NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 57
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1963
Per Opy 15£
Cloud Cover May Hamper Launch of
Astronaut Cooper’s 22-Orbit of Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UPV—
Predicted heavy clouds in the
launch area posed a threat today
to astronaut Gordon Cooper’s space
flight. But Project Mercury offi
cials said preparations were con
tinuing for a launching Tuesday
morning.
If conditions are favorable, an
Atlas rocket is scheduled to blast
off between 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
EST to start Cooper on a 22-orbit
flight, lasting more than 34 hours.
A heavy cloud cover area over
Cape Canaveral would prohibit
vital camera coverage of the five
minute Atlas booster phase of
flight. The photographic record is
needed in case something goes
wrong.
Elsewhere around the world, the
weather remained favorable.
The prediction for the primary
Pacific area southeast of Midway—
where Cooper would land at the
end of the 22 orbits—was for
moderate seas and winds.
As the scheduled lift off time
neared, Cooper ran through a brief
simulated countdown and launch
ing in a trainer at Mercury Con
trol Center. He again reviewed
the flight plan and star charts and
scheduled a final mission review
with all key officials late in the
day.
“I’m ready he said. “All we have
to do now is load lox and launch.”
Everything appeared to be “go”
for the scheduled bast-off Tues
day morning that is to put Cooper
into orbit longer than any Ameri
can — more than 34 hours if all
works right.
A vast recovery network of
ships and planes was spread out
around the globe—the greastest
such effort in history — ready to
snatch up Cooper if it becomes
necessary to stop the flight before
22 orbits are completed. If it goes
the 600,000-mile route, Cooper will
land in the Pacific Ocean Wednes
day near Midway Island.
Cooper has been calm, reserved,
completely controlled throughout
days leading up to his historic
Kennedy Studies
Khrushchev’s Message
WASHINGTON Uf) — President
Kennedy is studying a new message
from Soviet Premier Khrushchev
in which Khrushchev makes no
mention of a threat to withdraw
an earlier offer of limited on-site
inspection of any nuclear test ban.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, said Kennedy re
ceived a letter from Khrushchev
shortly after his news conference
Wednesday and is studying it.
Salinger would not comment on
the message or discuss its con
tents.
From other sources, it was learn
ed that Khrushchev did not pull
back from a December offer to
permit two to three on-site inspec
tions a year to help insure ob
servance by the Soviet Union of
any test ban that might be nego
tiated.
BERLIN UP> — East German bor
der guards firing submachine guns
from point-blank range stopped a
a desperate attempt by 12 persons
to break through the Berlin Wall
in a bus Sunday.
West Berlin police said a woman
and three men were wounded and
the driver was killed. The others
were led away at gunpoint. A1
were between 20 and 30.
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flight.
Everything was going so well
that high grade kerosene fuel was
pumped into the big Atlas rocket
today, a day a head of time. It
will power Cooper’s Faith 7 Mer
cury capsule aloft. The early load
ing provides more time and lee
way to check out other elements.
Hydrogen peroxide — which the
astronaut uses to maneuver the
capsule in space — also will be
pumped into its reservoir and
piping system and carefully ob
served for 12 hours in a final test
for leaks.
But the lox Cooper spoke of—
the highly volatile liquid oxygen
that combines with kerosene to
give the Atlas its kick—won’t go
in until 35 minutes before liftoff
That is the last component to be
loaded.
Cooper’s long loops around the
earth may be the last Mercury
flight. Next step is the Gemini
two-man spacecraft and then the
Apollo program aimed for the
moon.
The main purpose of Cooper’s
flight is the quest for medical
knowledge to help the space pro
gram — specifically, what happens
when a man rides weightless and
virtually immobile that long.
Soviet Union Accuses
Ten Diplomats of Spying
MOSCOW Ut) — The Soviel
Union officially accused five Amer
icans and five British diplomats
today of spying and declared them
unwelcome in Russia. All of them
had already left the Soviet Union,
except one Briton.
Foreign Ministry notes address
ed to the U.S. and British embas
sies charged the diplomats played
parts in the espionage activities
of British businessman Greville
Wynne and Oleg Penkovsky, a So
viet scientific official. A Soviet
court sentenced Penkovsky to
death and Wynne to eight years in
prison in a trial that ended last
Saturday.
The note to the British named
the wives of two of the British
diplomats in the spy charges.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said
the embassy had no choice but
to submit to the Soviet declaration
against the personnel.
“We do not accept any allega
tion that our officers have been
involved in any activities incom
batible with their official func
tions,” he said.
Handless Kansan Pilots
Plane to Be with Mother
NEW YORK UR — A handless
Kansan paid a Mother’s Day visit
to his mother in a New York hos
pital — after piloting his own
plane to get here.
Raymond Hollander, 41, Wichita,
Kan., who lost his hands when an
old mortar shell exploded in his
scrap yard 15 years ago said he
flew through stormy weather, got
lost and made two emergency land
ings when his gas got low.
But, he added, “if I had to walk
here from Kansas, I would have.
This will probably be my last trip
here to see her.”
Hollander said his mother, Linda
Deutsch, 71, is a cancer patient
and under heavy sedation most
of the time, but was awake and
able to talk to him.
“It was a very happy Mother’s
day.”
U.S. Aviatrix Is
First Women to
Solo Across Pacific
BRISBANE, Australia UPl — Mrs.
Betty Miller, the first woman to
fly solo across the Pacific from
California, was given a civic re
ception today. She plans to fly
home as a passenger.
The petite aviatrix from Santa
Monica, Calif., handed Brisbane’s
acting Lord Mayor, Norman
Buchan, a gold key from the
citizens of her home town and
a silver platter from the citizens
of Brisbane, Calif.
She will fly to Sydney tomorrow
but has not decided when she will
leave for the United States.
Mrs. Miller landed her twin
engine Piper Apache here last
night, ending the 13-day, 7,100
mile journey.
“Congratulations — and hurry
home,” her husband said by long
distance telephone.
Although her flight was marred
by the threat of a cyclone, she said
her only disturbing moment came
when one motor ran rough just
past the point of no return (be
tween Noumea and Brisbane) for a
time.
Mrs. Miller’s route in effect re
versed the route Amelia Earhart
was following when she disappear
ed in 1937 with navigator Fred
Noonan.
Mrs. Miller, 37, delivered the
plane she flew from Oakland,
Calif., to an Australian charter
aircraft operator.
She left Oakland April 30 and
was the first woman to fly alone
from the U.S. mainland to Hono
lulu.
Kennedy Will Go to
Alabama Over Weekend
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy, who has ordered federal
troops to the area of racially
troubled Birmingham, is going
ahead with plans to fly to northern
Alabama on Saturday.
Kennedy is going to Alabama
in connection with the 30th anni
versary of the Tennessee Valley
Authority. He plans to visit Muscle
Shoals and three Alabama cities—
Tuscumbia, Sherefield and Flor
ence.
The White House said today
Kennedy also plans to answer a
telegram from Alabama Gov. Geo.
Wallace who challenged the Presi
dent’s action in putting riot
trained troops into bases near Bir
mingham.
The answer will go out today,
the White House said, and prob
ably will be made public.
Presidential press secretary
Pierre Salinger said Kennedy has
not been in touch with Wallace at
any time since the racial up
heavals began in Alabama’s larg
est city.
But the chief executive, again
today, was conferring with Atty.
Gen. Robert Kennedy by tele
phone on the situation in Birming
ham.
The White House was silent on
the number of troops and the units
involved in Kennedy’s orders to
move into the Birmingham vicinity
in an attempt to prevent addition
al incidents of racial violence.
Kennedy acted Sunday night after
bombings and rioting in the early
morning hours of Sunday.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Partly cloudy. Low tonight 28,
i high tomorrow 42. In the last 24
hours: High of 42, low of 28. Max.
i wind 15 mph from the north. Sun
rise 2:50 a.m., sunset 9:09 p.m.
U.S. Coast Guard
Increases Air Patrol
On Fisheries In Alaska
JUNEAU Of) — Gov. Wm. Egan
said today he has been advised
that the Coast Guard has increased
its air patrol of fisheres off the
Alaska Coast.
Egan said the Coast Guard’s
stepped up surveillance of foreign
fishing fleets operating off Alaska’s
Coast commenced last Friday, ac
cording to word he received from
Washington, D.C.
In a news conference which dealt
primarily with fisheries and oil,
Egan expressed the hope that the
United States, Japan and Canada
would agree to extend the Inter
national North Pacific Fisheries
Convention.
Representatives of the three na
tions are to meet in Washington
next month, at Japan’s request, to
discuss the tripartite treaty cover
ing the fisheries resources of the
North Pacific Ocean.
“I hope,” Egan said, “that wre
can maintain that portion of the
abstention principle still remain
ing.
“I hope we can come to a mutual
agreement with the Japanese —
and the Russians — on the areas
to be fished or we are going tc
be continually faced with the ex
plosive problem of invasion bj
foreign fleets of American fish
ing grounds,” Egan said.
The governor said he believe
the furor over the INPFC recom
’ mendation that Japan be permitte
to fish for halibut in the Easter
Bering Sea “will cause the Japai
ese to see the need for this treat;
' or a stronger treaty.
“I believe the Japanese are ju:
now seeing the need for prope
conservation measures to proteci
preserve and perpetuate the fish
eries of the Bering and Nortl
Pacific.
On last Wednesday’s oil anc
gas lease sale, Egan said he was
“amazed to read that a labor dis
pute in the Kenai oil field had
cut down on the amount of reve
nue from the sale.”
The story appeared in the An
chorage Dail}' Times last Friday,
quoting Phil Holdsworth, State
Commissioner of Natural Re
OVU1
The oil and gas lease sale
brought in $4,137,000.
The state had estimated it
would net $10 million, but the
estimate was made prior to with
drawal from the sale of some
180,00 acres of choice lands in Cook
Inlet claimed both by the state
and the federal government.
“At no time after the with
drawal of these lands from the
sale was made,’’ Egan said, “was
there given to me any indication
that we would receive more than
$4 million. ,
“When the lands were with
drawn I was asked if we should
cancel the entire sale. I rejected
that, on the grounds the oil com
panies had nominated the lands
in good faith and that our main
concern was to get these lands into
production as soon as possible.
"With the hodge-podge of lands
offered for leasing, we received all
I believe could have expected to
receive.”
Dr. Allen K. Rice, secretary ol
• Section of Home Missions of the
Methodist Church, is scheduled tc
arrive on Wednesday on a visit tc
the Community Methodist Church
and will be accompanied by hij
It wife. Dr. Rice has visited here
before and is known to the peoph
. of the church. This is Mrs. Rice’:
first visit.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett
Demands U.S. Keep
Japanese Crab
Fishermen Out
•JUNEAU liW — Sen. E. L. Bart
lett demanded of Secretary of
Secretary of State Dean Rusk Sat
urday that the United States take
immediate steps to keep Japanese
king crab fishermen out of the
entire Gulf of Alaska.
In a letter to Rusk, portions of
which Bartlett wired to the Asso
ciated Press at Juneau, the Alaska
Democrat said:
“Reports have been circulating
in Alaska and here in Washington
that Japan intends to send several
fishing vessels to the Kodiak Island
area in the Gulf of Alaska for the
purpose of experimental fishing
for king crab.
“I have made my position known
to the Department of State on more
than one occasion that king crab
along with dungeness crab must
be protected as a resource on the
Continental Shelf for exclusive
use by American fishermen.
“I insist that the United States
violently protest any encroach
ment on this natural resource by
the Japanese in the Kodiak area.
“I insist that Japan be informed
and immediately notified that no
Japanese king crab fishing will be
permitted in the Kodiak area.
“I insist that the United States
government immediately carry out
its obligation under international
1 law to protect this resource from
any further encroachment by the
’ Japanese in the Gulf of Alaska.
“And I insist that this be done
without condition and be done
without delay.
“I look forward to your confir
mation that this has been accom
plished and that the Japanese have
been clearly informed that such
action as has been proposed by
them in the Kodiak area will not
be tolerated.”
Headless Skeleton Found
JUNEAU W — The headless
skeleton of an unidentified man
was found Saturday on the beach
at Portland Island, west of Auke
Bay, the State Police reported to
day.
Capt. Wm. Trafton of the State
Police said the skeleton was dis
covered by a group of persons on
a picnic.
Found with the skeleton was a
gold and jade ring bearing an
Alaska flag design, a maroon sock
with an orange stripe and a blue
pen.
Britain and U.S. Airlines
At Odds Over Low Fares
LONDON (J*' — The British gov
ernment held its fire today after
threatening to seize American air
lines landing in Britain if they
do not charge higher trans-Atlantic
fares.
Despite the Aviation Ministry’s
threat yesterday, Pan American
and TWA — the two major Amer
ican trans-Atlantic lines — oper
ated normally in and , out of Lon
don’s International Airport today,
charging the old, lower fares. In
Washington, a State Department
spokesman said the British Embassy
had assured the department there
will be no interruption in service
while the governments talk to re
solve the rate controversy.
MOSCOW — Cuban Prime
■ Minister Fidel Castro arrived by
'■ train today at Bratsk, Siberian
> site of a large hydro-electric proj
ect.