Seattle Fisherman Charged
With Bilking Victims on
Alaska Fishing Schemes
SEATTLE, Ufi — A 40-year-old
fisherman, accused of bilking two
out-of-towners out of $30,000 in an
Alaska fishing scheme and then
burning a 148-foot wooden fish
boat for insurance, was held here
Thursday.
William Reed Nelson, of Seattle,
was arrested Wednesday after a
secret indictment had been re
turned against him by a federal
grand jury. Bond was set at $5,000.
•Nelson is charged in the six
count indictment with wilfully
burning the fishing vessel Jamene
here last May 1 to collect on the
$150,000 insurance. Nelson was
part-owner.
tie also is charged with fraud
in obtaining $30,000 from Meyer
Winkleman of Portland and Men
del Lieberman of Los Angeles for
a fishing venture in Alaska.
The indictment accuses Nelson
of falsely representing himself to
the two men as the owner of the
Jamene and the Carmar Trading
Co., a Hawaiian concern which
owns the fishboat Penaco. He pro
posed using the two vessels in
Alaska.
The U. S. Attorney’s office said
, Nelson burned the Jamene after
Winkleman and Lieberman
pressed him for return of their
money.
U. S. Court Upholds Order
Grounding Overage Pilots
NEW YORK, UP) — The U. S.
Court of Appeals unanimously
upheld a Federal Aviation Agency
order grounding airline pilots over
60 years of age.
The order had been contested by
the Air Line Pilpts Association,
which sought to prevent Elwood
R. Quesada, administrator of the
FAA, from enforcing the ruling
issued last December 1. It called
for unconditional grounding of
all over-60 pilots by last Maroh 15.
Thirty-five pilots were imme
diately affected by the order.
The order previously had been
upheld in U. S. District Court.
The apeals court decision, writ
ten toy Chief Judge J. Edward
Lumbard, said Quesada is “an
expert in his field,” and that “it is
not the business of courts to sub
stitute their untutored judgment
for the expert knowledge of those
who are given authority to im
plement the general directives of
Congress.”
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TROOP 666 BOYS
WIND UP WINTER PROGRAM
WITH CITY CLEAN-UP
By Scribe Richafd Young
At the last troop meeting in
the Scout Hall, there were 18 boys
present, and $1.50 was collected
in dues.
The troop donated the coat
racks to the School for use as a
badminton net support. They were
given as payment for the use of
the Multipurpose Room and the
Gym, which has been used by the
Scouts for basketball.
The Scouts brought books to the
meeting to be donated to the Hos
ital. The coat and hat rack that
Cecil Chunn and Quartermaster
Fred Chunn built is doing good
service at the Hospital now.
Town Clean-Up is the Troop
Project for the month.
In the O’Grady Drill contest,
Pepper Gray and Fred Chunn
won.
Two new Scouts have joined
the troop, 'Lee Crump and Nor
man Scott. Troop membership
now stands at 31.
The boys are gathering equip
ment for the Boy Scout Summer
Camp at Salmon Lak ;.
U. S. Ready to
Send Radio Echo
Satellite Aloft
HOUSTON, Tex., Iff) — Sen.
Lyndon Johnson said Thursday
the United States on May 5 will
attempt to launch, a communica
tions satellite which, when fully
developed, will completely revo
lutionize the methods of talking
over great distances.
In a speech prepared for the
opening session of the State
Junior Chamber of Commerce
convention, Johnson said the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
Agency would, announce plans
for satellite Echo in Washington.
“This aluminum sphere, 100
feet in diameter, is designed to
allow radio waves to be reflected
or bounced from its surface back
to earth, thus spanning heretofore
impossible distances,” Johnson
said.
The satellite will be launched
from Cape Canaveral in deflated
form. The aluminum sphere will
be folded into a magnesium con
tainer 26V4 inches in diameter. It
will be launched by a three-stage
Delta rocket consisting of a Thor
IRBM first stage, and upper stages
developed initially for the Van
guard satellite program.
Pockets of air in the sphere
will- cause it to start to inflate
after it is ejected from the con
tainer into the vacuum of space.
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Number Required for All
Boats Over 10 H.P.
J'UNEAU — Boat owners in
Alaska are reminded to apply now
for a Federal Certificate of Num
ber at their local post office,
under the Federal Boating Act of
1958, all boats of more than >10
horsepower, operated on the navi
gable waters of the .United States,
must be numbered.
Boating stamps are issued in
two denominations. The basic
stamp will be three dollars and
will be in two parts. This stamp
will cover application for assign
ment of a boat number and will
be valid for three years. Renewal
of a number also will cost three
dollars and >be good for three
years. A one-dollar red boating
stamp will cover charges for re
issuance of a'lost or destroyed
Certificate of Number.
The numbers assigned to boats
principally used in Alaska will be
gin with the letters AK.
Rivers Vote Helps
Swing Civil Rights
WASHINGTON, UPI — Rep.
Ralph Rivers voted with the ma
jgrity yesterday on the 283-95 roll
call by which the House adopted
Senate amendments to ttfe Civil
Rights bill.
- Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON Q. REED, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ash Craft
iS>TjX''v, President
SSL'6, Ole Herb Jenks
q&A D$Er Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Moots last Tuesday of erery
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, Preaidont
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Seely.
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