22- NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 4
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1963
Per Copy 151
Bartlett and Rivers
Sharply Criticize
Brinkley’s Review
Of the 49th State
ANCHORAGE (jW — Two mem
bers of Alaska’s congressional
delegation yesterday sharply criti
cized David Brinkley’s generally
unfavorable review of the 49th
State on nationwide television
Monday night.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett told the An
chorage Times’ Washington cor
respondent, Brinkley’s film pre
sentation was “disjointed, preju
diced, pretty wicked, distressing in
fact.”
Rep. Ralph Rivers charged
Brinkley “picked out the seamiest”
side of the Alaska picture to show
to millions of viewers.
Both men agreed that in some
respects Brinkley was correct. The
commentator pointed out the ill
nesses of Alaska’s gold and fish
ing industries, for example, and
neither Bartlett nor Rivers argued
that these areas are above re
proach.
But both charged Brinkley not
only failed to show the bright side
of Alaska development — such as
the Kenai oil fields — but was
wrong in many of the economic
figures he used.
Brinkley’s concentration on Alas
ka’s financial woes “will hurt the
state in Bartlett’s opinion.
A remark he made that the
temperature can fall to five above
zero in the summertime in An
chorage was bitterly assailed by
the solons, who could see its effect
on potential tourists.
Rivers pointed out that Brinkley
talked economics with the Mayors
of Nome and Kotzebue. Those de
pressed areas hardly could be ex
pected to give a cheerful report,
he said. The only person pictured
who stoutly defended statehood
was a Cripple Creek bar owner.
Brinkley claimed the tourist
trade was not improving much;
Rivers said on the contrary it has
' doubled in the past four years.
“The film warped the total pic
tures of Alaska toward the unde
sirable side,” he said.
Bartlett commented, “there’s
going to be crying in anguish”
when Brinkley’s film is shown in
Alaska.
“I wish he hadn’t done it,”
Bartlett said.
Sen. Ernest Gruening was still
out of town and not available for
comment.
Kathryn Granahan Sworn
In As Treasurer of the U.S.
WASHINGTON UP! — Former
Rep. Kathryn Granahan, (D-Pa.),
was sworn in today as Treasurer
of the United States at a White
House ceremony.
With President Kennedy stand
ing by her side, Mi’s. Granahan
took the oath from Herbert Miller,
assistant executive clerk of the
White House.
“It is a pleasure to pass on this
certificate of appointment to a dis
tinguished former member of Con
gress and a great campaigner,”
Kennedy told her.
Mrs. Granahan, of Philadelphia,
succeeds Mrs. Elizabeth Rudel
Smith who resigned last April.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with occasional light
snow. Low tonight 0, high tomor
row 10. In the last 24 hours: High
of 8, low of -4. Max. wind 20
mph from NW. Sunrise at 9:47 a.m.,
sunset at 2.32 p.m.
Exercise Timberline
Gets Underway in Alaska
SEATTLE (if1) Exercise Timber
line, the annual cold-weather ex
ercise of the Alaska Command, got
underway with airlifting of ad
vance elements from McChord Air
Force Base, near Tacoma, and
Travis AFB, Calif.
C-124 Globemasters of the 62nd
Troop Carrier Wing at McChord
and C-135 jet Stratolifters from
Travis will move 525 technicians
and 228 tons of equipment to the
maneuver area in Alaska by to
morrow night.
Other advance elements, from the
eastern United States, are being
transported by military air trans
port units at Donaldson AFB, S.C.
The main body of troops, mostly
units of the U.S. Strike Command,
will be airlifted late this month
to the Exercise Timberline airport
near Ft. Greely.
The exercise, involving about
8,000 men, will include Canadian
troops and will be supported by
tactical and troop carrier units of
the Air Force. The maneuver area
will be a wilderness area between
Tanacross and Fairbanks.
Brinkley Sorry
If Alaskans Didn’t
Like TV Program
WASHINGTON UP> — Newsman
David Brinkley said today his
television program about Alaska
“showed both the good and bad”
and that he was sorry if Alaskans
didn’t like it.
“We did a job of journalism, a
reportorial not a promotional job.
I’m sorry they didn’t like it,”
Brinkley said after some Alaskans
had said the NBC program aired
Monday was unfair.
“The show was not in any sense
intended to be critical of the
state ... we pointed out many
positive and attractive features of
Alaska.
“I don’t want to argue with
them (the Alaskans), they are very
nice people.”
Told that Gov. Wm. Egan of
Alaska termed the show “grossly
unfair” to Alaska, Brinkley com
mented the program wasn’t shown
in the state.
“He (the governor) hasn’t seen
it. How does he know what it was?
Brinkley asked.
“We showed the state is de
veloping pretty well . . . we show
ed both the good and the bad.”
He denied the program was one
sided and a downgrading of Alas
ka as stated by Rep. Ralph Rivers.
Extreme Cold Covers
Most of the State
Clear skies and extremely cold
temperatures were the rule over
most areas of Alaska today.
A storm moving toward the cen
tral Aleutians brought rain and
winds to 50 miles per hour to the
Chain and spread clouds over Ko
diak, Bristol Bay and north along
the west coast of Kotzebue and
Point Hope.
Cloudy conditions were also re
ported along the Arctic slope, but
most other areas of the state were
under clear or fair skies.
The southeast Panhandle had
winds up to 50 miles per hour.
Overnight temperatures ranged
from minus 57 at Fort Yukon and
Tanana to 32 at Shemya. The high
yesterday was 36 at Shemya and
Annette Island.
Tshom]»e Says He
Will Fight Back
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga,
The Congon — President Moise
Tshombe declared today he in
tends to fight back with a scorched
earth policy if the United Nations
attacks Kolwezi, the war head
quarters he quit only yesterday to
return to Elizabeth ville.
Katangans have every major
industrial installation mined and
ready for demolition, Tshombe
told a news conference a few hours
after the British government made
public in London a statement from
him indicating he would give up
the fight for a free Katanga.
The mercurical secessionist lead
er broached again at the news
conference the possibility of ne
gotiations, on which he had been
snubbed by the United Nations.
“On the matter of liberty of
movement of the United Nations—
that’s one of the subjects we can
discuss,” he said. “We are men
of good will.”
“I have come back to Elizabeth
ville with the sole purpose of
bringing back as early as possible
calm and peace to Katanga and
to all its people.
“This consists essentially in
rapidly applying the U Thant plan
^for Congo unity) without new
effusions of blood and useless de
struction.
“It follows from this that I shall
abstain in these circumstances
from any declaration hostile to the
United Nations.”
U.N. sources in New York said
Secretary-General U Thant was re
acting with extreme caution in
view of contradictory statements
made by Tshombe in the past.
A Good Samaritan
... In Reverse That Is
LOS ANGELES UP) — He was
the good Samaritan type. In re
verse.
He’d hang around parking lots
of expensive stores in Hollywood
and the Wilshire district.
While a wealthy-looking woman
went shopping, he’d let the air
out of a tire.
When she discovered the flat,
he would gallantly offer to change
the tire.
While he did, an accomplice
would snatch the woman’s purse,
which the lady in distress usually
had tossed on the seat of the car.
If the lady raised a cry, he
would chase the thief . . . and al
ways fail to catch him.
This is how police described to
day the operations of Charles Ker
win, 30, handsome of face and
charming of manner, charged with
stealing 14 purses since November
for a take of some $3,500.
Officers said he drove a Cadillac,
lived in a luxury apartment.
They’re hunting the unidentified
accomplice.
Presidential Sprig . . .
WASHINGTON (M — President
Kennedy’s shrewd political eye has
lighted on one of his family as
Presidential timber or at least a
sprig.
The evidence, on Atty. Gen.
Robert Kennedy’s office wall, is a
photograph of his son David, 7,
sitting beside the pool on the White
House south grounds.
The picture bears this inscrip
tion from David’s uncle, the Presi
dent:
“A future President inspects his
property.”
Robert Kennedy said the photo
graph was taken last year by the
First Lady.
Pacific Northwest and
Alaska Have Heavy Run
On One - Cent Stamps
SEATTLE W — A heavy run
on one-cent stamps after postal
rates increased Monday brought
calls for emergency supplies from
32 Pacific Northwest and Alaska
cities, a regional postal official
reported today.
Jay Christensen, assistant re
gional director, said a few cities
might have run out temporarily
but most re-ordered before their
supplies were sold.
Christensen said the region's
stamp distribution office at Port
land had stocked 90 million one
cent stamps in anticipation of
strong demand. Rates for first class
letters went up from 4 to 5 cents,
and one-cent stamps are needed
for use with old stocks of 4-centers.
Cities which asked Monday for
more one-cent stamps included
Anchorage.
88th Congress
Swings Into Action
WASHINGTON W — The un
predictable 88th Congress swung
into action today.
Families, friends and the merely
curious packed the galleries of
both branches to watch the color
, ful ceremonies of swearing in new
and re-elected members.
President Kennedy will outline
his requests in a personnally de
livered message on the State-of-the
Union Monday.
Senate leaders reached informa
agreement to wait until after thai
time before members begin
wrangling over whether to change
the rules to make it easier to kill
off a filibuster. This effort is cer
tain to provoke a filibuster.
Republicans challenged the De
mocrats’ confident predictions that
Kennedy will get a major share
of his program through what could
be a lengthy session. They looked
to conservative Democrats to help
them defeat some proposals and
water down others.
In the Senate, Vice President
Lyndon Johnson banged the gavel
to get the session underway.
In the House, this duty fell on
Clerk Ralph Roberts. For the mo
ment, the House was without any
elected officers and its first order
of business was to organize —
mainly meaning to go through the
formality of electing Rep. John
McCormack, (D-Mass.), as Speaker.
McCormack was Speaker in the
last Congress.
88th Congress Only
Slightly Changed
WASHINGTON W — Both
House and Senate in the 83th Con
gress convening today are only
slightly changed in their numeri
cal partisan lineup compared with
the 87th when it began two years
ago.
In the new House there are 258
Democrats, 176 Republicans and
one Democratic vacancy. This com
pares with 262 Democrats and 175
Republicans two years ago when
the House had 437 members in
stead of the current 435.
In the Senate the session opens
with 67 Democrats and 33 Repub
licans. Two years ago it began
with 65 Democrats, 35 Republicans.
If Irving Berlin, who started as
a street singer at 14, never wrote
another tune — he’s turned out
more than 900 in 55 years—he’d
still get more than $100,000 a yeai
in royalties as long as he lives.
Wilbur Arnold
Rites to Be Held
On Thursday
The funeral of Wilbur Arnold,
48, who passed away suddenly on
Monday afternoon will be held from
the Community Methodist Church
on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Mr. Arnold first came to Nome
in 1936 from Tacoma, Wash., and
married Edith Hoop, of a pioneer
Nome family, here in 1940. They
made their home here until 1942
when they returned to Hermiston,
Ore., until 1953 when they returned
1 to Nome to make their home.
Mr. Arnold is survived by his
wife, Edith and five children, Ray,
Alice, Teddy and Nancy. A sister,
Mrs. Robert Eaton of Tacoma, Wn.,
is the only other living member
of his family. He was born in
Vancouver, B.C., on May 31, 1915.
His oldest son, Ray, who was
enroute to the Alaska Methodist
College, returned home yesterday
when notified of his father’s death.
Mr. Arnold, who was owner of
the Arctic Sanitary Service was
a devoted husband and father. He
was very civic minded, having
served for many years on the Boy
Scout Committee, the Nome City
Council, Volunteer Fire Depart
ment and has been a member of the
Community Methodist Church
Board and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Arctic Club. He
was a member of the Chamber of
• Commerce. Whatever responsibility
■ he assumed he accomplished com
petently. Due to his health he had
1 given up some of his civic wrork
; in recent years, devoting more
time to his family.
Pall bearers will be long time
friends including Stan Morgan,
Werner Bohrer, Wallace Mclver,
Hueston Alexander, Ben Young
and Elmer Straub.
The family requests that such
money as might have been given
in flowers be contributed to the
Nome Tubercular Fund, care of
the Miners and Merchants Bank.
The staff of the Nugget joins the
community in extending sympathy
to the bereaved family.
Fire Whips Thru
Pipe Shaft In
Empire State Bldg.
NEW YORK Cf)—A troublesome
fire whipped through a pipe shaft
running the height of the 102-story
Empire State Building today,
shooting flames into offices an
eighth of a mile above the ground.
Firemen closed two floors of
the building — the world’s tallest
— as they continued finding and
fighting smouldering blazes. No in
juries were reported.
The building was twice eva
cuated, the first time before dawn,
the second time when the bulk
of the 16,000 people who man the
010 offices in the super-skyscraper
had begun to arrive for work. In
all, 60,000 persons normally move
through the man-made colossus
each day.
By 9 a.m., the building was
finally reopened, but firemen con
tinued to bar persons from the 66th
and 67th floors.
Flames had badly damaged of
fices on the 64th, 65th and 66th
floors, and at one time or another,
evidence of fire was seen on eight
floors.
A tower atop the building houses
the transmitting antennae of all
seven New York City television,
stations.