Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - June 12, 1965, Fairbanks, Alaska CITY NEWS CV BRIEF Traffic Delay Motorists are cautioned weather the mobile asphalt crew will be working on the Steese Highway between Fairbanks and Fox through the week of June 14-18. Traffic may be delayed for short periods of time but these delays will be kept to a The ation of the traveling public is Children's Reading Clubs The Fairbanks Public Library is sponsoring two summer ing clubs for children who have completed fourth or fifth There are no dues just the fun and opportunity to Library Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 Friday 10 a.m. to 6 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bible School The North Pole Assembly of God Church Bible will run from June 14 to June 18. Classes are from to 11 a.m. Rev. LATE Farthest North Daily of The Associated Press Per Copy JUNE 12, 1965 No. 137 FEUDING ENDS CIVILIAN REIGN Million Foreign Aid Cut Passes Senate Flash Flood Death Toll Now at 16 L Tex. quist and amateur magician The finding of three more will be using these means to lustrate the All ages are Children under four should he accompanied by ies today death toll raised to 13 the known in Friday's flash flood which devastated this picturesque Southwest State Police said the bodies I were found in Sanderson Interested young people yon tween the ages of 13-18 Th t still join the immediately or guard which is now for an upcoming trip to ine iisi or n lanrt Nn increased as relatives No previous training is the list of missing and For information call i to the disaster 452-4020. 456-6544 or 452-3635. The during the early morning stood at 18, Vacation Bible School The Church of 645 is beginning vacation Bible school June 14 through June 18, from 7 to 9 p.m. Classes for all ages will be but officials said several other names later were added to the Damage wrought by the flash flood was estimated at The flood was triggered by an 11-inch cloudburst over the wa- i From Seattle Pacific Col- lay even He announced he will call up more amendments Monday seeking to cut the program on a Sen. Frank was 53 to 38, Frida on an amendment to cut mil ary assistance by rom to He argued that the United States is providing military equipment for opposing forces of Pakistan and India as well as e an opposing forces of Turkey and Buttons will bp and 133 others with and that the cuts should bv Little Leaguers for trailer I be taken from those from El who ar- i rived in the stricken town at 3 Button Drive The North Star Little League a.m. The Red Cross reported 54 will a all homes 36 badly WASHINGTON The Senate has voted million board cut in President Johnson's foreign aid The action came late Friday on an amendment by Sen. Wayne to reduce authorizations for each of the next two years from 000 to which ried 40 to 35. Sen. Mike the majority announced after the vote that the ship planned to keep the Senate in session Monday night in the hope of completing action on the Morse charged the program had resulted in billions of lars of waste through and called it ing But he was defeated 54 to 2fi, when he sought to cut it by to an illi Expectant Parents begin at the Fairbanks Health Center at p.m. For information call 456- 423C or 456-5156. Twenty-one trailer j homes were either destroyed Ceiling on Amount r badly Eighteen Expectant Parents were eitner washed away or badly Railroads and highways Southern Pacific Railroad reported five miles of i track washed out and three jor bridges Scores of bulldozers moved into the stricken town to begin clean-up Sanderson yon Creek the source of the Dance Night Fairbanks Folk and Square Dancing Club will dance from 9-12 p.m. today in the Masonic Temple and will discuss en Days Eielson Grange Eielson Area Grange will work Sunday to shingle the Grange Hall All members are asked to Jones in Puerto Rico R. D. Jones is in San Puerto a Philco dealers Turnagain Soil floodwaters returned to a trickling stream today six inches An 11-inch cloudburst sent water gushing 15 feet deep through Sanderson demolished 75 houses and a dozen business and isolated this far West Texas town for the rainfall in this arid spot ages only 16 inches a As roads were slowly re- peace officers from 15 I Q IL MOV Be Changed gathered to hunt i horseback for the Alaska A system of through which the composition of the soil is changed may make the ground of the Turnagain area stable an interim report re- leased by the Army Engineers Friday A spokesman for the team of soil scientists I The raging flood though ebbing confused efforts to count the dead by washing at least two bodies from graves in the Sanderson Three hundred homeless were fed and sheltered in a grade Up to 200 others were taken 65 miles north to Fort and consultants said the process J Stockton over the first route to lift the high-risk I classification from the area When the devastating quake of March 27, 1964, a great section of Turnagain Bluff slid into the June 12. Mostly cloudy with scattered showers night and Sunday with brief afternoon sunny Low tonight 50, high Sunday high yesterday 67, low last night 4J. Temperature at 11 a.m. 57. Sunrise Sunday sunset p.m. for a total of 21 hours 34 minutes sunlight with a gain of 4 The by a 42-39 also put a ceiling of 15 per cent on the amount of U. S. ment loan funds that can be transferred to international agencies for The amendment was offered by Sen. Frank J. Only the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Ernest to keep the ceiling on transfer authority at the existing 1 per instead of the 20 per cent recommended by the Foreign Relations Com- The Morse amendment would allow the administration to dis- tribute the million cut among the various foreign aid programs as it While the has been cut this reduction has been partially offset by previous Senate action adding million to the measure to launch dent Johnson's economic and social development program in South Viet Thailand and Space Twins Say Hard Part Coming Tex. America's space twins prepared for what fellow astronauts have called toughest part of the inevitable round of parades and Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II relaxed at their homes near the Manned Space Center in ing for the busy week It starts Monday with a ticker tape parade in There's a homecoming celebration Tuesday at the University of and hometown comings Wednesday in for and in San for McDivitt and White got a big surprise Friday a from President Johnson in the way of They changed their gold major's leaves on their Air Force tunics to the silver of lieutenant The President's first visit to the Manned Spacecraft Center resulted from a decision made by McDivitt and They had been given a choice of re- the presidential at the center or the LBJ They chose Houston so fellow employes at the center could share the Johnson's announcement of the promotions brought shocked expressions to the spacemen and their The astronauts became majors only last While speaking before space center employes who on Page 7, Col. V DAZED Gl SURVIVES DONG ON- SLAUGHT An unidentified U.S. soldier stumbles from a jungle hiding place after surviving the bloody battle of Dong This made today by AP Horst shows the American GI being aided by a South Vietnamese ment Several U.S. servicemen were killed in the Wirephoto Generals Take Over Viet Nam Leadership End of Government Marks Eighth Change in Country Since the Death of Ngo Dinh Diem South Viet Nam Mounting public pressure and an internal feud were climaxed today by the resignation of South Viet Nam's civilian which returned power to the It marked the eighth change of government in the war-torn country since strongman dent Ngo Dinh Diem was over- thrown and assassinated less than 20 months Prime Minister Phan Huy Quat and Chief of State Phan Khac who had clashed over a Cabinet agreed to stay on in caretaker roles with other members of the But the National Charter and Aleut Residents Express Fear of Forced Transplant harvest of fur seals is actually under ST. Pribilof Islands i He said it was purely an eco- Btl DAVE GILBERT staff Writer Bureau of cial Fisheries assured Aleut nomic explaining it will have a new a better opportunity to offer you before we ask you to move some to maintain St. idents of St. George again and George village year again Friday they would not George contributes moved from the islands against j their won't force anyone Willard executive director of the State Commission on Human said the move the Legislative Council eliminated and a highly placed spokesman for Thieu prime minister Renewed Fighting Flares Up Viet Nam Renewed fighting flared tonight outside Dong between 500 Viet Cong guerrillas and a airborne a The spokesman said a U. S. Air Force pilot was killed when the situation ground fire in the lO miles north of downed his The source said the 7th borne Battalion an estimated 460 men was under heavy at- we are starting absolutely from Although still Maj Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu was serving as a the military deputy defense was and minister in the Quat tack and apparently retreating Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky the toward Dong had beeS flamboyant commander of the pressing the Viet Cong back er a Woody battle Thursday Vietnamese air aiso was viewed as having a to St. Paul could be made Communist China Seeks Peace Poland Communist Chinese dor Wang said day night Peking did not want war with the United we could have re- for repeated American move That would not be James C. Rettie of the Secretary of the Interior's D. Rettie made the comments during public meetings called by a investigating team probing charges were being mistreated and deprived of their Rettie is a member of the headed by tary of State Hugh J. Wade of Fear Transplant Pribilof Aid Plaw Told Page 4) strong j anci Three companies in the i on St. George and presenting op- on St. that is like a Susie Merculief of St. George will be necessary to do and the 1 ive after a only about of the some things that are painful between Vietnamese u i George is operated only i and political It Other than work during the short sealing residents of St. George have no other em- ployment and must exist on what they earn in five or less months at an average of about per are under a moral and political obligation to offer you Time and residents more than five n months violations of our no such St. George expressed the fear during two public meetings that the Bureau of Commercial eries plans to transplant them to St. and just as often Rettie assured them there were China had wanted with the United States it could have had it long Wang He was interviewed through an interpreter at a Brit- ish Embassy reception marking the birthday of Queen Elizabeth I. was born on this one emotional Aleut want to stay don't want to go to St. another Rettie said the bureau does plan to operate St. George on a seasonal basis when the months Wade Only Lease Homes I came three weeks of George told j mounting pressure from for the commission that while they only lease their homes from the for a they still have heavy personal Generosity of Fairbanks in Supporting Alaska 67 Lauded at Meeting De Agree to Propose Summit Talks Germany ident Charles de Gaulle of France and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard have agreed to propose a summit conference of the Eu- ropean Common Market by year's end to discuss a political a West German said The proposal will have to be accepted by the other members embourg before the meeting There is wide disagreement can take between De Gaulle and Erhard was announced at the end of two days of Erhard has been pressing for a conference to start work on a political ANCHORAGE Should the federal government participate in the 1967 Alaska Purchase Centennial by ing federal Herb director of the Alaska State Centennial said here that banks will be first Addressing over 200 bankers and financial leaders attending the 17th annual Alaska Association convention at the Anchorage Westward Hotel Adams is an example for the whole state of He commended the people of Fairbanks for dous sacrifice for giving even more than they had to in raising to and said know at least more is Plans for a tional Center as a permanent project to be developed in Adams called most of the four major projects being planned in the state in conjunction with the Outlining Centennial plans of the Adams sized its importance as lying point for the common and as the opportunity to build something nent in communities throughout The state director discussed RALPH BAILEY mw values in terms of knowledge to be gained of past ex- pansion of understanding and development of community and construction of major permanent including civic centers and Also on the afternoon er's Alaska er of Natural Phil discussed Out- look for Future Natural Re- source Holsworth said Alaska's cultural future would lie in the development of coordinating efforts of als now isolated in their efforts to solve problems of the A federal Department of culture specialist in tives is arriving in Alaska late this month to confer with state officials and leaders on re- source Holsworth Holsworth cited as an ple of problems needing tion the proper storage of fresh produce to extend the market on 7, Col. n The bars were awaiting ment to the Canadian mint in S.C. manager of Mines Ltd. at said gold bars are shipped every Friday from the mine at to Larder 11 miles Take Five Gold Bars in Robbery LARDER Ont. Four masked men over- powered a railroad station agent in this remote northern Ontario community Friday and made off with five gold bars worth police The bandits were believed to have fled in a Wade told the Aleuts a plane that took off from sponsored by Sen. about three miles would cover most of the Ontario Northland Railway their He said the would make it possible for residents of the Pribilofs to obtain title to the land they allow ment of local call for state financing of schools and turn over health and fare to state or another federal and other dissident A high government The downed American was flying in support of the government Witnesses said he ejected before the plane crash and his parachute ently a U.S. Army copter sent to evacuate him re- ported he was He was the 10th known casualty of the investments in Those speaking at the two meetings said there was ing on St. Paul against them be- cause of the rumored with St. Paul already facing a labor surplus and The Aleuts also spoke of abuses by the Bureau of Com- but all of the abuses mentioned occurred be- fore 1950. That was the year the bureau abandoned the practice of ing food and clothing as wages and adopted a cash wage emphasized that the but total may go not be interpreted final results of fighting at Dong the are another In the face of growing Quat this week had turned Three Americans are known to the generals to help solve the ead and are The source said he In the warplanes re- housine heved the nad ported they sank or damaged 6 to step into the 5 boats in a strike about 120 miles inside North Viet on Page 7, col. 4) by Would Clear Way tor Station Here JUNEAU Sen. E. L. said today he has introduced a ing the way for the construction of a satellite telemetry com- mand station near Fairbanks by the European Space Research Organization The European organization was created by 10 nations for space research and now operates stations in the Falkland lands and Bartlett told The Associated Press from Washington his would add to tho list of organizations given special recognition under the International Organizations Im- Act. Legislation is needed since the United States is not a member of Bartlett said the land for toe station would be leased by the state of understand is pre- pared to hire an American firm to operate the as re- quired by Bartlett adding the station will employ 30 during periods of round-the-clock The would grant the posed tracking station the same special status granted United States space installations Tanacross Area Indians File Protest on Land Selections The federal government The protest made by Chief received a protest from a group of Tanacross area Indians re Issac of the Tanacross Council asserts a Native rights claim to garding Bureau of Land some of the land in the area agement approval of a been filed with the BLM in land selection in the Lake George area near Roscoe E. director of the Alaska Division of said he was advised of the Indian action in a letter received June live approval 8 from Sen. Ernest No official tion has been received from the the early 1950s, but reportedly because of improper did not specifically in- clude Lake Because of the state George received to the Lake on Page 7, The Division of Lands has considering sale of lots Lake George under its Involved in the Indian program of test are acres of land in in which private the Lake George and Healy Lake areas near Delta Junction southeast of The state made four general grant selections in the Lake George vicinity in June of 1961. The BLM granted tentative al to the selections on Sept. 20, 1963, and Oct. 14, 1963, after the required five weeks of legal advertising and a protest period of several Bell said the after re- tentative approval to a assumes full bility for ing protection from jer mineral leasing and other disposals of lands ed in the Under land selection laws of the Statehood the federal government wiy every cloud must determine land status and silver availability of land before lately we've had of 'em granting tentative approval to to end the currency the
