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62nd Year No. 120 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1961_ Per Copy 15*
Egan Asks for Aid
To Stamp Out
False Advertising
JUNEAU — Gov. Egan said
today he has asked the Attorney
Generals of New York and New
Jersey to help stamp out mislead
ing advertising whi^h has drawn
money-short families to Alaska
on the promise of high-paying
jobs.
Egan said he was advised by
Maj. Donald Barry, divisional
commander of the Salvation Army
at Anchorage that four families
have appealed to the Salvation
Army for aid.
In each instance, the head of
the family said he was attracted
to Alaska by assurances of high
■ paying jobs, but on his arrival
here was unable to locate anyone
knowing about the jobs they were
promised.
“Two of these families are, at
this time, living in tents just out
side of Anchorage, and face a
very difficult winter ahead with
out proper Shelter,” Barry told
Egan.
Egan said a letter from the ad
vertiser assuring the individuals
of a job in Alaska “apparently
B served as a sufficient credit for
these families to pass through
Canadian customs without the
necessary money in their pos
session to provide them with the
basic necessities when they ar
rived in Alaska ”
Egan’s appeal for aid in halting
false advertising about Alaska
wages and jobs was addressed to
atty. generals Louis J. Lefkowitz
of New York and David D. Fur
man of New Jersey.
Egan also sent Lefkowitz and
Furman a copy of an advertise
ment by a New Jersey company
in the New York Joumal-Ameri
can of Sepi. 24 which said:
“Help wanted $1,215 per month
for laborers.
“Alaska fli-tiis now hiring men
and women at highest salaries in
the world
“Make it fast doing the work
you know! Laborers $1,215
monthly! Bricklayers $1,396
monthly! Truck drivers $1,225
m o n t h 1 y! Bulldozer operators
$1,354 monthly! etc., etc. . . . (Sal
lies quoted are for peak season)
satisfaction guaranteed! Rush $1
today to . .
“Alaska needs and wants new
residents,” Egan said, “but we
want them to come with their
eyes opened to conditions and op
portunities as they are, not as
falsely painted by promoters in
terested only in the dollar they
can extract from their victims.
“We do not need or want to
build Alaska on a traffic in hu
man misery and misfortune.”
Nike-Zeus Missile Blows
Up — Second Test Fails
POINT MUGU, Calif. W> — A
powerful Nike-Zeus missile-killer,
the United States’ strongest hope
as a defense against nuclear weap
r ons, destroyed itself spectacularly
In the sky Saturday seconds after
launch.
) It was the second failure of
the anttanisaila’s second stage in
a month;
officials said the power
ful i cet’S first stage operated
3Upped away as
later the sec
d in the sky,
r of burning
A-Bomb Scientist
Claims Fallout Has
Passed Safety Limit
WASHINGTON — Physicist
Ralp E. Lapp, who helped in de
velopment of the Atom Bomb,
says it’s his opinion that fallout
from the Soviet Union’s nuclear
tests have exceeded the “safe an
nual limit.”
The Soviets fired their 19th at
mospheric explosion Sunday in
their current test series.
“They have, according to the
latest count, sent up over 10
megatons of weapons. I don’t
know precisely how much of this
would be dirty, but this, in my
opinion, exceeds the safe level.”
“It turns out that Russian tests
dump their debris back to the
earth sooner than the American
tests in the Pacific. And, there
fore, we find out on the actual
base of measurements that you
get 10 times as much radiation
dose from these arctic tests in
Russia as you do from American
tests in the Pacific.
“Therefore, the safe annual
limit for Russian testing I would
put closer to the value of 3 mega
tons per year than I would the
old 1957 value of 10 megatons per
year.”
A megaton is the equivalent of
the energy released by a million
tons of TNT.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion in announcing the Soviet
Union’s 19th nuclear detonation,
said the blast was in the atmo
sphere and was in “the low yield
range.” The AEC has defined low
range as equivalent to about 20,
000 tons of TNT.
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Tragedy Strikes
Family of Five as
Fishing Boat Sinks
JUNEAU UPl — A 37-foot fish
ing boat carrying a Tacoma, Wn.,
family of five hit an obstruction
and plunged to the bottom near
Lemesurier Island yesterday. The
Coast Guard said all five appar
ently drowned.
The bodies of Mrs. Shirley Moe
and her two young sons, 7-year
old Paixl and 6-year-old David,
were picked up by the fishing
vessel Consul D, some three
hours after the fishing vessel
Partner radioed a frantic May
Day.
Still missing were the owner
and operator of the Tacoma-regis
tered fishing boat, Don Moe, and
his 11-months-old daughter, Don
na.
According to friends in Juneau,
the Moe family was enroute fjjOm
Juneau to Pelican.
The radioed call for help was
intercepted by the Park Service
boat Nunatuck. The faint May
(Day call said the Partner had been
holed and was going down.
Six fishing vessels in the gen
earl area of Lemesurier Island,
which lies just west of the mouth
of Glacier Bay, responded to the
plea for aid.
The fishing boats found the
water littered with debris, in
cluding a life jacket
The Coast Guard said Moe gave
no indication in his distress call
of what it was the “Partner”
struck.
There was little wind. There
were four-foot swells and a one
foot sea in the area where thej
boat went down. The Coast Guard
Sen. J. Tower Calls
For Increased Firmness
In U.S. Foreign Policy
FAIRBANKS UP) — Sen. John
Tower, CR-Tex.), climaxed the
three-day Republican State Con
vention last night with a call for
increased firmness in the conduct
of American foreign policy.
Speaking at a $25-a-plate fund
raising dinner, Tower took excep
tion to what he called the Ken
nedy Administration’s over-con
cern with the “nebulous force of
opinion of the uncommitted na
tions, which are actually bene
volently neutral toward the So
viet Union.”
He urged the immediate estab
lishment of an anti-Castro Cuban
government in exile. The United
States “ must excise this cancer in
Cuba, which threatens to spread
to the entire hemisphere, before
it is too late,” Tower said.
He also advocated a tough
United States attitude toward the
Berlin question, saying European
nations would be ready to follow
a strong “no nonsense” policy
on negotiations with the Russians.
In the continuing conduct of
the cold war, Tower called fox
policies that are “morally right,
militaryily necessary and politi-'
cally practical.”
GOP Chairman Miller
Believes Nixon Would
“Succumb to a Draft”
NEW YORK UP) — Republican
National Chairman William Miller
says he believes former Vice Pres
ident Richard Nixon “would have
to succumb” if the people called
oh him to run for President again
in 10fi4.
“I think Dick Nixon is abso
lutely intellectually honest in
stating that at this time it is his
intention to run for Governor of
California and if elected to serve
the four years,” Miller said on a
television program Sunday
“If in 1964 it appeared that it
was almost the unanimous dcaixc I
of the delegates to our conven
tion to nominate him. and the
polls seemed to indicate that by
and large the vast majority of the
American people wished to elect
him—I think that he would have
to succumb to the draft.”
Congressional Session
Ended — Was Freest
Spending in History
WASHINGTON Uti—'The Coun
cil of State Chambers of Com
merce said Sunday the Congres
sional session just ended was “the
freest spending session in the na
tion’s peacetime or cold war his
tory.”
A council analysis of the fi
nancial actions of the first ses
sion of the 87th Congress pre
dicted the effort of wk record
“will not only (be a $7-billion in
crease in expenditures over the
original budget for 1962, but also
a further rise to at least a $90
billion budget in 1963.”
The analysis, prepared by Eu
gene F. Uinta, Director of Re
search for the Council, said that
while the Eisenhower Adminis
tration and Congress cut the final
1954 budget recommendations of
the outgoing Truman Administra
tion by over $12 billion in appro
priations and $10 billion in ex
penditures, the Kennedy Admin
istration and Congress increased
(the Eisenhower budget lor 1962
Kennedy Pays Speaker
Sam Rayburn a Visit
NEW PORT, (R.I. ig) — Presi
dent Kennedy flew to Texas to
day on a sad, sentimental jour
ney half-across the country td
visit ailing Sam Rayburn, Speak
er of the U.S. House of Repre
sentatives.
The President, ending his week
end stay at Newport, ordered an
Air Force jet at the Quonset Point
Naval Air Station for three-hour
flight to Texas.
The President had planned to
return to Washington late in the
afternoon. Instead he ordered the
Texas trip * for an expected half
hour visit with the 79-year-old
Speaker, who is gravely ill in a
Dallas hospital with incurable
cancer.
Distinguished national leaders
and politicians have been phon
ing or dropping in to see him.
Kennedy himself has been kept
informed constantly of Rayburn’s
condition. He has been checking
for several days to find out
whether it would be wise for him
to visit the Speaker’s bedside.
As the man who served longer
than any other as Speaker, as
“Mr. Democrat” to both political
friends and foes, Rayburn was a
powerful ally of the President in
Congress. He left Washington a
month before Congress adjourned
to go home to Texas and try to
get rid of what he said was lum
bago in an aching back.
Rayburn has not been told by
his doctors that cancer is strik
ing down his long illustrous ca
reer in politics.
Lost In the Woods
WESTHAMPTON, Mass. UP) —
A compass test for five young
Bay Scouts was something less
than a success—they became lost
in the dense woods of Pisgha
Mountain for 23 hours.
A search party found the scouts
11 to 15 years old, huddled around
a camp fire shortly before noon
Sunday. They were tired, hungry,
thirsty and chagrined. .
Police Chief Eari Gett said
Scoutmaster Chester Wronski told
him he left the boys Saturday
morning. They had compasses and
a topographical map, and were
to have hiked to Norwich Lake,
eaten lunch there, then met Wron
ski at Pine Island Lake at 4 p.m.
When they had not arrived three
hours after the appointed ren
dezvous, Wronski notified police.
The boys said darkness arrived
before they came in sight of Pine
Island Lake so they lit a fire and
decided to stay put. They had one
flashlight and some candles, can
teens but no place to fill them,
no sleeping bags and no food.
PERFECT SCORE . . .
AJtKAiDELPHIA, Ark. UPi — Dr.'
Ralph Phelps Jr., president of
Ouachita Baptist College, gave the
150 students in his contemporary
affaire class a spelling test on the
25 most commonly used English
words.
Only oipe student made a per
fect score—Suheil Srouji, a sen
ior student from Nazareth, Israel.
WEATHER FORECAST
Increasing cloudiness tonight,
mostly cloudy tomorrow. Low to
night 20-25, high tomorrow 30. In
the last 24 hours: High of 30, low
of 26. Sunrise at 6:34 am., sun
set at 5:02 pm. Temperatures a
year ago today: High of 38, low
of 22. Extremes on this date since
1907: High of 31 in 1932, low of
13 in 1239.
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Yankees Bomb
Reds 13 to 5 For
19th World Series
CINCINNATI Uf) — The Near
York Yankees rocked the Cincin
nati Reds today, 13-5, and won
the 1961 World Series four games
to one. It was the 19th world
championship for the Yankees.
It was one of the most one
sided games in World Series his
tory, as the Yankees blasted Joey
Jay, the Reds Starting hurler, out
of the box in the first inning.
Seven more Cincinnati pitchers
trudged to the mound, making a
series of eight for one team. On
Get. 5, 1956, the Yankees them
selves used seven against the
Dodgers.
New York had 15 hits, with
home runs by John Blanchard in
the first and Hector Lopez in the
fourth. Elston Howard, Cleiis
Boyer and Roger Maris also hit
doubles during the long after
noon.
The Reds, who beat the Chi
cago White Sox in the 1919 series
and Detroit in 1940, now have
lost two of the fall classic—both
to the Yankees. New York won
the 1939 series from the Reds in
four straight.
FIVE-GAME TOTALS
Attendance—223,247.
Net Receipts—$1,480,059.95
Commissioner’s share—$222,099
- Each club and league’s share—
- $153,030 67.
Players share (first four games!
—$645,928.28.
Fist Fight Breaks Out
Between Dutch Police and
(Soviet Embassy Officials
AMSTERDAM Ut) — A free
swinging fist fight broke out at
Amsterdam Airport today between
Dutch police and Soviet Eknbassy
officials, including Ambassador
Panteleimon Ponomarenko, who
was heard to shout at one point:
“Do you know I am the ambas
sador?”
The brawl erupted in a dispute
over the passport of a Soviet
woman tourist who police feared
was being taken back to Russia
against her will.
The Soviet officials were
bundled bodily from the police
office—at least one of them nurs
ing a bruise.
Premier Jan DeQuay then sum
moned the Soviet ambassador to
the Hague fofr a conference while
the woman remained at the air
port.
The Soviet tourist, Mrs. Alexei
Golub, is the wife of a 35-year-old
Soviet chemical engineer who de
fected Saturday and asked asylum
here. She was brought to the air
port today, accompanied by So
viet officials, to board a plane
back to Moscow.
Soon afterward 15 Soviet Em
bassy men, including Ponomaren
ko, stormed into the police of
j fice at the airport demanding Mrs.
Golub’s passport. The policeman
in charge, Frits Veltman, refused
to hand it over until he talked
with Mrs. Golub and had her as
surance she was returning of her
own free will.
Witnesses said a fist fight then
broke out, involving at least six
Dutch police and a similar num
ber of Soviet officials.
Dutch officials say they be
lieve Mrs. Golub had originally
also intended to ask for political
asylum, but apparently changed
her mind.