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VOL. LXII No. 145 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1960_Per Copy 15<
Seaton Establishes
11.2 Million Acre
Alaska Refuges
WASHINGTON UP — Three
new national wildlife ranges
totaling about 11.2 million acres
were established in Alaska today
by Secretary of the Interior Fred
A. Seaton.
The areas include the huge
Arctic national wildlife range on
which Congress failed to act this
year.
Seaton also restored to the
public domain about 20 million
acres of Alaska land withdrawn
from such status in 1943. This
land is a portion of about 48.8
million acres in northern Alaska
withdrawn for defense purposes
during World War II.
The 20 million acres had been
opened to mineral leasing and
mining claims in 1957 through
Public Land Order 8. They now
are entirely open to public land
entry under Public Land Law.
The area, Seaton said, contains
the most important concentration
point for waterfowl in Alaska.,
Egan Protests
Seaton Order
JUNEAU UP) — Here is the text
of Governor Egan’s comment on
the withdrawals ordered by Sec
retary Seaton.
Quote:
I am amazed that the outgoing
Secretary of the Interior would
exercise such sweeping authority
in the closing days of his tenure
of office and also on the very day
that the president-elect was ex
pected to and did announce the
name of the man who is to be the
Secretary of the Interior during
the forthcoming administration.
Today’s actions are all the more
a bitter pill because the secretary
has apparently prohibited mining
location rights of citizens in the
northern range area. Existing fed
eral law gives ample authority to
the Secretary of the Interior to
permit prospecting and mining
location rights in such areas.
It is interesting to note that
Secretary Seaton has acted with
out even the courtesy of a simple
acknowledgement of the request
which I made of him on Sept. 26th
more than two months ago that
lands encompassed in the proposed
Arctic wildlife refuge be made
available to the State of Alaska
for selection.
Alaskans know from experience
that once a federal reservation
is created it is virtually impossible
to have it set aside or reduced. I
plan to strongly protest this man
euver and am hopeful that the
proposed plan of action will be
rescinded.
Alaskans may once again thank
the present national administra
tion for retarding local control
and development of Alaska’s re
sources. . ’
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Nature's Own Remedy
MOBILE, Ala. UPl — A leak de
veloped in the SS Alcoa Pioneer
while the Bauxite carrier was dis
charging cargo at Gulfport, Miss.,
two weeks ago.
The vessel proceded to docks
here, where ship inspectors found
the leak had stopped. A hull sur
vey showed a rivet had fallen out
and an eel had been sucked into
the hole.
The eel, wedged about halfway
through the hole, died but it had
completely stopped the leak.
19(50 Budget Surplus
Bigger Than Expected
WASHINGTON Ufc-The United
States ended the 1960 fiscal year
with a bigger budget surplus than
it had expected.
The Treasury Department an
nounced yesterday that the sur
plus for the fiscal year ending
last June 30 had reached $1,224,
000,000, or $156 million more than
the department had predicted in
its preliminary calculation.
Final figures put revenues for |
the year at $78,457,432,872.73 and!
expenditures at $77,233,385,451.09. 1
Seattle Traffic
Judge Convicted
Of Assault
SEATTLE, Dec. 7 (£1 — Seat
tle Traffic Court Judge William
H. Simmons was convicted today
of second degree assault in the
attempted rape of a pretty, 21
year-old housewife.
A King County Superior Court
jury of seven women and five
men returned the verdict after
4 hours and 20 minutes of deli
berations.
Conviction meant the hand
some, baby-faced judge must
forfeit his office unless a new trial
is granted. He could be sentenced
to 10 years in prison and fined
$1,000.
Simmons, 32, married and the
father of three children, was ac
cused of trying to become inti
mate with Mrs. Betty Adams
after she had gone to see him
about a $30 speeding ticket last
July 14.
The young municipal judge
heard the verdict without a flick
i er of expression. He said later he
would ask for a new trial.
In summations yesterday to the
eight-day trial the defense attor
ney said Simmons had been
“framed” and by his own admis
sions his career had been ruined.
Simmons admitted on the wit
ness stand he had gone with Mrs.
Adams to a cocktail lounge, where
they had several drinks, and then
took her to the apartment of a
woman friend. But he denied he
was the aggressor in the brief
romantic interlude.
Mrs. Adams, who brought the
charge against Simmons, said he
tried to disrobe her in the apart
ment, tore her clothing and stifled
her screams.
The young housewife said she
accompanied Simmons to the
cocktail bar on his invitation “be
cause I thought you could trust
a judge just like your minister
or priest,” and she believed her
husband had followed them.
Today Is I9tli
Anniversary Of
Pearl Harbor
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii WV—
The memory of a grim piece of
history returned today—at it does
each year— to remind Hawaii and
the world of a searing lesson writ
ten in bombs and blood.
Nineteen years ago—Dec. 7,
1941—more than 2,400 sailors,
soldiers, marines and civilians [
died during the Japanese attack i
on Pearl Harbor, called “The I
Day of Infamy” by the late Presi- j
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In the battleship Arizona alone, i
1,102 men—from admiral to sea-1
man—perished in a few minutes.;
Those first U. S. dead of World
War II are still entombed in the
sunken hulk in Pearl Harbor’s
depths.
Gen. Emmett O’Donnell Jr.,
Pacific Air Forces commander,
said in a Pearl Harbor Day state
ment:
“Nineteen years ago military
installations in Hawaii were the
victims of a surprise attack that
started. World War II. The cost
of that encounter was heavy, and
some of the scars still remain.
“These scars serve as a constant
reminder that we must never
again permit ourselves to be
caught unprepared.”
Seaton Announces
Simplified Rules For
Alaska Land Selection
WASHINGTON UP) — Secretary
of the Interior Seaton today an
nounced new rules which he said
will simplify state land grant
seleftions in Alaska.
The rules allow the state to
select and obtain a portion of an
area under federal mineral re
lease and to obtain mineral rights
reserved to the federal govern
ment in land now in private own
ership.
They conform to a law passed
Sept. 14. Previously the state
could not obtain public domain
lands which were under federal
mineral lease unless it selected
the entire lease area.
Seaton said the new regulations
are designed to encourage the
Alaska economy as well as facili
tate the state land grant selec
tions.
The Alaska Statehood Act
granted over 103 million acres to
the new state. The state was given
25 years in which to select from
the best lands available. Current
ly there are about 6 million acres
under state selection in Alaska, i
GEORGE GOSHAW PASSES AWAY IN CALISTOGA
Lieorge uosnaw passed away at
his home in Calistoga, Calif., on
December 2nd and was buried to
day at the military cemetary at
San Bruno with a military service
as he was a veteran of the Spanish
American War and World War I.
His commanding officer in the
tank corp was Dwight Eisen
hower.
Goshaw came to Alaska at the
turn of the century with many
other well known pioneers and
knew all of Alaska. He was a
U. S. Deputy Marshal during the
era of the building of the Alaska
Railroad and worked here in the
early days with the Wild Goose
Mining Co.
For many years he operated a
store and the post office at Shish
maref where he also had the
farthest north fox farm in North
America, breeding the famous
platina fox which is a cross be
tween wild white foxes and blue
fox.
In more recent years he oper
ated a store in Nome where he
took an active part in civic af
fairs until his health made it
necessary for him to retire to a
warmer climate.
This past season, writes his
widow, who is also well known
here and in Shishmaref, he de
voted himself to running the Re
publican headquarters and “put
Calistoga over for Nixon, yet the
town is Democratic, so he felt he
did something for his party.”
His heart was in Alaska and he
hoped to live long enough to drive
to Nome over the highway and
see his many friends once again.'
Newest Satellite Carries
Human Tissue and
Secret Spy Gear
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif. OFi — A souped up
Discoverer satelitte, carrying bits
of human tissue and secret spy
gear, rocketed into polar orbit
today.
A tracking station in Alaska
picked up the new moonlet on its
first pass over the North Pole,
and the Air Force said it was
definitely in orbit.
The human tissue in today’s
cargo was from the underside of
an eyelid. Also included were
human bone marrow, algae,
spores, gamma globulin, albumin,
gold foil and various kinds of
film. They are for use in radia
tion studies in the man in space
program.
The sky spy gear was secret
and not described. But Discover
er’s second stage also is the sec
cond stage for the upcoming Sa
mos and Midas satellite series,
and test equipment for them.
Chamber to Welcome
Dr. Wood, President of
University of Alaska
A no-host dinner is planned
for Monday night to welcome
ffm. Wood, president of the
University of Alaska and his
wife who are making their in
itial trip to Nome. Parents of
university students are particu
larly urged to make their reser
vations so that they may meet
President Wood. The dinner is
scheduled for 8:00 p. m.
At noon, Dr. Wood will be a
guest of the Chamber of Com
merce on whose invitation the
trip has been made possible.
After a hearty welcome at the
airport by the reception commit
tee composed of Boyd Harwood,
Bob Grant, Don Hoover, Conrad
Potter and M. J. Walsh.
On Tuesday Dr. Wood will
have an opportunity to visit
some of the outlying villages by
bush plane and return in time
for dinner with the Chamber
Board and Committee members
and their wives, following a
meeting with the staff of the
Nome School late in the after
noon. They will return to Fair
banks on Wednesday.
Premier Khrushchev
Down With the Grippe
MOSCOW OPI—Premier Khrush
chev is bedfast with illness at his
villa in the Lenin Hills. First
Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan
announced at a Red Chinese re
ception in the Kremlin tonight
that the Soviet leader has the
grippe. He was running a slight
temperature.
Khrushchev is believed to have
caught the ailment last Friday in
seeing off Prince Norodom Sihan
ouk of Cambodia. After a busy
schedule that included the three
week Communist summit confer
ence, he has canceled all engage
ments.
Mikoyan’s was the first official
statement from government
sources that the premier was
sick, though Mrs. Khrushchev
said yeserday her husband was in
bed with a cold.
Kept Her Young, No Doubt
POTTERS BAR, England W) —
Mary Budd died today, age 105.
Until two weeks ago she was up
every day, drinking stout and
backing her pick on the horses.
Kennedy Chooses
Interior Secretary
NEW YORK UP) — President
elect John F. Kennedy today
selected Rep. Stewart Udall of
Arizona to be his secretary of the
interior—the third of the 10 cabi
net posts to be filled for the new
administration.
Kennedy said in a statement
that the 50-year-old congressman
will bring to the position “vigor
and imagination,” for the impor
tant task of preserving and de
veloping “America’s vast and
abundant natural resources.”
The Udall appointment was by
no means a surprise. It had been a
virtual certainty for days.
The Arizona House member will
serve alongside two governors,
Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut,
Kennedy’s choice for Secretary of
Health Education and Welfare,
and Luther Hodges of North Caro
lina, who will be the new Com
merce Secretary.
With Udall by his side, Kennedy
held a news conference to con
firm the appointment.
Udall, he said, will head a de
partment with more than 50,000
employes and a spending program
last year of more than 800 mil
lion dollars.
“This department,” Kennedy
said in his statement, “Is the
guardian of that natural wealth
which is the foundation of our
present greatness and the key to
our future progress.
“The coming years will witness
an enormous increase in our need
for natural resources if we are
to meet our expanding commit
ments to our own people and to
the free world.”
“Only a vigorous and imagina
tive administration of the De
partment of the Interior can assure
us of the strength to meet those
commitments,” he said.
To provide this administration,
he picked a three-term House
member descended from pioneer
Arizona stock, a lawyer who in
terrupted his schooling for a two
year mission for the Mormon
church, and a man with an in
terest in Indians.
Udall also is a long standing
supporter of Kennedy, with his
backing predating the Democratic
National Convention.
Udall noted that attention had
largely been focused abroad and
said “we can and we intend to do
a better job” for the Indians.
Fairbanks Search Pilot
Unreported For Two Days
FAIRBANKS UPl — Five Fair
banks planes today fanned out
over a 10,000 square mile area in
the second day of the search for
a plane carrying Bob Cooper,
well-known Fairbanks bush pilot
and his passenger, Richard (Red)
Olivera.
Cooper has been missing since
Monday afternoon when he left
Galena on a flight to Fairbanks.
He had been searching for the
plane carrying three Nome resi
dents who were rescued in good
condition Monday afternoon.
The search effort is being co
ordinanated by the Alaska Air
Search and Rescue Group.
Cooper’s Piper super cruiser/
was on skis. The search area today
centered south of the Yukon
River in the vicinity of Nulato.
An unusual spell of warm
weather in the interior, with
temperatures hovering in the
range from 20 to 30 above zero,
spurred hopes that Cooper might
be “waiting it out” at some wilder
ness point where he crash-landed.