THE
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS__
62nd Year No. 18 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1961_Per Copy 15<
Class B Basketball Tournament
Gets Into Full Swing Tomorrow Night
One of the most exciting events
of the year will get underway at
the school gym tomorrow eve
ning when the Western Alaska
High School Activities Assn. Class
B Tournament opens at 7:30 p. m.
Teams from Nome, Kodiak,
Homer, Kenai, Seward and Eiel
son AFB are competing.
The Nome School Nanooks are
sponsoring this historic event for
the first time and no effort has
been spared to make this tourna
ment the best ever. 94 people are
scheduled to arrive at 3:30 p. m.
tomorrow aboard two chartered
Alaska Airlines aircraft. Housing
has been arranged for 60 players,
managers, and coaches, as well as
cheerleaders from the partici
pating schools. Several spectators
will be staying in local hotels.
Reserve seat tickets are still on
sale for $12.00 each for the full
tournament, and general admis
sion will be $1.00. However, a
limited number of seats, not re
served at game time, will be sold
for $2.00 each for the evening
games and $1.50 each for the day
games. These limited number of
seats will be sold on a first come,
first serve basis prior to each
game. It is advisable to purchase
a reserve seat ticket and, if neces
Many Nomeites View
Paratrooper’s War Game
War clouds gathered over Nome
Sunday morning, but the sky was
clear and windless as two Air
Force Cl 19s circled about 10:00
a. m. and paratroopers landed in
the vicinity of the red hangar.
Cars were parked on all available
roads in the area and wherever
possible. Some of the occupants
had the troopers land within a
few feet of them and felt they
had grandstand seats for the
event.
The action moved slower than
in real warfare. It was explained
as the troopers carefully folded
their chutes, which are costly, be
fore starting on their foot trip
around Dry Creek to Satellite
Field which they would not have
done had it been real warfare.
Red and green flares amid the
landing troops and gunfire made
the training exercise a gala af
fair as the 187th 1st Battle Group
captured the “missile site” at
Satellite Field from the “enemy”,
the Alaska National Guard.
This group of North Carolina
soldiers from Fort Bragg have
been in Alaska since December
getting cold weather training and
working with the Alaska National
Guard.
Here to observe the operation
was Col. John Dalton, Senior
Army Advisor officer from Ju
neau and Lt. Col. Reger, assistant
adjutant general of the Alaska
National Guard.
Capt. Dexter of the 187 th re
ported at Chamber today that he
was amazed at the “tremendous
desire to learn” of the Alaska
National Guardsmen and he wish
ed that the regular army had the
same desire.
Tactically he felt the Guard did
a better job during the friendly
infiltration. In fact, he said, the
Guard was so good that the 187th
found that the ANG got close
enough to their tents to hang
signs on them saying “Sleep well,
your Guard is awake.”
.. Capt. Dexter expressed surprise
at the “tremendous interest
shown in the maneuver and the
wonderful hospitality of the
people of Nome.”
sary, share in its use and cost
with another person.
The west door will be the main
entrance and will be open for the
morning games at 9:15 a. m., after
noon games at 1:15 p. m., and for
the evening games at 6:45 p. m.
All team participants will eat
at the school Wednesday, Thurs
day, and Friday at 11:30 a. m.
All coaches and officials will be
luncheon guests of Rotary Wed
nesday. An All-Tournament ban
quet is scheduled for the the
Multi-Purpose Room Friday eve
ning at 5:30 p. m. for all parti
cipants and invited guests. Fol
lowing the banquet all partici
pants will be guests of the senior
class at their annual Valentine
Dance beginning at 9 p.m. The
dance is not open to the general
public.
On Friday morning the visitors |
are in for a real treat when Paul'
Toctoo and others will give them !
dog team rides. A tour of the j
city has also been arranged.
A complete printed program of |
events, team rosters, bracketing, I
etc., has been prepared and will
be on sale at each game for 10c
each.
Let’s all turn out to support our
Nanooks and make the tournament
a rousing success.
Following is a list of game
time schedules:
Tuesday
Game No. 1—7:30 p.m.
Game No. 2—9:00 p.m.
Wednesday
Game No. 3—10:00 a.m.
Game No. 4— 2:00 p.m.
Game No. 5— 7:30 p.m.
Game No. 6— 9:00 pjn.
Thursday
Game No. 7—10:00 a.m.
Game No. 8— 2:00 p.m.
Game No. 9— 8:00 p.m.
Friday
Championship Game—2:00 p.m.
NOME BLM OFFICE
TO BE CLOSED
Dan Jones of the BLM office
announced at Chamber of Com
merce meeting today that the
local office would be completely
closed by Wednesday, following
instructions from Washington.
The office, which opened at the
close of the season last fall on
a trial basis, is closed due to the
lack of use.
It is felt in Nome that the of
fice was not given a fair trial
as the spring and summer are the
active months for such an office.
Action is being taken by the
Chamber of Comemrce, although
the time is very short.
Flood Waters Ebb Slowly
In Western Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. US) — Flood
waters ebbed slowly out Western
Oregon today after crippling rail
roads, blocking highways and tak
ing three lives.
Heavy rains sent rivers off on
a three-day rampage, but the last
flood crest moved into the Port
land area today with only minor
damage expected.
Upstream the Willamette River
and its tributaries were back in
their banks. Below Portland the
Willamette River, which carried
off most of the flood water, emp
ties into a broad Columbia River,
where no damage is expected.
Earlier the flood-swollen
streams swept away two persons
to their deaths. A third died of
a heart attack while trying to
salvage furniture from his flood
ed home.
Recognition
Dinner Honors
Scout Leaders
The Recognition Dinner honor
ing the adults participating in
scouting was held Saturday eve
ning at the Seaview Room with
about 60 persons present.
The importance of scouters and
the benefits derived by the in
dividuals who give their time
with the youth of the community
were stressed by Ira Hill, Scout
Executive of the Midnight Sun
District.
Scoutmaster Spencer Strand of
Troop 663, presented an inter
esting program with talks being
given by six members of the
troop including Stan Walker, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Walker;
John Amundsen, son of Rev. and
Mrs. R. Amundsen; George and
Art Johnson, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Art Johnson; John Towner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Towner
and Patrick Adams, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Adams.
Recognized for their outstand
ing work with Nome Scouts were:
Ash Craft, Explorer advisor,
through whose efforts the popu
lar canoe trips originated. Craft
has worked with this older group
for the past four years and has
been responsible for many proj
ects which has kept the boys so
active; Spencer Strand, Scout
master for Troop 663, heads the
newest troop, but has been active
in scouting for about ten years;
and Wilbur Arnold, who has been
chairman of the Board for Troop
666 for several years and has
given much of his time in keep
ing the organization running
smoothly and keeping the Salmon
Lake camp in readiness.
It has been anounced that Gene
Dinkle will be the new Scout
master for Troop 666 as Sgt.
Leslie’s tour of duty here with the
Army Advisor Group is about
finished. Ash Craft who had
sought a replacement for Ex
plorer advisor, reconsidered, much
to the happiness and delight of
the group and accepted the posi
tion again.
Participating groups in the Ber
ing Sea District were Explorer
Post 766; Boy Scout Troops 663
and 666; Cub Packs 63 of Cove
nant Church; 363 of the Metho
dist Church and 245 of the Catho
lic Church. Conrad Potter, chair
man of the district committee,
was toastmaster.
French Will Not Accept
Some of the Language
Used In a Russian Note
PARIS UR — France told the
Soviet Union Sunday it could not
accept some of the language Mos
cow used in its note protesting
the French buzzing of Soviet Pres
ident Leonid Brezhnev’s plane off
the Algerian Coast.
The French note addressed to
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko said France will let the
Kremlin know the results of its
investigation. But the note said
“certain terms employed in the
Soviet note” sent here Saturday
are considered inadrhissable.
French jet fighters intercepted
the Soviet plane last Thursday
while Brezhnev was enroute to
Morocco and Guinea.
The French said one fighter
fired warning shots to attract the
plane’s attention after the four
jet airliner was found too far
south of its scheduled course for
Morocco and failed to identify it
self.
Russians Hurl “Space Traveler""
Towards the Planet of Venus
By Preston Grover
MOSCOW W! — A 1,148-pound
Soviet “Space Station” hurtled
toward a mid-May rendezvous with
the planet Venus today after a
spectacular piggy-back launching
the United States does not ex
pect to achieve for another 18
to 24 months.
The space traveler should reach
the area of Venus when earth’s
sister planet will be about 26 mil
lion miles away, the Soviets said.
The latest Soviet space shot—
second in eight days—was aimed
at investigating conditions on and
around the planet, whose per
petual mantle of clouds has made
it a mystery to scientists.
The aim is either to hit Venus
or to have the ship pass closely
enough to send back detailed stud
ies.
The space ship has a radio
transmitter believed capable of
sending messages across millions
of miles of space, but it has not
been announced whether the ve
hicle carries equipment to relay
photographs back to earth.
Hailed as Greatest Space Feat
Scientists and officials on both
sides of the Iron Curtain hailed
the Venus shot as the greatest
space feat since the Soviet Union
orbited her first Sputnik three
years ago. It adds to the Soviet
Union’s other claimed accomplish
ments, which include hitting the
moon with a rocket, photograph
ing the far side of the moon and
orbiting the sun.
The Soviet announcement in
I dicated the Venus launching was
an extreme complex operation. It
said a multistage rocket carried
a Sputnik into orbit, another
rocket was launched from the
Sputnik and the second rocket
fired off “an automatic inter
planetary” station with the intent
Soviet Union Plans to
Outstrip the U. S. in
Industrial Output by 1970
MOSCOW ti'P) — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev said in a speech pub
lished Saturday the Soviet Union
will carry out its 1959-1965 seven
year plan ahead of time. But 1970
remains his target date for out
stripping the United States in in
dustrial output.
Khrushchev addressed farm ex
perts of Trans-Caucasian Repub
licans Tuesday. The government
newspaper Izvestia made the
speech public, spreading his words
across 2Vz pages.
Goals of the seven-year plan are
being effectively fulfilled,
Khrushchev said, and the plans for
over-all output, productivity
gains and for the reduction of
production costs are being over
fulfilled.
“All this makes it possible to
accumulate vast resources over
and above the plan,” he said.
Khrushchev said — as he did
when the plan was adopted in
1959 — that this nation will over
take and surpass the United
States in industrial production in
1970.
“We do not threaten anyone,”
he said. “The social system of the
United States is a matter for the
American people. Our successes
and growth do not harm other
peoples.”
But he added that only when
Socialism (Communism) replaces
the capitalist system will “an
tagonistic differences inherent in
the very nature of capitalistic” be
eliminated.
either of hitting Venus or going
into orbit around it.
There was no indication of the
rocket’s present speed. But the
first announcement said that at
noon Sunday the space station al
ready was 126,300 kilometers —
75,780 miles — from earth.
Some British observers viewed
the Soviet feat as a military warn
ing to the West.
“If the Russians can hit Venus
26 million miles away,” said the
Tabloid Daily Sketch, “it would
be child’s play to pinpoint earth
targets from only 100 miles out
in space.”
Congo's Deposed
Premier Lumumba
Reported Dead
By Adrian Porter
ELIZABETHVILLE, Katanga UP>
— Patrice Lumumba is dead, the
Katanga government announced
today, and the African villagers
who killed him have received a
reward of $8,000.
Godefroid Munongo, the interior
| minister of this secessionist pro
j vince declared the Congo’s de
| posed premier was “massacred
I yesterday morning” along with
I two aides said to have fled with
him three days earlier.
Lumumba’s death was an
nounced two hours before the
U. N. Security Council met in
New York to deal with the de
teriorating Congo situation. There
the United States expressed shock
at Lumumba’s death, and prom
ised cooperation with Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold in.
undertaking a full investigation
j But the Soviet Union, long
Lumumba’s supporter, said the
killing was just another indica
tion of how Hammarskjold has
operated in the Congo with the
hacking of a U. N peace force
The Soviet Union said President
Tsombe’s Katanga government
must be made to pay.
In Elizabethville the interior
minister refused to name the vil
lage where Lumumba died.
“We do not want the Africans
of the tribe which killed Lumum
ba to be identified because they
might be subject to eventual re
prisals by Lumumbists,” said Mu
nongo.
Munongo called Lumumba a
criminal responsible for tens of
thousands of deaths in Kasai and
Katanga Provinces, and insisted
the handling of the case was a
local matter.
Lumumba, firebrand of Congo
independence and first premier
of the new country, was 35. His
death is bound to have widespread
repercussions in the Congo, where
tribal rivalries are fierce.
He became premier when the
Congo attained independence from
Belgium last June 30. Soon Soviet
technicians and equipment were
flowing into the Congo, along
with a U. N. peace force of 20,000
men which Lumumba at first wel
comed, then repudiated. In Sep
tember, Congo President Joseph
Kasavubu, after weeks of un
certainty, threw Lumuba out of
office and sent him to jail for
trial on charges of crimes against
the nation.
But even in detention Lumumba
made his weight felt, and at the
time of his death his followers
I were in control of about a third
* of the Congo.