FARTHEST WEST NEWSPAPER IN THE 50 STATES”
64th Year No. 100
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1963
Per Copy 15£
CAB Okays PA A
Route Transfer
But Nixes Price
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON IJP — The Civil
Aeronautics Board approved the
proposed transfer to Wien Alaska
Airlines of a local Pan American
World Airways route in Alaska,
but ruled that the price was too
high.
The board said it would not ap
prove payment by Wien of $49,338
for the intangible assets involved.
This represented 70 per cent of
the total purchase price.
The CAB said the purchase price
should be revised to exclude any
charge for intangible assets.
The two airlines filed an agree
ment in April 1962, for Wien to
take over Pan American’s local
operating rights between Juneau
and Fairbanks.
The agreement called for Wien
to pay $71,000 to Pan American,
of which $21,662 would cover the
sale of tangible properties.
The CAB said Pan American
has tried for years to provide ade
quate service over the route where
traffic has been relatively light.
This problem has been intensi
fied with Pan American’s intro
duction of jets on all Seattle-Alas
ka flights, the Board said, and the
local route has been losing money
for Pan American.
The CAB said Wien, with its
smaller planes, should be able to
provide better and more econom
ical service but might require an
increased subsidy.
“Certainly, the propects of pro
fitable operations is not sufficient
ly good to justify a payment for
intangibles,’’ the Board said.
Bob Jacobs Found Unhurt
Upside Down on Sandbar
ANCHORAGE IP — An Anchor
age bush pilot missing on a flight
in interior Alaska was rescued
unharmed late Monday from a
sandbar on the Melozitna River,
about 110 miles northeast of Gal
ena, the Air Force reported here.
An Air Force spokesman said
Robert Jacobs, operator of the Ja
cobs Flying Service at Lake Hood,
Anchorage, apparently had flipped
his Cessna 185 in an emergency
landing on the sandbar.
Jacobs was spotted about 5 p.m.
Monday by Capt. Thompson of the
Galena Air Force Station who was
flying a Civil Air Patrol L20 in
the search.
Jacobs was reported missing on
a Friday flight from Betties to
Tanana. He had been working on
delivery of parts to an oil com
pany operation located near Umiat,
on the north slope of the Brooks
Range.
No Information Given
MOSCOW UP* — The Kremlin
said today the Soviet Union did
not give Peking information on
how to make nuclear bombs be
cause Red China is too weak econ
omically to produce them in
quantity.
The Soviet statement added that
the Chinese Communists should
rely on the Soviet Union’s ever
ready and growing nuclear arsenal
to defend Communist countries.
The statement, published in the
Communist party newspaper Prav
da, replied to China’s accusation
Aug. 15 that the Russians broke
an agreement to pass on nuclear
information in 1959 before Pre
mier Khrushchev went to the
United States to visit President
Eisenhower.
Kennedy Wants Action
On Civil Rights and
Tax Programs This Year
WASHINGTON IP) — President
Kennedy says his “very vital” civil
rights and tax programs are too
important to be pushed aside by
Congress until 1964. He wants
votes on both this year regardless
of how long it takes.
“And I think most congressmen
will agree that they should meet
their responsibilities” in these two
fields before they go home, Ken
nedy told a news conference Tues
day.
In reply to a question, Kennedy
said he saw no reason Congress
couldn’t be kept in session long
enough to act on his civil rights
and tax programs.
“What is the advantage of put
ting it over until next year? We
have other problems. We have an
election year. There are a good
many excuses next year to get out
of town,” he said.
Congressional action is expected
this year on civil rights. But Re
publican congressional leaders and
some top Democrats have ques
tioned whether there will be action
this session on Kennedy’s broad
tax program.
40-Foot-Long “Thing”
Cavorts Off Sandy Hook
SANDY HOOK, N. J. UP> — A
“thing” — described as a 40-foot
long hunk of jelly — is reported
cavorting in the Atlantic Ocean.
It undulated near the surface in
a manner resembling the storied
sea serpents, says Dr. Lionel A.
Walford, director of the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Research Center here.
“But please be careful not to
call it a sea serpent,” says Wal
ford, who saw the creature.
“It is an invertebrate,” he added
Monday. “It looked like so much
jelly. I could see no bones, and no
eyes, nose or mouth. But, there it
was, undulating along looking as
if it were almost made of a fluid
glass.”
The “thing” was sighted 25
miles southeast of Times Square
off Sandy Hook.
The “thing” was sighted from a
research vessel as scientists were
lowering two frogmen in a shark
proof iron “bird cage” to make
oceanographic studies. Sharks are
common in the area.
TWA Will Buy 19-20
Boeing Jet Transports
SEATTLE —Orders for 19-20
more Boeing jet airliners costing
$100 - $150 million are reported
planned by Trans World Airlines,
whose directors meet here Friday.
The purchases would be spread
over several years Charles Tilling
hast Jr., TWA president, said in
New York Monday.
TWA already has 67 Boeing jets
on order and has taken delivery
of 50. The additional 727, 707
120B, 707-320B and 707-320C trans
ports and cargo jets would meet
the company’s needs through 1970,
Tillinghast said.
The directors will be flown to
Seattle from San Francisco Wed
nesday night in a new 727 tri-jet
model.
BACK IN NOME
Pat O’Connel, teacher for Nome
School who has been continuing
his studies throughout the sum
mer at the University of Wiscon
sin, returned yesterday bringing
back Charles Tucker and James
Keller, the two school boys he
took to Wisconsin with him for
the summer and who have been
experiencing farm life, farm food
and getting a real coat of tan.
Schedule “Hot Line"
Operation This Month
NEW YORK L/P — The Defense
Communications Agency hopes to
have the Washington-Moscow Hot
Line in operation by the end of
this month.
Subsidaries of the International
Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and
the Radio Corp of American an
nounced Tuesday.
They had received contracts for
work on the United States end of
the line.
The set-up will provide con
tinuous direct communications be
tween the White House and the
Kremlin. Mainly as a precaution
against accidental war.
Two Sisters 71 and 72
Are Raped In L.A.
LOS ANGELES UP — Police say
a man about 25 broke into a Wil
shire District home early Tuesday,
raped two elderly sisters and then
killed one of them with a knife.
Officers said the intruder killed
Mrs. Lilly M. Korb, 72, in her
bed.
Taken to Central Receiving Hos
pital was Mrs. Korb’s sister, Mrs.
Anne M. Sherman, 71.
Mrs. Sherman’s 76-year-old hus
band, Lloyd, told investigators he
attempted to go to his wife’s aid
but was threatened with the knife.
He quoted the attacker as say
ing: “I’ll kill you if you don’t keep
your mouth shut.”
Officers said a preliminary sur
very indicated nothing was stolen
from the home.
Khrushchev Hails
Yugoslav-Soviet Ties
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia liP —
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told
Yugoslav workers today that the
enemies of Communism would one
day want to live in Communist
countries.
He also said the fact the Soviet
Union now is rated one of the
two big powers in the world along
with the United States was a good
argument for the Communist sys
tem.
Khrushchev made his remarks
in an hour-long speech during a
visit to the giant motor plant at
Rakovica outside Belgrade.
In his address and extemporan
eous remarks, he hailed Yugoslav
Russian ties and declared that
the 1948 break between Belgrade
and Moscow had accomplished
nothing.
On other subjects, he said that
the Soviet Union was far ahead
of the United States in the space
race.
“The Americans say they will
catch up with us. But they should
not forget that we will not sit with
folded hands,” he said.
Khrushchev hit hard at the
theme of Yugoslav-Soviet unity.
The Soviet Union has been press
ing a campaign to bring the two
countries—both targets of Red
China’s hard-line wrath—closer to
gether.
“Our attitudes are identical or
quite close,” said Khrushchev.
He added: “You and we have
a joint enemy — imperialism —
and there is no reason why we
should not go along together.”
Patrols Fire on Each Other
SEOUL, Korea UP* — American
soldiers on patrol in a forward
area of west-central Korea fired
on each other by mistake and
threw grenades in the darkness
Monday, a U.S. Command spokes
man announced today.
One was killed and another was
wounded slightly, he said.
Racial Tensions Explode
With New Violence
In Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. UP>—Seeth
ing racial tensions exploded with
new violence Tuesday night and
left Birmingham fearful of still
more trouble when its schools de
segregate two weeks from today.
A dynamite bomb ripped away
part of the fashionable home of a
Negro attorney, and minutes later
angry gangs of Negroes roamed
the streets, hurling rocks at police
and passersby.
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ing at the home of Arthur Shores,
an active participant in the strug
gle against segregation. Two police
men were struck by rocks, but
were not believed seriously hurt.
Shores was alone in the house,
watching television in a bedroom
and waiting for his family to return
from a movie.
The force of the blast left the
lawn, driveway and interior of
the house littered with glass, roof
ing and splintered wood. The ex
plosion was heard miles away.
Negro ministers, including the
Rev. A. D. King, whose own home
was dynamited in another bombing
three months ago, climbed to the
top of a police car to plead with
the shouting Negro mob to dis
perse.
Police chief Jamie Moore said
his officers, with the help of de
puties from the sheriff’s office,
broke up the rock-throwing crowds
and restored order two and a half
hours after the bomb tore a hole
in the corner of Shores’ home.
CAB Upholds Pan Am’s
New Low Military Fare
WASHINGTON UP — The Civil
Aeronautics Board has upheld its
action in permitting Pan Ameri
can World Airways to put into ef
fect a new low military fare be
tween Seattle and Fairbanks in
less than the customary one-month
advance period.
But the board said it would in
vestigate as to whether Pan Ameri
can had submitted false statements
in support of its application for
special tariff permission that moved j
the effective date of the $42.50 fare
up from July 21 to July 6.
The board dimissed a complaint
by Alaska Airlines which intro
duced a similar fare July 1, that
Pan American had inaugurated its
fare in less than the required ad
vance-notice period.
Alaska Airlines said that in ap
plying for special tariff permission,
Pan American made “not true
statements that the Military Air
Transport Service had asked Pan
American to file the fare in that
market as soon as possible.
Alaska added that it would not
have filed the low fare had it not
been assured of exclusive rights
to the military traffic.
The CAB said it has never cre
ated tariff rights exclusive to one
or two competing carriers. It said
Alaska was wrong in assuming the
CAB would grant an exclusive
right to the traffic.
37 Cuban Refugees
MIAMI. Fla. — Thirty-seven
Cuban refugees jammed onto a
26-foot motor sailboat were taken
aboard a Coast Guard cutter
southeast of Anguilla Bay in the
Bahamas on Tuesday. They will be
taken to Key West, Fla.
Coast Guard officers said a Navy
patrol plane spotted the refugee
boat and the cutter Nemesis, on
patrol in the area, was sent to
pick up the 10 men, 13 women and
14 children aboard.
Had Berry Crop
Blamed For
Bad Acting Bears
FAIRBANKS — A bad berry
crop in the Fairbanks area is
blamed for bad acting bears.
That’s the word from game bio
logist Bud Burris of the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game as
his explanation for the recent bear
attacks.
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in as many weeks. Two were in
jured and one killed.
Burris said no formal survey of
the wild berry crop here has been
made but observations indicate
there is a “decided lack of blue
berries” at a time when they are
a major part of the animals’ diet.
He believes the bear problem is
“directly related to the slim berry
crop.”
“We are hoping that the prob
lem may be alleviated when cran
berries begin to ripen,” he added.
He said bear attacks should be
regarded as “unusual” occurrences.
Burris hoped they would not
lead to “senseless shooting” of
bears.
Burris said when food is in short
supply, bears become short tem
pered.
He said under the present cir
cumstances, hunters going after
big game animals should take ex
tra precautions to protect them
selves and their meat.
With the lack of berries, he said,
any meat a bear happens to come
upon he wall consider his own.
To protect themselves while
sleeping, the game biologist said,
hunters should avoid making
camp beside streams or lake
shores where the bears more than
likely had forged trails.
Tents should be set off the main
traveled areas, he suggested, and
food supplies should be cached
about 50 yards from the camp
proper, particularly greasy frying
pans and bacon.
If fishing, Burris said, fisher
men should take care to see no
dead fish are around the campsite
upon retiring. Dead fish attract
bears, he continued.
Finally, Burris said some sort
of noisemaker should be arranged
on the campsite which will serve
to spook large animals.
An easy way to make a noise
maker is with a piece of crinkled
plastic tied to a stick so it will
wave in the breeze, he explained.
The same thing can be done with
bright colored rags, he said.
Toilet paper tied to a stick will
keep the bears away, he concluded.
Another 30,000 Pounds
Recovered from Great
Train Robbery in Britain
LONDON UP — British police
have recovered another 30,000
pounds ($84,000» of the great train
robbery loot. It was found in an
abandoned auto trailer.
Police, announcing the discovery,
intensified a search for the man
and woman, with a baby, who left
the trailer parked last week at a
trailer camp near Dorking, Sur
rey.
The trailer cash brought to
237,107 pounds ($764,600) the total
so far recovered of the 2.6 million
pounds (.$7,280,000) taken by the
gang that robbed the Glasgow
London mail train.
Laundry was a big problem dur
ing California’s gold rush in 1849.
It had to be shipped to Hawaii, or
sent back east, and often a miner
j had to wait six months to get a
1 clean shirt.