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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 74 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Interior Dept. Says Barrow Eskimos
Should Take Blame for Illegal Hunting
BARROW Iff) — The Depart
ment of Interior says Eskimos of
the Barrow area have only them- !
selves to blame for the furore
over illegal hunting of migratory
waterfowl.
The department, in a letter to
the Barrow Village Council, said i
the Fish and Wildlife Service had
urged Barrow natives to observe j
migratory waterfowl regulations
before two Eskimos were arrested
May 27 for hunting ducks and
geese out of season.
Two days after the arrests,
more than a hundred Barrow Es
kimos showed up at a mass meet
ing bearing eider ducks killed out
of season. Each native signed a
statement saying he had taken
migratory waterfowl illegally.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
and Asst. U. S. Atty Jerry Shor
ten, referred the incident to
Washington for a decision on ac
tion to be taken.
Claim Aborginial Rights
The natives claim they have
aborginial rights to take water
fowl for food at any time of the
year. They claim waterfowl have
left the Arctic regions on their
southern migration by the time
the season in that area opens.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
contends it has no control over the
season, which is based in part on
a 1916 treaty prohibiting migra
tory waterfowl hunting on the
North American continent from I
March 10 until Sept. 1.
At the mass meeting on May 29,
some 300 Barrow Eskimos signed
a petition asking President Ken
nedy to issue emergency regula- .
tions permitting them to take |
migratory waterfowl for food at i
any time of the year and to seek '
a change in the treaty.
In part the text of the Interior
Department’s letter to the Bar
row Village Council said:
“We can well understand the
situation you describe. However,
reports indicate that 139 of the
arrests were made at the request
of the people involved, all of
whom are Eskimos. In these cir
cumstances any emergency that
exists was not created by the j
U. S. Game Management agents
who were at Barrow at the time,
but the by person or persons who
provided the impetus for the Es
kimos to appear with eider ducks
Homing Piegon Decides
To Stay In Alaska
SITKA Iff) — Rosie, the cocoa
colored homing pigeon who left
the Pioneers Home here on June
1 on what was presumed to be
a quick trip to her Portland, Ore.
home, apparently prefers Alaska.
She is back at the Pioneers
Home, telling the flock of pigeons
there of her travels. She has for
saken her mate and their eggs
which he is patiently hatching at
the B. C. Hemphill residence in
Portland.
While she previously made a
trip from Montana to Pprtland
over the Continental Divide, Rosie
isn’t going home this time. Like !
a number of other transplanted 1
Oregonians now in Alaska, she !
likes the north country and is j
here to stay.
in hand and admit to the viola
tions of the regulations.
Only Doing Their Job
“Representatives of the Bureau
of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife
were only carrying out their
responsibilities as representatives
of the federal government and
they were not there for the pur
pose of harassing the people of
creating a disturbance.
“We are glad to have the in
formation contained in the peti
tion regarding the desire of the
citizens of Barrow for an amend
ment to the migratory bird
treaties with Canada and Mexico.
This matter is being given careful
study at the present time and
your suggestions will be useful in
our consideration of this matter.
“We ar^ not unsympathetic
with the native problems in Alas
ka nor in other parts of the Unit
ed States, but we are responsible
for the protection of a great
natural resource and if we are
going to have waterfowl on the
North American continent we are
going to have to manage this re
source wisely.’’
Emergency Flight Takes
11-Year-Old Pt. Barrow
Boy to Anchorage Hospital
ANCHORAGE W) — An 11
year-old Point Barrow boy was
flown to the Alaska Native Hos
pital Thursday for emergency
treatment of an eye injury.
A Wien Alaska Airlines plane
made the emergency flight after
halting a scheduled flight and un
loading its passengers at Kotze
bue.
The boy, identified as Thomas
Okaluk, and a companion, were
reportedly shooting at a barrel
when Okaluk was struck in the
eye by a metal fragment.
A doctor at the Barrow hos
pital checked with hospital au
thorities here and was advised to
send the victim to Anchorage i
immediately for treatment. A
Wien plane, piloted by Merrill
Wien, was contacted enroute from
Kotzebue to Nome. The plane
turned back to Kotzebue and
then continued on to Barrow to
pick up the boy. A nurse accom- ;
panied the youngster on the flight, j
A hospital spokesman said the
extent of damage to the eye has
not been determined and will de
pend largely on the patient’s
response to treatment.
The victim’s father is Bert
Okaluk of Point Barrow.
KOTZEBUE HAS SUMMER
SCHOOL PROGRAM
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
have a new educational program
in Kotzebue this summer which
is open to all people of school
age and adults of all ages as well.
Three teachers from Mt. Edge
cumbe are teaching day and eve
ning classes in various arts and
crafts among which are photo
graphy, leather and metal work
and music.
Instrumentation is one of the
features with the instructor bring
ing with his assortment of vari
ous brass instruments for those
interested to practice with.
Castro Rejects
Tractor Deal
KEY WEST, Fla. UP) — Prime
Minister Castro rejected today the
latest offer of the Tracto»s for
Freedom Committee but said he
would send a delegation of cap
tured rebels back to the United
States to explain his position to
the American public.
In the rejection, reported by
Havana radio, Castro charged the I
committee lied when it accused
Castro of changing his position. \
He said the committee tried to
confuse public opinion.
The Tractors for Feedom Com
mittee had set a noon deadline to
day in a take-it-or-leave-it ulti
matum that capped nearly a
month of negotiations.
The committee’s final offer was
to exchange the prisoners for 500
bulldozers and various types,
mostly farm tractors.
It said if Castro failed to accept,
money received from contributors
to the tractor fund would be re
turned to the senders.
Castro originally offered to ex
change the men captured in the
April 18 invasion of Cuba for 500
bulldozers. In his proposal, May
17, Castro used the English word
“bulldozers.”
After meeting in Havana with
representatives of the Tractors for
Freedom Committee, Castro said
he would accept smaller types of
tractors, but stipulated he would
have to get 1,000 of them, instead
of 500.
$28 Million Deal
Castro told the committee “if
we were prepared to accept small
er tractors, their value had to be
equal to that of the 500 super
V8’s, with attachments, originally
requested,” the radio reported.
The value of the heavy equip
ment has been estimated by Cas
tro as $28 million.
In his reply to the committee
today, the radio quoted Castro as
saying the committee had been si
lent about an alternative proposal
which was to abandon the tractor
deal if the captured invaders were
exchanged on a man-for-man
basis for an equal number of j
“political prisoners” in the United
States, Puerto Rico, Guatemala,
Nicaragua and Spain.
Alternative Proposals
Castro also said the committee
had been silent about another
proposal to exchange the inva
sion leaders for Francisco (The
Hook) Molina, a pro-Castro Cu
ban who is awaiting sentencing
in New York City on a second
degree murder charge; Pedro
Campos, a Puerto Rican nation
alist leader who is under guard
in a San Juan hospital, and Henry
Winston, a jailed American Com
munist party leader.
The three invasion leaders are
Capt. Manuel Artime, Jose San
Roman, and Rafael Bolivar Fu
ente.
The committee had asked Cas
tro for a list of prisoners who
would be subject to the exchange. |
The original number was 1,214
but Castro’s list included only
1,167.
Today, the radio quoted Castro
as saying the 1,167 were the only
ones of the group who were in
nocent of crimes against the Cu
ban people.
President Kennedy
Deserts His Sick Bed —
Is “Feeling Fine”
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy, “feeling fine” in the
words of an aide, deserted his
sick bed today and played host
to Japanese Prime Minister Ikeda.
Kennedy, confined to bed
Thursday by a bacteria and virus
infection, posed for photographs
with the Prime Minister.
Ikeda paid a farewell call clos
ing out three days of high-level
talks.
The crutches that a back strain
had forced Kennedy to use before
he was felled by illness were no
where in sight. He walked slowly,
but if he limped at all it was so
slightly as to be hardly discern
ible.
Kennedy canceled a scheduled
! wind-up conference with Ikeda
i Thursday after coming down with
i the virus infection which shot his
temperature to 1016 degrees be
fore it broke. His doctor report
ed late Thursday that he was re
covering very nicely. Kennedy
set out to prove it today.
White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger said Kennedy
“can be considered prectically re
covered.”
Indicating his improvement,
j Kennedy planned to spend the
j weekend at Glen Ora, the family’s
i country estate near Middleburg
i Va. with Mrs. Kennedy and the
j children.
Pres. Sukarno of Indonesia
Pays a Brief Visit at
Eielson Air Force Base
FAIRBANKS UP — Dr. Achmed
Sukarno, President of Indonesia,
paid a brief visit here yesterday
enroute home after his round-the
world “good will” flight.
Doctor Sukarno, and his party
of 43 landed at Eielson Air Force
Base in their chartered jet air
liner for a refueling stop on a
Polar flight from Copenhagen to
Tokyo.
The Indonesian president was
accorded full military honors at
the air base and was greeted by
Lt. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong,
Commander-in-Chief, Alaska.
President Sukarno did not
meet with the press during his
brief stop over. His party was
taken on a tour of the base while
their jet airliner was being re
fueled.
The Sukarno party will stay in
Tokyo for six days before flying j
back to Indonesia.
Former Queen of
Yugoslavia Dies in London
LONDON UP — Former Queen
Marie of Yugoslavia died yester
day after a prolonged illness. She
was 61.
The Yugoslavian royal dynasty
was overthrown by Marshal Tito
in 1945. At that time the Queen’s
eldest son, Peter, was the king,
although in exile.
Queen Marie’s husband, King
Alexander I, was assassinated in
1934 in Marseilles by a Croatian,
Ante Pavelich.
She fled to London in 1941,
when the Germans occupied Yu
goslavia.
In 1947, Tito stripped the royal
family of its citizenship and all
royal possessions were confisti
cated.
Midnight Sun
Festival Provides
Many Gala Sights
The Midnight Sun Festival got
under way officially Wednesday
evening with a few people trying
out their Gold Rush costumes and
many participating in the Eskimo
sports held on Front Street.
Yesterday it is estimated that
between 300 and 400 people in
cluding children, visited the ex
hibits at the National Guard
Armory.
The Mother’s Club have an in
teresting booth showing the mak
ing of mukluk soles, sinew and
other skin sewing crafts. Satur
day they will add the delectable
feature of fresh homemade Es
) kimo ice cream.
The KK Public Library have an
, exhibit of pictures by Alaskan
artists, several of them local, in
cluding Bill Burand, Lucille Gil
bert, Ellen Lyle, Reca Godsbe,
Mrs. Komakhuk, James Moses,
George Ahgapuk, Fred Machetanz
and others.
The Luthern Women’s Club are
; featuring James Moses, well
known artist, who has a display
of his work and whose studio is
j in the booth, as well as an ex
hibit of doll parkas which are for
sale.
The school children have an art
| exhibit which will be judged to
day.
I The Home Arts Club sponsored
, a museum exhibit featuring two
j rooms furnished with belongings
I and furniture which were used
I here in 1900.
i All exhibits are creating much
interest as well as the new build
1 ing itself, which will be dedicated
on July 4th.
The baby show and Pied Piper
Parade were held this afternoon.
Quite a program is being plan
. ned for the Queen Pageant which
| starts promptly at 8:00 in the
| School Auditorium on Saturday
! evening with Del Kampmann as
master of ceremonies.
In addition to the Queen
Pageant there will be a Junior
Queen Pageant, as well as several
surprise numbers including a
black face act and baton twirling
routine.
Following the pageant the Cor
onation Ball will take place with
a live U. S. Army Combo making
the music at the school.
Radio Astronomist Says
Moon Is Virtually Smooth
ITHACA, N. Y. UP> — The Moon
is virtually smooth, a radio as
tronomist told the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers
yesterday.
The Moon is not full of craters,
as science fiction writers largely
picture it, Thomas Gold of Cor
nell University said in a talk on
radio investigations of the sur
face.
Ninety-five per cent of the sur
face is undulating very slightly
and smooth, Gold said. The other
five per cent is very rough, he
added. This could be caused by
meteor craters.
Because of its smoothness, the
Moon easily may be used to
bounce radio signals from, Gold
declared.
Queen Pageant-Coronation Ball Nome High School Auditorium |
Admission: 75c to either, or $1.25 to both Events. Live Music to be provided by an Army Combo