122 NOME
NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 11
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1963
Per Copy 150
Sen. Aiken:
Russian Political
Base Is Growing
Stronger In Cuba
WASHINGTON Sen. George
Aiken, (R-Vt.), after a briefing by
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, said
today the Soviets have an “enor
mously strong military and political
base in Cuba,” and it is growing
stronger.
Aiken declined to discuss what
Rusk and John McCone, Central
Intelligence Agency Director, had
told a Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee at the closed-door
meeting.
But, he said, “I think Russia has
built an enormously strong mili
tary and political base in Cuba,
much stronger than it was six
months ago.
“The strengthening of this mili
tary-political fortress is continu
ing.”
President Kennedy said at a
news conference yesterday that
there has been no new military
buildup. He also renewed then his
assumption of responsibility for
failure of the 1961 Bay of Pigs
invasion, a fiasco that Republicans
contend needs investigation and
clarification.
The Rusk-McCone briefing was
given the Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on Latin-American
affairs, headed by Sen. Wayne
Morse, who called for it to ex
plore published reports of a new
Soviet military buildup in Cuba.
Sen. Stuart Symington, (D-Mo.),
who also attended the briefing, told
newsmen that what worries him
is that there apparently are more
men in what he called the Soviet
air complex in Cuba than he had
understood.
Like Aiken, Symington declined
to discuss what Rusk or McCone
testified, emphasizing he spoke
“my own opinions.”
Symington said he figured “we
ought to worry more about the
Soviet buildup in Cuba now—con
siderably more than what it was a
few months ago,” than about what
happened at the Bay of Pigs.
Senate Committee Will
Investigate Buildup of
Military Might In Cuba
WASHINGTON W — Sen. John
Stennis, (D-Miss.), announced to
day the Senate Preparedness Sub
committee will investigate what he
called the rapid “buildup of mili
tary might in Cuba.”
Stennis, who heads the sub
committee, made his announcement
after some senators in a group
briefed by Secretary of State Dean
Rusk reported Cuba has become
a strong military base.
Among these Sen. George Aiken
said he concluded after hearing
Rusk and John McCone, head of
the Central Intelligence Agency,
testify in closed session that “the
strengthening of this military-po
litical fortress is continuing.”
“Reports which have come to
me indicate that the continued
presence and build up of military
might in Cuba is rapidly convert
ing Castro’s forces into the sec
ond most powerful military power
in this hemisphere,” Stennis said.
Relief from the Heat . . •
TOLEDO, Ohio (£> —- It was 17
below zero here yesterday, but
people passing a certain drug store
were seen chuckling.
The reason? On the store was a
sign asking, “Ain’t this a relief
from the heat. ”
Kennedy Orders Injunction
To Delay Boeing Strike
WASHINGTON UP> — President
Kennedy today ordered the Justice
Department to seek an injunction
against a strike called for 12:01
a.m. Saturday at Boeing Aircraft
Co. plants.
A department spokesman, an
nouncing the instructions from the
President, said papers requesting
the injunction would be filed in
U.S. District Court in Seattle.
Boeing, a major aerospace com
pany, has its principal plants in
the Seattle area and at Wichita,
Kan.
The AFL-CIO International
Assn, of Machinists called the
strike. It is in dispute with the
company over a new contract.
At issue are wage demands and
also a union demand for a union
shop.
1,170 More Cuban
Refugees Find
Asylum In U.S.
MIAMI, Fla. UP> — Another 1,170
Cuban refugees, many pale from
seasickness after a night on heavy
seas, found asylum today in the
United States.
The American freighter Shirley
Lykes brought them to Port
Everglades and to a free way of life
for which they had sacrificed all
their material possessions.
Many were old, in poor condi
tion, and torn by conflicting emo
tions. They were happy to escape
from Cuban Prime Minister Fidel
Castro’s Communist state, but sad
to leave their native land.
The Shirley Lykes brought the
human cargo back in the space
which had been used to deliver
7,000 tons of ransom supplies to
Cuba in exchange for the Bay of
Pigs captives who were released
just before Christmas.
A staff of Red Cross nurses had
worked through the night adminis
tering to the sick, most of whom
were stricken by seasickness. Be
cause her load was light, and she
rode high in the water, the freight
er pitched and rolled badly in
eight-foot seas.
The high ratio of sickness was
attributed to the emotional state
of the Cubans and their lack of
hot food before leaving Cuba.
Most of the refugees were rela
tives of the 1,113 invasion prison
ers.
They were kept below decks in
close, smelly holds from the time
of boarding until after the ship
reached Florida.
Leaving Havana Harbor, they
asked repeatedly to be permitted a
last glance at their native country,
but the requests were denied be
cause of the possibility of danger
ous overcrowding of the rails.
Carlos De Miguel, 36, a me
chanic of Palma Soriano in Oriente
Province, said, “there is no free
dom in Cuba.”
He said many Russians, both
civilians and soldiers were seen
daily. The Russians and Cubans
don’t mix much, he said.
Too Cold for Beer Delivery
DETROIT UP) — I was so cold
in Detroit yesterday that only five
per cent of all the city’s beer trucks
made deliveries, a brewery workers
spokesman said.
“Icy roads are bad enough,” said
Ed Gruman of Local 38.
“But, the beer ‘ would freeze,
too,” he added. The temperature
dropped to a flat minus 13 degrees
yesterday, the lowest in 19 years.
Malaspina Gets a
Rousing Welcome
From Juneauites
JUNEAU (J"> — There was a new
feeling of expectancy in Alaska
today as the state prepared to put
its new Southeast Marine Highway
into operation, following the ar
rival here last night of the MV
Malaspina.
Today the sleek vessel lay quiet
ly at her pier as the experts made
last-minute mechanical and de
sign changes in her intricate in
nards to erase a troublesome ail
ment.
The Malaspina sailed triumph
antly into port last night, gussied
up with flags. A crowd estimated
at 4,500 cheered as the deep
throated roar of the ship’s horn
was heard on the dock. And more
cheers came as the blue and white
vessel with gold stripe eased into
the dock while the Juneau-Douglas
High School Band played a rous
ing medley of tunes.
Passengers who had ridden the
vessel from Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell and Petersburg were
disembarked before the shoulder
to-shoulder mass of people was in
vited to come aboard to see “their”
Malaspina at first hand.
And it was a grinning Gov. Wm.
Egan who greeted them. To him,
a new era was being brought home
to Alaska and, feeling well and
fit again after a bout with the
flu on the voyage north.
With each new stop during the
day, the speedy vessel was greeted
by throngs, first at Wrangell in
the early morning darkness, and
then at Petersburg. In addition,
each passing fishing boat tooted a
greeting which was returned by
the booming horn of the Malaspina.
It was like the return home of
a long-gone relative—deep and
emotional.
The most thrilling part of the
final day of sailing among the
beautiful islands of the Panhandle
was the zip through the treacher
ous, rock strewn and narrow chan
nel called the Wrangell Narrows.
Capt. Reuben Jacobsen calmly
gave the orders which sent the
Malaspina swiftly, surely through
the tree-lined, ziz-zag channel at
speeds up to 20 kots, made possible
by a fast-running tide.
Jacobsen had already called his
command a “miniature luxury
liner” and the citizens of Juneau
and all of the other Alaska cities
where she had called were in
agreement.
“We have reached a new era,”
Egan said early in the day as he
stood on the bridge of the Mala
spina. “We have turned a corner
on the road to progress,” the Gov
ernor added, his voice becoming
almost emotional.
Before starting her regular
schedule from Prince Rupert, B.C.,
Feb. 1, the Malaspina will sail
north to Haines and Skagway and
then make stopovers on down the
line at Juneau, Sitka, ePtersburg
Wrangell and Ketchikan.
Suffer From Sunburn . . .
ALLENTOWN, Pa. UP> — With
the temperatures around zero, a
man and his wife called police,
said they were suffering from sun
burn and asked transportation to
a hospital.
The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Ruth, told police yesterday they
fell asleep under a sun lamp. They
said they couldn’t see well enough
to drive and couldn’t get a taxi.
They were treated at a hospital
and discharged.
Warm Weather Covers
Most of the State
Most areas of Alaska enjoyed
another relatively warm morning
today, with temperatures generally
well above zero.
The coldest section of the state
was the northeastern interior,
wThere the mercury hovered be
tween zero and minus 10, about
the same as temperatures over
much of the southern state of Ten
nessee.
Barrow reported Alaska’s over
night low, one above. The over
night high was 41 at Cold Bay. The
high yesterday was 50 at King
Salmon.
Relatively warm, moist air pour
ing over the state continued to
cause cloudy skies, rain, drizzle
and fog over the western Arctic
areas and much of the interior
south of the Brooks Range.
Rain, drizzle and fog also con
tinued to dominate north gulf coast
weather, with a few such patches
remaining over the southeast Pan
handle.
Election Code Will
Be a Big Topic
During ’63 Session
JUNEAU — The State Elec
tion Code, a comprehensive and
oft-condemned bit of state law,
will get its full share of attention
when the legislature gets down to
business Monday.
Republicans were outspoken
after last fall’s elections that thej
felt the code should be tightened
up in some spots, clarified in some
respects and—above all—contain a
provision for pre-registration.
It all boils down to the ques
tion:
Should pre-registration be state
wide or should it be limited to
large election districts, such as the
8th (Anchorage) and the 16 th
(Fairbanks-Ft. Yukon)?
Opponents of statewide registra
tion claim such a provision would
cut deeply into the rural vote,
particularly in the native areas
where the problem of getting out
the vote is tough enough as it
stands now, without pre-registra
tion.
Proponents of statewide pre
registration argue that it would be
unfair—if not downright unconsti
tutional—to require voters in the
large districts to pre-register and
not residents in the smaller dis
tricts.
In any event, the issue is sure to
be brought up at an early date
and will probably occupy some
what more than its share of legis
lative time.
On money matters of special in
terest, the legislature will probably
be asked to up the ante for tourist
promotion for fiscal 1964 and also
face a strong demand for an in
crease in teachers’ pay.
The teaching profession, which
received a boost in pay in 1961
along with a veiled promise that
more would be forthcoming in
1962, found the cupboard bare
when the ’62 session ended and
promised an all-out campaign this
year.
The legislature will be facing
this demand, as well as demands
by state employes for an increase
in pay.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with east to southeasterly
winds 15 to 25 mph. Low tonight
35, high tomorrow 40. In the last
24 hours: High of 37, low of 32.
Max. wind 25 mph from the east.
Sunrise at 9:03 a.m., sunset at 3:26
p.m.
Bering Sea Halibut
Hearings Will Be
Held In February
SEATTLE LP—The Senate Com
merce Committee will conduct
public hearings on the Bering Sea
halibut controversy in Juneau Feb.
12 and in Seattle Feb. 14-15, chair
man Warren Magnuson, D-Wash,
reported today.
He set the dates after announc
ing the hearings Thursday.
He made the announcement in
a telegram from Washington after
a meeting with Sens. E. L. Bartlett
and Henry Jackson; Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall; Wm.
Herrington, special assistant to the
Undersecretary of State, and other
government officials.
They discussed the International
North Pacific Fisheries Commis
sion meeting in Seattle in Novem
ber, at which the commission rec
ommended that Japan be permitted
to fish for halibut in the eastern
Bering Sea.
Magnuson said the government
officials contended the commission
had no alternative under a con
vention between the United States,
Canada and Japan. To do other
wise, they argued, would have
jeopardized the convention in re
lation to other stocks and to hali
but in other areas.
“Why is it that the United States
is always expected to do the yield
ing at these international meet
ings?” Magnuson asked. “Invariab
ly at these sessions, it seems, we
yield a little bit here and a little
bit there. When are we going to
begin winning?”
“I think the other fellow ought
to yield some times, and this may
be one of them,” the senator said.
“Japan has bigger fish to fry than
the halibut she can take from the
eastern Bering Sea. She has to
trade with us to keep going and
she knows it.”
The commission will review its
Seattle action at a meeting set for
Feb. 5 in Tokyo. The issue then
will go to President Kennedy, who
may accept or reject the commis
sion’s recommendations.
The senators criticized the com
mission and the administration for
not presenting the issues in the
halibut dispute to Congress and to
Pacific Northwest residents before
the Seattle session.
Next Week Is Deadline
For Aliens to Register
Mr. Keifer Gray, District Di
rector of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service said today
aliens in Alaska have only one
more week in which to comply
with the federal law requiring that
aliens report their addresses to the
government during January of each
year. The deadline for registering
is Thursday, Jan. 31, 1963.
The Immigration official urged
all aliens who have not yet com
plied to go as soon as possible to
the nearest post office or Immi
gration and Naturalization Service
to file the report.
Parents or guardians must file
the report for alien children under
14 years of age.
Mr. Gray said the address re
port is required each year from
all aliens except those in diplo
matic status, representatives of
certain international organizations
and persons admitted temporarily
as agricultural workers.
The official said that less than
1,000 aliens in Alaska have already
complied with the address report
requirements. There are approxi
mately 3,000 aliens in the state.