Oilmen Biller
At Upcoming
Oil Lease Sale
ANCHORAGE Iff) — The local
oil industry today expressed sur
prise and bitterness at a report
that Gov. Egan is considering re
jecting the bids in an upcoming
oil lease sale unless they total
at least $7 million.
In Juneau Gov. Egan denied
ever making such a statement,
but did say the state has the
right of rejection of bids at any
time. The report was not carried
by the Associated Press.
“Egan had 'better be happy with
anything he gets,” one oilman
said.
“I don’t-know if he is aware of
the mechanical problems of off
shore oil exploration (all the state
offering is offshore lands) but it
has proved expensive every
where,” he added.
Another industry spokesman
said bittrely, “he has put a price
tag of $30 an acre on the land.
“We have highly trained sci
entists who spend a lot of money
evaluating the land and we must
*-'J on the basis of their find
his may be a decisive factor
in whether the industry con
tinues to stay in Alaska. Recent
accidents where expensive equip
ment has been lost in trying to
prepare wildcat locations and a
steady string of dry holes have
not proved very encouraging for
continued operations,” the man
concluded.
The consensus among oil men
was that the threat of an acreage
price tag is unreasonable and
that it will not cause any com
pany to up their bids.
One, in fact, expressed the
opinion that it might have a re
verse effect and cause the com
panies to “call Egan’s bluff’ and
hold their bids down.
Soviet Union Explodes
Two More — Nos. 27-28
WASHINGTON — The So
viet Union has exploded two more
nuclear devices, both much small
er than the massive Soviet blast
on Monday.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Com
mission announced the explosions
were touched off Tuesday at an
Arctic test site. The first was
reckoned at several megatons and
the second was “probably below
a megaton,” the AEC reported.
The explosions were the 27th
and 26th announced by the AEC
since the Soviets resumed test
ing Sept 1.
In related developments:
1. Uruguay called on the Or
ganization of American States to
condemn nuclear tests.
2. The Voice of America an
nounced an all-out attempt will
be made Sunday to tell the (Rus
sian people about the Soviet tests
—and their world-wide effects.
S. A group studying nuclear at
tack estimated that a 20-megaton
k bomb exploding in midtown New
York City would kill six million
of the city’s eight million resi
More Tricks Than £
Treats on Halloween
Twenty-four road barricades
and numerous other hazards to
Nome’s traffic were removed from
the city’s streets last night by a
combined City-State Police team
under Police Chief Bob Oliver.
Pranks ranged from the usual
overturned garbage cans to the
dumping of honey buckets in the
front seats of automobiles. Sev
eral reports of juvenile strong
arm robbery were received when
children, trick or treating through
the town’s residential section,
were accosted by teen-age youths
and were forced to give up their
bags of goodies.
One youngster, crossing Front
St. from between some parked
cars, ran into the side of a mov
ing pick-up and was taken to
MMM Hospital for observation.
He was released shortly to his
mother, a little more wise in the
ways of street crossing.
Although most businesses and
private homes went out of their
way to join in the Halloween
spirit with the children, dispen
sing candy, fruit, and other
favors, many of the recipients re
turned the favor by engaging in
acts of outright vandalism.
TRUMAN FAMILY TO BE
WHITE HOUSE GUESTS
WASHINGTON UP) — The whole
Truman family—Harry, Bess and
daughter Margaret—will be back
in the White House tonight, as
guests.
The former First Family will
.he honored at a dinner and then
will stay overnight.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman will stay
in the Lincoln and Queen’s rooms.
Their daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Daniel of New
York, will have a 'suite on the
third floor.
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Careening Car
Plows Into Rear of
Halloween Parade
ANOKA, Minn. (4) — The noisy
gaiety of costumed children and
spectators drowned out warning
cries as a car driven by a dying
man plowed into rear ranks of
a Halloween parade.
“I shouted as loud as I could
but nobody could hear against the
hubbub,” said Joseph Lindberg,
a Civil Defense working helping
police. He also amade a futile
effort to halt the car after he saw
its stricken driver slumped across
the wheel.
The camming car smashed Into
a parked car and stopped after
leaving a trail of felled paraders
and the adults Tuesday afternoon.
Two women died of their in
juries.
Otto Erickson, 76, Anoka, was
deed when police pulled him from
the car. The car halted almost in
front of a mortuary, the body
flumped over the steering wheel
to send out a continuous horn
blast
Eight were hospitalized, some
in critical condition, and police
estimated another score were
treated.
It wes the 42nd animal Hallo
ween celebration staged toy Ano
ka, a town of 10.000 just north of
Minneapolis. Some 5,000 children
from area schools were in the
parade.
police Chief Cliff Petrick esti
mated about 7,000 persons lined
streets as the youngsters showed
dtf witch, golbin and clown cos
Communists Ring
The Curtain Down
On 22nd Congress
MOSCOW UP) — The Soviet
Communist Party ended its 22nd
Congress last night with endorse
ment of Premier Khrushchev’s
20-year plan to transform the
Soviet Union into the world’s
greatest industrial power with
the world’s highest standards of
living.
The resolution approved by
the 4,000 wildly applauding
delegates rang down the cur
tain on the eight-day session
that also (1) underlined policy
differences between Khrushchev
and Communist China’s leaders,
(2) brought Albania near to ex
pkision from the Soviet bloc, (3)
branded Stalin as a mass mur
derer and took his body out of
hallowed Lenin tomb on Red
Square, and (4) completed the dis
grace of V. M. Molotov, Georgi
Malenkov and Lazar Kaganovich.
Khrushchev, re-elected to head
the most powerful Communist
party in the world, promised a
horn of plenty under Communism,
which he described as “the most
influential political force of our
time.”
But he warned the delegates in'
a final address that only by hard
work would the Soviet Union
fulfill such goals as a production
capacity of 250 million tons of
steel—twice the present U.S. ca
pacity—and rent-free apartments
for every Russian family.
Pravda reported Stalin’s body
had been transferred to the
Kremlin Wall, where the ashes of
most leading Communists are in
terred. But today his grave could
be seen just outside the wall, be
hind the Lenin Tomb, alongside
the graves of five other former
Communist leaders.
Khrushchev and other speakers
at the Congress charged that Sta
lin was responsible for the slaugh
ter of thousands of old Bolsheviks
and top army officers in the late
1930s. It was the first time the
Soviet people had been told what
the Western world had known
for years.
Radioactive Cloud Is
Expected Over Aleutian
Islands Tomorrow
WASHINGTON W —The Wea
ther Bureau estimated today that
the radioactive cloud from Rus
sia’s massive bomb explosion
Monday will pass over Siberia's
Kamchatka Peninsula tonight.
Fallout expert Robert List said
he expects the cloud to cross over
the Aleutian Chain Thursday and
reach Alaska later in the day.
Unless the winds shift, List said
the cloud will most likely soar
high over Canada and miss he
United States after crossing
Alaska.
Meanwhile, he Public Health
Service said the highest measure
ment of radioactivity in the air in
this country Tuesday was 25
micromicrocuries per cubic meter
at Montgomery, Alabama.
In Alaska, Anchorage had a
reading of 2.02 Tuesday and at
Fairbanks the level was LI.
The service says the highest
radioactive levels reached in this
country during the recent Soviet
test series, while undesirable, do
not pose a public health hazard
unless maintained over a long
period of time. The highest read
ing reported v*jpf: one-day
Federal Judge Johnson
Backs ICC Order on
Outlawing Segregation
By The Associated Press
A federal judge in Alabama to
day backed up an Interstate
Commerce Commission order with
a court decree outlawing segre
gated buses and terminals in his
district.
The court action in Alabama
came as Mississippi and Georgia
police arrested Negroes who en
tered white waiting rooms or
sought service in restaurants pre
viously used by white passengers
at bus teiminals.
U.S. Dist. Judge Frank John
son Jr. issued an order in Mont
gomery prohibiting Alabama au
thorities from enforcing tradition
al racial barriers. His order was
the result of bloody race riots
involving Freedom Riders in
Montgomery last May. It coin
cided with an ICC ruling outlaw
ing segregation practices on buaes
and in terminals over the nation.
The Alabama order applies to
the middle district of the state
which covers 24 counties.
Elks Magazine Assures
Egan — No More False
Advertising on Alaska Jobs
JUNEAU uei — Gov. William
Egan said yesterday the rates
magazine has assured him it will
no longer accept misleading ad
vertisments picturing Alaska as
a land erf plentiful employment
and high pay scales.
Egan said Jame6 Nicholson, gen
eral manager of the Elks maga
zine, said the advertisements “by
some chance, got by us.”
“We have felt that we have
been, In the past, quite critical in
the acceptance of advertisements
for the Elks magazine and, oi
course, regret that this good rec
ord has been marred by the ac
ceptance of the particular ad
vertisement referred to,” Nichol
son said in a letter to Egan.
The Attorney Generals of New
York and New Jersey previously
I advised Egan that the firm plac
[ ing the misleading ads had agreed
to terminate the advertisements.
U.S. - Soviets Express
Optimism to Agreeing on
U.N. Secretary-General
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP) —
The United States and the Soviet
Union expressed optimism today
that they could agree soon on the
selection of an acting U.N. Secre
tary-General to replace the late
Dag Haanmarskjold.
They did so after the United
States and Britain offered a com
promise move to break the dead
lock over the one matter that has
remained unsettled.
And Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Valerian Zorin told re
porters, “I think we are near an
agreement—on a very reasonable
basis.”
He said so after a conference
with U.S. Ambassador Adlai E.
Stevenson,
The move consisted of state
ments by Stevenson and British
Minister of State Joseph Godfoer
announcing their governments
were ready to let the acting Sec
retary-General decide for hhnseU
how many principal advisers he
should have.
Disagreement between the So
viet Union and the West on this
issue has bean the only thing that
has held up the choice of U Thant
of Burma as Interim Secretary
General.
Sen. Dodd Says
U.S. Must
Speedily Make the
Death-Ray Bomb
WASHINGTON <*> — Sen.
Thomas J. Dodd, CD-Conn.), said
today the United States must
9peedily make “every possible ef
fort to convert the Neutron Bomb
from a theoretical certainty to a
practical reality.”
Dodd, member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
urged resumption of US. atmo
spheric testing as reports circu
lated that any such test might
involve experiments with die
neutron, death-ray bomb.
Such a bomb has been described
as producing death without des
truction of material matter by
blasting out unseen, unfelt neu
trons capable of penetrating as
much as three feet of concrete.
Supposedly, it could wipe out the
populations without doing major
damage to large cities.
Jay W. Gildner, assistant White
House press secretary, in reply
to questions about U.S. policy
on atmospheric tests, referred
newsmen to President Kennedy’s
news conference on Oct. 11. At
that time Kennedy said the So
viets had conducted more than
20 tests in the atmosphere and
added, “we have to make a judg
ment as to what is in the best in
terests of our security.”
The New York Daily News
quoted an unidentified Washing
ton official as saying: “It’s a safe
assumption that we will be test
ing the Neutron Bomb very soon.**
The New York Journal-Ameri
t can reported it had learned the
i Death-Ray Bomb “is the prime
i goal in the resumption of nuclear
1 tests by the United States, and
not another H-Bomb.”
Essentially, the difference be
tween neutrons and other type*
of radiation is that they penetrate
man-made structures and H11
animal and human life
without leaving the building or
nearby ground saturated with the
casualty-producing contamination.
Mercy Plane Messages
Honduras Capital City
Almost All Destroyed
MIAMI, Fla. Ufi — The first
relief plane landed safely at Be
lize today with food and medi
cine for the hurricane-battered
British Honduras capital.
Capt. Dean Ricker, pilot of the
Tan Airlines mercy flight which
took off from Miami, reported
from the air that the Central Am
erican seaport “appeared to be 50
to 75 per cent destroyed” by
rampaging Hurricane Hattie.
The British frigate Trowbridge
was expected to reach the sticken
city today and so were two U.S.
destroyers which had been cruis
ing off Honduras.
Tan Airlines' Miami office said
its airplane was placed at the
disposal of the governor of Brit
ish Honduras to fly injury vic
tims to hospitals in Guatemala
and Honduras if advisable.
(Most of sea-level Belize’s in
habitants apparently, fled to
higher ground before Hattie, the
season's eighth tropical storm,
flung 9 to 10 feet of water into
the city.
Hal Holler, operator of a radio
station for the Standard Fruit Co.
said only two known casualties
had been reported hut that Belize,
with 91,200 population, was vir
tually destroyed.