Inaugural
Ballgoers Just
Wouldn’t Dance
By Frances Lewine
WASHINGTON UP) — President
John F. Kennedy went to five
inaugural balls Friday night and
announced at the windup that he
had yet to see anybody dance.
He had a right to be surprised.
According to the dictionary, a
'ball is a large assembly for social
dancing.
But, then, Kennedy and his
wife, Jacqueline didn’t dance
either. And Mrs. Kennedy went
home after the third ball, leav
ing her husband and Vice Presi
dent Lydon Johnson to carry the
ball — as it were.
The thousands of guests who
paid $25 to $40 each to come to
he social highlight of the four
day inaugural festivities followed
protocol on wearing white time
and formal gowns.
The Inaugural Committee pro
vided the best setting it could:
Hotel ballrooms and a gayly
decorated — though huge and
barnlike — armory. There were
society orchestras, Army herald
trumpets, royal blue and gold
Presidential boxes, all the neces
sary ingredients.
But, the message about dancing
never got through.
Let's Dance
At the armory, where 45 min
utes of the ball was carried to
television, dancing was called for
“in the name of the President.”
Those in TV audience “want to
find us dancing at the ball,” the
master of ceremonies pleaded just
before airtime.
Meyer Davis and his orchestra
played “I Could Have Danced
All Night.”
But the majority of close to
20,000 ballgoers just wouldn’t go
along. And, in all fairness, the
dance floor was crowded at times
that they couldn’t have danced
if they wanted to. ^
There were certain main ob
jectives at all five balls — to get
a close look at the President, to
be able to claim the distinction
of having been here and, per
haps, to take a snapshot of the
newly inaugurated President.
The guests could say they had
champagne — even if it was
served in paper cups. And they
could eat or take home as a sou
venir a piece of the 5,617 pounds
of inaugural fruit cake.
SOVIET SPACE DOG
HAS LITTER OF PUPS
MOSCOW W) — The space dog
Streika has given birth to a lit
ter of six healthy puppies, the
Soviet press reported today.
The paper Soviet Russia pub
lished a picture of Streika and
her pups and said the birth proves
living beings can be protected
from harmful radiation in outer
space.
Streika made 18 circuits of the
earth at an average height of
170 miles last August before being
returned to earth with her com
panion, Belka, the Soviets said.
GLUE POT
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TOBACCO
CANDY
FRESH ICE CREAM
EVERY DAY
Little League
Results from Jan. 20, played
before the Unalakleet game.
North Star 21, Nome Druggist 12.
High point men Johnny Green 10,
Richard Pauwok 9, and Ballamine Al
vanna 7.
Northern Commercial 16, Bering Sea
14.
High point men Ernie Wilkalkia. Doug
las Doyle and Mike Thompson 4 each,
Roy Tobuk Jr. 8.
Bronson Deliveries 12, Nome Nuggets 7.
High point men Willie Curran 6, David
Otton 4.
This week the boys will play on
Saturday afternoon beginning at one
o’clock. No admission is charged and
parents and friends are invited to at
tend.
The following are the box scores for
Unalakleet Wolverines and Nome Na
nooks oduble-header basketball games.
1st Game
Nanooks 42
FG FT PF TP
Locke 5 1 2 11
Adams 10 12
Oman 3 0 16
Herman 3 12 7
Bell 5 3 1 13
Wittie 10 0 2
Chunn 0111
Totals 18 6 9 42
Unalakleet 21
Moses 2 0 14
Soxic 0 0 0 0
Towark, T 5 5 2 15
Ivanoff 0 2 3 2
Towark, C 0 0 2 0
Kotangan 0 0 0 0
Dunlon 0 0 0 0
Total 7 7 8 21
2nd Game
Nanooks 49
Locke 6 4 1 16
Adams 13 15
Oman 2 115
Herman 4 12 9
Bell 3 117
Wilkalkia 0 0 10
Wittie 0 10 1
Ailak 0 0 10
Chunn 1224
Atuk 0 2 0 2
Total 17 15 10 49
Unalakleet 33
Moses 8 3 2 19
Soxic 0 0 3 0
Towark, T 3 2 3 8
Ivanoff 0 0 5 0
Towark, C 10 2 2
Kotangan 2 0 5 4
Dunlon 0 0 0 0
Total 14 5 20 33
CARRYING CAPACITY CUT
TOKYO UR — With Japan suf
fering an unusually severe winter,
the Japanese National Railways
says bulky overcoats worn by pas
sengers have reduced the carrying
capacity of trains by about 20
per cent.
Alaska Native Brotherhood
And Sisterhood Extend
Best Wishes to President
JUNEAU OP) — The Alaska Na
tive Brotherhood and the Alaska
Native Sisterhood Saturday ex
tended their best wishes to Presi
! dent Kennedy as the nation’s 35th
Chief Executive.
In a telegram signed by Presi
dent Alfred E. Widmark of the
ANB and Amy Hollingstead of
the ANS, the two organizations
said:
“We, the sons and daughters
of the sole original inhabitants of
the vast expanses of Alaska ex
tend to you our most sincere con
gratulations.
“Your election as thirty-fifth
President of the United States of
America has filled our hearts
with new hopes for our future,
and we are confident that you
will guide us in such a manner
to justify our new-born faith.
“In the name of the official
organization of the Alaska In
dians, Aleuts, and Eskimos we
send your our best wishes.”
THE GROWING SIZE
BALTIMORE UP) — The city’s
proposed new civic center will
have seats to fit “the growing
size of the American posterior.”
Architect A. G. Odell Jr., of
Charlotte, N. C., said yesterday
20-inch seats will be installed be
cause “we find that many people
now have difficulty getting in
and out of anything smaller.”
NEW HIGHWAY PAINT
TO BE TESTED THIS YEAR
BUFFALO UP) — A reflective
highway paint that gives drivers
a sharp view of the road at night
has been developed at Cornell
Aeronautical Laboratory here. The
laboratory said the paint, applied
so that it reflects only the light
from the driver’s own headlights,
will be tested by the New York
Public Works Department this
summer.
BIG EARTH MOVEMENT
SCHEDULED BY SOVIETS
MOSCOW UP) — Tass said Sat
urday the Soviet Union will touch
off 7,000 tons of explosive this
fall to begin construction of a
dam on the Malo-Alma Ata
Gorge in Kazakhstan. The Soviet
news agency said the explosion
will 'be without precedent and
will move 1.7 billion cubic feet
of earth.
WOLF PACKS TERRORIZE
VILLAGES IN PORTUGAL
LISBON, Portugal UP) — Wolf
Packs, driven from the mountains
by bitter weather, are terrorizing
villages of Northern Portugal. In
attacks of villages near the Es
tralla Mountains wolves have
killed 40 head of cattle this week.
A LOT OF CABLE ! ! !
MONTREAL UP)—More than $50
million in contracts have been
signed for construction of the
world’s longest telephone cable.
The cable running more than
9,000 miles under the Pacific
Ocean and linking Canada, New
Zealand and Australia, is sched
uled for 1964.
I WISH HIM AND
THE COUNTRY WELL
WASHINGTON UP) — Former
Vice President Nixon, asked what
he thought of President Kennedy’s
inaugural address, had only this
reply:
“Today is President Kennedy’s
day and I wish him and the
country well.”
BOGUS TEN AND TWENTYS
CIRCULATE IN GERMANY
WIESBADEN, Germany UP) —
Countenfiet American $10 and
$20 bills are circulating in Europe,
the U. S. Air Force Headquarters
warned. Some of the bills have
been discovered but no arrests
made.
Cuba’s Militiamen
Warned to Remain Alert
HAVANA OP — Maj. Ernesto
Guevara warned Cuba’s civilian
soldiers last night to remain alert
so that if “the new (Kennedy)
Administration threatens us we
will all be ready to go back to
the trenches.”
Cuba’s pro-Communist econ
omic chief sounded the warning
at a rally of demobilized mili
tiamen at a seacoast town 40 miles
west of Havana. He urged the
men to go back to work now that
the three^week “Invasion” alert
was over, but cautioned them to
be prepared.
Fidel Castro told provincial
delegates of the Agrarian Reform
Institute that his government
would give 80,000 small farmers
in Oriente Province credits to
spur cultivation of coffee and
cacao.
He also announced creation of
“childrens’ farms” to be incor
porated in the “people’s farms,”
which raise vegetables, chickens
and rabbits. Children over 10 will
be eligible to work on the farms.
Cuba and the Soviet Union also
will exchange a thousand chil
dren to work and learn on each
other’s youth farms, Castro said.
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