“FARTHEST WEST NEWSPAPER IN THE 50 STATES”
64th Year No. 94
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1963
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Hoover and Walsh
Report Hope In
Their Quest
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WASHINGTON UP—Two Nome,
officials seeking federal help in
financing proposed water and sew
er systems in their Alaskan city
gained hope Tuesday that their ap
plication for funds may be ap
proved.
Mayor Don Hoover, after a sec
ond day of conferences at the
Community Facilities Administra
tion, said there is a chance a new
policy may be shaped up which
would enable Nome to qualify for
aid under the Accelerated Works
Program.
Accompanied by State Sen.
Pearse Walsh, the mayor conferred
with CFA officials Monday in
quest for an $800,000 grant to help
finance a $1.2 million project.
They were told, however that
the work would not create enough
jobs to qualify it for a grant under
the Accelerated projects Program,
which is designed to help combat
unemployment. They then were
offered $300,000, provided the city
puts up the balance, but turned
this idea down as impractical be
cause local taxpayers could not
assume such large indebtedness.
“Reopening discussions Tues
day,” said Hoover, “we were told
that 24 other cities throughout the
nation also have very unusual sit
uations.
“So, sometime within the next
week, they propose to hold a high
level policy conference to see
whether eligibility requirements
under the program might be
changed to enable these 25 cities
to share in the program.”
The mayor said his city of 2,500
now depends solely on movement
of water and sewage by truck, and
that because of permafrost, a con
duit to house pipelines would have
to be constructed at great cost.
The Nome men plan to start
home on Wednesday.
Mayor Don Hoover and Sen.
Pete Walsh announced in a wire
to the Nugget today that they have
concluded a series of meetings
with the Public Health Service,
the Community Facilities Admin
istration, Area Redevelopment of
ficials and the congressional dele
gation on the Nome sewer and
water application. They said ad
ditional meetings were scheduled
by the congressional delegation in
cluding a conference with the ARA
administrator, William L. Batt.
Florida Town Terrorized
HALLANDALE, Fla. iJV-Armed
officers are maintaining a dusk-to
dawn patrol between the negro
and white sections of this south
east Florida coastal city, terroriz
ed by a series of rapes.
Mayor John D. Steele said “a
state of panic” exists and that the
negro section will be sealed off
all night until the rapist is
caught.
Three white women reported
they were raped by a negro in
their homes during the past two
weeks, and there were two other
attempted rapes. Other rapes and
numerous attempts have been re
ported in recent months.
“He’s a sick animal,” the mayor
said. “Let’s pray to God we get
him.”
Steele added that his action was
not taken against negroes as a
race.
“There are just as many sick
animals in the white race as in the
negro race.” he said.
VA Coffee-Break Crowd
Terrorized by Patient
PORTLAND, Ore. UP) — A Vet
erans Administration patient ter
rorized a coffee - break cafeteria
crowd, fired one shot and held a
series of men hostage for more
than an hour and a half in a
downtown building Tuesday.
Two of his hostages were vol
unteers who sat down in front of
his loaded gun in an effort to talk
him into surrender.
He was Joseph Bruce Turner,
39, Portland.
He had stepped into the cafe
teria, sat down with Ray March
ington, a Veterans Administration
employe, pulled out a gun and
told Marchington he was a host
age.
“He was so mixed up I couldn’t
understand what he wanted,” said
Marchington, except it was clear
he had a complaint against the
Veterans Administration.
There were only 15 or so people
in the cafeteria at the time and
Turner brought them to their feet
with a shot from an old .38 caliber
revolver. The bullet hit a chair leg
then lodged in a baseboard.
Turner, who said he would ac
cept the assurance that his com
plains would get attention, final
ly handed over his gun and was
taken to a police car and then to
a hospital.
Young Mother Kills
Infant Son Suffering
From Meningitis
DALLAS l/P — A young mother
was charged yesterday with mur
der in the death of her baby. She
told a reporter she killed the child
“because I didn’t want to see him
suffer any more.”
“I couldn’t see why God let him
live and suffer so much,” sobbed
Mrs. Sandra Pearl English, 21.
She admitted picking up 13 -
month - old Ronnie Ray English
Friday afternoon and smashing
him against a bedroom wall.
Mrs. English said the child suf
fered from meningitis and “the
doctors back home said he would
not live long.”
“I loved him and took care of
him from the time he was born,”
the slender brunette wept. “I’ve
seen him cry and cry so many
times couldn’t bear to see him suf
fer any more.”
court ureter rorestans
Proxy Fight Over
Management of AA
STATTLE (if* — Alaska Air
lines stockholders adjourned a
meeting for two weeks Tuesday
after a court order forestalled a
threatened proxy fight.
At the request of a company
director, William M. Burke of
Seattle, U.S. Dist. Judge John C.
Bowen issued a temporary re
strainer. The judge said the dis
sident group made misleading
statements in seeking proxies.
Philip Van Kirk, New York at
torney represented dissident stock
holders, declined comment.
The restraining order blocked
election of directors.
A hearing will be held Friday
morning to decide whether to con
tinue the order for up to 60 days.
The dissidents, who are former
directors, are Raymond W. Mar
shall, New York; Homer W. Rob
inson, Fairbanks; Frank C. La
Grange, New York; and Ralph W.
Starkey, Hagerstown, Md.
They contend the airlines’ ‘pro
fit picture has been wholly un
satisfactory” since April 1957,
when Charles F. Willis Jr., be
came president of the company.
New Techniques
For Prospecting
Are Envisioned
By FRANK CAREY
Associated Press Science Writer
WASHINGTON tF—-Within 10
years, the Bureau of Mines hopes
to be prospecting for gold and
other minerals deep down on the
ocean floor.
The equipment will be a far cry
from the shovel, pan and burro
of gold rush days. The bureau
plans revolutionary techniques for
opening a new frontier in mining.
By 1972, bureau oceanographer
John Crawford reported in an in
terview, the bureau expects to
have a start on:
—A manned submersible capable
of sitting on the ocean floor, 1,000
feet deep on the continental shelf,
and equipped with a drill to bore
through another 1,000 feet of rock
on the ocean bed.
—An ocean floor mineshaft with
rock dug by the submarine drill
forming a support for a pipe-like
passageway to the ocean surface
through which men could be trans
ported by an elevator.
—Underwater shelters at the mine
opening where men could live a
week or more at a time.
—Floating underwater laborator
ies—huge buoy-like devices which
could be anchored and manned at
depths of about 1,000 feet and
serve as bases for lowering equip
ment to the ocean floor.
All are deemed feasible within
10 years, said Crawford.
Looking farther into the future,
Crawford said the bureau hopes to
have manned submersibles and
other equipment capable of ex
ploring and tapping the vast plains
in waters several miles deep.
He said commercial engineers
are planning nuclear power plants
for the ocean floor to furnish
power for mining operations and
heat and light for men in under
water shelters.
Crawford cited a report by sev
eral commercial companies of
finding “very interesting quan
tities" of gold in waters 500 feet
deep off Alaska.
The U.S. Geological Survey will
join with the bureau in the re
search program on which the two
agencies hope to spend $100 mil
lion in the next ten years. The
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
also will be in on the venture.
Liquified Methane Gas
To be Export From
Kenai to Japan
SEATTLE Uft — Two oil com
panies plan to manufacture and
export liquified methane gas from
Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula to Japan
officials announced here yester
day.
The firms are Union Oil and
Marathon Oil. They have set up
jointly-owned companies to oper
ate a liquefying plant and to over
see design and construction of
tankships.
Tokyo Gas Co. is the prospec
tive customer.
The gas fields are about 65 miles
south of Anchorage.
Methane would be transported
in liquid form at minus 258 de
gress Fahrenheit.
Union and Marathon discovered
the Kenai gas field in 1959.
BUFFALO, N.Y. UP* —Torrential
rain swamped sections of this in
dustrial city of 500,000 today,
sending floodwaters swirling into
thousands of cellars and forcing the
evacuation by boat of 300 people'
in a suburb.
Senate Republicans Say
They Can t Afford to Vote
Against Test Ban Treaty
By JACK BELL
Associated Press Political Writer
WASHINGTON UP —Senate Re
publicans have assessed the poli
tical implications of the limited
nuclear test ban treaty and most
are expected to wind up voting
for its ratification.
An influential Republican sen
ator, who asked not to be quoted
by name, said he and a majority
of his colleagues have reached the
conclusion that “We can’t afford
politically to vote against this
treaty.”
“There are a number of risks
involved that I don’t like to see
us take as a nation,” he said.
“But if the Joint Chief of Staff
say that, on balance, it is accept
able — and I believe they will —
we won’t have any choice but to
support it.”
He attributed this in part to
what he called the “mother vote,”
women who have feared that nuc
lear fallout might result in de
formed children and who believe
the treaty may eliminate this dan
ger.
As a result, tne senator said,
after extensive hearings begin
ning Monday he expects to see
opposition virtually collapse.
Democratic leaders have said
they are confident of getting the
necessary' support of two-thirds of
those voting. But they have been
wooing GOP backing in order to
attain overwhelming approval.
Republican Leader Everett M.
Dirksen said he has had 5,000 let
ters, divided equally for and
against ratification.
Another senator said that most
of the opposition mail was com
ing from the Midwest and Rocky
Mountain states.
International Wedding
At University of Alaska
FAIRBANKS — A wedding
here Aug. 29 will be quite an in
ternational affair—with the mar
riage party representing about
seven nationalities.
The bride and groom, Miss Caro
line Laniyan and Joseph Oke'dara,
are Nigerian students attending
the University of Alaska.
The matron of honor is from
Formosa, the bride’s attendant is
from India, the best man is Ko
rean, the ring bearer is Chinese,
and the ushers are Chinese, Ger
man, African and Eskimo.
Okedara and Miss Laniyan knew
each other in Nigeria where they
both received some education at
a Baptist mission school. They
were tentatively engaged.
The young Nigerian came to Al
aska and the university in 1958.
His wife-to-be stayed behind but
four years later, she too, enrolled
at the university.
Their romance renewed and
their engagement became official.
Okedara received his Bachelor
of Science degree in 1962 and is
now doing post graduate work.
Miss Laniyan expects to receive
her Science degree next year.
The wedding is scheduled at 8
p.m. in the First Baptist Church.
A reception will follow in the
home of Dr. William Wood, presi
dent of the university.
The community of Fairbanks
has become interested in the uni
que marriage. Two clubs, Kiwanis
and Soroptimists, have each given
a $500 scholarship to the couple.
Local firms have given wedding
clothes and made possible a honey
moon to Mt. McKinley National
Park.
Premature Son
Born Today To
President’s Wife
OTIS AIR FORCE BASE. Mas.?.
OP—Mrs. John F. Kennedy, wife
of the President, gave birth to
their third child—a son—today at
the base hospital.
The White House spokesman
said the condition of the child,
born five and a half weeks pre
maturely, and that the condition
of Mrs. Kennedy was good.
The newborn son of President
and Mrs. Kennedy has developed
a respiratory ailment and is being
taken by ambulance to the Boston
Children’s Medical Center today.
The child was placed in an oxy
gen tent.
Like the first son, John Jr., the
child was bom before the Presi
dent could reach the scene despite
a mad dash from the White House
when he learned his wife, Jac
queline, had been taken to the
hospital.
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger said Mrs. Kennedy
felt pains while with her two chil
dren, Caroline and John Jr., this
morning and that Dr. John Walsh,
her obstetrician, was notified im
mediately.
Dr. Walsh was on hand when.
Mrs. Kennedy arrived at the hos
pital shortly after 11:30 a.m.
The new baby like the others,
was delivered by Caesarian sec
I tion. The birth occurred at 1:15
p.m.
The President was notified by
telephone shortly before noon that
his wife had been taken to the
hospital.
The Kennedy’s first son. John
Jr., also was born prematurely,
about three weeks ahead of sched
ule, on Nov. 25, 1960. He weighed
6 pounds 3 ounces at birth. The
new baby weighed 4 pounds lOVfc
ounces.
The President’s big jet plane
was undergoing routine service, so
he hopped into an eight-passenger
600-mile-an-hour Jet Star plane.
He arrived at Otis Air Force
Base about 25 minutes after his
new son had been bom.
The surgery was performed by
Dr. Walsh but a battery of mili
tary doctors was on hand to assist
him.
Dr. Ward's Girl Friend
Promises Sensational
Sex and Security Evidence
LONDON OP* — Dr. Stephen
Ward’s last girl friend said today
she will give Lord Denning sen
sational new evidence in Britain's
sex and security scandal.
“I received Stephen's last let
ter to me last night,” said 22-year
old Julie Gulliver. “I can’t say
anything about it yet.”
‘ But I intend to see Lord Den
ning this week with some new
evidence that will be sensational.”
Denning, a judge, is investigat
ing security aspects of the affairs
of Ward’s protege, call girl Chris
tine Keeler, carried on simultan
eously with former War Minister
John Profumo and assistant Soviet
naval attache Eugene Ivanov. Pro
fumo resigned June 4 from Par
liament and’ the government in
disgrace. Ivanov returned to Mos
cow before the scandal broke.
Ward, convicted on two vice
charges last week, died Saturday
from an overdose of drugs. He told
friends he was being made the
scapegoatt of the scandals that
rocked Prime Minister MacMil
* Ian’s government.