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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 75
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1963
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Kennedy and
Adenauer Agree to
Stronger Defenses
BONN Iff! .— President Kennedy
and German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer agreed today “to use
their best efforts” to bring into
being a multi-national nuclear
force to strengthen the defenses of
Western Europe.
A communique announced they
also agreed that every effort will
be made to strengthen common
defense planning and joint opera
tion of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization defense forces.
The communique came near the
end of Kennedy’s two-day visit
to this West German capital at the
start of his swing around Western
Europe.
Shortly before the communique
was issued, Kennedy reminded the
NATO Allies, through a news con
ference statement, that the United
States has borne a major burden
of European defense for 18 years.
And he said he expects them to
consider this in shaping their
economic, trade and monetary
policies.
In effect Kennedy urged allied
governments to reject discrimin
atory trade policy that would hurt
U.S. economic interests. He ap
pealed for cooperation in other
fields also.
Adenauer and Kennedy pledged
themselves in their communique
to carry out their undertakings
within “the free world’s strategy
of peace.”
Kennedy avoided any direct
criticism of President Charles De
Gaulle of France at his news con
ference. But much that he said and
much that went into the com
munique was in conflict with De
Gaulle’s aims.
The American President asked
for closer cooperation among all
the Allied countries and strength
in alliance was to be obtained
through actions by many coun
tries together rather than through
two-country deals such as the re
cent French-German treaty. But
he said the United States had made
no objection to the treaty.
Kennedy told reporters that time
and changing events may yet bring
about the unification of Germany,
and, “I don’t think anyone should
dispair.” But he saw no imme
diate solution to the problem of
a divided Germany.
Kennedy, who received a loud
and enthusiastic welcome from
half a million Germans at the start
of his European tour Sunday, went
to Adenauer’s office in the Palais
Schaumburg in late morning. The
two men talked with only inter
preters present.
William Eybel Funeral
Services Held Today
Mr. George Eybel arrived from
Helena, Mont., for the burial of
his son, William Eybel, 34, who
was shot on June 20. Burial serv
ices were held this morning from
the Community Methodist Church
under the auspices of the American
Legion.
The deceased is survived by his
parents and a brother and had
been in Nome for one year and in
the state for several years, in the
Fairbanks area. He was a bartend
er here.
Elsie McCafferty Aldrich has
been charged with second degree
murder and bond set at $10,000 for
the shooting of Wm. Eybel and
the preliminary hearing has been
set for tomorrow.
Khrushchev Warns New
World War Would
“Incinerate Civilization”
MOSCOW UPi — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev warned today that a
new world war would kill hun
dreds of millions of persons and
incinerate “much of what we gen
erally call civilization.”
“It will be a rocket nuclear
war of extermination,” he told the
opening session of the Communist
dominated World Womans Con
gress.
He said the Soviet Union would
continue a policy of peaceful co
existence.
Khrushchev did not mention the
Chinese Communists by name, but
his policy of peaceful coexistence
runs directly counter to Peking’s
ideology. So does his emphasis on
the horrors of thermonuclear war,
which the Chinese downgrade.
His speech was read for him
to the 6,000 delegates from 119
countries by a Soviet delegate
even as preparations went on for
a showdown meeting of Soviet
and Chinese Communist parties in
Moscow July 5. The text was dis
tributed by Tass, the Soviet news
agency.
Khrushchev blamed what he
called “the imperialist forces of the
United States” for tension in the
world. He charged U.S. prepara
tions “have assumed a tremendous
scope, unparalleled in history.”
Space woman Valentina Teresh
kova received a resounding ova
tion at the opening session.
“Valya, Valya,” delegates chant
ed as she entered the huge hall
with Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky,
who orbited with her on the dual
space flight.
ROUGHRIDERS MEET
LAS VEGAS, N.M. UR — What
may be the last reunion for Teddy
Roosevent’s Roughriders ended
here unday.
Only three members of the
cavalry regiment were present for
the 63rd reunion fnorn among the
18 survivors.
The first reunion was held here
in 1899. In 1952 the members
voted to hold all remaining meet
ings in Las Vegas “to the last
man.”
The three who attended were
Jesse Langon, 85, Long Island,
N.Y., who drove all the way; Chas.
Hopping, 90, of Long Beach, Cal.;
and Frank Brito, 90, of Las Cruces,
N.M.
Sen. Fulbright Says
De Gaulle Has Shaken
Up Confidence of Europe
WASHINGTON UP> — Chairman
William Fulbright of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee says
French President Charles De
Gaulle “has very seriously shaken
the confidence of European na
tions that they can work together.”
In a barbed criticism of De
Gaulle’s policies, Fulbright said in
a television interview Sunday
France is hostile to the Atlantic
Alliance because she is still “over
compensating” for her “bad per
formance during World War II.”
Fulbright’s main target was
France’s rejection of British mem
bership in the Common Market
and discriminatory trade 'policies
against American agricultural pro
ducts.
Margaret Hunter, businesswom
an of Kotzebue, was a guest in
town for the Midnight Sun Festi
val. Miss Hunter has a popular
gift shop in Kotzebue.
Mississippi Man
Held for Murder j
Of Negro Evers
JACKSON, Miss, — Byron
de la Beckwith, white man, was
held in Jackson jail today charged
with the murder of Negro inte
gration leader Medgar Evers.
Still unaccounted for in the
killing of the 37-year-old Evers
were “others unknown,” charged
along with Beckwith in a separate
federal complaint made public
after the FBI arrested Beckwith
Saturday night.
Beckwith is a 42-year-old former
tobacco salesman and more recently
a chemical fertilizer sales agent,
from Greenwood, Miss. He is being
held \yithout bond.
One of 15,000 telescopic sights
and a fingerprint on it led the
FBI to Beckwith at Greenwood.
They found five of the imported
six-power Golden Hawk sights
went to Mississippi, all to a Gren
ada gun dealer.
One was traced to Beckwith, a
gun collector, whom the FBI ques
tioned Friday night without getting
any answers.
Saturday night at a meeting ar
ranged by a Greenwood attorney
FBI agents arrested Beckwith
under provisions of the 1957 Civil
Rights Act.
“Beckwith and other unknowns
conspired to injure, oppress and
intimidate Medgar Evers in the
free exercise and enjoyment of
rights and privileges secured to
him by the constitution,” the FBI
said.
Capt. Ralph Hargrove, chief of
the Jackson Police Identification
! Bureau, fingerprinted Beckwith
Sunday and said his prints matched
one on the scope attached to a
.30-caliber rifle that fired the fatal
shot.
BATHYSCAPE TRIESTE
RETURNS FROM DEEP DIVE
ABOARD USS FORT SNELL
ING, at Sea UP) —The deep diving
bathyscape Trieste rose today from
a five hour trip to the bottom of
the sea, and its crew reported
finding nothing of any signifi
cance in its search for the lost
nuclear sumbmarine Thresher.
B. E. LEWELLEN RESIGNS
TRANSPORTATION POST
JUNEAU UP) — The resignation
of B. E. Lewellen as Director of
Transportation, effective June 29,
was announced today by Public
Works Commissioner Richard A.
Downing.
Lewellen, who has been head
of the state’s ferry operation’s
since last May, said he was re
signing for personal reasons be
yond his control.
Downing named Gregg Mangan,
port captain for the state ferry
system, as acting director to serve
after Lewellen’s departure.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
American League
Washington 4, Los Angeles 0
Chicago 2-0, Cleveland 1-2
Baltimore 4, Minnesota 1
Detroit 11, Kansas City 2
New York 8, Boston 0
National League
Cincinnati 4-8, Houston 0-1
Pittsburgh 7, Chicago 6
Milwaukee 10, San Francisco 4
Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 3
New York 5-4, Philadelphia 0-1
Pacific Coast League
Salt take City 3-1, Portland 2-9
Seattle 10-1, Tacoma 0-2
Spokane 4, San Diego 3
Hawaii 7, Dallas-Ft. Worth 5
Henry Roden Will
Retrace Paths in Alaska
SEATTLE (M — Henry Roden,
one of the last two surviving
members of the first Alaska terri
torial legislature, left here by
plane at 9 a.m. today to retrace
many of the paths he followed dur
ing Alaska’s lusty youth.
Roden, who will be 89 in Au
gust, still calls Juneau his home
but has spent most of his time
here in recent years.
A Pacific Northern Airlines
flight will take him to Ketchikan
where he will board the Alaska
state ferry Matanuska for a voyage
up the Inside Passage.
Roden will be accompanied on
his sentimental journey by Mr.
and Mrs. John Rotter of Seattle,
who are among his closest friends.
A special welcome is planned for
him in Juneau, headed by state
dignitaries.
Roden went to Alaska in 1898
after hearing of the gold rush
while he was in Paris. He settled
at Rampart, on the Yukon River,
and was elected senator from
Iditarod for the first territorial
legislature in 1913.
Later he was territorial attorney
general and treasurer.
Director of Air Commerce
Removed From His Post
ANCHORAGE UP) — A. H. Ro-'
mick, Commissioner of Commerce
for the state, said today he had
relieved Walter Keith from his
duties as director of the Air Com
merce Division.
The separation was effective at
once, said Romick, who has beer
In Anchorage for the past week.
He gave no reason for the action.
In connection with the dismis
sal, Romick said the Commerce
Department is undergoing consid
erable revamping. Keith had taken
his post only last Jan. 2.
Keith had been a resident of
Anchorage since 1953, and active
in commercial aviation in Alaska
for 16 years.
YUKON 700 MILE MARATHON
FAIRBANKS In the rough
est running water of the four-year
history of the Yukon 700 Marathon
over the weekend the boat “Boo
Boo Too,” captained by Bob
Toombs won in a time of 17 hours
41 minutes and 54 seconds.
Second was last year’s winner
for the 700 mile race from Circle
City to Fairbanks, Marty Gray,
with a time of 18 hours 29 min
utes and 36 seconds.
Ten boats left Circle City on
the Yukon River Saturday night
in a driving rainstorm. Only six
made it down the Yukon and up
the Tanan and Chena Rivers and
half of that siv were disqualified
for getting outside assistance.
RONALD TINGOOK
DIES IN CHICAGO
Ronald Tingook, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Tingook, aged 20,
who was sent on relocation to
Chicago, passed away according to
advices received following a rest
period there for tuberculosis
which he contracted.
Several Hundred Dollar Haul
LEBANON UP — Burglars got
several hundred dollars at the
nearby Cornwall branch of the
First National Bank of Lebanon
Friday. The building also houses
the police station.
Ignalz Kowalski, who owns a
bismuth mine in this area and is
a perennial summer resident, re
turned from Calistoga, Calif., where
he spends his winters, and will
be doing his assessment work.
Daphne Rylander
Crowned Queen
Of Midnight Sun
Daphne Rylander, daughter of
Mrs. Sophie Swanson, was crowned
Queen of the Midnight Sun Satur
day evening at the Coronation
Ball and presented with many
lovely gifts from local business
houses.
A special gift was a jade and
pearl necklace presented by her
sponsor, the U.S. Merc with the
presentation being made by Mgr.
Bob Smith, who states that he will
be sponsoring her for Miss Alaska
next year.
Miss Rylander graduated from
Nome High School last year and
has been a student of the Uni
versity of Alaska for the past
year. She chose as her talent dress
making and modeled some of the
clothes she has designed and made
for herself.
As Queen of the Midnight Sun,
she will reign until next June.
Honey Girl Cannon was a very
close second in the Queen con
test.
Many beards flourished during
the period of several weeks pre
ceding the Midnight Sun Festival,
but most of the beard growers were
i reluctant to appear for competi
tion on Saturday night when the
winners were selected by the
Queen of the Midnight Sun
Daphne Rylander.
Winners were: Frank Couch, for
best growth; Jim Blanning, best
’ effort, least growth; Rusty Sanders,
1 most distinguished; Tex Chunn,
most original; Virgil Vochoska,
most colorful.
Winner of the polar bear rug
was Bette Gibson, a tourist from
Mentor, Ohio.
Blue-Eyed Blonde Tigers
BRISTOL, England UP\ — The
Bristol Zoo has received from In
dia two of the rarest animals in
captivity — blue - eyed, black
striped, blonde tigers named
Champs and Chemeli. Purchase
and transport costs come to near
ly $28,000.
TOP SECRET . . .
GLASGOW, Scotland W — A
school headmaster who keeps a
cane in his study for misbehaving
boys says there will be no report
on whether 14-year-old Prince
Charles gets caned for taking a
forbidden drink of cherry brandy.
“This is an internal affair,”
Robert Chew, headmaster of the
Spartan Gordonstown School, said
Friday.
70,200 Alaskans Employed
JUNEAU UD — A total of 70,200
Alaskans were employed in various
jobs during May, an increase of
2,000 from total employment dur
ing the same month a year ago,
Labor Commissioner Gil Johnson
said today.
Johnson attributed the increase
in employment primarily to new
jobs in local, state and federal
government.
Flying Farmers Enrouie to Alaska
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. UPC-Nearly
50 airplanes from 15 American
states and Saskatchewan and Al
berta left here Monday for an 11
day junket to Alaska.
The contingent of the Interna
tional Flying Farmers will spend
Monday night at Grande F^rairie,
then continue to Alaska, camping
at emergency landing strips along
the way. The group is being led
by Walter R. Ross.