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VOL. LXII No. 96 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1960Per Copy 15*
NENANA DOCKS WITH
BRISTOL BAY CATCH
WORTH $12-MILLION
SEATTLE, UP — A 12-million
dollar cargo of Bristol Bay sal
mon arrived in Seattle Wednes
day aboard the Alaska Steamship
Co. steamship Nenana.
The load, more than 307,000
cases, was the largest salmon
cargo from Alaska this year. It
represents nearly one-third of the
big Bristol Bay pack of approx
imately one million cases.
Seafair Queen Mary Jo Erick
son waited on Pier 42 to salute
the arrival of the vast treasure
from the deep. In a ceremony on
the pier, she knighted Capt. Chris
ten Ellingson Trondsen, master of
the Nenana, as “Chief Salmon
Transporter of the Realm.”
Captain Trondsen broke out a
case of Bristol Bay red salmon
labeled “The greatest food from
the sea,” and presented it to
Queen Mary Jo. The queen then
tossed out cans of salmon to her
loyal subjects gathered for the
celebration.
The Nenana is one of five Alas
ka Steamship Co. vessels bring
ing out the Bristol Bay red salmon
pack.
New High Flight
Distance Reached
Ln X-15 Rocket
EDWARDS AFB, Calif.. OP) —
The X-15 today rocketed an Air
Force test pilot more than 24
miles skyward, man’s highest
flight yet. The new record: 131,
000 feet.
Maj. Robert White, in the same
plane that set a world speed mark
of 2,196 mph. last week, pointed
the sleek black dart up at an
angle of 51 degrees and let its
mighty twin engines roar all out
until his fuel was exhausted.
The four-minute burst vaulted
him to the nearly airless edge of
space, where he arced weightless
for a few seconds before plum
mting back.
Records by experimental planes
are unofficial. The official mark
is 103,395 feet, set by Capt. Joe
Jordan last Dec. 15 in an F-104C
jet.
The X-15 was dropped at 45,000
feet from a B-52 mother ship.
White ignited eight rocket bar
rels and within seconds soared out
of range of ground observers with
field glasses.
White’s maximum speed was
1,700 mph., compared with the
2,196 record set by Joe Walker
last week.
U-A Dormitory Loan Approved
WASHINGTON, OP) — Approval
of a $750,000 loan to the Uni
versity of Alaska to pay for con
struction of a dormitory has been
announced by the Community Fa
cilities Administration. The dor
mitory will house 144 men stu
dents.
FOULED . . .
MOUNT CLEMENTS, Mich., OP)
— Frank Pasek extended a help
ing hand Ond had it bitten.
Pasek was drivng about a mile
north of here Thursday when he
saw two motorists who looked as
if they were in trouble. Pasek
stopped to see if he could help
them. One pulled a gun and made (
Pasek hand over his wallet which
contained $6. The other punched j
Pasek in the nose. The two men
then drove away. '
Torclibearers Trek
To Rome to Begin
I960 Olympics
OLYMPIA, Greece. UP)—It took
the aid of police today to get the
Olympic Flame for the 1960
games started on its way to Rome.
A crowd of 3,000, which turned
out to watch the ancient cere
mony which lighted the flame by
the rays of the sun, jammed the
exit and the first of 340 torch
bearers was unable to squeeze
through.
Police finally cleared a passage.
The ceremony at this site of
the ancient Greek games provides
a link between the original sports
festival and the mammoth games
opening in Rome Aug. 25.
A Greek woman, dressed in the
robes of an ancient priestess, held
a magnifying glass in front of a
torch to light it.
Runners then set out to carry
the flame to Athens.
The distance to Athens is 340
kilometers (214) miles), and 340
torch bearers are waiting at each
kilometer marker for the relay.
The last runner is due to ar
rive Friday night at Athens’ Pan
athenian Stadium, site of the first
moern Olympic Games in 1896.
There, Pietro Onegio, vice
chairman of the Italian Olympic
Committee, will take the torch
aboard the sailing ship Amerigo
Vespucci, which will dock at Sy
racuse, Sicily, August 18.
Runners will head north to
Rome, 1,532 kilometers (950 miles)
away.
The flame will reach Rome
Aug. 24.
Phosgene Gas Leak
Endangers Texas Town
LA PORTE, Tex., I1PI—Residents
of this seaport town began drop
ping on the streets today from
what authorities said was gas es
caping for a chemical plant. The
plant shut down immediately, and
the danger was declared ended.
Sheriff’s deputies said the gas
is believed to have come from
the S. & W. Chemical Co. in
La Porte, which mades industrial
chemicals.
The air in La Ports was al
most calm, causing the gas to
hover in town.
No fatalities were reported.
The chief of the Harris Coun
ty anti-pollution department said
he believed the gas was phosgene.
Phosgene is a colorless gas of
unpleasant odor. It was used in
World War I and is a severe res
piratory irritant.
Employes at the plant denied
there were leaks in the plant, but
shut down operations.
Atlas Nose Cone Lost
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UPt —
A powerful Atlas missile success
fully streaked 5,000 miles down
the Caribbean range today, but
its nose cone, cairying a group
of radiation experiments sank.
The Air Force reported that the
intercontinental-range rocket had
achieved all flight test objectives
in hitting a target zone off the
Atlantic island of Ascension.
Ships and planes began a search
for the lti-ton cone, but officials
announced three hours after
launch that the recovery attempt
had been called off “after it was
determined the nose cone was not
afloat.”
Northern Observers May
Spot Echo Satellite
WASHINGTON, Ufi — The Echo
I Balloon Satellite will not pass
over Alaska or the main part of
Russia, but during some of the
orbits it will be visible from most
of those areas.
Orbit No. 1, early Saturday, for
example, which takes the satel
lite directly over Hawaii at 2:14
a.m. EST, will be visible from
Alaska and the Aleutian Islands
and from most Canadian cities.
The Echo orbits will eventually
cover every part of the United
States, Central America and
South America except for the
southern tip of Chile, all of Af
rica and southern Europe, and all
of Asia from Japan south.
Satellite Echoes
Ike Peace Message
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP) —
The United States sent a huge
communications satellite into or
bit high above the earth today
and quickly signalled its success
by bouncing a message from
President Eisenhower across the
nation.
i The message, loud and clear,
said:
“This is President Eisenhower
speaking.
“It is a great personal satis
faction to particpate in this first
experiment in communications in
volving the use of a satellite bal
loon known as Echo.
“This is one more significant
step in the United States program
of space research and exploration.
“The program is being carried
forward vigorously by the United
States for peaceful purposes for
i the benefit of all mankind.
I “The satellite balloon which
| has reflected these words may be
I used freely by any nation for
similar experiments in its own in
terests.
“Information necessary to pre
pare for such participation was
widely distributed some weeks
ago.
“The United States will con
tinue to make freely available to
the world the scientific informa
tion acquired from this and other
experiments in its program of
space exploration.”
The recording was broadcast to
the satellite on its first sweep
around the earth.
Dr. T. Keith Glennan, NASA
administrator, gave the new sat
ellite the name of Echo I.
Observers on the Pacific Coast
reported that in the early morn
ing darkness it shone some seven
times brighter than the North
Star.
Demobilized Soviet
Doughboys Get Sendoff to
Siberian State Farms
MOSCOW, UP) — One thous
and demobilized Soviet soldiers
were given a sendoff Wednes
day for Siberia and new jobs
on state farms.
Before boarding their train they
got rousing pep talks from offi
cials and flowers and kisses from
their girl friends. A band furn
ished the musical background at a
suburban Moscow station.
It was the second time this
summer that Western newsmen
have been invited to attend a
| demobilization ceremony, part of
; Premier Khrushchev’s announced
i plan to demobilie 1,200,000 mem
I bers of the armed forces.
Rettig-Ryan Bout
Still Undecided
JUNEAU, UP) — Unoffical re
turns from 219 of 292 precincts
in Tuesday’s primary election
give;
For U. S. Senate: Bartlett <D>
23,659; Brayton (R) 3,763; McKin
ley <Ri 7,889.
For U. S. House: Boyer <D>
3,860; Riers <Di 20,466; Haugaard
(Ri 1,440; Rettig <R> 5,584; Ryan
<R> 4,608.
Capitol moe initiative: For 17,
377; Against 20,345.
JUNEAU, UPi — R. L. Rettig and
Jack Ryan are locked in a tight
battle for the Republican nomi
nation to the U. S. House today
as returns from Tuesday’s pri
mary election continued to trickle
in.
With the votes from 214 pre
cincts counted, Rettig, an Anchor
age accountant, had a 5,485 total
to 4,559 for Ryan, a Fairbanks
newspaperman. ,
The precincts still to be counted
were mostly bush precincts, with
very few votes in each.
In addition, there were some
2,950 absentee ballots still to be
counted around the state.
William Haugaard, a Sitka law
yer who was the third man in
the GOP House race, was out of
contention with a slim 1,433 total.
Rep. Ralph Rivers easily turned
back the challenge of Kenai ho
telman David Boyer for the Dem
ocratic side in his bid for another
term in the upper chamber,
picked off 23,311 votes with 214
precincts reporting.
Lee McKinley, a Palmer den
tist. cinched the Republican nom
ination for the U. S. Senate, lead
ing Lawrence Brayton of Fair
banks, 7,776-3,720.
The margin by which Initiative
No. 1, the capitol move proposal,
was defeated edged up steadily.
The spread was expected to
widen.
With 200 precincts counted, the
total for Initiative No. 1 was 16,
683. The count against it was
19,826.
Khrushchev Quotes on
U. S. Political Campaign:
NEW YORK, Wl — A labor
leader just back from the Soviet
Union says Premier Khrushchev
made these comments about the
Unitel States Presidential nom
inees:
Sen. John Kennedy seems “to
make sense.”
Vice President Richard Nixon
is “a fumbler,” and “not a poli
tician but a grocery clerk.”
Joseph Curran, president of the
National Maritime Union, Thurs
day related details of a 17-day
Soviet trip and described his July
13 meeting with Khrushchev.
“He showed a gre&t deal of in
terest in the United States poli
tical situation, especially in who
the next President would be,”
Curran said.
Curran said Americans have
been given a false picture of the
Soviet Union. He said they are
told that the Soviets are back
ward, prisoners waiting for some
one to lead them out of the dark
ness.
Tihs is not true, said Curran.
The United States must face
the Soviet Union as it actually is,
and not as “we wish it were.”
Hammarskjold and
Troops Land in
Congo Province
By ADRIAN PIRTER
ELISABETHVILLE, The Con
go, Iff) — United Nations Secre
tary General Dag Hammarskjold
and the first U, N. force to enter
secessionist Katanga Province
landed today.
The force — 220 Swedes —
arrived in five planes, touching
down at 10-minute intervals.
Hammarskjold and the soldiers
almost did not land after all. The
crowd at the airport saw Ham
marskjold’s plane circle the air
field three times.
Katanga’s Premier Moise
Tshombe and other government
officials waiting at the airport
were told as the plane circled that
the Secretary refused to land.
It appeared the control tower’s:
European operator had told Ham
marskjold he would be allowed to
land but that permission would,
be refused to the planes carrying
the Swedish soldiers.
Tshombe was appalled and
quickly ordered the control tower
to allow all U. N. planes to land.
Although Tshombe three days
ago announced he was willing to
accept the U. N. force under the
Security Council mandate for re
placement of the Belgian soldiers
on duty in Katanga, the order to
prevent them from landing never
was withdrawn at the airport con
trol tower.
That explanation was given to
newsmen by Tshombe himself.
Air Force Wins in
13t Attempt to Pick
Up Space Capsule
WASHINGTON, UP> — A space
capsule fired back to earth from
an orbiting U. S. satellite was
rushed toward Hawaii today with
a payload of data that could help
in perfecting a spy-in-the-sky
system.
With recovery of the capsule
— for the first success in 13 at
tempts — the United States ap
peared to have won a lap in the
space race with the Soviet Union.
The 300-pound capsule, loaded
with instruments, was fished from
the Pacific Ocean about 330 miles
northwest of Hawaii Thursday by
a helicopter which hurried to the
spot from a waiting ship.
A little over three hours ear
lier, the Air Force triggered the
ejection mechanism of its Dis
coverer XIII as it made its 17th
pass over Alaska in polar orbit.
With steering rockets starting it
on the way, the capsule plunged
downward into the thick air en
velope of the earth. A parachute
opened. Radio beacons helped ob
servers plot its course. Then
crews of waiting C-119 planes saw
the chute, followed the capsule
down and circled above the spot.
The Air Force plan was to
snatch the chute and capsule into
one of the C-119’s, but scattered
clouds caused trouble and a sea
recovery was required.
It was No. 13 of the Discoverer
satellite series which brought
luck to the Air Force. Some of
the previous launchings had failed
to put satellites into orbit. Some
went into orbit but failed to eject
the capsule or ejected it in the
wrong direction.