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OLDEST NEWSFAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 72 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Emergency Flight
Takes Sick Woman
To Anchorage
The second emergency flight in
less than nine days was made Fri
day night in an effort to save the
life of Mrs. Della Waghiyi, wife ;
of John Waghiyi, Eskimo hunter
living in the isolated village of
Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island.
Bob Johnson, BLM pilot, eva- j
cuated Mrs. Waghiyi to the Nome
Hospital June 7 in serious condi
tion following child birth.
Mrs. Waghiy i’s conditioned
worsened early last week but the
fog blanket laying over Nome
prevented her transfer to Anchor
age as the airlines were unable
to land. By Friday Dr. John Bar
row. Nome’s only physician, felt
he could delay no longer and after
determining the Fairbanks air
line could not accomodate the
woman he arranged for Mrs.
Waghiyi to be rushed to Anchor
age, 550 miles southeast of Nome
in an Aero Commander belong
ing to Dick Galleher, local char
ter operator. Dr. Barrow and
Nurse Olga Andronyk attended
the patient on the 3 hour flight
and rushed her to the Native Hos
pital where arrangements for im
mediate surgery were made.
While this flight was taking
place, a Nome man, Floyd Walluk,
missed the approach to the Nome
River bridge. This accident placed
an emergency status on the flight
to return Dr. Barrow to the hos
pital in Nome and, though poor
flying conditions delayed the
flight several hours at Unalakleet,
the Aero Commander arrived back
in Nome Saturday noon. At last
reports Mrs. Waghiyi is better
although still on the critical list
after being in surgery all Friday
night.
Walluk and his wife, who live
at Fort Davis, who were in a
panel truck, slid off the east ap
proach of the Nome River bridge.
The car turned over completely j
landing on its top in the river
with only about 6 inches of the
tires showing. Walluk was able
to kick open one of the doors and j
pull his wife to safety and they :
walked home suffering little
damage other than cold.
State Chamber
Protests to JFK
New ‘North Star’
FAIRBANKS UP) — The Alaska
State Chamber of Commerce pro
tested today to President Kennedy
against planned acquisition of a
larger vessel to replace the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs supply ship
North Star.
Recent congressional action
authorized a $375,000 appropria
tion to the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs to acquire a 10,000-ton Vic
tory type ship to replace the pre
sent 5,000-ton Knot - type North
Star used to supply native vil
lages along Alaska’s coasts.
The letter of protest to Presi
dent Kennedy, signed by C. W.
Snedden, State Chamber presi
dent, requested executive action
implementing the $375,000 appro
priation “be deferred pending a
current analysis of unique prob
lems involved.” The Chamber
asked further that investigation
be made to find “true and accu
rate total cost to the taxpayers of
present government operation as
compared to performing the same
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Maritime Strike
Negotiations Pull
Further Apart
NEW YORK Iff) — Negotiators
in the maritime strike which has
paralyzed segments of the na
tion’s merchant fleet were further
apart today after heated charges
of attempted bribery and di
visive tactics.
There were predictions on both
sides that the strike, which began
last Thursday at midnight, would
be a long one.
More than 100 ships have been
immobilized in the nation’s ports.
The attempted bribery charge
was made Sunday by Jesse M.
Calhoon, chairman of the Nation
al Committee for Maritime Bar
gaining. a group representing sev
eral unions.
Calhoon charged that American
Merchant Marine Institute had
attempted to “bribe us by offering
a substantial economic package
if we will drop the runaway-flag
issue from our demands.”
The accusation was denied by
Ralph E. Casey, president of the
Merchant Marine Institute. He
accused Calhoon of “lying in his
teeth,” and said he also would
welcome a congressional investi
gation.
The runaway-flag issue is main
obstacle to a settlement. It in
volves American-owned ships
which sail under foreign flags.
The unions want the right to
organize the crews on these ships.
They contend that American sea
men are being discriminated
against by the practice of hiring
foreign crews on the vessels.
Wage scales on such ships are
lower than on American-flag
vessels. The companies insist the
practice is necessary in order to
compete with foreign vessels.
Expect Tractor Committee
To Reject Castro Demand
For $28 Million in Tractors
DETROIT (ffi — The Tractors
for Freedom Committee was ex
pected late today to reject Cuban
Prime Minister Castro’s demand
for $28 million in light farm
tractors for the release of some
1,200 invasion prisoners.
The committee originally offer
ed to swap 500 tractors for the
Cuban rebels.
Castro last week told a four
man team of American technical
experts in Havana that he would
accept the farm type tractors only
if their value was $28 million.
Sources close to the committee
said the rejection of the offer
will leave it up to Castro whether
negotiations are to be continued.
FORMER GOP SENATOR
GEORGE BENDER PASSES
CLEVELAND, Ohio UP — For
mer U. S. Senator George H.
Bender, 64, Ohio Republican, died
Saturday of coronary thrombo
sis. Before being seated in the
Senate in 1954 to fill out two
years of the unexpired term of
the late Sen. Robert A. Taft,
Bender served seven terms as an
Ohio congressman.
AN OLDTIMER . . .
ANN ARBOR, Mich. UP — Miss
Belle Hetzel caused a fuss yester
day when she landed her plane
to attend a reunion of her Uni
versity of Michigan class of 1911.
True, the retired Omaha, Neb.,
high school teacher is 71 years
old, but, she pointed out, she
has been piloting airplanes for
31 years without a hitch.
Name of Pontius Pilate
Found on a Stone
On the Coast of Israel
JERUSALEM W — An Italian
archaeologist said Sunday the
i carved name of Pontius Pilate has
; been found on a stone on the
Mediterranean Coast of Israel.
Archaeological and b i b i c a 1
scholars said it was the first time
archaeological evidence has been
found of the Roman Procurator
of Judea who ordered the Cru
cifixion of Christ. Heretofore his
name has only been known
through the gospels and the writ
ings of the Jewish historian,
Josephus Flavius.
Announcement of the find was
made by Prof. Antonio Frova,
director of the Antiquities De
partment of Northern Italy, who
said a University of Milan arch
aeological expedition found it near
Caesarea, about 10 miles south of
Haifa. Caesarea was the capital
of the Romans in Palestine for
about 500 years.
New Armory to
Be Dedicated On
Fourth of July
The dedication of the fine new
Armory for the 1st Scout Bat
talion, 297th Infantry will be held
appropriately on July 4th as part
of the Independence Day celebra
tion.
The 1st Scout Battalion was
established on July 14, 1949 and
the new Armory which has been
needed since that time, cost over
$400,000 with two-thirds of the
money paid by the federal gov
ernment and one-third by the
State of Alaska.
The 1st Scout Bn., has four
! companies with 13 officers, one
warrant officer and 549 enlisted
! men.
The Alaska National Guard is
the youngest organization of its
Skindivers Recover
Space Capsule
From Pacific
HICK AM AIR FORCE BASE,
Hawaii W — Success of parachut
ing skindivers in recovering a
Discoverer capsule ejected from
space may mean the U. S. Air
Force is ready to put a chimpan
zee into global orbit.
The Air Force said it was
thoroughly pleased with the re
covery by a team of skindivers
who leaped 1,000 feet into the
Pacific near Hawaii Sunday to
retrieve an instrument-packed
capsule. The data-gathering cap
sule was ejected from orbiting
Discoverer XXV after a space
ride of 50 hours and 3 minutes.
The skindivers and the cap
sule were picked up today by the
Navy escort destroyer Radford
: and are expected to reach Hono
: lulu tonight. The Air Force said
the divers and their prize were
in excellent condition.
The capsule will be flown to
l Sunnyvale, Calif., for analysis of
I information it gathered in orbit.
The Discoverer package fell
I north of the planned impact spot
and waiting Air Force planes were
unable to make an aerial catch.
But that didn’t dampen the Air
; Force’s juhilation.
“Recovery by the skindivers
really worked,” said a spokesman
“We know now we can get any
thing that comes back from
space.”
Three skindivers, training for
I months for a chance at recovery,
i parachuted with a rubber life
raft to take the capsule in tow.
| They rolled it into the raft and
i then flated the boat. Then then
; climbed aboard and settled down
! to wait the arrival of the Rad
ford.
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Nome National Guard Armory
type in the nation and took tangi-1?
ble form in correspondence among
three people in 1935: Delegate to
Congress, Anthony J. Dimond;
Gov. John Troy and Lt. John
Noyes, Army officer then on duty
in New Mexico. It was not until
1939, however, with World War
II in the offing that it material
ized in the interest of national de
fense.
Gov. Ernest Gruening received
the first authority from the War
Department to organize Cos. A
and B of the 1st Scout Bn., 297th
Regiment — which was the nu
cleus of the Alaska National
Guard we have today.
After World War II it was in
activated and disbanded in 1947.
In 1948 Gov. Gruening urged the
War Department to re-establish
the National Guard of Alaska and
two Scout Battalions in Northern
and Western Alaska were formed.
Gov. William A. Egan is Com
mander-In-Chief of the Alaska
National Guard and may call out
the Guard to meet the needs of
domestic disaster.
The Adjutant General is Maj.
Gen. Thomas Carroll who is ex
ecutive head of the State Depart
ment of Military Affairs.
The present Battalion Com
mander is Capt. Robert Steele.
Because of his part in the his
tory of the National Guard Sen.
Ernest Gruening was invited to
speak at the dedication as well
as the Commander-In-Chief, but
both unfortunately had prior
committments.
Father Nevue, who is Chaplain
for the 1st Scout Bn., is in charge
of the program for the dedication
which will be held following the
parade on the Fourth of July.
BIY1EW S Site
At Clear to he
Completed Shortly
By Ward Sims
CLEAR (J¥> — So far the skies
over Clear have been just that.
But if they ever are clouded with
the shadow’s of ballistic missiles
aimed at North America, the
United States will know.
The informer: The fool-proof
Ballistic Missile Early Warning
System <BMEWS>, part of which
will be completed here shortly.
The U. S. Air Force is supervising
construction of the warning site,
one of three scattered over the
hemisphere.
The sisters of this No. 1 prior
ity electronic system are located
at Thule in Greenland, and at
Yorkshire, England. The Thule in
stallation is now finished and
standing by and the Yorkshire
lookout will be completed short
ly. Each site cost $350,000,000
and is a self-contained unit, that
: runs without the help of humans,
j Space-age in talent, BMEWS
beams its radar over a vast area,
I picks up foreign objects, and
j flashes their signals through a
: complex system which displays
I them on a three-dimensional bat
tie map. Total time for the pro
| cess: eight seconds.
The world’s most powerful ra
i dars are built into the system.
: Earth satellites have been picked
: up by the Thule antennas as they
I whirred into orbit,
i The first underseas cable in the
I Arctic, a 7000-mile link, relays
! communications from Thule to
I Cape Dyer in Canada.
J Before the Clear component be
came a reality, engineers had to
■ battle bitter cold, strong winds
j and earthquakes. The huge radar
! antennas were braced with
| specially treated steel to with
stand movements in the earth.
To the electronics experts, 100
per cent reliability was the chal
lenge. All major parts were
doubled, so that if one breaks
down, its twin would automatic
ally take over. Every device in
the system is monitored by silent
computers, and there is a machine
which predicts failure of a part.
In event of an attack, warning
messages going back to Strategic
Air Command and North Ameri
can Air Command post are check
ed to prevent garbling and possi
ble false alarms.
The Radio Corporation of
America is prime contractor for
construction of the system, with
Western Electric playing a large
part in the electronics end.
Prime Minister of Japan
Arrives in U.S. For Talks
With President Kennedy
LOS ANGELES UP — Prime
Minister Hayato Ikeda of Japan
and his party landed, looking
happy and rested, at Los Angeles
today on the first leg of an of
ficial visit to President Kennedy.
They were greeted by repre
sentatives of the U. S. State De
partment, Mayor Norris Poulson
of Los Angeles and other digni
taries.
Accompanying Ikeda was his
attractive wife, Japan’s Foreign
Minister Zentaro Kosaka, and
other high officials. The Japanese
Ambassador to the United States,
Koichiro Asakai, met the party
here and will accompany the
Prime Minister when he takes off
tonight for Washington and con
ferences with the Kennedy Ad
ministration.