Two ‘Santas’ Distribute
$50 Bills in Southern Cities
ATLANTA, Ga., (UP) — “Who the
heck was ever able to catch
Santa Claus?”
That was the reaction of one
frustrated policeman after a well
dressed white man and a Negro
handed out thousands of dollars
worth of $50 bills Friday in At
lanta, and Birmingham, Ala.
Officers were unable to find
the pair but the persons who re
ceived the bills didn’t care. There
was whooping and hollering in
the streets and joy in many a
> home.
Atlanta police estimated $10,
000 was handed out in two Negro j
neighborhoods. Birmingham offi- |
cers reported at least 20 of the 1
$50 bills were disrtibuted to Ne
groes in that city.
Nobody knew who the men
were or why they were giving
the money away.
All Safe In Airliner Crash
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, UP) j
— A four-engine Brazilian Air
line plane with 44 persons aboard
crashed 20 minutes before land- [
ing yesterday at Belem, near the ;
mouth of the Amazon. An em- j
ploye of the line, Panair Do Bra- j
sil, said all aboard were safe, j
The Constellation, he said, car
ried 38 passengers and 6 crew
members on a flight from Rio.
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Pan America to Merge
East-West Divisions
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Pan
American World Airways an
nounced Saturday the jet age has
resulted in the company’s merg
ing of the Pacific-Alaska and At
lantic divisions, with headquar
ters to be at Idlewild Airport,
New York City.
The merger becomes effective
January 1, said Tobert B. Mur
ray, executive vice president who
had been in charge of the Pacific
Alaska Division headquarters
here. Crews for Pacific and Alas
kan' flights still will be based in
San Francisco.
Murray said jet speed — twice
that of piston-engined airliners —
means a reduction in the total
number of planes in the fleet and
has “made it necessary to stream
line our administration and oper
ating plans to match.”
All jet engine overhaul work
already is being done at Idle
wild, a spokesman said.
HOT DOGS . . .
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Firemen
from two fire departments re
sponded to a call in an exclu
sive residential district here Fri
day. When they arrived, they
found that instead of a home
burning, an electrically equipped
dog house was ablaze.
'Undaunted, however, firemen
of two Spenard fire companies
and the Anchorage Fire Com
pany battled the blaze caused
by an overheated light bulb which
ignited insulation. The fire was
extinguished with twenty dollars
damage resulting.
None of the three dog occupants
was injured.
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TWO YOUTHFUL SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 4-H
GIRLS DISPLAY BAKING SKILLS IN CHICAGO
ANCHORAGE — A 17-year-old ;
Anchorage High School senior and
a 15-year-old Kenai Peninsula1
girl played hooky (with permis-;
sion) from school the week after j
Thanksgiving — about 3,000 miles |
from here.
They are Sherrie Caulfield of
Spenard, whose talent around the
home won Alaska’s top 1959
award in 4-H girls home economic
program, and Jacquelyn Thomp
b—. ,
Jacquelyn Thompson
son of Homer, winner of the 4-H
award for bread demonstration.
They were selected by the Cooper
ative Extension Service.
Both girls received all-expense
paid trips to the 38th National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago No
vember 29 to December 3. Miss
Caulfield’s trip was provided by
Montgomery Ward and Miss
Thompson was the guest of Stan
dard Brands.
A 4-H Club member four years,
Miss Caulfield’s favorite activity
is cooking, especially baking —
from cookies and pies to cream
puffs. She holds three county blue
awards for how-to demonstra
tions on bread and cream puffs.
Last year she won the cherry pie
contest at the All-Alaska Fair
and then went on to win a $100
bond from Betty Crocker of Gen
eral Mills as Alaska’s top 4-H’er
in the food preparation program.
President and junior leader of
the Mountain Echo 4-H Club, she
has been a junior counselor at 4-H
summer camp, and last year con
ducted the monthly get-togethers
of all 4-H Clubs in the Anchorage
area.
Alaska’s first state winner in
bread demonstration, Miss Thomp
son has a number of firsts to her
credit. Two years ago, she was the
first Kenai Peninsula 4-H’er to
receive a gold medal for all
Sherrie Caulfield
around achievement in the 4-H
program. This year, as the young
est contestant to qualify at the
first state fair, she will be the
first Kenai Peninsula 4-H’er to
win a trip to the Chicago congress.
This Homer High School sopho
more has been baking bread since
1905 — from fresh loaves to
pizzas, pies and fancy cakes and
all in a coal-burning stove with
out the help of temperature con
trols or even temperature set
tings.
Now secretary of the Baking
Belles 4-H Club, Miss Thompson
has received blue ribbons for her
food demonstrations at local, dis
trict and state fairs for four years.
Border Incident
NEUSTADT, Germany, to — A
fir tree fell across the Iron Cur
tain and caused a border incident
here.
A West German lumberjack,
who sawed off the top of the tree
extending eight yards into East
German territory, was arrested by
Communist border guards.
West German police said the
guards also seized the sawed-off
top and immediately used it to
reinforce the border fence.
The lumberjack was released
after several hours of ques
tioning.
HAIR OF THE DOG . . .
PALISADES PARK, N. J, to —
Hooch with no pooch, that’s what
James Sherlock is looking for.
Sherlock, 65, was sipping his
beer in a local tavern Sunday
when a dog walked over to him
and bit him on the left hand.
Well, you can drink beer with
your right hand just as well, so
Sherlock walked down the street
to another bar.
There he met another dog who
promptly bit him on the right
hand.
No more drinking for Sherlock.
He got his hands treated and
called it a day.
The dogs were ordered tied up.
FISHERIES SUPERVISOR DIES
BELLINGHAM, to — Sigurd
O. Johnson, 65, retired superin
tendent of Pacific America Fish
eries Canneries at Dillingham and
Naknet in Alaska, died Thursday
at his home here of a heart attack
He was born in Boda, Norway,
and had made his home in Bel
lingham for 45 years.
He was with the Pacific Amer
ica Fisheries for about 30 years,
retiring four years ago.
CHILL IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, to — The tempera
ture in Moscow dropped to 15 be
low zero Saturday, and the
weatherman said it was expected
! to fall to 22 below on the weekend.
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ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
In days of earlier and less per
fect telescopes, darker patches
very noticeable on the moon’s disk
were named seas, and these titles
still cling to them. It is now
known that they are only desert
plains and not seas.
Since great modern telescopes,
using a power of 1500, bring the
moon within 150 miles, much de
tail can be seen in the inexpres
sibly lonely scenery of our satel
lite. A great city might be made
out, but the greatest building ever
built on our earth would be mere
ly a speck.
Modern photographs are amply
sufficient for critical study. Ex
amination of them is much more
satisfactory than the ordinary
view through a telescope. The so
called seas may in truth be the
beds of primeval oceans which
have dried up and disappeared
hundreds or thousands of years
ago. They are not all at the same
level. The heat of the moon grad
ually disappeared.
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Pedestrian Freeway
Proposed for Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, HPI — A mile
long “pedestrian freeway” to
carry people between downtown
Los Angeles and the Dodgers’
planned baseball stadium in Cha
vez Ravine is proposed.
City Traffic Manager S. S. Tay
lor said passengers would ride in
cars on continuously moving con
veyor belts. The cars would move
at the speed of an escalator
through loading terminals, speed
ing up in between.
He said the plan would permit
use of Civic Center parking areas
for night baseball games and use
the Chavez Ravine parking space
for daytime workers.
He urged the city and Dodgers
to proceed with the idea, esti
mator! to cost six million dollars.
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Figures on 4-H enrollment for 1959 again show
an upward trend. If the increase is reflected in
all 50 states and Puerto Rico, this year’s final
score could well be within touching distance of
the two-and-one half million mark, predicts the
National Committee on Boys and Girls Club
Work.
■While the number of 4-H’ers is steadily increas
ing, the annual crop of winners remains about the
same, the National Committee points out, be
cause the number of award programs is limited.
Thus individual qualifications become higher and
competition keener. At the present time the ratio
for state and national winners is one member
out of 2,000.
The national award programs in which 4-H’ers
participate include clothing, frozen foods, ento
mology, safety, public speaking, and tractor.
There are nearly 50 others, according to the
National Committee.
All 4-H projects and activities endeavor to
show how to improve the individual, the family,
the home, farm and community.
Every 4-H member pledges . . my head to
clearer thinking . . . my heart to greater loyalty
. . . my hands to larger service . . . my health to
better living, for my club, my community, and
my country.”
Besides the personal satisfaction of “learning
by doing,” 4-H’ers take great pride in their ac
complishments, and outstanding records are re
warded, the National Committee reports.
Awards are provided annually by individuals
and business firms among which are: Mrs.
Charles R. Walgreen, Standard Brands, Coats &
Clark, Carnation Co., Simplicity Pattern Co.,
Hercules Powder Co., Betty Crocker of General
Mills, Whirlpool Corp,, Montgomery Ward, Gen
eral Motors, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
Also John Deere, Singer Sewing Machine Co.,
Colgate-Palmolive, Homelite, Armour & Co., the
Burlington, Milwaukee, and Illinois Central rail
ways, and Wilson & Co.
All 4-H programs are directed by the Coopera
tive Extension Service, TJSDA. Arrangements for
the national award programs are made by the
National Committee.