64th Year No. 104
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1963
Per Copy 15C
Fidel Castro Puts
His Armed Forces
On State of Alert
HAVANA (JPt — Prime Minister
Fidel Castro’s government put its
armed forces on a state of alert to
day and posted bigger concentra
tions of soldiers and militamen at
strategic points througout Havana.
Armed forces had been put into
a “state of preparation” Thursday,
but beefed-up military measures
were reported then only outside
the capital and not in Havana.
The new moves followed intelli
gence reports of possible incursions
by anti-Castro exiles against in
stallations on the north coast. These
raids would be somewhat larger
than the hit-and-run attacks made
by exiles recently.
At this point, telephone connec
tion between New York and Ha
vana was cut, presumably by cen
sorship. Earlier dispatches from
Havana had reported the follow
ing:
Sources said Thursday night the
alert had been in effect since Mon
day. The military was understood
to be watching particularly for
any attack from Nicaragua or other
Central-American nations which
have offered refuge to anti-Castro
exiles.
The Castro government has ac
cused the United States of being
directly responsible for the raids.
It said the forays proved there
was a new plan of aggression
against Cuba and said Cuban de
fenses would be strengthened.
Cuban refugees arriving in Flori
da have reported Soviet troop ac
tivity in the Cuban capital. They
said bridges and strategic points
around Havana have been taken
over by Soviet soldiers, causing
some apprehension among Fidel
Castro’s forces.
Curtis Publishing Co.
Seeks Retrial in Libel Suit
ATLANTA UP> — Attorneys for
Curtis Publishing Co., seeking re
trial of Wally Butts’ libel suit,
contended today the court erred in
ruling out testimony about a wom
an they described as a companion
of the former football coach.
The motion for a new trial was
filed in U.S. District Court after
Judge Lewis Morgan Thursday
issued a stay of execution of the
$3.06 million judgment awarded
Butts by a jury last week.
Citing 23 grounds as error, Cur
tis attorneys asked that the verdict
be set aside because of “gross
excessiveness.” Butts, 58-year-old
former athletic director at Georgia,
sued for $10 million because of a
Saturday Evening Post article
charging that he and coach Paul
(Bear) Bryant of Alabama rigged
a football game.
In Keeping With
The Usual Custom
The Regular Edition
of
THE NOME
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Will Be Omitted
Monday, September 2
In Observance Of
LABOR DAY
Canada Makes $7 Million 11
Deal with Red China 11
OTTAWA UP> — A deal with
Peking under which Canada will
admit up to $7 million worth of
internationally competitive goods
from Red China annually was out
lined by Trade Minister Mitchell
Sharp today. Textiles are to make
up the bulk of the imports.
This is part of the arrangement
under which Canada recently sign
ed a wheat agreement with China
State Trading Organizations.
Sharp said the agreement will
provide for sales of between $215
million and $350 million worth of
Canadian wheat to China in the
next three years.
Last year, Communist Chinese
sales to Canada reached $4,520,000,
including about $1.3 million in the
sensitive goods covered by the
new agreement. Canadian exports
to Red China hit $147,430,000, al
most entirely grain.
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Two U.S. Helicopter Pilots
Killed by Ground Fire
SAIGON, South Viet Nam UPi —
Communist guerrilla ground fire
downed a U.S. Army helicopter to
day killing to U.S. aviators and
wounding four.
In the same area northwest of
Saigon 17 other American heli
copters were hit by guerrilla
ground fire, American sources re
ported. A U.S. military spokesman
said five other helicopters were
forced down by mechanical
trouble.
An American spokesman sale
both Americans died as they were
flying a few feet above the ground
to pick up combat troops at Tay
Ninh, 50 miles north of Saigon.
Bernard Katexac
Awarded Art Scholarship
Tuglamina (Bernard Katexac), a
King Island hunter and carver, has
recently been selected for a one
year scholarship in art at the
University of Alaska. Tuglamina
was selected from among the stu
dents attending the Art and Design
Workshop ending this week at the
Nome High School.
The workshop was part of a
survey of native arts and crafts
in Alaska conducted by Dr. Geo.
Rogers and Professor Dan Pierce
of the University of Alaska for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs. The
workshop was a pilot program to
test the interest in art workshops
if they were made available.
Prof. Dan Pierce, in announcing
the scholarship says, “Tuglamina
was selected, not only for the fine
talent exhibited during the classes,
but for his ‘desire to learn’ which
is much more important than
talent. Talent is common, the de
sire to learn is rare.”
An exhibit of some of the work
done during the workshop for the
past month will be on display
starting tomorrow in the BIA
hearing room at the Federal Bldg,
on the main floor.
HHFA APPROVES
$77(>,X70 FOR WATER
AND SEWER PROJECT
JUNEAU i.T> — The Housing and
Home Finance Agency has ap
proved an Accelerated Public
Works grant of $776,870 for water
and sewer facilities at Nome, Sen.
E. L. Bartlett said Thursday.
Bartlett told the Associated Press
in a wire from Washington that
the project will cost a total of
$1,195,240. Nome's share of the
cost will come from a revenue
bond issue approved by the voters
there last January.
students are Still !
defiant of U.S. Policies l
NEW YORK (*> — Fifty Ameri
an students who defied a State ,
)cpartment ban on travel to Cuba \
etume<l by plane from Madrid \
*hursday night, many of them \
till defiant of U.S. policies.
Some of the students staged a ]
stand-in” at Idlewild Airport to <
jrotest a government announce
nent that their passports would
>e invalidated.
The “stand-in” ended two hours
ater when they were told their
jassports would not be marked ;
nvalid. However, each student was
^resented with a State Department
etter noting that his or her pass
x>rt had been suspended because
>f the trip to Cuba.
“We consider this another vic
;ory,” said Lee Levi Laub of New
ifork, a former Columbia Univer
sity student.
Ten of the students were sub
poened to appear Sept. 12 before
the House Committee on Un
American Activities.
When the group left their plane,
most of them walked into the Cus
toms Bldg, quietly.
But one student, not identified,
fell to his knees and kissed the
ground.
A spokesman for the group said
five students decided not to take
part in the Idlewild demonstration.
A spokesman added that only about
five “disliked what they saw in
Cuba.”
Alaska Airlines Ordered
To Make Records Available
SEATTLE OP — Alaska Air
lines was ordered yesterday to
make its books and records avail
able to three newly elected dissi
dent directors or to show cause
why it should not do so.
The order was sought by Ralph
Starkey of Hagerstown, Md., one
of the new directors and a for
mer vice president of the line.
At a news conference two days
ago Charles Willis Jr., president
and general manager of the air
line, said the three directors would
not be recognized by the company
until their qualifications have been
approved by the Civil Aeronautics
Board.
Elected with Starkey to the 11
member board in a bitter proxy
fight was Raymond Marshall, New
York, who controlled Alaska Air
lines for a number of years before
Willis became president in 1957.
Willis said the CAB took the po
sition in December, 1957, that the
board should not include Marshall,
or any of his nominees.
At his news conference Willis
reported the airline had a net pro
fit of $101,108 for the first seven
months this year compared with
a loss of $754,000 in the same
period of 1962.
State Salmon Pack
Reaches 2,538,075 Cases
JUNEAU — The State De
partment of Fish and Game said
today Alaska's 1963 salmon pack
reached 2,538,075 cases on Aug. 25,
compared with a pack of 3,192,
822 cases on Aug. 26 of last year.
Central Alaska still led the state
in the number of cases packed,
with 1,145,493, including 664.022
cases of pinks.
The Southeast Alaska pack
through last Sunday was 1,101.755
cases, including 902,885 cases of
pinks. Western Alaska had a pack
of 290,827 cases.
By specie, the total state pack
consisted of 38,971 cases of kings,
473,289 cases of reds, 67,081 cases
of cohos, 1,567,417 cases of pinks
and 391,317 cases of chums.
Signs of a Revolutionary
Change Seen in Moscow
MOSCOW Wl — Western diplo- '
nats breathlessly reported signs
oday of what could be a revolu- 1
ionarv change in Soviet attitudes (
o the West. (
They said Soviet officials have <
jeen sounding them out on how 1
o build a golf course.
It seemed like final proof that
he long East-West cold war was
'eally on the thaw.
Golf always has been reviled
ind ridiculed in the Soviet Union
is the acme of bourgeois decadence.
Forcer Soviet Foreign Minister V.
VI. Molotov once said:
“Golf is not a proletarian game.
[t is only for the rich.”
Golf is never played in the So
viet Union, for a good reason:
There are no golf courses.
A West European envoy report
ed that Soviet recreation organiza
tion officials, running a fashionable
retreat north of Moscow have been
asking Westerners how you go
about building a gold course.
“Of course we were delighted
to help,” the envoy said. “So we
advised that the best thing to do
would be to find a qualified golf
course designer.”
Sentenced to 30 Days
On Income Tax Charges
NEW YORK — James Landis,
former dean of the Harvard Law
School, was sentenced to 30 days ■
in prison today on income tax
charges.
Federal District Judge Sylvester
Ryan ordered that the term be
served immediately.
“The sooner he serves the sen
tence, the better it will be for the
defendant,” the judge said.
Landis, who had held high po
sitions in the federal government,
pleaded guilty Aug. 2 to a five
count information charging that
he failed to file “timely” income
tax returns for the years 1956
through 1960.
The taxes since have been paid.
The defense contended that
Landis was so engrossed in public
affairs of his clients hed “ne
glected his own personal matters,
including the income tax returns.”
50 Alaskans Will Attend
Alaska Hvvy. Conference
JUNEAU dt — The State Cham
ber of Commerce said today an
estimated 50 Alaskans will be at
tending a one-day conference on
paving the Alaska Highway, sched
uled at Whitehorse, Y.T., Sept. 12.
Don Dickey, general manager of
the State Chamber, said the con
ference has already drawn reser
vations from Alaska, Montana,
Washington, Alberta, British Col
umbia and Yukon Territory
The conference is psonsored
jointly by the Alaska and Alberta
Chambers of Commerce, in cooper
ation with the Whitehorse Board
of Trade.
Among top speakers scheduled to
take part in the day-long meeting
are Gov. Wm. Egan; Sen. E.L.
Bartlett; A. F. Ghilione, director
of operations for the U.S. Bureau
of Public Roads; and L. H. Mc
Manus, Deputy Minister of High
days for Alberta.
Acting chairman, for the Nome
Chamber, Bob Harwood, has re
quested that anyone in Nome who
can be in Whitehorse at that time,
is urged to get the proper cre
dentials from the Chamber and
make a plea to the group which
is meeting for Highway 97, or
a road from Anchorage, to tie
into the international highway
system.
Hoi-Line” Is
Ready for Use
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WASHINGTON <7P> — The White
louse-Kremlin “Hot-Line,” inter.d
;d to provide instant emergency
‘ommunication between the chiefs
>f state, is ready for use, the Pen
agon announced tonight.
A terse one-sentence announce
;aid only that the “direct commu
lication link between Washington
ind Moscow is not in operation.”
In reply to a question, a spokes
man said this meant that both the
[and wire and radio circuits be
tween the capitals now are ready,
rhe idea in setting up the facility
yas that in event of emergency it
might reduce the chance of acci
dental inadvertent nuclear war.
Tests of American and Russian
equipment for the new “Hot Line”
had been underway for some time,
followed lately by tests on the
circuits themselves.
Soviet equipment was installed
in the Pentagon last Monday. In
stallation of American equipment
in Moscow was completed Aug. 1.
The Pentagon is the mechanical,
operating terminal for both the
land line-transocean circuit and
the alternate radio circuit. Con
nections relay the circuits directly
through to the White House.
Five More Trapped
Miners Rescued in Utah
MOAB, Utah iff! — Five more
trapped miners were rescued alive
and in good condition Thursday
night, but ten others were found
dead.
The final toll was 18 killed.
Seven injured; two were rescued
earlier.
The five found Thursday night
t were in surprisingly good condi
tion in the same deep tunnel from
which the other two escaped Wed
nesday morning, the day after 25
miners were caught 3,000 feet down
by an explosion.
Eight men were already known
dead when two rescue teams start
ed a now-or-never search for the
remaining 15 late in the after
noon.
Within 90 minutes, June Craw
ford. chief engineer of the Texas
Gulf Sulphur Co., owner of the
potash mine, announced emotion
ally: “Five survivors have beer,
found in the east shaft. The men
are walking out of that drift.”
Then up they came by lift, grimy
but smiling, in such good condition
there was little need of treatment.
And one of them, Grant Eslick,
said, “Sure, I'm ready to go back
mining.”
Three hours after the rescue,
Crawford had to tell the tearful
wives and parents still waiting by
the mine what most of them had
feared: Tie last ten men in the
other tunnel where the blast oc
curred were dead.
Expresses Concern
WASHINGTON 0P> — Sen. Ed
ward Kennedy expressed concern
today with activities of a fleet of
Russian fishing vessels off Cape
Cod.
“I have been following the situ
ation closely with the Coast Guard
which has the Russians under sur
veillance,” Kennedy said in a
statement.
The Coast Guard has counted
169 vessels in the fleet, he said
and added: “There are undoubtedly
many more . . . concealed by fog
cover.”
He called this an ‘‘ominous pat
tern” and said ‘‘intrusions can be
anticipated” from a fleet of that
size.