62nd Year No. 138NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1961 Per Copy 15^
N.W. Demos
Prepare for
April Convention
Democrats o f Northwestern
Alaska District held their annual
convention here last Friday, for
the purpose of electing delegates
to the State Democratic Conven
tion to be held in Nome on April
22 and the election of members
and officers of the N.W. District
Democratic Committee.,
Unanimously elected to serve
as chairman of the committee was
Lester Bronson with Robert Scott
as vice-chairman and Stan Harhut
as secretary-treasurer.
Elected to the committee for
1962 and as delegates to the
State Democratic Convention: Na
than Anawrok and Frank Deg
nan of Unalakleet; Robert Blod
gett and Wilfred Kakaruk of Tel
ler; James Wells of Noorvik; Al
fred Hopson and Donald Nusung
inya of Barrow; Harold Lie and
Rodney Lincoln of Kotzebue;
Clarence Katchatag of Shaktoo
lik; Lawrence Paquette of Kwi
guk; Doug Sheppard of Moun
tain Village; Pearse Walsh, Les
tern Bronson, Robert Scott,
Charles Fagerstrom, Stan Harhut,
John McNees and Don Perkins of
Nome; and Donald Hunter of For
tune Ledge.
Also selected as delegates to
the State Democratic Convention
were: Neal Foster of Peering;
Timothy Snowball of Stebbins;
Bessie E. Crw of Kotzebue; Dale
B. Friemering and James Sulli
avan of Unalakleet; Lewis Fravel
of Barrow and Daniel Karmun,
Ruth McLean, Keith Hedreen and
Vern Miller of Nome.
Elected as alternates: Arnold
Brower, Eli A. Solomon, Adam
Leavitt and Ben Nungasak of
Barrow; Theodore Frankson of
Point Hope; Waldo Bodfisn of
Wainwright; Arthur Fields of
Kotzebue; Theodore Westlake of
Kiana; Raymond Hawley of Ri
valing; Walter Ballot of Selawik;
Lawrence Lockwood of St. Mi
cheal; Theodore Hunter and John
Smith of Hooper Bay; Irene Beans
of Andreafsky: Thomas Apas
singak and Solomon Booshu. of
Gambell; Wayne Penayah of Sa
voonga; Alfred Karmun of Deer
ing; David Thomas of Candle;
Ernest Oxereok of Wales; Mag
gie Gamie of Teller and Edith
Arnold, Betty Gustafson. Tom
Balone, Betty Ncase, Paul Tlu
lana, Lela Oman, Roy Tobuk, John
Bahnke and Marilyn Dexter of
Nome.
Nominated members of the
State Democratic Central Com
mittee were Pearse Walsh, Robert
Blodgett, John McNees, Eben Hop
son, and Lester Bronson.
Don Perkins was appointed
platform chamhah for N.W Alas
ka and he urges all precincts or
individuals wishing to submit
recommendations to be included
in the district platform be sent
to him immediately. i
Tile Dollars tar Democrats
Drive for finances is underway
until the 15th at December. All
Harhut, chairman of the Dollars
lor Democrats Drive,
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Navy Will Urge
Contractors Use
Alaskan Workers
JUNEAU W —- The Navy told
Sen. Ernest Gruening yesterday
it would urge contractors on
Alaskan jobs to use Alaskan work
ers whenever possible.
Gruening had wired Secretary
of the Navy John Connally Jr.
protesting Navy plans to use Sea
bees in construction work at Adak
Naval Station ift 1062.
In his wire, Gruening said un
employment was a continuing
problem in Alaska and urged
th&t all work contemplated at
Adak be done with civilian labor.
In replying to Gruening, Ken
neth Belieu, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, said Seabees are
to do only about $1.5 million of
the $6.5 million In work planned
at Adak next year.
“Continued employment of Sea
bees in Aleutians considered es
sential tp operational training and
readiness of Seabees for any con
tingencies and therefore in best
national interest,’’ Belieu wired.
He said the Navy could not
specify in its contracts that Alas
kan workers be employed on Alas
ka jobs, “but we will make ear
nest representations to Associated
General Contractors and success
ful bidders on Alaskan projects \
requesting their cooperation
toward achieving your objec
tives.’’
Belieu sent a similar telegram
to Gov. Wm. Egan, who also pro
tested the plan to use Seabees
on the Adak projects.
Alfred E. Widmark
Re-elected President of
Alaska Native Brotherhood
KLUKWAN UPl — Allred E.
Widmark of Klawock was re
elected president of the Alaska
Naltive Brotherhood ss the or
ganization ended its annual con
vention here over the weekend.
Oscar Craig of Glenallen was
named first vice president, Geo,
Haldane of Metlakatla second vies
president, C. E. Peck of Juneau
grand secretary, Patrick J. Paul
of Mt. Edgccumbe grand treas
urer and Harold Bremner of
Yakutat grand sergeant at arms.
Elizabeth Williams of Saxman
was elected president of the Alas
ka Native Sisterhood, which held
its convention in conjunction with
the ANB meeting.
Edna Peratrovich of Klawock
was named grand vice president,
Stella Martin of Juneau grand
secretary, Mildred Sparks of j
Klukwan grand treasurer and
Elsie Austin of Kake grand ser
geant at arms.
Sitka was selected as the site
for the 1962 convention, on dates
to be selected later.
Nineteen new members joined
the ANB during initiation cere
monies Saturday night. Among
the 1® was Gov. Wm. Egan.
A CLOSE LOOK , . .
Mich^r— War
lights corning toward him. He j
Senate Group
Wants to Weed
Out Overstaffed
Defense Agencies
WASHINGTON <*> — A Senate
group has urged the administra
tion to weed out “seriously over
staffed” defense agencies.
It also called on the State De
partment to assume more leader
ship in the making of national
security policy, saying the depart
ment should be less wedded to
“the philosophy of reacting to
problems as they arise.”
These were among a series of
recommendations in the final
statement Saturday of the sub
committee on Government Policy
Machinery.
At least a dozen of the com
mittee's major recommendations
has ibeen adopted by the Kennedy
Administration. The windup state
ment of Chairman Henry Jackson,
(D-Wn.), reported on items of
unfinished business.
At the top of the list: A con
clusion that faulty governmental
machinery is “rarely the real cul
prit when our policies are incon
sistent or when they lack sus
tained momentum.”
“Unless our top officials are m
basic agreement about what Is
paramount for the national in
terest — what comes first and
what comes second — there is
bound to be drift and confusion
below," said the report.
It then sketched out specific
recommendations for improving
the policy-formulating machinery,
including:
The government must elimenate
personnel in national security de
partments and agencies who are
“doing work that does not really
need doing.”
The conflict-of-interest laws,
some dating bade to the Civil
War, contain “pointless impedi
ments to public service.” The re
port called on the administration
to remove barriers which exclude
able cizitizens from public serv
ices.
Catholic Bishops Declare
Moral Principles are on
The Decline in U.S.
WASHINGTON <*> — The na
tion’s 228 Roman Catholic bishops
have declared that moral prin
ciples ate on the decline in the
United States and that popular
education “bears a measure of
responsibilityss
They urged rebuilding of a
sound religious and moral foun
dation, saying the hour of great
est opportunity is striking now as
the forces of freedom and tyranny
gird for dedsion.
The prelates, in a 3,000-word
statement issued Saturd?
close of their meeting,
what they called widesj
dence of moral decline.
tn reference to edue
report said: “At first
no intention of ex
religion or morality
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the diversity of our reH
feta and the rising pi
secularism have prod
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Personnel Director of
NSAt Maurice Klein
Has Been Fired
WASHINGTON W — Maurice
H. Klein, personnel director of
the top-secret National Security
Agency, has been fired on grounds
he falsified parts of his own gov
ernment employment application,
it was disclosed today.
The House Committee on Un
American Activities, which dis
closed Klein’s forced resignation,
effective Nov. 10, asked Atty. Gen.
Robert Kennedy to prosecute
Klein for perjury, falsifying a
government document, and con
cealment and removal of a docu
ment from an official file.
As personnel director of NSA,
Klein supervised the hiring of
some 1,000 employes*of the super
hush-hush agency, which does
secret work on military codes.
The committee called Klein on
the carpet last July 27 after two
NSA code clerks Bernon Mitchell
and William Martin, defected to
Russia.
It had been announced pre
viously that Klein proposed to re
sign next February so that he
could qualify for pension bene
fits, but the committee .insisted on
his resignation Nov. 10.
Kennedy Suspends
8-Hour Work Day for
Space Program Employes
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy today suspended the 8
hour day limit lor. employee di
rectly employed by the federal
government on space programs.
Kennedy said the action—mak
ing the employes eligible for long
er work hours at time-and-half
overtime rates—was necessary to
maintain and improve this coun
try’s position in aeronautical and
space achievement.
Under a law passed in 1892 and
amended in 1913, laborers and
mechanics employed by the gov
ernment on any public work are
limited to eight hours’ work in
any calendar day except in case
of extraordinary emergency.
The law does not apply to con
tractors on government work.
LA Doused with Rain
LOS ANGELES UP)—More than
an inch of rain fell in parched
Los Angeles today, sending water
gushing curb-to-curb with mud,
boulders and debris in swank
west-side areas recently seared
by disastrous brush fires.
The fire department said radio
reports from its trucks on the
scene pictured roads clogged with
stalled cars.
Firemen were trying to rescue
trapped motorists from rising
waters. This was in Bel - Air,
which, with neighboring Brent
wood, lost 456 homes, many of
them millionaires and movie stars
in Southern California’s worst
brush blaze Nov. 6-9.
The sudden storm — a blessing
for crops — started about 5 am.
and by early afternoon measured
1.03 inches of water.
BERLIN UFi — East German
police turned water cannon and
tear gas on more than 400 yelling
West Berlin demonstrators at the
communist wall tonight. West
Berlin police replied by burling
100 tear gas grenades at the
Communists.
The demonstrators were young
sters who broke away after parti
cipating in a procession to protest
erection of the wall dividing
city, agl# k
Rockefeller io
Search for Son in
Dutch New Guinea
SAN FRANCISCO UR — New
York’s Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
left today for Dutch New Guinea
with the encouraging message
that his missing son, Michael,
might be found.
President Kennedy offered
every possible assistance in locat
ing the Governor’s 23-year-old
son, who had been on an anthro
pology expedition. Dutch officials
in the Hague reported earlier that
Michael’s companion had been
rescued in the remote jungle area.
Rockefeller, pale and shaken,
arrived in San Francisco from
New York last night and took off
today on a Pan American jet for
Honolulu and Tokyo on the first
stages of his hurried journey. He
planned to charter an amphibious
I plane in Tokyo for the flight to
New Guinea’s south coast.
It was there that Michael,
Rockefeller’s youngest son, last
was seen floating on two jerry
cans after he and his companion,
R. S. Wassing, 34, were forced
to abandon a small native craft
called a prahu — two canoes
joined together. The craft was
swept out to sea when its out
board motor fell off. Jerry cans
are buoyant all-purpose military
cans.
> Young Rockefeller and Wassing
had been searching for primitive
relics in the swampy area at Fla
mingo Bay in the remote area.
A Dutch ship rescued Wassing.
He had lost contact with Rocke
feller in the darkness.
Wassing said he had last seen
his friend 14 miles off die coast
in the vicinity of the Eilanden
River (river of the island).
Before leaving for Tokyo, where
he was scheduled to arrive Tues
day evening, Tokyo time, Gov.
Rockefeller issued this statement:
“I am deeply grateful for the
help and cooperation of officials
of both the Netherlands govern
ment and our own government. I
have complete confidence in
Michael’s resourcefulness and
stamina.
“Therefore, Mary (Mrs. Mary
Strawbridge, Michael’s twin sis
ter who is accompanying the Gov
ernor) and I are optimistic that
he will have gotten ashore safely
and coped with whatever prob
lems he found. However, we want
to get there as fast as we can
so that, if anything has happened,
we will be there and be able to
be with him.”
The Governor’s party did not
include Mrs. Rockefeller, from
whom the Governor separated
after 31 years of marriage.
SOVIET EDITOR VISIT U3.
PARIS (A — Alexei Adzhhbei,
editor of the Moscow newspaper
Izvestia and son-in-law of Soviet
Premier Khrushchev, was in Paris
last night enroute to the United
States.
He told reporters: “I will stay
in the United States about 10
days to do a series of stories and
especially to interview President
Kennedy. My ambition is to work
for the better understanding of
our two peoples who should know
each o
SAN FRANCISCO (A — The
University of California Exten
sion Service has cancelled a series
of lectures on aotmic survival be
cause only 30 persons attended
the first session.
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