Anchorage Disc Jockey
Waives Hearing in First
Degree Murder Charge
ANCHORAGE iJPl — Irving (Rex)
Rovang, an Anchorage disc jockey
accused of the fatal shooting of a
department store cashier, has
wavied preliminary hearing on
charges of first degree murder
and armed robbery.
The 26-year-old announcer signed
a waiver of the hearing before a
district magistrate. The case was
bound over for grand jury con
sideration.
Police say Rovang, the father of
two children, signed a statement
admitting drawing the gun on Mrs.
Betty Fields, 20, in a holdup at
tempt at Caribou’s Dept. Store the
night before Mother’s Day.
The young woman, wife of an
Army private from Kentucky, was
killed by three shots fired at close
range into her chest.
Rovang was arrested a few min
utes later after fleeing from the
suburban department store on his
motorcycle. He told police he had
left home to go shopping for a
Mother’s Day gift for his wife,
and that he had put the gun in
the waistband of his trousers be
fore leaving home.
Rovang was carrying more than
$100 when he was arrested. The
cashier was shot when she began
screaming after a note demanding
cash was handed to her in the
store’s office.
Police said no money was taken
in the holdup attempt.
Rovang is being held in federal
jail in lieu of $25,000 bond.
Examination for
Postmaster at Kotzebue
An examination for postmaster
at Kotzebue, $5,805 a year, will
be open for acceptance of applica
tions until June 25, 1963, the Civil
Service Commission announced.
This examination has been an
nounced under revised qualifica
tions standards agreed upon be
tween the commission and the
Post Office Dept.
Competitors for the postmaster
vacancy in this city must have at
least \l/z years experience (educa
tion above high school level may
be substituted for 9 months of ex
perience) showing that they have
the ability to conduct and manage
the community’s postal business
efficiently and to supervise em
ployes so that customers are satis
fied with the service.
Competitors must also show that
they are of good reputation and
that they can deal with the public
agreeably and effectively.
REV. GERALD McCRAY SENDS
GREETINGS FROM FLORIDA
Rev. Gerald McCray, of the Com
munity Methodist Church, writes
from Bowling Green, Fla., where
he is serving as pastor this year,
that he is “still building churches.”
At Bowling Green, although they
had a big freeze during the pro
gram, the church managed to raise
$12,000 for their budget in
addition to $10,708 collected toward
their building fund and recently
completed a $50,000 education unit
to the church.
He sends greetings to all his
friends in Nome, stating he didn’t
like to leave Alaska but the Metho
dist preachers must be on the
move.
Here’s something you probably
didn’t know about women—they
dream more often than men do.
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Kennedy Will Use
Troops to Crack
Racial Barrier
WASHINGTON Uft — President
Kennedy has made it clear he will
use U.S. troops and marshals if
needed next month to crack racial
barriers at the University of Ala
bama.
But he voiced hope at his news
conference Wednesday that Ala
bama’s segregationalist Gov. Geo.
Wallace would back away from
the threatened federal-state col
lision by heeding court orders to
integrate the school.
A federal court at Birmingham
told the university Tuesday it must
admit two Negroes June 10—one
at the main campus at Tuscaloosa,
the other at the Huntsville branch.
Wallace has declared that he per
sonally “will be present to bar
the entrance of any Negro who
attempts to enroll. This is legal
resistance and legal defiance.”
Alabama is the only state with
all its public schools still segre
gated.
In his news conference that
ranged from flights to space to his
trip to Rome, Kennedy also dis
cussed another facet of the civil
rights problem: The recent out
breaks of racial violence at Bir
mingham, Ala.
The President said he will decide
in the next few days whether to '
propose additional civil rights leg
islation. He did not go into details,
but a Justice Department spokes
man said any additional proposals
would be in the fields of education
and public accommodations.
Apart from civil rights the
prime domestic topic was Tuesday’s
vote by wheat farmers rejecting
strict production controls and high
price supports. Farmers voted for
no production curbs and a system
Kennedy predicted would cut the
price of wheat by nearly 50 per
cent.
Kennedy said that even if wheat
prices fall sharply, “I don’t think
it will have much effect on the
consumer.” Instead, he said, it will
promote large wheat surpluses, cut
farm income and “cause more dif
ficulty to the economy.”
On other subjects, he had this
to say:
It is “completely untrue’1’ that
the United States is preparing to
give up the Guantanamo Naval
Base in Cuba.
Intelligence sources report no
buildup of Soviet personnel or
equipment in Cuba in recent
months.
Project Mercury astronauts are
lobbying for one more multi-orbit
space flight and the question will
be decided in the next few weeks.
Casual Tour of Europe
Ellen Mulvihill and daughter,
Pamela, who just graduated from
Nome High School, are scheduled
to leave tomorrow for Anchorage
where they will embark on a flight
over the North Pole and spend sev
eral weeks on a “casual” tour of
Europe, returning via New York,
Pamela will enroll at Gonzaga
University, Spokane, Wn,, in the
fall.
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RETIRES AFTER FOUR
DECADES OF FLYING
Eighty - four Boy Scout leaden
from Florida’s Dade, Monroe anc
Broward counties recently helped
a veteran Pan American Airway?
pilot write “finis” to a 40-year
flying career.
Captain Walter J. “Jerry” Jones
piloted the group from Miami to
Jacksonville for the annual meet
ing of the Boy Scouts Fourth Re
gion, which includes Florida,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Georgia.
For Jerry Jones it brought down
the curtain on a flying career
that spanned four decades in a
variety of aircraft, from early day
rickety “crates,” to sleek ocean
hopping behemoths. When Pan
American took delivery on the
first U.S. jets in 1958, Jerry spurn
ed an opportunity to fly them. Just
a few years from retirement, he
decided to rest his laurels on the
scores of different types of air
craft he had flown.
Senior pilot in Pan Am's Latin
American Division, and No. 4 in
the airline’s international system,
Jerry began his aviation career in
1923 working for the Ryan Air
craft Company in California.
In 1931 Jones went to Alaska to
join Joe Crosson for a survey of
a U.S. to Orient route across the
north, settled down to several
years of flying over frozen wastes
in all types of missions and even
tually became a pilot for a com
pany that was absorbed by Pan
American. Crosson, Jones and S.E.
Robbins shared many “firsts” in
Alaska flying, including the first
air mail routes.
Jones flew out of Nome for sev
eral years during this period.
With Robbins, Jones went to
Miami in 1939 for familiarization
with Pan Am’s four engine flying
boats, ferried one to Seattle tc
start the first year ’round sched
ules between the U.S. and Alaska
Three years later Jones was bacl
in Miami, flying the Clippers or
South American routes.
At the beginning of World Wai
II Jerry helped Pan Am set up
personnel and cargo all over the
globe under the Air Transport
Command. At war’s end he was
assigned to evaluate performance
on the then new Constellations and
was later sent to Brazil for three
years to train Panair do Brasil
crews for flights across the South
Pacific to Europe.
Then came the new Boeing Stra
tocruisers and Jerry Jones was
commander of the b i g double
deckers on the Pan Am route be
tween Buenos Aires and Rio to
New York.
In 1952 Jones made a bid to be
based in Miami and for the past
years has lived there aboard his
power yacht.
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Two American Teams
Scale Mt. Everest
s From Opposite Sides
1 KATMANDU, Nepal Ufi — Two
1 American teams scaled Mt. Everest
5 from different sides Thursday,
each other at the exact peak but
staged a dramatic meeting at the
; slightly lower summit.
It was the first such encounter
in history and the first time any
nation had four of its citizens atop
the mountain on any one day.
Expedition leader Norman Dy
renfurth. Santa Monica, Calif., said
Barry Bishop, Washington, D.C.,
and Luther Jerstad, Eugene, Ore.,
got to the top via the traditional
South Col.
He said they looked for William
Unsoeld, Corvallis, Ore., and
Thomas Bornbein, San Diego, Calif.,
who were struggling up the hither
to unconquered west ridge of the
29,028-foot mountain.
When they didn’t see them at
once, they started down the way
they had come. Then, Dyrenfurth
said, they discovered that Unsoeld
and Hornbein made it to the top
and also started down the south
ern route.
They waited for the other two
and had their reunion at the south
summit before going down to
gether.
Unsoeld and Hornbein had,
thereby, made the first traverse of
Everest in history.
Fenchenko Glacier Starts Moving
MOSCOW — The Fenchenko
Glacier, one of the largest in the
Soviet Union, has suddenly begun
moving thunderously at unexpect
ed speed and Izvestia reported
Wednesday night the village of
Dalni has been evacuated.
The glacier normally moves at
1 bit more than 50 yards a year. Early
> this week it was going that far in
> a day.
L Faithful Cab Driver
c PHILADELPHIA t/P> — Gertrud<
1 Evans, a widow, was a regular pas
senger in a taxicab driven b>
: Michael Varallo. She died May 4
> at the age of 90.
Her will disclosed Thursday she
- left $1,000 to Varallo as “the taxi
; cab driver who has served me for
! many years.”
Without a Single Absence
LASALLE, Colo. — Dennis
Grimes made it to school every day
of classes for 12 years — without
a single absence.
The remarkable thing, says Mrs.
C. A. Grimes, is that her 17-year
old son worked in all the normal
childhood diseases during the sum
mer months.
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U.S. Air Force Helps
Evacuate Canadian
Flood Victims
ANCHORAGE — Military
help in evacuating native villages
along Alaska’s two largest rivers
because of flooding was extended
to Canada Wednesday.
Two helicopters from Ft. Wain
wright and one from Eielson Air
Force Base at Fairbanks were dis
patched to Aklavik, 600 miles
northeast of Anchorage.
Aklavik is located at the conflu
ence of the MacKenzie and Aklavik
Rivers. The village is being flood
ed by waters from the MacKenzie.
Military spokesmen here said
111 families, including about 500
persons, are to be evacuated from
Aklavik and moved to the village
of Inuvik.
The Alaska Air Command here
sent a C-54 from Elmendorf Air
Force Base to fly escort for the
helicopters.
The request for aid was relayed
to the Rescue Coordination Center
at Elmendorf by the U.S. Air Force
liaison officer on the central co
ordination staff at Ottawa.
Salmon Pulls Man to Death
BALLINGHAM, England UF> —
Police said Thursday a 19-pound
salmon apparently pulled angler
George Nichools to his death.
Nichools hooked the fish and
while playing it plunged into the
water. His wife saw him floating
down the stream. Police later re
covered the body. Nichools, 66, had
a death grip on the rod. At the
end of the line was the salmon—
still hooked.
Wins Second Survival Vote
OTTAWA UPi — Phime Minister
Lester Pearson’s fledging Liberal
\government won its second sur
vival vote in three days in the
House of Commons Thursday night.
The House rejected 147-76 a Con
servative motion of no confidence
? charging that the government’s
- policy, outlined at the opening of
■ Parliament last week, did not in
clude many of the Liberal cam
paign pledges.
France Cooperates With
Spain on Aerial Defense
PARIS — France is cooperat
ing closely with Spain in aerial
defense, the French armed forces
information bulletin disclosed
Thursday.
It pointed out that although
Spain is not a member of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion, such cooperation was imposed
by geography.
The United States has a bi
lateral defense agreement with
Spain, as does Madrid’s neighbor,
Portugal,
Some 7,000 U.S. mailmen each
year are bitten by dogs.
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