I2i NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LXII No. 104 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1960_Per Copy 15^
Plans Afoot For
F5ig Welcome For
The Sea dragon
Big plans are underway for the
celebration on Labor Day when
the nuclear submarine Seadragon
stops here on its first stop since
it went over the pole.
Governor William Egan and
the mayors of Fairbanks, An
chorage and Kodiak have been
invited by Mayor Steffen Ander
sen.
Representatives of the Air
Force and the Army are expected
from Ladd and Elmendorf and
Navy representatives from Ko
diak.
The Coast Guard Cutter North
wind is to be in port on Sunday
to await the arrival of the sub
marine on Monday and from her
decks local people may see the
famous history - making under
water craft.
The Chamber of Commerce is
coordinating a program with the
Jaycees, Rotary, Alaska National
Guard, and Civil Air Patrol. The
boys of the Alaska Communica
tions System have been asked to
deck the town with flags and all
homes are asked to do the same
to make Nome look real festive,
said Pearse Walsh, president of
ttie Chamber.
A Chamber luncheon is planned
for the guests and other activities
will be announced later.
Atomic Sub Seadragon
Under Polar Ice Today
WASHINGTON, (IP) — The
atomic submarine Seadragon, en
route from the Atlantic to the
Pacific by way of the Arctic, is
due to visit Nome within a few
days.
The Navy said that the sub
marine, which left Portsmouth,
N.H., Aug. 1, will arrive at Nome
on Labor Day, remaining there
about a day and a half.
She then will head out to com
plete her long voyage arriving at
Pearl Harbor about Sept. 14 to
begin service with the Pacific
Fleet.
The Seadragon is the fourth
submarine to visit the North Pole.
She was under ice today, head
ing toward Bering Strait. The
Seadragon has opened a new di
rect route Northwest Passage,
traveling through the Canadian
Archipelago by way of Parry
Channel instead of using the pre
vious winding course followed by
other atomic submarines in tran
siting the Arctic Ocean.
Idaho Society Opposes
Cape Thompson Blast
SALMON, Idaho, UP) — The
Council of Wilderness Society
yesterday urged abandonment of
a plan to blast a harbor at Cape
Thompson, Alaska, with nuclear
explosions.
The Council said the proposal
“would unalterably destroy the
wilderness area of the westerly
end of the Brooks Range.”
A resolution s’aid the Brooks
Range is the last great non- tro
pical wilderness area in the
world. It said the proposal calls
for underground explosion of four
20 - kiloton bombs and one 200
kiloton bomb.
The Society said it would de
stroy the habitat of a number of
land and marine species and nest
ing places for numerous birds.
Castro Accuses U.S. Of
Plotting to Shoot Down
Foreign Minister’s Plane
! HAVANA UP — Prime Minister
Fidel Castro accused agents of
the United States of plotting to
j shoot down Foreign Minister Raul
Roa on his way home from the
San Jose conference
Castro’s charge Tuesday night
was the only new note in a day
! of marathon speech - making
touched off by the Western
Hemisphere Foreign Minister’s
condemnation of Soviet and Chi
nese Communist penetration of
Latin America via Cuba.
I The presidential palace said
| Roa and the rest of the Cuban
I delegation to the San Jose Con
j ference came home ahead of
I schedule in a chartered Costa
j Rican airliner because “counter
revolutionary mercenaries” plan
ned to intercept the delegation’s
special plane and force it down.
! The Costa Rican director of
| civil aviation said that he had
j held up the delegation’s own
plane while his office checked the
possibility it might have been
sabotaged. The plane was cleared
in the late afternoon and flew
home with 15 Cuban newsmen
i who had been covering the con
j ference.
I Police Search
For Two Missiiij*
Seattle Women
SEATTLE, UP—Detectives seek
ing the ex-wife and stepdaughter
of an antique dealer found the
remains of a young woman Tues
day in a septic tank at the house
where the three had lived.
They stepped up their search
for a man known in Seattle as
Raoul Guy Rockwell, 45.
The missing woman are Man
zineta Rockwell, 40, and her dau
ghter, Dolores Mearns. 18. They
disappeared April 1, detectives
said. In May, Rockwell told re
porters he had won a Fulbright
scholarship and was going to Af
rica.
In July, he divorced Mrs. Rock
well on grounds of desertion.
Eight days later he married again,
for the third time. Detectives said
his first marriage also had ended
in divorce.
The stepmother of the third
Mrs. Rockwell, Mrs. Clifford
Winkler, has brought a grand lar
! ceny complaint against Rockwell,
charging he kept $10,000 given to
him to buy Indian artifacts.
Police started looking for the
two women after the coed’s fa
ther, William Mearns of Vancou
j ver, B. C., reported about two
weeks ago that his ex-wife was
missing. Until April 1, he said,
Mrs. Rockwell had made monthly
visits to their two other children,
who live with him.
Rockwell’s third wife, Evelyn
Rockwell, 41, said she last saw
him Aug. 3 when he told her he
was going to Vancouver, B.C., to
buy a collection of antiques.
I IS IT WORTH IT?
WASHINGTON, UP—A study of
why Alaskan natives drop out of
high school will be made by the
University of Alaska under a
$36,627 grant announced today by
the Office of Education.
Charles K. Ray will head the
project under the contract, which
runs from Sept. 1, 1960, through
Aug. 31, 1962, the office of Sen.
E.L. Bartlett was informed.
I.‘> African Nations
C Til I ()n Congo To
Work With U.N.
LEOPOLDVILLE, UPt—The Con
ference of Independent African
States jolted Premier Lumumba
today with a resolution calling
for frank and loyal cooperation
between the United Nations and
the Congo.
Lumumba, who has described
the United Nations as imperial
ist, harassed Secretary - General
Dag Hamarskjold, and even called
for the withdrawal of the U. N.
force, sat in silence as the reso
lution was read in the conference
hall.
The conference, which brought
together delegates of 13 African
states, wound up as Lumumba’s
government built up troop
strength in neighboring Kasai
province, apparently for an in
vasion of rebellious Katanga.
Lumumba had won one of his
main demands. The United Na
tions announced that the last Bel
gian combat troops have quit the
Congo, leaving only a few hun
dred technical specialists to look
after the big treaty bases.
The conference paid homage to
the organization “for the work of
peace it brings to the Congo.” It
praised U.N. for bringing about
the withdrawal of Belgian troops
and taking over Kamina and Kit
ona bases.
The evacuation brought quick
demands from Katanga’s Premier
Tshombe that the U.N. turn con
trol of Kamina over to him be
cause he fears that U.N. forces
will not prevent Lumumba’s in
vaders from landing at the base
and using it as the springboard
for their campaign to establish
Lumumba’s authority in the pro
vince.
U.S.’s “Apollo” Will Circle
Moon with Three Men
Between 1965 and 1970
WASHINGTON, UP)—1Three men
will be aboard the U.S. “Project
Apollo” spaceship which is plan
ned to circle the moon sometime
between 1965 and 1970.
Details of the moon flight were
announced by Robert Gilruth, di
rector of the space task group of
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
He said the space agency will
try to enlist industry participa
tion in developing the first Apollo
vehicles.
The craft is planned for use
primarily with the Saturn booster
rocket which still is in the devel
opment stage.
Army Will Take Over
Ladd Field Jan. 1
WASHINGTON, UP—The Army
announced today it will take over
control of Ladd Air Force Base
on Jan. 1 and consolidate there
the activities heretofore shared
with nearby Eielson Air Base.
The Army said that as a result
of the decision about 2,000 Army
personnel will move from Eielson
to Ladd and that the civilian work
force may be increased slightly
at Ladd , to make up for the de
parture of Air Force personnel.
The Air Force announced in
June that flying activities at
Ladd would cease in September.
The base hospital at Ladd and
certain smaller supporting activ
ities will continue to be operated
by the Air Force.
Vice President Nixon’s
Knee Infection Reported
Responding to Treatment
WASHINGTON, —Vice Pre
sident Richard Nixon was re- |
ported responding satisfactorily
today to treatment for a knee in
fection while he worked on cam- !
paign matters from a hospital!
bed.
Nixon entered Walter Reed 1
Army Hospital late Monday for:
treatment of an infection that
damages red blood cells. He is
expected to be hospitalized for
about two weeks.
Herbert Klein, Nixon’s press
secretary, reported treatment of I
the Vice President’s knee with I
five antibiotics was progressing
satisfactorily. He said the infec
tion was localized in the left
knee joint and the swelling on
the outside of the knee had gone
down to some degree. The leg is
in traction, weighted with sand
bags to keep it immobilized.
President Eisenhower visited
Nixon late Tuesday and reported
“he looks fine.’’
Mrs. Nixon visited her husband
in the presidential suite at the
hospital. An aide said Nixon is
paying the bill for the $34-a-day
suite which includes a large sit
ting room, bedroom and sunroom.
Both Parties Agree
Late Session Hurt
Demoerats Most
WASHINGTON, Iff) — Opposing
party spokesmen agreed today the
dog-days session of Congress now
drawing to a close has been pol
itically damaging to the Demo
crats.
Senate Republican Leader Ev
erett Dirksen said the session had
demonstrated that the Democrats
“could develop no cohesive party
spirit.”
For that reason, he said Sen.
John Kennedy failed to get pas
sage of several bills he wanted
and didn’t make good on promises
to introduce others.
Kennedy has promised to carry
his fight to the country.
Sen. Mike Manssfield, assistant
Democratic leader, said in a sep
arate interview that the session
“has hurt Congress as a whole,
but has hurt the Democrats the
most.”
“From the President on down
the Republicans have been re
peating the argument hourly, on
the hour, that the Democrats have
a two-thirds majority in the Sen
ate and should be able to get
what they want,” Mansfield said.
“That, of course, is a majority
in numbers but not in unity. The
President himself has the equi
valent of that majority in his veto
power. And he must take the
responsibility for defeating some
measure with veto threats.”
Stripped-Down Housing
Bill Passes Congress
WASHINGTON, UP) — Congress
passed a stripped-down housing
bill today, abandoning measures
for billion-dollar-plus programs.
The bill sent to President Ei
senhower merely keeps alive
three programs which would ex
pire because of time limitations
or lack of funds.
The Senate passed it with brief
debate and the House followed j
suit a little later without one I
word of discussion and without a |
record vote. '
Two Missing U.S.
Security Men May
Have Fingered U2
WASHINGTON, Ufl — Rep.
Francis Walter <D-Pa> said today
two missing U.S. security agents
may be linked to the downing of
the U2 spy flight and the RB47
reconnaissance plane by the So
viet Union.
The missing agents, Bernon F.
Mitchell and William H. Martin,
disappeared last June and are
presumed to have defected.
Walter, chairman of the House
Committee on Un-American Act
ivities, said he was convinced the
Soviet Union had advance knowl
edge of the May 1 flight of the
U2 and the July flight of the
RB47, shot down by a Soviet
fighter over the Barents Sea off
the Soviet coast.
Walter said he has assigned a
top committee investigator to look
into the Mitchell-Martin case,
with particular emphasis on the
screening methods used by the
National Security Agency, which
hired the two young mathemati
cians.
The agency is a supersecret in
telligence unit dealing with codes
and other government communi
cations systems.
Rep. John McCormick (D-Mass>
House Majority Leader, said Tues
day he had information indicating
Mitchell and Martin took valu
able cryptographic information
with them when they went be
hind the iron curtain.
Barney Crosby Funeral
To Be Held Tomorrow
SEATTLE, IP — Bernard L.
Crosby, 57, of Nome, a foreman
for the Bureau of Public Roads
in Alaska, died Thursday at Tra
vis Air Force Base, Calif., on his
way to Portland, Ore., for treat
ment.
Requiem mas will be said at
9 o’clock tomorrow in Our Lady
of The Lake Chapel here. Burial
will be in Hollywood.
Crosby had been in Nome since
1932. He was a native of Grand
Forks, B.C.
An Army veteran of the second
World War, he was a member of
the American Legion in Nome.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Walter Ramos, Seattle, and Celia
Crosby, Renton, and a brother,
Maj. Ernest J. Crosby, McChord.
House Votes Extra (55
Million In Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON, IP—The House
voted an extra 65 million dollars
in foreign aid funds but refused
to approve any larger amount.
The Senate had tossed 191 mil
lion dollars for foreign aid into
a catch-all appropriation bill,
partly restoring a cut of $559,
354,000 made when the regular
foreign aid bill was passed.
The voting was on 11 amend
ments approved by the Senate.
On the key test, adding 65 million
dollars for defense support pro
grams, the vote was 203-193.
But a vote of 216-176, the House
refused to provide 26 million for
the President’s special assistance
program. Then it turned down
without roll - call votes all the
other foreign aid items the Senate
had put into the bill.