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The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12
Juneau e. of E.
Plans Goodwill
Tour to Nome

JUNEAU - The Juneau Cham
Der of Commerce is organizing
a Southeast Alaska Goodwill Tour
to Anchorage, Nome and Fair
banks for May oath through 18th
at a cost of 5000 per person in
Guiding transportation, hotels and
three major meals. The number
will be limited to A, the capa-
city of the F-27 prophet which
will be chartered for the tour.
Letters have been written
Chambers of Commerce in other
Southeast Alaska cities urging
participation and it is hoped at
least one person each from Sitka,
Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg,
Haines and Skagway will be able
to join the tour.
A luncheon or dinner will be
scheduled with members of the
Chamber of Commerce in each of
the cities visited and arrange
ments can be made for side trips
10 other communities.
The proposed schedule calls for
leaving Juneau May oath shortly
after noon with arrival in An
chorage before the dinner hour.
May 25th would be spent in An
chorage with departure for Nome
early May 26th. The tour would
visit Nome and reach Fairbanks
the evening of the 26th, spend
the 9th in Fairbanks and depart
for Juneau early the 18th.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12
Classrooms Urgently Needed ..

MYTH TWELVE CLASSROOMS urgently needed
w by fall if the growing school population is to
get enough school hours in day for good education,
it behooves those who responsible for getting this
space to look around the community at several places
which could be made available for the time being.
This would materially help keeping the school its
high standard.
1t would also be worthwhile for organizations
having property which is not in much of the time
to find out if what they have is suitable for school
that if acceptable they could be readied by
the time school starts
These rooms scattered throughout the community
might be nconvenient and not as modern
frigerated school, but at this time sufficient space
seems to be more important.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12
Grapevine Rumors Say US. Is Holding

would be admitted to the base
without special permission from
Washington.
On the assumption that train
ing bases are normally open to
visitors, efforts were made to
gain access to Vieques through the
Central Intelligence Agency and
the White House.
CHA Noncommittal
The GA was noncommittal. A
White House spokesman said it
would not assist in the matter of
entry.
While the Vieques operation
was kept secret, the New York
Times has reported the story of
DR.. Rodolfo Modal Tarafa a law
yer and member of the anti
Castro invasion forces.
Modal said he and 16 other vol
unteers had been held captive at
gunpoint in Guatemala by CHA
agents because they refused to
serve in the invasion forces I'M
der man they described as a
murderer in the regime of Dicta-
tor Fulgencio Batista.
One consequence of the invasion
flop apparently has been great
upsurge in Communist activities
in Central and South America.
Early this month a chartered
Cuba airliner landed at King
ston, Jamaica, to refuel. Out
stepped 35 Communists, including
two women, who said they had
departed from Recife, Brazil, for
Havana to learn how Fidel Castro
carried Cuba into the Soviet orbit.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12
Havana Radio Says US.
Planes Made "Threatening
Flights" Near Santiago

KEY WEST, Fla. Up = Havana
radio, quoting its correspondent
at Santiago De Cuba, said today
an American aircraft carrier had
fired several shots within two
miles of Playa Siboney, near San
tiago.
The radio said five jet planes
took off from the carrier and made
Threatening flights" over Playa
Siboney, which is about 40 miles
due west of the U. S. Naval Base
at Guantanamo Bay.
The radio called this another
act of Yankee imperialist agrees
sion"
The broadcast, monitored here,
did not mention the name of the
American carrier allegedly in
volved.
In Washington, the Navy said
it has no knowledge of such an
incident. 1t said the Navy opera
ting areas in that vicinity are in
international waters and added:
"Ships are conducting refresh
er training operations as a matter
of routine"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12
Pamela Mulvihill Invited to
Attend Summer Science Session

Pamela Mulvihill, daughter of
Mrs. Ellen Mulvihill has been in
vited to attend the summer
session for secondary school stu
dents at WhitWorth College in
Spokane, Wn., and plans to leave
with her mother after school is
out next week.
Pamela, who is a high school
sophomore, was also invited to
puarticipate in summer session
of music at Northwestern Uni
versity.
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THE WEATHER

Fair today and cloudy tonight.
Low tonight 80, high tomorrow
4045. In the last "a hours: High
of 35, low of %. Sunrise at 2:53
p M, sunset at 9:06 p. m. A year
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12

City Atty. Virgil Vochoska re-
turned from Anchorage last night
where he attended the meeting
of the Alaska Bar Assn. and other
business.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12

Mothers Days a-coming. Now what kind of gift
Can Fathers buy Mothers that's to give lift?
There's problem there, nothingS quite dandy
AS great big, handsome box of candy
But be careful where hide ityoung have big
And should they spot secret cache you're for surprise
The candy'n be all eaten and Mothers special treat
Will be knowing that her Junior is mighty mighty sweet.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12
Bert Mccarthy

Bert Mccarthy arrived today
from California where he has been
for the past several months and
will be back at his old job with
Lomen Commercial Co. for the
summer.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1961-05-12

Editors Note-For 16 days
during and after the anti
Castro invasion of Cuba, AP
reporter Benz Price worked in
the sensitive listening post
of Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base. The following account,
based on his findings there
and elsewhere, sheds light on
some intriguing problems9
BY Benz Price
WASHINGTON R = There is
reason to believe that the United
States is holding survivors of the
Cuban invasion forces incom-
neutrality-suspicious., if you will
on a Caribbean island.
And there is evidence that the
u. S. troubles with Communism
in Central and South America are
just beginning.
The first rumor about the U. S.
held survivors of the invasion,
some of whom repeatedly are
wounded, reached the u. S. Naval
Base at Guantanamo Bay soon
after the military effort collapsed.
Grapevine Report
The grapevine there is so eff
ficient that reports of activities
in Havana, 600 miles west, some
times reach the base before they
are broadcast by the Castro
regime.
Within hours after the grape
vine report of u. Shield survivors
reached the base, the Castro cap
tiveS from the abortive invasion
who were being Intercepted in
Havana on television-began talk
ing of particular island, Vieques.
They had said they had been
trained for the invasion at the
u. S. Marine Base at Vieques,
which is just a Commute hell
copter ride from San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
While the rumor about the
ViequeS prisoners was seeping
into Guantanamo, it was also cir
culating in San Juan and New
York.
A Navy officer talked by radio
to the Naval Station at San Juan,
asking if neWsmen wanting to
check on the rumors could be adj
mitted to Vieques.
The answer was that no one
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Suffered as second class matter October Ia, ie4S, at
g>oss ofsice at Nome Alaska, under Act of March 3
, 1961-09-12

education opportunities within a
community exercises a highly
stimulating effect upon college
going tendencies. Moreover, there
is every Indication that the Islands
face an accelerated increase in
population. The conferees, there
fore, were convinced that a Col
lege of the Virgin Islands could
reasonably expect to have an OPP
erationally effective full-time en-
rollment of some two hundred
Students within a few years o its
Opening and that this figure
would not exhaust the full growth
dental of the College.
Since this size will be achieved
only under favorable conditions,
which means primarily the estab-
lishment of a quality institution
with course offerings that will, in
fact, serve the needs of the Island
youth and adults, with adequate
provision to insure that able youth
are not discouraged from attend
ance for financial reasons. On this
last point, a major issue to be re-
solved is whether or not tuition
win be charged to Island students.
Tuition fees should of course be
charged to nonresident students.
The Conference makes no recon-
mendasioa on this score, since the
matter is clearly a question of
public policy that must be resolved
w the Territorial government. In
the event tuition were to be
charged Island residents, however,
aIoquate financial aids would
have to be made available for
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needy and deserving candidates
for admission.
While Island needs must first
be met, the Conference calls at
-tention to the possibility of rend-
ering service to students from OUT
side the Virgin Islands. Course Of
ferings designed to meet local
needs would presumably appeal to
youth from other Caribbean COM
munities as well. The existence of
high quality educational oppor-
tunity in the socially democratic
atmosphere of the Virgin Islands
might encourage its use by the
Department of State and perhaps
other agencies concerned with in
ternational relations for such pur-
poses as the orientation of foreign
students en- route to study on the
mainland. And again, the quality
factor might make enrolment in
a Virgin Islands institution an APP
pealing alternative to the effort to
secure admission to increasingly
overcrowded m ainland instltu-
tons. But this possible attraction
of avforno1 cfI1dapfc xuhoca nco-
sence, incidentally, would enrich
the institution, must be regarded
as of secondary importance. The
high school graduates and the
adults of the Virgin Islands must
be the primary objects Of concern
in planning for and operating the
College of the Virgin Islands.
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A. PREAMBLE & UMMAR
FINDINGS
Concluded from yesterday
B. SOME OBSERVATIONS
AND ADMoNITIoNS

The creation of an institution Of
higher education worthy oftaking
it's place in the academic world is
an undertaking of great magni-
tude and difficulty. No more seri-
Gus mistake could be made than
to underestimate the hazards that
confront any community IN It's eli
forts to bring a college into being.
In some respects, the Virgin Is
lands face greater hazards than
other communities. While the con-
ferees believe these obstacles can
be -overcome, we wish the readers
of this report to be fully aware Of
the effort, imagination and sacri-
flee that will be required to- estab-
lish the College Of the Virgin Is
lands.
The following observations OF
the conference are Illustrative of
the areas in which challenges can
be anticipated.
Special Considerations
/. The Place of the College in the
Educational System
We believe that a complete edu-
cational system should have, as
previously stated, three levels:
elementary, secondary, and col
legiate. These three should COM
plement, support, and contribute
to each other and to the commun-
ity. A powerful argument in sup
port of the establishment OF a col
lege in the Virgin Islands is the
help it can give, not only IN the
training of teachers, but also In
the establishment of superior edu-
cational standards for the other
levels of the educational system.
The problem is to combine the
possibility of such mutual assist
ance with the autonomy a college
must have if it is to attain its own
proper goals free from the fluctu-
at ors Of politiss or the influence
Of pressure groups. This, we be-
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lieve, can be attained by an adj
ministrative structure, to be sug-
gested later, which might provide
liason with government and the
Board of Education and still retain
freedom for the President, the
Trustees, and the Faculty to define
the specific objectiYes of the Col
lege in the light of the educational
needs of the community as a
whole. Only by this combination
of freedom and rapport with the
rest of the educational system does
it seem likely that the competition
lor ilm.Jed public funds can be
reasonably limited and equitably
managed.
2. Students
Obviously, a new college must
have assurance of an adequate
number OF students, both to make
the institution financially feasible,
and to make possible the variety
of course offerings and the quality
of resources associated with study
of college grade. The col1ege-age
population of the Virgin Islands
now is not large, and the proper
ton of those completing high
school is distressingly small. The
number Of students now going on
to education beyond the high
school, even if it were assumed
that they all might enroll in a local
college, would be insufficient to
meet generally accepted criteria
for the minimum size of an institu-
ton of college grade. Nor is the
number of adults now taking adj
vantage of extension opportunities
encouraging.
The Conference concluded, how
ever, that the College of the Vir-
gin Islands would attract a suffi-
Gent number of full-time students
from the Islands to make it a
viable institution. This conclusion
IS based in part upon responses to
the QUESTIONABLE circulated by the
Virgin Islands College Commits
sion, and, to a larger extent, upon
what the conferees were privi-
eyed to discover about the untap-
ped potentialities of the youth OF
az virgin Islands. Experience
elsewhere forcefully demonstrates
that the creation Of sound higher
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REPORT OF

THE GOVERNORS CONFERENCE
ON HIGHER FOR THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
July 81. 1861
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needy and deserving candidates
for admission.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
St. EIizubeths
Sets Program
On Mental Health

Evaluating progress in treat
ment of the mentally i'll, point
ing out needs for increased re-
cruitment for careers in men,
tai health, and exploring St.
Elizabeths Hospitals role in
meeting national mental health
needs, have been set as the
objectives of the place of st.
Elizabeths in Mental Health
Week.
The week, April 80 through
May 7. will be observed at the
hospital by a mental health
institute, a patients play, and
an open house.
The play, Spring Daze," will
be presented at BIS pm. on
May 5 and 9 in the hospitals
1lJCuCOCh f1dll.
DR.. Winfred Overholser, su-
perintendent of the hospital,
will be moderator at the men,
tai health institute to be held
all day Wednesday, May 3, in
Hitchcock Hall.
The staff of the hospital will
present two series of lectures
| in May for persons interested
in volunteer mental health
work at the hospital.
An evening course for new
volunteers will begin Thursday.
May II, and a daytime course
on Wednesday. May IT.
Evening star., 1961-04-23

can opinion, these officials
reason.
They find heartening support
for this reasoning in the an
nouncement of President Ra-
mon Villeda Morales of Mica
Iragua that he will break re-
altionS with the Castro govern
ment. A crowd shouted it's ap-
Iproval in a giant rally Friday
night.
At the moment these State
Department officials believe the
most they can hope for from
any GAS meeting is general
approval of an anti-CaStro
resolution that will permit the
United States and any other
Latin American nations to take
military actions in concert.
They do not look for a united
IOAS intervention.
They say that military action
is about all that is left for the
United States. The United States
already has applied economic
sanctions and Cuba's trade
with the rest of the hemisphere
is insignificant.
Evening star., 1961-04-23

bond issue to refinance the
principal.
The amount of the stadium
income will depend mainly on
the drawing power of the Red
skins and Washington's new
baseball club.
The football team will pay
10 per cent of the first $780,
900 of annual gross receipts
and IS per cent of any amount
over that. The new Senators
have not yet signed a lease.
Under the law, If expenses
are outstripping income, the
District Commissioners must
seek authority from Congress
to pay the difference. If the
authorization is denied, III e
Treasury Department m u S
loan the city the needed
amount.
District officials noted that
the initial estimates of the sta
dium construction cost had
been Sc million. This figure,
set as a cost ceiling in the
1857 draft of the stadium legis-
lation, later jumped to SO or
$40 million. and then had
risen to the $19.8 million for
the bond issue.
The Armory Board is ex-
pected to submit it's fiscal es-
Inmates for the stadium to the
District Commissioners this
June.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
Cubons Picket, Fight
In White House Area

| He took the incident lightly
and the youths were not chased,
About 100 police kept watch
on the pickets.
President Kennedy was not
in the White House.
The pro-CaStro pickets came
mostly from New York, New
Jersey and Philadelphia. About
60 per cent seemed to be of
Cuban descent.
They marched four deep
along Pennsylvania avenue and
part Of the block of Seventeenth
street leading south. A group
at the head carried a big 48-
star American flag. a large
Cuban flag and a flag of the
Castro revolution.
Their banners declared:
"JFK, No Marines" Mr..
xxx, You Never Had It So
Good and Cuban Invasion
Authority" with the initials
spelling CHA, the initials of the
U. S. Central Intelligence
Agency.
Tourists surrounded the pick
cts and rubber-necked throuph-
out the warm day. Many took
photographs.
Anti-Castro forces Included
local students and members of
several veterans groups.
Among the early pro-Castro
picketS were 40 members of the
recently organized Fair Play
for Cuba Committee of Phila-
delphia.
Melvin Metelitz, a Philadel-
phia school teacher, said he and
the others felt that the United
States has misunderstood the
Castro revolution and that in
tervention would be dangerous,
unwise and unfair.
I'VE have seen the press cry
wolf too many times by term
ing all honest. native reform
movements as Communists" he
said. He feared his action
might cost him his job.
The pickets broke up their
demonstrations at dusk. The
pro-Castro groups boarde d
buses to return to their home
towns.
Incident Squelched
Many Of the anti-Castro
picketS walked north on Six
teenth Street-right into an
other incident. At Sixteenth and
H, there was an excited ex-
change in Spanish between the
picketS and a man in a sedan
waiting for the light.
The man leaped from the car
with a tire iron.
Two motorcycle policemen
grabbed him and took the iron
away. Inspector Albert Embrey
told him to clear out of the
area.
A few pro-Castro pickets fol-
lowed the anti-Castro pickets
up Sixteenth. Police turned
them off at 1 street NV.
Evening star., 1961-04-23
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maintenance and bond inter-
est during the 12-month period
following construction. After
that, the costs are to be met
by the stadium revenues, with
The city government absorbing
any loss.
The Interior Department is
spending $2.6 million for park
ing.
The major sources Of income
will be from the football and
baseball clubs, the parking fees,
concessions and from rent paid
by any groups which use the
facility.
Stadium officials say no firm
estimates on revenue can be
made at this time. But it is un-
derstood that District Govern
ment officials are bracing
themselves for bad financial
news from the project.
Even If no money is set aside
for the principal on the bonds
which mature in 20 years, the
annual interest alone amount;
to nearly $S32,0OO. Operating
expenses may amount to $4O0,,
900 a year.
Under the stadium legisla'
ton, the District Armory Boart
has authority, to float another
Evening star., 1961-04-23
POLICY

Continued From First Page
hold, the invaders would get to
the EScambray Mountains to
join in guerrilla warfare there.
Both Of these alternatives
foresaw a relatively quiet op-
Grafton without either logistic
or armed support from the
United States. The plan was
inherited from the Eisenhower
administration, although the
decision to continue it lay
squarely with President Ken
nedy.
Despite the intelligence
failure, it is known that the
President does not intend to
make scapegoatS Of Allen w.
Dulles, director of CIA, or
Richard M. BiSsell, jr., his
subordinate in charge of the
Cuban matter.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor'S in
vestigation Of intelligence and
guerrilla warfare capabilities,
announced yesterday by Presi-
dent Kennedy, is not designed
as a board Of inquiry" into the
Cuban disaster.
Policy ReOrientatiOn
1t is designed, instead, to seek
ways to "reorient" American
institutions for the carrying out
of military, intelligence and
diplomatic activity against
Communist police state ad-
versaries.
High-leyel study of the Cuban
affair is bringing out these
other items:
Secretary Of State Rusk was
the lone administration adviser
who focused on the possible
consequences Of failure on the
American position abroad. But
in the end he did not oppose
the invasion.
The President appears to be
more upset with officials in
his administration who are at
tempting to shift the blame to
others, than he is with those
in the CIA and under the Joint
Chiefs of Staff who made the
wrong estimates.
1t is now admitted that the
pilot who landed in Miami last
week end in a battle-scarred
plane bearing Cuban insignia
was not a "defector" from the
Cuban Air Force. That was a
cover" to hide the fact he was
Evening star., 1961-04-23
Castro to Speak
On V Toduy

MIAMI, Fla, April % CAP)
Cuban radio said today Prime
Minister Fidel Castro will ap-
pear on televiSion tomorrow
noon to tell the Nation about
this weeks defeat of insurgent
forces.
The program will appear on
nationwide hookups, and also
on radio, the announcement on
radio VOZ said.
Evening star., 1961-04-23

ADOuC iUU prO-CaStr0 plcKeCS
and 200 anti-Castro pickets
crowded the area around the
White House yesterday.
Four of them clashed in a
brief fight. Pedestrian traffic
was barred by police from the
south side Of Pennsylvania av-
enue and at $3.50 pm. DC.
Transit was asked to skip the
transit stop at Seventeenth and
Pennsylvania.
About noon, a fight broke
out when an anti-Castro picket
grabbed for the camera of a
.pro-Castroite who was photo
graphing him. Two other men
Joined the fracas.
Arnaldo Otero, a United
Press International reporter,
rushed up to see what was 60
ing on. District Police grabbed
him and the four picketS and
whiSked them to a detention
room set up in the Civil War
Commission Building at jack
son place and Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Otero was released along
with three of the pickets. He
protested his treatment to Dep
uty Chief Lorraine T. Johnson.
Police charged Rafael Macs
tri, 81, of the 4700 block Of
Connecticut avenue NV. with
disorderly conduct. He posted
$40 bond and was released.
Police identified Mr.. Maestri
as the man who grabbed at the
other picket'S camera.
AS soon as the last tourists
had finished a White House
tour this morning, police per-
mitted the anti-Castro pickets,
who arrived first, to walk di-
rectly in front Of the White
House on Pennsylvania avenue.
About 200 pro-Castro pickets
were allowed to walk in the next
block. west of West Executive
avenue.
About 3 pm, 10 busloads
of pro-Castro reinforcements
arrived from New York. They
were greeted with such large
cheers and applause from the
earlier pro CastroiteS that
police ordered all the noise
stopped.
One pro-Castro picket per-
sisted in his shouting and did
not appear to understand the
police. forcing them to warn
him through an interpreter.
AS the pro-Castro reinforce
ments arrived in buses, fresh
eggs flew from a convertible
bearing six youths. Most Of
them hit the buses but one went
over them.
Pvt. Alfred L. Black of the
eighth precinct said he saw
the egg but ducked too late
He got it in the neck. Youk
and white ran down his uni
form.