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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI No. 92 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, .1959_Per Copy—15^
Nixon Fondles Babies, Calls for Better
Life, Makes Hit with Warsaw Crowd
By JOHN SCALI
WARSAW, Poland, Iff* — Vice
President Nixon met for more
than three hours today with Com
munist chief Wladyslaw Gomulka
and Premier Jozef Cyraniewicz.
Crowds continued to cheer him at
every turn.
About 5,000 enthusiastic Poles
gathered to watch Nixon place a
rose wreath at the tomb of the
unknown soldier in a, solemn cere
mony honoring Poland’s war dead.
Many in the crowd cheered him
with cries of “Live 100 Years,” a
traditional cheer in Poland.
An excited Polish worker
bolted through police lines and
grabbed Nixon in a fierce bear
hug, almost knocking him down.
Polish security agents pried
Nixon loose and pushed the man
roughly aside. Nixon was startled
momentarily but quickly regained
his composure. The Vice Presi
dent’s aide said the man meant
no harm and that he wanted to
hoist Nixon on the shoulders of
the crowd.
“Neexon,” “Neexon,” cried
many spectators as the Vice Pres
ident drove through the city in a
black automobile flying the Amer
ican flag and the red and white
Polish banner.
Herbert C. Klein, Nixon’s press
officer, reported that the calls on
Poland’s president Alexander Za
wadski at Belvedere Palace this
morning and on Parliament speak
er Czeslaw Wycech were “very
friendly in every respect. Nixon’s
call on Gomulka stretched out
through lunch time. The two men
discussed international problems
so intently they decided they
might as well continue. Gomulka
arranged to have luncheon served.
During the ceremony at the
tomb, one of the Nixon’s well
wishers handed the Vice Presi
dent his 5-year-old daughter to
hold. Nixon held the girl in his
arms, turned to the crowd around
him, and called out as they ap
plauded:
“We must all work for a better
life for our children.”
Downed 'Copter Occupants Used Only
Flare to Signal Rescuers from Glacier
By WILLIAM A. TOBIN
JUNEAU, <£> — A single smoke
flare, saved for use at just the
right moment, brought rescue yes
terday to two men marooned
seven nights and days high on the
barren face of an Alaska glacier.
The flare was sighted by a heli
copter pilot participating in a
week-old sea~and air search over
the mountains and through the
valleys and inlets of rugged Gla
cier Bay National Monument. .
Although the two were saved,
the body of a third man remained
with the wreckage of a helicopter
in which they crashed last Sun
day at the 5,800-foot level on Gil
man Glacier.
Dead was Robert Baldwin of
Ridgefield, Conn., a geophysicist
for the Newmont Exploration Co.,
of New York City. He was fatally
injured in the crash.
Bearded and weary, bruised but
otherwise not seriously hurt, were
Robert Sheldon and Melvin Guer
rera. They survived through chill
ing ' temperatures and heavy rain
with the aid of a sleeping bag and
emergency food rations.
Wanted Baths
“The first thing they wanted
were baths,” said Dr. Joseph O.
Rude of Juneau, who treated the
men after their arrival at Ju
neau’s St. Ann’s Hospital.
“There’s nothing seriously
wrong,” he said. “Nothing a few
days’ rest and good food won’t
fix.”
Sheldon, a Newmint geologist
from Spokane, was working with
Baldwin at an oil exploration
camp at Brady Glacier in the Na
tional Monument area. Guerrera,
28, formerly of Reno, is a pilot
for Petroleum Helicopters of Laf
ayette, La., working on a charter
for the Netvmont firm.
Adverse winds on the flight
over the glacier a week ago Sun
day apparently led to the heli
copter crash, the U. S. Coast
Guard rescue center here said.
Dr. Rude quoted the survivors
as saying the ’copter “slid down
the ice and turned over.”
I “Both Sheldon and Guerrera
j were knocked unconscious,” the
doctor said he was told.
“Baldwin apparently remained
conscious, but suffered fractures
and shock set in.” He died sev
eral hours after the crash.
Used Their Heads
A Coast Guard spokesman said
the flare fired by the two men
was the only one aboard.
“One search plane passed far
overhead, but they couldn’t af
ford to waste the one shot. They
really used their heads — it took
a lot of courage to wait for the
right moment.”
The search area was covered
by rain and low clouds for more
than three days last week, and
few aircraft were able to take
part until Saturday.
Bartlett Proposes
Juneau Power - If
Industry Signs Up
WASHINGTON, UP) — A 40-mil
lion dollar federal power project
near Juneau was suggested today
— if a pulp mill company agrees
to buy power.
Senator Bob Bartlett said he
will introduce the necessary legis
lation only if Georgia Pacific Alas
ka Co. builds its proposed news
print mill near Juneau.
“If the company acts quickly,
it may be possible to speed along
authorizing legislation this year,”
he said.'
The project would involve water
diversion from Long and Crater
Lakes through tunnels to a tide
water generating plant on Speel
Inlet.
The project would produee some
290 million kilowatt-hours of
firm, low-cost energy annually.
Of this total, the mill could use
some million kilowatt-hours, Bart
lett said.
Georgia Pacific has a contract
from the U. S. Forest Service
granting timber cutting rights
provided it has a pulp mill in
operation by 1964.
Bartlett Charges
Alaska Has Only
‘Paper Defense’
FAIRBANKS, UP>—Alaska has a
“paper defense” that threatens
the security of the entire nation,
Sen. Bob Bartlett charged Friday.
“I am going to find out what
has happened to those back in
the Pentagon charged with pro
viding defense not only for Al
aska but for the entire nation,”
Bartlett said.
The senator, straying from his
prepared talk before the Assn, of
Local Transport Airlines, refer
red several times to a speech
made Wednesday in Anchorage
by Lt. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong,
commander of Alaskan military
forces.
Gen. Armstrong charged that
two enemy bombers could im
mobilize Alaska’s defenses and
lead the way to destruction of
West Coast cities.
“It was shocking to learn that
Alaska has what amounts to no
defense at all after we have spent
millions of dollars maintaining
what we believed to be a reason
ably adequate defense,” Bartlett
said.
“I intend to return to Con
gress and bring the attention of
the entire nation to this alarming
situation from the floor of the
United States Senate.”
—
Coast Guard, C.A.P.
Rescuers Search for
Two Southeast Boaters
JUNEAU, >— A badly dam
aged 19-foot outboard boat was
found north of here Sunday and
a search was launched for two
men who were aboard the craft.
The men, Dick Carter and Roy
Lohse, left Skagway for Juneau
early Saturday. Their boat was
found 'by personnel of a Coast
Guard light station 50 miles north
of Juneau in Lynn Canal.
The Coast Guard’s search and
rescue center at Juneau dispatched
a 95-foot patrol boat to search
for the men. Planes of the Civil
Air Patrol and Coast Guard also
took part in the search.
SUNDAY RESULTS
American League
Chicago 3-9, Washington 2-3.
Baltimore 5-3, Cleveland 8-6.
Boston 5, Detroit 4.
New York 7, Kansas City 5.
National League
St. Louis 4-5, Milwaukee 3-IP!
Cincinnati 2, Chicago 0.
San Francisco 5, Pittsburgh 3.
Los Angelfes 4, Philadelphia 3.
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 3-5, Vancouver 1-4.
Sal Lake 6-4, Portland 1-1.
Phoenix 5, Seattle 4.
Sacramento 9, Spokane 4.
TWO SURPLUS BUILDINGS
TO BE AUCTIONED AUG. 24
ANCHORAGE — Two surplus
frame buildings at Nome will be j
sold to the highest bidders at a
sale on August 24 by the U. S.
Army Engineer District, Alaska.
Bids will be received until 2
p.m. AST on the 24th and then
opened at the Anchorage head
quarters of the District. Pros
pective bidders can obtain further
information from U. S. Army En
gineer District, Alaska, Real Es
tate Division, P. O. Box 7002, An
chorage, Alaska.
Eisenhower and Khrushchev will Swap
Autumn Visits for Informal Confabs
WASHINGTON, UR — President
Eisenhower and Soviet Premier
Khrushchev will exchange visits
this fall — thus taking into a
new phase of diplomacy the East
West differences on which world
peace hangs.
Khrushchev’s visit here — a
historic first by a top leader of
Soviet Communism — will be in
September. Eisenhower will go
to Moscow later in the year.
In Warsaw, Vice President Nix
on said he understood Khrush
chev would go to the United States
about September 15.
Almost identical announcements
of the plans were made here and
in Moscow — the differences ap
parently only those of transla
tion.
Eisenhower called a special
news conference to make the an
nouncement here. Exchanges at
the meeting with reporters devel
oped also:
1. Before meeting with Khrush
chev here, Eisenhower will go to
Europe later this month to con
fer with British Prime Minister
MacMillan, French President De
Gaulle and West Germany’s Chan
cellor Adenauer.
2. Exchanges on the question of
Khrushchev — Eisenhower visits
have been going on for some time;
they were initiated well before
Vice President Nixon went to the
Soviet Union.
Eisenhower said he told Nixon
on the day the Vice President
left that negitiations in written
form were in progress looking
toward an exchange of visits be
tween Khrushchev and himself.
Eisenhower said he told Nixon v
not to open the subject of the
exchange visits, but that there
was no prohibition in him dis
cussing the matter once the sub
ject was opened up.
In telling of his plans to go to
Europe to confer with the heads
of state of Great Britain, France
and West Germany, Eisenhower
said coordination between the al
lied powers has been good.
As to whether all this may lead
to a summit conference of East
and West, Eisenhower said such a
conference was absolutely im
practical unless there were ad
vance indications of positive re
sults.
But with the prospective col
lapse of the Geneva foreign min
isters conference, it was obvious
that there was opening up now a
new, higher level of exchanges
which the Western Allies hope
may bring some alteration in So
viet positions on the great issues
between the East and West.
First reaction in Congress to the
forthcoming Eisenhower-Khrush
chev visits was favorable, though
not unanimously so.
* Senator Dirksen of Illinois, Re
publican leader, said the talks if
successful could “enshrine the
President as the boldest and most
determined peacemaker in many
generations.”
But Senator Caphart (R-Ind)
protested that “it looks like we’re
again being taken in by the
Russians.”
Khrushchev is expected to visit
Washington for two or three days
to engage in, as the announce
ment put it. informal talks with
the President.
Plans are for the Soviet leader
to put in another 10 days or so
in travel about the United States.
The hope obviously is that
these travels may change some of
Khrushchev’s ideas about the
strength and character of this
country and its people.
Khrushchev has been throwing
out hints for months that he was
ready and willing to accept an
invitation to visit the United
States.
Until today, the public White
House reaction has been cautious.
Obviously educated speculation
that Nixon would recommend an
invitation began to appear in dis
patches by accompanying news
men soon after Nixon reached
Moscow.
Eisenhower told his news con
ference that he initiated formal
discussions early in July leading
to the agreement for an exchange
of visits. „
Rockefeller Son
To Wed Former
Family Maid
KRISTIANLAND, Norway, tR—
Steven Rockefeller and a former
maid in his wealthy family’s home
plan a late summer wedding in
a small Lutheran church in Nor
way.
Governor and Mrs. Nelson
Rockefeller of New York said
they are delighted at their son’s
engagement to Anne Marie Ras
mussen, 21, pretty blonde daught
er of a prosperous Kristianland
grocer.
“She is a wonderful girl,” the
Governor said.
Announcing their engagement
Sunday, the young couple did not
set a wedding date. But a friend
of the Rasmussen family said it
would probably be August 22.
It will be performed by the
Reverend Olav Gautestad in the
Lutheran Church at nearby Soeg
ne. The pastor is an old friend
of the Rasmussens. The Rocke
fellers are Baptists.
The Goyernor had indicated he
and his wife will come to Scan
dinavia for the wedding.
Steven, 23, and the third of his
parents’ five children, first met
Anne Marie when she came to the
United States in 1956 to learn
Eriglish and worked for a tim as
a maid in his home. She left the
Rockefeller employ in 1957 to
work in a New York department
store, then worked for an insur-.
ance firm in New York.
After serving an Army hitch,
young Rockefeller flew to Oslo
July 10 and met Anne. Marie.
They came on to her home by
motorcycle, and the romance ru
mors have been booming ever
since. -
“This will change my life com
pletely,” Anne Marie said. “Ev
erything will become different for
me, but what I have brought with
me from the home of my child
hood will always remain with me.”
RICKOVER SHOWS NO
INTEREST IN BIRTHPLACE
WARSAW, Ud — Vice Admiral
Hyman Rickover, touring with
Vice President Richard Nixon,
showed no interest today in his
birthplace, the village of Ricki.
Asked whether he intended to
visit Ricki, he replied:
“What for?”