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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Today Is Coffee Day
iTj'VERYDAY IS COFFEE DAY in Nome and today is officially
^ Coffee Day of Pan American Week which is from April 15
to April 20.
It is estimated by the World Coffee Information headquarters
in Washington, D.C., that Alaska contributed exports, principally
of wood pulp and byproducts, valued at $375,000 to the overall
flow of U.S. goods sold to the coffee producing countries of the
world in 1961.
This segment of trade, however, generated wages and farm
income of $608,000 and provided Alaskan jobs for more than 100
persons.
The U.S. now buys half of the world’s supply of exported
green coffee beans, and the dollars earned by coffee growing coun
tries from these exports is largely spent for purchases in all of the
50 states of the American union. The report shows that U.S.
trade with coffee countries has generated 622,000 jobs in America
and $3,200,000 in U.S. wages.
How about another cup of coffee?
Jetliner Narrowly Avoids
Collision with AF Tanker
CHICAGO lS) — A Chicago
bound Continental Air Lines jet
carrying 61 persons, made a sharp
climbing turn to avoid a collision
with a U.S. Air Force jet tanker
at 29,000 feet above Grand Island,
Neb., Monday.
William Hart, captain of the
Boeing 707, en route from Los
Angeles, pulled up sharply with
out warning passengers in avoid
ing a collision.
He said the Air Force plane
passed under the airliner and con
tinued on course apparently un
aware of the close call.
A passenger said the 53 passen
gers and crew of eight were bad
ly shaken but that no one was
injured.
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Fidel Castro Will Visit
Soviet Union This Year
HAVANA tff) — The Cuban gov
ernment announced Tuesday Prime
Minister Fidel Castro will visit
the Soviet Union this year at the
invitation of Premier Khrushchev.
The announcement said Khrush
chev had invited Castro to Mos
cow to discuss “questions referring
to relations between the two
countries.”
Khrushchev’s letter reportedly
said the Soviet chief wants Castro
to see for himself “the great
achievements of the Soviet people”
and to talk about ways of
“strengthening the friendship be
tween the peoples of the Soviet
Union and Cuba and other matters
of common interest.”
Havana radio said representa
tives of the Cuban and Soviet gov
1 ernment will arrange the date and
itinerary of the visit.
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Missionary Relates
He Works In
Russian Siberia
MIDLAND, Mich. W — A mis
sionary from the U.S.-owned Little
Diomede Island next door to Russia
in the Bering Sea said Monday he
has been making frequent trips
into Russian territory “to spread
the word of God.”
The Rev. James Flynn, a non
denominational missionary, told
newsmen he visits Russia’s Big
Diomede Island 2Vfe miles away
and also has visited Siberian
coastal areas 20 miles beyond Big
Diomede.
The missionary said he has been
distributing Bibles printed in Rus
sian and also religious pamphlets
among the Siberian natives. But
he said he avoided meeting Russia
military personnel.
The Rev. Flynn, formerly of
Cleveland, Ohio, was in Midland
to accept a gift of building ma
terial from the Dow Chemical Co.
for use in erecting on Little Dio
mede Island a storage house for
preserving meat in the summer
time.
Dow donated a supply of Styro
foam which is to be used with
other materials in building the
storage house.
The missionary was accom
panied by a 12-year-old island boy,
Andrew Milligrock, a member of
a Boy Scout troop on the island.
The Rev. Flynn organized the
troop and is the scoutmaster. The
island has 86 Eskimos. The only
white residents are the missionary
and a school teacher.
The Rev. Flynn has been on the
island for the past one year and
a half. He says he plans to spend
the rest of his life on the island,
helping the natives. He was or
dained in 1954 at the Seattle,Wn.,
Revival Center.
Asked about the dangers, he
said, “God will take care of me
and my people. He will provide.”
The missionary said he makes
his trips over the ice floes into
Russian territory during long Arc
tic nights and hides out from mili
tary outposts.
Soviet Trawler Cruises
Down Florida Coast
PALM BEACH, Fla. UP) — A
Soviet trawler carrying a lot of
antennas and other signs of elec
tronic gear cruised down the Flor
ida coast Tuesday within sight of
President Kennedy’s seaside holi
day home. It remained just out
side U.S. territorial waters.
A U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat
raced out and circled the Russian
boat but had no exchange of
communications with it.
Officials at the Coast Guard
station, just north of Palm Beach,
confirmed that one of their 30-foot
patrol boats circled the Soviet ship
“close enough” to ascertain its
identity.
The Coast Guard said the Rus
sian trawler, a vessel of about 75
to 85 feet, was steaming due south
but declined to speculate whether
it was bound for Communist
controlled Cuba.
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BIA Road Study Will Be
Much Narrower In Scope
Than Asked by Legislature
Although the Bureau of Indian
Affairs is considering plans for
a study of road needs in Alaska,
such a proposed study would be
much narrower in scope than that
urged in a recent resolution adopt
ted by the Alaska Senate, Asst.
Secretary of Interior Carver said
last week.
Upon recepit of SR23 sponsored
by Sen. Lester Bronson, requesting
the BIA to conduct a feasibility
study for construction of a road
system to connect the isolated vil
lages of Northwestern Alaska, the
Alaska congressional delegation
asked for Interior Dept, views.
In writing to Sen. Bartlett, Asst.
Secretary Carver said the BIA is
thinking of a road study but went
on to say: “This proposed study
may vary from that requested in
Resolution No. 23 because it will
be concerned with only those areas
eligible under the authority for In
dian reservation roads as provided
in Title 23, Highways, 72 Stat. 885.
The determination of the entire
Bureau road system in Alaska will
be delayed until the road study
of the state is completed.”
Reference was made to the pro
gram authorized last year to study
road needs in Alaska pnder the
joint auspices of the Bureau of
Public Roads and the state for
which funds have not yet been ap
propriated. “Until the results of
that study are known,” Mr. Carver
wrote, “we feel that it is not ad
visable for the bureau to proceed
without an extensive study which
may be overlapping. If the Alaska
highway study lacks needed details
the bureau study may then be
enlarged to furnish the missing
information.”
WWII Hero Killed In
Argument with Wife
Over Income Tax Return
ATLANTA, Ga. UP) — A World
War II hero, Brig. Gen. Bernard
M. Davey, was shot fatally and
his wife wounded in what she de
scribed as an angry argument over
her failure to meet the income tax
deadline.
The shooting occurred just be
fore Monday midnight at the
Davey home. Detectives said three
shots were fired.
Detective M. H. Medert report
ed Davey, 47, died from a wound
in the chest. His wife, Martha, 45,
was taken to a hospital with a
wound in the hip.
Medert quoted Mrs. Davey as
saying the argument started when
her husband found that she had
not completed their income tax
forms.
Mrs. Davey said her husband
slapped and pushed her, then be
gan firing with a pistol. She said
he appeared to stumble and fall
backward after the first shot and
she remembered no more.
Sen. W. O. Smith
Snaps Back at
Lew Dischner
KETCHIKAN W — Critical com
ments on the legislature directed
by a labor spokesman in Juneau
Monday drew a sharp response
from a state senator here yester
day.
The reply came from Sen. W. O.
Smith, (D-Ketchikan), and was di
rected at Lew Dischner, legislative
representative for the Teamster
Union.
“If the legislative session just
ended was a bad as Lew Dischner
said, this would indicate that he
had been completely ineffective as
a lobbyist and those who are pay
ing him to lobby for them are
wasting their money in keeping
him in this position,” Smith de
clared.
“I would challenge Dischner to
list all those ‘fine pieces of legis
lation’ to which he referred in his
statements and to tell us just what
happened to each of them.
“One to which he referred was
SB27 which would have, in effect,
prohibited employers in labor sur
plus areas from hiring out-of-state
workers—with a very notable ex
ception.
“This exception was for em
ployers who had a pre-hire con
tract with a labor union, and was
patently an attempt to give legal
sanction to hire out-of-state men
who belonged to certain labor
unions.
“When I offered an amendment
which deleted this exemption, the
bill was withdrawn, proving be
yond a doubt that the big labor
unions were not about to let them
selves be put in a position where
resident workers would have pre
ference over their out-of-state
workers.
“The second bill which drew
Dischner’s ire was HB65, which
would have increased employment
security benefits and which was
defeated on the floor of the Sen
ate.
“I was informed by a person
who was present that Dischner
made the statement in the lobby
of the Baranof Hotel that he was
going to spend $3,000 in Ketchi
kan to defeat me in the next elec
tion. This should prove to be in
teresting.”
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