Big Hydroplanes Tune Up
For Seafair Trophy Race
On Lake Washington
SEATTLE, UP> — Placid Lake
Washington reverberated with a
familiar once-a-year sound again
Tuesday—the throaty roar of un
limited hydroplanes as they took
to the water to qualify for Sun
day’s Seafair trophy race.
Miss Bardahl of Seattle, which
already is qualified for the event,
was first on the water Monday
for a tune-up spin.
Fifteen more of the huge craft
are expected to make the run for
the trophy. Six of those must
make qualifying runs of 90 miles
an hour or better.
They are the Miss Tool Crib,
Miss Seattle, Thriftaway Too and
Kol-Roy, all of Seattle; Coral
Reef of Tacoma and Breathless II
of Lake Tahoe, Nev.
New York City Still Largest
WASHINGTON, (jP>—The New
York metropolitan area, still the
biggest in the United States, had
a population of 10,604,300 as of
last April 1, the Census Bureau
said today.
Abolish Some Income Taxes
WARSAW, Poland, tfi — The
Polish Communist party has abol
ished income taxes for a half mil
lion low income workers and cut
the tax 30 per cent for 2,200,000
others.
Effective Monday workers
making $35.45 a month or less
were exempted.
A MIDGET MIDGET
CLEVELAND, Ohio, UP> — No
one expects a Shetland pony to
be very large.
And a Shetland colt is pretty
small too—usually about 40 to 50
pounds and around 35 inches high.
But the surprise of the North
Royalton neighborhood is a male
Shetland colt born last Friday to
average Shetlands.
“Little Nugget,” as he has been
dubbed, weighs only 26 pounds
and stands only 21 inches high.
One of 17 ponies owned by
the John D. Taylor family, the
halfpint critter plays with the
neighborhood children like a dog.
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Have “Flying Saucer”
WASHINGTON, Ito — The De
fense Department has made pub
lic the first photographs of a
saucer-shaped flying disc that is
being tested by the Air Force and j
Army. *
Known as the “Avrocar” and
produced in Canada, the vehicle
is designed to hover near the |
ground on a cushion of air or
to take off and fly under its own
power similar to a winged air- i
craft.
The flying object began its
ground tests last November, and
Avro experts conducted several
low-level hovering tests with it
in Toronto. The Army said that
development testing is still under
way. The Avrocar has made no1
regular flights.
Air Force interest in such a
vehicle began in 1955 under a
contract with Avro to investigate
this vertical take off and landing
concept. Two of the Avrocars
have been produced by the Can
adian firm.
Wild West — Sicily Style
PALERMO, Sicily, OP) — Four
masked men on horseback robbed
a train Monday of about $20,000
in a scene reminiscent of wild
west days in the United States.
Police said the four jumped into
the mail car as the train was
pulling out of a mountain town
station, tied up the mail clerk,
ripped open the mail bags, then
leaped out and made off on four
horses tethered nearby.
Scientist Says Lost
Continent of Atlantis
Found In Aegian Sea
HELSINKI, Finland, Wi — A
Greek scientist says the lost con
tinent of Atlantis has been found
— beneath the waters of the
Aegian Sea.
Although legend put the lost
continent in the Atlantic, Prof.
Angelos Galanopoulos told the
12th general assembly of the In
ternational Union of Geodesy and
Geophysics modern scientific in
struments located the island at a
depth of 900 to 1,200 feet about
half way between Athens and
Crete. The sunken “continent,”
an earthquake victim, is estimat
ed to have been 36 square miles
in area.
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Eisenhower to Personally
Campaign For The
GOP Ticket
NEWPORT, R.I., Wl—The sum
mer White House indicated that
President Eisenhower is planning
some surprises in his personal
campaign to elect the Republican
ticket.
Eisenhower discussed campaign
and congressional strategy for 65
minutes here Monday night with
Vice President Nixon, and his
running mate Henry Cabot Lodge.
At a news conference after the
meeting Nixon made it clear the
President plans an active role in
the campaign.
Referring to Eisenhower as “the
champ,” Nixon said the President
had given him some good cam
paign tips, but. declined to elab
orate, saying he was not going to
be “helpful to our opponents.”
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty took the same
tack. He said Eisenhower will dis
close his plans at an appropriate
time.
Two Major Leagues Will
Add Two Cities with
Death of Continental
CHICAGO, UP) — The Contin
ental League died today, making
room for the National and Ameri
can Leagues to add two teams
each for 1961.
Walter O’Malley, owner of the
Los Angeles Dodgers and chair
man of the National League ex
pansion committee, said that “we
immediately will recommend ex
pansion and we would like to do
it by 1961.”
President Branch Rickey of the
Continental withdrew his group’s
immediate bid for recognition as
a third major basebell league by
agreeing to a plan enabling the
American and National Leagues
i to select four clubs from the Con
! tinental’s potential territory.
New Sub to be Named Lafayette
WASHINGTON, (UP)—'The Navy
will name one of its Polaris mis
sile submarines for the Marquis
de Lafayette, the French noble
man who fought in the American
revolution.
Vandalism Cosily to N.Y. Schools
NEW YORK, UPl—School van
dalism is costing the city $500,
000 annually — an amount that
school officals say would pay for
a new elementary school every
four years. Broken windows ac
count for the bulk of the damage.
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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BYRON G. REED, W.M.
Worvln W. Lewis, Set
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
f^-S Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
MINA BACHELDER. President
JANE FOSTER, Secretary
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