1st Year of Independence
Celebrated in Dakar
DAKAR, Senegal hP — Govern
ment leaders from East and West
trooped to the gleaming presi
dential palace of Senegal today
to open the former French col
ony’s celebration of one year of
independence.
U. S. Vice President Lyndon
Johnson, Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Jacob Malik and French
Cultural Affairs Minister Andre
Malraux drove through cheering
street ci'owds to the palace of
Leopold Sengher, the poet and
politician who is President of
Senegal.
Don’t brag about how little
sleep you need. It may be a sign
you’re not very smart. Sir Arthur
Thompson said, “the less intel
lectual the animal, the less sleep
it needs. We pay for our wits by
becoming sleepy.”
SPRING HEAT WAVE
LOS ANGELES i/P> — A spring
heat wave today sent Southern
California temperatures soaring
into the 90s.
There was biting smog in the
Los Angeles area. Readings rose
to near-alert levels at mid-morn
ing, then headed downward.
The downtown temperature
was 91 degrees at 10:25 a. m. c 1
route to a predicted maximum
of 93.
AF Releases $645,000 for
Construction of 3 Radar Towers
WASHINGTON OB — The Air
Force is releasing $645,000 in
available funds for construction
of radar towers at three Alaska
locations, the state congressional
delegation was told today.
The breakdown: $235,000 at
Bethel Air Station, $195,000 at
Kotzebue Air Force Station and
$215,000 at Unalakleet Air Force
Station.
VOTE FOR
JOHNNY READER
FOR
CITY COUNCILMAN
1-Year Term
— 20 Years in Nome —
“Moderation in City Government”
Paid Adv.
Balloon Launchings Gain
Information About
X-Ray Energy of Sun
A series of balloon launchings
designed to gain information
about X-ray energy of the sun
are currently underway at Fort
Wainwright, near Fairbanks.
Called “Project Sky Hook,” the
tests are being conducted by of
ficials from the University of
California, and started Saturday,
March 25. Data compiled during
the ascents is being forwarded
to the Dept, of Naval Research.
First flight of a huge, one mil
lion cubic foot volume, instrument
laden balloon lasted approximate
ly 14 hours. The balloon ascend
ed to 113,000 feet over Fort Wain
wright and was driven west by a
40 mile per hour wind.
The instrument case was para
chuted to earth somewhere in Nor
ton Sound, about 45 miles south
east of Nome.
The University of California is
offering up to $200 for the re
covery of these instrument cases.
If found, the finder is requested
to write Raven Industries, Box
916, Sioux Falls, S. D., or tele
phone collect to Sioux Falls Edi
son 4-7586.
Each balloon in the “Sky Hook”
test series carries 250 pounds of
instruments. The instrument car
ries are severed from the balloons
at high altitudes by radio con
trolled dynamite capsules which
cut a nylon connecting cord. The
cases then drift back to earth by
parachute.
The average American house
wife carries out about 1,000
pounds of garbage yearly.
Kennedy’s Miss
Easter Egg Roll
At White House
By Martha Cole
WASHINGTON UP) — It looked
like one big family picnic on the
south lawn of the White House
today.
Twenty minutes after the gates
opened at 10 a. m. for the tradi
tional Easter egg roll more than
1,500 adults and children had
been admitted.
Adults may come only if ac
companied by a child under 12
years of age for the egg roll,
which was started back in 1878
but was dropped for 12 years prior
to 1953.
President Kennedy missed his
first egg roll in the White House.
He and his family are on Easter
vacation in Florida.
But the crowds surged up to
the green picket lining the drive
way immediately behind the man
sion just to stand, stare and take
pictures of the place where the
President lives.
There was more picture-taking
than egg rolling. But one bunch
of little boys had a spirited egg
game going, playing that their
pink, orange, blue, yellow and
purple-dyed hard boiled eggs
were marbles to be hit. Crushed
shells soon blossomed like crocus
in the gree grass.
We’re not sure why, but light
ning last year struck four times
as many men as women. A pos
sible reason: Most women have
more sense than to go out into a
storm.
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Soviet Reply to Peace
Plan Offers Hope
Through Negotiations
PALM BEACH UP — President
Kennedy said today the Soviet
reply to Britain’s peace plan for
Laos “offers hope that a way can
be found to establish a neutral
and independent Laos through ne
gotiations.”
In a statement, the President
said further that while the Soviet
answer “contains certain reser
vations with which we cannot
agree,” the reply “appears to be
a useful next step toward a peace
ful settlement of a potentially
dangerous situation.”
Kennedy’s statement, issued
after he had studied the text of
the Soviet note to Britain, made
no mention of a cease-fire in
Laos — a step which both the
United States and Britain have
called for as a necessary first
step.
Asked whether the Soviet note
itself had dealt with the cease
fire matter, White House Secre
tary Pierre Salinger noted that
Secretary of State Dean Rusk —
after a conference here earlier
with the vacationing President —
had asserted that the Russian re
ply does deal with the cease-fire
question.
But Rusk refused to provide
any detail. And Salinger said he
would not go beyond the position
Rusk took on the matter.
“I am not going to get into
this note itself,” Salinger said.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Nome Directory
Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crinklaw, Sec.
Meets First Thursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
n Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A. E. BOHRER, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina BacheMer, President
Jane Foster, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Lt.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 165
Meetings - Monthly, Last Tuesday 8 p.m.
Staff Conferences - Each Tuesday 8 p.m.
Group Hdqtrs., Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
Meetings - Each THursday 7:30 p.m.