™E NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64 th Year No. 80
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1963
Per Copy 15*
Fish Price Dispute j
In Bristol Bay
Virtually Over
JUNEAU M — A strike of Hoo
nash seine boat crewmen in the
Icy Strait-Chatham Strait area was
at an end today and a fish price
dispute w’ ~h had idled the big
Bristol Bay salmon fleet was virtu
ally over.
The seine boat crewmen, mem
bers of the Boat Pullers Union,
which represent all boat crewmen
except the skipper, settled with
the Chatham, Excursion Inlet and
Haw’k Inlet Canneries Thursday.
The boat pullers had started
picketing the three canneries
Monday to back demands for an
increase in offered prices for reds,
cohos, chums and pinks.
Wednesday night, Superior Court
Judge James von der Heydt issued
a temporary restraining order pro
hibiting picketing at Chatham and
Excursion Inlet.
Under the agreement reached
Thursday, canneries will pay 26
cents a pound for reds, 98 cents a
fish for cohos, 78 cents a fish for
chums and 38-52 cents a fish for
pinks.
Gov. Wm. Egan was advised that
virtually all of the boats in the
Nushagak area of Bristol Bay went
fishing for the first time this year
Wednesday night, when a regular
weekly fishing period opened.
The governor said he was in
formed there were still some hold
outs, in the Nushagak, Kvichak
Naknek and Egegik areas.
State Dept. Asks Russia
Withdraw Crab Fleet
From Alaskan Waters
JUNEAU M — The State De
partment has asked Russia to with
draw a king crab fleet operating
in the Gulf of Alaska, the Alaska
congressional delegation reports.
In a wire to the Associated Press,
the delegation said the State De
partment told Russia the United
States believes the king crab quali
fies as a creature of the Conti
nental Shelf under the internation
al convention of the high seas.
Although the provisions of the
convention lack ratification of
three nations to make it operative,
Russia was reminded that both the
Soviet Union and the United States
are signatories.
The convention recognizes crea
tures of the Continental Shelf as
resources of the adjacent nation.
The Bureau of Commercial Fish
eries confirmed last week that a
15,000-ton Russian king crab fac
tory ship and 12 catcher boats were
operating in the Gulf of Alaska off
Chirikof Island.
GROSS TAX COLLECTIONS
UP $3 Million OVER LAST YEAR
JUNEAU UP — The State De
partment of Revenue reported to
day that gross tax collections dur
ing fiscal 1963 were $39,830,623.97,
up $3,089,420.52 from gross col
lections during fiscal 1962.
Net income tax collections led
the field at $16,541,110.67, up
$1,500,657.43 from net income tax
collections during the previous
fiscal year.
By area, the Third Division ac
counted for $21,226,938.04 of total
gross tax collections, the First Di
vision for $9,148,549.44, the Fourth
Division for $6,987,902. 55 and the
Second Division for $856,381.69.
It has been found that people
who are poor credit risks are also
more accident prone.
State Takes Over Palzer
Concessions on Ferries
JUNEAU iff — The state, not
unexpectedly, was in the ferry
concession business today, follow
ing Chris Palzer’s rapid exit as
concessionaire for the Southeast
Marine Highway system.
The state assumed control of
the ferry concessions at midnight
Wednesday in a takeover which
Public Works Commissioner Rich
ard Downing said went extremely
smoothly.
Palzer was advised last Friday ]
that the state was prepared to take
over operation of the concessions
immediately, if service were not
improved or if Palzer preferred to
terminate the contract before the
30-day notice of cancellation of
contract had expired.
Wednesday night, Capt. Gregg
Mangan, director of the Division
of Marine Transportation received
a wire from Palzer’s attorney say
ing Palzer was terminating the
contract.
Downing said the state has re
ceived feelers from several large
companies about the ferry con
cessions, but he said talks had not
progressed beyond the preliminary
stages.
Mangan said, "We had already
contacted all of Mr. Palzer’s em
ployes, to prepare for something
like this, and every one of them
signed with the state, with the ex
ception of one waiter on the Mata
nuska.”
PAA Jet Service Brings
Delights of Alaska Crab
To Islands of Hawaii
WASHINGTON — Pan Amer
ican World Airways said today
jet-age merchandising has opened
up a new cooked crabmeat indus
try in Alaska.
Harold Graham, vice president
of cargo sales, reported that within
a 4-month period Pan American
has flown nearly 40 tons of cooked
dungeness crab from Metlakatla,
Alaska, to Seattle and Honolulu.
Graham said that although
dungeness crab is a much sought
after delicacy and is in almost un
limited supply in waters off Alas
ka's Panhandle, the distances to
major markets and the rapidity
with which the meat loses its fla
vor had prevented large-scale de
velopment.
Last year Pan American set up
experimental shipments, using
special designed plastic containers
for whole cooked crabs. The
initial tests were so encouraging
that Arnt Antonsen, an Alaskan,
set up a crab-cooking and pro
cessing plant near Annette Island
Airport.
The airline established a rate for
shipments of more than 1,000
pounds at 4 cents a pound to Seat
tle and 20 cents a pound to Hono
lulu.
“From a zero point, shipments
quickly soared to a point where
almost all move at the 1,000-pound
rate,” Graham said.
“Some Hawaiian hotels have a
standing order for all of this type
of crabmeat they can get.”
THE WEATHER: Mostly fair
today and tonight, little change in
temperature. Lowest expected to
night 37. the high tomorrow 54.
In the past 24 hours: Highest
53, lowest 36. Max. wind 26 mph
from the west. Sunrise at 1:40
a.m., sunset at 10:31 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
51, lowest 46 Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 73 in 1958,
lowest 32 in 1924.
Clergymen Jailed
In Integration
Demonstration
BALTIMORE, Md. u?V-The Rev.
Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief ex
ecutive officer of the United Pres
byterian Church, and other Pro
testant, Catholic and Jewish cler
gymen were arrested when they
attempted to integrate an amuse
ment park near Baltimore in a
massive Independence Day demon
stration.
At least 36 clergymen were
among the 275 whites and negroes
arrested. The police docket in sub
urban Woodlawn, where the
Gywnn Oak Amunsement Park is
located, read like a religious Who’s
Who.
All were charged under Mary
land’s trespass law which permits
the owner of a business to refuse
entrance to any person he wishes.
Sixty-nine demonstrators who had
to be carried from the park also
were charged with disorderly con
duct.
To the hundreds of patrons who
had flocked to the 68-acre park for
a July 4th picnic complete with
roller-coaster rides, ferris wheel
and carnival barkers, the demon
stration was just added excite
ment. Most ignored the integrated
protestors, but a few stopped to
jeer as police walked and carried
them to commandeered school
buses and patrol wagons.
“Take ’em all. Lock ’em up and
throw away the key. It looks like
a revival meeting,” were among
the catcalls. A few cherry bombs
were tossed, but for the most pari
everything was orderly.
The integrationists responded bj
singing freedom songs and waving
placards.
More than 200 of the nearly 40(1
who took part in the protest came
from New York City and Phila
delphia in buses.
Traffic Death Toll 221
By the Associated Press
Auto passengers contributed to
a rising highway death toll today
in the nation’s Independence Day
weekend mass motoring shuffle as
the holiday fatality count quick
ened.
The toll at 3 p.m. was 221.
The four-day holiday death toll
was mounting at a pace close to
that of Independence Day 1961
when a record 509 traffic fatalities
were counted.
The NSC has estimated 550-650
persons may die in traffic acci
dents during the weekend.
Ketchikan Boy Skewered
On Auto Antenna
KETCHIKAN (jP1—Prompt med
ical attention was credited today
with saving the life of a 13-year
old boy who was stabbed near the
heart by a radio antenna when he
lost control of the bike he was
riding.
William M. Cook, the boy, was
rushed to Ketchikan General Hos
pital by state police and the fam
ily physician, Dr. James Wilson,
who immediately operated to re
move blood from the' pericardial
sac which surrounds the heart and
caused a slowing of heart action.
Immediate surgery was necessary.
State police said the brakes of
the bicycle failed and the boy was
bumped into the rear of his fath
er’s parked car, throwing the boy’s
body onto the slanted antenna.
The antenna point punctured the
chest cavity and cut large blood
vessels.
Kennedy and Khrushchev
Exchange July 4 Messages
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. Ufi —
President Kennedy, in an ex
change of Fourth of July messages
with Soviet Premier Khrushchev,
has voiced a hope for just and
lasting world peace and a “solu
tion of those key problems which
divide us.”
Khrushchev sent Independence
Day greetings Thursday to the
President and the American peo
ple, offering “Warm congratula
tions and wishing you peace and
prosperity.”
“The American people,” the
President assured Khrushchev, are
grateful for your message of good
will on the anniversary of our
independence day.
“The American revolution was
based on the desire of our people
to build a free nation in a world
of peace. Today that desire for
peace is more urgent than ever.
“The world has long passed that
time when armed conflict can be
the solution of international prob
lems. I share your desires, ex
pressed in your message of today,
that we move forward with under
standing toward the solution of
those key problems which divide
us.
“I am hopeful that world peace,
just and lasting, can be achieved.”
The Soviet leader had told the
President that “In our age, the age
of harnessing nuclear energy and
penetrating the depths of the uni
verse, the maintenance of peace
has become a vital need for all
mandkind.”
Tokyo Will Switch From
Coal to Alaska Gas
TOKYO UP — Tokyo Gas Co.
which caters to this capital of 10
million people today disclosed
plans to switch from coal to the
cheaper liquid methane gas to be
imported from Alaska in early
1967.
Tokyo gas officials said two U.S.
oil companies. Marathon and
Union, have jointly proposed to
ship 220,000 tons of liquid methane
gas annually.
These officials said introduction
of liquid methane gas can lower
gas production cost by 40 per cent
from the present process using
coal.
Tokyo gas said it supplied 2,091
million cubic yards of gas last
year to the capital’s citizens using
1.85 million tons of coal.
Tokyo Gas Co. officials said the
U.S. firms have also proposed to
provide transportation by building
a tanker and operate it themselves.
They said a 35,000-ton specially
designed tanker is necessary to
carry the proposed volume.
Discussions are now under way
on whether Japan should accept
the U.S. offer paying freight
charges or construct such a tanker
here, they added.
YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
American League
Detroit 5-3, Minnesota 3-1
New York 9-2. Chicago 1-4
Washington 2-3, Kansas City 1-2
Baltimore 7, Los Angeles 4
Cleveland 4-7, Boston 3-5
National League
Chicago 2-3, New York 1-0
Milwaukee 6, San Francisco 3
Philadelphia 1-5, Pittsburgh 0-1
Houston 5-6, Cincinnati 2-2
Los Angeles 10. St. Louis 7
Pacific Coast League
Oklahoma City 6-2, Seattle 3-9
Tacoma 10, Dallas-Ft. Worth 2
Portland 5-4, Denver 0-3
Spokane 6-3, Hawaii 1-3
Salt Lake City 3, San Diego 1
Sen. Barleti and
Adm. Bakutis Are
July 4th Speakers
Nome was honored by having
two distinguished guest speakers
for the Fourth of July.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett came from
Washington, D.C. and opened his
remarks with a brief summary of
world affairs and the crises in the
world today. He also compared the
material and essential individual
differences between our way of
life and that which is behind the
iron curtain.
He keynoted his informal talk
with a warning that we as indivi
duals must be watchful at all times
to keep all of our freedoms as
stated in the Constitution and de
dicate our lives to preserve them
as did the brave men who make
up the history of our country.
Admiral F. Bakutis, from Ko
diak, on his first visit here, stated
that the military strength in Am
erica is no stronger than the civ
ilian citizenship of our country.
He recalled to mind that when
our country was young it had
wooden ships and iron men and
that is the strength of America. He
summed up his remarks with a
quotation from Rousseau which
expressed the sentiment that when
a people start worrying about
themselves as individuals instead
of their country first, then that
country is lost.
Visitors from USS Savage were
unable to get ashore in the mor
ning as their surf boat was dam
aged from the breakers on Wed
nesday while trying to go out the
river and was beached until the
weather moderated.
The Navy resorted to the use of
Eskimo oomiaks to get ashore for
the afternoon activities and untiL
their boat was repaired and the
surf calm enough for it to operate.
Russ and Chinese
In Showdown On
World Leadership
MOSCOW — Soviet and Red
Chinese delegates opened a show
down meeting tonight over control
of the world Communist move
ment.
The Chinese flew into Moscow
and were greeted by a facade of
friendliness. But they were under
instructions to stand firm on Pe
king’s challenge to Premier Khru
shchev’s leadership of world Com
munism.
The Russians made an effort to
play down the meeting. There
were no Soviet newsmen or
photographers at the airport and
no annauncement that the Chinese
had arrived.
The outcome could determine
the future of hundreds of millions
of persons for years to come.
Mounting charges and counter
charges between Moscow and Pe
king apparently doomed chances
of any real accord between the
Communist giants.
At issue is Premier Khrushchev’s
policy of peaceful coexistence with
the West versus Mao Tse-Tung’s
insistence that war and violent
revolution are necessary to achieve
Communist domination of the
world.
The basic quarrel is who is to
have the right to interpret the
principles laid down by Lenin,
founder of the first Communist
state—Russia.
The Soviet Union accused the
Chinese of slander, meddling and
aggravating relations on the eu#
of the talks.