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62nd Year No. 80 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1961 Per Copy 15£
Atlas Missile
Sets Record Flight
Of 9,050-Miles
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. UR —
The business end of an Atlas
missile hurtled out of the western
sky like a blazing meteor and
crashed into the Indian Ocean
early today at the end of the;
longest military rocket flight on i
record — a 9,050-mile journey :
from Cape Canaveral.
The Air Force had been deeply
concerned about seven failures in ,
10 previous test launchings of this
new Atlas “E” series.
The huge missile, 85 feet tall
and weighing more than 100 tons
on liftoff, blasted off just before
midnight Thursday night and
darted into a star-filled sky. About
4h£ minutes later, an inertial
guidance system sensed the rocket
was on the proper course and
ordered engine shutoff and sepa
ration of the nose cone.
The lVfc-ton cone followed a
ballistic trajectory which carried
it nearly 1,000 miles high and
peak speed of 17,000 miles an
hour.
Fifty-three minutes after the
launch, two tracking planes and
a ship followed the cone’s fiery
path as it plunged back into the
heat barrier of the earth’s at
mosphere and dived on target
about 1,000 miles southeast of
Cape Town, South Africa.
The improved Atlas is the most
powerful United States military
rocket being test flown. Its three
massive engines generate 400,000
pounds of thrust.
The E rocket, scheduled to be
come operational within a few
months, is designed to carry a
hydrogen warhead to targets up
to 12,000 miles away.
Police Look for Killer
In Utah Desert Region
MOAB, Utah UR — Police looked
today for Denise Sullivian, a 15
year-old Connecticut girl kid- j
napped by a swarthy man who j
shot and killed her mother, and :
seriously wounded a male com
panion.
The party of tourists from Rock
ville, Conn., was attacked Wed
nesday night on an isolated road
in southeastern Utah’s scenic, but
rugged desert country.
After 40 hours of searching the
Colorado and Gren Rivers and
hundreds of gullys and valleys,
Sheriff John Stocks said he still
believed the girl and the killer
could be in the area. But he said:
“I don’t believe she (Denise)
could have lasted through Wed
nesday night.
The swarthy gunman waved
down the small foreign car Wed
nesday night, demanded money,
and when he was refused shot and
killed Mrs. Jeanette Sullivan, 41,
and shot her companion, Charles
Boothroyd, 55.
Denise tried to escape in the
car. But the killer ran down the
vehicle, hitting it at least six
times, then forced the teenager
into his car, officers said.
GRAND "OLD" PRIZE . . .
MALVERN, Ark. UR — Dennis
Wheat bought a new car in 1950
and traded it in reluctantly for
a newer model in 1955.
Several days ago Wheat saw the
car on a lot and tried to buy it,
but it had already been sold.
Wednesday night Wheat at
tended a drive-in movie and won !
a car given as a prize. It was his
old automobile.
U.S.-Russia to Start
Talks on Air Route July 18
WASHINGTON UP) — The Unit- ;
ed States and Russia have agreed j
to start talks July 18 on a direct
New York-Moscow commercial
air route, the State Department
announced today.
The establishment of such a
route would provide the first
direct air link between the two
countries. Air travelers presently
have to transfer at intermediate
points when going from one na
tion to the other.
Similar talks had been sched
uled to start exactly a year
earlier — on July 18, 1960 — the
the United States canceled them
before they started after the So
viets fired on a U. S. RB-47 re
connaissance bomber.
U. S. officials tended to regard j
the air talks now as a technical I
matter rather than as one of broad ‘
political significance affecting 1
cold war issues.
Pan American World Airways'
officials will sit in with the Amer
ican delegates with “observer”
status. That airline is the Ameri
can carrier scheduled to fly to
Moscow if the route opens up.
i Auto Workers Union
j Presents GM With 8-Point
Wage Proposal Program
| DETROIT UP — The United
j Auto Workers Union today pre
sented General Motors Corp. an
eight-point proposal to create
more jobs by reducing work time.
The union said it was open
minded on its shorter work week
proposal and, in effect, told the
company it could take its choice
in the multi-point program.
“We are prepared to explore
any additional approaches that
management may suggest,” the
union said. “We are, however, de
termined to find an answer to
the insecurity and unemployment
which has victimized our mem
bers and their families.”
The union proposed: Reduction
of the work week without loss in
pay; reduction of the work day
without loss in pay; reduction of
the work year without loss in pay;
longer vacations; more paid holi
days; industrial sabbaticals — a
whole year off with pay every
few years; earlier retirement, and
a restriction of overtime.
The union also submitted two
other statements. One charged
that supervisory personnel were
violating the current contract by
doing production work. The other
claimed that the contract also was
violated by the company employ
ing students in its training pro
gram and using them to do work
that should be done by UAW
members.
155 Polar Bears Taken
During Past Season
JUNEAU Wl — The State De
partment of Fish and Game re
ported yesterday that 155 polar
bears were taken during the past
season, which ran from Oct. 15
to May 7.
Of the total, the department
said, 109 were males.
The known harvest of brown
and grizzly bears during the
spring season was 150 animals, as
of June 19. Of the total, 115 were
males.
While the brown and grizzly
bear season ended June 30, final
figures on the spring kill are not
expected to be available before
mid-August.
Hoffa Breezes to
Re-Election to
Head Teamsters
MIAMI BEACH, 0P> — James R.
Hoffa today breezed to an easy
re-election victory as president of
the 1.7-million member Teamsters
Union.
At the midway point of a roll
call of the 2,000 delegates, Hoffa’s
opponent, Milton J. Liss, head of
Newark Local 478, had only six
votes.
Hoffa was nominated for re
election in a din of sirens, horns
and bells and yelling from the
2,060 delegates whose ultimate
choice of Hoffa was a foregone
conclusion.
Liss was nominated by James
Luken of Cincinnati, president of
Local 98 and Joint Council 26, as
the man with the best chance to
bring the expelled Teamsters back
to the AFL-CIO.
“My candidate,” Luken said,
“would come home to the AFL
CIO with clean hands, with a
clean record, with a clean name
and with a genuine desire to do
what is best for all labor unions,”
The “clean hands” reference
touched off a series of protests
from Hoffa supporters, John Roh
rich of Cleveland, one of the
union’s international trustees’ de
manded vociferiously that Luken’s
remarks be wiped off the con
vention record.
Rohrich, in fact, sputted so
angrily into a microphone that
his false teeth popped out. He
I neatly caught them on the fly as
the delegates roared with laugh
ter. Hoffa silenced the criticism
with an entreaty to “let this be
a democratic, free, open election
and let the best man win.”
One of the few Hoffa foes at
the convention, Edward H. Paint
er of Local 70, Oakland, Calif.,
protested at one point Thursday
that a Hoffa machine completely
dominates the proceedings.
Hoffa suggested a motion that
was quickly adopted to wipe
Painter’s remark from the record
saying: “Hoffa don’t have no ma
chine—now we’ll have no more of
that.”
At other times Hoffa silenced
dissidents by ruling, “you’re out
of order, brother. Shut up.”
Ray Schloessling, president of
Teamsters Joint Council, 25, Chi
cago, praised Hoffa for fairness
and said he never saw a chairman
who “allowed more democracy to
creep in.”
VANDALS DAMAGE
AIRPLANES HERE
Two local airplane owners have
felt the sting of vandals this past
week. Yesterday morning Lester
Bronson reported that someone
had worked over his plane on the
city field, just north of town. The
vandals punched holes in the fab
ric, broke windows and tore out
the paneling in the interior.
Bronson is offering a reward of
$100 for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of the
vandals.
Bill Munz of Munz Airways also
is offering a $100 reward for ap
prehension of the persons respon
sible for shooting up one of his
•planes stored in the old red hang
ar, north of city field.
Earlier this spring another
plane, owned by Ray Decker, was •
extensively damaged when it was
apparently rammed in the tail by
a car or truck.
Conciliation Meeting
Called for Striking
Unions and Contractors
SEATTLE (jP) — A conciliation
meeting has been called for Tues
day in Anchorage in a dispute
that has caused a work stoppage
in part of Alaska's vital construc
tion industry.
Barney Toner, federal concilia- j
tor, said he had arranged the '
meeting between negotiators for j
seven unions and the Associated j
General Contractors.
The unions are the Operating '
Engineers, Teamsters, Latherers,
Laborers, Bricklayers, Cement
Finishers and Plasterers.
Earlier conciliation meetings1
failed to effect agreement on new
contracts and head off the work
stoppages.
Only part of some 18,000 men
employed on 70 projects in the
Alaska industry are affected.
! Hoffa Jr. Working at
Clear as Truck Driver
FAIRBANKS UP) — In one of
the understatements of the year
in view of today's overwhelming
election of James Hoffa as pres
ident of the Teamsters Union,
James Hoffa Jr. said, “I am quite
confident my father will be re
, elected.”
Young Jim Hoffa, 20, is present
. ly employed for the summer by
’ RCA at Clear as a light-duty
truck driver. In the winter he is
a Michigan State University stu
' dent and guard on the Spartan
' football team.
Jim Hoffa arrived in Fairbanks
j with three former Detroit high
j school and college chums late last
1 month to work during the sum
! mer vacation. A short time later
i he was sent out of Teamster Local
j 959 to the Ballistic Missile Early
j Warning Site at Clear.
Hoffa is a junior at Michigan 1
] State, majoring in economics, j
! Upon graduation he will enter a
| law school, majoring in labor
law with plans for private prac
tice somewrhere in the east.
SAMMY DAVIS JR.-MAI BRITT
ARE PARENTS OF DAUGHTER
HOLLYWOOD UP) — Swedish
actress Mai Britt and Negro en
tertainer Sammy Davis Jr. are
the parents of a 7-pound, 7-ounce
daughter.
A spokesman said Davis was
“deliriously happy” at becoming
a father for the first time.
The baby, named Tracy Hillary,
was born Wednesday. Mother and
daughter are doing fine, Miss
Britt’s doctor said.
Davis and the blonde actress
: were married last Nov. 14. Both
Davis, 34, and Miss Britt, 24, had
been divorced once previously.
QUITE A SUM . . .
NEWTON. Mass. UP — For 50
years Charles W. Abbott, 67, was
employed as a personal secretary
for Maude B. Kimball, an elderly
widow.
He retired two years ago—on
a Social Security pension.
Mrs. Kimball died recently.
Her will was allowed Thursday
in Probate Court—Abbott was be
queathed $1,296,500.
2-YEAR-OLD STRANGLED
IN WIRE FENCE
WIKES BARRE, Pa. UP)—Diane
Gilbert, 2, apparently trying to
climb a wire fence behind her
home in nearby Forty-Fort,
strangled Thursday night when
she slipped and fell, catching her .
) neck in the wire strands.
Bail Set At
$150,000 for
Ketchikan Arsonist
KETCHIKAN UP) — William
Mitchell, a 33-year-old former
volunteer fireman charged with
arson in connection with one of
three major fires which broke
out here Monday afternoon, was
returned to Ketchikan today.
Superior Court Judge Walter
Walsh set bail for Mitchell at
$150,000, covering three arson
charges, including two old ones.
In explaining the high bail,
Judge Walsh said he felt it was
best “both for the protection of
the defendant and the public,”
that Mitchell be kept in custody
until he is tried.
In the latest arson charge, filed
Monday night, Mitchell, a former
Ketchikan businessman, is ac
cused of setting the Federal
Apartments Bldg, blaze here Mon
day.
Other fires were fought by
Ketchikan firemen in the Tongass
Trading Co. Bldg, and the Sted
man Hotel.
Prior to the filing of the latest
j arson charge, Mitchell had been
I charged with two counts of arson
| involving previous Ketchikan
fires.
In addition to the three arson
I charges, Mitchell is also accused
of unlawful flight to avoid pro
j secution, in a federal complaint.
Mitchell surrendered volun
' tarily in Auburn, Calif., after
j telephoning the Federal Bureau
j of Investigation office in San
' Francisco.
He fled Ketchikan Monday
afternoon, disguised as a woman.
The three fires did damage esti
mated at some $250,000.
Million Cases of Salmon
Canned—Peak of Red
Run Is Yet to Come
JUNEAU 0P> — More than a
half million cases of salmon have
been canned at Bristol Bay and
the peak of the red run is yet to
come, Fish and Game Commis
sioner Clarence Anderson said to
day.
Anderson said he was advised
by Walter Kirkness, Director of
the Division of Commercial Fish
eries who is personally overseeing
fishing operations in Bristol Bay,
that the peak of the red nan will
probably come in the next couple
of days.
“Bristol Bay fishermen have
taken some 7 million fish al
ready.”
“It is my belief, after talking
with Kirkness, that the Bristol
Bay pack this year will top a
million and a quarter cases.”
Anderson said escapement was
more than adequate. He said more
than \Vi million fish are already
in Lake Illiamna and another Vfe
million fish are on their way up
the Kvichak River.
If the pack goes over a million
cases, it will be the first time it
has done so since 1948, when 1,
316,000 cases of salmon were can
ned on the bay.
The pack last year was 850,000
cases, valued at $36 million.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with fog and drizzle be
gining tonight. Low tonight 40,
high tomorrow 48. In the last 48
hours: High of 47, low of 42. Sun
rise at 1:45 a. m., sunset at 10:26
p. m. Temperatures a year ago
today: High of 46, low of 42. Ex
tremes on this date since 1907:
High of 74 in 1925, low of 35 in
1936.