17 Paratroopers Injured
In “Operation Apache”
FT. JACKSON, S.C. <*) — 17
paratroopers went to the hospital
* with injuries ranging from broken
bones to bruises after a jump of
more than 1,200 men at this Army
reservation Friday.
None of the injuries to the mem
bers of the 82nd Airborne Divi
sion, Ft. Bragg, N.C., was serious.
The number, however, was high
er than normal of less than one
per cent injured in jumps.
The practice assault, called
Operation Apache, was carried
out against an “aggressor” force
of about 200 Ft. Jackson soldiers.
The jump was made by the 82nd’s
Second Airborne Battle Group,
501st Infantry.
Shiny Silver Dollar . . .
NEW YORK OP — Urho Kek
konen, President of the only
country in the world still paying
back its World War I debt to the
United States, hasn’t asked for
a dime during his current visit
here.
So Friday night, the President
of Finland received a shiny silver
dollar from George Bourque,
Mayor of Fitchburg, Mass., which
has a large Finnish population.
“You are one of the few for
eign dignitaries to come here and
talk to oyr President without
asking far money,” Bourgque told
Kekkonen at a Finnish-American
societies banquet
“Therefore, we don’t want you
to go back empty-handed.”
HAMMERING AWAY . . .
LANCASTER, Pa. UP) — Police
found Frances W. Abel, 48, ham
mering away yesterday with a
crowbar at an eld convertible
auto. He already had punctured
the roof and broken the windows
and was about to start on the
fenders.
Abel told police he had bought
the car for his wife, Ruth, but
things hadn’t worked out and he
, didn’t want her to drive it any
longer.
Abel was charged with disorder
ly conduct 'and malicious mis
chief.
Bomb Killa On* in Havana
HAVANA Iff! — One person was
killed and seven were injured in
a series of seven bomb explo
sions m Havana Friday night, au
thorities reported.
An official blamed the bomb
ings on “terrorists in the service
of the Central Intelligence Agen
cy and North American imperial
ism.”
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U.S. and Soviets Move
Closer to Agreement for
New Secretary-General
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. to—
The Soviet Union and the United
States moved closer toward agree
ment on selection of a temporary
U.N. Secretary-General in an
hour’s conference of their top dip
lomats here today.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Valerian Zorin told reporters the
only disagreement that remains
is on the number of principal ad
visers the U.N. chief should
choose to be his undersecretaries.
U.S. Ambassador Adlai Steven
son said he still insists there
should be five. He declared the
remaining disagreement on this
point was essentially not over
numbers but over geography, and
stemmed from a Soviet effort to
get a political division of the
world. He said he would meet
Zorin again tomorrow.
Stevenson said the two were
agreed on the substance of a state
ment that the acting Secretary
General should make of his in
tention to consult his principal ad
visers. He said he thought they
were agreed on the timing state
ment, and the U.S. view was that
any statement should come only
after the temporary Secretary
General had been approved both
in the Security Council and in the
General Assembly.
The two men have been seek
ing some arrangement for the re
placement of Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold, killed in a
plane crash in Africa five weeks
ago.
Army to Ease Call
On Certain Doctors
WASHINGTON UB — The De
fense Department says the call
to active duty of certain Army
medical, dental and veterinary
corps officer reservists will be
eased.
In fact, some of these officers
already called to active duty will
be made eligible for release.
In announcing the new policy
yesterday, the Pentagon said it
does riot mean a reduction in
Army requirements for medical
officers. These needs will be
filled primarily by calling indi
viduals without prior service and
available through the draft.
ATTACK LAUNCHED
AGAINST KATANGA
ELIZAS ETHVILLE, Kata nga
'JB — President Moise Tshombe
of Katanga announced today
central government forces launch
ed a two-pronged attack on Ka
tanga this morning.
He said news of the attack
reached him just as his cabinet
was considering the central gov
ernment’s rep^y to his proposal
for economic union with the rest
of the Congo. .
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Social Security
Official to Be in
Nome Next Week
Lee !R, Christensen, assisitant
manager, Social Security Admin
istration, Juneau, will visit Nome
next week to help residents with
old-age, survivors or disability
insurance program problems.
Christensen may be contacted
in the Post Office, Friday, Nov.
3, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Christensen points out that un
der the recently amended Social
Security Act some people who
have reached retirement age (62)
ibut have not yet retired may be
eligible for some Social Security
payments.
Basically the new Social Se
curity retirement test is a follows:
(1) A beneficiary who earns
$1,200 or less in a year can ic
ceive all of his Social security
checks.
(2) Regardless of how much a
beneficiary, who is working as an
employe, earns in a year, he is
entitled to a benefit for any
month in which he does not earn
more than $100 in wages,
(3) If a beneficiary is self-em
ployed and does not render sub
stantial services in his business,
he may be eligible to receive some
Social Security checks. Regardless
of hU net prqfit for the year, a
person will be entitled to a bene
fit for any month in which he
is not performing substantial
services in his business.
(4) The sum of $1 is withheld
from a beneficiary’s Social Se
curity check or checks for each $2
he has earned over $1,200 and up
to $1,700 during the year. An ad
ditional $1 is withheld for each
$1 over $1,700. However, no bene
fits would be withheld from the
monthly 'benefit of an employe
who earned less than $100 in that
month or of a self-employed
person for a month in which he
was not substantially engaged in
his business.
Anyone who is over age 72 may
receive Social Security benefits
for all months after attaining age
72, regardless of total earnings.
No retirement test applies after
that age.
For more information about the
retirement test you can contact
Christensen next week or write
the Social Security Administra
tion, Box 1331, Juneau.
Aiom-Proof Shelter
DORTMUND, Germany Of) —
This city is converting a World
War II bomb shelter into a mod
ern, atom-proof shelter. The proj
ect will cost 2.5 million marks
($625,000) for the concrete-block
shelter which will hold 1,500
people in 40 separate rooms.
NO BONFIRE . . .
UNION, N.J. Of — There will
be no bonfire in Union this Hal
loween. Somebody burned the
wood.
Mayor Edward Biertuempfel
said he was calling off the an
nual bonfire 'because twice in
the last week juvenile vandals
have burned piles of wood gather
ed for the occasion.
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Frolicking Bruins
Draw a Big Crowd
MOSINEE, Wis. Ub — It was
not the bears Mrs. Richard Mul
der minded so much. After ali,
they were uip in a tree most of
the time. It was the sightseers.
Mrs. Mulder saw her husband
off to work yesterday. Then as
she was bundling up the four
children before driving them to
school, she looked up suddenly
and saw another mother—a bear
—.peeking at her through a win
dow. The Mulder home is in a
wooded area on the outskirts of
this northern Wisconsin com
munity.
When the bear climbed a tree in
the front yard with two cubs, Mrs.
Mulder got the children to school
and .put in a quick call to the
Marathon County game warden,
Harry Bonnet*, at nearby Scho
field.
He couldn’t do anything, he
said. The bears appeared tame.
They’d probably leave later, he
said.
While the bear and the cubs
frolicked in the Mulders’ front
yard, hundreds of cars drove by
to watch.
Seemingly unaware of the
mekus they caused, the bears
ambled off into the nearby woods,
whence they came, last night.
Mrs. Mulder said she wasn’t
nearly as annoyed by the bruins
as she was by the curious hun
dreds who tore up her driveway
and front lawn.
A Mighty Sore Toe . . .
CONYERS, Ga. Ub — Farmer
J. Kirkpatrick walked across a
field to feed his neighbor’s horses,
a hole cut in his shoe to make
room for a sore toe.
Suddenly a highland mocassin,
a poisonous snake, grabbed Kirk
patrick’s toe. He kicked the
snake loose and ran home to call
a doctor.
Leaving his house on a hur
ried trip to the hospital, Kirk
patrick’s dog, joining in the ex
citement, bit the farmer on the
leg.
To top it off, a doctor punched
more holes in Kirkpatrick to
combat the snake and dog bites.
Kirkpatrick is recovering.
Fla* Job Printing At The Nuggex
Artificial Heart Valve
Proves Highly Successful
CHICAGO (R — An artificial
valve made of dacron and sili
cone rubber has proved highly
satisfactory in replacing defec
tive human heart valves, two
Georgetown University surgeons
reported.
The operation corrects a heart
condition caused by malfunction
of the aortic valve.
Drs. Charles A. Hufnage! and
Peter W. Conrad of Washington,
D. C., described the technique in
an article in the journal of the
American Medical Assn.
The surgeons reported they
have replaced defective valves in
more than 100 patients. The sub
jects gained relief from chest
pains and labored breathing and
were able to return to normal
activities, the doctors said.
The artificial valve is sewn or
sutured inside the heart or aorta
in an operation that takes from
20 minutes to an hour. The body’s
normal circulation is performed
during this time by a heart-lung
machine.
LOSES PART OF ARMY
WASHINGTON UP> — Darryl F.
Zanuck has lost part of his army.
The Defense Department an
nounced Friday a cut from 700 to
250 in the number of troops that
will be sent from West Germany
to France to help the producer
make his movie about D-Day. The
department said 700 was more
than the number usually provid
ed for films about the Army.
Zanuck is filming “The Long
I est Day,” a story of the Allied
invasion of France on June 6,
1944.
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