NOME NUGGET
‘FARTHEST WEST NEWSPAPER IN THE 50 STATES”
64th Year No. 98
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1963
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American Flier
Rescued By
Soviet Trawler
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'JO — An American military flier,
forced to parachute 20,000 feet to
the ocean, was plucked from his
life raft by Russian fishermen to
day and later taken from the So
viet craft by a U.S. Coast Guard
helicopter.
One of the ships of a huge Rus
sian fishing fleet was alerted to
the plight of the Massachusetts
Air National Guard pilot, Capt.
Hugh LaVallee, by passes made by
fellow fliers. The Russians ack
nowledged they had understood the
message by setting off a green
flare and then sped a motor launch
which picked up the Springfield,
Mass, flier.
After being taken aboard the
Russian ship, a Coast Guard heli
copter was dispatched to the loca
tion—about 100 miles southeast of
the Otis Air Force Base on Cape
Cod. The helicopter lifted La
Vallee off for the return flight
to the base.
LaVallee, 29 years old, is a grad
uate of the University of New
Hampshire and in civilian life is
an insurance company account ex
ecutive, living with his wife and
two children in Springfield.
LaVallee had been one of four
pilots engaged in passes at a tar
get towed by another plane.
In one pass, LaVallee’s aircrafl
struck the target and he lost the
right wing of his plane.
The maneuvers were about 10C
miles southeast of Otis Air Force
Base near an area where a large
Russian fishing fleet is located.
LaVallee said he was “fine”
when flown back to Otis Air Force
Base. He said the Russians had
been “very nice” to him in their
rescue mission.
The husky American pilot was
landed at Otis on the helicopter
pad used by President Kennedy in
flights to the base.
He stepped from the aircraft
clad only in printed shorts—hav
ing discarded his uniform in the
water prior to rescue.
ANNIVERSARY PRESENT
LONDON UP — An anonymous
husband said in a paid newspaper
advertisement today his wife gave
him a load of manure for his
birthday present. Signing himself
simply Box K 1725, he invited
comment.
The advertisement, which ran
in the personal column of the
staid British paper, The Times,
said:
“My wife gave me a load of the
best hand-forked manure for the
garden on my birthday. After 30
years of married life I was an
xious. The comments from my
friends were guarded. Tell me
what you think—in confidence.”
No replies yet.
Final Decision on Nome's
APW Application Will Be
Made “In A Few Days”
Don Hoover, Mayor of Nome, is
in receipt of a message today frorr
Sen. E.L. Barlett that the final de
cision concerning the Nome ap
plication for sewer and water fa
cilities under the Accelerated Pub
lic Works will be made “in a few
days.”
The status of the application al
the present time is in a special
group of 25 such applications re
quiring special consideration be
cause of unusual or unique situa
tions of critical need.
$934 Million Contract
Let For Apollo Project
Three-Man Space Craft
WASHINGTON W — The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration announced today the
sibling of the largest contract it
has ever negotiated, a $934,400,000
agreement for development of the
main parts of the Apollo three
man space craft.
The contract with North Ameri
can Aviation Inc. is for the initial
development and production of the
Apollo’s two major sections, the
command and service modules.
The command module will be
designed to carry three astronauts
in orbit around the moon and re
turn them to earth.
The service module will contain
the propulsion system and equip
ment to support the command
module.
A third section, called the Lunar
Excursion Module (LEM>, is being
developed by the Grumann Air
craft Engineering Corp. under a
separate contract.
The plane is for two of the
Appolo team members to detach
themselves from the space craft
and descend in the LEM to the
moon for surface exploration.
Matching Funds Available
For Establishment
Of Tourist Attractions
JUNEAU UP) — Henry Roloff
Commissioner of Economic Devel
opment and Planning, today re
minded leaders of cities and civil
organizations throughout Alaska
of the availability of state match
ing funds for' the establishment o]
permanent tourist attractions.
The matching monies, author
ized by the last session of the leg
islature, became available July 1
A total of $10,000 was allocated
for the purpose from the genera]
fund, with a project maximum oi
$1,000.
Commissioner Roloff pointed
out that projects falling within
the provisions of the act include
the development, restoration or
display of historical documents
artifacts, or native arts. The erec
tion of historical markers, and
other worthwhile tourist attrac
tions dealing with Alaskan history
or culture, excluding the prepar
ation or distribution of community
advertising.
Applications for matching funds
require the approval of the Com
missioner of Economic Develop
ment and Planning, and the Direc
tor of Travel, Morris Ford.
Seven Navy Airmen
Presumed Dead In
Two Crashes at Sea
SAN DIEGO. Calif, tM — The
Navy today reported seven men
missing and presumed dead in
widely-separated crashes at sea of
two of its aircraft from San Diegc
bases.
There was only one survivor —
identified as Aviation Machinist’;
Mate George James Pullon Jr. He
was one of the four men of a sub
marine tracker plane that crashec
off the southern coast of Japan
yesterday while on a flight from
the Aircraft Carrier Kearsarge.
The other aircraft—a Sea Kin^
helicopter—crashed in the Gulf ol
Alaska during a flight from the
Aircraft Carrier Bennington earl}
today. It also had a crew of four
The helicopter was from Heli
copter Squadron Eight, based a
Ream Field, San Diego.
The Navy said that searches
have been terminated and that the
seven are listed as missing in line
of duty.
Five Arrested
In Big British
Train Robbery
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LONDON W — Five hooded fig
ures were hustled into a small
country court today and formally
charged with participation in the
$7 million railroad train robbery.
Three men and two women were
arraigned.
One of the men charged with
robbery, William Boal, denied the
charges.
A detective told the court that
Boal had told him during question
ing: “I am silly to get involved
with this. I should have known
better.”
The five suspects, two of them
sisters, appeared before a magis
trate in Linslade, a village 42 miles
northwest of London.
The village is four mile from
Cheddington, where a gang of
bandits ambushed the night mail
train from Glasgow eight days ago
and escape with 2.5 million pounds
($7.2 million).
The amount of money recovered
rose today with a police announce
ment that it totaled 141,000 pounds
($394,300).
Two suitcases stuffed with
money were found this morning
in a wood south of London in Sur
rey, and police began checking
whether it was part of the mail
holdup.
Alaska Steam’s Galena
Hits Submerged Object
SITKA UPl — Marine inspectors
' with the Coast Guard in Ketchikan
were expected in Sitka early this
afternoon to survey damage to the
Alaska Steam vessel Galena, in
curred on its voyage from Juneau
this morning.
The ship hit a submerged object
somewhere in Whitestone Nar
rows.
A dent 25 feet long was found
by skin divers this morning on
the port side.
A foot-wide hole there is tem
porarily being plugged by a mat
on the outside of the ship and saw
dust is being used to soak up oil
and water from a ruptured oil
tank.
A thin cover of oil from the
leaking tank is observed on most
of the water along the Sitka
waterfront.
Small Plane Bombs
Cuban Sugar Mill
HAVANA UP — Cuban authori
ties announced today a small plane
bombed and strafed a Camaguey
Province sugar mill yesterday and
another flew over a Havana Bay
oil refinery this morning, drawing
anti-aircraft fire.
Nothing was said about the na
tionality of the planes, but the
armed forces ministry charged
they were pirates, “organized,
armed and directed by the Central
Intelligence Agency of the United
States.”
The ministry, in an announce
ment published by Havana news
papers and broadcast by radio
Havana, said a small pirate plane
made a low-level attack on the
; sugar mill Thursday morning.
The plane fired several shots
and dropped two 50-pound bombs
from an altitude of 150 to 200
yards, it said, and then headed
northward in the darkness. The of
ficial account reported one bomb
exploded harmlessly and the other
; was a digd, recovered intact.
> On Miami, an anti-Castro group
; claimed it sent the planes over
Cuba.)
Mystery Balloon Said
To Have Disintegrated
ANCHORAGE W> — A balloon
which drifted over the northern
coast of Alaska presumably disin
tegrated in the atmosphere or de
scended to earth in the Canadian
Arctic, a North American Air De
fense Command spokesman says.
The spokesman said Thursday
the balloon disappeared from
radar tracking scopes after drift
ing across the Distant Early Warn
ing Line last Sunday and Monday.
He said the sighting was not con
sidered important enough to an
nounce at the time.
The NORAD spokesman said the
identity and origin of the balloon
were unknown, although it pre
sumably was of a type used in
high altitude w'eather research.
Goldwater nays
Gen. LeMay Has
“Reservations”
WASHINGTON <3 — Air Force
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay lined up
with other military chiefs today on
qualified support of the limited
test ban treaty.
But Sen. Barry Goldwater said
the Air Force chief “had some
very grave reservations.”
LeMay testified at a closed ses
sion of the Senate Armed Services
Preparedness Investigating sub
committee and Goldwater. a re
serve Air Force major general, re
layed an account of this to a re
porter outside.
“His official position is one of
support for the Taylor paper with
very grave reservations,” Gold
water said.
Gen. Maxwell Taylor, chairman
of the military Joint Chiefs of
Staff, previously had testified that
all of them supported the partial
test ban providing proper safe
guards were carried out to offset
the military and technical risks
and disadvantages.
LeMay, Air Force chief, fol
lowed Army and Navy heads in
confirming Taylor’s announce
ment at closed sessions of the Sen
ate watchdog defense group.
After testimony by the four
military leaders, Sen. Galdwater
said “I just don’t think that the
military have their hearts in this.”
“There are lots of ifs and buts,”
the senator said. “I have yet to
find any real enthusiasm for this
treaty even by the administration’s
witnesses.”
Earlier, the chainr.cn of three
committees had agreed that ad
ministration witnesses are build
ing up a strong and effective case
for ratification of the limited nuc
lear test ban treaty.
U.S.-Russia Agree to
Weather Satellite Program
WASHINGTON UP—The United
States and Russia have agreed to
join in a coordinated weather sa
tellite program in joint experi
ments with an Echo-type commu
nications satellite.
The National Aeronautics a n d
Space Administration announced
final approval of the agreement
today.
The agreement also calls for
joint contributions of satellite data
to a world magnetic survey to be
conducted in 1965.
The coordinated weather satel
lite program depends upon estab
lishment by early next year of t
full-time telecommunications linl
beween Moscow and Washington.
State and Local
Govts. Already Eye
“That” Tax Cut
SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
NEW YORK 'T—If you get that
tax cut next year that you’ve been
hearing about for so long, who is
going to spend it—you or your
state and local governments?
Congress may pass an income
tax cut for individuals and cor
porations this year or early next
year.
But the skeptics say the $10 bil
lion or so which the federal gov
ernment might thus free would
just be a sitting duck for state,
county or local governments look
ing for more funds they can tap
by raising their own tax rates.
If so, the end result could be
that the taxpayer would end 1964
owing just about as much as ever
to one or another tax collector.
One of the big arguments for a
federal tax cut—beyond the nat
ural appeal of any tax cut by any
agency—is that it will free more
spending money.
You will be able to buy more
things you want, the argument
goes, and thereby you will be en
couraging more production, more
investment in future production,
and hence more sorely needed
jobs.
That, in turn, would add a lot
more people to the income tax
rolls, and the U.S. Treasury would
collect more, even at the reduced
I rates.
But the state and local govern
ments are searching for more rev
enue to meet the needs of grow
ing communities and to furnish
still more services that people like
to have even if they don’t enjoy
paying for them.
If $10 billion is freed by the
federal tax collector, it'll be
mighty tempting to other revenue
seekers.
It is widely conceded that state
and local tax rates will rise, or
new taxes will be devised. These
will come out of your pocket, leav
ing just that much less to be spent
at the store.
Will this nullify the boost to the
economic growth rate that a fed
eral tax cut is supposed to pro
mise? Walter W. Heller says that
isn’t necessarily so.
The chairman of the President’s
Council of Economic Advisers ar
gues this way: ‘‘The boost to over
all demand is the same, whether
the federal tax savings are spent
directly by taxpayers or indirect
ly, at their command, by their
state and local governments.”
He contends that the end re
sult would be ‘‘higher output,
more jobs and a greater legacy of
real wealth—houses, schools, pro
ductive plants and equipment.”
Heller adds that federal tax cut
or no, the increase next year in
state and local tax revenues is
expected to approach $3 billion.
ROAD CONTRACTOR SUES
STATE FOR $55,056
JUNEAU fJP> — A Washington
State construction company has
brought suit against the State of
Alaska for $55,056 it claims it is
owed as a result of changes re
quired in a road building contract.
S. S. Mullen, Inc. alleges that
three contract alterations and two
standby periods which resulted
from them caused the expenses
above the terms of the contract.
The complaint declares that the
| Commissioner of Highways denied
! the claim July 18, 1963, and asks
' that his determination be set aside.