THE
NOME NUGGET
“FARTHEST WEST NEWSPAPER IN THE 50 STATES"
64th Year No. 93
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1963
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Russians Lead
Mass Public Snub
Of Red Chinese
By JACK RODERICK
Associated Press Staff Writer
HIROSHIMA, Japan <JF) — The
Soviet delegation led a mass public
snub of the Red Chinese tonight.
They marched from the audi
ence in Hiroshima Peace Park as
the head of the Chinese delegation
began to speak at the ninth world
confernce against nuclear bombs.
They were joined by the Indians
and bv delegates from East Euro
pean Communist countries, includ
ing Yugoslavia.
The group paraded to the front
of the arched war memorial to
Hiroshima’s 240,000 atom bomb
dead and stood with heads bowed
and their backs to the speaker,
Chao Pu-Chu, as he denounced the
tripartite test ban treaty signed in
Moscow today.
The 14 Soviet delegates were led
out of the audience by Yuri Zhu
kov, a commentator for Pravda,
the Soviet Communist party news
paper.
Chao’s denunciation of the So
viet Union for signing teh treaty
followed soon after the confer
ence heard a message from Pre
mier Khrushchev which described
the ban as “a brilliant victory”
for his policy of peaceful coexist
ence.
Around the World by
Commercial Airliner
In 46 Hours, 41 Minutes
NEW YORK UP — Two Cleve
land, Ohio, businessmen leave
Monday for home after chopping
more than five hours off the rec
ord time for a ’round-the-world
journey by commercial airliners.
The globe - trotters, Lou Fodor
and Sam Miller, flew into Idle
wild airport last night from Tokyo
via Anchorage.
Their time around the world was
46 hours, 41 minutes, which beat
the commercial airliner record set
in 1960 by Milton Reynolds of San
Francisco. He did it in 51 hours,
45 minutes.
It cost about $1,700 each for
Fodor and Miller to make the trip.
They declined to say if they had
commercial backing.
Miller said, “We’ve always been
flying enthusiasts and wanted to
go around the world. We saw the
world and the most amazing thing
was the friendliness of the people
and how well we were received
everywhere.”
Attempt Made to Save
2 Million Pounds of Fish
After Fire at Cold Storage
PELICAN, Alaska (#) —Between
seven and eight tons of refriger
ation equipment was brought to
this community 70 miles west of
Juneau Saturday in an effort to
save $1.5 million worth of frozen
fish.
A fire early Friday destroyed
the engine room of the Pelican
Cold Storage Co., Inc., endanger
ing two million pounds of frozen
fish.
Prosper S. Ganty, president of
the company, said it as hoped the
new refrigeration equipment could
be installed within three days,
which would be within a safe time
limit.
Ganty said the firm will be un
able to resume business this year.
It is the major cold storage plant
for the Icy Strait area where fish
ermen reaped a bonanza harvest
this year. The closest storage
plants are at Juneau and Sitka.
65 Nomeites Help Coast
Guard at Cape Spencer
Celebrate 72nd Birthday
The US. Coast Guard had its
72nd birthday on Sunday and prob
ably the farthest north celebration
in the USA was at Spencer yes
terday when 65 Nomeites took off
in five planes for this station to
help the 39 members of the crew
stationed there honor the occa
sion.
Movies were shown for the chil
dren in the party and Nomeites
looked with envy at the lovely
swimming pool and enjoyed a
fine chicken dinner in the mess
hall, played pool and danced.
The planes which took the local
party included three Wien air
planes and two planes of Munz
Northem Airways.
All members of the U.S. Coast
Guard stationed there were pre
sented with gold nuggets by the
visiting delegation headed by
Lt. Merlin Nygrene.
Hoover and Walsh Report
From Nation’s Capital
Don Hoover and Pearse Walsh,
who are in Washington, D.C., as a
special delegation, phoned this
morning to the president of the
Chamber of Commerce stating that
they have made many contacts and
will continue through today and
tomorrow in their efforts to in
crease the amount of appropria
tion which Nome could get, name
ly $300,000 to the sum necessary
for the start of the water and
sewage project. By popular sub
scription and voluntary contribu
tions funds were raised locally to
send the mayor and a member of
the Alaska legislature to Washing
ton, D.C.
They report fine cooperation
with the staff of Sen. E. L. Bart
lett who arranged meetings for
them as well as housing during
their stay.
They will conclude their per
sonal appeal tomorrow and pro
bably start for home tomorrow
evening.
NOT ENOUGH!
SACRAMENTO W—A group of
California Indians has indicated
disapproval of the federal govern
ment’s offer of $29.1 million to
settle their land claims.
A capacity crowd of some 150
Indians at a hearing in Sacra
mento applauded Sunday when
one shouted: “Are we going to give
California away? Castro got a
better deal than that.”
The Justice Department has
proposed the $29.1 million pay
ment for some 64 million acres at
45 cents an acre, the value of
the land in 1853 when the United
States made 18 treaties with the
Indians.
Cancer Crusade to be
Held This Week
Mrs. Hubert Gilbert, chairman
of the Cancer Crusade, has an
nounced that the annual campaign
will be held this week with a big
rummage sale on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday; a door-to-door vis
itation on Friday evening from 6
to 7 p.m. and soliciting from busi
ness houses on Friday and Satur
day.
Under Mrs. Gilbert’s leadership
the Cancer Crusade has been an
overwhelming success for the past
two years. At this tirfie she is
asking for volunteer helpers for
the project who may call her at
2285.
The location of the rummage
sale will be announced on Wednes
day.
North Korean
Haiders Attaek
U. S. Outpost
By CONRAD FINK
Associated Press Staff Writer
U. S. FIRST CAVALRY DIVI
SION FRONT, Korea M — Thir
teen American soldiers fought off
seven grenade-hurling North Kor
ean raiders Monday in the longest
clash in eight days of fresh action
on the Korean front.
Five of the Americans suffered
scratches from grenade fragments
in the two-hour battle, fought in
pre-dawn darkness. There were no
known Communist casualties.
The Communist North Koreans
used whistles like pheasant calls
to guide their attack. They struck
at an American outpost in a nar
row finger of the demilitarized
zone that was a bloody battle
ground in the 1950-53 Korean war.
The North Koreans hurled a
barrage of grenades at the Ameri
can outpost set up about 1,000
yards east of where a Communist
patrol last week ambushed three
Americans in a jeep, killing two
and wounding the third.
The spot is 13 miles from Pan
munjom, where the U. N. Com
mand warned North Korea it
would invite its own destruction
if it failed to halt attacks south
of the border dividing North and
South Korea.
North Korea’s spokesman, at the
Armistice Commission meeting on
Saturday, rejected the U.N. Com
mand’s charges as “fabrications.”
Supreme Court Justice
Douglas Married Again
After Divorce Last Week
BUFFALO, N.Y. l/P — Associate
Justice William O. Douglas of the
U. S. Supreme Court, 64, today
married a woman in her mid-20s,
a spokesman for the girl’s family
said.
Douglas, twice divorced, and
Joan Martin of suburban Amherst,
a recent college graduate, were
married in Buffalo’s Unitarian
Universalist Church in a noon
ceremony.
The spokesman for the Martin
family said Miss Martin was
about 25.
The couple left for a month’s
camping and hiking trip in the
mountains of Montana and Wash
ington, the spokesman said.
An uncontested divorce was
granted last week in Goldendale,
Wash., to Mrs. Mercedes Douglas,
46, on grounds of cruelty.
B.C. Fishing Fleet Get
Another Shot at ‘‘Biggest"
Salmon Run In History
VANCOUVER, B.C. (An —British
Columbia’s fishing fleet put to sea
Sunday intent on cashing in on at
least part of one of the largest
nans of salmon in the province’s
history.
With a three - week, multi-mil
lion - dollar strike over, the fleet
took advantage of a special fish
ing period for B C. fishermen only
permitted by the International Pa
cific Fisheries Commission.
The period was to let Canadian
fishermen catch up to their Am
erican counterparts who have been
reaping bumper catches during the
strike.
The Americans were given ex
tra days of fishing because too
many salmon were escaping nets
and swimming up rivers to over
crowd spawning grounds.
House Leader Foresees
Trouble In the Senate
For Tax Cut This Year
WASHINGTON L/P> — House Re
publican Leader Charles A. Hal
leck predicts a tax reduction-re
vision bill and some sort of civil
rights legislation will be passed by
the House. But he foresees stiff
opposition in the Senate.
The Indianan gave this forecast
Sunday in a televised interview.
His somewhat optimistic predic
tion for the fate of the two mea
sures in the House — given top
priority by the Democratic admin
istration—is contrary to the GOP
leader’s earlier views.
This week, congressional com
mittees may start making major
decisions on tax cuts and civil
rights. But it remains highly un
certain when they will reach the
floor of the House or Senate for
debate.
The House Ways and Means
Committee took a series of votes
on the tax legislation last week
and may reach the most important
question — reduced rate schedules
—in the next few days.
President Kennedy recommend
ed a net cut of about $10.2 billion
to be reached in stages. Rep. Thos.
Curtis, R-Mo., a member of the
committee, said Sunday in an in
terview on New York television
staations, ‘'The most we are pro
bably talking about is a $7-billion
or $8-billion cut, net.”
Republican Predicts
Senate Will Approve
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
WASHINGTON UP* — Sen. Ken
neth B. Keating predicts over
whelming Senate approval for the
limited nuclear test ban treaty if
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
makes it clear that no “under-the
table” deals are involved.
Keating, a New York Republi
can, said he asked Rusk for as
surance that U.S. negotiators have
not agreed to a nonaggression pact
or increased trade as a price for
the agreement signed today in
Moscow.
A two-thirds majority is needed
for ratification.
In a speech to the nation July
26, President Kennedy said “the
Moscow talks reached no agree
ment on any other subject, nor is
the treaty conditioned on any
other matter.”
A Democrat, Sen. Strom Thur
mond of South Carolina, raised
doubts Sunday about the treaty,
which would ban tests in the at
mosphere, outer space and under
the sea.
Thurmond, in a letter to con
stituents, said Premier Khrush
chev’s failure to keep agreements
on Cuba, southeast Asia and other
world trouble spots made it ques
tionable whether he can be trusted
on the test ban.
SUNDAY BASEBALL SCORES
American League
Baltimore 7-10, New York 2-11
Kansas City 6, Minnesota 2
Detroit 2-2, Cleveland 0-3
Chicago 8, Los Angeles 1
Washington 7, Boston 5
National League
Cincinnati 5-4, Pittsburgh 2-1
Philadelphia 7-5, St. Louis 3-2
Milwaukee 2, New York 1
Los Angeles 4, Houston 0
San Francisco 2, Chicago 1
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 6-3, Dallas 3-5
Oklahoma City 5-0, Tacoma 2-3
Hawaii 3-1, Portland 1-3
Denver 4-10, Salt Lake 2-5
Spokane 5, Seattle 1
Test Ban Seen As
Merely First Step
Toward Peace
By GEORGE SYVERTSEN
MOSCOW </P — The United
States, Britain and the Soviet
Union today signed a partial nuc
lear test ban treaty they called "an
important initial step toward the
lessening of international tension
and the strengthening of peace.”
The three nuclear powers an
nounced after the signing of the
historic agreement that the treaty
would be open for signatures by
other powers in Washington, Lon
don and Moscow Aug. 8.
A three - power communique
hailing the treaty as a first step
toward peace said the three gov
ernments “have stressed their hope
that further progress will be
achieved toward that end.”
Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
British Foreign Secretary Lord
Home and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko put their signa
tures on the historic document.
Premier Khrushchev witnessed
the signing.
“Our three governments,” said
Rusk, “have today taken what all
mankind must hope will be a first
step on the road to a secure and
peaceful world.
"The treaty we have signed to
day is a good step — a step for
which the United States has long
and devoutly hoped. But it is only
a first step. It does not end the
threat of nuclear war.”
Khrushchev listened with rapt
attention to the words of the for
eign ministers immediately after
the signing ceremony.
Lord Home called the treaty a
“breakthrough in relations be
tween our countries” which indi
cated that the great powers had
come to the conclusion that nuc
lear war wras impossible.
Rusk warned that it would be
impossible “for us to guarantee
now what the significance of this
act will be.”
"History will eventually record
how we deal with the unfinished
business of peace,” he continued.
"But each of our governments can
and will play an important role
in determining what future histor
ians will report.”
Immediately after the simultan
eous signing by the three foreign
ministers. Gromyko made a speech
hailing the treaty as “a success of
the peaceful policy of the Soviet
Union.”
He proposed a champagne toast
to peace and friendship among na
tion. Witnesses to the signing
clinked glasses with Khrushchev'
and U. N. Secretary - General U
Thant, another witness who flew
to Moscow' for the signing.
Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark.,
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, alluded to
possible Senate opposition to the
treaty.
He remarked to Gromyko: "No
one can speak for the Senate un
less it speaks for itself, but I am
personally in favor of this treaty.”
LONDON — John Pennel of
Miami bettered his own world pole
vault record today with a leap of
16 feet, 10V4 inches in the U.S.
Great Britain track and field meet.
It was the second world mark
within minutes on the closing pro
gram of the two-day competition.
Shortly before Pennel w em
over the bar, beating his own
mark of 16 feet, 8^4 inches, a
team of British girls shattered the
world mark in the 44-yard relay.