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62nd Year No. 90NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Bodies of Three
Nome Men Found
On t lie Beach
The bodies of Vincent Ahkolik,
brother of Mrs. Sam Mogg; Ver
non Kagoona, son of Perry Ka
goona, and Pat Kayouktuk of
Diomede Island, whose parents
are in Kotzebue, were brought to
town from several miles up the
coast by Eskimo oomiak, after
being spotted on the beach.
The three men were overdue
five days on a trip to Sinuk River
to pick up fish and Magistrate
James St. Armour asked that a
search be made.
Gene Farland of the U. S.
Weather Bureau, in his Taylor
craft with State Trooper Joe
Rychetnik as observer, headed up
the coast and stopped at Cripple
Creek River where Herbert James
reported finding two bodies on
the beach. The plane then flew
to where James had marked out
the bodies and located the third
body and upon return sent out an
oomiak to pick them up.
In the meantime the CAP and
U. S. Air Force were standing by
from Fairbanks to assist if need
ed, in the search.
Rep. Overton Brooks Says
U.S. will Put Spaceman
In Orbit Within 00 Days
BATON ROUGE, La. UR — Rep.
Overton Brooks, <D-La.>, was
quoted as saying the United States
plans to put a spaceman in orbit
in about 90 days.
Brooks, in a telephone inter
view with the Baton Rouge State
Times, said there won’t be any
more suborbital shots similar to
those involving astronauts Alan
B. Shepard Jr. and Virgil I. Gris
som.
The Louisiana congressman is
chairman of the House Space and
Astronautics Committee.
U.S. Lets Contract For
Nuclear Space Engine
WASHINGTON UR — Another
step toward development of a
nuclear-powered space rocket was
announced by the government to
day with award of a contract for
preliminary work on an atomic
engine.
The first six - month phase of
the work is estimated to cost $6.3
million. Aerojet General Corp.
was chosen as the principal con
tractor, with the Westinghouse
Electric Corp. as subcontractor
for nuclear portions of the work.
A start on development of the
nuclear reactor for the propul
sion system already has been
made at the Los Alamos, N.M.,
scientific laboratory.
National Security Agency
Fires 26 Sex Deviates
WASHINGTON UP) — Rep.
Francis E. Walter, <D-Pa.), said
today the National Security
Agency has fired 26 sex deviates
as security risks since two of its
code clerks defected to the So
viet Union last summer.
Walter said the information
was given the House Committee
on un-American activities in an
investigation of hiring procedures
at the secret defense agency.
The committee severly criti
sized the hiring procedures after
Bernon F. Mitchell and William
H. Martin fled to the Soviet
Union and it was learned Mitchell
had a record of sexual deviation
during his adolescence.
Gov. Egan Criticizes
Wall Street Journal on
Errors in Fact on Alaska
JUNEAU iJt — Gov. Egan today
called upon the Wall Street
Journal to correct what was term
ed a “grossly misleading picture”
of Alaska’s finances in a story
carried by the Journal yesterday.
The story was written by Ray J.
Shriek, a Wall Street Journal
staff reporter stationed in Port
land.
In a wire to William K. Kerby,
vice president of the Journal, and
Vermont Royster, editor of the
Journal, Egan said Shriek’s story
“contains serious errors in fact
and unwarranted inferences, gen
erally reflecting incomplete re
search by author.”
Egan 9aid the story contained
10 major omissions or errors of
fact, including the statement that
the state’s fiscal 1962 budget is
$131 million dollars.
Alaska’s fiscal 1962 general
fund budget, the true measure of
state expenditures, Egan said, is
$55,734,040.
Egan said the article was also
wrong when it said (11 Alaska’s
cash balance showed a sharp de
cline from July 1, 1960, to July
1, 1961, (2) the state has resorted
to “pump priming,” (3) state taxes
have soared since statehood, (4)
Alaska’s economy is depressed,
(5) tourism will be a big dis
appointment this year and (6)
there will be a slowdown in Alas
ka’s population growth.
Cuban Refugees to Be
Accepted as Volunteers
In U.S. Armed Forces
WASHINGTON UP) — The De
fense Department will accept
Cuban refugees as volunteers in
the U. S. Armed Forces, officials
said today.
However, a Pentagon spokes
man, in answering questions, em
phasized the plan is not aimed
at creating any special force for
a new attempt by Cuban rebels
to invade Cuba.
The plan is similar to that used
after World War II when refu
gees from some European and
other countries were accepted as
vounteers in the American Armed
Forces.
The spokesman said the plan
for accepting volunteers is mere
ly a part of an over-all program
of aid for the Cuban refugees,
primarily under direction of the
Health, Education and Welfare
Department.
It is intended to open one more
avenue of assistance for desti
tute people who have fled Fidel
Castro’s Communism.
American Motors Corp.
Offers Auto Workers
Profit-Sharing Plan
DETROIT CP) — American Mo
tors Corp. today offered the
United Auto Workers Union a
profit-sharing wage plan and a
seven-cent hourly wage increase
annually over the next three
years.
In exchange, American Motors
asked the UAW to give up cost
of-living allowance and annual
improvement factor clauses in
their current contract expiring
Sept. 7.
AMC’s was the first settlement
offer handed the UAW in nego
tiations started a month ago with
the auto industry. In 1958 profit
sharing was the union’s principal
goal but ifc failed to get it.
11-Year-Old Boy
Slays Postman -
Father Blames TV
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. UP) — A
grieving man says his 11-year-old
son learned to kill from television.
“I can’t think of any other an
swer,” said Junior Franks, the
father.
William Earl Franks told his
father at the Marshal County Jail
how he waylaid a rural mail car
rier and shot him to death with
a rifle.
Joseph R. Thompson, 37, the
postman, was killed Wednesday
about 300 yards from the house
near the Grant community where
William Earl lived with his di
vorced father and grandmother.
“I think the main cause is TV,”
the father said in a telephone
interview. “He liked the war
pictures and westerns.”
Franks described his son as
normal and said he made better
than average grades at the gram
mar school at Grant, where he
had been promoted to the sixth
grade.
Franks said he gave his son the
rifle for Christmas two years ago.
Sheriff Warren Jones said the
boy gave a statement Thursday
describing how he raised the flag
on a rural mail box, causing the
postman to stop, and then shot
him to death.
The sheriff said he used the
mail in the car to set the vehicle
on fire.
I The boy was held in Marshall
County jail but no charges were
filed immediately.
The postman’s cash box was
found open in the car. The amount
of money taken was not known.
None was recovered.
The sheriff said several books
of stamps and the postman’s watch
were recovered.
Five expended .22-caliber cart
ridges were found beside the car.
Jones and sheriff’s deputies be
gan a search for a rifle. It was
this search that led them to the
Franks house.
Alaskans Life Insurance
Rate Higher than Rest of 48
NEW YORK OP) — Alaskans are
purchasing ordinary life insur
ance at a rate considerably above
that for the rest of the United
States, an industry source said
yesterday.
Figures released by the Life In
surance Agency Management As
sociation show the face value of
protection purchased by Alaska
residents up 33 per cent for the
first half of the year.
Residents of the 49th state pur
chased protection valued at $28,
828,000 through June 30, the
association figures showed.
The reason, an industry spokes
man explained, is the increased
population of the state and the
recent opening of a number of
agency outlets.
Life insurance purchases are
lower so far this year in many
states. And for the nation as a
whole, purchases are no greater
than last year’s, the association
disclosed.
THE WEATHER
Continued cloudy with fog and
drizzle. Little change in tempera
ture. In the last 24 hours: High of
54. low of 43. Sunrise at 2:51
a. m., sunset at 9:23 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago: high
of 59, low of 48. Extremes on this
date since 1907: High of 74, in
1933, low of 35 in 1907.
Major TV Networks
Responsible for Crime
And Violence on TV
WASHINGTON OP* — A tele- j
vision show producer said today
the three major networks are
responsible for what he considers
excessive crime and violence on
TV.
He testified the networks write
letters asking for less violence,
but make telephone calls urging
“more sex, more violence, and
blacker villians so we can kill
them off in one big climax.”
The witness, Mauries J. Unger,
Hollywood manager for ZIV
United Artists said crime and
violence on shows seen by chil
dren could be limited if Congress
“reduced the excessive power”
of the three men who head the
big networks.
He said the three have a
stranglehold on programs and
have “more power than the Con
stitution gives Congress or the
Supreme Court.”
He added that if the Senate Ju
venile Delinquency Subcommit
tee headed by Sen. Thomas J.
Dodd, (D-Conn.), wants to im
prove shows, “it can convince the
seven men on the Federal Com
munications Commission to curb
the powers of the three men in
the networks.”
No Word Received from
j Castro on Hijacked Plane
WASHINGTON UP) — The State
! Department reported this after
noon that it had received no word
from Prime Minister Fidel Castro
on its demand that he return the
American airliner hijacked to
Havana Monday.
Press officer Lincoln White
gave this report about half way
to the 48-hour deadline Secretary
Dean Rusk set for a reply.
White declined to speculate
what action the United States
might take — if any — should
no response be forthcoming from
the Cubans by tomorrow.
Rusk told a news conference
yesterday that he expected a re
ply within 24 to 48 hours. Aides
said the U. S. Foreign Affairs
chief figured Castro would have
a chance to turn to pending dip
lomatic matters now that the four
day Cuban revolutionary celebra
tion is over.
Shepard and Grissom
"Too Busy” to Meet
Cosmonaut Gagarin
ST. LOUIS, Mo. UP) — Amer
ca’s two spacemen, Alan B. Shep
ard Jr. and Virgil I. Grissom,
turned down an invitation to meet
fellow space traveler Yuri Gaga
rin of the Soviet Union.
Col. John Power, information
officer for Project Mercury and
official spokesman for the astro
nauts, said the spacemen were
too busy.
RUSK RECEIVES
THANK-YOU MESSAGE
SEOUL, Korea (/P — Junta
leader Maj. Gen. Pak Chung-Hi
today cabled a thank-you mes
sage to U. S. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk for his statement of
support for the South Korean
regime.
Premier Song Yo-Chan also is
sued a statement welcoming
Rusk’s remark pledging efforts
to see that American confidence
in the military government is
justified and American aid money
is spent wisely.
French Boycott
U.No Debate On
Tunisian Dispute
UNITED NATIONS <4*—France
today boycotted a U. N. Security
Council debate on the French
Tunisian dispute and made it
clear it would ignore any Council
action.
At the same time, the French
delegation announced France was
ready to begin private negotia
tions with Tunisian officials in
Bizerte at once.
France’s seat at the Council
table remained vacant as the 11
nation body was called to order
more than 40 minutes after its
scheduled opening time.
The president of the Council
took note of France’s absence and
read to the members a note an
nouncing the French delegation’s
intention not to participate.
Earlier in Paris the French
government made clear it would
not be bound by any decision
the Council makes on the Bizerte
crisis.
Secretary-General Dag Ham
marskjold summoned the French
and Tunisian delegates for sepa
rate talks on the crisis in advance
of the Council meeting.
Hammarskjold, who returned
last night from Tunis, conferred
with other key delegates.
, His meeting with French dele
gate Armand Berard was his first
. personal contact with a French
. official since he flew to Tunisia
last Sunday to try his hand at
sett ing the French-Tunisian dis
pute over Bizerte.
He sought to confer in Paris
with President Charles De Gaulle
and Foreign Minister Maurice
Couve Dr Murville, but received
a brushoff.
Meanwhile, a block of Asian
and African nations pressed the
Council to back Tunisian demands
that France pull her troops out
of Tunisia and give up the huge
naval base at Bizerte.
France Will Not
Be Bound by Any
United Nation’s Decision
PARIS UP — France made it
clear today she will not be bound
by any decision the U. N. Se
curity Council makes on the
Bizerte crisis.
A government communique was
issued a few hours before the
council’s meeting on a new Tu
nisian complaint accusing France
of aggression at the naval base
and shortly before Adlai Steven
son, U. S. Ambassador to the Unit
ed Nations, called on President
De Gaulle.
Stevenson met with De Gaulle
for 50 minutes and said he is
“hopeful there will be a mutual
satisfactory resolution of this
unfortunate affair (Bizerte).
Stevenson insisted his meeting
with De Gaulle had been set up
before the Bizerte fighting. This
was also confirmed by a French
government source.
NOTHING DISCLOSED
MOSCOW UP — U. S. disarma
ment negotiator John McClay met
the Soviet chief disarmament
representative, Valerian A. Zor
in, for two hours at Spiridonovka
Palace today. Nothing was dis
closed about the talk.
A brief statement at the end
of the session merely said the
two would meet again but did
not disclose when.