Report Communists Will
Sell MIGs to Cuba
WASHINGTON, UP) — French
diplomatic sources say Communist
Czechoslovakia has agreed to sell
Soviet-built MIG jet fighters to
Cuba.
• The State Department said Fri
day night it had no information
on the deal. The United States
has banned shipment of war ma
terial to the Caribbean for two
years.
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Ingemar Johansson Flies
To N. Y. for Signing of
June Patterson Rematch
PRANGINS, Switzerland —
World Heavyweight champ Inge
mar Johansson says he will fly
to New York this week to sign the
contract for his June 22 return
fight against former titlist Floyd
Patterson. Johansson has been
training in Switzerland
The champion, who has a pro
found yen for fiying, says he now
will concentrate on training for
the Patterson fight. He has been
practicing flying about three
hours each day. Although he has
not been mixing with any sparring
partners in Switzerland, the champ
says he feels in great shape. But
he added: “It’^ too bad I have
to give up flying.”
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Dog Tired . . .
MT. BALBY, Calif., UP)—There’s
one St. Bernard dog who won’t
feel right the next time he meets
with the local chapter of his clan’s
hill rescue society.
Simon Bolivar, 165-pound prize
winning show dog, got sutck on a
ledge without his traditional cask
last night and had to be carried to
safety. The 1,000-foot descent
made in a stretcher usually re
served for humans took sheriff’s
deputies nearly three hours.
“I hope next time it’s a chi
huahua,” said a member of the
rescue squad.
Simon’s owner, Don Palmer of
La Puente, said he had gone hik
ing with the dog and they became
entrapped on a hillside covered
with loose shale. The dog’s paws
I were badly cut. 1
Grandfather Wouldrf’t
Know the Place!
PORTLAND, Wl — An Alaska
girl who attends high school in
Seattle visited last week the city
of which her great-great-grand
father was a founder.
She is Kathleen Pettygrove of
Ketchikan, who has been living
with an aunt while going to
school.
Her ancestor, Francis Petty
grove, had Wis way about nam
ing the city of Portland when he
won a toss of a coin with Asa
Lovejpy.
One thing on her agenda was
a stop at the downtown water
front corner where Pettygrove
ran a log cabin store in 1844.
NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION
AT ALL TIME HIGH
PHILADELPHIA — Newspaper
circulation reached an all - time
high in 1959, according to the
92nd annual edition of N. W.
Ayer & Son’s Directory of News
papers and Periodicals.
Combined circulation of Eng
lish-language dailies is now more
than 57.6 million, an increase of
915,660 from 1958. Tlhe exact fig
ure is 57,611,447. The increase
was attributed to the country’s
recovery from the 1957-58 reces
sion.
The nation’s evening papers
had a daily circulation of 34,724,
636, up a few thousand. Morning
newspaper rose several thousand
to 22,664,665.
Sure Signl
Of Spring!
Season's first Permanente Cement barge arrives in Alaska
Spring is here! Alaska’s, booming construction industry is ready j
to roll . . . and Permanente Cement is ready to help it off to a fast j
start for the tenth straight year! |
, Bulk cement is immediately available at Permanente’s Anchorage
and Fairbanks distribution facilities — and more is on its way to
serve Alaska’s growing construction needs.
Supplying Alaska with readily available bulk cement has been
the job of Permanente Cement since 1950, when it pioneered barge
shipment of this vitally needed building matrial. This service has
resulted in considerable savings to the construction industry, and
has substantially contributed to the growth of the ready-mix
concrete products industries in Alaska.
Permanente Cement is proud of the role it has played in supplying ! j
a critical material for Alaska’s important building projects, and in
aiding the growth of thi& dynamic new state. , ,. . x