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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 50
NOME, ALASKA FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1962
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Demo Convention
Gets Into Full
Swing Tomorrow
NOME WP) — The vanguard of
more than 200 of the state’s top
Democrats started to gather here
today for the Saturday morning
opening of their party’s 1962 con
vention.
The bulk of the out-of-town dele
gates were scheduled to fly in on
charter flights from Anchorage and
Fairbanks late tonight.
Among those .arriving from An
chorage will be Gov. Wm. Egan
and Wendell Kay of Anchorage,
State Democratic chairman, the
two men around whom the con
vention will revolve.
Egan, who will seek re-election,
and Kay, a potential gubernatorial
candidate himself, will control all
but a handful of the delegate votes
between them.
The two men engaged in a
sharp, public fight over the state’s
financial condition last fall, then,
at least outwardly, made up.
If there are still scars from that
battle, they should be readily ap
parent after convention business
gets under way at 9:30 a.m. to
morrow.
There was strong speculation,
however^ that^JSgan and Kay,
prolonged convention fight, might
wind up in the same corner, a
tough combination for Egan’s pri
mary erection opponents.
Egan’s four primary election op
ponents — at least those four who
have filed to date — are all ex
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YOUNG REPUBLICANS
HEAD FOR KETCHIKAN
Leaving for Ketchikan today are
five Young Republicans, leaders
of the active youth group who
have raised locally the necessary
funds to attend the Young Re
publican Convention where State
Sen. John Coghill will be the main
speaker.
Those attending from Nome are
Gail Mclver, Ann and Jo Cham
bers, David Grant and Pepper
Gray.
Representatives from 8 Young
Republican groups in the state
are expected to attend the Ket
chikan meeting.
John Butrovich, a candidate for
the State Senate will also be a
featured speaker at the convention.
pected to be here for the two-day
convention.
They are Warren A. Taylor oi
Fairbanks, a veteran legislator anc
current Speaker of the State House
of Representatives; George Byei
of Anchorage, former mayor of the
state’s largest city; John L. Rader
of Anchorage, former State Attor
ney General; and David N. Boy©
of Anchor Point.
Convention business will keej
the delegates busy all day tomor
row. Tomorrow night, Nome Demo
erats have scheduled the conven
tion banquet and a dance.
Principal speaker at the banque
will be Herschel Loveless a mem
ber .of the Fedfe^l Renegotiatioi
Board and former governor c
Iowa. Of* '
Business sessions will resum
crats are expected to put the finish
ing touches on their 1962 meetup
sometime early Sunday evening.
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ROGRAM
SECOND STATE
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION
FRIDAY, APRIL 27TH
Registration: Airport Terminal
North Star Hotel
6:30 to 7:30 pan. Welcoming Cocktoil Hour at North
Star Sea view Room sponsored by Johnny Reader,
James West, Leonard Anseth, Roscoe Wilke,
Keith Hedreen (later cocktail hour after late
flights)
7:30 pm. No-Host Buffet at Seaviaw Room
SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH , u-i
Registration continues 8 to 9 a.m. at Armory
9:00 a.m. Convention called to order by State Chair
man Wendell Kay
Invocation: Rev. Harriet Brown
Welcome: Donald M. Hoover, Mayor of Nome
Convention Session
11:00 am. Convention Keynote speech
12:00 Noon Recess for Lunch
2:00 pm. Convention Session
2:00 to 4:30 pm. Democratic Women's Tea honoring
Mrs. Henchel Loveless aft home of Mrs. Donald
Hoover
6:30 to 7:30 pm. Cocktail Hour at
sponsored by Nome Democratic
7:30 pm. Banquet —* Noma High School Auditorium
Guest Speaker: Gov. Herschel C. Loveless
*:00 pm. Dance, National Guard Armory, sponsored
by Nome Yc|Rig Democrats
SUNDAY, APRIL 29TH
pm. Convention Session
Invocation: Rev. John Maalertsd
7:00 pm. No-Host Cocktail Hour.
U.S. Triggers
Off Second Shot
In Planned Series
WASHINGTON (*) — The Unit
ed States today fired the second
shot of its planned series of nuclear
tests in the atmosphere.
Like the first on Wednesday, it
was a detonation of a device drop
ped from an airplane in the vicinity
of Christmas Island in the Pacific.
An announcement from the
Atomic Energy Commission said
the shot was touched off about 11
a.m., EST, and the detonation
was in the intermediate yield
range.
This description is used for a
shot with a force greater than the
explosive force of 20,000 tons of
TNT but less than one million
tons of TNT.
No details were given.
Wednesday’s first shot of th<
i current U.S. series triggered stri
, dent protestations from the Com
. munist bloc that Western wai
• mongers were committing crime:
against the world’s peoples anc
> starting a new arms race.
The Red spokesmen preservec
a remarkable silence about las
■ fall’s Soviet tests, apparently break
ing a three-year moratorium, whicl
l set in motion plans for the U.S
response.
On its own ©art the U.S. gov
ernment stuck to this position:
The tests are a military neces
sity required to maintain this coun
try’s nuclear positron is the £ac
of advances shown by the big So
viet series;
They can and will be called of]
any time the Soviet Union wil]
sign a test ban agreement with the
inspection safeguards the Soviets
have rejected as a spying device;
and
Efforts will be pressed, despite
the progress of the tests, to reach
an agreement.
The position was restated Thurs
day by Secretary of State Dean
Husk.
Assuming the whole series of
tests is carried out — and there is
no expectation here that the So
viets will do the about-face re
quired to meet the U.S. require
ments for a stop order — the trials
will move later to Johnston Is
land, another remote Pacific spot.
The shape of the two test areas
broadly indicates the general na
ture of the trials to be held at
each.
Around British - administered
Christmas Island the rectangular
shape of the designated danger
area suggests air drops such as
the first two shots, and similar
conventional trials.
At Johnston, the area is an in
verted cone, far wider at the top.
That would accommodate nuclear
warheads hurled upward at an
angle on rockets.
LIONS TO SPONSOR
PANCAKE BREAKFAST
The Nome Lions Club is sponsor
ing a Pancake Breakfast Sunday
morning starting at 5:00 am. and
continuing until everybody has had
all the pancakes they want, states
Tom House, chairman for the
special Democratic Convention
event.
Local Lions will be cocking and
serving the breakfast of pancakes
ham and lots of hot coffee at the
Polaris Hotel. “AH Hie pancake:
you want, a serving of ham anc
coffee, all for $1.50,” said Ton
House, “and Hie profits go to hel]
! needy children get glasses.”
Jap Students Storm
U.S. Embassy ...
Protest Test Shots
TOKYO — A crowd of about
2,000 screaming Japanese students
tried to storm the U.S. Embassy
today in protest against American
nuclear testing.
Police drove them off, and about
500 staged a sitdown demonstration
in front of the Embassy. Singing
the Communist Internationale and
shouting “Kennedy down with the
bomb!” They squatted with their
arms interlocked about 120 feet
from the high wall around the
Embassy compound.
The police wheeled up five
armored trucks and began disen
tangling the students. After an
hour of scuffling, the police moved
the students 300 yards down the
street. The demonstrators conceded
defeat and marched off to a down
town park for speeches and more
- noisemaking.
Earlier the students made re
• peated charges from two direction:
‘ at the stone and iron fence arounc
J the Embassy compound.
1 About. 100 got as far as th<
gates before police beat them bad
i in kicking, shoving brawls.
It was the third day of demon
- strations against American nuclea;
t testing. The Leftist Zengakurer
• Student Federation has said i
I would demonstrate every day a
■ l long as the tests continue.
In London last night 2,000 anti
- bomb demonstratiors marched i
- Grosvenor Square in front of th
3 Kf S. Embassy. Police moved b
■ and arrested 192 when the march
ers spilled into the street, sat dowr
to block traffic and refused tc
move.
In Glasgow, Scotland, about 20
men and women succeeded in en
tering the U.S. Consulate Office
and sat on the floor, singing anti
bomb songs. Police dragged them
away.
MIKE STEPOVICH GETS
INTO GOVERNOR S RACE
FAIRBANKS — Former ter
ritorial governor Mike Stepovich
announced today that he has filed
for the Republican nomination for
Alaska’s second state governor.
Stepovich said he sent his notice
to Secretary of State Hugh Wade
in Juneau today.
Stepovich’s filing brings to four
the number of candidates thus far
iui uic xvc^uuuucui uuuuiia
tion. Others who have filed are
Verne Martin, Dr. Milo Fritz and
Howard Pollock, all of Anchorage.
Stepovich, 43, a Fairbanks at
torney, issued the following state
ment on his candidacy:
“After watching the first four
years of Statehood under the pre
sent administration, I can only
assume that the State of Alaska
needs a change. Four years from
now may be too late. As a native
bom Alaskan I have enough confi
dence in the people of Alaska to
believe that they also are aware
of the sad operating condition
which has existed tne past four
years. If I am elected, I will prom
ise the people one thing. Your
government will be better because
it certainly will be different.”
Stepovich was appointed gov
ernor by President Eisenhower in
1957 and served through 1958. He
ran unsuccessfully for the office
as Alaska’s first state senator, being
defeated by Ernest Gruening.
: He served as Fairbanks city at
l torney from 1949 to 1951, in th<
i Territorial House from 1951 t
» 1953 and in the Territorial Senat
from 1953 to 1957.
Helicopter Crash
Near Bethel Snuffs
Out Eight Lives
ANCHORAGE i/ft — A helicopter
inspecting Alaska Scout Battalions
crashed and burned yesterday in
the wilderness area of Western
Alaska, killing eight of the 10 men
aboard.
Two men survived the crash.
An Army search crew recovered
the eight bodies this morning.
The two survivors are M/Sgt.
James Active of Bethel, and Sgt.
John Fannin Jr., De Ridder, La.
Robert Ayaralri of Tuntaluiak, an
Eskimo driving a dog team, hap
pened on the scene of the crash,
and took the pair to an abandoned
hut. They were sighted by the
pilot of a small plane and flown
to Bethel, 37 miles north of the
; crash site.
Fannin suffered broken ribs and
' bruises, but his condition was not
1 considered serious. Active was more
* seriously hurt but the hosiptal did
not report the extent of his in
: juries.
k me neucopter, an n-zi axracnea
to the 80th Transportation Co. at
' Fort Richardson, was taking of
ficers from Bethel to the little
1 village of Chefomak only a short
' distance away.
5 The officers were on a routine
mriwintiivn anH insnomm irip of
* Alaska Scout Batallions in the
1 area.
e j Others aboard the helicopter
1J were Col/ Thomas Dallas, Juneau,
’ Senior Army Advisor to the Alaska
1 National Guard; Capt. Stanley L.
Smith, Bethel, Commander of the
2nd Scout Bn.; Maj. Charles Stags
dill, Webb City, Mo., of the U.S.
Army Alaska Intelligence Office at
Fort Richardson; CWO William
Wheatley of Danville, W. Va., the
pilot of the H-21; CWO Wiley
Westbrook, Dixons Mill, Ala., the
co-pilot, and Spec./T June Van
Pelt, the crew chief from Charles
ton, W. Va.
The helicopter disappeared late
Wednesday afternoon but bad
weather prevented a search until
yesterday. The wreckage was
spotted by another helicopter from
Fort Richardson.
Col. Dallas became senior advisor
in August of 1961 and has been in
Nome several times. The last time
he was here was during Exercise
Great Bear. He is survived by his
wife and two children in Juneau
and a son attending the University
of Alaska.
SONNY LISTON DENIED '
RIGHT TO FIGHT IN N.Y.
NEW YORK W — The New York
State Athletic Commission denied
Sonny Liston a boxing license to
day and virtually eliminated New
York City as a site for the No. 1
contender’s bout with heavyweight
champion Floyd Patterson in Sep
tember.
The denial came after a 10-day
investigation into Liston’s record,
which includes jail terms and ar
rests. The heavyweight challenger,
who now lives in Philadelphia,
never had applied for a license in
New York State before.
Liston and Patterson have al
ready signed for the title fight.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair with an expected low to
■ night of 15 and a high tomorrow
s of 28. Sunrise at 3:42 a.m., sunset
> gt 8:15 pm.
e It was 38 and cloudy today
at Nenana.
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