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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
62nd Year No. 71 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Wildcat Strikes Tie
Up Two Projects
In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE UP> — Wildcat
strikes have been reported on two
construction projects here follow
ing a breakdown in contract ne
gotiations between contractors
and construction trades unions
about noon yesterday.
Federal mediator Barney Toner
announced yesterday that wage
talks between the ujpions and the
Associated General Contractors
were recessed indefinitely at
11:45 a. m. when the representa
tives of both sides reached an
impasse.
This morning the cement finish
ers failed to show up for work
on the Providence Hospital job
and the operating engineers didn’t
come to work on the Hill Bldg.
A spokesman for the Operating
Engineers said local officials have
no knowledge of the apparent
wildcat strike and the business
agent of the cement finishers and
Plasterers could not be reached
for comment.
Superintendents on the jobs
said there were no jurisdictional
disputes involved and they had
no warning at all of the strikes.
As Anchorage strike woes mul
tiply, mediator Toner said he is
continuing to work on the con
struction trades contract hassle
exploring possible new avenues
toward an agreement.
Toner said he is still working
to set a time for a conference be
tween the ironworkers and the
AGC but nothing has been de
finitely established yet.
The Ironworkers withdrew from
joint negotiations with six other
construction trades this week to
seek separate terms with the con
tractors.
It was unofficially reported
earlier that the union’s demands
differ from those of the other
construction unions.
Senate Approves
Multi-Billion-Dollar
Highway Financing Bill
WASHINGTON Wl — The Sen
ate has passed the multi-billion
dollar highway financing bill
after adding extension of the bill
board control bonus plan.
The measure gives President
Kennedy the major share of the
revenues he asked for the in the
interstate roads system.
The Senate gave its voice vote
approval Thursday night after a
nine-hour session. The measure
now goes back to the House which
has passed its own version.
One major difference between
the Senate and House bills: A
Senate amendment to continue for
two years incentive payments to
states to regulate billboards.
The bill is a landmark. This is
the first time since the 41,000
mile interstate system of ex
pressways was set up in 1956 that
financing is provided to cover the
entire federal share of the cost.
The federal government picks
up 90 per cent of the tab. Of the
system’s estimated cost of $41
billion, Washington pays almost
$37 billion.
Advocates of continuing the
billboard control bonus plan say
they have hopes the House will
accept it. Rep. George H. Fallon,
<D-Md.>, chairman of the House
Public Roads subcommittee, said
he was prepared to do so.
Hunters Return Safely
Ira Ahnangnatoguk and his
brothers Frank, Victor and George
who with James Picnalook and
his son, James Jr. and Isaac Pic
nalook returned from their spring
hunting trip last evening unaware
of the commotion and plans un
derway to search for them as
missing persons.
The trip was successful with
walrus, oogruk and seal in their
oomiak. They were delayed by
rough weather on their return
and stayed with the ice pack until
it moderated and by that time
they had traveled easterly toward
Golovin Bay.
No Decision
Arrived at In
Tractor Deal
WASHINGTON — The
Tractors-for-Freedom Committee
i has received a secret report from
I the four technicians who nego
I tiated with Fidel Castro on his
| plan to exchange men for ma
chines.
Evidently no decision was ar
rived at by the committee last
night on whether to accept the
Cuban Prime Minister’s latest de
, mands. He wants $28 million
worth of farm tractors for 1,167
! Cuban rebels captured in their
| abortive invasion of Cuba April
I 17,
A spokesman said early today
; that the committee would re
I ceive a fuller written report from
j the technicians befoi’e making any
| kind of statement,
j At the secret session in Wash
ington, which lasted to near mid
night, the four experts reported
to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Walter P. Reuther, and Joseph
H. Dodge. A fourth member of
' the committee, Dr. Milton Eisen
hower was not present.
The four experts returned to
the United States from Havana
yesterday sidestepping all ques
tions when they arrived in Wash
ington in the evening.
I
Ike Says Centralization
: Is a Threat to Our
Democratic Future
! WASHINGTON UP) — Former
I President Dwight Eisenhower told
representatives of local govern
ment Thursday that “excessive
centralization is a never ceasing
threat to our democratic future.”
“The mania that some over
zealous central agencies seem to
have developed for wanting to
dominate rather than serve local
government,” tie said, “threatens
to sap the vitality and creative
initiative of community insitu
tions.
“Assuredly, local governments
should not accelerate this trend
by defaulting on their own re
sponsibilities.”
Eisenhower, making only his
third scheduled appearance since
leaving office last January, ap
peared before the World Confer
ence of Local Government.
SEVEN NOME BOYS
LEAVE FOR FORT ORD
Seven Nome Boys left for Fort
Ord yesterday where they will
receive six months training tor
the National Guard.
They were: Billy Nuipuk,
Chai'les Nershak, Johnny Pyanna,
Floyd Nagazruk, Ronnie Tingook,
Joe Sirloak and James Picnalook.
Also in the party were two
Shishmaref boys, Wilfred Olanna
and Ralph Sinnok.
Two Homemade
Bombs Set Off In
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON UP — Two
homemade bombs were set off in
downtown Washington last night
I and early today and an anony
! mous caller told police the blasts
were related to the integration
“Freedom Riders” in the south.
John Logan, a police dispatcher
at headquarters, said the caller
j told him four more bombs were
set. On that basis three would
remain, since the call came soon
after the first blast and the sec
ond one followed hours later.
Logan said a man’s voice told
him, in what the dispatcher de
scribed as a southern accent, that
the caller was in Washington with
the bombs “because that’s where
the Freedom Riders start from.”
No one was reported injured.
, The first explosion occurred at
11 p. m. in a refuse can at the
northeast corner of Vermont Ave.
and H St. NW.
The second went off at 8:10
a. m. today in an unoccupied tele
phone booth at 15th St. and Mas
sachusetts Ave. NW.
30 High School Graduates
Receive Blank Diplomas
| SAN MARINO, Calif. UP —
| When the graduating class of San
i Marino High School marched up
j to receive diplomas, 30 members
! of the class got blank ones.
Principal John Landrum dis
! closed the reason Thursday, the
day after graduation.
Two weeks before commence
ment a caravan of students drove
to the Arcadia home of Vice Prin
cipal Norman Frost. They pelted
i his windows, roof, garage and
j lawn with rotten eggs, mellow
mellon, grapefruit rinds and other
gaibage.
Frost recognized one of the stu
dents and soon the whole group
was known to school officials.
Landrum added the offending
students eventually will get their
j diplomas by mail. But first, each
must write a sincere letter of
apology to Frost; do 40 hours
of manual labor for the school;
and finally, compose a 500-word
essay on the subject, “ what this
experience means to me.”
First Family Back
Together Again
WASHINGTON Uf) — The na
tion’s First Family was together
in the White House today for the
first time in three weeks.
Its complement was brought up
to full strength Thursday night
with the return of Mrs. Kennedy
from a week’s vacation in Greece.
Mis. Kennedy had accompanied
the President on his trip to Eu
rope for conferences with Soviet
Premier Khrushchev, French
President De Gaulle end British
Prime Minister MacMillan.
Kennedy left the First Lady in
London when he returned June
5 from his trip. She went on to
Greece.
JUNEAU — The State Board
of Vocational Education has the
authority to administer plans for
vocational education in Alaska un
der the recently passed area re
development act, Atty. Gen. Ralph
Moody said today.
Moody made the statement in
an opinion written for Carroll G.
Fader, acting State Director of
Vocational Education.
Interior Dept. Allows
11 Fish Traps at
Three Indian Villages
WASHINGTON UP* — The In
terior Department has decided to
permit 11 fish traps to be operated
at three Indian villages in Alaska
this year, Sen. E. L. Bartlett said
today.
Bartlett, informed of the de
cision by John A. Carver Jr., Asst.
Secretary of the Interior, said
three traps will be allowed at
Angoon and four each at Kake
and Metlakatla.
Carver said that until the
courts or Congress “further de
fine the scope of Indian fishing
rights,” the three villages will
be permitted to install and operate
11 traps.
The matter was argued before
the Supreme Court last year, but
it was sent back to the state
courts where it is pending.
Alaska's Unemployment
Rate Down Slightly
JUNEAU UP* — State Labor
Commissioner Gil Johnson said
today Alaska’s insured unemploy
ment rate for the week ending
June 10 was 10.5 per cent.
The rate was down slightly
from the 10.9 per cent registered
the week before but still sub
stantially higher than the rate
of 6 3 per cent experienced dur
ing the same week a year ago.
Despite improvements in the
unemployment picture in most
areas of the state, Johnson said,
there is a clearly defined pattern
of economic slowdown.
Johnson said figures for the
constrution industry showed 1,416
unemployed workers last week,
compared to 620 construction
workers who were out of jobs
| during the same week in 1960.
Soviet Ballet Dancer
Seeks Asylum in France
PARIS (it — A Soviet ballet
dancer broke away from his
| troupe at Le Bourget Airport to
day and asked for asylum in
France.
The dancer. Rudolf Nurevev, 23,
was enroute with the Kirov opera
ballet group of Leningrad for Lon
don after an engagement here.
He was the principal male dancer
of the troupe.
While the troupe was going
through customs, Nureyev was
asked by two unidentified mem
bers of the troupe to return to
Moscow. He refused and went to
the airport bar with the two per
sons and the ballet master. Sud
denly, Neureyev dashed toward
police officers saying: “Protect
me.”
He was taken to the police of
fice and signed a request for
asylum in the presence of an of
ficial from the Soviet Embassy.
Others of the troupe went on
to London.
FRENCH AIRLINER BURNS
UPON LANDING, NO ONE HURT
LISBON, Portugal UP) — A
French jet airliner landing at Lis
bon’s airport tipped on its nose
early today and burned. Three
passengers were bruised, but none
of the other 116 persons aboard
the Air France plane was hurt.
The Boeing 707 jet was enroute
from Paris to Peru via the Azores
and Venezuela. The undercarriage
collapsed as the plane touched
down at Portela Airport.
Flames broke out minutes after
those aboard sei'ambled through
emergency exists. Much of the
baggage and mail was burned.
I\(). Dept. Says
Mail \\ ill Be Sent
To Alaska by Truck
JUNEAU (/P) — The Post Office
Department has advised Gov.
Egan that it will continue to send
mail to Southeast Alaska via
steamship, even thought trucks
may be used to haul mail to the
westward.
Egan today released the text of
a letter he had received from
Christopher C. Scott, acting Asst.
Postmaster General, in answer to
a request by Egan that the mail
change be explained in public
meetings in Coastal Alaska com
munities.
The change involves all classes
of mail. First class mail, however,
now is shipped to Alaska by air
on a space available basis.
Scott said the department plans
to haul mail from Seattle to the
Anchorage and Fairbanks areas
on a daily basis. It is now being
shipped via steamship on a twice
weekly basis.
“The proposed daily trucking
schedules will provide substan
tial improved mail service, not
only for Fairbanks and Anchor
age, but for Interior Alaska points,
as well as some coastal points,
including Seward,” Scott wrote.
“The department plans to con
tinue to transport mail between
Seattle and Southeastern Alaska
points on schedules operated by
the Alaska Steamship Co. The pro
| posed program does not contem
j plate any change in mail service
for this area.
“The department recognizes that
the proposed changes will result
in reduced revenues for the Alas
ka Steamship Co.
“However, we believe it is the
department’s obligation to im
prove mail service to Alaska.”
Scott said final plans for the
new service would not be made
until after the department com
pletes a study of costs involved
in establishing a trucking route
through Canada and supplemen
j tary connecting services within
: Alaska.
One Lousy Word . . .
CHARLESTON, W. Va. W —.
Back in 1944, Gen. Anthony Mc
Auliffe had a one-word answer
to a German demand that he sur
render troops surrounded at Bas
togne during the Battle of the
Bulge.
“Nuts,” said McAuliffe, and
he quickly became a national
hero. But now the retired soldier,
ramrod straight at 62 and a vice
president of American Cyanamid
Co. thinks he used a poor choice
of words.
“My god,” he said while here
to address an organizational meet
ing of the United Services Organ
ization <USO> of which he’s also
national chairman, “I hear it
everywhere I go.”
McAuliffe added that “the thing
that burns me up is that we
fought a very good battle. I made
seme fine dispositions, if I do say
so myself. Our soldiers fought like
hell. And all anyone remembers
is that one lousy word.”
THE WEATHER
Continued cloudy with rain,
drizzle and fog. Little change in
temperature. Low tonight 36, high
tomorrow 40-45. In the last 24
hours: High of 43, low of 38. Sun
rise at 1:19 a. m., sunset at 10:46
p. m. Temperatures a year ago:
High of 45, low of 32. Extremes
on this date since 1907: High of
71 in 1929, low of 28 in 1924.