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ANOTHER PROBLEM OF RE-ENTRY
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Clean-Up - Paint-Up - Fix-Up . . .
CLEAN-UP—PAINT-UP—FIX-UP the outside now
and be inspired to do the same inside making your
self proud of the place in which you live and making
an impression on the thousands of visitors who come
and go each day that Nome people are proud and
happy to be living here.
As we clean-up and take pride in the results, the
reluctant neighbors catch the fever and do the same.
Results are not only pleasing to observe but re
duce the fire hazard and cut down on the health haz
ards around us.
We are about to acquire many more students
with the advent of the Vocational School and they too
will be able to learn that good citizens work together
to accomplish a clean community.
Its not too early to start — the sooner the better.
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the state, cutting down the wel
fare and unemployment problems
caused by having so much un
skilled labor.
The Board visited Satellite Field
as well as the old Federal Build
ing for possible use for schools.
The proposed floor plan of the
school was made available to all
persons attending the meeting.
After completing their sessions on
Saturday the party left by
Saturday the party left by char
ter plane to visit other towns and
Commissioner Theo Norby re
turned to Nome today to remain
until Wednesday when he will
give the address for the com
mencement exercises at Nome
High School.
Many changes were made by
the board in the rules and regu
lations including the rules per
taining to universities so that the I
Alaska Methodist University at
Anchorage could be included as
previously regulations were only
for the University of Alaska.
The school year was changed
from 172 days to 175 days and
an Advisory Board was set up for
the State Department of Voca- 1
tional Education. The members
will be announced later.
BRIDGE-LUNCHEON
HONORS AUDREY BAYER
A farewell bridge luncheon was
given Saturday at the Seaview
Room honoring Audrey Bayer
who leaves soon to join her hus
band at their new home in An
chorage. Hostesses were Mrs. Ash
Craft and Mrs. H. Gilbert.
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Every Day
Skeptics Raise a Chorus of Douhts
To Whether Gagarin Orbited the Earth
(Editor’s Note—Ever since the
Soviet Union reported that
Yuri Gagarin had orbited the
earth, there have been some
doubters who refuse to accept
the Soviet announcement as
fact. This article gives the
basis for their skepticism and
also the view of others who
see no reason for rejecting
the Soviet version).
By Alton L. Blakeslee
NEW YORK UP) — Did Yuri
Gagarin really orbit the earth to
j become the world’s first space
! man?
U. S. officials and scientists in
! the best position to know say they
i are sure he did, and on that basis
President Kennedy cabled con
gratulations.
But skeptics raise a chorus of
doubts, and cite numerous rea
sons.
Moscow itself could stifle all
skepticism, by supplying records,
witnesses, and details of the
flight to the Federation Aeronau
| tique Internationale (FIA) in
Paris which authenticates avia
tion and space world records.
On April 12, Moscow wired the
FIA the names of the pilot and
spaceship, the Vostok, and said a
space flight had been made.
The telegram gave no other de
tails but did say supporting evi
dence would be forwarded within
the required time limit of two
months and eight days, said an
FIA official who asked not to be
quoted by name.
But to have claims authenti
cated, says aviation experts, Mos
cow would have to describe the
model and type of spacecraft, the
engine or engines, special appa
ratus aboard, the landing controls
and the date, time and place of
lift-off and landing.
Highly Debaleable
It is highly debatable whether
Moscow, which always has kept
such information secret, will put
it on ooen record now.
The United States, the FIA of
ficial said, also quickly advised
about the flight of Cmdr. Alan B.
Shepard Jr. He said the FIA ex
pects to receive the supporting
data within the required time.
Shepard’s flight was held open
ly, and Jacques Allez, FIA presi
dent, was a witness at Cape Cana
veral.
The Soviet Union can claim
records for duration of manned
orbital flight (1 hour and 29 min
utes out of 108 total minutes from
lift-off to landing; altitude (110
to 180 miles); and for the greatest
mass (five tons) lifted into orbit.
The United States can claim
records for altitude without earth
orbit (115 miles) and for greatest
mass lifted without earth orbit
(3,000 pounds).
Well, did Gagarin go, or go
when he’s said to have gone
No Doubt Flight Was Made
Looking at all available in
formation, including that from
U. S. tracking stations, there’s no
doubt the flight was made, says
James Webb, director of the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration.
Still doubters talk on such
points as these:
1. The landing: Reports conflict
whether Gagarin parachuted from
his capsule, or landed inside the
capsule. He said he returned to
earth in his spaceship. The land
ing spot is not pinpointed.
2, Some London newspapers
carried stories suggesting Gaga
rin’s flight was made several days
before Aoril 12. One, the Com
munist Daily Worker, said an as
tronaut had orbited the earth
three times on April 7, and was
under medical care.
But Dr. Hugh Dryden, NASA
deputy director, said: “We would
have known if they had put up a
satellite (before April 12) and
they did not.”
Izvestia denied a report that
Valdimir Ilyushin, son of the fam
ous Soviet airplane designer, had
been seriously injured in a space
flight before April 12. It said he
was in Hangchow, China, recover
ing from a serious leg injury in
curred way back last June in an
auto accident in Moscow.
3. Some say the Soviets would
never talk about a dangerous
flight while it was in progress,
for fear of embarrassing failure,
so Gagarin must have been been
back when he was reported to
I be in flight.
A counter-argument is the So
j viets never gamble on being
caught in a hoax which could be
uncovered, especially through the
U. S. tracking system, of which
the Soviets are well aware.
4. Gagarin said he saw a beau
tiful view, and gave details.
In Washington when Sputknik
| I went up, Blagonravov, a Soviet
' scientist, made several statements
; about that satellite which con
flicted with official Soviet re
ports. Gagarin said he had a port
hole. Izvestia, on April 24, said
his ship had three portholes.
On this and other points, Lon
don observers commented: Some
seeming contraditions may not be
real, because Westerners often
assume that any statement made
is a final definite Soviet version.
But in the excitement, it’s possi
ble that the first Soviet accounts
could contain errors, or that their
scientists could misunderstand
some information they were get
ting second-hand.
5. How could Gagarin’s voice
be heard all around the world, as
one Moscow report said?
Soviet reports, say the New
York Times, describe a radio
telephone system with two short
wave channels, with at least one of
them being usable on “most” of
the orbit. And Gagarin’s words
at times could have been tape
recorded, for play-back when he
was within range of a Soviet
ground station.
U. S. officials don’t question the
flight, apparently partly through
data gathered by a far-flung
tracking system, some of whose
operations are still secret.
Gen. Lemnitzer Savs if
U.S. Is Attacked We
Could Destroy Russia
WASHINGTON UP)—’The chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
says that if the United States
is attacked it could, “without any
doubt,” destroy the Soviet Union.
Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer told the
House Armed Services Commit
tee in February that he feels the
International situation has de
teriorated during the past year.
But despite the deterioration,
he said, the chances of a general
war are no greater than 12 months
ago.
Lemnitzer stressed that the esti
mate of American strength com
pared with the Soviets’ dealt
with the current situation. He
said “our problem” is how to
deal with the future.
Lemnitzer’s closed door testi
mony was released Friday after
censors removed classified ma
I terial.
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36 U.S. Students Send JFK
Open Letter Protesting Hostility
OXFORD, England (JV-Thirty
six American students at Oxford
University Saturday issued an
open letter to President Kennedy
protesting what they called the
“continuing hostility” of the U. S.
government toward the Castro
I regime in Cuba.
The students said “indirect in
tervention” in Cuban affairs dis
torts traditional American pur
poses “both as observed abroad
and as a motive for action at
home.”