OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
63rd Year No. 7
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1962
Per Copy 15^
Newest Alaska SS
Freight Rate
Hike Suspended
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON UP) — Alaska
water freight rate increases asked
last month by the Alaska Steam
ship Co. were ordered suspended
Tuesday pending an investigation
by the Federal Maritime Com
mission.
The proposed increases, ranging
from 10 to 20 per cent on certain
Alaska shipments, would have
gone into effect Thursday had the
Beard not acted.
Sens. Ernest Gruening and E. L.
Bartlett were told the suspension
is for the maximum of four
months allowed by law. During
that period the Board will in
vestigate the rate proposal.
Tuesday’s action concerns only
the Alaska Steam proposal made
last month. It does not affect a
10 per cent rate increase granted
conditionally in January, i960.
Hearings have been held on that
increase and recommendations of
a Commission examiner are
awaited.
ACS TO DISCONTINUE
LONG DISTANCE CALLS
THROUGH NOME TEL.
Hie U.S. Army Alaska Com
munications System has an
nounced that it will no longer
handle long distance calls through
— «*
April t, was. .t'"'~ t
It #fil be necessity to place
calls at the ACS aCjCtce between
the hours of 8-6 p.m. on Vjreek
days and 4-5 p.m. on Sundays.
This has happened, stated W.
Saunderson, chief of the Com
mercial Division of ACS, in the
absence of a contractual agree
ment for die performance of
local services on toll calls be
tween ACS and Nome Telephone
Co. Direct connection between
ACS long distance facilities and
Name Telephone Co. business artd
residence subscriber telephones
will, in the absence of an inter
connection agreement, no longer
be available.
Incoming calls also, stated Sgt.
James manning, must be taken at
the ACS station after April tl.
When interviewed, Pete Reader
of the Nome Telephone Co., stated
that there was no reason for the
public to be alarmed as he was
still negotiating with ACS:
London Paper
Forecasts World
Shortage of Tin
LONDON <*> — The world tin
shortage is here to stay, the Fi
nancial Times forecast Tuesday.
The 1901 shortage will be felt
even more sharply this year and
could be softened only by a re
lease from the giant United
States
or reasons for the shortage.
If the political situation in the
Congo allowed new supplies
through from Kivu Province, pro
ducer country production dwuM
rise about 1«,So tons in 1963,
is fflgpaetfKi to
the paper said.
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Signatures Arrive in
Juneau for Petition
To Move State Capital
ANCHORAGE UP) — Nearly
7,000 notarized signatures on a
petition to move the state capital
were mailed to Juneau today, ac
cording .to Del Alsop of the Capi
tal Information Committee.
A total of 6*877 signatures were
included in the first shipment to
the office of Secretary of State
Hugh Wade. Alsop also said he
expects to send the final collection
by tomorrow so that they will be
in Juneau by the Jan. 22 deadline.
The areas where signatures
were sought included Kotzebue,
Point Barrow, Bethel, Aleutian
Islands, Kodiak, Kenai Peninsula,
Cordova, Juneau and the central
portion of the state.
Alsop said he expects the final
total to reach about 7,700 sig
natures, considerably more than
the 6,200 required.
Today Alsop went to the Bethel
area to pick up petitions which
have been signed by residents of
that area. At the same time an
other volunteer worker was to go
to Nome and Kotzebue collecting
final signatures from Northwest
Alaska residents.
All of the work on the petitions
has been done by volunteer help
ers of the Capital Information
Committee. Their work covered at
least 16 election districts in the
state.
’Requirements set forth by the
Secretary of State wore more
rigid than when the first capital
move attempts was made, Alsop
said. Included among the require
ments was notarizing of all sig
natures. This and all other re
quirements have been met, Alsop
said.
Public Works
Wants $4 Million
For ’62 Road Work
JUNEAU m — The State De
partment of Public Works said to
day it will have to ask the 1962
Legislature for a supplemental ap
propriation of $4,008,333 for the
fiscal 1962 highway program.
The additional funds will be
needed because the full amount
of anticipated savings from a 1960
appropriation of $4 million to pro
vide state matching funds under
the federal aid highway program
in fiscal 1961 has not material
ized, Commissioner Bichard Down
ing said.
The 1960 Legislature made two
appropriations, $4 million in the
general appropriation bill and
$1,099,427 in a separate measure.
When the Congress revised the
federal-state matching ratio from
86.09 and 13.91 per cent to 94.59
and 5.41 per cent in September,
1960, a savings of $3,004,650 in
state funds was anticipated.
Highway funds based on this
anticipated saving were ashed
when the >1961 appropriated high
way funds for fiscal 1992.
However, Downing said, the
amount of anticipated savings
proved to be incorrect because the
new ratio was applied to the full
federal apportionment for fiscal
1991, whereas a number of non
reimbursable items of expenses
which file state had to pay 100
par cent of the cost should have
been excluded. tf'
State's share of construe
and other non
expenses were abo
' Downing Silfp
New Military Junta
Takes Over In
Santo Domingo
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican
Republic Ufi — A new civilian
military junta took over the gov
ernment of this Caribbean nation
today under a state of siege, a
modified form of martial law.
President Joquin Balaguer re
signed and his 7-man council of
state collapsed under the pres
sure of bloody rioting after only
16 days of rule.
At least four persons were kill
ed and a score wounded when
tanks opened fire on a defiant
crowd in the heart of the capital
last night.
Gen. Pedro Rodriguez Echa
varia, the armed forces chief who
thwarted an attempted' coup
d’etat by the brothers of former
Dictator Rafael Trujillo last No
vember, emerged grim faced
from the Presidential Palace and
announced the change of govern
ment.
Opposition crowds have been
accusing him of dictatorial ambi
tions and have demanded his res
ignation.
It was clear he led the discus
sions which resulted in the
change of government.
U.S. Assails New Junta
WASHINGTON US — The Unit
ed States assailed the new Junta
! government as a “step back
l ward.” Officials said the Unite*
> States is considering withdrawn
■ of recognition.
State Department informants
said they are afraid the new po
litical upheaval at Santo Domingo
may mean the beginning of an ef
fort to establish a new military
dictatorship.
“We have received reports,” a
formal U.S. statement said, “that
a new government — apparently
a predominantly military junta—
has assumed power in the Domin
ican Republic.”
Calling the development a
source of great concern, the state
ment said: “It obliges the United
States government to restudy its
policies toward the Dominican Re
public since those policies have
been based on the assumption of
continued constitutional rule and
an uninterrupted transition to
fully democratic government.”
MILKS A RHINO . . .
BRISTOL, England Iff) — Stan
Evans said modestly today that as
far as he knows he is the first
person ever to milk one of the
world’s shortest-tempered beasts
— a rhinoceros.
Evans, 30, a keeper at the city
zoo, is milking two-ton Stephanie,
a recent mother, in the interests
of science.
The milk is being analyzed
with a view to concocting a sub
stitute food for baby rhinos whose
mothers are killed by poachers
in Africa. If the experiment suc
ceeds, it may save the increasing
ly rare black rhino from extinc
tion- _
weather outlook
Fair this afternoon and tonight
with soma ground fog. Low to
night 5, high tomorrow Id. In the
last 24 hours; High of 31, low of
15. Max. wind <23 mph from the
south. Sunrise at 9:26 am., sun
set at 2:99 pm. Temps, a year
ago today: High of 31, low ot 15.
Extremes on this date since 1907:
High of 94 lit 1922, low of -32 in
1991.
Japanese Agree to Confine
Bering Sea Fishing
To Bottom Fish
JUiNEAU UP) — Two Japanese
fishing fleets to be sent into the
Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska
will be under strict orders to limit
their activities to bottom fish, the
U.S. State Department has ad
vised the Alaska Chamber of
Commerce.
Don Dickey, general manager
of the State Chamber, wrote Sec
retary of State Dean Rusk last
month, expressing concern that
the two Japanese bottom fish
trawl fleets would disturb estab
lished halibut and king crab
stocks.
Resentment from such Japan
ese fishing activity, Dickey said,
might “jeopardize Japanese-Alas
kan relations in other important
fields such as timber and pulp,
coal, iron ore, and liquified gas.”
In addition, Dickey said, Russia
might follow Japan’s lead, on
economic grounds, and the Rus
sians close to Alaskan shores
“could pose problems for our De
fense Department as well as the
State Department.”
in answering uicKey, w. lier
rington, special assistant for Fish
eries and Wildlife in the State De
partment, said the Department
was unable to obtain agreement
to defer the proposed J apanese
operations.
But, Herrington said, the De-l
parturient did obtain assurance ol\
l strict limitations on the opera- \
- tions ■which should reduce the'
1 danger to the stocks ol halibut oi
1 importance to United States fish
ermen.
5 “Specifically, these are: (1) That I
the licenses issued to the two ex- /
■ peditions in question will be limit
ed to experimental commercial I
trawling; (2) that any salmon and
halibut caught incidentally to the
ground fish operations will be re
turned to the sea; and (3) that
the inspectors aboard the mother
ships will be under orders to shift
to other fishing grounds when
halibut or salmon are found inter
mingling with bottom fish sought
by the Japanese.”
INCOMP ATABILITY . . .
TUSiLA, Okla. UP) — Judge Ray
mond Graham granted Evelyn
Jones, 27, a divorce from Ernest
Jones yesterday tout said the basis
for the petition was “the most
amazing I’ve ever seen.”
“That a husband and father of
11 children should be guilty of
incompatibility does injustice to
the term,” said Judge Graham.
The couple married when Mrs.
Jones was 13 and has children
aged 12, 11, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,
and 1.
Two Kotzebue Seal
Hunters Reported Missing
KOTZEBUE Of) — An all-out
search started today for two Es
kimo seal hunters believed trap
ped on an ice floe off the north
west coast of the Seward Pen
insula near Shishmaref.
(Missing are Haynes Kigrook
and Bill Barr, both of Kotzebue.
Gideon Barr reported the pair
missing yesterday when he reach
ed the cabin they had been using
at Cape Espenberg, about 50
miles from Kotzebue.
In the cabin was a calendar
with Jan. 5 the last day marked
off. It has been assumed that it
is the date the two left on a
seal hunting trip.
In the cabin searchers found
one old and three young extreme
ly hungry sled dogs.
U.N. Concerned
Over Massacre of
17 Priests in Congo
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo UPi
—The United Nations displayed
concern today over reports of the
massacre and mutilation of from
18 to 20 Roman Catholics by bands
of Congolese troops and youths
at Kongolo, in North Katanga.
Reports received by the U.N.
said 20 European priests were
killed. Vatican representatives
said, however, 17 European priests
and a lay brother were the vic
tims.
The Vatican news service in
Leopoldville said the victims were
marched before terrified school
children at the Kongolo Mission
School by soldiers who shouted:
“Now you will see how we are
going to kill your priests!”
“Pray for us,” the report said
the priests called to the students
as they marched to be machine
gunned to death.
The bodies were completely
dismembered,” the account said.
“The hands cut, the eyes gouged,
other abominable mutilations
committed with knives.”
No nuns were attacked, ac
i cording to the report.
■in* troops involved apparent
ly were the same contingent that
massacred 13 Italian U.N. airmen
in Kindu last November. Normally
based in StanleyviH*, they were
l sent hy leftist leader Antoine
Gizenga to invade North Kntangfc;
and slncer thelr rampage in Flndu
have been considered a disorder
ly, undisciplined band under no
one’s control.
CANADIAN SHIPS MAY
PROVIDE PASSENGER
SERVICE TO ALASKA
SEATTLE UP! — Seattle Port
Commissioners took a tentative
step yesterday toward possible re
vival of a passenger ship service
to Alaska aboard Canadian flag
vessels.
The commissioners voted to com
municate with various groups in
order to assay community interest
in restoring the passenger service.
Since the Alaska Steamship Co.
canceled its passenger service in
1954, persons wanting to go to
Alaska by boat have had to go
to Vancouver, B.C.
Commissioner John Haydon said
a simple amendment to the Jones
Act, which forbids the use of
vessels of foreign registry to en
gage in inter-coastal trade, could
permit carriage of passengers by
Canadian ships.
Haydon said Canadian lines
have expressed interest in calling
at Seattle* for passengers and
added that a clause could be in
serted in the federal amendment
to compel withdrawal of Canadian
vessels should a competitive
American line decide to inaugu
rate such a service.
The Commissioner said 8,000
passengers made the trip from
Vancouver to Alaska last year.
He estimated passenger potential
out of Seattle at between 11,000
to 13,000.
GOODWIN KNIGHT DROPS
OUT OF GOVERNORSHIP RACE
LOS ANGELES UP) — Former
Gov. Goodwin Knight Tuesday
withdrew for reasons of health
from the 1962 race for Califor
nia’s governorship — thus avoid
ing a primary battle with Rich
ard Nixon for the GOP nomina
tion.