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•FARTHEST WEST NEWSPAPER IN THE 50 STATES”
64th Year No. 102
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1963
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Plane Wreckage
Spotted in Rugged
Mountain Area
ANCHORAGE UP — Wreckage
sighted in the remote and rugged
mountains of the Alaska Range
near Skwentna was being investi
gated today as the possible remains
of a twin-engine plane which car
ried seven U.S. Weather Bureau
officials to their deaths in 1960.
The wreckage was sighted Sat
urday by Howard Fowler, an An
chorage pilot, while on a hunting
trip in the area some 75 miles
northwest of Anchorage.
An Air Force helicopter, carrying
Federal Aviation Agency repre
sentatives, a State Police trooper
and Fowler, left Elmendorf AFB
for the sight today.
The FAA said Fowler reported
the wreckage appeared to be that
of a plane that had smacked into
the side of a mountain.
The seven Weather Bureau offi
cials vanished July 25, 1960, after
leaving Anchorage in a twin-en
gined Beechcraft bound for Nome
and Kotzebue.
The plane vanished from the
radar scope at Anchorage when it
was about 140 miles northwest of
here, heading into the mountain
ous area wrhere peaks rise as high
as 10,000 feet.
The men were on a four-day
trip to Nome and Kotzebue to in
spect Weather Bureau facilities
here.
The missing men included five
Anchorage Weather Bureau em
ployes — W. B. Lindley, Harry C.
Carle, James W. <Bill> Grant,
Charles Belcher and Thomas O.
McDonald.
The Weather Bureau’s chief test
pilot, George Brewster of Wash
ington, D.C., was at the controls.
The seventh man aboard the craft
was Walter Branstetter of Everett,
Wn., a Weather Bureau employe
assigned to the Office of Civil
and Defense Mobilization.
Russia Will Release
Jailed Japanese Fishermen
TOKYO UP* — The Soviet Union
announced today that all Japanese
fishermen jailed by the Russians
on charges of poaching will be
realeased soon.
Soviet Ambassador Vladimir M.
Vinogradov conveyed, the news to
the Foreign Ministry, then called
a news conference at the Soviet
Embassy to make the announce
ment public.
The move was regarded by
Japanese officials and newspapers
as part of the Soviet Union’s cur
rent peaceful coexistence line.
By Japanese count, there are
117 Japanese fishermen under So
viet detention, and 330 boats. The
Russian announcement made no
mention of returning the ships.
CREATOR OF THE JEEP
KARL PROBST FOUND DEAD
DAYTON, Ohio UP* — Karl K.
Probst, 79, creator of the Jeep,
was found dead at his home Sun
day of an apparent overdose of
sleeping pills. He had been ill for
several weeks.
Plans for the Jeep, which he
drew in 1940 as a consulting en
gineer for the Bantam Car Co. of
Butler, Pa., were found at his bed
side.
The vehicle that became famous
during World War II was designed
by Probst in one week. In 1941
Willys-Overland and the Ford
Motor Co. disputed the vehicle’s
origins, but a Federal Trade Com
mission ruling said Probst was
the designer.
Dynamite Explosion
Causes Extensive Damage
In Butte, Mont., Area
BUTTE, Mont, — The identity
of the man or men killed in an ex
plosion of a load of dynamite was
unknown today in the confused
aftermath of the blast which caused
thousands of dollars’ damage in the
Butte area.
Sheriff Bill Dalling’s office
has given no detailed account of
the incident because of confusion
on certain points and official si
lence on others.
Dalling’s deputies, staked out
near the blast scene Saturday
night, were moving in to make
arrests when the explosion occur
red. No deputies were injured
seriously.
Human remains were so frag
mented and scattered over such a
large area by the blast that au
thorities found it difficult to de
termine the number of casualties.
Deputy sheriff Ken Cunning
ham and a fellow officer were
about 130 feet away and approach
ing three parked cars and the truck
when the dynamite blew up. Both
officers were cut and bruised but
escaped serious injury.
State’s Salmon Pack
Far Short of 1962
JUNEAU UP) — The state’s 1963
salmon pack climbed to 2,420,442
cases during the week ending Aug.
18 but was still far short of the
1962 pack, the Fish and Game De
partment reported today.
The pack through Aug. 19 of
Iasi year was 3,056,309 cases.
Central Alaska led the state in
the number of cases packed, with
1,121,676. including 653,412 cases
of pinks and 228,855 cases of
chums.
Southeast Alaska’s total through
Aug. 18 was 1,008,323 cases, in
cluding 834,570 cases of pinks.
Western Alaska had an ex
tremely small pack of 290,443 cases,
including 218,306 cases of reds.
By specie, the total state pack
included 38,703 cases of kings,
464,719 cases of reds, 56,297 cases
of cohos, 1,488,492 cases of pinks
and 372,231 cases of chums.
High School Band
Director Robs Two Banks
JACKSON, Mo. UP) — The di
rector of the Jackson High School
Band admitted Friday he robbed
two banks in nearby communities
of more than $20,000. He was ar
rested after witnesses identified
him at a concert he was conduct
ing.
Richard Burton Partridge, 38,
signed statements that he robbed
the Bank of Advance, Mo., of $9,
637 on Oct. 15 last year and the
Chaffee, Mo., bank of $12,780 on
Aug. 5.
Partridge was charged in a fed
eral complaint and held in lieu
of $60,000 bond.
“He sure fooled a lot of people,’’
said Norman Swan, director of the
Jackson Consolidated School Dist.
“He did a good job of directing the
band and was popular.”
Both banks are within 30 miles
from the Partridge home in south
east Missouri.
None of the money taken in the
first robbery has been recovered,
police said, but more than $7,000
of the Chaffee money was found
in a strong box at the high school.
Two pistols also were in the box.
A white station wagon used in
the Chafee robbery led to the ar
rest. Police learned Partridge had
such a car and found it hidden in
a bam.
Russian Fishing Vessel
Sinks after Razed by Fire
BOSTON (#> — An engine room
fire which started up again after
! a Russian fishing vessel fought the
I blaze and reported it controlled,
today resulted in the sinking of the
Gloucester fishing craft, St. Nic
holas.
The eight-man crew, unhanned,
had been taken aboard another
American fishing vessel, the Holy
Cross, after the St. Nicholas crew
men radioed they lacked fire fight
ing equipment and could not con
trol the flames.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard
cutter Snohomish sped to the
scene. The Snohomish took the
crewmen from the Holy Cross be
fore proceeding. The cutter sub
sequently found the Gloucester
craft again in flames. It began
fighting the fire but reported the
St. Nicholas sank at 8:05 a.m.
Astronauts Will Sell
Personal Stories on the
Man-to-the-Moon Program
WASHINGTON UP> — Negotia
tions are under way for the sale of
the personal stories of the 16
Gemini-Apollo astronauts of the
U.S. man-to-the-moon program to
Life magazine.
A spokesman for the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration said a contract with Life
“is cooking.”
“It is not yet signed, but I think
we will have a contract — I don’t
know what could fall through at
this stage,” the spokesman said.
In New York Edward Thompson,
the magazine’s editor, said, “we
are still dickering.” Thompson
added that there probably will be
two contracts, “one with us,” and
one with another party for other
rights.
Unearth Gold Coins
SALEM, Ohio UP) — “It got dark
and we had to quit. We plan to
go back and dig some more.”
That’s what Mrs. Owen Glass
burn, a minister’s wife, said after
a crock containing gold coins with
a face value of $655 was unearth
ed Friday on her husband’s prop
erty here.
The coins — $5, $10 and $20 de
nominations — were found with
the aid of a bulldozer belonging
to a neighbor who rents the prop
erty.
The coins were in a rusty metal
box inside a crock, which was
about a foot underground.
“The book price of the coins
is a minimum of $2,175,” said Mrs.
Glassburn, a coin collector. “The
oldest coin is a $20 gold piece dated
1905.”
N.Y. Stock Exchange
Against Proposed Tax
WASHINGTON UP> — The New
York Stock Exchange says a pro
posed tax on some U.S. invest
ments overseas is a departure from
this country’s long-standing policy
of encouraging free international
money markets.
Such a change in policy could
conceivably lead to a weakening
of New York and the United States
as the financial capital of the
world,” the exchange said in a
statement filed with the House
Ways and Means Committee.
The committee is considering
legislation to impose a tax on cer
tain foreign investments as a meas
ure designed to discourage the
flow of U.S. capital abroad.
The New York Exchange said
that, in any event, the tax should
not be applied to present invest
ments.
Senate Approves to
Extend $75 Million a Year
Federal Aid to Airports
WASHINGTON fa — The Sen
ate passed tcxiay the administra
tion’s bill to extend for an addi
tional three years, to June 30, 1967,
the $75 million a year federal aid
to airports program.
The measure was sent to the
House where Commerce Commit
tee hearings have been held on a
similar bill. The committee has not
voted on it.
The bill would continuing a
matching program which began in
1946. States are required to put up
$1 for each federal $1 except in
the case of special safety aids such
as high intensity runway lighting.
For these, Washington pays up to
75 per cent.
The bulk of the federal funds are
used for runways. The grants can
not be spent on passenger ter
minal facilities, parking lots, and
restaurants.
Three-fourths of the money is
allocated to the states on the basis
of population and area with Alaska
eligible for the biggest share,
$3,994,844, and Delaware the
smallest, $78,332.
One-fourth is placed in a dis
cretionary fund to be allocated by
the Administrator of the Federal
Aviation Agency.
Ten Non-Communist Countries
Increase Trade with Cuba
WASHINGTON UP) — Ten of 26
non-Communist countries increased
their trade with Cuba last year
despite a U.S. campaign to isolate
the Castro regime.
Japan led the way, supplanting
the United States as the largest
non-Communist trader with Cuba.
Japanese trade increased from
$36.1 million in 1961 to 546.4 mil
lion last year. Others showing an
increase were Morocco, the United
Arab Republic, Tunisia, Greece,
Sweden, Finland, Norway, Uruguay
and Brazil.
Didn't Miss the Wedding
MIAMI, Fla. L-F — George Kopp,
seriously injured Aug. 13 in an
automobile accident, vowed he
would attend his daughters’ double
wedding “If I have to crawl down
the aisle.”
Instead, he rode in a wheel chair
Sunday. The cast on his crushed
left leg decorated with white chry
santhemums and sprigs of green
ery. Beside him stood his wife
Ruth, 54, her dislocated left elbow
in a sling.
His daughters Susan, 23, and
Janet, 20, paused to kiss him on
their way to the altar.
YESTERDAY'S BASBALL
American League
Minesota 5. Baltimore 3
Detroit 11-4, Kansas City 5-3
Boston 8-1, Cleveland 3-2
Washington 4, Los Angeles 1
New York 4-1, Chicago 0-2
National League
Los Angeles 2, Milwaukee 1
Cicinnati 8, San Frencisco 7
Huston 3, St. Louis 1
Chicago 3, New York 1
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 3-5, Tacoma 2-7
Dallas-Ft. Worth 6-2, Denver 2-0
Portland 5-3, Seattle 2-2
Oklahoma City 4, Salt Lake City 2
Hawaii 4, Spokane 0
Looking at the Weather
Mostly cloudy. Low tonight 35,
high tomorrow 45.
In the last 24 hours: High of 40,
low of 36. Max. wind 21 mph from
the NW. Sunrise at 4:24 a.m., sun
set at 7:41 p.m.
Shroud of Secrecy
Lifted on Launching
Of Polaris Missiles
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Ufl —
The Defense Department has lift
ed its 29-month-old shroud of
secrecy on submarine launchings
of the Polaris missile, and the
Navy and newsmen are pleased.
The news blackout was imposed
in March, 1961, when submarine
launched Polaris rockets were
having numerous problems. Four
submarines had logged ten suc
cesses and eignt failures.
The Defense Department said
merely that military missiles
launched "away from public view”
would not be reported.
Of the 41 Polaris missiles launch
ed from submarines during the in
formation blackout, 33 were suc
cessful.
The Navy was frustrated because
it could not report officially on
a program that was progressing
well.
Combined insistence by the Navy
and reporters resulted in removal
of the ban.
With the lifting of the restriction,
Friday, the Navy reported that 45
of 61 Polaris launchings by 12
submarines have been successful.
JOHN CATES NAMED DIRECTOR
OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
JUNEAU Ufi — The appointment
of John Cates of Noorvik as Di
rector of the Office of Rural De
velopment was announced today
by Gov. Wm. Egan.
Cates, 47, replaces Robert Hoff
man, who resigned to take a po
sition with the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Cates, who will assume his new
duties Sept. 4, now is teacher prin
cipal at the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs School at Noorvik.
Prior to taking the Noorvik as
signment last June, Cates taught
at the BIA school at Kwigillingok.
U.S. Crime Rale Higher
WASHINGTON OR — FBI figures
released today show crime in the
nation for the first six months of
the year was 9 per cent higher
than in the first half of 1962.
There was a 13 per cent increase
in larceny, a 9 per cent rise in auto
theft, and increases of 8 and 1 per
cent in burglary and robbery, re
spectively.
Mother and Baby Doing Well
BRISBANE, Australia OR — The
pilot set the controls of his twin
engined Cessna aircraft on auto
matic and helped deliver a baby,
5,000 feet above North Queensland
today.
He was flying Mrs. Gertrude
Gordon from an aboriginal mission
nearly 100 miles to Cairns Hospital
as part of an erial ambulance serv
as part of an aerial ambulance
service. As the plane headed for
Cairns, the pilot, Percy Trezise,
father of four, helped ambulance
bearer Andrew Cousar deliver a
7-pound boy.
Mother and baby are doing well.
Canadian Heal Wave
VANCOUVER, B.C. oR — Most
of Canada was refreshingly cool
Sunday, but the far north was in
a sweat.
It was heat wave time in a part
of the country that often reports
temperatures of 60 and 70 de
grees below zero during the win
ter.
The Weather Office here today
reported Sunday’s high in White
horse, Y.T., was 81 aove and in
Inuvik, N.W.T., 83 above.
The weatherman blamed long
hours of sunshine combined with
a high pressure ridge of warm air.