OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 86
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1963
Per Copy 15C
Nikita Expresses
Optimism for
Test Ban Treaty
MOSCOW OP—Premier Khrush
chev expressed optimism today
about the chances for a big three
agreement in current negotiations
on a limited nuclear test ban and
said he would like to see outlaw
ing of all such tests, including
those underground.
The Soviet leader reiterated in a
Kremlin speech that he wanted
an East-West non-aggression pact.
At the same time, Khrushchev
again announced he was ready to
permit Western inspection of vital
military installations inside the
Soviet Union as a safeguard against
concentration for a surprise at
tack.
This was offered as a device
for helping to case world tensions
and was not directly connected
with the test ban treaty.
Speaking of the U.S., British
and Russian test ban talks in
Moscow, Khrushchev said:
“We are under the impression
that there is hope now of achiev
ing agreement on the banning of
nuclear tests in the atmosphere,
cosmic space and under water if,
of course, there are no special
changes in the positions of the
American and British representa
tives.
“It has been demonstrated by
science and technique that the
banning of all tests, including
underground ones, can be controll
ed with the help of national tech
nical means of detection which
are at the disposal of nations now.
But the representatives of the
United States and England still
insist on the necessity of inter
national inspection. They do not
want to give up their aspirations
which, in reality, have nothing to
do with the cessation of nuclear
tests.
“Why and what for is this being
done? In order to have the chance
to carry out intelligence work.”
“The picture is quite clear: Ap
parently, we will not reach agree
ment on the ban of underground
nuclear tests at the present time.
Nevertheless, the Soviet govern
ment considers that if an agree
ment is achieved on a ban of nu
clear tests in the atmosphere, cos
itnic space and under water, there
will be an important and useful
step foi'ward.”
The conference, which Khrush
chev opened Monday with a warm
welcome for the Western envoys,
came to tile end of its first week
today with diplomats still report
ing progress toward agreement on
a test ban treaty.
The task of treaty drafting has
been largely turned over to a sub
committee.
Hydrofoil Crashes In
Puget Sound on Test Run
SEATTLE — A $1.5 million
experimental craft billed as the
world’s fastest Hydrofoil crashed
on a test run in Puget Sound yes
terday, slightly injuring the three
crewmen.
The 55-foot, twin-hulled boat,
built by the Boeing Co. for the
Navy, rolled over on a turn.
A Boeing spokesman said the
crewmen were picked up by the
Coast Guard and taken to a hos
pital.
A floating crane was dispatched
to bring the Hydrofoil to shore
to determine damage.
The craft, called the Freshi, has
been tested since last May. It
was driven at more than 20 miles
an hour last week.
Crime Rate Increases
WASHINGTON UP) — The na
tional crime rate is increasing four
times as fast as the population,
the FBI reports.
Last year it climbed to a new
high. For the first time more than
two million serious offenses were
recorded—almost four a minute.
The statistics were contained in
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s
report Thursday to Atty. Gen.
Robert Kennedy.
Last year’s crime rate topped
1961 ’s by 6 per cent. Every crime
category but murder increased.
Murder dropped 2 per cent.
The trend, the FBI said, was
13 per cent higher than the aver
age crime rate over the three years
of 1959-1961.
Statistically, among every 100,
000 Americans, there were 4.5
murders, 8.8 rapes, 51.3 robberies,
75.1 assaults and 480.4 burglaries.
Clouds Expected
To Eclipse Eclipse
Along Bering Sea
ANCHORAGE UP) — Generally
good viewing weather was fore
cast for Alaskans, who have the
nation’s first view Saturday of the
solar eclipse.
Wide sections of the state ap
parently will have clear to partly
cloudy skies, although the wea
therman said some portions of the
state may be blanked out from a
view of the big celestial shadow
show.
Wide areas of the central por
tion of Alaska, along the 60-mile
wide path over which the eclipse
will sweep, were promised good
weather.
In this area lie many remote
villages—and throughout the bush
country and in the large cities
health officials issued warnings
against looking at the sun with
out proper protection.
The weather bureau said low
clouds probably would eclipse the
eclipse all along the Bering Sea
coast in the state’s first total
eclipse since 1943.
The best sites appeared to be
in the Talkeetna-McGrath area
and hundreds of tourists were ex
pected at Talkeetna to view the
show.
Northern Consolidated Airlines
will offer special flights to the
Northway area, along the Can
adian border, with passengers
promised a guaranteed view of the
eclipse.
Scientific teams are gathered at
many places in the state, and
others will be aboard aircraft that
will be used to study the eclipse
above ground.
Most of Alaska, outside the path
of totality, will get at least a 90
per cent view of the aerial show.
The eclipse is caused by the
moon passing between the sun and
the earth, thus blocking the bril
liant solar rays.
A safe way to watch is to let
the sun’s image be projected
through a hole in a piece of card
board onto white paper. The view
er keeps his back to the sun.
Cried Wolf io Often . . .
TAMPA, Fla. UP — A man de
scribed as a good swimmer had
been playing pranks on his friends
by pretending to drown. He cried
help again, his friends ignored
him and he drowned Thursday.
Authorities said the victim, Elmo
Scranton, 22, of Tampa, apparent
ly got a stomach cramp and went
down in 12 feet of water.
Mr. K. Says War
Not Necessary To
Build Communism
MOSCOW — Premier Khrush
chev declared today a new world
war is not necessary to build Com
munism or speed up revolution. He
said a nuclear war could destroy
mankind and even those who sur
vived might “envy the dead.’’
The Soviet leader laid down the
blunt challenge to his Chinese
Communist opponents — who be
lieve revolutionary wars are in
evitable — at a Kremlin friendship
rally for visiting Hungarian Pre
mier Janos Kadar.
As he spoke his aides were fight
ing the argument out with Chi
nese delegates at rapidly-collapsing
peace talks at a suburban villa.
Khrushchev told 6.000 wildly ap
plauding persons at the rally that
“a world war is not necessary
neither for building of the Social
ism or Communism, nor for the
acceleration of the world revolu
tion.’’
He said that “the superiority of
the forces of Socialism, peace and
democracy over the forces of im
perialism, reaction and aggression
is growing.”
Without specifying how, Khrush
chev insisted “a concrete possibility
of preventing world war has ap
peared. And this is not merely a
possibility, but a vital necessity
for the peoples of the world.”
This was a direct slap at Chi
nese views.
Obviously referring to the split
with China, Khrushchev also said
bitterly that those who disunite
world Communism are “playing
into the hands of imperialism.”
He repeated his pledge that “the
Soviet Cnion will never be the first
to use thermonuclear arms or to
unleash a world war.”
Khrushchev also accused the
Chinese, in a long departure from
his text, of attempting to revive
"the cult of the personality” of
Stalin.
“Some people want to return
to those times when a worker went
out to work and never knew
whether he would return to his
wife and children,” he continued.
"We are arresting people and
we will continue to arrest those
who should be arrested,” he said.
But he said that his regime was
not arresting people without good
reason under the law.
Could Save Millions
WASHINGTON Uf)—Sen. Ernest
Gruening said yesterday America’s
physicians “should help save their
patients millions upon millions of
dollars” by prescribing drugs,
wherever possible, by their generic
rather than their trade name.
In a Senate speech in which he
held bottles of drugs to illustrate
the price difference, Gruening
urged the American Medical Assn,
to take the lead in this field.
He said the AMA Journal and
all other medical journals should
repeatedly remind doctors “of
this opportunity to help save funds
for their patients.”
Gruening used prednisone, a
drug used for arthritis, as one ex
ample of the price spread. He said
the same amount sold to retailers
under its generic name for $20.95
is priced at $170 under its trade
name.
He contended the new drug con
trol law passed by Congress last
year, providing for tightened quali
ty controls and simplified generic
names, had demolished arguments
for prescribing drugs by their
trade names.
Two More Railcar Barges
Proposed for Service
SEATTLE UD — The Puget
Sound-Alaska Van Lines an
nounced plans yesterday to build
two additional railcar barges for
its proposed service from Seattle
to Whittier, Alaska.
The two barges are under design
by Philip Spaulding & Associates,
Naval Architects, of Seattle.
Puget Sound-Alaska Van hopes
to start railcar sendee early next
month with a 30-car barge now
nearing completion in a Portland
yard. This barge is the Clair Engle,
named for a California Senator,
is scheduled for launching July
26.
The two proposed barges will
have greater capacity than the
Clair Engle, the company declared.
FIVE MEMBERS OF STATE
COMMISSION FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS NAMED BY EGAN
JUNEAU (#>—The appointment
of a five-man State Commission
For Human Rights, authorized by
the last legislature, was announced
today by Gov. Egan.
The members of the commission,
who are subject to legislative con
firmation, are:
Barnard J. Gottsein and Fred
M. Selkregg Jr., and Leslie Callan,
all of Anchorage; Ernest W. Grif
fin of Fairbanks, and Roy Pera
trovich of Juneau.
The legislature authorized the
commission as a means of enforc
ing Alaska’s anti - discrimination
statutes.
The commission will employ an
executive director, whose duty it
will be to investigate and to at
tempt to resolve discriminatory
conduct brought to his attention.
Navy Icebreaker Staton
Island Will Make 4-Month
Cruise Into the Arctic
SEATTLE W — The Navy ice
breaker Staton Island will leave
here tomorrow for a four-month
cruise to the Arctic.
The icebreaker and her 230 men
first will assist ships carrying
supplies to DEW Line stations and
other defense installations in the
far north.
Later she will conduct siesmo
graphic tests of the earth’s crust
near Point Barrow. In this opera
tion she will set off 1,000-pound
charges of TNT at two points, one
50 miles north, and one 50 miles
west of Point Barrow.
BERT BELTZ DIES
Bert Beltz, well known bush
pilot, aged 44, passed away yester
day morning near Teller.
Beltz had been in Nome the
night before and according to
friends who were with him, he
was in good health and good spir
its.
Upon landing at the Alcan Pa
cific camp about 18 miles out of
Teller where he had flown without
passengers, he complained of not
feeding well and was helped to
Teller where he died.
The body was brought to Nome
and is being flown to Kotzebue
today. He is survived by his wife,
Fredricka and five children, a bro
ther Harry of Anchorage, and two
sisters, Laura Wright and Hazel
Moneymaker of Fairbanks.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Increasing high cloudiness. Little
change in temperature.
In the last 24 hours: High of 57,
low of 38. Max. wind 26 mph from
the West. Sunrise at 2:24 a.m., sun
set at 9:52 p.m.
Alaska’s Beauty
Scores Hi^h
With Tourists
JUNEAU UD — Alaska’s natural
beauty and the friendliness of her
citizens score high with tourists,
but the state’s roads and city
streets rate a failing grade, ac
cording to a travel opinion survey.
The survey, conducted by the
State Dept, of Economic Develop
nent and Planning, sought infor
mation from some 41,700 travelers
who used transportation facilities
within the state in May and June.
The survey sought such infor
mation as the reasons for traveling,
the residence of travelers parti
cipating in the survey, their age,
sex and length of residence or visit
in Alaska and suggestions for im
proving travel and tourist facili
ties.
The information, Commissioner
Henry Rolof said, will be made
available to the travel industry
in making plans for the accom
modation of future visitors to
Alaska.
The survey indicated that tour
ists enjoyed fishing in Alaska and
camping in unspoiled areas. Many
indicated a strong desire to return
and others said they didn’t mind
minor inconveniences. One traveler
commented:
“Improve some accommodations,
but don’t improve the mosquitos.
They are perfect.”
Other dislikes mentioned were
the shabbiness of some communi
ties, litter and junk along state
highways, lack of directional signs,
sale of imported souvenirs, high
prices and companies engaged in
transporting foot passengers to and
from ferry terminals.
One Texan had a unique com
plaint.
“When I came to Alaska I ex
pected to see all kinds of animals,”
he wrote. “All I saw was horns
and hides nailed to buildings. I
guess I got here too late.”
Nordin and E Sz B
Submit Low Bid for
Power Plant Construction
Howard Crinklaw, manager of
the Nome Power & Light Co., re
turned from Anchorage with the
announcement of the results of
the bid opening for the-new power
plant.
The bids included the construc
tion of the foundation of the new
ouilding, foundations for engines,
installation of the diesel units and
ill other related facilities.
The engineers estimate for the
work (Rutherford and Associates)
was $142,801).
Low bidder was Nordin and E &
3 Construction, $133,290.
Other bidders were: Fairbanks
Western, $133,295; Arndt Bros.,
>153,935; American Services, $169,
366; Beck Construction, $306,500.
Edith Arnold Named
Postmaster for Nome
Inspector B. J. Sparks of the
U.S. Post Office Department an
nounced today the appointment of
Mrs. Edith Arnold as postmaster
for tlie Nome Post Office.
Mrs. Arnold is a resident of
many years and well known to
people throughout the area, having
graduated from Nome High School
as Edith Hoop, daughter of Nome’s
pioneer dairyman.
Inspector Sparks is enroute to
Teller Mission where the new Bre
vig post office is being opened
and dedicated this week.