NEWS OF DIOMEDE
Special to the Nome Nugget
From Diomede Midnight Sun
There are many visitors at Dio
mede Island this month, including
three Little Sisters of Jesus, the
Paul Soolook family, Florence
Kiminock, Lily, Roger, Nancy and
Annie Kunayak, George Kite,
Pat Norbert, Vernon Kagoon and
Eddie Oomock.
The walrus herds areMarger this
spring than they have ever been.
There are “tens of thousands” on
the ice cakes and in the water,
according to Albert Iyahuk and
Jacob Ahkinga.
Sam Harbo of the Alaska Fish
and Game Department, was in
Diomede from about May 28 until
June 6. His work is to learn as
many things about the walrus
animal as he can. The State of
Alaska wants to find out if the
walrus herds in the Arctic are
getting smaller or larger. One
way of finding out is to learn how
old the walrus gets. To learn this,
he is collecting walrus teeth to
study. The lines across a walrus
tooth tell how many years a wal
rus has lived. Just the way the
rings across a tree trunk tell how
old a iree is.
The State of Alaska wants to
make sure there will always be
enough walrus to feed the Arctic
people and provide the Eskimos
with enough ivory to give them
carving work to do. This work is
called “conservation.”
Frank Elasanga and Walter
Menadelook plugged two holes in
Frank’s skinboat with their
feet on the way home from hunt
ing Tuesday. A crippled bull wal
rus had run his two tusks through
1he boat from underneath it. He
was mad!
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ALLOWAY, Scotland, 0P> —
Prince Philip twice used the word
“hell” before teen-agers yester
day. Visiting 300 boys and girls
at a summer camp near here, he
was talking to Dorothy McMillan,
17, in charge of rnake-up for an
outdoor play.
“What’s the play?” he asked.
“It’s called ‘The Spartan Girl,’ ”
replied Dorothy.
“Who plays the Spartan Girl?”
he asked. Dorothy pointed to Ann
Ballingall, 16.
Philip stared at Ann for a mo
ment and then asked: “Is she get
ting hell for something?”
The girls burst into laughter.
“Yes sir, she certainly is,” ex
plained Dorothy. “You see. she’s
playing the part of a girl accused
of seduction.”
Philip movecj on to a group of
girls from the Girl’s Auxiliar> of
the Church of Scotland. They
were weaving baskets — and
singing.
“What’s the singing for?” asked
Philip. “Just for the hell of it?”
“No,” replied Sheena Parker,
17, “It’s for atmosphere.”
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Takes 50-Cent Parking
Tab to Supreme Court
REDLANDS, Calif., UP — Los
Angeles attorney Lionel Richman
got a ticket for parking overtime.
The envelope on his windshield
explained he could pay a 50-cent
fine immediately, but that it
would cost him $5 if he waited
30 days.
Richman refused to pay. “Ill
take it to the Supreme Court if
I have to.”
He did, too. But the United
States Supreme Court refused to
hear the matter, and so informed
the City of Redlands Wednesday.
Richman still refused to pay the
fine — now $5. He said his legal
maneuvers have cost him $290
so far.
He argued that the quick-fine
system presumed guilt merely
because a citation had been writ
ten — depriving him. he said, of
due process.
He didn’t outline new legal
plans. “By the time I’m through
it may cost me another $290,”
he said.
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Agency Chief Says
Latin America Is
Prime Red Target
WASHINGTON, UPi — George
V. Allen, Director of the U. S. In
formation Agency, declared today
the Soviet Union may be engaged
in a tit-for-tat effort to established
a Communist base at the edge of
the United States.
Such an objective as a counter
to the U. S. bases near the Soviet
Union, Allen told a House Foreign
Affairs Subcommittee, could ac
count for international Commu
nism’s “new and intensified cam
paign for intervention in Latin
America.”
That area of the world is a
prime Communist target, Allen
said, and “The Cuban revolution,
with its extreme leftist overtones,
has opened the door to increased
Communist penetration of this
hemisphere.”
He testified that Soviet Premier
Khrushchev, who plans to visit
Cuba, has given fresh evidence of
Communist designs on Latin
America.
In Cuba, he said, the Commu
nist bloc contemplates “full,
though somewhat veiled,” support
of the Fidel Castro regime — pos
sibly hoping to provike a situa
tion in which the United States
could be accused of military or
economic intervention.
The U. S. government, he added,
hopes “the Cuban people with
their tradition of freedom, even
ually will come to insist on a
change of course for their govern
ment in order to obtain the de
mocracy and freedom they al
ways have sought.”
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Arthur Trigg, Chas.
Evan, Morgan Aukangak, David
Olson, Martin Olson Jr.
Discharged: Nancy Cabinboy
and Edith Segoonft.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with fog and drizzle
today and Saturday. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 40, the
high tomorrow 45-50.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 45, lowest 41. Sunrise at
1:20 a.m., sunset at 10:49 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
44, lowest 36. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 75 in
1943, lowest 32 in 1910.
NEW CONGO PRESIDENT
LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Con
go, (TP) — Joseph Kasavubu was
elected the first President of the
Congo tonight by Parliament. He
is the main rival of Patrice Lu
mumba, first Premier of this new
nation, which will become inde
pendent next Thursday.
Parliamentary approval of Lu
mumba’s cabinet was voted early
today, after Lumumba, at the last
moment, won backing from Kasa
vubu, who had contended for
Premiership.
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Mother of Little Girl
Forgives Unwitting Slayer
By GENE HANDSAKER
LOS ANGELES. OP — Perhaps
a one-in-a-million chance caused
Douglas Beane’s bullet that killed
a gopher to ricochet on and kill
a little neighbor girl, to.
The victim’s mother who caused
dismissal of a manslaughter
charge against him is “probably
one person in a million,” says
Beane.
“I don’t know how I’d feel in
such a situation,” the 25-year-old
auto repair shop owner told a
reporter. “I have children too.
Only a person who believes
wholeheartedly in God would
have an attitude like hers.”
Beane fired a .30-caliber car
bine at a goplier that popped its
head out of a hole in his back
yard in suburban Lynwood last
Feb. 25. The gopher died.
The bullet zinged on, through
a rusty, corrugated> tin fence and
through the tar-papered plywood
wall of a house at the rear.
It struck 4-year-old Donna
Sword in the back as she watched
television at the neighbor’s house
while her mother was at work.
Several weeks later, after an
operation and sufficient apparent
recovery, she could play with
Beane’s two young sons. Then she
died.
Superior Court Judge Evelle
Younger dismissed the man
slaughter charge Tuesday after
reading a letter from her mother,
Mrs. Frank Sword. It said in part:
“I do not believe any good pur
pose could be served by insisting
that this case be tried. Douglas
will punish himself 1,000 times
more than any law could do.
“For the good of everyone and
for our own peace of mind, we
.feel that the case should be dis
missed.”
Dachau Guard Gets Life
For Bizarre Murder
MUNICH, Germany, UP\ — A
former guard at the Dachau Con
centration Camp was sentenced
to life imprisonment Wednesday
for bouncing a Jew to death in
a steel basket.
The defendant was Wolfgang
Seuss, 53.
The Munich District Court said
he put Kurt Riesenfeld in a steel
basket hooked to a crane, raised
the basket seven feet and let it
fall onto the pavement and re
peated the process until Riesen
feld was dead.
Search Reveals
Burst Helium Tank
Fired N. j. Bomarc
WASHINGTON, OP — The Air
Force reported yesterday that
bursting of a high pressure bottle
of helium gas presumably caused
a fire that destroyed a Bomarc
missile at McGuire AFB, N. J.
The Air Force said, a prelim
inary report of its investigation
showed that the container of the
non-flammable gas, located be
tween two fuel tanks burst from
an undetermined cause.
It said that the explosion of the
bottle appeared to have caused a
fire and explosion that destroyed
the missile. Parts of the helium
container, the Air Force said, are
being pieced together in an effort
to determine what caused the
bursting and ignited the fuel.
Inspection of other Bomarc
missiles is being made to prevent
another similar accident, the an
nouncement said.
In the futl fire and explosion,
the nuclear, warhead of the Bo
marc was destroyed. Air Force
and Atomic Energy Commission
experts said yesterday that “safe
ty features designed into the mis
sile and warhead acted as ex
pected in preventing any nuclear
detonation.”
They also said that, as ex
pected, there was some “radio
active contamination which was
confined to the missile launch
shelter area.”
The explosion occurred at Mc
Guire June 7.
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