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VOL. LXII No. 154 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1960_Per Copy 15?
Caroline Kennedy
Makes TV Debut
By Marvin L. Arrowsmilh
PALM BEACH, Fla. M —
Caroline Kennedy—cute, blonde
and 3—is likely to go down in
history as the only daughter who
ever completely and hilariously
disrupted a high-level news con
ference.
Caroline’s daddy is John F.
Kennedy, the President-elect. And
if the nation is wondering how
he will react in an international
crisis after he takes office, it can
be reported he faced one on the
domestic front Thursday night
and dealt with it admirably—if
with some embarrrassment.
Kennedy and Sen. J. William
Fulbright, were holding a joint
news conference to report on their
discussion of a multitude of grave
problems. About 40 newsmen
were grouped around the moon
lit patio at the Kennedy ocean
front home.
At that moment Caroline slip
ped through the ranks of furious
ly scribbling reporters and into
the glare of television newsreel
flood lights, wearing pink pajam
as and d pale blue bathrobe. She
was barefooted and was clutching
a pair of her mother’s high heel
shoes.
“Hi, Daddy,” she piped. The
conference was convulsed in
laughter.
There was no slightest sign of
fluster as the President-elect
watched Caroline slip into the
high heel shoes and teeter pre
cariously on them.
At that point Kennedy took the
youngster by the hand and asked
whether she thought it would be
a good idea to go back into the
house.
Caroline nodded smiling agree
ment and shuffled off stage amid
uproarious laughter, the camera
men scrambling for pictures.
The President-elect got back to
the business of the roving ambas
sador just as though nothing had
happened.
Nixon Turns Down
Invite to TV Show
Praising Ike
WASHINGTON OB — Vice Pres
ident Nixon 'has turned down an
invitation to participate in a “Tri
bute to a Patriot” TV show prais
ing President Eisenhower.
Nixon’s Press Secretary Herbert
G. Klein, said there were two
reasons Nixon declined the invi
tation:
“The key time when they want
ed him to tape a part of the pro
gram came when he had to be
out of town.
“In addition he has adopted a
policy not to go on television for
a while. This is not permanent,
but he thinks that in deference to
Mr. Kennedy he should not for
the time being do anything public
ly in the way of television appear
ances, news conferences or the
like. He has turned down other
shows beside this one.”
Klein added, “p.s for anything
between himself and the Presi
dent—of course he has saluted the
President many times in the past
and will do so many times in
the future. It isn’t necessary that
he do it on any one particular TV
show."
The NBC program will portray
Elsenhower’s career from boy
hood to the Presidency. It is
scheduled for Jan. 10.
Okay Has to be Given
Before First Nuclear Ship
Starts Its Power Plant
WASHINGTON MV—The Atomic
Energy Commission said safety
aspects of the Savannah, the
world’s first nuclear-powered
merchant ship, would be consider
ed at a public hearing before any
okay is given to start its nuclear
power plant.
AEC also released a report
which concluded that, in general,
the Savannah’s reactor could be
operated without undue hazard
to the health and safety of the
public—provided certain restric
tions are imposed.
One of the restrictions listed
was that the reactor be operated
at no more than 10 per cent of
full power in the planned start
up at Camden, N. J., where the
ship is docked at the yards of its
builder, the New York Shipbuild
ing Corp.
The committee suggested this
as a means of avoiding “a risk,
however small,” from accidental
release of radioactivity in the
highly populated Camden area.
High Praise Given
To Ray Decker
Munz Airways Pilot
Gene Morris, State Police of
ficer, can’t find enough words
of praise for Munz pilot, Ray
Decker and the way he handled
the plane in which he was flying
last Tuesday which was forced
down at Spruce Creek enroute to
Nome from White Mountain.
Morris relates how the oil line
broke and oil sprayed the wind
shield of the plane so that Decker
only had a side window, through
which he sought a landing that
had a suitable shelter. He made
a perfect landing looking only out
the side window, near the Spruce
Creek cabin of Charlie Moon.
Decker was unable to raise
Nome on the radio, but a Una
lakeet listener picked up their
call and relayed it to Nome.
In the meantime Morris with a
prisoner from White Mountain
hustled wood and soon had a fire
going in the stove and broke out
the plane’s rations.
As the weather here made is
impossible for planes to go to
their relief, Roy Snyder of FAA
in a Weasel and accompanied by
Frank Ahnangnatoguk made the
trip to Spruce Creek with oil and
food arriving there on Wednes
day evening and returning to
Nome about 2:00 a. m. Thursday
with the three men.
Snyder and Ahnangnatoguk ran
into a blizzard between Solomon
and Spruce Creek but were able
to keep on their course to the
disabled plane.
Morris observed that he had
never thought much of canned
rations but they really tasted
mighty good on this trip.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair today cloudy with snow
tonight. Low tonight 5 to 10, high
tomorrow 15 to 20.
In the last 24 hours: High of
14, low of 7. Sunrise at 10:01 a. m.,
sunset at 2:08 p. m.
Temperatures year ago today:
High of -5, low of -22. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of
33 in 1923, low of -37 in 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. McCarthy
left today for Seattle due to the
sudden illness of Mrs. McCarthy.
They were accompanied by Dr.
June Dunbar.
Year 1960 Ends;
1961 Begins
Time Is a Heartbeat
By John O. B. Wallace
NEW YORK UP) — Late tonight
the hands of the clock will merge
precisely. Midnight!
Time, as measured by man.
will die for a flashing instant. And
instantly it will be reborn.
The year 1960 ends: 1961 be
gins.
But time, in this brief void, can
not be measured by man as he
would measure a meadow — in
rods. Nor as he would measure
an ocean — in miles.
Time, in this instant, is a
heart-beat and can be found in
the hearts of men — some heavy
with anguish, some light with
hope.
Pope John XXIII, at his special
New Year’s audience for diplo
mats, spoke of the anxiety in his
heart.
But he also said he was search
ing on the dawn of this New Year
“to find in the uncertainty of an
agitated world, some glimmer
promising serenity.”
As the 79-year-old head of the
Roman Catholic Church spoke,
man fought man on the continents
of Europe, Asia and Africa.
In Asia, it was the blood bath
in Laos.
In Europe, it was rioting in Bel
gium.
In Africa, it was war between
opposing factions in the Congo,
and racial tension further to the
south.
So, on the first day of the
New Year, the head of the world’s
peace organization, United Na
tions Secretary-General Dag Ham
marskjold, will be flying to some
of these trouble spots, seeking
peace.
Hammarskjold will talk with
Congo President Joseph Kasa
vubu in an effort to avoid pos
sible civil war between followers
off Kasavubu and his leading
rival, Patrice Lumumba, former
Congolese Premier now impri
soned by Kasavubu’s army.
Then Hammarskjold will jour
ney to South Africa to discuss
steps aimed at easing the tension
caused by South Africa’s racial
segregation policies.
Hammarskjold also will visit
Gamal Abdel Nasser, President
of the United Arab Republic, and
Prime Minister Nehru of India.
On the home front, 1961 prom
ised to be an eventful year for
Americans.
On Jan. 20, a new President,
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, will as
sume the heavy cares of the most
important public office in the
free western world.
President Dwight D. Eisen
hower on that day will retire from
eight years of the same heavy
cares, a period of constant world
turmoil.
Government economists closed
their books on the old year and
expressed cautious o p ti m i s m
about the new.
They said they expected the
American economy to pick up no
later than spring months although
unemployment was likely to con
tinue heavy for the next few
months.
In observance of the legal holi
day on Monday—the staff of the
Nome Nugget will take a holiday;
consequently there will not be an
edition published on that day.
To all our readers—a peaceful,
properous and happy New Year.
BURGLARS STRIKE
AT GLUE POT
Sometime last night the Glue
Pot was broken into by breaking
and entering through a side win
dow.
It was not ascertained at press
time what had been taken in ad
dition to a small sum of money.
Money in the cash register was
not touched.
This is the second break-in
this week, as the Alaska Cab was
entered earlier in the week and
the cash register broken and
money taken.
City police officers are work
on both cases.
Man’s First Rocket
Ride Set for
Early Spring
WASHINGTON UTl — The first
American manned rocket ride is
set for early spring if a large
ape survives the jolt of a blast
off from Cape Canaveral early
in 1961.
The House Committee on Sci
ence and Astronautics made this
prediction in a man-in-space re
port Friday.
Despite setbacks in recent tests,
Chairman Overton Brooks, D-La.,
pictures the U. S. standing “on
the threshold of a major flight
test program of short and long
range ballistic flights, leading
first to unmanned, and later on
to manned orbital flight late in
1961, if all goes well.”
The report, based on informa
tion supplied by the Defense De
partment and the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration,
NASA set next March or April
as the date for the first manned
rocket ride. One of the Mercury
Astronauts will be strapped in a
capsule and shot well over 100
miles up by an Army Redstone
Missile.
This first space ride will last
a matter of minutes. Ships will be
ready to fish the capsule from
the Atlantic Ocean.
An earlier trial, using the same
kind of rocket and capsule, will
have a chimpanzee as passenger.
If all goes well with the first
manned space probes, the pay
off will come next fall, when the
first attempt will be made to put
a man into a satellite in space,
and keep him there long enough
to complete several orbits of the
earth.
New Year’s Message
Gov. Egan issued a message to
day which he is grateful for
the opportunity to extend
every good wish to Alaskans
everywhere for a Happy New
Year. As 1960 becomes history,
it is fittinv that we assess the ac
complishments of the past twelve
months and approach the New Year
hopefully and confidently.
“This will be another three-day
holiday for most Alaskans. In
clement weather in some areas
of our state continues to create
hazardous d ri v i n g conditions.
Once again I caution motorists
to drive with care and thereby
insure that we maintain the rec
ord of no traffic fatalities which
was achieved in our state over
the Christmas holidays.”
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Frances Trantham,
Clara Kasgnac, Clara Schmidt,
and Mamie Snowball.
Discharged: Esther Herman,
Alsa Gavin, and Larry Minnix Jr.
Porter Lockard was transferred
to Fairbanks.
Father Llorente
Sends Resignation
From State House
By Ward Sims
UP) Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP) — A Roman Cath
olic priest from Alakanuk who
was elected to the State House
of Representatives by writein
votes Nov. 8 has written a letter
resigning from the House, the
Associated Press learned today.
The letter of resignation au
thored by Father Segundo Llo
rente, S. J., a missionary of 25
years standing in Alaska, has not
reached Juneau. It was halted at
Fairbanks.
While Father Llorente has not
disclosed his reasons for writing
the letter of resignation, there
were unconfirmed reports in Ju
neau and in Anchorage that pres
sure had been applied from an un
known source to force the resig
nation.
In Juneau, there were also un
confirmed reports that the resig
nation was tied in some manner
to fish-buying activities in the
Yukon Delta area where Father
Llorente lives.
During the campaign, litera
ture was mailed to residents of
the area urging voters to write in
Father Llorente’s name on the
Nov. 8 ballot. The literature was
mailed from Seattle. It was sign
ed only “Committee for Good
Government.”
The letter of resgination Was
sent to Bishop Francis Gleeson
of Fairbanks, Reman Catholic
Bishop from Northern Alaska,
along with a .ote requesting him
to forward tl & resignation to Gov.
Egan if he, Bishop Gleeson, felt
the resignation should be sent on.
Bishop Gleeson told the Asso
ciated Press in a telephone in
terview he had advised the Ala
kanuk priest that he should be
the one to make the final de
cision on whether to resign.
Father Llorente said in the note
which accompanied the resigna
tion, Bishop Gleeson said, of
“several reasons why there would
be difficulties if he did go to
Juneau.”
The Bishop declined to divulge
the nature of the reasons ad
vanced by Father Llorente, say
ing he “would rather not have
them discussed in the press.”
Father Llorente was one of two
ministers elected to the House of
Representatives on Nov. 8. The
other was Kenneth Garrison, a
Lay Minister in the Church of
God, who was also elected by
writein votes. Garrison will repre
sent the 20th 'District.
Bom in Leon, Spain, Father
Llorente came to the U. S. as a
Jesuit student in 1930. He was
ordained into the priesthood in
Kansas in 1934.
He came to Alaska a year later
as a missionary at Kotzebue. In
succeeding years he served at
Bethel, Akulurak, Kwiguk, Shel
dons Point and at Alakanuk.
HE-MEN TO USE MAKEUP T ?
NEW YORK — Men will go
in for makeup in the not too dis
tant future, Dr. Glen J. Sperandio
of Purdue University told a group
of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
“We will find he-man using
creams and lotions for their skins
and possibly using conservative
forms of makeup,” he said.
“It remains only for an adver
tising campaign to convince the
public that a man does not sacri
fice his masculinity by using cos
metics freely.”