THE
NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 55
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1963
Per Copy 151
Canada Approves Treaty to Permit
Japanese to Fish in Eastern Bering Sea
OTTAWA UP — Canada has ac
cepted recommendations of the In
ternational North Pacific Fisheries
Commission to permit Japan to fish
for halibut in the Eastern Bering
Sea and for herring west of the
Queen Charlotte Islands, Foreign
Minister Paul Martin said today.
The recommendations already
have been approved by the United
States and Japan. The lifting of
the ban on Japanese fishing in the
two areas had been strongly op
posed by British Columbia fisher
men.
The statement said the govern
ment also has approved conserva
tion measures recommended by the
commission for halibut fishing by
Canadian, American and Japanese
fishermen in the Eastern Bering
Sea.
Canada, the United States and
Japan signed the International
North Pacific Fisheries Convention
in 1952. Under the original terms,
Japan agreed to abstain from
fishing in the North Pacific and
Bering Sea for salmon, halibut
and herring of North American
origin.
The commission determined at
its annual meeting last year that
the stocks of halibut in the East
ern Bering Sea and of herring west
of the Queen Charlottes were suf
ficient to permit fishing by Japan.
Japan has requested a review of
the convention and the three na
tions will meet in Washington in
June to consider continuation or
possible modification, Martin said.
Calls It Big Disaster
VANCOUVER, B.C. UP — “This
is a disaster for Canadian fisher
men,” Homer Stevens said today.
“It’s victory number one for the
Japanese a*d the beginning of
the end for the Canadian halibut,
herring and salmon industry.”
Stevens, seceretary-treasurer of
the Independent United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union, speak
ing for about 7,000 fishermen, said
it was a “disgrace” the government
decision should be announced only
Coast Guard Finds
Rock Pinnacle Which
Damaged Ferry Taku
JUNEAU UP — The Coast Guard
said today an Army Engineers sur
very team has located an unchart
ed rock pinnacle at the entrance
to Petersburg Harbor, where the
state ferry Taku hit bottom April
25.
The Coast Guard said the rock
pinnacle does not appear on ma
rine charts of the Petersburg area.
The Taku, now undergoing re
pairs at Seattle, struck bottom
while approaching Petersburg Har
bor on a southbound run.
The ship’s hull was pushed in
up to five inches as the Taku
bounced along the rock.
There was no damage to the
Taku’s rudder or controlled pitch
propellers.
The Puget Sound Bridge & Dry
dock Co., which is making repairs
to the ship, said yesterday work
was being pushed in an effort
to get the ship back on her Alaska
run by May 13.
In Anchorage, an Army Engi
neers spokesman said the rock
will be removed as soon as pos
sible. Negotiations are now under
way between the engineers and
Puget Sound Drake Co. of Seattle,
which has equipment in the Wran
gell Narrows area on another
project.
The engineers said the rock,
measuring about ten feet by six
feet by four feet may be removed
by blasting or may be lifted out
and carried to deep water.
On inspection the rock was
found to be resting atop previous
dredge marks. It was speculated
the rock may have been carried
in by an iceberg.
eight days before the opening of
Parliament. He said the rights and
wrongs of any Japanese expansion
should have been discussed before
the standing committee on Marine
and Fisheries.
“This way the cabinet has by
passed Parliament,” he said.
Stevens said Canada had been
“blackmailed” by the Japanese,
that “we’ve given them something
on a silver platter.” They would
in time move in on the salmon in
dustry here, Stevens said.
The union official said during
discussions on the debated ocean
areas, the Japanese have been
“poaching,” and with Canada’s de
cision today will “move in like
bird dogs.”
Next Stop Brisbane
SUVA, Fiji UR —- Betty Miller
of Santa Monica, Calif., landed at
Nandi, Fiji, Wednesday afternoon,
completing the next-to-last leg of
her attempt to become the first
woman to fly solo across the Pacific
to Australia.
The 37-year-old flying instructor
made the flight from Canton Is
land in 8 hours and 26 minutes.
Mrs. Miller still has about 1,400
miles to go on her 7,100-mile flight
from Oakland, Calif., to Brisbane,
Australia.
She plans to leave Nandi Friday
for Brisbane.
Mrs. Miller left Oakland April
30 and became the first woman to
fly solo the 2,200 miles from the
U.S. mainland to Hawaii.
She flew to Canton Monday.
Gov. Wm. Egan Signs
Appropriation Measure
JUNEAU M — Gov. Wm. Egan
signed the general appropriations
bill for fiscal 1964 into law today,
cleaning up action on all measures
passed by the last legislature.
The big spending bill calls for
expenditures of $151,607,832 from
all sources during the fiscal year
starting July 1. Of this amount
$79,096,730 will come from the
state’s basic general fund.
In a message to the legislature
announcing that he had signed the
bill, Egan said:
“The bill is higher than the ex
penditures recommended by me
earlier this year, but its appropri
ations are essentially those for pro
grams contained in my original
budget recommendations shortly
after the convening of the 1963
legislature.”
Egan said he was confident that
the appropriation bill will be an
“important factor in the continued
sound growth of the State of
Alaska.”
After noting in his eight-page
message the programs and develop
ments which would be accomplish
ed with the funds provided for in
the budget, Egan was mildly
critical of a $250,000 appropriation
for the maintenance of local service
roads, indicating he did not feel
the amount was sufficient.
OMAHA WOMAN NAMED
MOTHER OF THE YEAR
NEW YORK UP) — Mrs. Olga
Pearson Engdahl of Omaha, Neb.,
outpointed aspirants from the 50
states today for the coveted Mother
of the Year Award.
The handsome 67-year-old moth
er of seven, blue-eyed and gray
haired, was selected by the Ameri
can Mothers Committee Inc.
Mrs. Engdahl and her husband,
John Engdahl, both natives of Ne
braska, were present when the
announcement was made. They
have six sons, one daughter and
14 grandchildren.
Engdahl is founder and presi
dent of the Engdahl Top and Body
Co., which he said is the oldest
automobile firm in Nebraska.
Alaska Steam I
Freight Rate
Increase Okayed
J
WASHINGTON UD — The Mari
time Commission has decided one
phase of the long drawn out Alaska
water freight rate case.
The commission found tariffs
filed by Alaska Sttamship Co., call
ing for a 10 per cent increase, to
be just and reasonable.
The case started in December
1959, when the company filed new
rates, to become effective Jan. 10,
1960.
An examiner who heard the case
recommended against the increase.
The commission overturned his
recommendation.
A commission spokesman said
today the commission delayed a
ruling on applications of several
other companies operating between
Pacific Coast and Alaska ports,
and between ports within Alaska.
It ordered an examiner to take
additional testimony on these ap
plications.
The spokesman said he could not
estimate the amount of possible
refund had the application of Alas
ka Steamship been rejected by
the commission.
The fright rate increase was
criticised by Sen. E. L. Bartlett
yesterday.
Bartlett said high freight rates
are an important factor in the'
state’s cost of living and hamper
Alaska in efforts to develop and
market its resources.
The commission ordered an ex
aminer to hold further hearings
on increases proposed by Puget
Sound Alaska Van Lines Inc.,
Alaska Northern Express Inc.,
Alaska Freight Lines Inc., and
Garrison Fast Freight.
At Seattle, William Tufford,
general manager of Alaska Freight
Lines Inc., commented:
“I don’t understand why we and
the other parties were not also
granted the increase. Our Wash
ington counsel is reviewing the
case.”
Testar Satellite Relays
Perfect TV Pictures
NEW YORK UP — The Telstar
communications satellite whizzed
through the heavens today after
working perfectly in relaying tele
vision pictures between the United
States and Europe.
The pictures that bounced back
to the sending station at Andover,
Maine, last night were described
as “magnificent — very, very
clear.”
Tonight a color television trans
mission is planned between the
continents.
Last night’s test of the satellite,
launched into perfect orbit earlier
in the day from Cape Canaveral,
was pronounced a huge success
after it relayed a taped television
test program to Europe.
Industrial Gases Caused
Fire on Sub Flasher
GROTON. Conn. UP) — An in
vestigation indicated today that ig
nition of industrial gases apparent
ly caused the flash fire that claim
ed the lives of three workers
aboard the nuclear submarine
Flasher, the builders said.
This terse announcement was
issued from the Electric Boat Di
vision of General Dynamics Corp.
—where the Flasher is under con
struction.
The company had no further
comment on yesterday’s accident
in which sudden death struck the
Navy’s nuclear submarine program
for the second time in a month.
The mishap prompted new de
mands for an investigation.
In addition to three deaths, the
fire injured two other workers,
one critically.
The Flasher is an attack sub
marine of the Thresher class.
Los Angeles Jolted
With Four Earthquakes
LOS ANGELES GB — Four
earthquakes in five hours kept
police in Los Angeles County beach
communities busy telling callers:
“Yes, there has been an earth
quake.”
All the quakes were slight, but
noisy.
The tremors came at 12:49, 2:30,
5:47 and 9:20 p.m. Tuesday. Each
time the dishes rattled, hundreds
of residents began calling the local
police stations.
There was absolutely nothing the
police could do about it, except at
the Hermosa Beach Station. The
quakes caused the doors on the
filing cabinets there to fly open,
the officers spent the five hours
alternately answering phones and
shutting cabinet drawers.
The only damage reported was
a broken water pipe in Manhat
tan Beach.
Radiation Is Big
Problem With
Atomic Excavation
NEVADA TEST SITE, Nev. UP>
— Ten months ago scientists fired
a 100-kiliton thermonuclear device
buried 625 feet in the earth. In
three seconds 12 million tons of
| soil rose in a mighty upheaval.
The Atomic Energy Commission
gave newsmen their first look at
the results of the blast Tuesday.
On the AEC’s test area here they
were shown a gigantic hole —
1,200 feet across, deep enough to
I hide a 32-story building. The walls
are so steep the only way to gel
down into it is in a four-wheeled
buggy, attached to a cable which is
lowered down a runway of metal
mats by a crane.
An AEC spokesman said the
blast was part of a test to develop
peaceful uses for the powers of
atomic explosion. The July 6 de
vice had a power equivalent to
100,000 tons of TNT. Nuclear
power, when safely harnessed, will
I be able to save up to 90 per cent
of the cost of conventional exca
vations, a scientist told newsmen.
One big problem: Radiation.
Workers weren’t able to get into
the crater until February.
First Negro Offered Job
As Pilot on U.S. Airline
DENVER — Marlon Green
says he is delighted to be offered
a job that would make him the
first Negro pilot for a United
States airline.
The offer was made by the
Continental Airlines, two weeks
after the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that states can forbid dis
criminatory hiring by interstate
carriers. The court upheld Green’s
contention that he was denied a
job by Continenetal solely because
he is a Negro.
Green, 33, said he would accept
Continental’s job “if Mr. Taylor
(Green’s attorney) and I judge that
we have here a bona fide offer
of employment.”
Green left the Air Force in
1957 after learning that major air
lines had agreed to bar racial dis
crimination in hiring flight crews.
Green moved to Denver from
Lansing, Mich., Sunday with his
wife, Eleanor, and their six chil
dren. He began work April 29 as
a $9,475-a-year pilot for the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation.
SHUT THE DOOR . . .
PHILADELPHIA UP> — Mary,
the kidnaped mynah bird, was re
turned to the zoo in a cardboard
box under the full of the moon at
the south gate by two women in
black.
The bird disappeared from the
zoo Monay night.
. Release from the box in the
bird house, Mary commanded
“shut that door.”
The watchman did.
Kennedy Prediets
Another Round
Of Nuclear Tests
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy has predicted another
round of nuclear testing by the
great powers if there is no test ban
agreement. And he declared it will
be a disaster for all concerned.
Speaking of this at his news
conference, the President drew on
the story of “Aladdin and His
Wonderful Lamp” to describe
what he meant. He said that once
testing is resumed, “the Genie is
aut of the bottle and we'll never
get it back in again.”
Also at his broadcast meeting
with newsmen, the President
voiced gratification at progress
toward ending what he termed “an
ugly situation in Birmingham,
Ala.” He said he is optimistic the
conflict over segregation at Bir
mingham, in which more than
2,400 Negroes have been arrested
in a week, will be resolved peace
fully within the next 12 to 24
hours.
The President declared U.S.
support for the security of Israel
and its neighbor nations in the
Middle East, and warned against
agressive acts in the area by any
country.
And on a matter within his
administration, he said Adm. Geo.
Anderson, the outgoing Chief of
Naval Operations, will continue
1 to serve the U.S. in what he called
1 “a position of high responsibility”
1 —but did not announce what the
I job will be.
10th OIL LEASE SALE
NETS STATE $4,137,027
ANCHORAGE UPi—A few tracts
drew high bids in Alaska’s 10th
petroleum lease sale today, but
others went begging as the sealed
bid opening produced a total of
$4,137,027.12 in bonus offers.
The highest bid for the some 200
tracts that were nominated for the
[ sale was submitted by Humble Oil
and Refining Co., which had been
relatively inactive in Alaska in
recent years.
The Humble top bid was for
$288,640 for a 640-acre tract, or
an average of $451 an acre.
The bid was on land in the for
mer Susitna Gunnery Range which
was expected to attract 'high bids.
Few of these tracts went without
bids.
The sale covers a hodgepodge of
school lands, University of Alaska
land grants, mental health grants,
general land grants and offshore
lands.
24-HOUR TRUCE IS
CALLED OFF WHEN
LEADERS ARE JAILED
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. UP*—Negro
leaders have called off their 24
hour truce in the racial demon
strations here. The truce was ended
as soon as it started when it was
learned that two of the chief lead
ers in the demonstrations had been
jailed for 180 days.
The negro leaders said they con
sidered the jailing of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev.
Ralph Abernathy as a ‘‘breaking
of faith” in the truce agreement.
The two were fined $100 each
and sentenced to 180 days in jail
on a two-week-old charge of pa
rading without a permit. Bail was
set at $2,500 each and attorneys for
the negro leaders said there were
no immediate plans for getting
them out.
The Weather: Mostly cloudy but
decreasing tonight. Lowest temp,
expected tonight 25, the high to
morrow 35.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 21, lowest 28. Sunrise at 3:07
a.m., sunset at 8:52 pjn.
A year ago today: highest 33,
lowest 30.