NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 72
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1963
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GOV. EGAN:
Calls on Japanese
To Help Develop
Alaska’s Resources
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TOKYO l#) — Alaska’s Gov. Wm.
Egan said today he has asked
Japanese industrialist and busi
nessmen for cooperation in the
development of his state’s re
sources.
The governor made the request
in meeting with Japanese leaders in
Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka and
Hiroshima.
He said in an interview with
the Associated Press he also in
vited them to come to Alaska and
see for themselves that there are
other prospects than gold. “The
Japanese were pleased,” Egan
said.
The governor and his wife were
invited by the Alaskan Pulp Co.
and eight other Japanese firms
which maintained business with
the 49th State.
“Alaska has an abundance of re
sources such as iron, copper, tim
ber,” Egan said.
“I think with Japanese coopera
tion these fields could be develop
ed.”
Egan conferred with officials of
Keidanren (Federation of Economic
Organizations) for about one hour.
He later lunched with them before
leaving on an inspection tour of
factories of Nihon Kokan (steel
pipe), in Kawasaki City, 10 miles
south of here.
Largest Soviet Fishing
Fleet Reported in Gulf
SEATTLE UP) — “The largest
Soviet fishing fleet ever reported
in the Gulf of Alaska.”
This is the U.S. Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries’ evaluation of
Russian fleets in the North Pacific
this spring.
The bureau’s market news service
in Seattle carried estimates yes
terday that 130 to 140 Soviet fish
ing vessels were operating in the
Gulf last April. An additional 50
to 60 craft were in the Bering
Sea.
Soviet fishermen increased their
Far East catch by 7 per cent in
the first quarter of this year, the
news service reported, despite
severe weather and heavy ice con
ditions that hampered offshore and
Bering Sea operations. Russia’s
total catch in the area during the
first quarter was 220,000 metric
tons of fish and shellfish.
Venezuela Police Search
For 8 Pro-Communists
Who Burned U.S. Mission
CARACAS, Venezuela Ui) —
Hundreds of police continued to
search today for eight pro-Com
munists who burned out the U.S.
Army mission, stripped seven
American military men to their
underwear and slashed a portrait
of George Washington.
Three youths were found loiter
ing around the charred mission
were held for questioning. One had
fresh paint on his hands—possibly
from smearing the mission walls
with the initials FALN, a move
ment trying to oust President
Romula Bentancourt.
Defense Minister Antonio Li
mares apologized to the U.S. Am
bassador Allan Stewart for Wed
nesday’s attack. A U.S. Embassy
spokesman said the loss was small.
The one-story bulding was leased
from the Venezuelan armed forces.
Arthur Woodley Named
Aviation Man of the Year
SEATTLE — Arthur Woodley,
pioneer Alaska pilot and founder
of Pacific Northern Airlines, was
named “Aviation Man of the Year”
during Aviation Day luncheon
ceremonies at the Chamber of
Commerce today.
Woodley, president of the Seat
tle-Alaska carrier, has guided the
line since he formed it as Woodley
Airways, a one-man, one-plane
operation in Alaska in the early
1930’s.
The award, originated last year
by the Seattle Junior Chamber of
Commerce, was presented by Roger
Jenkins, Jaycee president. Last
year’s winner was William Allen,
president of the Boeing Co.
Woodley’s selection by a panel
of judges was based on his con
tribution to the airline industry,
to his company and to the com
munity. The PNA executive is
active in church and club affairs
and is a member of the Board of
Trustees of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce.
Iran’s Top Religious
Leaders Will Go on Trial
TEHRAN, Iran UFi — Prime
Minister Adullah Alam said today
15 of Iran’s top religious leaders
and 50 key agitators will go on
trial for triggering anti-govern
ment riots that killed at least 79
persons.
Alam said the Mullahs — reli
gious leaders—could get the death
penalty for their role in the riots
aimed against the Shah’s program
of land reform and emancipation
of women.
Tehran appeared quiet today.
Riots erupted two days ago
when religious demonstrators de
nounced the Shah for arresting the
newly acclaimed leader of Iran’s
Shiite regilious sect, Ayatullah
Khomaini.
The government accused him
and other influential Mullahs of
opposing land reform, the leasing
of Moslem-owned land to peasants
and the new rights for women.
Problem of Bears
Killing Cattle at Kodiak
Is Being Studied
WASHINGTON — The prob
lem of bears killing cattle on Ko
diak Island is being studied by
the Federal Fish and Wildlife
Service.
Sen. Ernest Gruening put the
problem to federal and state game
officials after he received a com
plaint from Kodiak cattlemen
about bears attacking their ani
mals.
The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game said it was taking steps
to alleviate the problem. The fed
eral agency promised to look into
the situation and report to Gruen
ing.
The complaint was made in a
telegram from Dewitt Fields on be
half of the Kodiak Stock Growers
Assn. The group cited lack of ac
tion by state and federal agencies
and said it is “imperative that we
take action on our own to protect
livestock.”
The cattlemen asked permission
to poison bears.
The Alaska Game Dept, told
Gruening it has taken two steps
in response to the plea for help
—granted liberal hunting seasons
outside a bear refuge on the island
to attract additional hunters and
sent staff members with aircraft
to destroy predatory bears.
16 Astronauts
Complete Survival
Course in Panama
PANAMA — Three days and
two nights in the jungle convinced
16 American astronauts they
would stay put and await rescue
if a space ship ever set them down
in such terrain.
The astronauts completed a sur
vival course Thursday. They
emerged from the jungle armed
with machetes and dressed in boots
and long underwear, garb normally
worn under pressurized space suits.
They were soaking wet from a
driving rain.
Undergoing the survival test
were all seven of the original Mer
cury team, plus nine others chosen
last September for future Space
flights.
Their experience included an
unscheduled but uneventful en
counter with six men of the semi
civilized Choco Indian tribe.
One astronaut said the most
vicious-looking thing he saw was
a toad.
The spacemen ate survival ra
tions as well as river crab, snails
and tropical fruit. Two sampled a
lizard they caught.
They built they own shelters,
made a raft of branches and vines,
and tested signaling equipment.
Helicopters dropped them off in
the jungle but they had to find
their own way out to a point five
miles away.
They said the hike convinced
them it would be safe to stay
where they landed. ,
The astronauts operated in two
man teams. The teams stayed with
in sight or hailing distance of each
other and were in radio contact
with instructors.
U.S. Scientist Says
Van Allen Radiation
Belt Increased During ’62
WARSAW, Poland Ufr — Ameri
can space scientist Wilmot Hess
said Wednesday the Van Allen
Radiation Belt surrounding the
earth was increased during 1962
by three Soviet high altitude nu
clear explosions, in addition to
the single U.S. blast.
The Soviet explosions were de
tected Oct. 22 and 28 and Nov. 1,
Hess reported to the Space Science
Symposium of “Cospar,” the In
ternational Committee on Science
Research.
The Russians protested the
United States high altitude blast
in the Pacific last July.
All four explosions added tem
porarily to the radiation particles
in the Van Allen Belt, said Hess.
They also greatly increased
man’s knowledge of the lifetime of
patricles and other information
needed in preparation for travel to
outer space, of the Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.,
Alaska Steam to Buy Ship
SEATTLE OP — Alaska Steam
ship Co. is buying the 10,000-ton
steamship “Southport,” the line
said today.
The purchase price was not dis
closed.
The seller is the Blidberg Roth
child Co., Inc., New York. The
vessel is at Todd Shipyards, Seattle.
J. F. Zumdieck, general man
ager of Alaska Steamship Co., said
“We are acquiring the Southport
to protect our commitments in the
Alaska trade beyond the capacity
of our present 14-ship fleet.”
Sen. Magnuson Says
Rights of U.S. Fishermen
Will Be Respected
WASHINGTON lm — Rights of
the United States fishermen will
be respected when Canada imposes
its 12-mile fishing limits, Sen. War
ren Magnuson, (D-Wn.), said to
day.
Magnuson said he received that
assurance from H. J. Robichard,
Canadian Fisheries Minister, who
heads the Canadian delegation to
the Pacific International Fisheries
conference here.
The 12-mile limit is to go into
effect next May. Magnuson said
details of the arrangement with
the United States are to be work
ed out later and that he will seek
early negotiations.
The senator indicated he felt
United States fishermen might be
better off under the new arrange
ment because they would be able
to use their historic fishing
grounds while newcomers, such as
Russia, would be barred from the
12-mile Canadian zone.
Children Swarm
Kennedy in Calif.
IN THE WEST WITH KEN
NEDY — The Navy trundles
out its latest land and air weap
ons today in a final show for Pres
ident Kennedy before he starts
concentrating on politics and civil
rights.
Kennedy was to see the Navy’s
climactic display at the China Lake,
Calif., testing station after flying
there from the attack carrier Kitty
Hawk via the Point Mugu, Calif.,
missile base.
At Point Mugu a crowd of more
than 20,000, mostly children let
out of school for the occasion,
swarmed around Kennedy as he
switched from helicopter to his jet
transport.
The President made a brief talk,
then as he walked from a micro
phone to his plane he shook hands
with several in the crowd. Hun
dreds of children pressed so close
they broke through the linked arms
of Navy guards, and closed in on
the President, hands outstretched.
Kennedy edged along, surround
ed by Secret Service men, and was
forced up the ramp to his plane
like something squeezed out of a
toothpaste tube.
He paused atop the ramp to tuck
his necktie back inside his coat
and wipe perspiration from his
brow. But he waved smilingly, and
received a big cheer as he went
inside. ,
In his brief remarks he said:
“I go back to Washington with a
feeling of renewed pride in being
an American, a renewed confi
dence in being a citizen of the
greatest republic on the face of
the earth.”
After China Lake, the next stop
on Kennedy’s five-day, five-state
itinerary was Los Angeles and a
lavish dinner party tonight for the
Democratic party contributors in
the $1,000 class.
New Lease on Life
NEW YORK — Former Pres
ident Dwight Eisenhower says the
free world was given a new lease
on life by those who died in the
invasion of Europe which he led
19 years ago Thursday.
Eisenhower spoke at the dedi
cation of a $6-million Red Cross
Service Center. Glancing around
the building, Eisenhower com
mented: “On D-Day I wasn’t
thinking of the Red Cross, but
every other day I did.”
Navy Postpones
Test Trials for
Atomic Sub Tinosa
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Gfl — The
Navy disclosed today that builder
trials for the nuclear attack sub
marine Tinosa have been suspend
ed indefinitely and announced the
Tinosa will be drydocked for more
radiographic examination of her
hull.
Aditional hull X-ray work is
necessary, the Navy said, because
a block of radiographs made of
the Tinosa hull “has been mis
placed.”
The Tinosa, sister ship of the
lost Thresher, can’t be certified
as ready for sea without such
X-ray reports in her document
file.
The Navy said there is no direct
relations between this additional
work on the Tinosa and the
Thresher disaster. The Thresher
went down April 10 with 129
aboard.
Tinosa builder trials were orgin
ally scheduled for May 5 were
postponed to May 12, then to May
19 and then to early July.
The Navy also disclosed the
Tinosa collided Thursday with the
Polaris submarine John Adams
while being berthed.
The Tinosa, the Navy reported,
got a small dent below the water
line in her bow, packed with
sensitive sonar gear.
Suspect Held for
Series of Strangulations
Of Women in Boston
NEW YORK UP — Boston’s chief
homicide investigator today label
ed Charles Terry — held in a
woman’s slaying here — as a sus
pect in a series of strangulations
of women in Boston.
Therry, 33, an ex-convict, was
charged here Thursday with homi
cide in the strangling of a di
vorcee, Zenovia Clegg, 62, in a
Times Square area hotel. Her nude
j body, a scarf around the neck was
found Sunday, three days after
her death.
Lt. John Donovan, head of the
Boston Police Homicide Squad,
said Terry had refused to see him
in the city prison where the 6-foot
5 pound furniture mover is being
held without bail.
Road Conditions
In Nome District
Heavy glaciering and high
streams caused numerous washouts
on the Nome District roads this
spring.
Progress is being made in re
moving the glaciering and filling
washouts to get one-way traffic
through, and will be widened and
improved as rapidly as possible.
The Kougarok Road is open for
about 34 miles, to a point above
Nugget Creek. It will be probably
be two weeks before this road is
open to Coffee Creek.
The Nome-Council Road is open
to Safety Ferry with little work
required to open it to Big Hurrah.
| Safety Ferry should be in operation
by the end of next week, June 15.
Considerable snow and ice on
Skookum Summit and in the Fox
River section will make it late in
June before this road will be open.
The road is open to the Sinuk
River.
Other roads will be opened as
soon as possible.