Contract Signed
To Market Alaska
Reindeer Meat
ANCHORAGE UP) — A contract
for the first commercial market
promotion of Alaska reindeer
meat has been completed here
between the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and the Seattle firm of
Granger, Floe and Jennings.
BThe contract was negotiated by
Alaska Airlines as part of that
firm’s policy of helping develop
the state’s natural resources, ac
cording to airline president
Charles F. Willis, Jr.
The Seattle meet firm will pro
mote reindeer steak as a gourmet
specialty throughout the Pacific
Northwest. Willis said the promo
tion could help provide an excel
lent (backhaul of freight for the
company in its Alaska service.
Taking part in the contract
signing ceremony here were
Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening,
James Wilson, Commissioner, Di
rector of the State Division of
Agriculture; Walter Hickel, Chair
man of the Anchorage Economic
Development Committee; Ed Ny
gard of the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs; and John Gibbon, of Alaska
Airlines.
Radioactive Cloud
Moves Across Canada
WASHINGTON UP) — The
radioactive cloud from the So
viet Union’s big Oct. 30 bomb
blast ft speeding eastward across
southern Canada, the Weather
Bureau reported today.
Robert list, Chief of the Bu
reau’s Atmospheric Radioactivity
Research Project, said the cloud
is moving between 60 and 70
miles an hour.
He would not make any pre
diction today as to whether the
debris from the explosion would
brush die northern United States.
ported that Santa Fe, N.M., had
the highest level of radioactivity
in the air—22 micromicrocuries
per cubic meter—measured in
this country yesterday. This was
more than five times as high as
the reading of 4 there Wednes
day but was below two of last
month’s readings. The highest
level recorded for Santa Fe since
Russia resume*! nuclear testing
was 34.5 on Sept. 25.
The service said levels recorded
since resumption of the Soviet
testing do not warrant undue
1 Jacksonville, Fla., had a read
ing of only 3.96 yesterday after
being high for the nation with
In Alaska, Sttevel at Kodiak
5.35 Wednesday, but there
„ increases at Anchorage, to 3.38
from 2.15, and at Fairbanks, to
1.9 from 0.5.
GEN. TAYLOR FEELS 80.
VIET NAM CAN STAND FIRM
WASHINGTON if)—Gen. Max
well Taylor returned to Washing
ton today saying he feels eonfl
Rusk Says U.S. Nuclear
Power Has No Intention
Of Dominating Anyone
HAKONE, Japan UP) — Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk said to
day he does not believe “the
world will be safe if nuclear su
periority moves to those who in
tend to dominate the world.”
Rusk recalled that at the re
cently concluded Soviet Com
munist Party Congress la Mos
cow, the prediction was made that
the world would be dominated
by Communism by 1980.
“The other nuclear powers,”
he said, “have no intention of
dominating anyone” but are com
mitted to the Charter of the Unit
ed Nations.
The American Secretary spoke
to the press and indirectly to the
Japanese people, who have been
incensed by the Soviet Union’s
of two super-bombs and were
further stirred to anxiety by
President Kennedy’s declaration
yesterday that the United States
itself may resume nuclear tests in
the atmosphere.
“I fully understand and res
pect the special historical cir
cumstances which make this sub
ject a sensitive one in Japan, but
I hope there will be a degree of
understanding of this difficult
.problem,” Rusk told a news con- ]
ference.
Kennedy’s nuclear announce
ment pushed news of the high
level Japan-U.S. economic con
ference Rusk is attending here
into second place in Japanese
newspapers.
The historical situation Rusk
referred to was the explosion of
atom bombs over the cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World
War II by the United States.
Those blasts—tiny in comparison
to the 50-megaton explosions of
today—snuffed out the lives of
152,000 and maimed thousands.
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Mental Patients at Valdez
Show Favorable Reaction
JUNEAU Uh — The 50 Alaska
mental (patients recently trans
ferred from Morningside Hospital
at Portland to the state’s new
Harborview Nursing Home in
Valdez have shown favorable re
action to the move, Gov. Egan
said today.
Egan released a report by Mil
licent Tschaepe, assistant super
visor of the State Psychiatric
Nursing Service which said “we
could not ask for greater com
munity support of any program
than we have received in Valdez.”
Miss Tschaepe uaid at least four
of the patients have shown mark
ed improvement since being
moved to Harbor View.
She attributed the progress to
nearness to home and family and
to actiyitles scheduled for the
patients both by Valdez residents
and by the Harborview staff.
Kennedy Wows
Jersey Demos in
Campaign Speech
TRENTON, N.J. UPI — President
Kennedy wowed New Jersey
Democrats last night with a Re
publican-needling stump speech
aimed at helping underdog Rich
ard Hughes in the state’s race
for governor.
Kennedy obviously enjoyed a
two-hour respite from the bur
dens of the Presidency as he put
on the can of party political
leadership in an outdoor speech
in the brisk November air to a
rally of about 10,000 of the party
faithful. This fell far short of
the 50,000 throng that Hughes’
supporters had hoped to as
semble.
Hie President flew to Trenton
from New York City, where he
gave a boost to Democratic Mayor
Robert Wagner in the latter’s race
for re-election. Kennedy flew back
to Washington after a brief recep
tion with New Jersey Democratic
leaders and a 10-minute speech
for Hughes.
In Trenton, Kennedy was in old
campaign form as he told the
cheering crowd that Hughes, op
posed by (Republican James Mit
chell, had had “a long and uphill
campaign.” Mitchell generally is
credited with leading in a con
test that former President Dwight
Eisenhower has said will have
a direct bearing on Republican
comeback efforts in Congress next
year.
With a note of sarcasm in his
voice, the bare-headed President,
wearing a business suit and no
topcoat, told the chilled crowd
that Hughes had been down
graded too much.
“He has be*n written off on
front pages of more papers sup
porting other candidates than any
candidate I know, with the pos
sible exception of myself about
18 months ago,” Kennedy said.
Exams for Academy to
Be Held By Coast Guard
JUNEAU ai — The 17th Coast
Guard District said today that
annual competitive examinations
for the Coast Guard Academy will
be held Peb. 19-20 in Alaska.
Applications may be obtained
from the Commander of the 17th
Coast Guard District, Juneau, and
the completed applications must be
received -by Coast Guard head
quarters in Washington, D.C., no
later than Jan, 10, 1962, to be
considered. ‘
Candidates must be high school
graduates or high school seniors
and must be between the age of
17 and 22.
Japan Can Expect Fair
Share of U.S. Imports
HAKONE, Japan W) — The
United States told Japan at the
conclusion of cabinet-level dis
cussions on economic affairs to
day that they can expect a fair
share of the $2-billion-a-year in
crease in U.S. imports the Ken
nedy Administration anticipates.
But Commerce Secretary Luther
Hodges
States “very soon
crease its export!
because present
$20 billion a yr
4 per cent of
production.
The obsei
during the
closed
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SMS
U THANT CHOSEN
SECRETARY-GENERAL
BY UNANIMOUS VOTE
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Uf> —
The General Assembly today un
animously elected Burma’s U
Thant as acting U.S. Secretary
General to succeed the late Dag
Hatnmarskjold.
The action came after the Se
curity Council, also by a unani
mous vote, had cleared the way
by recommending that the quiet
spoken Burmese delegate serve
out Hammarskj old’s unexpired
term which would have ended
April 10, 1963.
The announcement of the vote
in the 103-nation assembly was
greeted by a burst of applause
from the delegates and visitors
who jamed the blue and gold as
sembly chamber to capacity.
Egan Issues Second
Statement in Regard
To Oil Lease Sale Bids
JUNEAU UFi — Gov. Win. Egan
issued a second statement today
regarding a story in the Anchor
age Daily Times which said re
ports were circulating there that
he might reject bids in Decem
ber’s oil lease sale if they did
not total $7 million.
In his statement, Egan criti
cized the Times strongly and said
the newspaper "in one front page
story insults the intelligence of
every Alaskan.”
The Times story said Anchor
age oil men expressed surprise
and bitterness over the rejection
report.
Egan questioned the propriety
of quoting unidentified oilmen in
the story.
The Governor said an “industry
representative” phoned him after
the Times stray appeared and
said it was sheer nonsense. Egan
did not indentify the industry
spokesman with whom he talked.
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(Cabinet Members to Stop
At Eimendorf AFB
Enraute to Washington
ANCHORAGE OB — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk and five other
members of President Kennedy’s
cabinet, accompanied by their
wives and other government of
ficials, are scheduled to stop at
Eimendorf Air Force Base here
at 9 a.m. Sunday enrau te home
to Washington, D.C. from Japan.
Other cabinet members in the
group, according to military au
thorities here, are Treasury Sec
retary C. Douglas Dillon; Interior
Secretary Stewart Udall; Agricul
ture Secretary Orville L. Free
man; Commerce Secretary Lu
ther H. Hodges, and Labor Sec
retary Arthur J. Goldberg.
The group has 'been attending a
joint U.S. - Japan conference on
trade and economic affairs.
Cordial Invitation
Given to Visit
Nome Schools
Conrad Potter, Superintendent
of School, today extended a cord
ial invitation to everyone in Nome
to visit our schools during Amer
ican Education Week, Nov. 5-11,
and particularly during the
Third Annual Open House being
held Thursday evening, Nov. 9,
at 7:30 pm. Several demonstra
tions and a play will be presented
and teachers and administrators
will be there to meet with visit
ors.
President Kennedy, in desig
nating Nov. 5-11 as American
Education week, proclaimed: “The
education of our people should be
a lifelong process by which we
continue to feed new vigor into
the iifestream of a nation through
intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let
us not think education only in
terms of its costs, but rather in
terms of the infinite potential of
the human mind that can be
realized through education. Let
us think of education as the
means of developing our greatest
abilities, because in each of us
there is a private hope and dream
which, fulfilled, can be trans
lated into benefit for everyone
and greater strength for our na
tion.”
Visit your schools during
American Education Week, Nov.
5-ii, <1901.
Princess Margaret
Gives Birth to a Son
LONDON UPl — (Princess Mar
garet gave birth to a son today
and her husband said she >waa
thrilled and delighted.
First to see the baby—after the
doctors and nurses—was the
father, the Earl of Snowdon, the
former society photographer An
tony Armstrong-Jones.
His son was bora Viscount Un
ley, and weighed 6 pounds 4
ounces.
An official announcement said
“mother and son are doing well.”
The child was born in the room
in Clarence House that Princess
Margaret once used as a bed
room. She lived at the house,
home of the Queen Mother, until
her marriage May 6, 1960. Both
she and her husband are 31.
Before the baby’s birth at 10:45
a.m. Tony sent Margaret an arm
load of red roses. He repeated the
order after the birth.
The news was flashed to the
far comers of the world. It even
went out to jet airliners in flight.
Margaret’s boy is fifth in Hw»
of succession to the British throne,
behind Prince Charles, 13; Prince
Andrew, who will be 2 in Febru
ary; Princess Anne, 11, and Prin
cess Margaret.
The baby automatically ac
quired the title of Viscount Un
ley, the secondary title given hie
father when the Queen made him
Earl of Snowdon on Oct. 3.
ONE LESS TARGET . . .
ALBANY, N.Y. UPl — When the
waterfowl season reopens, there’ll
be one less target for hunters—
the State Conservation Depart
ment’s low-flying survey plane.
Because hunters have pot-shot
at the plane taking the peese and
duck census in the pest, the de
partment said a 3,000-mile sur
vey over the states principal
waterways will be flown next
week during closed season.