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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
62nd Year No. 83 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Strike Is Off -
Work Resumed on
Construction Jobs
ANCHORAGE l/P> — Work has j
resumed on practically all con- j
struction iobs in Alaska follow- I
ing a tentative agreement for a !
new two-year wage contract be- j
tween the Associated General |
Contractors and six construction !
unions, an AGC spokesman said i
today.
A new block in the work is
threatened, however, by a con- j
tinuing dispute between the AGC
and the Ironworkers Union. A j
meeting was scheduled today but
was postponed when an interna
tional representative of the union
failed to get here from Seattle to
participate in negotiations. No
definite date has been set for
resumption of these negotiations
by federal mediator Barney
Toner.
Toner described the Ironworks
situation as “very, very serious”
and said he is “redoubling his
efforts” to find a solution to the
dispute. He said both sides have
indicated to him a willingness
to meet but he is not prepared
to set the meeting time yet.
Details of the settlement with
the six basic unions still have not
been released.
The settlement was unofficially
described as a package deal and
a meeting is reportedly scheduled
for today to determine how the
money will divided in a wage in
crease, health and welfare pay
ments, and other benefits.
Reliable sources not directly in
volved in the negotiations said
the package amounts to a 25-cent
increase per hour this year plus
3H> per cent more next year.
Yuri Gagarin Has Lunch
With Queen Elizabeth
LONDON l/Pt — Soviet space
man Maj. Yuri Gagarin — a j
foundry worker before he became '
an astronaut — lunched today
with Queen Elizabeth II at Buck
ingham Palace.
The handsome son of a Rus
sian carpenter sat beside the
pretty Queen. Across the sump
tuously laid table was her ma
jesty’s scientifically minded hus
band, Prince Philip.
History did a couple of auda
cious backflips, for the scene of
the luncheon was the white and
gold 1884 room, so called because
Tsar Nicholas I dined there that
year.
The spaceman wore his air
force uniform. With him was So
viet Ambassador Alexander Sol
datov. About 7,000 people stood
in front of the palace to see his
car enter the gates.
Guests at luncheon included
Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Reports Says Native
Cemeteries Disturbed
Near Cordova
JUNEAU m — The State De
partment of Public Safety said
today it had reports that native
cemeteries near Cordova, and in
other areas of the state, have been
disturbed, apparently by persons
seeking artifacts.
Commissioner Martin B. Un
derwood said State Police had
been instructed to investigate all
such reports and to make arrests
under Alaskan law providing
penalties of up to $500 in fines
and 30 days imprisonment for
such violations.
Pilot of Ill-Fated Jet
Crash Didn't Know
Danger Was Imminent
DENVER UP) — One or possibly j
more mechanical failures caused
the crash of a United Air Lines
DCS in which 17 persons perished
last Tuesday, United President
W. A. Patterson said Thursday.
But never until the moment of
the runway crash did the plane’s
pilot, Capt. John Grosso, consider
that danger was imminent.
Patterson made these points at
a news conference where he dis
cussed at length reports that the
plane’s hydraulic system failed
during the Philadelphia-to-Los
Angeles flight.
He said the pilot noted fluctu
ating pressures in the hydraulic
system 35 minutes before the
scheduled landing at Stapleton
Airfield. But he added: “That is
not abnormal. It happens on all
airplanes.”
“The captain had no feeling
whatsoever that he was about to
do anything hazardous,” Patter
son said. “If had thought there
was any unusual hazard, he would
have gone to Lowry Air Base.”
This air base, equipped with
extensive crash and fire-fight- I
ing apparatus, is about a mile |
and a half south of Stapleton.
Even as Patterson addressed j
newsmen here, the Federal Avi
ation Agency in Washington
moved to tighten regulations
covering emergency operation of
hydraulic systems on DCS jet
airliners.
Another DC8 Jet Has
Hydraulic Trouble, Lands
' Safely at Denver Airport
DENVER UP) — A United Air
Lines DC8 jet airliner, the same
type of $5 million craft which
crash-landed here Wednesday with
17 lives lost, ran into hydraulic
system difficulties on a training
flight today.
A UAL official said the plane
landed at Stapleton Field “with
out incident.” Later the fire de
partment was alerted. There were
four persons aboard, all United
employes.
The Fire Department sent nine
pieces of equipment to the field
in addition to the three engines
regularly stationed there, but
there was no need of their serv
ices.
Soviets Shout, Push and
Shove to Get Near Liz
MOSCOW (#1 — Shouting Soviet
press photographers, teen-age
autograph hunters and little old
ladies pushed and shoved each
other in Gorky Park today to
get near actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Miss Taylor, who was visiting
the United States exhibition of
plastic products, was perspiring
too. There were two reasons: The
temperature was in the 80’s and
she was wearing a comparatively
heavy suit.
“It’s my fault,” said husband
Eddie Fisher. “I made her wear
the suit today.”
Several hundred Russian were
in the small exhibition building
when Miss Taylor and her en
tourage entered. They quickly
formed a tight knot around her,
clamoring for autographs. Her!
Russian chauffeur and U. S. Em
bassy officials had difficulty
keeping them at arms length. But
no one was hurt and Miss Taylor
left the exhibition after about 10
minutes.
U.S. Meets Rebuff from
South Africa — Won’t
Accept Envoy Visit
WASHINGTON — The Unit- ;
ed States met a rebuff from South
Africa when it proposed that
Asst. Secretary of State G. Men
nen Williams visit that Country
next month during an African
tour.
The State Department reported
officially today that “the govern
ment of the Republic of South
Africa indicated that a later date
would be more convenient.”
The South African government’s |
policy of apartheid — separation i
of white and Negro elements of ,
the country’s population under
rigid controls — has often been
severly criticized in the United
States.
State Department press officer
Francis W. Tully said he was not
aware that South Africa gave any
reason for stalling off a visit by
Williams.
According to the schedule pub
lished today Williams will leave
here next Wednesday for Lagos,
Nigeria, to attend a conference
of U. S. Ambassadors from the
African area.
I Anchorage to Receive
i New Automatic
! Communications System
WASHINGTON UPt — The Fed
eral Aviation Agency said today
an automatic telecommunication'
system, costing $601,937, will be
installed at Anchorage, to modern
ize its aeronautical communica
tions in the Alaskan area.
The new system, FAA said, will
permit reports from 65 stations
to be automatically switched to
the proper station in fractions of
seconds instead of taking a punch
ed tape and manually placing it
into the proper circuit.
Most of the messages to be car
ried will cover aircraft move
ments, flight plans, air traffic
control and weather information.
Installation work at Merrill
Field, is to begin immediately,
FAA said.
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Two Huge Blazes Under
Control in Yosemite Park
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK,
Calif. iff) — The two huge blazes
flanking Yosemite National Park
are contained. Barring a wind
storm, they should be controlled
today, State Division of Forestry
spokesman said.
Fire breaks surrounded both
the man-caused blazes that to
gether blackened an estimated
71,200 acres of Sierra brushland,
killed two persons and consumed
two mountain villages.
Planes Thursday dumped thou
sands of gallons of quenching bor
ate on the flames. Smoke jumpers
leaped from planes and helicop
ters to combat about 400 little
fires set by lightning Wednesday
night.
Two small Tuolumne County
fires were set deliberately,
foresters said. The two bigger
fires were believed caused by
careless smokers or campers.
John M. Cross of Kotzebue
Named to Judicial Conference
JUNEAU (/Pi — The appointment
of John M. Cross of Kotzebue, a
delegate to the Alaska Consti
tutional Convention, to the State
Judicial Conference was an
nounced by Gov. Egan today.
Cross, a pilot for Wien Air
lines, succeeds Roy M. Walker
of Nome, who moved from the j
district.
Pope John XXIII Issues
25,000 Word Encyclical
On Social Problems
VATICAN CITY UP — In a
wide-ranging new encyclical on
social problems of the modern
world, Pope John XXIII called ,
today for industry to limit profits
and make sure that the working
man receives a wage that allows
him to live in dignity.
The encyclical, at 25,000 words
the longest in the history of the
Roman Catholic Church, said the
plight of backward nations is
perhaps the major problem of the
modern epoch.” The Pope called
for advanced states to give sin
cere and disinterested aid to the
underdeveloped in the cause of
“fruitful and lasting” peace.
He reaffirmed the Roman Cath
olic Church’s traditional stand on
the rights of private property, but
declared socialization does not
turn men into automatons if it
“confines its activity within the
limits of the moral order.”
In the first full restatement of
the church’s attitude toward so
cial problems in three decades,
this pontiff son of a farmer bore
down heavily on the problems of i
the individual.
j Vatican circles considered the I
Pope’s encyclical a call to all
Christians of the world to defend
their Christian heritage. The
Pope himself said his words were
“directed to all Christians.”
Titled “mater and magistra”—
! meaning the church as “mother
and teacher”—the encyclical was
issued in commemoration of the
70th anniversary of the “Rerum
Novarum” of new things issued
by Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI
and Pope Pius XII.
18-Year-Old Louisiana Girl
Crowned Miss U.S.A.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UP — “My
I daddy will probably faint when
: he hears this,” said Sharon
I Brown moments after she was
crowned Miss U.S.A. “He thought
j I should improve my carriage.
| That's why I went to modeling
| school.”
Roy Brown, a contractor, had
not come to watch his daughter
compete in the beauty pageant,
and Sharon was anxious to break
away from the well wishers to
phone home the news.
“I think I’ll call collect,” she
said and laughed through her
| tears at her joke.
The 18-year-old brunette from
Minden, La., won the right Thurs
day night to represent the nation
against 57 foreign entries for the
Miss Universe title.
Sharon, at 5-feet-7, was one of
the tallest of the 43 girls who
competed in the Miss U.S.A. con
test. At 36-23-36, she also was one
of the most plentifully endowed.
She had been a model and
beauty contest winner since
February 1960 when she won the
“Miss Stock Show” crown.
INJURED ANCHORAGE
ATTY. REMAINS IN A COMA
BILLINGS, Mont. LP — Ralph
Cottis, Anchorage lawyer injured
Saturday in an auto accident near
Miles City, Mont., remained in a
coma today.
Spokesmen at a Billings hos
pital where Cottis is being treated
for severe brain injuries said he
still is on the critical list, al
though his condition has improved
somewhat.
The lawyer was injured when
thrown from his car as the vehicle
plunged down an embankment.
(lancer Fund
Crusade Gets
Underway Tonight
The ringing of the Community
Methodist Church bell at six
o’clock this evening will signal
the start of the house to house
Cancer Fund Crusade with vol
unteer workers from each block
in the community calling on her
neighbors, stated Lucille Gilbert,
campaign chairman.
Everyone is urged to have their
contribution ready so that the
campaign can be completed with
in a very short time.
Last year cancer took the lives
of more than 4,000 children under
15 years of age. About half of
them died of leukemia, which is
a cancer of the blood forming
tissue. More school children died
of cancer than from any other
disease. Today there are about
300,000 American children under
13 who have lost their fathers
to cancer, and about 250,000 have
lost their mothers.
The annual hospital bill for
cancer is estimated at about 350
million dollars. The average hos
pital bill is $675.
So do your bit by contributing
I tonight when your neighbor calls.
Beta Sigma Phi with Bev Mor
gan in charge will take the busi
ness houses.
Other block captains are
Christie Waldheim, Kathryn To
| buk, Johnnie Stephenson, Lucille
Gilbert, Jean O’Sullivan, Mary
I Pilcher, Myrtle Johnson, Barbara
I Martin, Doris Wilke, Alice Hud
I son, Peggy Kelliher, Ellen Jones,
J S h a r o n Unterwagner, Bessie
i Moses, Lottie Bahnke, Jean Bu
rand, Ella Tanner and Rose Bron
son.
The block captains are organ
ized under the leadership of El
len Jones, Alma Glavinovich and
Bev Morgan.
Fairbanks Girl
Named Miss Alaska
ANCHORAGE UP — Nineteen
year-old Jean Holm of Fairbanks
was crowned Miss Alaska here
last night in competition with
three other beauties.
Miss Holm, who plans to attend
Stephens College in Missouri this
fall, will represent the 49th State
in the Miss America competition
in Atlantic City later this year.
The girls were judged on
beauty, talent, bathing suit and
ball dress appearance. Miss Holm
modeled as her talent.
Others in the contest were
Linda Ruth Kassner of Juneau,
Kathy Nilsson of Delta Junction
and Teresa Hanson of Anchorage.
ALASKA AIRLINES DC-4
LOSES ENGINE BUT LANDS
SAFELY AT ANNETTE
JUNEAU UP — An Alaska Air
lines DC-4 enroute from Seattle
to Anchorage landed safely at
Annette Island yesterday after
one of its four engines conked
out, Coast Guard headquarters
said here today. It was not known
how many persons were aboard
the craft.
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy this afternoon
and tonight. Low tonight 40-45,
high tomorrow 55. In the last 24
hours: High of 45, low of 42. Sun
rise at 2:05 a. m., sunset at 10:07
p. m. Temperatures a year ago to
day: High of 72, low of 53. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 72 in 1960, low of 35 in
1934.