NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 74
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1963
Per Copy 150
ELSIE M. ALDRICH
CHARGED WITH
SHOOTING OF EYBEL
Elsie McCafferty Aldrich has
been charged with second degree
murder and bond was set at $10,000
in the fatal shooting of William
Eybel, around midnight of June
20.
At the inquest this morning
three witnesses testified to seeing
the shooting which took place in
front of a small yellow cabin in
the vicinity of the Community
Methodist Church.. Eyewitnesses
were Rev. Howard DeVore, Law
rence Okpealuk and Sid Dickey.
The preliminary hearing has
been set for next Tuesday. Wil
liam Eybel was a bartender at a
local bar.
Gov. Egan Urges Air
Force to Reconsider
Closing of Radar Stations
JUNEAU — Gov. Wm. Egan
today urged the Air Force to re
consider its decision to close radar
installations at Bethel, Middleton
Island and Ohlson Mountain.
In a letter to Thomas Morris,
Asst. Secretary of Defense for
installations and logistics, Egan
noted the Air Force said the three
sites were originally designed to
fill low level coverage require
ments and were no longer needed.
“With the introduction of the
mid-range ballistic missile,” Mor
ris had written Egan earlier, “the
Soviets are no longer restricted to
the use of manned bombers against
Alaska, for which the low level
coverage criteria was originally
established.”
In his reply, Egan said that
while it was probably true that
the mid-range ballistic missile
gives Russia an alternative form
of attack, he emphasized that it
was only an alternative.
“It does not rule out the fact
of their continued capability to
launch an attack by manned
bombers or by other means for
which low level radar coverage is
required,” Egan said.
Road Open to Coffee Creek
The Kougarok road is passable
to Coffee Creek said Obert Hyde,
District Highway Engineer. But,
he cautioned that the road is mere
ly passable and that drivers should
exercise extreme care in traversing
the one-way areas and detours.
Labor Official Says
Automation Will Eliminate
22 Million Jobs in Decade
WASHINGTON UP — A Labor
Department official estimated yes
terday that automation and tech
nology will eliminate 22 million
jobs in this decade.
Testifying before the Senate
Small Business Committee, Sey
mour Wolfbein, director of the
department’s Office of Manpower,
Automation and Training, explain
ed: “This does not mean that per
sons in these jobs will necessarily
become unemployed.
“But it does mean that there has
to bd a big enough economic
growth and demand for goods and
services which, in turn, will gen
erate enough demand for workers
to account for all of these jobs
affected by our advancing tech
nology.”
The ones hit the hardest, he
said, will be workers with little
education or skill.
$1,000 PERSONAL CHECK
HOLLYWOOD Of) — President
Kennedy has sent a $1,000 person
al check to a committee planning
a benefit premiere for the movie
“PT 109,” a film about the Presi
dent’s World War II exploits.
The benefit at the Beverly Hil
ton Hotel July 2 will raise funds
for a child mental health center
named in honor of the President’s
brother, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., j
who was killed in World War II.
The center is in nearby Santa
Monica.
Mrs. Peter Lawford, the Presi
dent’s sister, is chairman of the
benefit. Their mother, Rose Ken
nedy, will be guest of honor at
the premiere.
RED CHINESE CALL IT
A "MOST SINISTER PLOT"
TOKYO UP) — Red China sharp
ly criticized President Kennedy’s
peace overtures to the Soviet
Union, calling them ‘‘his most
cunning and most sinister plot” to
divide Moscow and Peking.
Radio Peking said today the
official People’s Daily printed the
full text of the President’s June
10 speech at the American Uni
versity of which a Kremlin com
mentator wrote approvingly last
week.
The President in his speech
called for “mutual tolerance” as
a prelude to nuclear disarmament
and world peace.
MIDNIGHT SUN FESTIVAL
FRIDAY, JUNE 21
2:00-5:00 Horseshoe Pilching Conlesi behind Polar Bar.
Doubles, Singles for Ladies and Men. Prizes. Chairman
Roy Luke.
5:30-9:00 Progressive Dinner. Tickets on sale at North Star,
Polar, Breakers, Bering Sea Club, Polar Curio Shop.
7:00-9:00 Eliminations continue in Eskimo games and dancing.
9:00-10:30 Variety Show at School.
10:30-12:00 Alaska's Favorite Game by the Rotary Club at
School Small Auditorium.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22
10:00 Motorcade from Federal Bldg, to Airport for opening
of F.S.S. Building.
1:00-4:00 Eskimo Sports.
1:00-4:00 Jaycees Barbecue. Chairman Howard Farley.
7:00-9:00 Finals in Eskimo Sports.
9:00-10:00 Queen Pageant and Coronation—School Auditorium.
10:00-11:30 Grand Promenade and judging of costumes.
Coronation Ball.
12:00 Drawing for Polar Bear Rug.
SUNDAY, JUNE 23
11:00-12:00 Worship at Church of Your Choice.
2:00 Jaycee Hilarious Raft Race. Nome River. Starting at
Morgan's Camp, ending at Jaycee Picnic Grounds.
3:00 Family Picnic and Jaycee Reindeer Barbecue at Picnic
Grounds.
Cubans Demand
“Promised Help”
From United States
MIAMI, Fla. (iW — The Cuban
Revolutionary Council said today
it will demand “the promised
help of the United States” if So
viet troops attack commandos the
council claims to have landed in
Cuba.
Antonio De Varona, former
Cuban Prime Minister and the
guiding force behind the council,
told newsmen, “the United States
has said publicly that it would
help if Russians tried to put down
a revolt of the Cuban people.
“If our troops are attacked by
Soviet soldiers, we will demand
this help.”
Press officer Richard Phillips of
the State Department said in a
report in Washington Wednesday
that the United States has made
it clear that it will not standy idly
by in the event of a Hungary-type
uprising in Cuba should Soviet
troops intervene.
Antonio Maceo, president of the
council said, “this is the moment
when all Cubans should unite for
the liberation of our country, which
will be accomplished if everything
goes as planned.”
Maceo is grandson of Gen. An
tonio Faceo, one of Cuba’s na
tional heroes.
Officials to Be on
Hand for Opening
New FA A Building
A large delegation of distin
guished FAA officials are sched
uled to arrive today and over
I night here for the official open
ing of the FAA Flight Service
Station tomorrow morning.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett has been in
vited to attend, and being unable
to attend, is sending his legisla
tive assistant Hugh Gallagher.
Gov. Egan has also been invited
and is expected to be here.
In the FAA party are A1 Hulen,
who heads the Alaska Region; Don
Wolfe, chief of the ATC Division;
Virgil Knight, special projects co
ordinator; Bob Williams, executive
officer, and wife; Richard Young,
chief of the system Maintenance
Division, and wife; Gerald Kemp
ton, chief of the Airports Division,
and wife; Buck Culver, chief of
Installations Division, and wife;
Dusty Rhodes, Anchorage station
manager and former Nome station
manager, and wife; Jack Jefford,
chief of Air Support Branch, and
wife; Mac Emerson, chief of Weath
er Bureau, and wife; George Kara
belnikoff, chief of Installation
Branch; George Fay, publicity of
ficer, and wife; and a photographer
whose name was not available.
Actual service from the new fa
cility started on Monday but of
ficial opening will be Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock when Ann
Chambers, Queen of the Midnight
Sun, will cut the ribbon and
Frank Couch will act as master
of ceremonies, representing the
City of Nome.
The public has been invited to
view the facility following the
ceremony and a motorcade is being
formed at the Federal Building at
10 to go to the airport for the
ceremony.
The $375,000 building was con
structed by the Nordin Construc
tion Co. and the E & B Construc
tion Co.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued cloudy with occasion
al rain.
Congress will Insist on
“Best Price” For ACS
WASHINGTON lift — The
House Appropriations Committee
served notice today it expects the
Air Force to get the best price
possible in the sale of any por
tion of the Alaska Communica
tions System.
Legislation to authorize the sale
of the system is pending in Con
gress.
Reporting on the Defense De
partment money bill, the commit
tee said it recognized some por
tions of the Alaska system would
not be very desirable to commer
cial companies because of the
limited income they would pro
duce.
Therefore, it said, “the prices
received for the sale of more lu
crative sections of this system
should compensate, to the maxi
mum extent possible for any fis
cal loss the government might
experience on portions of the sys
tem it is not able to sell.”
Fire Sweeps Through
Two Buildings in Juneau
JUNEAU — An early morn
ing fire swept through two South
Franklin St. buildings today,
causing damage estimated by Fire
Chief John Morrison as $100,000.
Two bystanders received minor
cuts when a huge pane of glass
was shattered by intense heat.
Destroyed were a night club
apartments above the club,
plumbing shop and a second hani
store.
Three Juneau fire companie
and one fire company from near
by Douglas fought the blaze foi
more than one hour and a hall
before bringing it under control.
Cause of the fire was not de
termined, although residents of the
apartments said they believed it
started in or near the furnace
room at the rear of the building,
housing the night club and apart
ments.
Howard Barber, owner of the
two buildings, said they were in
sured for a total of $90,000.
Firemen were successful in keep
ing the fire from spreading to
the big Juneau cold storage build
ing to the south of the fire and
to the Winter and Pond Bldg,
north of the blaze, although the
latter building suffered extensive
smoke and water damage.
LOOKS LIKE A STEAK . . .
FT. STEWART, Ga. W — The
new dehydrated foods being test
ed by the Army are a lot lighter
to carry and easier to store, but
most important of all they taste
good.
That’s the verdict of some of the
soldiers taking part in a special
warfare school exercise known as
Water Moccasin IV.
They like the dehydrated steak
especially.
“It looks like a little piece of
cardboard before it’s prepared,”
said Army cook Alex Jacobs, “but
afterward it looks like a steak
again.”
17.432 PASSENGERS
JUNEAU Iff! — The three vessels
operated by the state on the South
east Marine Highway system car
ried 17,432 pasesngers and 2,786
vehicles through June 15, Public
Works Commissioner Richard A.
Downing said today.
Downing said revenue received
from the state ferry operation
through the same date amounted
to $271,541.58.
Cardinal Montini,
Pope Paul VI,
Is 262nd Pontiff
Of Catholic Church
VATICAN CITY <*> — The Col
lege of Cardinals elected Giovanni
Battista Cardinal Montini the
262nd Pope of the Roman Catholic
Church today, placing its future
policy in the hands of a dynamic
progressive. He will be crowned
a week from Sunday.
The new Supreme Pontiff of the
world’s half billion Catholics took
the name Paul VI. That clearly
emphasized his dedication to the
principles of world peace and
Christian unity.
The deep-voiced campanone,
master bell of St. Peter’s, led the
bells of the hundreds of churches
in Rome in carols of triumph,
while more than 100,000 persons
in vast St. Peter’s Square roared
out their delight.
The election of 65-year-old Car
dinal Montini bv a solemn, se
cret conclave of 80 cardinals, seem
ed to insure continuation of the
precedent-making policies of John
XXIII, who died 18 days ago.
The new Pope, who had been
archbishop of Milan for eight
years, is a skilled diplomat who
served Pope Pius XII as pro
secretary of state. He also worked
» closely with the successor to Pius
during the four years and seven
>, months of Pope John’s reign. He
a supported Pope John’s efforts to
d bring Christians together and
reach new arrangements for the
s faithful in Communist-ruled coun
- tries.
r On Sunday, June 30, Pope Paul
f will receive the glittering three
tiered tiara encrusted with pre
■ cious gems and topped by the
; golden orb and cross.
The coronation ceremony, the
most brilliant in Christendom, will
come one day after the Feast Day
of St. Peter and St. Paul. Vatican
officials, announcing the date, said
that June 30 is a day most par
ticularly connected with the mem
ory of St. Paul.
President Kennedy is expected
to arrive in Italy on June 30 on his
European tour. The first Catholic
chief executive of the United
States is expected to meet the new
Pope on July 2. The two often
have expressed similar views.
Shortly after Pope Paul’s elec
tion, the President sent him a
message on behalf of the United
states wishing him “long years of
leadership in the cause of peace
and good will sc nobly advanced
by your great predecessor.”
The new Pope, a vigorous yet
tranquil man with blue eves and
iron-gray hair, was the acknow
ledged favorite when the 80 car
dinals locked themselves into the
conclave area Wednesday. He
proved an exception to the Vatican
adage that “he who enters the
conclave as Pope comes out a car
dinal,’’ meaning that favorites sel
dom are chosen.
The new Pope quickly made his
first appointment, and it seemed
to be significant of his intentions.
He named Amleto Cardinal Cicog
nani as his secretary of state, the
next most important Vatican post.
Cardinal Cicognani had served
Pope John in that post and was
active in planning last fall’s Ecu
menical Council, considered the •
outstanding event of Pope John’s
reign.
The new Pontiff himself sched
uled his first broadcast to the
world over Vatican radio for to
morrow.