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Entered at second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post Office at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879.
NEXT SPRING, according to expectations, direct
passenger plane service will be inaugurated be
tween New York and Moscow.
Representatives of this country and of the Soviet
Union have been conducting negotiations for some
time. It is now announced that a basic agreement has
been reached and only technical details need to be
ironed out.
Benefits can certainly result. The travelers who
fly the route will be given faster, more convenient
service. More important, any peaceful relations be
tween two nations may contribute in same measure
to a better understanding and to an eventual! lessening
of tensions.
But one hopes that the U.S. negotiators kept on
their toes and write unequivocal safeguards into the
terms finally agreed upon. The reason for that is
simple. The U.S. airline that will provide service is
Pan American World Airways — a self-supporting
private enterprise with some 40,000 stockholders. The
Russian airline that will provide service is Aeroflot—
and it is wholly government-owned and a branch of
the {Soviet air force.
So, if Aeroflot were allowed to, it could offer
ridiculously low fares-—Dosses are nothing to a social
ized enterprise, or to a military arm, because in
creased taxes can always be Jievied to cover them. It
would be used as a weapon in the Soviet economic
war against us. r- 'v
The new service seems a desirable addition to
international air traffic. But American rights and
needs must be carefully protected. - ..v
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Anthropological Study sar ?i
To Be Made on Possible
Remains of Amelia Earhart
GUAM UFi — The remains of
two humans, possibly those of
Amelia Earhart, famed American
flier, and her navigator were
being flown today to University
of California at Berkeley for an
thropological study.
Willis Snyder, district manager
at Guam for Pan American Air
ways, said the remains include
dental plates and other bones
found in a Saipan grave last Sep
tember.
The bodies are believed to have
' been buried about the time Miss
Earhart’s plane disappeared in
1937.
With her was Fred Noonan, her
navigator.
Snyder said the box is being
sent to Dr. Theodore McCown, an
thropology professor at the Uni
versity of California.
There were reports last year
that parts of the Earhart plane
had been recovered from shallow
coastal waters at Saipan and that
Japanese, who occupied the island
before World War H, had ex
ecuted both Miss Earhart and
Noonan.
The latest version is that the
plane’s generator broke as they
landed at Yap, that a new one
was installed there, and that the
two continued to Saipan where
they were imprisoned by the
Japanese.
This version says Miss Earhart
died of dysentery and that Noonan
was shot.
David Boyer First
To File Declaration of
Candidacy for Governor
JUNEAU (jPi — David Newton
Boyer of Anchor Point is the first
person to file his declaration of
candidacy for Governor of Alaska
in the 1962 elections, Secretary
of State Hugh Wade said today.
Boyer’s declaration, accom
panied by a money order for $100,
■was received by Wade’s office:
late Wednesday. Boyer is a Demo
crat.
Four other persons, two Demo
crats and two Republicans, have
announced they will be candidates
for the office now held by Demo
crat William Egan, although none
has actually filed declarations of
candidacy with Wade's office as
yet.
The are John Rader, an An
chorage attorney, a Democrat; Dr.
Milo Fritz, an Anchorage physi
cian, a Republican; Verne Martin,
an Anchorage attorney, a Repub
lican; and State Rep. Warren Tay
lor, of Fairbanks, a Democrat.
Eddie Johnsen Home
For Thanksgiving Day
Eddie Johnsen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Johnsen and student
at the University of Alaska re
turned home for the Thanksgiving
holiday and to attend the wedding
of his sister, Edna Johnsen, which
has been announced for Saturday,
Dec. 2 to Anthony Martin. Eddie]
better known to his friends asj
“Cookie” is a sophomore major
ing in music.
Seven Additional Monitoring Stations
Set Up in Alaska to Check Radiation
JUNEAU — Three members of
the Radiological Health Division
of the U.S. Public Health Service
returned to their stateside posts
last -week after establishing seven
additional monitoring stations in
the USPHS Radiation Surveillance
Network in Alaska.
The new stations at Barrow,
Name, Cold Bay, Kodiak, Adak,
Attu and St. Paul bring to 10 the
USPHS radiation monitoring
points in the state and were es
tablished following a request from
the Alaska Dept, of Health and
Welfare, according to Commis
sioner Paul Winsor. Surveillance
stations at Juneau and Anchor
age have been monitoring radio
active fallout since 1956 and at
Fairbanks since 1958. i They are
part of a nationwide network in
which more than 60 stations are
taking samples of air regularly
fat dispatch to the USPHS Radia
tion Surveillance Center in Wash
ington for compilation and inter
pretation.
Other monitoring stations are
operated in Alaska by the Atomic
Energy Commission at Kivalina,
Point Hope, Cape Thompson and
Kotzebue, and the U.S. Weather
Bureau operations throughout tne
state cooperate with the AEC pro
gram.
Warrant Undue Concern
“Fallout levels resulting up un
til now within the United States
from the new series of Soviet nu
clear tests do not warrant undue
public concern, according to a
USPHS Oct. 26 report on fall
out surveillance and protection.
“However, present levels do
warrant continuous, intensive sur
veillance by federal, state and
local governments and considera
tion of protective measures which
might be taken if they should be
found necessary.”
The report comments that while
much has been learned about the
dangerous and damaging effects
of heavy exposure to radiation,
very little is known about the ef
fects on animals or humans of
very low tout prolonged exposures.
“The consensus of scientific
opinion,” it states, “is that the
most prudent course is to assume
there is no level of radiation ex
posure below which one can be
absolutely certain that harmful ef
fects may not occur to at least a
few individuals when sufficiently
Lange numbers of people are in
volved.” This is the concept, it
states, on which are based the
U.S. policies and programs for
assessing radiation hazards and
for control measures designed to
limit exposures of large popula
tion groups.
Applying this concept to pre
sent radiation exposure levels
being experienced in the United
States from all sources, includ
ing fallout, the report states that
the following assessments can be
made:
Extra Radiation
“The extra radiation caused by
the Soviet tests will add to the
risk of genetic effects in succeed
ing generations, and possibly to
the risk of health damage to some
people in the United States. It is
not possible to determine how ex
tensive these ill effects will be—
nor how many people will be
affected. At present radiation
levels, and even at somewhat
higher levels, the adidtional risk
is slight and very few people will
toe affected. Nevertheless, if fall
out increased substantially, or re
mained high for a long time, it
would become far more important
as a 'potential health hazard in
this country and throughout the
world.”
According to USPHS determina
tions, if fallout in any particular
area reaches an “alert” level of
100 micromicrocuries per cubic
meter of air and is sustained at
or near that figure for five to
ten days, action should be taken
by ■ local, state and federal gov
ernments to determine amounts
present of specific radioactive sub
stances.
A micromicrocurie is a millionth
of a millionth of a curie. A curie
is equivalent to the radioactivity
of one gram of radium.
Aurora Escholt and Harold
Koonik were discharged from the
hospital.
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