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Pat Maloney
Chosen Midnight
Sun Festival Queen
Pat Maloney is the 1960 Queen
of the Midnight Sun Festival, hav
ing been chosen by a group of
five judges at the Queen Pageant
held on Saturday night when the
seven contestants paraded in both
formal and bathing suit attire,
to the music of the Modernaires
Air Force band.
She was crowned by General
Thomas Beck, distinguished guest
from Fairbanks, who heads the
Yukon Command of the U. S.
Army in Alaska.
A comedy skit during the Pa
geant stole the show, when pre
sented by Master of Ceremonies
Jim Blanning, as the Three Oog
ruks, and were identified as Jerry
and Stan Molitor, with Don
Foster.
Future Queens of 1970 and be
yond were previewed, including
Lanette St. Amour, Carolyn Rea
der, Sharon West and Gail Foster.
Music during the Pageant and at
the. Coronation Ball which fol
lowed was by the Modernaires,
Nome’s favorite band, who were
previously here on Armed Forces
Day, and had returned for the
Festival, under the direction of
Staff Sergeant Charles Jones.
Included in the group were
S/Sgts. Paul K. Driscoll, Carl
Davidson, Leroy Kirschenmann,
Russel Maness. Clarence Olson,
Oliver Osborne; Airmen 1st Class
Donald Herstine, Melburn Holmes;
Airmen 2nd Class Joseph Best,
Robert Buchheib, Joe Miles, Ger
ald Mullins, Antonio Muroz,
Charles ONeal and Robert
Radonski.
Governor Egan Rides
Cordova’s Inaugural Flight
To Famous Yukon Town
DAWSON, Y. T„ UR — Gov
ernor William Egan headed a par
ty of 55 persons who visited Daw
son Saturday on the inaugural
flight of Cordova Airlines.
The company, in conjunction
with Canadian Pacific Airlines,
will operate weekly tours be
tween Anchorage and Dawson.
Gov. Egan was met at the air
port toy 25 members of the Klon
dike Visitors Association, garbed
in bowler hats and fancy vests in
the style of the Gold Rush of 1898.
Mr. Egan said the ever-increas
ing exchange of visitors between
Alaska and the Yukon would
bolster understanding among their
peoples, as well as the economy
of the area.
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Three Children, Dad,
Perish in Petersburg Blaze
PETERSBURG (June 20), UP) —
Three children and their father,
who ran back into the burning
home to save them,, died yesterday
as fire swept a twostory frame
house in this island community.
His wife and a 14-year-old
daughter escaped.
The daughter, Mildred Skeek,
said the family was asleep when
the fire started, apparently from
an oil-stove explosion.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Skeek
ran outside. Mildred jumped from
a second-story window.
Skeek, a fish cannery worker,
ran back inside in a vain effort
to save Eleanor, 15, Myrna, 10,
and Harlan, 8.
Mrs. Skeek was hospitalized
for shock.
Aarnout Castelt Passes
Away In Seattle
Aarnout Castell, well-known
Pioneer, passed away in the Ma
rine Hospital in Seattle, and the
remains will be returned to Nome
for burial her'*. Graveside services
are planned tentatively for Sun
day at 2 p.m.
Castell, a Hollander, had been
a seafaring man, and operated
several coastwise boats for many
years, traveling from Nome to
Barrow and beyond to Barter Is
land and Herschell. In later years
he worked as a tugboat captain
for Lomen Commercial Co. and
B&R Tug & Barge.
He is survived by four daught
ers, May, Margie, Susie and Vicki,
and three sons, Pete, Arne and
Charlie. ,
U. S. Posts Charges
Against Castro for
False Propaganda
WASHINGTON, UP) — U. S.
officials last week held what they
believe to be absolute proof that
the Castro regime has framed a
new plot to embarrass the United
States.
They plan to wrap the case of
Chester Lacayo into a bundle of
evidence to be presented to the
Inter-American Peace Committee
in a month or so. The evidence is
aimed at showing that the revo
lutionary Havana government is
upsetting peace in the' Caribbean.
Lacayo is a Nicaraguan exile
opposed to strongman Luis So
moza. He has been arrested by the
Cubans. Prime Minister Fidel
Castro and President Oswaldo
Dorticos have accused the U. S.
government of conspiring with
Lacayo to mount a move from
Cuba to unseat the Nicaraguan
leader.
In making his allegation, Castro
waved some photographs and a
telegram on a Cuban TV show
June 10. The semi-official Havana
newspaper tRevolucion reproduced
some of the supposed evidence|
The documents purportedly
show Lacayo meeting State De
partment officials in Washington.
But the photos aren’t what Castro
makes them out to be.
The telegram purports to be
notice to Lacayo from C. Allan
Stewart, State Department offi
cer in charge of Central American
Affairs, of a forthcoming appoint
ment with Secretary of State
Herter. Western Union, however,
says no such telegram was sent
or paid for by any State Depart
ment official. The State Depart
ment says Lacayo never saw
Herter.
Bethel King Crab
Graces Paris Menu
From Fairbanks News-Miner
FAIRBANKS — A publicity
gimmick — carrying a king crab
from Bethel, Alaska, to Paris.
France, in 12 hours — was car
ried out last week by Air France
and Northern Consolidated Air
lines.
Air France is hoping to pro
mote the carrying of fresh sea
food to Europe from Alaska as a
sideline.
The crab was flown in from
Bethel in the morning by NCA
and transferred immediately to
one of Air France’s over-the-pole
flights to France. It was hoped
European newsmen would pick
up the story to help promote the
Alaska fishing industry.
Supreme Court
Sends Fish Trap
Case back to State
WASHINGTON, — The Su
preme Court today sent back to
the Alaska Supreme Court a dis
pute over the use of salmon traps
by three Indian villages.
Justice Frankfurter delivered
the court’s majority opinion with
dissents by Chief Justice Warren
and Justices Black and Douglas.
Frankfurter said a stay granted
by Justice Brennan in the case
would remain in effect until it is
finally disposed of.
Brannan had issued an order
permitting the Indians to use
traps during the 1959 salmon
season.
The basic issue in the case is
whether the ne\y State of Alaska
can prohibt salmon traps entirely,
or whether the federal govern
ment, through the Interior De
partment, can permit the use of
traps in three Alaskan Indian
villages.
The Alaska Constitution and
state law ban use of traps on
grounds their efficiency depletes
the salmon run.
The State of Alaska argued that
it had power to stop the Indian
villages of Kake, Angoon and Met
lakatla from using traps. But the
Interior Secretary proposed regu
lations that would permit the In
dians to use traps at 11 sites dur
ing the 1960 fishing season.
Supreme Court Rule
Allows Continuation of
Civil Rights Hearings
WASHINGTON, lfl> — The Su
preme Court today struck down
injunctions which halted Civil
Rights Commission hearings in the
south on Negro voting rights.
The decision threw out an in
junction issued by a special three
judge federal court in Shreveport,
La.
The special court ruled last Oc
tober that 17 registrars in several
Louisiana parishes did not have to
appear at a commission hearing
on complaints by 67 Negroes they
had been denied voting rights.
Traditional rights of the regis
trars were violated, the special
court said, by commission rules
which do not include prior infor
mation on the nature of the com
plaints and do not permit confron
tation and cross-examination of
witnesses.
The special court held that the
law which created the commis
sion was constitutional. But it
said the commission’s rules of
procedure were not authorized by
Congress.
Johansson - Patterson
Bout Tonight
NEW YORK, UFi — Ingemar Jo
hansson, the heavyweight cham
pion from Sweden, weighed
194% pounds to 190 for challlen
ger Floyd Patterson of Rockville
Center, N. Y., for their return. 15
round title fight in the Polo
Grounds tonight.
Johansson weighed 196 pounds
to Patterson’s 182 last June 26
when he dethroned the American
on a seven-knockdown, technical
knockout at 2:03 of the third
round.
Patterson’s weight was the
heaviest of his career. He weighed
187% when he knocked out Olym
pic Champion Pete Rademacher
in the sixth round at Seattle,
Aug. 22, 1957.
Eisenhower Winds Up Far Eastern
Tour With New So. Korean Premier
By JOHN SCALI
SEOUL, Ufi — President Eisen
hower left South Korea for Hono
lulu tonight, completing a Far
Eastern tour on which he was
cheered by millions of Asians but
forced to bypass Japan because of
leftwing rioting there.
Eisenhower left with a pledge
from South Korea’s reform gov
ernment to guard against wasting
the hundreds of millions of dol
lars in aid the United States pours
American aid fund? are wisely
“I pledge that we will do every
thing possible to insure that
American aid funds are wisely,
efficiently and honestly used for
the benefit of all of the Korean
people," Prime Minister Huh
Chung declared in his parting
words to Eisenhower at Seoul In
ternational Airport.
Wildly cheered by one million
Koreans who blocked his motor
cade Sunday and by hundred of
thousands more on Monday, Eis
enhower on departure said it was
a “memorable experience” to see
“so many Korean people along the
routes of travel I have followed.”
In all, nearly three million Fil
ipinos, Chinese Nationalist® on
Formosa, Okinawans and Kor
eans welcomed the first American
President to tour the Orient while
in office.
The only anti-American demon
station Eisenhower actually saw
was on Okinawa, where 1,500 pro
Japanese chanted “go home” and
snakedanced.
Eisenhower urged leaders of the
new South Korean government to
make the most of their opportu
nity to give the Communist
threatened land true democracy.
Referring to the revolt against
Syngman Rhee and his strongman,
rule, he said “prompt and judi
cious fulfillment of the recently
expressed wishes of the Korean
people is a momentous challenge.”
Before leaving Korea Eisen
hower flew to the headquarters
of the 6th South Korean Army
Corps only 13 miles south of the
armistice line to place a wreath
on the black stone monument to
the unknown dead of the Korean
War and review troops of the
United States, South Korea, Bri
tain, Turkey, Thailand and Ethi
opia guarding the frontier against
a renewal of the Korean War.
Airines Hampered by
Pilot Work Stoppage
NEW YORK, Iff) — Eastern Air
lines pilots returned to work at
some points today, but operations
still were limited. Pan American
World Airways had trouble man
ning its flights.
For Eastern, a 10-day stoppage
of pilots appeared to be tapering
off.
Pan Am was hit by a related
problem, with 115 of its pilots
calling in sick. The company said
it was uncertain how many of its
regular flights would take off on
schedule.
The action against Pan Am be
gan Friday, with a wave of “sick”
reports among pilot. Eighty-two
were out Sunday.
In the cases of both Eastern
and Pan Am, the pilots are pro
testing a Federal Aviation Agency
regulation putting an inspector in
a seat behind the pilot of jet air
craft, displacing one of the crew’s
two copilots. The pilots clrim this
reduce safety standards.
Ike’s Daughter-In-Law
Noncommital on Royal
Korean Fare
SEOUL, — Barbara Eisen
hower was served “kimchi,” Kor
ea’s most famous — and most
pungent — dish today at a lunch
eon given by Mrs. Huh Chung,
Souh Korea’s First Lady.
The President’s daughter-in
law did not say afterward how
she liked the dish of highly
spiced pickled vegetables.
The lunch was served in an an
cient building of Changduk Pal
ace, home of the old Korean rul
ing dynasty.
Little girls in colorful, ribboned
Korean costumes handed Mrs.
Eisenhower a big bouquet at the
entrance to the palace.
“The gardens are lovely, and so
are the Korean costumes,”’ said
Mrs. Eisenhower to her hostess.
After lunch the party watched
an ancient Korean folk dance per
formed by more than 600 high
school girls. The girls also gave
Mrs. Eisenhower a 2-foot high
Korean doll.
GOP Group Draws Up
Platform Blueprint
WASHINGTON, UP) — A GOP
Congressional study group has an
swered Administration critics,
providing a blueprint for the
party’s platform committee and
for the coming election campaign.
The study cites what it calls the
“proven success” of the Eisen
hower Administration’s policies
and urges continuation. However,
it contains several recommenda
tions and an implied criticism of
the handling of the U-2 spy flight
over the Soviet Union.
The report is the work of 15
members of the Republican Policy
Committee — a group within the
House of Representatives headed
by Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michi
gan — and several outside experts,
including key advisers to Vice
President Nixon, and White House
aides. ,
Nixon, the party’s probable
nominee for President, worked
closely with the group and has
endorsed the report. It was issued
endorsed the report.
10 Landing Craft Will
Sail from Barrow
To Alaska Ports
FAIRBANKS—One of the odd
est-looking flotillas ever to sail
the Arctic and Bering seas will
set sail from Barrow in August
after the ice goes out.
It will consist of 10 medium
sized landing craft which have
been sold by the Navy to Bob
Cooper, North country bush pilot,
who is widely-known around
Alaska .
Cooper has plans to sell the
boats along the coast. For the last
three weeks he and his seven
man crew have been rebuilding
motors and painting hulls at Bar
row. When the ice goes out he will
send the craft to sea.
He will do the navigation from
the air and be in contact by radio
with each ship.
Cooper has ) v for some of
the vessels inf" lina, Kotzebue
and Nome. 1 „ |hers will be
taken into Ur , .|>n River and
sailed to^f ' ;Tanana, said
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