63rd Year No. 75
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1962
Per Copy 150
Ann Chambers
Crowned Queen
Of Sun Festival
Ann Chambers, one of six con
testants, was crowned Queen of
the Midnight Sun Festival in a
short coronation ceremony Satur
day night in a beautiful setting of
midnight sky and on a throne of
white polar bear.
Her crown of walrus ivory and
Alaskan jade was placed by the
1961 Queen, Clarice Hardy, and
she was attended by little Kathy
Harwood and Mike Jocius.
The Queen, who is selected by
the number of votes solicited with
a poke of gold as the prize sold
692 tickets with Princess Lari
Lowe running second with 498. The
six contestants sold a total of 1,950
tickets.
AH contestants were presented
with lovely Alaskan necklaces and
earrings.
Other gifts for the Queen in
cluded the following:
Matching fur hat and ascot
scarf, donated by Polets; $10 gift
certificate, Cavota’s; dinner gift
certificate for two, North Star;
sweater, N.C. Co.; travel clock,
Larry Galvin; nugget bracelet,
Johnnie Stephenson; nugget neck
lace, Mary Pilcher; cut crystal
bracelet, Hagen's Jewelry Store;
hammered gold necklace and ear
rings, Midnight Sun Festival Com
mitee; $10 gift certificate, Helen
Cherry; Eastman Brownie n\ovie
camera, Polar Bar and Curio Shop;
Two seat® lor Shrine's Circus in
Fairbanks, Dooley Sales & Service;
Julie London L.P. record, Seattle
Record One Stop.
Following the ceremony a pro
menade was held with outstanding
costumes selected as winners: Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbur Arnold, most au
thentic; Mrs. Helen Nothstein, pret
tiest; Steve Wilson, funniest. All
received cash prizes erf $5.00 each.
Winners of the Beard Contest
were announced by the Jaycees and
included Bob Emmons, best beard
growth; Tom Robertson, most
colorful; Bob Harwood, greatest ef
for with, the least result; Howard
Farley, best collector of barbecue
sauce; Raymond Arnold, most de
bonair.
Prizes were certificates for:
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Kotzebue Man Drowns
On Chena River
FAIRBANKS OB — Three crew
men of the stern wheel cruise boat
Discovery watched helplessly Sat
urday night as a 32-year-old man
in an outboard skiff fell from- his
boat and was swept away in the
Chena River.
The accident occurred about 11
p.m. about 10 miles down the
Chena River from Fairbanks. The
man’s body has not been recov
ered.
Capt. Jim Binkley of the Dis
covery said the accident occurred
about 100 yards ahead of his boat.
‘‘The current swept him past the
Discovery, but out of our reach,”
Binkley said. “It took us a couple
of minutes to get the boat turned
to follow him, and by then all
we could find was his hat,” Bink
ley said.
The victim has been identified
as Fred Snell of Kotzebue.
Binkley said Snell had passed
)very going upstream just
the accident. He was steer
LOW PRESSURE CENTER
BRINGS RAIN TO STATE
By the Associated Press
A low pressure center located
over Kotzebue brought rain and
cloudy conditions to wide sections
of Alaska today.
The low center was blamed for
rain at Fairbanks, Nenana, Sum
mit, Talkeetna, Yakutat and Gus
tavus.
Fog was reported over most of
the Aleutian Chain and at iso
lated points along the Arctic slope.
Most other areas of the state
had cloudy skies, although fair
skies were reported over Prince
William Sound, at Northway, Aniak
and McGrath.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from a low of 30 at Barrow to a
high of 55 at Annette Island. The
high yesterday was 66 at Fair
banks.
Robert Dwyre Named Asst.
State Construction Engineer
JUNEAU Of) — The appointment
of Robert G. Dwyre of Anchorage
as Asst. State Construction Engi
neer was announced today by State
Highways Commissioner Donald A.
McKinnon.
Dwyre has been serving as Dis
trict Highway Engineer at Anchor
age. He will be succeeded at An
chorage by Roy Jenkins, now
Asst. State Construction Engineer.
U.S. Warships
Reinforce 7th Fleet
ESI
On Formosa Patrol
TAIPEI, Formosa W) — U.S.
warships were speeding from Ja
pan today to reinforce the 7th
Fleet’s Formosa patrol in the face
of a reported Chinese Communist
military buildup on the coast op
posite the Nationalist offshore
islands of Quemoy and Matsu.
Most of the 7th Fleet ships that
had been in the big Yokosuka,
Japan, Naval base pulled out over
the weekend, A spokesman said
only that they were “deploying
for operations at sea,” but Pacific
Fleet Headquarters in Honolulu
confirmed that they were strength
ening the patrol in the Formosa
Strait off Red China’s Fukien
Province.
A Navy spokesman in Honolulu
said the move was almost routine
in the light of reports of the Com
munist buildup. He refused to say
how many ships were on patrol,
but an unconfirmed report from
Jaoan said reinforcements from
C«ere included the carrier Coral
The Chinese Nationalist Defense
Ministry said the Communists are
evacuating non-combatants from
the entire coastal area opposite
Formosa.
The Defense Ministry has esti
mated that the Communists have
400,000 men, 300 planes and 400
small naval craft on the “invasion
front.”
Orders were reported to have
gone out to commanders on Que
moy and Matsu to be especially
vigilant against possible Commu
nist action. Quemoy received one
of its sporadic Communist shellings
over the wedcend. 3
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Mostly cloudy with occasional
light rain and fog. Westerly winds
12-25 mph. Low tonight 40, high
tomorrow 45-50. In the last 24
hours: High of 52, low of 38. Max.
wind 32 mptyfrom NW. Sunrise at
1:22 am., sunset 10:58 pm.
Pro-Red Minister
Raps Presence of
Troops in Thailand
VIENTIANE, Laos W> — A pro
Communist cabinet minister de
nounced the presence of U.S. troops
in Thailand Sunday shortly after
Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma
turned leadership of his day-old
coalition over to his Red-leaning
half-brother.
Information Minister Phoumi
Vongvichit called a news confer
ence as soon as Souvanna’s plane
had left for France. Claiming to
speak for the regime, he de
nounced the U.S. troops as a threat
to “the peace and neutrality of
Laos.”
“The government of national
union protests against the Ameri
can troop landings in Thailand,”
declared Vongvichit, a member of
Prince Soiiphanouvong’s pro-Com
munist Lao faction.
It was not known whether Sou
vanna knew Vongvichit was going
to issue tlie statement. The neu
tralist premier had shrugged off
the dispatch of U.S. troops to
neighboring Thailand as "a pre
cautionary measure.
The official minutes of Sunday’s
initial cabinet session, over which
Souvanna presided, carried no men
tion of U.S. troops. I
U.S. officials had no immediate
comment. The United States has
said repeatedly the U.S. troops,
landed after the Pathet Lao made
big military gains in northern
Laos, had eome at Thai request
to protect Thailand, not Laos.
SOPHIA LOREN & HUBBY
CHARGED WITH BIGAMY
ROME UP* — A Rome judge today
ordered actress Sophia Loren and
film producer Carlo Ponti to stand
trial on bigamy charges.
The specific charge against
Ponti was bigamy; against Miss
Loren concurrence in bigamy. She
had never been married before.
Instructing Judge Giulio Franco,
acting as a one-man jury, handed
down the order, in effect indicting
the couple, after a 22-month in
quiry. No date was fixed for
trial.
The Italian actress and Ponti
were married by proxy in Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico, in September 1S57,
three years after Ponti received
a Mexican divorce from his first
wife. Divorce is illegal in Italy,
and Italian courts do not recog
nize his Mexican divorce.
Miss Loren, 27, and her hus
band, 46, could be sentenced to
one to five years imprisonment if
convicted.
Anchorage Cab Driver Killed
ANCHORAGE UPI — A team of
state police investigators are press
ing a search for clues in the death
of an Anchorage taxicab driver
shot ©surly yesterday near the Air
National Guard base at Interna
tional Airport here.
The investigators said Kenneth
Owen Stroud, 23, was shot twice
in the back of the head with a
small caliber gun.
Stroud’s death was discovered
by a woman occupying a trailer |
near the guard base who h^aru the
taxicab crash into a tree and ran
to the scene to find the victim
slumped back in &e driver’s seat.
Officers said fixe victim had $46
in bills In his shirt pocket.
FORMER KING FAROUK
FILES $750,000 DAMAGE SUIT
AGAINST MIAMI MADAME
MIAMI, Fla. — A $750,000
damage suit was filed Friday for
Egypt’s former King Farouk,
claiming Madame Sherry, one
time Miami bawdy house operater,
libeled him in her book, “Pleasure
Was My Business.”
Co-defendant in the suit was
S. Robert Tralins, who wrote the
book for Madame Sherry, identi
fied as Ruth Barnes.
The book claims Farouk visited
her Rancho Lido in 1952, the same
year he lost his throne.
The suit, filed by a West Palm
Beach law firm, said the dust
jacket of the book contained the
statement that “she (Madame
Sherry) boasts that she was the
only madam e in all America
to formally receive visiting royal
ty. She describes the receiving
line of her girls who greeted King
Farouk and the antics that en
sued.”
Farouk claims he has never been
in America.
Supreme Court
Rules Prescribed
Prayer Violates
U.S. Constitution
WASHINGTON M — The Su
preme Court ruled 6-1 today that
New York State sponsorship of a
22-word daily prayer, for re
citation in public schools violates
the U.S. Constitution.
In the high court’s majority
opinion, Justice Black reviewed the
I struggles for religious freedom
that figured in the founding of this
nation and declared the New York
State practice cannot stand under
the Constitution’s bar against laws
“respecting an establishment of
religion.”
“It is neither sacreligious nor
anti-religious,” he said, “to say
that each separate government in
this country should stay'out of the
business of writing or sanctioning
official prayers and leave that
purely religious function to the
people themselves and to those the
people choose to look to for re
ligious guidance.’*
The lone dissenter was Justice
Stewart who noted that the Su
preme Court’s own sessions are
opened with words “God Save the
United States and the Honorable
Court.”
Stewart observed too that pray
ers open the sessions of Congress
and that the “Star Spangled Ban
ner” invokes God’s help.
Five parents with children in
schools in New Hyde Park, N.Y.,
had questioned the constitution
ality of a recommendation by the
State Board of Regents, the gov
erning body of the public school
system, that the following prayer
be spoken in school opening ex
ercises:
“Almighty God, we acknowledge
our dependence upon thee, and we
beg thy blessing upon us, our par
ents and our country.”
Stewart said. “I cannot see how
an 'official religion’ is established
by letting those who want to say
a prayer say it. On the contrary,
I think that to deny the wish
of these school children to join in
reciting this prayer is to deny them
the opportunity of sharing in the
spiritual heritage of our nation.”
Justice Douglas wrote an opin
ion concuring with the majority.
Justices Frankfurter and White
took no part.
The court's vote thus was 3-1.
,
Muslim’
Thru Washington
By Frilz Wiiii
Associated. Press Special Service
WASHINGTON U?l — A million
dollar transportation terminal is
expected to bring great changes to
the Southeastern Alaska commu
nity of Saxman, where 153 resi
dents were counted in the 1960
census.
Development of the 10-acre com
munity terminal, capable of hand
ling freight cars hauled by ocean
going barges, will be financed by
a $1.4 million Area Redevelopment
Administration public facility loan.
Construction of the warehouse,
■ breakwater and facilities for hand
ling freight cars is slated to start
next month and be completed in
October, according to Sen. E. L.
Bartlett.
Plans call for the community to
lease the facility for 25 years to
Ketchikan and Northern Terminal
Co., Inc.
Shipments are to be carried by
the Canadian National Railroad to
Prince Rupert, B.C. From there
the rail cars will be hauled by
barge to Saxman for about $150
, a carload, Bartlett said.
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Eskimo Electronic Students
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
is pleased with the way Alaska
Eskimos are taking to work on the
nation’s far north electronic look
out posts.
Martin P. Mangan, Asst. Com
i misisoner of the Bureau, recently
. told the Senate Armed Services
; Committee about the Bureau’s co
operative program with RCA for
training Eskimo electronic techni
cians. .ate,. ...
In the past year, he said, none
of the 22 Eskimos in the training
program has dropped out and
grades for the Eskimo group are
higher than the class average.
RCA wants Eskimos to work on
the White Alice Communications
System and the Defense Depart
ment employs them eagerly for
work on the Defense Early Warn
ing (DEW) Line and Ballistic Mis
sile Early Warning System
(BMEWS), he added.
“The reason is simple,” said
Mangan, “employes recruited from
the ‘smaller states’ leave the proj
ects at a rate of 48 per cent per
year; the Eskimo turnover rate is
3 per cent -per year.”
He noted that a question that
had been raised about the pos
sibility of encouraging Eskimos to
leave their rugged surroundings
rather than helping than to stay.
“We may become increasingly
grateful to them that they choose
to do so in spite of the inexorable
forces confronting them,” said
Mangan.
“The Eskimos are a valuable
natural economic and defense asset
where they are,” he said. “We
plan to place 125 additional Alas
kan natives in electronics training
in the near future. It will cost us
$6000,000; but we know a good
investment in people when we see
it.”
Mangan made his comments
while testifying in support of a bill
that would make natural gas from
the Navy’s Petroleum Reserve No.
4 available to residents of Point
Barrow.
MAGISTRATE ST. AMOUR
t WILL MOVE TO ANCHORAGE
> Magistrate James St Amour la
’ being transferred to Anchorage on
. July 15, stated Judge Hubert Gfl
. bert today.
No replacement has yet been
named to fill the vacancy here, he
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