Atlas Missile Veers
And Is Destroyed
I ... Monkey Dies
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. <A—
jp A tiny squirrel monkey named
| Goliath gave his life to science
$ today when he died in the folaz
fi ing explosion of an Atlas mis
H sile high above Cape Canaveral.
Officials reported there was no
|| chance the IVfc-pound animal sur
jjf vived the holocaust which occur
red 30 seconds after the Atlas
lifted off on an intended 5,000
it mile flight to the South Atlantic
I Ocean.
The Air Force said the range
safety officer destroyed the mis
sile when it becaine erratic.
The Mast spread a boiling ball
of fire several thousand feet in
the air and showered burning
pieces of the shattered rocket back
onto the Cape area and into the
Atlantic just off shore.
Goliath probably died at the
instant of explosion. He was in
a well-padded capsule located
near the base of the 12-foot-tall
nose cone and just above one of
the fuel tanks.
There was no escape mechan
ism to pull the monkey capsule
free in such an emergency. An
escape device is provided on
Project Mercury launchings.
If all had gone right today, the
Aatlas would have hurled the nose
cone 680 miles into space before
it plummeted back for a para
chute landing near Ascension
Island, Two planes and one ship
were to have attempted recovery
of the cone and its passenger.
Goliath, who had trained about
six months for this mission, is not
the first animal to perish in
rocket flights aimed at finding
means of keeping man alive in
space. There have been 28 other
recorded animal deaths.
The latest were two Russian
dogs, named Little Bee and Lit
tle Fly, andean undisclosed num
ber of mice that burned up in
the atmosphere last December
when their orbiting space capsule
failed to return to earth properly.
One other squirrel monkey,
died in a U.S. rocket flight in
December 1958. Radio instruments
showed Gordo apparently survived
the 600-mile-high sub-orbital mis
sion, but searchers were unable
to find his nose cone.
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Revenue Collections $1.5
Million Over Last Tear
JUNEAU (A —■ Gov. Wm. Egan
said today gross revenue collec
tions by the state during the four
month period ending Oct. 31 were
$10403,48942.
The take represents an increase
of approximately $1.8 million
from gross revenue collections
during the same period last year.
Egan said collections this year
were conforming rather closely
to revenue estimates submitted
by the administration to the 1962
Legislature.
Net income taxes accounted for
$842,787 of the Increase over last
Rep. Bruce Alger Says
U.S. Has Ample Stockpile
Of Nuclear Weapons
DALLAS — The United
States has 35,000 to 40,000 nu
clear weapons in its stockpile,
equivalent to 35 billion tons of
TNT, Rep. Bruce Alger (R-Tex.),
said today.
He told the Petroleum Engi
neers Chib he could disclose the
facts without jeopardizing se
curity.
The equivalent of 16 billion tons
of TNT in this stockpile is avail
able for immediate retaliation.
This amounts to about 4,000 times
all the conventional explosives
fired in World War H, he said.
To transport these, the U.S. has
6,000 missiles and airplanes car
rying one or more weapons of
kiloton or megaton yields.
About 1.5 per cent of these
6,000 vehicles would need to sur
vive and penetrate Soviet defenses
to inflict the damage suffered by
Russia in World War II, he said.
About 3 per cent would foe need
ed to cause semi-total destruc
tion of all sources of Soviet mili
tary and industrial power.
“Once Khrushchev is convinced
we will use our ability to strike
back against the Soviet homeland,
the danger of war will be greatly
lessened,” he said.
'
55 to 60 Megatons . , .
WASHINGTON iff) — The
Atomic Energy Commission now
estimates that the big Soviet
bomb exploded in the atmosphere
Oct. 30 was in the 55 to 60 mega
ton range.
The commission’s preliminary
estimates placed the bomb in the
range of about J)0 megatons. A
megaton is the equivalent in an
energy release in the explosion
of a million tons of TNT.
The new estimate was given
yesterday in response to an in
quiry and was based on analysis
of available data.
32 Russian Fishing
Trawlers Sighted 21
Miles Off Cape Cod
CHATHAM, Mass. (£> — A fleet
of 32 Russian trawlers, with two
mother ships, has been reported
on a fishing bank only 21 miles
off Cape Cod.
Five Chatham fishermen report
ed the Russian fleet when they
reported in port Wednesday night
after a day at sea.
Capt. Richard Chase, skipper of
one of the Cape boats, said there
were so many Russian ships on
one shoe! “they were crowding
us off the bank.”
He reported his day's catch
lighter .than usual.
The Russian fleet of trawlers
has been seen for many months
off the Cape, but this is the closest
they have been to the mainland.
The bank where the Chatham
men reported seeing the Russians
is less than so miles from Hyan
nis Port, where President Ken
nedy spent many summer week-*
ends at his summer White House
this year.
fpid a Wn—latlat
"good nwniwir from one trawler,
but the conversation wasn’t pur
sued.
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Two Anchorage
Men are Prospects
For Governorship
ANCHORAGE — Anchorage
attorneys John Rader and Wen
dell Kay, named by a Juneau
broadcaster as candidates for
governor against incumbent Wm.
Egan, today said they weren’t
candidates—not yet.
Radar said he has been ap
proached by many people who
said they would support him if
he entered the race.
“But it’s much too early yet
for anyone to declare candidacy.”
he said. “Keep in mind that the
election is a year away and the
Democratic primary is still 10
months away. The final issues are
not yet decided. I’d have to know
all of the issues and who else
might be running before I would
decide.”
Kay declared that has was “not
a candidate.”
“I told the reporter from Ju
neau that I was not a candidate,”
he said. “I told him three or four
times, but he kept trying to pin
me down. I know I’m being men
tioned as a candidate and am
flattered that I am even being!
considered, but that is as far as it
goes at this time.”
Kay said that the nearest he
came to saying he was a candi
date was when he said he would
run if the Democratic party asked
him to.
“I answered him correctly when
I said I would run if chosen by
the party,” he said, adding that
“it would be silly to think that
any good Democrat would not do
that much if asked by his fellow
men.”
Portuguese
Plane Hijacked
At Gunpoint
LISBON, Portugal <01 — Five
men and a girl hijacked a Portu
guese airliner ait gunpoint today
and dropped anti-government
leaflets on Lisbon in the name of
Henrique Galvao, the hijacker of
the liner Santa Maria.
“We are now at war” with the
regime of Premier Antonio De
Oliveira Salazar, the pamphlets
said. After dropping them, the
hijacked plane flew to Tangier,
where Galvao was waiting to
congratulate the highjackers.
Two police cars took them to
Tangier police headquarters and
the pilot of the plane followed
in another car to make an official
statement.
The 'six hijackers, informed
sources said, boarded the plane
in Casablanca, as tourists head
ing for vacations in Portugal.
The flight was staged only two
days before Sunday s parliament
ary election—an election in which
all opposition candidates have
withdrawn, charging that Salazar
had made * free election impos
sible. Salazar’s government party,
the National Union, replied that
the opposition was Communist
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News-Miner Says Moody Oversteps
Authority In Liquor Shipment Case
Moody Says His Office
Has No Power to Halt
Prepaid Shipments
JUNEAU \S) — State Atty. Gen.
Ralph Moody said today his of
fice has no power, under present
law, to halt prepaid shipments of
liquor into dry areas of the state.
Moody made the statement in
commenting on a Fairbanks News
Miner editorial which accused
him of Ignoring an opinion of
Superior Court Judge Hubert Gil
bert that such shipments are il
legal.
Moody said it was the state’s
position that C.O.D. shipments of
liquor into dry areas were illegal,
but not prepaid shipments.
“The law says only that liquor
may not be sold in dry areas, it
does not say that liquor cannot be
shipped into such areas.”
Moody released the text of a
letter he wrote to Gov. William
A. Egan Tuesday, which the at
torney general said covered the
entire state position on the sub
ject.
Atty. Gen. Moody’s letter to
the Governor concludes with:
“The courts of this state havej
concurrent duty to describe what
the law is when a suit brings the
question before It, though they do
not have the power to make rules
of legislative force such as dele
gated to the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board. Although a court
has the power to decide only the
case actually before it, it is com
mon practice of judges in their
opinions to comment on aspects
of the law not necessary to the
decision of the case before them.
Such remarks are known by law
yers as ‘dictum.’ They are valu
able indication to the lawyer of
'what he might expect in future
situations of the kind covered by
the dictum and are always treat
ed with consideration. However,
such remarks are the personal
opinion of the judge and do not
constitute law . . .”
Japan Records Highest
Level of Radioactivity
TOKYO Iff) — Japan’s Central
Meteorological Agency announced
yesterday it has recorded the
highest level of radioactivity in
dust fallout caused by Soviet nu
clear blasts since Sept. 1. But
said there was no immediate dan
ger to human life.
The agency said weathermen in
Osaka, the industrial center in
southwestern Japan, Wednesday
recorded 280 mircromicrocuries of
radioactivity per one cublic meter
of dust samplings from the air.
The previous high detected In
dust was 177 micromicrocuries per
one cubic tmeaer, the agency said,
recorded on March 19, 1958.
On Sunday the agency report
ed detecting 1,820 micromicro
curies of radioactivity per cubic
centimeter per minute from rain
samplings in Fukuoka. This re
portedly wap the highest recorded
from rain since the Soviet Union
resumed nuclear testing.
FAIRBANKS Wl — The Fair
bank Daily News - Miner ques
tioned editorially today the right
of Attorney General Ralph Moody
to ignore or reject decisions of
the State Superior Court.
The editorial was referring to a
decision of the attorney general’s
office to delay or halt prosecu
tion of store owners who have
been carrying on “mail order”1
liquor sales in the Second Judi
cial Division.
Judge Hubert Gilbert of Nome
in a memorandum opinion last
month said that liquor shipments
to northern villages by mail order
or C.O.D. were forbidden by his
interpretation of an Alaska stat
ute.
The liquor shipments were stop
ped for a time, but then word
was received from Juneau by
Nome District Attorney Robert
Erwin and state police to halt
prosecution of liquor store vio
lators until the Alcoholic Bever
age Control Board could hold
hearings in the matter.
The News-Miner in its editor
ial questioned the authority of
the attorney general as a mem
ber of the executive branch of
I the state government.
The editorial said in part:
I “It looks to us as if Attorney
I General Ralph Moody is over
i stepping his authority in telling
his representatives in the Second
Judicial Division to ‘sidestep the
issue’ in spite of Judge Gilbert's
interpretation of the existing law.
$30 Fallout Shelter
Withstands Costly Fire
LOS ANGELES UP) — The Bel
Air fire was a cosily test for a
$30 fallout shelter but its builder,
one of the world’s experts on nu
clear survival, is more sold than
ever on it.
Dr. Willard Libby, winner of
the 1960 Nobel Prize for his dis
covery of the carbon-14 “Atomic
Cluck”, has little else left at his
home—or pile or rubble—at 101®
N. Chantilly Rd.
No street in Hiroshima could
have looked worse than Chantilly*
Rd. The UCLA scientists’s sand
bag shelter—minus its burned-up
railroad tie beams—did much bet-;
ter than the house—or the rest
of the neighborhood.
"I have more faith than ever in
the shelter,” Dr. Libby told this
newsman yesterday. “This shelter
was designed against fallout—a
radioactive powder—not fire. Had.
there been a nuclear blast, I have
no doubt that it would have more
than done its job.”
He said that he will rebuild it
with different supporting beams.
The fire, which came right over
the shelter, burned up the rail
road ties but left the sandbags
mostly intact.
“I’m thinking now about some
new kind of beams. Steel would
be good but might make it too
expensive. Pll come tip with
something,” he said.
JUNVAiU ill — Gov. Wm. Egan
Thursday proclaimed Nov. 11 as
“Veterans Day** in
Alaska.
AT NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY
BE GIVEN AWAY