Juvenile ‘Cobras’
Reformed Publicly
SEATTLE, UP) — The King Co
bras, who reformed publicly 10
months ago, have made it stick.
They’re the juvenie gang mem
bers who gave a “restitution din
ner” last February after some of
them took part in a grocery bur
glary.
The dinner netted $133.08 to
more than repay the grocer. A
judge gave them another chance.
What’s happened since?
“They’re making good,” said
James L. White, executive direc
tor of Neighborhood House Inc.,
the social service agency that
helped them with the public re
payment dinner.
“Not one boy has been in trouble
with the law since.”
The answer, says White, was
“redirection.”
“Everyone has weaknesses, but
he has strengths, too. What we
have done is built on their
strengths.”
Two of the boys organized a
dance band. Several others made
athletic teams at their schools.
Another has been elected to his
school’s student council.
News of the restitution dinner
brought letters of encouragement
to the boys from all sections of
the country. That helped.
“The boys came into my office
to go over the letters,” White re
called. “They were surprised that
people still had faith in them.”
One of the former Cobra lead
ers will be graduated from high
school in June and plans to study
engineering.
“I know I’m not going to have
any more trouble,” he said.
T lust wish I could erase my
record. It was pretty stupid.”
INDIGNANT FLORIDA C OF CI
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., UP) — It
was quite an indignity to a Flori
da Land of Sunshine Chamber of
Commerce.
Employes of the Jacksonville
area C of C had to work in over
coats Friday when the building’s
furnace blew a fuse. The temper
ature reached a high of 50, sev
eral degrees below normal.
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C.A.B. O-K’s Air Hauling Of lst-Class
Mail From Seattle To Alaska Cities
WASHINGTON, UR — The Civil
Aeronautics Board agreed Friday
to authorize the airlines operating
between Seattle and Alaska to
carry first class mail during a trial
period over the Christmas holi
days.
The Postmaster General asked
November 20 that the CAB set
IB cents a mail ton mile as a fair
rate for handling such mail on a
voluntary, space available, and
non-priority basis.
The CAB order said the 18 j
New Army Officer
Shoots Self For
Lack Of Confidence
DENVER, UP) — Something
bothered Lt. Samuel Pottenger,!
24, when he took his first Army
assignment last week at Ft. Car
son, Colo.
The young officer, newly com
missioned at Ft. Benning, Ga.,
wrote, “I find myself incapable j
of making decisions.”
After two days as an officer i
with the first battle group of the j
47th Infantry, Potenger left his
wife and 14-month-old daughter
early Friday and drove to Denver.
He parked in the driveway of
another man’s house and fired a
bullet through his head, police
said.
On the seat beside Pottenger
lay a three-page explanation.
It said an Army officer needs
to have self-confidence and that
“I don’t have any.”
During 1957, nearly 54,000 oil
and gas wells were drilled in the
United States — and more than
20,000 of them were dry holes.
In the previous 4 or 5 years, only
17 wells had been drilled in Alas
ka. All but three of these were
considered to be dry holes.
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cents rate exceeded the added
cost of the service, but in view
of the limited holiday period was
reasonably acceptable.
The airlines which will be auth
orized to carry the surface mail
between Seattle and Alaska are
Alaska Airlines, Pacific Northern,
Pan American and Northwest.
For the calculation of payments,
the CAB established these dis
tances from Seattle to the Alaskan
cities involved:
Ketchikan, 660 miles; Juneau,
912; Yakutat, 1,095; Cordova,
1,'294; Anchorage, 1,450, and Fair
banks, 1,536 miles.
The Post Office Department said
it has been experimenting in the
carriage of first class mail by
planes between specified cities in
the United States, and with the
approaching Statehood of Alaska,
wanted to enlarge the experimen
tal operations to include that area.
It said the service or non sub
sidy mail rate of 18 cents a ton
mile was justified economically
and added that the airlines in
volved had expressed willingness
to carry mail at that rate.
The Post Office Department
says that while its Seattle-Alaska
experimental operations would
end December 31, it asks that the
rate be set for an indefinite per
iod because results might indi
cate the desirability of continued
operations.
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Air Force Kills “Goose”
WASHINGTON, — The Air
Force has killed the Goose, a
long-range decoy missile designed
to distract enemy defenses from
manned aircraft and guided mis
siles carrying lethal loads.
The decision to cancel the
Goose program officially was at
tributed to “changes in operation
al concepts.” But Air Force offi
cers said today economy was a
factor.
The Fairchild Aircraft nd Mis
sile Division of Hagerstown, Md.,
was prime contractor for this
missile.
Powered by a jet engine, the
Goose had intercontinental range
and would have been launched
from bases in this country.
NOTICE
Pursuant to an Order of Court
entered on the 171h Day of No
vember, A.D. 1958, Notice Is Here
by Given that a General Term of
the District Court, Second Divi
sion, District of Alaska, will be
held in the Court House at Nome
in said District and Division, com
mencing at the hour of 10:00
o’clock AM. Friday, January 2,
1959, and to continue thereafter
according to the further orders
of the Court.
Given under my hand and with
the Court's seal affixed this 24th
Day of November, AJD. 1950.
(Seal) J. M. KRONINGER.
Clerk of the United States
District Court for the
District of Alaska, Sec
ond Division.
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