6-Foot 1-Inch 14-Year-Old
Wins Soap Box Derby
AKRON, Ohio, UR—Maybe it’s
because he grew so fast that
Richard T. Rohrer, a 6-foot-1 high
school sophomore from Rochester,
N. Y., wears the All - American
Soap Box Derby crown today.
Dick, 14, shot his home-made,
gravity - powered racer down a
975-foot slope yesterday in 27.5
seconds—faster time than turned
in by any of his 153 competitors.
He won a $5,000 college scholar
ship he said he would use to
study medicine at Georgetown
University.
And what did growing fast have
to do with it? Well, says Dick:
“I grew about 8 inches last
year. I grew out of the first car
and was lucky because I had to
rebuild it, and I must have done
all right.”
The racer Richard took more
than 500 hours to build came in
a half length ahead of David C.
Thayer of Detroit.
AKRON, Ohio, UR — Richard
Stock of Fairbanks placed third
in heat 48 of the All American
Soap Box Derby here yesterday.
The heat winner was James Hall
of Lafayette, Ind., with a time
of 27.89 seconds.
BEHIND THE TIMES
BALTIMORE, <4V-Back in the
days before the rains and Hurri
cane Connie came, Baltimore was
facing a water shortage. An order
went out—People in even-num
bered houses water lawns on
even-numbered days, people in
odd . . . etc.
Friday, as the wind drove the
rain in sheets outside the win
dows of the Southwest Police Sta
tion here, the phone rang. A wom
an’s voice said:
“Is today the day for people in
the odd houses or the even houses
to water their lawns?”
“ ... In the even houses, lady,”
said the cop, calmly.
ARCTIC SANITARY
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Congress Group
To Hold Hearings
In Nome Sept. 19
A congressional party is sched
uled to arrive in Nome on Sunday,
Sept. 18, for hearings on interior
and insular affairs.
Their itinerary includes hear
ings here on Sept. 19 and an over
night stay, leaving here on the
20th for Anchorage.
Chairman of the group is Leo
W. O’Brien of the House Subcom
mittee on Territorial and Insular
Affairs. Expected to be with him
are Delegate Bartlett, Congress
men Saylor, Sisk, Dawson, Chen
oweth and Utt, and Congresswom
an Green.
In addition, Mr. S. L. McFar
land and Mr. J. L. Taylor, Com
mittee on Interior and Insular Af
fairs consultants, and Mr. Karl
Veley, court reporter, will accom
pany the congressional party.
Final arrangements are being
made by Governor Heintzleman’s
office, Bartlett and McFarland,
who will arrive in Juneau Sept. 7.
Tentative hearings subjects in
clude:
Statehood and commonwealth
status, elected governor proposal,
industrial possibilities (water re
sources and hydro), fisheries,
mines arid minerals, forest re
sources, transportation, Indian
and agricultural problems, mental
health matters, and public land
problems (withdrawals, claims,
homesteading).
Man Who Can’t Swim
Escapes River by Walking
25 Feet Under Water
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. to—A 51
year-old laborer who can’t swim
fell into the Arkansas River and
escaped by walking 25 feet under
water to the bank Friday.
Lormie Walker was working on
a dredge boat when a loose cable
knocked him into the river. He
sank 18 feet to the bottom.
“We thought he’d never come
up,” said Scott Wilson, operator
of the boat. Wilson estimated that
it took Walker two minutes to
walk to the shore.
Walker was winded, but un
hurt. After resting a few minutes,
he returned to work.
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KIANA, ALASKA
Aleutian Supply Vessel
Sails After Week-Long
Picketing By CIO Union
SEATTLE, UF\ — The embattled
motorship Expansion sailed out of
Seattle on its Aleutian Island mail
and supply run last night, ap
parently ending a week-long seige
by members of the picketing CIO
Marine Engineers Beneficial As
sociation.
At the helm of the 117-foot ship
was its captain, Ed Larsen, one
of three licensed deck officers
who left the ship Sunday in a
short-lived sympathy action of
the AFL Masters, Mates and
Pilots Association.
The MEBA had been picketing
the ship in protest over the sign
ing of engine room officers who
were members of the rival Bro
therhood of Marine Engineers, an
AFL union.
The removal of deck officers
Sunday was followed by a threat
from Expansion’s owner, Neils
Thomsen, that he would “take
the ship out myself.”
Thomsen, a former Coast
Guard captain and one-time mate
of the sailing schooner, C. S.
Holmes, said the captain and two
mates returned to duty Sunday.
He said the ship was loaded by
its AFL crew with 75 tons of
cargo for remote Aleutian Island
ports.
Thomsen said the ship serves
as “a regular grocery store” for
residents in the Aleutian chain
outposts, carrying “everything
from meat and vegetables to
Kleenex and comic books.”
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs.
Felts, Ole Alstrom, Fred Cavota,
W.F. Ribbens, H.M. Furr, W.L.
Christensen, Henry Harrison, Sgt.
Don Snyder, Rex Pelker, Mex J.
Hall, Ron Theil, Lt. E. Putnam,
Lt. Robt. Kinsey, Pfc Robt. Jones,
Pfc. James McFarland, Jfc. Joe
Dance, Darrell Swanson, F. J.
Kerth, Allen Clark, Mr. Dunham.
From Anchorage: Barrow Mor
gan, Stan French.
To Gambell: Harvey Turner,
D. Orren.
To N.E. Cape: Richard Hanson,
Edw. Burbeck, Edw. Rajewski.
To Unalakleet: Tony Joule,
Amy Eben, Mrs. Arlene Strand.
From Unalakleet: Norman and
George Esray.
Unalakleet to Anchorage: Betty
Soxie, H.M. Elroy.
From N.E. Cape: Lt. R. Burtner,
Lt. Geo. Weber, M/Sgt. Frank
Bailey, T/Sgt. John Eckenrode.
From Gambell: Abner Golo
gergen, Leonard Apengalook,
Capt. H. Farmer, Lt. Col. John
Schwartz, E. H. Hoffman, Lt.
Robt. Ketchum, Mex J. Hall.
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Record Plane Loads Made
To Alaska in June, July
SEATTLE, UO—Record passen
ger and cargo loads were carried
between Seattle and Alaska in
June and July by Pacific North
ern Airlines, Harold Olsen, vice
president, said Friday.
Olsen attributed the increase to
more tourist travel, defense and
private construction and exploita
tion of Alaska’s natural resources.
The Proverbs of Solomon are
almost a literal translation of a
famous Egyptian work, “the
Teachings of Amenope.”
PARAKEET'S TALENT MAY
BE ITS DOWNFALL
HUNTINGTON PARK, Calif,
Timothy, a blue parakeet “be
longing to Mrs. Mary Mclntyrd,
is missing.
Timothy flew the coop last
week and Mrs. McIntyre immedi*
ately offered a $50 reward. She
says he has a vocabulary of 400
words. Some of them contain the
seeds of destruction, however. V
Timothy gets in a rut. He keeps
saying “Here kitty, kitty, kitty,’*
and Mrs. McIntyre is afraid some
cat has answered. She hopes not.
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