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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 51
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1963
Per Copy 15C
Britain Discards
Three-Mile Limit
LONDON UP) — The British gov
ernment, embroiled with its neigh
bors in arguments over fishing
rights, announced today its with
drawal from the 81-year-old agree
ment establishing a three - mile
limit on fishing.
The government also announced
it is inviting members of the
European Free Trade Association,
the common market, Iceland, the
Irish Republic and Spain to a
conference on fishing problems in
the autumn.
Cheers from Conservative mem
bers of Parliament greeted the
announcement Britain would end
its participation in the 1882 North
Sea Fisheries Convention begin
ning May 15, 1964.
This convention established the
three mile limit on fishing — an
arrangement which Britain tradi
tionally has supported.
But last week a fishing war be
tween Icelandic and British fish
ermen was resumed. Iceland has
declared a 12-mile offshore limit
and barred foreign fishermen from
these waters.
Today a small British warship
and a tiny Iceland gunboat watch
ed each other warily in waters off
Iceland in a case that threatens
to heat up the fishing conflict.
675 More Cuban Refugees
Arrive In Florida After
Rough Trip From Havana
MIAMI, Fla. UP) — The old cargo
ship American Surveyor brought
675 Cuban refugees to Florida to
day, many of them violently ill
after a rough trip from Havana.
A wave of seasickness swept
the freighter’s five cargo compart
ments during the 240-mile voyage
and Capt. Earnest Koran brought
his ship along slowly, arriving 3
hours later than originally ex
pected at Port Everglades, the port
of Fort Lauderdale, 25 miles north
of here.
American Red Cross nurses were
kept busy through the night at
tending the ill.
After processing by immigration
officers, the 278 women, 231 men
and 166 children were brought by
bus to Opa-Locka airfield here for
reunion with friends and relatives
who fled earlier from Fidel Cas
tro’s Communist regime.
Capt. Koran took his cargo ship
to Havana last weekend with 8,000
tons of food and medical supplies,
the largest in a series of six ocean
shipments of ransom goods pro
mised Cuba for liberation of the
Bay of Pigs invaders.
The refugees on the American
Surveyor bring to 3,613 the num
ber of refugees transported from
Cuba by four ransom ships.
SUNDAY BASEBALL RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 4, Minnesota 0
Kansas City 6, Washington 5
Los Angeles 3, Baltimore 2
New York 5, Cleveland 0
Boston 4-6, Chicago 3-2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 3, New York 2
Chicago 4, Philadelphia 1
Milwaukee 3, San Francisco 1
St. Louis 9, Los Angeles 5
Houston 3, Cincinnati 2
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Salt Lake City 3, San Diego 2
Portland 8, Denver 5
Seattle 3-2, Hawaii 2-0
Tacoma 6-3, Dallas - Fort Worth
2-2
Oklahoma City 5-1, Spokane 3-0
THE WEATHER — Partly cloudy,
mostly cloudy tonight with little
change in temperature.
I Castro and Khrushchev
iTalk Power Politics
MOSCOW W) — Jauntily puffing
a cigar, Prime Minister Fidel Cas
tro talked power politics with Pre
mier Khrushchev today across a
Kremlin conference table.
The Russians gave no informa
tion on the discussion at which
Khrushchev and his Cuban pro
tege were believed to have discus
sed policy differences and possibly
a Castro request for more Soviet
aid to Cuba’s shaky economy.
The volatile Cuban' showed up
for the 10 a.m. conference in his
rumpled olive drab U. S. Army
style fatigue uniform and combat
boots. Khrushchev wore a dark
business suit.
Apparently oblivious to the non
smoking Khrushchev’s dislike of
tobacco, Castro puffed heartily on
his jumbo-sized Havana as they
lined up for photographers.
The dozen conference partici
pants then sat down in order of
importance on opposite sides of a
long green baize covered table in
a room adjoining Khrushchev’s of
fice.
The conference broke up around
midday for a lavish dinner in the
Kremlin Palace’s Granovitaya
Chamber, a 15th Century hall
sumptuously decorated with fresco
paintings of Russia’s tsars and
saints.
Castro also paid a formal call
on President Leonid Brezhnev and
laid a wreath on Lenin’s Tomb in
Red Square.
Arrest Made In Murder
Of Civil Rights Crusader
GADSDEN, Ala. W —- Sheriff
Dewey Colvard swore out a first
degree murder warrant today ag
ainst a rural storekeeper in the
rifle slaying of a Civil Rights cru
sader.
The warrant accuses Floyd
Simpson, 40, father of six, of kill
ing William Moore, of Baltimore.
Simpson was released on $5,000
bond. His case will go before a
grand jury in September.
Simpson had been held on an
open charge since last Thursday,
two days after Moore was shot to
death.
State and county officers con
tinued investigation of the Tuesday
night slaying of Moore, a 35-year
old postman who died from two
bullet wounds in the head. Moore
had said he was en route to Jack
son, Miss., to give his views on in
tegration of Gov. Ross Barnett. I
GrSA Says M-K Charged
Western Electric Too Much
For White Alice System
WASHINGTON tfV-The Gener
al Accounting Office reported to
Congress today excessive rental
charges on a subcontractor’s equip
ment cost the government an extra
$2.6 million in construction of the
White Alice Communication Sys
tem in Alaska.
The auditors said the subcon
tractor, Morrison - Knudsen Com
pany, Inc., Boise, Idaho, negotiated
the excessive rates under its sub
contract with Western Electric
Company Inc., New York.
They accused Western Electric
of having failed to exercise its
right to negotiate a reduction in
the rental charges “even when it
became apparent’’ that the rental
revenues would be “far in excess
of the intent of the parties.”
They urged the Air Force to
take steps to recover the excessive
payments and said the rental pro
fits were more than twice the
fixed fee Morrison - Knudsen ag
reed to accept as complete com
pensation for its work and ser
vices.
The construction work was done
in 1955 and 1956.
Malaspina Carrying 125
Travel Writers and Guests
On Formal Inaugural Run
PETERSBURG l/P) — The state
ferry Malaspina, carrying some
125 travel writers and guests or
the formal inaugural run of the
Southeast Alaska Marine Highwaj
System, headed toward Sitka to
day.
An overcast sky and light rair
failed to dampen spirits as the
Malaspina steamed out of Peters
burg at 8:35 a.m. for the run
through Peril Straits.
As the Malaspina left Peters
burg, she covered the same route
taken by her sister ship, the Taku,
last Thursday when the Taku hit
botom and damaged her hull.
With a half - tide, the chart
showed 32.6 feet of water where
the Taku hit, but the Malaspina’s
fathometer showed a water depth
of only 23.4 feet.
Gov. William Egan and U.S.
Sen. Ernest Gruening both left the
inaugural voyage here last night,
because of the press of business.
“It is indeed desirable to be
well descended, but the glory be
longs to our ancestors.” —Plutarch
DR. AND MRS. ROBERT L. LATHROP. denial team with the
Alaska Native Service at Kotzebue, are pictured above with Sen.
and Mrs. Bob Bartlett after they had been awarded the Oveta
Club Hobby award. The Laihrops are the first team to receive
the famous award which was given to them for "their dedication
to improve the health and well-being of Alaskan natives, exem
plified by their conduct of field dental clinics throughout the state
despite hardships in travel and working conditions."
Queen Frederika of Greece
Is Manhandled In London
LONDON Oe — Visiting Queen
Frederika of Greece was reported
today to have been a victim of
manhandling by demonstrators
campaigning for release of Greek
political prisoners.
A source close to the Greek
throne said the 46-year-old queen
was grabbed outside a London
hotel, spun around and chased
down a back street April 20, the
day she arrived to attend the
wedding last Wednesday of Prin
ces Alexandria to Angus Oglivy.
Frederika’s 20-year-old daugh
ter, Princess Irene, was with her.
The informant said they ducked
for safety into a strange house,
which proved to be that of an
American woman.
The royal matron, a feted vis
itor to the United States on trans
continental tours of 1953 and 1958,
has since been virtually besieged
by picketers.
State Chamber Endorses
2 Employment Security
Bills Now Before Congress
SITKA iff)—The State Chamber
of Commerce’s Board of Directors
closed its spring meeting Saturday
by endorsing two Employmenl
Security measures now pending
before Congress.
The first measure, HR4655
would reduce the employer’s fed
eral penalty tax for the 1960 tern
porary unemployment compensa
tion program from .4 to .25 pe
cent on the first $3,000 of each em
ploye’s wages.
The second measure, HR478'
would freeze Reed Fund repay
ment taxes for employers at .If
per cent on the first $3,000 of each
employe’s wages for five years.
Alaska borrowed $8,765,000 from
the fund and under the terms of
the loan to the state, Alaska’s em
ployers first started repayments, at
the .15 per cent rate, on 1961
wages.
The loan provided that the re
payment rate be boosted .15 per
cent each year, until the full $8,
765,000 has been repaid.
The Chamber said that as it now
stands, Alaska employers would
have to pay out $42 per employe
in 1963 wages to take care of the
two federal repayment programs.
If HR4655 and HR4784 were
both approved, the amount would
drop to $28.50 per employe on 1963
wrages and to $21 per employe on
1964 wages.
Attending the meeting were
Chamber president Robert Baker,
Anchorage; Manager Don Dickey,
Juneau; C.W. Snedden, Fairbanks;
B. Frank Heintzleman, Juneau;
Robert Jernberg, Ketchikan; Ev
erett Boulden, Ketchikan; W. C.
Bishop, Anchorage; W. C. Arnold,
Anchorage; Edith Bulllock, Kot
zebue; P. S. Ganty, Pelican; Stu
art Durant, Palmer; and Pete War
ner, Juneau.
Italian Nuclear Physicist
Arrested by British
LONDON UP) — An Italian nuc
lear physicist was held in jail
today awaiting a court hearing on
a charge of violating Britain’s Of
ficial Secrets Act.
Guiseppe Maretelli, 39, was ar
rested as he arrived from the con
tinent Friday.
Martelli, an employe of the Eu
ropean Atomic Energy Commun
ity Euratom, has been working
at the non-secret research center
at Culham, Berkshire. Scientists
there are trying to harness the H
bomb for peaceful purposes.
MUSHIN’
THROUGH
WASHINGTON
By FRITZ WITTI
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON UP) — A federal
expert warned 74 years ago that
failure to exercise wise and care
ful conservation would exhaust the
“marvelous abundance” of the Al
aska fisheries.
“The season of prosperity will
be followed by a rapid decline in
the value and production of these
fisheries,” the expert further
warned, “and a point will be even
tually reached where the salmon
canning industry will be no longer
profitable.”
That 1889 prophecy by Tarlton
H. Bean, of the U.S. Fish Com
mission, was cited by Sen. Ernest
Gruening, who said:
“Unfortunately for Alaska—and
unfortunately for the rest of the
United States, as well—Mr. Bean’s
prophecy was an accurate one.”
Gruening made the comment in
testimony supporting a bill by Sen.
E. L. Bartlett to establish a 5-year
$25 million national program of
federal aid to state fishery re
search and development projects.
Both senators paid tribute to Al
; aska’s efforts to repair what they
(Bartlett and Gruening) consider
, federal mismanagement of fish
. eries during territorial days. But,
- they agreed, the state needs help
- to do the job.
r Under the bill, Alaska would be
- eligible for $500,000 in each year
of the program but the federal
l share could not amount to more
• than 75 per cent of the cost of any
1 single project. The state would
provide the remainder.
Gruening told the Senate Fish
eries subcommittee that Alaska’s
fishing resources were “despoiled
and the wealth they represented
improperly used under federal mis
management.”
“The mismanagement continued
unaltered,” he said, “until in the
last year of federal control, 1949,
the once great Alaska salmon pack
reached the lowest point in 60
years.”
Bartlett said the bill, co-spon
sored by Gruening and a score of
senators, would give the entire
fishing industry a needed boost.
The money could be used to pro
mote existing fisheries, develop
currently unused and underdevel
oped fisheries and research to find
new uses and markets for fishery
products.
Gruening testified that during
the past eight fiscal years the fed
eral government has spent $14,
587,064 to restore and rehabilitate
fishing resources of 18 foreign na
tions.
Noting the $2.5 million bill for
the proposed five - year domestic
fishery program, he said:
“Once again, it should be ap
parent, and is to me, that we
should do at least as much if not
more for the folks at home.”
MISSED MASS
LOS ANGELES uP-^James Fran
cis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop
of Los Angeles, forgot to turn his
clock ahead for Daylight Saving
Time, and missed celebrating a
special mass.
He told 660 members of the St.
Vincent De Paul Society at a com
munion breakfast at Los Angeles
Sunday:
“I’m sorry I wasn’t at church in
time to say the mass. I really was
up but in no rush because I
thought I had plenty of time.”