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VOL. LX 11 No. 107 ' NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1960 Per Copy 15<*
All Commercial Flying to,Halt 6 Hours
Saturday During Sky Shield Exercise
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, Jet bomb-;
ers flying miles high or flashing |
along low at almost tree - top i
height will begin stabbing in to- |
ward United States and Canadian
targets in the black pre - dawn
hours of Saturday.
Hundreds of intercepters from :
the Air Forces of the two coun
tries will rise to meet them,
guided by continent - spanning !
radar warning and control sys- j
terns.
Missile launching sites will'
track the invading bombers, and
simulate firings against them. But
no missiles will be launched, no
shots fired.
Exercise “Sky Shield,” set to
start about 1 a.m. Saturday and
last for six hours, is intended
purely as a training exercise for
the plane crews, ground radar
warning systems, ships of the
Navy, missile posts and other
elements of the North American
Air Defense Command <NORADi
—a joint U.S.-Canadian continen
tal defense organization.
Sky Shield will not be a “con
est” between defenders of Norad
and attacking B52 and B47 jet
bombers of the Strategic Air Com
mand, the Defense Department
insists.
But it will be the biggest such
training operation yet, designed
to show the almost 200,000 air
and ground crews what to expect
in an actual manned bomber at
tack by the Soviet Union against
the North American continent.
Sky Shield also will give the
citizen a little hint of conditions
to be expected in case of war.
For six hours all commercial avi
ation will be grounded. The at
tacking bombers will jam navi
gational aids, including radar
and radio beams normally used
by airlines.
Details of precise plans have
been kept secret—as will be any
results. But it is to be presumed
that at least part of the attack
will come from the polar regions,
one of the routes from the Soviet
Union. USAF bombers probably
will fly up beyond the rim of the
continent, over the Arctic Ocean,
then head back toward the first
of the radar chains, the Distant
Early Warning Line. Others may
swoop in from the east and west
in ocean approaches to train the
crews of picket planes and ships
which patrol the northern Atlan
tic and Pacific Oceans.
Khrushchev Will Not
Release U.S. Fliers
WASHINGTON, (/PI—'The State
Department reported today that
Soviet Premier Khrushchev has
in effect rejected new American
demands for release of two im
prisoned American fliers.
Ambassadar Llewellyn Thomp
son discussed the case with Pre
mier Khrushchev Thursday dur
ing a 90-minute talk in Moscow.
A State Department spokesman
said in answer to an inquiry:
“The results were not encou
raging.”
Thompson himself had indica
ted much the same thing.
The department spokesman,
press officer Joseph W. Reap,
pledged that the U.S. government
will continue to press for the re
lease of the two men.
Swedish Opera Singer
Jussi Bjorling Is Dead
STOCKHOLM. Sweden, I/P —
Sweden’s world famous opera
singer Jussi Bjorling died today
at his summer home in the Stock
holm Islands. Ho was 49.
Members of the family said the
tenor felt sick during the night.
An ambulance helicopter was j
called from Stockholm to his re
mote summer house on the island ;
of Siaro. The singer was dead ,
when the helicopter arrived. He i
has suffered from heart attacks. :
Embarrassing . . .
BRADENTON. Fla., I/P — The ;
. small print in its lease left the
Manatee County Republican party I
in an embarrassing position today. J
The GOP is paying the Demo
cratic party’s electric bill.
The two parties have headquar
ters in adjoining offices. One
meter, located on the Republican
side, records the electricity used j
by both parties. The lease re-1
quires the Republicans to pay the
utilities bill. I
Nixon Leaves Hospital
After 12 Days Treatment
WASHINGTON, Iff) — An aide
to Richard Nixon said today the
Vice President expects to leave
Walter Reed Army Hospital Sat
urday after 12 days of treatment
for a knee injury and infection.
The Vice President’s progress
continues well, Herbert G. Klein
Nixon’s press secretary reported
Nixon entered the hospital Aug
29 after an infection developed in
his knee when he bumped against
an automobile door during a
South Carolina campaign trip.
He walked normally across the
hospital room yesterday for the
first time since his treatment was
started.
Nixon is scheduled to start a
six-dav, 9,000 - mile presidential
campaign tour of 14 states next
Monday. Klein said doctors ex
pect no difficulty for the Vice
President in making the long tour.
Hurricane Donna
Swerves Toward Miami
MIAMI, Fla., Iff—Vicious hurri
cane Donna veered slightly closer
to the Florida mainland this af
ternoon and the Weather Bureau
urged quick evacuation of all low
lying areas in the Keys and along
the southeast coast.
The slight change toward a
more northerly course brought a
possibility that, the 150-mile-an
hour top winds in the heart of
the big storm might pass even to
the north of Key West.
Because of the shift in course,
the populous Miami-Fort Lauder
dale area—with well over a mil
lion persons—will get harder slap
than was expected earlier.
The storm center is expected
to pass Key West around mid
night.
Donna, the biggest and toughest
hurricane spawned in the Atlantic
in recent years, was churning up
hurricane winds over a path more
than 200 miles wide.
ARMY EXERCISE
STARTS HERE TODAY
! Five Air Force C-124 cargo
j planes have brought in men and
I equipment for the three-day ex
j ercise which is beginning this af
ternoon. The operation is called
a rifle company air transport
ability exercise and will be held
in the vicinity of Basin Creek.
The “aggressor” forces are be
ing airlifted by Air National
Guard C-123’s this afternoon from
Fort Richardson. A base camp
has been set up at Satellite Field.
The enemy forces are composed
of the reinforced 2nd Rifle Co.,
47th Rifle Regiment.
Friendly forces are composed of
1st Scout Battalion of the Alaska
National Guard, 297th Infantry;
an engineer squad of the 562nd
Engineer Company; and the O
& R Platoon, 80th Transportation
Company (Light helicopter*.
The exercise will entail the
aggressor forces landing at Basin
Creek and moving southward to
attack the “White Alice” site on
Anvil Mountain. The 1st Scouts
will contact the “enemy” and in
; response to a request for aid Com
I pany E (reinforced* will be air
| transported to Nome Airport. The
defending forces will launch an
early morning attack and the
aggressors will be overrun and
destroyed.
The return flights to Ft. Rich
ardson will begin Monday morn
ing.
In conjunction with the army
operation, there will be a free
I public dance at the school multi
I purpose room on Sunday, Sept,
j 11 from 9 to 11 p.m. Music will
| be furnished by a four-piece com
bo from Ft. Richardson. Entrance
I will be through the south door.
An Eskimo dance will also be
held Sunday night at King Island
J Village for the troops.
Nancy Sinatra To Marry
Crooner Tommy Sands
HOLLYWOOD, UPl—Frank Sin
atra’s daughter Nancy, 20, mar
ries crooner Tommy Sands, 23,
Sunday at a resort hotel in a sort
of repetition of her mother’s own
romance.
The small civil ceremony will
be at the hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.,
where Sands was singing a year
ago.
Nancy Sinatra, who is divorced
from Frank, says she and daugh
ter Nancy went to the show and
she saw her daughter mooning
over Sands. It reminded Mrs. Sin
atra of an earlier crush on an
earlier crooner:
“Good heavens, I though, it’s
my own life happening 20 years
later,” she said.
Sunken Tug Located By
Sonar on Barge Towline
JUNEAU, (/PI—Fog delayed the
search today for three men whose
$100,000 tug is believed to have
sunk in rain-swept Stephens Pas
| sage area 75 miles south of here,
i The vessel George S., radioed
she has located an object, possib
ly the tug Tom, by sonar. It was
| attached to the towline of a 120
j foot barge. The Tom was oper
I nted by Puget Sound Dredging
| Co. of Seattle.
| Aboard were Capt. Earl Long,
; about 42, North Bend, Ore., Myr
I ton C. Voellger, about 36, Pouls
bo, Wash., and William Pavoa,
I about 40, of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Kennedy Gets
First Taste of
Religions Heckling
By ART EDSON
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Sen. John
Kennedy used a whistle stop to
day to list six ways to peace—
and ran into the first religious
heckling of his Western tour.
“We want a peace,” Kennedy
said in Fresno, “in which the
world is not teetering constantly
on the brink of war.”
Earlier as his train paused in
i Modesto, Kennedy made his cus
tomary little speech. When he fin
ished, an unidentified man in the
crowd asked if he could ask a
question.
“Sure,” said Kennedy.
“Do you believe all Protestants
are heretics?” the man asked
Kennedy, a Roman Catholic.
“No,” Kennedy said, “and I
hope you don’t believe all Cath
olics are.”
j The trainside crowd of around
I 1,500 applauded.
I “May I say,” Kennedy contin
j ued, “that it seems to me that
j the great struggle today is be
I tween those who believe in no
I God and those who believe in
I God. I really don’t see why we
should engage in close debate
j over what you may believe and
j what I may believe.
“That is my privilege and your
privilege.”
Again Kennedy was applauded.
In Oregon there was an old
lady passing out anti - Catholic
handbills. She tried to get Ken
nedy's attention, but failed.
The religious issue —1 a touchy
one in may sections of the coun
try—has been brought up before
on this trip, but only by report
ers at news conferences or in
audiences where the questions
were screened in advance.
Gov. Egan Renewing
Capital Friendships
I WASHINGTON, I#) —Gov. Wil
liam A. Egan of Alaska went on
a round of informal visits with
members of Congress on Capitol
Hill today.
“There’s no definite business on
my schedule, just catching friends
who are still in town and talking
over anything that comes up,”
F.gan said.
“We just talked generally about
Alaska affairs,” he said after
calling on Rep. Ralph Rivers of
Alaska, in his office.
The governor had planned to
meet with representatives of the
General Services Administration
and Interior Department today
but he said appointments could
not be arranged.
The main purpose of Egan’s
trip here was to present the
state’s position in the cross-Pac
ific air service case during Civil
Aeronautics Board argument yes
terday.
HAZARD OF THE TRADE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., UP)—Coach
Jack Thompson of Farragul High
School stepped into a linebacker’s
post to show how to ward off a
blocker. Now he hopes to get out
of the hospital in time for to
night’s football game.
Thompson went to the hospital
Wednesday with a shoulder sep
aration suffered when he attempt
ed to demonstrate a point he was
trying to make and was knocked
sprawling.
Khrushchev Embarks By
Liner To Take Charge Of
Russian U.N. Delegation
MOSCOW, UP)—Premier Nikita
Khrushchev left today at the head
of a delegation of top Commmun
ists to take personal command of
the Soviet bloc’s campaign at the
coming United Nations Assembly.
He flew from Moscow to Kalin
ingrad on a TUI04 jet and the
Soviet news agency Tass report
ed he sailed tonight for New York
aboard the passenger liner Bal
tika.
With Khrushchev for the 10
day voyage, Tass aid, are three
east European Communist chiefs:
Janos Kadar of Hungary, Tudor
Khivkov of Bulgaria and Gheorge
Gheorghiu-Dej of Romania.
Khrushchev waved his hat to a
crowd of 600 or 700 persons who
had assembled to see him off, and
boarded the plane after receiving
a haste farewell kiss on the
cheek from his wife, who re
mained behind.
AMEN
NEW YORK, UP)—Former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman had this
brief comment today on Soviet
Premier Khrushchev’s forthcom
ing sea trip to the United States:
“He can fall in the Atlantic
Ocean, as far as I’m concerned.”
Truman talked with newsmen
on his arrival by train.
i Anchorage Demos
Protest Seaton
Visit as ‘Political’
ANCHORAGE, (41—A group of
Democrats here have filed a pro
test over what they termed Sec
retray of Interior Fred A. Sea
ton’s “political” trip to the 49th
state.
More than 100 Democrats met
yesterday to discuss criticism
aimed at Sen. John F. Kennedy,
Democratic presidential candi
date, by Seaton in a press con
ference.
| In a telegram sent to President
Eisenhower, it was called more
than “coincidence” that Seaton
should time his Alaska visit to
swear in a new official of the
Alaska Railroad, so that it fell
hard on the heels of the formal
opening of the Kennedy cam
paign in Alaska on Sept. 3.
The Democrats charged Seaton
and his aide, Theodore Stevens,
traveled to Alaska at taxpayers’
expense to campaign against Ken
nedy.
Seaton charged that neither
Sen. Kennedy, nor members of
the A'laska congressional delega
tion, had contributed to the bill
to study hydro-electric power po
tential at the proposed Rampart
Dam on the Yukon River.
Seaton’s charge was called “con
trary to fact” by Stanley Mc
Cutcheon, campaign manager
here for Kennedy and Sen. Bart
lett. He said it was through the
efforts of the Alaska congression
al delegation, with the aid of Sen.
Kennedy, that the appropriations
bill to study the Rampart Dam
project was passed in both the
House and Senate.
SEPT. 13 PROCLAIMED
GEN. PERSHING CENTENNIAL
JUNEAU, (41—Gov. William A.
Egan Thursday proclaimed Sept.
13 as “General of the Armies
John J. Pershing Centennial Day,”
honoring the 100th birthday of
the World War I hero.