NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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63rd Year No. 74
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1962
Per Copy 150
INTERIOR DEPT.
Invites Proposals
For Processing
Alaska Sealskins
WASHINGTON M — The In
terior Department announced to
day it will receive proposals
through Sept. 30 from persons
and firms interested in providing
services for the processing and
selling of Alaska sealskins for the
government.
The department issued an invi
tation for proposals and a pros
pectus which will be available to
acquaint interested parties with
the requirements and conditions.
Several months ago the depart
ment announced cancellation of the
Alaska sealskin contract which had
existed on a negotiated basis for
40 years with the Fouke Fur Co.
me department said the contract
was canceled because the company
moved its operations from St.
Louis to Greenville, S.C., without
giving prior notice and opportunity
for consultation. The department j
also cited other reasons.
The Bureau of Commercial Fish
eries, which manages the fur seal
herd on the Pribilof Islands in the
Bering Sea, said it expects the
United States share of the harvest
each year will be some 55,000 to
75,000 skins, from which the lux
ury fur known as Alaska fur seal
is prepared.
Under terms of a treaty with
Canada, Japan and Russia* 70 per
cent of the total harvest-is retain
ed by this country and 15 per
cent is delivered to each of the
governments of Japan and Canada.
The estimated total harvest is ex
pected to be about 90,000 animals
annually, the bureau said.
The invitation for proposals says
ted numbers of cured seal skins
will be available for experimental
processing. The skins will be pro
vided on a loan basis and must be
returned to the government prior
to Oet. 1, along with proposals
which'may fo*m the basis for a
negotiated contract.
Alaska Absentee Ballots Will
Start Moving Out July 5
JUNEAU Uh — Ballots for the
Aug. 14 primary election will atirfe
moving out by mail July 5 to per
sons who plan to vote absentee,
Secretary of State Hush Wade’s
office said yesterday.
Jack McFarland, State Birector
of Elections, said absentee ballot
applications have been, light to
but he said he expected the
tempo to pick up before^*© actual
ection date.
Applications for absentee ballots
can be made through Wade’s office
in Juneau or through the various
Offices around the State.
Amendment No. 72 . . .
WASHINGTON Ufi — The final
amendment — No. 72 to the
bus Farm Bill was offered
Thursday night with a straight face
by Rep. Robert P. Griffin, (R
Mich.).
It would have added a new sec
tion providing that “employes in
the Department of Agriculture
shall at no time exceed the num
ber of tenners in America.” ?'
Grittin's amendment was greet
ed with a shout of laughter by both
Republicans and Democrats and
gleefully approved on a voiaa vote.
But majority leader Carl Albert
of Oklahoma was not amused, He
demanded'a head count and Demo
crat. rallied and delated it 230:171.
POLICE SEEK KILLER OF
TWO HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J.
Police waged an intensive investi
gation today in the bludgeon slay
ing of two pretty high school girls
whose bodies were found off a
lonely road in a wooded area here
Thursday.
An 18-year-old youth, an ac
quaintance of the girls, was ques
tioned for several hours, given a
lie detector test and later released.
Prosecutor Frank Scerbo said
the youth admitted talking to the
girls at a soda shop Wednesday
night.
The victims were identified as
Margaret Ann Kennedy, 16, and
Noreen Buckley, 17, both of Mor
ris Plains.
Police said the girls were fully
clothed and had not be raped.
SEN. FRANCIS CASE OF
SOUTH DAKOTA PASSES
WASHINGTON WP) — Sen. Fran
cis Case, (R-S.D.), a 25-year vet
eran of Congress, died today. He
was 65.
Case served seven terms in the
House and two in the Senate.
He was the ranking Republican
member of the Senate Public Works
Committee.
Case long had been associated
with legislation concerning water
conservation and the nation’s high
ways.
He was treated at the nearby
Bethesda Naval Hospital in mid
March for what was described as
a mild heart involvement after an
earlier bout with the flu.
Case, a former newspaper editor,
raised Hereford cattle and saddle
horses on his ranch near Custer
in South Dakota’s Black Hills. He
was an expert horseman.
On June 5, Case swamped South
Dakota Atty. Gen. A. C. Miller
nearly 5 to T to win renomination
for a third term.
Natural Gas for
Barrow Residents
WASHINGTON UB — Residents
M Point Barrow would eventually
be allowed to buy natural gas from
the Navy’s South Barrow gas field
under a bill approved by the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
The biU. by Sen. E. L. Bartlett,
would authorize the Navy to drill
a well and make gas available to
the 1,500 residents.
Capt. Kenneth C. Lovell, di
rector of Naval petroleum and oil
shale reserves, said that under pre
sent law the Navy may not sell
gas from Petroleum Reserve No. 4
in which the Barrow field lies.
He testified the needed .well
would cost about $400,000 and
would be paid for by gas sales
within some 18 yearn.
Martin Mangan, Asst. Commis
sioner of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, said the Barrow native co
operative would also be expected
to repay some $450,000 that would
be advanced for a distribution
system.
Lovell said the residents of the
community consider it ironical to
have to transport fuel by sea and
air-from California or over fro
zen tundra by sled “when the gov
it pipeline runs right past
and business estab
its, full of gas that is pro
only five miles away, from
beneath lands on which they and
their ancestors have lived and
hunted for generations.”
Gas presently is being produced
from the Barrow field for federal
installations at Point Barron
Nome School Will
Receive $257,159
In State Aid
JUNEAU Ufi — The State Depart
ment of Education today announced
the allocation of $11,103,590 in state
aid to Alaska’s 30 organized school
districts.
The Anchorage School District
will receive the largest share un
der the allocations announced to
day, $4,689,490.20. The smallest
share, $16,766.42, will go to the
Pelican School District.
The 1962 legislature provided
$11,272,590 for the support of
schools within organized school
districts.
The Department of Education
set $169,000 aside as a reserve for
emergency financial assistance and
budget amendments, leaving $11,
103,590 available for organized
school district support.
Final budgets for the 1962-1963
school year, submitted by the or
ganized districts last January,
amounted to $11,555,310.83.
The State Department of Educa
tion cut this total figure to $11,
287,520.06 in its review of the final
district budgets.
With only $11,193,590 available,
each district was allocated 98.37
per cent of its approved budget.
State Education Commissioner
Dr. Theo J.- Norby said monthly
payments of 95 per cent of the
state aid each district is to receive
will start Aug. 1 and continue
The remaining 5 per cent of state
aid due each district will be with
held pending a final accounting o1
school district expenditures in th<
fall of 1963.
“I am absolutely confident ther<
will be a balance in the fund aftei
the final accounting for the 1962
1963 school year and that each dis
trict will receive every cent of state
aid to which it is entitled,” Norby
said.
The Nome School submitted a
budget of $280,755.42 of which
$261,456 was approved by the
State Dept, of Education; and its
pro-rated share of the $11 million
amounts to $257,159.14.
MISSING MOUNTAIN
CLIMBERS REPORTED SAFE
WASHINGTON M — The White
House said today the mountain
climbing party that includes a
grandson of Woodrow Wilson has
been found in Nepal. All four in
the group which had been report
ed missing for weeks were re
ported safe but weak.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
said the cable received by the
White House and State Department
described the four as “in weak
condition.”
They have requested evacuation
by helicopter.
One of the quartet is Woodrow
Wilson Sayre, grandson of the late
President and brother of the Vary
Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean
of Washington Epsicopal Cathedral.
He is a Tufts University profes
sor.
The others are Norman Hanson,
Boston lawyer; Roger Alan Hart,
a Tufts research student, and Hans
Peter Duttle, a school teacher who
has Swiss citizenship.
Nothing had been heard from
the climbers since they left their
base camp in eastern Nepal May
2 for the final attempt to ascend
Gyanchung Kang peak, 25,910
feet high on the Nepal-Tibet bor
der. The peak had never been
mastered. '
U.S. WILL TRY TO
STOP SHOOTING ALONG
BERLIN S RED WALL
BONN, Germany iff) — The Unit
ed States probably will suggest to
the Soviet Union that the four
powers to get together to stop the
shooting along Berlin’s Red Wall,
authoritative American sources
said tonight.
These informants said the sug
gestion probably will be included
in an American answer expected
soon to a recent Soviet note which
charged the West with provoca
tions and endangering the peace.
Apparently U.S. Secretary of
Dean Rusk told this to Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer in their talk
today. There is understood to be
growing concern in the West about
the impact of the killings of per
sons whose only crime was to at
tempt to flee from Communist East
Germany, the sources said.
Earlier, Adenauer and Rusk an
nounced they had reached full
agreement on all matters of mutual
j interest, including Berlin, during
a three-hour meeting.
Air France Liner
Crash Kills 113
By the Associated Press
A Boeing 707 Air France liner
crashed and burned on a forested
hillside on the Caribbean Island
of Guadeloupe during a predawn
storm today.
The New York office of the air
line announced later that the plane
carried 103 passengers, including
(seven children and lour babies,
and a crew of 10. It said none sur
vived.
: ine $o.o-minion plane met dis
aster as it headed in for a landing
* before dawn at die airport of
• Piinte-a-Pitre on a regular flight
from Paris to Santiago, Chile.
The U.S. Coast Guard said the
air traffic control center at Pointe
a-Pitre Airport reported the big
jet had been cleared for its final
approach when its radio went dead.
A small local plane later spotted
the wreckage 2V£ miles inland from
the north coast of Guadeloupe, the
Coast Guard said.
j Weather was reported clear at,
the time, and the pilot had radioed
he was making a visual approach
to the field.
The plane had a crew of 10 and
102 passengers aboard on takeoff
from Paris Thursday night. It made
a stop at Lisbon and several pas
sengers left and others boarded.
Air France said the plane was
captained by veteran pilpt Andre
Lesieur.
Capt. Lesieur, one or Air
France’s most experienced pilots,
several times had flown President
De Gaulle.
The nationalities of the pas
sengers aboard the Caribbean plane
were not immediately known, but
presumably few were Americans.
SALMON PACK DOUBLED
JUNEAU IB — Alaska’s 1962
salmon pack more than doubled
during the week ending June 17,
the State Fish and Game Depart
ment’s statistical unit said today.
The pack going into the week
was 35,040. The pack at the end
of the week was 74,604 cases, com
pared with 66,268 cases packed
through June 18 of last year.
A pack of 48,592 cases of Copper
and Bering River reds was the pri
mary factor in a total Central
Alaska pack of 65,906 cases.
The total pack in the Western
Alaska area was 8,698 cases, in
cluding 8,050 cases of Yukon and
Bristol Bay Icings.
Do You Remember
A Smash Hit
The small school auditorium was
packed to capacity last evening for
the first showing of “Do You Re
member’’ with its cast of 30 local
people organized by Diane Money,
Jim Blanning and Sharon Bell.
Nome’s history is carried by
story and action from the gold
rush days with its rowdy dance
halls to the modem “twisters” of
today.'
Can-can girls (and can-can
boys) portray the early dancers
with follow ups of heel and toe
polka, charleston and soft shoe
acts, as well as ancient Eskimo
dances.
Vocalists include Carrie Mc
Lain, Ruth McLean and Bunny
Huffer.
Instrumental artists include Marc
Beauchamp, George Laiblin (who
doubles as the honey man) and
Bunny Huffer on the zither.
Jim Blanning coordinates the
show as a 1962 tourist and local
talent surprises everyone.
Many who were present last
evening plan to see the show again
tonight and if too many are turo
ned away it may be necessary to
have a third showing, the commit
tee stated.
No one should miss “Do You
Remember” with its comedy, its
history, its drama and a surpris
ing display of talent. The enthu
siasm expressed should result in
a theater group for the community
for more shows throughout tha
80th Wedding AxmWersary
LONDON UP> — James Burgess,
102, and his wife Ann, 98, cele
brated their 80th wedding anniver
sary Thursday and claimed to be
Britain’s longest married couple.
They held an anniversary party
at their home in Bermondsey, near
the London docks, where they have
lived for 75 years. Their eight chil
dren, now 79 to 59, are all mar
ried except the youngest daughter,
Florence. She is 63 and keeps
house for her parents.
“The reason for our happiness,
I think, is because I’ve always
worn the trousers in this house,”’
said Burgess. “There’s no other
way.”
300 FEET OF GLENN
HIGHWAY WASHED OUT
JUNEAU <m — The flooding
Matanuska River has washed out
some 300 feet of the Glenn High
way 20 miles east of Palmer, cut
ting Palmer, Anchorage and the
Kenai Peninsula off from highway
traffic. <
State maintenance engineer Sam
Johnson said today there was no
way to bypass the washout, which
highway crews have been fight
ing against for the past 10 days*
The 300-foot washout is in a sec
tion of highway which is sched
uled for reconstruction. Bids for
the work have been asked but have
not been opened, Johnson said.
The Alaska Highway has been
closed from Burwash Landing,
Y.T., to a point near the Alaska
border for the past week because
of extensive flooding.
FESTIVAL WEATHER
Mostly cloudy with little change
in temperatures. Gusty northerly
winds 15-25 mph. In the lhst 24
hours: High of 61, low of 4l. Max*
wind 26 mph from the west Sun
rise at 1:20 am., sunset at 10:48
pm. Temps, a year ago today: High
of 47, low of 38. Extremes on this
date since 1007: High of 77 hi
1924, low of 25 in 1949.