NOME NUGGET
QixacflT NEWSPAPER PT ATJISKA—member associated press
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1961Per Copy 15^
Education Advisory Council Calls for
Abolition of All Local School Districts
JUNEAU UP) — A recommenda
tion by the Education Advisory
Council calling for the abolition
of all local school districts in Alas
ka was taken under advisement
today by the State Board of Edu
cation.
Commenting briefly on the Ad
visory Council’s recommendation,
the board said it planned no state
ment until after its next meeting
in Fairbanks Oct. 18.
In recommending that local
school districts be abolished. The
Advisory Council urged that the
Legislature provide for the cre
ation of school administrative
units as arms of the state.
The council also recommended
that local boards of school direc
tors 'be elected as agents of the
.state in administering the school
units.
The council said minimum cri
teria for the establishment of the
administrative districts should toe
all of the following:
1. Sufficient enrollment to pro
vide for a state-approved program
in grades 1 through 12.
2. A minimum of 50 students in
grades 9 through 12.
3. A minimum of $500,000 in
assessable property.
4. Boundaries to extend a dis
tance from the population center
of at least one hour of school
bus travel time under average
conditions.
All schools not meeting the cri
teria, the council said, should be
included in the state-operated
school system or should be com
bined with other schools to form
an administrative unit.
The council also recommended
First Mail Truck
Run to Fairbanks
Takes 83 Hours
FAIRBANKS W — The first
truck load of mail to come over
the Alaska Highway rolled into
Fairbanks today 83 hours after
leaving Seattle.
The truck of Garrison Fast
Freight arrived at the city limits
at 2:30 a.m. today with Oscar
Noel and Dean Hart of Seattle be
hind the wheel and William J.
Hartigan, Asst. Posmaster Gen
eral in charge of transportation
from Washington as a passenger.
Several postal officials from
Seattle and representatives of the
transportation line were present
for the arrival, but the official
welcome ceremony is still sched
uled for 2 p.m. today.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett arrived at
International Airport at 9:25 am.
this morning to participate in the
ceremonies. Bartlett was instru
mental in getting the mail route
over the highway.
For the two drivers Hart, and
Noel the trip was routine.
Both had ham and eggs here
and took off again for Seattle
and another load of mall.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy with occasional
showers. Little change in tem
perature. Low tonight 35-40, high
tomorrow 40-45. In the last 24
hours: High of 45, low of 37. Sun
rise at 5:24 a. m., sunset at 6:28
p. jn. Temperatures a year ago
today; High of 52, low of 81. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 62 in 1949, low of 24 in
1039.
that the State Board of Educa
tion be designated as the agency
responsible for the budget and or
ganization of the Department of
Education and for all policies and
requirements authorized by law
for the state’s schools.
“The board would become a
bona fide hoax'd rather than an
agency with somewhat confusing
and uncertain responsibilities,”
the council said.
“It should be authorized, after
considering recommendations of
the commissioner, to approve the
plan and policies for organization
and operation of the Department
and of the schools of the state and
to approve the appointment of all
professional pex-sonnel for the de
partment staff.”
50 N.Y. Families
To Seek Better
Chance of Survival
SMITHTOWN, N. Y. W> — The
vanguard of about 50 families in
this Long Island community, seek
ing a better chance of survival in
case of nuclear warfare, leaves
this weekend to take up resi
dence in Chico, Calif.
Alvin Bauman, 43, spokesman
for the group, married and the
father of two children, said yes
terday: "We’ve been thinking this
over for some time now What
finally provoked us to action was
the present war scare. Some
people may think it’s foolish but
we see nothing foolish in facing
a real situation.”
Bauman said Chico had been
chosen, after exhaustive research,
as one of the few areas in the
United States that would remain
habitable after atomic attacks.
Other areas considered were else
where in northern California,
Oregon and Montana.
About 30 persons, including
several children, will make up
the initial contingent. A Chico
real estate firm has leased 121
houses to the New Yorkers.
Many of those joining in the
exodus are members of the Oh
sawa Foundation which Bauman,
a member, describes as a phil
osophical group interested in in
creasing knowledge between the
Orient and the West. The society
was founded by Japanese sci
entist-philosopher George Ohsa
wa.
Those going to Chico include
attorneys, actors, teachers and
businessmen. Some are single,
some married.
Actor Leo Carrillo
Is Laid to Rest
SANTA MONICA, Calif. OB —
Leo Carrillo was buried yester
day in the earth his family
pioneered.
Relatives, friends and unknown
fans surrounded a specially-made
California redwood casket in
Woodlawn Cemetery as inter
ment rites were conducted for
the 6il-year-old movie and tele
vision star.
“Hie California he loved will
cherish his memory,” said the Rt.
Rev. Raymond J. O’Flaherty at
an earlier mass.
Carrillo died Sunday of cancer.
He was a descendant of the ranch
eros who pioneered California in
Speaish-Mexican days.
U.S. Fires First
Underground
Nuclear Test
WASHINGTON UP — The Unit
ed States fired today its first nu
clear weapons test since 1958.
President Kennedy announced
that it was an “underground nu
clear weapons development test
of low yield,” at the test site in
Nevada.
In making the announcement
the President said the United
States “affirms its readiness to
negotiate a controlled test ban
agreement of the widest possible
scope.”
The new test, Kennedy said, is
the first in a series.
He repeated that the United
States was forced reluctantly into
renewing nuclear explosions be
cause Russia now has resorted to
them.
Russia has fired 10 test shots
since Sept. 1.
Before that, a moratorium had
been in effect for nearly three
years while efforts dragged on to
reach an agreement on banning
further tests permanently.
The last previous test by the
United States also was in Neva
da, on Oct. 30, 1958.
Kennedy noted that today’s
U.S. test produced no fallout.
“This, he said in a statement,
“is in marked contrast to Soviet
nuclear tests in the atmosphere.”
Kennedy gave no indication oi
the size of the shot in Nevada to
day beyond saying it was one oi
low yield.
“Today’s test,” he said, “was
the first in the joint Atomic
Energy Commission - Department
of Defense Program to strength
en the defense of the free world.
The resumption of extensive So
viet testing has made this action
necessary to fulfill the responsi
bilities of the United States gov
ernment to its own citizens and
to the security of other free na
tions.”
Furthermore, as the program
goes on, Kennedy said, the tests
will provide information to sup
port programs to improve means
of detecting and identifying nu
clear explosions—means for pos
sible use in an international nu- j
clear test control system.
Arsonist Mitchell
Sentenced to Ten Years
KETCHIKAN UR — William H.
Mitchell, 33, former Ketchikan
businessman, was sentenced to 10
years in prison today on each of
five counts of arson. Superior
Court Judge Walter Walsh said
the sentences would run concur
rently.
Judge Walsh said he hoped
that before parole is granted “it
be conclusively” shown that
Mitchell has been cured of his
mental illness, otherwise he should
(be confined to an institution for
further treatment.
It was not shown where Mit
chell .will be imprisoned.
SOVIETS FIRE NO. 10
WASHINGTON UR — The Rus
sian? fired their 10th nuclear shot
Thursday in their test series that
began two weeks ago.
The Atomic Energy Commission
reported it in the following brief
announcement:
"The Soviet Union conducted
another nuclear detonation in the
atmosphere early today.
“The test took place in the vi
cinity of Ncrvaya Zemlya and had
a yield of several megatons.”
Hurricane Carla’s
Repercussions Continue
To Haunt Texans
GALVESTON, Tex. UR — Hur
ricane Carla’s repercussions con
tinued to haunt Texans today as
searchers delved into the storm’s
wreckage.
Carla’s death list stood at 40
in four states but grim appre
hension prevailed as waters con
tinued to recede, revealing more
destruction.
Twenty-eight persons were dead
in Texas. Kansas counted 5, Mis
souri 2, and Louisiana 5.
The hurricane, termed one of
the most vicious ever to swirl out
of the Gulf of Mexico, battered
Texas and Louisiana coasts with
winds up to 173 miles an hour
and tides of nearly 14 feet. It then
swept northward to bring tor
rential downpours and floods to
Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
Authorities could only estimate
the damage done to the south
Texas areas swept by Carla’s tor
nadic winds.
Red Cross survey teams said at
least 40,200 homes were destroyed
or damaged in the 14 counties hit
by the hurricane.
Hampering those who sought
to aid in the gigantic mopup were
impassable highways, threats of
disease, disrupted utilities, lack of
water to drink and poisonous rat
tlesnakes.
The Texas Highway Depart
ment reported many roads re
mained closed by rainfall floods
Some areas were off-limits to al
but those who could prove thc-j
had a valid reason for entering.
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Roy Jenkins Named
Engineer for Nome
Highway District
JUNEAU UP) — The appoint
ment of Roy Jenkins as engineer
for the Nome Highway District
was announced Thursday by
Highways Director T. D. Sherard.
Jenkins ha^y>een serving as
acting engirijM* of the Valdez
Highway Disl^A
At Nome, he )Psi succeed acting
District Engineer Clements N.
Lean, who is being transferred
to Fairbanks as District Construc
tion Engineer.
PAIR TO BE ON HAND FOR
ARRIVAL OF MAIL TRUCK
Rex Bowen, president of the
Kotzebue Chamber of Commerce
and Pete Walsh, manager of Wien
Airlines here, left for Fairbanks
to participate in the dedication
ceremony upon the arrival of
the first scheduled highway deli
very of mail.
The first load of mail, which
is a big itruck trailer carrying
22,300 pounds of second, third
and fourth class mail, on its in
augural run, which has two
drivers and William Hartigan,
Asst. Postmaster General.
The Garrison Fast Freight
truck is expected to reach Fair
banks this afternoon.
Soviets Fire Carrier
Rocket Into Central Pacific
MOSCOW UP) — The Soviet
Union fired a new, powerful
multi-stage carrier rocket more
than 7,400 miles into the central
Pacific Wednesday, Tass News
Agency reported Thursday. It
pronounced the test shot a suc
cess.
Ross Woods, sales manager for
PNA, visited today in Nome and
at Pt. Spencer (Port Clarence) on
his annual visit to this area.
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Fifteen Former .
Turkish Officials
Sentenced to Hang
Y ASS I ADA, Turkey UFl — Fif
teen former Turkish officials, in
cluding deposed Premier Adnan
Menderes, were sentenced today
to hang for actions violating the
constitution during 10 years of
civilian dictatorship.
The sentences are subject to
review. If they are approved by
the military junta of 22 men now
running the government, the de
fendants will be executed within
24 hours, a spokesman said.
A revolutionary court of six
civilian and three military judges
handed out 32 life sentences and
447 prison terms ranging from
4 to 15 years. The court acquit
ted 98 others in the mass trial
of former democratic party sup
porters which began last Octo
ber.
Former President Celal Bayar,
77, stood without any sign of
emotion while he heard his doom
pronounced. But Menderes, 62,
was in a state of collapse at the
hospital on this prison island. Of
ficials said they were unsure
whether he collapsed from fright
or had taken some kind of pills.
Those sentenced to death with
Bayar and Menderes included the
foreign minister, the former fi
■ nance minister, a former assembly
■ speaker, and a group of assembly
. deputies and other political sup
1 porters of the regime deposed by
* I a military coup in May 1960.
Maris Is in the Hope
Stage . . . Mantle Gives Up
DETROIT Iff) — Mickey Mantle
has about given up and Roger
Maris is in the “I can do it—I
hope” stage.
The New York Yankee home
run twins, stymied in their efforts
to creep up on Babe Ruth’s sea
son home run record of 60 by
Chicago White Sox pitchers in the
three-game series which ended
yesterday, realize time is running
out. They open a four-game series
against the Tigers tonight.
“I’m about ready to give tip,”
Mantle said last night as he left
Chicago. “I don’t see how I can
make it now. When we came to
Chicago I decided I’d have a
chance if I could hit a couple.
| They stopped me cold. I haven’t
got a chance now—even in 162
games.
“I’m just plain tired. I haven’t
got much pep any more.”
Maris, three home runs ahead
of Mickey with 56, is a little mot e
optimistic.
“I think I’ve still got a chance
—if I can get hot in Detroit,” he
said. “I couldn’t get under the
ball in Chicago. We just didn’t
have any luck, I guess. But I’ve
still got a chance. I haven’t given
up.”
Mantle failed to get a hit in
the two games yesterday. Maris
got three—ail singles.
A. R. Wardle Jr. Resigns as
Personnel Director of DPW
JUNEAU Iff) — The resignation
of A. R. Wardle Jr. as personnel
director for the Department of
Public Works, effective Aug. 31,
was announced by Commissioner
Richard Downing today.
In hi3 letter of resignation,
Wardle said he had accepted a job
in private industry, with a food
service firm with headquarters
in Seattle.
Downing said Wardle’s successor
had not been selected.