THE
64th Year No. 59
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1963
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34-Hour Space Trip Hastens Day
When Man Will Land on the Moon
By Ralph Dighton
ABOARD USS KEARSARGE UP>
— Astronaut Gordon Cooper was
merely a bit woozy when he finish
ed a 34-hour trip into space —
and thereby may have hastened
the day when man lands on the
moon.
Cooper, 36, expressed confidence
that “we have learned a lot from
this mission for future, more ex
tended space operations.”
The spaceman’s perilous descent
to his exactly predicted impact
point 96 miles southeast of Mid
way Island yesterday afternoon
was full of drama and heroism.
But his physical condition was
what most pleased Space Agency
doctors examining him today.
Ben James, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration spokes
man aboard this recovery ship, said
the medical men were “very hap
py with Cooper’s condition.
A Bit Wooxy
“The only thing he did experi
ence was about 15 seconds of being
woozy after he stepped out of his
Faith 7 capsule. This was normal
and expected.”
The tests and the engineering
debriefing sessions will continue
until Cooper is flown from the
Kearsarge to Honolulu Saturday
afternoon.
Their results will require long
evaluation, but optimism was evi
dent that the main stated objec
tive of this longest American space
journey had been reached.
This was: “Study the effects of
approximately one day in orbital
flight on the astronaut; verify that
he can function in space as pri
mary ‘system’ aboard the space
craft.”
The Soviets remained far ahead
in orbit and flight lengths, with
a record of 64 and 48 revolutions
last August. But they save divulged
little of their cosmonauts’ condi
tion.
Did Not Falter
Cooper did not falter when near
the end of a “textbook” flight his
capsule developed electrical dif
What People are Saying
By the Associated Press
Here’s what they say about Gor
don Cooper’s space flight:
President Kennedy: “Peace has
her victories as well as war, and
this was one of the victories for
the human spirit today.”
Vice President Lyndon Johnson:
“The magnificent flight of Faith 7
with the intrepid Gordon Cooper
at the controls is a shining shir
in our national space program.”
Soviet Premier Khrushchev: “A
new contribution to the explora
tion of the expanses of the uni
verse. Congratulations and best
wishes to the courageous American
astronaut Gordon Cooper.
Lt. Cmdr. Benjamin Fairchild,
Chaplain of the USS Kearsarge:
“Our prayer of thanksgiving joins
those of Mrs. Cooper and the girls.
May all that we learn of the won
ders of this universe make us more
conscious of thy presence, more
sensitive to thy hand upon our
lives.”
Mrs. Trudy Cooper, the astro
naut’s wife: “We are a very proud
family.”
Mrs. Orena Herd, grandmother:
“I’m glad this is over.”
Mrs. Hattie Cooper, his mother,
to Mrs. Herd: “We’ll have it to
do it all over again, Mama, when
Gordon goes to the moon.”
ficulties.
He was in the 19th orbit when
a light snapped on which was in
tended to do so only as he fired
his reverse rockets. The automatic
control system was haywire in
some inexplicable manner.
Cooper would have to fire his
rockets manually and also person
ally adjust the vital descent atti
tude of Faith 7.
John Glenn Jr., Cooper’s fellow
astronaut and predecessor in space,
undertook to talk him down. Glenn
was aboard the tracking ship
Coastal Sentry off southern Japan.
Manual re-entry was not a novel
situation. Astronaut Malcolm Scott
Carpenter experienced similar
trouble — but as a result landed
well off target.
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More Breathing Time
For Astronaut Cooper
WASHINGTON UP) — Astronaut
Gordon Cooper’s reception by
President Kennedy at the White
House is being delayed for 24 hours
until Tuesday — to give the globe
circling Air Force major “more
breathing time.”
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, said the ceremony
will be held at 12:15 p.m. EDT
Tuesday in the rose garden just
outside Kennedy’s office.
Originally, the reception was to
have been held at that hour on
Monday.
Asked is the postponement re
flected any exhaustion on Cooper’s
part from his 34-hour flight through
space, Salinger said, “No, there’s
none of that.”
He said Cooper will go ahead
with plans to hold a news con
ference Sunday at Cape Canaveral,
Fla., and simply would set aside
Monday as a day of rest.
18 Months to Lapse
Before U.S. Plans
Another Space Shot
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP —
Will it be another 18 months be
fore America again sends a man
into space?
The man who ought to know, D.
Brainerd Holmes, says there is
better than a 50-50 chance that it
will be at least that long before a
U.S. astronaut again thrills the
world.
Holmes, director of the manned
space flight program for the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration, was asked at a news
conference last night if another
Mercury flight will follow Gordon
Cooper's sensational 34-hour mis
sion.
He said he stood by his recent
congressional testimony that there
was less than a 50 per cent chance
that there would be another Mer
cury flight.
“But,” he said, “a decision must
wait until we analyze data from
Gordon Cooper’s flight. We must
determine what we learned from
the flight, what questions were
asked, and are they important
enough to know before we move on
into Gemini.”
NEW YORK UP — Pan American
World Airways lost $2,218,000 in
the three months ended March 31,
compared with a loss of $4,651,000
in the 1962 first quarter. Reve
nues rose to $115,314,000 from
$102,596,000. \
McNamara Seeks
Housing Units for
Military Families
WASHINGTON W — Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara said
today he was shocked to learn of
the kind of quarters in which some
military families have been forced
to live because of the lack of de
cent housing within their means.
In some areas, McNamara told
the House Armed Services Com
mittee, there is a lack of decent
housing at any price.
McNamara appeared with Gen.
Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of
Staff, to ask the committee to au
thorize appropriations for 12,100
new housing units for the fiscal
year starting July 1.
During the next five years, Mc
Namara said, there will be a need
for 62,100 new housing units.
He submitted to the committee
photographs of substandard hous
ing for which service personnel
pay up to $160 a month. Some ap
peared to be not much more than
shacks.
“For the military family man,
as for any family man, decent I
| housing for his wife and children
is a major concern,” McNamara
said.
“While a military man, in keep
ing with his profession, must be
willing to accept personal hard
ships, I do not think the nation has
the right to expect the same from
his family.”
The latest military housing sur
vey, McNamara said, shows there
were more than 49,000 military
families involuntarily separated
simply for lack of suitable housing.
The secretary said, “by the last
count there are more than 32,000
eligible military families occupying
I government - owned sub standard
housing on-post.”
Explore Ways to Settle
Dispute Over Oil and
Gas Leasing Tidelands
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen.
George Hayes of Alaska explored
with federal officials today ways
to settle a state-federal dispute
over oil and gas leasing of tide
lands in Cook Inlet.
“There is nothing to report yet
except that we are discussing the
matter, said Hayes who has been
meeting with officials of the In
terior. Justice and State Depart
ments.
The disagreement is over wheth
er the state has the right to issue
leases on about 200,000 acres of
tidelands in Cook Inlet.
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment objected to leases by the
state on submerged lands more than
three miles from the coastline along
the inlet.
Hayes said the Interior Dept,
in the past had been cool to the
state’s request to have the matter
determined by the courts.
Indications now are that the
department is “amenable” to dis
cussions leading to a judicial deter
mination, Hayes said.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Cloudy today with rain tonight.
Winds 20-30 mph from the west
and diminishing. Low tonight 32,
high tomorrow 39.
In the last 24 hours: High of
36, low of 32. Max. wind 30 mph
from the south. Sunrise at 2:37
a.m., sunset at 9:22 p.m.
Temps, a yar ago today: High
of 38, low of 18. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 63 in
1953, low of 9 in 1918.
Treasury Dept. Will
Drop Plans to Cut IRS
Operations in 20 Cities
WASHINGTON (tf — Indications
were strong today that the gov
ernment is dropping plans to cut
back Internal Revenue Service
operations in 20 cities.
Democratic members of Congress
from three states said yesterday
they had learned Secretary of the
Treasury Douglas Dillon had back
ed off from the planned curtail
ment.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett said he had
been informed by the White House
that the Treasury has decided
against switching a dozen posi
tions in the Anchorage office to
Seattle.
And although two Republican
senators said they had not re
ceived such information, it’s com
mon for a Democratic administra
tion to leak news to friendly mem
bers of Congress before making
it public.
A Treasury Dept, spokesman
said the reorganization still is un
der review and an early announce
ment is expected.
A storm of protest greeted Dil
lon’s March 5 announcement of
IRS reorganization plans. Dillon
agreed to reconsider the plan after
members of Congress — patricu
larly those from affected cities —
complained about the plan.
Japanese Delay Plans
To Fish for King Crab
JUNEAU (if) — Sen. E. L. Bart
lett said Thursday he has received
a report that the Japanese have
delayed plans to start fishing for
king crab in the Kodiak area.
Bartlett, in a wire to the Asso
ciated Press from Washington,
D.C., did not disclose the source
of the report.
“This has not solved our prob
lem,” he said, “but it has at least
given us additional time to impress
I upon the Japanese that we will
not tolerate their invasion of our
king crab fishery when this Alaska
resource is clearly to be protected
for our own nationals under in
ternational law.”
Charles D. Jones
Passes at Pioneer
Home in Sitka
Sen. Charles D. Jones, passed
away at the Pioneer Home in Sitka
where he has been for a few
months following a trip which took
him across the U.S.A.
Mr. Jones, who was born in
Zanesville. Ohio, in April of 1875,
came to Nome in 1900 and became
a member of the first Territorial
Legislature in 1913. He was a
staunch Republican and served as
U.S. Marshal here under President
Calvin Coolidge and President Her
bert Hoover.
He is survived by a son, Dan
Jones of Fairbanks, and a step
daughter, Mrs. Larry Galvin of
Suquamish, Wn„ and seven grand
children.
He was a member of Pioneer
Igloo No. 1 and a Past Grand
President of the Order, also a mem
ber of the Amity Masonic Lodge
No. 5 of Zanesville.
In recent years he has made
many friends among the visitors
to Alaska, telling stories of the
early days and explaining how it
was during the Stampede Days.
Last year he published a small
book of verse which proved to be
very popular.
Burial will be at Sitka tomorrow.
Barrow Residents
Claim Right to
Hunt Waterfowl
BARROW UR — Spokesmen for
the village of Barrow say they
do not intend to be harassed in
what they claim is their aboriginal
right to take eider ducks for sub
sistence, regardless of season.
Referring to a statement by Ray
Tremblay, chief of the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service Office in
Fairbanks, that the migratory bird
treaty of 1916 will be strictly en
forced this summer, the Barrow
group said in a statement:
“We, as a people, interpret the
treaty as such that our taking of
the eider duck for subsistence in
no way violates the treaty.
“Until a decision is handed
down on a case now pending we
do not intend to be harassed by
any enforcement agents who, under
their own interpretation of the
treaty, proceed to enforce the regu
lations on us.”
The treaty, signed by Canada,
Mexico and the United States, pro
hibits the hunting of migratory
waterfowl in the three countries
betwen March 10 and Sept. 1.
Generally, it is only during this
period that migratory birds are
in the northern reaches of the
United States and Canada and
available to natives of those areas
for food.
In May, 1961, FWS agents made
mass arrests in Barrow, charging
violation of migratory waterfowl
. regulations in the taking of eider
I ducks out of season. The charges
subsequently were dropped.
The seven Barrow spokesmen,
headed by State Sen. Eben Hop
son, said they had the consent and
approval of Barrow in their state
ment.
They said the native commu
nity had been ‘'assured by the
Washington office of the Fish and
Wildlife Service that no enforce
ment of this treaty would be un
! dertaken pending further action
by the signatories of the treaty
to rectify the differences of the
parties involved.
"We can only assume then that
the local office of this agency has
created its own directives and is
proceeding to enforce them.
“We stand firm in our belief
that one or a few arrests is not
going to solve the problem, but
that it is up to the agency to
proceed with the trial and force
this issue to a decision one way or
another.
“Until then, we will continue
to pursue our way of life and ex
ercise our equal rights as guar
anteed by the State Constitution,
which we feel is being infringed
upon by the untimely enforcement
of this treaty.”
Others signing the statement
were Forrest Solomon, Tom Brow
er, Alfred Hopson, Wyman Pani
geo, Arnold Brower and Johnny
Nusunginya.
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.