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The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Voice of the Arctic Holds Open House Saturday

Nome's own radio station, KICY, "The Voice of The Arctic" has now entered the equipment test phase of construction, and will shortly be ready to air pro grams, Art Zylstra, general man. ager, announced today. During the latter part of last week, the trans hitter was operated several times in order to make tuning adjust ments and to conduct engineering tests specified by the Federal Communications Commission.
 Lloyd Sundstrom, supervisor of the Anvil Mountain White Alice installation, is in charge of con- ducting these proof f-of-perform- ance" tests. When the tests have established that the KICY install lation is operating within the ac- cepted tolerances for efficiency, it is expected that the entire sta- tion will be inspected by the EGG Field Engineer for this district, and it will then be possible to request permission to begin trans mitting regular programs.
 During most of the equipment test period, the transmitter will be operated at a reduced power of near 1000 watts. Despite this low power, reception reorts have already been received from Wales, Tin City, Moses Point and Unalakleet, and on Friday even- ing, the station identification was heard clearly in Anchorage.
 Nome residents will have the opportunity to inspect the studio and office facilities. of the new broadcasting station on Saturday afternoon and evening when an "open house" will be held for this purpose. Although the station will not be on the air, the various functions of equipment will be demonstrated. A program of dedi- cation is planned for Sunday af- ternoon in connection with the annual meeting of the Alaska Covenant Churches.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Radiation Study Satellite Fails After Launching
By HOWARD BENEDICT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, tR = The United States failed today in an effort to put radiation study satellite into orbit around the earth.
 The big four-stage Juno II rocket lifted off successfully from this missile testing station. But nearly an hour later the National Aeronautics and Space Admins tration in Washington reported it had failed to place it's payload in orbit.
 The space agency said project officials suspect that one of the upper stages failed to ignite.
 The rocket was designed to place a 35-pound satellite into orbit to make the broadest study yet of great radiation zones in space which could imperil space flight.
 Dr. Wernher von Braun, Army missile expert recently shifted to NASA, said the experiment prob ably will be tried again. He said another Juno II is available.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
SOUTH AFRICAN VIOLENCE WANES UNITED STATES DENOUNCES WHITE POLICE GUNFIRE

The use of police bullets to quell the Negro demonstrations set off worldwide wave of cri- ticism of South Africa's white su- premacist government. The angry foreign reaction included an ex- traordinary official fdenunciation by the U. s. State Department.
 ' Aroused political opponents of Prime Minister Hendryk Verwoerd demanded a. thorough investiga- etion of the violence and an end to South Africa's drift to dis aster."
 The Anglican Bishop of Johan- nesburg, the Rt. Rev. Ambrose Reeves, declared. "The time has come when all those in South Af- rica who have any human feelings must demand that the tactics being used by the police to quell riots must cease immediately"
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Adenauer In Hawaii Tells Gov. Quinn Germans Seek Freedom in Peace

HONOLULU, l1 -- My people, just as yours, have one purpose in mind = and that is freedom in peace" West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told Hawaii Gov. William Quinn Tuesday.
 "You symbolic the brotherly love we have to teach" Quinn replied. "You are truly one of the great bulwarks in the free world today. We greet you with open arms and very warm Aloha"
 The greeting for the 84-year- old Chancellor and his party came when his German LufthanSa Su- per Constellation landed at Hick- am Air Force Base after nine hour flight from San Francisco.
 On the last leg of a 12-day U. S. visit, Adenauer planned a rest here with no official functions on schedule. He will attend a stag luncheon at the Governors resi- dence today.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
ESC Measure Goes to Egan

JUNEAU, R-The Alaska Sem ate today accepted II to g, House changes in. bill to amend the states Employment Security law, thus sending the controversial measure to Gov. Egan for his ap- proval.
 Rejected by legislative action, in the final week of the 1860 law making session, were organized labor's recommendations to solve the failing fund with a tax on total wages.
 The bill as finally passed con- tained virtually all of Governor Egan's proposals, including the provision that retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year, taxes will be based on $7,200 of wages paid-up from the existing ceiling of $4,200.
 Beginning Oct. 1, new vari- able rate system will go into ef- feet, with employer contributions ranging between Is per cent and 4 per cent of the base and em- ployee rate from B to g per cent Until the rating system starts, the levies will be 2.9 for employers and 6 for employees.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Adjournment of Legislature Now Likely on Friday

JUNEAU, R Adjournment of the 1860 Alaska Legislature now appears likely on Friday, day later than originally expected.
 Thursday adjournment was an- ticipated on the basis that the fin ance committees of the two houses would complete work yesterday on the big 1861 fiscal year ap- propriation bill.
 Debate and rollcalls on major bills called members away from committee sessions, however, and delayed work on the money mea- sure.
 Chairman of the House Finance Committee, Rep. Earl Hillstrand, said it would probably be late today before the committee re- ported the bill to the floor.
 ''It looks like an extra days work without pay," said Rep. Richard Greuel, chairman of the House Rules Committee Funds for the legislative expense allow ance expire Thursday, the Goth day of the session.
 There has been no indication how many cuts the joint Senate and House finance committees have made in the appropriation bill. As originally introduced, the administration measure called for AS million dollar outlay, includ- ing $36, ,500,00O from the general fund.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
By ADRIAN PORTER

JOHANNESBURG, South Afri- ca, R - Violence appeared on the wane today in riot-bloodied South Africa, but militant Negroes turned to the strike weapon in their campaign against the hated passes they must carry as non- whites.
 More and more Negroes were expected to stay away from their jobs, particularly in Cape Town and nearby Vereeniging, the coal and steel center south of Johan- nesburg. Nonwhite townships in those areas were the scene of the riots Monday and Tuesday in which police gunfire moved down Negro men, women and children.
 The official death toll was giv- en today as 72, as more of the 1892 wounded died in hospitals.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
WEATHER FORECAST

Cloudiness and light snow, with north to northeast winds, 15 to 25 miles per hour. Little temperature change.
 In the past "A hours: Tempera- lures: high 32, low 10. Maximum wind, 30 miles an hour from the northeast. Sunrise at 5:52 a.m., sunset at 6:27 pm.
 The 32 degrees above registered today was the highest for this date since 1907. Lowest for the date was -31 s in 1888.
 The temperature at Nenana to- day was high 39.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
EARLY BREAKUP IS PREDICTED TAT NENANA

NENANA - As the mercury reaches 40 degrees above zero there is more speculation as to when the ice will push out the 16- foot black and red tripod setting 300 feet from the bank of the river directly in front of the small town of Nenana.
 With the closing date of the Nenana Ice Classic set for mid night April 2, the local residents are still making their own private forecasts of an early breakup.
 With plenty of snow and the ice .37 inches thick it looks like an early moving this year.
 According to Manager Carl H. Haggstrom, the winners of the pool in the past 10 years have re- ceived the total sum of ~one mill lion, one hundred sixty-two thou sand dollars. The record is held by Charles R. Mountjoy of Ju- neau, who in 1852, walked off with $102,000.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Top Atom Scientists Disagree on
 Political Adviisability of Peaceful
 Atoms for Operation Plowshare'

plished through "Plowshare," such as digging harbors quickly and cheaply.
 But he said that "Even if our use of nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes promises to contribute significantly to our ma terial welfare, I still question it's political advisability in terms of international understanding and peace"
 He noted that "For Is years we have been trying to establish a worldwide system for the con- trol and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.
 Teller, known as the father of the HIbomb, said present nuclear explosives "are cheap enough and safe enough for immediate appli- cation to perform most important jobs," and said:
 "It is my conviction that if we take appropriate initiative the peaceful use of nuclear explosives may become the first truly eco homie big scale use of nuclear energy for the benefit of man. kind"
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23

WASHINGTON, R-A pioneer atomic scientist told a Senate House Atomic Energy Subcom- mittee yesterday he questions the advisability of going ahead with a big program of nuclear blasts for peaceful purposes.
 Dr. H. D. Smyth, one of the original members of the Atomic Energy Commission, gave his views as the subcommittee began hearings on Frontiers in Atomic Energy Research"
 Another. top scientist, Dr. Ed ward Teller, however, urged that the program = known as Project Plowshare" - go ahead with all possible speed.
 Teller said eve can look for ward" to perfection of the clean est possible nuclear explosives in the peaceful purposes project, and insisted that the nuclear de vices tested would be quite diff ferent from atomic weapons.
 Smyth, chairman of the Univer- sity Research Board at Princeton University, said he did not doubt that great things could be accom-
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Latest Liquor Measure Specifies Early AM. Bar Closing Hours

JUNEAU, R-The Alaska Leg islature came up yesterday with it's latest version of hours for liquor sales: bars would be closed from am. to 8 am.
 A measure spelling out these hours was passed by the House 18-2 yesterday. The question now goes back to the Senate, which voted earlier to legalize sales for 21 hours a day but leave it up to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to set the specific hours for each licensee.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Covenant Conference
 Begins Here Tomorrow

David Saccheus, chairman for the conference of the Covenant Evangelical Church, which starts tomorrow evening at 2 pm. with Wecloming ceremony, states that many persons from villages all around the northwestern area are expected by plane and dog team.
 Due to arrive are five repre- sentatives from the mission at Wales; four from Film; seven from Bethel; 40 by charter plane from Unalakleet; seven from Shaktoolik. Others are expected from Golovin, White Mountain, Hooper Bay, Koyuk, Scammon Bay, and Marshall.
 The delegates will be kept busy with full schedule of events all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
 A special guest will be Ralph Hansen, formerly pastor in this area, who is now the Secretary of Missions in Chicago.
 Rev. Paul Fryhling of Minne- apolis Covenant Church is also participating in the conference as well as taking part in the dedi- cation of radio station KICY.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Engineer Spells
 Out Discomfort In Utilities Operation

The most controversial issue in Nome, that of power rates, and how to run public utility, was thoroughly discussed Monday evening at town hall meeting held at the school. Members of the City Council, the Utilities Board, and Roy Johnson, consult ing engineer, and many interested power users, held an animated question and answer session after a talk given by MT. Johnson. Some enlightening results evolved, but many problems were left unsolved. MT. Johnson was hired by the Utility Board to make a rate study and survey of the con- dition and operation of the public power facilities.
 The engineer recommended that the utility be used to full advan- tage, and that power be made available to all users regardless of how far from the center of town they may be, stating it was advantageous in the long run. He could not give an opinion on what rates should be, he said, un- til he has made a thorough study of his findings. He expects to sub- init his report in a week or ten days.
 Petty and personal grievances were deplored by the engineer, as factor of the Nome problem.
 It was revealed that someone had tempered with the voltage regulators at the plant, which was giving out higher voltage than should have been permitted. John- son has adjusted and corrected this condition, and this will prob ably result in some alterations in the March billings.
 The faults of the present way the utility is operated, as we'll as the virtues were explained. The need of an experienced and well qualified electrician was urged, to take the place of Paul Cornelius, who is leaving, was stressed as of the utmost importance, so that the power can be utilized to the best advantage for the community with as little loss as possible.
 Johnson stated that the output at the present time should be able to take care of the community, and everything around it, includ- ing the site on Anvil Mountain.
 The rate, he stated, should be low enough to encourage the pub lie to use more power.
The Nome nugget., 1960-03-23
Four More File
 For City Offices

Four more candidates have an- nounced filing for city offices, reports Robert Scott, City Clerk. They are: Roscoe Wilke, for mayor; and for city council Ron aid Bauska, Jim Carter and Lloyd Sundstrom. A
Evening star., 1960-05-13
Remark that Kennedy Deserves to Win
If He Takes Oregon Stirs Issue Anew

has a right to the Democratic
presidential nomination"
She had had lunch with
Mr.. Stevenson in Chicago en-
route to Portland. That he
made the comment she at
tributes to him does not admit
of doubt. What he intended
to convey is a source of
argument.
The cynics suggest that he
Is protecting his claim upon
the Office Of Secretary OF
State should Senator Ken
nedy, now the obvious front
runner, be nominated. The
Kennedy rivals. already cast
down, are ready to believe 1t.
Mr.. Stevenson is and has
been for a long time under
heavy pressure from Senator
Kennedy's friends to cross
the Rubicon into the Ken
nedy camp. This group in
cludes the men whose day
to-day contacts with him are
very close. Senator Kennedy
also is using on all political
leaders the argument that
now is the time for all good
men to board the gravy train.
that after Los Angeles those
who climb on will be in a
patronage sense second-class
citizens.
This is an accepted politi-
cal technique, and politicians
do not really resent it. What
lends it a little extra weight
is that they feel. having
Evening star., 1960-05-13
Primary Boost for Nixon Election

to appraise the Massachusetts,
Senator on his merits.
The Republican strategists,
for instance, don't want to
see the religious issue"
raised, either. They would
rather go before the country
with the argument that. in
these fateful times, "You
don't elect a boy to be Presi-
dent of the United States"
The biggest point the Re-
publicans think they will have
in their favor is that Vice
President Nixon is trained in
and intimately familiar with
the tasks of the White House
and that Senator Kennedy
would have to start from
scratch to learn how to func-
ton in the presidency.
But doesn't the voting in
the primaries, it will be asked,
indicate that Senator Ken
nedy is popular and a good
vote-getter? AS against q less
colorful and less known can
didate, such as Senator Hum
phrey, it has not been diff
t1cult for Senator Kennedy
to win the primaries thus
far. But the real reason the
Massachusetts, Senator upset
so many observers who were
forecaSting the outcome Of
the West Virginia primaries
is that they paid more at.
tention to hit-or-miss polls
than to two key factors
the organization and the
finances"
In a national election, "the
organization and the A.
IldIlceS Ceno 70 be balanced
as between the parties. AS
of today, it seems very likely
that the Nations voters will
have to choose between SEN
ator Kennedy and Mr.. Nixon
next November. This writer
believes that-on the basis of,
first, satisfactory economic
conditions in the major part
Of the country next autumn,
and, second, the argument as
to the executive experience
that the Republican nominee
viii offer to the public, and,
third, the active support of
President Eisenhower - the
Republicans will win q deci-
siVe victory.
CcopyE!ght. 1900
Evening star., 1960-05-13
Carnegie Names
Executive Officer

DR.. Edward A. Ackerman.
deputy executive officer of the
Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington, today was named ex-
ecutive officer of the organiza- :
ton.
DR.. Ackerman has served
with the institution since 1858.
He also has been consultant to
the Senate Committee on Ma
tional Water Resources. He is
a former director of the water
resources program of Resources
for the Future, Inc.
DIR. Ackerman, graduate of
Harvard University and for
mer professor of geography
there and at the University of
Chicago, is married to the for
mer Adrienne Desjardins. The
couple and their four children
live at 1920 Forty-fourth place
NV.
Evening star., 1960-05-13
Kennedy Gets Key to Log Jams

portant fact that Senator
Humphrey was not regarded
as having q chance for the
nomination. The Kennedy Or
ganization made much of
this.
Why vote for a man who
hasn't a chance to win the
nomination." they asked over
and over again.
Senator Kennedy, a young,
fresh face in national politics,
obviously had a chance. Now
he has the very best chance
of all.
Evening star., 1960-05-13
Kennedy, Johnson or Symington
Viewed as the Porty's Nominee
WILLIAM S. WHITE

The sound and the fury
have died: the curtain falls
on a melodramatic prelude to
the contest for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomina-
ton.
Three supporting actors for
all practical purposes have
departed the stage. The real
play starts now with three
real stars, Senators John F.
Kennedy Of Massachusetts,,
Lyndon B. johnson Of Texas
and Stuart Symington of
Missouri.
Senator Hubert H. Hum
phrey of Minnesota, beaten
so decisively by Senator Ken
nedy in the West Virginia
primary. is out Of it, by his
own admission. Senator
Wayne Morse of Oregon, who
has alone regarded the
Morse candidacy" as a seri-
GUS one, viii now have a hard
time convincing even himself.
Adlai E. Stevenson, who
has not this year been a read
aspirant, is now out Of it,
too, barring a miracle. Defeat
for Senator Kennedy in West
Virginia would have raised
the strong possibility of a
draft-Stevenson movement at
the Democratic National
Convention. The Senator's
enormous victory has had the
opposite consequence-tO kill
any real possibility Of such a
draft.
Not merely Senator Hum
phrey but also the whole Of
the left-wing Of the Demo-
cratic Party has been knocked
right out Of the race. SEN
ator Humphreys own crush
ing defeat, advanced liberal
though he is. is regretted by
many for his sake, for he is
a sensible liberal. Its collat-
eral effect Of smashing the
Evening star., 1960-05-13
DORIS FLEEsON

Adlai Stevenson wants to
be President Of the United
States. This is the conviction
of people who know him best,
and they do not necessarily
include those who admire
him uncritically and without
reserve.
The question of where Mr..
Stevenson stands today has
been renewed less by his
f1attering remarks regarding
Senator Kennedy of Massa-
chusetts after the West Vir-
ginia primary than by a quo
tation attributed to him by
Democrat Maurine Neuberger
in Portland, Greg. Mrs. Neu-
berger is running for the Sen
ate seat of her late husband,
Richard Neuberger.
She was asked on her ar
rival in Portland to start her
campaign what she would do
about the presidential pri-
mary to be held May 20. In
IL Senator Morse is running
as a favorite son, Senator
Kennedy is vigorously oppoS-
ing him and Senators John
son and Symington are on
the ballot through no wish of
their own.
Mrs. Neuberger replied that
she would stand aloof from
that contest as her choice,
Mr.. Stevenson. was not in it.
Then she added that Mr..
Stevenson had told her: IF
Kennedy wins in Oregon, he
Evening star., 1960-05-13
Victory in West Virginia Held Likely
To Overcome Opposition Elsewhere

by the fact that a State,
which was settled by Protest
ants who brought with them
the fervor of the Reforma-
ton, gave a Roman Catholic
a huge majority.
Thirdly, there is the dra-
matte example of what thor
ough, if expensive, organiza-
ton can produce if handled
by professionals, All the polls
were wrong. Most of them
gave Senator Humphrey an
edge. The most optimistic al
lowed Senator Kennedy a
chance. None remotely sug-
gested the huge majority by
which the State was carried.
The more careful reporters
in West Virginia noted the
extensive, grass roots based
organization, and hedged by
saying that since no State in
the Southeast had ever ex-
perienced such a saturation
of organized effort, none
knew what the net would be.
1t produced. for example, a
personal call to every West
Virginia home with a tele-
phone. This included not
merely a request to vote for
Senator Kennedy but an offer
of transportation to and from
the polls.
Senator Kennedy took the
mining centers. Here, too, we
see the result of professional
political planning. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, jr., did q town
to-town speaking tour for
Senator Kennedy. His ap-
pearance, reminding the min
ers of the great days of F.D.R.
when the hearts of all min
ers were lifted up in the
great fight to establish their
union, was q ten-strike.
Organization - which had
the benefit Of polls, COM
puters, and all the latest SCI
entific mechanismS for deter
mining strengths and weak
nesses was the dominant
factor. not religion.
Finally, there was the i'm
Evening star., 1960-05-13
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Nation knows the Of lot Of Jack Kennedys
brothers sisters and nlaws but who this fellow Stop
Kennedy the politicians talking about?
Khrushchevs moral outburs over aerial intelligence
flights something like Frank Costello waxing indignant
over bngo.
Dick Nixon gets big writen vote in Nebraska Regular
Republicans figure he fill Ikes shoes they sure hope
he'll squeak bit more as he walks
M
Pity Jack Kennedy Should he be elected President for
two terms he'd be out Of work age 51-wth years to
60 before Social Security.
After the U2 incident the Democratic platform can be
expected to promise spy-n-the-sky.
Lyndon johnson and Stu Symngton say religion is no
longer an issue in politics In fact after West Virginia they're
not would do fellow much good to see his
chaplain
Evening star., 1960-05-13
S. WHITE
Three Democratic Stars on Stdue

JohnSon's purposes would
best have been served for
Senator Kennedy to be
slowed, not halted. Senator
Symington's purposes would
best have been served for
him to be stopped cold. So
not the remotest reason for
any alliance. temporary or
otherwise, exists any more.
Thus, you will now see
this: Senator Kennedy will
run an increasingly bold and
open bandwagon operation.
plainly warning all undecided
politicians Of the dangers of
not getting aboard in time.
Senator Symington's halt
open candidacy will become
wide open. Senator Johnson's
unadmitted candidacy will
become half lf-open.
In summary: Senator Ken
nedy is the heavy favorite
and it would be foolish to bet
money against him. But he
still could stub his toe. In
that event Senator Johnson
would be next strongest at
the convention in actual
delegates in hand. Senator
Symington might be latently
stronger, simply because he is
neither so much liked nor
disliked as Senator johnson
and because he is not a
Southerner.
If q choice between Sem
ators johnson and Symington.
had to be made, Senator Ken
nedy and the old pros would
make the last decision. Sen
ator Symington would be the
safer" because less contro-
versial, nominee; Senator
johnson the abler one. What
would the old pros, headed
by Harry Truman, and Sen
'ator Kennedy then do? This
correspondent would predict
that Senator Kennedy at least
would go to Senator johnson.
Mr.. Truman? Maybe. May
be not.