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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
- VOL. LXI No. 71 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1959 Per Copy—15*
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Wien Propjet to
Commence Fast
Flights to Nome
The Wien Airlines propjet F-27
is scheduled to arrive here on
Wednesday with a party of 40
members of the Lions Club of
Fairbanks, on its initial flight to
Nome.
The plane will remain here
overnight, to leave at 8 a.m. on
, Thursday. Rotarians of Nome will
be guests of Wien Airlines, to at
tend a Rotery luncheon in Fair
banks with the Rotary Club. They
will return Thursday evening.
If arrangements can be made,
Midnight Sun Queen contestants
will be invited to make the flight,
stated station manager Pearse
Walsh.
The visiting Lions will be guests
i Wednesday evening at a no-host
• supper at the Sea View Room,
; sponsored by the Chamber of
j Commerce, and will return to
*: Fairbanks on Thursday evening.
West Holds Little
Hope for Progress
At Geneva Talks
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, (#) — American offi
cials said Saturday prospects ap
pear dim for the Soviet Union and
Western powers reaching any
agreement on Berlin and Germany
at the current Big Four foreign
ministers conference.
Advisers of Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter expect the
Soviets to launch a propaganda
offensive blaming the West for
failure of the talks and marshal
ing world pressure for a summit
conference anyway.
There is a possibility the West
ern foreign ministers may seek
a recess of their confernce and
leave the way open to get together
again.
Prsident Eisenhower has made
plain that he has no intention of
meeting Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev unless the foreign
ministers show enough progress to
justify a heads-of-government
conference.
Alaska Family Chosen
Boise ‘Tourists of Week'
BOISE, Idaho, UP> — The Boise
Exchange Club has chosen an
Alaskan family as the first of
13 “Tourists of the Week” to be
honored during the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Denning and
three boys of Kenai, were guests
of Boise businessmen. Their motel
bill was paid and meals were pro
vided free of charge Friday.
Dr. Eugene* Chaffee, president
of Boise Junior College, and Mrs.
Chafee, directed by the Dennings
on a sightseeing tour of the city
and the surrounding area, includ
ing the Boise Basin, famed for its
gold mining in the last century.
Each week the club plans to
pick a toutist for similar honors.
Dr. and Mrs. Chaffee stationed
themselves on a highway ap
proaching Boise, picked out a
likely car carrying out-of-state
plates and stopped it. The pro
gram was explained to the occu
ants who were invited to be guests
of Boise for the day.
BATTER UP!!
NOME’S SOFTBALL SEASON gets off to a flying
start today, with the first game pitting the pant
ing Polars against the National Guard warriors; and
the twin-bill finale taxing the strength of the A.N.B.
C.A.P. combination against A.C.S.-F.A.A. might.
THE TEAMS.
Polar Bar ,
Alaska Native Brotherhood —
Civilian Air Patrol (ANB-CAP)
Alaska Communications System
— Federal Aeronautics Adminis
tration (ACS-FAA)
SCHEDULE
June 15—Polar Bar vs. National
Guard; ANB-CAP vs. ACS-FAA.
June 17—Polar Bar vs. ANB
CAP; National Guard vs. ACS
FAA.
June 22 — Polar Bar vs. ACS
SAA; National Guard vs. ANB
CAP.
June 24—National Guard vs.
Polar Bar; ACS-SAA vs. ANB
CAP.
June 29—ANB-CAP vs. Polar
Bar; ACS-FAA vs. National
Guadd.
July 1—ACS-FAA vs. Polar
Bar; ANB-CAP vs. National
Guard.
| July 6—Polar Bar vs. National
Giant White Shark
Kills Skin Diver
At Calif. Beaeli
LA JOLLA, Calif., (£>—A shark
killed a skindiver while several
persons watched from the beach 50
yards away yesterday.
No trace was found of husky
Robert Pamperin, 33, a San Diego
aircraft engineer.
“I was swimming about 15 feet
from Bob,” said his companion,
Tom Lehrer, 30. “I heard him
calling ‘Help me, help me!’ ”
“I swam over to him. He was
thrashing in the water and I
could tell he was fighting some
thing underneath.”
Lehrer said he ducked under
the water and through his face
plate saw a shark. “It was so big
I thought at first it was a killer
whale,” he said. “It had a white
belly and I could see its jaws
and jagged teeth. It was a whopper
— about 12 feet. It was between
me and Bob and I could see him
kicking his legs at it but it kept
biting at him.
Lehrer said he popped to the
surface.
“But it was too late to do any
thing. Bob just went out of sight
and I couldn’t find him. So I
swam to shore.”
Pamperin’s wife Carolyn sat on
a porch at a nearby house, hyster
ical and sobbing, while lifeguards
in a boat and a Coast Gurd heli
copter scanned the water for 40
minutes.
Lifeguards believed Pamperin
was hit by a white 9hark, the same
species, blamed for fatally injur
ing Albert Kogler, 18, near San
Francisco, last month.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional light
rains. Winds 10-20 m.p.h., from
the east. Low tonight 40-45, high
tomorrow 55-60.
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Guard; ANB-CAP .vs. ACS-FAA.
July 8—Polar Bar vs. ANB
CAP; National Guard vs. ACS
July 15—Polar Bar vs. ACS
FAA.
FAA; National Guard vs. ANB
CAP.
July 20—National Guard vs.
Polar Bar; ACS-CAA vs. ANB
CAP.
July 22 — ANB-CAP vs. Polar
Bar, ACS-FAA vs. National
Guard.
July 27—ACS-FAA vs. Polar
Bar; ANB-CAP vs. Nationa
Guard.
The first game starts at 7 p.m.,
advise Nome Softball League
officials.
Father Lawreiice Nevue has
consented to umpire. Any other
people who wish to volunteer their
services in this capacity will be
welcomed, .and their offer appre
ciated, state officials.
I Castro Blasts Land
Reform Critics
HAVANA, Iff) — Fidel Castro
Saturday accused Cuban critics
of his government’s land reform
program of being unpatriotic. He
denounced them as “cheap cor
rupt politicians.”
The 32-year-old Prime Minister,
in a strong speech answering op
position inside the country, de
clared the revolution he led “will
crush all before it.”
In challenging Cubans who op
pose the agrarian law, the fiery
Prime Minister asserted “They
never even mention the fact we
took 50,000 eaballerias (1.6 million
acres) away from foreign owners.”
Doctors’ Air Armada
Enroute to Fairbanks
GREAT FALLS, Mont., UP) —
Forty small planes carrying about
120 physicians and their families
left here this morning, bound for
Alaska in a mass flight demon
strating the mobility of the flying
doctors.
They are members of the Fly
ing Physicans Association. They
will join a smaller group tomor
row at Edmonton, Alta. About 50
planes then will leave Wednesday
for Anchorage.
30 Small Town Editors
Will Visit Nome
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Thirty
editors of small town newspapers
will make an 11-day study tour
of Alaska in August. Later in the
month, another group will visit
the other new state. Hawaii.
The editors will leave Seattle by
plane August 1, and will be
greeted the nex,t day in Juneau
by Governor Egan, who invited
them. The group will visit Fair
banks, Kotzebue, Nome, the Mata
nuska Valley and Kodiak.
GIFTS FOR THE QUEEN
The traditional gifts for the Fes
tival Queen, which are given by
the business houses in town, will
be gathered tomorrow and Wed
nesday, and be put on display at
Polet’s.
Also on display will be the Fes
tival Queen’s robe and the Festival
prizes, which are a fur parka and
a polar bear rug.
The Queen Committee of the
NWA Chamber, headed by Del
Kampmann, Bob Harwood and Don
Collis, will be gathering the
Queen’s gifts. However, they can
be left at Polet’s by the donors.
Frightened Horse
Charges Queen
In London Parade
LONDON, tIf) — A cavalryman
fought with his frightened horse
Saturday to keep it from charging
into Queen Elizabeth II during
her official birthday celebration.
The cheers of thousands of spec
tators froze into one great gasp
as the big black horse reared and
plunged toward the Queen, only
10 yards away.
The cavalryman, in glittering
silver breastplate and flowing
plumed helmet, was in the last
row of the mounted escort. Just
behind was the Queen riding side
saddle on a chestnut police horse.
Dressed in close-fitting scarlet
jacket, blue sash and black tri
corner hat, the Queen rode out of
Buckingham Palace and into the
wide, tree-lined mall.
About 20,000 spactators cheered
her. The roar frightened the cav
alryman’s horse. It shied and
reared. As the big horse twisted
and turned toward the Queen,
the grim-faced cavalryman strug
gled to regain control. The Queen
just looked straight ahead. Not a
royal eyelid blinked.
Crew of 98 Rescued
From Burning
Atlantic Cable Ship
LONDON, UP) — A crew of 98,
including 10 Americans, was res
cued 500 miles out in the Atlantic
today when fire swept a British
cable-laying ship.
The ship, the Ocean Layer, was
completing the first telephone
cable linking the United States
directly with the European conti
nent.
Hours aftec the rescue by the
Hamburg-bound German freighter
Flavia, the Ocean Layer was still
burning.
The 10 Americans picked up
were employes of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., su
pervising the cable laying.
The 4,534-ton Ocean Layer was
stringing cable along the ocedn
bed toward France when a fierce
blaze broke out in her engine
room. Within 15 minutes after an
SOS asking for help, Capt. A. Mac
Pherson Ross reported he had
been forced to order the crew to
take to lifeboats.
An A.T.&T. spokesman in New
York said efforts were being made
to obtain a ship to replace the
Ocean Layer, the world’s second
largest cable-laying ship.
Native Fishermen
Opp ose State Ban
On Fish Traps
JUNEAU, (#> — Governor Egan
and the residents of three South
eastern Alaska communities have
reached an impasse in regard to
fish trap laws. The Governor says-'
he intends to enforce Alaska’s law
against fish traps; the natives say
they intend to continue using the
traps.
Egan visited the Indian villages
of Metlakatla and Kake Saturday
in an attempt to resolve an appar
ent conflict between federal fish
ing regulations and state law.
Federal law permits operations
of fish traps at the two villages
and at Angoon, a village Egan
was prevented from visiting be
cause of bad weather. State law
bans fish traps in all the state
waters.
“You . . . are under no obliga
tion to operate traps,” Egan told
the natives, “while I am sworn to
uphold the Constitution and state
law which forbids traps.
Egan, who is resuming -his duties
after a 25-day absence during
which he underwent surgery at
Seattle, said he made his state
ment not as a threat, “but in a
spirit of friendship.”
There are a total of 11 traps
sites involved in the dispute.
Florida Jury
Convicts 4 Whites
In Rape Trial
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., UP) — The
jury which convicted four white
youths for the mass rape of a
Negro co-ed decided against the
death penalty because there was
no evidence of brutality, the jury
foreman said last night.
A. H. King, a Tallahassee plan*
tation owner, described how the
verdict was reached as an atmos
phere of calm returned to Florida’s
capital city after weeks of ten
sion.
King said that “on the basis of
the testimony before us there was
evidence of threats with a gun and
knife but no brutality was in
volved.”
The foreman said the case was
decided on “the law and the evi
dence” without any consideration
of race.
“We would have returned the
same verdicts if the defendants
had been four Negroes,” King
said.
Psycho Hunted for
Boston Bombing
BOSTON, OP) — An escaped
mental patient with a knowledge
of home-made bombs was sought
over the weekend for questioning
about the bomb explosion Thurs
in a Rapid Transit waiting room
in which 38 were injured.
Police identified him as John
G. Feller, 23, of the Roslindale
section of Boston, who escaped
Tuesday from a mental hospital
at Wingdale, N. Y.
Feller was committed for hav
ing a home-made bomb in his
possession at a recent Fidel Castro
rally in New York. »