56-Year-Old Woman
Flies Jet Interceptor
Highest and Fastest
Suffolk County Air Force Base,
N.Y., W)—Ruth Nichols, 56, pio
neer woman flier, flew an Air
Force jet yesterday faster than
1,000 miles an hour at an alti
tude of 51,000 feet.
The flight was reported to have
set women’s records for speed
and altitude. (
Miss Nichols and Col. Fred D.
Hook Jr., commanding officer of
this Air Force base on Long Is
land, flew in a two-seated train
er version of the FI 02 Delta
Dagger, a supersonic fighter-in
terceptor.
Air Force officials said the pre
vious records were set in 1956 by
Jacqueline Cochran when she
flew a Canadian F86 Sabre jet
754 miles an hour at 48,069 feet.
Hook said Miss Nichols, who
began flying in 1919, was at the
controls except during take-off
and landing and when the plane
was on instruments. The flight,
he said, was cleared with Air
Force officials at the Pentagon.
“It was simply wonderful,”
Miss Nichols said on landing.
“Flying supersonically is like
lying in a cradle.”
Living Cost Index Holds
Steady In December
WASHINGTON, OB—The gov
ernment reported Tuesday that a
decline in new car prices kept;
living costs from advancing in j
December. They averaged the
same as in November.
Hersey Riley, Labor Depart-;
ment living cost chief, said he!
could not predict whether the
current January living cost level i
will rise or drop from its present j
record high. •
The government index stayed'
at the same peak mark of 121.6
per cent of the 1947-49 average
in December as was recorded for
November. This is 3.1 per cent
higher than a year earlier. The
index has risen in 14 of the past
16 months.
Lower prices for automobiles
and apparel offset slight advances
for food and other goods and ser
vices in December.
C.V. Stevens Returns From States
C. V. Stevens accompanied by
his wife returned from a holi
day vacation trip to the states to
visit children and grandchildren.
Mr. Stevens is the engineer for
the General Services Corp. on
the Federal Bldg, construction.
Josephine, the wife of Napo
leon, bathed in liquid made of
crushed, perfumed strawberries I
and milk.
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Spanking Costs
Teacher $750
HOUSTON, Tex., Ufl—A spank
ing administered by a school
I teacher was worth $750 to Doris
Marie Frazier, 12.
Dist. Judge Byron Johnson
ruled yesterday that the punish
ment meted out by the teacher,
Mrs. Juanita Duff, 44, was “over,
above and beyond her duty.”
Johnson awarded the girl $500
for pain, suffering and humilia
tion and another $250 for medi
cal expenses and exemplary dam
ages.
The girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. 0. Frazier, had sought a total
of $10,250 damages in their suit.
“This is a blow to the whole
teaching profession,” Mrs. Duff
said. She said she may ask the
Texas State Teachers Assn, to
aid her in an appeal of the de
cision.
Mrs. Duff testified the girl had
persistently failed to pay atten
tion in class or do her homework.
She said the spanking May 10,
1955, was a last resort. •
Frank Reed of Anchorage
Named Manager of Small
Business Administration
SEATTLE, Iff)—Frank M. Reed,
former Anchorage city council
man, has been appointed man
ager of the Alaska office of the
Small Business Administration at
Anchorage.
Reed, an Alaska resident more
than 40 years, will fill a post for‘
merly held by William Struby,
transferred to Oklahoma. The
Alaska office, established in 1956,
serves the entire territory.
Main operations of the JsBA
are to assist small firms in ob
taining a fair share of govern
ment contracts, aiding in man
agement and technical problems
and helping with credit where it
is not obtainable from private
source. The SBA also makes dis
aster loans.
SALT LAKE CITY, Of)—A fig
ure of a frontiersman at the base
of a Brigham Young statue in
downtown Salt Lake City got an
extra touch of realism over the
weekend.
Tied to the barrel of the front
iersman’s long rifle was a brace
of freshly killed rabbits—bound
with a buckskin thong.
Police, who blamed vandals for
fie mischief, quickly removed
the carcasses.
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O.E.S. INSTALL
NEW OFFICERS
New officers were installed
Monday evening for the Alaska
Chapter No. 1, Order of Eastern
Star with Lillie Lewis, outgoing
matron, as installing officer.
Music throughout the cere
mony was by Dorothy Young at
the piano with Barbara Mecklen
burg, soloist.
Lillie Lewis was presented a
beautiful Alaskan hematite neck
lace and earing set from the chap
ter on terminating her second
year as matron. She also received
a lovely evening bag from her
officers. Her son, Harry Lewis,
who was Worthy Patron, received
a tie bar from the officers and
the appropriate lapel pin from
the chapter. 4
New officers include: Worthy
Matron Mildred Harwood, Herb
Jenks WP, Doris Wilke AM, Jack
Reed AP, Helen Dunbar, Sec.,
Ellen Lyle Treas., June Jefferies
Conductress, Ruth Reed Associ
ate Conductress, Dick Miller,
Chaplain, Lillie Lewis, Marshall,
Emily Boucher Organist; Star
Points Nancy Goodrich, Marge
Bohrer, Beverly Morgan, Ellen
Waldheim, and Barbara Martin;
Willard Mecklenburg Warder,
and Harry Lewis Sentinel.
Refreshments were served fol
lowing the meeting by visiting
members Christine Angell, Mar
garet Wilson, Mary Blattler, and
members Eunice Bergland, Thos.
Martin, and Bill Cameron.
WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with occasional snow
and easterly winds tomorrow 15
to 20 mph. Temperatures over the
whole period around 20 degrees.
Lowest temperature expected to
night 15 to 20 degrees, and the
high tomorrow 20 to 25.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
22, lowest 9. Max. wind 15 mph
from the north. Sunrise at 9:14
a.m., sunet at 3:13 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 15, lowest 8. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest
35 in 1929, lowest -30 in 1919.
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Russia Warns Middle East
Nations U.S. Rocket Bases
Threat to Their Existence
MOSCOW, UP) — The Soviet
Union warned the nations of the
Middle East Tuesday that U. S.
plans to establish nuclear and
rocket bases on their territory are
a threat to their existence and
“an insult to the religious feel
ings of the Moslem pe'ople.”
The Soviet foreign ministry
called a special news conference
to denounce the Baghdad Pact
prior to the scheduled opening of
the Baghdad Pact Conference in
Ankara Monday.
Foreign minstry spokesman
Leonid Ilyichev took the occa
sion also to warn the United
States and other members of the
Baghdad Pact they would have to
“take full .responsibility for all
the consequences” of their Mid
dle East policies.
He singled out Turkey for tak
ing “an especially aggressive
stand” against the Soviet Union
at the recent NATO summit con
ference in Paris.
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Claude G. Bowers,
Democratic Diplomat,
Dies In Manhattan
NEW YORK, UP) — C3aude G.
Bowers, historian, ^biographer and
diplomat, died last night at his
home in Manhattan. He Was 79.
Bowers was ambassador to
Spain from 1933 to 1939. H6 re
signed from the post when the
United States recognized Fran
cisco Franco, victor in the Span
ish civil war.
Subsequently, he was named
ambassador to Chile and he re
mained as the American envoy
to the South American country
until 1953, when the Eisenhower
administration took office.
He won Chile’s highest decora
tion, the Order of Merit. A book
he wrote on his experiences there
“Chile Through Embassy Win
dows,” is to be published here
in a few weeks.
Many of Bowers’ historical and
biographical writing dealt with
the period of Thomas Jefferson,
and he was considered a leading
authority on Jefferson’s beliefs
and career, and was a dedicated
Democrat.
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