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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
64th Year No. 87
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1963
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Atomic Test Ban
Negotiators Very
Near Agreement
MOSCOW — U.S., British and
Soviet negotiators today were re
ported near agreement on a limited
nuclear test ban treaty. But
Western diplomats were still wor
ried Premier Khrushchev might
insist on a non-aggression pact
as part of a package deal.
Latest reports in Moscow were
that initialing of the treaty might
come Wednesday or Thursday al
though Washington sources had
said it might come today or tomor
row.
These reports said the treaty
was so nearly ready that most of ]
the discussions today were con
cerned with proposals for a non
aggression pact and other points
made by Khrushchev in a speech
last Friday. ,
Among these was a plan for in
ternational inspections to avoid a
surprise attack.
Soviet sources said a committee
this morning put the finishing
touches on the treaty, which would
ban all nuclear testing except those
under ground.
Before the end of the session
most of the secondary delegates
left. But Lord Hailsham of Bri
tain, W. Averell Harrim^n of the
United States and Andrei Gro
myko, Russian Foreign Minister,
remained on for a final hour of
talks, mostly by themselves.
B.C. Executive Says
Canadians Should Fish
Off Russian Shores
VANCOUVER, B.C. Ufl — Canada
should consider sending a fishing
fleet to the coast of Russia if So
viet fleets take B.C. fish, a top
B.C. fishing industry executive
suggested today.
Robert Payne, general manager
of the big J. H. Todd & Cons Fish
ing Co., said in an interview such
action should be taken if Soviet
fishing boats are caught taking
B.C. salmon, halibut or herring.
Payne said he did not consider
the recent visit of a Russian trawl
er fleet off the west coast of Van
couver Island as a threat to the
B.C. industry. They reportedly
took only bottom fish and B.C.
fishermen do not want bottom
fish in that area
Earlier in an address to a meet
ing he said that turning the tables
on the Russian fleets is one of
the few retaliatory moves available
to Canada if it wants to halt So
viet fishing off the B.C. coast.
He suggested Canadian fishing
fleets going to Red coastal waters
might force Russia to open talks
for a fishing treaty with this coun
try.
Salmon and halibut stocks which
Canadian fishermen want to see
protected largely are beyond even
the 12-mile fishing limit which
Canada proposes to establish next
year.
Heavy Fighting Reported
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican
Republic UP — Fighting with heavy
casualties is reported breaking out
nightly in the hills surrounding
Port Au Prince, capital of neigh
boring Haiti, in a new attempt
to topple President Francois Du
valier.
Reports gathered from travelers
and other sources pointed to in
creased activity by rebels who ac
cuse Duvalier of serving an illegal
second term.
Man Leaps from 8Gth
Floor to His Death
NEW YORK liP — A young man
fought loose from a guard and
jumped from the Empire State
Building today, plunging to the
sidewalk from the P>6th floor ob
servation deck of the world’s tallest
building.
Police tentatively identified the
victim as George Alex Frost, 35,
address unknown.
The guard, Frank di Gesu, said
he first saw the man standing on
a ledge outside the protecting wall
and fence around the observatory
of the 102-story building.
Di Gesu said he tried to talk to
the man who only shuffled away
along the ledge.
Di Gesu said he twice reached
through the fence and grabbed
the man’s leg, but the man kicked
free.
Again the guard tried to talk
him out of jumping and made one
more grab for his leg, but the
man sprang backwards to his
death, Di Gesu said.
Sen. Warren Magnuson
Hospitalized for Tests
SEATTLE — Sen. Warren
Magnuson was hospitalized here
today for extensive laboratory
tests after running a high fever
for three days. The cause was not
known.
Magnuson, 58, was stricken after
his arrival in Seattle Friday night.
He had flown from Washington,
D.C., for dedication of the Rocky
Reach Dam on the Columbia River
near Wenatchee, Wn., Saturday.
A physician said a series of
tests for blood-borne diseases would
be made. He said malaria was a
possibility, although Magnuson had
no history of the ailment. Magnu
son served in the South Pacific
with the Navy in World War II.
Magnuson is chairman of the
Senate Commerce Committee which
has been holding hearings on civil
rights legislation sought by Pres
ident Kennedy.
Rehabilitation Officials
Due Here Tomorrow
Joseph Hunt, Asst. Commissioner
of the Vocational Rehabilitation
Administration, Washington, D.C.,
and Carroll Craft, Director of
the Alaska State Office of Voca
tional Rehabilitation, will be ar
riving in Nome on Tuesday, July
23. Their visit is in connection
with the present Nome Vocational
Rehabilitation Demonstration proj
ect, which is beginning its third
year.
This is Mr. Hunt’s first visit to
Nome and is part of a survey being
made in the state with Mr. Craft
in review of Vocational Rehabili
tation programs. The work of the
V. R. agency is directed by the
state office but with some federal
financial support.
The Nome Vocational Rehabili
tation Demonstration project is fi
nanced by the Division of Research
Grants and Demonstrations of the
Vocational Rehabilitation Adminis
tration in conjunction with the
Nome Hospital. This grant has
been renewed for the coming year
and continues to investigate re
habilitation of the disabled in this
area.
Mr. Hunt will be meeting Wed
nesday morning with local agencies
and institutional personnel who
have a particular interest in vo
cational rehabilitation prior to his
departure in the afternoon for
Anchorage.
33 Governors
Vote Down Civil
Rights Proposals
MIAMI BEACH, W — Thrown
back by a 33-16 vote that largely
followed party lines, GOP Govs.
Nelson Rockefeller of New York
and Mark Hatfield of Oregon trig
gered new efforts today to get a
governors’ conference civil rights
declaration.
Republican efforts to put the
55th annual meeting of the state
executives on record on the issue
were defeated temporarily when
Democrats lined up behind a mo
tion of Democratic Gov. Grant
Sawyer of Nevada to abolish the
resolutions committee. This killed
all of 69 pending proposals, in
cluding civil rights resolutions by
Rockefeller and Hatfield.
Fifteen Republican governors
and Democratic Gov. William A.
Egan of Alaska opposed this move.
Thirty-three Democrats supported
it.
In a joint interview, Rockefeller
and Hatfield said they plan to
make a motion at a subsequent
session to put the confernce on
record on the racial issue.
“This is not going to rest here,”
Rockefeller said grimly.
Rockefeller said, “This vote
clearly makes the Republican party
the party of civil rights.”
Rockefeller charged in a state
ment that the Democratic gover
nors had “gagged the voice of the
governors and undermined the ef
fectiveness of the states in their
roles of national leadership . .
Rockefeller and Hatfield admit
tedly faced some dificulties in try
ing to force a conference vote on
any civil rights proposal.
Democratic Gov. Albert Rosellini
of Washington, the conference
chairman, indicated in an inter
view he would rule any motion of
this nature out of order.
Washington Fishermen
Resume Fishing of Coast
SEATTLE — Most Washing
ton commercial trollers, who tied
up their boats last week in a dis
pute over silver salmon prices, re
sumed fishing during the weekend
after port prices were raised from
26 to 30 cents a pound.
Fred Bullock, manager of the
Fishermen’s Cooperative Assn.,
said today members of his asso
ciation and of the Halibut Pro
ducers Assn, were fishing again
off the Washington and Oregon
coasts. ,
In Victoria, Dick Williams of
the Pacific Trollers Assn, of
Canada, said Canadian trollers
would await assurance the price
dispute in Washington has been
settled before sending out its boats
and delivering their catch to
American ports.
New Space Helmet
LOS ANGELES l# — Scientists
are testing a new space helmet on
Los Angeles freeways. They say a
trip on the freeways can be about
as tension-filled as one into space.
The helmet is clapped on scien
tist - motorists. It records brain
waves as the scientist forges thru
bustling freeway traffic.
The recordings are analyzed
later in a massive computer at the
University of California at Los
Angeles’ Brain Research Institute
to compare changes in brain
wave readings with the changes in
driving conditions and stresses.
Rail Strike Headed Off By
Placing Dispute Before
Interstate Commerce Com.
WASHINGTON M — President
Kennedy asked Congress Monday
for legislation to head off a nation
wide railway strike by putting the
work rules dispute before the In
terstate Commerce Commission for
settlement.
His message to Congress stipu
lated that there be no change in
the work rules, except by agree
ment between the carriers and the
five operating unions, while the
dispute is awaiting ICC action.
He told Congress that the na
tion “stands on the brink of a
nationwide strike that would, in
very short order, create wide
spread economic chaos and dis
tress.”
The long dispute has reached
the point, Kennedy said, where
only prompt and effective con
gressional action can assure that
serious injury to the public will
be prevented.
Kennedy said that the carriers
and the unions would remain free
to negotiate a settlement while the
case is before the ICC.
Red China and Russia
Agree to Meet Again
MOSCOW iffi — Red China and
the Soviet Union say they have
agreed to meet—“some time later”
to make another try at settling
their bitter ideological dispute.
Diplomats in Moscow did not ex
pect the meeting would be held
soon.
The announcement, made simul
taneously Sunday in Peking and
Moscow, coincided with a new
Chinese attack on the Soviet Com
munist party. Peking accused it
of trying to incite the Chinese
people and party against Mao Tse
Tung.
The Soviet-Chinese talks broke
off Saturday. Premier Khrushchev
took his first public notice of the
Chinese delegation, giving it a fare
well party.
The communique issued Sunday
said the Central Committees of
both Communist parties would set
the place and time of the next
meeting.
It reported that during the talks
both sides “expounded their own
views and stand on a series of im
portant questions of principle con
cerning contemporary world de
velopments, the international Com
munist movement and Sino-Soviet
relations.”
Western quarters interpreted
this to mean Chinese spokesmen
Teng Hsiao-Ping and Soviet theo
retician Mikhail Suslov did little
more since the meetings began
July 5 than lecture each other.
Premier Khrushchev is expected
to defend his stand and outline his
strategy in the Communist power
struggle at a meeting of East Eu
ropean Communist leaders open
ing in Moscow Wednesday.
Fiercest Battle
SAIGON, South Viet Nam UP —
South Vietnamese forces fought the
fiercest battle of the year against
Communist guerrillas last week
end, killing 58 Reds and capturing
19 others.
Nineteen government soldiers of
the 7th Division were killed and
45 wounded in the battle Saturday
just south of Saigon on the Mekong
River Delta.
The Weather: Mostly cloudy
with little change in temperature.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 56, lowest 43. Sunrise at
2:34 a.m., sunset at 9:39 p.m.
Eclipse Provided
Chance to Study
Radiation Menace
EDMONTON, Canada W — Sci
entists believe a longer look at
the sun’s eclipse will provide valu
able information about solar flares
and a better understanding of how
the sun affects the weather.
For 100 seconds Saturday Cana
dians got to see a total eclipse—
a chance to pause in the moon’s
spacious shadow as the earth's big
satellite moved between this planet
and the sun.
But high overhead, in a speeding
jet transport, scientists raced along
under the shadow at 525 mph—
and got this reward:
They were able to see the eclipse
for exactly 42.5 seconds longer
than the people on the ground.
Aboard the plane were astron
omers, researchers, camermen and
astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter.
They assembled here from all over
the United States for this moment’s
chance to shadow a shadow.
Here’s why: When the sun’s
bright light is blocked by the
moon’s interposition, scientists can
I study solar flares from the sun’s
surface — the ones which generate
the radiation menacing manned
space flights. They can also photo
graph weak, distant lights in space
—the ones which normally pass
unseen because they are blocked
out by the sun’s bright glare.
The 42.4 seconds given astrono
mers by the speed of a DC-8 jet
is just the beginning of a new era
of eclipse-watching, the experts
say.
Plane builders expect a super
sonic transport to be ready for
eclipses July 10, 1973, in northern
Alaska, and Feb. 26, 1979, in the
Pacific Northwest. They say such
a plane could keep them up with
the moon’s shadow', which travels
at 1,7000 mph.
The eclipses can’t be seen over
more than a section of the globe
because the moon, although large,
is still too small to cast a shadow
over much of the earth. That’s
why Saturday’s eclipse was total
only to a 10,000-mile arc over
Japan, Alaska, Canada and Maine.
Dr. Stephen Ward Goes
In Trial For Keeping
Pretty Girls as Sex Pets
LONDON — The Crown put
Dr. Stephen Ward on trial before
a jury of 11 men and a woman to
day and accused him of keeping
pretty girls as sex pets for hire
to men.
Christine Keeler, wearing a gold
suit, was the first witness for the
prosecution. The red-haired party
girl’s relationships with a British
cabinet minister and a Soviet em
bassy aide came near to toppling
Prime Minister MacMillan’s Con
servative government.
Prosecutor Mervvn Linffith
Jor.es told the jury Ward took a
cut from the immoral earnings of
Miss Keeler, 21, Marilyn Mandy
Rice-Davis, 18, and other girls who
sold themselves to wealthy Bri
tons.
The prosecutor said Ward held
Christine under a spell.
Ward was brought to trial on
five charges — basically, living
on the earnings of prostitution by
Miss Keeler, Miss Rice-Davis and
other girls who used his flats as
a base of operations.
The osteopath, who pleaded in
nocent, could be sentenced, if con
victed, to as much as 25 years in
prison.