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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 29
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1963
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Nixon Unloads
A New Salvo
Against Kennedy
NEW YORK UD — Richard M.
Nixon has fired a salvo at the
Kennedy administration for lack
of air cover in the abortive 1961
Cuban invasion.
The former Vice President, in a
taped television show, said he
“could not imagine” former Presi
dent Dwight Eisenhower not pro
viding such air cover. Nixon advo
cated an oil blockade of Cuba.
Saying President Kennedy has
been subjected to some unfair
criticism on the invasion, Nixon
added: “I think he was wrong in
another respect. I think he was
wrong, once we committed our
power, in not seeing it through
and finishing the job.
“And when the suggestion is
made that President Eisenhower
may or may not have planned air
cover, I would only suggest this:
I cannot imagine the general, who
planned the greatest invasion in
history, the invasion of Normandy,
allowing those 1,500 brave Cubans
to go in the Bay of Pigs there
without having first destroyed the
enemy air power or providing air
cover.
Nixon’s appearance on the Jack
Paar show was taped last Sunday
in New York.
Nixon called for “a political, dip
lomatic, economic and military
quarantine of Cuba, of Commu
nism in Cuba.”
Newsday, a Long Island daily
newspaper, reported yesterday that
last Tuesday during an off-the
record speech at Garden City, N.Y.,
Nixon advocated an oil blockade
of Cuba in recommending a four
point U.S. policy toward Cuba. His
four points: Removal of all Rus
sian troops, one-site inspection of
missile installations, an end to
foreign aid to nations which trade
with Cuba and partial blockade to
stop all oil shipments to the island.
Nixon repeated those assertions
on the television program.
Republicans who have criticized
the President about Cuba “will
join in a bipartisan support of any
strong action that President Ken
nedy will take to remove the Com
munist cancer,” Nixon said.
He referred to the possibility of
strong U.S. action in Cuba anger
ing some neutral nations.
“My answer is this: That we’ve
got to run American foreign policy
from the standpoint of the United
States of America and the defense
of freedom throughout the world,
and we shouldn’t take a vote of
popularity of the neutrals and the
other nations of the world and let
out policy be only what the weak
and timid will approve,” he said.
Magnificent Performance
LINCOLN, England UR — Some
thing a man has nightmares about
happened to Maurice Jacobson
yesterday.
His pants fell down as he con
ducted a choir before a packed
house.
Jacobson, a dignified 67, was
conducting 400 children at the
Methodist Church festival.
He went on beating time with
one hand and slowly inched his
pants up to the respectable height.
Then he sat down, still conducting.
When the song was over. He put
a safety pin in his pants.
The audience cheered.
“It was a magnificent perform
ance,” said one Methodist matron.
M “Mr. Jacobson's, I mean.”
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Brenda Heaton, 8,
Easter Seal Child,
Visits White House
WASHINGTON UP — Brenda
Heaton, 8, the Naional Easter Seal
Child, went to the White House
today hoping to see Caroline Ken
nedy, but had to settle for a visit
with the President.
Brenda, a cerebral palsy victim
who gets around with the aid of
crutches and leg braces, visited
with President Kennedy for about
15 minutes and presented him the
first sheet of 1963 Easter Seals.
The seals are being mailed to
40 million homes in a drive to
raise $21 million to support the
rehabilitation program of the Na
tional Society for Crippled Chil
dren and Adults.
After her chat with the Presi
dent, Brenda was asked what she
wanted to see most at the White
House.
“I wanted to see Caroline,” she
replied.
But the President’s daughter
was attending kindergarten class
in the White House living quarters.
To make up in part for Caro
line’s absence, Kennedy walked
with his guest to the porch out
side his office, pointed out Caro
line’s playyard, and whistled
loudly to summon the family’s
German shepherd dog, Clipper.
Brenda was accompanied to the
White House by her mother, Con
stance Heaton, and by actress
Shirley Booth, Easter Seal cam
paign manager. Brenda’s father, is
an appliance repairman. The fam
ily lives in Downers Grove, 111.,
where Brenda is a third grade stu
dent in the public schools.
Borough Bill Gets Going
Over In Committee
JUNEAU (jP) — A borough bill,
which would set up automatic in
corporation of the state’s major
population districts into first class
boroughs unless they organize on
their own before Oct. 1 got a
working over before the House
Local Government Committee last
night.
The measure, HB 90, also pro
vides for incentive grants to the
first class boroughs, which would
amount to $10 per voter in the
previous general election, and the
right to select 10 per cent of un
used state lands within its borders
for public use or as a revenue
producer.
New York Printers and
Publishers Agree To
End 91-Day Strike
NEW YORK M — The 91-day
newspaper shutdown in this city
appeared near an end today.
Negotiators for publishers and
striking printers agreed to ac
cept terms proposed by Mayor
Robert F. Wagner in the dispute
that has cost the industry at least
$100 million.
Loose ends remain to be tied
up. Some details are still to be
worked out. Rank and file print
ers have yet to ratify the agree
ment.
The agreement announced by
Wagner seemed to open the way
for eight newspapers with a cir
culation of more than 5 million
daily to resume publication short
ly.
The pact negotiators agreed up
on calls for a weekly pay package
increase of about $6.50 a man for
the first year and about $6 the
second. The printers’ pay scale
prior to the strike averaged about
$145 for a 36 V4-hour week, which
will be cut to 35 hours during the
second year.
Army Rebels Claim
Control In Syria
BEIRUT, Lebanon (if) — Army
rebels claimed tonight they won
control of Syria “without a drop
of bloodshed” after a sunrise coup.
But reports of fighting persisted
and Iraq’s own revolutionary re
gime sent troops to the border to
support the Syrian uprising.
Waves of fear and uncertainty
swept the Middle East as this up
rising followed by ony 28 days
the bloody revolution in Iraq.
Both revolutions professed support
of President Nasser of the United
Arab Republic and called for
Arab unity.
But U.A.R. officials in Cairo
were cautious, mindful that old
enemies made when Syria and
Egypt were united in the United
Arab Republic might have had
a hand in the uprising in Damas
cus.
Cairo joined the Iraqi regime,
however, in warning outside na
tions to keep hands off the Syrian
revolution.
Their warnings were obviously
aimed at Israel, whose army fac
ing Syria was reported on the
alert, and monarchist Jordan.
Commission for Civil
Rights Approved By
House Committee
JUNEAU UP) — A bill which
would create a Commission for
Civil Rights was approved by the
House Judiciary Committee yester
day with a majority of its mem
bers signing a “do pass” recom
mendation.
The measure provides for a five
member commission which would
look into complaints of discrimin
atory conduct. The commission
would be permitted to hold hear
ings and issue orders. Compliance
with commission orders would
serve as a bar to criminal prosecu
tion for discrimination.
Two persons appeared before
the committee to testify in favor
of the bill.
Willard Bowman of Anchorage,
representing the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Color
ed People, said it would provide
help to individuals short of going
to the district attorney’s office.
He said California has a similar
commission, which handled 800
cases during 1961, only two of
which the had to be taken to court.
Henry Hedberg, representing the
State Federation of Labor, also
spoke in favor of the bill. He said
the largest group which would be
helped by the legislation would be
the native peoples of Alaska.
Ambassador Dobrynin
Says Soviets Will Remove
Troops As Promised
WASHINGTON ltf)^-Soviet Am
bassador Anatoly Dobrynin said
today “we will do what we pro
mised we will do” on removing
troops from Cuba.
The Soviet promise is that sev
eral thousand troops will be with
drawn from Cuba by March 15.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
told a news conference today that
some movement of Soviet troops
from Cuba is under way, and that
Russian ships are in position to
withdraw several thousand within
the next week.
Dobrynin’s statement that the
troops will be withdrawn was at
a meeting with newsmen after he
had had a one - hour conference
with Assistant Secretary of State
Averell Harriman.
$462,764 for Community
Development Work
Alloted to 95 Locations
JUNEAU — Robert Hoffman,
Director of the Rural Develop
ment Agency, said today $462,764
was approved for community de
velopment work at 95 locations
from April 9, 1962, through Jan.
28, 1963.
Funds allocated to different
cities and villages ranged from
$10,000 at Barrow, Hoonah and
Nome to $1,000 at Haines-Port
Chilkoot and Petersburg.
Hoffman said the total expendi
tures represented $176,000 appro
priated for fiscal 1962, including
a $150,000 supplemental appropri
ation made by the 1962 legislature,
and $286,764 from the current fis
cal year appropriation of $350,000.
The cities and villages for which
funds were approved included:
Barrow, $10,000; Buckland, $2,
500; Candle, $3,000; Deering, $2,000;
Elim, $4,000; Emmonak, $6,000;
Fortuna Ledge, $5,000; Gambell,
$6,000; Holy Cross, $6,000; Hooper
Bay, $3,564 and $6,400; Kiana,
$5,000; Kivalina, $5,000; Kotzebue,
$3,000; Koyuk, $4,000; Noatak,
$6,000; Nome, $10,000; Pt. Hope,
$6,000; Russian Village, $3,000; St.
Mary’s, $4,000; St. Michael, $4,000;
Savoonga, $6,000; Scammon Bay,!
$3,000; Shaktoolik, $5,000; Wain
wright, $6,000; Wales, $4,000; and
White Mountain, $4,000.
Personalized Registration Plates
JUNEAU UP>—Legislation which
would permit the state to issue
personalized letter registration
plates for private cars, for a fee
of $10, was introduced in the
House yesterday.
The measure was introduced by
Rep. Joseph Josephson.
Pre-Registration Bill
Passes House Second Time
JUNEAU UCi — A bill which
would require pre-registration of
all Alaskans before the 1964 pri
mary election passed the House
for the second time today and was
sent to the Senate.
The second vote, which came
on a notice of reconsideration
given by the minority leader John
Rader, was 23-15, with two mem
bers absent.
The measure originally passed
the lower chamber last Wednes
day, but Rader’s reconsideration
notice was put off until today
with the agreement of the House.
There was no debate preceding
today’s roll call vote which was:
For: Baggen, Baker, Binkley,
Boardman, Cole, Hammond, Hill
strand, Holm, Kendall, Kubley,
Leonard, Longworth, Lottsfeldt,
Miller, Parsons, E. Reid, Sanders,
Smith, Strandberg, Sweeney, Til
lion, White, Wiggins.
Against: Cashel, Christiansen,
Ditman, Gravel, Harris, Johnson,
Josephson, McCombe, Moseley,
Pearson, Rader, M. Reed, Stalker,
Taylor, Whitehead.
Absent: Blodgett, Javela.
Editorial Criticism
JUNEAU Ub — Legislation which
would grant members of the legis
lature equal space within a news
paper in which to answer editorial
criticism or charges against them
was introduced today in the Sen
ate by Sen. Lester Bronson.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with light snow. Low to
night 22, high tomorrow 32. In
the last 24 hours: High of 31, low
of 22. Max. wind 32 mph from
the east. Sunrise at 6:46 a.m., sun
set at 5:41 pm.
National Guard
Troops Leave
For Encampment
National Guardsmen from Ket
chikan to Point Barrow will be
gin moving to Fort Richardson this
week for the annual two-week en
campment to be held March 9-23.
Four hundred men will be at
tending from the 1st Scout Bn.,
with 150 of the men passing
through Nome and the others as
sembling at Unalakleet and Bar
row.
Heading the 1st Scout Bn. will
be Maj. Robert Steele, assisted by
Capt. Bill Caldwell, Chaplain
(Capt.) Laurence Nevue, 1st Lt.
Gerald Eidem, Lt. Ron Engstrom,
Chief Warrant Officer George Bell,
and Sgt. Maj. A1 Sahlin. From the
Army Advisory Group will be
Capt. Arnold Feener, M/Sgt. Bill
Posey, Sgt./1C Orlando Ferguson.
The Guardsmen passing through
Nome will be coming from St.
Lawrence Island, Teller, Teller
Mission, Wales, Shishmaref, Deer
ing, White Mountain and Elim. One
Guardsman is expected to be pick
I ed up from King Island and six
from Diomede. The transportation
is being handled by commercial
aircraft.
A total of approximately 1,450
Smen will participate in training
designated to insure efficient tacti
cal employment under extreme
cold weather conditions. Subjects
to be covered are survival, mo
3 bility, and a special emphasis on
i tactics, with the purpose of
2 achieving maximum readiness
; through confidence. Alaska’s Min
utemen must be capable at all
r times to move quickly to the fro
zen fields of Alaska and be pre
pared to sustain themselves there
if the need arises.
Many problems are encountered
! in extreme cold that do not nor
mally hamper manuvers. These
? problems can only be solved by
practical exercises where troops
, actually-maneuver in cold weather,
j It has been found that troops un
trained in extreme cold cannot
efficiently or effectively move
into a sustained combat situation
where these conditions exist. For
this reason the Alaska- National
Guard has geared its training to
meet these requirements. This in
sures the people of Alaska the
National Guard will be properly
trained to fulfill their mission
should the need arise.
Call for Investigation of
Mineral Resources In
Depressed Areas
JUNEAU UFi — Companion
measures calling for a four-year
investigation into the mineral re
sources of those areas of Alaska
classified as depressed areas under
the Area Redevelopment Adminis
tration were introduced in the
Senate yesterday.
One bill, SB 141, asks the State
Department of Natural Resources
and the State Department of Econ
omic Development and Planning to
take the necessary steps to secure
ARA assistance.
The other, SB 140, would appro
priate $150,000 or whatever part
of that sum which would consti
tute the state’s required partici- .
pation of 25 per cent of the cost
of the project.
The project itself, designed to
furnish geological and mineralo
gical information which would
result in exploration and mining
operations, has been outlined in
an ARA project summary dated
March 1, 1962.