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62nd Year No. 138 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1961 Per Copy 15*
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S. Wesley Heynolds
I Second Top
^ Security Official
Ordered to Quit
WASHINGTON UP — The Se
y curity Director the National Se
gS&curity Agency, S. ' Wesley Rey
pPmolds, has resigned on request of
jV&^-the Defense Department. He was
fc. asked to quit under a rule ban
|||ining acceptance of favors from
rJ^>those doing business with the
||||government.
It was the second high level*
< 7 resignation within the super-*
IXpecret agency to come to light
^£his week. It also came a day
Efter James B. Cash Jr. was fired
5 Deputy Commissioner of the
ederal Housing Administration.
Reynolds was asked to resign
nder the Defense Department’s
standards of conduct” directive,
le department announced Tues
The directive prohibits em
loyes from accepting "any favor,
ratuity or entertainment” from
ay (person or firm doing busi
Kness with the .government. The
terse announcement gave no de
^ tails.
“I feel the whole thing was
rather minor and doesn’t warrant
v comment,” said Reynolds, 47, a
If former FBI agent. "My resigna
f tion largely was voluntary. They
felt and I agreed that under the
circumstances, we had best part
company.” He didn’t explain
what the circumstances were,
~ I* tr/as tee un-American Ac
Ittvities Committee that announced
Monday that NSA’s Personnel
Director, Maurice Klein, had been
forced to resign on grounds he
lied in filling cut his job applica
tion 12 years ago.
The third high level jdb loss
came in the Federal Housing Ad
ministration. Cash said he was
fired as a result of a columnist’s
report that Cash lost $7,000 in a
blackjack game at a builders con
vention last year and gave IOUs
for the debt which were later
torn up.
COAST GUARD TO PROVIDE
ICEBREAKING SERVICE
WASHINGTON UB — The Coast
Guard will conduct icebreaking
operations in Cook Inlet through
the winter to allow year-round
shipping into Anchorage, Sen. E.
Bartlett was told today. If' '
The Coast Guard said there
may be occasions when equipment
; tied up in search and rescue
perations but it is believed ade
uate icebreaking service can be
rovided for the. port of Anchor
ge.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy. Lowest temper
ture -15 to -20. The high to
morrow 6.
In the past 24 hours highest
snap. 12, lowest -15. Max. wtofi
nzpn uviii xnc n.w. aunrur w
*57 ana., supaet at 2:88 pna.
A yean ago today: highest
snap. 6, lowest -10. Extremes on
his date since 1807: highest 44
a 1949, lowest -20 in 1922.
GOP Legislator
Foresees Gov. Egan
Filing for U.S. Senate
ANCHORAGE U?i — Announce
ment toy attorney John Rader that
he will seek the Governorship of
Alaska is seen toy one Republi
can legislator as a possible step
toward Gov. Wm. Egan filing for
the U.S. Senate.
This was the opinion expressed
by Rep. Bruce Kendall of Anchor
age. He said “Rader’s announce
ment further confirms my many
previous statements that Egan
will not file for re-election.”
“Because Rader’s political his
tory and Egan’s are synonymous
—Rader was Egan’s campaign
manager in 1958 and Egan’s first
Attorney-General—it would ap
pear Rader has Gov. Egan’s per
sonal blessings and wishes of good
luck and success,” Kendall said.
This could be a political step
towards Gov. Egan filing for the
U.S. Senate,” Kendall continued.
“No one in the Democratic
party has publicly announced their
candidacy for the U.S. Senate,
not even the present incumbent
Ernest Gruening has made such
an announcement,” Kendall said.
Primary Race for
Governor May
Become Crowded 1
ANCHORAGE UP) — The five
candidates now on record as seek
ing the Governorship mark only
the beginning of primary races
that may become more crowded
thin many contests for the State
House of Representatives, politi
cal observers here said yesterday.
Chief among die prospective
contenders who have not an
nounced their candidacies is, of
course, Gov. Wm. Egan.
Discussion among Democratic
and Republican party officials has
indicated such political figures as
State Democratic Chairman Wen
dell Kay and Republican State
Sen. Brad Phillips, both of An
chorage, might also seek the
Chief Executive’s post.
Others prominently mentioned
as possible contenders include
Republican J. L. MbCarrey Jr., an
Anchorage attorney who was the
Federal District Judge here prior
to and just after Statehood; Re
publican Mike Stepovich of Fair
banks, the last Territorial Gov
ernor and unsuccessful candidate
fbr the U.S. Senate three years
ago; Republican Rep. Jim Binkley
of Fairbanks, a riverboat tour
operator; Republican National
Committeeman Walter Hickel, an
Anchorage builder and hotel
operator; Republican State Sen.'
John Coghill of Nenane, a hotel
and store operator; Republican
Vernon Forbes of Fairbanks, for
mer district, judge there and now
a banker; and John Butrovich,
the Republican candidate who
lost to Gov. Egan in the state’s
first general
Looming largest on the scene,
however, is Egan himself, who has
remained silent on his political
plans, although most observers be
lieve that he will seek «iwftwr
term aa. Governor.
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Gov. Rockefeller
Sets Upon Task
Of Find Lost Son
MERA.UKE, New Guinea (£» —
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
today flew a 500-mile survey
along the swampy south coast of
New Guinea where his son Mi
chael was lost three days ago but
found no trace of the missing
23-year-old.
Arriving after a trans-Pacific
jet dash, the Governor set up his
personal search headquarters in
this coastal village southeast of
the Flamingo Bay area where his
youngest son was last seen swim
ming toward shore Sunday.
Dutch troops and natives fought
their way through the dense,
swampy jungles to search the un
inhabited coast. Dutch Navy ships
crisscrossed offshore.
The Governor returned to Mer
auke at dusk to interview Mi
chael’s Dutch companion on his
ill-fated trip, Dr. R. S. Wassing,
34, who stayed with their over
turned boat and was rescued on
Monday.
The Governor on his arrival in
New Guinea today had been
heartened by the news that Mi
chael was only about two miles
offshore Sunday when he began
j swimming toward land and not
14 miles as reported earlier.
A DC3 twin-engine transport
flew the Rockefeller party along
the coast which Michael had tried
to reach when the boat capsized
after he had set out with Wassing
and two natives on a 25-mile trip
to some villages.
It now appears the boat sailed
down the EUanden River Satur
day, instead of Thursday as re
ported earlier.
The group was collecting pri
mitive artifacts from tribesmen
who were active headhunters only
a few years ago.
Gov. Rockefeller plans to use
a flying boat for a close-in lode
at the area Thursday. The banks
of the river are formed of soft
maid and are thickly covered with
mangroves. The water is teem
ing with crocodiles.
Flashing Light Seen
At Side of Ill-Fated
Chartered Airliner
RICHMOND, Va. W — Control
tower personnel at Richmond’s
Byrd Field testified today they
saw a yellowish-white light flash
ing from the left side of an Im
perial Airlines Constellation min
utes before the plane crashed Nov.
8 killing 77 persons.
'William Radler, a ground con
troller in the control tower, told
a Civil Aeronautics Board investi
gating panel he 9aw “this unusual
light on the aircraft” just before
it plunged into the marsny wood
land two miles shy of the field.
His testimony came as the hear
ing entered its second day.
Seventy-four Army recruits en
route to Ft. Jadcson, S.C., and
three of the five crew members
perished in the crash* The pilot
and his flight engineer survived.
Judicial Council Considers
4th Superior Court Judge
For 3rd Judicial District
JUNEAU UP) — The State Ju
dicial Council yesterday took un
der advisement a recommendation
that a fourth Superior court judge
be assigned to the Third Judi
cial District at Anchorage.
The Council, winding up a two
day meeting, also received a rec
ommendation from State Courts
Administrator Thomas Stewart
that one additional district magis
trate be assigned to both Anchor
age and Fairbanks.
There are now four district
magistrates at Anchorage and two
at Fairbanks.
Chief Justice Buell Nesbett of
the State Supreme Court, chair
man of the Judicial Council, said
the group would submit its own
recommendations to the next Leg
islature, based on Stewart’s pro
posals.
The Council also discussed the
possibility of recommending to
•the Legislature that a change be
made in the statue placing a ceil
ing of $10,000 a year on the sal
aries of district magistrates.
The Council indicated it favor
ed removal of the limit, with the
State Supreme Court given the
power to set district magistrate
salaries.
Emphasis could be given to
salary incentives to attract and
keep qualified people in such!
posts, the Council indicated;
Other members of the Council
are 3>r. Wm. Whitehead, Juneau;
Jade Wemer, Seward; John Cross,
Kotzebue; Robert Parrish, Fair
banks; Ernest Bailey, Ketchikan;
and Harold Butcher, Anchorage.
Two Young Germans
Plead Guilty to Spying
For the United States
MOSCOW if) — Two handsome
young Germans — one a refugee
from the East — today pleaded
guilty to spying for the United
States.
Both, speaking in firm, proud
voices, insisted they were guilty
only in the strict sense of the in
dictment read at the beginning of |
Moscow’s first public spy trial
since that of American U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers.
The men are Walter Naumann,
27, and Peter Sonntag, 22.
After their arrest the Russians
had accused them, among other
things, of trying to locate Soviet
rocket bases. The lengthly indict
ment did not mention this and
claimed only the men were cap
tured trying to leave the Soviet
Union with 15 rolls of film that
showed radar and power stations.
Sonntag, short, with a crew
cut and wearing a gray suit, told
the two major generals and a
colonel of the Military Division
of the Supreme Court: “I recog
nize myself fully guilty in this
sense.”
Naum arm, a tall, gangling man
In a dark blue suit, said: “I
recognize myself guilty in accord
ance with the accusation as for
mulated.”
Both the United States and
West German governments have
denied that die pair were spies.
Nation to Mark
340th Anniversary
Of Thanksgiving
Bji The Associated Frees
The nation pauses tomorrow
amid the travail of a vanishing
year to mark another Thanksgiv
ing Day — the 340th in America’s
history — with prayer and festive
camaraderie.
The mixture of joy and solem
nity surrounding the occasion was
summed up in President Ken
nedy’s annual Thanksgiving Day
proclamation.
“This year, as the harvest draws
near its close, and the year ap
proaches its end, awesome perils
again remain to be faced. Yet we
have, as in the past, ample rea
son to be thankful for the abund
ance of our blessings,” Kennedy
said.
The President will spend the
four-day Thanksgiving weekend
on Oape Cod, devoting part of it
to a conference on the military
budget and part to an interview
with Soviet editor Alexei Adzhu
bei. son-in-law of Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev.
Kennedy leaves Washington to
day for his Hyannis Port, Mass.,
home, where members of the
family will gather tomorrow for
a big Thanksgiving dinner at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
. Joseph P. Kennedy.
Elsewhere in the nation, Amer
icans will mark the Thanksgiving
holiday with church services,,
private gatherings, sports events
and parades.
At Plymouth, there will be the
customary open house ceremony
with cider and doughnuts served
to visitors. Costumed townspeople
will re-enact the Pilgrim’s armed
march to church on that first
Thanksgiving in 1621.
Pacific Ocean Resources
Relatively Unexplored
VANCOUVER, B.C. im — Dr.
Murray Newman says the North
Pacific is one of the few unde
veloped areas of the world.
The curator if the Vancouver
Aquarium told a public meeting
fishermen may be missing the boat
because they have failed to ex
ploit the resources of the waters
off the B.C. Coast.
He said the Pacific was teeming
with billions of sauries, a food
fish harvested by the Japanese
but ignored by Canada.
“The North Pacific is far rich
er in marine life than the North
Atlantic, and is relatively un
known and unexplored,” he said.
WASHINGTON OK — President
Kennedy plans to grant an. ex
clusive interview to Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev’s son-in-law.
Alexei Adihubei, editor of the
Russian newspaper Izvestia.
The White House said yesterday
the interview will be on Saturday
at Cape Cod, where Kennedy will
spend the Thanksgiving weekend.
Presidential press secretary
Pierre Salinger said he believes
no President ever has granted an
Interview to a representative ot
the Soviet press.