Ex-Convict Repudiates
Confession He Blew Up
A School 24 Years Ago
HENDERSON, Tex. (.?> — Wm.
Benson Thursday did an about
face and declared, “I had nothing
to do with the explosion” that
killed 296 persons 24 years ago
at the New London school.
The Oklahoma ex-convict thus
repudiated a declaration made in
Oklahoma City Monday that he
loosened gas pipes at the school
and caused the blast that almost
wiped out a generation of chil
dren in New London.
Benson’s retraction is backed
up by lie detector tests.
Why did he make the fake con
fession?
“Well, I just told them that.”
What about the old scars be
brought to life among parents
and friends of the victims?
“I wish I could ask for forgive
ness, but that’s too much to ask.”
Benson added:
“I’ve dreamed about it—about
my sister.” His 14-year-old sis
ter died in the explosion.
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AGC Strike Reflected In
Rise In Unemployment
Benefits This Week
JUNEAU UP —The State’s in
sured unemployment rate shot up
sharply last week, reflecting the
full impact of work stoppages in j
the construction and manufactur- 1
ing industries, Labor Commis*
sioner Gil Johnson said.
I The insured unemployment rate
i for the week ending July 15 was
; 8.6 per cent, up from the 7.3
! per cent rate of the previous
week and far above the 4.1 rate |
of the same week a year ago.
Recent settlement of a major
j portion of the construction in
dustry dispute was expected to
| reduce the figure substantially
, during the current week, al
though a strike of pulp workers
at Ketchikan continues.
State insured unemployment for
the week ending last Saturday
was 2,885, Johnson said.
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Career
Notes
By RUTH WADE RAY*
Jobs for
High School Graduates
An estimated 1,500,000 young
people will graduate from Amer
ica’s high schools in 1961!
Many of these possess scientific
or mathematical minds and will
study these useful courses in col
lege. But what about the graduates
who have a flair for the artistic —
the creative? What careers are open
to them?
Strangely enough, creative people
ofi:n have a more difficult time de
cii ing on a career than the scientific
m nded.
As head of the oldest professional
a ts school in the nation, I. must
r commend to students the courses
t teir artistic talents indicate.
The six courses shown all utilize
Teative ability. Now, before grad
jation, is the time to think about a
;hoice of career.
Interior Decoration
Fashion Fashion
Merchandising Illustration
Dress Design Photography
Commercial Art
Photography (I year), for ex
ample, leads to careers as commer
cial. illustrative or portrait photog
raphers. Commercial art graduates
(2 years) go into retailing, publish
ing or advertising.
The dress design and fashion
courses (1 or 2 years) prepare stu
dents for positions in the fashion
industry... while graduates of in
terior decorating (2 years) are
placed with specialty and furniture
houses, decorating firms and pub
lications all across the country.
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Twin Boys Bora To
Dionne Quint Cecile
QUEBEC OP — Cecile Dionne,
one of the four surviving Dionne
quintuplets, has given birth to
twin boys — the first multiple
birth for the famous sisters.
Her husband, Philippe Langois,
said the boys — both of whom
weighed about six pounds—were
born at 11:46 p.m. and 11:52 last
night.
Langois told newsmen the boys
and their mother are all doing
well. He said he is “very happy”
about the twins.
The couple now have four chil
dren, all boys.
Langois is a civil servant. The
family lives in a suburb of Que
bec City.
The three married quintuplets
now have a total of seven chil
dren. In addition to Cecile’s four
boys, Annette has two sons and
Marie the only daughter.
Russian Ambassador Says Berlin
Situation Getting More Intense
NEW YORK OB — Russian am
bassador Mikhail Menshikov said
Thursday the “abnormal” situa
tion in divided Berlin is getting
more intense and could lead to
World War III if continued. But
he expressed belief there still is
time to deal with the situation
peacefully.
Menshikov predicted an East
West peace conference before the
end of the year on the matter.
The ambassador gave his views
before boarding the liner United
States for a six - week vacation
trip to Russia.
Florida Newspaper Gives
Away Entire Edition
When Sun Does Not Shine
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. OB —
Tropical storm Brenda dumped
more than 12 inches of rain on
Florida the last time the St.
Petersburg Independent gave
away its “sunshine” edition of the
paper.
That was July 20, 1960. The In
dependent gave another edition,
the 212th, away, Wednesday when
the sun failed to shine on the
Independent building for 24
hours.
The paper started the practice
in 1910 to promote St. Petersburg
as the “Sunshine City.”
Vice Adm. Rickover
Says the Air Force
Should be Abolished
WASHINGTON UP — Vice Adm.
H. G. Rickover has suggested that
the Air Force be abolished.
Asked during recent closed
door hearings of the House Ap
propriations Committee for his
views on changes in the defense
set-up, the atomic submarine ex
pert said:
“A possible solution might be
the combining of the Air Force’s
Strategic Air Command with the
Navy, and the Air Force’s space
and general missile effort with
the Army.”
Referring to interservice bick
ering, Rickover commented that
“when you have three instead of
two large groups fighting each
other, the difficulty of administer
ing and providing for them grows
in geometrical rather than an
arithmetic ratio.”
When an organization nears
completion of the job it has been
set up to do,” he added, “the or
ganization, if it is to stay alive,
must seek new spheres of influ
ence.”
“The Air Force, being an ag
gressive organization backed by
large segments of industry, and
with billions of dollars of appro
priations, has naturally been suc
cessful in its endeavors.”
Old playing cards, like rare
stamps and coins, are sometimes
worth far more than their weight
in gold . . . Example: a collector
recently snapped up for $2 in a
London antique shop a single
playing card from two packs de
signed for the Duke of Milan in
1425. The actual value of this one
card—^3,000.
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