ROSCOE J. WILKE
——. FOR MAYOR -™»
if For continued work on Sewer & Water Project he started when mayor.
if Promise to give no adverse information to New York boys to reflect
adverse criticism on Nome and Alaska as the Brinkley Report which
disgraced Nome and all of Alaska.
if Businessman and Taxpayer.
■Nome Citizens for Wilke
THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 39
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1963
Per Copy 15C
Kennedys Tour
Gettysburg Battlefield
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Presi
dent and Mrs. Kennedy took ad
vantage of a balmy Sunday to visit
the famed battlefield of Gettys
burg where the North threw back
the greatest offensive of the South
a hundred years ago and brought
the Civil War to its turning point.
Like other tourists they also
peered with interest at a certain
white brick and stone residence
near the western dge of the battle
ground—the home of former Presi
dent and Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower.
The Eisenhowers are vacation
ing in California.
The Kennedys, their daughter,
Caroline, 5, and Undersecretary of
the Navy Paul Fay and his wife
and children spent the weekend
at the Presidential hideaway in
the Catoctin Moutains near Thur
mont, Md.
Dressed in a blue blazer and
gray slacks, the chief executive
hopped out of the car on a few
occasions and the children got out,
scampered across fields and stone
fences where a century ago, in
July, more men were in action
and more men died than in any
battle on the North American Con
tinent.
Bethel People
Enjoy Dog Races Here
The following Bethel residents
enjoyed the week end in Nome on
a charter flight to take in the
Nome Dog Races. They arrived on
Friday and departed yesterday.
The charter was arranged by the
Camera Club of Bethel.
Murlin Day, Don Engler, Evelyn
and Harry Faulkner, Lula and
Robert Forrest, Captain Hoke, Viva
Kinegak, Betty Lorimor, Margaret
Lytle, Mr. McCrosson, Anita Mil
ler, Liz Nicolai, Helen Rodgers,
Lucy Pete, Stanley Rodgers, Elle
nora Voth, Jake Brassilie, Peter
Weise, Peter Williams, Heming
bird, Spillers and Atkins.
TAKU READY FOR USE
SEATTLE UP) — The Taku, sec
ond of the three ferries built for
southeastern Alaska’s new service,
was turned over to the State of
Alaska by the Puget Sound Bridge
& Dry Dock Co. yesterday.
The ship will be around Seattle
for about a week longer as the
crew familiarizes itself with the
vessel.
The first of the Alaska ferries,
the Malaspina, has been in serv
ice several weeks. The third, the
Matanuska, is under construction.
Times and Winners During Races
1st
Joe Harris, Kotzebue . 1:
Chester Topkok, Teller . 1:
Isaac Okleasik, Teller . 1
Doc Harris, Kotzebue . 1
Wilbur Sampson, Noorvik . 1
Isaiah Oksoktaruk, White Mt. 1
Tom Brown, White Mt. 1
Ray Foster, Nome . 1
Harold Ahmasuk Jr., Nome . 1
Ed Punguk, Golovin . 1:
Heat
:20:30
:21:07
:19:29
:19:46
:18:56
:33:23
:35:48
:35:32
:40:47
36:57
40:18
47:34
05:36
37:03
41:26
Sat.
$125.00
225.00
100.00
10.00
45.00
10.00
10.00
2nd Heal
1:31:49
1:31:15
1:34:59
1:32:14
1:43:22
1:49:32
1:48:53
1:50:57
1:59:58
2:06:16
2:03:04
2:05:54
2:27:02
Philip Kugzruk, Teller ... 1:
Sam Ahwinona, Elim . 1:
Wilson Shugookuruk, White Mt.2:
Sig Aukongak Jr., Golovin -. 1:
John Komok, Mary’s Igloo .1:
Fri. Sal. Best Time Total
Joe Harris .'..$ 40.00 $125.00 $525.00 $690.00
Chester Topkok . 10.00 225.00 260.00 495.00
\lsaac Okleasik . 100.00 100.00 100.00 300.00
Wilbur Sampson . 200.00 10.00 40.00 250.00
Doc Harris . 75.00 45.00 60.00 180.00
Isaiah Oksoktaruk . 10.00 10.00 30.00 50.00
Tom Brown Sr. 10.00 15.00 25.00
Ray Foster . 10.00 10.00
KID'S RACE
First, Ronnie Larson, $20; Second, Joan Schnare, $10; Third Susan
Schnare, $8.00; Fourth, Russell Tocktoo, $6 00; Fifth, Robbie O’Connor,
$4.00; Sixth, Reuben Herman, $3.00; Seventh John D. Walsh, $2.00;
Eighth, John M. Walsh, $1.00; Ninth, Donnie Sanders, $1.00.
POWER SLED RACES
Men: First Leonard Anseth, $65; Second Jim Blanning, $45; Third,
John Bradley, $30; Fourth, Bob Workman, $10. Women: First, Ellen
Mulvihill, $65; Second, Bev Blanning, $45; Third, Donna Morgan, $30;
Fourth, Milly Workman, $10.
MERCHANDISE CERTIFICATES
A1 Long $300 — Ann Hart $100 — Pearl Bohrer $100
CANADIAN CLUB—Stan Harhut and Jackie Muller
Wilson Shugookuruk won the two boxes of groceries from U.S. Merc
Best
Elapsed
Time
2:52:19
2:52:22
2:54:28
2:57:00
3:02:18
3:22:55
3:24:41
3:26:29
3:40:45
3:43:13
3:43:22
3:53:28
4:32:38
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FOR MAYOR
I
Mike J. Walsli
Passes Away at 79
M. J. Walsh, affectionately
known to his friends all over
Alaska as Mike Walsh, who has
been hospitalized here for some
time, passed away this morning.
Mr. Walsh was born in Cork
County, Ireland, on April 8, 1883
and came to America at the age
of 20 and to Alaska in 1906.
He knew this part of Alaska
very well having had a mail route
to the Kougarok and the many
mining camps of the early days.
He took the mail route on foot
many times. Like all pioneers,
he mined in several parts of the
peninsula gaining a wealth of
knowledge as to the mining po
tential. He had a keen memory
and knew just about where every
body mined and because of his
knowledge, integrity and honesty
was appointed to represent many
corporations whose revenues were
derived from the royalties' from
their mining property. He repre
sented them at clean-ups all over
this part of the state.
Mr. Walsh was city clerk of
Nome from 1930 to 1943; served as
member of the Territorial legisla
ture in 1945; he was a delegate
to the Constitutional Convention
and served for 15 years as a mem
ber of the Board of Regents of the
University of Alaska as well as
on the Territorial Board of Edu
cation.
He was very active in the Pio
neers of Alaska and was Grand
President in 1945.
His wife, Louise, was the first
white girl on the beach at Nome
in 1899 at the height of the gold
boom. They had four sons and six
daughters. One of the daughters,
Mary, is dead.
There are 39 grandchildren.
The survivors, in addition to
Walsh’s widow and grandchildren,
include sons Pcarse, Joseph and
Daniel of Nome and James of Ket
chikan; and daughters Eileen Tay
lor, Las Cruse, N.M.; Ann Walsh,
a Fairbanks school teacher; Norene
Wills, Palo Alto, Calif.; Kay Far
ley, Palo Alto, Calif.; and Pa
tricia Holbrook, North Hollywood,
Calif.
Yankees Lose Roger Maris
LAKELAND, Fla. UR — Slugger
Roger Maris was lost to the New
York Yankees for an indefinite
period today when he suffered a
severly pulled leg muscle during an
exhibition game.
Maris pulled the hamstring
muscle in his left leg making a
tumbling catch of a line drive.
Crack Down on Police
MOSCOW UR — The Soviet
Union has cracked down drastic
ally on police brutality.
Two policemen were sentenced
to death in Krasnodar, on the Sea
of Azov, for fatally beating a
secretary of the Young Commu
nist League they had arrested.
Plane Crash
Near Bethel Is
Fatal to Three
BETHEL — A small plane
crashed in a whiteout Saturday
near here killing all three per
sons aboard, according to the Fed
eral Aviation Agency.
State Police identified the vic
tims as Gary Hodgins, 32, a vet
eran bush pilot of Bethel; Jack
E. Davis, 36, a State Sanitation
Aide and Engineering Department
employe of the Department of
Health, headquartered at Anchor
age; and Theresa Chimeralera of
Chevak.
The pilot’s last radio report in
dicated he was 20 minutes out of
Bethel and that he was flying into
a whiteout. When no further word
was received a search began when
conditions emproved.
The wreckage was spotted Sat
I urday night by Herman Ludwig
sen but he was unable to land his
plane at that time.
State Police landed at the scen«
and returned the bodies to Bethel
The plane, a Cessna 180, wa
owned by the Delaire Flying Serv
ice of Bethel.
Hodgins is survived by hi
wife, Laura at Bethel and hi
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hod
gins of Vancouver, B.C.
Davis was with the Dept, ol
* Health and Welfare since Febru
ary, 1962. He lived in Anchorage
and is survived by his wife,
Phyllis Ann.
The woman victim was reported
headed for Anchorage where she
was to enter the Alaska Native
Hospital.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued cloudy. Low tonight
14, high tomorrow 25. In the last
24 hours: High of 24, low of 7.
Sunrise at 5:19 a.m., sunset at
6:54 p.m.
Cuban Exiles
j Defiant of U.S.
Clamp-down Order
MIAMI, Fla. UH — The U.S.
crackdown on commando raids
against Cuba won approval of Sen
ate leaders today, but a defiant,
newly formed anti-Castro group
declared it would begin strikes at
Soviet shipping from Mexico.
Sen. Mike Mansfield and Sen.
Everett Dirksen agreed the hit
i run raids might involve this
country in conflict.
Exile sources seemed determined
to continue raids.
A spokesman for commandos
F. F. Operation Lobo told the
Miami News this new organiza
tion plans to operate heavily
armed speedboats from Mexico
coastal areas and attack Cuba
bound Russian vessels wherever
they can be found.
“The United States has pledged
i that Cuba will some day be free,”
. the spokesman said, “but Cubans
are being massacred and herded
* into dungeons in their homeland
without any apparent effort by
the free world to fulfill the US.
s pledge.”
3 Mansfield said there have been
. reports that, as a result of the
raids, Fidel Castro “has shot a
number of Cubans inside Cuba.”
“There is no strong under
ground or guerrilla movent in
j Cuba—despite what you hear,” said
Carlos Penin, former schoolmate
of Fidel Castro and now coordi
nator of the People’s Revolution
ary Movement.
(Continued on Page 4)
Nine Skiers Killed
ISSENBRUCK, Austria UH —
Nine skiers have been killed in
Austria’s worst avalanche dis
aster this season. Search parties
I found the last victim this morning.
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The first regular flight of the new Alaska Airlines Convair
340 arrived Friday with ten passengers on board for the special
occasion which inaugurates pressurized service from Anchorage.
Passengss were R. Van Vorst, C. Thompson, R. Swift, J.
Williams, Betty Hester, Norman Scott, Sylvia Johnson, Dr. K.
Vaughn, Col. Askins and C. Ronard.
Station manager George Lienard reports that last month
Alaska Airlines brought in a total of 385 pessangers to Nome,
105 through passengers and took out 368 apssengers. The airline
brought in 152,804 pounds of mail and freight and took out
28,957 pounds.