THE
NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 72
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1963
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Doubt That Russ
Boy-Girl Flights
Connect in Space
MOSCOW Ltt — The male mem- ,
ber of Russia’s mixed space duet
lost altitude on his third day in
orbit today. There was doubt he ,
would hook up his spacecraft with
that of his blonde companion.
Reports from Western tracking
stations said the orbital plane of
Lt. Col. Valery Bykovsky’s Vostok
V space ship appeared to have
changed—apparently as a result of
a maneuver. One Western tracker
said the decay of his orbit might
force Bykovsky to land some time
tonight.
As the world’s first space wom
an, Valentina Tereshkova, com
pleted her first 24 hours in space
with Bykovsky, an official an
nouncement reported for the first
time that on their first joint orbit
yesterday they came to within
three miles of each other. This
outdid the feat of the Soviet space
twins of last August who rode four
miles apart on their flight.
But the latest communique on
the boy-girl space flight reported
that the 28-year-old Bykovsky was
dropping down. The communique
said his minimal altitude dipped
from an original 112.4 miles to
102.5. His maximum altitude drop
ped from 146 miles to 125.5 miles.
There was no report of any
change in the altitude or orbit of
Valentina, who holds the rank of
junior lieutenant. Tass reported
her minimum and maximum or
bits yesterday at 113 miles and
144 miles.
Entering their second day in
joint flight, Miss Tereshkova ap
peared tired but still smiling in
live television broadcasts from
her Vostok VI space craft.
Tass said the purpose of sending
a man and woman into space was
to compare the effects of space
flight on the two sexes.
The Soviet Union rocketed Miss
Tereshkova, a former factory
worker, aloft Sunday, two days
after Bykovsky blasted into space.
Rumors circulated in jubilant
Moscow that a third Soviet cosmo
naut might be sent up to join By
kovsky and Miss Tereshkova, but
there was no official indication of
this.
Word has been circulating for
weeks, however, that the new So
viet space feat would have spec
tacular trimmings.
Tourist Here Takes
Sound Motion Films
Mr. A. Boulanger, a small en
thusiastic senior citizen of Van
couver, B.C., is spending several
days in Nome taking sound films
while on a 2Vz month trip through
Alaska. Mr. Bourlanger is not an
ordinary tourist, as he trvels alone
seeking the out of way places as
well as the tourist centers.
While based in Nome he plans
to see Gambell, Teller, Wales and
take side trips from these places
wherever possible. He plans to be
in Nome until the 4th of July.
He is not a newcomer to Alaska
having gone from Dawson to Fair
banks back in 1916. His father
came to Alaska in 1898.
He expects to log 17,000 miles
before he is through and use
10,000 feet of film which he will
show many times for many or
ganizations.
A retired lumberman, with pic
tures for his hobby, he is finding
Alaska “a fascinating and most
unusual experience.”
He makes his home in New
Westminster, B.C.
Sense of Foreboding
Permeates Racial
Situation In Jackson
JACKSON, Miss — The bro
ther of slain Medgar Evers took
over as negro civil rights cham
pion in Mississippi today and
pledged to work for “the equality
of all men.”
Uneasy Jackson looked forward
to the possibility of more demon
strations, such as the one on Sat
urday when hundreds of negroes,
crying “We want the killer,”
charged police barricades.
Although Charles Evers, 40-year
old brother of the assassinated
field secretary of the NAACP, did
not disclose his policies in detail,
the ferment in the negro popula
tion was such that many onlook
ers had a sense of foreboding.
Leaders of the negro movement
to break down racial barriers in
Jackson have proclaimed a policy
of: ‘‘demonstrate, demonstrate,
demonstrate again.”
Sunday was a comparatively
quiet sabbath. Four young negro
women walked quietly into St. An
drew’s Episcopal Church, across
the street from the governor’s
mansion, and were allowed to re
main throughout the service.
However, at three other church
es — Central Presbyterian, First
Baptist and First Christian—ne
groes were turned away.
The body of Evers, a World War
II veteran, sped today to Washing
ton for burial in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery Wednesday.
Six Girls Killed
In Train-Car Crash
ASHTABULA, Ohio OP — The
girls must have seen the flashing
lights, witnesses said.
But the car carrying six Youngs
town girls home after a swimming
party drove into the path of a
speeding freight train early Sun
day, killing all six girls.
Two boys, following the girls’
car on motor scooters, told police
that flasher lights were working
at the crossing in nearby Geneva,
when the car pulled onto the tracks,
directly in the path of the Nickel
Plate Road train.
The 89-car freight smashed the
car into a tangle of twisted metal,
and stopped a mile down the track
with part of the car under the
engine.
The victims, all close friends,
were Sylvia Sanker, 18; Jennie
Angelo, 21; Darlene Muzenic, 21;
Sandra Van Sack, 18; Juliane
Palki, 20; and Barbara Cowan, 19.
The girls left Youngstown Sat
urday morning to visit a friend’s
lakefront cottage. They had plan
ned to stay overnight, but later
decided to return home for Father’s
Day, a relative said.
Nenana To Leave Wednesday
The S.S. Nenana, first freight
boat of the season has been stead
ily discharging cargo since Friday
and is now scheduled to depart
some time Wednesday for St.
Michael and then heading south.
There were 21 new cars, two
tractors and one grader brought in
and delivered to individuals, busi
ness houses and agencies.
Forecast: Continued fair with
little change in temperature.
In the past 24 hours: Highest
temp. 51, lowest 36. Max. wind 28
mph from the W.S.W. Sunrise at
1:20 a.m, sunset at 10:47 pm.
A year ago today: Highest temp.
57, lowest 41. Extremes on this
date since 1907: Highest 75 in 1948,
lowest 27 in 1910.
Israeli Prime Minister !
Ben-Gurion Resigns Post i
JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector Itfl *
— David Ben-Gurion, Prime Min
ister almost continuously since j
Israel was founded in 1948, has re- (
signed for personal reasons.
A government spokesman said (
he also will relinquish his seat »
in Parliament but will remain as (
head of a caretaker government
until a new one is formed.
Speculation spread that the 76- .
year-old leader resigned Sunday ]
because of criticism in Parliament ^
over his handling of a security j
case. But a communique issued ,
after a cabinet meeting said Ben
Gurion’s reasons for quitting were ,
“not connected with any state prob- .
lem or event.”
One source said that when the ,
cabinet pressed Ben-Gurion for the
reasons he replied, “I am keeping
them to myself.”
The security case involved Ger
man scientists developing nuclear
rockets for the United Arab Re
public. An Israeli security chief,
who never was identified, resign
ed last March because of differ
ences with Ben-Gurion.
—
Red China Warns
Khrushchev to Withdraw
Support of Yugoslavia
TOKYO UP) — Red China warned
I Saturday that unless Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev withdraws his
support of Yugoslavia there can
be no settlement of the Chinese
Soviet ideological split.
The Peking People’s Daily used
the word “irreconcilable” in de
scribing China’s hard line and
Yugoslav - Russian “revisionism,”
' which calls for peaceful co-ex
istence with the West.
The newspaper speaks for the
Chinese Communist leadership.
In a long article broadcast by
Peking radio and monitored here,
the paper indirectly criticized
Khrushchev through a scathing
attack on Yugoslavia.
The article indicated the Chinese
may have no intention of compro
mising on their ideological dif
ferences with the Russians in
below-the-summit Moscow talks
beginning July 5.
Needs a New Chain
DENVER, Colo. UR — That was
Gov. John Love who broke into
the governor’s mansion.
He returned at night from a
road trip and used his key to open
the door. A chain still barred his
way.
“I found a loose link I could
slip out of the chain,” said Love
after the breakin.
He’s putting a new chain on
now.
MANY INQUIRIES
In response to many inquiries
on why some “outside” hiring has
been done by the State Highway
Department, Wiley Scott, of the
ESC Office, stated that the Dept,
of Personnel found it necessary to
recruit qualified people for cer
tain engineering jobs all over the
state as the survey taken showed
that there were no qualified people
in the area for this work.
All jobs for which applications
had been made by local people for
which they qualified have been
filled locally, he said.
Mrs. Helen Carlisle, mother of
Fred Bockman, is here from her
home in Fairbanks for a visit with
her son and family which includes
two young grandsons. Mrs. Carlisle
is a former school teacher and was
also U.S. Commissioner here.
Senate Leaders See l
\rea of Agreement on
I!ivil Rights Legislation
WASHINGTON <*V-Sen. Everett 1
Dirksen said after a White House
inference of Democrats and Re- j
mblican congressional leaders to
lay that he believes there is an
‘area of agreement” among them ]
m civil rights legislation.
Dirksen, the Senate Republican *
eader, told reporters he thinks he (
md Senate Democratic leader Mike :
Mansfield can agree on a package
jrogram to be introduced after
Resident Kennedy sends a message ]
o Congress on Wednesday.
This was the second two-party
;ession with Kennedy on the sub
ect in only five days.
Later today the chief executive 1
neets with some 200 leaders of
various religious faiths to urge
that they exert moral leadership
for settlement of the issue.
Disclosing that he had studied
a preliminary draft of the admin
istration’s proposals during the
weekend, Dirksen said, “I believe
Sen. Mansfield and I will able to
join in sponsoring a program.”
Mansfield said only that no final
decisions had been reached on the
form of the legislation to be recom
mended to Congress.
Dirksen said the package pro
posal will cover everything. This
will include provision for deseg
regation of public places and pri
vate businesses, aid for school
integration and the abolition of
state literacy tests on voting.
Envoys from Around
The World Mourn for
Pope John XXIII
VATICAN CITY UF> — Envoys
from around the world he tried
to guide toward peace mourned
Pope John XXIII today at solemn
requiem mass under the soaring
dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.
An empty coffin was on a som
ber black catafalque, ringed by 96
flickering candles.
Sitting near the catafalque were
the envoys of 81 nations and world
organizations. They included Vice
President Lyndon Johnson of the
United States, Prime Minister
Sean Lemass of Ireland. Prince
Albert of Belgium and foreign
ministers of France and West Ger
many.
Pope John had sought Christian
unity. Today, for the first time
in nearly 1,000 years, representa
tives of the Russian Orthodox
Church atended a funeral mass for
a Roman Catholic pope.
The triple-crowned tiara of the
papacy, silver and gold studded
with precious stones, rested on a
cushion atop the coffin, shimmer
ing in the candle glow.
Pope John was buried in a crypt
beneath the Basilica on June 6,
three days after he died. The
solemn state funeral was the last
in a series of requiems held in
St. Peter’s during nine days of
official mourning at the Vatican
and throughout t h e Catholic
world.
Vote of Confidence
LONDON — Harold Mac
Millan won a grudging vote of con
fidence tonight to continue as
Prime Minister despite a sex-and
security scandal which has rocked
Britain.
The vote in the House of Com
mons was 321 for the 69-year-old
Conservative leader and 252
against, with some of his own party
members denying him their sup
port. MacMillan thus won a ma
jority of 69.
Court Rules
8ible Reading
Unconstitutional
[n State Schools
WASHINGTON UP — The Su
ireme Court ruled 8-1 today it is
inconstitutional for a state to re
luire Bible reading and recitation
>f the Lord’s Prayer in public
chools.
Holding that requirement of such
jractices — common in a pre
>onderant majority of the states—
holates the “establishment of re
igion’’ clause of the constitution,
he majority rejected an argument
hat the exercises are essentially
noral teachings and not religious
jractices.
Justice Clark, who wrote the
court’s main opinon on two cases
:oming from Maryland and Penn
sylvania, declared:
“Nor are these required exer
cises mitigated by the fact that in
dividual students may absent them
selves upon parental request, for
that fact furnishes no defense to
a claim of unconstitutionality.
“Further,” Clark said, “it is no
defense to urge that the religious
practices here may be relatively
minor encroachments on the First
Amendment.
“The breach of neutrality that is
today a trickling stream may all
too soon become a raging torrent
and in the words of Madison, ‘it is
proper to take alarm at the first
experiment on our liberties’.”
He had declared that the first
amendment requires that the gov
| ernment be completely neutral
where religion is concerned.
Clark added that nothing the
court said today would bar study
of the Bible or of religion “when
presented objectively as part of a
secular program of education.”
But he reiterated that the school
exercises in the Maryland and
Pennsylvania cases did not fall
into those educational categories.
Rather, he asserted, “they are re
ligious exercises required by the
states in violation of the com
mand of the First Amendment that
the government maintain strict
neutrality, neither aiding nor op
posing religion.”
Alaska Airlines
Awarded Military Contract
JUNEAU (JV—Rep. Ralph Rivers
reported today the Air Force will
iward contracts to two Alaska air
carriers for transportation of
petroleum and cargo for the mili
ary.
In a wire to the Associated Press
'rom Washington, Rivers said
■Maska Airlines will receive a
5300,000 contract to carry 700.000
gallons of petroleum from Elmen
dorf Air Force Base to Sparrevohn
and 900,000 gallons from Eielson
AFB to Utopia.
Cordova Airlines will receive a
$56,683 contract covering the trans
portation of 200,000 gallons of
petroleum from King Salmon to
Big Mountain. 213,000 gallons from
Galena to Granite Mountain, 195,
000 gallons from Galena to Kala
kaket Creek and 167 tons of dry
cargo to three destinations.
11 Gold Miners Die
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
OP)— Eleven South African gold
miners were crushed to death Sun
day and 10 more are presumed
dead in a rockfall in the Grootvlei
mine.
The disaster struck in early
morning 4,000 feet underground
in the mine. Two of the dead were
white men. The rest were Africans.