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VOL. LXII No. 101 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1960 Per Copy 15<
Barbara Powers
Has Last Visit
Willi Husband
MOSCOW, (#'—Barbara Pow
ers had her last visit Tuesday
with her husband, Francis Gary
Powers, before he is transferred
to a new prison outside Moscow
and she returns home.
The meeting was calmer than
the last one, said her attorney,
Frank Rodgers of Roanoke, Va.
The previous meeting was a tear
ful reunion at the end of the
trial at which Powers was sen
tenced to 10 years for espionage.
Three years must be served in
prison, the balance in a prison
colony.
A little earlier, his parents,
Oliver W. and Ida Ford Powers,
spent a last sad hour with their
son.
Neither parents nor wife were
able to speak with newsmen when
they emerged. They were all ob
viously overcome with emotion.
Powers sent word to his father
to “please bring money” to their
last meeting, so that the flier can
buy cigarettes and other small
items in jail. Powers also said he
could use a watch. His own watch
was forfeited to the Soviet state
treasury under the terms of his
sentence along with other valu
ables he had when captured.
“My watch only cost $49.50,”
the elder Powers told newsmen,
“but it’s a good watch. It cannot
compare with the one he had, but
I am mightly proud to give it
to him.”
POWERS' PARENTS RETURN
NEW YORK, UPi—'The parents
of Francis Gary Powers returned
to the United States today.
A Scandinavian Airlines plane
carrying Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W.
Powers of Pound, Va., landed at
Idlewild airport, after a flight
from Copenhagen.
Alaska Will Build
Exhibit At Seattle’s
Century 21 Exposition
JUNEAU, UP) — The State yes
terday called for bid proposals
for exhibit designs, architectural
drawings, engineering and con
tracting for Alaska’s participa
tion in Seattle’s Century 21 Ex
position.
The Century 21 Exposition is
scheduled to start a seven-month
run in downtown Seattle in April,
1962.
In asking for bid proposals
from all state architects and de
signers, the State Department of
Commerce said the state wants
an exhibit design to portray Al
aska's historic past, its progres
sive present and its potential fu
ture.
The building design, Commerce
Commissioner A. H. Romick said,
well be coordinated with the ex
hibit design.
Romick said the feasibility of
building a permanent Alaska ex
hibit structure at the exposition
I site for continuing use in the pro
motion of Alaska tourism and ec
onomic development will be con
sidered.
The architects and designers
asked the submit bid proposals,
also submit preliminary estimates
covering exhibit and building
construction and residual costs,
exihibit and building design costs,
operational costs and other cost
factors.
Alaska has been allocated
32,400 square feet of ground space
at the exposition site in Seattle
for its building, Romick said.
Re-Elected to Olympic Post
ROME, UP—Avery Brundage of
Chicago was re-elected president
of the International Olympic
Committee Tuesday by a unani
mous vote.
Brundage was chosen for a 4
year term. He has just completed
8 years in the office.
NOME INDUCTEES—Three Alaskans were inducted ~inio
Army last week through the Nome Induction Board, and are now
at Ft. Ord., Calif., undergoing basic military training. The men,
part of at 21-man group from throughout the state, include
(left to right) Raymond O. Neakok, Barrow; Frank Owletuk,
Marshall; and Gerald Trigg, Nome. After completing basic train
ing at Fort Ord, the men will be assigned to Reguar Army units
throughout the world. (U S Army Photo)'
Rotary District Governor
On Official Visit Here
Rotary has been host for the
past two clays to Herbert Lohr,
governor of District 504 of Rotary
International, who is making his
Herbert L. Lohr
official visit to each of the 43
clubs in this district, which com
prises Alaska, Western British
Columbia and northwest Wash
ington.
Mr. Lohr has been a member
of Rotary for more than 40 years
I and was elected to his high office
at the 51st annual convention a1
Miami Beach, Fla., last June. He
is one of 257 district governor;
supervising the activities of more
than 10,600 Rotary clubs which
have a membership of nearlj
500,000 business and professional
executives in 116 countries thru
out the world.
During the past year 45 new
Rotary clubs were organized in
47 countries making a total oi
I 10,600. Five new geographical
regions were added last year
! Aden, French Polynesia, New
Guinea, Ryukyu, and San Marino
A special meeting was held yes
terday noon and a dinner in hi;
honor last evening by the local
club.
I Non-Resident Prosecuted
I For Illegal Possession of
j Wild Alaska Birds
I In a unique case in the Tok
! district, a non-resident was pro
secuted for possession of two
gyrfalcons and a golden eagle
without a valid permit. This was
the first case of its kind since
the state took over control of its
fish and game resources last
January 1.
The arrest in the case was made
by W. B. Stewart, Conservation
Officer in charge of the Tok Dis
trict for the Alaska Department
of Fish and Game. Deputy Mag
istrate Amelia Meinert of Big
Delta levied a $250 fine and a
six month jail sentence; $190 of
the fine was suspended. The vio
lator is now serving 30 days in
jail and will be placed on pro
bation for the remaining five
months, with the admonition that
probation will be revoked if he
violates any municipal, state or
federal law or regulation within
one year.
S Judge Gilbert Returns
! Judge Hugh Gilbert, who has
i been presiding in the 4th District
I State Superior Court, returned
I home this morning to his own
| court district.
Eisenhower Sticks By
Decision to Acknowledge
Powers’ U2 Spy Flight
i WASHINGTON, UP —President
I Eisenhower said today he still
I thinks he did the right thing in
acknowledging that Francis Gary
Powers’ U2 plane was on a spy
mission.
As he reviews it, the President
told a news conference, he sees
no reason to think that he would
change his mind about the state
ments lie made when the Russians
disclosed that Powers’ plane had
come down May 1 in Soviet terri
tory.
At the time, Eisenhower not
only acknowledged the purpose
of the plane was to gain intelli
gence but assumed personal re
sponsiblity for the policy decision
back of the mission.
The matter was brought up at
today’s news conference by a
newsman saying that there was
some thought that Powers didn’t
have a chance in the Soviet courts
because this government had al
ready admitted he was on a spy
ing mission.
Eisenhower replied that Powers
could not possibly have been re
pudiate by the government.
He said any such statment
would have cast Powers in the
role of an adventurous fellow
who designed, manufactured and
flew his own plane off on a
I mission.
I -
Second Accidental
Shooting Claims
Juneau Youth
JUNEAU, UPI — The second ac
cidental shooting here within a
week left a 17-year old Juneau
boy in critical condition from a
head wound today.
Struck in the right side of the
head by a .22 caliber bullet from
a revolver a companion was at
tempting to take from a holster
was Mike Ruffcorn, 17.
Emergency surgery was being
performed on him in a Juneau
hospital in an effort to save his
life.
City police withheld the name
of the second youth, also 17, pur
suant to state law prohibiting the
use of names of minors in cases
where court action might be
necessary.
Police said the two boys were
in the home of the Ruffcorn boy’s
companion.
The gun was lying on a dresser.
The second youth attempted to
pull it from its holster, to make
sure it was unloaded, before put
ting it away.
The gun fired and Ruffcorn
fell to the floor.
It was only last Saturday that
Dexter Rusher, 13-year-old Ju
neau boy, was fatally wounded
by a 12-year-old companion while
on a grouse hunting trip on Mt.
Roberts, behind the capital city.
Young Rusher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Rusher, was buried to
day.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy and cool with south
west winds 10-15 mph. Lowest
temp, expected tonight 45, the
j high tomorrow 50-55.
In the past 24 hours: highest
j temp. 53, lowest 39. Sunrise at
| 4:18 a.m., sunset at 7:47 p.m
U.S. Will Provide
3 Billion To Aid
Friendly Nations
WASHINGTON, tP—The Sen
ate today voted $3,989,054,000 to
help friendly nations' and streng
then anti - Communist defenses
around the world. Coupled into it
was a new rap at Fidel Castro’s
Cuban regime.
President Eisenhower won a
major victory as the Senate re
stored every cut made by the
House in the foreign aid bill ex
cept 200 million dollars for mili
tary arms aid.
And the Senate added 100 mil
lion dollars in presidential con
tingency funds to meet unfore
seeable crises in the Congo and
elsewhere.
Written into the bill was an
amendment letting the President
shut off all foreign aid money
to any country he finds is sup
plying Cuba’s Castro regime with
either economic or military as
sistance. This was adopted by
voice vote.
The Senate further adopted,
also by voice vote, an amend
ment givng the President author
ity to deny aid to any country
which supplies arms to any Latin
American nation “being subjected
I to economic or diplomatic sanc
tions by the Organization of Am
erican States.” The OAS this
week voted to apply such sanc
tions to the Dominican Republic.
The bill will now go to a Sen
ate-House committee for adjust
ment of the differences between
the two branches of Congress.
Nixon Tells VFW U.S.
Must Be Firm Without
Being Belligerent
DETROIT, (jPI —Vice President
Richard M. Nixon declared today
that the United States “must al
ways be firm without belliger
ence” in its foreign policy.
Addressing the 61st national
convention of Veterans of Foreign
Wars, the Republican nominee
for President added, however:
“We must be ready to negotiate
outstanding differences with re
presentatives of the Communist
world anywhere, any time there
is a reasonable chance of that
conference bringing agreement.”
But the United States, in such
conferences, must stand firm for
the people of Berlin or any other
place in the world to also be free,
he said.
Nixon told an audience esti
mated at 11,500 in Detroit’s Cobo
Hall that President Eisenhower
exhibited a firmness without bel
ligerence at the recently-cancel
led summit meeting, which the
Vice President said Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev never intended
to let succeed.
Nixon said some critics of the
administration hold that Presi
dent Eisenhower should have
apologized or expressed regret for
the U2 spy plane incident or
should have answered back in
kind, telling Khrushchev off.
“The President must not and
should not apologize for any at
tempt to save this country from
surprise attack.” Nixon told the
cheering crowd.