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NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 75
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1963
Per Copy 1
123 Paratroopers I
Make Drop Here
The operation Arctic Shore is in
its third day having sucessfully
landed 123 paratroopers on Wed
nesday which arrived on C-119’s
from the 514th Troop Carrier Wing
at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J.
Four of the paratroopers were
slightly injured in landing, it was
reported, by Maj. Henry Sheets,
operations officer of the battle
group.
The maneuver was observed by
Col. Richard O’Neill, commander
of the 4th Battle Group of the 23rd
Infantry and Capt. John Giddings
was in charge of the operation.
During the night both the in
vaders and defenders ambushed
each other in the region of Satellite
Field and yesterday addition heavy
equipment was brought in by three
C-124s of the 62nd Troop carrier
Wing from McCord AFB at Ta
coma, Wn.
The exercise is expected to be
completed about 2 ajn. on Satur
day morning and the aggressors
will be leaving on Saturday and
Co. F is scheduled to leave on
Sunday. The control element will
leave on Monday.
The Alaska National Guard did
not participate in this operation
as many of its members were
otherwise occupied, but the Armory
was used for sleeping.
Maj. Sheets stated that the con
ditions for the drop were ideal
inasmuch that they are not handi
capped here by trees, houses and
power lines for miles on end and
the tundra makes a good cushion
for landing.
The men and officers will be
in town on Saturday and Sunday
after the operation is completed.
Dignitaries Will Attend
Civil Rights Leader
Medgar Evers’ Funeral
JACKSON, Miss. UP) — Negro
leaders said today Ralph Bunche,
Asst. Secretary-General of the
United Nations, is scheduled to be
among public figures attending the
funeral here of civil rights leader
Medgar Evers.
As the announcement came, an
air of foreboding hung over this
deep south city in the aftermath of
the ambush slaying of the Negro
civil rights crusaders.
Others said planning to be on
hand for the funeral include civil
rights champion Martin Luther
King Jr., and Roy Wilkins, execu
tive secretary of the NA^CP.
Officials handling funeral ar
rangements for Evers, felled Tues
day night by an assassins’ bullet,
reported full military honors were
being prepared for a service burial
at Arlington Cemetery in Washing
ton Wednesday.
Meanwhile, people continued +o
view Evers’ body at the funeral
home in Jackson as preparations
proceeded for the dramatic funeral.
• Negro leaders said they were
preparing a “march, march, march”
campaign to continue protests
against raciaF policy in the city.
Police and FBI agents pursued
clues into several states in their
hunt for the sniper who ambushed
Evers, a field secretary of the
NAACP, early Wednesday.
Evidence found near the scene
of the murder had been rushed to
the FBI laboratories in Washing
ton, but so far there was no solu
tion of the crime.
The evidence included one finger
print found on a rifle evidently
used to kill Evers as he prepared
to enter his home.
Kennedy Asks Congress
To Take Early Look
At Supersonic Aircraft
WASHINGTON W — President
Kennedy asked Congress today to
give early attention to his pro
posal that the United States de
velop a supersonic arliner. He
set a $750-million limit on the
federal share of the cost.
Kennedy, in identical letters to
Vice President Lyndon Johnson
and House Speaker John McCor
mack, said economic and defense
needs “clearly require the com
mencement of a commercial super
sonic transport aircraft.”
The proposed aircraft would
compete with one on which joint
research is being conducted by
Britain and France.
The Europeans are talking in
terms of a plane capable of about
twice the speed of sound or around
1,500 miles an hour.
Discussions in this country have
centered on a plane in the 2,000
mph range.
Kremlin Puts
5th Cosmonaut
Into Orbit
MOSCOW — Soviet Premier
l Khrushchev announced the Soviet
Union put its fifth man into orbit
today. He hinted at least one more
cosmonaut may join him in what
may be another space venture
lasting several days.
The launching puts the Soviet
Union one ahead of the United
States, which announced the end
of its Project Mercury space flights
two days ago. ,
The new cosmonaut was identi
fied as Lt. Col. Valeri Fedorovich
Bykovsky, 28, from a small town
near Moscow. His craft is named
Vostok V.
The Soviet news agency Tass
said “the pilot himself reports,
and the telemetric system con
firms, that he satisfactorily with
stood the putting into orbit and
the transition to a state of weight
lessness and that he feels well.”
Tass reported the space craft
was orbiting the earth once every
88 minutes from altitudes of 112
miles to 146 miles.
The capsule was reported circling
at a 65 degree angle to the Equa
tor and broadcasting on 20.006 and
143.625 megacycle frequencies.
In contrast to the austere radio
announcements of previous manned
space flights, Khrushchev broke
the news of this one to Harold
Wilson, visiting leader of the Brit
ish Labor party, at a Kremlin
meeting.
Wilson, remembering that the
last Soviet manned flights in Au
gust 1962 had two men aloft at
once, asked how many wei'e up
this time. —
“Only one so far,” said Khrush
chev, spreading his arms wide
apart to emphasize his point.
Tass said the purpose of the new
launching is to continue studies
of the influence of various factors
of space flight on the human body
and to continue study of conditions
of a long flight.
This indicated that the flight by
Bykovsky may be a long one.
The last Soviet launchings Aug.
11 and 12, 1962, saw cosmonauts
Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel
Popovich come close to one an
other while in orbit. They were
christened “The Heavenly Twins.”
Nikolayev, the first off the launch
ing pad, was aloft just short of
four days.
Moscow radio said Vostok V was
functioning normally.
Japanese Mining
Firm Will Explore
Stale’s Copper and
Iron Resources
JUNEAU UD — Gov. Wfti. Egan
said today the Sumitomo Mining
Co. of Japan plans to send a team
to Alaska by next spring to ex
plore the possibilities of utilizing
this state’s copper and iron re
sources.
Egan returned to the state capi
tal yesterday after a 2V2-week
visit to Japan.
Sumitomo is also interested in
Alaska nickel deposits, Egan said.
Egan, whose trip was under
written by a group of eight Japan
ese companies, including the Alas
ka Pulp Co. said firms using wood
and wood products were keenly in
terested in Alaska’s timber re
sources.
The Alaska Pulp Co. operates a
lumber mill at Wrangell and a
pulp plant at Sitka.
“Until Alaska Pulp Co. started
sending lumber products and pulp
to Japan, companies there were
not familiar with the high quality |
of Alaska spruce and hemlock,”
Egan said.
“Now they are and they are very
interested in what spruce and hem
lock is available. There is also
keen interest in such minor timber
as aspen and birch.
“Other areas of interest to Ja
panese industry were oil and gas,
particularly liquid methane gas.”
In conversations with Americc
government officials in Japan and
with representatives of Japanese
fishing interest, Egan said, he was
advised that the Japanese have
an absolute dislike for the word
“abstention.”
The abstention principle is a
key to the International North
Pacific Fisheries treaty signed by
Japan, Canada and the United
States, in the eyes of Canadian
and American fishermen.
Under it, the Japanese agreed
to abstain from fishing east of
175 degrees west longitude for
species being utilized adequately
by American and Canadian fish
ermen.
“I told those to whom I talked
that the word itself was not im
portant, that regardless of the
wording any treaty would have to
provide for the perpetuation of all
of the fishery resources of the
North Pacific on a sustained yield
basis,” Egan said.
“I pointed out that we prohibit
our own fishermen from taking
salmon on the high seas, in the
interests of preservation of the
stocks.”
“The Japanese fishing companies
seem to realize that some sort of
regulation is necessary for peace
in the fisheries of the North Pa
cific and they do not appear to be
as set against the abstention prin
ciple as some sources have indi
cated.”
Egan said he did not encounter
any ill will in connection with
Alaska’s seizure of the Japanese
boats in Shelikof Strait last year,
or in connection with strong state
ments he has made against the
intrusion by foreign fishing fleets
of historic American fishing
grounds.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Mostly fair and slightly warmer.
Low tonight 32, high tomorrow
50.
In the last 24 hours: High of 40,
low of 30. Max. wind 14 mph
from SW. Sunrise at 1:22 a.m.,
sunset at 10:42 p.m.
Heartening View for
Fathers on Father’s Day
NEW YORK UP — Is dad a dud
these days, or does he still have 1
standing in the family circle?
For years, psychologists and
sociologists have been taking pot
shots at pop, calling him every- (
thing from a figurehead to a hen
pecked onlooker. Many an anthro
pologist has sighed over that
crumbling institution known as ‘
fatherhood. ^
But what do those closest to the
bealeaguered parent say? Do the 5
kids have an opinion?
They do — and it’s one of the
nicest presents father will get this 1
Father’s Day.
A survey by Associated Press
bureaus turns up the heartening *
view that youngsters from 3 to
18 think dad not only is one of 1
the good guys, in most cases he’s
the best.
The young ones worry because
he smokes, cusses, nags, “expects
too much of me,” doesn’t spend
enough time with the family be
cause he works too hard and long
or—in fewer instances—because he
puts in too much time at church
meetings or playing golf.
What would they like dad do
that he doesn’t?
Come to their Little League
games, not leave picnics so early,
play football, bowl, ski, socialize,
relax and enjoy himself more, fix
something right away when it
needs it, “not joke when I’m
serious,” “sit down and discuss
things more with me”—a 16-year
old girl—and from 13 on up, toss
them the keys to the car.
Taku Rock Removed
From Wrangell Narrows.
PETERSBURG UH —- The tide
didn’t do all the work, but it was
a help this week when Taku Rock
was removed from the navigation
al channel in Wrangell Narrows.
The rock got its name when it
was hit by the ferry Taku in
April. The ferry had to go to a
[ shipyard for repairs.
Divers worked two days putting
a sling around the big rock. This I
was attached by cable to a barge |
overhead. When the tide rose it I
lifted the barge and rock, which
then was moved out of the navi
gation channel.
Contractor A. J. Trones said the
rock was of a type foreign to the
area. There is some conjecture
that it may have drifted into the
narrows aboard an iceberg and
fallen to the channel bed when
the ice melted.
North Korea Refuses to
Disclose Fate of Two
U.S. Helicopter Pilots
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (/P>
— A North Korean general re
fused again today to disclose the
fate of two U.S. pilots.
Asked to “act like men living
in the 20th Century,” the Commu
nist whipped out a photograph of
a police dog lunging at a Negro
in Birmingham, Ala.
“Such cold-blooded atrocities are
the true picture of what you call
civilization and respect for human
rights,” said Maj. Gen. Chang
Chun-Hwan.
The U.N. member of the Military
Armistic Commission, Maj. Gen.
George Cloud, replied that racial
tensions in the United States had
nothing to do with the business of
the commission.
The meeting was the fifth since
the Army helicopter of Capt. Ben
Stutts, 30, of Florence, Ala., and
Capt. Charleton Voltz, 26, of Frank
fort, Mich., was forced down in
Communist territory May 17.
Hundreds Stage
Freedom March
In Washington
WASHINGTON Wl — Hundreds:
Df Negroes and whites staged a
two-hour “march for freedom”
through Washington today, capped
by a meeting amid mixed boos
and cheers with Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy.
The marchers — some 2,000
strong—wound from a park, across
from the White House, to the Dis
trict of Columbia Bldg, and on to
the Justice Dept.
There was a 15-minute wait
there before the Attorney General
came out, and restlessness began
to replace what had been the gen
eral good humor of the crowd.
When he showed, there were
some boos and yells for him to ex
plain discrimination in the FBI.
Kennedy, in turn, was obviously
irritated by a pamphlet—passed
out by the demonstrators—which
said there was “blatant discrimi
nation” against Negroes in the
Justice Dept.
Denying discrimination, Ken
nedy said, “any individual can
come in here and get a job if he
, is qualified.”
He drew an enthusiastic cheer
1 at this and, on balance, there were
1 more cheers than boos.
I “When I became Attorney Gen
1 eral,” Kennedy said, “I counted
1 the number of Negro lawyers in
’ l the Justice Dept. There were 10
. Negroes out of 900. There are now
six times that number.”
At the windup, leaders reminded
the demonstrators there will be
a rally Sunday in memory of Med
gar Evers, the Mississippi Negro
leader shot from ambush early
Wednesday.
Evers’ body will be brought
here for burial in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
Police inspector H. F. Moury
estimated the group at 2,000 at
starting time for the protest titled
“March for Freedom Today.” Some
guess at the number assembled in
Lafayette Square across the street
| from the executive mansion ran
higher. ,
There were nearly as many
spectators, newsmen and police
watching the protest operation
mobilized by Washington’s three
leading Negro organizations.
HERBERT HOOVER
REPORTED SERIOUSLY ILL
New York (jP — Former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover, 88. has been
seriously ill for the past week, it
was announced today.
Hoover is suffering from anemia
"secondary to bleeding from the
gastro-intestinal tract,” it was re
ported.
A spokesman said there had
been “diminished evidence of
bleeding” within the last 24 hours.
He said that “although his condi
tion is serious, it is, for his age,
reasonably satisfactory.”
Day-Dreaming Is Sleep . . .
TORONTO — A Toronto
psychiatrist says the persons who
claims to get along on only a few
hours sleep nightly is fooling him
self. He gets his sleep during his
apparently waking hours.
Prof. John Lovett-Doust ex
plained yesterday at the annual
meeting of the Canadian Psyhiatric
Assn, that the person who spends
a relatively short time in bed at
night picks up the missing sleep
during the day every time his
mind wanders.
“Day-dreaming is sleep,” he
1 said.