ss NOME NUGGET
OIJ)EST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS__
VOL. LXII No. 100 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1960_Per Copy 15^
Security Council Decisively Rejects
Soviet Censure of Slag Hammarskjold
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP—
The U.N. Security Council Sun
day night overwhelmingly en- i
dorsed Dag Hammarskjold’s di
rection of U.N. military and civ- i
ilian aid in the Congo.
There was no formal vote in j
the Council after more than 12 j
hours of debate, but speaker after j
speaker from all regions of the
world upheld the U.N. Secretary
General’s policy of neutrality to
ward the Congo’s domestic dis
putes.
The Council majority rejected
the blasts of Congo Premier Pat
rice Lumumba and the harsh crit
icism by that Soviet Union that
poured out over Moscow radio
and "'as repeated here by Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily
Kuznetsov.
Hammarskjold flew back to
New York Aug. 16 seeking Coun
cil support of his refusal to use
the U.N. force of nearly 15,000
men to put Lumumba in control
of mineral-rich Katanga province,
whose Premier Tshombe declared
his independence of Lumumba’s
government. Hammarskjold said
that if Lumumba’s view was up
held, the U.N. operation would
have to be ended in the Congo.
House Finally Musters
Quorom This Morning
WASHINGTON, UP) — Alter a
week, the House finally produced
a quorum today and got started
on its business.
The roll call showed 399 of the
432 members on hand, the first
time since it reconvened on Aug.
15 that the House could muster a
majority for business. It met five
times last week but could take
no official action because not
enough members had returned to
work.
Two appropriation bills were
sent to conference today and half
a dozen White House messages
were formally presented.
Deadlocked Nuclear Test
Ban Talks Take Recess
GENEVA, UP — The United
States accused the Soviet Union
of hampering deadlocked three
power nuclear test ban talks,
which went into a five - week
recess today, after the 2 46t.h ses
sion. The Soviet Union retorted
that it is the “militarists” who
are blocking progress of a ban.
Acting U.S. delegate David H.
Pepper said that unreasonable
Soviet demands tend to hamper
the talks at every turn on the
prbolem of effective international
control and inspection.
Will Spend 30 Million in Research
To Increase Range of Airplanes
WASHINGTON, UP — A system
of sucking air through small slots
in airplane wings may greatly in
crease the distance that pjanes
can travel, the Air Force says.
The Air Research and Develop
ment Command said it is planning
to spend 30 million dollars in the
next three years to prove and
perfect the system developed thru
research.
As a starter it announced award
of a contract of undisclosed
amount to the Northrop Corp. of
Los Angeles for flight tests.
Lumumba cried blackmail and
demanded that the U.N. force be
put uner his government’s control
and that Hammarskjold be sup
planted by a commission from 14
African and Asian nations.
Kuznetsov proposed a resolu
tion to create an Asian-African
1 committee as a sort of overlord
of the U.N. force. But as the
Council session neared its end,
| the gaunt, graying Soviet official
\ confessed he could not get the
I seven votes necessary in the 11
j nation Council to approve the re
solution.
It marked still another setback
j for the Soviet Union, which dur
ing the debate (1) demanded with
j drawal of Canadian troops from
I the U.N. force “because Canada
I is an ally of Belgium”; (2) called
Belgium an aggressor in the Con
I go, trying with NATO allies to
j establish a new form of colonial
ism under a U.N. flag; (3! and
said the United States was trying
to bring the Congo into the NATO
sphere of influence under Ham
marskjold’s civilian aid program
to get the Congo government go
ing on a workable basis.
The rejection of the Soviet
contention was unmistakable.
Man and Wife Killed
By Successive
Bolts of Lightning
BAY CITY, Mich., UP)—Succes
sive bolts of lightning killed a
man and his wife Sunday.
The furious electrical storm
felled Marjorie Shook, 22, then
killed her husband, Robert, 27,
as he ran to her body. The couple
left three young children.
Mrs. Shook was visiting neigh
bors when the storm started.
“I’ve got to get home my kids,”
she told Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Chaffee. She ran out into the
storm.
Mrs. Shook reached the center
of the road and was trying to
wrap a plastic raincoat around
her when the first bolt hit her.
Her husband was about 50 feet
ahead, on his lawn.
He turned around and looked
at her, stunned by the noise, and
then he started to run back. The
next bolt hit him before he got
to her.
_
! Pilots Say X15 Won’t
Make It Into Space
NEW YORK, —The men who
made the world’s highest and
fastest flights said today they be
lieve that man eventually will
soar into outer space—but not
in the X15 rocket plane in which
they made their marks.
Maj. Robert N. White, 36, who
flew the X15 up to 136,500 feet
(nearly 26 miles), Aug. 12, said
he thought a craft with a differ
ent shape would be needed to
permit re-entry into the earth’s
atmosphere.
His opinion was echoed by
Joseph A. Walker, 39, who piloted
the X15 to a speed record of 2,196
miles per hour Aug. 4.
JUNEAU, (4)—The period Aug.
22 - 28 has been designated by
Gov. William A. Egan as Employ
ment Security Week, to observe
the start of the nation’s jobless
insurance program 25 years ago,
I on Aug. 14, 1935.
Waterfowl Season
Opens Sept. 1
JUNEAU, (/Pi — Alaska’s 1960
migratory waterfowl season will
open Sept. 1 and will run, with
one exception, to Dee. 31, the
State Department of Fish and
Game said today.
Jacksnipes, game ducks, geese,
brant, coot, old squaw, harlequin,
scoter and eider ducks and mer
gansers all will become fair game
for seattergun addicts on Sept. 1.
The jacksnipe season closes
Oct. 15. All other waterfowl sea
sons run until Dec. 3.
The daily bag limit and pos
session limit for each specie:
Jacksnipe eight daily and eight
in possession.
Game ducks, five daily and 10
in possession.
Geese, five daily and 10 in pos
I session. Not more than three daily
■ or six in possession may be Can
j ada geese or subspecies of Canada
I geese and whitefronted geese.
Brant, three daily and three in
j possession.
! Coot, 15 daily and 15 in posses
I sion.
j Old squaw, harlequin, scoter
j and eider ducks and merganser’s,
; 10 daily and 20 in possession,
| singly or in aggregate of all kinds.
Commissioner C. L. Anderson
of the Fish and Game Department
' said waterfowl shooting would be
j permitted from one half hour be
] fore sunrise to sunset.
1 No person 16 years of age or
j older may hunt for waterfowl
without first obtaining a current
I Federal Migratory Bird Hunting
| Stamp.
U.S. Should Learn To
“Keep Mouth Shut”
DETROIT, Iff) — “The United
States is the greatest power on
earth,” Secretary of Defense
Thomas S. Gates, Jr., told the
opening session today of the 61st
national convention of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars.
Another speaker to 14,000 as
sembled veterans of American
wars—the man who designed the
U2 plane — urged the U. S. “to
shut up” about its defense pro
gress.
This was Clarence L. Johnson,
a vice president of Lockheed Air
craft Corp.
“Over the years during the de
velopment of the U2 program it
was essential that we learned
how to keep our mouths closed,”
Johnson said.
“I would like to say that it
would be a splendid idea if we
could carry out this tactic in a
large number of other defense
fields.”
Johnson pointed out that es
tablishment of missile and other
military bases are publicized in
the United States.
“As a nation, we certainly run
off at the mouth. Why can’t we
shut up and make things at least
a little harder for our oppon
ents?” Johnson asked.
Negro Will Carry U.S. Flag
In Olympic Games Parade
ROME, Iff)—A Negro was chosen
today for the first time to carry
the United States flag in the
Olympic Games’ inaugural parade
on Thursday.
He is Rafer L. Johnson. 26, of
the University of California at
Los Angeles, world decathlon re
cord holder. He is a native of
Hillsboro. Tex.
Reds Say Capsule
And Roekel
Land Safely
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, W — Two mongrel
dogs in their space flight reacted
alarmingly after the rocket blast
off last Friday, raising fears
something had gone wrong, the
Communist newspaper Pravda re
ported today.
But 10-pound Belka fsquirrel)
and 12-pound Strelka (arrow),
shown to newspapermen in Mos
cow for the first time, rallied and
soon were eating as their space
chip sped on its orbit, the party
newspaper said.
The newspaper also reported
the capsule containing the two
dogs, other animals, flies, plants
and fungi made a smooth, un
I damaged landing in a meadow
I after being discharged from the
I mother space ship. The capsule
came down Saturday after 18
revolutions around the earth in
j 24 hours, Pravda said.
] The 4Vi> - ton space ship, after
i discharging its living cargo at a
! low altitude, also made history
l by landing safety itself, Pravda
said. It gave no details.
Scientists watching the reaction
of the dogs by television placed
aboard the space ship said the
dogs’ heads and paws hung limp
and unmoving after emerging
from the terrific pull of the take
off, Pravda said.
Shark Washed Ashore On
Newr Jersey Beach. Bites
Man In Wading
SEA GIRT, N.J., UP)—A huge
shark, carried on top of a wave
to within 25 yards of land, at
tacked and badly wounded a man
Sunday as he stood knee-deep in
the Atlantic Ocean.
The victim, John Brodeur, 24,
I an accountant, was in good spirits
in a hospital where doctors oper
ated i> an effort to save his badly
bitten right leg.
“What’s all the fuss about,” he
said. “It was only a fish.”
The shark’s bite sliced com
pletely through one bone and half
way through another in Brodeur’s
lower leg.
“If the shark had bitten him
that deeply on any other part of
the body, he would have been a
goner,” said Dr. Charles Samaha,
who performed the four-hour op
eration.
Pilot Error Blamed For
McGrath Crash Last Year
WASHINGTON, W)— The pilot
was blame by the Civil Aero
nautics Board today for the crash
of a chartered airplane near Mc
Grath last Sept. 1 which claimed
eight lives.
The CAB said pilot Cheflev W.
Priest, 35, of Spenard, lost con
trol of the twin - engine plane
while flying on instruments. The
plane went into a steep spiral
dive, the CAB said, and smashed
violently into the ground about
25 miles from McGrath.
Killed with Priest were six
young magazine saleswomen and
their manager, all enroute to An
chorage.
The CAB said poor flight plan
ning and Priest’s lack of pro
ficiency with instrument flying
contributed to the crash. It said
the plane also may have run out
of gas.
Barbara Powers
Appeals To Mr. K
MOSCOW, UP—Barbara Powers
appealed today to Premier Nikita
Khrushchev to see her so she can
ask for mercy for her husband,
Francis G. Powers, convicted o£
espionage against the Soviet
Union.
Her attorney delivered to the
Kremlin a three-page letter the
25-year-old wife of the American
flier wrote by hand.
“She has decided it would take
too long to await the outcome of
her appeal to President Leonid
Brezhnev,” said attorney Frank
W. Rogers of Roanoke, Va.
She had earlier told reporters
she would await the outcome of
the formal appeal before trying
to see Khrushchev.
The Soviet Premier is vacation
ing in Yalta on the Black Sea, and
just how she intended to go about!
seeing him was in doubt.
It is known that the pilot’s fa
ther also intends to press ahead
with efforts to see Khrushchev,
| but his attempt did not appear
to be coordinated with that of his
j daughter-in-law. They also were
| reported to have disagreed on the
| wording of an appeal.
! Mikhail Griniov, Powers’ Soviet
j defense lawyer, told the pilot’s
i family it usually takes about a
month for a clemency plea to be
acted on but that it might be
faster in this case because the
family is in Moscow awaiting the
outcome.
i Close Watch Kept
For Possible Rabies
; Outbreak at Barrow
JUNEAU, IIP) — State officials
today continued to keep a close
watch on a possible outbreak of
rabies in the Barrow area as resi
dents of the Arctic coast village
destroyed all stray dogs.
Gov. Egan’s office said State
Sen. Eben Hopson of Barrow ad
vised state administration offi
cials that at least three persons
had been bitten in recent days.
One of the dogs involved was
found through laboratory tests to
be infected with rabies. One and
possibly two other dogs in the
Barrow area are infected, Hopson
advised the governor’s office.
After the first dog was found
to have rabies, the Barrow vil
lage council ordered the 2,000
residents of the area to separate
and chain their dogs.
All stray dogs not claimed were
ordered destroyed.
James W. Wilson, State Direc
tor of Agriculture, said 291 units
of rabies vaccine for dogs had
been flown to Barrow.
Keichikan-Seallle Outboard
Racers Reach Everett
EVERETT, (2P) — The nine boat
field in the 737-mile Ketchikan
Seattle outboard marathon race
pulled in here shortly before noon
today with a new Unofficial
leader.
Charles Mercereau of Kissim
mee, Fla., held an unofficial lead
of 15 minutes in the Class A divi
sion after the team bf Oral and
Charles Freeman of Ketchikan,
blew a 25-minute edge when one
of their craft’s motors gave out.
AND THAT AIN'T HAY!
WASHINGTON, UP! — Taxes
took 100 billion dollars in 1959—
an average of $567.04 for every
man, woman and child in the na
tion—the Census Bureau reports. ,