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VOL. LXII No. 132 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1960 _Per Copy 15^
FEVERISH ACTIVITY MARKS
FINAL HOURS OF CAMPAIGN
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, UP) — With the
rparathan campaign reaching a
crescendo, nearly 67 million Am
ericans prepared today to pick a
new President.
Whether their choice in Tues
day’s election would be Demo
cratic Sen. John Kennedy or Re
publican Richard Nixon appeared
to hinge primarily on the decision
of a majority of the voters in the
seven largest states.
These states — New York, Pen
nsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michi
gan, California and Texas—have
205 of the 269 electoral votes
needed for election. To win, either
candidate probably w 11 need to
carry most of them. New York
and California were reported
shaded for Kennedy. The rest
were listed as doubtful.
Pollsters Give Kennedy Edge
Although many of the pollsters
and dopesters gave Kennedy the
edge, Nixon’s partisans main
tained outward confidence a last
hour surge would carry their man
to narrow victory. Some of Ken
Democratic Ticket
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nedy’s backers were talking in
terms of an electoral vote land
slide.
The two presidential candidates
and their running mates sched
uled a fitting feverish windup for
a campaign in which they have
criss-crossed the nation by air,
rail and motorcade for a total of
135,000 miles of travel. Each has
been seen in person by millions
and on television by additional
tens of millions.
Kennedy stumped in about 240
cities and towns, Nixon in about
170. With Sunday’s visit to Al
aska, Nixon made it to all 50
states. Kennedy by-passed only
Alabama, Hawaii, Mississippi,
Louisiana, North Dakota and
Nevada.
Kennedy winds up his cam
paign with a national television
broadcast from Boston tonight. He
will vote in Boston Tuesday and
go to Hyannis Port, Mass., to get
the returns.
Kennedy’s running mate, Sen.
Lyndon Johnson, will close the
campaign in Texas.
After his television stint in De
troit, Nixon flies to Chicago for
a joint appearance with Eisen
hower, in Washington, and Henry
Cabot Lodge, the vice presidential
nominee, in Boston, on a national
telecast to be carried at staggered
times by all three networks.
After a post-midnight rally in
Los Angeles, Nixon will go to his
hometown of Whittier, Calif., to
vote. Returning to Los Angeles,
he will get the vote results in a
hotel there.
Few Ungauged Factors
As the candidates raced down
to the wire, there was general
recognition that a few ungauged
factors might influence the final
result.
One of those is Kennedy’s Ro
man Catholic religion. Nixon is
a Quaker.
President Eisenhower’s cam
paigning for Nixon also may play
a part in the outcome. Eisenhower
tried to boost the Nixon cause in
four critical states, New York,
Pennsylvania, California and
Ohio.
As the time for voting neared,
a final survey by the Associated
Press of AP political observers,
newspaper analysts, party leaders
and poll finding gave Kennedy an
electoral vote lead.
The Democratic nominee was
rated ahead in 15 states with 197
electoral votes, or 72 short of the
269 needed to win.
Nixon was credited with lead
ing in 17 states with 112 electoral
votes. Eighteen states, with 228
electoral votes, were called toss
ups.
Passenger Aboard PNA
Flight to Seattle Found
Shot In Abdomen
ANCHORAGE, W) — Hospital
attendants said today Joe Bryant
Hogan, 23, Park City, Ky., re
mained in serious condition with
a bullet wound in the stomach
received aboard a passenger air
plane Sunday night.
A shot was heard soon after the
Pacific Northern Airlines plane
took off for Seattle and Hogan
was found in the restroom with a
pistol nearby, officials said.
The pilot jettisoned some fuel
and returned here with his 42 pas
sengers to rush Hugan to a hos
pital.
Soviets Show Off Rocket
They Say Shot Down
Francis Power’s U2
MOSCOW, OP! — The Soviet
Union today showed off a dozen |
“silver needle” rockets and said j
they were the type that brought
down Francis Gary Powers’ Am
erican U2 plane on May 1.
The rockets were the highlight
of an eight - minute parade of
military might through Red
Square in celebration of the 43rd
anniversary of the Bolshevik re
volution.
Watching the parade from atop
the Lenin-Stalin tomb were So
viet Premier Khrushchev and
many of the top leaders of world
Communism, including Chinese
President Liu Shao-Chi.
Defense Minister Rodion Malin
ovsky in the chief speech of the
day said the Soviet army and
navy, “so far as technical equip
ment and armament is concerned,
are on the most modern level of
science and technique.”
The rockets the Soviets said
brought down the American spy
plane over Sverdlovsk were plump
and red-tipped, of silver colored
metal about 10 feet long. They
were carried aboard trucks.
“We do not want to attack any
body,” Malinovsky declared.
“But should our peaceful soil
be violated by the imperialists,
they will receive a retaliatory
blow from which they will never
recover.”
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Second Finch Murder
Trial Ends In Hung Jury
LOS ANGELES, UH — The jury
in the second Finch murder trial
said today it is unable to reach
a verdict and was discharged —
a replay of the windup of the
first trial. A date of Jan. 3 was
set for trial No. 3.
The foreman told the court that
the jury believed one defendant
to be guilty, but could not agree
on the other. He did not say
which defendant, Dr. R. Bernard
Finch or his mistress, Carole Tre
goff, was thought guilty.
They are charged with the
July 18, 1959, bullet-in-the-back
slaying of the surgeon’s socialite
wife.
The foreman, lone male on the
panel, disclosed that after 59 bal
lots, agreement could not be
reached.
The jury had deliberated near
ly 70 hours since getting the case
Oct. 19 after a 17-week trial.
Ward Bond, Star Of
“Wagon Train” Dies
From Heart Attack
DALLAS, Tex., (>P>—'Ward Bond,
movie and television star, died in
a motel here Saturday after suf
fering a heart attack.
Bond, who was the star of the
television series “Wagon Train,”
was to have made a personal ap
pearance Sunday in the Cotton
Bowl at halftime during the foot
ball game between the Dallas
Cowboys and the Los Angeles
Rams of the National Football
League.
Bond was 55. His wife, Mary
Lou, made the trip to Dallas with
him.
Bond made his film debut in
1928, while he was still attending
the University of Southern Cali
fornia.
He played football at USC un
der Howard Jones and one of his
teammates there—and later in the
movies—was John Wayne. Ward
appeared in all the John Wayne
movies directed by John Ford.
For the past few seasons, Bond
has been one of television’s top
rated stars.
Clark Gable Suffers
Heart Attack
HOLLYWOOD, UP* — Clark
Gable—struck by a heart attack
that might have been much worse
if he hadn’t called off a hunting
trip — was resting satisfactorily
today.
Gable suffered the attack Sun
day at his suburban Encino home
and was rushed by ambulance to
Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.
Doctors and his wife said the
quick use of oxygen undoubtedly
prevented more serious, or even
fatal, damage to his heart.
“It’s a miracle,” said Kay Gable
expectant mother and fifth wife
of the 59-year-old king of the
movies. “He had planned a week
end hunting trip at his duck club
near Stockton. There are no
phones there and it’s miles from
a doctor.
“Then Friday night he said:
‘I think I’ll spend the weekend
home with you and the children’.”
Republican
Crowd Attends
Friday Night Rally
A spirited, enthusiastic crowd
filled the multipurpose room of
Nome School Friday evening for
the Republican Rally and to hear
several out of town speakers who
are on the Republican ticket as
well as the main speaker, Sen.
John Coghill of Nenana, who is
running unopposed in his district.
The program opened with the
lively young group known as the
Young Republicans under the
leadership of Mr. Farley who gave
the flag salute.
First to speak was Dr. Lee Mc
Kinley, who arrived shortly be
for the program from Anchorage
with his wife and Ron Rettig. Dr.
McKinley is well know here as a
practicing dentist who has opened
a practice here in the Polaris Bldg,
and serves the community part
time until he can find a full time
dentist for the area.
McKinley reminded the audi
ence that he was working for all
of Alaska and was dedicated to
guard the freedoms of this great
state.
He explained the need for un
derstanding the ballot and the use
of circles at the top and why he
had protested against the form
used.
“Those who will downgrade
our state—our nation—we must
repel as enemies,” said Ron Ret
tig, candidate for the U.S. House
against Ralph Rivers and new to
Northwestern Alaska.
Balanced Climate For Investors
A need for a balanced political
climate for investors was stressed,
instead of getting prepared for
higher taxes to meet the many
things promised by the Democrat
party. He suggested that “It
would be more refreshing to
switch to new efficiency and new
ways to get more for our dollar.”
Edith Bullock, candidate for the
State Senate, running against Les
Bronson and who served six
years in the House, said: “There
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Gallup Poll Gives
Kennedy Edge
PRINCETON, N. J., (41 — The
Gallup Poll’s final nationwide
survey of the presidential race
shows following division of the
popular vote among likely voters:
Kennedy-Johnson 49 per cent.
Undecided 3 per cent.
George Gallup, director of the
American Institute of Public Op
inion, gave the figures in a copy
right story.
Gallup also said in part that
considering only those voters who
expressed a preference, the divi
sion would be:
Kennedy-Johnson 51 per cent.
Nixon-Lodge 49 per cent.
These results based upon in
terviewing conducted during the
period Nov. 1 through Nov. 4. This
final survey, therefore, does not
register the impact of President
Eisenhower’s campaigning in the
final days nor the last - minute
appeals and efforts on television
by Vice President Nixon and Sen.
John Kennedy.
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