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62nd Year No. 58 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1961 Per Copy 15^
JFK Appeals to Canada to Take Active
Hole in Western Hemisphere Affairs
OTTAWA UP) — President Ken
nedy urgently appealed to Canada
today to take a more active role
alongside the United States in
Western Hemisphere affairs at a
moment of grave Communist chal
lenge to the free world.
The President also told Canada,
in a speech prepared for the Cana- i
dian House of Commons and Sen
ate, that the United States will
commit to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization Command
five, and later more, Polaris
atomic-missile submarines, sub
ject to agreed NATO guidelines
on their control and use.
He also envisioned, eventually,
a NATO sea-borne missile force,
truly multi-lateral in ownership,
if feasible.
Kennedy, in the highlight ap
pearance of his state visit to
Canada, put forward those points
as steps toward containing “the
powerful struggle of ideologies,”
so that the struggle could be re
duced to manageable proportions
and the world relieved eventually
of the shadow of nuclear weapons.
The President placed hemi
spheric solidarity first in the order
of urgency. He told the Parlia
ment it is the business of the
For First Time in 4 Years
Both President and Vice
President are Out of U.S.
WASHINGTON UP) — For the
first time in more than four years
both the President and Vice
President of the United States
were out of the country yester
day.
President Kennedy arrived in
Ottawa for a two-day goodwill
visit. Vice President Johnson
flew to Thailand on his six-na
tion goodwill tour of Southeast
Asia, which began May 9.
The last time the nation’s two
top leaders were outside the
United States was in March, 1957,
when former President Eisen
hower went aboard the cruiser
Canberra for a six-day rest
cruise that took him to Bermuda
for talks with British Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan. Nix
on, then Vice President, was in
Africa on a goodwill tour.
There will be no acting presi
dent during the Kennedy and
Johnson trips. Kennedy is still
the President wherever he may
be.
United States and Canada to
gether to secure the hemisphere j
against aggression or encroach- |
ment by Communism.
Bluntly he told the Canadians:
“I believe all the free members
of the Organization of American
States would be both heartened
and strengthened by any increase
in your hemispheric role.”
Canada is not a member of the
OAS. The President is believed to
have urged her to join in his talks
with Prime Minister John Die
fenbaker just in advance of the
Parliament appearance.
“Your country and mine are
partners in North American af
fairs,” Kennedy told Parliament.
“Can we not now become part
ners in international affairs?”
Atty. Gc:i. Bob Kennedy
Asks Congress for Legal
Weapons to Fight Crime
WASHINGTON UP) — Atty. Gen.
Robert F. Kennedy asked Con
gress today to give him new legal
weapons to use against organized
crime.
He told the House Judiciary
subcommittee this is necessary if
law enforcement officials are to
have any chance of combatting
the powerful racketeers who run
nationwide crime syndicates.
Speaking in generalities with
a promise to name names and
localities in secret session if the
committee desires, Kennedy cited
numerous examples of criminal
activities he said are now car
ried on with impunity.
Chief among them, he said, is
organized gambling , which he
called a $7-billion-a-year business
employing thousands of persons.
In New York City alone $300,000
a day is bet in the numbers racket,
he said, and one big bookmaker
grosses $18 million a year.
The main law he asked for
would make it a federal offense
to travel between states for the
purpose of aiding racketeering.
Nearly every big time gambler
lives far removed from the scene
of his illegal activities, Kennedy
said, and has huge profits brought
to him by courier.
The proposed law would make
it possible to arrest such money
runners and through them, get at
the kingpins for whom the money
was intended.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
NOME HIGH SCHOOL
MAY 17 — 8:00 P.M.
Processional.Gloria Carlson
Grand March From Aida
Invocation.Rev. John Maakestad
Salutatory.Douglas Lee
“Where’er You Walk” . . . High School Chorus
Valedictory.Ruth Towner
Address.Dr. Theo J. Norby
Commissioner of Education
“Ours is the World” .... High School Chorus
Presentation of Class . . Richard R. McCormick
High School Principal
Presentation of Diplomas .... Ashby Craft
President, Nome School Board
Presentation of Awards . '. . Conrad H. Potter
Superintendent of Schools
Benediction.Rev. John Maakestad
Nome School
Budget Approved
At $394,409
At a special meeting of the
Nome City Council held Monday
evening the school budget of ;
$394,409 was approved. Of this
amount the state provides $269,- ;
076.75 and the city $125,332.25.
Deductable from the city’s share
is tuition furnished for employes j
of the federal government or $15,
200 and $30,000 from Johnson
O’Malley funds leaving the city to
provide $30,132.25.
This is approximately $17,000
over last year’s budget and the
increase was caused mainly by
the raise in local and state teach
er’s salaries.
At the meeting the Council also
approved the purchase of the
speaker system belonging to Dusty
Rhodes which has been used for
civic functions the past two years.
Lots 10-11-12 in Block 60 were
sold to Charles Reader for $250
each. These lots are along Snake
River north of the Airport Road.
Stock Market Smashes
Ahead to New High Today
NEW YORK UP> — The stock
market smashed ahead to new
record highs today, carrying the
closing Dow Jones Industial aver
age past the 700 mark for the first
time as blue chip issues advanced
on bullish market.
Gains among steels, motors,
non-ferrous metals, rubbers, to
baccos and other groups boosted
the average of 30 Industrials
17.78 to 705.52. This eclipsed the
previous record of 697.7 achieved
yesterday.
The Dow Jones average, one of
the markets most closely watched
barometers, goes back to 1897.
After the famous market crash
of 1929, it was 25 years before
the average could surpass the
381.17 peak reached in Septem
ber 1929. The average topped 400
in December 1954, 500 in March
1956 and 600 in February 1959.
15 Steel Towers Will Be
Shipped to Alaska Outposts
PORTLAND l/Pt — Shipment of
15 large steel towers to Alaska
will begin here Friday.
They were fabricated in six
weeks by West Coast Steel Works
under a $114 million contract. In
sections they will go to Seattle,
from where they will be trans
ferred to barges.
Ten are destined for Tin City,
on the Bering Strait, and five
for Cape Lisburne, some 250
miles north on the Arctic Coast.
The towers will support tram
ways to hoist automobiles and
cargo-holders from beaches to
radar installations on cliffs.
General contractor for the proj
ect is S. S. Millen, Inc., Seattle.
POLICE DESTROY SEVEN
DOGS WITH DISTEMPER
Chief of Police Bob Oliver re
ports that seven dogs with dis
temper have been destroyed in
the past several days. Also that
three more have been observed
and will be taken care of.
The early signs or symptoms of
the disease are running noses and
infected eyes. In the more ad
vanced stages the hind quarters
become paralyzed.
Any loose dogs with the above
symptoms should be reported to
the police department as the dis- j
ease spreads very" rapidly among
dogs.
Ciiirir. of 1st Field
Army in Korea
Will Aid Rebels
By C. S. Chin
SEOUL, Korea (J*! — Radio
Seoul said today Lt. Gen. Lee
Han-Lim commander of South j
Korea’s powerful 1st Field Army, '
has pledged full support to objee- ;
tives of the military junta now
running the government.
If true, this is a setback for 1
both the elected regime of Prem
ier John M. Chang and for U. S.
Lt. Gen. Carter B. Magruder, the
commander of United Nations
forces who had urged the rebel
junta to return power to the regu- ,
lar authorities.
The radio station, controlled by j
the military committee of Lt. Gen. |
Chang Do-Young, broadcast what
it said was a statement of full
support by Lee.
The statement declared all of
ficers and men under Lee’s com
mand, which helps guard the
Korean truce line as part of
Magrude’rs forces, would wholly
cooperate to complete the junta’s
| revolutionary task. That task, as
j outlined by the junta, is to wipe
i out political corruption and in
competence and rebuild South
Korea.
Unconfirmed reports said Lee
I made the statement after he held
separate conferences with Ma
gruder and with Brig. Gen. Yoon
j Pai-Il, a member of the junta.
The junta met today with some
captive members of Chang’s
cabinet while troops backing the
coup took up defense positions on
the outskirts of Seoul.
There were no reports of open
! military opposition to the army
rebels who seized control of Seoul
early yesterday.
State Department Says
U.S. Troops Will Not be
Involved in Korean Revolt
WASHINGTON OP — The State
Department said today American
troops “have not been and will
not be involved in any way” in
the Korean revolt.
Press Officer Joseph W. Reap
made this statement while de
clining comment on a broad range
of other questions about the up
rising by a Korean military
group.
“The situation there is fluid,”
Reap said. “It does appear that
the rebel military group is in
control of the capital city area
but we have insufficient and in
complete information on other
parts of the country, and because
of that I have no comment.”
Tht U. S. forces in Korea are
comprised mainly of two division
totaling about 23,000 men serving
under the U. N. Command.
Commissioner Downing
Says Ferry System Will
Be Operating in July of '62
WRANGELL UP — Public
Works Commissioner Richard A.
Downing said yesterday that the
Southern Alaska Ferry System
should be in operation by July of
next year.
Downing made the comment
during a public hearing to dis
cuss proposed terminal sites for
the ferry system in the Wrangell ■
area.
The Public Works Commission- :
er said the state planned to call
for bids by July of this year, if ■
possible, and have the Marine
Highway System in use within
12 months.
LIONS WILL SELL
BROOMS FOR CITY S
CLEAN-UP DRIVE
A shipment of brooms and
mops is expected in this week by
the Nome Lions Club in prepar
ation for the city’s annual clean
up campaign. The broom sale will
be conducted by members of
Lions in four teams, and the win
ning team will be treated to a
steak dinner at the expense of
tthe losing teams, Lion President
Don Foster announced at Lions
meeting Tuesday evening at the
Seaview Room. At the same time,
the losing teams will dine on
beans.
The brooms come from the
Blind Industries of Seattle, and
the sale of such merchandise is
in line with the program of sight
conservation, which is a program
of Lions International.
Guest was State Rep. Robert
Blodgett who spoke about the first
state vocational school which is
to be built here at Nome. He en
visioned an enrollment in just a
few years of from 400 to 600
students and an accompanying
increase in the population of the
town and increased market for
business houses.
Blodgett said he also has reason
to believe that B.I.A. and other
federal agencies would partici
| pate in providing living quarters
j for the teaching staff and dor
mitories for students,
j He also said he felt that steps
j would be taken to guarantee the
heriditary rights of Alaskan na
tives to hunt ducks and geese for
! subsistance during the spring
I season.
President Don announced that
plans are being made for three
707 jet planes to take the Alaska
J delegation to the Lions Interna
j tional convention in Nice, France,
in June of 1962. He said the
charter will originate in Fair
banks and will be available to
Lions for $275 for the round trip,
for two weeks in Europe.
TFK Orders Release of
^>818 Million to Speed Up
Highway Construction
WASHINGTON UB — In a move
to speed up highway construction,
President Kennedy today ordered
the release of $818 million of fed
eral funds that would not nor
mally have become available until
July 1.
Kennedy took similar action
Feb. 2 when he ordered release of
$718 million of highway funds
not scheduled to be available until
April 1.
The funds released today com
prise the allocations to the states
for the first quarter of the 1962
fiscal year tJuly-September 1961).
Alaska would receive $9,155,000.
The amounts being released
are unused balances from prior
apportionments for the interstate
and other highway programs.
The White House announce
ment said that as of April 1, all
states except Michigan and Ohio
had such balances in amounts ex
ceeding those released by today’s
action.
GEN. MacARTHUR TO
VISIT THE PHILIPPINES
MANILA OP) — Gen. Douglas
MacArthur has accepted an invi
tation to visit the Philippines in
July, an aide of President Carlos
P. Garcia said today.
MacArthur, hailed here as
liberator of the Philippines in
World War II, will be guest of
honor July 4 at the 15th anni
versary of independence.