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NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1961 Per Copy 15#
76,500 Reservists
To Be Called Up
For Active Duty
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WASHINGTON JJPi — The De
fense Department today ordered
76,500 Army, Navy and Air Force
reservists to active duty, most of
them on Oct. 1.
The call-up was announced by
Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara at a special news con
ference.
It applies to 46,500 Army,
6,400 Navy and 23,600 Air Force
personnel.
McNamara said that all of the
units, with the exception of seven
Navy units and certain Army
units will to be sent to Fort Polk,
La., for opening of the training
center there, will be ordered to
report on Oct. 1.
The seven Navy units will re
port soon after Oct. 1,
Lt. Col. Fred O. Reger, Asst.
Adjutant General of the Alaska
National Guard, said in Juneau
no orders had been received ior
a call-up of Alaska reserve units.
California Woman Reigns
Over Sourdough Reunion
SEATTLE — Sourdough
President Walter R. Hamilton
turns his gavel over to a woman
today, the second time in history
that a woman has headed the In
ternational Reunion of Sour
doughs.
Hamilton, 89, West Vancouver,
B, C., will give the symbol of
leadership to Mrs. Crystal Mc
Questen Morgan of Berkeley,
Calif, during the 30th annual
reunion.
“All the credit should go to
the men,” said Mrs. Morgan, who
was born at the famous 40 Mile
Camp on the Yukon River. “I'm
only one of the second generation
who is trying to keep alive the
good •yvill that was created by
those who met the test of the
north.”
Mrs. Morgan, whose father, Le
Roy N. McQuesten, was in the
Klondike in 1892, five years be
fore the great gold rush, said she
hopes to continue contacting sons
and daughters of the pioneers in
order to write short, accurate,
historical accounts of life as it
was in those exciting times.
“So many exaggerate our
stories,” she' said.
One of the sourdoughs attend
ing, Mrs. Gertrude Eisner, Los
Angeles said:
“You don’t know what life in
the north was,” she recalled. “The
door to ydor house was always
open. After my husband died,
everyone said I should go outside
to the states. I used to speak to
everyone on the streets here, but
people thought I was crazy. You
don’t know how to live out here.”
Plummer to be Named
Second Federal Judge
For District of Alaska
WASHINGTON UR — Sen. E. L.
Bartlett, said he was told today
the President intends to nomi
nate Raymond E. Plummer, An
chorage attorney, for a federal
judgeship in Alaska.
Statehood legislation provided
for twp federal judges in the 49th
State. The present judge there is
Walter Hodge.
Bartlett said Plummer is “a
man of high capability and repu
tation” and that he expects Sen
ate approval without difficulty.
Communist Disbeliever
Receives Prison Sentence
MOSCOW tffl — A court in the
far eastern city of Nakhodka has
sentenced a man to five years in
prison for raising children in his
religious belief and forbidding
them to take part in Communist
social activities, Pravda reported
today.
The newspaper identified the
accused as N. P. Goretoi, a leader
of the sect known as “Christians
of the Belief of the Fiftieths.”
The report from Nakhodka,
near Vladivostok, said “the be
lievers forbade their children to
take part in social life, to sing
Soviet songs and to join the Pio
neer and Komsomol organiza
tions.”
Pravda said three other mem
bers of the' sect would be pro
secuted.
NEHRU QUALIFIES HIS
STATEMENTS ON BERLIN
NEW DELHI UP> — Prime Min
ister Nehru said tonight that
Western access rights to Berlin
should not be dnied or impaired.
He added these access rights
should not be changed.
Nehru issued the statement
through U. S. Ambassador John
Kenneth Galbraith, who read it
to reporters.
Nehru was taking note of the
storm raised by his Parliament
statement in which he said West
ern powers had access to Wesl
Berlin not as a right but as a
concession from the Soviet Union
Brazil President,
Janio Quadros
Resigns Post
RIO DE JANEIRO — Presi
dent Janio Quadros of Brazil sub
mitted his resignation today, the
Palace at Brazilia announced.
The president was reported al
ready to have left the capital of
Brasilia when the announcement
was made by his press secretary.
He was reported enroute to Rio
de Janeiro or Sao Paulo.
In a statement Quadros said he
could not continue his efforts to
give Brazil economic and political
"liberation” because of pressure
inside Brazil and from abroad.
Quadros had served as presi
dent seven months. His resigna
tion came on the heels of a vio
lent week-long attack on his in
dependent foreign policy. He has
sought closer relations with So
viet (Russia and other Communist
bloc nations and refused to take
a stand against Fidel Castro's re
gime in Cuba. Moscow radio an
nounced today he had accepted an
invitation to exchange diplomatic
relations with the Soviet Union
and agreed to visit Moscow.
An 11th Cabinet Post
WASHINGTON W — A bill to
establish an 11th cabinet post —
a Secretary of Urban Affairs and
housing — has cleared the House
Committee on government opera
tions.
I Hellenthal Raps Colleagues ... Charges
He Was Removed From Post Illegally
By Ward Sims
Antedated Press Staff Writer
JUNEAU UP) — The deposed
chairman off the State Democratic
Central Committee charged today
that he was removed from his
post illegally.
In his first public statement
since he was voted out as state
Democratic chairman in Fairbanks
last weekend, John Hellenthal of
Anchorage told the Associated
Press in an exclusive interview:
“It was beyond the power of
the Central Committee and illegal
for it to remove me as state chair
man, because the 120 delegates to
the 1960 Democratic convention
at Ketchikan elected me to the
office over determined opposition
of most of the present Central
Committee members.
“Only those delegates assembled
at a convention can remove the
chairman,” Hellenthal said.
Wendell Kay, the Anchorage at
torney who was named to replace
Hellenthal, told the AP in a long
distance telephone conversation
that:
“We decided that any official
committee has the plenary power
to vacate an office of the com
mittee and we acted accordingly.”
Kay said 20 members of the
25-member committee voted to
vacate Hellenthal’s post.
Hellenthal said R. E. McFar
land of Anchorage, president of
the State Federation of Labor,
Henry Hedberg of Anchorage,
lobbyist' for the federation, and
Kay were aided by many others
in the ouster move.
Named specifically were Mrs.
Helen Fischer of Anchorage, Alex
Miller of Fairbanks, James Fisher
of Anchorage, Mrs, Peggy Giers
dorf of Fairbanks, Lew Dischner
of Juneau and Dick Greuel of
Fairbanks.
“It is amusing that Kay, the
1960 (Democratic) campaign chair
man, blames that unsuccessful ef
fort on me, yet I alone, among De
mocrats, was elected to the Leg
islature from the Anchorage elec
tion district despite the active
efforts of McFarland, Hedberg,
Kay and their gang.”
Hellenthal said the, principal :
objections to him at Fairbanks
last weekend were that “I served
as a ‘buffer’ for Governor Egan
in patronage matters and that I
somehow prevented the Central
Committee from picking the new
federal judge for Alaska, although
each member of the Central Com
mittee was polled by me as to
the political qualifications for the
judgeship, not their legal quali
fications.”
“Heaven help any governor
whose choice of assistants is com
pletely dictated by this . . . group.
“Federal judges must be chosen
by a poll of those qualified to
rate them, namely the poll of the
American and Alaska Bar Asso
ciations, and by the Department
of Justice, including the FBI, and
the President.
“They cannot be chospn solely
by politicians.”
He said that while he has al
ways “adhered to the principles
of the Democratic party,” he has
found that “party politics are not
always conducted under the same
principles as our Legislature and
are not truly Democratic when
selfish and designing people at
tempt to govern from behind
dosed doors and to suit only their
own selfish ends and ambitions.”
Kay said the Central Commit
tee’s action in removing Hellen
thal is “in no way a reflection on
the administration of Governor
Egan.
“It is related only to Mr. Hel
lenthal’s activities.”
Special Charter Group to Witness
Nome Telephone Co. “Cut-Over”
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Tomorrow night at 9 o’clock is cut-over time for
the Nome Telephone Co. when the first call will be
made. Mike Walslh, who has been a phone subscriber
for over forty years, will place a call to Sen. Bob Bart
lett in Washington, D. C.( it will be 4 a. m. there).
Coming to Nome tomorrow by special charter will
be representatives of other telephone companies for the
event. A program has been planned for them, which
starts with a hospitality hour from 7:30 to 8:30 in the
evening at the Bering Sea Club. This will be followed
by the Cut-Over Ceremony at the Nome Telephone
office and will culminate with a smorgasbord at the
North Star at 10:00 p. m.
The Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a gold
panning tour for the guests on Sunday afternoon at 1:00
p. m. The group is scheduled to depart at four o’clock
on Sunday.
Officers of the Nome Telephone Co. are Pete Read
er, president; Tom Martin, treasurer; Borgny Reader,
office manager; Barbara Martin, Jennie Frazier, and
John Belobraidich.
Guest expected to arrive are:
Nome’s ESC Office
To Open Next Month
JUNEAU Iff*—'The Alaska State
Employment Service will open a
full-time office in Nome late next
Monday, Gov. Egan said today.
Egan said Mrs. Mary M. Pil
cher of Nome would be office
manager.
Opening of the Nome office,
Egan said, was made possible by
allocation to the state of $16,619
by the Federal Bureau of Em
ployment Security for the re
mainder of 1962.
Egan said the office will take
over promotion of employment
for residents of the Arctic area, a
function now handled by the
State Employment Service’s Fair
' banks office.
INDEFINITE DELAY I
FOR MERCURY CAPSULE
WASHINGTON 19) — The Space
Agency announced today an in
definite delay in its planned effort
to put an unmanned Mercury cap
sule in orbit around the earth.
One official said “technical dif
ficulties” in an electrical part
forced an indefinite delay in the
launching, which had been sched
uled for this week.
The capsule, attached to a
powerful Atlas missile, is the
same type that would be used to
place a man in orbit, possibly
late this year.
Jacqueline Cochran Sets Women's
Flight Speed Record of 842.6 mph
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif, W>—.Famed aviatrix Jacque
line Cochran has returned the
women’s air speed record to the
United States with an 842.6 mile
an-hour jet plane flight.
That’s 126.7 mph faster than the
1955 mark held by a French
woman.
Miss Cochran made the flight
Thursday in a twin-jet trainer—
the world’s first supersonic one—
accepted by the Air Force last
March. -
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy today with occa
sional fog and drizzle tonight. Lit
tle change in temperatures.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 53, lowest 42. Sunrise at
4:24 a.m., sunset 7:41 pan. |
> John Cushing and wife, Sitka
and Kodiak Telephone Co., Sitka;
Richard Cushing and wife, South
eastern Telephone Co., Sitka; W.
E. Greene and family, Oregon
Agricultural Chemicals, Tulelake,
Calif.; Stanley Carlfeldt, Kellogg
; IT & T, Bellevue, wn.; C. J. Mc
Lean, Alaska Telephone Corp.,
Seattle; William V. Norton and
: wife, Alaska Air Command, An
chorage; Vem N. Smith, Minne
’ sota Mining & Mfg. Co., Spenard;
Verna Carrigan, Juneau-Douglas
Telephone Co., Juneau; Hugh
Barnhart and wife, Rochester
Telephone Co., Rochester, Ind.;
C. C. Pearce and party of four,
Farmers Telephone Co.. Riceville,
Inwa:
John Kuypers and J. R. Sher
man, Lenkurt Electric Co., San
Carlos, Calif.; Don Pollock, Re
liable Electric Co., Franklin Park,
111.; Howard Boyd, General Cable
Co., Seattle; Bill Pottraz, Cow
ic-he, Wn.; Keith Regel, Automatic
I Electric Sales Corp., Burlingame,
Calif.; James Zidlicky, Automatic
Electric Sales Corp. Northlake,
111.; Henry Hauschild, Automatic
Electric Corp., Burlingame, Calif.;
Bert Proctor, Proctor & Asso
ciates, Bellevue, Wn.; Brick Glas
coe and wife, Fairbanks; Leonard
Whitfield and wife, Aurora Ranch,
Fairbanks; E. D. Manske and wife,
Fairbanks; Ross Simpson, Fair
banks; Leroy Bastow, Fairbanks;
Charles H. London, Fairbanks;
Carole Monroe, Fairbanks; Harry
Reimer and party, Fairbanks; and
Curtis Little, Dallas, Tex.
And Lawrence Elliot, of the
Readers Digest, with a party of
three or four.
David Rusk Weds
Argentine Brunette
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina UP)
— U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Rusk’s son David married a 20
year-old Argentine brunette at a
Roman Catholic ceremony attend
ed by 700 persons Thursday night.
The bride, Delcia Bence, is the
daughter of a wealthy physician
and cattleman. She and David met
in Scarsdale, N. Y., his home town.
Young Rusk and his bride, who
went through a civil ceremony
here July 12, will honeymoon in
Mexico and then go to Berkeley,
Calif., where he is studying econ
omies at the University of Cali
fornia.