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Tourist Attraction Funds . . .
AWARDS OF STATE matching funds to local com
munities for tourist attraction development have
been announced by Commissioner of Commerce A.
H. Romick.
Skagway has asked the maximum of $1,000 to
help defray the cost of an $8,000 museum. The city of
Port Chilkoot needs funds for a welcome sign; Haines,
$750 for an Indian* Tribal House interior for Chilkat
dancers; Wrangell has asked for money for repainting
totems; Anchorage, $1,000 for historical monuments.
As far as we know Nome has not asked for
matching money from this fund and there are several
filings for which it can be used in the eight categories
allowed; historical documents, artifacts, totem poles,
historical markers, native dances, blanket tossing,
native handicraft, native art and other worthwile
attractions.
This could be the start of the much needed mu
seum by having a fire-protected place for those docu
ments now in the hands of the pioneers and others as
-well as larger items which have been offered for such
a museum.
Anyone having ideas for the improvement of
tourist attractions may submit them to the Nugget for
publication and to be turned over to the Tourist Com
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce for study.
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U.S.-Soviets Still
Far Apart on
Berlin Crisis
WASHINGTON UP* — Despite
a two-hour conference between
President Kennedy and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromy
ko, the United States and the So
viet Union were reported still far
apart on ways of negotiating a
peaceful settlement of the Berlin
crisis.
Kennedy and the Soviet For
eign (Minister discussed the situ
ation in the oval room of the
White House late 'Friday and
wound up their talks shortly after
7 o'clock without issuing any
kind of formal statement.
As he climbed into his limou
sine to return to the Soviet Em
bassy, Gromyko told newsmen
the conversation had been “use
ful”. Secretary of State Dean
Rusk, who sat in on the discus
sion, merely called it “interest
ing.”
Kennedy was understood to
have told Gromyko in calm but
very emphatic terms that the
United States and its Western al
lies are fully determined to de
fend West Berlin against Com
munist pressures, to preserve their
right to maintain troops in the
city, and to keep open the supply
lines from West Germany.
At one point, referring to Rus
sia's Berlin demands, Kennedy
said the Soviet Union, is trying to
trade the United States “an ap
ple for an orchard.” He told
Gromyko there would be no deal
like that.
Well-informed officials said
the Kennedy-Gromyko talk was
dominated by Berlin but Ken
I nedy did warn of the dangers of
conflict in Southeast Asia. The
warning is understood to have
covered both Laos and South Viet
Nam.
It appears that the conference
at the White House covered much
of the same ground that had been
covered by Gromyko and Rusk in
a series of three meetings in New
York in the previous two weeks.
It was understood, moreover,
that Gromyko still had not told
U.S. leaders what Soviet Premier
Khrushchev means exactly when
he talks of guaranteeing Western
access to West Berlin after he
signs a peace treaty with -Com
munis* East Germany. Khrush
chev has said that the peace treaty
will establish East German
sovereignty over the supply lines
from West Germany and that
thereafter the Western powers
must negotiate with th* East Ger
man regime for use of the supply
line.
The White House discussion
ended the first phase of U-S.-So
viet efforts to lay a basis for
future, formal negotiations on a
Berlin settlement. So far as this
phase is concerned, it- obviously
ended in failure to arrive at an
agreement. However, officials
said, it was too early to speak
of failure in any broad sense since
more “exploratory talks” are ex
pected.
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'Czech Diplomat
Ordered Out of U.S.,
WASHINGTON Iff — The Unit
ed States has ordered a Czecho
slovakian diplomat out of the
country and denied espionage
charges against two American dip
lomats.
State Department press officer
Joseph Reap said the Czech Em
bassy has been informed that the
presence of its third secretary,
Jarsoslav Skacil, is no longer ac
ceptable. He did not say what
reasons were given.
At the same time, Reap said
'Czech spy charges against Robert
W. Kent Jr., of Oakland, Calif.,
and Timothy J. Burke of Buf
falo, N.Y., are totally without
foundation. Both are second sec
retaries at the U.S. Embassy at
Prague.
Reap said Kent was being re
turned to this country although
he had not engaged in espionage
activities. No arrangement was
announced for the return of
Burke.
Reap said Kent had driven
down a road in a military area
after being specifically directed
down it by a guard on duty, then
was stopped and held for 2xh
hours.
Pvt. Oksoktaruk Takes
Part in Checkmate
FRANKFURT. Germany
(AHTNC) — Army Pvt. Robert
C. Oksoktoruk, son of 'Mr. and
Mrs. James Oksoktaruk, Nome,'
recently participated with other
personnel from the 92nd Trans
portation Co. in Checkmate, a
NATO tactical training exercise
conducted in Germany.
NATO troops from Great Bri
tain, France, Germany and Bel
gium were involved in the exer
cise, which was designed to test
joint combat operation proced
ures.
Oksoktaruk, a wireman in the
company in Frankfurt, entered
the Army in March 1961 and com
pleted basic training at Fort Ord
Calif.
The 18-year-old soldier attend
ed Nome High School.
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Costs of 1960 Presidential
Campaigns Estimated
At $100 Million <
WASHINGTON UP) — The costs
of the 1960 Presidential cam
paigns have been estimated at
$100 million. The question arises
whether the federal government
should chip in on the bill for
choosing its Chief Executive.
President Kennedy appointed a
nine-member commission Wednes
day to study that, along with other
Ideas about cutting the costs of
campaigns.
Kennedy, who was in the midst
of a campaign himself just a year
ago, noted in a statement that
funds for national campaigns tra
ditionally had been supplied
wholly by private contributions,
mainly large sums from a rela
tively small number of contribu
tors.
“It is not healthy for the Demo
cratic process—or for ethical
standards in our government—to
keep our national candidates in
this condition of dependence,*'
Kennedy said.
“I have long thought that we
must either provide a federai
share in campaign costs or re
duce the cost of campaign serv
J ices, or both,” he said.
The special study commission,
headed by Alexander Heard, Dean
of the graduate school at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, was
instructed to file its recommenda
tions next spring.
Kennedy indicated he hoped to
put some proposals before the
Congress next year.
AMA PLEDGES TOTAL WAR
ON MEDICAL QUACKERY
WASHINGTON UP — The
American Medical Assn, and key
government officials joined today
in pledging total war on medical
quackery.
The goal: To force medical
quacks out of a billion-dollar-a
year business. The battle will be
waged on legal, scientific and
educational fronts.
The pledge was made at the
first National Congress on Medi
cal Quackery, jointly sponsored
by the AMA and the Food and
Drug Administration.
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