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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
62nd Year No. 52 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Astronaut Shepard \\ ill Have to
Wait Until Friday for Spare Flight
By John Barbour
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP*—
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr.
will have to wait at least until
Friday to become the first Ameri
can shot into space, a top project
Mercury official reported today.
Walter Williams, project opera
tions director, confirmed reports
that the shot — postponed yester
day — cannot be attempted again
until Friday.
“It will take that long before
we can have the Redstone booster
rocket ready to go again,” Wil
liams said, explaining that it is a
complicated process to drain off
the tons of fuel that were pumped
into the vehicle and recheck it
to make certain all systems are
functioning properly.
Williams said the weather out
look is good for Friday.
He said that if the launching
was not accomplished by Satur
day, it would be put off until
next Tuesday.
“We’d want to give the block
house and coatrol center crews
and others a day of rest on Sun
day,” Williams explained. “Then
U.S. 7th Fleet Remains
In S.E. Asian Waters
SINGAPORE m — The U. S
7th Fleet, its exact whereabouts
secret, remained in Southeasl
Asian waters today on its an
nounced mission of deterring
Communist aggression.
There were reports that the
carrier Coral Sea was steaming
northward toward the Gulf of
Siam, near Communist-threatened
Laos and South Viet Nam. U. S.
* officials said only that the car
rier is heading for her home base.
The fleet has just concluded its
part in the six-nation Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization military
exercise “Pony Express” with
landings in the wild jungle coun
try of North Borneo.
With 6,000 American and Brit
ish Marines and Australian in
fantrymen, 60 ships and 20,000
Navy personnel, it was the biggest
military operation ever held by
SEATO.
"DUSTY" RHODE MOVES
TO ANCHORAGE TO BECOME
STATION MANAGER THERE
Florin S. Rhode, better known
to his friends in Nome as “Dusty”
received word yesterday that he
has been transferred to Anchor
age to be FAA Station Manager
there. He takes over the office
left open by William Barber who
was advanced recently.
Rhode leaves several important
civic positions to be filled as he
was active in Chamber of Com
merce, Rotary Club and was
Commander of the Civil Air Pa
trol here, where he has carried
on a very active program both
for the CAP Seniors as well as the
CAP Cadets.
THE WEATHER
Continued fair. Little change
in temperature. Low tonight 25,
high tomorrow 40-45. In the last
24 hours as of 7:00 a. m. today:
High of 46, low of 24. Maximum
wind 13 mph from the northeast.
Sunrise at 3:25 a. m., sunset at
8:36 p. m. Temperatures a year
ago today: High of 54, low of 33.
Extremes on this date since 1907:
High of 54 in 1960, low of -7 in
1949.
In Nenana today it was clear
and had a temperature of 54.
we’d pick up the preliminary
countdown again on Monday and
aim for a Tuesday launch time.”
| Shepard, named as this nation’s
i first space pilot, remained in se
clusion in a ready room at Cape
Canaveral with the “backup”
| astronaut — John H. Glenn Jr.
Both men ran simulated mis
| sions in a mock space ship, under
j went frequent physical checks and
i ate a special low-residue, high
energy diet.
The flight is to loft Shepard
| 115 miles into space and 290 miles
'down range in 15 minutes.
Two storm fronts moving into
the recovery area forced yester
day’s postponement.
I Sen. Fulbright Says
White House Should Share
Responsibility of Invasion
WASHINGTON UP)—Sen. J. Wil
liam Fulbright, D-Ark., says he
believes the ill - fated Cuban in
vasion was a blunder for which
the White House and several
other agencies must share respon
sibility.
Fulbright, chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
commented Tuesday after his
committee questioned top officials
of the State Department and the
Central Intelligence Agency.
He said a decision would be
made later whether to call mili
.' tary advisers before either the
full committee or the Latin Am
erican Affairs subcommittee.
“Insofar as I’m concerned, I
know all I want to know,” Ful
bright told reporters after a four
hour briefing by Allen W. Dulles,
J director of the super-secret CIA.
Fulbright said the testimony
confirmed his prior conviction
that “the operation as a whole
was a mistake” for which the
White House, the Defense Depart
ment, the CIA and the State De
partment share “a collective re
sponsibility.”
Fulbright is known to have
warned the administration against
it when he learned of the planned
invasion.
Missing Anchorage Pilot
Ronald Bergt Found Safe
ANCHORAGE UP) — Missing
Anchorage pilot Ronald D. Bergt
was found alive and well by his
downed aircraft Monday night.
He had been the object of an in
tense search since Sunday night.
Bergt, who became lost enroute
from Anchorage to Fairbanks
Sunday, was located by CAP
pilot Roger Conn about 40 miles
west of Fairbanks.
Bergt had apparently landed
safely on a sand bar after his
plane’s fuel supply was exhausted.
More than a dozen search air
craft logged more than 55 hours
of search time before Bergt was
located.
President Bourguiba of Tunisia
Makes State Visit to Washington
WASHINGTON UPV— President
Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia ar
rived today for a three-day state
visit and was greeted by Presi
dent Kennedy as “a distinguished
world statesman.”
“I think it is most proper that
the first head of state to pay a
state visit should be President
Bourguiba,” Kennedy said.
“We Americans admire those
who stand for principles and for
freedom. We have a man here
today who fought for principles
and fought for freedom.”
Children's Sandals
Silent Symbols of Fate
In Adolf Eichmann Trial
By Reiman Morin
JERUSALEM (/PI — A pair of
tattered sandals, symbols of the j
fate of a million Jewish children
in World War II, were silent pro
secution witnesses today in the
trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Testimony on the suffering of
the children and the undecorated
valor of anti - Nazi resistance
fighters in Polish ghetto uprisings
was attentively followed by the
former Nazi Secret Police officer.
But again, as in more than
three weeks of his trial, there
was no apparent sign of emotion
on the face of the man who claims
he only followed orders when he
moved millions of Jews to the gas
chambers.
The shoes, wrapped in red silk,
were held up by Polish-born psy
chologist Dr. Adolf Bermann,
himself one of the organizers of
the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of
1943.
Dr. Bermann said he found
them when he visited the Nazi
extermination camp of Treblinka
i in January 1945, shortly after
I Soviet troops occupied the camp
j area.
| “There was a tremendous area
many kilometers long and all
i over this area there were scatter
ed skulls and bones and tens of
thousands of pairs of shoes, many
of them childrens’ shoes,” Dr.
Bermann testified. “This pair to
; me is a precious thing.”
The prosecution charges Adolf
Eichmann was instrumental in the
; death of a million Jewish children.
Leader of Unsuccessful
Cuban Invasion Captured
KEY WEST, Fla. (/PI — Capt.
Manuel Artime, leader of the un
successful invasion of Cuba two
weeks ago, was captured today,
radio Havana announced.
Artime had been hiding in the
swamps of the Bay of Cochinos
awaiting an opportunity to flee
to the United States, the an- l
nouncement said. The broadcast
accused Artime of having fled
Cuba to join the exile army with
funds from an agricultural co
operative.
Artime was a member of Cu
ban Prime Minister Castro’s rebel
army in the successful revolution
against President Batista.
The bearded Artime told news
men in Mexico City last year that
he was a representative at Man
zanillo of the National Agarian
Reform Institute, Castro’s agen
cy administering the land redis
tribution program.
He said he fled Cuba after hear
ing an order had been issued for
his execution.
CLARENCE ANDERSON
RESIGNS AS COMMISSIONER
OF FISH AND GAME DEPT.
JUNEAU (/P> — Clarence L. An
derson today submitted his resig
nation as Commissioner of the
State Department of Fish and
Game.
Anderson, 66, advised Gov.
Egan that he wished to retire on
or about Sept. 1.
The commissioner, who has
served as the first and only head
of Alaska’s fish and game pro- j
gram, said he wanted to retire so 1
that he and Mrs. Anderson could |
spend some time with their son
in Seattle and “do some travel
ing.”
“Few men, if any, have con
tributed more to Alaska’s fisher
ies than Andy,” said Egan after
receiving Anderson’s letter.
Lloyd Sundstrom
Fo he New
Manager of KICY
Llovd C. Sundstrom, Anvil
Mountain White Alice site super
visor for more than three years
under the Federal Electric Co.,
s scheduled to become the new
general manager for radio sta
Lion KICY, it was announced to
day by the present manager, Art
Zylstra.
Several staff changes will be
effected in the near future as ad
ditional summer replacement help
arrives and additional permanent
staff increases the complement of
workers at the local broadcast
facility.
Sundstrom has long experience
in the broadcast field, having
served with radio station KVI,
Seattle, for 11 years, and also
with station KONP at Port An
geles. The new manager brings
with him a wide background of
experience in Alaska and good
acquaintance with the problems
of Western Alaska, Seward Pen
insula, and the Nome community.
Present manager. Art Zylstra,
with his family, will be leaving
in a few weeks to spend a year
traveling in the “south 48” and
working on other radio broadcast
projects. The family home will be
established in the Santa Crus
Mountains not far from San Jose
Calif., where Mrs. Zylstra’s par
ents live. In about a year the
Zylstras expect to return to Latir
America where previous assign
ments have taken them to Quito,
Ecuador, and Panama City. Pre
sent indications are that they will
be assigned to administrative and
program activities at radio sta
tion CX-42, “La Voz del Pueblo”,
in Montevideo, Uruguay, under
the World Radio Missionary Fel
lowship, Inc.
Zylstra is scheduled to be one
of the speakers at a World Con
ference on Missionary Communi
cations scheduled at Milwaukee,
Wis., June 12 through 15, at which
time broadcasters from five con
tinents will be present.
Republican Leaders
Fledge Support to
Kennedy Administration
WASHINGTON UP) — Republi
:an leaders have pledged support
for the Kennedy administration in
matters affecting world peace.
But almost simultaneously, GOP
House members attacked the Pre- 1
;ident for alleged appeasement in
foreign policy.
Commenting on the failure of
:he Cuban invasion, former Vice
President Nixon said he doesn’t
think Republicans should public
ly criticize the Kennedy adminis
tration for “mistakes which have
aurt our world position.”
But in a statement summarizing
‘the first 100 days of the Ken
nedy administration,” the House
GOP Policy Committee said:
“Many of the old ‘Acheson ap
peasers’ have reappeared on the
scene, still befogged by the no
tion that softness is the best reply
to Soviet aggression. One of the
more disquieting aspects of this
trend toward appeasement has
been the tendency of President
Kennedy to make ringing declar
ations concerning our determina
tion to resist Communist aggres
sion while hovering in the wings
behind him are the appeasers
busily the next surren
der.”
Floating (Classroom
Sinks, Trapping
Six Below Deck
KEY WEST, Fla. UP> — A 92
foot floating classroom, a square
rigged sailing vessel on a sum
mer cruise, sank during a vio
lent storm yesterday in the Gulf
of Mexico, trapping six persons
below deck.
The brigantine Albatross car
ried 19 persons, most of them
teen-age boys. She went down
in less than a minute during a
wind squall.
The Albatross was sailing from
El Progreso on Mexico’s Yucatan
Peninsula to Nassau in the Ba
hamas when the storm struck, the
Coast Guard said.
Thirteen survivors were pick
ed up by a Dutch freighter and
are being taken to Tampa, Fla.
On the basis of conversations
with survivors the Coast Guard
said the storm apparently wrench
: ed the lifeboats from the ship,
enabling surivivors to get aboard
after abandoning ship.
They remained in the lifeboats
until 8 a. m. (oday when the
freighter picked them up. The
Coast Guard said the ship sank
about 180 miles northwest of Key
West, Fla.
Dept, of Fish and Game
Announce Early Season
On Deer, Goat and Moose
JUNEAU UP — An early open
ing of this fall’s deer, goat and
moose hunting seasons in some
areas was announced today by the
State Department of Fish and
Game.
The big game seasons, together
with changes in Alaska’s game
regulations, were approved by the
State Board of Fish and Game at
its annual spring meeting in Ko
diak last week.
The deer and mountain goat
seasons will open in Southeastern
Alaska on Aug. 1, nearly three
weeks earlier than last year.
Moose hunting in the Yakutat
area will open on Aug. 10, which
is 10 days earlier than last year.
An either sex season for the dis
trict will begin Nov. 1.
North of the Arctic Circle,,
moose hunting will open Aug. 1.
Elsewhere, opening dates will
remain virtually the same as in
1960.
Missing Unalakleet
Pilot Found Safe
ANCHORAGE UP — The Civil
Air Patrol reported that missing
Federal Aviation Agency em
ployee Paul Sutherland was found
today, apparently in good condi
tion, about 10 miles southeast of
Unalakleet. An Air Force pilot
picked him up and flew him to
Unalakleet.
REBELS DISREGARD
CEASE-FIRE IN LAOS
VIENTIANE, Laos UP — The
pro-Communist Pathet Lao com
mand ordered its troops to cease
fire today but rebels attacked
Pha Lane, a key town on the road
to central Viet Nam at the thin
waist of Laos.
Despite the attacks, there was
some belief that bad communica
tions were to blame and did not
destroy the chance for an over
all cease-fire.
Western military experts warn
ed beforehand that there might be
incidents and fighting after any
cease-fire.
Some units might not get their
orders in time, they said.