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62nd Year No. 153 NOME, ALASKA, WBBHCGDAY, DECEMBER 2\, 1961 (r.'/ ) Per Copy 15»
Tshombe Claims Congo
Troops Aided by U.N.
Attack Katanga Village
BUS ABETHVILLE, Katanga UO
—President Tshombe claimed that
troops of the Central Congo gov
ernment attacked villages near
the town of Kongolo today. He
charged the Central Congolese
forces were aided by United Na
tions troops.
He told a news conference at
his residence here there had been
serious fighting in the area earlier
today.
Tshombe also charged Indian
Canberra jet bombers attacked the
town of Kongolo itself.
The United Nations, he alleged,
helped the Central Congolese
sd^iroops toy providing transport for
them.
Kongolo lies about 40 miles
south of Katanga’s (border within
Kivu Province.
There was no confirmation
from the United Nations of
Tshombe’s report.
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Cold Weather Cancels
Wien Airline Flights Again
For the second successive day
Wien Airlines have had to cancel
out their mainliner flight from
Fairbanks, due to extreme cold
weather at Fairbanks, reported
this morning to be minus 61 de
grees.
Bush flights to St. Lawrence
Island and other points will be
made on schedule, however.
Station Manager Pearse Walsh,
always alert to the needs of the
coastal Alaska, observed this
morning that both military bases
at Galena and Fairbanks were
closed due to weather and would
be powerless to defend North
western Alaska should the need
exist.
If military planes were away
from their bases they would be
unable to return, even for re
fueling. This again confirms the
need for military strength along
the Coast of Alaska and points up
the weakness in the defense of
America.
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Comic or Cosmic?
NEW YORK lS) — Thank your
lucky stars!
An official of the Hayden
Planetarium dismisses as “non
sense” the predictions of Hindu
astrologers that the human race
will be destroyed next February.
“It’s the same kind of gobble
degook astrologers have been
handing out for thousands of
years,” says James Pickering, as
sistant atronomer of the Plane
tarium.
Astronomers — serious students
of the heavenly bodies — tradi
tionally explode like dying stars
when the question of astrology
comes up.
Astrologers — who try to pre
dict the future by the stars as
they move across the various con
stellations — traditionally note
that their art is older and consider
astronomers upstarts.
In India right now Hindu priests
are in the process of chanting
sacred verses and offering sacri
fices in an effort to avert what
they consider imminent disaster.
Hindu astrologers say a catas
trophe is imminent because of a
forthcoming inauspicious combi
nation ot planets in the constella
tion of Capricorn now approach
ing.
They predict things will start
going from bad to worse next
month, with the catastrophe itself
occurring between Fob. 3 and 5.
Among the prophecies of doom
are world war, widespread
plague and earthquakes.
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Actor Marlon Brando
Gets Smacked in the Face
SANTA MONICA, Calif. tf> —
Emerging from a stormy child
custody hearing, Anna Kashfi
smacked her ex-husband, Marlon
Brando, across the face yester
day.
Brando continued down the
courthouse corridor without say
ing a word.
Miss Kashfi, trembling, told
photographers: “Don’t ever say I
didn’t give you a good picture.”
The blow, delivered with an
l open hand, was heard down the
corridor and in full view of news
photographers.
The incident followed Brando’s
testimony that he’s “tired of
playing the heavy” in the pro
longed court squabble over their
3-year-old boy, Christian Devi.
The actor was seeking a court
order to visit the boy three times,
instead of twice, a week.
Brando, 36, was granted per
mission to have the boy visit him
every third weekend in addition
to the twice weekly visitations
previously allowed.
Miss Kashfi,, 26, and Brando
were divorced in 1959.
NW GOPs Endorse
Mrs. Grace Johnson
For Seat in the House
The Northwestern Alaska Dis
trict Republican Committee has
announced endorsement of Mrs.
Grace Johnson as replacement in
the State House of Representa
tives. to fill the seat left vacant
by the death of her husband,
Arthur Johnson In District 23.
Appointment is to be made by
Gov. TOn. Egan within 39 days,
with confirmation by majority of
the Republican House members.
Mrs. Johnson was in Juneau
last year with her husband and
is familiar with many of the prob
lems which will come before the
'State Legislature next month.
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East-West Football
Stars Clash Tomorrow
SAN FRANCISCO UP) — Foot
ball stars with speed, power and
aerial accuracy clash tomorrow in
the 37th annual East-West game
at Kezar Stadium with the out
come depending on who stops
whom.
The West must halt the running
of such driving backs as All
Americans Ernie Davis of Syra
cuse and Bob Ferguson of Ohio
State while also guarding against
the pass threat of quarterbacks
Roman Gabriel of North Carolina
State and Ron Miller of Wiscon
sin.
East defenders face such rush
ers as Ron Bull of Baylor and
Curt McClinton of Kansas plus
an aerial bombardment trigger
ed by Mel Melin of Washington
State, John Hanl of Kansas or
Kermit Jorgensen of Washington.
Weather conditions were un
certain for the 2 p.m. kickoff but
the week has been clear and cool.
As usual, a capacity throng of
59,000 is expected.
300-Foot Iceberg Spotted
Off Massachusetts Coast
SALEM, Mass. Uh — A 300
foot iceberg has been spotted in
the Atlantic, 250 miles southeast
of Salem and between the two
major shipping lanes to Europe.
The iceberg was seen yester
day by Coast Guard Capt. Ross
Bullard of Hingham, a membei
of the International Ice Patrol
who was on a patrol mission
Capt. Bullard went out again to
day aboard a Coast Guard plane.
The Coast Guard said it was
the first time an iceberg has drift
ed so far south to menace navi
gation since 1917.
If it reaches the Gulf Stream
it is believed it will melt rapidly.
The International Ice Patrol
was set up after the liner Titanic
struck an iceberg and sank off
Newfoundland in 1912 with a loss
of 1,500 lives.
Stevenson Says India’s
Conquest of Goa
Danger to World Peace
PALM BEACH. Fla. Ufi — U.N.
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson told
President Kennedy today that
United Nations failure to act
against India’s conquest of Portu
guese Goa betrayed a weakness
he said could endanger world
peace.
In a report to Kennedy on U.N.
operations this year, Stevenson
tempered claims of success in
some areas and a “hopeful” view
of the Congo crisis with a sharp
assault on India’s takeover of
Goa and two other Portuguese
colonies on the west coast of
India.
Stevenson previously had criti
cized India’s action and a Soviet
veto which blocked UN. action
on it.
PORTER LOCKARDTO
TAKE TRIP AROUND WORLD
Porter Lockard, veteran bush
pilot lor Wien Airlines made his
last flight for the winter this
■week and then takes off for a trip
around the world.
Replacing him will be Ray
Lewis, who has been flying out
' of Barrow, who will be accom
panied by his wife to Nome.
To fin file vacancy on the local
Wien buah line, due to the death
of Art Johnson; Clyde Rod will
arrive from' Fairbanks with hit
wife, the former Betty-Diede.
Bob Erwin Transferee! to
Fairbanks; Virgil Vochoska
To Fill D.A. Post Here
JUNEAU Ut) — The resignation,
of William Taylor as District At
torney for the Fourth Judicial
District at Fairbanks, effective
Jan. 31, was announced today by
State Atty. Gen. Ralph Moody.
Taylor’s place will be taken by
Robert Erwin, currently District
Attorney for the Second Judicial
District at Nome. Erwin will be
replaced by Virgil Vochoska, for
mer city attorney for Nome.
Taylor was District Attorney at
Fairbanks for the past two years.
His father, Warren H. Taylor, is
a Fairbanks attorney and an
nounced candidate for the gov
eronrship. The elder Taylor is
also Speaker of the State House
of Representatives.
Erwin is a native of Seward
and is a 1959 graduate of the Uni
versity of Washington (Law
School.
He was appointed District At
torney at Nome last April.
Vochoska graduated from the
University of Denver Law School
in 1958. He was with the Alaska
State Attorney General’s office
from 1958 through February, 1960,
when he resigned to enter privale.
law practice.
Cold Weather Grips
Westward Alaska . . .
Nome Records Minus 41
By The Associated Press
Westward Alaska continued to
remain in the grip of an unsea
I sonable cold snap today, with
I temperatures in the Central In
terior again dipping to the minus
50s and 60s.
McGrath reported the early
morning low, a minus 63. It was
60 below at Fairbanks, 53 below
at Gulkana and 47 below at Kot
zebue.
The only areas of precipitation
were the Southeast Panhandle,
the North Gulf Coast and the
Western Aleutians, in the form of
light snow or rain.
Nome temperature at 2:30 this
afternoon was 37 below zero.
Health Organization
Attempts Trace Traveler
Suffering with Smallpox
LONDON UR — Britain called
on the World Health Organization
—WHO—today to help trace air
line passengers threatened with
smallpox.
The alert went ou after a Paki
stani who flew into London from
Karachi Christmas Day was found
to toe suffering from the disease.
The Pakistani, Ismet Khan, 24,
arrived from Paris on an Olympic
Airlines plane with 40 others.
Radio, newspaper and tele
vision newscasts called on the
[passengers to report immediately
for vaccination.
Kahn flew to Paris on an Air
France flight which left Karachi
Monday morning and stopped in
Tehran and Rome.
At Paris' Orly Airport, where
Khan changed planes, scores of
employes lined up for shots at
the Airport Medical Department.
Incubation period of smallpox
la about 10 days, so if any other
aboard the plane were Infected
they would start feeling the" effects
about Jan. 4.
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