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FARTHEST WEST NEWSPAPER IN THE 50 STATES
64th Year No. 90
NOML, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1963
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More Survivors
Are Plucked from
Earthquake Ruins
SKOPJE, Yugoslavia — Ten
more survivors were plucked from
the death tombs of Skopje’s earth
quake ruins today, nearly four days
after a catastrophe demolished this
city. The count of the dead mount
ed toward 1,000.
A French team of disaster
specialists, working with in
credibly delicate sounding devices,
picked up voice after voice from
beneath the desolate mounds of
piled rubble.
Each new find spurred rescue
workers on in the hope of finding
more life under the tons of wreck
age.
Earlier in the day, Premier
Alexander Grlickov of Macedonia
said no more survivors could rea
sonably be expected to be dug up
after today. He said the govern
ment would order wholesale razing
and bulldozing operations.
But even while he spoke, the
French teams were locating more
life in the rubble.
First to be found alive today was
a small girl, still alive 80 hours
after entombment.
Survivors fled the city by the
thousands, fearing the outbreak of
a typhus epidemic.
On the fourth day after the cata
clysmic quake demolished the city,
the stench of cracked sewers, hu
man waste and refuse mingling
with the smell of decomposing
bodies lay like a stifling blanket
over the sun-soaked area. Tem
peratures were in the 90s.
From the ruins of the Hotel
Macedonia, workmen dug out the
bodies of a man and woman pre
sumed to be the first American
dead in the disaster.
Officials said they concluded
that the bodies were those of an
American Air Force sergeant sta
tioned in Europe and his German
wife.
An automobile, with identifica
tion papers of Staff Sgt. Harold
Stacy of Governeru, N.Y., in the
glove compartment, has been
standing near the hotel since the
quake struck the city Friday. The
couple were on their way to Greece
from Germany on a vacation.
Nikita Says It Will be a
Long Time Before China
Acquires Nuclear Devices
WASHINGTON — Under
secretary of State Averell Harri
inan today quoted Soviet Premier
Khrushchev as voicing belief it
will be “a long, long time” before
Red China develops “a nuclear
capability of any importance.”
Harriman said Khrushchev ex
pressed this opinion during Mos
cow negotiations which led to the
initialling of a U.S.-British-Soviet
agreement banning nuclear test
ing in the air, undersea and in
space.
Harriman reported this Khrush
chev remark to reporters after he
had discussed the test ban treaty
for three hours with three Senate
committees.
Senators bombarded Harriman
with numerous questions in the
closed session.
Some of the questions dealt
with whether Russia would
abrogate the treaty, under a veto
clause, if Red China developed a
nuclear capacity.
‘‘Mr. Khrushchev did not ap
pear overly concerned over such
a development,” Harriman told
newsmen who raised the question
with him.
Harriman added Khrushchev
voiced belief Red China lacks the
industrial base for development
of a nuclear capacity, including
weapons and delivery systems.
And Harriman added Russia hasn’t
given Red China any technical
assistance of an industrial nature
since 1960.
The senators who met with Har
riman were members of the
Foreign Relations, Armed Services
and Senate-House Atomic Energy
Committees.
Senate Democratic leader Mike
Mansfield said the senators were
told “there are no gimmicks” in
the treaty.
Senate Republican leader Everett
Dirksen had used this word in de
scribing a provision under which
he said any signatory could veto
any future amendment to the
treaty.”
“This is an open agreement
openly arrived at,” Mansfield
said. "There are no gimmicks or
any side issues in it.”
Mayor Hoover and Sen. Walsh Going
To Washington In Interest of Securing
Funds for Sewer and Water Project
The Chamber of Commerce, with city officials, has worked
untiringly for many years to get sewage and water for the City
of Nome. They have not given up having Nome benefit from the
aid to communities from the Accelerated Public Works Fund as
have all other parts of the state.
Nome was led to believe by representatives of more than
one state agency that its need was greater than any other part of
the state in obtaining aid to take the initial step from honey
buckets to sanitary sewage and that some priority would be given
due to the conditions at the school. Nome was by-passed in the
first Accelerated Public Work appropriation but there was assur
ance that its application was in order and help would come from
the present appropriation.
Right now the fate of the project hangs in the balance, with
all other parts of the state getting improvements to their water
and sewage systems but to date nothing for Northwestern Alaska.
Today the Chamber approved making a direct approach and
voted to send Don Hoover, mayor of Nome, and Sen. Pete Walsh
to Washington, D.C., and find out first-hand why this part of the
state is being discriminated against.
Other organizations and individuals will be appealed to for
help to finance the trip, which is imperative as Nome seems to be
too far away to have its voice heard in the capitol.
All Possible
Aid Promised to
Bristol Bay Area
JUNEAU i/P — The White House
has promised all assistance possible
to the people of Bristol Bay area,
Gov. Wm. Egan said today.
The some 3,500 residents of the
area who depend primarily on the
red salmon fishery of Bristol Bay
for their livelihood are facing a
bleak winter following a disastrous
salmon season.
Egan asked President Kennedy
last week to declare the Bristol
Bay region a disaster area, so
quick and adequate federal assist
ance could be made available to
meet the emergency.
Replying to Egan’s request, Ed
ward McDermott, Director of
Emergency Planning for President
Kennedy, said:
“We are investigating as to
what federal aid can be made
available. The Alaskan congres
sional delegation has also wired
the President and furnished addi
tional information on the extent
of the hardship. You can be sure
that all assistance possible will be
directed to that area.
“We will advise you further
when we have information on
specific measures for assistance.
“The President is concerned and
extends his sympathy to those whc
are affected by the failure of the
salmon fishing industry.”
De Gaulle Snubs
Moscow Test
Ban Agreement
PARIS OP — President Charles
De Gaulle today snubbed the Mos
cow agreement for a limited nu
clear test ban and coldly rejected
the idea of a non-aggression pact
between NATO and the Warsaw
pact nations.
At the same time, he declared
that French-U.S. relations are too
tightly embedded in historical
friendship and alliances to be
deeply disturbed by present dif
ferences in policy.
De Gaulle spoke to a jam-packed j
news conference in an ornate re
ception room at the Elysee Palace.
About 800 reporters, cabinet mem
bers, deputies and government of
ficials sat on gilded chairs while
the president held forth in the
manner of a history professor for
an hour and a quarter.
This was his first news con
ference since January when he
vetoed Britain’s entry into the
Common Market and spurned an
American offer of Polaris missiles
as the price of joining a NATO
atomic force.
De Gaulle said that the Moscow
agreement initialed by the United
States, Great Britain and Russia
to halt testing of nuclear weapons
had really changed nothing. He
said France could not be expected
to halt its own tests aimed at
making it a full-fledged member
of the atomic club.
But, he added, France is still
interested in disarmament. He
said that he has some ideas for
ways of controlling cosmic, aerial
and sea-born delivery systems and
planned to invite “interested coun
tries” to a disarmament conference
before the end of the year. He did
not spell out who would be in
vited. but implied that the atomic
powers — Great Britain, the United !
States, Russia and France—should
attend.
Same Sports Car;
Same Escape Route
BERLIN l/P — A young Argen
tinian who rescued his sweetheart
from East Berlin by driving a
sports car beneath a border barrier
drove the same car a young Aus
trian used for the same feat there
months before.
The car still carries the same
license plates.
“An English friend had told me
about the Austrian's escape.’’ said
Norbert Konrad, 22, “but he didn’t
have full details and I had not
read the story at the time.
“After we made it and I saw
a picture of the story, I realized
it was the same car. I almost faint
ed.’’
Konrad came to Germany —
his father’s native land — more
than a year ago and got work in
West Berlin as a radio mechanic.
On a visit to East Berlin he met
pretty, blonde Helga Werner,
daughter of a Communist.
They became engaged last Octo
ber despite the opposition of her
father. Authorities refused her an
exit permit.
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Anchorage Couple
Take Off for Flight
Over the North Pole
FAIRBANKS W — A Scandi
navian couple, with the wife a1
’ the controls, took off here at 10:42
a.m. in their single-engine plane
on a Polar flight to Norway.
If the flight succeeds, Ingrid
Pedersen, 30, of Anchorage, will
become the first woman to fly a
light plane over the North Pole.
Her navigator is her husband,
Einar, who has crossed over the
Pole about 150 times as a navi
gator for Scandinavian Airlines
System. He plans to make a photo
graphic study of the northern ice
cape.
The Pedersens delayed their
take off here several days await
ing favorable weather over the
polar region.
They plan to fly non-stop to
Nord, Greenland, a distance of
about 2,400 miles, and reach there
in about 20 hours. From Greenland
they will make a 10-hour hop to
Bodo, Norway. Their route will
| take them over Pt. Barrow and
1 Arlis II ice island before reaching
the Pole.
Pedersen said their plane car
ried about 270 gallons of fuel,
enough for 2,700 miles with a nor
mal headwind, and Arctic survival
gear that would keep them a
month.
The couple said the primary
reason for the flight is the ice-cap
studies.
PERRY ENINGOWOK
FATALLY STABBED
THIS MORNING
Perry Eningowok was fatally
stabbed early this morning, about
two o’clock, while in bed at his
home on C St. between First and
Second Ave.
He is reported to have been
stabbed several times in the ab
domen but managed to stagger to
the street before dying. He was
seen by Robert Harwood from his
home on First Ave., who turned
in the alarm.
Stewart Tocktoo is hospitalized
and in critical condition from ab
dominal and throat stabs, believed
to be self-inflicted, following the
stabbing of Eningowok.
A coroner’s jury has been se
lected by the Magistrate to in
vestigate the matter this afternoon.
North Korean
Reds Kill Two
American Soldiers
SEOUL '/P — North Korean
troops killed two American sol
diers and wounded another today
in a dawn ambush just south of the
demilitarized zone about 20 miles
from Seoul, the U.N. Command an
nounced.
Col. George Creel, U.N. Com
mand spokesman, said the Reds
launched “a vicious and unpro
voked attack” on three members
of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division
as they rode in a jeep to a guard
post near Chungyang-Dong.
Creel said the American soldiers
were hit by machine gun fire and
grenades which apparently came
from seven ambush positions just
inside the demilitarized zone.
There was no immediate com
ment from the Pentagon on the in
cident, which occurred two months
after a helicopter carrying two
American captains was fired on
and forced down in Red territory.
The North Koreans have refused
to release the captains despite U.S.
demands in the mixed Armistice
Commission.
The ambushers could easily con
ceal themselves. That part of the
demilitarized zone has grown into
a virtual jungle since the armistice
ending the Korean War was sign
‘ ed 10 years ago.
U.S. Expresses Outrage
WASHINGTON UP — The United
States expressed outrage today at
what it called the latest murders
of two American soldiers in South
Korea and the Chinese Commu
nists are deterred only by contin
ued U.N. strength.
In a bristling statement, State
Department press officer Richard
Phillips said an early meeting of
the Military Armistice Commission
has been called to protest the dawn
ambush inside the United Nations
buffer zone.
Phillips said “we will have to
consider what other actions we
will take,” in addition to the com
mission meeting. He refused to
elaborate.
Tacoma Woman Found
Dead In Freezer
TACOMA UP — The body of
Mrs. Jessie Jacobs, 55, was found
in what officers described as a
chest-type freezer in her home in
suburban Fircrest Sunday night.
Pierce County coroner Larry
Amundsen said apparently she had
frozen to death, and he was in
vestigating to determine whether
death was an accident.
He said she was found sitting in
a crouched position with her hands
clasped together. Some of the food
apparently had been moved to al
low her to get in that position,
Amundsen said.
Mrs. Jacobs, whose husband died
several years ago, was a former
employe of the U.S. Geological
Survey.
A brother, Clarence Kramer, was
coming from Sitka, Alaska to
make funeral arrangements.
Amundsen said there was no
note.
He said she apparently died
about 1 p.m. She had been to
church in the morning and was
to have gone to dinner at the home
of friends.
When she did not arrive, the
friends attempted to contact her
without success and reported her
as missing to Fircrest police.
A check of the home disclosed
' the body in the freezer.