THE
NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 19
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1963
Per Copy 15*
No Public Works
Funds Left For
Nome’s Water and
Sewage Project
Mayor Don Hoover has been ad
vised by a phone call from HHFA
that no grant monies under the Ac
celerated Public Works Fund are
now available, having been used
up before the Nome application
was completed.
The news came as a complete
surprise as Nome had been assured
that its application would have
some priority.
There will be a delay, stated
Mayor Hoover, until more appro
priations are available or unless
emergency funds can be provided.
Our congressional delegation will
be alerted immediately and action
taken so that the work can still
get underway this summer, if pos
sible.
Crinklaw to Act
For City In Filing
For $650,000 For
Power Expansion
Howard Crinklaw, manager of
the Nome Light and Power report
ed, at the Council meeting on Mon
day on his trip to Anchorage where
he conferred on the expansion
problems of the Power and Light
Utilties.
The Council accepted his report
and authorized him to act for the
City of Nome in filing an applica
tion for government monies not
to exceed $650,000 for the power
expansion. They also approved an
advance of $30,250 on planning
money to get the project underway
due to the time element involved.
A letter was read from the Nome
Bowlers concerning their lease and
the Council approved a new lease
at $50 per year with $10 down
and the balance before December
of 1963.
Howard Crinklaw, chairman of
the Nome Planning Commission,
resigned due to his increased work
with the power plant expansion
and Ben Young was nominated
and approved as a member of this
group.
A bill was received from the
State of Alaska for the sum of
$8,765 due on the paving of Front
St. This is the first bill which had
been received since 1959.
The Council accepted the grant
monies for a sewage treatment
plant from the Health Department
providing balance will be forth
coming.
A vote of thanks was extended
to Ed Benick, who deeded the city
with lots 10 and 11 in block 8
which he no longer wished to keep.
Extensive repairs are needed on
the city grader and cat, it was
reported, and bids are to go out
to establish firms for a complete
overhaul of the grader shortly.
The Mayor, Don Hoover, an
nounced a meeting for Friday eve
ning at 7 with A1 Hulen of FAA
to discuss the Airport problems.
t Another meeting is called for
Thursday, Feb. 21, for the Council
as the first in a series of special
meetings to discuss improvements
in city government. Such prob
lems as Charter City, changing of
election time to October to con
form with other Alaskan cities, ab
sentee voting, etc., will be studied
at these meetngs.
Nanooks Ranked 11th
In State Basketball
Nome High School’s Nanooks
were ranked No. 11 in rankings of
the 24 teams comprising the West
ern Alaska High School Activities
Assn, membership. The first 8
teams in the ranking are auto
matically in the tournament berths.
However, teams ranked below
No. 8 may challenge one of the
first 8 teams on the home floor
of the challenged.
These rankings are in the fol
lowing order from 1 to 24:
Fairbanks, East Anchorage, West
Anchorage, Eielson, Kenai, Kodiak,
Palmer, Seward, Homer, Cordova,
Nome, Copper Valley, Wasilla,
Monroe, Fort Greely, Valdez, Dil
lingham, St. Mary’s, Bethel, Glenn
allen, Covenant, Nenana, Ninilchik,
Seldovia.
Homer and Cordova get first
choice of the first 8 teams to chal
lenge, and Nome has third choice.
In the event that Homer or Cor
dova do not challenge, Nome moves
up.
The challenge is for the best two
out of three games on the floor of
the challenged team on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday preceding the
WAHAA Tournament (Feb. 21, 22
and 23).
Arrangements will be firmed up
by Friday of this week so that the
Nanooks will know definitely the
team to be challenged. School
personnel are probing the possi
bility of a charter plane which
would hold about 40 persons. Team
personnel will number 10 players,
the coach and the manager for an
entourage of 12. Play will be either
in the Anchorage or Fairbanks
area, for the challenge round for
Nome. The state basketball tourna
ment takes place in Anchorage Feb.
28, March 1 and 2.
Gate receipts of challenge games
are distributed as follows:
1. Game expenses.
2. One half of balance to chal
lenged school.
3. Up to 100% of challenger’s
travel.
4. Balance to WAHAA Tourna
ment Fund.
Rep. Tollefson Says Japan
Would Disrupt Our Market
TACOMA ito — Rep. Thor Tol
lefson said here today if the Ja
panese are permitted to fish the
Bering Sea for halibut, exports
of halibut from Japan “will un
doubtedly increase” and further
undercut “our price and disrupt
our market.”
Tollefson, chairman of the House
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee, and Sen. Warren
Magnuson, chairman of the Senate
Commerce Committee, will con
duct joint committee hearings
Thursday and Friday in Seattle
concerning fisheries.
“Last year the Japanese export
ed four million pounds of frozen
halibut steak,” said Tollefson. “It
sold for 40 cents a pound which
was 20 cents below our price.”
He said further Japanese ex
ports would be a threat to the
northwest halibut industry which
received $25 million for last year’s
catch.
Won't Orbit Until Mid-May
HOUSTON, Tex. UD — Astronaut
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. won’t go
orbiting the earth until mid-May.
In disclosing yesterday that his
space jaunt is being postponed
from early April, the manned
space center said electricians will
rewire controls of the Atlas booster
which is to launch the Air Force
major on a scheduled 22-orbit.
Jet Airliner Crash
Carries 43 to Death
In the Everglades
MIAMI, Fla. UPi — Bits and
pieces of a jet airliner, flung over
a two-mile area when it crashed
carrying 43 persons to their deaths
in the Florida Everglades, were
studied today by federal investi
gators seeking a cause for the
tragedy.
Rescue teams joined the investi
gators in the search for bodies
and a reason why the Northwest
Orient Airlines jet plummeted out
of the sky yesterday only minutes
after leaving Miami for Chicago;
Seattle, and Portland.
Helicopters shuttled between the
site, 14 miles from the nearest
highway, carrying the bodies to a
school converted into a temporary
morgue. From the air, bodies could
be seen sprawled around the
wreckage with yellow markers
placed by each.
The Boeing jet was broken into
bits.
There was no indication that the
plane attempted to make an emer
gency landing.
Tight security measures were en
forced by Civil Aeronautics Board
and FBI authorities trying to solve
the mystery of the crash.
Seminole Indian children were
given a holiday as their school
house, 50 miles west of Miami, at
at place called Miccosukee, became
a temporary morgue.
The two-room, white frame
school stands on concrete stilts
because it borders on swampland.
Park rangers, Florida highway
patrolmen and the FBI guarded
the crash site area, at the edge of
the Everglades National Park.
The wreckage was 14 miles south
of the operations base, across a
swamp choked with thick under
growth that only swamp buggies
and weasel vehicles could pene
trate.
The flight recorder box, a com
pact set of instruments that might
provide a clue to the crash, was
taken from the wreckage and
flown by Coast Guard helicopter
to the operations base.
The recorder, a steel cylinder de
signed to withstand extreme pres
sure and heat, records on metallic
tape an aircraft’s direction, air
speed, altitude and acceleration.
Alaska Airlines Representative
Killed In Florida Plane Crash
SEATTLE UPi — One of those
killed in the crash of a Northwest
Orient Airlines plane in Florida
yesterday was George Enloe, a
customer-service representative for
Alaska Airlines, who had been in
Miami on business. He normally
worked at Paine Field near
Everett, Wn. He worked for the
company since last May.
Surviving Enloe are his wife,
Arvilla, three daughters and a son.
CLEAR SKIES COVER STATE
Light snow fell over portions of
interior Alaska and along the
Arctic slope today as a cloud
cover continued to hang over much
of the Alaska mainland.
Skies remained clear over south
eastern Alaska, along the west
coast from Bristol Bay to Kotze
bue, the southern Cook Inlet area,
and Kodiak Island.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from 26 degrees below zero at Bar
row to 40 above at Cape St. Elias
and Middleton Island. Yesterday’s
high was 54 at Annette.
Nome Ministers Take
Strong Stand Against
Liquor For 19-Year-Olds
The Nome Ministerial Assn., at
a specially called meeting, yester
day took a strong stand against
Rep. Warren Taylor’s bill, which
would lower the legal age limit
for the sale of alcoholic beverages
from 21 to 19.
In letters addressed to local re
presenatives and the governor, the
association stated that “to lower
the bars for the free flow of liquor
into the hands of our ‘teens’ is
to contribute to and complicate
the already serious delinquency
problem we have with our youth,”
and the ministers unitedly called
for “statesmanship that will give
our young people confidence in
the future and a will to face to
morrow’s problems with unclouded
minds.”
Nut Threatens
Justice Dept.
With Fake Bomb
WASHINGTON (#> — A man
with a device of wires and five
gallon cans attached to his auto
mobile drove over the sidewalk
to the entrance to the Justice De
partment today and kept downtown
Washington in pandemonium for
an hour and a half with a fake
bomb threat.
He was finally subdued with
tear gas, and police reported they
found nothing explosive.
From shelter beneath the car
the man, aparently about 38 or
40 years old, kept demanding to
see FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Deputy Police Chief G. R. Wal
brodt, one of several who tried to
talk the man out of his project,
said he claimed to have “certain
information about operations of
the government of this country
and about certain rackets that he
would divulge only to J. Edgar
Hoover.
The Washington Sar quoted him
further as saying he had “evidence”
that would result in impeachment
of President Kennedy and the
whole cabinet.
The FBI identified the license
plates on the car, a 1956 Oldsmo
bile, as having been issued to Na
than Wiskowsky, a businessman
connected with a Phoenix, Ariz.,
department store.
In Phoenix, Mrs. Nathan Wise
said. “I know that’s my husband.
He’s sick. He needs help.”
She said the family’s name for
merly was Wiskowsky.
The man, after being routed
from beneath the car by a barrage
of seven or eight tear gas pellets,
was whisked off to police head
quarters for questioning.
Then bomb disposal experts,
who had been called in from near
by Ft. Myer, Va., checked over
the devices and found them harm
less.
The cans were reported empty,
and a package the man had been
clutching beneath the car turned
out to be a small valise stuffed with
old Arizona newspapers.
AIRPORT HEARING FRIDAY
Friday evening at 7, members
of the City Council, representa
tives of the Nome Chamber of
Commerce and all interested citi
zens will meet with A1 Hulen,
FAA assistant administrator of the
Alaska region, who will explain
the reasons and conditions of the
request of FAA to the city in re
gards to taking over the main
tenance and management of the
Nome Airport.
Public School
Foundation Act
Would Increase
State Aid to Nome
By Ward Sims
Associated. Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP) — A comprehensive
study of the Public School Founda
tion Act of 1962, coupled with a
four-mill required local tax effort
proposed this year, was handed
to the legislature today.
The study, made by the Depart
ment of Education, showed that
under the most reasonable projec
tion, 12 of the 31 school districts
would be required to pick up more
of their own school costs than they
do now.
Included in this classification are
the Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau
Douglas, Ketchikan, Hoonah, An
goon, Craig, Hydaburg, Klawock,
Pelican, Seldovia and Skagway Dis
tricts.
In addition, the Bristol Bay Bor
ough School District, which will
be beginning operations next school
year, will have to ante up more
than presently anticipated under
the old state formula.
The School Foundation Act pro
vides for two essential points as
a means for providing an adequate
level of education for all children,
regardless of where they go to
school.
The first point is the basic need,
what funds a district requires to
furnish its students an adequate
education.
The basic need consists of three
things:
1. The amount of money derived
! by multiplying the average pay
of teachers in the district by the
allowable number of teachers in
the district.
2. The amount of money derived
from an average daily student
membership allotment of $140 in
Southeast Alaska, $150 in South
central Alaska and $160 in Central
and Northwestern Alaska.
3. The amount of money derived
from an attendance center allot
ment of $1,000. An attendance
center is defined as a distinct ad
ministrative unit allocated a prin
cipal by the school district.
The second point is the required
local tax effort, which under the
provisions of a bill, SB67, submit
ted by Gov. Wm. Egan last Friday,
would be four mills on the full and
true value of all taxable property
within the district and one-half
of all Public Law 874 money re
ceived during the previous fiscal
year.
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Canadian Liberals Favor
U.S. Nuclear Warheads
OTTAWA, UFi — Canada must
honor pledges to its allies and ac
cept nuclear warheads, Liberal
party leader Lester Pearson said.
Only then will Canada’s voice
be strong enough in Western
policy making circles to press ef
fectively for disarmament, Pear
son told 700 cheering supporters as
he kicked off his party’s campaign
for the April 8 House of Com
mons election. He spoke to the
Liberal party’s National Council.
Pearson charged the Conserva
tive government with failing to
meet commitments to North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization allies by
refusing to accept U.S. nuclear
warheads.
That failure, he said, demoralized
Canada’s armed services, deceived
Canada’s allies and undermined
the good name of Canada abroad.