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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
During the month of November
1959, Nome had the honor and the
privilege of being selected host to
the League of Alaska Cities con
vention. During this time there
was a large banquet held in honor
of the city managers and visitors
from all over the state. At this
particular banquet, there was a
case of sparkling burgundy pur- i
chased by the City to be served 1
at the banquet. The bill for this j
item was not presented to the j
City until June 1961, and the j
present council promptly approv- .
ed it as it was a legitimate out- |
standing debt. It was purchased j
solely for the purpose stated |
here and was not dripping with
venom as the public was lead to
believe.
— Bob Herman
—
Clarence Pautzke Sworn i
In Commissioner of FWS
WASHINGTON UH — Clarence
F. Pautzke was sworn in as Com
missioner of the Fish and Wildlife
Service and as U. S. representa
tive of two international fish
eries groups Tuesday.
At a ceremony in the office of
Secretary of the Interior Stewart
Udall, the oath as Commissioner
was administered by Floyd Dot
son, chief clerk of the depart
ment.
Then, John Forbes, chief of the
Employment Division of the State
Department’s Office of Person
nel, stepped forward and swore
Pautzke in as: member on the
part of the U. S. of the Interna
tional Pacific Salmon Fisheries
Commission and Commissioner of
the U. S. Section of the Interna
tional North Pacific Fisheries
Commission.
IN SUPERIOR COURT
New cases filed in Superior
Court are two from Kotzebue;
Wm. Kendall vs. Joe Brantley
and the City of Kotzebue, and
Percy Shelton vs. Joseph Brant
ley and the City of Kotzebue with
a charge of assault.
Earl Sorenson has petitioned
the State of Alaska for a motion
to set aside his sentence for
forgery on the technicality of il
legal communication to the jury
during his trial here.
Senate Passes
Kennedy’s Social
Security Benefits
WASHINGTON (JR — President
Kennedy’s bill to increase Social
Security benefits has won Senate
passage following a promise by
Democratic leaders to bring up
later this summer a medical care
program for the aged.
The measure, passed Monday 90
to 0, now goes to a House-Senate
conference committee to iron out
minor differences.
It would let men retire at age
62 under Social Security, boost
the minimum monthly check from
$33 to $40, raise widow’s benefits
by 10 per cent and add 160,000
persons to benefit rolls.
An expected fight over medical
care for the aged failed to de
velop. A Republican proposal was
withdrawn after Democratic as
surances the House would con
duct hearings on the subject next
month.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (R-N.Y.),
chief sponsor of the GOP plan,
served notice, however, that he
would seek to force a vote on the
issue before the 1961 session ends.
He said it should not be made a
political football in 1962, an
election year.
Haines Cutoff Closed
Due to Heavy Snowfall
JUNEAU UPi — The Haines
cutoff, Juneau’s only highway
link to the outside, has been
closed to through traffic by a
heavy, unseasonal snowfall, the
State Division of Highways said
Tuesday.
An overnight storm dumped a
foot of snow on the highway at
Chilkat Pass, which lies at 7,300
feet in the St. Elias Mountains
near the British Columbia-Yukon
Territory border.
The Highway Division said the
pass would be closed until fur
ther notice, but indicated the
route would probably be opened
again within the next two or three
days.
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Moscow Radio Phones Pentagon . . .
Asks of U-2 Flights . . . Somber Reply
LONDON UP — Moscow radio
said Monday night it telephoned
the Pentagon in Washington to
check a London newspaper re
port that American U-2 planes
are engaging in reconnaissance
flights near the Soviet mainland.
It didn’t get far with its call,
Moscow admitted. It said the man
at the Pentagon who answered
j confessed he didn’t know any
thing about the flights,
i The report appeared in the Lon
don Evening News June 23. The
j newspaper’s correspondent, ca
bling from Smugglers’ Cove,
Alaska, reported that U-2’s are
i flying only 55 miles from Rus
| sian territory, testing photo
I graphic equipment and making
routine equipment checks.
Many of the flights are harm
less weather patrols, said the
News, and added:
“But photographing Russian
territory from an oblique angle
is not difficult.”
In Washington, a spokesman
said there would be no comment
from the Pentagon on the Moscow
' radio broadcast.
However, the spokesman said
the Air Force had piepared the
following statement Friday after
hearing of the London Evening
News report.
U-2s Are Not Grounded
“The U-2’s have not been
grounded. They still are being
used as flying laboratories for ;
meteorological studies, high alti
I tude air sampling and other re
search programs. Flights are made
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 1082
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
CHRIS BETSCH, Deceased
NOTICE IS HERE3Y GIVEN that
Thomas Martin of Nome, Alaska, has
been duly appointed Administrator of
the Estate of Chris Betsch, deceased.
All persons having claims against said
estate shall present them, in proper legal
form, with vouchers attached, to the
said Administrator at Nome, Alaska,
wihin a period of six (6) months from
the date of this notice.
DATED this 14th day of June, 1961.
THOMAS MARTIN,
Administrator
Virgil D. Vochoska
Attorney at Law
Attorney for Administrator
Publish June 14. 21, 28, July 5, 1961.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 60-21 P
NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING
In the Matter of the Estate of
CARL O. HENNING JOHNSON,
D6C6SS€d
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the
administrator of the Estate of CARL O.
HENNING JOHNSON, deceased, has
filed his Final Account and Petition for
Distribution and Discharge and the Sup
ior Court, Second Judicial District, State
of Alaska, has fixed 2:00 o’clock p.m. on
the 8th day of August, 1961, at the
Courtroom of the presiding judge at the
Courthouse, Nome, Alaska, as the time
and place for hearing and settling same.
At said time and place said Court will
also adjudicate the heirs of said de
cedent and will make an order for final
distribution of said estate. All persons
having objections thereto should appear
or file them in said Court at or before
said time.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 6th day
of June, 1961.
/s/ HUBERT A. GILBERT.
Superior Court Judge
Publish June 7, 14, 21, 28, 1961.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 1109
NOTICE OF SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
PHILIP ASHARUK, deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pur
suant to order of the above named Court
entered on the 13th day of June, 1961,
all property of the above named estate
described below will be sold at public
oral bid sale, for full cash only, said
sale to be held at 10:00 a.m., on the 14th
day of July, 1961, at the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court, Federal
Building, Nome, Alaska. The Adminis
trator reserves the right to refuse and
reject any or all bids.
The property to be sold is the resi
dence and contents formerly occupied
by the deceased, and described as fol
lows:
Lots 4 and iVx in Block 26, in the
City of Nome, Alaska, and together
with a frame dwelling located there
on and certain contents therein.
DATED this 14th day of June, 1961.
WALLACE C. McIVER,
Administrator of the
Estate of Philip Asharuk,
deceased
Virgil D. Vochoska
Attorney at Law
Nome, Alaska
I Publish June 14, 21, 28, July 5, 1251.
from various bases in the United
States, including the State of
Alaska.”
The statement added that in
formation on this research has
been released. The Pentagon of
ficial noted that the Air Force
has said several times that U-2
flights are not made over the
Soviet Union, and that both
Presidents Eisenhower and Ken
nedy had ordered that the flights
not be resumed.
The Evening News headline
said, “thirteen months after the
Gary Powers incident the U-2
flies again.”
The headline referred to Fran
cis Gary Powers, whose U-2 re
connaissance plane was shot down
in the Sofiet Union May 1, 1960.
A Russian court sentenced him
to 10 years in prison on espion
age charges.
Moscow called the Evening
News story ominous and said:
Decided to Check
“We decided to check the Eve
ning News report and phoned the
U. S. Military Department, the
Pentagon.”
An assistant to the U. S. Air
Force Secretary reportedly an
swered the phone. On the Mos
cow radio newscast the assistant’s
name came through as sounding
like Col. John Bear.
And this is how Moscow des
cribed the conversation:
American voice: This is Col.
Bear, I am executive officer to
the secretary. . . .
Russian voice: Mr. Bear, have
you read the correspondence in
the paper the Evening News of
the flights of American U-2’s near
the frontiers of the Soviet Union?
American voice: No, I have not
read it myself.
Then the Russian caller read
to the man in the Pentagon an
extract from the news report and
asked if Bear could comment.
American voice: I’m sorry, I
just know nothing about it. I
have no comment to make, I’m
afraid.
Russian voice: Who then can
answer the question?
American voice: I guess the
State Department would handle
that. ... I would suggest that
they would be more familiar with
it than we would.
Apparently that was that, for
Moscow said: “We did not ex
pect a reasonable answer from
the Pentagon. . . .
“The Pentagon does not try to
refute or confirm the reports of
the world press of the provoca
tive actions of the U. S. military
the broadcast said.
The U. S. colonel referred to,
may have been Col. John W.
Baer, who was not available in
Washington for comment.
SEVERAL TEACHERS
ATTEND SUMMER SCHOOL
Several teachers of the Nome
staff are attending summer
school at the U of Alaska. Mrs.
Conrad Potter left Sunday taking
her youngest son with her; Paul
Mohr and Henry Ullrich are at
the summer science session; also
Caroline Coons, who is returning
this fall. Mary Croel and Lennie
Mae Nerland. Ann Gillis is taking
her summer school work at the
Montana College at Missoula.
Aukruk Lanes
AND
Snaek Bar
OPEN
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
FEATURING
Southern Fried Chicken
and Sandwiches
TO GO
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Project Chariot Is
“Ready to Go"’
SEATTLE UP> — Project Char
iot, the Atomic Energy Commis
sion’s plan to test construction
use of nuclear devices by exca
vating a harbor in Arctic Alaska,
is “ready to go” and can get
moving by the spring of 1963,
Sen. Henry Jackson told the
Post-Intelligencer Monday.
The Washington senator said
the AEC is reviewing the safety
aspects of the experiment and
chances are good that the review,
to be completed this fall, will be
favorable. That would leave only
the lifting of the nation’s self
imposed nuclear test ban to get
Chariot rolling.
Jackson also disclosed, the
newspaper said, that the AEC has
made paper studies of possible
future use of the peaceful atom
in excavating new canals be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. Using previous surveys
of route possibilities, sites have
been considered in Panama, Mex
ico, Northern Columbia, Nicara
gua, and Costa Rica.
The experimental Alaska site
is near Cape Thompson on the
Northwest Coast of Alaska north
of Bering Straits. Technical plans
are complete.
If a favorable safety report is
forthcoming in the fall, some
funds will be made available in
the il962 budget, Jackson was
quoted as saying, but the bulk of
t±ie funding will come in the
1963 budget.
Jackson, chairman of the Sen
ate Subcommittee on Nuclear
Weapons, currently is taking
secret testimony on the whole
problem of nuclear testing.
The AEC hopes to use Chariot’s
results on work on cost and con
struction of sea-level canals, har
bors, water diversion, mining,,
and even pits for disposal of
wastes, Jackson said. It will pro
vide the “substantial basic in
formation” that is needed for a
wide variety of so-called “plow
share” situations.
As for the test ban, Jackson
said:
“The test ban talks at Geneva
have broken down completely. I,,
personally, feel we should under
take nuclear testing for Plow
share purposes, such as Project
Chariot, and underground tests
to improve our weapons posture
in the light of the Soviet intran
sigence on this issue.”
So far as peaceful investiga
tions such as Chariot, he added,
there is considerable feeling that
they could be undertaken despite
our unilateral nuclear test mora
torium.
“This would require proof on
our part that it is not in any way
a part of the weapons develop
ment program,” he said. “In
order to assure the world on this
question, we, of course, could in
vite all interested nations to ob
serve the event in Alaska.”
Negotiations Start
In July for Alaska
Sibera Airline Route
Negotiations looking toward
establishment of a direct airline
connection between the two coun
tries will be started July be
tween the United States and So
viet Russia, the State Department
announced this week. One pro
posed route would run through
Alaska into Siberia.
A Soviet team is expected to
come to Washington for the talks,
which several times have been
considered but which, because of
worsening general relations be
tween the two nations, have
never quite come off.
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