Driver, Photographer
Victims of Sports Car
Endurance Race Mishap
SEBRING, Fla., UTI — Race
driver Jim Hughes of Napa, Calif.,
and George Thompson, a Tampa
Tribune photographer, were killed
Saturday when Hughes’ car
flipped and came down on the
photgrapher during the first 30
minutes of the 12-hour Searing
Endurance Sorts Car Race.
Hughes, 29, was a foreign car
dealer and the father of three
children. His Lotus-Elite ran off
the track as he approached a peri
lous 180-degree hairpin turn, then
back onto the track before going
off again.
The car crashed into the pho
tographer, turned over in the air
and landed on Thompson, who
was stationed at a position often
favored by cameramen. Hughes
was thrown out as the car flipped.
DOUBLE DEMISE
TOPEKA, Kans., W> — Henry
Bach, 75, rushed over to a neigh
bor Sunday and said, "My wife
is very ill.”
Four persons hurried to the
Bach home and found Bessie
Bach, 70, gasping for breath.
As they tried to help her,
Bach dropped dead behind them.
When they turned back to Mrs.
Bach, she was dead, too.
Both deaths were attributed to
heart attacks.
Face That Launched A
Thousand Ships Is Quitting
BALTIMORE, Md., UPl — John
Macy Willis, who has helped
launch more than 1,300 vessels,
will retire Thursday as general
manager of the Bethlehem Steel
Co. Shipbuilding Division in the
Baltimore area. Willis has been in
the shipbuildng busness for 62
years.
Western Teachers
Told ‘Drop Greeks;
Teach U. S. Today’
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Educators
at the Western Regional Teachers
Conference were told Friday to
make their students worry less
about the needs of the Greeks and
Romans and more about the needs
of the United States anil the mod
ern world.
Dr. Hamden Forkner, head of
the Department of Business and
Vocational Education at Columbia
University, said today’s teachers
must guide their students at ele
mentary, secondary and college
levels to think about problems
that face them rather than con
centrate on problems of ancient
peoples.
Forkner spoke on the subject
“Are our economic traditions get
ting us down,”
He said an example of our out
dated economic traditions is the
farm surplus that keeps piling up.
“It costs $1,200 a minute just to
store that surplus,” he said, “and
the rest of the world is going
hungry.”
He said “Our farm surpluses
are a result of thinking that ori
ginated when we lived in an econ
omy of scarcity. What if we bought
and stored cars in a recession just
to keep employment high, That’s
what we’re doing with the
farmers.”
Air Commerce Measure
Now Up to Governor
JUNEAU, UP) — A bill providing
state regulation of air commerce
which was introduced at Alaska’s
first State Legislature lay on Gov.
William Egan’s desk today.
The measure passed the House
on a 39-0 vote Saturday and was
approved by the Senate, 14-6, later
in the day.
The bill grants the new Public
Service Commission authority, ef
fective Jan. 1, 1961, to regulate
three types of air carriers. They
are scheduled airlines, the contract
carriers and the so-called air taxi
operators.
The present Civil Aeronautics
Board control over intra-Alaska
air commerce will continue until
the regulations go into effect next
year.
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Arctic Sanitary
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Supreme Court Affirms
1957 Espionage Conviction
Of High Ranking Red Spy
WASHINGTON, UTI — The Su
preme Court today upheld the
espionage conviction of Russian
Col. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, high
est ranking Soviet spy ever caught
in this country.
Abel was convicted in federal
court in Brooklyn in 1957 *or con
spiring to steal United States mil
itary secrets and send them to
the Kremlin. His sentence was
$3,000 fine and 30 years’ imprison
ment, which he is serving.
Justice Frankfurter delivered
the 5-4 decision.
The decision was reached after
the justices heard arguments for
the second time.
Justice Brennan wrote a dis
senting opinion in which Chief
Justice Warren, Justices Black
and Douglas joined.
Justice Douglas wrote a sep
arte dissenting opinion in which
Justice. Black joined.
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30.v 11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m*
1920— May 11.18:45 a.m.
1921— May 11. 6:42 a an.
1922— May 12. 1:20 pan.
1923— May 9. 2:00 pan.
1924— May 11. 3:10 pan.
1925— May ; 7. 6:32 pan.
1926— April 26. 4:03 pan.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 pan.
1929— May 5. 3:41 pan.
1930— May 8. 7:03 pan.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
19(34—April 30. 2:07 pan.
1935— May 15. 1:32 pan.
1936— April 30.12:58 pan.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6 . 8:14 pan.
1939— April 29. 1:26 pan.
1940— April 20. 3:27 pan.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30. 1:28 p.m
1943— April 28. 7:22 p.m
1944— May 4. 2:08 pan
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. 5:53 pan.
1948— May 13.11:13 pan.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
'.951—April 30. 5:54 pan.
1952— May 12. 5:04 pan.
1953— April 29. 3:54 p.m.
1954— May 6. 6:01 pah.
• 1955—May 9. 2:13 p.m.
1956— May 1.11:24 a.m.
1957— May 5. 9:30 a.m.
1958— April 29 . 2:56 pan.
1959— May 8 .11:26 aan.
U. S. Naval Base in
Cuba Is Pawn In
Policy Showdown
HAVANA, GB — Cuba moved
over the weekend toward a show
down with the United States over
the U. S. Guantanamo Naval Base.
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s
government asked the United
States to rehire a Cuban labor
leader fired from his job in the
strategic American defense instal
lation in eastern Cuba. It also
complained that anti-Castro work
ers are being hired at the -base.
This and two other complaints
about Washington’s policies toward
Cuba appeared to have thrown up
a roadlock in the path of U. S.
Ambassador Philip Bonsai’s latest
efforts to mend crumbling Cuban
American relations.
The United States was expected
to reject the Guatanamo rehiring
request made Friday night in a
formal note couched in relatively
friendly tones.
The note asked “earnestly” for
reinstatement of Federico Figuer
as Larrazabel, a machinist who
heads the workers’ union at the
base. He was fired for making
offensive remarks about the U. S.
government and for a poor work
record.
There was no official reaction
to the Cuban note from the U. S.
Embassy.
Copies of the notes were made
available to the press Friday night
by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
The two other notes, also signed
by Foreign -Minister Paul Roa,
complained about U. S. withdraw
al of agricultural inspection serv
ice technicians from Cuba and
about Washington’s ban on the
sale of helicopters to Cuba.
These developments came as
mounting friction between Cu
ban Communist and anti-Commu
nist factions erupted into an open
clash in Havana’s streets.
The war of words between an
anti - Communist commentator,
Luis Conte Aguero, and Castro’s
powerful propaganda apparatus
flared into a near riot in down
town Havana.
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