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The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08
By KOTZEBUE CORRESPONDENT

Congratulations to Mentzers, NchaefferS and Reichs on their new arrivals. Dr. and Mrs. Will liam Mentzer had a baby boy born Oct' 50. It was also boy for MT. ana Mrs. Charlie Reich born Oct. Z8th. Mir. and Mrs. John Schaef- Ter Jr welcomed a baby girl named Susan Nov. 2.
 There are F candidates for City Council for the Nov. 12 election, of which six will be selected. Those running for one year terms are: Bonnie Staheli, Rodney Lincoln, Jack Jones, George Miller, Burton Havllland, Babe Dawl and Phillip Leonard. Those seeking two year terms are: Sam Lauser, Rev. Per lsho, June Mcconnell, Trygve Jor- gensen, Levi Mills, Clifford Short, Harold Lie, Leon Shellabarger, Don Ferguson and Arthur Fields.
 MT. Dudley and MT. Giddings of the BIA Branch of PD and C, Al buquerque office, visited Kotze- bue this week. They advised that materials for the new Kotzebue High School would be shipped in next summer, but due to the ex- tensive construction planned that the new high school will not be ready for occupancy until the fall of 1866. They treasured MT. Tiff fany, local BIA Principal, that there is additional elementary space allotted in the site plans.
 There are now 36 pupils en- rolled in the special program for high school and adult education.
 The first official volleyball league games will be played Tues day evening, Nov 5, in the BIA multi-purpose room. Men teams play on Tuesday evenings and the women teams on Thursday even ings. Nov. 5 scheduled games are: 2 pm. - Wiens vs BIA High School; 7:30 p.m.-National Guard vs. Air Force C team; 8 p.m.- BIA Teachers Vs. Friends High School; 8:30 p.m.-B and R vs. Air Force A Team; p.m,-TWeets vs. PHS Hospital.
 Fran Pagenkopf, PIN, arrived home from Anchorage nurse con- ference Oct. 30. She is doing vision and hearing screenings at the school this week.
 The Friends High School HalloW- cen Party Nov. l was a bowling success with costumes and wierd spook decorations. A taped radio play made by the freshmen class was played while all partook of re- treatments of ice cream cones and cup cakes. There are four seniors at the Friends High School this year: Gordon Schnare, Jan Brent finger, Ethel Evak and Harry liar vey. Teachers are Rev. and Mrs. Perisho, MT. and Mrs. Eugene Stol- berg, Miss Shirley Sharpless and Miss Glenna Nickell, An extra curricular activity of the high
The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08

A Special Forces soldier was in- jured on the evening of 30 Sep tember in the Village of Shungnak. While attempting to start a gen. orator at the National Guard Ar mory there, Sgt. Robert N. San ford received a laceratiOn above his right eye. Pfc. William L. Page, a Special Forces medical specialist, administered treatment until Sgt. Sanford could be evacuated to KOt- zebue for further examination. The laceration required five stitches which were accomplished by Pfc. Page. The examination at Kotze- bue Public Health Service Hos pital revealed no further injuries. Sgt. Sanford was released to the Special Forces Detachment there for return to the 8-man Speclal Forces Detachment training with the Alaskan Eskimo Scouts in Shungnak.
 Special Forces medical training assists in outlying village of kiVa- lima. Specialist 4th Class David L. Streb administered emergency treatment to 9-year-old Nora Do- lores Swan after she had received second degree burns on both arms and her right side, inflicted by boiling water. Doloris is the niece of Reverend Swan of the Episcopal Church of Kivalina. Spec. Streb is a member of the 7-man Special Forces Detachment now training with the Alaskan Eskimo Scouts in Kivalina A recent report stated that Dolores is doing well.
The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08

sell and Major Murley departed the same day for visits to Noorvik and Kiana where Special Forces teams are engaged in training with the Alaskan Eskimo Scouts. Capt Flagge will remain for an indefi- mite period in Kotzebue to assist the Special Forces unit in all med ical aspects.
The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08

Dr. Harrison arrived home from Anchorage Oct. 30. and departed for Point Hope Nov. 4 for a field clinic visit. He was accompanied to Point Hope by his wife and two children. They plan to return Nov. 8.
 Jerry and Rose Fagerstrom left Kotzebue Friday for their new assignment at Red Lake, Minn. Arthur Willman, PHS Pharmacist, is acting hospital administrator for the present.
 Les and Bessie Bone leave this weekend for a two month vacation in California, Kentucky and Michi- gan. They plan to drive back via the Alaska ferry system. MT. Bone is chief engineer at the PHS hos pital.
 Mrs Geraldine Doogan from the
The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08

The 15-man Special Forces De- tachment B-1, commanded by Ma jor Bruce L. Solomon, is now en- gagged in training activities with the Alaska National Guard at Kot- zebue. The unit received liaison visit on l November from It. Col. George C. Russell Civil Affairs Officer) Major William F. Mur- ley and Capt. Merle O. Flagge Group Physician. It. Col. Rus
The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08

Dr. Lathrop returned from the dental conference at Anchorage Nov. 2. Nov. 4 both Dr. and Mrs. Lathrop departed for Point Hope where they will have dental clin- ic until Nov. 27 when they go 10 Kivalina for field clinic there before returning to Kotzebue about Dec. 4.
The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08

Two new nurses arrived Oct. 31 for the PHS hospital staff. Miss Ann Murray and Miss Ann Kelle- her both come from Harlan, Ken lucky, where they were working at a mining hospital. Miss Murray is originally from Scotland and Miss Kelleher from Ireland.
The Nome nugget., 1963-11-08

There are now 36 pupils en- rolled in the special program for high school and adult education.
Evening star., 1963-04-21
ON THE AIR
He's Got
Big Plans

John Astin, the talented comedy actor who
plays Harry Dickens in ABC-TV's slapstick I'm
DickenS-He's Fenster Fridays WNdAL-D, need
ed no extra persuasion to come here recently for
the Cherry Blossom Festival events.
For one thing, he realizes the value of pub
icty for the series at this critical point in its
career. For another. he grew up in Washington.
and his parents dad is director Of the Bureau Of
Standards) live in Bethesda
Astin, an actor on a timetable, candidly ad-
mitted that one or two more years in the series
would give him the stature" to carry off some
ideas Of his own. One Of these is a movie script
he's writing. He's also hoping that no one buys
the film rights to Beckett's Waiting for Godot"-
which he considers the finest play Of our time
before he can enter bid.
Meanwhile, Dickens-Fenster continues on an
iffy basis, although recent ratings were most en-
couraging. Bernie Harrison.
v Mosazine, Woshinston, o. C., April n, 1868 S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Wheat Sale

Tt appeared as though Mr..
Kennedy, with the concurrence of
Democratic leaders in the House
and Senate, was determined to
obtain a Republican consensus in
favor Of selling the wheat to the
Russians before he would urge
Congress to approve such a deal.
Whether this consensus can be
obtained remains to be seen.
Some Republicans, such as Rep
resentative Hoeven of Iowa, feel
that IF we sell wheat to Russia
for dollars or gold we are sur
rendering our basic objective of
fighting communism.
The wheat deal is attractive to
the administration for these rea-
sons:
1t would reduce our wheat sur
plus, now totaling IL billion
bushels; it would bring in about
$3.50 million-in dollars or gold
and thereby ease to that extent
our serious balance of payments
deficit and, finally it would con-
tinue the momentum toward a
relaxation of tensions started by
the test-ban treaty.
Two American allies, Canada
and Australia, recently concluded
contracts to sell, respectively, $500
and 500 million worth Of wheat
to the Soviet Union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

at the State Department and
members of the American En-
baSsy in Saigon were said to have
taken the stand that the war
was not going well and that the
Buddhist problem was adversely
affecting the anti-Red military
effort. These officials were
backed by several crusading
American reporters in South Wet
Nam. Unidentified Junior U. s..
Army officers were said to feel
the same way.
On the other side, the top
American military command has
been reporting to Washington
that the tide was turning" in
our favor in the battle against
the guerrillaS and that, to date,
the Buddhist problem, which is
most divisive in the large cities,
had not appreciably affected the
campaign. Defense Secretary Nc
Namara and the top Pentagon
chiefs have accepted this esti-
mate. There is reason to believe
that Secretary of State Rusk does,
too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
The Setup

The syndicate, Valachi told
Senators, has levels Of power like
an army, ranging from soldiers"
at the bottom to the "capore-
gina" or ieutenants to the
"capo" or boss. And Vito Geno-
vese, now serving out a narcotics
sentence, he added, is the boss
of bosses in the organization.
Beyond the fascinating details
of the mob's history, which prom
Use to top anything by Ian Flem-
ing, the Valachi story bears all
the marks of new drive by
Justice Department officials for
broad laws covering such syndi-
Gates. Should it not be a felony
for anyone to join a secret organ
ization which can command mem
bers to murder? asked Chairman
Mcclellan.
Attorney General Kennedy, who
probed the Malta while heading
the Senator's crime Investigations
staff in the late 1950s, thinks so.
Give us the right to grant i'm
munity to witnesses in racket
Investigations. Mr.. Kennedy asked
the committee last week. Revise
overlapping laws so that Federal
agents can use conversations as
evidence. AS for legalized lot
Continued on Page 3D.
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Strong Words

Meanwhile, Mr.. Lodge took an
unusual diplomatic step last week.
He denounced a statement made
by Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife OF
one Of the most powerful men in
Wet Nam and a brother and chief
advisor to Mr.. Diem.
Mrs. Nhu, who was In Rome at
the time. was quoted as saying
that American junior officers in
her country were little soldiers
OF fortune" The Ambassador
labeled her observation "cruel and
shocking" and reminded her that
these Americans were risking their
lives alongside their Wet Namese
buddies.
What effect Mr.. Lodges re-
joinder will have on his future
relations with President Diem and
Mr.. Nhu remain to be seen.
Americans will have a better
opportunity to size up Mrs. Nhu,
whose sharp tongue and beauty
has earned her the nickname Of
Dragon Lady," next week. She
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Dominican:
New Crisis

Army chiefs deposed Presi-
dent Bosch of the Dominican
Republic last week In a blood
less coup. The United States
Immediately suspended relations
and withheld military and
economic aid.
The United States, under its
Alliance for Progress program,
has sought to bring about social
and economic reform in Latin
America. In reaching for this goal
the Washington consensus has
been that democratic liberal
regimes which stand TO the left OF
center are probably the best
vehicle TO get us there.
Accordingly. the election OF
Juan d. Bosch, a scholarly social
reformer and novelist, as Presi-
dent Of the Dominican Republic,
so long and so lately ruled by the
tryannical dictator, Generalissi-
mo Rafael Trujillo. was hearth
ly cheered by the Kennedy admin
istration last December
Liberal laws were passed, those
who made money during the for
mer dictator's regime were sub
jected TO special tax and polit-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Pay Increase

Noting that the bill would in
crease take-home pay Of average
Americans by 4 or per cent, but
up to 200 per cent for those in
top income brackets, Senator
Gore asked:
What good will it do to give
Henry Ford another 81 million
a year income after taxes? He
might build another yacht in Hol-
land"
Among several amendments
planned by the Tennessee law
maker is one that would increase
personal exemptions instead of
reducing rates, a move plainly
aimed at the breadwinner with a
large family.
One administration supporter,
Senator Hartke of Indiana, last
week offered an amendment to
start finance hearings at once
and limit them to 80 days. Such
a move would affront the COM
mittee chairman in a legislative
body where protocol is king, and
the idea drew fire. The rancor
suggested that the tax bill, which
President Kennedy has called "the
most important domestic eco
nomic measure to come before
the Congress in the past is years."
is in for more bloodletting before
it reaches the White House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

Gated that the USSR would like
to buy up to 200 million bushels
of wheat from this country at the
export price of around $1.30
buShel. This could come to $3.50
million worth.
o United States and Soviet nego-
tiatorS in Moscow began discus
Sions which may lead to the OPEN
ing Of consulates in each others
country.
On the wheat matter, Kennedy
administration officials from q
fiStful Of agencies began an in
tenSive study of the factors IN
volved in such sale to the Soviet
Union-the economic, legal, do
nestle political and the interna-
tional repercuSsions. The Senate
and House committees dealing
with foreign affairs and agricul-
ture joined executive branch Off
Gals to discuss it.
AS of yesterday, nothing had
been decided. Nothing is likely to
be decided, either, until the Pres
ident returns from his "nonpolit-
ical" conservation tour of the
West a week from tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Puritan Ethic

Not the least of handicaps was
an offhand remark last spring by
an ally of the Kennedy camp.
Under needing by a Congress
woman, Walter w. Heller, head
of the Presidents Council of Eco
nomic Advisers, remarked that the
basic Puritan ethic" of Ameri-
cans made them balk at a tax
cut in times of big deficits. It
was wonderful G. o. P. ammu-
milton.
Since then, the Puritan ethic
has bobbed up like a yo-yo into
every discussion of the matter
Representative John Byrnes.
ranking G. o. P. member of WAYS
and Means, threw the phrase into
floor debate while trying to
amend the bill with a limit on
spending In 1864 and 1865.
Last week, thanks to Southern
conservative Democrats who re-
fused to line up with Republicans
on this particular issue, the Ad-
ministration beat off the Byrnes
proposal, then went on to pass
the bill, 271 to 1856. Observers said
the personal influence of Mr..
Mills, an Arkansas Democrat,
helped keep the Southerners in
line.
Although the President issued
an expected commentator, the
tax cut headed for more trouble
in the Senate, where no hearings
have been held. Chairman Byrd
Of the Senate Finance Committee
is hostile to a cut without cores
ponding reductions in Federal
spending, and promises to extend
hearings to December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
CHn1e:
The BigShow

A clanniSh, sinister and per-
vasive crime syndicate run with
ruthless discipline was described
by Joseph M. Valachi in a dra-
matte Senate hearing last week.
Behind the story: A plea by law
officials for new Federal con-
trolls on organized crime.
1T is a Government with an
annual income of billions, resting
on a base of human suffering and
moral corruption" said Attorney
General Kennedy.
What he described, in a pre-
paratory hearing before Senator
McClellan'S investigations sub
committee last Wednesday, was
Cosa Nostra (Our Thing in Ital-
lam, a tightly knit hierarchy
with fingers in every racket from
gambling to narcotics.
The details he left to a far
more colorful witness, Joseph M.
Valachi, so, alumnus of East
Harlem gutter crime in the 1920S,
with postgraduate training in
CoSa Nostra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Criticism

Nevertheless, because Of steady
criticism of the Diem regime and
one policy towards it in the press
and in the halls of Congress,
President Kennedy decided to
send Mr.. Mcnamara and Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor to South Wet
Nam on a special fact-finding
mission.
The Mcnamara party, which
includes Marine Maj. Gen. Victor
Krulak, the Pentagon's top count
er-insurgency expert, arrived in
Saigon Tuesday night and almost
Immediately conferred with Am
bassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
After further conferences in Sal
gon with military and political
officials, the visitors went out to
the battle zones where they re-
ceived special briefings and looked
at things for themselves.
BY the end of the week, reports
from South Wet Nam indicated
that the high-command military
reports the Defense Chief had
received in Washington were be-
ing corroborated in the field. This
was specifically reported by a
Star correspondent in South Wet
Nam who also asserted that the
following conclusions are clear:
. There is no slippage in the
military schedule to clear Wet
Nam Of guerrillas.
. The Buddhist and student
demonstrations have had no
appreciable affect on the conduct
of the war.
. Thus, there is no present need
to change American policy, which
Is to get on with the war while
trying to persuade Mr.. Diem to
be more conciliatory with his
political opposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Wet Man,:
The Proof

Defense Secretary Mcnamara
flew TO South Wet Nam on
Monday and spent the rest Of
the week studying the military
campaign against the Red
guerrillas at the request Of
President Kennedy.
There have been persistent re-
ports OF a sharp division Of opin-
ion among United States Govern
ment agencies over how the
American-backed war against the
Communist guerrillas was going
in South Wet Nam and over the
effect President Diem's trouble
with the Buddhists was having
on II.
Some position paper" officers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
THE WEEK IN PERSPECTIVE
The Test Ban: And Now :?

The Senate approved the nu-
clear test ban treaty last week
by an 80 to 10 vote.
The Big Three Foreign Min
listers began talks in New York
yesterday as Russians indicated
in Ottawa that they want to
buy American wheat.
He (the President) shall have
power by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate to make
treaties, provided two-thirds Of
the Senators present concur :"
The Senate on Tuesday gave its
advice and consent, as provided
in the Constitution of the United
States, Article II, Section 2, para
graph 2, to a limited nuclear test
ban treaty with the Soviet Union.
The vote was 80 to 10. a margin
of IA over the necessary two
thirds. The Democrats gave the
pact, which prohibits nuclear tests
in the atmosphere, under allowing
and in outer space while allowing
underground explosions, a 5 to l
edge, with SIS for ratification and
II opposed. The Republican mar
gin was one vote better than 3 to
/, with Is ayes and 8 noes.
(The only Senator who did not
vote was Clair Engle, Democrat Of
California. He is in the hospital,
having recently undergone a brain
operation. He said he would have
hvoted in the affirmative.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
A Precedent

Regardless Of the reasons, the
significant fact is that the
Russians did sign the pact, the
first one on a major point of con-
flict with the West since the
Austrian treaty of 1855 which
ended the occupation Of that
country and set it on its neutral
course.
But the big question which is
posed in the wake of the test ban
is this: What is the next likely
step in the thawing of East West
relations and when will 1t be
taken?
Yesterday, Secretary of State
Rusk, Soviet Foreign Minister
Gromyko and British Foreign
Secretary Lord Home set about in
earnest to try to come up with
the answer. They met at the
United Nations headquarters in
New York for exploratory talks
yesterday.
The chances are that there will
be no quick or easy solution to
any of the major issues which
divide the Soviet Union and the
West-such as Berlin, Germany
and genuine disarmament. In
addition to American and Rus
sian differences over these prob
lens, there is the matter Of the
boycott of the political talks by
President de Gaulle. Without the
participation Of the French in
matters of vital and direct con-
Germ to NATO. the prospect for
significant new steps toward the
path Of peace are not partic-
ularly bright.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
An Alliance

Beyond that, some surprising
names showed up in an alliance
last week to stall the program in
the Senate until President Ken
nedy delivers his 1864 budget mes
sage next January. Among them:
Democrats Proxmire of Wisconsin,
Gore of Tennessee, and G. o. P.
Senator Williams of Delaware.
Both the Democrats are con-
sidered liberals. In fact, Senator
Gore in the 1858 anti-recession
drive maSterminded a step-up in
the interstate highway spending
that helped create a $12.4 billion
deficit the following year. But
Senator Gore, also a member of
the Finance panel, is not con-
WINGED the present bill puts the
tax cut where it will stimulate
spending most effectively.
Dangerous to our national
economy, dangerous to our inter-
national prestige, dangerous to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Malaysia:
Threat to Kill

President SukarnO Of IndO-
nesia last week vowed to ode
StrOy" Malaysia. The United
States suspended all new eco
nOmic-aid programs for IndO-
neSia.
"At one time in my life I
dreamed of a -Indonesia to
include not only Malaga and
Papua New Guinea but also the
Philippines"
This was President Sukarno Of
Indonesia speaking and while he
went on to say that he has since
abandoned that dream, the state
ment. made some time ago, still
has nightmarish implications for
some of his neighbors.
Mr.. Sukarno did nothing to
allay fears that, in his acknowl-
edged effort to liquidate British
and American influence in his
part of the world, he seeks to
dominate Oceania when he
shouted last week that he would
fight and destroy" the newly
formed nation Of Malaysia.
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Some Progress

This does not mean there will
not be progress of some kind. In
deed, the Kennedy usk approach
is to seek agreement on relatively
minor problems first in order TO
establish a true spirit OF accom-
mediation or detente and then
once again try solutions OF the
major ones. Mr.. RuSk put IL this
way in statement in New York
on Monday:
Il do not see on the immediate
horizon dramatic and sweeping
solutions to divisive and danger
GUS problems. But we must work
at them steadily, patiently and
ceaselessly. Small steps are worth
taking because we may find them
to be the key TO larger ones"
AS 1t happens, the prospect OF
two small steps being taken arose
last week. These were the devel-
opments:
. Russian trade missionaries in
Canada met with American busi-
nessmen and farmers and indi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Tax Bills Long Trip
Is Just Beginning

The House approved the ad-
miniStratiOn's tax cut-and-re-
form bill last week, after beat
ing off a G. o. p. move to limit
spending. The measure now
faces an uncertain fate in the
Senate, where a coalition seeks
to delay it until the Presidents
budget message next year.
For a scheme heralded as the
keystone of the administrations
economic program, the tax bill
has been lodging enemy fire for
a remarkably long stretch of its
brief life.
Debated during the summer of
1862 six months before it had
even issued from the White House,
the measure started out early
this year as a $13.6 billion tax
cut.
After seven months of hearings
and rewriting, it reached the
House floor as an Sill billion
cut, with most of the slice going
to individuals ($8.8 billion plus
$2.3 billion bon-bon for corpora
tons. Reforms plugging some tax
loopholes would bring Uncle Sam
an estimated 81 billion more in
annual revenues Tvs. $3.4 billion
in the original Kennedy version).
The President had hoped Con-
gleSs would get the tax cut legis-
lation to his desk for signing by
midsummer. Instead, as Chairman
Mills of the tax-writing House
Ways and Means Committee
quietly predicted last December,
it looks as if the measure will
not clear Capitol Hill before next
January.