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VOL. LX I No. 68 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1959_ Per Copy—15*
Summerfield Uses
First Navy-Fired
Missile - Mail
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., CP)—'The
Navy today made the first suc
cessful delivery of U. S. mail by
guided missile. The missile was
fired from a submarine at sea to
the Navy’s auxiliary air station at
Mayport, Fla., at the mouth of
the St. Johns River near Jackson
ville.
Postmaster General Arthur E.
Summerfield announced the suc
cessful delivery at a hastily called
press conference an hour and a
half after a Navy Regulus I was
brought in to Mayport.
The distance traveled by the
missile was not disclosed. The
Navy would say only that the 36
foot missile wae fired from inter
national waters off the coast —
meaning more than three miles
out.
The cargo of 3,000 letters in
cluded one to President Eisen
hower.
Other messages in the cargo, all
from Postmaster General Sum
merfield, were for members of the
Cabinet, members of Congress,
Justices of the Supreme Court,
the governors of all American
states and territories, and the Post
masters general of the 99 other na
tions which are members of the
Universal Postal Union.
Summerfield, describing the
event, said it was a dramatic
sight. He reported the wheeled
missile made a perfect landing
on the runway, trailing a para
chute to slow it down. -
The weight of the payload was
not immediately disclosed.
4-Year-Old Shoots Three
Playmates in Indiana
SALEM, Ind., W) — A 4-year-old
boy who shot his three young
playmates still “doesn’t under
stand what he did,” his father ’said
Sunday. «•
The youngster, Troy Hoggatt.
found a pistol, loaded it and shot
the neighbor children Saturday
night.
Two of the victims were in cri
tical condition in a hospital here
and the third was listed as in
fair condition.
Randy Hinton, 5; his brother,
Ricky, 6, and Dawn Short, 10,
were hit. Randy and the Short
girl were wounded critically.
The boy was holding the pistol
in both hands and he thought it
was a cap pistol.
Because of the boy’s age, Police
Chief Fred Pennington said
“There is nothing further to in
vestigate.” He said he knew of
no action to be taken. ,
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‘Never!’ Replies
West to Demand
Allies Quit Berlin
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
GENEVA, l/fl — Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a
fruitless Big Four secret session,
pressed his demand Saturday
that the Western Allies abandon
their occupation of West Berlin.
“Never; and there will be no
compromise on this issue,” was
the substance of the reply re
ported to have been flung back
by U. S. Secretary of State Chris
tian Herter, French Foreign Min
ister Maurice Couve De Murville
and British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd.
After the ministers ended their
two-hour bargaining session at
Lloyd’s red brick town house, re
sponsible Western informants re
ported: “No sign of a break in
the Berlin deadlock.”
Gromyko showed no tendency
to accept the Western plan for
reaffirmation of Allied rights in
West Berlin, a freeze on the size
of Western troop garrisons there,
and an all-Berlin curb on inflam
matory propaganda and subver
sive activity.
What little optimism persisted
among Western ministers was
based upon the view that Gro
myko has avoided slamming the
door on an eventual approach to
the Western position.
Hints of impatience were crop
ping up among the Western min
isters. Outside of the conference
room, there was some talk of im
posing a deadline on the dragging
four-w’eek-old talks.
Climbers Ready For
Summer McKinley Assault
ABERDEEN, Wash., UPl — Four
young men will attempt a climb
of 20,320-foot Mt. McKinley this
summer, their leader reported
today.
Heading the party will be John
Breitenbach, 23, formerly of Ab
erdeen, who climbed" the Alaska
mountain a year ago.
Others in the party will be Pete
Sinclair, 23, of Colorado; Bill
Buckingham, 24, a former Stan
ford student, and Barry Corbet,
23, Vancouver, B. C.
X15 Rocket Ship
Glides to Smooth
California Landing
By CHARLES MAHER
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., UP* — Tht experimental
rocket ship X15 made a swift,
smooth glide from 38,000 feet to
a perfect landing on a dry lake
bed today in its first free flight.
The sleek black needle, ex
pected ultimately* to blast a pilot
100 miles to the edge of space,
kicked up a great plume of dust
as its skids touched down on
the sun-baked turf.
At the controls was crack test
pilot Scott Crossfield, first man
to fly twice the speed of sound.
He went aloft at 8 a.m., with
! the XI5 locked under the wing of
its B-15 mother ship.
At 8:45 a.m. they cut him loose
seven miles high.
It tok six minutes for the long,
shallow glide to culminate on to
earth. As the rocket ship neared
the lake bed, newsmen noticed
that it seesawed ever so slightly.
Crossfield apparently maneuvered
the controls for a perfect
approach.
But it was stable as it swooshed
in at an e timated 200 m.pii.
At 31,000, Crossfield executed
a successful period of level flight.
Then he moved into a lazy S
pattern, turning 180 degrees to the
right and then to the left.
Crossfield told reporters after
emerging from the ship:
“We’re in business now. We
know we can take ’em out and
bring ’em back in one piece.
“It handled very nicely — just
about what we expected.
April Acid-Throwing
Victim Tried, Convicted
For Grand Larceny
SPOKANE, UR — Everett H.
Benson, 42, victim of an acid
throwing attack two months ago
in which the attacker still re
mains at large, was convicted on
five counts of grand larceny
last Friday.
The Superior Court jury of nine
men and three women acquitted
the Spokane machinist of eight
other counts. He was accused of
obtaining about $5,000 from two
Spokane residents on false pre
tenses over a 14-month period.
The conviction was on counts
involving a mining deal in Alaska
and a Japanese contract. No date
was set for sentencing.
Benson was burned on his face,
chest and arms, and received un
determined damage to his eyes in
the acid attack in April. It hap
pened shortly before he was sched
uled to go on trial, causing a
postponement.
Eisenhower Asks Raise in Interest on
Savings Bonds, Higher Nat. Debt Limit
WASHINGTON, UP) — President*
Eisenhower asked Congress today
to remove the ceilings on interest
rates for government savings
bonds and other long term obliga
tions, and to boost the limit on the
national debt.
Eisenhower said the Treasury
plans, if Congress permits it, to
raise the rate on savings bonds
from 3V2 per cent to 33A per cent.
Wiping out of the limit on
Treasury bonds which run five
years or more to maturity, he
said, would give greater flexibility
to federal financing. The present
limit is 414 per cent. There is no
ceiling on bonds of less than five
years maturity.
At the same time, Eisenhower
proposed that Congress hike the
permanent national debt ceiling
from the current 283 billion dol
lars to 288 billion, and boost the
temporary limit from 288 to 295
billion.
In a special message to Con
gress, the President said these
steps are necessary for successful
management of the public debt,
now at a record 286 billion dollar.
The immediate reaction to Eis
enhower’s proposals on Capitol
Hill was mixed.
Rep. Clarence E. Kilburn of
New York, ranking Republican on.
the House Banking Committee,'
said Eisenhower was right, be
cause “if we’re going to get the
money we need we’ve got to
raise interest rates.”
“When this Congress shows evi
dence of trying to keep a sound
dollar by cutting spending pro
grams, you’ll find confidence in
government bonds coming back
and interest rates coming down,”
Kilburn added.
Rep. Wright Patman iD-Tex")
an influential monetary spokes
man for House Democrats, and
vice chairman of the Senate
House Economic Committee, said
there is no excuse for higher in
terest rates “except to give the
bankers and big-money lenders a
larger share of the national
income.”
Announcing his opposition, Pat
man said higher interest rates
are “the main cause of inflation”
because they increase all business
costs and prices.
The Treasury said if Congress
permits, it will offer 3% per cent
interest on all savings bonds sold
WEATHER FORECAST ~
Fair, with fog in early morning.
Low tonight 40, high tomorrow
55. Sunrise at 1:32 a.m., sunset
at 10:31 pm.
after June 1.
Officials said all Series “E”
and “H” bonds now outstanding
also will earn 3% per cent in
terest, if held to maturity, for the
period after June 1.
Under the plan, Series “E”
bonds will mature in 7 years and
9 months instead of the present
eight years and 11 months.
Thus the buyer of a $100 bond
would pay $75 now and collect
$100 in 7 years and 9 months.
The Department also asked
Congress to permit it to extend
the life of all savings bonds in
definitely. .
The President cited reasons
why he believes removal of the
interest ceiling on government
bonds is necessary at this time.
Rapid growth in borrowing de
mands of corporations, 'individ
uals, state and local governments
tends to diminish the amount of
funds available for investment in
direct federal government secur
ities, he said.
Khrushchev Warns
Reds May Install
Balkan Missiles
LONDON, UP) — Nikita Khrush
chev declared Saturday Soviet
rocket bases will be set up in Al
bania and Bulgaria unless the Bal
kans are turned into a “rocket
free, non-atomic zone under mu
tual control.”
The Soviet Premier, addressing
a big Moscow rally after flying
home from a visit to Albania and
Hungary, said the bases would
cover any rocket sites that Italy
and Greece allow on their terri
tory.
It was Khrushchev’s first men
tion of Bulgaria as a possible base
for Soviet missiles although he
has previously threatened to es
tablish them in Albania. Khrush
chev said any attack on Albania
would be an attack on the Soviet
Union itself.
“Therefore,” he declared in re
marks relayed by Moscow Radio,
“if anybody tried to attack Al
bania or another Socialist country
a destructive blow would be dealt
to the aggressor by all means at
the disposal of the countries of
the Warsaw Pact.”
Khrushchev said Romanian pro
posals for an atom-free Balkans
zone have been supported by Yu
goslavia as well as Communist
nations in the area.
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