NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 7
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1963
Per Copy 15tf
Rampart Dam
Termed Big Asset
To U.S. In Rural
Electrification
LAS VEGAS, Nev. Uf) — A lead
ing power expert said yesterday
building Rampart Dam in Alaska
would be one way to help the
United States maintain its lead
over Russia in rural electrification.
Clyde T. Ellis, general manager
of the National Rural Electric Co
operative Assn., said “the Russians
are already ahead of us with multi
purpose dams, giant transmission
grids and low-cost power for in
dustry, but they are not ahead of
us in rural electrification. We in
tend to keep it that way.”
Ellis told the 21st annual meet
ing of the association, “we are
going to build a giant power trans
mission grid in Alaska and tie all
power generation together using
the grid as a common carrier.”
Ellis explained the grid will ul
timately be tied either into the
Canadian grid or into the Columbia
Basin Bonneville power grid.
Described by Ellis as the “white
and gold of the great northwest,”
this cheap power will transform
Alaska and “bring its abundant
minerals and other resources into
their own.”
Ellis said rural electric coopera
tives will be “the vehicle by which
the rural areas and scattered com
munities share in this 20 Century
miracle of electricity.”
Secretary of Agriculture Orville
Freeman visited the Alaska display
of the Rampart Dam yesterday.
U.S. and Portugal Reach
Reach Agreement on Azores Base
WASHINGTON tf) — The United
States and Portugal have reached
an understanding permitting con
tinued use by the United States of
important air bases in the Azores,
the Defense Department said yes
terday.
It will stand until a permanent
agreement can be worked out.
The U.S.-Portuguese agreement
expired Dec. 31 in the midst of
negotiations for a new pact.
11 "’’cwmen In Hired
Aboard ^isas+er-Prone
Con«fella*ion
SAN DIEGO, Calif. UR — Eleven
crewmen cf the disaster-prone
carrier Const "Ration were injured
in an aircraft carrier landing acci
dent. Two of them lost both legs,
another one leg.
In a little more than two years,
56 men have been killed and 20
injured on the 75,000-ton warship.
T e late"1 accident occurred
yesterday when a steel arresting
cable snapped and whipped across
the deck as a jet fighter attempted
a land:ng.
“It was 1-ke a cracked whip,”
said a flight surgeon. “It had a
guillotine effect. There was no time
to get out of the way.”
The cable, supposed to snag the
jet, broke.
The Navy said an arresting en
gine sheave failed, causing the
cable to break.
Fifty men were killed when the
ship burned on Dec. 19, 1960, while
under construction in the Brook
lyn Navy Yard.
Two workers fell from a scaffold
on her at the same yard and were
killed in May 1961.
Four men were killed and nine
injured in an engine room fire
Nov. 8, 1961, when she was sail
ing 60 miles southeast of New
York City.
Judge Rules Cuban Must
Sfand Trial for Sabotage
NEW YORK UPI — A federal
judge ruled today that a member
of the Cuban U.N. mission does
not automatically have diplomatic
immunity and must stand trial for
conspiring to commit sabotage in
the United States.
In a decision with possible far
reaching implications, U.S. Judge
Edward Weinfeld said diplomatic
status with the United Nations does
not automatically cover diplomatic
status with the government of the
United States.
The ruling came in the case of
Roberto Santiesteban Casanova, 28,
charged along with two others with
conspiracy to commit sabotage and
with conspiring to violate the
Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Water and Sewage Is a Major Step Forward
By Dr. Robert Fenstermacher, City Health Officer
Pure water and the safe handling of sewage are not luxuries.
The city ordinances provide for continuous surveillance of these
services in order to insure that all citizens of Nome are adequately
protected.
Actually, any system of water and sewage treatment has its
weakest link. We are fortunate in Nome because the climate slows
the rapid multiplication of disease-producing bacteria. Even so,
we see cases come to the hospital which very likely have resulted
from the use of improperly treated water or from contamination.
The proposed water and sewage program, if undertaken, re
presents a major step in improving these utilities. This is primarily
true for our Public School where the present facilities are far from
adequate and represents a source of disease for every corner of our
community.
Under the proposed program, the city water would be safe for
drinking and cooking without any further treatment by individual
homes, and the treatment of sewage and its disposal will insure a
minimum chance for contamination.
The present water and sanitation systems, of course, must be
continued. However, even the present water system must be im
proved. This private water company is presently taking steps to
institute the chlorination of all water supplied to consumers. Its
efforts to insure pure water through these methods should be en
couraged by those using the water even though this possibly may
result in a slight change of taste.
We have appreciated receiving inquiries regarding our sani
tation facilities from many citizens over the past months, and we
assure you that every effort is being made to make available pure
water and safe treatment of sewage. These are not luxuries.
Castro Sounds
Call for Revolution
In Latin America
KEY WEST, Fla. I* — Prime
Minister Fidel Castro today sound
ed his most aggressive call yet for
revolution in Latin America and
declared world Communism must
heal its split to help the masses
rise.
“The liberating movement is
fighting ... in Latin America and
this fight needs all the united
forces of the socialist revolution,”
he shouted in a televised speech
which lasted nearly three hours.
Castro’s call for Communist unity
and Latin American uprisings came
as Soviet Premier Knrushchev is
sued the same appeal for union in
a major speech at Berlin.
Castro told his audience—mostly
women from many Latin nations—
its task is to lead the continent in
Cuba-style revolutions.
“In the world in which the
American women lives, the woman
necessarily has to be a revolution
ary,” he declared.
Cuba, he said, faces a difficult
situation.
“In the first place, it is the
fundamental target of imperialism,”
he said. “Second, there are di
visions within the socialist camp.
“I mean that for us the crisis of
the Caribbean is not resolved. War
is averted but the peace is not won.
Our problem today is how to cre
ate all we require to satisfy oui
necessities.
“This is not easy to do wich th<
claws of imperialism over us, wit!
the incessant hostility of the mos1
powerful and aggressive imperial
istic nation in the world.”
But, said Castro to prolonged
applause, “this country never will
be conquered. And if one day the
Yankee imperialists, using all their
strength and resources, decide to
destroy this country, the most they
will be able to do is destroy but
not defeat us.”
Malaspina Heads North
To Alaska On Monday
JUNEAU UP) — The Malaspina,
first of three ferries to be operated
on the state’s Southeast Alaska
Marine Highway System will sail
north to Alaska on her maiden voy
age Monday, Gov. Wm. Egan said
today.
The Governor said he will be
aboard the vessel on its run from
Seattle to Juneau.
The Malaspina under the com
mand of Capt. Reuben Jacobsen,
will depart Seattle at 4:30 p.m.
Monday and make her first Alaska
landing at Ketchikan at approxi
mately 9 a.m. Jan. 23.
The 352-foot blue and gold vessel
will then proceed to Wrangell,
Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau, Haines
and Skagway, returning to Juneau
Jan. 25, the day of the formal
inauguration program for Egan and
Secretary of State Hugh Wade.
Egan said a formal inaugural
voyage for the Malaspina is being
planned for this spring, for dig
nataries, newsmen, photographers
and tour agency representatives
from various sections of the nation.
Kennedy Accepts Invite
To Visit Italy This Year
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy has accepted an invitation
to visit Italy later this year, the
White House and the Italian gov
ernment announced today.
The invitation was extended by
visiting Italian Prime Minister
Amintore Fanfani, who acted in
the name of Antonio Segni, Presi
dent of Italy.
Nikita Tells Comrades Communist
Policy Cannot lie Based On War
BERLIN W — Soviet Premier ]
Khrushchev told his Communist ;
comrades today the United States
has 40,000 atomic or nuclear war- ]
heads and Communist policy can- i
not be based on war.
If all the American bombs were
dropped, he said, 700 million to
800 million people would be killed
and whole nations wiped out.
Departing from his text, Khrush
chev spoke of the Soviet Union’s :
giant nuclear bomb, implying it
could be used only against the
United States.
“Dear comrades, now I tell you
a secret,” he said. “Our scientists
have developed a new 100-mega
ton bomb. This bomb could not be
used in Western Europe because
it would hit France and Germany
and you too. This bomb could
only be used overseas against a po
tential aggressor.”
In a wide-ranging speech to the
6th Communist Congress of East
Germany, Khrushchev thus an
swered the Chinese Communists
who have accused him of being
afraid of a “Paper Tiger”—the
United States—when he backed
down on Cuba.
Speaking clearly in the context
. of his argument with Peking over
war and peace as it applies to Com
. munist expansion, Khrushchev
r pleaded that the fight for peace
was the “prime task for socialism.”
B He departed from his text and
1 waved his arms as he declared:
t “Russian Communists never
. started a war to carry Communism
to victory. Some who call them
[ selves Marxists and Leninists want
to win socialist victory by war.”
In his major policy speech in
Bitter Cold Numbs
Most of the Nation
The northeast felt today the
numbing chill of an intense cold
waves that has gripped wide sec
tions of the mid-continent for near
ly a week.
The core of Arctic air mass
drifted eastward during the night
bringing record low temperatures
to parts of the east.
Rochester, N.Y., reported a rec
ord low for the date of -6 and
Buffalo had a record of -9.
The midwest remained the cold
est region in the nation. The mer
cury plunged to -38 at Black River
Falls and -37 a Lone Rock, both
in Wisconsin. Black River Falls had
a low yesterday of -50.
Heat Wave In Nome
Yesterday was the warmest on
record for Jan. 15, according to
the Weather Bureau.
With Phoenix, Ariz., shivering
and southern California fruit grow
ers trying to save their crops from
frost, Nome was having unseaon
able pouring rain which filled the
strcts and flooded basements on
Front St., as the drains were fro
zen over for the winter.
The city crew worked all night
to keep water out of the City
Building, Alaska Airlines, Polar
Bar and Nome Hardware pumped
water also to hold off flooding.
THE WEATHER
Continued cloudy with rain and
easterly winds 15 to 30 mph. Little
change in temperature. Low to
night 32, high tomorrow 36. In the
last 24 hours: High of 36, low of
32. Max. wind 28 mph from the
east. Sunrise at 9:31 a.m., sunset
at 2:53 p.m. Temps, a year ago to
day: High of 30, low of 22.
East Berlin, the Soviet Premier
also:
Called for establishment of West
Berlin as a free city guaranteed by
the United Nations with foreign
troops remaining “for a certain
time” under the U.N. flag.
Claimed he was victorious in
the Cuban crisis, prevented the
United States from attacking the
island and thereby kept Commu
nism alive there.
Called for conclusion of a Ger
man peace treaty which “will not
bring gains to one side and losses
to the other.” But he set no dead
line, saying the Berlin Wall had
made a treaty a less pressing prob
lem.
Assured the East German Com
munists Germany will be reunified
as a Communist state and anti
communist forces in West Ger
many “will be swept away.”
Rattle of the
Budget Shapes
Up In Congress
WASHINGTON UP> — A thunder
ing battle of the budget appears to
l be shaping up in Congress.
I Its outcome may determine how
| much of President Kennedy’s pro
posed tax cuts and welfare legis
lation will get through.
Kennedy will present to Congress
tomorrow a budget of around $99
billion. It will be accompanied by
a Treasury estimate that the spend
involved would add more than $10
billion to the deficit in the fiscal
year begining July 1.
No one in the administration re
gards it as a happy circumstance
that the President will have to re
port so much projected red ink
spending at a time he is asking
Congress to slice about $6 billion
off of tax receipts in the same year.
The reaction could affect his
whole three-year, $13.5 billion
tax reduction program. It could
spell painful progress for welfare
proposals he said Monday in his
State of the Union message “we
cannot afford to postpone.”
Budget balancing has been a
highly touted but non-effective
activity in Congress in the last few
years when defense and space ex
penditures have been pushing
through the roof.
There is clear evidence that the
old economy alliance of Republi
cans and conservative Democrats
is being rewelded to oppose Ken
nedy’s domestic proposals such as
those for establishment of a Youth
Conservation Corps, a domestic
Peace Corps and large-scale aid to
education.
The President’s program for
Social Security-financed health
care for the elderly falls into a
somewhat different category. It
would put an added tax take on
individuals at a time when Ken
nedy is asking that their income
taxes be lowered.
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UNCLE SAM COLLECTS $99.4
BILLION FROM TAXPAYERS
WASHINGTON UD — The gov
ernment collected a record $99.4
billion from American taxpayers
in the fiscal year ending last June
30.
In its 100th annual report Mon
day, the Internal Revenue Service
said collections were $5 billion
more than in the previous year.
Corporate and individual taxes
accounted for $71.9 billion, an in
crease of $4 billion. -