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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1343. at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
rpm: WHIST 11 Bl.I W SIX TIM I S on Monday and everyone
who read the paper or listened to the radio ran for cover in
Nome's first Ci\il Defense practice alert.
Todav and for the rest of the week there will he some
infantrv and artillery men here from Ft. Wainwright practicing
warfare in cold weather and receiving much sympathy from the
residents because thev are out in tents and it is 20 below zero.
We have heard some scoffers calling the first Civil Defense
practice "nonsense” and we have listened to some criticism of
the military for sending men out in this weather. Both are of
vital importance to our existence. We hope we will never need
to use the knowledge gained by these exercises, but it is better
to take the time to follow directions and read what’s in the CD
envelopes everyone has received, than to wish we’d had a program.
Our onlv criticism of all this preparation is that we do not
have military strength based here permanently, so that should
there be a real aggressor, professionally trained and modernlv
armed forces ever alert, can do the right thing at the right time.
We send our soldiers to all parts of the world, to remote
foreign countries, where they are frequently verv unpopular. Whv
don’t we keep training them the year round in our own North
America, closest to the Iron Curtain and know and understand
more thoroughly the unique problems of the Arctic coast?
Operation Arctic Shore III should be a round-the-vear practice
until international affairs are more serene.
The 1st Battle Group, 9th Infantry-, is always welcome and
we wish they’d move in permanently.
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Nuclear Ship Savannah
Stands Idle In Port
When Engineers Quit
LONG BEACH, Calif i*>. — The
nuclear ship Savannah, whose re
actors can carry it whole circuits
of the globe without refueling, is
tied up here today by a labor
dispute.
The gleaming white freighter
has been idled by a controversy
over wages paid its engineers. They
are specially trained nuclear ex
perts and can’t be replaced in a
union hiring hall like most crew
men.
The $53.3-million ship was to
have started yesterday on an 8
day training cruise — to train new
engineers.
According to one story — by
the Baltimore Sun’s maritime
editor, Helen Delich — 29 nuclear
reactor engineers aboard the Sa
vannah have quit, but are staying
aboard for safety reasons, until
other engineers can be found to
mind the potent reactor deep in
the Savannah’s engine room.
James McKinley, port agent for
the National Maritime Union, said
the engineers said they were dis
satisfied with salary provisions
established by an arbitration board
before the vessel left Yorktown,
Va., on its maiden voyage four
months ago.
The Savannah is operated joint
ly by the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission and the States Marine
Line, with the line handling all
labor matters.
Jackie Receives Big Ovation
NEW YORK — Jacqueline
Kennedy walked into a cheering
demonstration when she arrived
at a Broadway theater last night
to see “Lord Pengo.”
A cheering crowd of 1,000, most
ly women, was on hand as Mrs.
Kennedy arrived. They broke
through a police cordon and only
a wedge maneuver by police and i
secret service men got the Presi- j
dent’s wife into the lobby. I
Diamonds have been found in l
Arkansas, California, Indiana, /]
North Carolina, Ohio, Viriginia <1
and Wisconsin. j J
Soviet Union Will Deliver
Mig-21 Planes to India
NEW DELHI, India — Prime
Minister Nehru announced to
Parliament Tuesday that the So
viet Union has promised she will
not renege on her promise to de
liver a few Mig-21 jet fighters to
India for training purposes.
“A few will come in December
of this year, a few in 1963 and a
few in 1964,” Nehru said.
The Prime Minister described the
planes as samples of the produc
tion from the MIG factory the So
viet Union has promised to build
in India.
Soon after Red China invaded
India in the Himalayas, reports
circulated that the Soviet Union
was reconsidering the deal, ap
parently for fear of roiling her al
ready unpleasant relations with
Red China.
“There was no question at any
time of the Soviet Union backing
out of the commitment they have,”
Nehru declared.
He said, however, there had
been some uncertainty over the
timing of delivery “not because
of China” along, but partly be
cause of the Cuban crisis.
j COMING and GOING wilh WIEN
From Fairbanks: Rev. D. Black
burn, S. Croell, Richard Miller,
George Dujmovich, Joe Britt, Hor
ace, Dorothy and Susan Schnare.
From Kotzebue: Tony Foster,
Norman Schultz.
To Kotzebue: Dana, Leona and
James Jorgenson, Rev. Wilson.
To Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
Winkle, R. Swanson, Bob Renkert,
Ralph Donelson, Joe Janeway, Mr.
and Mrs. Art McVeigh, Eric Jor
genson, Richard Lee Sr., Margo
Balone, Jim Crawford, Mrs. Cox,
H. O. Pilcher, Linda and Norman
Morris, Glen Keck, Alton Camp
bell, Evans Meyers, Geo. Mark
ham.
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Business Criticizes
IRS" Proposed
Tax Regulations
WASHINGTON — The In
ternal Revenue Service Tuesday
announced it has started easing
proposed regulations, sharply criti
cized by business, which are aim
ed at ending “expense account
living.”
Mortimer Caplin, IRS Commis
sioner, made the announcement in
a statement opening two days of
public hearings on rules imple
menting the 1062 tax law. In gen
eral the regulations call for more
detailed record keeping to support
tax deductions for business travel,
entertainment and gifts.
Caplin said that on the basis of
protest letters received so far, “we
have already made positive de
cisions to liberalize the regulations
in several specific areas.”
And he said the tax collecting
agency is giving “serious study”
to one of the most controversial
features of the proposed rules—
a requirement that businessmen
save receipts for all travel—enter
tainment-gift outlays of $10 or
more.
IRS has been receiving about
400 letters a day from business
men, most of them criticizing the
rules proposals issued Nov. 0. In
addition, some 60 businessmen,
labor leaders and members of Con
gress lined up to testify at the
public hearings
Caplin said final regulations
will be issued in about three weeks,
before the new law becomes ef
fective Jan. 1.
Business spokesmen attending
the hearing were given an IRS
statement detailing the steps al
ready contemplated to ease the
regulations.
The statement said final rules
will not require record-keeping
much different from that required
by “many prudently managed
businesses.”
One of the changes announced
would permit businessmen to put
together the total spent in a single
day for such miscellaneous travel
items as parking, local telephone
calls, taxi fares and gasoline and
oil costs. However, the IRS said,
it expects to require separate ac
count entries for each meal paid
for through an expense account.
As originally proposed, the regu
lations would have required rec
ording of the hour of every busi
ness meal. IRS said it was aban
doning this bit of detail and plan
ned to make similar deletions in
other sections of the rules.
Joel Barlow, a director, con
tended on behalf of the U.S. Cham
ber of Commerce that the original
proposals would pose “impossible
administrative requirements” and
amount to a “callous invasion of
privacy.’
$736,550 Grant to Fairbanks
For Water Facilities System
WASHINGTON — The Com
munity Facilities Administration
announced Monday a grant of
$736,550 to help Fairbanks finance
construction of water facilities
estimated to cost $1,513,780.
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France Refuses to
Pay Its Share of U.N.
Operations In the Congo
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. —
France joined the Soviet Union
Tuesday in a new refusal to pay
any part of the U.N. peace-keeping
operation in the Congo despite a
world court advisory opinion that
costs were oragnization expenses.
Andre Ganem, French repre
sentative in the Assembly's Bud
getary Committee, said he was
under instructions to tell the com
mittee that his government could
not accept world court jurisdiction
in interpreting the U.N. charter.
“The French government will
not accept any obligations except
those ordered by the U.N. Security
Council,” the French delegate said.
The Soviet Union previously in
the committee debates also an
nounced it would not pay any
Congo or Middle East operations
costs because they did not come
before the Security Council for ap
proval. Both France and the So
viet Union have veto powers on
the council.
Despite the opposition, Britain
pleader! for the assembly to ac
cept the world court opinion.
Gold Cup Race for
Hydroplanes Set at Detroit
SEATTLE UP — The roostertails
of the unlimited hydroplanes will
spray Lake Washington again next
summer, but they won't be running
in the Gold Cup Race.
Seattle lost out in its bid for one
of the nation’s top races for the
big boats, Greater Seattle Inc.,
said Monday. Detroit offered the
most money for the event.
Greater Seattle said Detroit bid
$36,500 for the 1963 Gold Cup and
Seattle bid $25,500, the second
highest. Guntersville, Ga., offered
$20,000; Madison Inc., $17,500, and
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, $10,000.
The race is set for July 7, and,
in Seattle, the big race for the
unlimiteds next year will be the
Seafair contest Aug. 11.
Behavior Record Fails . . .
RICHMOND, Ky. UP — A de
fendant’s report on his own good
behavior record failed to impress
the judge
Joe Hack worth was fined $10
and costs on a public drunkenness
charge after explaining, “this is
the first time I’ve been arrested
this month.”
The police said they picked him
up Dec. 1.
Law Seminars To Be Conducted
In Anchorage and Fairbanks
SEATTLE W — Two University
of Washington law school pro
fessors, Richard Cosway and War
ren Shattuck, will conduct law!
seminars for Bar Associations in
in Anchorage Dec. 10-12 and
Fairbanks Dec. 13-15.
They will cover the uniform |
commercial code which becomes
a part of Alaskan law Jan. 1.
Two Frogmen
Drown Seeking
A Diving Record
LONC BEACH, Calif, (fll — Two
frogmen, seeking a diving record
dropped 1,000 feet into the sea —
and something went wrong. One
man was fatally stricken and an
other, coming to his aid, vanished
in the depths.
Both were Englishmen taking
part Monday in an experiment to
see if a secret mixture of gases
could enable man to survive deep
in the sea.
Killed was Peter Small, 35, a
reporter for the London Daily
Telegraph. He apparently died of
the bends.
Missing was Christopher Whit
taker, 22. a geology student at the
University of California at Los
Angeles.
Small and Hannes Keller, 23,
a Swiss mathematician and skin
diver, went down off Santa Cata
lina Island in a diving bell. The
men wore frogman suits and air
tanks filled with a mixture of
gases devised by Keller. Water
was pulled into the bell to equalize
pressure.
The bell dropped to 1,000 feet,
the men opened the hatch and
dropped out two flags — Swiss
and American. Plans called for
them to swim around at the tre
mendous depth.
Then something happened.
A television camera, lowered
from the vessel which dropped the
bell, showed them collapsed on
the platform inside the bell. It
was brought up, slowly.
Whittaker went down to help,
but vanished on his way back up
to tlie surface.
His body was being sought.
Keller — who claims the world's
diving record of 728 feet — ap
parently survived unhurt. He was
treated at a hospital and released.
Troops stationed in the Arctic
suffer nearly three times as many
injuries as troops elsewhere, main
ly from falling on ice.
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