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Jules Verne wrote about space travel back in;
1865 and predicted that the Americans would be first i
to reach the moon, and the Russians second. If it!
works out that way, well forgive and forget those,
sputniks. —Cuero, Texas, Record.
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A friend of ours used to stay in trim by scattering i
a handful of pennies in his bedroom every morning
and stooping for them. Now he’s getting fat — says
there’s no incentive in it any more. He’s going to try j
dimes next week. —Beaver Falls, Pa., News-Tribune, j
Astronomy Notes |
By OLAF HALVERSON
Saturn’s rings are invisible to
the naked eye and were there
fore unknown until after the in
vention of the telescope.
When Galileo began observing!
Saturn with his little telescope in
1610 he saw what seemed to be
two smaller bodies in contact
with the planet on opposite sides.
The supposed additions disap
peared two years later and then
they would reappear.
The changing appearance of
Saturn remained a mystery until
the Dutch scientist Huygens, us
ing a larger telescope, reached
the conclusion that Saturn was
encircled by a broad, flat band.
In later times it was found that
instead of a single ring there are
three concentric rings.
The entire ring system is 171,
000 miles across. The width of
the outer ring is 10,000 miles.
Saturn is now brightly visible
in the east during the early mor
ning hour before sunrise.
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Pvt. Julius Saccheus of
Elim and Nome, Spends
Three-Day Pass In Paris
AUGSBURG, Germany—Army
Pvt. Julius F. Saccheus, son of
Mr. and Mrs. David Saccheus,
Elim, Alaska, recently spent a
three-day pass in Paris.
Saccheus is regularly assigned
as a rifleman in Co. D of the 11th
Airborne Division’s 505th Infan- 1
try in Germany.
The 22-year-old soldier entered
the Army in February 1957, com
pleted basic training at Ft. Rich
ardson, Alaska, and arrived over
seas in November 1957.
He attended Mt. Edgecumbe
High School and was employed
by the U.S.S.R. & M. Co. in Nome
in civilian life.
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New Book “Alaskan
Poker Stories”
Just Published
A new book “Alaskan Poker
Stories,” has been recently pub
lished, written by Kenneth Gil
bert.
We think this book is unique
not only because it deals with a
subject few authors are equipped
to write about, but also because
it represents the best of anecdotal
material gathered during 40 years
of travel, experience and passing
contact with that strange breed
known as The Class—the sure
thing gambler. Only with such a
background could Alaskan Poker
Stores have been written.
Good poker stories, like all
good stories, are extremely rare.
It has taken the writer the better
part of a lifetime to collect these.
Some are based on his own ex
perience, a few came from hear
say, while several were lived by
that legendary character who
gave himself the whimsical pseu
donym of “Col. Bowie J. Kirby.”
These stories are unusual be
cause they deal with a little
known facet of human behavior,
displayed most frequently at the
poker table. They are fascinating
because they reveal the amazing
ingenuity that men display in try
ing to outwit their fellows. They
give a remarkably clear insight ■
of human nature because they
point up the ancient struggle of
man against man, with its char
acteristic touch of greed, the vain
satisfaction gained when one
proves he is more clever than his
fellow man.
They point no moral, because
poker and morals seldom mix
anyway!
Aluminum is most abundant of
all the metallic elements found
on the earth’s crust.
WANTED BY THE FBI j
GEORGE EDWARD COLE
A complaint was filed before a
United States Commissioner at San
Francisco, Calif., on January 9, 1957,
charging George Edward Cole wiih vio
lation of the Unlawful Flight to Avoid
Prosecution Statute in that he fled from
the State of California to avoid prose
cution after allegedly murdering a j
police officer.
Cole is described as follows: Corn,
March 24, 1927, Philadelphia, Pa.
Height, 6 feet I inch. Weight, 160 to
178 pounds. Build, medium. Hair,
brown, receding. Eyes, brown. Com
plexion, medium. Race, white. Na- J
tionclity, American. Occupations: bus
driver, trick driver, typist. Soars and
marks: pit scar on outside corner of
right eye, small cut scar on inside of
left wrist, appendectomy scar; tattoo,
smell heart and names "Mom" and
"Dad" and letters "GP" or "SP" on left
forearm; tot loo, C-point star on back of .J
left hand. He wears full upper der.'ere.
Cole has previously been ccr. feted
of grand larceny end rebbory. He re
portedly has sfulcd I,.a* !;s v l.i sheet
any police office, cl’ iV.g to appre
hend him. Cc's j os ermed
and dangerous.
Any person having I " *-.s.flon v.l.lsh
might assist in lac: 7 ' .1: fugitive is
requested to ir.-.:v _'■/ rslify the
Director of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, United Stories Dcparlmsnt
of Justice, Wasliinglon 25, D. C., cr the
Special Agert : Ch-rce of the nearest
FBI Division, the tel •'hor.e r- — p-- cf
which appears on the first page of local
telephone directories.
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President Signs Into Law
Bill Lifting Debt Limit
To 280 Billion Dollars
WASHINGTON, UP)—- President
Eisenhower Thursday signed a
bill temporarily lifting the na
tional debt ceiling by 5 billion
dollars to 280 billion.
The increase will remain in ef
fect until June 30, 1959, at which
time the legal limit on borrow
ings will drop back to 275 billion I
unless Congress continues the J
higher figure for another year.
President Eisenhoker requested
the increase to give the adminis
tration more elbow room for its
financing. The current national
debt is close to the 275 billion
dollar limit in permanent law.
Nine Die In New York
City of Alcohol Poisoning
NEW YORK, UPt—Nine persons
have died here this week from
drinking wood alcohol.
The police department assigned
27 detectives to locate the source
of supply before more lives are
claimed.
Four men and two women died
after attending a Sunday night
party in Harlem.
Three men, not known to have
attended the party, died yester
day. The victims were Puerto
Ricans.
j Admiral Says Interservice
j Rivalry Absent From
Dealings with Air Force
j WASHINGTON, UPi — An ad
I miral said today the Navy is con
I sidering the possibility of making
available to the Air Force its
| Polaris solid fuel intermediate
range ballistic missile for special
purposes.
Rear Adm. W. F. Raborn, direc
tor of special projects for the
Navy, said this in a speech pre
pared for delivery to the jet age
conference of the Air Force Assn.
Raborn said development of the
Polaris — designed primarily for
firing from submerged sub
marines—now is far ahead of the
originally planned schedule.
He told the AFA that despite
reports of “so-called interservice
rivalries and bickering, there has
been much stimulating and fruit
ful collaboration between your
service and ours in many phases
of the job of developing ballistic
missiles into practical, usable
hardware.”
Shah of Iran to Visit Eisenhower
TEHRAN, Iran, UPl—'The Shah
of Iran plans to visit Washington
in June for talks with President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles on the Middle East
situation, a court spokesman said
today.
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