Castro Wants to Trade
U.S. 1,000 Prisoners
For 500 Bulldozers
KEY WEST, Fla. Ufi — Prime
Minister Fidel Castro has offered
to trade more than 1,000 prison
ers of the April 17 invasion for
500 American bulldozers.
The startling swords-for-plow
shares offered Wednesday night
evoked wild cheers from several
thousand peasants assembled at
the Rancho Boyeros Agricultural
Fair near Havana.
If the prisoners are not ran
somed. Castro said, "they will
work hard, building trenches and
fortifications, so that they will!
have to earn the bread they eat.” |
Referring to President Kennedy
—whom the Cubans have charged
with direct responsibility for the
invasion — Castro said: “If they
are his friends and he loves them
so much, let him send 500 bull
dozers and we will send them
hack.”
Earlier, Castro told his audi
ence that “agricultural produc
tion must be increased at all
costs.”
■Dwelling at length on Cuba’s
shortage of pork and pork prod- :
ucts, he said, “every pig that we '
have must be preserved and fat- j
tened.” |
Witness Says Eichmann
Personally Selected Jews
For the Gas Chambers
JERUSALEM UP) — Adolf Eich
mann personally chose candidates
for the death chambers at There
sinstadt concentration camp,
scratching them off a master list
with an “X" and marking the
names of those to be spared with j
a circle, a witness testified yes- !
terday.
Viteslav Diamant, said he saw j
the Gestapo chief for Jewish
Affairs in the camp in Septem- :
ber 1944, when upward of 24,000
Jews were shipped to Auschwitz
gas chambers.
Asked if he could identify the
defendant now, Diamant paused j
to take another look at Eich- j
mann in his glass cage and shook j
his head, saying:
“I wouldn’t recognize him to
day. He was in uniform then and j
he was young.”
Diamant said he saw the “selec
tions” being made almost con
stantly and once was hailed be
fore Eichmann himself. After his
own ordeal, Diamant said he was
told by the Jewish camp elder of
Eichmann’s decision:
“You will live but your two
brothers will die.”
They did, in Auschwitz.
Unable to Find Two
Parties of Climbers
On Mt. McKinley
ANCHORAGE UP — Bush pilot
Don Sheldon, unable to find any
sign of two climbing parties on
Mt. McKinley yesterday, planned
to fly out of Talkeetna again to
day to make another search.
High winds and clouds swirling
around the 20,320-foot mountain
made impossible a thorough
search of the upper reaches where
the two parties are believed to
be camped.
Sheldon said the two parties—
one led by John Graham of Santa
Barbara, Calif., and the other by
Werner Himmelsbach of Vancou
ver, B.C.—had tents and plenty
of food with them, enough for 15
more days.
‘They had such good weather
at first.” said the famed glacier
pilot. “They’ve probably accom
plished their objectives and have
set up camp waiting for the wea
ther to break.”
Trying to locate parties on the
mountain is sometimes difficult,
he said. “It’s a big country.”
New Nurse At Hospital
Olga Andronyk has arrived
from Sitka to join the staff of
the MMM Hospital. She has been
nursing at the Sitka General Hos
pital.
Arrivals and Departures
Arriving from Fairbanks: Dr.
L.. Potchell, Dr. P. Spencer, Fer
nado Ulloa, Bob Bashelier, Olga
Andronyk, Fred Chambers, Erica
Juska, and Paul Decker.
Departing for Fairbanks: Carl
Glavinovich, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd
Harwood, Mrs. D. Branham, Mrs.
H. Jaworski, Jim Kirby, G. Al
vensblem, Sig Krogstad, Pete
Walsh, F. A. Pugh, and S. Chris
toferson.
Departing for Kotzebue: Doug
las Colp, Rebecca Oxereok, G. S.
Sinclair, P. Dedrick, and P. R.
Shaeffer.
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JOHN L. MAAKESTAD, Pastor
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
MAY 22 —JUNE 2
SLTNDAY—Confirmation Day
9:45 a.m. Church School and
Bible Classes
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
7:30 p.m. Evening Service
Holy Communion
MONDAY
Vacation Bible School
Begins at 9 and 10:30 a.m.
TUESDAY—Vacation Bible School
7:00 p.m. Jr. and Sr. Confirmants
WEDNESDAY-Vacation Bible School
7:30 p.m. Mid-Week Meeting
8:30 p.m. Choir Practice
THURSDAY—Vacation Bible School
7:30 p.m. Luther League
FRIDAY—Vacation Bible School
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AT & T Setting Up
Satellite Telephone
Communication System
ANDOVER, Maine l/P> — This
remote village in the mountains
of Western Maine has been
launching imaginary men into
space for months.
Some townspeople even figured
out that plans were afoot to catch
misdirected astronauts in giant
nets stretched on mountain peaks.
The rumors shot out of orbit
but came to earth when the
American Telephone and Tele
graph Co. disclosed that the
world’s largest antenna for tele
phone satellite communication
will be built atop a hill east of
the village.
The rumors started when
strangers came to town and
bought over a thousand acres of
high ground considered worthless
except for pulpwood and lumber.
When the strangers hired 50
local men and started building a
road into the wilderness the ru
mors took off. But cash being
paid out was a real down-to
earth bonanza in this village of
900 souls.
Andover has only a few farms,
three small woodworking plants
and logging to provide local em
ployment.
Burdick Pierce of Wilton, Conn.,
a veteran of radar construction
in Alaska, is field engineer of the
$7-million AT & T test facility.
After a road has been completed
and a site prepared, a 250-ton
steel and aluminum “Horn” an
tenna, largest of its type ever
built, will be erected. The 177
by-94-foot “Horn” will be used
to pick up faint signals from Eu
rope relayed by orbiting satel
lites.
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Nome Directory
Nome
Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer. Pres.
H. M. CrJnklaw, Sec.
Meets First Thursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
□ Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
No. 140S
A. E. BOHRER. W. M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina Bachelder, President
Jane Foster, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
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Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Lt.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 165
Meetings - Monthly, Last Tuesday 8 p.m.
Staff Conferences - Each Tuesday 8 p.m.
Group Hdqtrs., Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
Meetings - Each Thursday 7:00 p.m.