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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 78
NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1963
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Kennedy Receives
Sparse Reception
Arriving in Italy
ROME lift — President Kennedy
arrived in Rome today to a sparse
reception by Italian standards and
promptly went into a conference
with Italian leaders in his drive
to build a stronger unity between
the United States and Western
Europe.
Kennedy told an airport recep
tion of Italian leaders and Ameri
cans that he had come to seek ways
for the United States and its allies
to maintain their 15-year-old al
liance. He was expected to find
the Italian officials receptive.
On his drive from the airport
the President rode past Rome's
ancient splendor.
A turnout of only tens of thou
sands of Romans was a contrast
to the throngs who flocked to see
the President in Germany and Ire
land.
u was a searing noi aay, wun
temperature in the 90s, and the
traditional start of vacation time
for Italians. Kennedy’s motorcade
from the airport was held up 10
minutes by heavy traffic on the
road to the sea resorts.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary', announced Ken
nedy would leave Italy for Wash
ington Tuesday night instead of
Wednesday morning, ending his
European trip about 15 hours earl
ier that originally planned.
Tuesday the President has his
historic meeting with Pope Paul
VI.
Kennedy flew here from Milan
after spending the night relaxing
at a villa beside Lake Como.
Kennedy flew to Italy from Bri
tain after 12 hours of discussion
there with Prime Minister Harold
MacMillan on a range of topics
including over-all East-West rela
tions, nuclear test ban negotiations,
Kennedy’s proposal for a NATO
surface fleet armed with Polaris
missiles.
As expected, however, MacMillan
still refused to commit his govern
ment to the proposed nuclear sur
face fleet. He would go further
than to agree to studies of the proj
ect with interested members cf
NATO.
Kennedy’s Official Party
Manhandled in Italy
ROME UP) — The United States
is filing a protest with the Italian
government about alleged man
handling and mistreatment of
members of President Kennedy’s
official party, informed sources
said.
The protest, it was learned to
day, covers actions by Italian po
lice and military personnel against
White House aides, State Depart
ment officials and members of the
American press corps traveling
with Kennedy.
Making the protest was Angier
Biddle Duke, State Department
chief of protocol, who was him
self jostled by police at the Quirin
al Palace, the residence of Italian
President Antonio Segni.
Physical obstruction of move
ments by Americans traveling with
the President aroused considerable
ire among the U.S. party, and re
portedly disturbed Kennedy him
self.
Hamburger was originated in
the Baltic States, not Germany.
But Americans made it world fam
ous by thinking up the idea of
slapping it into a bun.
Lars Johnson Named
Director of State
Division of Aviation
JUNEAU — The appointments
of Lars Johnson of Spenard and
Harry Dodds of Anchorage to top
level jobs in the Department of
Public Works were announced by
Commissioner Richard Downing to
day.
Johnson, a resident of Alaska
since 1938, becomes Director of
the State Division of Aviation.
Dodds becomes manager of An
chorage International Airport.
Johnson, an executive assistant
within the Division of Aviation,
has logged more than 2,100 hours
as a civilian and military pilot.
In a career of state service that
dates back to 1950, Johnson has
served as deputy tax collector for
Alaska at Anchorage, Adjutant
General of the Alaska National
Guard and Commander of the
Alaska Air National Guard.
An executive assistant in the
Aviation Division since December,
1961, he has also served as sta
tion manager for Alaska Airlines
at McGrath and as airways con
trol specialist with the Federal
Aviation Agency at Bethel, Una
lakleet and Yakutat.
He replaces Eugene Roguszka,
who resigned.
Dodds has been acting manager
of the state’s Anchorage Airport
since the resignation this spring
of Tony Schwamm, w'ho quit to be
come postmaster at Anchorage.
Bathyscape Trieste
Heads for an Overhaul
AT SEA, Aboard USS Fort Snel
ling UP — The bathyscape Trieste
headed for an overhaul in Boston
today after five futile dives in the
Atlantic to look for the lost nu
clear submarine Thresher.
The fifth dive, cut short by two
hours Sunday, was described as
negative. The Trieste was brought
up sooner than the planned six
hours because of failure of the
gyro compass and one if its three
propulsion motors.
The Trieste was headed for an
area of the ocean bottom where a
research vessel had photographed
a 2.000-pound air bottle of the
type used on the Thresher. The
submarine disappeared about 220
miles east of Boston April 10 with
12!) men aboard.
The salvage ship USS Preserver
took the Trieste in tow for the
voyage to Boston. The trip is ex
pected to take nearly four days.
WRONG PEDAL . . .
BELL FLOWER, Calif. UP — Mrs.
Olga Hansen, who four times had
flunked a driver’s license test, set
out today for what she vowed
would be her last try.
But, turning into the Dept, of
Motor Vehicles parking lot, oops
. . . her car suddenly zipped off
course and knocked a 12 by 15
foot hole in a store.
Sheriff’s deputies said Mrs.
Hansen, 51, of Downey, who was
navigating on a learner’s permit,
emerged unscathed with this ex
planation: "She stepped on the
gas instead of the brake.”
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Continued cloudy with occasional
light drizzle and fog.
Low tonight 41, high tomorrow
45. In the last 24 hours: High of
52, low of 40. Max. wind 30 mph
from the west. Sunrise at 1:33 a.m.,
sunset at 10:39 p.m.
Temps, a year ago today: High
of 68, low of 44. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 81 in
1936, low of 32 in 1932.
Civil War Reached
Turning Point
100 Years Ago
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD,
Pa. (JP) — Drawn by the magnet of
awesome history, throngs from
north and south commemorate to
day the beginning of the greatest
battle ever fought in the Western
Hemisphere.
On this day 100 years ago Gen.
Robert E. Lee’s Confederates drove
the hosts of Gen. George Gordon
Meade across rolling countryside
and through the streets of Gettys
burg — only to find federal troops
finally rallying on Cemetery Hill
and Ridge.
Three day later Lee, a beaten
man nobly asserting, “it was all
my fault,” ordered a retreat —
and the Civil War had reached
its turning point.
The highlight of today’s com
memoration was a solemn after
noon ceremony at the Eternal Light
Peace Memorial overlooking the
scene of the first day’s clash.
Governors or other representa
tives of 27 of the 29 states whose
men fought and fell here were on
hand to lay wreaths at the monu
ment’s base and otherwise pay tri
bute to the dead. Louisana and
Tennessee decided not to send a
representative.
Another event on today s pro
gram was dedication by Postmaster
General J. Eward Day of a Gettys
burg commemorative stamp. Half
gray and half blue, the stamp
shows a Federal and a man
from Dixie locked in bayonet com
bat.
Throughout the three-day ob
servances “Vignettes of iHstory”
will be given by amateur theatri
cal groups clad in reproductions
of the dress of a century ago.
For example there will be a
playlet each morning at Devil’s
Den or Sharpshooter’s Roost. This
was a place of violence and death
which was won and lost many
times by both sides during the
carnage.
COMMISSIONER JOHNSON
ENTERS FISHING DISPUTE
JUNEAU — Gov. Wm. Egan
said today he has sent Labor Com
missioner Gil Johnson to Bristol
Bay in an effort to find means of
ending a fish price dispute that has
halted fishing by resident fisher
men.
Johnson left Saturday afternoon
and flew from Anchorage to Dil
lingham Sunday. An interruption
of phone service has prevented
him from making a progress re
port to his office since then.
Resident fishermen on the bay
have tied up their boats to back
demands for a price of $1.24 cents
a fish for red salmon.
Report Prostitutes Prowl
U.N. Delegates’ Lounges
NEW YORK UP — The United
Nations is investigating reports
that prostitutes prowled the dele
gates’ lounges in search of busi
ness.
Secretary General U Thant said
Friday the reports were brought
to his attention Thursday and he
immediately asked for a probe by
U.N. security officers.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the
Immigration and Naturalization
Service said that Christine Keeler
and Mandy Rice-Davis, stars in
Great Britain’s Profumo affair of
sex and security, visited New York
last July for a week.
And, he said, they stayed in an
apartment one block from the
United Nations.
U.S. Orders Expulsion
Of Russian Diplomat
WASHINGTON — The United
States ordered expulsion of a Rus
sian diplomat today on the grounds
he tried to recruit a U.S. govern
ment employe as a spy.
Informants said the State De
partment charged Gennadiy Sevas
tyanov, an attache with the Soviet
embassy here, attempted to re
cruit a U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency employe for espionage pur
poses.
The CIA employe, an alien, some
of whose family lives in the Soviet
Union, was said to have cooper
ated fully in reporting Sevas
tyanov’s approaches.
A State Department announce
ment did not name the CIA em
ploye, but said the Soviet attache
‘'has engaged in highly improper
activities incompatible with his
diplomatic status.”
A Soviet embassy spokesman
said:
"The statement about improper
activities by a Soviet diplomat is
completely groundless.”
Petite Stewardess
Wins $140,000
Irish Sweepstakes
SEATTLE (jP) — Pretty Jan Pegg,
26, Northwest Orient Airlines
stewardess, has a big problem to
day — figuring out what to do
with $140,000 w'on in the Irish
Sweepstakes.
That’s a problem.
Jan thinks so, but already Uncle
is helping her. The Internal Reve
nue Service has it all figured out
that her income tax bill as a single
gal will be $101,496.
Of course if she marries before
next Jan. 1 she could file a joint
return and pay only $82,524.
But that poses a dilemma of
sorts.
She likes flying. She likes being
single. And if she married she’d
lose her job.
Which raises the question: Is it
worth $18,872 to have a man
around the house? She has no one
in particular in mind now.
Jan got the word in Honolulu
Saturday the 100-7 longshot Ragu
sa, on which she held a sweep
stakes ticket, was the winner. She
wouldn’t say on her return here,
where she got the ticket because
“it might be against the law.”
She said she’d never won any
thing before and had only been
to a horse race once in her life.
The tall, red-haired stewardess
has made her home here for two
years, and for three years before
that lived in Spokane. Her home
town is Red Cloud, Neb.
She said the windfall won’t
make any difference in her way of
living. She “plans to invest the
money wisely” and continue fly
ing — for the time being, at least.
Her next trip this wreek is a
flight to Anchorage.
GOIN' NO PLACE . . .
ROCKY HILL, Conn. I#) — Police
spotted John Circosta, 23. driving
an empty Greyhound bus stolen
from Springfield, Mass., and gave
chase Sunday.
One police car was forced off
the road as it tried to cut off the
bus. Another also was forced off
as it approached from another di
rection.
Police finally stopped the bus in
the center of Rocky Hill.
Circosta was unable to say where
he was going or what he was
doing in the bus, police reported.
He was jailed.
DEW Line Workers
Continue to Leave
Their Positions
WINNIPEG l/P> — Twenty-seven
civilian employes of the Distant
Early Warning Line arrived here
by plane Saturday swelling the
elusive total of workers who have
left the line during the last month.
William L a d y m a n, Canadian
vice president of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
said 34 arrived Friday night and
more are expected.
Ladyman, whose union is seeking
certification as bargaining agent
for the DEW Line civilians, said
information deceived Saturday in
dicated workers at one point on
the line “are very unsettled.”
He would not rule out a possi
bility of a walkout, but declined
to pinpoint what he considered the
major trouble spot.
A group of arrivals interviewed
here said, however, that the men.
manning the surveillance posts
across the continent’s northland
are aware of the importance of
their job.
i nere was some discontent wnicn
involved the status of their position
with the company and the bonus
pay and travelling expenses avail
able to them on arrival here.
Earlier in June the Federal
Electric Corp. of Paramus, N.J.,
civilian operators of the line, an
nounced wage cuts after the U.S.
Air Force reduced its payments
in conformity with revised con
tract procedures ordered by U.S.
Defense Secretary McNamara.
The Canadian government sub
sequently rejected the lower pay
formula and re-instated the indi
vidual wage contract rates.
Ladyman said the company has
dismissed at least 100 men in the
past few weeks who refused to
sign a new individual contract for
lower pay.
Ladyman suggested confusion
exists among the men about how
they stand and mentioned an “un
reliability of company statements”
and an “arrogant attitude” in
volving the supervision on the line.
21 Red Poll Cattle
Head North to Alaska
INNISFAIL. Alta. (#> — Harley
Hess, a rancher from Pearl Island,
52 miles off Homer, Alaska, left
here Tuesday with a truckload of
21 young female Red Poll cattle.
He bought them from five
Alberta feeders and hopes to use
them to improve cattle standards
in Alaskan agriculture.
Hess said Pearl Island is damp
like the British Columbia coast
and “Red Polls have surpassed,
any beef breed I have seen for
this kind of climate.”
The lowest temperature on the
island last winter was 10 above,
he said.
Hess said he plans cross-breed
ing the Red Polls with Hcrefords.
He ships feeder steers to the main
land for fattening by farmers
there.
The cattle will travel the Alaska
Highway, then to Anchorage and
on to Homer in the Kenai Penin
sula. They will be shipped to the
island by barge.
Marshal Tilo Re-elected
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (lb —*
Yugoslavia’s Communist parlia
ment has unanimously re-elected
Marshal Tito president of Yugo
slavia for a fourth and unlimited
term. He became president in 1953.
The nation’s new constitution
allows Tito, 71, to serve for life
unless he decides to step aside.