Rusk Calls on U.N.
To Name New
Secretary-General
NEW YORK W) — Secretary of
State Dean Rusk called on the
United Nations General Assembly
today to name “an outstanding
world leader” to take over the
powers of U.N. Secretary-Gen
eral temporarily.
In a statement prepared for a
speech he is making here later
today, Rusk declared, “events
cannot permit drift and indecision
in the leadership of the United
Nations.”
He declared that the 99-Nation
Generaly Assembly “must move
rapidly to fill the void” created
by the death si Dag Hammar
skjold.
Rusk’s statement was released
albout two hours in advance of its
formal delivery at a luncheon
meeting of the Foreign Press Assn.
The move was obviously aimed
at trying to stir up a powerful
drive in the United Nations As
sembly to override Soviet oppo
sition to the appointment of a
new U.N. Chief Executive.
Rusk and Soviet Foreign Min
ister Andrei Gromyko discussed
the U.N. leadership crisis in a
4 Vi-hour meeting yesterday after
noon. Most of their time, how
ever, was spent on the Berlin
crisis.
It appeared following their talks
that Soviet Premier Khrushchev
must decide in a week or so
whether he is willing to negotiate
on a Berlin compromise or in
tends to push his demands closer
to the brink of war.
f Walter Kirkness Named
New Chief of Fish & Game
JUNEAU te — The appoint
ment of Walter Kirkness as the
new Chief of the State Depart
ment of Fish and Game, replac
ing C. L. Anderson, was an
nounced by Gov. Egan today.
Kirkness, formerly Director of
the Fish and Game Department’s
Commercial Fisheries Division,
was sworn in as head of the huge
state agency by Secretary of State
Hugh Wade within minutes after
his appointment was announced.
Anderson resigned as Alaska’s
Fish and Game Commissioner on
Sept. 1 after serving as Chief of
Alaska’s Fish and Game Resources
since April 1, 1957.
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Passengers
On Northern Aviation
Inaugural Flight
The Northern Aviation plane
left this morning for Bethel on
its inaugural flight.
Special passengers courtesy of
the Northern Aviation were Ruth
MdLain, representing the Cham
$3,325 in Funds
Allocated for Tourist
Attraction Development
JUNEAU UR — Commerce Com
missioner A. H. Romick today an
nounced the allocation of $3,325
in state matching funds for tourist
attraction developments in five
areas of the state.
The allocations were the first
made under a $10,000 tourist at
traction development program au
thorized by the 1961 Legislature.
The city of Skagway was allo
cated $1,000 to help pay for its
$8,500 “Trail of ’98 Museum.”
Port Chilkoot received $175 to
help pay for a large city welcome
sign.
Alaska Youth, Inc., of Haines
Port Chilkoot was granted $750
for construction of permanent
seating in the likeness of an In
dian tribal house interior at the
site of the Indian dances per
formed by the Chilkai dancers.
The organization is a non-profit,
educational corporation.
The Wrangell Chamber of Com
merce received an allocation of
$400 for restoring the totems on
Shakes Island, in Wrangell Har
bor.
The Greater Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce was allocated
$1,000 for placing monuments
honoring early Alaska explorers.
Most of the monuments will be
erected in Explorers Park.
Name of Bourbon Is
Entitled to Protection . , .
WASHINGTON OF) — There are
these who think an American pro
duct known as bourbon whisky
is entitled to as much .protection
of its name as other potables, like
Scotch, Canadian and Cognac.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee agreed yesterday.
The committee approved a re
solution that would declare it the
sense of Congress that appropri
ate federal agencies should take
“action to deter and prevent per
sons outside the United States
from designating whisky as ‘bour
bon whisky’ and to prohibit the
importation into the United States
of whisky designated as ‘bour
bon whisky.’ ”
The resolution, which now
goes to the House, was intro
duced by Rep. John Watts, a
(Democrat of — where else? —
Kentucky.
Or Public Affair? .
SAN &ATEO, Calif. W — Is
taking a nude sunbath in OM^a
cent exnoaure trial of Kay EUis,
58, arrested on neighbors’ com
plaints that she frequently ap
peared In the altogether beside
her backyard pool.
Mrs. Ellis claimed she has a
perfect right to take sunbaths in
the nude in her own backyard.
Her "attorney told the jury yes
terday the complaints against her
^Mid^lie warned her but she
Khrushchev Will
Talk Any Time
To Insure Peace
MOSCOW —Premier Khrush
chev said today the Soviet Union
is ready to negotiate any time,
any place to insure peace.
But he told Prime Minister
Nehru of India, in a letter, the
talks which the so-called non
aligned nations proposed between
him and President Kennedy should
be part of a wider scheme de
voted to drawing up a German
peace treaty.
The Soviet Premier tied the
question of a German peace treaty
and the situation in West Berlin
to universal and complete dis
armament. He said these two
questions are linked and must be
solved simultaneously.
Khrushchev was replying to a
letter the recent Belgrade, Yugo
slavia Conference of 25 non
aligned nations sent him Sept. 5.
It asked specifically for a meet
ing of the Soviet Premier and
the U.S. President. It was de
livered here by Nehru and Presi
dent Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. ]
Krushchev’s letter, as reported
by the Soviet News Agency Tass,
said “the threat of war has never
perhaps been as great in the post
war period as it is now.” He
blamed the Western powers who,
he said, are “intensifying military
preparations in every way." The
Soviet Union, he said, has there
fore been compelled to take
measures to strengthen its secu
ri,y- _
Soviets Fire No. 15 . . .
WASHINGTON <£> — Another
Soviet atomic blast was fired to
day, the 15th since the Soviet
Union resumed nuclear tests
Sept. 1.
An announcement from the
Atomic Energy Commission said:
“The Soviet Union conducted
a nuclear detonation in the at
mosphere early today.
“Hie detonation occurred in the
vicinity of Novaya Zemlya and
had a yield on the order of a
megaton.” ,
Novaya Zemlya is the Soviet
Arctic testing site.
Soviet Fishing Trawlers
Near U.S. Waters Equipped
With Tracking Apparatus
PHILADELPHIA UF>—A spokes
man for the North American Air
Defense Command said yesterday
that at least 152 Russian fishing
trawlers now are within or near
U.S. territorial waters for pur
poses other than fishing.
Cl. Barney Oldfield, the Chief
of Information for NGRAD, said
the Russian boatmen are equip
ped with various types of elec
tronic apparatus for tracking and
observing.
Oldfield said 20 trawlers have
been spotted off the Aleutian
Islands, 106 between Greenland
and Iceland, 7 off the banks of
Newfoundland, 18 south of Nova
Scotia and one off its coast.
Oldfield was here for the Air
Force Assn. Convention.
IlfcVWIUE LOSS . . .
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico Uh —
Authorities estimate that about
100,000 Puerto Rican families
with annual incomes over $2,000
did not file returns last year. They
placed the revenue loss at mare
than $25 million.
Scientists Create
New Super-Magnet
PITTSBURGH UP) — Scientists
at Westinghouse Electric Corp.
have created a super-magnet
which the firm believes will re
volutionize almost every aspect
of man’s use of electricity.
Creation of the one-pound,
doughnut-size super-magnet was
anounced Thursday. Scientists say
it has the power of a conventional
electro-magnet weighing 20 tons
and the size of a car.
Dr. J. K. Hulm, associate di
rector of Westinghouse Research
Laboratories, predicts it will be
useful in generating and distri
buting electricity; for harnessing
nuclear energy for peaceful pur
poses and for lightweight power
plants for interplanetary space
ships.
The big breakthrough came with
the development of a new super
conducting wire. The wire loses all
electrical resistance at a tempera
ture of 450 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit and does not lose its
super-conductivity because of the
magnetism it creates.
Nixon to Announce His
Decision on Wednesday
LOS ANGELES UP) — Next Wed- '
nesday will hold much interest
for three announced California
Republican gubernatorial candi
dates.
That night, former Vice Presi
dent Nixon will hold a news con
ference at which he is expected
to announce whether he will seek
the governorship of California.
If Nixon says “yes,” three hope
fuls are expected to become un
derdogs in the GOP primary elec
tions battle.
They are former Gov. Goodwin
J. Knight, former Lt. Gov. Harold
J. Powers and Assemblyman
Joseph C. Shell, all of whom say
they will stay in the fight even
if Nixon runs.
STRIKE NOT TO AFFECT
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
SEATTLE UPi — Ships of the
Alaska Steamship Co. will not
be affected by a strike of ihe
Masters, Mates & Pilots’ Union,
scheduled to begin at 4 o’clock
tomorrow afternoon.
The Alaska Steamship Co.,
which formerly dealt with unions
through the Pacific Maritime
Assn., has withdrawn its bar
gaining rights from the associa
tion.
12-FOOT SNOWDRIFTS
HIT YELLOWSTONE PARK
YELL OWSTGNE NATIONAL
PARK, Wyo. — Twelve-foot
deep snowdrifts closed the north
east entrance to Yellowstone Na
tional Park Thursday, possibly
for the winter.
A snowstorm struck the park
Wednesday and continued on
through Thursday.
The south entrance to the park,
near Jackson, Wyo., was closed
briefly by the storm and Dun
raven Pass also was closed but
workers said it would be open
shortly.
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Anchorage Eligible for
AHA Special Assistance
~ WASHINGTON — Anchor
age, Alaska, was certified yester
day as eligible under the Area
Redevelopment Act to receive
special assistance in carrying out
urban renewal programs.
Among other things, the desig
nation means Anchorage will be
eligible to receive more liberal
federal financial assistance for its
ICC Bars Racial
Discrimination in
Terminal Facilities
WASHINGTON UP) — The In
terstate Commerce Commission
today barred racial discrimination
on interstate buses or in their
terminal facilities.
Acting on & petition field May
29 by Atty. Gen. Robert F. Ken
nedy, the commission published
rules which:
1. Forbid interstate bus opera
tors from segregating seating on
the basis of race, color, creed or
national origin.
2. Prohibit interstate buses from
using terminals where waiting
rooms, rest rooms, lunch counters
and other facilities are segre
gated on such a basis.
In its report adopting the rules,
the commission said: “We find
that in a substantial pa|*t of the
United States many Negro inter
state passengers are subject to
racial segregation in several
forms.
“On vehicles, they continue to
be subjected to segregated seat
ing based upon races.
“In many motor passenger ter
minals, Negro interstate pas
sengers are compelled to use eat
ing, rest room and other ter
minal facilities which are segre
gated.”
Kennedy’s proposal was sub
mitted to the ICC 15 days after
a fire bomb was thrown into a
busload of “Freedom Riders” on
May 14 near Anniston, Ala.
The “Freedom Riders” were
I protests by Negroes and some
j white sympathizers against racial
discrimination in travel facilities.
Scores of the riders have been af
rested in the south.
Under the IOC rules, begin
ning Nov. 1, interstate buses and
terminal facilities must display
signs declaring that their use will
be without regard to race, color,
creed, or national origin “By
Order of the Interstate Coen
! merce Commission.”
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Japanese Scientist Uses
Self as Guinea Pig to
Test Rate of Strontium 85
TOKYO GW—A Japanese atom
ic scientist is using himself if-?
guinea pig to test the rate of
elimination and effects of dan
gerous strontium 85 when taken,
by humans.
Dr. Toshio Aoki, 52, of the
Atomic Research Institute swal
lowed a dose of the radioactive
element on Aug. 18 by mixing it
with his coffee. The amount was
one-tenth of the level considered
dangerous to human bodies.
He estimated today about .1
per cent of the strontium still re
mains in his body. He figured it
will remain with him until late
next year. The radiation readings
revealed the strontium lodged in
the bones of his shoulder, hip and
spine.
AF TO SET UP NEW DIVISION
FOR MEDICAL FACILITIES
PHILADELPHIA <*> — Gen.
Curtis Lemay, Air Force Chief of
Staff, disclosed yesterday the Air
Force Systems Command is set
ting up a new division taking
over biological and medical facili
ties heretofore handled by the
Air Training Command.
The command will operate,
among other laboratories, the
Arctic laboratory at Fort Wain
wright, Alaska. Location and Com
mander of the new division were
not disclosed.