OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
64th Year No. 25
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1963
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Rusk Pledges Castro Will Be Blocked
From Trying to Export Armed Attack
WASHINGTON (j7> — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk has pledged
Fidel Castro will be blocked from
trying to export armed attack. His
assurances seem unlikely to quiet
the crackling debate over the ad
ministration’s handling of the
Cuban problem.
Rusk said in Houston last night
if Cuba tries to use arms outside
its territory it “will be met with
the armed forces of the hemi
sphere” and repeated that “a Soviet
military presence on that island
cannot be accepted.”
Use of arms by Cuba outside the
island, he said, would be “inter
cepted, interrupted and stopped.”
“Cuba must not become a source
of infection for the hemisphere,”
he said at a news conference in
Houston.
In his talk with newsmen, Rusk
gave a few additional details in
his remarks about Cuba which were
part of a later speech to the Texas
Daily Newspaper Assn.
The formal address included the
declaration that “a Soviet military
presence” cannot be accepted in
Cuba.
Senate Democratic leader Mike
Mansfield said Rusk’s statements
“demonstrate the continued deter
mination of the administration to
cope with this situation in Cuba.”
There was some Republican
skepticism.
Sen. George Aiken, a Foreign
Relations committeeman, said, “I
wish Secretary Rusk coud make
that determination retroactive, be
cause the Russians apparently are
occupying Cuba in force and I
understand Soviet-made weapons
are showing up in considerable
quantities in other Latin-Ameri
can countries.”
The Senate Preparedness Sub
committee hears a report today
on Soviet military strength in
Cuba and how much of a threat
it is to the hemisphere.
The administration yesterday ad
ded 14 ships to the previous list of
12 vessels banned from carrying
U.S. Helicopters
In South Viet Nam
Ordered to Shoot First
SAIGON, South Viet Nam MV
U.S. helicopters in South Viet Nam
' have been ordered to shoot first
at Communist guerrillas while
escorting airborne troops.
The new orders, which went
into effect yesterday, extend the
role of armed escort helicopters
which previously were required to
hold their fire until fired on by
the Communists.
Military sources said the new
orders permit the UH1B and UH1A
turbo helicopters to precede troop
carrying helicopters into a battle
area if intelligence reports indicate
that the guerrillas are dug in for
a fight.
The armed helicopters can spray
the assault area with rockets and
machine gun fire and cover troop
landings. They also will be per
mitted to remain in the assault
area to attack the guerrillas after
the transport helicopters land
their troops and retire.
The change in the restrictive
rules follows a visit to South Viet
Nam by Gen. Earle Wheeler, U.S.
Army Chief of Staff, who was
urged here to “liberalize” U.S.
armed helicopter activity. How
ever, the new orders require that
L helicopter activity must be con
fined to supporting an operation.
U S. financed cargos because they
engaged in Cuban trade.
There was feeling on the part
of some members of Congress that
this wasn’t going far enough.
Rep. Paul Rogers, (D-Fla.), told
the House, for example, that the
United States should close its sea
ports to all nations which allow
their flag to be flown in commerce
with Cuba. He said nine British
merchant ships put into Cuba in
the last six weeks.
In his address, Rusk did not de
tail any plan to reduce the heavily
armed and manned Soviet outpost.
Meanwhile, the cannonading
over Kennedy’s foreign policy
thundered on.
In a fresh attack, Sen. Bourke
Hickenlooper accused the adminis
tration of making it impossible for
congressional Republicans to co
operate on a bi-partisan foreign
policy.
Hickenlooper, chairman of the
Senate GOP Policy Committee and
member of the Foreign Relations
Committee, told a news conference
Republicans couldn’t be expected I
to go along blindly when they
were left out of the decision-mak
ing process.
Mansfield said he didn’t object
to legitimate criticism and that he
was not advocating silence by the
Republicans. But he added, “it
does our country no -good to rake
over old ashes.’’
No School Tax Over Age 65
JUNEAU tf) — Persons over
the age of 65 would not be re
quired to pay the state school tax
under the provisions of a bill, in
troduced in the House today by
Reps. Earl Hillstrand and Dora
Sweeney.
Nordin and E & B
Are Apparent Low
Bidders for Nome
Vocational School
JUNEAU GD — Nordin Construc
tion Co. and E & B Construction
entered an apparent low joint bid
of $945,945 today for construction
of Phase I of the Nome Vocational
School.
The job will involve the con
struction of a school building con
taining two shops, six classrooms,
storage and administrative facili
ties, a kitchen and dining facilities
and a separate service building.
The state made no estimate of
the cost of the work.
Other bidders and their uncheck
ed offers included:
Ghemm Co., Fairbanks, $1,500,
000; Pacific General Construction
Co., Seattle, $1,320,000; Alcan Pa
cific Co., Anchorage, $1,067,000;
C & R Builders, Seattle, $1,200,000;
Burgess Construction Co., Fair
banks, $1,017,737; Walsh and Co.,
Spenard, $1,287,634; Pacific Con
struction Co., Fairbanks, $1,170,000;
Fairbanks-Western, Fairbanks, $1,
080,000; B-E-C-K Constructors,
Seattle, $1,095,000; Inlet Co., Inc.,
Anchorage, $1,095,487.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with occasional snow.
Lowest temp, expected tonight 5
to 10. The high tomorrow 25.
In the last 24 hours: highest
temp. 19, lowest 16. Sunrise at 7:18
a.m., sunset at 5:13 p.m.
Request Lowering
School Tax Effort
From 4 to 3.5 Mills
JUNEAU (iP) — The Fairbanks,
Anchorage and Palmer School Dis
tricts asked the legislature last
night to reduce the required local
tax effort under the Public School
Foundation Act from 4 to 3.5 mills.
In a wire to the Senate Health,
Welfare and Education Commit
tee, which was holding a public
hearing on a bill <SB67) setting
the rate at 4 mills, Dr. Don Dafoe,
Superintendent of Anchorage
Schools, said:
“Reviewing all material sub
mitted, it appears that a required
local effort of not more than 3.5
mills could be acceptable to our
district.
“The district financial loss, if it
is higher, would be too much to
bear.”
Dafoe urged the committee to re
store to the Public School Founda
tion Act the supplemental incen
tive provision eliminated when it
was enacted last year.
He also asked the committee to
include school nurses in the teacher
unit allowance provided for in the
act.
R. C. Carter, Asst. Superintend
_A _ n T—1 _ ! _ l i i • i i i
ent of Fairbanks School, in a letter
to Sen. John Hall, a member of the
committee, said SB67 “as written
will only compound already exist
ing inequities.
“Present law distributes state
funds on the basis of pupil popu
lation and has little regard for a
district’s ability to support its own
schools.
“Present law, or the lack of law,
also permits some sections of the
state to have schools that are fi
nanced completely by the state.
“This means that an area, such
as Fairbanks, which has voluntarily
agreed to furnish its own share of
the local support must also help
provide the local share for those
sections what have not willingly
assumed this obligation.”
William Zahradnicek, Superin
tendent of Schools at Palmer and
State Commissioner of Education
designate, appeared in person be
fore the committee to recommend
a reduction in the proposed mill
rate to 3.5.
home, arranged for military honors
and burial in Arlington National
Cemetery, and brought the next
of kin to Washington for the fu
neral today.
Influenza Virus
Sweeps Through Alaska
JUNEAU W) — The State Di
vision of Public Health said today
there has been no identification
of influenza virus in a wave of
upper respiratory illness which has
been sweeping Alaska.
Dr. Edwin Wicks, Director of
the Division, said Anchorage,
Fairbanks and Ketchikan have all
reported a high incidence of upper
respiratory illness, with symptoms
of fever, chills, and some neck
gland involvement, but most cases
have been mild.
Wicks said Fairbanks and Ket
chikan have also reported an in- <
crease in the number of measles. 1
“bnould you approve the recom
mendation now,” they said, “and
then find later, through the study
of the congressional committees*
that some other course should have
been taken, you will have figura
tively locked the barn door after
the horse was stolen.”
To become effective, Presidential
approval of the recommendation is
needed.
The commission made its recom
mendation under the North Pacific
Fisheries Treaty, to which the
United States, Canada and Japan
are parties.
The Japanese have in the past
limited their fishing to west of
175 degrees west longitude.
Legislator Wants Equal
Space in Editorial Columns
JUNEAU UP) — Sen. Lester Bron
;on told the Senate today he is
laving a bill drafted which would
five legislators equal space in the
Sen. Nicholas Begich, chairman
of the committee, told the public
hearing he planned to propose
two amendments to the Public
School Foundation Act.
One would provide for inclusion
of special education in the act and
the other would provide for the
employment of school nurses.
Trio from Nome Make
Salmon Lake and Back
History was made yesterday
when three local men completed a
round-trip to Salmon Lake on the
Nome-Fairbanks Highway.
They reported that they followed
the road all the way and encounter
ed some snow but had little diffi
culty. Although they had planned
to go to the Pilgrim River bridge,
they turned back from Salmon
Lake after visiting with Hugo
Linsfors, who is wintering at his
camp there.
Linsfors, who had been ill was
improved and reported very little
game this winter and even the
winter birds were scarce.
The party consisting of Barrow
Morgan, Leonard Anseth and
Wally Parker traveled in Anseth’s
Power Wagon, complete with well
equipped wanagan and returned
late yesterday afternoon.
Standard Time Measure
Gets Thorough Revision
JUNEAU Ut) — A bill which
would have placed all of the State
of Alaska on Standard Time is
going to get a thorough revision
by its author, Rep. Bennie Leonard.
Leonard told the House State Af
fairs Committee yesterday the sub
stitute bill would establish Pacific
Standard Time as the official time
for the state, except that portion
of Alaska west of 162 degrees west
longitude, which would remain
on Bering Standard Time.
Under the proposed change,
Southeast Alaska would remain as
it is on Pacific Standard Time, ex
cept for Skagway, which would
move up one hour from Yukon
Standard Time to Pacific Standard
Time.
Those areas of the state now on
Alaska Standard Time—and this
includes most of the mainland, with
the exception of the western rim
and the southern tip of the Alaska
Peninsula, as well as the Aleutians
—would move up two hours.
The change would become effec
tive at midnight next Dec. 31.
Leonard told the committee the
airlines and military, which op
posed the change last year, have
indicated they would not argue
against the bill this year.
euuuiicu columns oi a newspaper
to answer editoral attacks upon
him or the legislature.
Bronson told the Senate he was
having a bill drawn up after taking
the floor on a point of personal
privilege to criticize an editorial
which appeared in the Anchorage
Daily Times Monday.
The editorial said legislators
were composed of three groups,
do-gooders, grabbers and thinkers,
and continued to say, Bronson said,
that legislation passed hastily by
the Senate had to be scrutinized
closely in the House.
Bronson said that he had found
that newspaper editors can be di
vided into three groups, “the deep
ly partisan, the news distorters and
the capital grabbers.”
U. S. Acted Wisely
DALLAS — Sir John Cock
croft, British Nobel prize winner
in physics, says the United States
acted wisely in canceling the Sky
bolt missile project.
Speaking at a meeting of the
Dallas, Tex., Council on World Af
fairs and the English Speaking
Union, he said: “I thought tech
nically it was a very poor weapon.
Many of us were glad to see the
departure of Skybolt and the sub
stitution of Polaris and Minute
man.”
Eleven Airmen Killed
In World War II Buried
In Arlington Cemetery
WASHINGTON (*> — Eleven air
men killed in a wartime jungle
crash almost two decades ago were
buried together today in Arlington
National Cemete*ry.
For 17 years, their bodies had
lain in the wreckage of their
bomber high up on a mountain in
New Guinea. Searchers found the
wreck two years ago.
The airmen were buried today in
a single grave, with military hon
ors and attended by the prayers of
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
chaplains. Kinfolk were there,
some whitehaired parents.
The B-25 plane carrying the 11
airmen disappeared Feb. 1, 1944,
on a flight from Dobodura to Port
Morseby. The last word from the
plane was that it had run into
bad weather.
After a number of unsuccess
ful searches, a U.S. Army-Austra
lian search party in April 1961
found the wreckage, and the re
mains of the men, 10,000 feet up
on Mt. Konevi in the Owen Stanley
Range. It was one of a dozen such
wreckages found in the New Gui
nea wilderness since World War II.
Recently, the Defense Depart
ment brought the crew’s remains
Kennedy Asked to
Delay Action On
Japanese Fishery
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy was asked today to de
lay acting on a recommendation
that the Japanese be permitted to
fish for hlibut in the eastern Bering
Sea.
The request pertained to a rec
ommendation by the North Pa
cific Fisheries Commission. In a
joint letter, Reps. Thor Tollefson
and Thomas Pelly, Washington Re
publicans, asked postponement of
action until congressional com
mittees complete a study of the
situation.
The Congressmen noted that
special House and Senate subcom
mittees held hearings on the matter
in Seattle earlier this month.
Those who heard the testimony,
they said, are not certain that the
commission’s recommendation is in
the best interest of the domestic
fishing industry.
The two also questioned whether
it was “in the best interest of our
future relations with Japan in con
nection with the many fishery
problems existing in the North
Pacific waters.”