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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 82
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1963
Per Copy 15C
Railroad Strike
Is Averted
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy announced late Wednes
day that there will be no nation
wide rail strike at midnight.
The nation’s railroads and their
operating unions accepted a presi
dential proposal for a delay until
July 29 in the nationwide rail
strike which had been threatened
by a dispute over work rules.
Kennedy personally announced
the agreement to postpone' the
walkout in a special appearance
on televiison.
Kennedy, after meeting with
both parties late Wednesday, said
they would accept the good offices
of a special board made up of six
members of his Labor - Manage
ment Advisory Committee.
The board will make a “com
prehensive review” of the work
rules dispute, Kennedy said, and
send a report to Congress on July
22 along with presidential recom
mendations for any legislation
needed to resolve the four-year
old case.
In the meantime, the railroads
will withhold action to put into
effect new work rules which they
say are needed to eliminate un
necessary jobs, and the unions in
turn will call off the strike which
they said would follow such com
pany action.
Kennedy said in making his an
nouncement that he would request
no further truce.
Polish Flier Brings Wife
And Two Children West
In Fighter Plane
BERLIN OPl —A Polish air force
major crammed his wife and two
children into a single - engine
fighter plane and flew them to
West Berlin today for political
asylum, U.S. officials reported.
The plane landed at West Ber
lin’s Templehoff Airport.
The names of the defectors were
not disclosed. The major asked
American officials for asylum, a
U.S. spokesman said.
Templehof Airport is part com
mercial. Only planes from the
west, flying the three air corri
dors across Communist East Ger
many, normally land there.
But the Pole came from the east.
He had to cross the border be
tween East Germany and Poland
and then fly across 60 miles of
East German territory before
reaching Berlin.
Sainsbury Locates New
Beryllium Deposits In
Lost River Area
Indications of new beryllium
deposits in seven localities on
western Seward Peninsula have
been announced by the Geological
Survey, according to a wire re
ceived from Rep. Ralph Rivers.
Rivers said the new deposits are
located within 40 miles of the Lost
River area on the western tip of
Seward Peninsula. The deposits
are described in an 18-page re
port by C. L. Sainsbury, entitled
“Beryllium deposits of Western
Seward Peninsula.” which will be
available at the Geological Survey
Office, 503 Cordova Building, An
chorage.
The deposits, which have not
been evaluated for tonnage, grade
and other potentials, appear to be
of unusual mineral composition.
Beryllium, a rare metal used in
strengthening and hardening cop
per and nickel and used widely in
spacecraft and nuclear reactors,
sells for $70 a pound.
KKK Maps Campaign
Of White Resistance
To Desegregation
ATLANTA UP — Ku Klux Klan
leaders are mapping a campaign
of white resistance to desegrega
tion that includes many of the
methods used by negroes seeking
equal rights in the racial struggle.
Georgia’s Grand Dragon. Calvin
Craig of Atlanta, said Tuesday he
would not encourage violence.
‘'But I’m going to encourage self
protection,” he said. ‘‘The white
people have been trampled on—a
man can’t even operate his own
business in an orderly manner.”
The imperial wizard, Robert M.
Shelton Jr., of Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
said, “The thing we’ve got to do is
shock people into reality.”
Shelton and Craig belong to the
United Klans of America Inc.,
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
They say their order is the only
authentic Klan.
Shelton said the Klan hopes to
reach 50,000 persons a week in
public rallies.'
In addition to the mass rallies,
the Klan plans marching demon
strations, economic reprisals and
white voter registration drives.
GOP Ask Contributions
Toward Kennedy
“Retirement Fund”
WASHINGTON —The Repub
lican National Committee hopes' to
raise more than a million dollars
this year in $10 contributions to
ward a ‘Kennedy retirement
fund.”
That is, a fund to retire the
Kennedys from office.
One of the circulars it is send
ing throughout the country shows
three rocking chairs, labeled “His,”
“Bobby’s” and “Teddy’s.” The ac
companying text, asking contri
butions, says:
“A rocker gives a fellow the il
lusion of going someplace, when
he’s really sitting still. If you rock
hard enough. It’ll back up on you.
“That’s the way it is with the
country today. We may be moving
back and forth, sidewise, up and
down but it doesn’t exactly appear
to be going forward.”
British Woman Again
Attempts to Molest
Greek King and Queen
LONDON UP—The British wife
of an imprisoned Greek Commun
ist made a second attempt to in
tercept King Paul and Queen
Frederika of Greece today but po
lice carried her off struggling vio
lently.
Mrs. Betty Ambateiles, 45, who
manhandle the queen during her
April visit to London, left a near
by coffee shop and ran into the
road as the royal car approached
Westminster Pier, across the street
from the House of Parliament.
Police grabbed the woman and
hustled her through crowds of by
standers gathered behind police
lines. The king and queen boarded
a boat for a trip down the Thames
to a luncheon given for them at
Guildhall by Lord Mayor Sir
Ralph Perring.
Some 5,000 British police were
back at battle stations today to
protect the Greek royal couple
after a night of bloody fighting be
tween police and demonstrators in
which 91 persons were arrested.
Police faced a fanatical hard core
of Communists, joined by anarch
ists, pacifists and nuclear disarm
ers—all determined to disrupt the
royal couple’s four-day state visit.
Universal Services
Get Contract As
Ferry Food Caterer
JUNEAU — Public Works
Commissioner Richard Downing
today announced the award of a
contract to Universal Services,
Inc., of Anchorage for the man
agement of food and personal ser
vices on the Southeast Marine
Highway System.
Under the contract, Universal
Services will be paid $3,000 a
month for providing supervision of
procurement of supplies, adminis
tration of food and personal ser
vices, administrative support and
personnel recruitment.
L. R. Shaw, Alaska district man
ager for Universal Services, said a
stewards’ department manager
would be assigned to each of the
three vessels operating on the sys
tem, the Malaspina, Taku and
Matanuska.
Shaw, whose firm has a payroll
exceeding $4 million a year in
Alaska, said Universal Services
will give preference in hiring to
Alaskans and would “buy Alaska”
as much as possible.
Shaw said Universal eventually
plans to provide luncheon and din
ner aboard the three ships on the
system buffet style, at a cost not
to exceed $2 per person.
For those passengers who de
sire more personalized service,
Shaw said, a small, separate din
ing area, with service by waiter,
will be provided.
Universal Services was formed
in Anchorage in 1946 and now has
some 600 employes scattered
throughout the 49th state from An
nette Island to Umiat, in food ser
vice operations.
The company operates the food
service at the University of Al
aska and provides all operating
personnel for food services on the
White Alice Communications Sys
tem.
Palzer Says He Lost His
Job, Money, Reputation
KETCHIKAN UP — Chris Pal
zer said today he has lost his job,
his money, his reputation and his
pride.
The former Alaska ferry con
cessionaire made the statement to
the Ketchikan Daily News as he
prepared to leave this city on
Saturday and then to look for a
job.
He said he couldn t say whether
he would have to take bankruptcy
as a way out of his financial
troubles. He said the state still
owes him enough money to take
care of his obligations incurred
while he was the ferry conces
sionaire.
“I don't know what I’ll do now,”
Palzer said, “but you can bet I’ll
eat three meals a day and sleep
in one bed at a time.”
Palzer revealed that he had
bowed out of a Fairbanks trailer
sales business last Jan. 4 “be
cause the state asked him to de
vote all his time to the ferry con
cession.
Palzer said he might try to lo
cate in Anchorage.
“I’ll bounce back fast,’’ he said
confidently.
Sick-'em Fido, Old Chap
LONDON UP> — A medical in
surance plan for dogs began op
erating in Britain today.
The Canine Insurance Associa
tion will pay veterinary fees up
to $70 in case of sickness or acci
dent. The cost is 6 cents a week.
Rusk Says Segregation
Damages U.S. Position
In Eyes of the World
WASHINGTON UPi — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk told Congress
today “The present racial crisis di
vides and weakens, and challen
ges, the nation both at home and
in the world struggle in which we
are engaged.”
“I deeply hope that the issues
involved can be approached on the
basis of genuine bipartisanship,
just as are the broad objectives of
this country’s foreign policy,” he
told the Senate Commerce Com
mittee.
Rusk testifies in support of a
bill to ban racial discrimination
by stores, hotels, restaurants, and
other private establishments serv
ing the public. It is a key part of
the administration’s civil rights
program.
Rusk described freedom as the
central issue in the world struggle,
and said that “In waging this
world struggle, we are seriously
handicapped by racial or religious
discrimination in the United
States.”
He also said that the Commun
ists clearly regard racial discrim
ination “as one of their most valu
able assets.”
“If Congress does not approve
legislation designed to remove re
maining discriminatory practices,
Rusk said, “hostile propaganda
might be expected to hurt us more
than it has hurt us until now.”
Three Unions Petition
For Bargaining Agents
For DEW Line Employes
FAIRBANKS OP—A hearing be
gan Tuesday on petitions by three
unions to represent employes on
the Defense Early Warning line
in Alaska.
The 237 employes work for Fed
eral Electric Corp., which oper
ates the DEW Line—the radar net
work set up in the Arctic to detect
any hostile aircraft.
Petitioning for elections to rep
resent employes are the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, claiming about 100
workers; the Hotel and Restaurant
Employes Union, claiming 37; and
the Fairbanks Joint Crafts Coun
cil, claiming 100.
The National Labor Relations
Board consolidated the three peti
tions for hearing and an NLRB of
ficer, Patrick Murphy, began tak
ing testimony today.
Thomas Graham, NLRB region
al director, said at Seattle that
after the hearing is completed he
would either determine whether
to order a bargaining agent elec
tion, or would refer the case di
rect to the NLRB for a decision.
TOUR BY MODEL T
QUESNEL, B.C. UPl — Mr. and
Mrs. Warren LeVare passed thru
this British Columbia Cariboo
community Tuesday, heading north
in a Ford Model T.
The elderly couple, who said
they wanted to see the country
side from a 30-mile-an-hour car,
will end the trip in Alaska.
The 1923 auto has chugged along
trouble free. It left Portland Sun
day. If there is trouble the Le
Vares have with them a spare en
gine, tires, axles, and brake lin
ing.
The Weather: Continued fair
with little change in temperature.
In the past 24 hours: Highest
temp. 59, lowest 44. Sunrise at
1 1:56 a.m., sunset at 10:13 p.m.
Bv Russians In
MOSCOW UP> — Soviet Minister
of Communications Nikolai Psurt
sev today ordered completion of
the Moscow-Washington “hot line”
by Sept. 1, the Soviet news agency
Tass reported.
Tass said Psurtsev signed the
order for the installation of the
cable link on which Soviet tech
nicians were reported already at
work.
It said the agreement on the
emergency White House-Kremlin
communications setup signed in
Geneva last month had “great
political significance.”
In a clear jab at the Chinese
Communists who reject Soviet
Premier Khrushchev’s insistence
on negotiations to prevent war,
Tass said:
“The Soviet government con
ducts a tireless and persistent
struggle for the preservation of
peace on earth. It is trying to solve
disputed questions by means of
negotiations and realizes its policy
of peaceful coexistence of states
with different social systems.”
NORTH STAR PAUSES HERE
ENROUTE TO GAMBELL
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
ship North Star paused here yes
terday evening to pick up Chief
Mate Cecil “Moe” Cole and con
tinued on to Gambell.
Cole had been injured slightly
during unloading operations at
Elim and he came to Nome by
plane Monday evening. It seems
his upper lip was split when a
crowbar slipped and the injury
required four stitches at the MMM
Hospital.
FERRY CHILKAT FOOD
CONCESSION GOES BEGGING
JUNEAU LF1—A food concession
for the state ferry Chilkat on its
runs between Cordova and Valdez
went begging today.
Bids were to have been opened
at 2 p.m. for the concession, cov
ering food service to the crew of
Chilkat and to passengers, but not
a single offering was received.
The Public Works Dept, indi
cated that a contract for the con
cession will be negotiated, in the
absence of bids.
The Chilkat is scheduled to start
its Cordova-Valdez schedule next
Monday morning.
Search Made for Missing
St. Lawrence Island Man
ANCHORAGE W — An aerial
search began today off the north
east cape of St. Lawrence Island
for a native hunter who reported
ly fell from a skin boat while
duck hunting near Cape Kulowiyi.
The Rescue Coordination Center*
at Elmendorf Air Force Base here
identified the man as Leslie E.
Immingen, 37. and said the man
apparently was lost overboard
offshore from his camp about 5:15
p.m. Tuesday.
Immigen’s six-year-old son, Jim,
who also was in the boat, was
unable to stop the craft to turn
back and rescue his father. How
ever, the child managed to get
the boat ashore and ran some five
miles to a village to report the
accident, the Air Force said.
It was three hours after the ac
cident before the boy reached the
village, and skin boats were
launched immediately with parties
seeking the youngster’s father.
The Air Force sent rescue and
search craft over the area today.