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Soviet Lunik
Expected to Snap
Moon View Tues.
By PRESTON GROVER
MOSCOW, UP* — The flying So
viet space laboratory will reach
its closest distance to the moon
Tuesday and make mankind’s
first photographs of its hidden
face, Tass said today.
Slowed by the relentless gravi
tatinal tug 6f the earth, the fly
ing laboratory should come within
4,350 miles of the moon at 5 p.m.
Tuesday, the official news agency
said.
As it approached the moon, the
interplanetary station — that’s
what the Russians call it — has
separated from the last stage of
the cosmic rocket that launched
it Sunday, Tass added.
The agency said that at noon
Moscow time the station was 248,
000 kilometers or 154,000 miles
from the earth and over the east
ern part of the Indian Ocean.
This was well over the halfway
mark.
Tass said the apparatus is mov
iny toward the moon more slowly
than the first and second Luniks.
This is to enable it to pass round
the moon and be pulled back to
earth instead of flying off into
space as did the first moon shot
last January.
Much conflicting data is being
given out on what the satellite is
doing or is likely to do.
Tass put the flying laboratory
about 20,000 miles farther from
the earth at noon than did the
Moscow Planetarium. The plane
tarium put the moon distance at
125,000 kilonteters — 133,514
miles.
Tass’ announcement today that
the satellite would pass within
4,350 miles of the moon differed
from the original Soviet announce
ment which placed the distance at
about 6,210 miles.
Nature Pours Rain
On Drowning
Southwest Area
By the Associated Press
Heavy rain spread across the
central section of the country to
day and fell again in flood areas
of the southwest.
It was the sixth consecutive day
of rain in soddeh Oklahoma. Parts
of Texas also were inundated.
The swollen Arkansas River
spilled over several thousand
acres of farm land in Arkansas
and Oklahoma.
Ten deaths were attributed to
the weather over the weekend.
Five were caused by accidents
during the rough weather in
Oklahoma.
San Antonio, Tex., was deluged
by 3.66 inches of rain.
Property losses in Oklahoma ran
into the millions.
A string of tornadoes rammed
north central Texas Sunday, dam
aging scores of homes and farm
property.
A cloudburst Sunday struck
the ranch country in central
Texas. Eighteen inches of water
was reported. Thousands of head
of cattle drowned; damage to farm
property was heavy.
In parts of Colorado, where
snowfalls last weekend piled up
drifts of seven and eight feet;
Army vehicles were used to bring
hay to cattle marooned in moun
tain wilderness.
Dodgers Take 4th Game;
Series Stands 3 to 1
LOS ANGELES, UP)—’The Los
Angeles Dodgers won the fourth
game of the World Series today,
dropping the Chicago White Sox
4 to 3, giving them a three games
to one edge. They started this
morning at 2 to 1 favorite after
winning Sunday’s game 3-1.
There were 92,294 paid admis
sions at Sunday’s game and at
today’s game there were 92,550.
Sunday’s game was the first
World Series game ever played
on thfe West Coast and rang up
a record $549,071 in receipts at
the Coliseum. The White Sox had
waited 40 -years to get into a
World Series.
Nominations Up
Soon for State
Superior Courts
JUNEAU, (£) — Nominations for
appointment to eight Superior
Court judgeships will be made by
the State Judicial Council at a
Seward meeting October 11-12. .
The nominations by the six
member council will be made from
a list of 22 lawyer-candidates for
the $10,00-a-year trial court posts.
Governor William A. Egan will
appoint the new judges from
among nominations made by the
council.
The appointments are expected
to be made before mid-November,
and the new judges sworn in by
December 1. That would permit
the hearing of cases to begin next
January 4.
The dates for the nominating
meeting were set by Dr. William
Whatehead of Juneau, chairman
of the Judicial Council, after con
ferences with Buell Nesbett, chief
justice of the new State Supreme
Court.
Appointment of the Superior
Court judges will be followed by
selection of magistrates and dep
uty magistrates throughout the
state. That will complete the
makeup of the Alaska judiciary.
The council will nominate at
least two candidates for each of
the Superior Court vacancies.
Under provision of a law en
acted by the 1959 Legislature,
there will be three judges in the
Third District at Anchorage, two
each in the First and Fourth Dis
tricts at Juneau-K^tchikan and
Fairbanks, and one in the Second
District / at Nome.
Khrushchev Acts
As Champion of
Humane Ideals
By JOHN RODERICK
TOKYO, UP) — Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev headed for
home today after once more voic
ing Soviet Communism’s deter
mination to end the cold war. But
there was no indication his Chi
nese Communist hosts were climb
ing on his peace wagon.
Khrushchev flew from Peiping
to Vladivostok, capitol of the So
viet Far East. During his five
day visit to the capitol of Red
China, he told Chinese Chairman
Mao Tze-Tung about his talks
with President Eisenhower and
attended the celebration of the
10th anniversary of the Commu
nist capture of the Chinese main
land.
In his third speech in Peiping
calling for an end to the cold
war, Khrushchev said at the air
port that the “forces of peace are
stronger than ever” and “there
is full actual possibility to bar the
road to war.”
“The common people of the en
tire world are becoming ever more
confident that with the growth
of the might of the world social
ist system,” he continued, “it will
be possible forever to eliminate
war as a means of solving inter
national disputes.
“This is why we Communists
of the Soviet Union consider it is
as our sacred duty, our primary
task, to utilize these favorable con
ditions, to utilize all possibilities
in order to liquidate the cold war
and guarantee the triumph of
peace on earth.”
Khrushchev did not say, how
ever, that his Chinese hosts were
joining in his peace campaign.
No joint communique summing
up the visit was issued.
RUSSIANS PLAN NO
BASES ON THE MOON
LONDON, UPl — A Soviet scien
tist asserted today the Soviet
Union has no plans to build mili
tary bases on tjie moon.
Writing in Pravda, Z. K. Fed
erov of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences said that Soviet scientists
are studying outer space “with a
peaceful aim.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with frequent periods
! of fog and drizzle.
I Low tonight 35, high tomor
' row 45.
Nehru Now Insists Red China Troops
Are Violating Indian Border Posts
NEW DELHI, India, UP) — Prime
Minister Nehru says the Chinese
Communists must evacuate out
posts they have seized on the In
dian side of the Tibetan border
before he will discuss the fron
tier dispute with Peiping.
Nehru declared in a letter to
Red China’s Premier Chou En
Lai made public Sunday: “No dis
cussion can be fruitful unless the
outposts on the Indian side of
the traditional frontier now held
by Chinese forces are first evac
uated by them and further threats
ancj intimidations cease.”
The Russians have urged the
Indians and Chinese Communists
to settle their five-year-old bor
der dispute peacefully.
The Indian prime minister was
replying to a September 8 letter
from Chou which accused the In
dians of violating Chinese bor
ders. Chou suggested “friendly
negotiations” could begin if India
took steps to stop “trespassing.”
Nehru replied: “I entirely dis
agree with your view that the
tense situation that has arisen on
the border has been caused by In
dia’s trespassing and provocation.
In fact it is the Chinese who have
trespassed into Indian territory
across the • traditional border at a
number of places in recent years.”
Going down Chou’s points one
by one, Nehru rejected all his
claims to territory. In Parliament
three weeks ago, Nehru said he
would yield a few miles of terri
tory to the Chinese if it were
found that Indian outposts had
been placed across the border. But
now he says there can “be no
question of withdrawing any In
dian personnel.”
California Educator Sworn In As State
Commissioner of Education at Juneau
JUNEAU, l/PI — Dr. Theo J.
Norby, 51, of San Rafael, Calif.,
took office today as Alaska Com
missioner of Education.
Dr. Norby, reportedly one of
three men nominated for the $17,
000-a-year post, was sworn into
office immediately after an
nouncement Saturday of his ap
pointment by Governor Egan.
At the same time, Egan acti
vated the new State Department of
Education under provisions of a
reorganization act passed earlier
this year by the Alaska Legis
lature.
The appointment of Dr. Norby,
completing membership of Gov
ernor Egan’s official cabinet, came
on the last day of a 6-month
period in which the Governor
was directed to complete the re
organization.
In appointing Dr. Norby to the
post, Egan went outside the state
for the first time in selecting one
of his 12 administrative leaders.
The other 11 cabinet posts went
to Alaskans.
The selection of the California
educator to head Alaska’s school
system apparently came after the
; Governor had also considered re
appointment of Howard Matthews
of Juneau and Joseph Driscoll of
Meadman, Mass., for the post.
The names of the three men
nominated for appointment by the
Board of Education last week have
not been made public. Again Sat
urday, the Governor declined to
name the board’s other nominees
or say how many actually were
handed him from which to make
the appointment.
In a statement released with
the announcement, the Governor’s
office said Dr. Norby was one of
8 out-of-state applicants invited
to Juneau for interviews by the
Board of Education.
The announcement said the
board listed the applicants in pr
der of preference, with Norby’s
name heading the list.
However, Egan said the final
list of nominations presented him
by the board did not list the can
didates in order of preference, so
far as he knew.
Matthews Reported As 1st Choice
It had been reported unofficially
earlier that Matthews, who has
been Commissioner of Education
since the resignation of Don Da
foe earlier this year, had been the
first choice of the board for the
post.
Dr. Norby has been assistant
superintendent of schools in Marin
County, Calif., a system including
more than 30 districts and 30,000
students.
His oath of office as new Alaska
Commissioner of Education was
administered by Supreme Court
Justice John Dimond, in a brief
ceremony in Egan’s office.
Dr. Norby was born at Belling
ham, Wash., attended Bellingham
public schools, and obtained bath
elor and master’s degrees in edu
cation at the University of Ore
gon. He earned his doctorate in
education at Stanford University.
He has taught and held admin
istrative positions in educational
systems in three Pacific Coast
states and Arizona since entering
the education field as a teacher at
Glenoma, Wash., in 1928.
Dr. Norby said his wife and one
daughter would move to Juneau
soon to join him ^in Alaska. The
Norbys have three other children
beside the daughter who will be
with her parents at Juneau.
L.A. Gives Hero's Welcome
To Dodger Sparkplug
LOS ANGELES, UPL-Chuck Es
segian, a new Dodger hero, got
a big welcome home Saturday
night at a family re-union which
included two surprise visitors—
•his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Essegian
flew in from Anchorage just a
half hour before Chuck arrived
from Chicago. They .plan to re
main here for the rest of the
series and if it goes beyond the
five games, fly to Chicago to
watch the remaining play.
Naturally, they hope Chuck
will see more action. His seventh
inning pinch hit homer Friday
touched off a Dodger rally which
sent Los Angeles on its way to a
4-3 victory over the Chicago
White Sox and tied the series at
one game each.
‘We’re all very thrilled,” said
Chuck’s sister, Sonja, “but he
won’t say much about it. He’s
really very modest. He thinks he
was lucky.”
The elder Essegians own two
restaurants in Anchorage.
FORD PRODUCES LOWEST
PRICED AUTOMOBILE
DETROIT, Wi — The suggested
factory list price for the Falcon,
Ford’s new smaller car, was set
today at $1,746 for the tNwo-door
model and $1,893 for the four
door. Henry Ford II, company
president, said the Falcon would
be “the lowest priced six-pas
senger automobile in the in
dustry.”
Two-Nation Party Inspects
High North Bases
OTTAWA, UPi — A Canadian- *
American party including Allen
W. Dulles of the United States
Central Intelligence Agency, Sat
urday began a weeklong Arctic
trip.
The group left Ottawa for Fro
bisher Bay on the southern end
of Baffin Island in the eastern
Arctic, a radar station and air
lines stopping point where run
ways are being extended to handle
U. S. Strategic Air Command
tankers.
The group will also visit Cape
Dyer on Baffin Island then go to
the Strategic Air Command base
at Thule, Greenland. After orbit
ing the North Pole, it will touch
another Dewline base at Cam
bridge Bay on Victoria Island and
visit the new planned town of
Univik in the Mckenzie River del
ta and Elmendorf Base at An
chorage.
McELROY ACKNOWLEDGES
SOVIET ACHIEVEMENT
MANILA, UPi — U. S. Defense
Secretary Neil H. McElroy today
said the latest Soviet space satel
lite is another indication of “what
we have known to be true” —
that the Soviets have more power
ful boosters • than the United
States.
McElroy said there could be no
comparable performance by the
United States until it has devel
oped its own more powerful rock
et boosters. He said this would
take considerable time, perhaps
as much as a year.