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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXII No. 63 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1960 Per Copy 15*
‘Business As Usual’ Without Panic, Is
Eisenhower Answer to Soviet Storming
WASHINGTON, UO — President
Eisenhower declared tonight
America must continue “business
like dealings with the Soviet
leaders” despite the blowup of
the Paris summit conference.
“I think,” Eisenhower told the
nation, “we must not write the
record all in red ink. There are
several things to be written in
black.”
In a prepared radio-TV report
to the nation on the summit
collapse last week, the President
conceded that Soviet action lead
ing to that collapse “has turned
the clock back in some measure.”
But he added that it should be
noted that Soviet Premier
Khrushchev “did not go beyond
invective — a timeworn Soviet
device to achieve an immediate
objective.”
After declaring “We must keep
up our strength, and hold it
steady for the long pull,” Eisen
hower asserted:
Reason and Common Sense
“We must continue businesslike
dealings with the Soviet leaders
on outstanding issues, and improve
the contacts between our own and
the Soviet peoples, making clear
that the path of reason and com
mon sense is still open if the So
viets will but use it.”
Although this was billed as a
report to the American people, it
was meant for the ears of the Rus
sians, too. The White House had
made a special plea that the So
viets not jam rebroadcasts of Eis
enhower’s words in Russian and
other languages.
Eisenhower dealt at some length
with the American spy plane
episode on which Khrushchev
seized to bring the summit meet
ing to collapse.
He recalled his ‘‘open skies”
proosal of five years ago for re
ciprocal aerial inspection of
ground installations. He said the
offer still is open, and repeated the
United States intends to submit
such a proposal at the appro
priate time to the United Nations,
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Gromyko Prepares
Summation to U.N.,
Blasting U. S. ‘Aggression’
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Iff!
— The Soviet Union today de
layed an expected vote on the spy
plane issue until Thursday to per
mit Foreign Minister Gromyko
more time to prepare a summing
up speech.
The United States had hoped
for a vote late today, but ack
nowledged that Gromyko held the
key since it was his comlaint that
the Council was debating and his
resolution which was up for
action. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge will answer Gromyko be
fore the vote.
Tunisia, meanwhile, made a fer
vent appeal to the big powers to
resume East-West negotiations
and head off a full-scale return
of the cold war.
The (U. N. Security Council
neared the end of its debate on the
Soviet Union’s demand that the
United States be condemned as
an aggressor for the May 1 flight
of a U-2 intelligence plane over
Russian territory. The Council is
expected to reject the Soviet res
olution.
Colorado Governor Says
U. S. State Chiefs Heard
Moscow Boast of Spying
DENVER, Iff) — Governor Steve
McNichols of Colorado said Tues
day that Soviet Premier Khrush
chev virtually admitted the Soviet
Union has espionage agents in the
United States when he talked last
July to visiting American Gov
ernors.
McNichols said when Khrush
chev talked to them in the Krem
lin, the Soviet Premier said that
his country has vast knowledge of
what goes on in the State Depart
ment through “our intelligence
reports.”
The Coloradoan added that
Khrushchev told them he had
copies of U. S. State Department
documents and could show them
to the Governors.
McNichols quoted Khrushchev
as saying that Russia had docu
ments indicating that the Amer
icans thought that when Russian
citizens saw the American ex
hibit in Russia last summer they
would rise up and overthrow the
Russian government.
Forest Fire Rages
Out of Control at
Fort Yukon Village
FAIRBANKS, UP) — The village
of Fort Yukon, 125 miles north
east of Fairbanks, is being threat
ened by an out-of-control forest
fire today.
Virtually all the able-bodied
men in the village are battling the
blaze. Fred Varney, fire control
officer for the Bureau of Land
Management here, said 112 men,
two bulldozers and a grader are
strung along a neight-mile fireline
fronting on the village, which is
now less than a half mile from
the path of the flames.
Varney said more than 3,500
acres of forest land have already
gone up in smoke and added he
believed the fire was man-caused.
T&e blaze near the largest In
dian village on the Yukon River
broke out Monday and has raged
out of control for more than 60
hours.
“It’s still touch and go,” Varney
said. “If there are no strong west
erly winds, the White Alice site
and the village will escape harm.”
A bright pink-colored BLM F-51
plane, known as “The Pink Lady,”
has been placed in service to spot
fires in the Interior, and to trans
port crews.
“This plane will be of great
help in keeping fires under con
trol and evaluating their extent,”
Varney said.
Hawaii Warned Again
Of Approaching Wave
HONOLULU, UP*—Civil Defense
headquarters sounded another
tidal wave alert for the Hawaiian
Island today and urged coastal
area residents to evacuate.
A Civil Defense spokesman said
the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey reported unusual wave activ
ity at Christmas Island at 11 a.m.
That island is about 1,000 miles
south of the Hawaiian chain.
Civil Defense reported at 1:06
p.m. the wave would strike the
Hawaiian chain “in ten minutes
or so” if it struck at all.
The spokesman said it had not
been determined where the wave
orignated but presumably it was
off the Chilean coast.
j Rockefeller Would
j Accept Draft
I ALBANY, N. Y., (Ifi — Governor
! Nelson Rockefeller said today he
would accept a draft for the Re
publican nomination for Presi
dent, but the selection of Vice
President Nixon as the party’s
candidate “obviously is to be ex
pected.”
Rockefeller added, however,
that “These are very fast-chang
ing times.”
He commented at a news con
ference that followed a closed
door meeting at which New York
Republican leaders agreed that
their 96-vote delegation should go
to the party convention uncom
mitted.
Rockefeller told reporters:
“If there were a draft for the
Presidency ... in all candor, I
would accept.”
The leaders decided against
proposals to commit themselves
to Rockefeller now as a favorite
son candidate.
Party sources said it was felt
this would be going too far, in
view of Rockefeller’s repeated
statement that he is not and does
not intend to become an active
candidate.
The political developments sur
rounding the Governor occurred
as Nixon unofficially passed the
666-vote total needed to win the
nomination at the convention,
which begins July 28.
The whole strategy of Rocke
feller and the New York Repub
lican leaders is based on the pos
sibility, which they concede is
remote, that national or interna
tional developments will make it
advisable to nominate somebody
else besides Nixon.
U. S. AIR FORCE PLANE
BACK FROM EAST
GERMAN DETENTION
WIESBADEN, Germany, OH —
The battered U. S. Air Force C-47
transport forced down by Russian
fighters in East Germany last Fri
day flew back over the Iron Cur
tain tonight and landed here at
U. S. Air Force headquarters.
The plane and the nine Amer
icans aboard were released by the
Soviets with surprising speed and
without -much fuss over the in
cident.
The plane had been forced down
by Soviet fighters while en route
from Copenhagen to Hamburg.
The Russians said it had flown
22 miles inside East Germany.
The air route skirts the Iron Cur
tain frontier.
Six crew members and three
passengers, including a woman,
were aboard when the plane was
forced down.
Awaiting their arrival at Wies
baden Airbase was a crowd of
about 100 people — families of
some of the men, Air Force offi
cials, newsmen, photograhers and
newsreel and TV cameramen.
Carrier Saratoga Damaged
In Collision with Freighter
HAMPTON ROADS, Virginia,
UP—The aircraft carrier Saratoga
docked here awaiting repair of
the extensive damage she suffered
in a collision 60 miles off the
Virginia coast early today. The
big carrier was sideswiped by a
West Germany freighter, the
Bernd Leonhard. Nobody was hurt
aboard either vessel, but there
was heavy damage to the port
sides of both.
Symington and A. F. General Debate
Publicly on Stripping of Alaska Defense
WASHINGTON, UP) — Sen.
Stuart Symington protested Tues
day that the Eisenhower Admin
istration is “stripping our defenses
in Alaska,” while Soviet Russia
is building up aircraft and missile
bases in nearby Siberia.
Maj. Gen. H. M. Estes, Air
Force operations officer, disputed
many of Symington’s arguments
in an hour-long public give-and
take over respective Soviet and
U. S. capabilities and intentions.
Even if Congress gives the Air
Force and Defense Department
more billions than Presilent Eis
enhower asked in his new 39 bil
lion dollar annual military budget.
Estes told Symington it would
still be up to defense heads to
decide “where resources must be
best applied for the total defense
of the United States.”
Symington, asking a long series
of questions with Sen. Ernest
Gruening sitting beside him,
brought out that U. S. defending
aircraft in Alaska have been re
duced while, he contended, Soviet
bomber bases un Siberia have
expanded. '
Estes said that with greater
emphasis upon long-range missiles
and defense against them, it was
decided to use fighter-interceptor
aircraft across the whole northern
stretch of this hemisphere, ra
ther than concentrate in Alaska.
He conceded that Siberian based
Red aircraft and missiles could hit
nearby Alaska hard but added
that there are “more lucrative
targets” in U. S. bomber bases and
industrial centers.
Estes said the redeployment
from Alaska resulted from a de
cision for balanced forces that
could defend against both enemy
aircraft and missiles “within the
available resources.”
“I’m glad we brought that out
in the open,” Symington said, hold
ing up his wallet and adding that
what the General meant is that
“budget ceilings make decisions
about our defenses.”
Luther Dunbar Asked to
Quit Utilities Post
At the meeting of the Utilities
Board last evening the resigna
tion of Manager Luther Dunbar
was requested on motion of Chas.
West. West is the newest mem
ber of the board, by appointment
on the resignation of Bill Haley.
The feeling of the board seem
ed to be that Mr. Dunbar did
not have the technical electrical
engineering knowledge necessary
for the job in its present status.
Mr. Dunbar came to Nome in
the 1920’s as a high school teach
er and he has been working for
the power company as manager
for about 20 years, having been
manager under the previous own
er, Northern Light & Power Co.
A new lineman, Robert John
son, arrived yesterday to fill the
vacancy left by Paul Cornelius
who left suddenly more than
a month ago.
Weatherman Turns on The
Heat in Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, UPI — Heat was
the main subject of conversation
in Fairbanks and other Interior
communities today as an unprece
dented number of weather records
continued to topple.
Yesterday, the hot weather
record for May 24 was broken by
a total of 15 degrees when the
thermometer registered an all
time high of 89 above.
The Weather Bureau said even
this high mark should be broken
today when temperatures are ex
pected to soar to 90 degrees —
which will be 17 degrees above
the all-time high recorded in Fair
banks in 1942.
In downtown Fairbanks, it was
shirtsleeve weather, and attire
was similar to what one might see
in Florida or California.
Oldtimers here said they had
never seen such a long spell of
extremely warm weather.
LONDON, W) — Felix A. (Doc)
Blanchard, one of the U. S. Mili
tary Academy’s all-time football
greats, Tuesday received his first
command in the U. S. Air Force.
He became boss of the 77th Tac
tical Fighter Squadron, based at
Weathersfield, England. The
squadron is a unit of the U. S.
3rd Air Force’s Tactical Fighter
Wing.
Council Hires Netfr
Police, Fire Chief
•
Odie Stamatis, aged 39, of Se
attle, has been hired by the City
as the new Police and Fire Chief,
after several meetings of the Coun
cil, which studied and screened
about 85 applications for the po
sition. John Marvik, chief here
for the past several years, did not
put in an application for re
appointment.
Mr. Stamatis is a member of
the King County Police Depart
ment, and also a member of the
King County Volunteer Fire De
partment. He is a graduate of the
Metropolitan Business College, and
has, for the past six years, 'been
in the juvenile department work.
He was an RCAF pilot during the
last war. He is married and has
four children. He will arrive later
this month, fulfilling a desire of
many years to come to Nome.
State Fire Marshal
Says Law Is Rough
On Code Violators
State Fire Marshal Robert
Crouse today urged homeowners
to exercise care in the burning of
rubbish and waste material out
of-doors.
Numerous fire calls are made,
he noted, as the result of fires
started by carelessness on the part
of persons engaged in Spring
clean-up programs.
Within municipalities, Grouse
reminded, persons must obtain fire
permits from local fire depart
ments for bonfires or rubbish
fires. Those living outside munici
palities also are subject to State
regulations which forbid kindling
or maintaining any bonfire or
rubbish fire on or in any public
street, road or other public
ground without proper authori
zation.
The regulations also prohibit
such fires “on any private land
unless the location is not less than
50 feet from any structure and
adequate provision is made to pre
vent fire from spreading to
within 50 feet of any structure.”
Persons violating the regula
tions, Grouse warned, are sub
ject to arrest and penalty.