OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 60
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1963
Per Copy 150
High Waters
Threaten to
Flood Galena
FAIRBANKS CP* — A major
ice jam below the village of Koyu
kuk on the Yukon River has back
ed up ice and water over the
villages of Koyukuk and Galena
and is threatening to flood the
Air Force Station at Galena.
Civil Defense regional director
Leonard Lobban reported this
morning that the ice jam is more
than ten miles long and is con
stantly building up.
The jam began building up late
last week and by Saturday it had
backed up water to Koyukuk which
sits on a high river bank at the
point where the Koyukuk River
flows into the Yukon.
By Sunday afternoon water had
completely covered the village to
a depth of about 18 inches and
ice had crushed two log homes.
The village sits about 15 feet
above the normal water level of
the Yukon.
More than 100 residents of the
two villages were evacuated to
Fairbanks late Sunday afternoon
by Air Force planes. The villagers
from Koyukuk were taken to Ga
lena early Sunday by helicopter
and then transferred to the larger
aircraft for the 300 mile trip to
Fairbanks.
Ninety-five residents of Koyukuk
were evacuated here and were
joined by 10 Galena people who
feared their village would be
underwater too.
in r airoanks the flood victims
are being cared for by the Ameri
can Red Cross in the multipurpose
room of an elementary school.
Just a scant hour before the
flood - victims began arriving the
same quarters were being used
for a violin-piano recital that fea
tured the first appearance in Alas
ka of an authentic Stradivarius
violin.
The men of the villages and the
older children remained behind,
one resident reported Sunday. She
sat in the waiting room of the In
ternational Airport holding one
small, wide-eyed child as three
other children silently sat by listen
ing to her describe their water
soaked home.
“We put the dogs on the roof.
Some people put some of their
things on their roofs, too. Our
house had about a foot of water in
it when we left.
A dike around the Air Force
Station at Campion, nine miles
from Galena is still holding back
flood waters there, the Civil De
fense said this morning.
Water rose 12 inches there dur
ing tiie night and still is coming
up. Those residents who remained
in the village have moved to the
dike with belongings they could
save. All the vehicles of the village
also have been moved to this high
spot. People are sleeping in tents
or in the few vehicles and dogs
are staked at intervals along the
dike.
LARGER POSTAL
QUARTERS AT UNLAKLEET
The Nugget has received a wire
from Sen. Ernest Gruening saying:
“The Post Office Department has
accepted a bid to remodel an exist
ing building for larger postal quar
ters at Unalakleet.
“Successful bidder, Northern
Commercial Co., Seattle, will re
model the Unalakleet Lodge build
ing interior space 1,320 square
feet with adequate platform and
paved area. It will be a five-year
lease and annual rental will be
$300.”
Two Canadians Jailed
For Illegal Fishing
KETCHIKAN (/P — Two Can
adian fishermen were jailed Sat
urday afternoon after their arrest
on charges involving illegal fish
ing in American waters.
The pair pleaded innocent Sat
urday night.
The State Fish and Game au
thorities identified the men as
Benjamin Hughes, 30, of Port
Simpson, B.C., and John Gomez,
22, of Prince Rupert.
The case was described as the
first involving a border violation
to be turned in here.
State enforcement officials said
the fishing boat, the Coastal Pride,
was spotted six miles inside the
U.S. waters south of Ketchikan.
Enforcement officer Robert Bud
ke said the Alaska State Dept, of
Fish and Game vessel Kittiwake
chased the Coastal Pride for three
miles after she was spotted.
Hughes and Gomez were charged
with fishing without an Alaska
license, fishing without an Alaska
gear license and fishing from a
vessel which was not licensed in
Alaska.
Magistrate Richard Lauber said
Canadian authorities were advised
and expressed interest in the case.
Because the alleged violations
involved the halibut treaty, the
Customs Bureau and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service were in on
the case. Lauber said the men
may be returned to Canada for
further action after they appear
in court here tomorrow.
Halibut Landings
Total 39,300 Pounds
SEATTLE GW — Halibut land
ings totaling 39,300 pounds and
salmon receipts of 4,400 pounds
were reported from Alaska today.
Reports to the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries listed 8,600
pounds of halibut at Juneau, 23,600
at Petersburg, 1,700 at Sitka and
5,400 at Wrangell. Prices were not
reported.
Salmon landings were 3,000
pounds at Ketchikan, 600 at Peters
burg, 700 at Sitka and 100 at Wran
gell. Prices at Ketchikan and
Petersburg were 60 cents for large,
medium 35, small 25, large white
40 and small white 20. Prices at
Sitka and Wrangell were not
given.
Meantime Seattle had 69,000
pounds of halibut at 18 cents for
chicken, 24 to 24.2 for medium and
25 for large. Seattle salmon land
ings totaled 30,900 pounds, with
prices not established.
Chief of Stale for Life
BANDUNG. West Java UP) —
President Sukarno accepted ap
pointment as Indonesia’s chief of
state for life today.
“Follow my leadership. I devote
my life for you, the Indonesian
people,” the 61-year-old president
told a crowd of 10,000 in the city
square.
Since he proclaimed Indonesia’s
independence in 1945, his leader
ship never has been challenged.
SEATTLE U!) — Pan American
World Airways has ordered five
more long-range Model 707-320C
all-cargo jets from the Boeing Co.
for $35 million.
Juan Trippe, PAA president, an
nounced the order in New York
today.
The order will bring PAA’s Boe
ing jet freighter fleet to eight
planes. The other three are to start
trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific
service next month.
Birmingham Board
Of Education Will
Expel Negro Pupils
BIRMINGHAM M — The Board
of Education ordered today the ex
pulsion or suspension of 1,081
Negro pupils arrested in anti
segregation demonstrations. A Ne
gro leader immediately threatened
a mass school boycott.
The school superintendent sent
principals a list of pupils charged
with parading without a permit
and called for their immediate
suspension or expulsion “until
proper hearings can be conducted.”
The board’s action bi'ought a
warning from the Rev. Charles
Billups, one of the leaders in the
long desegregation campaign.
“All Negroes will boycott the
schools,” Billups said.
“When they expel the first
pupils, then we hope to have
34,000 pupils out of school. They’re
not going to use us for an ex
ample.”
However, Billups said pupils
would go on strike of their own
accord. He said most Negro pupils
stayed out of school during recent
demonstrations because of threat
ened expulsion.
The board letter said the pupils
could apply for summer school
to make up the work.
The pupils can apply for read
mission for the fall term, the
board ruled, but they will lose
the final semester’s work.
The youngsters were arrested
for parading without a permit dur
ing mass demonstrations in down
town Birmingham.
Authorities were investigating
the theft of a large amount of
| dynamite several days before twin
blasts touched off Negro rioting
in Birmingham, throwing sparks
of racial unrest all over the na
tion.
Single Engine
Plane Makes Flight
Over North Pole
ANCHORAGE UP) — A Stock
holm businesman and his personal
pilot landed their single engine
plane here after a flight over the
pole from Stockholm. They are
believed to be the first private
flyers to have made the flight.
The two are Sigurd Hallstrom,
45, a Stockholm businesman, and
Olof Ringstrand, 21, the pilot.
The plane is a 4-place Piper
Commanche which Ringstrand
flew last year from Pennsylvania
to Stockholm by way of Bermuda
and the Azores.
They took out the rear seat of
the plane and put in a 150-gallon
gas tank, and also carried wing
tip tanks for maximum range.
They flew from Stockholm to
Bodo, Norway, in 3 hrs. 45 min;
21 hrs. 15 min. to Barter Island,
and 5 hrs. from there to Anchor
age.
Kingstrand was the navigator on
the flight, but both took turns at
the controls.
Hallstrom called it “merely a
routine trip.” He was rather mat
ter of fact about it. He said he
came here because he had “an en
gagement in Anchorage.”
They said they had good weather
all the way but had strong head
winds that cut their gas supply.
They had two hours of fuel left on
arriving at Barter Island.
They were out of radio contact
much of the time over the Arctic
because their long-range radio
went out—but they still had their
VHF set.
Gen. Lemnitzer Claims
Russ Military Strength
Has Been Beefed Up
WASHINGTON UD — Gen. Ly
man Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe, said today
the Soviet army can no longer be
considered a “cumbersome ‘mass’
force,” but is a highly mobile
one “geared to the realities of the
atomic age.”
Lemnitzer gave that assessment
to the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. He urged the committee to
approve President Kennedy’s re
quest for $1.4 billion for military
assistance abroad.
The foreign aid budget request
for the coming year is $4.5 billion.
This figure is almost certain to be
cut before the bill clears Con
gress, but legislators in the past
have never slashed the military
portion of the aid program deeply.
Lemnitzer, who last year was
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said Soviet military strength
has been beefed up and modern
ized in every respect.
“However, the most significant
aspect of Soviet naval strength,”
he said, “lies in its submarine
fleet which has been improved
considerably in both strength and
character.”
He said Russia entered World
War II “at the bottom of the list
as a major world naval power.
I Today Russia ranks No. 2, second
only to the United States.
U.S. and European
Common Market Reject
Compromise Moves
GENEVA —The United States
and the European Common Mar
ket today rejected compromise
moves by each side to end their
deadlock on forthcoming world
I tariff talks.
Conciliation efforts continued,
but prospects appeared dim.
Some delegates said the idea was
gaining ground that only a direct
understanding between President
De Gaulle of France and President
Kennedy could end the deadlock.
The major protagonists in the
deadlock are the United States,
fighting to save the “Kennedy
round” of tariff talks due in 1964,
and the Common Market, with
France as its major driving force.
The Common Market bent a
little during the day, agreeing to
across-the-board tariff cuts, but
only if the United States would
agree to an automatic formula for
adjusting gaps between high Amer
ican tariffs and lower European
ones. To this, the United States
said “no.”
Italian Scientist Accused
Of Spying for Kremlin
SOUTHEND, England <*> —
Guiseppe Martelli, 39, an Italian
scientist working for Euratom. was
ordered today to stand trial June
18 on charges of spying for the
Soviet Union. He said he would
plead innocent.
At today’s preliminary hearing,
detectives and British secret agents
told of findings at Martelli’s home
and office.
One said he found a shoe with
a secret compartment in the heel.
Martelli, a physicist, has been
working for several years at Eura
tom's establishments in this coun
try. Euratom is an organization
which carries on research and co
ordination between various West
ern European countries — into the
peaceful use of nuclear energy.
j Supreme Court
Gives the Heave-Ho
To Negro Trespass
WASHINGTON UP) — The Su
preme Court threw out today the
convictions of lunch counter sit-in
demonstrators in four southern
states, and declared it unconsti
tutional for a state to require seg
regation and use its powers to en
force it.
The pronouncement in an opinion
by Chief Justice Warren means
this:
No Negro can be convicted of
trespass for seeking service in a
“white only” restaurant if the
state has a law requiring segrega
tion in public eating places. The
same principle would appear to
apply to other business.
And. in a case from Louisiana,
the court threw out criminal mis
chief convictions of sit-in demon
strators even though there was no
law or ordinance requiring segre
gation.
Warren said that in this case,
coming from New Orleans, city of
ficials had said they were de
termined not to permit Negroes
to seek desegregated service. Con
sequently, he said, “the city must
be treated exactly as if it had an
ordinance prohibiting such con
duct.”
Where does this leave the res
taurant operator who choose on his
own to limit his customers to in
dividuals of a particular race?
Justice Harlan, in an opinion
taking exception to some parts of
the court’s ruling said:
“Although the right of a private
restauratuer to operate, if he
; pleases, on a segregated basis is
ostensibly left untouched, the court
in truth effectually deprives him
of that right in any state where
a law like the Greenville ordinance
continues to exist.”
In their broader implications,
the decisions in these cases could
have greater impact on the struc
ture of race relations in the south
than any other decisions since the
court’s 1954 ruling that school
segregation is unconstitutional.
These rulings were not the first
in the sit-in field, but were the
first to get to the heart of the issue.
155 SOVIET SHIPS ARE
BOTTOM FISHING OFF KODIAK
FAIRBANKS (IP — Sen. E. L.
Bartlett in Fairbanks Friday noted
there are now 155 Soviet ships
conducting bottom fishing opera
tions off Kodiak Island.
He did not elaborate, except to
say, the U.S. is slipping in its fish
ing endeavors, and now ranks fifth
behind Japan, Peru. Red China,
and Soviet Russia as a fishing
power.
The senior Alaska senator also
said there are more Russians sur
rounding the U.S. in fishing boats
than Soviet soldiers in Cuba, and
pose a greater threat.
THEME SONG WANTED
FOR MIDNIGHT SUN FESTIVAL
Special award will be given to
the person who submits a song
selected for the theme song of the
1963 Festival.
Name of Song
Name of Sponsor
Turn in this slip or mail to
Johnnie Reardon or leave it at
the Nugget Office.