Commerce Dept. Seizes
Illegal Shipments to Cuba
WASHINGTON — A Com
merce Department official told the
Senate Internal Security Sub
committee Tuesday that more
’ than half a million dollars of il
legal shipments intended for
Cuba have been seized recently.
Dr. Jack Behrman, Deputy As
sitant Secretary of Commerce for
international affairs, said an in
tensive drive is toeing made to en
it5ak‘ force the embargo on trade with
the Fidel Castro regime.
Under the ban, only medicines
and food may be shipped to the
island. ■ '
Sen. Kenneth Keating raised the
question. He said he had a letter
from a New York trading com
pany stating that it was well
known there that a Cuban repre
sentative was buying embargoed
items and was paying with checks
on a Canadian bank.
Behrman asked Keating for
names and promised to look into
the case immediately. He said it
was possible this man already
had been arrested. A number of
prosecutions are under way in
similar instances, he testified.
Behrman said the United States
now buys only tobacco, fruits and
vegetables from Cuba. Purchases
of those items totaled $30 mil
lion last year, he said.
MAN-EATER SHARK . . .
KETCHIKAN U?> — A shark
which stranded on the beach at
Craig recently is a man-eater
seldom found north of California,
a University of Washington Fish
eries Institute research report
says.
Replying to an inquiry toy L. R.
Hall of Craig, William Royce, FRI
Director, identified the specimen
as a white shark or man-eater.
Its scientific name is carchardodon
carcharias.
Fin* Job Printing At Tha Nuggai
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Fallout Backfires
On Soviet Union
WASHINGTON «l — The' So
viet Union is getting a backfire
of radioactive fallout from its
■mammoth nuclear explosion, U.S.
Weather Bureau scientists re
ported.
They said the fallout was car
ried on winds blowing south to
southeast over the USSR.
The massive blast, triggered
.Monday in the atmosphere over
the Novaya Zemlya region in
the Arctic, may have been the
50-megaton explosion that Soviet
Premier Khrushchev had an
nounced. But the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission said it doubts
the detonation was that big.
The ABC said the blast’s yield
“was very high, possibly as high
as 50 megatons.” But it added
that preliminary analysis “indi
cates it was more probably on the
order of 30 megatons.”
There has been no word from
the Soviet Union on the explosion.
But either size, it was the
biggest man-made explosion in
history. A 30-megaton bomb re
leases energy equivalent to 30
million tons of TNT. It would
carry more punch than all the
previously announced 21 tests in
the current Soviet series. The
largest previous Soviet test was
estimated at about 10 megatons.
The biggest U.S. nuclear test has
been reported at 15 to 20 mega
tons.
Robert List, Chief of the
Weather Bureau’s atmospheric
radioactivity project, said the So
viet Union “would get more of
the immediate fallout” from the
explosion than other areas.
Since it was likely the bomb
was fired high in the atmo
sphere, List • said only a small
fraction of the fallout would sift
down immediately, that the great
er portion of it would be sucked
into the stratosphere and would
come down perhaps next spring.
But considering the size of the
blast, said List, the amount of
radioactive debris blowing over
Soviet farms, villages and towns
would be appreciable.
Two U.S. scientists said, how
ever, that in the long run the
United States will get most of
the fallout.
In Rochester, N.Y., physicist
Ralph Lapp said “because of the
latitude at which they test, we
get most of the fallout from the
Russian bombs.”
Insurance Representative
In Nome on Business
Phil Duncan, president of Alas
| ka Western Life Insurance is in
Nome on business for his com
pany.
He has spent many years in the
life insurance business, both in
Alaska and the lower 48. Alaska
Western was formed in 1956 and
in the short time the company
has been in business it has now
been rated fourth in the state
with insurance in force and third
in premium dollars income, out
of some 80 companies licensed to
do business, stated Mr. Duncan.
The company is now licensed and
operating in Alaska and Washing
ton State and is in the process
of filing for licenses in five ad
ditional western states.
A limited amount of capital
stock is now being offered for the
purpose of increasing the capital
and surplus of the company to en
able it to meet the higher require
ments for licenses in some of the
western states.
Mickey Mantle
Takes Slugging Crown
NEW YORK UP) — Mickey Man
tle of the New York Yankees, who
*ook a back seat to teammate
Roger Maris in the 1961 home run
race, captured the American
League slugging crown for the
third time with a .587 percentage.
Cincinnati’s Frank Robinson
won the National League slugging
title for the second straight sea
son with a .613 average, figures
compiled by the Associated Press
revealed today.
A year ago IMantle accumulated
the most total bases in the junior
circuit, but Maris wound up the
slugging leader at .581. This sea
son it was the reverse, Maris
leading in total bases and Mantle
topping tue sluggers.
Mantle, whose 54 home runs
were second best to Maris’ record
of 61, accounted for 363 total
bases in 514 times at bat. Among
his 163 hits were 15 doubles and 6
triples. The 30-year-old switch
hitter had previously annexed the
slugging crown in 1955 with .611
and 1956 with .705.
Robinson, whose productive bat
was instrumental in the Red’s
winning the National League pen
nant, collected 334 total bases in
545 H_:_
IT SLIPPED . . .
DECATUR, 111. <*> — Nurse
Charlotte Schultz can’t help but
show her smallpox vaccination
scar. 'It’s on her left thumb, and
it’s a beauty.
It wasn’t her idea, Mrs. Schultz
told friends. She was trying to
apply the needle to a squirming
youngster, and it slipped.
Letter
To The Editor
The National Junior Chamber
of Commerce is carrying on a
traffic safety and public educa
tion program on traffic safety
throughout the nation. We of the
local chapter have decided to do
the same here. As a member of
the committee studying our own
problems, I am at complete loss
at where to start.
Beyond any doubt, our chief
traffic problem is drunkeness
both on the part of drivers and
on the part of pedestrians. Even
one drink of alcoholic fluids can
slow a person’s reflexes to the ex
tent that he is potentially dan
gerous.
Next after alcohol: The condi
tion of some of the automobiles
running around our streets is de
plorable. There are cars that
actually fall apart on the streets.
This at times is amusing, how
ever, it is food for thought when
you see a car with the tierod fal
len off or one with a wheel that
has fallen off. There is no excuse
for this, if the owner exercises
even reasonable care and main
tenance. Besides the cases where
outright mechanical breakdown,
faulty steering gear, we have
many cars running around with
no windshield wipers, (some even
without windshields), faulty light
ing equipment, (some have been
without lights for years), and
faulty brakes, (some have no
brakes at all). As we talk to each
other, we laugh about these
things. How stupid can we be !
When you stop to think about
it, it is absolutely amazing that
we haven’t killed more people
around here. Kids play in the
streets completely disregarding
even the chance that cars may be
coming along. Pedestrians cross
Front Street, jaywalking and dart
ing out from between parked
cars. Drunks have actually passed
out while driving a moving auto.
Th^ average automobile is an
iron monster, capable of tremen
dous speeds and damage. It will
weight anywhere from 1,600 lbs.
up to 5,000 lbs. (Some of the
brakeless trucks exceed that by
many times). Despite this we as
pedestrians are continually step
ping out from between parked
cars right in front of these mon
sters, some of us not even look
ing to see if any are coining. A
person on foot can be splattered
by a car traveling only 20 or 30
miles per hour. We the public
of Nome (are playing a continu
ous game of “Russian Roulette.”
The victim naturally is usually
some innocent person such as a
child who doesn’t know any bet
ter.
As near as I can see it, the
basic problem, here, in our
so-called unique set-up is a mat
ter of our attitudes of we as in
divi duals Reams of educ&i tonal
materials, “gory” movies and
what have you will do no good
whatsoever unless we, the citi
zens, decide that “I myself might
be the first to suffer from this
problem,” and as a result improve
our own attitudes in the matter.
There is no solution unless: the
drunk starts realizing his limita
tions and rides a taxi instead of
driving or walking; the rest of us
start checking our cars for loose
tierods, defective brakes, and de
fective lights, and we all start
taking a constructive attitude
toward traffic safety and not con
tinue with this “only the devil
may care” attitude toward any
thing that may be slightly incon
venient—“okay for the other guy,
but not for me,” and start think
ing of the predicament we have
put our town in with our indi
vidual driving and walking habits.
Each of us, as drivers, citizens,
parents, pedestrians, and as plain
ordinary people, to improve con
ditions, will have to make a self
evaluation of our own habits, ask
ing the question, “am I acting in
such a manner that it is safe for
me and my neighbors?” “Am I
negligent regarding driving after
a party, on putting off repairs of
safety accessories of my car, and
when >1 tear stop signs out 'by
the roots?”
Unless we all lift ourselves out
of our habits by our boot straps,
we are going to kill some people
here in Nome. That person could
be you, me, or one of our chil
dren.
Respectfully,
Pete Hahn
Dial 2631 for
Arctic Sanitary
Service
“Truth or Consequences”
Yesterday morning at 11 o’clock
the editor of the Nome Nugget,
the editor of the leading Hono
lulu newspaper and the editor of
the Mexico News were connected
by phone to the “Truth or Conse
quences” television show origin
ating in Los Angeles to verify
the temperatures in these three
localities for the contestants on
the show. i
The winner of the contest
guessed the Mexico temperature
of 73 degrees exactly right, but
was one degree off on the Hono
lulu temperature which was 78
degrees and ten degrees off on
the Nome temperature, having
guessed 38 when it should have
been 28. She won $75.
Commentator for the show was
Bob Barker. Jim Chadwick, who
was formerly with the Alaska
Tourist Assn., is also with the
show.
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