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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
FAA Flight Service Station
THE NEW FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY Flight Service
Station is being officially opened tomorrow morning at the
Nome Airport marking another step in keeping the FAA policy
to improve and update its facilities.
Nome is a station of high activity as it is the center of the
busy operations for this entire area and the new station offers
many new improvements including 360 degree visibility of the air
port and its traffic patterns and also has improved communications
facilities. It also houses the U.S. Weather Bureau.
This agency’ has a staff of 22 employes here who with their
families total about 100 persons many of whom are housed in
the most modern housing units in Nome. There are 17 homes
for the FAA and quarters for six families of the U.S. Weather
Bureau.
In addition to the facility just completed the VORTAC sta
tion will be completed sometime in September.
FAA has an important function in Northwestern Alaska
where the only transportation to any other part of the world
is by air. It is gratifying that people like A1 Hulen, an Alaskan
since 1935 and head of the Alaska Region since 1955 had the
vision to see the need and be instrumental in providing adequate
service.
The FAA has brought men to the community with leadership
and high ideals and they have given of their talents to make this
a better community. The last three station managers have been
outstanding in their community' service. Bill Barber, Dusty Rhodes
and James Hart, all of whom have contributed generously of
their time which has been recognized and appreciated. Other
FAA employes have also served, are still serving in their various
capacities as part of the community' in which they live and are
an important part of Nome and its many activities.
Sources Report 30,000
Cubans Executed Since
Fidel Castro Took Over
MIAMI, Fla. — An under
ground source estimates more than
30,000 Cubans have been executed
since Fidel Castro took over in
1959.
The blood-bath continues, said
the report, smuggled out of Cuba
by the “Democratic Liberation
Command” and released Thursday
by exile leaders.
“Frequently, there are such re
ports as 10 executed in a province,
25 in a city, 15 in a settlement,”
the informant wrote. “Later, the
reports gain credence, and names
of the victims are mentioned.
Finally, through channels that can
not be disclosed we get confirma
tion.”
The underground letter added:
“It is conservative to say that
more than 30,000 persons have been
shot.”
There is reason to believe that
a considerable number of nuclear
arms remain in Cuba, the report
continued.
Practice Demonstration
PLAQUEMINE, La. W —- City
officials turned on the lights at
a ball park here so Negroes could
practice for a demonstration.
Police Chief Dennis Songy said
Negro leaders promised to advise
him a day or so prior to a plan
ned demonstration.
The city, in turn, extended the
courtesy of turning on the lights
at the ball park for a practice
session Wednesday night.
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House of Commons
Convict John Profumo
Of “Grace Contempt”
LONDON — The House of
Commons convicted John Profumo
of ‘‘grace contempt” Thursday for
lying in Parliament about his sex
life with Christine Keeler.
The House adopted without dis
sent a motion offered by the Con
servative party leader Iaian Mc
leod, which resolved:
“That Mr. John Profumo in
making a personal statement to
this House on March 22, which con
tained words which he later ad
mitted not to be true, was guilty
of a grace contempt of this House.”
The action spelled political doom
for Profumo, ex-member and ex
War Minister. He now is occupied
further with Scotland Yard as a
witness in a multiple inquiry into
vice, narcotics, perhaps blackmail,
and equal sordid phases of high
life in high places.
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard put an
emergency guard on Miss Keeler
after anonymous tipsters warned
that the life of the 21-year-old
party girl was in danger.
Miss Keeler, for five months the
mistress of former War Minister
Profumo, is to testify at the trial
of Dr. Stephen Ward the socialite
osteopath charged with living off
the proceeds of prostitution.
Two of her ex-lovers — both
Jamacian Negroes — already are
in jail for attacking her.
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Kennedy Hails
“Hot-Line” Link
CHARLESTON, W. Va. UP* —
President Kennedy hailed yester
day an agreement to establish a
“Hot-Line” teletype link between
Washington and Moscow as “a
limited but practical step forward
in arms control and disarmament.”
A White House statement added:
“We hope agreement on other,
more encompasing measures will
follow. We shall bend every effort
to go on from his first trip.
The agreement to set up a direct
communications link between the
capitals of the two super powers
was signed at Geneva while Ken
nedy was in the air enroute from
Washington to a West Virginia
state centennial celebration at
Charleston.
He was notified by radio of the
signing and the White House
statement was read to newsmen
on the steps of the state capitol—
with an interruption while a band
played “Hail to the Chief.”
CHAMPAGNE CORKS POP
GENEVA —To the popping of
champange corks the U.S.-Soviet
agreement on a “Hot-Line” be
tween Washington and Moscow
was formally signed Thursday.
The line provides for a direct
teletype cable between the two
capitals as one means of pre
venting an outbreak of war by
accident.
It would be used by President
Kennedy and Soviet Premier
Khrushchev.
U.S. Ambassador Charles Stelle
and Soviet negotiator Semyon
Tsarapkin signed the agreement
in the French Room of the Palace
of the Nations in their capacity
as American and Russian delegates
to the 17-nation disarmament
conference.
U of Alabama Takes
First Step Toward
Removing Negro Students
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. UP — The
University of Alabama Board of
Trustees has taken what could be
the first step toward removing
three Negro students from the uni
versity system.
The board filed notice in U.S.
District Court Wednesday that it
would ask the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals to overturn a
lower court refusal to delay inte
gration of the formerly all-white
institution.
Only notice of appeal, not the
text of the appeal, was filed.
In effect, the appeal would ask
the court’s permission to remove
the Negroes until racial tensions
have eased in the state.
The trustees said they were ap
pealing the May 21 judgment by
U.S. Dist. Judge H. H. Grooms
which overruled a board motion to
modify and suspend an earlier in
junction requiring integration of
the school.
The notice of appeal was signed
by 11 of the 12 board members,
Gov. George Wallace, an ex-officio
member, did not sign the petition,
but no immediate reason was
given.
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rency were IOU notes which
had been written on the
backs of playing cards by
Jacques de Muelles, French
Governor of Quebec in 1865.
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evening at the card
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FAD
Many playing cards have spe
cial meanings. The nine of
diamonds was called “Scot
land’s Curse” after the Duke
of Cumberland penned an
order to his troops upon one
of the cards—telling them to
slaughter the Scots. The six
of hearts means loyalty —
ever since a brave English
Colonel wrote his refusal
of surrender to William ofj
Orange on that card.
FANCY
Legend has It that Lord
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write social invitations on
playing cards for his fancy
balls and soirees. This
unique form of invitation
has long since passed
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24 Hours of Freedom
JUNEAU (P — Ira Ellison, 27, of
Anchorage, was back behind bars
Thursday, his bid for freedom
from confinement at the state jail
here cut to 24 hours by an alert
Juneau man.
Ellison sawed his way to free
dom through two sets of bars Tues
day night. He was serving time
on larceny and burglary convictions
and was awaiting transfer to Me- 1
Neil Island Federal Penitentiary.
Last Wednesday night, Ellison
knocked at the door of Richard
Frankfurter and asked Frank
furter for a razor and a comb.
Recognizing Ellison as the jail
escapee who had been sought all
day in an intensive manhunt in
the Juneau area. Frankfurter asked
Ellison to wait in the basement.
On the pretext of going to get
a razor and comb, Frankfurter
called police and got a pistol. He
then held Ellison at gunpoint un
til officers arrived.
SYPHILIS REPORTED
RESURGING IN UNITED STATES
ATLANTIC CITY N.J. UP> —
Syphilis, the “great pox” of medi
eval times, is resurging in the
United States, and there may be as
many as 1.2 million hidden cases,
a top U.S. Public Health Service’s
venereal disease fighter said yes
terday.
Dr. M. Brittain Moore Jr., chief
of the agency’s VD Research La
boratory, Atlanta, said in a re
port prepared for the American
Medical Assn, convention that the
malady is being reported with in
creasing frequency throughout the
country.
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Two Psychiatrists Say
Americans are Becoming
More and More Alcoholic
BERKELEY, Calif. W — Two
psychiatrists told the second ses
sion of the California School on
Alcoholism at the University of
California that the United States
is becoming more and more alco
holic.
Dr. Hardin Jones, Asst. Director
of the University’s Donner Labora
tory, said the habit of one for the
road is becoming increasingly
lethal and unbelieveable costly.
He cited some statistics: The
United States now consum?s 160
million gallons of spirits a year—
90 million barrels of beer and 150
million gallons of wine.
“I assume it’s being consumed,”
he said, “because I know it isn’t
being hoarded.”
That is enough, he said for
every adult in the nation to down
2.6 gallons of 100-proof alcohol
a year.
Dr. Jones described an alco
holic as anyone who drinks a fifth
of spirits a day. He said there are
about two million of these in the
United States. Other authorities,
however, define an alcoholic as
anyone who drinks 8Vz ounces of
spirits a day. There are about six
million Americans who do this, he
said.
About 4,000 deaths are officially
attributed to alcoholism annually,
Jones said. But, he added, probably
about 12,000 deaths are caused
by alcohol each year.
Dr. Karl Bowman, professor
emeritus of psychiatry at Langley
Porter Clinic in San Francisco,
estimated the cost of all this liquor
at $10.5 billion a year. He com
pared it with the expenditure of
$550 million a year on get-well
cards and $306 million annually
spent on chewing gum.
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