv was winging
over the English Channel.
Bing's Son Bogs Down
HOLLYWOOD OB — Lindsay
Crosby, 24, will be hospitalized
about a month with a nervous
breakdown, says his uncle, Larry
Crosby.
Lindsay, the youngest of singer
Ring Crosby’s four grown sons,
entered St. John's Hospital in
Santa Monica Sunday.
Larry Crosby said Lindsay also
is suffering from influenza and is
under the care of a psychiatrist.
“Lindsay suffered a nervous
breakdown last February when his
wife, Barbara, was ill. I guess he
just got up too soon,” said the
uncle.
State Approves
139 Pros pee ting
Mineral Permits
JUNEAU i/P» — The State has
approved 139 mineral prospecting
permits covering more than a half
million acres of Alaska-owned
land, the Division of Mines and
Minerals said yesterday.
The permits cover tracts of land
lying along the coast and offshore
from Cape Prince of Wales, on the
Bering Strait, to Union Bay in the
Southern Panhandle, Minerals Di
vision Director James Williams
said.
Most of the permits approved to
date involve uplands and offshore
lands in the area between Cape
Prince of Wales and Shaktoolik, on
the east shore of Norton Sound.
Williams said the prospecting
permits which office and the State
Division of Lands have approved
were sought by companies and
individuals from all sections of the
nation.
l ne permits, Williams said,
cover tracts averaging about 4,000
acres, or a total of some 556,000
acres for the 139 permits approved
thus far.
The rush for permits,_a unique
feature of Alaska’s Minerals Code
long sought by the mineral indus
try, was touched off early this year
when the Shell Oil Co. filed an
application covering 5,120 acres of
submerged land off Nome’s fabled
black sand beach.
Eight individuals quickly follow
ed suit on other tracts of land in
Norton Sound and two applications
for permits were filed covering
submerged lands in Stephens Pas
sage south of Juneau.
Under terms of the two-year
prospecting permits, a prospector’s
rights in the exploratory area is
protected if he finds a workable
claim. No one else can file on the
area covered by the permit until
the permit expires.
Under federal law and the min
ing codes of most other states, the
prospector has no rights in the
land he is exploring until he actual
ly makes a strike and files a min
ing claim.
NO SECOND SEASON
| SEATTLE iTi — The Seattle
; World’s Fair will close Oct. 21
l and will not be open for a second
season, the World's Fair Corp. an
nounced Tuesday.
The corporation which manager
and promotes the Fair said it would
not exercise its option to use the
fairgrounds beyond this year.
Joseph E. Gandy, the Fair presi
dent, said the corporation made
the announcement now so plans
could be made for future use of
the grounds and buildings.
In obtaining official approval of
the International Bureau of Ex
positions, the Fair agreed to limit
its run to one year.
DEATH STILL STALKS
NORTH AMERICAN SHRINERS
TORONTO ljP>—Death still stalk
ed North American Shriners in
Toronto today as members elected
officers and made plans for future
conventions. Another American
Shriner died, the sixth in two
days.
Officials reported 71-year-old
Louis Stanley Oliver of Arlington,
Va., collapsed in his hotel room
early today. Heat, excitement and
lack of sleep were blamed for the
deaths of five yesterday at the 88th
annual convention.
Don’t brood — it may cause your
hair to fall out. Science has found
that while most baldness is heredi
tary, it can also start from a blow
on the head, nervous shock and
prolonged grief or worry.
I). A. McKinnon, Commissioner
Of Highways, Due Here Mondav
Donald A. McKinnon, Comm:. -
sioner of State Highways, is ar
riving here on hi. first official
visit since his appointment to that,
office and will visit the Nome dis
trict office and inspect, roads in
this area next Monday.
He is also expected to attend
the Chamber of Commerce lunch
eon and has announced he .'.'ill be
available to meet with local organ
izations to discuss road problems.
NIKITA GOES TO A
FOURTH OF JULY PARTY
MOSCOW — For the second
time in a row. Premier Khrushchev
attended a Fourth of July recep
tion at the American Embassy m
| Moscow. He toasted President
i Kennedy and the American people
! —and said he thinks there has
i been some progress on Germany
! and Berlin. He told Benny Good
man—also at the party—that he
doesn't like American jazz. But
then, said Khrushchev, "I don't
understand jazz either.”
WINNIE ABLE TO SIT UP
| LONDON i/P> — Sir Winston
Churchill, now recovered enough
to sit up out of bed, was visited
by his wife Tuesday on Middlesex
Hospital.
i Lady Churchill told reporters,
"He is getting on very nicely.”
She said there is not yet any
! indication when Sir Winston's
| fractured thigh will be sufficiently
healed to let him out of the hos
pital.
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BERLIN ■? Working behind
a . !,(!! of smoko and tear gas,
the Communist., began building a
wall along Wc ’ Berlin' oorder
.'.ithi Fa ’ Germany Monday night.
There .vs -or-.e suspicion they
planned to surround West Berlin
■v.:h concrete and steel barriers.
dm Communists have virtually
completed the barricade they be
gan last Augu t along the 26-mile
border between East and West
Berlin. Until Monday night, the
69-mile rough arc marking West
Berlin’s boundary with East Ger
many had been fenced off only
with barbed wire.
East German police threw tear
gas and smoke bombs at the West
to screen the activity, but West
Berlin police could see the work
men laboring under floodlights in
a cold rain to replace the barbed
wire with masonry.
The extent of the Communist
plans to extend the wall could not
be determined immediately. The
work began only a day after East
German Interior Minister Karl
Maron called on his police to make
the “protective wall even more
impenetrable.”
Fire Department Called Out
The Fire Department was called
out to the east end of town on
Monday to put out a grass fire,
reported to have been started by
children at play.
2712 JUNE 61 M.P. 52
The idea of government of the people, by the
people, for the people was new to the world on
July 4th, 1776. By the nation then born this idea
has since been tried, tested and proved the best
hope for all mankind.
Proudly we salute the founding fathers on (his, the 185th
birthday of our country. Firmly we are resolved that our heritage
of freedom, dating back to that day, shall forever be maintained.