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Soviets Won’t
Allow Test Ban
spectors on Soil
GENEVA m — Soviet delegate
Valerian A. Zorin said today the
Kremlin has changed its mind about
allowing nuclear test ban inspectors
on Soviet soil because of new mili
tary measures taken by the Soviet
Union.
These measures, Zorin told the
17-nation Disarmament Cor/ference,
were prompted by the Berlin situa
tion and the Western military
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buildup.
He said that was why the So
viets backed away from their
earner agreement in principle for
international control posts to be
stationed on Soviet territory to su
pervise a nuclear test ban treaty.
Now that the Soviet Union has
taken these measures to strengthen
its defenses, Zorin said, the USSR
could not have foreigners on its
territory. He did not go into detail
about the military measures.
Zorin spoke after U.S. delegate
Arthur Dean said the Soviet Union
had astounded the world by re
jecting the controls it once had
agreed were necessary. Dean called
on the Soviets for a reversal of the
totally unreasonable stand.
Western sources said Zorin’s
speech took on more of a cold
war tone than his previous utter
ances at the conference.
*>orm reiterated that ii*the united
States carries out nuclear tests in
the atmosphere in late April the
Soviet Union will be compelled to
carry out more tests in turn.
CHARGE IT!" . . .
NEVADA, Mo. UP) — Fred Sand
ers, manager of a department store,
noticed a woman and her little
daughter shopping. As they were
leaving, he handed the child some
gum.
“What do you say?” the woman
said to the girl.
“Charge iir was the reply.
MONORAIL & SPACE NEEDLE
' ARE SMASH HITS AT C-21
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SEATTLE UR — The Monorail
and Space Needle were smash hits
over the weekend, with the high
speed train carrying 27,517 pas
sengers and the 800-foot needle
have 20,000 visitors Saturday and
Sunday. .
Officials said the Space Needle
will be open from 5-8 pjn. through
Thursday. A new schedule will be
announced Friday. The Monorail
will operate from 1-8:30 p.m.
A meeting Sunday night set the
needle’s hours. There had been
some talk the public might have
to be barred during the hectic final
three weeks of construction at the
Seattle Worlds Fair.
Nat Deodorized ...
SHREVEPORT, La. W — Some
one telephoned police Friday that
a skunk had caught his head in
a can.
Patrolman B. T. Lambert went
out and succeeded in freeing Mis
animal. For some reason, he be
lieved (1) it was someone’s pet
and (2) had been deodorized. He de
cided to pick it up and look for
the owner
Too late, Lambert found out (1)
it wasn’t anyone’s pet and (2) had
not be deodorized.
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KENNEDY ASSURES
GOV. EGAN OF ALASKA’S
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
JUNEAU l/B — President Ken
nedy has told Gov. Wm. Egan
Alaska’s “strategic importance will
not be underestimated” by the na
tional administration.
Egan had asked the President for
increased military recognition of
Alaska’s strategic location.
The governor said Alaska offers
“unlimited potential on friendly
soil for either offensive or de
fensive” forces, but that the state
“now stands as an open back door
within eye view of a potential ag~
COOUi .
In his answer, Kennedy said he
was referring to Egan’s views to
the Department of Defense, and
added:
“The matter of Alaskan defense
is kept under continual review.”
BENNY (KID) PARET
DEVELOPS PNEUMONIA
NEW YORK i#> — Benny (Kid)
Paret, who suffered severe brain
injuries in losing his welterweight
title to Emile Griffith, now has de
veloped pneumonia.
A bulletin from Roosevelt Hos
pital today announced the worsen
ing in his condition and said the
fighter is still in a coma.
The coma has deepened slightly
during the past 24 hours, the hospi
tal report added.
Paret has been unconscious since
his i2th-rcund knockout in Madi
son Sahare Garden on March 24.
CD DIRECTOR CANCELS
APPOINTMENT OF
MAYOR ROSCOE WILKE
JUNEAU Ufl — State Civil De
fense Director Don Lowell said to
day he had canceled the appoint
ment of Mayor Roscoe Wilke as
Civil Defense Director for the City
of Nome. ,
Lowell said Nome will become
a part of the Nome Civil Defense i
District and will not require a i
City Civil Defense Director at this |
time.
In a letter to State Sen. Lester <
Bronson, Director of the Nome Civil j
Defense District, Lowell said the :
cancellation of Wilke’s appointment ;
was effective March 9. 1
Lowell asked Bronson to appoint <
two alternates for Bronson’s posi- ;
tion in case Bronson is unable to
continue his duties and to submit j
a table of organization and a plan '
of operation for state approval, so
the district will become eligible ]
for federal surplus property, con- .
tributions and grants. x
APRIL FOOL’S DAY ... I
FLORENCE, Italy UP) — Word A
spread through this birthplace of
Michaelangelo Sunday that a group
of Florence artists had gone to
Vatican City to steal the world
famous Pieta»Statute ticketed for
display at the 1964 World Fair j
in New York.
Later in the day, crowds gather
ed in the central plaza as a truck
drove into Florence carrying a 1
statue. A sign read: “The Pieta of 1
Michaelangelo, taken from Rome 1
to Florence by Florentine artists ]
so it won’t be shipped anywhere.” i
But when the crowds moved in
closer they saw the statue was a
plaster copy of the priceless work.
And then the people remembered
—it was April 1, April Fool’s Day,
and in Italy they do it big.
Steel Workers
Pact Extends
Longer Vacations
PITTSBURGH, Pa. UPI — Con
siderably longer vacations for
American workers generally can be
expected if the terms of the new
steel labor settlement are imitated
in other industries—as they usually
are.
The steel pact, ratified over the
weekend, extends worker vaca
tions to the point that in a few
years it will be a common thing
for a veteran steel industry em
ploye to take two months off every
year at full pay.
Longer vacations will mean not
only more leisure time but will
mean more jobs will be opened to
fill the places of vacationing work
ers. This has enormous implica-1
tions for resorts, the travel indus
try, adult education and everything
that has to do with recreation and
self-improvement.
Negotiators for the 11 major steel
companies arranged to meet with
separate Steelworkers’ Union teams
today to translate the economic
terms agreed upon Saturday into
individual contracts. They hope to
get finished for signing ceremonies
next Friday.
Besides the new vacation bene
fits, described by union president
David J. MacDonald as a major
breakthrough in collective bargain
ing, the settlement calls for im
proved pensions, layoff benefits,
grievance procedures, seniority and
minimum weekly pay guarantees.
President Kennedy warmly
praised the union and industry for
an early and responsible agreement.
The new steel pact provides no I
immediate pay increases for the
450,000 workers in the basic steel |
industry already averaging $3.28 an I
hour. But the contracts can be re
opened at any time after Aug. 1,
1963, for re-negotiation of pay rates,
pensions, insurance and other mat
ters.
Besides increasing regular vaca
tions, the new terms provide for a
special vacation bonus of one week
for every two years worked after
I960. This means that a worker of
18 years seniority now getting a
three-week vacation will be getting
dght weeks off per year seven
fears hence.
MR SERVICE HEARINGS
rO BE HELD IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON W — Sen. E. L.
Bartlett said today hearings prob
ably will be held in Alaska in con
lection with an investigation into
air service between Alaska and
ather states ordered by the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
The scope of the proceedings
and a schedule will be discussed
at a meeting of interested parties
at a conference set here for April
55, the Alaska congressional dele
gation said today.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Mostly cloudy with occasional
ight rain. Little change in temp,
[n the last 24 hours: High of 39,
low 34. Max. wind 33 mph from
ENE. Sunrise at 5:12 a.m., sunset
at 7:00 pm. Temps, a year ago
today: High of 19, low of 14. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 38 in 1936, low of -26 in
1949.
In Nenana today it was fair with
temperature at 39 above.
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NEW ARGENTINE CABINET
NEARS COMPLETION
BUENOS AIRES M — President
Jose Maria Guido today neared
completion of a patchwork cabinet (
to get the stalled Argentine govern
ment machine going. However, he
faced major roadblocks.
The quiet, diminutive chief ex- i
ecutive, who moved into the presi
dency after the ouster of Arturo
Frondizi, has filled all cabinet posts
except foreign relations, economy <
and three military secretaries that i
operate under the Defense Ministry.
Guido’s selection of a cabinet
after four days of effort — still
left him with the prospect of an
unfriendly congress when it re
convenes May 1. Most politicians
turned a deaf ear to a plea for a
political truce by the armed forces
chiefs who ousted Frondizi and im
prisoned him.
Though Guido is a leader of
Frondizi’s intransigent radical
party, the party’s Central Commit
tee was bitter at the military
domination of the government and
declared: “We came into power
with Frondizi, we leave with him.”
169.32 MILES OF HIGHWAY
BUILT IN ALASKA IN 1961
JUNEAU UP)
The State De
partment of Highways said today
that work was completed on 169.32
miles of highway within Alaska
during the 1961 calendar year.
Work was completed on 95.29
miles of primary highway, 28.49
miles of secondary and roadway
and 45.5 miles of secondary B
highway, Highways Commissioner
Sam Johnson said.
SEN. MANSFIELD
Says Trends of
Distortion a Threat
To Survival of U.N.
WASHINGTON Wl — Sen. Mike
Mansfield, (D-Mont.), said today
“trends of distortion'’ in the United
Nations are a greater threat to its
survival than its financial crisis.
Mansfield, Senate majority lead
er, voiced his concern in opening '
debate on a compromise proposal
to provide up to $100 million in
American loans to the U.N.
The proposal, which he intro
duced jointly with Sen. Everett '
Dirksen, (R-Ill.), GOP minority
leader, appeared headed for quick !
approval.
But Mansfield said there is “a
growing concern with the trend in
the evolution of the United Nations
organization and our position in it.”
He cited concern voiced by Sen.
Henry Jackson, (D-Wn.), that U.S. 1
policies are some times shaped in
the U.N.
But he said there were other
worries — including “the dead
beats” in the United Nations who
vote for operations like those in
the Congo and Middle East and
refuse to pay their assessments.
“There should be an even greater
concern that most of these critical
decisions have been reached on the
basis of one-state one-vote pro
cedure in the General Assembly of
the United Nations,” Mansfield said.
He referred to the fact that a
nation of 175,000 population has
the same vote in the General As
sembly as the United States and
Soviet Rusisa.
Report Japanese
Fishing Fleet
Off Kodiak Island
JUNEAU (£*—Rep. Peter Deveau,
if Kodiak, said today he had been
idvised that a Japanese fishing
!leet consisting of a 5,000-ton
nothership and four 135-foot
catcher boats were operating in
Shelikof Strait.
Deveau said Oscar Dyson, Ko
liak member of the State Board
rf Fish and Game, told him in a
telephone call this morning that
one of the Japanese boats had been
observed within three miles off
Uyak Bay.
The State claims jursidiction over
Shelikof Strait on historical and
geographical grounds, despite the
usual three-mile limit on terri
torial waters.
Informed that the Japanese were
fishing in waters claimed by the
State, Gov. Wm. Egan fired off a
telegram to Undersecretary of
State George Ball and made public
the contents of a letter he had writ
ten to Ball last Friday.
The telegram said:
“This will supplement my letter
of March 30 on Japanese fishing.
Mothership of Bansnu Maru fish
ing fleet has been reported by
Alaska Department of Fish and
Game at 3 p.m. April 1 as being
4 miles off Uganik Island in Sheli
kof Strait herring_
catcher boats as fishing off the
mouth of Uyak Bay about four
miles from Harvester Island.
“Earlier reports placed mother
ship within one mile of Kodiak
Island. All activities are in viola
tion of Alaskan fisheries law. This
is a matter of immediate and grave
concern to all Alaskans. Will you
notify me immediately as to pro
cedure federal authorities intend to
follow. The state cannot sit idly
by and watch state fisheries laws
apenly violated.”
“According tn pur information,”
Egan wrote Ball, “the Japanese
ships are planning to stay three
niles from Kodiak and the main
land coast. In doing so, the Japan
ese obviously take the position that
hey will be fishing in international
waters.
“The State of Alaska does not
wish to cause any international in
cident by interference with Japan
ese operations in view of the para
nouni responsibility of the federal
government in the field of foreign
policy.”
Hexing formerly were on the
abstention list compiled by the
[nternational North Pacific Fisher
es Treaty, along with salmon and
aalibut.
The Japanese agreed not take
lerring, salmon or halibut in waters
sast of 173 degrees west longitude.
Herring were removed from the
abstention list in 1960, because they
were not being exploited by Amer
ican fishermen.
When the treaty was signed by
Canada, Japan and the United
States in 1952, there were 16 Amer
ican herring seiners operating in
the Kodiak area. None were oper
ating when herring were taken
from the abstention list in 1960.
Shelikof Strait is the narrow,
stormy body of water which se
parates Kodiak Island from the
Alaska Peninsula. It is 18 miles
wide at its narrowest point.
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