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Camp David Plan
‘Encouraging,’
Says Red Delegate
GENEVA, W — The United
States and Britain formally sub
mitted the Camp David plan for
a nuclear test ban to the Soviet
Union yesterday.
The plan challenged .the Soviet
Union to remove the obstacles to
a partial test ban treaty by agree
ing to control details.
Soviet delegate Semyon Tsar
apkin said the Western proposals
are “an encouraging step for
ward,” but require extensive
clarification.
■He told newsmen he will sub
mit questions on the plan at sub
sequent meetings of the three
power treaty negotiations after
the Camp David proposals,
worked out by President Eisen
hower and British Prime Minis
ter Harold MacMillan, have been
studied in Moscow.
In the 10-nation disarmament
conference, also sitting in Geneva,
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Valerian Zorin proposed that a
treaty banning nuclear weapons
tests be linked to a promise from
world powers to renounce aggres
sion and use of atomic and hydro
gen weapons. He said these steps
should be taken in advance of a
general disarmament treaty.
If this approach is accepted,
Zorin said, it will open the way
to solution of the nuclear prob
lem as a whole and represent “an
important cat of confidence.”
The Western powers described
Zorin’s move as an attempt to
commit them to a moral obliga
tion which cannot be enforced.
British Minister of State David
Ormsby-Gore said yesterday the
Soviet plan for total disarmament
would plunge the world into
anarchy.
Ormsby-Gore told the confer
ence that the Soviet plan is un
acceptable to the Western pow
ers particularly because it makes
no provision for ah ihtemational
police force to maintain world or
der after the big powers have
liquidated their armed forces.
FISH AND GAME PUTS
SUDDEN HALT TO
KING CRAB FISHING
ANCHORAGE, UR — The Alas
ka Department of Fish and Game
issued an emergency regulation
Wednesday that closed down
much of Kachemak Bay to com
mercial king crab fishing at 12:01
a.m. yesterday.
Central area supervisor Charles
Meacham said fishing would not
be permitted east of a line drawn
from Anchor Point to Nubble
Point on the south side of the
bay after the midnight' deadline.
Closure of the bay was recom
mended by district management
biologist Clarence Weberg. We
berg said it has been discovered
the crabs now have soft shells
and much damage to male and
female crabs by the fishery has
been noted.
In addition, he said, much of
the crab population is now be
ginning to spawn.
“'Present utilization of stocks is
not compatible with proper con
servation and management prac
tices,” Meacham said.
The decision to issue the regu
lation was made Tuesday night,
Meacham said, in pointing out the
department is able to act rapidly
in meeting ohanging situations on
the fishing grounds.
1867 Newspaper Slams
Acquisition of Alaska
Tuesday was Seward Day, and
all Alaskans paused to pay trib
ute to the man who took a lot of
ridicule when he purchased Alas
ka from Russia.
The following exerpt is from
the Montreal Gazette of April 30,
1867:
“The Russians seem to be quite
elated at the success of their nego
tiations for the sale of Russian
America, and, to use a current
term, evidently think that the
United States have got a ‘hard
bargain.’ The Yankee cuteness of
the latter, however, will yet stand
them in good stead. It was gener
ally supposed that the ‘bargain’
would have to be settled for in
good hard gold, equal to at least
eleven millions in greenbacks. But
in this it appears we were all mis
taken, the Russian Government
being satisfied to take the account
out in Monitors instead of gold.
We do not know what these may
be worth a piece, but as they can
not have cost much less than a
million each, the Russians, if Con
gress consents, will be entitled to
seven or eight. They would be un
doubtedly well adapted to the
shallow waters of the Baltic, but
the dificultuy will be to get them
there. In any event both parties
would be mutually satisfied. The
United States will hae a territory
perfectly useless for all practical
purposes, and the Russians a fleet
of slowgoing, half-worn-out war
vessels which can never keep
the sea or make head against the
swifter, heavier and handier iron
clads of the old world.”
Astronomy notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
It is believed that a comet de
rives its light, except that portion
which is reflected sunlight, from
electrical discharges between its
particles. By some influence
emanating from the sun, gas is
emitted from the scattered swarm
of meteoric particles which com
pose the head. These stream out
like smoke from a locomotive in
a magnificent luminous trail.
This only occurs when in the vici
nity of the Sun.
Each time the comet comes
back to the sun, it loses some of
its beauty and its mass decreases.
In the course of time, the comet
become disintegrated and its path
way scattered with debris. As
tronomers now claim that meteors
are the remains of worn out
comets because meteoric swarms
follow along the orbits of for
mer comets.
When the earth crosses the or
bit of a disintegrated comet, or
meteoric swarm, the fragments
become shooting stars.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Notice is hereby given that the Fed
eral Aviation Agency has filed request
Fairbanks 023211 for the conveyance to
the State of Alaska for the Department
of Aviation, the following described
tract of public lands, pursuant to the
provisions of Section 16 of the Federal
Airport Act of May 13, 1946, (60 ,Stat.
170.49 U.S.C. 11151 for the construction,
operation and maintenance of a public
airport at:
SHAKTOOLIK, ALASKA
From the northeast corner of the
Shaktoolik School Building proceed
South 36° 40' East, a distance of approxi
mately 1,547 feet to a point which is the
northeast corner of the airport site, on
the west meander line of the Dayou
manick River and Corner No. 1, the
point of beginning; thence South 55° 00'
West, a distance of approximately 280
feet to a point on the meander line of
the Norton Sound which is Corner No.
2; thence South 35° 30' East, approxi
mately 4,650 feet along the meander line
of Norton Sound to a point which is
Corner No. 3; thence North 55° 00' East
approximately 190 feet to a point on the
west meander line of the Dayoumanick
River which is Corner No. 4, thence
northerly approximately 4,650 feet mean
dering along the southwest limit of the
Dayoumanick River to the point of
beginning.
This tract comprises approximately
25.0 acres.
The purpose of this notice is to give
persons claiming an interest in the lands
or having bonafide objection to the con
veyance, an opportunity to file with
the Manager, Fairbanks Land Office,
Bureau of Land Management, 516 Sec
ond Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska, within
30 days after the last publication, a
protest together with evidence that a
copy of the protest has been served on
the applicant.
D. B. LEIGHTON,
Acting Manager.
Publish March 2, 9, 16, 23.
Armed Guards Seal Off
African Settlements
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica, IT) — Three thousand armed
white soldiers and sailors sealed
off two big Negro settlements
near Cape Town yesterday as
South Africa’s embattled white
supremacy government sought to
check mounting racial turmoil.
The Navy men formed a cor
don around the Nyanga town
ship while the Army encircled
Langa. Nobody was allowed to
enter or leave the settlements.
Prime Minister Hendrik Ver
woerd carried out his threat to
use regular armed forces to pre
vent new Negro demonstrations
after rounding up 234 leaders of
the campaign of defiance against
the government’s race laws. Some
white liberals and Indians were
among those arrested.
The South African Parliament
met through Wednesday night in
Cape Town to speed action on
legislation for the outlawing of
the African National Congress,
the Pan-African Congress and
other organizations accused of
plotting a “massive revolt.”
The government has already
assumed wide powers under the
state of emergency proclaimed
yesterday for most cities and
towns, including the right to ar
rest anyone in the interest of
public safety. The regulations
include provision for bans on the
two chief weapons used so far
by Negro leaders in their cam
paign against the government —
work stoppages and demonstra
tions.
With South Africa’s 10 million
Negroes forming the hard core
of the nation’s labor force, the
emergency regulations make it an
offense to organize a work stop
page or for anyone to stay away
from his job with the intention
to cause “general dislocation or
disable any industry or under
taking.”
School to be Held at Golovin
According to the ANICA News,
there will be a school at Golovin,
starting sometime this summer.
The school has been closed, as the
village was too small, but there
are now between 20 and 25 Chil
dren of school age located there.
Southern Negroes Storm
City Centers with Hymns
IBu The Associated Preset
Powerful streams of water from
fire hoses churned into a group
of several hundred young Texas
Negroes.
A thousand others chanting the
Lord’s Prayer paraded through
the streets to Louisiana’s state
capitol at Baton Rouge for a pro
test assembly.
Those were major develop
ments Wednesday in the unfold
ing campaign of the South’s Ne
gro youth to obtain service at
lunch counters traditionally re
served for white patrons.
The fire hoses went into play
at Marshall, a town of 30,000 in
the East Texas oil and farming
region, to break up an assemblage
at the courthouse square protest
ing lunch counter incidents which
had brought arrests.
The incidents started as Ne
groes tried for the third time in
a week to patronize lunch coun
ters. Police made 55 arrests for
unlawful assembly, then took
into custody 200 more who gath
ered at the courthouse singing the
“Star Spangled Banner,” “God
Bless America,” and similar
songs.
The crowd re-formed faster
than it could be thinned by ar
rests, at one time pressing for
ward to the courthouse steps only
to be warned by the District
Attorney.
Shortly after the 1,000 students
of Southern University, Negro
state college, and supporters
staged their rally on the capiol
gr.ounds at Baton Rouge, the uni
versity announced the ousting of
18 from its rolls.
Dr. Martin L. Harvey, univer
sity dean, said the disciplinary ac
tion was taken for “violating uni
versity regulations, relating to in
subordination, and conduct unbe
coming to Southern University
students.”
Other developments nationwide
in the sitdown story:
1. Issuance in New York of an
advisory document, for the guid
ance of the Episcopal Church’s
three million members, express
ing general sympathy with the
sit-in movement.
2. A 42-15 vote of the California
Legislature to commend the dem
onstrators in the South.
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