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VOL. LXII No. 144 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1960_Per Copy 15^
Lost Hunters
Are Safe
At Kotzebue
Bob Workman was brought into
Kotzebue today by a CAP search
plane, piloted by Leo Shaffer,
who spotted him walking about
11. miles out on Selawik lake.
Workman said the other two
men, Ed Randell and Vernon,
Carlson were unhurt and that the
plane was but slightly lamaged
on the north shore of Selawik
lake.
It was not ascertained how the
plane got so far of course but
Workman did report that the
plane had been unable to get
more than a hundred feet off the
ground after takeoff from Galena
due to some mechanical trouble.
A plane was dispatched to bring
in the other two men to Kot
zebue. The downed men watched
the daily Wien flight to Fair
banks and heard other planes in
the search area but they were
unable to transmit on the plane’s
radio.
All three men are expected to
arrive here tomorrow on the Wien
plane from Kotzebue.
Over the weekend an intensi
fied search continued for the
three missing moose hunters, Bob
Workman, Ed Randell and Ver
non Carlson, overdue from Gal
ena to Moses Point since last
Tuesday.
Planes from Kotzebue, Unala
kleet, Moses Point, Nome and Ga
lena covered the area several
times, both during the day as
well as an all night search by
Wien Airlines.
Yesterday, the Wien Twin
Beech with Porter Lockard as
pilot, took CAP members Les
Bronson and Alice Hudson, and
Mrs. Workman, Art Johnson, and
Dale Boehler, as observers.
Bob Workman is married and
his wife is employed at the Nome
Hardware Store; Vernon Carlson
is the eldest son of Fritz Carlson,
and Ed Randell was a construc
tion worker during the past sum
mer, during which time he bought
the plane and was learning to
fly.
Titan ICBM Explodes
Just After Fueling At
Vandenberg AF Base
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif., t/PI—The Air Force
today studied the shattered ruins
of a Titan Intercontinental Ballis
tic Missile, trying to learn why
it exploded shortly after fueling.
Damage from the blast Satur
day night was estimated at be
tween $4 million and $6 million.
The missile is destined for a
major role as an ocean-spanning
nuclear weopon.
The Air Force was unable to
estimate how long the Titan pro
gram will be delayed by the ex
plosion.
This was the first explosion of
a Titan at this base, 170 miles
northwest of Los Angeles. Similar
explosions have occurred at Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
The Air Force said the 97-foot
long Titan was being lowered
into its underground concrete
silo after fueling when it ex
ploded with a roar that shook
windows 25 miles away.
There were no injuries—crews
were in an underground building ,
several hundred yards away. '
African Students
Seek Scholarships
In Alaska School
GLENNALLEN, Oft — Father
Francis Fallert, S.J., the principal
of a Jesuit mission school for the
natives of Alaska, is a man with
a problem.
Father Fallert said today he has
received 14 scholarship requests
from natives of Kenya, British
East Africa, who want to attend
his Copper Valley School at
Glennallen.
The first request from Kenya
arrived at the school, which has
an enrollment of 118 Eskimo, In
dian and white children, about a
month ago.
It came from 18-year-old John
Murunge Justo, the top student
in a class of 45 at the competent
Commercial College of Nairobi.
In an accompanying letter, Dr.
Gikonyo Kiano, principal of the
African school, said the great ed
ucational needs of native Africans
largely unfilled in Kenya,
prompted the African American
Students Foundation to sponsor
transportation for gifted African
students to North American
schools.
“While we were still consid
ering Mr. Justo’s request for a
scholarship,” the Glennallen
priest said, “thirteen more re
quests arrived from five other
native schools in Kenya.”
Father Fallert quoted Peter
Kuria, an 18-year-old applicant
from Nairobi, as saying:
“I have seen many people who
have been educated in America,
such as Dr. Kiano, and they are
doing a great deal for our coun
try.
“I want to gain a general
knowledge of America, which is
far ahead educationally and ec
onomically from other countries.”
Fallert said several questions
are still under consideration, in
cluding how students from equa
torial Kenya would adjust to life
in the Alaska interior, where win
ter temperatures of 50 degrees
below zero are not uncommon.
But Father Fallert indicated the
Copper Valley School seems ready
to accept three or four of the
African students for the 1961-62
school year, if the school can find
sponsors to help meet the ex
pense.
“We expect that it will be a
most interesting educational ad
venture,” commented the Copper
Valley priest.
Pilot Who Led Atomic
Bombers to Hiroshima
Escapes Mental Hospital
WACO, Tex., UP)—The pilot who
led U.S. atomic bombers to Hiro
shima and Nagasaki has escaped
from the Waco Veterans Admin
istration Hospital, where he was
a mental patient.
Hospital officials said Claude R.
Eatherly, 44, a former Air Force
major, escaped from the insti
tution Nov. 22.
Eatherly was acquitted of bur
glarizing two Texas post offices
after pleading innocent by reason
of insanity. A grocery store rob
bery charge at Dallas against him
was dropped after he was com
mitted to the VA hospital here
last year.
A psychiatrist testified at his
trial on the burglary charges in
1957 that Eatherly had a guilt
complex and said he felt respon
sible for killing 100,000 persons
at Hiroshima.
Edith Bullock Gains 14
Votes In Partial Recount
At Juneau Today
JUNEAU, —lyirs. Edith Bul
lock of Kotzbue cut State Sen.
(Lester Bronson’s margin by 14
votes in the first four precincts
recounted today in their fight for
the District N, Northwest at-large
Senate Seat.
With four of 11 precincts re
counted by late afternoon, Mrs.
Bullock, a (Republican, was trail
ing Democrat Bronson by only
17 votes.
On the basis of the official
state canvass, Mrs. Bullock had
been beaten by 31 votes, 1,683 to
1,652.
Mrs. Bullock asked that 11 pre
cincts in the district be recounted.
Retabulated by late afternoon to
day were the Barrow, Kotzebue,
Gambell and Noatak precincts.
Seven precincts and the absen
tee ballots remained to be re
counted.
RECOUNT AFFIRMS
WIDMARK'S ELECTION
JUNEAU, W—Alfred E. Wid
mark’s victory over State Rep.
Charles M. Jones in Election Dis
trict No. 1 was registered by a
margin of six votes, 225-218, a
recount of ballots in the district
showed today.
The official state canvass had
given Widmark, a Republican, a
four vote lead over Democrat
Jones, 22-219. Jones asked for a
recount of the six precincts in
the district.
Russia Building Missile
Bases Commanding
Targets In Red China
LONDON, UP>—Russia is build
ing a missile base commanding
targets in Communist China the
London Sunday Times said Sat
urday.
The paper said in a Tokyo dis
patch from Far East correspond
ent Richard Hughes the base was
going up on the Kamchatka Pen
insula in northeast Siberia.
It will be equipped with mis
siles capable of striking targets
3,000 miles away Hughes said.
Hughes claimed aerial photo
graphic evidence of the project
was in possession of Japanese in
telligence authorities. He said the
project was known as “K-l” and
differed sharply from the known
pattern of other Soviet missile
bases in Siberia in its site, range
and command of Chinese targets.
The same correspondent report
ed recently that China would ex
plode its first atomic bomb next
year.
17 White Students
Defy Boycott And Return
To New Orleans School
NEW ORLEANS, — Seven
teen white pupils returned to
classes at William Frantz inte
grated school today, an apparent
signal that a segregation boycott
is breaking.
This was seven more than
showed up last Friday.
The boycott — supported by
women pickets—held firm at the
citys other integrated elementary
school, McDonogh No. 19. Only
the three Negro first-grade girls
went in for classes. One Negro
girl attended William Frantz.
Most of the returnees at Wil
liam Frantz evaded the heckling
from demonstrators by going in
a side door while police held the
crowd on private property in
front of the building.
Symington Report to President-Elect
Recommends Elimination of Civilian
Secretaries of Army, Navy, Air Force
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
PALM BEACH, Fla., IJV-Presi
dent-elect John F. Kennedy today
got a report recommending
sweeping Defense Department re
organization—< including elimina
tion of the civilian secretaries of
Army, Navy and Air Force.
The goal would be to give the
Secretary of Defense instantan
eous control in the event of
nuclear war.
The report was submitted to
Kennedy by Sen. Stuart Syming
ton, head of the committee which
the President-elect set up to plan
streamlining of the vast Penta
gon operation for the nuclear
space age.
Symington told a news confer
ence after conferring with Ken
nedy that in his opinion his com
mittee’s recommendations would
'cut present military spending by
about 20 per cent or $8 billion
annually. But he said this money
likely would have to be plowed
back for such things as new
weapons development and an
arms control program.
While the Symington committee
would abolish the civilian secre
taries of the Army, Navy and Air
Force, those services would be
retained as separate entities in
the defense establishment.
The plan of Symington, who
was Secretary of the Air Force in
the Truman administration, also
would eliminate the undersecre
taries and the assistant secre
taries—all civilians—of the three
services.
Symington said that the plan
would increase national security
and eliminate waste and duplica
tion. It also calls for far-reach
ing reorganization of the military
operations command.
Symington said Kennedy had
authorized him to tell newsmen
that the President-elect had said
of the committee’s report:
“It is an interesting and con
structive study which I know will
be carefully analyzed by the Con
gress and the incoming adminis
tration.”
Under the Symington program
there no longer would be a chair
man of the Joint Chiefs. Instead
there would be a chairman of the
Joint Staff who would be prin
cipal military adviser to the Pre
sident and the Secretary of De
fense.
China President
Professes Faith in
Soviet Leadership
MOSCOW, on — Communist
China’s president today put a
stamp of approval on the peace
ful coexistence policy of the So
viet Union as it apparently has
been ratified by the Communist
summit confei'ence which ended
last week.
In a goodbye speech at Lenin
grad, before continuing his tour
of the Soviet Union, President Liu
Shao Chi made a confession of
faith in Soviet leadership.
“The great Soviet Union,” he
said, “has always been and is to
day a powerful bastion of world
peace. The initiative of the Soviet
government and its proposals
aimed at easing international dis
armament and peaceful co-exis
tence between countries with dif
fering social systems have the
sympathy and support of all
peace-loving nations and peo
ples.”
Pravda, the Soviet Communist
party newspaper, published a
long editorial a week ago in
which it stated that peaceful co
existence as interpreted by Pre
mier Khrushchev is the correct
interpretation.
Coming as it did near the end
of the conference, after more than
two weeks of debate, it sounded
as if the Soviets had laid down
the law as they saw it.
The speech by Liu Shao Chi
was his way of saying that the
man who pays the piper calls the
tune.
In his speech, he made it abun
dantly clear by pointing out that
China’s industrial and technical
advances were heavily dependent
on Soviet production.
Xmas Tree Orders at Main 35
Explorer Scout Post 766 will be
selling Christmas trees soon. Or
ders are being taken by phone
and may be left with Ash Craft
at Main 35 after 6 p.m.
Ferry Designer Will
Meet with State Officials
On Proposed New System
JUNEAU, UP)—A marine archi
tect who designed three ferries
for use on Puget Sound will be
in Juneau to confer with state
officials on Alaska’s proposed
ferry system, Gov. William A.
Egan said today.
The governor told his regular
Monday morning news confer
ence Phillip Spaulding of Seattle
will work with Richard A. Down
ing, State Commissioner of Public
Works, on a report on the Alaska
ferry system which will be pre
sented to the 1963 legislature.
Egan said he also planned to
confer with Spaulding, who de
signed the ferry Coho for Black
Ball Transport, Inc., and two fer
ries for the British Columbia fer
ry system.
Egan said the Michigan ferry
Vacationland, which Highways
chief T. D. Sherrard inspected in
the Midwest last week, apparent
ly would not be suitable for use
in Alaska.
On another subject, Egan said
he had received from the tourist
industry a list of 50 names of
tourist leaders nominated to serve
on an advisory board to the State
Division of Tourism and Econ
omic Development.
The governor said he did not
know when members of the ad
visory board would be selected,
but he said the board will auto
matically die when the legislature
convenes Jan. 23 because he has
no legal right to establish such
a board.
Superhighway Is Dangerous
FLORENCE, Italy, 0P> — More
than 20,000 motorists tested the
new 51-mile superhighway be
tween Bologna and Florence Sun
day and police said there were so
many collisions no one counted
them. Dozens of injured motor
ists were treated at hospitals in
the cities, and more than 100 cars
ran out of gas or overheated.