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VOL. LXII No. 141 _ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1960_Per Copy 15^
National Goals
Report Is Legacy
To Kennedy Govt.
WASHINGTON, I* —An ade
quate national defense, a cut in
unemployment, the lowering of
racial barriers, more foreign aid,
help for city re-development,
broader support of research — a
presidential commission recom
mends these national goals for the
1960s.
Fulfillment of these goals
would cost billions of dollars
more of government spending,
President Eisenhower’s Commis
sion on National Goals concluded
in its 30 page report made public
by the White House yesterday.
A copy also was sent to Presi
dent-elect John F. Kennedy.
The commission, comprising 11
distinguished Americans, said the
costs of the goals could mean a
tax increase. It added there was
little likelihood of any tnx de
crease in the decade ahead.
In its list of goals, the commis
sion also included a big boost in
spending on education and a for
eign policy that preserves the
United Nations while remaining
ready to negotiate with the Rus
sians on any reasonable basis.
The commission and its report
stem from President Eisenhower’s
State of the Union message almost
two years ago. In it, the Presi
dent said the nation should de
fine its national purpose and
goals.
The report now serves as a
legacy from the Eisenhower ad
ministration to the incoming Ken
nedy administration. In several
respects, the recommendations re
semble the “New Frontiers” pro
gram outlined by Kennedy in his
campaign.
Gunnar Kaasen Passes
On At Everett, Wash.
EVERETT, Wash., HV—Gunnar
E. Kaasen, 78, renowned for his
part in rushing diphtheria serum
from Nenana to Nome in 1925,
died at his home here Sunday.
Kaasen and his dog team made
the final dash over 60 miles of
trails in 28 - below - zero weather
with serum to combat a diph
theria epidemic at Nome.
Born in Norway, Kaasen went
to Nome in 1904. He was a miner
and civil engineer for the fed
eral government.
At one time Kaasen tried to
work into the movies but he re
turned to Nome after a year in
Hollywood. He came to Everett in
1950.
Survivors include his widow,
Anna; five brothers and two sis
ters.
Funeral services will be con
ducted here Wednesday.
Fire Siren to be Sounded
At Noon Starting Tuesday
Starting at noon Tuesday the
fire siren will be sounded at 12
o’clock. This will serve a double
purpose — as a noon signal and
also to maintain a check on the
sirens for fire alarm purposes,
stated Fire Chief Bob Oliver.
New Zeal nd Voters Reject
Prohibitic Proposal
AUCKI \ND, New Zealand, UB
—New Z aland voters have re
jected a 'iquor prohibition pro
posal. T1 final count of Satur
day’s vc ng shows 686,789 for
continua :e of current liquor
licensing regulations and only
227,346 >r prohibition.
Delegates to Tourism
Convention Are Told
Industry Must Contribute
JUNEAU, — Delegates to a
state - sponsored conference on
tourism were told today that the
most effective tourist program is
one in which the state and in
dustry join forces.
The theme was advanced by
Gov. William A. Egan in welcom
ing representatives of the Alaska
tourist industry to a conference
and seconded by Roy Wensberg
of Seattle, vice president of the
state’s advertising counsel, the
firm of Bozell and Jacobs.
Wensberg said his firm plans
to place advertisements boosting
Alaska’s tourist attractions in
newspapers and magazines with a
total circulation of some 6,200,000
early next year.
The Seattle advertising man,
who is primarily responsible for
spending $50,000 in tourist pro
motion said the ads will be placed
in 14 newspapers along the Pac
ific Coast and in the Southwest
and Midwest.
Gov. Egan, in stressing that a
“healthy, sustained growth of
tourism in Alaska is a big job
that calls for joint effort by busi
ness and state,” said that while
the state of Nevada’s budget for
tourism promotion was only
$89,541 this year, businesses con
nected with the tourist industry
will spend some $5Va million
more to attract travelers to the
state.
AMA Opposed to
Kennedy’s Medical
Care to Aged Plan
WASHINGTON, UP)—’The presi
dent of the American Medical
Association today claimed in
creased strength in the new Con
gress to oppose social security
coverage of medical care for the
aged.
Promising a continued battle
against the type of aged health
care supported by President-elect
John F. Kennedy, Dr. F. Vincent
Askey of Los Angeles said in an
address prepared for the AMA
(policy-making House of delegates:
“I remind you that medicine
has many friends in both parties
in Congress today. In fact, I
would say that in this year’s na
tional elections we have increased
that number in both the House
and Senate.”
Dr. Askeys speech echoed the
theme of another by the AMA
assistant executive vice presi
dent, Dr. Ernest B. Howard of
Chicago.
He called on the Association to
“fight with all our resources” any
effort by the Kennedy adminis
tration to add medical care to the
retirement benefits provided by
the Social Security system.
Kennedy and Eisenhower
To Meet Next Week
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
elect John F. Kennedy will call
upon President Eisenhower at his
White House office a week from
tomorrow.
Announcement of the date for
the anticipated meeting between
Eisenhower and his successor was
made by White House Press Sec
retary James C. Hagerty.
A mutually acceptable date had
been worked out by Maj. Gen.
Wilton B. Persons of the White
House staff and Clark M. Clifford,
representing Kennedy.
Castro Expects
Softer Policy
From Kennedy
HAVANA, UP) — Fidel Castro
hinted today he expects a softer
policy toward Cuba when John
Kennedy becomes President. The
bearded prime minister’s rambl
ing speech was punctuated by
noise bombs exploding in an un
precedented show of force by his
enemies within Cuba.
In a 2Vii-hour speech at Havana
University, Castro also accused
Roman Catholic priests of taking
money from sugar companies to
preach against his revolution and
suggested a new policy for the
state-run sugar industry may be
in the works. It may be aimed at
flooding world markets and even
tully giving Cuba more control
over prices.
Two small noise bombs went
off while Castro spoke. The sec
ond brought him to his angriest
pitch.
“Those bombs are not set off
by peasants, by the humble. They
are set off by those who kneel
before foreign interests, by those
who would like to see bloodshed
Pn the country.”
Despite heavy police concen
trations around the university,
two bombs also went off while
Castro was waiting to speak.
Altogether 19 explosions were
counted throughout the city and
its suburbs as Castro’s opposition
staged its biggest noise bombings
since Castro gained power almost
two years ago. Sporadic bomb
ings have become an almost
nightly occurrence in Havana.
Castro was as caustic as usual
in his criticism of the United
States. But he appeared to open
the door slightly for a concilia
tory move by Kennedy, although
he indicated Cuba would not take
the initiative in any fence mend
ing.
U.S. Gold Dipped Below
$18 Billion Last Week
WASHINGTON, UPI — The
United States’ gold stock dipped
last week below the $ 18-billion
level for the first time since
February 1940.
The Federal Reserve Board re
ported gold holdings were $17,
986,000,000 on Nov. 23, following
foreign purchases of $20 million
of gold in the preceding week.
The rate of decline was small,
however, by comparison with
much larger withdrawals in re
cent weeks.
On Jan. 1 the gold stock was
$19,456,135,794.13. By mid-year it
had declined to $19,322,000,000,
but it has diminished much more
rapidly in the past few months.
Kennedy Confers With
Former Secretary of
State Dean Acheson
WASHINGTON, 0P»—President
elect John F. Kennedy arranged
today to confer with Dean Ache
son, who was Secretary of State
in the Truman administration.
And Kennedy will confer Tues
day with Chester Bowles, who
served as one of his foreign policy
advisers during the presidential
campaign.
Kennedy’s press secretary,
Pierre Salinger, announced the
planned meetings against the
background of continuing confer
ences with various advisers re
garding cabinet posts and other
high - level positions in the new
administration.
White Students Boycott
Two New Orleans
Integrated Schools
NEW ORLEANS, MV-The four
Negro girls who pioneered integ
ration in the city’s public ele
mentary schools attended segre
gated schools today for all prac
tical purposes with a white stu
dent boycott nearly 100 per cent
complete.
White students from the two
schools flocked to segregated
schools in nearby St. Bernard
parish. Newsmen said they spot
ted only seven white children en
tering the William Frantz school.
Mothers of students at McDon
ough No. 19 — the other school
integrated by federal court order
—said the three Negro first grad
ers “had the school all to them
selves.”
Attaches of the U. S. District
Court said there would be no rul
ing today by a three-judge panel
on a request to suspend the inte
gration pending a settlement of
federal and state differences.
There were no incidents at
either school today, except for
boos and jeers when the girls ar
rived accompanied by federal
marshals.
5-Member Nome Armory
Board Approved by Egan
Gov. William A. Egan has ap
proved the appointment of two
Nome citizens to serve on the
five - member Nome Armory
Board. The new appointees, re
commended to the Governor by
Mayor Steve Andersen are:
Boling H. iBob) Reddaway, ap
pointed for a two-year term, and
Marcus Beauchamp, appointed
for a one-year term.
The other members of the Ar
mory 3oard, appointed by Brig.
Gen. Thomas P. Carroll, Adjutant
General of the Alaska National
Guard, are:
President, Captain James E.
O’Rourke, Commanding Officer,
Headquarters, 1st Scout Battalion,
297th Infantry; 1st Lt. Lawrence
A. Nevue, Chaplain, Hq. & Hq.
Det., 1st Scout Battalion; and
M/Sgt. Alfred S. Sahlin, Unit
Caretaker, 1st Scout Battalion.
The new board members, chosen
because of their continuous rec
ord of civic service to the com
munity and enthusiastic support
of the National Guard, will be
responsible for selecting dedica
tion dates, choosing speakers, and
handling all dedication details for
the new armory. It should also be
noted that the armory board will
be responsible for all non-military
use of the armory and anyone
desiring the use of the armory
upon completion should contact
the armory board president.
Hot Lunch Program
Discontinues Wednesday
Until January 3rd
The School Hot Lunch pro
gram will end for this year on
Wednesday. Superintendent Con
rad Potter said today that the
participation has not been great
enough to warrant continuing the
program.
However, the lunch program
will resume on Jan. 3 for a three
month period.
This year was the first time
the program was to have been
tried for a five-month period, but)
it did not prove economically
feasible because too few students
took the lunches. The cost for
each meal is 40 cents and they
were catered by the North Star
Grill and administered by the
teachers.
Ferry System Seen
As Big Boost For
British Columbia
VICTORIA, B.C., (41—Alaska is
setting a fast pace towards es
tablishment of a Pacific North
west marine highway by investing
million of dollars in a ferry link
to Prince Rupert.
Alskan representatives to a
three state-B.C. conference here
Monday said Saturday night they
enthusiastically favor the marine
highway as another link between
Prince Rupert and Washington
State.
Such a route would include the
island highway to a northern
point on Vancouver Island where
a ferry service would connect
with a mainland road leading to
Prince Rupert.
Richard A. Downing, Alaska’s
Commissioner of Public Works,
said:
“I wish I could tell you how
much a marine highway would
mean to Alaska and B. C.
“Not only would it be closer
than existing Alaska Highway
routes but B.C. would reap bene
fits of an increased tourist trade
which has only been tapped, so
far as we’re concerned,” he said.
“B. C. has almost as much to
profit from our ferry sytem as
Alaska itself because of the heavy
traffic that will be flowing thru
B.C.
“Traffic is just waiting for
some economical, fast inside route
between Washington and Alaska.
We want to have our ferries
ready in time to take advantage
of Seattle’s Century 21 Exposi
tion in 1962.”
Robert Sharp, president of the
Southeast Alaska Conference,
said American tourists spend $20,
000,000,000 a year and that U.S.
national parks are visited annual
ly by more than 66,000,000 per
sons.
B.C. is fortunate in being be
tween the 48 states and Alaska
because “Alaska’s attractions are
out of this world” and will draw
many tourist dollars, he said.
Thanksgiving Holiday
Death Toll Totals 597
(By The Associated Press)
Traffic . 436
Fires . 62
Miscellaneous . 109
Total . 597
The nation’s accident death toll
during the four-day Thanksgiving
weekend ran lower than for the
similar holiday periods of the last
two years.
Last year the 102-hour period
from Thanksgiving eve to mid
night the following Sunday yield
ed 650 dead. The count the pre
ceding year was 626.
The record death toll for a
four-day holiday period is 884,
set in the Christmas period of
1956.
California led the nation in
traffic fatlities over the weekend
with at least 50.
Mauritania is 13th French African
Colony To Gain Independence
NOUAK CHOIT, Mauritania,
(JPi — Mauritania proclaimed its
independence of France today
and became the 13th French Af
rican territory to gain sovereign
ty this year.
Desert tribesmen danced in the
streets of this unfinished capital
and Moorish horsemen fired an
cient muskets as 57 years of
French rule ended.