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Evening star., 1961-08-23
DEAN TO EUROPE,
HOPEFUL ON BAN

NEW YORK, Aug. % (AP)
Arthur H. Dean left today
for Europe to press anew for
Russian agreement on a treaty
banning nuclear tests. He said
he would seek to convince the
Russians that there was no
possibility of espionage under
United States proposals.
1--WE still hope we may be
able to convince the Soviet
Union that in the proposals
we have made for the loca-
tionS Of control posts and the
number of on-Site inspections,
and the makeup of the teams in
these control posts, there is no
possibility of espionage" Mr..
Dean said before boarding a
plane at Idlewild Airport.
Asked if the new negotiations
represented a final try for a
treaty, he said, II don't think
so. We are going to keep on
trying. We never give up"
Evening star., 1961-08-23
Move Seen to Split Up
Latest School Aid Bill

but said yesterday he found
Democrats pretty strong" for
the Ribicoff package. He said
he didn't know how the Repub-
licanS would react to 1T.
There is no doubt that the
whole idea of Federal aid to
schools is strongly opposed by
conservatives of both parties.
And even if the Ribicoff pack
age-in whole or in part-can
be brought to the floor it faces
serious chances of defeat.
The aid-to-education part of
the package provides nearly So
billion to build school facilities
and provides scholarships over
five years.
The other elements are ex-
tension of the National Defense
Education Act, which provides
student loanS' and matching
grants to high schools and COL
leges to strengthen teaching of
mathematics, languages and
science.
Also, a 1925 million one-year
program to build elementary
schools in districts which have
exhausted their finances, and
"a one-year extension Of the
$500 million program of aid to
impacted areas - school dis
trictS crowded with children of
Federal workers.
The impacted-areas program
benefits districts of more than
300 congressman and is highly
popular in the House. In the
Senate a bill has been intro
duced to extend this program
alone, but action has been held
up to see what the House will
do with the Ribicoff package.
The original School-aid pro-
gram, contained in three Gif-
ferent bills, foundered in the
House Rules Committee.
Evening star., 1961-08-23
Sneak Super Attest
Possible, McCIoy Says
BY the Associated Press

United States Disarmament
Chief John ]. McCloy says
Russia might be able to test a
super nuclear bomb without the
United States knowing it.
Mr.. McCloy'S comments, in a
speech yesterday to the Ma
tional Press Club, came as
United States Ambassador Ar
thur H. Dean headed back to
Geneva for decisive meetings"
with the Soviet Union in the
search for agreement on a nu-
clear test ban treaty. The talks
resume tomorrow.
President Kennedy has said
that if negotiations fail this
time he will make the appro-
pirate decisions"
Some Urge U. S. Tests
Some scientists, members of
Congress and military men have
been urging for several years
that the United States resume
tests Of nuclear weapons. Tests
have been suspended by both
Russia and the United States
during the prolonged negotia-
tions.
Mr.. McCloy said that if the
SovietS built a 100-megaton
bomb-a weapon with the ex-
plosive force of 100 million tons
of TNT-they will want to test
it.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev
has said the Soviet Union can
build a 100-megaton nuclear
bomb and has the means to
deliver it against an enemy
target.
Mr.. McCloy said Mr.. Khru-
Shchev used the reference to
the super bomb as a means of
saying that if the United
States resumes testing the So
vietS have d superior weapon
Of their own to test.
Asked whether a sneak test
of such a weapon could be de-
tected, Mr.. McCloy said:
l. If the bomb is tested un-
derground with muffling, it may
go undetected.
2. If the bomb is set off in
the atmosphere it probably
would be detected.
3. If the explosion is set off
far out in space with enough
Evening star., 1961-08-23
Astronomers PROPOSE
V Probe of Comet

would be to send the probe
through the head, coming
within perhaps 10000 miles of
its SNOWFALL heart. A 4O-inch
long telescope camera could
take pictures of the core and
teleVise them back for the first
look at the structure of the
heart.
Other instruments could
take samples of the chemicals
in the head-presumed to be
various forms of carbon atoms
and combinations of carbon,
nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen
and other comet parts.
The smaller heart is thought
to be mainly frozen ammonia
and water and solid particles of
heavier matter or metals.
Theories Debated
Heat from the sun as a
comet swings near causes melt
ing of the comets heart. The
great luminous head and long
tail develop. But there are
scientific arguments whether
just the pressure of sunlight,
or chemical reactions, produce
the tail.
Comets now are thought to
produce SO per cent of all or
dinary meteors which flash
through the skies as shooting
stars, said DR.. Fred L. Whipple
OF the Smithsonian Astrophysi-
cal Observatory at Harvard
University.
These solid meteor particles
are left when the snowbank
meltS. The frozen cores in
comets can vary from a few
hundred yards across to a
number of miles, he said.
A successful probe could learn
much about the composition.
structure, dynamics and per-
haps origin of comets, radio
ing back its data before it went
roaming forever in space itself
Evening star., 1961-08-23
BY ALTON BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer

BERKELEY, Calf, Aug. %
(AP) Astronomers are eager
to try some celestial sharp
shooting and hit a comet.
They want to shoot a space
probe, complete with camera,
clean through a comets huge
glowing head. That would an
Swer many mysteries about
comets, which are thought to
be dirty "snowballs" trailing
tails millions of miles long.
In fact, world astronomers
meeting here suggest a good
target is Encke's Comet, due to
visit three years hence.
1t will be a neat trick, for
the closest Encke's Comet comes
to earth will be 25 million miles,
on July IL, 1864. And since
comets wheel along about 50,-
900 miles an hour, the probe
needs a good and accurate
headstart to make the rendez-
Vous.
q Project Supported
Comet and meteor specialists
from 33 countries in the Inter-
national Astronomical Union
have Endorsed the comet shot
as a valuable scientific goal
acting on resolutions proposed
by CZechoslovakian scientists
and DR.. Pol Swings of Liege
Belgium. 1t also has been dis
cuSsed by the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra-
ton as a potential project.
Encke's Comet has a gaseous
head about $4,000 miles wide.
But the core is believed to be
only a mile-wide hunk of frozer
gases and dirt, like "a dirty
snowbank in Chicago" said DR.
Gerard Kuiper of the Uni.
VerSity of Arizona.
One plan, he and DR.. Ger.
hardt Herzberg of Ottawa
Canada, explained today
Evening star., 1961-08-23
BY the Associated Press

A move apparently is under
way in the House to split up the
administrations latest Federal
aid-to-SchoolS package, put to-
gether last week in a final eff
fort to get most Of the program
enacted.
House Speaker Rayburn, is
reported ready to back the new
package, but without the Sec
ton on aid to higher education.
Mr.. Rayburn said he and
President Kennedy had come
to some conclusion" at a
White House conference this
morning but he refused to dis
close details.
Mr.. Rayburn scheduled an
afternoon meeting with key
legislators and the shape OF
the last-ditch school bill was
expected to emerge from that
session.
Asked if he and the President
had agreed on a compromise
proposal, Mr.. Rayburn said
Il don't know whether you
would call it a compromise, but
it will be a bill"
Representative Green, Dem
ocrat of Oregon, the sponsor of
the higher education proposal,
wants the House to consider it
separately and repeatedly has
been trying hard to sell Mr..
Rayburn on the idea. The lat
est report on his feelings about
the package indicate she may
have succeeded.
Representative Albert of Ok
lahoma, assistant Democratic
leader, has been polling men,
bers on the new package whip
ped up by Secretary of Welfare
Ribicoff. He has declined to be
specific about what he learned,
Evening star., 1961-08-23

shielding it might be unde-
tected.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
StOrk OutrunS
 "Dr. Sheldon, the Bush Pilots Bush Pilot

ANCHORAGE H - Get off the air-we're having baby in flight" was the word that went out from the Anchorage Federal Aviation Agency's Air Traffic Control Center to pilots request ing landing instructions.
 The baby was being born 4,000 feet over Talkeetna in a four place Cessna 130 owned by bush pilot Don Sheldon.
 The flight started at Cantwell, on the Alaska Railroad south of Mt. Mckinley, when Sheldon picked up Mrs. Joanna Rock for a routine trip to the Alaska Native Hospital here. Over Talkeetna the trip ceased to be routine, as Mrs. Rock began to give birth to the child.
 Sheldon called FAA on his radio and requested an ambulance to meet him on arrival at Merrill Field. He also requested instruc- tions for doctor.
 Dr. Gloria Park, of the Native Hospital, was called on the phone and messages were relayed be tween her and Sheldon via the FAA controller.
 Reports from the Alaska Native Hospital say both the mother ans the baby boy, who doesn't hav, a name yet, are doing fine. "Dr." Sheldon, the bush pilot bush pilot, hasn't been availabl for comment.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
All Service Organizations To Participate In NOme's Civil Defense

The Civil Defense organization held the second of it's organiza- tional meetings on Wednesday evening at which time it was re- ported that heads of all service organizations in the community were being contacted, as well as the medical staff and public health agencies.
 From the results of the meeting of these representatives it is hoped to formulate the community Civil Defense program and launch it in accordance with the pro- gram being set up throughout the nation.
 Ash Craft of the US. Weather Bureau gave complete and de- tailed account of the work done by the station on fallout.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Swede is Named Director. General of International Atomic Energy Agency

VIENNA, Austria R - A Swed- ish nuclear scientist, Dr. Sibvard Eklund, was inaugurated as Di- rector General of the East West International Atomic ergy Agency today. The Soviet chief delegate, Vastly Ednelyanov, walk ed out in protest after sharply worded attack on Eklund and the Western powers.
 The remainder of the Soviet delegation stayed in the hall.
 Emelyanov, in a statement inn mediately before pr. Eklund was sworn in, declared the election would have "very negative con- sequences for the agency" He added that Eklund twill not en- joy the support of the socialist countries as Director General.
 He charged the election had been "railroaded by the Western majority in the agency"
 Last night he announced that he would advise his government to withdraw from the 76-nation Atoms-for-Peace Agency in pro test against what he called "com- plete lack of international col liberation"
 US, diplomats took the view that the Soviet threat to with draw from the agency was part of the Kremlin scheme to para lyze the United Nations.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Mrs. Khrushchey Tells [ Peace Marchers Russians
 Are Not Building Shelters

MOSCOW AR - Mrs. Nikta Khrushchev told a group of Vest ern Peace Marchers" today that the Soviet Union was making no effort to build air raid shelters
 There is no defense in a nu- clear war;" said Nina Khrushchev, the wife of the Premier.
 Therefore we are not build ing any bomb shelters. We are not getting ready"
 Mrs. Khrushchev made her re- marks after spending an hour ex- changing pleasantries and de- batting disarmament with the marchers. who arrived here Tues day. The debate took place at .Moscow's House of Friendship, , where Mrs. Khrushchev's aides served tea, chocolate and apples
 Most of the marchers did their best to convince Mrs. Khrushchev that, if the world refuses to dis arm, one country should set a good example by discarding all its armarnents. Mrs. Khrushchev de clined to agree.
 We do not want to be the only ones who throw our bombs into the ocean," she said She added that in the past 40 years, the Soviet Union has hac many unfortunate experiences with war and does not want ts | be in a position where it could be trampled upon again. Thirty-one persons from th' United States and Western Europ participated in the march, whicl began in December of last yea | in San Francisco.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
JFK SETS CIVIL
 DEFENSE GOAL FOR FALLOUT PROTECTION

WASHINGTON t61 - President Kennedy set a Civil Defense goal today of fallout protection for every American.
 In letter to the Civil Defense Committee of the Governors Con- ference, Kennedy said this pro lection should be provided "as rapidly as possible"
 Radioactive fallout could ac- count for most of the casualties in an H-Bomb attack, Kennedy said.
 Protection against this threat is within reach of an informed America willing to face the facts and act" he said.
 The President conferred this morning with Gov. Nelson Rocke- feller of New York, who urged him to draw clear lines of re- sponsibility for protecting the public in case of a massive nu- clear attack. Rockefeller is Chair man of the Governors Confer ence Civil Defense Committee.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Navy Jet Accidentally Downed by Sidewinder

WASHINGTON R-Two Navy jet fighters shot down a third with Sidewinder missile. today during a training exercise over the Atlantic.
 The Pentagon said the incident happened about 60 miles off the Virginia coast.
 It was the second such incident this year. Last April 2 fighter plane of the New Mexico Air National Guard accidentally shot down B52 bomber with a Side winder near Grants, NM.
 Three meE died died and five others survived the B52 crash.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
New Edition of Alaska Compiled Laws Are
 Ready For The Printer

JUNEAU H = The Legislative Council has approved the award of an $89, ,OOO contract for publi- cation of the proposed revision of the Laws of Alaska, Executive Director John Doyle said today.
 The contract will be awarded to the Michie Go. of Charlottes- vile, NC.
 The Legislative Councils staff has been working on the new statute revision since 1859. The 1862 Legislature will be asked to approve the proposed formal re- vision by reference and appro- priate money for its publication.
 Under the terms of the contract the state would receive 700 sets of the statutes for official use and distribution.
 The Michie Co. would have ex- elusive right to private sales in and out of Alaska. Under the con- tract, the maximum price which the publisher could charge for g set of the statutes in Alaska would be $1O0. Annual upkeep of the statutes would cost the state and private persons in Alaska $15.
 The proposed revision will re place the Alaska compiled laws annotated of 1949, the session law volumes dated 1949 through 1881 and the session laws of 1882
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Speaker Rayburn May Hold Out
 Several Months

DALLAS, Tex. R House Speaker Sam Rayburn, suffering from extensive cancer, looks a little better today, his physicians said
 They reported in bulletin that Rayburn no longer was under sedation and was resting comfort ably.
 Rayburn, 79, entered Baylor Hospital Monday after he failed to respond to treatment in his hometown of Bonham, Tex. He left Washington Aug. 31 for his home saying he wanted to rest for what he called lunnbbago causing pains in the back.
 Doctors said Thursday after ex- tensive tests that the cancer has spread to such an extent that no further surgery was anticipated Only visitors permitted are mem bers of his family, hospital spokesman said.
 Vice President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson arrived at Baylor Hos pital at midmoring for visit with Rayburn.
 In Washington, President Ken nedy asked the nation to join him and Mrs. Kennedy "in praying for Speaker Rayburn, who has served his nation so well and so faith fully for so many years" 1 Depending on MT. Sam's' l stamina, one doctor said, he could
 hold out for several months, ever
 longer. Another said 1.-TWO ol
 three weeks" seemed more likely
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Uncle Sam Unveils New, SimpIified lO4O Tax Form

WASHINGTON R Uncle Sam unveiled the new, simplified, two-page form l040 to be used in paying the tax on this years in- dividual incomes.
 It presents the best effort of the Internal Revenue Service to use plain English instead of legalistic gobbledegook, and it eliminates one tax forw entirely the old 1040W.
 The new form is printed on better paper in bigger type. It will arrive in December in re- vised 1861 instruction book.
 HRS Commissioner Mortimer M. Caplin, who promised Congress when he took office that he'd try to make the annual struggle with tax forms easier on taxpayers, told a news conference:
 "As long as the tax form was a mirror the tax laws, we cannot have complete simplification. But we think the great bulk of people can be better served with this new basic two-page form"
 The new 1040 is for taxpayers whose income came from salaries and wages and who did not re ceive more than $200 of dividends and interest.
 The old form 1040A, the puncf card form, continues to be avail able for those who made less thar $i0, ,000 total income. It has beer only slightly revised.
 Taxpayers who have mor than $290 of income from divi dends, or interest or who hav income from farming, partner ships, businesses, annuities ol capital gains must use additiona schedules" attaching them te the new 1040.
 One feature of the new form gives Caplin particular pride, he indicated; the entire tax computa- tion has been brought to the first page of the return, eliminating the need for taxpayers to flip pages back and forth while carry ing numbers in their heads.
 Eliminated also is the question whether you owed any federal tax for previous years. ssWe have that information" Caplin said
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Soviets Detonate
 18th and Biggest Bomb

WASHINGTON R The Att omic Energy Commission said tonight the Soviet Union had ex- ploded another atmospheric test in the Arctic.
 The AEC statement, coming hours after Paris and Tokyo re- ;SsssSz=.sed the nuclear blast, said the test device was detonated early today In the vicinity of Novaya Zem1ya.
 Today's blast was the l8th in the Soviet Unions current test series, which began Sept. 1.
 French government detection services, first to report Jne ex- plosion. called t the biggest yet. Japanese experts estimated its str sttIeilgtth tth at 10 lnegatons.
 A megaton Is the equivalent of "a million tons of TINT.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
US. Moves That U.N.. Debate Halting of Nuclear Testing

UNITED NATIONS, NY. R- The United States formally moved today that JUN. Political Com mittee give top priority to debate on the question of halting test explosions of nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union immediately ob- jected.
 The clash developed as the 1OO- nation committee met to organ ize its work program for the cur rent session of the General As sembly. US. delegate Arthur Dean told the delegates the ques- tions of nuclear testing should not be buried in the coimplexi- ties of disarmament negotiations. ]"
 Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Zorin insited that the discussions should begin with the general question of disarmament and that nuclear testing was part of this problem.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Nikita Gives His Okay For Erection of Wall Between East-West Berlin

LONDON ,lt Soviet Premier Khrushchev approved today the erection of the wall between East and West Berlin.
 This was not surprising, since the East Germans closed East Ber- lir's border with West Berlin Aug. 13 immediately after the Soviet bloc Warsaw pact members ordered effective border controls to stop the flood of escaping reL fugees.
 Khrushchev also predicted a German peace treaty would be signed soon--but without specify ing whether he meant between the Soviet Union and East Ger many alone. He has threatened to sign such a treaty before the end of the year.
 Khrushchev's views were stated in a telegram to East German Cognasssnist leaders cn the I2th anniversary of their regime.
The Nome nugget., 1961-10-06
Fire Levels Teller Commercial Co.


 The Teller Commercial Go, historical landmark of Teller, burned to the ground Monday in disastrous fire which took with it half of the food supplies for the community stored for the win- ter as well as all the personal effects of MT. and Mrs. Bob Blodgett, the owners who lived upstair in the large two-story building.
 The fire which is reported to have originated on the second floor was out of control before it was discovered.
 The Teller Commercial Go. building has served Teller and Port Clarence area since about 1901 and from 1916 to 1882 was operated Ca t Tom Peterson, mining man, who also operated the mail boat and freighted in that area. Upon his death his wid- ow assisted by the widow of his partner Ethel Marx operated the store until they retired a few years sso. Wm. Marx lost his life in snowstorrn while returning from Ear Mountain to Teller with his dog tearn) The store received much publicity when owned and operated by these women as it was unusual to have women of the far north operating a general c..ore of this type.
 As it was feared the wind would carry the fire to other parts od the town, fire fighting equipmeni was rushed from Nome by air with Dick Galleher taking the equipment The men working al Pt. Spencer also went to Teller and assisted in controlling the blaze and keeping other build ings from burning.
 The Teller Commercial Co. was partially insured, it was re- ported today and the fire ad- juster has already been to Tel Ter. Don Perkins reports that Bob BIodgett is already making plans for to rebuild on a. concrete form which has been laid. Although overwhelmed with their loss of both their business and all per sonal things, they are bravely setting about planning for their future in Teller.
 Teller had two general stores, the other being the North Star Commercial O., operated by Mary Tweet and family This is a modern supermarket type of building with a hotel on the second floor and a lunch counter in the store.
 Mrs. Helen Blodgett came to Nome this morning for supplies.
 The staff of the Nugget joins with other business houses in Nome who have experienced fire loss in extending sincere sympa- thy to the Blodgetts at this time.
Evening star., 1961-12-19
Mrs. Roosevelt
Shocked at Rusk
Praise of Franco

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (AP) :
Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt says
she was shocked and dis
turbed" by Secretary of State
Rusk's recent comments on
Generalissimo Franco of Spain.
Mrs. Roosevelt said in a tele-
gram to Mr.. Rusk yesterday:
That a member of this ad-
ministration could praise a
Fascist tyrant who has violated
every basic precept of freedom
and decency is indefensible just
as Gen. Franco is indefensible." :"
Mrs. Roosevelt protested
"praising a man who presides
over so oppressive a state" She
said such action lis a betrayal
of all those who cling to the
ideals of freedom that America
represents" s."
| Mr.. Rusk conferred with Gen.
Franco in Madrid last Saturday
and they exchanged views on
the international situation.
| Mr.. Rusk, quoted in a state
ment issued later by the United
States Embassy, said he was
impressed by Gen. frances
wealth of information, under
standing and vitality of think
ing.
The United States operates
military bases in Spain under
a defense pact with the Franco
regime.
Evening star., 1961-12-19
BY HARVEY CLEW
Star Staff Writer

A disorderly conduct charge
against the Rev. David An
drews, White House demonstra-
tor for Morton Sobell, was
dropped today at the request
of Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy.
The 37-year-old Methodist
minister was arrested for the
third time in a week Saturday
when he knelt in prayer on
the White House sidewalk.
He was part of a group ask
ing presidential clemency for
Sobell. who is serving a 30-year
sentence for conspiracy to COM
NIT espionage.
District Corporation Counsel
Chester H. Gray said he agreed
to drop the charge on the
minister's promise to leave
town. The charge can be rein
stated if he returns, Mr.. Gray
said.
Mr.. Andrews had intended to
return to his home in Boone
N. c., for Christmas before the
latest arrest! a Justice Depart
ment spokesman said. Learn
ing of this, the Attorney Gen.
eral suggested dropping the
charge, the spokesman said.