Leo Durocher
Finally Gets the
Bool from Umpire
LOS ANGELES WP> — Dodger
coach Leo Durocher today was
suspended for three days, April
17-19, for a shin-kicking hassle
with an umpire last night.
National League President War
ren Giles was quoted as saying,
however, he felt the umpire,
Jocko Conlan, acted wrongly.
The Dodgers professed great
bafflement at this.
Durocher — the first man most
umpires would have in mind if
they ever contemplated homicide
— made his return to baseball of
ficial yesterday by getting into a
beef where footwork was not only
important but where it was the
essence of the fight.
For there in the Coliseum, in
full view of 27,716 astonished Wit
nesses, a major league umpire and
a major league coach came to
blows — with their feet.
The battle developed quickly.
What started it all was an in
nocent looking pop-up hit by
Dodger first baseman Norm Lark
er in the fourth inning of the Los
Angeles-Pittsburgh game.
The ball landed in fair ground
between home plate and first
base then bounced foul. Conlan,
holding that no one touched it in
fair territory, called it a foul ball.
The Dodger dugout seemed to
empty like a burning hotel, but
Coach Durocher and a few
others stayed inside, throwing
white towels and purple adjec
tives.
Their contention was that Pirate
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Dr. Bernard t inch and
Carol Tregoff Sentenced
To Life Imprisonment
LOS ANGELES </F — Dr. Ber
nard Finch and his former mis
tress, Carole Tregoff, today were
formally sentenced to life im
prisonment for the murder of his
socialite wife.
The judge said the evidence of
their guilt seemed to him over
whelmingly.
The penalty was decreed last
March 27 by a jury, which could
have sent them to the gas cham
ber.
Before passing sentence, Su
perior Court Judge David Cole
man denied motions by each de
fendant for a new trial.
The lovers stood without ap
parent motion for a moment, then
exchanged wan smiles as they
went their separate ways to re
turn to jail.
Judge Coleman called their de
fense “a shoddy and crudely
woven fabric of deceit.”
The once-wealthy West Covina
physician, 43, and his 24-year
old sweetheart were convicted in
their third trial of conspiracy and
murder in the July 18, 1959, bul
let-in-the-back slaying of Finch’s
socialite wdfe, Barbara Jean, 36.
The juries at the first two trials
deadlocked.
Attorneys for both defendants
have said they will appeal.
catcher Hal Smith touched the
ball in fair ground, so it should
have been a fair ball.
Conlan walked over and in
structed Durocher to proceed to
the bathhouse with deliberate
speed.
Durocher sprang from the dug
out like a man released by cata
pult. He rushed at Conlan — who
might make a good jockey if he
could drop 10 pounds — and kick
ed some dirt up in front of him.
Jocko responded with a kick of
his own, and nailed Leo on the
shin. Leo counter-kicked, land
ing nicely. Jocko struck again,
catching Leo on the shin he had
missed last time. Leo, in trouble
but still game, got in one more
kick before he was pulled away
by pitcher Don Dry sd ale and
Jocko was restrained by his fel
low arbiters.
It was generally agreed four
blows were landed, two by each
combatant. Jocko was ahead 5-3
<>n the Assocated Press score card
when the fight was stopped.
After that, there was only sec
ondary' interest in the game, which
the Dodgers won 13-6.
Obstinate Seagulls
Requisition
Airport Runway
NICE, France (.4*> — Sea nils
have requisitioned one end of
Nice airport’s runway and have
so far defied all attempts by safe
ty officials to dislodge them.
The runway lies close to the
Mediterranean and the gulls wad
dled up the beach more than a
year ago and roosted.
Pilots of propcllor-driven planes
didn’t begrudge their feathered
colleagues a few feet of concrete;
after all there was more than a
mile of the stuff. But jet planes
are a different matter. Jet pilots
feared a low flying gull might
be sucked into a jet intake and
cause a crash.
The gulls had to go, they said.
But the gulls proved obstinate.
Firecrackers, sexy decoys, mat
ing calls, and even a red jeep with
a siren couldn’t shoo or entice
the seagulls away from their
chosen roosting place.
In desperation, airport officials
called in bird experts from the
National Institute of Agronomic
Research. After much pondering
they came up with a theory:
Seagulls have tender feet, the
seashore alongside the airport is
pebbly and probably the seagulls
found it more comflortable to
roost on the smooth surface of
the runway.
So what must one do? Buy the
gulls shoes?
Not at all, said the experts,
just give them a stretch of smooth
beach to stroll on.
So the airport is spending sev
eral hundred dollars building a
huge sandbox for the birds along
the seashore and out of harm’s
way. They pretested the fine
grain sand for the beach by strew
ing some along the edge of the
runway.
The seagulls padded happily in
it and seem to watching construc
tion of their private beach with
a great deal of interest.
IT'S A FLAT EARTH ! ! !
DOVER, England U*) — There
are still people prepared to argue
that the world is flat instead of
round despite Maj. Yuri Gagarin's
orbit in space.
Samuel Shenton. secretary of
the International Flat Earth Re
search Society, said:
“I am convinced that Gagarin
landed back on a horizontal piece
of earth after circulating what
might be described as a sort of
saucer.”
Washington To Seafiie Via The Moon
Senator Warren G. Mag- Federci Science Pavilion ai Seattle's D. F. Skinner, Vice Pres.dent,
nuson, (D), Washington Century 21 Wfor!d's Fair Century 21, Inc.
A U.S. Senator’s telephone call was bounced off the moon and then radioed aer- -s the
continent to signal ground-bre. ng ceremonies for a $3.-1 million Federal S'.;.nee Pavil
ion at Seattle’s Century 21 world’s fair.
Scant seconds after Senator
Warren G. Magnuson, D., Wash,
spoke into a phone in his office
on Capitol Hill, his words had
spanned some 500,000 miles and
sent shovels biting into Puget
Sound soil 3,000 miles away.
Gathered at the 74-acve site
of the $80 million Exposition in
Seattle to receive the Senator’s
message were Mayor Gordon
Clinton, Craig Colgate, deputy
U.S. Commissioner for Century
21, Exposition, D. E. Skinner,
Vice President of Century 21,
Inc., and pther Exposition of
ficials.
The group heard Senator
Magnuson hail the unique phone
call as “typical of the... spirit"
of the Seattle fair. “We have
emulated no one,” the legislator
observed. “We have asked that
only the new — the different —
the challenging—the promising
be shown.”
He added: “Those who visit
with us in 1962 will see a new
world of science, of technology,
of living. They will truly see
Century 21 ... 38 years before
its time.”
Senator Magnuson expressed
confidence that many nations
will accept the U.S. Govern
ment’s invitation to take part
in the Exposition. He said five
continents are already repre
sented in the lineup of foreign
exhibitors which includes Great
Britain, Canada, Greece, and
several small nations in Africa
and the Far Ear..
C e n t u r y 21 E x p o s 111 o n,
termed America’s first Space
Ag e world’s fair, will open
April 21, ltd2. Attendance dur
ing the fair’s six-month run is
expected to reach 10 million. It
will bo the first international
exposition held in the United
States since 1030.
The phone call was super
vised American Telephone
and Telegraph Company and
the message first traveled by
land line to the Eel! Laborato
ries at Holmdel, N. J., where a
shortwave transmitter hurtled
it across 250,000 miles to the
moon.
Scientists at JV’l Laborato
ries said the entire trip was
made in about two and a half
second ?.
B. C. Scientists Make
Studies of Fur Seal
NANAIMO, B. C. UP — Two
• Pacific biological laboratory sci
. enlists have returned after a
| month-long seal-hunting expedi
tion off the stormy west coast of
Vancouver Island and Washing
; ton.
Ian Macaski, chief technician
| of the station’s Mammal Investi
: gation Branch, and Ted Binners
I ly, his assistant, collected 108
I fur seals. They have killed 235
since early February.
The trip is part of an extended
study scientists are making of the 1
fur seal, an animal which long
has been of economic interest in
the Northern Pacific.
Canada, the United States, Ja
pan and Russia are cooperating
in the five-year study.
Snouts are collected to deter
mine the seals age by studies of
he teeth, and stomach contents
are analyzed to determine their
feeding habits. Reproductive or
gans are also preserved for labor
atory study.
Early next week the team will
return to the sea to scout the
waters off the west coast of
Vancouver Island, where the seal
herds are forging steadily north
ward to breeding grounds on the
fog-shrouded Pribilof Islands in
the Bering Sea.
How do fish swim? Most people
think it’s by flipping their tails
and vibrating their fins. But re
cent tests indicate fish get their
main speed by wiggling their
| bodies.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
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“Spenders Prayer’
Tax his cow, tax his goat, £
Tax is pants, tax his coat, ■
Tax his crop, lax his work ®
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his chew, tax his smoke.
Teach him taxes is no joke.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule.
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his oil, tax his gas, =
Tax his notes, tax his cash. f
Tax him good and let him know, '
That after taxes he has no dough.
If he hollers, tax more;
Tax him until he’s good and sore.
Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which lays.
Put these words upon his tomb"
“Taxes drove me to my doom.”
Even after he’s gone we won't
relax,
We’ll still after inheritance tax.
—(Author Unknown*
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids, in writing, will be
accepted at the Office of the City
Clerk of the City of Nome until
5 p. m. April 24. 1961 for the
purchase from the City of Nome
of the following real and personal
property:
2 Wood frame houses
along with contents
therein.
Buildings are located on Lot 8
Block 64 and must be removed
wiihin SO days of bid acceptance.
10 per cent of bid must be en
closed. Balance of bid to be paid
within 30 days. Buildings will not
be removed until balance is paid.
Bids may be for one or both
buildings. The City reserves the
right to refuse and reject any
and all bids.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By Robert F. Scott.
City Clerk
Publish: April 17, 19. 21, 1961.
WIN T E R s C H E I) U L E
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Via Kotzebue)
EACH MONDAY and FRIDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 8:20 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:45 a.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 309
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 9:00 a.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:40 a.m. Ar. Nome 10:45 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Tanana *8:05 a.m.
Lv. Tanana *8:15 a.m. Ar. Galena *8:55 a.m.
Lv. Galena *9:25 a.m. Ar. Nome 9:25 a.m.
FAIRBANKS TO NOME (Direct)
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 311
Lv. Fairbanks *7:30 a.m. Ar. Nome 8:40 a.m.
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NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Direct)
EACH MONDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 10:45 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:53 p.m.
EACH WEDNESDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lv. Nome 4:39 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *8:40 p.m.
EACH FRIDAY — FLIGHT 310
Lvi Nome 2:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:10 p.m.
NOME TO FAIRBANKS (Via Kotzebue)
EACH TUESDAY and SATURDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 10:25 p.m. Ar, Kotzebue 11:10 a.m.
j Lv. Kotzebue 11:50 a.m. Ar. Galene *1:45 p.m.
! Lv. Galena *2:00 p.m. Ar. Tanana *2:40 p.m.
| Lv. Tanana *2:50 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *3:25 p.m.
EACH THURSDAY — FLIGHT 312
Lv. Nome 9:40 a.m. Ar. Kotzebue 10:25 a.m.
Lv. Kotezebue 11:05 a.m. Ar. Fairbanks *1:55 p.m.
(*) Alaska Standard Time. All other times Bering Standard