OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 52
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NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1963
Castro Gets
Glimpse of Russ
Military Rockets
MOSCOW OP) — Fidel Castro
got another fleeting glimpse today
of the types of Soviet rockets Pre
mier Khrushchev pulled out of
Cuba last year at President Ken
nedy’s insistence.
The Cuban Prime Minister ap
peared with Khrushchev in the
place of honor atop the Lenin
Mausoleum at the annual May Day
parade in Red Square.
He appeared to enjoy the mili
tary review and workers’ parade,
which U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler
boycotted because of Castro’s
presence. Kohler watched the cele
bration on a television set in his
residence.
Castro conversed animatedly
with Khrushchev as the Soviets
rolled out a 10-minute review of
their military hardware.
Among the weapons that sped
past the reviewing stand were 500
to 700-mile range rockets similar
to those withdrawn from Cuba
during last year’s crisis. Western
ooservers spouea notning new
among the rockets shown.
The Cuban leader reportedly
was deeply offended by Khrush
chev’s failure to notify him in ad
vance of the decision withdraw
ing the rockets under American
pressure.
Castro, dressed in a white shirt,
tie and dress uniform for the first
time since he arrived in the So
viet Union last weekend, was the
center of attraction in Red Square.
Khrushchev enthusiastically led
him the length of the reviewing
stand to let the crowds catch a
glimpse of the revolutionary leader.
Castro listened quietly as the
Soviet Defense Minister, Marshal
Rodion Malinovsky, charged “re
actionary circles” of the United
States with a policy of aggression
and provocations against Cuba “in
gross violation of the elementary
standards of international law.”
Malinovsky declared that Soviet
forces are always ready to “in
sure the complete debacle of any
aggressor who encroaches on the
peaceful labor, freedom and inde
pendence of the USSSR and other
socialist countries.”
Along with the American dip
lomats, key presidium member
Frol Kozlov was missing at today’s
festivities. Kozlov, frequently men
tioned as Khrushchev’s successor,
dropped out of sight here imme
diately after the premier return
ed to Moscow two weeks ago from
a vacation.
Texas Hunter Survives
Attack by Polar Bear
Near Point Hope
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (/W—Texas
rancher Bill Commack was en
route home from Alaska today
after surviving an attack by a
wounded polar bear. A guide saved
him by killing the huge bear.
Commack, who operates a ranch
west of Johnson City, told the San
Antonio News by telephone from
Kotzebue that the attack occurred
Saturday as he and a guide track
ed the bear on an ice floe near
Point Hope.
“He hid behind some ice,”
Commack said, “and attacked me
from about 12 steps away. I shot
once and Ralph Marshall, my
guide, shot him. He broke my ribs
and bit a chunk out of me.”
Commack said the fact he was
wearing heavy clothing helped pre
vent more serious injury.
Termination of Cost of
Living Allowance for
Alaska Nearly Completed
WASHINGTON OP) — Drafting
of a proposed bill to terminate a
cost-of-living allowance for fed
eral employes in Alaska is being
completed by the Civil Service
Commission.
Work on the proposal, eventually
to be sent to Congress, is expected
to be completed “possibly within
a matter of days,” a spokesman
said.
The draft will then be submitted
to the Bureau of the Budget for
final administration action.
Specifically, the proposed bill
would repeal a section of the in
dependent offices appropriation act
of 1949 under which civil employes
in Alaska receive a 25 per cent
tax-free cost of living allowance.
The commission proposes to
substitute for the cost of living
allowances increased salaries al
lowed under the federal salary
reform act of 1962.
Such increases would be based
on periodic surveys of area wage
scales by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. A study of this kind is
to be started in Alaska in June.
Under the salary reform act,
federal salary rates are to be com
parable with private enterprise
rates for the same levels of work.
Chairman John Macy Jr. of the
Civil Service Commission has said
the earliest date considered for
recommending termination of the
allowances is January 1964.
Macy said the commission re
cognizes a probable need for
salary increases in Alaska higher
than those allowed under the 1962
reform act.
No exact figures were available
on the effect in Alaska of federal
pay increase proposals sent to
Congress by President Kennedy.
However, a commission spokes
man said there were 13,272 fed
eral employes in Alaska at the
end of last year. Roughly 60 per
cent of these would receive base
pay boosts if Congress approves
the plan, he said.
Khrushchev Sends Good
Wishes to Kennedy
WASHINGTON UP) — Soviet
Premier Khrushchev has sent per
sonal good wishes to President
Kennedy and assurances that the
Soviet envoy in Laos has been
told to work with British and
American ambassadors to try to
settle the Laotian crisis.
This was the oral message Un
dersecretary of State Averell
Harriman said he conveyed last
night to the President. It was the
reply to a written message Ken
nedy had sent Khrushchev.
Harriman, who returned from
Moscow Monday night, briefed the
President on his 3V2 hour talk with
Khrushchev.
After his report, the tart- ton
gued Hgrriman talked with news
men in the White House lobby.
Was he “hopeful” about a
Laotian settlement, a newsman
asked. “Everybody always asks me 1
that,” said Harriman. “That (hope
ful) isn’t a word that’s in my
vocabulary.”
But, he added, the Civil War ;
in Laos has been transferred from
the battlefield to the political
arena and it will “be there for
some time to come, I think.”
Why didn’t Khrushchev send a
written reply to Kennedy’s mes
sage?
“The beard was about to ar
rive,” said Harriman, in refer
ence to Cuban Prime Minister
Fidel Castro, and the Soviet Pre
mier was very busy.
New Hampshire
To Start State
Operated Lottery
CONCORD, N.H. UPl — Demo
cratic Gov. John W. King notified
the Republican - controlled New
Hampshire legislature that he had
signed a sweepstakes bill which
had kept the state in turmoil for
months.
Gov. King called on the legis
lature to help him “make a first
state operated sweepstakes in this
country, one that will be con
ducted honestly, efficiently and in
compliance with the laws of the
United States government.”
King told the lawmakers his leg
islative counsel, Joseph Millimet,
had discussed the sweepstakes
with U. S. Department of Justice
lawyers and was convinced the
New Hampshire sweepstakes
would not violate federal laws.
He said tickets for the sweep
stakes, the first to be legalized in
any state in nearly 70 years, could
be sold to people whether or not
they live in New Hampshire.
“It is perfectly lawful for our
neighbors to come here on vaca
tion, buy sweepstakes tickets anc
collect their prizes if they win,’
the governor said.
He added the federal law i:
concerned only with interstati
traffic and not with sweepstake
conducted within a single state.
Official sources said the sweep
stakes tickets may be sold onl;
witnm me state, eimer at stat
liquor stores or the race trad
They may be carried over stat
lines but under federal law can
not be mailed.
The governor spoke before i
joint session of the House anc
Senate.
The bill becomes law in 60 days.
Supporters of the measure have
estimated the state will net $4 mil
lion annually in revenues, all of
which will be earmarked for the
support of education.
Not since 1894, when the pri
vately operated Louisiana Lottery
went out of business, has a sweep
stakes or lottery been sanctioned
by any state.
Sweepstakes bills also are under
consideration by legislatures in
Massachusetts and Vermont. Other
states seeking ways to increase
revenue are meeting pressure to
legalize lotteries or extend race
track betting.
541,000 IN REPAIR FOR TAKU
JUNEAU iff) — Repairs to the
state ferry Taku, damaged last
rhursday when she scraped bottom
lear Petersburg, will cost $41,000.
;he Division of Marine Transpor
;ation said today.
A1 Ritchie, traffic manager for
:he Southeast Alaska Marine
Highway system, said all but $1,000
)f the tab will be covered by
nsurance.
Repairs will be made at the
Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock
2o. in Seattle and the Taku is
jxpected to be back in service on
;he Panhandle system by May 13,
Ritchie said.
Nome Sewer and Water Project
Money Looks Very Favorable
Sen. Pearse Walsh, in a phone
:all to the office of Sen. Bob
Bartlett in Washington, D.C., this
norning, learned that the Acceler
ated Public Works appropriations
will be apportioned within the
next ten days and it looks very
favorable that the Nome sewer
and water project could get the
funds for which it had made ap
plication.
Senate Defeats GOP
Attempt to Chop $200
Million Off Public Works
WASHINGTON UD — The Sen
ate defeated today a Republican
attempt to chop $200 million out
of President Kennedy’s $450 mil
lion job-making accelerated public
works program.
The vote was 60 to 26.
Sen. Everett Dirksen, the GOP
leader, protested in vain against
the $450 million appropriation, al
ready approved by the House after
a floor fight April 10.
“If this is the way to get the
country moving, we are moving in
the wrong direction,” Dirksen told
the Senate.
Dirksen said he foresaw further
moves ahead to authorize addi
tional millions for job-giving proj
ects under pressure from local
communities.
“They are not going to let this
grab bag go by without getting
their share,” he said. f
Southern Democrats joined with
their party colleagues from the
north and west to reject the
amendment, offered by Sens.
Leverett Saltonstall and Milton
Young.
It was the first major vote or
a $1.4 billion supplemental appro
priation bill in which the $450 mil
5 lion public works money is in
; eluded.
- Red Chinese
2 Vessel Keported
: Sunk by Torpedo
t TOKYO M) — Crewmen of i
Chinese Communist freighter which
sank yesterday in the Yellow Sea
reported that the ship had been hit
three times by torpedoes fired
from an unidentified submarine,
the Japanese Maritime Safety
Agency said today.
The agency quoted advices from
the Japanese fishing boat Iki Maru,
which said it had rescued all 59
crewmen from the sunken freight
er Yue Jon Ho.
An official of the agency said
he was doubtful of the torpedo
ing report, and suggested that the
freighter may have grounded.
An agency spokesman said the
11,482-ton freighter sank Wednes
day in the Yellow Sea. He said the
crewmen reported that the craft
was hit three times after being
followed about four hours.
The sinking was reported to have
taken place about 120 miles off
the tip of South Korea.
An account received by the
Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri quoted
crewmen as saying the freighter
was hit twice rather than three
times. The Japanese news agency
Kyodo quoted crewmen as saying:
“An unidentified boat believed
to be a submarine sank the Yue
Jon Ho.”
Weaiher Forecast. Mostly cloudy
with snow showers and westerly
winds 10 to 20 mph. Lowest temp,
expected tonight 19. the high to
morrow 31.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 35, lowest 17. Sunrise at 3:32
a.m., sunset at 8:28 pjn.
A year ago today: highest temp.
29 lowest 3. Extremes on this date
since 1907: highest 55 in 1960, low
est -6 in 1914.
At Nenana it was cloudy with
a temperature of 44.
In St. Louis, Mo., it is illegal to
sit on a curb and drink beer from
a bucket.
Trailer Full of
Explosives Blows
Up on Alaska Hwy.
FORT NELSON, B.C. <*> — “It
was like throwing a box full of
shells into a bonfire—only bigger.”
Lloyd MeFaul of Dawson Creek,
B.C., was telling in an interview
the destruction of a semi-trailer
van full of explosives after it
caught fire on the Alaska High
way.
“A rocket would explode in the
van, blow a hole in the roof or
side, and then there’d be a blow'
torch of flame shooting out 40
feet.
“Eventually the van was nothing
but a pile of rubble.”
MeFaul and his fellow driver
Doug Hartnell, also of Dawson
Creek, were relief drivers taking
the Alaska-bound load of U.S.
Army rockets to this city 360 miles
north of Prince George.
A 250-mile stretch of the high
way was closed yesterday and
today while demolition experts in
vestigated the wreck. Canadian
army engineers were expected to
reopen the highway at midnight
tonight.
McFaul said he and Hartnell es
caped after the van caught fire
at mile 230 seconds before the
first rocket exploded.
They unhooked the truck and
drove a quarter of a mile away
and watched the destruction of
the van from a hillside. McFaul
hiked through brushland and set
up flares on the highway to stop
traffic.
The truck, owned by Garrison
Fast Freight of Seattle, was picked
1 up by the two drivers at Dawson
Creek at the start of the highway.
Machinists Call Off
Rolling Strike at Boeing
SEATTLE UP) — The AFL-CIO
Machinists’ Union called off a
rolling strike against Boeing Co.
today 14 hours before it was sched
uled to get underway at Cape Can
averal, Fla.
The union said through its in
ternational president E. J. Hayes
of Washington, D.C., that “new
proposals from the company” since
strike plans were introduced Mon
day night averted the walkout
against the key missile and air
craft maker.
Hayes said in a telegram re
leased here that the revised con
tract offer will be submitted to
a vote of Boeing’s 26,100 produc
tion workers.
The strike plans had been laid
for the third time against Boeing
after the rank-and-file had re
jected a previous contract pro
posal last week by 877 votes out
of more than 18,000 cast.
Titan Missile Explodes
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. UP* — A Titan 1 In
tercontinental Ballistic Missile ex
ploded today during an attempted
launch at this coastal installation,
the Air Force reported.
A spokesman said no one was
injured and that damage to the
silo lift facility appeared slight.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
American League
Minnesota 8, Baltimore 1
Los Angeles 6, New York 3
National League
St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 1
Pacific Coast League
Tacoma 4, Oklahoma Cit^ 2
Seattle 7, Denver 6
Salt Lake City 7, San Diego 5
Spokane 4, Dallas-Ft. Worth 3