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64th Year No. 65
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1963
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CAB Approves Part
Of Alaska Airlines’
Group Fare Plan
The Civil Aeronautics Board has
approved expansion of Alaska Air
lines' group fares between points
within Alaska for groups of 10 or
more persons at reductions of 25
and 30 per cent under the normal
one-way fare, it was announced
by George Lienard, local station
manager.
The new traiffs went into effect
May 29.
For groups of 15 to 19 persons
traveling between Anchorage and
Nome, the fare is $45 and for 20
or more persons the fare is $42,
compared with the normal fare of
$60.
Similar reductions apply to
groups between Anchorage and
Kotzebue and Anchorage and Un
alakleet. These fare are good in
either direction, but reservations
must be made 24 hours in advance.
Lienard stated the establish
ment of these new fares will en
courage group travel by fraternal,
civic and political organizations on
scheduled flights rather than by
charter.
With the inauguration of daily
pressurized Convair 340 service
from Anchorage to Nome and Kot
zebue and with service to McGrath
and Unalakleet beginning June 10,
these new fares will help streng
then these routes.
The CAB did suspend for in
vestigation a portion of the tariff
which called for 50 per cent re
duction for still larger groups.
Something Different . . .
DALLAS, Tex. Ut) — William R.
Huckaby did something different
Thursday on his 100th birthday—
he flew in a jet airliner from
Houston to Dallas.
“First time in the air in my
life,” he said, “but it’s not too
much different from settin’ in the
living room.”
Huckaby, a retired farmer, lives
with a son at Pasadena, a Houston
suburb.
“Never fought a war, never
killed a man, never took a drink,
used tobacco or cussed,” Huckaby
summed up his long life.
Is that the reason he’s still
going strong at 100?
“Oh no,” he said. “Just too busy
working to count the years, and
pretty soon they mounted up.”
500-Mile Controversy
INDIANAPOLIS UP) — A con
troversy over Thursday’s 500-mile
race triggered a motel fist fight
Friday between winner Pamelli
Jones and Eddie Sachs, who claim
ed his car spun out because of
oil spilled by Jones’ car.
About 75 persons witnessed the
brief fight at a luncheon at the
Holiday Inn near the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.
Witnesses said the two drivers
were chatting quietly near a bar
and then began accusing each
other over the disputed finish of
the race.
Both men called the other a liar,
it was reported. Then Jones said:
“You call me a liar again and
I’ll bust you right in the mouth.”
“All right, you’re a liar,” Sachs
said.
Jones smashed Sachs once in
the face with his fist, the two
grappled and then fell to the floor
wrestling. Spectators broke up the
fight quickly.
Neither driver appeared to be
injured.
Traffic Accidents Claim
155 Lives on Memorial Day
By the Associated Press
Traffic accidents across the na
tion claimed 155 lives Thursday,
a record for a one-day Memorial
Day observance. The toll sur
passed the National Safety Coun
cil estimate of 130 for the 30
hour period.
The previous record for a Mem
orial Day observance of 30 hours
was 109 in 1956.
The National Safety Council
had estimated that between 90
and 130 persons would be killed
in the highways and streets dur
ing the holiday period. The Coun
cil’s latest report showed that traf
fic accidents in the first four
months this year killed 11,630 per
sons, an average of nearly 100 a
day.
This year’s Memorial Day traf
fic death toll compared to 107 for
the 1962 holiday, also a period of
30 hours. In 1951, the only other
one-day observance of the holiday
since World War II, traffic deaths
numbered 81, which is a record
low for any one-day observance
of any holiday.
Committee Declares
Reduction in ’64 Budget
WASHINGTON —A business
men’s committee organized last
month to rally support for Presi
dent Kennedy’s tax cutting plans
has declared a reduction in his
1964 budget is “reasonable and
practicable.”
“We have had large, progressive
increases in recent years and there
is no justification for a continu
ation of the upward trend,” the
committee of industrialists and
financiers headed by Henry Ford
II said Thursday.
They did not say how much they
thought the $98.8-billion budget
for 1964, the largest in history,
should be cut. However, they said
they do not favor a reduction as
great as the $10-billion tax cut
the President has recommended.
The committee calls itself the
Business Committee for Tax Re
duction In 1963.
Army Will Draft
12,000 Men in August
WASHINGTON W — The Army
today asked for draft of 12,000
men in August, the largest number
for any month so far this year.
It compares with a 4,000 quota
for June and 7,000 for July. The
highest previous monthly quota in
1963 was 10,000 in each of April
and May.
The increase from July to Aug
ust may reflect a need for replace
ments for the men who were
drafted in the big quotas resulting
from the Berlin crisis in 1961 and
whose services will begin to ter
minate in September.
WRECKAGE OF SUB THRESHER
FOUND bN OCEAN BOTTOM
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. UR —
Searchers have photographed
wreckage lying on the ocean floor
some 8,400 feet below the surface
and have identified it as the hull,
diving plane and sail area of the
nuclear submarine Thresher.
The photographs, taken by the
research vessel Conrad, were en
route today to Boston. They will
then be flown to the Navy Court
of Inquiry at Portsmouth.
The bathyspace Trieste is stand
ing by in Boston, the Navy said,
and will proceed to the scene if
the court decides more photo
graphs are needed.
Ecuador Rejects
Plea to Release
U.S. Tuna Boats
WASHINGTON — Ecuador
rejected today Secretary of State
Dean Rusk’s plea for release of
two U.S. tuna boats as a prelim
inary to working out a solution of
the dispute over their fishing in
waters off Ecuador.
Instead, the State Dept, said,
Ecuador has notified the United
States that the two seized U.S.
vessels have been taken to an Ec
uadorian port and will be subject
to the procedures of Ecuadorian
law.
The Ecuador navy seized the
San Diego, Calif., tuna vessels
Ranger and White Star last Sun
day while they were of fthe Ecua
dor coast. Ecuador claims terri
torial jurisdiction 200 miles out to
sea. The United States contends
Ecuadorian jurisdiction extends
only three miles from the coast
line.
Rusk personally appealed to
Ecuador’s foreign minister by tele
phone Wednesday for release of
the Ranger and White Star. The
two fishing boats were taken into
the Ecuadorian port of Salinas yes
terday. Nineteen other U.S. tuna
boats followed them into the port.
State Department officials said
Rusk and his advisers are now con
sidering what the United States
might do next. They said no de
cision has yet been reached on al
ternative measures.
Details of the Ecuador charges
have not reached Washington. Pre
sumably they involve allegations
that the ships were fishing in Ec
uadorian waters without licenses.
These licenses can cost up to
$10,000 a trip by tuna boats.
Kennedy Leads Nation
In Honoring War Dead
WASHINGTON UP> — President
Kennedy led the nation Thursday
in honoring the dead of its wars.
As ranks of servicemen stood at
present arms, bayonets gleaming in
the sun, the President placed a
red, white and blue wreath at the
Tomb of the Unknowns in Arling
ton National Cemetery.
After the brief Memorial Day
service, Kennedy made a quiet un
scheduled visit to the grave of
James Forrestal, the country’s first
Secretary of Defense.
The President’s son, John Jr.,
accompanied his father to the
cemetery. At times his short legs
couldn’t keep up with the swift
pace and a Secret Service man
picked him up and carried him.
Later Kennedy flew by helicop
ter to Camp David in Maryland’s
Catoctin mountains to spend the
holiday with his family and with
friends. The President returned to
the White House Thursday night.
POPE JOHN XXIII
IS CLOSE TO DEATH
VATICAN CITY I* — Pope
John XXIII is reported close to
death, but doctors at his bedside
said his stout heart was still re
sisting as he slipped periodically
into unconsciousness. The Pope’s
heart was reported beating strong
ly despite development of periton
itis that aggravated the pain of
his condition.
The crowds swelled outside the
Vatican in St. Peter’s Square as
thousands of the faithful knelt in
prayer for the Pope.
A Vatican spokesman said the
Pope had been given tranquilizers
which have caused drowsiness at
times. A Vatican broadcast said
he was enduring his pain with
“edifying force of soul.’’
The Pope, days ago, had told
those around him he was fully
ready for death.
JOHN GLENN FAMILY
ARRIVE ANCHORAGE
FOR ONE DAY VISIT
ANCHORAGE OP — Thousands
of Anchorage area residents turn
ed out today to cheer and applaud
astronaut John Glenn and his fam
ily on their arrival here from
Japan.
Some 1,500 persons, many of
them children, greeted the Glenns
at Anchorage International Air
port and thousands more lined the
route of the Glenn motorcade t(
downtown Anchorage.
It was the largest turnout for ;
visiting dignitary since formej
President Dwight Eisenhower vis
ited Anchorage in I960.
Glenn had flown to Anchorage
from Tokyo. It was Glenn whc
provided emergency instruction to
Gordon Cooper for manual oper
ation of his Mercury space capsule
after the capsule’s electrical system
failed in the final orbit.
Glenn and his wife were pre
sented with complimentary state
fishing licenses. The Glenns had
indicated before their arrival here
they wanted to go salmon fishing.
The Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce had two helicopters
standing by and planned to lift
the Glenn family to one of the
fishing camps in the Cook Inlet
area.
Tomorrow Glenn will hold a
press conference before departing
for Houston, Texas.
KATMANDU, Nepal UP> — Ever
est climbers William Unsoeld and
Barry Bishop are receiving intra
venous injections of a special
frostbite drug, doctors announced
today.
The treatment began yesterday.
It is in addition to bed rest and
whirlpool bath treatments.
It will be one or two weeks at
least before any prognosis on the
climbers’ frosbitten toes can be
made, doctors said.
Bagpipe Band
Highlights Parade
On Memorial Day
With the temperature about 56
degrees yesterday morning the
Lion’s 49th District convention
started off with a Memorial Day
parade that will long be remem
bered mainly because of the Mid
night Sun Bagpipe Band in their
colorful kilts from Whitehorse,
Y.T. They were much enjoyed by
many who had never seen such
a group before.
Also setting the marching pace
was the peppy Elmendorf Air
Force Band, followed by units of
the Alaska National Guard, the
American Legion, CAP Cadets,
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and visit
ing Lions.
Ihe entire group marched all
the way from the Federal Build
ing to the Belmont Point Cemetery
and return. Short but impressive
services were held at the cemetery.
Upon their return to town most
of the visitors enjoyed lunch at
St. Joseph’s Hall where the women
of the Nome Women’s Club had
prepared a reindeer barbecue. This
was followed by a business session
of Lions at the National Guard
Armory and a bus tour with Don
Perkins as tour guide.
In the evening the Lions had a
cocktail hour at the convention
hall, followed by the International
Counsellor’s Banquet, catered by
i the Polaris Dining Room with
Chuck Volksheimer as chef. Over
i 250 guests were served.
Don Perkins acted as toast
-1 master and Mayor Don Hoover
gave the official welcome for the
City of Nome.
Main speaker for the evening
was Gordon Cameron, Commission
er of Yukon Territory and also the
leader of the Whitehorse bagpipes.
Dancing followed with music by
the Elmendorf Band.
Today the 3rd and 4th business
sessions are in progress with two
special events scheduled.
The Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
honored the Lion ladies with an
informal tea from 2 to 4 this after
noon.
A necrology service, honoring
Lions who have died in the past
year, was held at the Community
Methodist Church.
The district awards banquet will
be held this evening at 8 o’clock.
Highlights for tomorrow include
the final business session in the
morning, special tours, and a Lion
parade at 3 p.m. on Front Street.
At this time those who were not
out for the Memorial Day parade
will have an opportunity to see
and hear the bagpipe band per
form.
The District Governor’s Ball will
be held at the Armory at 8 o’clock
followed by dancing which is open
to the adult public.
With the arrival of a group of
about 30 from Bethel today it is
estimated about 250 guests will
have registered.
Agree to Raise $50 Million
WASHINGTON Uft —The United
States and Britain have agreed to
raise from $50 million to $500
million a reciprocal currency ar
rangement designed to guard the
stability of the dollar and the
pound.
The arrangement between the
Federal Reserve Board and the
Bank of England permits a ten
fold increase in the amount of cur
rency that can be exchanged by
the two countries if either the
pound or the dollar is threatened
by speculation.