Sen. Thurmond
Charges Cuba Is
‘Formidable Base’
WASHINGTON UPi — Sen. Strom
Thurmond, ^D-S.C.), has charged
that “behind the brush curtain in
Cuba” lies a formidable Soviet
strategic base with ballistic mis
siles and 30,000 to 40,000 troops.
He said — in a letter to consti
tuents Friday — that the informa
tion came from reliable sources. A
Pentagon spokesman disputed the
report, telling newsmen:
“The information contained in
Sen. Thurmond’s weekly news
letter is at wide variance with
carefully evaluated data collected
by U.S. Intelligence from contin
ued surveillance and other
sources.”
And the spokesman for the Pen
tagon — which for more than a
week has been contradicting “in
formed sources” claims of growing
Russian power in Cuba — asked
the senator to back up his charges.
Thurmond made public his esti
mates — without identifying the
sources — as a Senate Armed
Services Subcommittee tagged the
Cuban military situation for an
early investigation to “get all the
facts.” And Secretary of State Dean
Rusk conceded at a news confer
ence that “there is a significant
Soviet military presence in Cuba
which is of great concern to the
United States.”
Thurmond, a Reserve Army Maj.
General, listed an array of missiles
bombers, tanks and other arma
ments in Cuba which he said “in
dicates the presence of a complete
Soviet army, and the inventory
normally assigned to a Soviet air |
army.” j
CUB SCOUT PACK 63 NEWS
At the Freedom Festival on Fri
day night, the dens gave some in
teresting skits including the battle
which took place during the writ
ing of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Parent attendance prize went to
Den 3. A prize was also given to
last month’s winner, Den 4.
Then came a game which was
enjoyed by all, “Musical Dish
towel.” This was followed by an
inspiring talk by Ira Hill, Scout
executive.
The meeting closed with a cere
mony using the new Rainbow Ad
vancement Board.
Bear Silver Arrow Points went
to Daniel Fondell, Timmy Amund
sen, Joey Towner, James Towner,
and Bobby Savok. Kenny Miller
and Kavik Hahn both received
Wolf Badges and Daniel Bachelder
received his Lion Badge.
America’s cat population is esti
mated by the American Feline
| Assn, at 21 million—of which lOVfe
million are homeless, uncared for
strays. Incidentally, a good hunt
ing cat has been known to destroy
as many as 13 rats in a single night.
A kangaroo is only an inch long
at birth and semitransparent like
an earthworm.
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" First in Alaska
Geologist Declares
’ 9 Million Acre
Land Withdrawal
Will Stifle Yukon
i
ANCHORAGE —A land with
drawal application filed by the
U.S. Geological Survey will halt
oil exploration and development
in about 9 million acres of the
Yukon basin, a consulting petro
leum geologist said here.
Speaking to the Anchorage Lions
Club, Waring Bradley said the 9
million acre withdrawal request
was made Jan. 9 at the Fairbanks
Bureau of Land Management Of
fice. It should be reserved as a
reservoir site for the proposed
Rampart Dam.
Bradley, Alaska representative
for two large Texas independent
operators, said the application halts
any further leasing in the potent
ially oil valuable basin and all
existing leases will be suspended
at the end of their first five-year
term.
Approximately 1.5 million acres
in the area are now under lease
to oil companies, Bradley said.
Since the state gets 90 per cent
of the revenue from the federal
leases, Alaska will be deprived of
more than $500,000 a year, he
pointed out.
Predicting no action on the with
drawal project for a long time in
which the public doman lands will
lie unused, Bradley said:
“For the people living in Ft.
Yukon, Circle and various villages
in the withdrawal area, economic
stagnation will be the inevitable
result.
it is inconceivable that the fate
of this premature and ill-advised
withdrawal request can have any
effect whatever on the construc
tion of Rampart Dam,” Bradley de
clared.
The geologist then called on all
Alaskans to work for withdrawal
of the Geological request.
In answer to questions from the
audience, Bradley said oil develop
ment would be possible in such a
reservoir but not until the ques
tion of the land’s status is decided.
Asked about the land’s potential
oil value, he said it has not been
drilled but is one of the most
favorable basins in Alaska and pre
liminary exploration has been done
on leases there.
To a question about the effect
on the area’s estimated 1,500 in
habitants, Bradley said they can’t
buy privately owned land for
building purposes and they are
“out of luck.”
When asked if the withdrawal
request was made to head off land
speculation, the gologist said he >
knows of no way to speculate with
federally owned land.
The area requested extends from
Rampart on the east to Woodchop
per on the west and from White
Mountains on the south to Venetie
on the north, taking in all the low
lands, according to Bradley.
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Bonding Firms
Refuse Hoffa
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WASHINGTON UP) — The gov
ernment is reliably reported con
sidering legal action to stop James
Hoffa from operating the Team
sters Union if he is unable to ob
tain a “faithful duy” bond after
Feb. 8.
Hoffa told the House Labor
Committee Friday that neither he
nor his union can be held in willful
violation of the bonding require
ment because the bonding firms
have all suddenly refused to ex
tend further bonding protection.
The Teamsters Union chief
blamed the impasse on alleged
Justice Department pressure, a
charge denied before the commit
tee by Deputy Atty. Gen. Nicholas
Katzenbach. The Justice Depart
ment has suggested the bonding
firms may be balking at under
world connections of Teamsters
insurance agents.
Officials said there are two man
datory requirements of the law
under consideration: That union
officials be bonded, and that no
union official without bond be per
mitted to “receive, handle, dis
burse, or otherwise exercise cus
tody or control of the funds or
other property of a labor organi
zation.”
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I MacMillan Has Audience
With Pope John XXIII
VATICAN CITY fcP — British
Prime Minister Harold MacMillan,
in Rome for an effort to repair
European unity had a private
audience Saturday with Pope John
XXIII.
The Roman Catholic Pontiff and
MacMillan talked for a half-hour
in the Pope’s private library.
MacMillan sped to the Vatican
for the meeting, described by offi
cials there as a courtesy call, after
another conference with Italian
Premier Amintore Fanfani in an
attempt to keep alive a possibility
of Britain’s entry into the European
Common Market despite French
opposition.
As is customary, there was no
announcement as to what the Pope
and the Prime Minister s&id. The
papal chief of protocol reported
after the audience, however, that
MacMillan said he was extremely
happy at the opportunity to talk
with the Pope.
tion of either provision of the 1959
Landrum-Griffin labor law is a
maximum $10,000 fine and a year
in prison.
Perhaps with that in mind,
Hoff a told the committee Friday
the union lawyers have recom
mended that if no bond is obtained
by Feb. 8, the union and its offi
cers should suspend all financial
transactions.
“This means there would be no
strike benefits, unpaid bills would
pile up,” Hoffa said. “It would'
mean almost that the international
union would come to a halt.”
The government is said to take
the view that a union might be
excused from willful failure to
bond its officers, the first require
ment, if the union made a good
faith effort to get bond coverage
and still couldn’t do so.
This would not apply, however,
if there was a lack of good faith,
such as conditioning the bond on
the bonding company making kick
backs of part of the premium.
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