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NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1961 ME Per Copy 15^
NG Armory
n Bethel to Be
edicated Sunday
On Sunday afternoon the people
Bethel will celebrate with a
edication ceremony, the comple
on of the Alaska National Guard
rmory for the Second Scout
attalion headquarters.
Among the distinguished guests
ted to attend are Gov. Wil
Egan from Juneau; Sen.
>st Gruening from Washing
C.; and Gen. Thomas P.
Adjutant General, of the
a National Guard,
he welcome address wJXT be
n by Dr. Harriet Jackson,
cian and Mayor of Bethel,
ith the i: avocation by Capt. John
nod. who is Chaplain for the
Scout Bn.
Smit,'master of ceremonies
and manager of the NC Store in
Bethel will introduce the guests
and benediction will be given by
SFC Jacob Nelson, of the Akia
chak unit.
The main address will be given
by Col. B. P. Major, Asst. Chief
of Staff, G-2 USARAL, and it
will be interpreted to the Eskimo
people by M/Sgt. Paul Albert of
the Tununak unit.
Also speaking will be State
Rep. Ray Christiansen and State
Sen. Jack Weise.
Dedication Committee is head
ed by Ben Smit with cooperation
of Keith Swanson, Jack Weise,
Robert Gibson, R. D. Hollings
worth, Max Leib and Maj. Robert
Ellis, Commander of the 2nd
Scout Bn.
Headquarters Detachment and
Co. A of the 2nd Scout Bn. of
the Alaska Army National Guard
will use the armory, which will
also be used by the Bethel School
system for physical education and
other activities. Local basketball
teams will use the drill hall as a
gymnasium. The community will
also have access to it for meet
ings. The armory, designed by
Olsen and Sands, Juneau archi
tects, was built by the Leo Walsh
Construction Co. The 11,680 square
foot wood and steel frame build
ing took a year to complete. It
stands on a five acre plot of
ground.
Part of the first Bethel-bound
freight on Friday will include a
beautifully decorated cake from
the North Star Bakery, appropri
ately decorated for the first flight
and the Alaska National Guard
Armory dedication.
Courtesy of Northern Aviation,
g copies of the Nugget Will be sent
Mail Truckers are Ready
For Rigors of Winter
On Alaskan Highway
SEATTLE ilfl — The men who
took the first truckload of mail
from Seattle to Fairbanks over
the Alaska Highway describe
their 4,800-mile round trip as
“just an average trip.”
And they’re ready for the rigors
of winter ahead over the long
trail where temperatures some
times dip to more than 70 below
zero. Their Seattle-built trucks
are equipped for rugged winters.
Even their mirrors — inside and
out — are heated to keep them,
from frosting upu-.&jfo—
Hie seasoned drivers are Dean
Hart of Edmonds, Wn., and Oscar
Noel of Seattle. Hart has driven
the highway‘ about 100 times.
Hauling 22,000 pounds of mail
north and 20,000 pounds back to
Seattle in 173 hours presented no
problems, Hart said. It was noth
ing like his first trip in 1942, he
said, when he had to wait 30 days
at Watson Lake near the British
Columbia -Yukon Territory border
for a river to freeze over. “There
wasn’t any bridge across then,”
Hart explained.
As for the cold weather? Hart
and Noel are looking forward to
that.
“When it’s real cold, we can
run without chains,” they said.
NOME HAS 1,700 LBS. OF
MAIL ON FIRST TRUCKLOAD
Pearse Walsh, station manager
of Wein Airlines, reported yes
terday that Nome’s share of the
first overland mail by truck ar
rived totaling 1,700 pounds of
second, third and fourth class
mail five days out of Seattle.
This mail will be arriving over
this route four times a week and
will be carried by Wein Airlines.
Maris Gets One More
Chance to Break Record
BALTIMORE —The Weather
Bureau forecast occasional rain
tonight for Baltimore, where
Roger Maris is scheduled to get
his last official shot at Babe {Ruth’s
home run record within the 154
game limit.
Maris, with 58 home runs this
season and needing two more to
tie the Babe’s record, is scheduled
to take the field at 8 p.m. (EDT)
when his New York Yankee
teanuhates meet the Baltimore
Orioles.
The Yankees could clinch the
American League pennant with a
victory. ^
Alaska Won't B* Represented
Unless Facilities are Desegregated
JUNEAU OR — Alaska will not
send a representative to the an
nual Interstate Conference of
Employment Security agencies at
Atlanta starting Oct. 2 unless con
vention hotel facilities are de
segregated, Gov. Egan said today.
Egan said a number of other
state governors had issued simi
lar orders and that U.S. Secre
tary of Labor Goldberg has ruled
that federal officials cannot take
part in the conference because
faciliti d.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional showers
tonight and Thursday. Low to
night 40-45, high tomorrow 45
50. In the last 24 hours: High of
48, low of 41. Sunrise til 5:38 a.m.,
sunset at 6:10 pm. Temperatures
a year ago today: High of 51,
low of 41. Extremes on this date
since 1907: High of 57 in 1926,
low of 19 in 1930.
TSHOMBE ANNOUNCES
A CEASE-FIRE WITH
U.N. FORCES IN CONGO
NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia Iff)
— President Moise Tshombe of
Katanga announced tonight a pro
visional cease-fire between his
troops and U.N. forces effective
at one minute past midnight. The
agreement includes arrange
ments for an exchange of prison
ers.
Tshombe, smiling broadly, made
the announcement in the Ndola
Airport manager’s office where
for two days he had been nego
tiating with a U.N. team led by
Mahmoud Khiri, Tunisian chief
of civil operation in the Congo.
Tshombe said the agreement
was subject to confirmation by
the U.N. Secretariat in New York
but will take effect immediately
after midnight and continue while
both sides wait for New York’s
approval.
A parallel announcement by the
UJN. negotiators was to be made
at a conference immediately fol
lowing Tshombe’s.
Lord Alport, British high com
missioner in the Rhodesian Fed-1
eration, tried to get the two sides
to make the cease-fire announce
ment at the same conference, but
they would not agree.
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Olaf Halverson Bequeths
$1,000 Scholarship Fund
To Nome High School
The Nome School Board was
the pleased recipient of a $1,000
scholarship fund, bequethed the
Nome High School by Olaf Hal
verson, Nome teacher for 12 years
prior to his death in 1960. The
check was presented to the board
by Mrs. Helen Dunbar on behalf
of Mr. Halverson’s brother, Mat
thew Halverson, who' resides in
Warren, Minn.
Because of his deep regard for
Nome School, Mr. Halverson
made provision in his will for a
trust fund which he asked to be
named “Olaf Halverson Memorial
Scholarship.” He desired the fund
to be administered at the rate of
$100 each year to a deserving
graduating student who is plan
ning to enter college the fall term.
Mr. Halverson’s wish was that
the fund be administered by the
faculty, as they would better be
able to determine the student to
whom it should be awarded. The
School Board appointed Mrs.
Dunbar as head of the committee,
with Mrs. Lennie Mae Nerland
and Wm. f£Hank” Ullrich as
members.
It is expected that the first
award under the scholarship will
be made at the end of the cur
rent school year.
Navigation Aids for
High-Altitude Jets are
Being Checked in Alaska
SEATTLE (4) — Navigation aids
for high-altitude jet-aircraft oper
ations are being checked through
out Alaska this week by the Fed
eral Aviation Agency’s new Boe
ing C-l35, jet transport.
Two flight crews, including
electronic experts, are alternating
in flying a series of five eight
hour missions over Alaska and
the north Pacific area. This is the
C-135’s first visit to Alaska.
Included in the missions ere
accuracy checks of facilities in
the (Fairbanks and Anchorage
areas and jet routes to and from
Seattle.
The C135 win fly to Hawaii
from Alaska to check facilities in
the agency’s Hawaiian region.
U.S.- Soviets Agree on Disarmament
... But Fail on Formula to Resume Talks
*■ - v; v .
NEW YORK UP) — The United
States went firmly on record to
day as accepting the Soviet-pro
moted concept of “general and
complete disarmament.” But the
two countries told the United Na
tions they have failed to agree
on a formula for resuming dis
armament talks.
In reporting their failure to the
United Nations, they said they
had agreed on an eight-point
statement of principles which
could guide any such negotiations.
The joint statement of principle
plus emphasis on “disbanding of
armed forces” of all nations and
“elimination of all stockpiles of
nuclear, chemical, bacteriological
and other weapons of mass des
truction.”
Also declared to be among the
aims of total disarmament are the
elimination of “all means of de
livery” of mass destruction weap
ons and the abolition of all mili
tary training institutions.
The eight-point statement of
I Doubt Cast On
Report of Atomic
Cloud Sighting
NOME Ul) — A bush pilot for
Wien Alaska Airlines has re
ported sighting a “mushroom
effect cloud” rising from the nor
thern Siberian coast last Friday
afternoon.
Pearse Walsh, station manager
for Wien at Nome, and Grafton
Bergman, station manager for the
airline at Kotzebue, today attrib
uted the report to Tony Schultz,
a veteran bush pilot for Wien.
According to Waish and Berg
man, Schultz spotted the cloud
while flying at 6,500 feet between
Kotzebue and Cape Thompson, on
the Arctic coast.
Schultz told Bergman the cloud
“billowed out at the top” in much
the same way the cloud from an
atomic explosion mushrooms.
According to the report made
to Bergman by Schultz, the bush
pilot placed the position of the
cloud at approximately 400 miles
west of Cape Thompson.
The Japanese meteorological
agency reported Friday that Rus
sia had exploded an atomic device
but the Japanese agency did not
pinpoint the area in which the
device was exploded.
Schultz flies equipment to U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission scien
tists studying the feasibility of
creating a harbor at Cape Thomp
son with five nuclear blasts. He
was flying today and not avail
able for comment.
Col. Fred O. Reger, assistant
adjutant general of the Alaska
National Guard, said he doubted
anyone would be able to spot a
cloud at a distance of 400 miles,
except cm an extremely clear day.
Military officials at the head
quarter^ of the Alaska Command -
in Anchorage declined to en*a
ment on Schultz’ report. >
Gov. William A. Egan said he
had received nothing official on
the subject. In the absence of
anything official from the mili
tary. Egan said he would have to
decline comment.
TV Station in Siberia
MOSCOW W — Moscow radio
says a big Soviet TV station on
the eastern tip of Siberia has
gone into operation.
principles put the United States
on record as accepting the So
viet-promoted concept of “general
and complete disarmament.”
U.S. officials felt that the So
viet position had been somewhat
more clearly defined particularly
in-the degree to which the state
ment emphasizes the need for in
spection measures.
However, the report filed with
the United Nations disclosed that
the Soviets had blocked some
language which otherwise would
have spelled out some inspection
details.
The weight of words in the re
port served to underscore ■what
U.S. and Soviet negotiators both
wanted to emphasize—the agree
ment on principles. But it could
not obscure the stark facts of fail
ure to agree on the makeup of a
negotiating body.
Japan Hands Soviet
Union Sharp Note
On Nuclear Testing
TOKYO <Nl — Japan advised
! the Soviet Union today “the first
signs ,of danger” have already
appeared from what it called
reckless Soviet atomic blasts in
Central Asia.
The foreign ministry summoned
Soviet Minister Sergei P. Suz
dalev and handed him a sharp
note.
“As a nation which has direct
ly experienced the frightening
ravages of nuclear explosions,
Japan positively cannot approve
of any nuclear development for
military purposes which could
lead humanity to destruction,” the
note said.
“Therefore the Japanese gov
ernment reserves the right to
claim indemnity for all damages
which may be suffered by the
Japanese government and people
as a result of the reckless tests
being persistently carried out by
the Soviet government,” the note
added.
Soviets Fire No. 14 . . .
WASHINGTON Ufl — The So
viet Union fired another nuclear
blast in the atmosphere today —
the 14th since it resumed atomic
testing Sept. 1.
An announcement from the
Atomic Energy Commission said:
“The Soviet Union conducted a
nuclear detonation in the at
mosphere early today. The de
tonation occurred in the vicinity
of Novaya Zemlya, and a had a
yield on the order of a megaton.”
A megaton is the equivalent of
one million tons of TNT.
The 13th shot of the current
Soviet series was on Monday.
There were two others last week
end.
The United States, since it re
sumed testing, has fired two un
derground blasts.
SLOT MACHINES STRIPPED
FROM LINER QUEEN MARY
SOUTHAMPTON, England (JV—
Twenty slot machines were strip
ped from the trans-Atlantic liner
Queen Mary yesterday—because
the passengers weren’t interested.
The machines had been installed
as an experiment. As the liner
docked Monday night from New
York, a Cunard Line spokesman
said: “There was never any great
rush for them. But it was neces
sary to keep them in for about
three voyages to judge the re
action of passengers.”