22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 92 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1961 Per Copy 15^4
FBI Agents Conduct
School Here For
Local Law Officers
Six police officers of Nome and
Kotzebue are attending a special
FBI school here under Robert W.
Evans, assistant special agent of
Anchorage, and agent A.G. Clark.
Mr. Evans, before coming to
Alaska was an instructor at the
FBI Academy at Quantico, Va.,
where several Alaska law en
forcement officers have under
gone training.
Instruction in handling fire
arms, fingerprinting, laboratory
procedure, jurisdiction and other
phases of the work are being
studied.
Participating are Robert Oliver,
Jim Carter, Bob Workman, Larry
Minnix, Jack Reed, and Joe Ry
chetnik, all of Nome, and Joe
Brantley, police office of Kotze
but.
This is the first such school to
be held here since 1947.
NOME CAP CADETS
CHOSEN FOR DRILL
TEAM COMPETITION
The four Nome Civil Air Patrol
Cadets who were attending the
summer encampment at Elmen
dorf Air Force Base, were to
leave today enroute to the Air
Force Academy at Colorado
Springs, Colo.
The four local youths are Tom
Boucher, Pepper Gray, David
Grant, and Chuck Burnett.
These four cadets “made the
grade” and will be part of the
Alaska team taking part in the
national drill team competition at
the Air Force Academy. The drill
team from Hawaii now holds the
crown.
Word from the boys was that
they have been hard at work at
Elmendorf putting in as much as
eight hours a day in training.
They were scheduled to leave
today by MATS plane for Mc
Cord Air Force Base, near Tac
oma for several more days of
drilling, then going on to an
Air Force base in California be
fore going to Colorado Springs.
The CAP Cadets took part in
the recent ceremonies when Gen.
Armstrong retired from active
service, and it was here that
Pepper Gray was commended for
the “sharpness” of his appear
ance. Tommy Boucher is in
charge of one group of the Cadets
and is also supervising their drill
training.
Alaska Development Corp.
Members Meet In Juneau
JUNEAU (i¥) — Members of the
Board of Directors of the State
Development Corp. were meeting
here today in their first get-to
gether since being named to the
Board of the State Agency July
17.
State Commerce Commissioner
Romick, who is a member of the
board by law, described the meet
ing as an organizational session.
Other members of the board are
Lawrence Meath, Fairbanks; Mau
rice Kelliher, Nome; William Mor
an, Ketchikan; M. E. Monagle,
Juneau; Robert Baker, Anchor
age; and John Kelsey, Valdez.
The Development Corp. was
created by the 1961 Legislature.
It was authorized to issue up to
$18 million in debentures to ob
tain money to encourage the es
tablishment of new businesses in
Alaska and to aid existing bus
inesses.
Egan Asks Naval
Protection For
Alaskan Waters
JUNEAU (^> — Stepped up
Coast Guard and Navy protection j
to prevent encroachment on Alas- :
ka’s territorial waters by Russian
and Japanese fishing vessels was
asked by Gov. Egan yesterday.
In a telegram to Secretary of
State Dean Rusk, Egan said:
“Russian and Japanese vessels
are reported conducting whaling
operations within the territorial
limits of Alaska waters.
“State patrol vessels unable to
cope with situation.
“Urge State Department re
quest Navy, Coast Guard increase
vigilance immediately with addi
tional vessels dispatched to scene
if possible.”
Egan’s request followed reports
received by the Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries, Fish and Wild
life Service, from the Fisheries
Research Institute vessel Renown
that a Russian whaler was sighted
less than two miles south of Un
algo Island in the Aleutians on
July 16 with two whale kills
alongside.
Egan said the bureau also re
ceived reports of two other
whalers, believed to be Japanese,
operating within about two or
three miles north of Chitka Point
on Amchitka Island on July 3.
Mere Seats Needed at
Civil Defense Meetings
WACO, Tex. — When local
Civil Defense leaders set a series
of meetings here this month to
educate the public on atomic war
fare, they arranged to seat about
500 persons per meeting.
Increased world tension, they
reasoned, would more than double
last year’s crowds of about 2G0.
Last night, more than 2,000 per
sons showed up for 1961’s first
meeting and Deputy Director Ray
Barnes said, “we’re totally sur
prised.”
“Space Platform"
Launch Postponed Again
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CP) — j
The oft-postponed attempt to |
orbit a satellite “space platform” !
has encountered more trouble and
probably will not be tried again
for two weeks.
Scientists had hoped to launch
the Atlas-Agena booster rocket
today, the final day of an opti
mum eight-day period which was
determined best for placing the
payload, Ranger I, on the desired
course.
The effort was called off Tues
day night because of technical
problems. The next favorable
period starts in about two weeks.
The experiment will attempt
to place a satellite in orbit and
from it launch the Ranger space
craft deep into space to test tech
niques for sending future vehi
cles to the Moon and beyond.
Soviets Can Fire
Weapons from Space
At Earth Targets
SAN FRANCISCO UP) — Clark
j C. Abt, manager of Raytheon
Co.’s Missile and Space Division,
told members of the American
Astronautical Society Tuesday the
Soviet Union has the ability to
launch weapons that can be fired
from space at earth targets.
He said published data indi
| cates that the United States will
have a similar capacity by 1964.
Abt said such space-triggered
nuclear rockets could become
secretly orbiting nuclear stock
piles for an aggressor nation while
an arms ban is tehnically in force
on earth.
The society, in its annual west
ern meeting also heard Murray
Kornhauser, a General Electric
scientist, warn that an exploding
meteorite could trigger a nu
clear war by acting much like
a nuclear explosion.
The last large meteorite to land
on earth crashed into the Soviet
Union in 1947.
Asst. Secty. of Interior Concerned at
Sudden Enforcement of Waterfowl Law
JUNEAU — Asst. Interior
Secretary John A. Carver said to
day that as jurisdictional head
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
he was concerned about sudden
enforcement of migratory water
fowl regulations in Northern
Alaska.
“From the point of view of the
Eskimos,” Carver said, “I am dis
turbed at what to them appears
to be an abrupt change of policy.”
In ordering the Eskimos to
stop taking ducks and geese out
of season, the FWS said it was
bound by the provisions of a 1916
treaty governing migratory water
fowl.
The natives claim they have
aboriginal rights to take ducks
and geese for food any time. They
also protested enforcement of the
treaty provisions after 45 years
of inactivity.
“I will report to the Secretary
of the Interior that the natives !
feel that what they have been
doing for generations is not a law
violation,” Carver said during an
interview as he wound up his
first visit to Alaska.
“Eskimos are a very law-abid- >
ing people. They are not hunting
ducks and geese just to break the !
law. We can’t ignore that factor j
in our consideration of the prob- ;
lem.”
The Eskimos also claimed the
migratory waterfowl seasons in
Northern Alaska, permits hunt
ing only after the ducks and geese
have left on their southern mi
gration each year.
“This point is extremely well
taken,” Carver said. “Of course,
I am not in charge of the Fish
and Wildlife Service.”
Carver, who as assistant sec
retary has jurisdiction over the
| BIA and the Alaska Railroad, said
he “had been told that Canadian
natives are shooting migratory
waterfowl for food out of season
just as the Alaskan Eskimos were
doing.”
Nome Vocational Education
School: Carver and Gov. Egan
agreed at a conference this morn
ing to let State and BIA Educa
tion officers work out a common
goal.
“I pledged the full coopera
; lion of the Bureau of Indian Af
; fairs in construction of the fa
cility,” Carver said, “including
| seeking federal funds to be used
| in the project.”
Alaska Railroad: “Considera
tion is being given to the appoint
ment of an Alaskan as manager
of the railroad, but we feel that
first and foremost we have to
have an experienced railroader as
manager.”
18 U.S. Tourists
Drown as Bus
Plunges Into Lake
C?
HERGISWIL, Switzerland (7F» —
A bus filled with American tour
ists plunged into Lake Lucerne
today, carrying 18 of its 38 oc
cupants to death.
Most of the passengers were
women.
Police and hospital authorities
said all 20 survivors suffered
from shock and 5 were otherwise
injured.
The accident occurred when the
bus and a big truck-trailer brush
ed together. The bus veered out
of control.
The survivors — including the
Italian driver, the tour conductor
and the conductor’s wife—scram
bled through windows just before
the bus sank beneath the surface.
Police first reported the bus
came to rest on the bottom in 50
feet of water. Later they said
they were having difficulty lo
cating the vehicle with its en
tombed passengers and suggested
j that it might have slipped into
even deeper water.
Communist Police
Tighten Controls on
Rail Points in Berlin
BERLIN (ffi — Tightened Com
munist police controls at rail
points entering Berlin were re
ported by West Berlin officials
today amid new threats from Red
East Germany.
“Some day we will lead all Ger
many, even if you do not under
I stand that today,” wrote Ger
' hardt Eisler, top East German
propagandist, in the Berliner
Zeitung.
West Berlin officials said they
had eyewitnesses reports of in
creased Communist police controls
over railways in areas of East
Germany sum unding the city.
Many commuters from East to
West Berlin also were reported
arrested in the campaign to force
East Berliners who work in West
Berlin to give up their jobs and
work for the Communists.
About 800 East Berliners have
yielded to such pressure and quit
during the past month, Western
officials reported.
A political storm was raging
meanwhile over Sen. J. William
Fulbright’s suggestion that the
city’s role as an escape hatch from
East Germany is a point that can
be negotiated with the Com
munists.
The Arkansas Democrat, chair
man of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee, made the sug
gestion Sunday in a television in
terview. He was bitterly criti
cized in West Berlin and praised
for his “realistic understanding”
by the Communists.
Mayor Willy Brandt of West
Berlin said he could not imagine
the Senator had been quoted cor
rectly.
“We are still of the opinion,”
Brandt said, “that freedom must
include freedom movement for
Germans from one part of the
country to the other. We cannot
make ourselves accomplices of the
inhuman and arbitrary measures
of the Communists.”
The refugees still are arriving
at the rate of 1,500 a day and
the Communists are doing what
they can to stop them without
actually closing the border be- j
tween East and West Berlin.
AF Alerts 71 Air
National Guard Units
For “ Possible" Call-Up
WASHINGTON i/Pi — The Air
Force Tuesday alerted 71 Air Na
tional Guard and Air Reserve
units for “possible” call-up,
designating them as priority out
fits for federal service if a sum
mons is issued.
Although only preparatory, this
was the first definite step by the
Defense Department under the ad
ministration’s new defense build
up program.
Of the 71 units, 64 are Air Na
tional Guard units, 7 are Air Re
serves.
They fly tactical fighters, re
connaissance planes and trans
ports. About 750 planes are in
volved, of which approximately
100 are transports and the rest
fighters or reconaissance aircraft.
The units are authorized to
bring themselves up to full
strength. This means they will
have to recruit about 5,000 men,
to add an approximate present
strength of about 28,000.
Units in 28 states and the Dis
trict 'of Columbia received the
notices.
Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Carroll,
Alaska’s Adjutant General, said
none of Alaska’s Air National
Guard or Air Reserve units were
affected by the Air Force alert.
NATO Commander
Says Kennedy’s Speech
Impressed Khrushchev
FRANKFURT, Germany < UP) —
Gen. Lauris Norstad was quoted
today as saying President Ken
nedy’s firm speech on Berlin and
world Communism had impress
ed Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Norstad is Supreme Allied Com
mander in Europe for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization. He
was interviewed by Adelbert
Weinstein, Military Affairs editor
of the Frankfurter Allgemeine.
Without quoting Norstad direct
ly, Weinstein wrote: “The firm
ness, despite all willingness to ne
gotiate, and especially the last
speech of President Kennedy did
not fail to impress Khrushchev.
This could be deduced from the
report of the American special
disarmament negotiator, John J.
McClov who saw Khrushchev last
week at the Black Sea resort of
Sochi.
Gerald A. Behn Named
New Chief of White
House Secret Service
WASHINGTON UP) — Gerald A.
Behn will be the new Chief of
the White House Secret Service
detail, in charge of protecting
President Kennedy and his family.
The White House announced to
day the Behn will succeed James
J. Rowley who, in turn, will be
come Chief of the entire U. S.
Secret Service upon the retire
ment of the present head, U. E.
Baughman at the end of this
month.
Behn is 45 and a Secret Service
veteran. He joined the service
in 1939, the same year he got a
degree from Michigan State Uni
vesitv where he majored in police
administration. He was assigned
to the White House detail in
1941 and promoted in 1946 to
the leadership of one of the three
shifts that rotate around the
clock in guarding the Chief Ex
ecutive.
Kennedy announced Behn’s ap
pointment after consultation with
Rowley.