OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64tn Year No. 41
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1963
Per Copy 15£
Kremlin Favors
Communication
Link With U.S.
GENEVA — The Kremlin to
day offered a direct communica
tion link with Washington as a
safety device to prevent accident
al war.
A Soviet spokesman called it
the first achievement of the 17
nation disarmament talks, which
opened more than a year ago.
Soviet negotiator Semyon Tsarp
kin told the conference his govern
ment is willing to negotiate such
a link immediately, without at
taching any conditions.
The idea of a so-called hot-line
—or red-line—between President
Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev
was originally put forward by the
United States as a measure to re
lieve world tension and reduce the
risk of war by accident, miscal
culation or failure of communica
tions.
U.S. Ambassador Charles C.
Stelle warmly welcomed today’s
Soviet move and suggested the two
delegations open informal nego
tiations on the subject without
delay.
Western officials pointed out
Tsarpkin, in making his offer,
abruptly dropped all the condi
tions he previously had sought to
tie to a consideration of the hot
line proposal.
What the U.S. government has
in mind is a direct teletypewriter
circuit, probably between military
command centers, and not a tele
phone link between the Kremlin
and the White House. The latter,
Washington experts fear, might
lead to misunderstandings in trans
lation in the event of a conversa
tion between President Kennedy
and Premier Khrushchev.
The President said as much
himself at a news conference last
Dec. 12, when he expressed hope
a Washington - Moscow hot - line
could be set up. “In a nuclear age,”
he said, “speed is very desirable;”
and added a direct link would have
made a “safe situation in the fall
Cuban crisis.” But he emphasized
he was talking about a teletype
link and expressed doubt that voice
communication would have speeded
the solution.
Dr. Robt. Oppenheimer
Named Winner of
$50,000 Fermi Award
WASHINGTON <£> — Dr. J.
Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the
U.S. atomic bomb development,
was named winner today of the
$50,000 Fermi Award by the same
government agency that denied
him access to secret documents
nine years ago because of alleged
association with Communists.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion’s denial of security clear
ance to Oppenheimer in 1954 be
came a controversial issue in sci
entific circles.
Indications that the Kennedy
administration wanted to erase the
stigma came last year when Op
penheimer was invited to a White
House ^dinner for Nobel prize
winners.
The tax - free Fermi Award
given to the atomic physicist is the
AEC’s higest honor. It raised the
possibility that the government
may ask Oppenheimer to enter
secret atomic work again.
In making the award, the AEC
cited Oppenheimer for “his out
standing contributions to theor
etical physics and his scientific
and admistrative leadership.” No
reference was made to the earlier
security, case.
$800,000 Study for
Alaska’s Highways
Is Turned Down
WASHINGTON U& — A request
for $800,000 to study highway needs
of Alaska was turned down today
by the House Appropriations Com
mittee.
However, the committee indi
cated it would be receptive to a
later request for funds. In its re
port on a supplemental appropria
tion bill, the committee said:
“While such studies may be de
sirable, this item is not for an
emergency situation and should be
presented with other programs in
the regular annual bill for the
Bureau of Public Roads.”
The Federal-Aid Highway Act
of 1962 authorized the $800,000
study and directed the Secretary
of Commerce to report to Congress
by May 15, 1964.
Rep. Albert Thomas, (D-Tex.i,
chairman of the Appropriations
Subcommittee that studied the
proposal, suggested Alaska might
make its own study of highway
needs.
“You can depend upon those
good Alaskan boys to let it be
known what they need. They have
not been too quiet on any other
item. Why force this study on
them?” Thomas commented.
Soviet Rocket
Within 10,000
Miles of Moon
MOSCOW GW — The Soviet
Union’s Lunik 4 flew within
10,000 miles of the moon today,
Tass reported.
The Soviet news agency said the
3,130-pound moon probe was about
226,800 miles from the earth at
6 p.m. Moscow time — Friday
morning. The moon is about 238,
854 miles from the earth.
A communique reported radio
communications with the space
probe good.
The statement did not say when
the last radio and telemetric re
ports had been received, nor did it
give any information on Lunik’s
mission.
The terse communique gave rise
to conjectures that something
might have gone wrong aboard
the rocket. It omitted the usual
information on the temperature
and pressure inside the instrument
capsule.
It also was noted that publicity
surrounding the flight had shifted
to a minor key. The rocket was
generally handled as routine news
without the mounting fanfare of
preceding shots.
Tass said yesterday the Lunik
would pass near the surface of the
moon, but did not say how close.
The Soviets said the speed of
Lunik 4, launched Tuesday at more
than 18,000 miles an hour, had
slowed to about 6,700 miles an
hour. This is due to the earth’s
gravitational pull.
The Soviet press said Lunik 4
was being controlled by a sci
entific center in the Crimea.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued cloudy with occasion
al snow. Little change in tempera
ture.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 25, lowest 11. Sunrise at
5:05 a.m., sunset at 7:06 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
32, lowest 9. Extremes on this date
since 1907: highest 40 in 1940,
lowest -30 in 1918.
Dean Rusk Blasts
Foes of Foreign
Aid Program
WASHINGTON M — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk blasted foes of
the administration’s foreign aid
program today as defeatists who
would let the Communists “begin
to take over” the world.
Testifying before the House For
eign Affairs Committee, Rusk said
the Comunists want “Yanks” not
only to pull out of Europe but also
to pull out of all other foreign
lands including Latin America.
“If we Yanks come home,” he
said, “the Communists will begin
to take over. Why any American
would want to cooperate with that
global Communist strategy is be
yond my understanding. But that
is what sharp cuts in our foreign
aid programs would mean.
“Those who favor gutting these
powerful and effective instruments
at their juncture of history must
assume an awful responsibility.
‘Their defeatist prescription
should be opposed resolutely by
all who want to push until we
have achieved a world in which
our freedom—and the freedom of
all men—is secure,” Rusk said.
The secretary’s statement was
the opening gun in the annual bat
tle over the foreign aid program.
Rusk was the first witness before
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee which is considering Presi
dent Kennedy’s request for $4.5
billion.
The committee hearings are ex
pected to continue for six or seven
weeks. Chairman Thomas Morgan,
D-Pa., told reporters he antici
pated Congress would wind up cut
ting foreign aid to slightly below
last year’s level of $3.9 billion.
$500 Million to Speed
Up Public Works
Program Is Rejected
WASHINGTON W-Bya three
vote margin, the House Appropria
tions Committee today rejected
President Kennedy’s request for
$500 million to speed up the
Public Works program.
The 22-19 vote upset a recom
mendation by a subcommittee that
the works program, authorized by
the last Congress to the tune of
$900 million, begiven $450 million
more. The program previously had
been given $400 million. It was
designed to provide quick con
struction of public works in de
pressed areas.
Hep. Melvin Gaird, (R-Wis.), of
fered the amendment that reject
ed the allotment. Most of those
who voted for it were Republicans,
whose Party Policy Committee
earlier this week announced oppo
sition to the appropriation.
An amendment to restore the
money is certain to be offered
when the House considers the bill
next Tuesday.
The Senate Armed Services Com
mittee yesterday chopped out
$771 million in Defense Dept,
requests for aircraft, missiles and
other military hardware. But it
went along with the House in
voting an extra $363.7 million —
which the administration doesn’t
want and probably won’t spend—
to speed development of the RS-70
reconnaissance strike bomber.
Thus after the committee was
finished, the military procure
ment bill totaled only $407.3 mil
lion less than the administration
asked.
Coast Guard Steps-Up
Effort to Curb Raiders
WASHINGTON UR — The Coast
Guard has ordered additional ships,
planes and men to Florida in a
stepped-up effort to intercept
anti-Castro raiders.
Coast Guard headquarters an
nounced today that six aircraft,
six patrol boats, and six small
boats have arrived, or are heading
toward, the 7th Coast Guard Dis
trict which includes Florida and
Puerto Rico.
These will augment a force of
four larger ships, 10 patrol boats,
22 small craft, and 18 planes al
ready in the district.
“This action is being taken to
strengthen the enforcement of laws
applicable to Cuba-bound raiding
vessels,” the Coast Guard said.
The laws concern licenses re
quired for the export of arms and
ammunition, cargo regulations for
explosives and other dangerous
materials, and “implementation of
the Neutrality Act to apprehend
persons suspected of aggressive in
tentions against Cuba.”
Dr. Wood Says We Are
Losing the Battle of
Bering Sea Fishing Rights
SEATTLE UH — Dr. William R.
Wood, president of the University
of Alaska, asserted Friday “It is
apparent we are losing the battle”
for halibut fishing rights in the
eastern Bering Sea. “This is re
grettable,” he said.
Dr. Wood was main speaker as
Seattle businessmen saluted the
49th state at a luncheon of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce’s
[ Alaska Division.
He said he 9poke only as a lay
man, but that it appeared to him
there was no alternative but for
the United States to agree to the
entry of Russian and Japanese
fishing fleets into the halibut-rich
area. U. S. and Canadian fleets
have begun the season’s fishing
there and only Canadian refusal to
approve an international commis
sion recommendation is keeping
the Japanese fleets out.
“It is regrettable vve were not
better informed by research and
more aroused, too, over the im
portance and size of the North Pa
cific prize,” Dr. Wood said.
He said that during weeks of
flying over the area last June he
“witnessed an incredible effort of
the Russians and Japanese to de
velop this greatest of prizes . . .
“There were fishing vessels ev
erywhere, floating factories, ves
sels of all types. Where you saw
hundreds of them, you saw only
one small American and one Can
adian fishing boat.”
The prominent educator aiso
called Alaska the “greatest under
developed and underestimated re
gion left in the free world . . .
“We are in the key position at
the top of the Pacific rim, which
is still in the ‘dream stage’ so far
as the future of international
trade and economic development
are concerned,” he said.
Dr. Wood described one of the
“basic differences” from other un
derdeveloped areas of the world as
Alaska’s present small population.
“In this age of automation,” he
said, “instead of having to adapt
to the habits and customs of
countless generations and millions
of people, such development can
be telescoped into one generation,”
he explained.
An average of 4,000 motorists
a day run out ol gas, according to
the American Automobile Associa
tion.
Space Capsule Has
Short Stay Here
The long awaited space capsule,
which is touring the state, arrived
unexpectedly last evening and in
stead of being placed in the Na
tional Guard Armory as announced
was put on display this morning
in the Alaska National Guard
plane in which it arrived at the
airport until 11:30 a.m.
As many students as possible
were shuttled by bus and in pri
vate cars to see the capsule. These
were children on the morning
shifts only.
Junior and Senior High students
were given a lecture on the cap
sule by Melvin Hart, exhibit spe
cialist from NASA, keeping them
spellbound.
Many people were disappointed
to have the capsule here and to
be unable to see it due to the short
time it was gllowed to be on dis
play here. The reason given for
the limited time was that the crew
accompanying it have orders to
show it also in Kotzebue and Ga
lena today.
Mr. Hart stated that Alaska is
the first state to ask for the ex
hibit of the capsule and he was
highly pleased with the interest
in Alaska. He has taken part in
1,200 exhibits to date. Yesterday
the capsule was at Dillingham,
Bethel and St. Mary’s.
Upon its return tomorrow to
Anchorage it will leave the state.
The capsule has been carried
through the state by the Alaska
/ Air National Guard and the crew
I members are Lt. Col. Wm. Elmore,
Maj. John Podraza and Robert
Renie.
Supt. Vic Charles of the Nome
School expressed appreciation to
! the individuals, business houses
and government agencies who vol
untarily provided transportation so
that all children on the morning
shift were able to get to the field.
Air Force to Step Up
Dispersement of Fighters
WASHINGTON <*> — The Air
Force announced today it will dis
perse a number of its air defense
jets this summer to make them
less vulnerable to destruction in
event of a missile attack.
The announcement said the
move was not dictated by any em
ergency situation, but stemmed
from studies over the past few
years.
The action affects squadrons
from coast to coast.
The Air Force said the inter
ceptor aircraft will be spread
wider “in a program to provide
maximum survivability in the ev
ent of a ballistic missile attack on
this country.’’
ALASKANS ARE HONOR ROLL
STUDENTS AT HASKELL
JUNEAU UPt — Area Director
Robert Bennett of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs said yesterday 14
of the 31 students on the winter
quarter Vocational Honor Roll at
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.,
were Alaskans.
The Alaskans, all of whom re
ceived straight A’s were:
Nicholas Baldwin, Aniak; Jason
Bourdukofsky and Peter George
Bourdukofsky, St. Paul Island;
Reginald Davis, Galena; Riley
Meganack, Port Graham; Wood
row Morrison, Hydaburg; Alfred
Moses, Nome; Gilbert Nelson, Met
lakatla; James Pete, Bethel; Wto*
Shayen, Ketchikan; and Vernon
Solomon, Ft. Yukon.