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VOL. LXI No. 70 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1959 Per Cody—15tf
Boston Bomb
• Injures 38, Shatters
Transit Depot
BOSTON, UPi — Investigators
today inclined to the theory a
psychopath planted an explosive
device which shattered an ele
vated train station yesterday in
juring 38 persons, three seriously.
They also sought a picture of a
man who was accused of having
threatened to bomb Cuban leader
Fidel Castro when the latter vis
ited this country recently. The
man reportedly fled New York’s
Bellevue City Hospital.
The picture will be shown to
victims and to others who were
in the area when the device x
ploded about 2 p.m. Thursday.
Three agencies, Boston police,
state detectives and the Boston
Fire Department are investigating.
The FBI, which had agents on
the scene Thursday, indicated that
at present it had no active interest.
Normally the FBI would not be
involved officially unless there
was a suspicion of a subversive
act.
Massachusetts General Hospital
spokesmen reported improvement
in the condition of the three most
seriously injured. Although the
names of all three were on the
danger list, none was reported in
a dying condition.
Police probing through the ruins
found six dry-cell batteries near
some shattered fragments of the
metal lockers.
They said the batteries were
covered with a sulphide residue,
indicating they were part of a
bomb. They said the bomb might
have been activated by an on
coming train.
Two detectives said tests by
police chemists of bits of the
wreckage and parts of a smashed
locker indicated a bag of powder
weighing 20 to 25 pounds caused
the explosion.
They said the bomb went off
with the explosive force of a 500
pound Air Force bomb of World
War II.
The blast blew apart the big 58
year-old pagoda-type waiting room
on the elevated station of the
metropolitan Rapid Transit Au
thority.
Ohio May Lower Voting Age
COLUMBUS, Ohio, OP) -- The
Ohio House passed and sent to the
Senate a resolution to lower the
voting age from 21 to 18 years.
If approved, the issue will be sub
mitted to the voters in November.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with east winds and c
casinal light rain. Lw tnight 40
45, high tomorrow 50-60.
Gromyko Wants
Summit Meet '
‘Regardless’
By JOHN HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, (JP) — Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko opened
a drive in the Big Four conference
today to break the Western-made
link between the present meet
ing of foreign ministers and a
later summit conference.
Gromyko’s attack could fore
shadow a final refusal by the So
viet Union to yield on its West
Berlin demands, even under heavy
Western pressure.
In effect, Gromyko argued that
even though there was a failure
here to ease the Berlin tension
and make progress toward East
West agreement, there should be
a summit meeting anyway. Presi
dent Eisenhower has said he
would not attend a heads of gov
ernment meeting under such con
ditions, and at the moment that is
basic Western policy.
The Western powers demanded
that Moscow stop threatening
them with a separate East German
peace treaty, and get back to ne
gotiations for ending the West
Berlin crisis.
At the outset, Gromyko dis
played readiness to soften the bite
but not to pull the teeth of the
Soviet campaign to force U. S.
British and French garrisons out
of the divided city.
Gromyko assured the Western
powers that he had not intended
his proposal for the one-year dead
line on the Western occupation of
West Berlin as an ultimatum. He
said he could not understand what
all the excitement was about. He
urged the Western ministers to
stop using the terms dictate and
ultimatum.
Herter and his Western col
leagues,- who have declared the
conference to be on a day-to-day
basis now, carried their onslaught
against Soviet proposals for an
interim Berlin settlement through
the final three-hour session of the
fifth week.
They have threatened to break
off next week unless the Soviets
pull a diplomatic retreat over the
weekend.
S.S. Galena Makes Repairs
En Route to Northland
SEATTLE, UP) — The Alaska
Steamship freighter Galena is
proceeding to Kodiak under her
own power after the crew made
temporary crankcase repairs, the
company reported today.
The Galena was taken in tow
by a Coast Guard cutter until the
crew could fix crankcase doors
that blew out Monday, 450 miles
from Kodiak.
Searchers Hunt Nose Cone
Parachuted Into Atlantic
CAPE CANAVERAL, UP) — A
powerful Thor-Able missile hurled
a highly-advanced nose cone 5,500
miles over the Atlantic yesterday,
dropping it in the Atlantic near
Ascension Island.
Recovery ships and planes be
gan an immediate search for the
tiny cone.
The fiery Thor-Able rocket shot
from the Cape at 1:44 a.m. More
than two hours later the Air Force
announced that “preliminary in
strumentation data indicates the
re-entry test vehicle achieved^ost
of the test objectives. It impacted
the nose cone in the South Atlan
tic near Ascension Island.”
A parachute popped out auto
matically to ease the package to
the water after its blazing re
entry into the earth’s atmosphere.
If all went right, the cone would
remain suspended under a float
ing balloon while a small radio
transmitter, signal lights and a
dye marker pinpointed the loca
tion.
Arctic Harbor
Hoped for Within
Two Years
By JACK STILLMAN
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., UO — Dr.
Edward Teller said yesterday he
is hopeful that an atomic explo
sion designed to blast a huge arti
ficial harbor in Alaska will be
carried out within two years.
The project designed to blast a
harbor~on the northern coast of
Alaska at Cape Thompson is a
phase of Operation Plowshare —
the peaceful use of atomic energy.
“Operation plowshare is a
dream which must come true,”
Teller said in an interview. He is
among a number of scientists at
tending -the “undiscovered earth”
conference sponsored by Southern
Research Institute.
Teller said the peaceful uses of
atomic energy embodied in man’s
mind are beginning to take form
in planning stages.
He said initial tests in the pro
posed Alaskan explosions already
are underway. “We have the
money for these initial tests, and
we are hopeful that the entire
project will be completed within
two years,” he said.
Teller is director of the Radia
tion Laboratory of the University
of California.
He said the actual size of the
proposed Alaskan explosions has
not been determined but added
there is a possibility that the blast
would consist of five simultan
eous explosions, representing the
equivalent of 400,000 tons of TNT.
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School Board Adjusts Budget To Meet
Cuts Imposed By City Council Action
I he Nome bchol Board met on*
Tuesday evening to adjust the;
school budget to meet the cut im
posed on the school district by
the recent City Council action.
The City’s share of the school
budget, as requested for the 1959
1960 schol year, was $69,725.50.
The amount granted and ap
proved by the Nome City Council
was $63,000, or a cut in the budget
of $6,725.50.
Last year the amount granted
and approved by the Council was
$64,748.80, which means that the
expenditures for the coming school
year will have to be $1,748.80 less.
It was pointed out at the Board
meeting that cutting of $6,725.50
from the budget for the year could
deprive the schol district and the
community of a total of over $20,
000', with which the school district
I could be reimbursed from state
funds, for the community get a
75 per cent matching fund from
the state.
The total school budget for
1959-1960, is $263,650. Last year
the approved budget was $251,
778.80.
Faced with a known increase of
at least 50 first grade children,
and with increased costs in the
school operation, including teach
ers’ automatic salary increases,
the Board has been forced to slash
$2,000 from the Hot Lunch Fund,
which may seriously impair the
operation of this program for the
coming year.
A cut of $2,425 has been made
in the educational.equipment fund
which means curtailment of equip
ment necessary to meet pupil’s
neds.
The shop program has been dis
continued indefinitely, the Board
has announced, although it is
hoped to find some solution to the
Rebels Surrender
In Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, \Bh —
The government announced that
more than 40 rebels surrendered
yesterday and are being brought
to Managua, probably for trial.
These rebels raised a white flag
Wednesday night and offered to
give up their fight against the
Nicaraguan government. They sur
rendered to the National Guard
in a small town not far from
Santo Domingo, in south Nipa
ragua.
The government demanded
their unconditional surrender after
rejecting an offer by th insur
gents to get out of the fight if
given safe conduct out of the
country.
problem of providing a more ef
fective vocational industrial arts
program for those children who
need it. Funds are not now ade
quate to develop such a program.
A home economics teacher has
been employed for the coming
yead. It is the desire of the Nome
School Board to develop this pro
gram as fully as possible.
The school has become a center
of much community activity. This
is desirable, and in keeping with
the school policy, but increased
use of school facilities has also
increased school operational costs.
The Board is studying the present
schedule of fees chargd for public
use of school facilities, and anti
cipates that changes in these fees '
will be necessary to meet ex
penses.
Hoffa Will Appeal
Order to Comply
NEWARK. N. J., UP) — James
IR. t Hoffa says his Teamsters
Union will respect a court ruling
Wednesday that the Teamsters
must obey reform orders. But he
said he will appeal the ruling.
“We may not like it (the deci- ^
sion) in its entirety, but we will
respect it just the same,” Hoffa
said at a. Teamsters rally. “Be
assured, though, it’s only a mat
ter of time until we file an
appeal.”
A federal apeals court ruled
Wednesday in Washington that
the much-investigated union must
comply with recommendations of
the monitors, appointed by a fed
eral judge after Hoffa was elected
prsident of the union in 1957.
The Teamsters president spoke
scathingly of the Senate investi
gating committee; Sen. John F.
Kennedy (D-Mass); Kennedy’s
brother, Robert, counsel for the
committee, and fellow labor lead
ers Walter Reuther and James
Cary. , •
“I don’t believe any of the many
charges of corruption and crime,”
Hoffa told a cheering crowd of
2,800. “Judge us by what you are
earning now compared with what
you were earning before the
union.
“Nothing is going to destroy
this union,” he said.
Hoffa said that Reuther, presi
dent of the United Auto Workers,
and Carey, head of the Interna
tional Union of Electrical workers,
had criticized him “to divert
attention from their own weak
nesses. We’re growing by thous
ands, while their unions are
dwindling rapidly.”
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