JFK Signs Legislation
Creating 73 New
Federal Judgeships
WASHINGTON W — President
Kennedy today signed legislation
creating 73 new federal judge
ships, including one in Alaska.
Kennedy put his signature to
this bill in a White House cere
mony attended iby a group of
legislators. He used 10 pens and
distributed them.
With 73 new judgeships and 22
present vacancies, Kennedy will
have more judicial appointments
to make than any other President
at one time.
This is a sore spot with Repub
licans. Some of them have charged
the Democratic-controlled Con
gress was creating more judge
ships than necessary in order to
provide Kennedy with choice
political patronage. They contend
too that there was stalling of
action while Republican Eisen- j
hower was President.
Federal judges are appointed !
by the President for life with ap
proval of the Senate. District
judges are paid $22,500 a year
and Circuit judges $25,000. They '
continue to receive full pay after
retirement.
The bill provides for 63 new
District Court judges in 32 states
and Puerto Rico and 10 new
judges for the Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Minuteman Missile Veers
Off Course — Destroyed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP) —
A Minuteman missile veered off
course and was destroyed by the
range safety officer today about i
90 seconds after it blasted off.
on its second test flight.
The safety officer pushed the !
destruct button during the sec- i
ond stage flight when instruments |
on his console indicated it was
off course.
The explosion occurred after j
the rocket had streaked several
miles through the sky anl was not \
visible ito Cape observers. The i
third-stage nose cone and pieces1
of the rocket plunged into the
Atlantic.
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U.S. Diplomat to
Make Goodwill Tour
Of Latin America
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP) — |
Reliable sources said today that
President Kennedy is consider
ing sending a top-ranking U. S.
diplomat on a goodwill tour of
Latin America but that there is
no decision as yet whether it will
be Adlai E. Stevenson.
The New York Times said to
day in a Washington dispatch
that Kennedy is planning to send
Stevenson on the tour next
month.
Stevenson was not available for
comment. He left this morning on
a visit to Chicago and is expected
back next week.
Council Closes Lovers Lane . . .
SALEM, Mass. UP) — City Mar
shal Joseph McDonough, ordered
by the city council to close a
lovers’ lane — the second one
in a month, says the city ought
to do something for romance in
stead of fighting it.
He said the other night he
thought the council ought to es
tablish its own safe parking area
for romantic teen-agers.
You Are Always Welcome at The
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BAPTIST
CHURCH
• SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship Service
7:00 p.m. Evening Worship
• WEDNESDAY
7:00 p.m. Bible Study
• THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting
0 FRIDAY
4:00 p.m. Good News Club
7:30 p.m. Youth Fellowship
Reu. Bob Leight — Missionary Pastor
Soviets Agree to
Help Supply Laos
Peace Commission
By Arthur Gavshon
GENEVA UPi — Under prodding
by Canada, the Soviet Union
agreed today to help solve the
urgent problem of supplying the
Control Commission in Laos with
equipment needed to preserve the
peace.
The 14-nation conference here
sent off a message to the com
mission what it needed in the way
of planes, helicopters, trucks and
communications equipment for
patrolling the Laotian jungles.
Foreign Secretary Howard C.
Green of Canada brought up the
question of supply, declaring the
need was imperative. Conference
sources said he thus put the issue
squarely up to Soviet Foreign
Minister Gromyko.
Rather than assume a stalling
attitude before the conference,
Gromyko agreed to Green’s pro
posal, these sources said.
The action represented the first
fully defined achievement in four
days of lengthy and complex con
ference negotiations on Laos.
Indian delegate V. K. Krishna
Menon told newsmen he under
stood the United States, Britain
and the Soviet Union were ready
to help out the truce teams with
planes, helicopters and other
equipment.
India is chairman of the three
nation commission, Poland and
Canada are the other members.
Menon said Indian and Cana
dian pilots could fly the Western
aircraft and Poles the Soviet ma
chines.
Death Ruled as Homicide
30 Years After Fight
DETROIT, Mich. UP — Joseph
Fields lived 30 years with a knife
blade in his chest. He died last
Monday at 52.
Yesterday his death was ruled
a homicide.
There will be no prosecution,
however. Under Michigan law a
death occurring more than a year
and a day after an assault can
not be legally attributed to the
assault.
An X-ray in 1959 showed a
broken 3-inch knife blade im
bedded in Field’s chest. He said
it was a pocket knife blade which
broke off in a fight “about 30
years ago.”
Doctors decided it was too dan
gerous to attempt to remove the
blade.
Fields had been ill with dia
betes and a heart condition be
fore his death. But after an au
topsy Dr. Theodore S. Rosen,
ruled his death a homicide.
JFK Sets Up Emergency Board
To Head Off Railroad Strike
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy today set up an emer
gency board to head off a strike
against the nation’s railroads,
called for 6 a. m. Monday by
the Railroad Yardmasters of
America.
The appointment of the emer
gency board under the Railway
Labor Act blocks a strike for at
least 60 days.
Ellen Mulvihill leaves tomor
row on a vacation and buying
trip for M’Lord and Lady Shop.
With her is her daughter, Pamela,
who will be taking a summer
science course for secondary stu
dents at Whitworth College in
Spokane.
During the Sixth Century it
was customary for a man to give
his betrothed a ring, a pair of
shoes, and a kiss. The ring sym
bolically was supposed to keep
her hands from mischief, the
shoes to keep her from being foot
loose, and the kiss to keep her
from talking too much.
Superase Bond Typing Paper
For Sale at the Nugget
Tass News Agency Reports
Five Top Ranking Soviet
Officers Die in Air Crash
LONDON t'P' — The Soviet
| News Agency said yesterday five
J high ranking officers of the So
viet armed forces have died in an
“aviation catastrophe.”
Tass said the officers included
the Army’s full Gen. Vladimir Y.
Kelpakchi.
The others were identified as
Gen. S. N. Perevertkin, Lt. Gen.
V. I. Goffe, Maj. Gen. A. P. Moro
zov and Col. V. V. Khikhlovsky.
Kelpakchi, 62, was a veteran of
the Bolshevik forces in the re
volutionary fighting of 1918-20. He
held various commands during
which he won many decorations,
and led the Soviet army in the
final attack on Berlin. He was ap
pointed to the defense staff in
1956.
Tass provided no details o!' the
accident, but it seemed likely a
number of other persons must
have been killed. In addition to
the flight crew, an aircraft with
so many high-ranking officers
aboard would almost certainly
have carried a number of their
aides.
The announcement gave no
clues to the point of origin or
destination of the fatal flight.
The secrecy aroused specula
tion that the accident might have
had some connection with So
viet space exploits.
HOUSING SPACE IN
RUSSIA SAME AS DURING
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
MOSCOW UP) — Moscow’s chief
1 architect indirectly acknowledges
| this Soviet capital has about the
same housing space per person as
it had at the time of the 1917
Bolshevik Revolution.
The Architect, M. Posokhin,
wrote in Pravda that the city has
34.4 million square meters of
housing space which, he said, is
three times more than before the
revolution.
But he made no mention of the
fact Moscow has three times more
people. The population in 1917 was
1,854,000. Now it is about six mil
lion.
This Postman
Rang Three Times
BALTIMORE UP) — The post
man not only rang twice, he rang
three times, and Mr. and Mrs.
Francis E. Scott hope he doesn’t
ring again.
In March the Scotts received
a refund check from the Internal
Revenue Service for $304.71.
On April 10 they received an
other. Realizing an error had been
made, they returned it. Unfortu
nately, it somehow got torn, and
the IRS sent them another check
to “replace the one which was
mutilated.” Again it was returned.
Then came a bill for $306.06.
The IRS had discovered the dupli
cation and added amount was for
interest.
A phone call to the Baltimore
IRS Bureau brought this en
couraging advice: “Send the bill
directly to us, or your wages
| will be attached.”
Beware of the Dog . . .
CREWE, England )JP) — Two
policemen impersonating bandits
were badly bitten by two police
dogs at the annual national police
dog trials yesterday.
"THE MIGHTY MIDGET"
THE WANT AD
Sen. Albert Gore Says
JFK-Nikita Meeting
Premature and Ill-Advised
WASHINGTON (P — Senators
struck a cautionary note on the
kind of personal diplomacy that
apparently is leading to a meet
ing between President Kennedy
and Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Sen. Albert Gore, <D-Tenn.>,
calls the proposed meeting “pre
mature and ill-advised” under
present world conditions.
Gore, a member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, said
in an interview that he seriously
questions whether Kennedy
should “resort to personalized
dipolmacy.”
“Coming in the wake of the
Cuban and Laotian affairs and
before the President has had the
necessary time to consolidate his
own positive foreign policy pro
gram, I think great risks are in
volved in a meeting of contend
ing heads of states,” he said.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana said that
while he did not share Gore’s
fears, he agreed that if a personal
meeting with Khrushchev is con
sidered “we ought to go into it
with our eyes wide open.”
Tunney Wins Another Crown
GREECE, N. Y. (P — Tunney
has won the crown again. This
time it was Michele Tunney, a
cousin of the former world’s
heavyweight boxing champion,
Gene Tunney. She was crowned
queen of the 1961 Greece Har
vest Festival.
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Western Governors Will
Meet in Anchorage in '(>2
SALT LAKE CITY W — Wesl
: ern Governors adjourned their
annual conference Wednesday
after electing Gov. Egan of Alas
ka as 1962 chairman and the
selection of Anchorage as site of
next year’s meeting.
Before adjourning the governors
— six Democrats and six Repub
licans — approved a number of
resolutions, most of them non
controversial.
Resolutions approved included
one on gold, urging incentive or
bonus payments that would assure
a fair economic return to domes
tic producers and opposition to
change of a current law which
requires the Treasury Depart
ment to hold in gold 25 per cent
of notes and liabilities of federal
reserve banks; another asking that
| the National Guard strength be
! kept at 400,000 and the Air Na
tional Guard at 72,000. A third
asked for replacement of National
Guard C47 planes with prop-jel
cargo transports.
Five Men Rescued from
Blazing Alaskan Scow
VANCOUVER, B. C. UP) — Five
men were rescued from a blazing
Alaskan power scow late Wednes
day shortly before the vessel
sank in Johnson Strait near Alert)
j Bay.
The rescue was effected by the
Northland navigation vessel
Northern Prince.
The blaze in the Scow Chief
from Kodiak began in the engine
1 room. Crew members were un
; able to get below before they
; were rescued and the vessel car
ried on for some time under its
own power before it exploded
and sank.
The scow was loaded with food
stuffs for Alaska.
WINTER SCHEDULE
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Via Kotzebue)
EACH MONDAY and FRIDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:20 a m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:45 a.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:40 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:45 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Tanana *8:05 a.m.
Lv. Tanana *8:15 a.m. Ar. Galena *8:55 a.m.
Lv. Galena *9:25 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:25 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Direct)
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Nome 8:40 a.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Direct)
EACH MONDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 10:45 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 4:30 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *8:40 p.m.
EACH FRIDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:10 p.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Via Kotzebue)
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 10:25 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 11:10 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 11:50 a.m. Ar. Galene *1:45 p.m.
Lv. Galena *2:00 p.m. Ar. Tanana *2:40 p.m.
Lv. Tanana *2:50 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *3:25 p.m.
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 9:40 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 10:25 a.m.
Lv. Kotezebue 11:05 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
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