First F-lOOs to Fly
Polar Route Set
Down at Eielson
FAIRBANKS, UFl — Two U. S.
Air Force planes landed at Eie'l
son AFB Friday after a 5.405
mile flight from England — the
first flight by jet fighter aircraft
over the North Pole.
The first ship set down here at
3:30 p.m. The second arrived
one minute later. The flight from
Wethersfield, England, took 9
hours, 37 minutes.
The pilots, Charles F. Blair of
Stamford, Conn., and Capt. Rob
ert Titus, Norfolk, Va., were
greeted by Col. Stephen Henry,
Eielson commander.
Before the flight the Air Force
said the project, called “Julius
Caesar,” was to check deploy
ment routes for fighter planes and
to test the supersonic F-100s’ auto
matic navigational system over
the Arctic.
The pilots and their crewmen
were unshaven and tired as they
climbed out of the jets.
“The sack is going to look
mighty good,” said General Blair.
He is a commercial pilot for Pan
American on the Atlantic run and
a brigadier general in the Air
Force Reserve.
“We just loafed along at about
500 miles an hour,” Blair’s crew
man, Capt. Albert Kucher, 34,
Philadelphia, said.
Li. George Woody, 28, Horn
Lake, Miss., accompanied Cap
tain Titus.
Just before the jets set down,
a moose had to be shooed off the
qirstrip by runway crews.
TO THE CLEANERS!
BUTTE, Mont., (#1 — Alfred
Thorenz took more than a pair
of trousers to the cleaners Friday.
The cleaning shop found his trav
elers checks — $3,000 worth —
in a pants pocket.
NOW SHE FINDS OUT !
HOUSTON, Tex., UP> — Mrs.
Cain Holmes knows where her
husband kept his savings — in a
tire thieves stole from the Holmes’
garage.
Holmes, 75, told police Friday
he didn’t believe in banks and
had never told his wife of his
secret depository. He kept his
funds in a glass jar in an automo
bile tire carried off by the cul
prits. He said the jar contained
five $100 bills. “I’ve been doing
this for 50 years,” Holmes said.
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Steven Rockefeller Gives
In To Bride’s Wish for
‘New’ Church Wedding
KRISTIANSAND, Norway, UP>—
Steven Rockefeller announced
with a grin today he has lost his
first real argument to his fiance.
Therefore his wedding will be
performed in two weeks, in the
“new” Lunde Church.
The son of New York Governor
Nelson A. Rockefeller appeared
before reporters and photogra
phers with Anne Marie Rasmus
sen outside the home of the
bride’s father.
He confined details of the nup
tials^to the choice of the church.
“If I give you everything about
the wedding now,” he said, “you
won’t have anything to write at
the time of the wedding, and then
you’d be the ones who were
sorry.”
Steven had wanted to be mar
ried in the three-century-old
church in Signe because of its
tradition and primitive beauty,
but Anne Marie insisted on the
“new” church where she was
christened and confirmed in the
Norwegian Lutheran faith. Steven
yielded, and, judging from his
good humor he regarded it as
something less than a crisis.
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Plumbers Union Asked To
Intervene In Strike at
First U.S. ICBM Site
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. UPl — Offi
cials of the Plumbers and Steam
fitters Union at Washington, D. C.
have been asked to intervene in.
a labor dispute which has stopped
work on the nation’s first inter
continental ballistic missile site
northwest of Cheyenne.
Picket lines placed by the Chey
enne local of the union Wednes
day around Site A, one of four
in the launching complex, have
been honored by about 500 work
ers, including 125 of the union’s
own members.
The union said it placed the
pickets because a sub-contractor
hired eight non-union specialists
from out-of-state. They are work
ing on tests of a propellent
system.
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Deadly Fumes From
Leaky Tank Cause Texas
Town Area Evacuation
IOWA PARK, Tex., (JPl — More
than 100 persons, evacuated from
a 15-block area when deadly an
hydrous ammonia fumes filled the
area, returned to their homes after
workmen drained a leaking 6,000
gallon tank.
Police Chief Ross Chapman said
the alert was canceled when a
team of firemen, civil defense
workers and chemical workers at
tached a line to the tank and
pumped the heavy liquified gas
into' a second tank nearby.
The leak was blamed on a high
pressure gauge which blew out.
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Satellite Sweeps In
Wide Earth Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.,
Paddle-wheeJed Explorer VI, the
most advanced American satel
I lite, orbited in a wide sweep
around the earth Saturday and
collected scientific data that may
ease man’s way into space.
The spheroid, sporting, four
: paddle vanes trying to catch en
ergy from the sun, was launched
Friday at the missile test center
here. A Thor-Able rocket, 90 feet
long and in three stages, sent it
aloft.
Soaring 25,950 miles from eartn
i at its highest point and coming
| 152 miles above earth at its low
j est, the satellite had the longest
orbit of the six artificial moons
i now in space. It also takes six
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY
ROSWELL, N. M., UP) — The
fire alarm rang and all the traf
fic lights in Roswell began blink
ing yellow, as in all emergencies.
Fire Chief George Daniels
Jumped in his new station wagon
and took off.
Police Chief L. O. Thompson
hopped in a squad car and rushed
' away.
They met abruptly at a down
town intersection.
Daniels received hospital treat
ment for head cuts and pavement
burns. Thompson suffered cuts
and bruises.
The cars? minor damage.
The fire? It’s out.
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CHIMP MAKES CHUMP
OF TRAINER: PANICS
CROWD, CHEWS CHILD
PORTLAND, Ind., UP) — A 150
pound chimpanzee escaped from
his cage at the Jay County Fair
Friday night, terrified several
thousand persons and bit a 15
year-old girl before his trainer
captured him.
The chimp, named ‘‘Mickey,”
knocked Joya Lanning to the
ground and bit her twice as pan
icked fairgoers fled to their CcFrs
and other places of safety.
Trainer Barney Dexter said the
animal picked the lock on his
cage shortly after the dinner hour
and bolted around the fairgrounds
as spectators scattered. The 13
year-old animal hitched a ride on
a “dodge-em” car just before he
bit the Lanning girl.
One of the bites, in the girl’s
back, required two stitches. The
other was a superficial nip on the
hand. Miss Lanning was given a
tetanus shot, and authorities said
they may order a rabies test for
the animal.
After biting the girl, Mickey
fled in to an exhibition hall,
where he ate candy and cookies
on display and started to wreck
the exhibits.
Dexter, who said the animal
had become “very mean,” crept
up behind and managed to snap
a chain to its collar. He. tethered
the chimp to a tree until a truck
was summoned to return it to its
cage.
Flying Sardine . . .
ARLINGTON, Va., (.ft—“It was
just a matter of going out and
doing it,” says Tobert Tyler, an
Army specialist, who flew solo to
Europe in a light private plane
officially thought overloaded.
'Tyler wedged himself in be
tween three extra gas tanks and
flew from Boston to Munich, Ger
many, two weeks ago in a Cessna
175. He got back home Thursday.
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