THE
NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 73
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1963
Per Copy 15C
Gov. Wallace
Will Try to Bar
Negro Registration
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Jf) — A
spokesman for Gov. George Wallace
said today the chief executive
would meet two prospective Nego
students at the door of the Uni
versity of Alabama Tuesday and
formally forbid their enrollment.
The spokesman said Wallace
would stand in the door of the
' registration hall but beyond that
his plans are indefinite.
“It all depends on what the
federal folks do,” the spokesman
said in Montgomery. It was the
first time Wallace’s plans had been
spelled out in any degree.
The governor and some of his
top advisers planned to fly from
Montgomery to Tuscaloosa this
afternoon and stay at a Tuscaloosa
hotel overnight. Wallace risks a
possible jail term in the integra
tion showdown.
The tow Negro students he has
sworn to turn back returned to
Alabama after a weekend in New
York.
“We shall defend our rights and
we shall dare to do so,” the 43
year-old governor said Sunday
night.
“I am going to stand for you at
the university,” he told the people
of Alabama in a radio-television
broa least.
The students, Vivian Malone of
Mobile and James Hood of Gadsen,
are to register Tuesday for the
summer session. The governor has
pledged to be there and stand in
their way.
Before leaving Montgomery,
Wallace renewed his appeal to the
people to keep away from * the
university and let him alone carry
out a test of state sovereignty.
Already on the tightly barri
caded campus with orders to pre
vent any possible violence are
more than 800 state, county, city
and campus policemen.
Waiting in nearby armories on
standby duty are more than 500
National Guard troops mobilized
Sunday by Wallace.
Wallace shid in his broadcast
that to send “a loyal southern
governor to jftil” would amount
to military dictatorship.
He was mindful of a federal
court injunction forbidding him to
carry out his promised blockade
of the Negroes.
Wallace made clear that his army
of civilian police and the standby
National Guard units will be used
only to prevent violence and not
to bar the Negroes.
Kennedy’s Book
“Profiles In Courage”
Will Be Televised
NEW YORK — “Profiles in
Courage,” a book that President
Kennedy wrote in 1955 when he
was a senator, will be produced
as a television series.
Robert Kintner, president of the
National Broadcasting Co., an
nounced Sunday that Robert Sau
dek Associates had bought the
television rights and will film
26 hour-long dramatizations for
NBC.
Saudek did not say how much
Kennedy will receive for the tele
vision rights to his Pulitzer prize
book of biographies.
It was reported unofficially Ken
nedy’s royalties will total $351,000,
or 10 per cent of the $3,510,000
that the network will pay Saudek.
The President will donate his
royalties to charity.
KENNEDY TELLS
GOV. WALLACE
TO STAY AWAY
WASHINGTON UR — President
Kennedy told Alabama Gov. Geo.
Wallace today there would be little
danger of any disorder at the Uni
versity of Alabama tomorrow if
Wallace would stay away.
Kennedy in a telegram to the
governor, added:
“I, therefore, urgently ask you
to consider the consequences to
your state and its fine university
if you persist in setting an example
of defiant conduct and urge you
instead to leave these matters in
the courts of law where they be
long.”
Wallace has said he will person
ally stand in the door and physic
ally block the admission of two
students tomorrow to the Univer
sity of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Kennedy’s telegram was in re
sponse to a telegram from Wal
lace received at the White House
early Sunday notifying the Presi
dent that the Alabama governor
had called out the National Guard
to preserve order.
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Kennedy Calls for
5-Point Program to
Check Racial Crisis
HONOLULU UH — President
Kennedy’s call for a five-point
program to reduce racial tension
in cities was taken up today by
several of the nation’s most power
ful mayors who pledged to battle
to see it through.
New York Mayor Robert Wag
ner said of the President’s message:
“It is a real challenge. A lot of
us will fight to see that our con
ference adopts resolution support
ing his position.”
Backing up Wagner at the Na
tional Mayors’ Conference where
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago,
Mayor Jerome Cavanagh of De
troit and Mayor Joseph Barr of
Pittsburgh.
Cavanagh, in fact, went farther
in support of Kennedy’s sugges
tions, terming civil rights “the
most critical problem confronting
the nation today. It is more critical
than Cuba or Berlin.”
Kennedy made a 30-minute
speech to the assembled mayors
Sunday afternoon, emphasizing
Negroes are certain to win equal
rights and calling on the city chief
executives to make the process a
peaceful revolution.
The President’s address capped
a five-day, five-state western tour
that carried him from military in
pections to political appearances
and two talks on civil rights. He
flew back to Washington Sunday
night.
Kennedy told the mayors in his
address at a Waikiki Beach Hotel
the time is past “for token moves
and talks.” It is clear, he said,
that Negroes eventually will have
equal rights and, “our responsi
bility, yours and mine, is to see
that they are won in a peaceful
and constructive manner, and not
won in the streets.”
The chief executive urged cities
establish bi-racial human relations
communities to identify tensions
before they reach crises stage and
to help ease them.
NENANA DUE SATURDAY
The Alaska Steamship Company
advises that the first boat, the S.S.
Nenena is due in Unalakleet on
Wednesday morning and in Nome
on Saturday.
U.S. Will Renew
Test Ban Talks
With Kremlin
WASHINGTON M — President
Kennedy announced today that he,
Soviet Premier Khrushchev and
British Prime Minister Harold
MacMillan will send special ne
gotiators to a high-level conference
in Moscow in mid-July for a new
effort to conclude a nuclear test
ban treaty.
In announcing this new break
through in the long test ban ex
changes, Kennedy also declared an
immediate ban on any U.S. nuclear
tests in the atmosphere so long
as other states do not test. This
put the specific question of a new
round of nuclear explosions in
the atmosphere up to Khrushchev.
In a speech at American Univer
sity commencement exercises, the
President warned Americans
against “a dangerous, defeatist be
lief” that peace is impossible to
achieve. He argued that both the
United States and Soviet Union
and their allies have a “mutually
deep interest” in halting the arms
race and achieving peace.
“We must conduct our affairs in
such a way that it becomes in the
Communist interest to agree on a
genuine peace,” Kennedy said.
“Above all, while always defend
ing our own vital interests, nuclear
powers must avert those confronta
tions which present an adversary
with a choice of either a humiliat
ing retreat or a nuclear war.”
The Moscow conference could
lead to a foreign ministers meeting
and a summit session, depending
on whether it achieves a break
through in the stalemate of the
past six months. ,
Informants said Kennedy has not
yet decided upon his representa
tive. It was understood that men
such as John McCloy, his onetime
disarmament policy adviser, and
Undersecretary of State W. Averell
Harriman were being considered.
In making his announcement of
the conditional ban on U.S. nuclear
tests, Kennedy said: “Such a dec
laration is no substitute for a for
mal, binding treaty, but I hope it
will help us achieve one.”
“Our hopes must be tempered
with the caution of history,” Ken
nedy said of the conference to
break the nuclear deadlock, “but
with our hopes go the hopes of all
mankind.”
In making his announcement
Kennedy moved swiftly from one
area of crucial national concern
to another. He was just back from
Honolulu where he made a major
plea to the nation’s mayors to join
in a campaign for racial readjust
ment.
His big jet plane landed at An
drews Air Force Base at 8:51 a.m.
EDT, after a flight of 8 hours and
58 minutes from the Hawaiian
capital. That left him time for
only a brief check-in at the White
House before the mid-morning
speech at the university.
EXPRESSES DOUBT
SEOUL (if) — U.S. Army Gen.
Guy Meloy, who heads the United
Nations Command and U.S. forces
in Korea, has expressed doubt Red
China can perfect workable nu
clear weapons in the near future.
In a written reply to questions
submitted by a Korean wire serv
ice in Seoul, Meloy said: “There
is a great deal of difference be
tween having the ability to con
struct a nuclear device and having
the systems to deliver the nuclear
weapon.”
Fisherman Survives
Six Days of Choppy
Water in a Bait Box
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FORT MYERS, Fla. UP> — A '
tired Pennsylvania fisherman said
he weathered the choppy Gulf of
Mexico in a 39-inch square bait
box for six days before he was
rescued Sunday. '
Blistered and sunburned, Russell
C. Swith, 35, said, “out there the
days are awfully long, and the
nights are even longer.”
The West Springfield, Pa., man '
told the Coast Guard his 30-foot 1
snapper boat, the Java, sank on
it inaugural run June 3, 60 miles ;
from shore.
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Swift said he climbed into the
wooden bait box, just big enough
to crouch in, and set himself
afloat. At times, he said he saw
other fishing vessels, and at one
point, came close to land, but the
tide carried him out to sea again.
He was picked up 50 miles south
west of here after an amphibian
plane spotted the bobbing box.
Swift said it rained the second
night at sea and he had fresh
water to drink. He wore out his
shoes bailing out the bait box and
had to throw them away.
The amphibian plane notified
a shrimper, the Coral King, to get
Swift out of the water and a heli
copter brought him to Fort Myers,
and a hospital.
Muslim’
Through
Washington
By Fritz Witli
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON — Alaska’s
senators think it is time the fed
eral government did something
about railroad rates and extension
of the off-shore fishing zone to
protect U.S. fishermen.
Sen. Ernest Gruening said that
for 50 years there has been “a
unique discrimination against Alas
ka in the matter of railroad rates.”
He told the Senate that the
continental U.S. railroad freight
cost is lower on an item bound
for foreign Pacific ports that it is
for the same item headed for
Alaska.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett advised the
Senate that Canada is going to
claim a 12-mile territorial fishing
zone and said that “we must move
ahead in the same direction.”
“Now that Canada has acted in
this matter, I sincerely hope that
the State Department will pro
ceed with speed to give equal pro
tection to our fisheries resources
and our fishermen,” Bartlett said.
Gruening, speaking in support of
a bill to establish a federal office
of consumers, said Alaska-bound
rail shipments are under export
import rates while freight for other
states is charged lower domestic
rail rates.
For example, he said, in shipping
a car from Pontiac, Mich., to Tokyo,
the cost is $7.83 for 100 pounds to
send the car to Seattle for trans
shipment.
“However,” he said, “if the same
car is bound for Alaska on the
same train at the same time, indeed
in the same car, the railroad freight
charges to Seattle will be $10 per
hundred pounds.”
That means a charge of $72 more
for shipping a four-door sedan
bound for Alaska than for the
same car if it is destined for
Tokyo, Gruening said.
Gruening pointed out that his
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MacMillan Calls
For Inquiry Into
Security Aspects
LONDON I# — Prime Minister
MacMillan returned from a golfing
/acation today and ordered an in
quiry into security aspects of the
Profumo scandal which threatens
MacMillan's own career.
The inquiry is being made by
L.ord Dilhorne, who as Lord Chan
cellor is Britain’s highest legal au
hority. ,
It will determine if British
;ecurity was breached or was neg
igent as a result of former War
Minister John Profumo’s illicit
affair with Christine Keeler, a 21
/ear-old red-haired party girl who
at the same time, was sharing her
bed with Soviet Naval attache
Capt. Yevgeny Ivanov.
Ivanov is generally regarded as
a Russian intelligence agent.
Political sources said Dilhorne’s
report is in the works and prob
ably will be completed this week.
The report will be handed to Mac
Millan and Labor party leader
Harold Wilson but may not neces
sarily be made public.
Meanwhile, Dr. Stephen Ward,
the 50-year-old society osteopath
I who introduced Christine to Pro
Ifumo, was brought into court to
1 day on a charge of living on the
1 proceeds of prostitution. He was
ordered held without bail for a
preliminary hearing next Monday.
As Ward stood relaxed in the
dock in a green sports jacket, pale
blue slacks and opened-necked
shirt, his attorney said Ward
“wishes to deny this charge most
emphatically.”
Chief inspector Samuel Herbert
of Scotland Yard told the court
Ward likely will face a number
of more serious charges.
MacMillan refused to comment
on the Profumo affair and gave no
public indication of concern. But
the scandal rocking Britain could
spell his downfall as Conservative
party leader. His chance of sur
vival depends largely on the show
ing he makes before Parliament
next Monday when asked to ex
plain his role in the background
to the intrigue.
There has been no suggestion
that Profumo let classified infor
mation leak out. But his position
in the double affair obviously made
him a candidate for Soviet black
mail.
USS Savage Due In
Nome Over 4th of July
USS Savage with Lt. Cmdr.
Gerald Bradford, as commander,
is scheduled to be anchored in
the roadstead from July 2 to 5.
The ship plans to have open
house daily from 1-4 p.m. and is
arranging for special tours of the
destroyer for Girl Scouts, Boy
Scouts or other young groups
from 9 to 11.
Officers on the ship are inter
ested in giving presentations on
destroyers to interested civic
groups or clubs and ladies groups
are welcome aboard in parties of
20.
Any local group wishing to visit
the ship may contact Capt. Robert
Steel who will make the arrange
ments for setting up the tours.
The Weather: Increasing cloudi
ness tonight with probable show
ers.
In the past 24 hours: Highest
temp. 64, lowest 46. Max. wind
28 mph from the S.E. Sunrise at
1:27 a.m., sunset at 10:35 p.m.