NUGGET
NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 49
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1962
Per Copy 15#
Sen. Bartlett Says
Missile Sites are
Planned for Alaska
WASHINGTON (M — Sen. E. L.
Bartlett said today a “substantial
number” of intercontinental bal
listic missiles are to be stationed
in Alaska.
Bartlett, a member of the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee,
said the missiles will be of the
Minuteman type, a solid fueled
missile with an announced range
of 6,000 miles.
“From positions within Alaska,”
said Bartlett, “these missiles can
be placed on target to reach every
vital area in the Communist world
in furtherance of building up the
deterrent capacity and strength of
the United States.”
Bartlett, who has been advocated
the placing of ICBMS in Alaska,
said he had no construction esti
mate.
“But,” he said, “I should imagine
that it will total several score
millions of dollars.”
The senator said he had been
“unofficially but authoritatively”
advised that a Defense Department
announcement on the matter would
be forthcoming soon.
“We shall have to await the of
ficial announcement to learn where
the missile sites are to be and in
what numbers,” he said.
AIR FORCE MAKES SURVEYS
FOR UNDERGROUND
MISSILE LAUNCH BASES
WASHINGTON W — The Air
Force said today it is surveying
some parts of Alaska, the Hawaiian
Islands and Guam to determine if
the areas are suitable for construct
ing underground missile launch
bases.
It was understood the Air Force
has in mind possibly emplacing
6,300-mile-range Minuteman inter
continental ballistic missiles in
those regions.
The Air Force already is build
ing bases within the United States
for 600 Minuteman missiles and
has chosen Wsrrsh Air For**** Basn
in Wyoming as the center tor an
other wing of 200 of the missiles.
Since the present program con
templates 800 Minuteman, the
Pentagon would not build any
launch bases in the Hawaiian Isu
lands, Alaska or Guam unless it
decided at some later time to ex
pand the Minuteman force beyond
the present program.
Similar surveys, chiefly soil test
borings, have been made in a num
ber of other locations in the United”
States.
Data from such tests are collect
ed as long range planning infor
mation, the Air Force said, adding:
“There is no assurance that mis
siles will be located in this area.”
It said the surveys will take
about four weeks.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett who long has
advocated placing ICBM’s in Alas
ka, said earlier today that a “sub
stantial number” of the Minute
man missiles would be located
there.
Barbara Bogus . . .
PHOENIX, Aziz. UPf — Roberta
Fletcher, 23, of San Diego, Calif.,
was arrested for passing worthless
checks in the Phoenix area.
Officers said one of the alias she
used on the checks was Barbara
Bogus.
Egyptian belly dancers have a
clause in their contracts entitling
5-minute, pre-perform
ance warmup. . i
ANCHORAGE MAIL TRUCK
RUN STARTS SATURDAY
SEATTLE — A post office
spokesman said today the first
truck of new overland fast mail
service to Anchorage, will leave
here at 12:01 a.m. Saturday and
would go through, “hell or high
water.”
He referred to the breakup and
softening conditions on the Alaska
Highway this time of year.
The weight load will be reduced
to about 25,000 pounds from the
normal 35,000 pounds, he said, but
a full load of second, third and
fourth class mail will be carried.
Drivers for the Fast Freight con
cern which has the contract will
put the truck in Anchorage in time
for the May 1 official opening, he
said. The same service has run to
Fairbanks for some time.
Later, during bad break-up con
ditions on the highway, the big
40-foot vans will be put on rail
road flatcars at Vancouver, B.C.,
to be moved by rail to Dawson
Creek, before being put back on
the road. This will probably last
only a few weeks, the spokesman
said.
Alaska’s Political
Spotlight Shifts
To Nome this Week
Alaska’s polidtal spotlight shifts
to Nome this weekend as the state’s
top Democrats gather for their
party’s 1962, election year conven
tion.
Some 175-out-of-town delegates
are due to start arriving Friday, in
cluding Gov. Wm. Egan and State
Democratic Chairman Wendell Kay.
While Egan hasn’t actually filed
for another term, he announced
at Anchorage last night that his
name would be in the ring by the
time the filing dealine passes at
5 p.m. Tuesday.
Also expected to be on hand
when convention business gets
underway at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in
Nome’s new National Guard
Armory are the four Democrats
who already have filed for Egan’s
office..—".^ ■
They are former State Atty. Gen.
John L. Rader, an Anchorage at
torney; House Speaker Warren A.
Taylor of Fairbanks; former Mayor
George Byer of Anchorage; and
Jjavid Boyer oi Anchor Point.
At least two top Democrats, both
up for re-election this year will be
conspicuous by their absences. They
are U.S. Sen. Ernest Gruening and
U.S. Rep. Ralph Rivers.
;c The bulk of the visiting delegates
are expected in late Friday on two
charter flights, one from Anchor
age and another from Fairbanks.
The convention banquet is sched
uled Saturday night in the Nome
High School, with former Gov.
Herschel Loveless of Iowa, now a
member of the Federal Renego
tiation Board, as the main speaker.
Delegates will have Sunday
morning free and then get back
to work at 1 p.m. Sunday after
noon.
The Democrats are expected to
wind up their meeting sometime
early Sunday afternoon.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with light snow. Little
change in temperature. In the last !
24 hours: High of 32, low of 25.
Max. wind 15 mph from the west.
Sunrise at 3:49 am., sunset at
8:12 p.m. Temps, a year ago today:
High of 28, low of 6. Extremes on
this date since 1907: High of 60
in 1940, low of 43 in 1924.
At Nenana today it was clear,
with a temperature of 43 above.
U.S. Fires First
Nuclear Test Shot
Over Pacific Ocean
WASHINGTON to—The Atomic
Energy Commission announced to
day the United States fired the
first shot of its nuclear test series
in the Pacific this morning.
The shot, described as being in
the intermediate yield range, was
set off about 10:45 a.m. EST in
the vicinity of Christmas Island.
By intermediate range the AEC
means a yield equal to that of
more than 20,000 tons and less
than 1 million tons of TNT.
The AEC said the device was
dropped from an airplane.
The test series started a few
hours after President Kennedy
flashed the go ahead signal yes
terday after months of effort had
failed to get Russia to agree to a
reliable nuclear weapons test ban
State Department officials de
clared as the test began that th(
United States would still be willinf
to halt the series at any time tha'
Russia would sign a firm test bar
agreement with dependable in
spection provisions.
Meanwhile the State Departmen
disclosed that Japanese Ambassa
dor Kochiro Asakai had called al
the department yesterday and for
mally registered his country’s
strong objection to any kind oi
nuclear testing.
U.S. officials, in fact, braced foi
a wave of protests around th<
world. But the U.S. Informatioi
Agency said a recent survey o
editorial comment and publi<
upuuuu in many ioreign coumne
showed a less violent criticism oi
the new U.S. series than the criti
cism which Russia drew when it
broke a three-year-old test mora
torium last Sept. 1.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White declared the United
States was going into the new
series of test reluctantly but said
it had no choice except to fulfill
its responsibilities as the main de
fender of the non-Communist
world.
Kennedy made the decision to
go ahead on the grounds that if
the Soviets continued testing and
the United States failed to do sc
the Soviets might make a break
through in nuclear weapons de
velopment which would give them
an edge in the deadly arms race.
PAA TO START ALL
JET SERVICE TO ALASKA
SEATTLE UR — Pan American
World Airways will start all-jet
service on us principal AiasKa
routes with the summer schedules
beginning April 29.
Daily non-stop flights will be
operated between Seattle and Fair
banks using Boeing “Interconti
nental” jet equipment, a spokes
man said.
Fairbanks flights will depart
Seattle daily at 8:45 a.m. Pacific
Daylight Time. The big jets will
also operate daily between Seattle
and Ketchikan-Juneau, departing
Seattle at 9:15 am.
Piston-engine equipment will be
ased between Fairbanks and Ju
oeau, via White Horse, Y.T., five
times weekly.
Selective Service Director Here
Col. Maurice Kelly, Deputy State
Director for Selective Service, is
lere from Juneau to meet with
the local Selective Service Board
and clerk Mrs. Herb Jenks.
On the board, which will meet
this evening, are: Billy Cameron,
Ben Young, Roy Snyder, Donald
Lyle, and Walter Glavinovich.
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RANGER 4 DUE TO CRASH
ON MOON TOMORROW
PASADENA, Calif. UP) — As the
sun rises Thursday on the desola
tion of the lunar landscape, U.S.
spacecraft Ranger 4 is expected to
plunge from the black sky onto
the surface of the moon.
Scientists say it will strike the
unseen back side of the moon at
8:50 a.m. EST, exactly 63.913 hours
after blasted off from Cape Cana
veral — carrying elaborate tele
vision equipment and the hopes of
United States lunar experts for a
close-up look at the moon.
The hopes were shattered when
a timer failed and halted a se
quence of maneuvers which would
have brought Ranger’s television
eye into play as it neared the
lunar surface.
But Ranger, as blind as plunging
meteor, hurtled on toward what
would be a historic collision. If it
strikes as expected, Ranger will
be the first piece of U.S. hardware
on the moon. The Russians hit it
; in 1959.
; A tiny radio is sending out steady
' beeps by which scientists from
1 Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Labor
atory are tracking Ranger’s flight.
When the beeps stop, they will
know it has hit.
Soviets Reject Proposals
GENEVA UP) — The Soviet
I Union rejected today the Ameri
can proposals for international
, peace-keeping machinery in a dis
, armed world.
' Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
f Valerian Zorin sharply criticized
, the American three-stage general
; disarmament plan for the second
! day in succession at the 17-natfon
Disarmament C.nnfer(^r\c&.
Zorin took particular exception
to the U.N. peace force suggested
by the United States for maintain
ing world security after disarma
ment.
STATE JAYCEES MEET
IN JUNEAU TOMORROW
JUNEAU Uft — The seventh an
nual convention of the Alaska
State Junior Chamber of Commerce
will open here tomorrow.
Delegates from Ketchikan, Sitka,
Petersburg, Juneau, Anchorage,
Fairbanks, Kodiak and Nome are
expected to attend the three-day
meeting.
Presiding over the convention
will be state president Duane
Oliphant of Fairbanks.
Featured speakers include Adm.
Christopher C. Knapp, Commander
of the 17th Coast Guard District;
Ken Johnston of Seattle, national
vice president of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce; and Alaska Atty.
Gen. Ralph E. Moody.
Six Bids Received for Two
Room Addition at Nome School
Six bids were received for the
construction of a two-room ad
dition to the Gillis addition of
the school with 49th Construc
tion Co. of Fairbanks the apparent
low bidder on the base bid, plus
three alternates, for the sum of
$61,500.
Other bids received were Davis
Construction Co. of Seattle, $66,
511, B & A Co., Fairbanks, $71,981,
American Services, Anchorage,
$73,000; Pacific Construction, Fair
bangs, $92,900; and Hank Huevel
Builders, Fairbanks, $98,711.
Lynn Forrest, architect for the
building, was on hand to check the
bids.
By motion the City Council ac
cepted the low bid, but if for
any reason it is found to be not
acceptable the second low bid is
to be considered.
Gov. Egan Will
Seek Second Term
ANCHORAGE UP) — Gov. Wm.
Egan gave formal notice last night
that he would seek a second term
as governor of Alaska.
The long-expected announcement
came in a televised address before
some 200 persons attending a testi
monial dinner for the governor.
Egan, 47, was elected the first
governor of the new State of Alas
ka in 1958.
He joins a field of four other
Democrats seeking the guberna
torial nomination. They are John.
L. Rader and George H. Byer,
both of Anchorage, Warren A. Tay
lor of Fairbanks and David New
ton Boyer of Anchor Point.
“In these critical years, Alaska
must have a government that is
responsive to the wishes of the
people, a government with integ
rity beyond question, a govern
ment that is not afraid to gear
itself to today’s needs and tomor
row’s promises,” Egan said.
“It needs an honest government,
one of purpose and one of vision.
“t certainly do not believe that
I am the only man in Alaska who
can administer such a government.
“But I believe that during my
term as chief executive of Alaska
I have administered a government
that closely adheres to these goals
in both principle and practice.
“I know that I shall continue
to do so if given the opportunity.**
Egan, a native bom Alaskan,
served five terms in the Territorial
House of Representatives, finally
serving as Speaker. He was elec
ted to the Territorial Senate far
a four-year term in 1953.
He was elected delegate to the
and subsequently was named
president of that convention.
In 1956, he was elected as one
of three Alaskans to go to the na
tion’s capital as an Alaska-Ten
nessee Plan senator to work and
fight for statehood.
After statehood was achieved,
Egan entered the race as Demo
cratic candidate for governor and,
in the 1958 general election, de
feated Republican John Butrovich
of Fairbanks for the first gover
norship.
“In the forthcoming campaign,
I intend to detail the accomplish
ments of both my administration
and the Democratic party since we
were accorded your trust in 1958,’*
Egan said last night.
“I intend to ask the people for
their endorsement of what we have
achieved and what we propose for
the next four years of Alaska's
history.” i
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WASHINGTON Ross Miller,
of the Universitv of Alaska Adult
Education Department, has been,
named industrial development
specialist in Alaska for the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs, the state’s
congressional delegation was in
formed yesterday.
The White House informed the
delegation that Miller would be
concerned mainly with Indian par
ticipation in various area rede
velopment programs. His head
quarters will be in Juneau.
TICKETS GO ON SALE
FOR DEMOCRATIC BANQUET
Mary Andersen is in charge of
the ticket sale for the Democratic
banquet scheduled for Saturday
evening and although she has dis
tributed the tickets widely, can be
contacted personally by phone for
those wishing to make reservations
at the dinner at which Herschet
Loveless will be the main speaker.
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