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VOL. LXII No. 130 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1960 _Per Copy 15^
Anchorage GOPs j
Prepare For Nixon j
Visit On Sunday
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Republican
arrangements for Sunday’s visit
of Vice President Richard Nixon
were still in the state of flux to
day as local GOP officials awaited
the arrival of Nixon’s advance
man.
Plans tentatively call for the
GOP presidential standard bearer
to arrive from Los Angeles at El
mendorf Air Force Base at about
3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Jack White, Nixon-Lodge cam
paign manager for the South Cen
tral Alaska district, said a motor
cade is planned to show the Vice
President to the people of An
chorage.
Nixon is expected to give a
major address at the high school.
The Vice President will be avail
able prior to his talk to meet
people and shake hands, White
said.
A statewide simulcast on radio
plus local TV coverage is planned.
No plans for a major dinner
have been made. “We’re not going
to hide him behind a $100-a-plate
dinner like the Democrats had
Kennedy,” White stated.
Nixon is expected to leave for
Detroit about 8:30 or 9 p.m.
Eisenhower Says America
Should Continue His
Economic Policies
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Eisenhower says there is an ur
gent need for Americans to vote
to continue “the proven and pru
dent economic policies which have
been followed in the past eight
years.”
Speaking yesterday on a polit
ical television program with Sec
retary of the Treasury Robert B.
Anderson, Eisenhower said: “Let
us make no mistake about it, the
preservation of the confidence
that the dollar will remain sound,
is absolutely essential, both for
the welfare of our citizens at
home and the rest of the free
world.”
The President said his admin
istration had been working since
he took office “To do the things
in our government that will help
maintain a sound, honest dollar.”
Cubans Hint They Can
Abrogate Gauntanamo
HAVANA, i/P>—Cuban President
Osvaldo Dorticos, in a sharp re
ply to President Eisenhower, im
plied last night that the U.S. lease
on the naval base at Guantanamo
can be abrogated by the Cuban
people without U.S. consent.
President Eisenhower, in a
statement yesterday, said the
United States would take “what
ever steps may be appropriate” to
defend the base. He said the U.S.
lease could be terminated or
changed only by mutual agree
ment of the United States and
Cuba.
Dorticos, in a speech to presi
dential palace employes, said
Eisenhower’s statement was de
signed “to justify armed aggres
sion against our country” and
supported the claims of Cuba’s
revolutionary regime that Wash
ington is planning a faked inci
dent at Guantanamo as a pretext
for military action.
Cubans continued to be fed a
diet of rumors of invasion threats
and stories of defense prepara
tions.
Home Arts Club Lauds
City For New Lighting
The Home Arts Club at its
monthly meeting last night voted
a letter of commendation to the
Nome City Council for its work
in improving the street lighting in
Nome. Improved lighting and
safety on roads of the nation is
one of the projects of the Fed
eration of Womens Clubs through
out the nation and a project on
which the local group were re
quested to place special emphasis
Local president Esther McCoy
stated it was a pleasure to be
able to compliment the Council
at this time as so often the Home
Arts Club has had to ask the
Council for improvements in one
way or another.
The club will have its annual
bake sale for the benefit of hot
lunch tickets for needy children
on the Saturday before Thanks
giving, it was decided.
The members which annually
provide Christmas cheer for some
group or family in the community
have chosen senior citizens for
their Christmas giving this year.
New members welcomed to the
group last evening were Mrs.
John Barrow and Mrs. H. Nelson.
The program for the evening was
a fine arts program of slides from
the National Art Gallery at Wash
ing, D.C.
Battelle Report to be
Released Nov. 11 By
Rail, Highway Commission
SEATTLE, GT)—The long-await
ed Battelle report on the best
ways to improve Alaska’s land
connections with the rest of the
continental United States will be
made public here Nov. 11.
The report will be received by
the Alaska International Rail and
Highway Commission, which
hired the Battelle Memorial Insti
tute of Columbus, Ohio, to con
duct the survey.
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D
Wash., Commission chairman, said
the report will be taken under
advisement for the decision on
what recommendations will be
made to Congress.
Magnuson indicated the Com
mission also will give serious con
sideration to other Alaska-British
Columbia problems, among them
the need for lateral highways
from British Columbia west to
the Alaska Panhandle.
The report by the Battelle In
stitute, one of the nation’s leading
research organizations, will in
clude ways to better both rail and
highway connections with Alaska
and the cost.
State Chamber Cancells
Newspaper Ads Pushing
Ferry Bond Issue
FAIRBANKS, UP>—C. W. Sned
den, president of the Alaska State
Chamber of Commerce said today
that advertisements which recent
ly appeared in the Anchorage
newspapers over the signature of
the Alaska State Chamber of
Commerce were authorized by
past president Robert L. Jernberg
piror to the state convention in
Fairbanks last weekend.
■While the advertisements were
over the State Chamber of Com
merce signature, payment actual
ly came from the League of
Southeastern Alaska Cities which
is vigorously advocating passage
of the ferry bond issue, Snedden
said.
Avdertisements scheduled for
insertion later this week have
been cancelled, he added.
Sen. Kennedy
In California
By GEOFFREY GOULD
LOS ANGELES, WV-Sen. John
Kennedy today pledged that next
year a Democratic Congress and
President "will enact a bill to
raise teacher salaries.”
The presidential candidate also
said: “One of the first items on
the Democratic agenda in 1961 is
the passage of an adequate bill
for school construction.”
He outlined these promises and
others in the education field in a
talk prepared for a “Key to Vic
tory” breakfast, before hopping
south to San Diego and then
north to San Jose and San Fran
cisco.
A new and mocking note to
ward Vice President Richard M.
Nixon again entered Kennedy’s
tone yesterday, a kaleidoscopic
day that brought him here from
the east coast for a mammoth
downtown motorcade at noon.
As he did the day before, Ken
nedy taunted Nixon for bringing
President Eisenhower into the
campaign in the closing days be
fore the election next Tuseday.
At a rally in Long Beach, Ken
nedy said: “Mr. Eisenhower is not
a candidate. Mr. Nixon is. And if
he can’t stand up to the American
people, if he won’t come and meet
me in a fifth debate, how is he
going to stand up to Mr. Khrush
chev?”
Kennedy issued a statement
saying the administration’s deci
sion to release an additional $155
million for development of the
B-70 supersonic bomber was a
“transparent political maneuver.”
“That the Republican adminis
tration waits until a week before
the election to release the funds
speaks for itself,” Kennedy said.
—
Friday is Deadline For
Making Application For
Absentee Ballots
JUNEAU, UPt—The deadline for
mailed applications for absentee
ballots for next Tuesday’s general
election is Friday, Secretary of
State High Wade warned today.
Mailed applications for absen
tee ballots must bear a postmark
of Friday or earlier.
The completed ballots them
selves must be mailed no later
than the day of the election,
November 8.
Any qualified voter may make
a personal application for an ab
sentee ballot through next Mon
day, and any qualified voter may
make application for an absentee
ballot by personal representative
up to the time the polls close on
election day.
Wade described absentee ballot
ing as extremely heavy in all
parts of the state.
DIMIRTI METROPOULOUS,
SYMPHONIC CONDUCTOR,
DIES WHILE REHEARSING
MILAN, Italy, (JV--Dimitri Met
ropoulous, noted Greek-American
symphonic and operatic conductor
collapsed and died today while
rehearsing at La Scala Opera
House.
The 64-year-old musician had
been reahearsing Mahler’s 3rd
Symphony for about 10 minutes
when he stopped, stood motionless
for a moment, then fell from the
podium.
Metropoulous had spent 10-year I
tenures as conductor of the Min
neapolis Symphony and then of
the New York Philharmonic.
Kotzebue’s New Lighted
Dial Telephone System
Now In Operation
Kotzebue now -has one of the
most modern telephone systems
in Alaska. This system, which
has been under construction by
the TransAlaska Corp., for the
past year went into operation yes
terday at 1 p.m. when John Cog
hill of Nenana made the first call
from Kotzebue to Hugh Wade in
Juneau.
The phones, stated Harley Rolfe
and Glenn Stoneman, who went
north yesterday for the big oc
casion, are ultra-modern, dial
type, being rectangular and of
the new lighted type
The system, with a Stromberg
Carlson switchboard, at an esti
mated cost of $100,000, will have
about 80 phones in the circuit.
This is the 15th telephone sys
term which TransAlaska Corp.
has installed in Alaska stated
Mr. Rolfe, who explained that the
financing is with eastern capital,
which is a -healthy sign that in
vestors in the east are interested
in the development of the new
state.
Pilot of Crashed Plane
Had His Ticket Lifted
WASHINGTON, M — The pilot
of a plane which crashed near
Toledo, Ohio, with 22 deaths last
weekend was using a pilot rating
that had been ordered revoked
but was still valid pending ap
peal, officials reported.
The Federal Aviation Agency
announced yesterday it had issued
an order last July 15 revoking the
airline pilot rating of Donald L.J.
Chesher, the pilot who was killed
with 21 others in the Arctic
Pacific Airlines plane crash.
Chesher appealed the FAA or
der and it was stayed pending a
decision by the Civil Aeronautics
Board, which held a hearing last
Aug. 23. James Springer, presi
dent of the airline, said the fatal
flight was the first assigned to
Chesher since the hearing.
Charges on which FAA based
its action against Chesher in
cluded flying more than the legal
limit on -hours, failure to main
tain proper records, and listing as
copilot on two flights a man who
was not aboard the plane.
Japanese Who Sunk Kennedy
Hopes He Wins Presidency
TOKYO, —The skipper of the
Japanese destroyer that sank Sen.
John Kennedy’s World War II
torpedo boat said today he hopes
Kennedy wins the U. S. presi
dency.
“I personally hope that this
youthful, brilliant man—the man
I might have killed—may be hon
ored with the presidency,” Kohei
Hanami wrote in a five-column
account of his wartime experi
ences published in the English
language edton of the newspaper
“Yomiuri.”
London Agog Over Rumors
Meg Boycotted Parliament
LONDON, UPi— Salons and sa
lons buzzed today with the report
that a piqued Princess Margaret
boycotted Britain’s state opening
of Parliament.
Rumors flew across teacups and
beer mugs that she stayed away
from the glittering occasion be
cause there was no seat of honor
for her husband, Antony Arm
strong-Jones.
A Clearance House spokesman
confirmed that Margaret had
made no public engagement, but
added: “She may have had a pri
vate one, of course.”
Eisenhower and
Candidates Stump
New York Area
By JACK BELL
NEW YORK, UP» — President
Eisenhower took to the political
hustings with Vice President Nix
on and Henry Cabot Lodge today
in a dramatic late-campaign bid
to help them capture metropolitan
votes.
The group teamed for the first
time at campaign rallies spread
over a wide area in and around
New York City. Their fast-paced
hop, skip and jump tour was by
helicopter.
The appearance of the Presi
dent and the GOP candidates for
president and vice president in
suburban spots, plus later gather
ings in Manhattan, was obviously
an effort to garner as many stray
vote as possible to offset the great
Democratic weight in New York
City.
Eisenhower told a throng gath
ered in the sunny but windy out
door area of Roosevelt Field that
Nixon and Lodge offer the nation
“the finest type of leadership to
day that is available to the na
tion.”
The President said that the two
nominees “can do better than
anyone else toward keeping the
peace . . . and toward lifting
from the backs of mankind the
burden of armament.”
Then in a thrust at Kennedy
the President added:
“No glittering promises, no
glib oratory will give you this
kind of leadership.”
Nixon cited the accomplish
ments of the Eisenhower adminis
tration and said “We (Nixon and
Lodge) have been with him when
the great decisions were made,
and we must take responsibility
for them and we do so.”
Baptist Head
Down on Harry
LUBBOCK, Tex., W)—The head
of the Southern Baptist Conven
tion today declared former Presi
dent Harry Truman, a Baptist,
“ought to be turned out of his
church unless he repents of his
sin and ill manners.”
Rev. Ramsey Pollard, pastor of
the Bellevue Baptist Church,
Memphis, Tenn., said Truman
should be ousted because of his
use of profanity in a recent Texas
campaign speech.
Truman said Texans ought to
go to hell if they vote for the
Republican presidential ticket.
Dr. Pollard is president of the
Convention, the organization
which carries on cooperative acts
of Baptists, such as missions, ed
ucation and the like. It is the
largest Baptist group in the
country.
Pollard predicted in an inter
view that Richard M. Nixon will
be elected President, “but not
necessarily on the religious issue.”
He said he spoke only as an in
dividual.
CHARLES WEST FAMILY
GOING TO KOREA
Charles West, lineman for the
Nome Telephone Co. for the past
three years has announced that
he will be leaving for Korea in
a couple^ of weeks with his fam
ily. Mr. West is also a member
of the Utility Board. Mrs. West is
employed at the N.C. Store and
their three children are in High
School, all on the honor roll.