OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
62nd Year No. 28 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1961_Per Copy 15<
Dog Derby Slated
For Mareli 31st,
April 1st and 2nd
Prize money for the Arctic Club
Dog Derby to be held on March
31, April 1 and 2 totals the sum
of $3,500 with a separate purse
for each day of the two-day race
as well as a prize for total elapsed
time.
Members of the club announced
that this date is earlier than last
year to tie in with the other dog
races scheduled in the state, and
will follow the Ice Carnival in
Fairbanks so that teams partici
pating there may be invited or
may plan on coming to Nome after
the races there.
In previous years some of the
Fairbanks racers have shown an
interest in coming to Nome, but
the interval between the two
races was too long.
Chester Topkok of Teller has
been the winner of the Dog Derby
here for the past two years and
if he wins again this year he
would become permanent owner
of the .big trophy. His time last
year for the two days was three
hours, 25 minutes and 14 seconds
and he collected a total of $1,050
in prize money. Last year there
were eleven entries from villages
up and down the coast. Several
of the villages are in the process
of having races this month to get
the best team to represent their
community.
Last year Wilbur Sampson of
Norvick placed second and Eddie
Gallahorn of Kotzebue placed
third.
An interesting brochure is being
published by the Arctic Club and
sponsored by the business people
of Nome which will give a his
tory of dog racing which has been
prepared by Carrie McLain, Pio
neer Women of Alaska historian.
The cover has been designed by
a school student, Billy Nuipuk,
chosen from over 20 hand-drawn
pictures submitted.
JFK Says Aid
To Private Schools
Is Unconstitutional
WASHINGTON UD — President
Kennedy said today he believes
across-the-board federal loans to
non-public secondary school-s
would be just as' unconstitutional
as outright grants. The President
told his news conference, how
ever, that this is his view and
that he also believes the question
of such loans is open to debate.
Kennedy said once he is con
vinced that federal grants to paro
chial and private secondary
schools are barred by the Con
stitution.
Kennedy has proposed legis
lation which would provide 2 and
one-third billion dollars for pub
lic schools, but neither grants nor
loans to secondary non-public
schools. Some members of Con
gress and some, Roman Catholic
clergymen have taken sharp issue
with the President on this. They
contend that the federal govern
ment can make long-term, low
interest loans within the frame
work of the Constitution.
The President expressed the
hope today that there will be no
move in Congress to amend the
administration bill so as to pro
vide for loans to private and paro
chial secondary schools. He added
that colleges are in a different
category.
Bonus and Benefits
For Employes Gets
Chopped in Senate
JUNEAU UP) — Senate conserva
tives practiced statute surgery
yesterday and killed a bill which
would have required employers
to give former employes bonus
and vacation benefits on a pro rata
basis.
After the conservatives finished
chopping up the bill as it was
offered, pro-labor forces in the
upper chamber gave up and
moved to table the bill, an action
which had the effect of killing it,
at least temporarily.
One member of the labor bloc
stalked out of the Senate cham
bers after the measure, SB50, was
laid on the table and muttered:
“Labor isn’t going to get one
damned thing out of this ses
sion.”
The Senate, stepping cautious
ly, also turned down two other
bills during a day marked by a
good measure of action in both
Houses.
The upper chamber killed a
bill which would have premitted
the governor to boost the salaries
of all department heads to a top
of $17,000.
The Senate also thumbed down,
on reconsideration, an executive
request measure boosting the max
imum benefit period for employ
ment security payments from 26
to 28 weeks.
Sen. John McNees touched off
the scrap on the vacation-bonus
pro rata bill in the Senate by
asking:
“If a man is discharged because
he stole money from his em
ployer’s till, would he still be
qualified to receive pro rata va
cation and bonus benefits any
way, under the terms of this bill?
“I’d like to have an answer to
that question from one of the
sponsors of the bill.”
All five sponsors, Sens. George
McNabb, A1 Owen, Eben Hopson,
Howard Bradshaw and Lester
Bronson, sat in silence and Mc
Nees’ question went unanswered.
Quickly, three amendments were
offered which took care of Mc
Nees’ question and all three were
adopted without fuss.
The first required that the va
cation and bonus benefits be a
matter of contract. The second
disqualified employes who quit
their jobs voluntarily. And the
third amendment disqualified em
ployes who were discharged for
cause.
After the third amendment was
adopted, Bronson moved to table
the bill and the Senate did, not
without a murmur of opposition.
FIRING SQUADS CRACKLE
HAVANA UP> — Fidel Castro’s
firing squads crackled with a new
burst of fury today as the govern
ment stepped up its reprisal cam
paign against the growing de
fiance of the revolutionary regime.
Four convicted bombers and ar
sonists were shot in the dry moats
of La Cabana military fortress a
j few hours after being condemned
I by a revolutionary court.
THE WEATHER
Continued fair and colder to
night. Low of -20, high tomorrow
0. In the last 24 hours as of 7:00
a. m. today: High of 4, low of -16.
Sunrise at 6:42 a. m., sunset at
5:41 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
.High of 11 low of -14. Extremes
j on this date since 1907: High of
36 in 1926, low of -30 in 1930.
Flying Grandfather
Breaks Light
Plane Record
MIAMI, Fla. — Max Conrad,
57, the flying grandfather, land
ed deftly at Miami International
Airport early today, completing
an around-the-world flight in 8
days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
The flight smashed a 29-day rec
ord previously held for light
planes circling the globe.
A tailwind boosted Conrad and
a companion, Dick Jennings of
New York, in their two-engined
Piper plane on the last leg of the
flight from Port of Spain, Trini
dad.
The most frightening part of the
trip, Conrad said, was the stretch
across the Sahara Desert from
Nairobi, Kenya to Lagos, Nigeria.
“I started to have all sorts of
hallucinations and at times I
would black out,” said Conrad.
Conrad embarked on a 25,557
mile itinerary in hopes of cutting
20 days off the 29-day record set
in 1959 by the late Peter K. Gluck
mann for planes in the 3,858 to
6,613-pound class. Gluckmann
flew a 23,456-mile route.
The flying grandfather learned
to fly in 1928 at Denver and has
made more than 75 transatlantic
crossings in light aircraft.
—
Ambassador Thompson
On His Way to Deliver
Message to Khrushchev
MOSCOW UP) — U. S. Ambas
sador Llewellyn Thompson left by
plane for Novosibersk today to de
liver personally President Ken
nedy’s message of goodwill to So
viet Premier Khrushchev.
The ambassador brought the
message from Washington last
week but Khrushchev is touring
Siberia, prodding agricultural of
ficials to a higher level of effi
ciency.
Thompson offered to go any
where in the Soviet Union to de
liver Kennedy’s message, and
Khrushchev Tuesday invited him
to fly out for a meeting.
Khrushchev’s decision to inter
rupt his busy tour was unprece
dented in the Soviet capital’s dip
lomatic history and indicated the
importance the premier attached
to Kennedy’s message.
Thompson made no remarks be
fore leaving and instructed his
staff to treat his trip with utmost
secrecy.
Elizabeth Taylor
“Vastly Improved”
LONDON Itf) — Film star
Elizeabeth Taylor, fighting for her
life against double pneumonia, is
“vastly improved” today.
Eddie Fisher, singer husband of
the lovely brunette actress, left
the hospital smiling and cheerful.
He told reporters:
“She is doing very well. I have
spoken to her just now.”
Asked whether Miss Taylor
knew how ill she had been, Fisher
replied that, “she has a pretty
good idea.”
A crowd of 50 persons mur
mured good wishes as Fisher en
tered his chauffeur-driven car to
return to the 30-pound ($84) a day
hotel suite where he and his wife
were staying when she fell ill last
Friday.
Doctors said that for the first
time since the 29-year-old movie
star was stricken four days ago
she was “sufficiently conscious to
be able to assist in her own treat
ment.”
JFK Orders Quick Action
To Improve Schooling;
For Eskimos and Indians
WASHINGTON UP — President
Kennedy announced today he has
ordered quick action on measures
to improve schooling and housing
facilities for Indian and Eskimo
children in four states.
The President told his news
conference his attention has been
brought to the fact that 5,000 In
dian and Eskimo children under
the Bureau of Indian Affairs can
not go to school because there are
no facilities for them.
He said these children live on
the Navajo reservation in Ari
zona and New Mexico, in Alaska
and in the Choctaw reservation in
Mississippi.
“In addition,” he said, “other
thousands are housed in over
| crowded and obsolete boarding
facilities, some hazardous to their
! health and safety.”
He said he has ordered Secre
tary of Interior Stewart Udall to
j submit to Congress “without de
i lay” plans to correct this situa
j tion.
State Board of Education
To Meet Here in May
Peggy Kelliher, member of the
State Board of Education who
just returned from Juneau from a
meeting of that board reported
last evening at the Home Arts
Club that the board made no de
cision on where the Vocational
School would be as all sites sug
gested will be visited before a de
cision is made.
Names of five sites have been
submitted; Nome, Teller, Fort
Yukon, Tanana and Huslia. The
visits to these places will be made
before the May meeting of the
board which will be in Nome on
May 11, 12 and 13, stated Mrs.
Kellher.
The organization which has for
the past 20 years had a plant sale
for the benefit of playfield equip
ment has announced it will have
the plant sale, but the proceeds
will include other youth activi
ties as well as playfield, which it
sponsors.
Representatives of youth or
ganizations were guests of the
club including Douglas Lee for
CAP Cadets, Tex Chunn for Ex
plorer Scouts, Gail Mclvor for
Girl Scouts and Future Home
Makers of America.
Gov. Egan Asks to
Postpone Repayment
Of Federal Loans
JUNEAU — Gov. Egan said
today he has asked the state’s
congressional delegation to intro
duce legislation to postpone the
repayment by the state of federal
loans to the employment security
fund.
The loans were made to the
state under the Reed Act over the
years 1955 to 1959.
Egan said that if the emergency
employment security legislation
now before Congress is enacted,
employers will pay an additional
four-tenths of one per cent on
the first $3,000 of an employe’s
income, in order to cover the costs
of the extended emergency bene
fits.
The governor said that Alaska
owes the federal government $8,
765,000 which was borrowed un
der terms of the Reed Act, and
also owes $928,000 which was
borrowed from an emergency
fund established by Co^^ress in
1958.
Nuclear Sub
Stays Submerged
66 Days, 22 Hours
HOLY LOCH, Scotland^— The
U. S. nuclear submarine Patrick
Henry tied up in the Holy Loch
today after a world record opera
tional cruise of 66 days and 22
hours totally submerged.
U. S. Navy officials announced
the record after the Patrick Henry
arrived alongside her mother ship,
the tender Proteus. The first sub
to cruise abroad with a full load
of 16 Polaris missiles, the Patrick
Henry is the first of the fleet of
10 American rocket-firing subs
that will use the Holy Loch as a
base within missile range of the
Soviet Union.
“We could remain submerged
a good many weeks more,” the
Patrick Henry’s skipper, Capt.
Harold E. Shear, told newsmen
aboard the Proteus.
The atom sub’s sister ship, the
George Washington, held the pre
vious record of 66 days and 10
hours submerged.
Shear said he sailed the sub
marine from Charleston, S. C., un
der fully armed conditions. Asked
if he expected he might get the
order to “press the button” — re
leasing his missiles at an enemy—
i he replied: “We were certainly
| prepared for such eventualities.”
Four of the six young Britons
who tried to incite an anti-nuclear
demonstration when the Proteus
arrived last week made another
effort against the Patrick Henry.
King Island Villagers
Want to Relocate
Northwest of Nome
SEATTLE UP) — An Eskimo
World War II veteran from King
Island would like to relocate his
villagers on the mainland north
west of Nome, away from home.
Paul Tiulana, a big game guide,
who takes sportsmen on walrus
and polar bear hunts, is here for
a new artificial limb. He lost a
leg in World War II.
Only a handful of his people,
he said, still spend the winter on
King Island where the Interior
Department has closed the school.
The rest, almost 200, spent many
months in Nome.
Tiulana, father of seven chil
dren, says his people should get
away from the snares of city liv
ing.
“We need a place to hunt and
fish, and not a place to drink,” he
said.
“Seventeen families are ready
to move with me, but we need
help.”
The King Islanders, skilled
ivory carvers, would like to move
45 miles northwest of Nome to
the Cape Woolley region of the
Seward Peninsula, where game is
plentiful, he said. They could still
return in summer to King Island.
“Last year, in three skin boats,
we got 60 walruses on the ice
around the island,” he said.
He plans to go to Juneau on
his return north and tell Gov.
Egan and others of his hopes.
“If we can get moved the people
will have better lives,” he said.
ELIM WILL RECEIVE $2,000
IN DEPRESSED AREA FUNDS
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Egan today
allocated $2,000 from the de
pressed area fund to the village
of Elim.
The money will be used to help
defray labor costs in deepening
and covering two wells and
1 gravelling village streets.