NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1961Per Copy 15^
Nikita Predicts
The Triumph
Of Socialism
MOSCOW UP—Premier Khrush
chev told the 22nd Soviet Com
munist Party Congress today that
the downfall of imperialism and
the triumph of socialism on a
world scale are inevitable.
The Soviet Premier took the
rostrum at the second session of
the Congress to discuss the mas
sive new party program—its first
since ,1919-—which the Kremlin
claims will make Communism su
preme and irresitiably attractive
to the rest of the world by 1980.
Khrushchev told the more than
4,000 delegates in the new Krem
lin Palace of Congresses that the
experience of a large group of
countries had confirmed that the
socialist system inevitably re
places the capitalist system.
Imperialism — the standard
Communist term for Western
capitalism — has irretrievably
losts its hold on the bulk of the
world’s peoples, he declared, as
serting that socialism is the main
avenue along which mankind ad
vances.
i The Premier said the Soviet
people’s living conditions have
been radically altered as a result
of these “colossal transforma
tions” i— that unemployment had
been wiped out long ago, work
ers’ real wages have risen 480
per cent, and the real incomes
of the peasants have risen more
that 500 per cent.
Khrushchev listed what he call
ed three historical factors of the
20th Century.
“The formation of the world
socialist system is the principal
result of the progressive develop
ment of society in our epoch,” he
declared.
“The crumbling of the colonial
system is the second in historical
significance among the results of
world development.
“The third result of world de
velopment is an acute all-around
weakening of capitalism and a
fresh sharpening of its general
crisis.”
With a target date of 1980, it
calls for free rent, medical care,
education, utilities, local trans
portation and factory lunches by
then.
“American capitalism has pass
ed its prime and is declining,”
Khrushchev declared, asserting
that the “American financial oli
garchy” does not have the
strength or the means to imple
ment its claims “to the role of
savior of capitalism and its claims
to world domination.”
Two Drivers Meet . . .
KANSAS CITY, UP — Bashir
I Ahmad, the camel driver from
Pakistan, had a chat today with
a former mule driver who be
came President of the United
States.
The ever-smiling Bashir was in
the private office of former Presi
dent Hairy S. Truman about 15
minutes and then was taken on
a tour of die Truman library.
After they emerged from Tru
man’s private
President crave
I Blast Rips Through
Helene Curtis Plant —
200 Workers are Injured
CHICAGO — A cosmetics
chemical explosion leveled a one
story iblending building and rocked
the west side for miles and in
jured an estimated 200 persons
today.
There were no fatailities. A
loss- control engineer declared the
disaster plan of the Helene Cur
tis industries worked effectively
and all 800 persons working in
seven buildings were evacuated
within five minutes.
Most of the injured were at
work in a neighboring plant of
the Zenith Radio Corp. where
plate glass windows were blown
in, showering glass on workers
at their desks and benches.
Damage to the Curtis plant and
Zenith factory was estimated at
$250,000.
Windshields and windows of
scores of automobiles parked in
the area were smashed in as if
by sledgehammers.
A heavy odor of sulfuric acid
spread over the site and impeded
rescue work. Heavy plate glass
windows were blown from build
ings in a radius blocks from the
site of the blast.
$2.25 Million to Be
Spent on Rebuilding
Nevada Goldmine
NEW YORK W) — A $2.25 mil
lion rebuilding and improvement
program at Golconda, Nev., gold
mine properties was announced
today by Goldfield Consolidated
Mines Co. of San Francisco.
The work will be done at the
12,000 acre Getchill Mines tract
with the aim of achieving full
scale production by next spring.
Goldfield owns 43 per cent of
the Getchell Co. It described the
Nevada mine as the second largest
gold mining operation in the Unit
ed States.
The announcement said present
mill and mining facilities are
being enlarged to take advantage
of automation and recently de
veloped ore-dressing technology.
When improvements are com
pleted, an estimated 1,500 tons a
day can be processed in open-pit
extraction and ore production on
a seven-day-a - week basis, the
company said,
—
Calculating Machine
Wires Get Crossed Up . . .
WASHINGTON UP> — A calcu
lating machine’s wires got cross
ed, and the Army in Europe
ordered $7.4 million worth of
material it didn’t need, the gen
eral accounting office reported
today.
The report to Congress said
the Ordnance Supply Manage
ment Agency, Orleans, France,
ordered last year a total of $9.4
million in excess of the then cur
rent requirements, because of in
effective supply management.”
One example, it said, was a
paperwork error in which an act
ual surplus of 4,092 automotive
transmissions was transformed
into a shortage of 2,902—for which
replacements were ordered from
•the limited States.
The Army, in comments attach
ed to the report, attributed $7.4
million of the alleged excess to
improper wiring of an electrical
accounting machine control panel.
But it said the error was caught
soon enough so that only $4,000
worth of tiie material was actu
U.S. Asks Soviets
To Reconsider
50-Megaton Blast
WASHINGTON Uft—The White
House has asked the Soviet Union
to reconsider its decision to ex
plode a 50-megaton nuclear bomb,
charging that the test would be
unnecessary and could “only
serve some unconfessed political
purpose.”
It said the United States had
the materials and know-how to
produce bombs in the 50-100
megaton range—and higher—but
that such weapons are not es
sential to U.S. military needs and
that full-scale tests are not neces
sary to develop them.
Assistant Press Secretary An
drew T. Hatcher said today the
White House has received no re
action from the Soviet Union to
its stand.
U.S. strategists hoped the White
House statement, citing the lack
of military purpose for such a
test, would rally world opinion
against the Kremlin.
From a diplomatic standpoint,
Khrushchev’s Moscow speech was
seen as combining the carrot on1
a stick technique with the flick
of a whip—mixing the lure of ne
gotiations over Berlin while
brandishing a mammoth nuclear
threat.
U.S. Troops In Berlin
Roll Out on Three-Day
Test of Combat Readiness
BERLIN UPt — Nearly half
West Berlin’s 6,500-man U.S. gar
rison rolled out today for a three
day test of combat readiness.
Tanks rumbled through the
streets at daybreak, followed by
armored personnel carriers pack
ed with steel-helmeted troops.
There was a cold fall wind un- I
der blue skies as the columns
wheeled out of their barracks and
headed for the Grunewald Forest,
in the American sector of south
west of the city proper, where
the mock battles will be staged.
Berliners on their way to work
waved to the Americans, who
grinned and waved back, especial
ly at the girls. An Army spokes
man emphasized that the war
games — dubbed Ever Ready II —
were planned in July, well ahead
of the Communist closure of the
East Berlin border Aug. 13.
Aproximately 3,000 men are
taking part under the over-all
leadership of Brig. Gen. Fred
erick Hartel, the U.S. Commander
in Berlin.
The purpose of the major fall
exercise is to practice attack and
delay against aggressor, to test
the troops ability to hold off an
invading force until help can
come, from West Germany.
BENEFITS DUE . . .
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. OB — The
Arkansas Supreme Court has
ruled that Helena Hanna, a can
ning factory employe, is entitled
to workmen’s compensation bene
fits because she pulled a shoulder
muscle while putting on a sweater
at the plant.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with rain tonight and
Thursday. Rising temperature.
Low tonight 35, high tomorrow
40. In the last 24 hours: High of
35, low of 31. Sunrise at 7:02
a.m., sunset at 4:30 p.m. Tem
peratures a year ago today: High
of 31, low of 12. Extremes on this
date sine* 1907: High of 48 in
1925, low of 8 in 1928. L.
Chemist Claims Desert
Is Safest from Fallout
LOS ANGELES UP) — Want to
escape long-range fallout froan a
nuclear bomb? Go live in a desert.
That’s the answer Nobel prize
winning chemist Willard F. Libby
gave at a news conference yes
terday.
Libby, appearing at the Na
tional Civil Defense Council Con
vention, explained:
Fallout is carried by rain.
There’s little rain in the desert.
And therefore such an area
would be relatively free of world
wide fallout.
He said fallout shelters protect
humans against local fallout but
not against the long-range effects
of radiation. However, he said,
millions of lives could be saved
by shelters and should be built
immediately.
Northwind Plows Through
New-Formed Winter Ice
SEATTLE UP) — The icebreaker
Northwind is plowing through
new-formed winter ice in the
Chukchi Sea hundreds of miles
north of Siberia. ^
The Northwind now is in the
oceanographic phase of the five
month cruise on which she sailed
from here June 30. Besides more
than 200 crewmen, she carries
scientists from the University of
Washington and the Navy’s Hy
drographic Unit.
A mesage from Capt. Russell
Waeschue Jr., the Northwind’s
skipper, tells of receiving mail
and spare parts for the boilers
by parachute drop as his ship
lay in the ice 500 miles north of
the Arctic Circle and at 174 de
grees west longitude. Waesche
radioed:
“Continuing northward through
new winter ice two to three feet
thick and hummocks six to eight
feet thick.”
The Northwind is scheduled to
arrive at Seattle Dec. 6.
Police Seek Missing
'Chief Security Officer
Of Atlas Missile Sites
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. UP) —
Police in 17 states today sought
Philip C. Marsh, the chief secu
rity officer for General Dynamics
Corp. at Plattsburgh Air Force
Base, who disappeared Sunday.
iMarsh, 45, left home about
noon Sunday to buy some beer,
his wife told police.
Police said Marsh has a “ner
vous condition and was in a de
pressed state of mind”.
Marsh was in charge of security
for the installation of electrical
and electronic equipment at the
12 Atlas missile si^es that will
ring Plattsburgh; a strategic air
command base.
The installation work will be
gin when the massive concrete
silos, in which the missiles will
be stored, are completed.
U.S. PEACE CORPS
GIRL HEADS HOMEWARD
LAGOS,Nigeria UP) — Margery
Michelmore, the Foxbocro, Mass.,
girl who raised a Nigerian storm
for the U.S. Peace Corps, is head
ing homeward tomorrow, a U.S.
Embassy official said today.
Since Sunday, when she left
her Peace 'Corps training univer
sity college at Ibadan after a
postcard was found on which she
had written things Nigerians con
sidered critical of their country,
she has been the house guest of
Joseph Greene Deputy Chief
of Mission at the US. Embassy in
Lagos. I
1960 Census Shows
58,243 Persons
Employed in State
JUNEAU Uft — The I960 census
showed 58,243 persons employed
in the state, an advance report
on the general social and eco
nomic characteristics of Alaska
indicated today.
The total employment figure
covered 36,952 males and 21,291
females.
The largest single group em
ployed persons, 9,953, are in
volved in public administration,
according to the Census Bureau’s
advance report.
Wholesale and retail trade was
second, at 9,092, and there were
8,548 persons in the professional
and related services.
According to the report, the
median income of 46,788 families
in Alaska was $7,305 in 1959.
The report said 1,995 families
had an income of less than $1,000
during 1959, while 13,998 families
had an income in excess of $10,
000.
Of 194,887 persons in the state
25 years old or over, 3,689 hbd no
formal education and only 9,963
had completed four years or more
of college work. The median was
12.1 years of school.
Total school enrollment was
listed as 52,173.
Of the state’s total population,
[ 217,940 were native Americans
i and 8,227 were foreign-bom.
[ Of the 31,074 persons of foreign
. stock in Alaska, 6,313 came from
, Canada and 3,452 came from Ger
| many, Norway w:as third at 3,217.
Gov. Egan to Appoint
Citizens Committee for
Centennial Celebration
SITKA. Uft — Gov. Wra. Egan,
said today he will appoint a
Citizens Committee to lay plans
for a statewide celebration In
1967 commemorating the 100th
anniversary of Alaska’s purchase
from Russia.
Speaking at Alaska Day cere
monies here, Egan said the com
mittee would be asked to submit
recommendations next year on the
nature of the Centennial Celebra
tion and how it should be fi
nanced.
“The Centennial of the Alaska
Purchase,” Egan said “should be
cause for the largest celebration
ever held in the northern portion
of this continent.”
Egan said the committee’s rec
ommendations would be forward
ed to every community in the
state. Each community, Egan
said, would be asked to deter
mine to what extent it could,
participate in the centennial.
Chinese Communists
Hail “Unbreakable”
Friendship with Albania
TOKYO W—The Chinese Com
munists today distributed a speech,
hailing their “unbreakable"’
friendship for Albania less that*
24 hours after Soviet Premier
Khrushchev had criticized the
little east European nation for
its espousal of Stalinism.
The Speech by Mrs. Yang Yun
Yu, Chinese delegate to the Fifth
Congress of the Women’s Union
of Albania in Tirana, declared:
“The friendship between the
Chinese and Albanian peoples
based on the principles of Marx
i-sm-Lenism and proletarian in
ternationalism is unbreakable and.
no force can destroy it.”
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