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VOL. LXII No. 108 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1960 _Per Copy 15^
Jet Age Brings Soaring Profits And
New Problems to World’s Airlines
COPENHAGEN, UPl — The jet
age brought soaring profits and
new problems to the world’s ma
jor airlines last year.
Sir William Hildred, director
general of the International Air
Transport Association, told the
IATA 89 member airlines today
that lower fares sparked the
boom.
In his report to the IATA’s 16th
annual general meeting, Hildred
pictured the industry as halfway
through the jet re - equipment
program and already faced with
the coming era of supersonic air
craft.
Operating profit for the world’s
airlines in 1959 jumped to 3.1 per
cent. It was less than half of
one per cent the year before. Net
operating profit for the airlines
last year was $140 million. In
1958 it was only $15 million.
‘'More people are traveling by
air than ever before—97 million
last year as against 31 million
ten years ago,” Hildred said.
“Lower fares, in both real and
monetary terms,” have played a
vital role in developing interna
tional traffic so far.” Hildred said ,
the industry had to continue low- j
ering fares “the hard way” by
cutting down operating costs still
further.
Sixty per cent of passenger in
crease was carried on U.S. dom
estic lines, reflecting a “restored
vitality” in the U.S. industry.
World airlines will be flying 290
jets by the end of this month. By
the end of 1962 they will have 600.
Conversion to jets has brought
airlines new sets of problems in
financing to buy $5 million planes,
providing elaborate new ground
equipment, and other matters.
More than $50 million has been
spent developing sound suppres- !
sors for jet engines. These also |
cost airlines a quarter ton of ]
payload on each jet flight due to
decreased power.
Another problem is old planes, i
Hildred estimated there will be a j
surplus of upwards of 1,800 piston |
engine aircraft by the end of next!
year. Some will be used for air j
cargo, but getting rid of most is j
a major worry, he said.
Lumumba Fired
As Congo Premier
LEOPOLDVILLE, UPl— Premier
Patrice Lumumba was taken into
custody by the army late today,
but three hours later he was re
leased.
He penetrated the cordon
■ around Leopoldville radio station,
now under United Nations con
trol, and demanded that he be
allowed to speak.
Ghana soldiers said they had
orders to fire if he tried to get
into the station.
President Joseph Kasavubu had
named a new government to re
place Lumumba’s Communist
backed regime.
Lumumba was taken to Camp
Leopold II, an army garrison, and
was followed there soon after
ward by his wife and two chil
dren.
About 200 Congolese soldiers
surrounded his residence over
looking the Congo river and the
lanky, goateed Lumumba sur
rendered without a struggle.
Senate President Joseph Ileo, a
moderate, is Kasavubu’s choice to
run the country.
Lumumba has been premier
since the Belgians gave the Congo
its independence 10 weeks ago.
Kasavubu, as president, nominal
ly outranks him and has the right
to nominate a premier. But Lum
umba in the last two weeks had
been trying to supersede Kasa
vubu; each declared the other
fired at one stage.
Lumumba, 34, is a former post
al clerk, once imprisoned for em
bezzlement, whose regime has
been sliding toward the Commun
ist bloc in the Congo’s 10V6 weeks
as a free nation. His repeated
threats to invite in Soviet troops
were never executed, but he ob
tained Soviet bloc planes, trucks
and technicians to help fight his
Congolese foes.
Ileo said the president had de
cided to fire Lumumba because of
Coast Guard Suspends
Search For Three Men
Of Sunken Tug Tom
JUNEAU, (/Pi—The Coast Guard j
said Sunday it will wait until
clues turn up before making fur- i
ther search for three men who J
were aboard a Seattle tugboat be
lieved to have sunk in Alaska
waters.
Three Coast Guard planes scan
ned the Stephens Passage area 75
miles south of Juneau over the
weekend in continuation of a
search begun Thursday.
The barge which the tug Tom
had been towing was seen that
day with its towline pointing
downward. The vessel George S.
said sonar indicated the Tom was
on the other end of the line.
Aboard the Tom were Capt.
Earl Long, 42, North Bend, Ore.;
Myrton Voellger, 36, Poulsbo,
Wash., and William Pavoa, 40,
Honolulu.
At Seattle an official of the
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging
Co., owner of the Tom, said grap
pling operations might be tried
in efforts to raise the tug. He said
there is a strong A-frame on the
Tom’s bow that might be caught
in a grappling hook.
Not a Prediction—Just a Mistake
WASHINGTON, (/PI—- The Na
tional Aviation Club said Monday
its roster lists the White House as
the address of one of its mem
bers, Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, but denied it was going
i in for predictions.
I The club’s monthly publication,
Aerolog, said the listing was due
to a clerical error and not to any
overconfidence on the part of
Nixon.
the latter's actions against the
press and civil liberties and his
request for Soviet aid outside the
U.N. framework, plus arbitrary
arrests and searches that “created
an atmosphere of fear among the
I population.”
“WAR” IS OVER
“The sounds of battle have died
away, the enemy was repulsed
and routed,” Major Larry Flan
agan said concerning the military
problem which was worked over
during the past three days in the
foothills between Satellite Field
and Basin Creek.
It was not an ambitous exercise
he added but it was well organ
ized and the results were gratify
ing and successful.
The last of the 300 men who
were brought in for the exercise
leave today and it looks like it
might be an annual event. An
other such exercise is scheduled
for Barrow in December and
Nome can look for an aerial ex
ercise sometime in February with
about 250 men.
Major Flanagan told the Cham
ber of Commerce this noon that
there will be increased emphasis
on the defense of the coast from
now on. It will not be undefended
as in the past.
The army men enjoyed the hos
pitality of the community, espec
ially the Eskimo Dances Sunday
evening at King Island Village.
Richard Nixon Kicks Off
His Campaign Today
BALTIMORE, WWVice Presi
dent Richard Nixon officially
kicked off his presidential cam
paign today by promising to carry
the “peace issue” to the voters in
all the 50 states.
“The overriding issue, the GOP
nominee told a cheering crowd at
Baltimore’s Friendship airport,
“is keeping the peace without
surrender and extending firee-l
dom throughout the world.”
Nixon, with President Eisen
hower and other top Republicans,
joined in launching a 9,000-mile,
first-lap campaign carrying him
to Indianapolis, Dallas and San
Francisco, spoke inside a hall of
the airport because of the heavy
rains from the fringes of hurri
cane Donna.
President Eisenhower said that
to his mind the hurricane “is a
good omen.” He recalled a rain
storm at Abilene, Kan., where he
launched his own campaign in
1952.
Sen. Thruston Morton, the GOP
national chairman, asserted it was
the first time he had “launched
a campaign in the middle of a
hurricane.” He applauded the
hardy crowd, who, like Eisen
hower, drove through the heavy
rains to attend the meeting.
Nixon was in good campaign
form, and earlier pledged his best
efforts to keep the religious is
sue out of the presidential race.
The vow came on television
Sunday night as the Republican
candidate called for a cutoff date
on the discussion of religion.
“I would hope that Sen. Ken
nedy would reach the same con
clusion,” Nixon said, “because if
the two candidates refrain from
raising the issue, that means that
at least to that extent it won’t
be in the news.
In San Diego, Calif., Sen. John
Kennedy, the Democratic candi
date, quickly agreed.
Hurricane Donna
Hits New York City
Hurricane Donna, ripping its
way north, struck today at metro
politan New York. The southern
Connecticut coast was ordered
evacuated. The weather bureau
in Boston warned that it may be
the most damaging storm ever to
hit New England.
Thousands were evacuated from
Long Island’s south shore. The
weather bureau said the storm
was moving at 35 miles an hour
on a course which would take it
off the tip of Long Island—100
miles east of New York City—
sometime this afternoon.
New York City itself was get
ting stiff fringe effects of the
storm.
Trees and utility wires were
toppling on Long Island’s south
shore before noon.
The storm pounded into the
metropolitan area after wreaking
death and destruction on an er
ratic path that took it across
Puerto Rico, the Florida Keys,
back across Florida and the east
ern edge of North Carolina and
Virginia.
The storm had accounted for at
least 134 deaths before striking in
the metropolitan area, 120 of
them in Caribbean islands.
Florida Faces
Massive Repairs
In Wake of Donna
MIAMI, Fla., UP — Floridians
planned massive repair and clean
up projects today in the wake of
one of the century's worst hurri
canes.
Gov. LeRoy Collins said he in
tended to ask President Eisen
hower to declare portions of south
Florida a major disaster area and
schedule a helicopter flight to
stricken sections.
An estimated 250,000 homes
were without electricity and
thousands of telephones were still
out after passage of killer hurri
cane Donna.
Seven persons were known
dead in the state and two others
were missing and presumed dead.
Southeastern Red Cross head
quarters in Atlanta listed 75 per
sons injured and 57 hospitalized.
The Red Cross reported 655
homes destroyed in Florida and
said 3,208 received major damage
and 9,299 minor damage.
Property damage in the Florida
Keys alone was estimated by in
surance adjusters at between $30
and $40 million. Fort Myers and
Lee County sustained damage es
timated at $70 to $80 million.
| Damage to the state’s $250 mil
lion citrus crop was expected to
run as high as 50 to 80 per cent
in some areas.
Marines armed with Ml rifles
and orders to sihoot any looters
patrolled the wreckage in the
Keys.
The Army, Navy and Air Force
joined in a gigantic cooperative <
military effort to reopen the over
| seas highway to Key West.
| Firty Air Force transports
I started flying 117 Army bridge
j building experts and 810,000
pounds of steel into the area to
' replace five bridges destroyed
I when Donna hit the Keys.
Kennedy Believes
In Separation of
Church and State
HOUSTON, Tex., MV-Sen. John
F. Kennedy told Protestant min
isters Monday he believes in ab
solute separation of church and
state, with no Catholic prelate
telling a Catholic president how
to act.
At the same time, Kennedy said
he believes in an America where
no Protestant minister tells his
congregation for whom the con
gregation should vote.
Kennedy is a Roman Catholic,
and in predominantly Protestant
Texas, as well as in many other
parts of the nation, this has be
come an important, if not the
most important factor, in the
presidential election.
“Because I am a Catholic,” he
said in his prepared speech, “and
no Catholic has ever been elected
President, the real issue in this
campaign has been obscured.”
“So it is apparently necessary
for me to state once again—not
what kind of church I believe in,
for that would be important only
to me—but what kind of America
I believe in.”
This, Kennedy said, is it:
“I believe in an America where
the separation of church and state
is absolute — where no Catholic,
prelate would tell a President
(should he be Catholic) how to
act, and no Protestant minister
would tell his parishioners for
whom to vote—where no church
or church school is granted any
public funds or political prefer
ence—and where no man is de
nied public office merely because
his religion differs from the
President who might appoint him
or the people who might elect
him.”
100 Religious Leaders
Oppose Religion As
Campaign Issue
NEW YORK, WV—Setting class
against class, race against race
and religion against religion is a
vicious practice repugnant to all
Americans, says a group of 100
Protestant, Jewish and Catholic
leaders.
The group called on their or
ganizations to oppose any at
tempts to make religious affilia
tion the basis of voter’s choice in
the presidential campaign.
They called their statement,
made Sunday, “an attempt to ex
tract a higher ethic regarding re
ligion and politics that would be
applicable to the practical con
siderations of the current presi
dential campaign.”
Last week, a Protestant group
led by Dr. Normal Vincent Peale
issued a statement which said
a Roman Catholic President
would be “under extreme pres
sure by- the hierarchy of his
church.”
Dr. Peale, a supporter of Re
publican presidential nominee
Richard Nixon, said later, how
ever, that the public agitation of
religion as an issue in the cam
pagin would be “in the long run
harmful to our country.”
Nixon is a Quaker and his
Democratic opponent, Sen. John
Kennedy, is a Catholic.