ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 122 _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1961 Per Copy 1M
Robert Groseclose
Resigns as Chairman of
GOP Central Committee
FAIRBANKS UP) — The resig
nation of Robert Groseclose of
Fairbanks as Chairman of the
Republican State Central Com
mittee has been announced here.
Also resigning immediately
after last weekend’s Republican
State Convention was Lloyd Bur
gess, also of Fairbanks, as State
Finance Chairman.
The vacancies thus created
must ibe filled by the State Cen
tral Committee within 60 days.
Groseclose said that he resign
ed for personal and business rea
sons. “I can’t give the job the
necessary time,” he said, “and I
felt it better that I resigned just
after the convention so the Cen
tral Committee could appoint
someone new.”
Burgess also cited personal and
business reasons for his resigna
tion.
Both Groseclose and Burgess'
said their resignations had noth
ing to do with any party split or
S conflict. Groseclose said that “the
recent convention, as far as I was
concerned was a very harmon
ious, constructive one.”
A number of rumors of Grose
close’s possible resignation had
been going around before the
State Convention, particularly in
Anchorage. Groseclose, it was
said, would resign as State Chair
man in order to act as campaign
manager for State Senate Minority
Leader John Cogmll of Nenana
in his campaign for the governor
ship in 1902.
After his resignation here,
Groseclose said, “I haven’t been
asked to act as Senator Coghill’s
campaign manager yet. Anything
can happen in a year’s time.”
R. W. Pickreli Tells
Chamber Workmen’s Comp
Law Is Stifling Industry
KETCHIKAN UD — Alaska’s
workmen’s compensation law is
stifling the development of basic
industries within the 49th State,
R. W. Pickreli, secretary-mana
ger of the Alaska Loggers’ Assn.,
said today.
In an address to the 2nd annual
meeting of the Alaska Chamber
of Commerce, Pickreli said Alas
kan business is already saddled
with high labor costs, high trans
portation costs, high overhead
costs and high taxes.
“Some of these we can’t do
too much about,” Pickreli said.
“But the high cost of workmen’s
comp, unemployment comp, we
can do something about these be
fore they became the straw that
breaks industry’s bade. . .
K Pickreli said the workmen’s
:ompensation rates paid by- Alas
jean loggers increased from $8.90
per $100 of payroll id 1958 to
$17.27 per $100 of payroll at the
present time.
This sharp increase in work
men’s comp rates, Pickreli said,
was brought on primarily, by
three tilings, high benefits, un
limited death benefits and the
absence of a time limitation re
porting injuries.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 8, the
high tomorrow 20.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 24, lourect 7. Sunrise at
6:50 a.m., sunset at 4:44 pm.
A year ago today: highest temp.
31, lowest 19. Extremes on this
date since 19971 / highest 46 In
i
Mock Aerospace
War Will Rage in
No. American Skies
WASHINGTON UP) — Mock
aerospace war on a vast scale will
rage Saturday through North
American skies.
Unprecedented in the variety
and volume of modern weapons
involved, the make-believe con
flict will ground non-military air
craft for 12 hours.
From noon to midnight EST, no
airliner or private plane may
operate above the U.S. or Cana
dian mainland o.r over Alaska.
Streams of B-52 and B-47 jet
bombers will hurl themselves at
prime U.S. and Canadian targets.
They will fire no weapons,
drop no bombs. But they’ll test
to the limit the resources of
NORAD, the North American Air
Defense Command.
From headquarters at Colora
do Springs, the NORAD Com
mander, Gen. Laurence S. Kuter,
will direct the interceptor air
craft, the anti-aircraft missile sta
tions and the supporting installa
tions that have been woven into
the continental defensive network.
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force
Chief of Staff, also planned to ob
serve activities from Syracuse.
Air Force Secretary Eugene
Zuckert and N. E. Halaby, Ad
ministrator of the Federal Avia
tion Agency arranged to observe
the operation from the northeast
ern regional headquarters of the
Air Defense Command at Han
cock Field, Syracuse, N.Y.
Halaby has put out an order
banning flying by non-partici
pating civil aircraft during the
12-hour exercise period.
This was necessary for safety
reasons, he said. ’’Enemy” jam
ming tactics may put out of com
mission many of the radio navi
gation aids upon which civil avi
ation depends.
Some 2-50,000 members of the
U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy
and of Canada’s Air Force will
take part. Operations will range
over an area of about 14 million
square miles.
East Germans Fire
On U,S. Military Police
BERLIN UPl — East German po
lice fired repeatedly today on
U.S. military 'police and West Ber
lin police afteq nine refugees
broke through fhe barbed wire
ringing off West Berlin.
No one was hit in the shooting
and the Western police did not
return the fire.
The nine refugees dashed into
the American sector of West Ber
lin after their truck got stuck in
the Communists’ barbed wire en
tanglement.
- West Berlin police called the
shooting the most serious inci
dent since the Communists bar
ricaded the 'border Aug. 13.
The East Germans kept shooting
sporadically for one hour. They
rushed an armored car to the
border with a heavy machine gun
mounted on it but did not fire.
Including the nine refugees, a
total of 20 East Germans escaped
to West Berlin in the 24 hours
ending at 7 sum. Among them
was one East German .policeman.
"Exit"—Only in Emergencies . . .
W3QPQRT, N.Y. — After
an inspection of the new Niagara
County Jail, State Correction De
recommended
in the, central
' y in
Dutch Order Two
Soviet Embassy Officials
Out of the Country
THE HAGUE, Netherlands UP>—
The Dutch government is taking
as yet undisclosed steps against
Soviet Ambassador Panteleimon
Ponomarenko for his part in an
airport free-for-all with Dutch
police.
A Dutch note to the Soviet Em
bassy yesterday ordered two other
Soviet Embassy officials to leave
the country by Saturday. It
charged that both had a hand in
the fist fight that erupted at the
Amsterdam Airport Monday dur
ing an argument over the return
to Moscow of the wife of defecting
scientist Alexei Golub.
Ponomarenko left for Moscow
yesterday and told newsmen he
would lay his case before his su
periors there. The Dutch said he
“not only made no attempt to
stop the fight, tout actually parti
cipated in it.”
The Dutch note said the gov
ernment planned to pursue its
complaints against the ambassa
dor with Soviet authorities. A
spokesman declined to spell out
the steps the government might
take. He reported earlier, how
ever, that the cabinet might de
mand Ponomarenko’s explusion.
MOSCOW UP> — The Soviet
Union withdrew its ambassador to
Holland today and ordered the
Dutch ambassador to leave Mos
cow in protest against the brawl
between Soviet Embassy officials
and police at Amsterdam’s air
port last Monday.
Nixon Expected Declare
Himself Out of 1964
■within the next few weeks, a
Nixon source said Thursday night.
^ The source, ^who asked not^to
feels that there are no possible
conditions under which he would
be a candidate for President.”
The source said the former
Vice President also held these
views:
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will be ^urtb^table in 1964, his
^2. Probable GOP candidates will
CaUfor^^uring the rest of 1961
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U.S. Discloses Sale
Of 135 Jet Fighters
To Yugoslavia
WASHINGTON UP — The Unit
ed States disclosed today the sale
of about 135 Saibi’e jet fighter
aircraft to Yugoslavia early this
year, in line with a policy of as
sisting the Communist govern
ment at Belgrade to maintain
Yugoslavia’s “national independ
ence.”
The State and Defense Depart
ments, in response to questions,
said that as part of the deal eight
Yugoslav Air Force men are
being trained at Perrin Air Force
Base in Texas in the operation
and maintenance of the F-86D all
weather jet interceptors.
The State Department said the
decision to sell the planes was
made in mid-January, about five
days before the end of the Eisen
hower Administration.
A Pentagon spokesman dis
cussed the matter in response to
inquiries about a story published
by the Dallas News which quoted
Maj. H. C. Knickerbocker Jr., an
Air National Guard officer, as
calling the training program “a
treasonous situations.”
The F-86D planes involved in
the sale are pretty much obso
lete as far as regular U.S. Air
Force units are concerned.
Sen. Henry Jackson Says
U-S. Should Not Sell
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Jet Planes to Yugoslavia
SEATTLE UP) — Sen. Henry-M.
Jackson (D-Wn), said today the
Kennedy Administration should
consider dropping the deal to sell
135 F-86D jet planes to Yugo
slavia.
“I feel that Tito and most other
neutrals at the Belgrade meeting
demonstrated they are not neu
trals,” Jackson said in a state
ment. “In the light of this I think
our government should consider
terminating this agreement that
was made prior to Kennedy’s tak
ing office.
“This would be consistent with
the President’s remark that we
are reviewing* our aid program
in the light of attitudes expressed
by recipient nations.”
Harry Truman Pays
Sam Rayburn a Visit
DALLAS, Tex. UB — Two po
litical cronies, Harry Truman and
Sam Rayburn, met today under
somber circumstances in Ray
bum’s hospital room.
The former President after
ward said the incurably ill Ray
burn “told me where to get off,
just like he did when I was in
the White House.”
“I was so happy at the way he
treated me.”
Rayburn, suffering from can
cer and just recovering from a
Critical bout with pneumonia, sat
up in bed during a part of Tru
man’s 13-minute visit.
It was in Rayburn’s hideaway
office that Truman was having a
sociable drink when he received
word April 12, 1®45, of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death.
Physicians attending Rayburn
issued a bulletin this morning say -
ing Rayburn “appears definitely
stronger . . . Mr. Rayburn con
tinues to show improvement in
his pneumonia. There is other
wise no change in his condition.”
Atty. Gen. of New Jersey
Takes Steps to Curb False
Advertising on Alaska
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TRENTON, N.J. — The State
Attorney General's office has In
tervened to stop newspaper ads
which have attracted families
from this area to Alaska in the
hope of finding high paying jobs.
The action came after Gov.
William Egan of Alaska wrote to
New York and New Jersey offi
cials explaining that four families
from the two-state area will
spend the cold Alaskan winter in
tents after coming to Alaska in
response to reported high salaries,
as advertised in area newspapers.
Joseph Pincus of South Orange,
proprietor of Practical Research,
assured state officials he would
place no more ads and agreed to
cancel all ads .possible, Atty. Gen.
David Furman said today.
Furman said the Consumer
i Fraud Division, whose job is to
protect New Jersey citizens from
fraudulent advertising or selling,
j reports that no fraudulent adver
tising is involved, but that Pincus
agreed to cancel the ads “because
of our intervention.”
Persons answering the ads
which tell of high salaries in Alas
ka are sent a $1 book entitled
“Job Prospecting in Alaska,"
Furman said.
The book, which lists prevail
ing salaries, “makes no promise
or guarantee of employment,” the
attorney said.
In New York, the office of Atty.
Gen. Louis Lefkowitz said Gov.
Egan’s letter has been received
and the matter will be investi
gated.
I Alaska Woman Found
| In Trunk of Car Aboard
Steamship Tonsina
SEATTLE iat — An Alaska
woman, her hand waving feebly
through a hole punched through,
the back seat of an automobile,
was found today locked in the
car trunk on a ship that had been
at sea six days.
The woman, identified as Fran
cises Mairo, about 40, apparently
had been ^n the car trunk since
the steamship Tonsina left Cor
dova. She was taken to a hos
pital for treatment of stiffness
and exposure.
Raymond Wingness, Alaska
Steamship .purser, discovered the
woman in the car when the Ton
sina docked here.
Alaska Steam said the car was
put aboard by Amos Uganiza a
fisherman who flew here ahead
of the steamship. Uganiza said the
woman apparently took it upon
herself to follow him to Seattle.
Police said they found some
food in the trunk and that the
woman may have obtained a little
water from moisture condensa
i tion.
Discoverer No. 32
Roars Into Orbit
VANTMSNBERG AIR FORCE
RASE, Calif. tflt — The Discover
er No. 32 rocket roared into orbit
today.
It was Vie tlOOth successful
launch of a Douglas-built Thor
rocket out of 120 firings. The
Thor has boosted 17 satellites this
year, nine of them Discoverers.
A 300-pound gold-plated cap
sule about the size of and shape
of a kettledrum is due to be toss
ed out the satellite over Alaska
sometime within the next four
days. It will be aimed at a re
covery area near Hawaii known
as the “Ballpark.”