Flight Engineers Complain
Of Inadequate Training
ST. PAUL, Minn., Iff) — A dis
pute between Northwest Airlines
and its flight engineers, who say
they are receiving “inadequate”
training for flights on jet Electras,
will go into U. S. District Court
today.
The company seeks an injunc
tion prohibiting the engineers
from interfering with Electra
flights or acting in consort in re
fusing to fly..
The company and International
Association of Machinists District
143 said the dispute involved the
training period given engineers as
signed to Electras. NWA formerlv
provided an eight-week familiar
ization course but cut it to three
weeks last June.
Henry Halliday, attorney for
NWA, said there v/as no safety
question involved and that a flight
engineer was no more than a
“third set of eyes.”
“There isn’t any maintenance
you can do in the air,” he said.
“All the engineers do is help
watch the instruments and in
form the pilot if there seems to
be a malfunction.’
Appeal During Russian
Premier’s Visit Re-Unites
Displaced Lithuanians
CHICAGO, (UPt — A Chicago
couple was overcome with emo
tion Friday when they learned an
appeal to Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev had lifted the Iron
Curtain and they soon will be re
united with their two children
after 15 years.
Soviet officials in Moscow told
the U. S. Embassy the two Lithu
anian children, Regina Leonas, 20.
and her brother, Tomas, 17, will
be sent to Chicago to join their
parents some time next month.
Mr. and Mrs. Paulius Leonas,
who had made a personal plea to
Khrushchev for reunion with their
children when he was in Des
Moines last September 23, were
thrilled.
The Leonases fled from Lithu
ania in 1944 to escape Communist
oppression. They 16ft the children
with Mrs. Leonas’ parents, escaped
to the British zone in Germany,
and lived in England and Canada
before coming to Chicago as dis
placed persons in 1953. They be
came naturalized citizens last
January.
Mrs. Larry Flanagan and sons
are scheduled to leave for Florida
the day before Christmas, due to
the illness of one of the boys.
Captain Flanagan is stationed
here with the U.S. Army Advisory
Group to the Alaska National
Guard.
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Federal Mortgage
Loan Loss Leaves
Alaska Moneyless
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The ten
million dollars in federal mort
gage insurance recently made
available to Alaska through a
special program is the last of such
funds available to the state, and
local builders and bankers pre
dict these funds will be exhausted
next summer.
•The termination of this special
assistance program will be a ter
rific blow to the economy of
Alaska, said O. H. McGuire of the
First National Bank last week.
McGuire said in excess of 99
Der cent of single family owner
occimied dwellings constructed in
Alaska are financed through the
special program of Federal Na
tional Mortgage Insurance Asso
ciation pertaining to Alaska.
Right at the moment there is
no other source of capital for
home building in the state, Mc
Guire said.
Under the special FNMA pro
gram, local banks finance home
building and FNMA buys the
mortgages from the banks, in ef
fect financing the industry.
Outside private investors are
demanding prohibitive interest
rates on loans for building in
Alaska, McGuire added.
He estimated there is now about
five million dollars available for
home building in the area. These
funds, he said, will be exhausted
next June or July.
It is not possible for home build
ers to plan for next year, McGuire
said, without a source of finance
after the middle of the summer.
Governor Egan announced from
Juneau this week that he had
been informed the special FNMA
program for the state would end
when the funds are exhausted.
Peter Townsend Marries
Belgian Girl in Civil Rites
BRUSSELS, Belgium, <ff> —
Peter Townsend, one-time suitor
of Britain’s Princess Margaret,
today married Marie-Luce Ja
rnagne, daughter of an Antwerp
tobacco magnate.
It was a civil ceremony in sub
urban Town Hall, with no ad
vance announcement.
Townsend is 44, his bride 20.
i His romance with Princess Mar
! garet broke up four years ago.
He had been divorced in 1952
after fathering two children.
Princess Margaret met Townsend
J while he was an aide to her
I father. King George VI. Their
I marriage was widely predicted,
but she bowed to a Church of
England statute against remar
I riage of a divorced person while
the other party to the divorce is
living.
A son was born yesterday at
I the hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Walluk.
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National Guard Are
First Half “Champs’'
The basketball league will be
inactive until after the Christ
mas-New Year holidays. The sec
ond half play will start in Jan
uary.
FIRST HALF STANDINGS
Won Lost Pet.
National Guard . 5 0 1.000
Merchants . 5 1 .800
A.N.B . 3 2 .600
Polar Hornets . 2 3 .400
Independents . 1 4 .200
Nome High Schol .... 0 5 .000
ANG Nips ANB In Overtime
To Win Championship 55-53
By far the best baskeball game
of the season was seen Friday
night when the National Guard,
on the great clutch playing of
Korky Kost, snatched the victory I
from a determined ANB. The1
fracas went into overtime after'
the Brotherhood’s Gil Ozenna
stole the ball and went in a solo
lay-in with less than a minute
to go.
The Guard enjoyed a 29-18 lead
at half time but the ANB had
whittled this to 44-40 at the end
of the third quarter.
In the final quarter the score
was evened as the clock ran out
and the game went into overtime.
This was a hard earned victory
for the Defenders and a tremen
dous effort for the ANB. This win
cinched first half first place for
the Guard and dropped the
ANB to third place in the league.
Starring for the “champs” were
Bill Caldwell with 31 points and
21 rebounds; Dave Bell with 12
points and 15 rebounds and Hal
Bell and Kork Kost with their
great floor game.
For the ANB Arnie Castel did
a really great job of floor leader
ship, Jake Titus sank 14, Gil
Ozenna had 17, and Little Art
Trigg, who laid seige to the Guard.
NATIONAL GUARD 55
FG FT PF TP
Harold Bell . 3 2 4 8
David Bell . 5 2 3 12
Caldwell . 12 7 5 31
Kost . 2 0 2 4
Walters . 0 0 4 4
Flanagan . 0 0 3 0
22 11 21 55
A.N.B. 53
Titus . 7 0 4 14
Ozenna . 7 3 3 17
Longley . 3 1 4 7
Art Vrigg . 3 3 3 9
Castel . 2 3 3 4
Jerry Trigg . 0 2. 0 2
22 9 17 53
Hornets Route Nanooks 46-24
The Polar Hornets, led by Ike
Larsen, had things all their own
way as they easily beat the Nome
High School five in the nightcap
of Friday’s doubleheader of bas
ketball.
The Nanooks, trying as hard as
ever, were just not able to con
tend with the shooting and -re
bounding of the older, larger
Polars.
Bright spots in the Nanooks ef
fort were the all-around play of
Ronne Locke and the alertness of
“Opportunist” Fred Kungesuk.
Friday’s results leave the Na
nooks still winless and in the cel
lar of the City League. The Polar
finished in fourth place behind
the ANB.
Part of the never-say-die spirit
of the ’Nooks is no doubt due to
the completely faithful support of
the cheerleaders, Tweet Hardy,
Carolyn Johnson, Betty Woodcock
and Suzie Saito and mascot Susie
Woodcock.
POLAR HORNETS 46
FG FT PF TP
Luke . 2 3 1 7
Larsen . 5 1 0 11
Austin . 3 2 3 8
Mogg . 1 .2 2 4
Ahkolik . 4 3 0 11
Cabinboy . 1 1 1 3
Dickson . 0 0 1 0
Attatayuk . 0 2 5 2
Okpealuk . 0 0 1 0
16 14 14 46
HIGH SCHOOL NANOOKS 24
Kungesuk . 3 0 3 6
Locke . 4 3 5 11
Oman . 0 0 3 0
Steele . 0 1 5 1
Jim Bell . 2 0 0 4
Boucher . 0 2 1 2
Ailak . 0 0 0 0
Amarok . 0 0 0 0
9 6 17 24
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Jury Convicts
N, 1. Underworld
Confab Delegates
NEW YORK, UP) — A federal
court jury Fridav convicted 20
delegates to the 1957 Appalachian
underworld convention -of con
spiracy to hide the real purpose
of the conclave.
The conviction was hailed by
Attorney General William P.
Rogers as “a landmark in the gov
ernment’s fight against organized
crime and racketeers.”
The verdict was returned by a
jury of eight men and four women
after more than 15 hours of delib
eration to climax the 53-day trial.
Some of the well-dressed defend
ants slumped in their seats, sev
ral sobbed. One moaned in Italian:
“I’m innocent.”
Judge Irving R. Kaufman com
mended the jury for its “intelli
gent verdict.” He set January 14
for sentencing. Each of the con
victed men could get up to five
years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
“You deserve the thanks of the
community and the nation by
your patience in sitting through
this trial,” Judge Kaufman told
the jury. “This will show the
country that grand juries and
other federal agencies cannot be
defied or sneered at by people
who consider themselves above
and beyond the law.”
The defendants had explained
the meeting of more than 60 un
derworld figures at the Appala
chian, N. Y. hillside estate of the
late Joseph Barbara Sr., as a visit
to a sick friend or a social affair.
Some said they were there because
they had auto trouble nearby.
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Health and Welfare Meet
At Fairbanks Decides
Regional Meetings Needed
FAIRBANKS — The Alaska
Health, Education and Welfare
Council met at the Fairbanks
Health Center December 14. The
charge handed down to the coun
cil from the conferenc last sum
mer was for them to effect region
al groupings of the state organiza
tion. The Pilot Regional Confer
ence held at Kotzebue in March
was so successful that, at the state
conference held at College in
August, it was decided that per
manent regional sections of the
state organization should be es
tablished.
It was suggested that such re
gional groups be started at Ju
neau, Anchorage, Bethel, Nome,
Kotzebue and Fort Yukon. Fair
banks would also have a regional
group. It would be so much easier
for people to attend a conference
at these places than for thm to
go to on central place like Fair
banks. Delegates selected at these
regional meetings would attend
the state-wide conference and ef
fect the proposals submitted from
the regions.
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