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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
FARTHER AND FARTHER- NEARER AND NEARER
It’s Clean-Up Time
¥T HAS BEEN CALLED to our attention by residents, who have
been out riding down the coast that the efforts, for the past
several years, of the civic groups to keep the beach clean has not
been in vain.
It is reported that very little refuse is found this spring
littering the beach, compared to previous years which is a good
sign that a feeling of community pride is beginning to be recog
nized by those who heretofore littered the beach.
This is heartening, and efforts are stimulated to produce the
same results in other areas in and out of the community during
the next few weeks.
Special stress is put on property owners to tidy up their
premises before the big Lions Convention, starting on May 29,
when about 300 guests will wander through the famous streets
of Nome.
Anchorage Man Cycles
And Skis 2,900-Miles
Down Alcan Highway
SEATTLE (#> — A wiry, little
Hungarian from Anchorage, Alas
ka, rolled into town Friday, end
ing a 2,900-mile trip by skis and
bicycle through the Alaska wilder
ness and down the Alcan Highway.
But Zoltan Nyioscsik, 42, says
he’s ready to take off again on a
10,000-mile cycling jaunt around
the Continental United States. He
said he’d do it for $1.00 a mile
and show movie picture of his
trip if he could get a sponsor.
Nyioscsik started out from An
chorage with two friends Jan. 10
with the temperature reading 12
degrees. They soon ran into areas
where the mercury dropped to 45
degrees below zero and fought
huge snow drifts in several places.
Ray Lowther, 39, and Hal Gra
ham, 22, who worked for Nyioscsik
in Anchorage, dropped out, al
though Graham made it 800 miles
to Whitehorse.
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Equal Pay . . .
WASHINGTON UP) — The Senate
has passed and sent to the House
a measure to require that women
workers receive equal pay with
men for equal work.
Only eight senators were on the
floor Friday when the bill was
approved by voice vote. Sponsors
of the legislation said, however,
they knew of no opposition to it.
The bill, recommended by Pres
ident Kennedy, would ban discri
mination in wages by reasons of
sex for workers covered by the
wages and hours law. However,
wage differentials based on such
factors as seniority, merit or
piece work systems would not be
altered.
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Efforts for Protestant
Unity Pictured as Nearing
‘Put Up or Shut Up’ Stage
DES MOINES, Iowa — Ef
forts toward Protestant unity were
pictured Saturday as nearing a
“put up or shut up” stage.
Presbyterian leaders raid the
conciliatory tide is gaining mo
mentum. They predicted several
churches will start drafting a speci
fic union plan within two years—
or else quit talking about it.
“I think that by two years from
now. there will be a beginning in
writing a plan of union, or else
we will have found that no plan of
union is possible,” said the Rev.
Eugene Carron Blake.
Dr. Blake, chief executive offi
cer of the United Presbyterian
Church in the U.S.A., referred to
a consultation going on between
representatives of six major church
bodies about possible unification
into one church, “truly Catholic,
truly Reformed and truly Evan
gelical.”
Both he and the Rev. Dr. James
McCord, chairman of the consul
tation, said they were optimistic
that agreements will be found for
launching the blueprint.
“The situation has been very
promising, more so than could have
been expected,” Dr. McCord told
a news conference, held in con
nection with the United Presby
terian General Assembly.
Besides that church, other in
volved in the talks are the Metho
dists, Episcopalians, United Evan
gelical Brethren, Disciples of
Christ, and United Church includ
ing Congregationalists.
The talks began in 1961 as the
result of a plea made in a sermon
by Dr. Blake in San Francisco’s
Episcopal Cathedral. Altogether,
the churches include about 22 mil
lion members.
DEFENSE DEPT. CLASSIFIED
LABEL CAN BE SAPPED
WASHINGTON Uf) — Like the
boy who cried “wolf” too often,
tre Pentagon finds that the power
of the “classified” label can be
sapped by over use.
Arthur Sylvester, Asst. Secre
tary of Defense for public informa
tion, expressed it this way before
a House Appropriations Subcom
mittee in testimony March 27 and
made public Friday.
If the Pentagon classified less
“and then stood firm and clear
that it would not be released, I
think that would be a great im
provement.”
He promised that efforts were
being made in that director.
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Gov. Egan Accuses Pentagon of
Nearsightedness on Military Potential
ANCHORAGE M — Gov. Wm.
Egan, using an Armed Forces Day
speech as the vehicle, accused the
Pentagon Friday night of “myopia
as to the military potential of Alas
ka’s geographical position.”
With top military commanders
in Alaska sitting at his side, Egan
said Department of Defense poli
cies have left the nation’s largest
state virtually defenseless.
The governor aimed all of his
criticism at Washington and made
it clear at the outset he had no
quarrel with the Alaska command,
whose acting commander, Maj. Gen.
Ned Moore, sat nearby.
“My remarks,” Egan said, “are
directed at those individuals in the
U.S. Department of Defense who
are charged with responsibility for
the development of strategic and
logistical concepts adequate the
protection and defense of our na
tion.
“Quite frankly, I have the strong
conviction that those individuals
have not met this responsibility in
Alaska in the past and are not
meeting it today.”
Egan based the bulk of his
criticism of the nation’s defense
policies as they relate tp Alaska
on the March flyover of Alaska in
the Kuskokwim Bay area by two
Russian aircraft and on what he
said was a massive buildup of So
viet military power in Siberia,
opposite Alaska.
The governor said that while
news accounts of the Russian over
flight said the Soviet aircraft pene
trated Alaska 30 miles, actually
they were traveling on an arc sev
eral hundred miles east — or in
side — of American soil at St.
Lawrenc Island.
Before the Soviet planes re
versed direction, Egan said, they
were within “easy striking range
of Fort Richardson and Elmendorf
(Air Force Bases) through use of
air to ground missiles.”
Egan said the Russian planes
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did not come within range of
Nike missiles guarding Anchorage
area military installations and
were not intercepted by American
fighters, although they were track
ed by radar.
After the overflight, Egan said,
the Defense Department announced
that Air Force interceptors in Alas
ka were being equipped with
nuclear-tipped missiles.
Egan said a similar announce
ment had been made almost three
years ago, when Alaskans protest
ed, without success, a Pentagon de
cision to deactivate the 449th
Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at
Ladd Air Force Base, Fairbanks.
“Unfortunately,” Egan said,
“Alaskans lost the battle of Ladd
Field — just as they lost the bat
tle against withdrawal (of Air
Force strength) from Nome and
against other reductions in force
through the years which have re
sulted in our present woeful in
adequacy of defense.”
The presence of a strong deter
rent force of varied capabilities
in Alaska would have immeasur
able meaning to the entire North
American Continent,” Egan said.
And, he added, the establishment
of such a defense system in Alaska
would not involve the “dangers of
reliance on bases established on
foreign soil.”
As he nas a number of times
since the March 14 flyover, Egan
urged the construction of missile
launching sites in Alaska, for in
tercontinental or intermediate bal
listic missiles, as a counterbalance
to Russian strength in Siberia.
An ICBM fired from Alaska,
Egan said, could cover targets
through Russia and Communist
China and much of Europe.
They would have significant
range and time advantage over
those fired from any other area
of the United States, including
the West Coast, Egan added.
He also urged once again that
modern fighter - interceptor air
craft be stationed at bases to be
constructed along the northwest
coast, at Nome and other points.
From these bases, Egan said, the
United States could challenge im
mediately any foreign aircraft ap
proaching or encroaching upon
United States territory.
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survival of liberty.” Buying U.S.
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