NUGGET
VLaUWL iMiLWSrAJriiiK 1IM ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
G4tn Year No. 21
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1963
Per Copy 15 C
Cjov. Egan Says:
Halibut Treaty
Breaks Back of
Abstention
Principle
JUNEAU W — Gov. Wm. Egan
said yesterday the action of the
International North Pacific Fish
eries Commission in recommend
ing Japanese entry into the eastern
Bering Sea halibut fishery “broke
the back of the treaty’s abstention
principle.”
Egan made the comment in testi
mony before the U.S. Senate-House
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Subcommittee, presided over by
Sen. E. L. Bartlett.
The abstention principle of the
treaty is based on full utilization of
fisheries stocks. Egan said an In
ternational Pacific Halibut Com
mission report published in 19S1
indicated that current regulations
have been effective in providing
sufficient fishing on both the Pa
cific side of the Alaska Peninsula
and in the Bering Sea to fully
utilize present stocks.
Egan noted a section in the re
port which said the annual rate of
emigration of halibut in the Bering
Sea reached 40 per cent. He said
many of the halibut tagged in the
eastern Bering were later eaueht
Foreign Secty. Lord Home
Says U.S. Pays Too Much
For European Defense
LONDON U?)—Foreign Secretary
Lord Home, in a speech read for
him today, said the United States
carries too much of the load for
European defense and urged a re
appraisal of the burdens.
In 1962 the total defense ex
penditure of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization was about $73
billion of which the United States
contributed a little over $54 bil
lion, he told the 50th Jubilee Con
ference of a study group of diplo
mats and scholars.
“These figures show very clear
ly the immense size of the Ameri
can effort, which makes the con
tributions of the rest of us seem
puny by comparison,” he said.
“I would feel that the United
States has a grievance at the rela
tively heavy payments she is mak
ing to Europe and that this is a
subject that needs re-examination.
The reconstruction of European
prosperity in the past 10 years has
created quite a new economic sit
uation within the alliance.”
Because he has a throat infec
tion, Home did not appear. His
speech was read for him by Peter
Thomas, an undersecretary at the
Foreign Office.
BIG HAUL OF FEATHERS
Charges Administration
Neutral to Enemies,
Friendly to the Neutrals,
And Hostile to Friends
WASHINGTON UP) — Sen.
Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa said
today Republicans intend to con
tinue to “call atention to the fail
ures, weakness and confusion” of
Kennedy administration foreign
policies.
Hickenlooper, who heads the
Senate Republican Policy Com
mittee, accused the Democrats of
glossing over the hemispheric
danger presented by the Soviet
military bastion in Cuba.
“The Republicans are not going
to follow blindly a mistaken and
troublesome policy,” he said. “We
intend to continue to call attention
to the failures, weakness and con
fusion of recent policies. All you
have to do is look around the
world to see something is wrong.”
Although he did not couch it as
such, the statements of Hicken
looper—senior GOP member of the
Foreign Relations Committee—ob
viously were made in answer to
charges by chairman J. William
Fulbright that Republicans were
endangering free world unity by
“divisive partisanship and irre
sponsible attacks on our nation’s
foreign policy.”
Fulbright directed his criticisms
in a weekend statement primarily
as far south as Willapa Bay,. Wash.
“When the North Pacific Fish
ery Treaty became effective,” he
said, “there was no evidence
whatsoever of any out-migration
habits of the Bering Sea halibut.
“But now there is evidence . . .
this evidence is set forth in the
Halibut Commission reports. The
reports very clearly indicate be
lief on the part of the researchers
that there is presently an adequate
annual utilization of the Bering
Sea halibut resource.”
Egan said the recommendation of
the Commission, “if permitted to
become effective,” will forever ad
versely affect the opportunity of
American fishermen to participate
in a fishery adjacent to our shores.
Yet we were neither asked for our
views nor forewarned.”
Bartlett, with reference to the
fact that members of the treaty
would be permitted to withdraw
this June, asked Egan:
“Would you then recommend,
governor, that the United States
abrogate the treaty this year?”
Egan replied: “No, I am not ex
pert enough to say if the treaty
should be abrogated.”
Hijackers of Venezuelan
Freighter to be Given
Asylum In Brazil
BELEM, Brazil (JPi—Under con
stant U.S. air and sea watch, the
hijacked Venezuelan freighter
Anzoategui was anchored in Bra
zilian waters today with her pro
communist captors reported ready
to surrender to Brazil.
The Brazilian Navy Ministry
ordered a Brazilian corvette to
conduct the freighter to Belem.
Brazil has indicated the insur
gents who seized the Anzoategui
will be given asylum and not
turned over to Venezuela.
The pro-communist foes of the
Venezuela government seized the
ship after she put to sea last week,
in an effort to embarrass Presi
dent Romulo Betancourt, an enemy
of Cuba’s Prime Minister Castro.
But the incident failed to ac
complish one aim—to prevent his
visit to the United States. Betan
court flew to San Juan, Puerto
Rico, and will leave from there
Tuesday for Washington.
I BOMBAY, India UP) — Gujarat
state police have made a haul big
enough to put a feather in theii
caps.
From Ahmedabad came word
the cops had seized more than
four million peacock feathers in
bundles stored in warehouses for
export to Western countries.
The export of peacock feathers
is illegal. More than that, it’s
against the law and Hindu tradi
tion to kill the bird—although
farmers call it a pest.
A few days ago India announced
its choice of a national bird: The
peacock.
DC-8 Jetliner Makes
Emergency Landing
LOS ANGELES tW — A DC-8
jetliner with 10 pasengers had to
make an emergency landing here
when one of its engines ran wild,
chewing its own turbine blades to
bits.
The pilot of the New Orleans
bound National Airlines plane
quickly shut down the engine—
but not before a cloud of aluminum
shards the size of hailstones fell
on a neighborhood of north San
Diego.
The bits of aluminum were too
small to cause damage, police said.
The plane developed trouble soon
after taking off Sunday from San
Diego. The pilot dumped most of
his fuel at sea before landing.
WEST BERLIN GIVES BRANDT
A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
BERLIN UP — West Berliners
gave their socialist Mayor, Willy
Brandt, a smashing vote of con
fidence Sunday in their first muni
cipal election since the Communists
built their Berlin Wall.
Brandt’s anti-Communist social
ists won 89 of the 140 seats in the
city’s new Parliament. They had
77 deputies in the 133-seat house
elected four years ago.
West Berlin’s small Communist
party, never represented in Parlia
ment, lost a third of its popular
vote. This was blamed largely on
the Wall. The Communist vote de
clined from 31,570 in 1959 to
20,887 ballots.
toward wew York: (Jov. Nelson A
Rockefeller; Sen. Barry Gold
water, and Sen. Hugh Scott. Rocke
feller and Goldwater are possibl
candidates for the 1964 GOP Pres
idential nomination.
In a major defense of Presi
dent Kennedy’s policies, Fulbrigh
assailed Rockefeller for the gov
emor’s assertion that the adminis
tration is to blame for “the pre
sent disarray within the Atlantic
alliance.”
Fulbright said Rockefeller and
Goldwater were “professing sym
pathy and support for the disrup
tive policies” of the French gov
ernment under President Charles
De Gaulle.
Fulbright said Scott, a former
Republican National Chairman,
was “even more intemperate” in
saying that the administration is
“neutral to its enemies, friendly to
the neutralists and hostile to its
friends.”
Barber Jack Close Passes
KETCHIKAN — Jack Close,
who opened a barbershop in Ket
chikan in 1906, died early today at
the age of 94. Until recently when
he broke a hip in a fall he’d been
active in the Pioneers of Alaska
Rig-Time Band in which he played
the bones. He was a charter mem
ber of the Elks Lodge here.
Canadians Continue
Search For Missing
Alaska Plane
EDMONTON, Ala. UR — Eight
RCAF aircraft today continued a
search for two United States resi
dents missing in a light plane in
northern British Columbia for two
weeks.
An RCAF spokesman here said
there is “no indication the search
will be called off at this particular
time.”
Aboard the single-engined How
ard aircraft were R. B. Flores of
San Bruno, Calif., and Helen Cla
ben of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Fair
banks.
The missing aircraft left White
horse Feb. 4 on a 600-mile flight
to Fort St. John, about 330 miles
northwest of Edmonton.
Search craft so far have covered
104,350 square miles.
Bureau of Public Roads
Earmarks $37 Million
For Alaska’s Roads
By Fritz Witti
Associated. Press Special Service
The Bureau of Public Roads has
ear-marked for road-poor Alaska
more than $37 million in federal
aid highway funds authorized for
the year ending June 30.
That breaks down into $22,074,
816 for primary roads, $14,815,807
for secondary roads and $51,740 for
urban roads, according to a recent
summary issued by the bureau.
The report listed completion in
Alaska of 83 miles of 2-lane roads
in its primary federal-aid program
and 70 miles of roads, mainly 2
lane, in its secondary program dur
ing the year ended last June 30.
The completed roads cost $7,
719,856 of which $6,281,533 was
federal funds.
At the end of fiscal 1962, the
status of federal-aid road projects
in Alaska was reported by the
bureau as: 200.9 miles under con
struction, to cost $55,624,089 in
cluding $47,987,688 in federal
funds; 33.6 miles with approved
plans but not under construction,
to cost $9,318,545 including $8,
591,134 in federal funds; 428.5 miles
programmed but plans not ap
proved, to cost $41,568,302 includ
ing $39,300,213 in federal funds.
Hearing Held
On Nome Airport
A hearing on the operation of
the Nome Airport was held Friday
evening at the City Hall at the re
quest of the FAA with A1 Hulen,
assistant administrator of the Alas
ka region, presenting the proposal
that Nome take over the airport.
He explained the circumstances
under which the field was built
by the military during the war
FAA (then CAA> at the close of
hostilities.
One of the main reasons for
suggesting the field become city
operated was due to unknown
facts concerning budgets to cover
the expense of the operation, also
that it was not a function of the
FAA to maintain airfields of this
type.
When queried as to a possible
closing of the field if the state and
city both turn down the offer, Mr.
Hulen stated that the FAA can
and would operate a 5,000-foot
runway to carry on their work
here.
Many factors in the operation
were discussed by the City Coun
cil members, interested citizens
and members of the FAA party,
but it was felt that the brochure
offered and prepared by the FAA
did not give enough data for the
city, so more information has been
; INanooks Challenge
: Anchorage West
Nome High School has chal
t lenged West Anchorage High
. School for a berth in the Western
Alaska Basketball Tournament and
West Anchorage has accepted for
a best two-of-three games series.
The games will be played Thursday
and Friday night, Feb. 21-22 at
West High’s gym, beginning at
7:30 or 8 p.m. If the games con
tinue for Saturday night, the East
High gym will probably be the
scene of action, as the West gym
has been contracted for Fur Ren
dezvous events. Should either
team win both Thursday and i
requested.
Wien Airlines, represented by its
vice presdident L. E. Parsons,
raised a question concerning re
fueling costs which Wien had been
unable to collect from the military,
who make daily landings on the
field, which was a sum of over
$12,000 and asked for considera
tion from FAA as his company
had been unable to get action or
consideration in the matter.
Mr. Parsons highly praised Mr.
Hulen for his work over many
years in the development of avia
tion in the State of Alaska.
The transitional grants under
which the airport has been oper
ated by FAA during the past three
years run out in 1964. More study
is to be made on this important
matter.
Friday nights, the third game will
not be played.
Ten players, coach Pete Hahn,
a manager, High School Principal
Larry Bourger and four cheerlead
ers will leave Thursday for An
chorage. Reservations have been
requested for lodging at the Roose
velt Hotel. Should there be none
available, the team will stay at
the Anchorage YMCA. West High
representatives will meet the
Nome team at International Air
port.
West High School ranks third
in the Western Alaska High School
Activities Assn, ratings. Nome
ranked 11th and must win two
games to qualify in West’s place.
How the Nanooks will travel is
not yet definitely known, as the
charter plane seats had not been
sold this morning. Should ten pas
sengers pay the $60 fare by 3 p.m.
today, the charter will leave Thurs
day before noon and return to
Nome no later than Saturday night.
Should the charter not materialize,
the team will have to remain in
Anchorage until Monday to re
turn by scheduled plane.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy with occasional snow.
Northeast winds 15-25 mph. Low
tonight 24, high tomorrow 27. In
the last 24 hours: High of 27, low
of 12. Max. wind 28 mph. from
the north. Sunrise at 7:49 ajn.,
sunset at 4:44 p.m. Temps, a year
ago today: High of 28, low of 20.
90-Mph Auto Runs
Down California Youth
VENICE, Calif. (Jf) — Police say
David Brimley, 17, pushed his girl
friend to safety when a speeding
car bore down on them in a cross
walk Sunday. But he didn’t have
time to save himself, and was
killed.
Officers estimated that the car
was traveling 90 miles per hour.
It ran a red light, police said, and
hit another car before it caromed
into Brimley.
Brimley was knocked 172 feet.
Brimley’s date, Paulette Lewis, 16,
became hystrical.
After hitting Brimley, the vehicle
crashed into two mail boxes and
a street sign and knocked down
a power pole.
Investigators reported that three
young men leaped from the car
and fled.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UP> — Judy
Taylor, 8, locked overnight in a
food store, said she was hungry
but didn’t eat anything because “I
didn’t want to get in trouble.”
More than 100 persons searched
for Judy after she failed to retuin
home Saturday night. She was
found by the store manager Sun
day morning.
Why didn’t Judy telephone
home?
“I didn’t have a dime,” she ex
plained.