m NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
ford Year No. 92
NOMH, ALASKA, FRIDAY, Al'GlJST \ 1962
Per f.'opy 15C
Primary Election Roundup . .
By William Shear
Professor of Political Science
Alaska Methodist University
As August 14. the primary elec
tion day in Alaska approaches, this
is how it looks to the political sci
ence professor at Alaska Metho
dist' University.
In the race for governor four
Democrats and five Republicans !
are nearing the finish line. A li- j
beral estimate of the total number |
of votes to be cast in the primary j
is 60,000. It is logical to assume !
that majority of these votes will be j
in the Democratic rather than the j
Republican primary.
Most candidates, though willing
to conduct a “hot” campaign, lack
the. finances to do so. There are
a few outstanding exceptions to this
statement.
Demo Primary for Governor
In the Democratic primary the
real contest is obviously between
Byer and Egan. It looks like Tay
lor will run a poor third and
Boyer a very poor fourth. The con
test between Egan and Byer is an
interesting one. Approximately
half of the vote in the state is in
the Anchorage area, where most
candidates are concentrating their
efforts. However, since Byer is
best known in Anchorage, he has
been campaigning thoughout the
state. His genial manner has won
him many friends; his administra
tive* ability is less talkexl about.
Gov. Egan is also conducting a
full scale primary fight. Both men
are out to win. The present picture
is for an Egan victory, but it won’t
come without hard work and cam
paigning.
GOP Primary for Governor
With far fewer than 30,000 votes
in the primary to split among the
five Republican candidates for
ISRAELI AIRLINE REFUSES
TO CARRY DR. SOBLEN
BACK TO THE U.S.
LONDON (/P—Britain instructed
El A1 Airline today to fly fugitive
spy Dr. Robert Soblen to the
United States and prison. The Is
raeli airline said it would not do
so, the Home Office announced.
A spokesman for the Home Of
fice — Soblen’s official guardian
while he is in Britain—said the
airline stated it was acting on in
structions from the Israeli govern
ment.
The Home Office abandoned
plans to get Soblen out of the
country this evening.
Attorneys for the 61-year-old
psychiatrist moved at once to block
any effort to fly him out on an
other airline. They said such trans
portation by another line.would re
quire issuance of a deportation
order, which could be attacked in
court.
Pan American Airways said Sob
len would not be on its only re
maining flight to New York to
night.
The El A1 line brought Soblen
to London, en route to New York,
and nominally at least had the re
sponsibility for completing his trip.
A diplomatic source said the Is
raeli government has appealed to
Britain to relieve El A1 of the re
sponsibility.
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governor, this primary battle may
be won “by the skin of the teeth."
With so many candidates and so
few votes, the outcome is almost
unpredictable. Vern Martin has
been campaigning hard for months,
but has been unable to gain an
enthusiastic following. The expect
ed Coghill push has not developed.
Though he has been campaigning
in other parts of the state, Anchor
age has been moved little, if any,
by the Coghill forces. That leaves
Stepovich, Fritz and Pollock. If
any one of these candidates can
get fi,000 votes, the election will
probably be his. The Anchorage
votes will be split among all the
candidates, with Pollock coming
out near the top in this area. Im
portant votes will come from Fair
banks and southeastern. It is my
prediction that whoever carries
southeastern in the Reublican pri
mary will “carry the state.” The
Anchorage vote again is the most
important, but since the election
can be won or lost with a few
votes, the votes from all the far
corners of Alaska will have a de
termining influence on the out
come.
Stepovich is well known because
of his former position as territorial
governor. Since one of the deter
mining factors in voting is recogni
Continued on Page Two
LIGHTNING STORMS
SET OFF FIVE FORK ST FIRES
IN INTERIOR OF ALASKA
FAIRBANKS UP — A series of
lightning storms accompanying an
occluded storm front that crossed
interior Alaska yesterday after
noon has left a string of forest
fires in its wake, Bureau of Land
Management officials reported to
day.
Three new fires were manned
last night. In addition to the five
blazes being fought yesterday, ad
ditional fires are expected to be
found today by patrol planes.
The lightning storms generally
struck in a diagonal line running
from Betties, near the Arctic Cir
cle in the center of Alaska, to
Eagle, several hundred miles south
east, near the Canadian border.
The five fires reported yester
day are all under control today.
INSIDE PROJECT MERCURY
SAN DIEGO, Calif. UP* — John
Bouris has his own project mer
cury. He swallowed a thermo
meter.
Bouris, 33, had the flu and
stuck the thermometer in his
mouth Wednesday while he was
lying in bed.
He fell asleep and woke up 20
minutes later coughing. He jump
ed out of bed and started search
ing for the thermometer and then
it dawned on him.
The doctor didn’t believe him at
first but an X-ray showed the ther
mometer nestling in his stomach.
‘‘The doctor didn’t think surgery
will be necessary to remove it,”
said Bouris.
The doctor told him to stay away
from work until Monday. “If some
one tapped me in the stomach, it
would probably break,” Bouris
said.
I rges KihI of
I S. Military Aid
To Latin America
WASHINGTON - * Sen. Ernest
Gruening Thursday urged an end
rjf all IT.S. military aid to Latin
America. He said it had been a
tragic mistake and was “unsuit
able1 and fruitless.’’
He cited Peru as an example of
countries where he declared none
of the goals of such aid had been
attained, but emphasized Peru is
not alone in Latin America.
Gruening, a long-time student of
Latin American affairs, expressed
his viewpoints in a prepared Senate
speech.
The Alaska Democrat said one of
the leaders of the Peruvian military
junta was trained two years in
the United States and received
last year a decoration from Secre
tary of Defense Robert McNamara
with a citation praising, among
other things, his “consisitent sup
port of democratic principles.”
Three of the four military com
manders “who staged the Peruvian
coup had tours of duty in the
United States,” a U.S. tank was
used to force an entry in the
presidential palace to oust Presi
dent Manuel Prado, and four of
the 13 military men in the cabi
net “were even given the Legion
of Merit by the United States,”
Last week Gruening commended
President John Kennedy for with
holding foreign aid from Peru, and
recommended then that the United
States “take a second look at our
Alliance for Progress programs in
such countries as Argentina and
Brazil whose governments have
likewise given evidence of insta
bility.” Yesterday he added Ecua
dor to that list.
As for military aid, he said it
had not only failed its announced
goals of modernization, standard
ization, reduction of forces, and
spreading of democracy, but had
in some cases produced arms races
and other “disastrous results not
intended by its advocates.”
Ecuador and Peru, he said, have
long been in an arms race. Ecuador
has received from the United States
$21,700,000 in military aid, and
$39,000,000 in economic aid. Gruen
ing said, and is even now seeking
additional aid “to bail out its shaky
economic structure.”
He suggested waiting “until the
government has been stabilized”
in Ecuador before further aid is
given, wondered if the United
States can “reply upon the
promises of President Carlos Aro
semcna any more than we could
have relied upon the promises” of
the ousted predecessor regime.
He said in some cases, U.S. mili
tary and economic aid enables
Latin American countries to step
up the arms race.
Military aid to Latin America
by the United States began at a
cost of $2#G,000 in 1952 and hit
$91,600,000 in 1961, Gruening said.
He said he is convinced “the
evils of the military assistance pro
gram in Latin America far out
weigh whatever benefits we hoped
to achieve when first the program
was started.”
“I call for an end to this un
I suitable and fruitless venture.”
r.S. M AIU HIS I OR 15S
DOCTORS WHO ll'.i)
DR( Ci THAI.IIM)MII)I
| WASHINGTON vP The g-.vern
! merit announcer] today that all
1 supplies of thalidomide it has been
! able to locate in doctors’ hand in
| this country have been destroyed
or impounded.
j However, officials have not been
[ able to locate 158 of the 1.231 U.S.
doctors who are reported to have
received the drug for investiga
tional purposes. These doctors are
either on vacation or have moved
and efforts are being made to lo
cate them.
The drug, a tranquilizer and
sleeping pill which originated in
Germany, is blamed for many de
formations of babies both to
women in West Germany and else
where who took the drug. It was
never placed fin the market in this
| country but doctors received it for
| experimentation.
ISHFRRI FINKBINF MAY (iO
I TO JAPAN FOR ABORTION
j LOS ANGELES W — Actress
! Sherri Finkbine and her husband
j have cancelled a reservation for a
| flight to Sweden and are thinking
j of going to Japan for her planned
| abortion, an airline said today,
j Scandinavian Airlines. which
had the couple booked on a flight
to Stockholm, said Phoenix school
teacher Robert Finkbine telephon
ed the message to its airport office.
An airline spokesman quoted
Finkbine: "We have not made up
i our minds. We're seeing about a
! Japanese visa.”
Abortions are legal in both Swe
den and Japan. They are not legal
in Arizona, except to save the
j mother’s life.
All’s. Finkbine’s fears result from
a drug, thalidomide, she says she
took to placate nausea during the
early stages of her pregnancy. The
drug since has been blamed for
deformities in thousands of babies,
born in Europe, Australia and
Canada.
CHFERINCi GERMANS
MOB FISI'NI lOW’FR
COLOGNE, Germany .? An
enthusiastic crowd of 20,000 per
sons jammed the square and
streets in front of ex - President
Eisenhower's hotel today and pre
vented him from visiting the famed
Cologne cathedral across the way.
Police tried to rope off a pass
age through the crowd but the
shoving well - wishers strained
against the ropes, and Eisenhower
sent word that he would call off
the visit.
Everywhere they went Thurs
day after their arrival. Eisenhower,
his wife and two grandchildren
wire greeted by waving, clapping
Germans.
1 1,622 TOURISTS^ ARRIVE IN
j NEW YORK FROM EUROPE
NEW YORK m — What was
termed the biggest single load of
U.S.-bound tourists in history ar
rived here Thursday aboard the
luxury liner Canberra.
The ship carried 1.622 passen
gers from Britain and various Eu
ropean countries. They'll take in
the sights here, and many will
travel to Washington, Niagara
Falls, Boston and other points.
Hisahlrd Mini
Holds Commission
Prisoner 12 Hours
PITOENIX. \r. ' .P An cm
! :”i re- i pipefitter. incensed V*y
j i: -entinn nice of his di :abiii’y
| -hecks, held eight. men at :;un
; point for 12k2 hours in a state of
j fire before detectives disarmed
him Thursday night.
Charles Elmer Milligan, 52, of
Tempo, was subdued by Sgt. Ear!
Mo. re and Detective Don Rodri
gue?:. who gained entry to the
barricaded office by posing as
newsmen.
The drama began about 8 a.m.
in a four-story state capitol an
nex housing offices of the Arizona
Industrial Commission.
There for a hearing on his dis
ability claim, Milligan whipped
out a .22 caliber pistol and wound
ed his own attorney in a scuffle
before taking command of the
room.
He released his lawyer, Stephen
S, Gorey, 4f5, who scooted out of
the room on the seat of his pants
and was hospitalized with a flesh
wound in his left leg. Later Gorey,
from a hospital bed. conferred
with Milligan by telephone and
trior! to talk him out of his gun
waving lecture to commission of
ficials.
The gunpoint hearing was in
terrupted in its early stages by
Milligan’s own son, Charles, 28,
who was promptly thrown out by
his angered father.
John B. Ryan, 83. a court re
porter employed for the hearing
and one of the hostages, said: "He
just wanted to tell his story, and
he dir! j;. When he finished, he
finished and that was it."
j At that point, Milligan released
all hostages except Donald Mor
gan, 47. the commission's chief at
torney, and the two pseudo-news
men.
Sgt. Moore got four glasses of
water and the men began to talk.
As Milligan turned his head to
pick up a glass of water, Rodriguez
j leaped at him and grabbed the
j nistol. Moore joined his fellow of
icer to overpower tile husky pipe
fitter.
There was one wild shot from
Milligan’s gun, but Moore said, "I
don’t think he felt like killing
anybody.”
Milligan said nothing as he was
led away. He was bonked on
charges of assault with a deadly
weapon and investigation of sanity.
BRITISH SCIENTIST
DIFS OF bubonic: plague
LONDON </P'—Health authorities
said tonight the disease that:
brought a mysterious death to a
senior scientist at Britain’s top
j secret germ warfare laboratory has
been identified as bubonic plague
— the dread black death of the
j Middle Ages.
A War Office spokesman said
I earlier George Bacon, 44, could
I have been infected accidentally
| while working with viruses and
l bacteria at the microbiological re
| search laboratory in Wilshire.
| Bacon’s wife and two daughters
are under quarantine The spokes
man refused to say whether there
| is a chance of outside infection
! fi'i rn Bacon’s death.
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