122 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
62nd Year No. 84 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Talks Collapse
Between AGC
And Ironworkers
ANCHORAGE l.f> — A joint
conference between the Iron
workers Union and Associated
General Contractors representa
tives collapsed today after only
35 minutes, federal mediator, Bar
ney Toner announced.
The session began and was held
to discuss the principal issues di
viding the parties seeking to work
out a new wage contract. They
reached an impasse in only a few
minutes, over the chief issue,
Toner said.
Toner did not indicate what the
stumbling block was but it is be
lieved the major points of dif
ferences involved so-called fringe
benefits rather than direct wage
increases.
The meeting was recessed in
definitely following the stalemate.
Toner said his interest in the dis
pute is continuing but he plans
no further meetng at present. He
said he has not decided whether
he will remain here or return to
the scene of other labor disputes
he is mediating.
Today’s special meeting was
called after Toner talked infor
mally with local Ironworkers
business agent and Kenneth
Campbell and Ironworkers Inter
national representative Russell
Fithen who arrived from Seattle
late yesterday.
Ferry System
Does Not Qualify
For Federal Aid
JUNEAU UPl — U. S. Maritime
Administrator Thomas E. Stakem
has said flatly that public corpo
ration could not qualify for fed
eral aid for construction and
operation of ferries, Gov. Egan
said today.
Egan, at news conference this
morning, also released the text
of a leter written by Stakem to
U. S. Sen. E. L. Bartlett last Fri
day in which Stakem said:
“It is our considered opinion
that neither a state nor a state
owned corporation established for
the purpose of owning and oper
ating a ferry system would
qualify as a United States citizen
under the Merchant Marine Act,
1936, as amended.”
In Washington, Egan said he
planned to meet with members
of the State’s Congressional dele
gation, with Stakem and with
Secretary of the Interior Udall.
Egan said he will discuss sev
eral subjects with Udall, includ
ing the U.S.-Canada-Mexico mi
gratory waterfowl treaty, pro
posed by the U. S. comptroller of
the currency.
Egan said the decision was to
depreciate the value of buildings
connected with fur seal operations
in the Pribilof Islands, “which
would cut the amount of money
the state receives each year from
fur seal operations.
On another subject, Egan said
he has asked Secretary of State
Wade to consult with the Division
of Game in regard to a proposed
bison hunt in the Delta Junction
area, in which 50 animals are to
be killed.
Residents of Delta Junction
petitioned Egan last week to can
cel the proposed hunt and find
other means of controlling the
herd, which now numbers about
350 animals.
Maurice Kelliher Named
To Development Corp.
JUNEAU UP) — The appoint
ment of a six-man board of di
rectors to guide the Alaska State
Development Corp. was announced
today by Gov. Egan.
The Development Corn, was
created by the last Legislature to
encourage the development of
new buisinesses in the state and
to give aid to existing businesses.
Money to carry out the corpo
ration’s program will be provided
through the sale of debenture
certificates with a total face value
; of up to $18 million.
Named to the board of direc
tors were:
Lawrence W. Meath, Fairbanks,
for a term ending Feb. 1, 1962.
j Maurice Kelliher, Nome, for a
term ending Feb. 1, 1962. Others
I are William G. Moran, Ketchi
i kan; M. E. (Mike' Monagle, Ju-‘
' neau; Robe rt A. Baker, Anchor
age; and John T. Kelsey, Valdez.
A. H. Romick, Commissioner of
Commerce, serves on the board
of directors of the Development
j Corp. through terms of the law
I creating the agency.
While Egan said the inaugura
' tion of the corporation as a great
! step forward in economic devel
opment, he cautioned that it will
probably be many months before
tangible results will materialize.
The men he selected to com
pose the first oard of directors,
Egan said, “are dedicated Alas
kans whose record of achieve
ment is such as to inspire the con
fidence of all Alaskans and in
vestors from other states.”
The Nome appointee operates
Marten’s Cold Storage and sells
meat products.
ju.s. Hands
Russia Reply on
German Problem
MOSCOW UF> — The United
States today handed the Russians
President Kennedy’s reply to
Premier Khrushchev’s memoran
dum on the German problem and
Berlin.
Immediately afterward, the
French delivered a note on the
same question, and the British
did likewise.
None of the Western Big Ttnee
Embassies would disclose con
tents of the communications.
In Washington the White House
announced that the United States
note will be made public tomor
row morning.
The French and British notes
set forth their own views on Ger
many.
It is understood all three re
main firm on maintenance of their
war-won rights in West Berlin.
The Khrushchev memorandum,
handed to President Kennedy at
Vienna June 4, declared the So
viet Union would sign a separate
peace treaty with Commlnist East
Germany before the end of the
year if there was no agreement
on signing up with both Ger
manys.
A Soviet-East German treaty
would jeopardize rights of the
United States, Britain and France
in West Berlin and access to that
city via land and air corridors
across 110 miles of East German
territory.
Western statesmen have made
clear they intend to maintain
their positions in Berlin, where
the Big Three Western powers
have token garrisons totaling!
11,000 men.
Nazi Troopers
Molest Jewish Boy
In Arlington, Va.
ARLINGTON, Va. UP — A 13
year-old Jewish boy says he was
threatened by Nazi troopers,
handcuffed and quizzed about his
religion while they held him cap
tive in their headquarters in this |
Washington Suburb.
Two troopers, members of
George Lincoln Rockwell’s Amer
ican Nazi party, have been jailed
on charges of felonious assault
and are awaiting trial.
Since the troopers’ arrest, the
boys’ parents say they have re
ceived through the mail a cloth
bearing the design of a skull and
crossbones. Inside the envelope
containing it, one word was in
scribed —“Juden”—which means
Jew in German.
The attack, as related by the
boy, Rickey Farber, occurred here
a week ago Saturday night. As
he and four teen-age friends
walked home from a high school
dance, they passed Nazi head
quarters one of them said:
“Look at that big Nazi flag.”
Rickey told the Washington
Evening Star 10 men came run
ning from the house “yelling cuss
words at us.” He said they took
him to the Nazi house and, hand
I cuffed him after pushing him
I down on a couch.
I “They asked, ‘are you Jewish?'
I nodded,” he related.
A few minutes later, he said
more men brought in two of his
friends.
Police arrived after receiving
an anonymous telephone call, pre
sumably from a neighbor. The boy
said detectives took the names of
the two men.
The boy’s mother says that when
j Rickey came home he paced about
| alternately laughing and crying
until he was given tranquilizers
and put to bed.
Tuesday, the boy’s father, swore
out warrants charging Richard
j Robert Braun and Robert Frank
| lin Garber, both of Arlington, with
felonious assault.
i
Nearly $2 Million
In Paintings Stolen
From French Museum
SAINT TROPEZ, France UR —
Thieves stole 57 impressionist
paintings valued at nearly $2 mil
lion from a museum here Sunday
and carted them off by truck. It
was France’s biggest art robbery
since the “Mona Lisa” was stolen
in 1911.
The haul included masterpieces
by Maurice Utarillo, Henri Ma
tisse, Raoul Dufy and Pierre Bon
nard. It was the sixth art rob
bery on the Riviera in the past 18
months.
The paintings stolen from the
Annonciade Museum of Modern
Art were part of a collection of
French industrialist Georges
Grammont donated in 1955 to the
town of Saint Tropez, his favorite
vacation spot.
The thieves left behind 43 paint
ings and several sculptures worth
an estimated $1 million.
THE WEATHER
Mostly cloudy with little change
in temperature. Low tonight 45,
high tomorrow 55. In the last 24
hours: High of 58, low of 44. Sun
rise at 2:15 a. m., sunset at 9:58
p. m. Temperatures a year ago
today: High of 64. low of 45. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 75 in 1908, low of 34 in ’
1911.
Capt. Virgil I. Grissom
Picked as 2nd Astronaut
For Man-in-Space Effort
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UPi —
Air Force Capt. Virgil I. Gris
som, slender, terse-talking vet
eran of Korea, was picked today
as the astronaut for the United
States’ second man-in-space effort
Tuesday.
If all goes as planned, the $820
a-month test pilot known as
“Gus,” will be shot like a bullet
300 miles southeast over the At
lantic Ocean.
On the projected flight the 35
year-old native of Mitchell, Ind.,
! will reach a maximum altitude of
I 116 miles.
j If, for any reason, the 155
j pound Grissom is unable to make
1 the flight, his place in the space
capsule called “Liberty Bell 7”
will be taken by Marine Lt. Col.
John H. Glenn, Jr., 39, of New
Concord, Ohio.
Even as the election of the tan
ned, fit-looking father of two
sons was being announced, the
long and tedious countdown pre
liminary to launch was under way
in the air conditioned blockhouse
about 150 feet from the missile
launching pad.
Both Grissom and Glenn re
ceived their pre-flight physical
examinations Sunday afternoon
after spending most of the day
just doing nothing save for a little
, surf casting on the beach of this
missile center.
; I Ty Cobh Georgia Peach
Of Baseball Fame Dies
I ATLANTA UP) — Ty Cobb, the
I immortal Georgia Peach of base
I ball fame, died today,
j The 74-year-old former Detroit
| Tiger star died in Emory Uni
versity Hospital, where he had
! been a patient several times the
j past two years.
He had undergone treatment
| for diabetes, bursitis and a back
j injury sustained in a hunting ac
j cident in Idaho.
He had been in the hospital this
time since June 5.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born
Dec. 13, 1886 near Royston, in |
northeast Georgia. After playing
sandlot ball in his hometown,
Cobb made his professional debut
at 17 with August, Ga., in the
South Atlantic League.
His historic bigi league career
spanned 24 years, 22 with Detroit
as an outfielder. He managed the
Tigers six years and finished his i
major league career in 1928 with j
the Philadelphia Athletics.
GOP Members Urge
Nixon to Run for Post
Of Governor in California
LOS ANGELES UP) — Former
Vice President Nixon has been
called “the most qualified man in
our state” to be governor by the
heads of the Republican State
Central Committee.
In an address. Rep. Bob Wilson,
expressed optimism about the
GOP’s chances in the 1962 elec
tions and said California Repub*
licans in Congress, meeting Fri
day in Washington, agreed that
Nixon must decide for himself
whether to run for governor.
Meanwhile, Kentucky’s GOP
Sen. Morton said in Louisville
Sunday he has told Nixon the
Republicans will have to win the
California governorship if the for
mer Vice President is to remain
a potential Presidential candi
date for 1964 or 1968.
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Through
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By Fritz Witti
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON UPt—-When Sen.
Ernest Gruening launches into
praise of Norway’s development,
he conveys the clear message that
he is talking not so much about
Norway as he is about Alaska.
Not the present, undeveloped
49th State, but the Alaska that
could be is its vast resources
were fully utilized.
“A highly developed and pros
perous Norway is a living guide
to what we can do in Alaska and
that we haven’t done,” said Gruen
ing in discussing his recent trip
to Norway and Sweden.
“Norway lies in the same lati
tude as Alaska, its climate is
similar, its rugged fjord-fringed
coast is very similar to Alaska’s
and its resources — fishing, tim
ber, tourism, hydroelectric power
—are much like Alaska’s,” he
said.
“The point is that Norway, many
years ahead of Alaska, has point
ed the way to our development,”
I he added.
1 Gruening feels that the pro
posed Rampart Dam on the Yu
kon River is the key to Alaska’s
future through its potentially
! huge supplies of low-cost power.
“There is no other site in Alas
ka that would produce such low
cost power in such great quan
I tities. Industry will not come to
Alaska for high-cost power,
i In Sweden, he said, the group
paid particular attention to un
derwater transmission of power
to Denmark and off-shore islands.
This is of particular importance
to Alaska because Rampart power
would have to be moved under
water to reach areas in the south
east and Kodiak Island, Gruening
said.
Asked about obstacles in the
way of federal construction of a
dam that would dwarf any yet
built in the United States, Gruen
ing said:
“No major undertaking is ac
complished without overcoming
obstacles. There were many in
the way of statehood, but we ac
complished that. I feel the same
way about Rampart.
“The Russians have huge dams.
We can’t assume a free economy
can’t do as well as a controlled
economy.”
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Bills Introduced
Bills have been introduced in
the Senate and House to relieve
two Alaska communities from
making payments to the govern
ment on certain public works
projects. The liability at Skagway
is for $94,550 and at Hoonal,
$34,000.
Gruening and Sen. Bartlett and
Rep. Rivers, seek the relief for
the two communities because:
At Hoonal, the City and Alaska
Public Works program officials
thought the water system built
there could be paid off through
taxes in the area. It was later
discovered the project was on re
stricted Indian land on which
taxes could not be levied. “The
error was at least partially on
the side of federal officials,” said
Bartlett.
At Skagway, the city has refused
to take over a street improve
ment project on grounds that it
is unsatisfactory, he said.