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VOlTlXI No. 12 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1959 Per Codv— 15c
Scientists Hope To Set Man
On The Moon In Next Decade
By LEWIS GULICK
WASHINGTON, UP> Fifty top
scientists peered into space today
and saw a man on the moon —
perhaps -by 1969.
Or man may set foot on the
moon in 1965 and zoom on to Mars
and Venus three years later. That
is assuming space projects get
very high priority and a billion
dollars a year, says Herbert F.
York, the Pentagon’s research
chief.
The views of York and other
space experts, including five from
other free world countries, were
issued in a report by the House
Space Committee on “The Next
100 Years in Space.”
The report asked, “where does
fantasy end and reality begin?”
In their answers to committee
questionnaires, the scientists were
dead serious, even if they varied
widely on the timing of seeming
ly fantastic events. Their outside
time limit on trips to the moon
and beyond was generally 20
years.
For other ventures — like de
velopment of a possible death ray
weapon able to shatter objects
from hundreds of miles in space
— the time was indefinite.
A number felt that 1969 may be
too early to count on having a
man on the moon. Among them
was T. Keith Glennan, head of
U. S. civilian space work.
But Glennan figured there is
a good chance that Americans
will circle the moon without land
in the next decade. Army missile
man Wernher von Braun forsees
a lunar landing a few years
thereafter.
Some other predictions were
enough to stagger the imagination.
Within 40 years, said Dr. Eugene
Sanger, director of the Institute
of Jet Propulsion Physics at the
Technical University of Stuttgart,
Germany, man may be traveling
at 670 million miles an hour —
almost the speed of light.
But long before the year 2,000,
rockets will deliver mail in min
utes around the earth, forecast
the founder of the Italian Rocket
Association, Dr: Glauco Partel.
President Says U.S.
Is Making Good
Missile Progress
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower said today the United
States is making very remarkable
nro-rress in the ballistic missile
field and has no cause for hang
dog humiliation.
The President made the state
ment at a news conference in
commenting on Soviet Premier
Khrushchev’s announcement Tues
day that the Soviet Union has
intercontinental ballistic missiles
in production.
Somewhat wryly, the President
added that we seem very prone
to give 100 per cent credence to
statements by the Soviets if they
happen to deal with our own de
sires.
On the other hand, Eisenhower
went on, we dismiss other Soviet
statements as baldfaced lies.
Without ever saying whether
this country has intercontinental
missiles at the production stage,
Eisenhower said that the U. S. !
missile program is going forward
as rapidly as possible under the
direction of capable scientists.
The President also dealt in the
news conference with these other
matters:
Politics — Commenting on cri
ticism of him at a Republican con
ference in Des Moines last week,
Eisenhower expressed belief that
most Republicans understand and i
support what he called his middle j
of the road program.
Warren — Eisenhower said he
knows of no rift between him and
Chief Justice Earl Warren. With
a show of irritation, he labeled as j
irresponsible reporting a story in
the New York Herald Tribune to
day saying Eisenhower and War
ren have drifted from once warm
friendship to coolness as a result
of the school integration contro- j
versy.
Castro — He is certain, the
President said, that all of the
American people hope Cuba’s new
government, set up by the forces
of Fidel Castro, will be truly rep
resentative of the Cuban people.
The President said he did not
want to indulge in any discussion
of Castro’s personality or the
events which have occurred in
Cuba.
Air Force Fires Another
Successful Atlas ICBM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., M —
The Air Force has fired its pow
erful Atlas ICBM on another ap
parently successful long range
space flight over the Atlantic.
The 80-foot rocket performed
rather mysteriously on the start
of a beautiful launching last night,
but the Defense Department an
nounced in Washington some 15
hours later that the Atlas flew its
intended range and produced most
of the results desired.
The missile, the 19th in the na
tion’s ambitious ICBM program,
was aimed at an impact area some
4,500 statute miles down range
near the Island of Fernando de
Norhona off the coast of Brazil.
Human Space
Traveler Being
Selected In Wash.
NEW YORK, UP) — Selection of
America’s first human space trav
eler is under way.
Keith Glennan, U. S. Space
Chief, startled a staid dinner meet
ing of the Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences with this disclosure
Tuesday night.
The new Federal Space Agency,
he said, has picked 110 rugged
young Americans as candidates
for the first manned satellite to
orbit the earth.
They will assemble in Wash
ington for further tests, Glennan
said, and be asked to volunteer
for space flight. Within three
months, their ranks will be re
duced to about a dozen.
“I suspect that the one who will
make the flight will not know he
is to do so until count-down day,”
he added.
Glennan gave these quaifica
tions of the man who finally will
be selected:
1. A university degree in physi
cal science or engineering.
2. A graduate of an Air Force
or Navy test-pilot training school
with at least 1,500 flying hours.
3. Superb condition, with the
physical and psychological attri
butes suited for space flight as
determined by aero-medical scien
tists.
4. Younger than 40, and no tall
er than 5 feet 11. There are no
weight restrictions.
Governor Egan Is
Improving Steadily
SEATTLE, OP — Continued im
provement was shown today by
Governor William A. Egan, but
doctors said it would be another
day or two at least before his
name is taken off the critical list.
Egan, who underwent an emer
gency abdominal operation eight
days ago, was able to get out of
bed for the first time yesterday.
His doctor said the Governor
would walk in his room several
times today.
Egan’s pulse rate remains high,
but otherwise his condition is
gradually returning to normal,
today’s morning medical report
said.
Cordova Council
Fires City Manager
CORDOVA, — Controversy
which has split this small Alaska
seacoast town came to a head last
night when the city council voted
4-2 to fire the city manager, Harry
Whouck.
Charles Simpler, a Cordova
fisherman, was named to serve as
; acting manager.
The council voted to get rid of
Whouck at a special meeting at
tended by about 200 townspeople.
A petition endorsing Houck’s ad
ministration and signed by more
than half of the community’s reg
istered voters was presented to
the council last week. It bore 320
signatures.
Whouck is Cordova’s third city
manager since the council-mana
ger form of government was
adopted five years ago.
At issue is a battle over Police
Chief Colin Ingram. Whouck sup
ported the chief. A faction in the
town demanded reinstatement of
a former chief.
Harold E. Bonser. publisher of
the Cordova weekly newspaper,
said in an editorial last week the
group seeking a change of police
chiefs favored a-more lenient pol
icy of law enforcement.
Bonser accused the council of
“railroad tactics.”
Nixon Calls Russ
4Thaw’ Talk A
Play for Advantage
NEW YORK, UP) — Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon says the
latest Soviet call for a reduction
of East-West tensions is contra
dicted by Moscow’s actions.
While the Soviets are calling
for a thaw in the cold war, Nixon
said Tuesday night, the only pre
posals they have made on major
international issues “have been
designed not to end the cold war
but to give them an advantage in
prosecuting it.”
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told
a Communist Party congress in
Moscow Tuesday that the Soviet
Union hopes for an easing of ten
sion between East and West. This
echoed the sentiments of his Mon
day statement that Deputy Pre
mier Mikoyan’s recent visit to the
United States had given Soviet
leaders “the idea that the possi
bility of a thaw in our relations
is not excluded.”
Nixon said: “We agree with
making a breakthrough in reduc
ing world tensions.
“But this is true only if he sees
the wisdom of thawing out the
frozen Soviet position of the past.”
Quick Action Ordered By Wade On
Alaska Government Reorganization
JUNEAU, UR — Alaska’s first
Legislature, only three days old
today, apparently faces a request
on quick governmental reorgani
zation.
A closed conference was held
by Acting Governor Wade with
majority and minority leaders
Tuesday.
Reports circulated that Wade
told the legislative leaders he
wants quick action on bills to re
organize Alaska’s government,
under strong executive authority.
The Senate received its first
two bills Tuesday. Number 1 was
introduced by Senator B. J. Lo
gan, Cordova Democrat, and calls
for shortening from six to three
months the period of time before
an elective official can be recalled.
It would also make possible a
recall election at any time. Pres
ent law forbids recall elections
immediately prior to a general
municipal election.
The measure appeared to be
aimed at clearing the way for pos
sible recall efforts at Cordovt,
where there has recently been a
bitter dispute between the city
council and city manager.
The second Senate bill, intro
duced by Senator Ralph Moody,
Anchorage lawyer and chairman
of tihe Legislative Council, would
appropriate $15,000 for a study of
an Alaska judicial system. It
would have to be completed in
120 days.
The study should cover the en
tire judicial system, including a
judicial code, required physical
facilities and the anticipated cap
ital outlay and annual operating
costs involved, the measure sail.
On the House side, full commit
tee organization was completed
Tuesday and introduction of its
first bill was expected today.
Airline Association
Elects New Officers
WASHINGTON, UR — Gavin
Hicks of Indianapolis, president
of Lake Central Airlines, today
was elected chairman of the board
of the Association of Local and
Territorial Airlines.
Hicks succeeded Nick Bez of
Seattle, president of West Coast
Airlines. Edmund Converse, Las
Vegas, Nev., president of Bonanza
Air Lines, succeeded Hicks as vice
chairman.
The association admitted its
15th airline member, Northern
Consolidated Airlines, Anchorage.
New directors elected from
among the airline presidents in
cluded: Robert Reeve, Anchorage;
Reeve Aleutian; Sig Wien, Fair
banks, Wien Alaska.
‘Nothing We Won’t
Do’ To Promote
Peace, Says Dulles
WASHINGTON, UR — Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles said
today every Soviet proposal for
ending the cold war has been
aimed at undercutting free world
resistance to Communism.
Dulles said there is nothing the
United States will not do — in
cluding a summit meeting with
the Soviets — if it holds a reas
onable prospect of promoting
peace.
But he warned against any
agreement between the two top
world powers “which would give
many unwary people a sense of
relief, and a feeling that our na
tion need no longer make the ef
forts and sacrifices that are now
called for.”
The Soviet government has, for
a long time, been trying to get
that result,” Dulles said.
“It is, howTever, my deep con
viction that the cold war cannot
be ended in any such w^y and
that to take that step would mere
ly make it probable that the cold
war would end in victory for in
ternational Communism.”
He spoke in closed session before
the House Foreign Affairs com
mittee.
Earlier, the United States was
reported intending to explore ful
ly the Soviet talk of a cold war
thaw — despite an officially ex
pressed belief here that Moscow
is simply trying to create an illu
sion of peace.
Public Union
Accounting Law
Asked By Ike
By NORMAN WALKER
WASHINGTON, UR — President
Eisenhower asked Congress today
to require complete public ac
counting of union fund handling
and set up rules to free labor or
ganizations of bossism.
Eisenhower’s special message
said his program is a complete
and effective approach to curb
ing labor-management abuses. He
has referred to a bill by Senator
John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) as a
halfway measure..
The Administration recommen
dations and Kennedy’s proposals
are largely parallel in requiring
unions to submit complete public
reports of union finances to the
government and requiring perio
dic democratic elections and union
internal procedures. The Admin
istration bill is somewhat stronger
in these respects.
Eisenhower and Kennedy, part,
however, on Taft-Hartley law
changes. Eisenhower proposed
tougher restrictions on union sec
ondary boycotts against innocent
third-party employers, and on
picketing to compel union recogni
tion where employes demonstrate
they don’t want union represen
tation.
The AFL-CIO served notice to
day it will battle to the end to
prevent any picketing and boycott
provisions from being enacted. It
hinted in testimony on Kennedv’s
bill that such proposals, coupled
with anti-corruption legislation,
■would endanger any bill clear
ing Congress.
Labor Department sources said,
meanwhile, that lack of picket
boycott provisions in the l^bor b II
considered by Congress last year
was the main reason for Adminis-.
tration opposition. They hinted
Eisenhower may veto any bill
lacking such provisions this year.
Eisenhower noted that his rec
omen dations were not intended to
punish or cripple unions. He
added:
“These recommendations, when
adopted, should do much to elimi
nate those abuses and improper
practices, which, I am firmly con
vinced, the American public ex
pects and believes will be cor
rected through legislative action.”