Cuba Is Littered
With Russians and
Gun-Toting Youths
Editor’s Note: Reporters and
cameramen from the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. have return
ed from Cuba, where they filmed
a report for the Canadian net
work’s program “CBC Maga
zine.” Here are the impressions
of one of the group, the net
work’s Washington correspond
ent.
By Knowlion Nash
WASHINGTON — Two of the
most striking impressions you get
in Cuba are that there are so many
guns and so many Russians.
Almost half of the people carry
machine guns, rifles or pistols. To
a Canadian, it seems a little un
usual to be greeted by a hotel
doorman carrying a Czechoslovak
burp gun or by a pistol-packing
room clerk. Militia boys and girls,
seme as young as 15, carry guns.
One young militia girl I saw was
carrying a rifle almost bigger than
she was.
I went to a Russian motion pic
ture one evening and noticed that
many boys and girls out on dates
at the movies lugged along their
guns — a somewhat incongruous
sight as they held hands with
one hand and carried their guns
with the other.
While initially at least there is
a measure of alarm at the sight of
so many guns, you get the feeling
of some frustration at the sight
of so many Russians. Cubans
young and old constantly mistook
us for Russians, apparently be
lieving any fair-haired person is
a Soviet citizen.
While I saw literally hundreds
of Russians dressed in civilian
clothes wandering about Havana
or jammed in the back of trucks
rushing out to factories, I saw
very few Chinese. The Chinese I
did see were by far the most
properly dressed of anybody in
Cuba, even wearing ties, some
thing the Russians and Cubans
do net do.
Food is very short in Cuba, al
though nobody is starving, and it
is expensive in restaurants. Elder
ly chicken and stringy pork are
the main dishes, along with rice.
Outside Havana, the food is rather
less appetizing.
We were in Cuba at the height
of the sugar cane cutting season
and the government had launched
a nationwide campaign for volun
teer cutters. The No. 2 man in
Cuba, economic czar Ernesto Gue
vara, spent two weeks cutting
cane himself in Camaguey Pro
vince.
It was in the cane fields that I
interviewed him. With his black
beard, chomping a cigar and pack
ing what he called a “machine
gun” pistol, he gave the interview
beside a cane-cutting machine. His
pistol, I was told, fires 20 shots
and he carries five 20-shot refills.
The interview was conducted in
a semi-circle of his guards, all
carrying machine guns, rifles,
pistols and machetes.
El Commandante Guevara was
only too glad to answer any ques
tion and this seemed to be the at
titude of the Cuban people them
selves wherever we went. Those
who support the Castro govern
ment are enormously proud of
their guns, their Communism and
the houses and hospitals they have
built. Those who oppose Castro
are equally anxious to talk, but
only when you are out of earshot
of any intelligence operatives or
microphones.
Some 90 per cent of U.S. income
tax payers earn $6,000 or less
each year.
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Would Limit Number
Of Liquor Store Licenses
Owned By One Person
JUNEAU UP> — The House de
cided on a close vote yesterday
to keep alive a measure which
would prohibit any person from
having more than three alcoholic
beverage licenses.
The bill got the thumbs down
treatment from the House State
Affairs Committee, and it was up
to the House as a body to decide
whether it should be granted a
place on the calendar regardless.
The vote was 17-16 to send it
along to the Rules Committee.
Rep. Dora Sweeney, who au
thored the bill, said that the pre
sent law sets a limit for three dis
pensary licenses, but does not apply
to retail liquor stores.
“It has been argued,” she said,
“that the state doesn’t regulate
the number of drug stores, for
example, that a person can own,
so why should it regulate the num
ber of liquor stores.”
“However, the state has found
it necessary for years to regulate
the liquor industry.”
Rep. Walter Kubley said that
he could see “absolutely no use for
such legislation.”
He said that any persons could
get around such a law simply by
putting his stores under the name
of another member of his family.
Detecting Nuclear Tests
Would Be Expensive
WASHINGTON W — What are
the chances of detecting hidden
nuclear test explosions in the
heartland of the Soviet Union?
The grim possibilities were ex
plored yesterday by a joint con
gressional committee on atomic
energy, firing questions at a bat
tery of Defense Department ex
perts.
One expert, Dr. Carl Romney,
told the committee that a chain
of 15 $1-million stations surround
ing the Soviet Union would cost
about $10 million a year to operate.
Even this detection system
would have problems. It would
detect between 125 and 250 shal
low earthquakes within Soviet
borders each year—and each event
would have to be proved to be
an earthquake Romney said.
STALIN WASN'T FORGOTTEN
MOSCOW U*> — Somebody
tossed a tiny sprig of mimosa on
Stalin’s grave near the Kremlin
Wall late yesterday. That was the
only commemoration in Moscow
of the 10th aniversary of the
dictator’s death.
There were flowers on the grave
of his second wife, Nadeshda, in
the Novodevichi Monastery. There
almost always are flowers there,
usually from Stalin’s daughter
Svetlana, who still lives next door
to the Kremlin. There frequently
are flowers on Stalin’s grave, pos
sibly from the daughter also.
SENATE OKEHS NORTHERN
BRANCH OF PIONEER HOME
JUNEAU (J*l — The Senate gave
its approval to legislation yester
day which would provide for the
establishment of a branch of the
Sitka Pioneer Home north of the
Alaska range.
The bill was approved by a 17-2
vote after Sen. Vance Phillips at
tempted to amend it to permit
consideration of southcentral Alas
ka as a site for the proposed
branch.
Phillips’ amendment was turned
down on a voice vote.
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(ALASKA NATIVES
Seek to (Jose Lain!
Around Villages
To State Selection
JUNEAU UP) — Some LOOO na
tives of central and northern
Alaska asked the Interior Depart
ment Tuesday to close the land
around native villages to state se
lection until the questions of
aboriginal and native inheritance
rights are settled.
Petitions from 21 villages were
sent to Secretary of the Interior
Stewart Udall by Alfred Ketzler
of Nenana, chairman of the Dena
Nena Henash, Interior Alaska In
dian organization.
In a wire to the Associated Press
at Juneau Ketzler said the peti
tions were circulated among In
dians, Eskimos and Aleuts under
a recommendation passed unan
imously at the Tanana Chief’s Con
ference last June. The request for
the land freeze also was approved
by the Inupiat Paitot, an Eskimo
organization.
Ketzler said that state land se
lections right up to village or
townsite boundaries had touched
off the petition action.
“Indian rights in Alaska were
recognized by Congress in the
Organic Act of 1884 and reiter
ated in the Statehood Act,” Ketzler
said.
“Almost 79 years have gone by
and still these terms have not been
defined.”
He said petitions were sent from
villages of Beaver, Mentasta, Tana
cross, Dotlake, Northway, Venetie,
Nulato, Anvik, Nenana, Nicholai,
Kwethluk, Andreafski, Chefomak,
Chevak, Tuntuliak, Newtok, Shage
luk, Stebbins, Koyuk, Perryville
' and Newwhalen.
A special three-man task force
from the Interior Department rec
ommended in a report released
March 1 that the state selection
program in the immediate vicinity
of the villages be suspended, Ketz
ler said.
He said the report also recom
mended that if Congress ever in
tends to define the entitlement of
Alaska natives to the land they
use, occupy and claim, “it should
delay no longer, and, if necessary,
should set up some kind of tri
bunal to adjudicate native claims.”
U.S. Ice Station In
Antarctica Floats Away
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand
—A piece of Antarctica has
broken off and floated away, tak
ing part of an unmanned American
ice station with it, the U.S. Navy
said today.
The Naval icebreaker Edisto
discovered the l,500-by-500-foot
chunk of ice 300 miles northwest
of where it should have been—
attached to the Ross Ice Sheif.
The break had bisected the sta
tion, exposing the interiors of two
buildings. Canned supplies still
stood on their shelves.
The station is believed to be Lit
tle America 3, built in 1940-41 and
out of use for many years. But a
spokesman said it could be Little
America 4, which was built in
1947 and is known to have broken
away in 1952.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 63-5 Probate
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Matter of the Estate
of
GEORGE M. HITE, Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
undersigned, The National Bank of Com
merce, was on the 7th day of February,
1963, by an order of the above-entitled
Court appointed Executor of the Estate
of George M. Hite, Deceased; that it
thereupon qualified as such Executor in
the manner required by law, and all
creditors of and persons having claims
against the said decedent are hereby re
quired to present their claims, with the
necessary vouchers, within Six <6i
months from the date hereof, to the
undersigned at the office of its attorney
Thomas J. Balone, Box 111, Nome,
Alaska, which office the undersigned
hereby designates as its place of business
! in all matters connected with the said
Estate.
Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 5th
j day of March, 1963.
The National Bank of Commerce
By Thomas J. Balone
Publish March 6, 13, 20, 27, 1963.
Proclamation
WHEREAS, the Honorable John
Kennedy, President of the United
States, has proclaimed the week
of March 17 to 23 as
NATIONAL FREEDOM
FROM HUNGER WEEK
in the United States, and has asked
the American Freedom from Hun
ger Foundation to take national
leadership in planning appropriate |
observance of this week, urging
American citizens in all walks of
l'fe to participate in the observ
ance of National Freedom from
Hunger Week, thereby fulfilling
the need to rededicate men’s
minds and hearts to the inspiring
possibilities of working together
to free the world from hunger:
NOW. THEREFORE, 1 William
Egan, Governor of the State of
Alaska, hereby endorse this ob- j
servance and ask all Alaskans to
take appropriate steps to observe
and to cooperate with private
groups in observing National Free
dom from Hunger Week.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the Seal of Alaska to be affixed,
this twenty-fifth day of February
in the year of Our Lord nineteen
hundred and sixty three.
/s/ William Egan,
Governor
PAA WILL BUY BRITISH JETS
WASHINGTON Uf) — Pan
American World Airways said yes
terday it is negotiating to obtain
about 40 British-built De Havil
land DH-125 light twin-jet trans
ports. The airline would rent the
eight-place planes as executive
aircraft.
The DH-125 Dragon costs around
half a million dollars, carries six j
passengers and a crew of two. i
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Si Million Damage Suit
| NEW YORK fJf) — A million
dollar damage suit was filed
Tuesday against Vaughn Meader
on the grounds that he declined
to make a follow-up recording to
! “The First Family.”
Meader simulated Presiden t
Kennedy’s voice in that recording.
The suit was brought in State
Supreme Court by Booker-Doud
Organization, Inc., which said its
agreement with Meader to make
the first record contained an op
tion for additional recordings.
The agency said Meader express
ed his fixed intention not to make
a follow-up recording unless the
format is radically altered so as
not to require him to portray the
same role which he portrayed in
“The First Family.”
NOTICE OF HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Alaska
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, pur
suant to the authority vested by Section
35-4-3(At, Chapter 197, SLA 1959, will
consider possible regulations pertaining
to:
(It Size of Containers
(2) When License Not Required
(3) Caterer’s Permit
(4) Minors
Notice is also given that any person
interested may present statements or
arguments relevant to the action proposed
to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
P.O. Box 1083, Juneau, Alaska, at or
before 2:00 p.m. March 13, 1963. Copies
of the proposed regulations may be ob
tained by writing to the Alcoholic Bev
erage Control Board.
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
C. J. Davis, Director
Pub: Feb. 22, 27, March 6, 1963.
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