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By Fred S. Hoffman
WASHINGTON UP) — The
United States now has 59 missiles
with hydrogen bomb warheads
ready, if needed, to hurl against
targets in an enemy country.
The nation’s combat-ready mis
sile force soon will reach 91.
These include the 5,500-mile
Atlas TCBM, equal to more than
two millions tons of TNT, and
the submarine-fired Polaris with
a 1,200-mile range and warheads
equal to 400,000 tons of TNT.
By way of comparison, the
World War II atom bomb which
wrecked Hiroshima was rated at
20,000 tons of TNT.
•How U. S. missile strength
stacks up against that of the So
viet Union is kept secret, but
President Kennedy said in his
budget message to Congress this
week that “it has been publicly
acknowledged for several years
that this nation has not led the
world in missile strength.”
The latest missiles to go on the
line were nine Atlases in three
launching bases near Offut Air
Force Base at Omaha, Neb. These
bases were turned over to the
Strategic Air Command Friday.
SAC crews would fire them in
event of an enemy attack on the
United States.
These nine, plus 15 emplaced
earlier near Cheyenne, Wyo., and
three at Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California bring the ready
force of Atlases to 27.
The Nebraska launching sites
were the second such group to be
declared operational in March,
indicating that the lagging mis
sile base construction program
may be picking up.
In addition to liquid-fuel At
lases, a toal of 32 solid-fuel Po
laris rockets are aboard the sub
marines George Washington and
Patrick Henry.
Approaching combat readiness
is the submarine Robert E. Lee,
also armed with 16 missiles. It
has finished its firing tests.
A fourth missile sub, the Theo
dore Roosevelt, now is under
going firing drills and its 16 nu
clear-tipped rockets soon will
swell this country’s missile ar
senal.
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Fidel Castro Takes
To the Fairways
HAVANA UP> — Dark rumors
1 floated through Havana today
j that Prime Minister Fidel Castro
I — despite what he says — never
will be a winner at the imperial
istic game of golf.
Caddies who watched the Cu
ban leader and two aides indulge
in 18 holes of golf — previously
scorned as “sport of the privi
leged classes” — likened Castro’s
swing to a cane cutter wielding
a machete.
“Fidel will never be a golfer,”
one caddy said. “He’s too im
patient. He kept running after
the ball after he hit it as if this
were a soccer game.”
Castro declared himself most
satisfied and said, “I can beat
Kennedy easily.” A companion,
economic czar Ernesto Guevara,
said, “I’m sure I could beat even
Eisenhower.”
Both Castro and Guevara, in
mounting attacks on former Pres
ident Eisenhower, have repeated
ly ridiculed golf and those who
play it.
Havana buses still carry rem
nants of an anti-Eisenhower cam
paign-tattered signs reading “Ei
senhower is the world’s most
stupid golfer.”
Caddies said Castro shot some
thing over 150 on the 6,692-yard
par 70 Villareal course.
Castro’s venture into capital
istic sports is necessary relaxation
for officials who “work day and
night,” the government-controlled
press said.
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Christians Around
CJobe Attended
jSpeeial Services
By The Associated Press
Christians everywhere com
memorated joyously Sunday the
resurrection of Christ. But a som
i her note in an otherwise joyous
Easter Sunday was struck by con
tinuing international tension.
Fervent prayers for peace in a
just world were uttered at special
church services attended by mil
lions around the globe.
In Vatican City, Pope John call
ed men to the peace of the risen
Christ and, as he did a year ago,
spoke bitterly of violence that is
troubling the world.
More than a quarter of a million
people, including tourists from
many lands, cheered the 79-year
old pontiff of the Roman Ca ht
lic Church at St. Peter’s Basilica
In England, the Archbishoo of
Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher,
advised churches to refrain from
political controversies and thju
logical quarrels.
As the sun rose over the Jordan
sector of Holy City of Jerusalem,
pilgrims from Europe and Ameri
ca assembled in a quiet garden
around the mouth of an empty
tomb to commemorate Christ’s
resurrection.
A service was conducted in Ger
man and English in the garden
outside the city walls, built
around an ancient Semitic tomb
which looks very much like the
one from which the- stone was
rolled away on the first Easter
morning.
At Taipei on Formosa, Chinese
Nationalist President Chiang Kai
Shek, in an impassioned Easter
message, urged the world “not
to beg for peace from the Com
munists, who are the source of
sin.” The president and Mrs.
Chiang Kai-Shek, both Christians,
spoke their Easter meditations at
the private Methodist chapel near
their home.
In Warsaw, Cardinal Stefan
Wyszynski, primate of Poland,
assured Polish Catholics in an
Easter message that all attempts
to “close the lips of the church
are in vain because we must
rather obey God than men.”
The weather around the world
was a flickle as spring. New
York had bright sunshine but
a cold wind and, for a bit of
variety, a brief snow flurry. An
estimated 750,000 persons turned
out for the traditional fashion
parade along Fifth Avenue —
about half the number partici
pating last year.
Moscow had a white Easter.
Two inches of snow fell during
the night and snarled traffic for
foreigners attending Easter serv
ices. Easter for the Orthodox
Church comes next Sunday.
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State Supreme Court
Rules State Does Not Have
To Provide Transportation
JUNEAU i/P — The Stale
Supreme Court, in a 2-1 decision,
ruled today that the state does
not have to provide transporta
tion for students attending non
public schools.
Chief Justice Buell A. Nesbitt
and associate Justice Harry O.
Arend concurred in the majoiity
opinion, written by Arend. As
sociate Justice John H. Dimond
dissented.
The majority opinion said that
school transportation was a bene
fit and that such state benefits
could not be accorded to stu
dents of non-public schools.
Judge Dimond said in his
separate opinion that to grant as
sistance to some children and to
deny it to others “embodies the
dement of unfair treatment which
is so foreign to our American
tradition.”
The Supreme Court’s action was
based on a court suit filed in
Fairbanks on behalf of Judy Kay
Quinton of College.
NOTICE OF
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Annual Municipal and
School Board Election will be
held Tuesday, April 4. 1961 at the
City Hall, Nome, Alaska for the
purpose of electing the follow
ing officer's to-wit:
MAYOR
THREE MEMBERS OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR
TWO YEAR TERM
ONE MEMBER OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR
ONE YEAR TERM
CITY CLERK
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR FIVE YEAR
TERM
ONE MEMBER OF UTILITY
BOARD FOR TWO YEAR
TERM
ONE MEMBER OF UTILITY
BOARD FOR FIVE YEAR
TERM
A qualified voter must be at
least nineteen (19) years of age;
a citizen of the United Slates; a
resident of Alaska for one year
and of the City of Nome for thirty
(30) days prior to date of elec
tion.
Polls will be open at 8:00 o'clock
a. m. and close at 6:00 o'clock
p. m.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
House Votes Down 50-cent
Wage Increase Over
i'he National Minimum
JUNEAU UPt — The House Sat
urday tabled by a vote of 20-19 a
bill which would have placed
Alaska’s slate minimum wage at
50 cents above the national min
imum wage.
It was the second labor bill
to be thumbed dowrn.
Earlier in the day, the House
returned to the Rules Committee
a measure which would have pro
hibited importation of strike
breakers for employment during
labor disputes within the state.
The vote was 24-16.
American Citizen Released
By Chinese Communists
LONDON OP — Robert E. Mc
Cann, an American citizen jailed
for 15 years by the Communist
Chinese on charges of espionage,
is being freed and will leave China
Wednesday, Peiping radio an
nounced today.
Peiping said Communist author
ities decided to free the ailing
McCann after his wife, who visit
ed him in jail, appealed for his
release.
McCann is said to be dying of
lung cancer. He long w’as engaged
in business in China. He was jail
ed June 14, 1951 under a 15-year
sentence.
The release of McCann leaves
four other Americans, all con
victed of espionage, still in Red
Chinese prisons.
Peiping said Mrs. McCann, whp
arrived in Communist China last
j week to be with her ailing hus
band, had repeatedly asked for
| his release.
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