Arguments Arise Over 1
High Explosive Jet Fuel
LONDON W) — The world’s big
airline companies buzzed today
over an argument by two British
officials about a new jet fuel one
of them says is dangerously ex
plosive.
The new fuel, called JP4, is a
mixture of gasoline and kerosene,
instead of just kerosene alone,
many airliners now use it, but an
airline executive in New York
said no domestic airline he knows
of uses JP4 in normal operations
in the United States.
The argument came to light
through Lord Brabazon, chairman
of the British Air Registration
Board and an aviation expert
decorated by the Queen.
He published a series of letters
between himself and Sir William
Hildred, director-general of In
ternational Air Transport Asso
ciation.
Brabazon is critical of JP4 and
demonstrated its explosiveness re
cently on a television program.
Hildred said the television
demonstration was “harmful to
the worldwide airline industry.”
Brabazon said no group of ex
perts could dispute his claim that
JP4 flashes quickly into flame
while kerosene does not. No planes
using the fuel have been known
to crash and Brabazon did not
cite any cases.
Spokesmen for the airline in
dustry said the fuel was adopted
after stringent testing and is
technically superior.
France Explodes Its
Third Nuclear Test Device
PARIS UP) — France Tuesday
successfully staged its third nu
clear test, exploding a small de
vice that , officials hope will clear
the way for both tactical and
giant thermonuclear weapons.
\ French scientists also sought to
gain information about protec
tion of persons from the effects
of radioactive fallout.
The third test, which came
about 10 months after the first,
was fired at Reggane, deep in
the Sahara, from atop a tower.
French officials said that the de
vice was of several kilotons in
power. A kiloton is equivalent to
1,000 tons of TNT.
The first atomic bombs, made by
the United States in World War
n, were about 20 kilotons.
POPE JOHN EXPRESSES
HOPE OF HARMONY
VATICAN CITY UP) — Pope
John XXIII expressed the hope
today that 1961 will be a year “of
spiritual renewment and of har
mony between Heaven and
Earth.”
The 79-year-old Pontiff of the
Roman Catholic Church spoke
briefly to about 10,000 people in
a general audience.
Pope John said that despite
the “little black spots disturbing
the horizon,” he expected the na
tions of the world to follow a
way of peace during the new year.
Waikiki Having Its
Worst Tourist Season
HONOLULU UP) — Waikiki,
booming with tourists a year ago,
is having one of its worst sea
sons.
The larger hotels have been
running about half full, compared
to over 80 pet cent occupancy a
year ago.
But the smaller hotels are really
starving. Hotelmen report the
worst season in 10 years.
The 30-room Pacific Polynesia
recently reported one occupant
for an entire month.
Thomas J. Morrissey, vice pres
ident of the Waikiki Hotel As
sociation. said a few of the smaller
hotels have folded, sold out or
been re-financed.
He blamed a lot of the business
loss on last May’s tidal wave at
Hilo. People were frightened, he
said.
He said also there was an im
pression on the mainland that
Waikiki hotels are full.
Morrissey said there are a num
ber of small hotels on the mar
ket, “real bargains for those who
want them.”
U. S. PLANE HIT BY GUNFIRE
VIENTIANE, Laos UP) — An un
armed U. S. plane was hit by gun
fire while observing Soviet air
drops to Pathet Lao rebels yes
terday, the American military at
atche’s office said today.
Gunfire may have come from
a Soviet plane. No one was in
jured aboard the twin-engine
plane, belonging to the U. S. Air
Force Attache in Saigon, south
Viet Nam. The plane carried a
crew of five.
Alaska Airlines Transport
Service Extended Two Months
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, 111.
W) — The Military Air Transport
Service today extended for two
months the contract of Alaska
Airlines, Inc., to fly military pas
sengers in the Alaska area. The
extension through Feb. 1, 1961,
will add $276,425 to the firm’s
original contract of $495,613.
Due to the small number of
tickets sold The Arctic Club has
found it necessary to temporarily
postpone their Xmas drawing un
til early in February.
It must be understood by all
that the money that is hoped to
be made on these tickets is
STRICTLY for the Dog Race
Purse and it will not go back into
the Arctic Club itself. The club
is trying to increase the sixe of
the purse to attract name mushers
to enter the Nome race thereby
bringing dog racing back to Nome
where it originally started. We
realise there will be ill feeling
by some for postponement of the
drawing but please go along with
us and help build up this purse.
So hang onto your tickets and
watch for the drawing date to be
held in the very near future.
Sincerely.
Arctic Club Board Members
Miners & Merchants Bank of Alaska
THE FRIENDLY BANK
FULL BANKING SERVICES
To Northwestern Alaska Since 1904
! — BRANCH OFFICE IN KOTZEBUE —
I ALASKA CAB 1
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Funeral Services Held
For Harry Donnelley
SEATTLE UP) — Funeral serv
ices were held here yesterday
for Harry Donnelley, former
Alaska mine operator, banker and
business executive who died last
Wednesday at the age of 82.
Donnelley had lived in Seattle
since last September after spend
ing 11 years in nearby Bellevue.
Death was attributed to pneu
monia.
Donnelly, born in Philadelphia,
moved to Nome, in 1904. He
moved to the Iditarod Country
in south central Alaska in 1910
and became a partner in a mer
cantile store.
He was also a partner in dredg
ing operations on Otter Creek for
two years, served as superintend
ent of J. E. Riley Investments
for 30 years and owned the M &
M Bank in Iditarod.
Donnelley served two terms in
the Alaska Legislature during the
1930’s.
Survivors include his widow,
Mary, and two sisters.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 60-46-P
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
AARNOUT CASTEL, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Aarnout Castel Jr. of Nome, Alaska, has
been duly appointed Executor of the
Estate of Aarnout Castel, deceased.
All persons having claims against said
estate shall present them, in proper legal
form, with vouchers attached, to said
Executor at Nome, Alaska, within a
period of six (6) months from the date
of this notice.
Dated this 12th day of December, 1960.
AARNOUT CASTEL JR.,
Executor
Virgil D. Vochoska,
Attorney for Executor
Publish Dec. 14, 21, 28, 1960, Jan. 4, 1961.
Army!
A UNIQUE 28-FOOT PARABOLIC ANTENNA built for the
COURIER Satellite, now in orbit. This antenna at Fort Mon
mouth, New Jersey and a similar one installed at the Space
Communication Center of the Army's Caribbean Signal Agency
in Puerto Rico are the principal "ears" for COURIER. About
340,000 words can pass between the satellite and the ground
stations in a single five-minute period.
March of Dimes Aids Child Polio Victim;
She Dedicates Herself to Helping Blind•
At one despairing point
during Mary Jo Phillips’
seven-year confinement in
a hospital near Boston, and
while she was an iron-lung
prisoner of polio, a nurs
ing nun read aloud to the
frightened little girl these
words of the tormented
Job:
1 was eyes to tne blind.
Mary Jo, herself tormented
after seven operations and three
months in an iron lung, never
forgot Job’s • words. At Ken
nedy Memorial Hospital, Bright
on, a nun and physical thera
pist suggested that since the
plight of the blind touched
Mary Jo deeply, she might
want to try her hand at tran
scribing Braille.
Nothing interested her more.
Mary Jo’s fascination with
learning to write for the sight
less was healthy in two ways.
Physically, the manual effort
of applying the Braille awl to
the fiberboard strengthened her
thin arms and fingers once
paralyzed by polio. And spiri
tually, this labor of love for
those even more terribly af
flicted than she, expressed her
gratitude to God at surviving
her own ordeal.
The first words Mary Jo
wrote in Braille, for the blind
to read through their finger
tips, were those of the unhap
py Job. (The Old Testament
patriarch was reminding the
Lord of his own succor to those
whose eyes had failed.)
Mary Jo, who is 14 and has
spent half of those years in
hospitals, now is home with
her overjoyed parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Phillips of Whit
man, Mass. In her wheel chair,
the child continues her plucky
fight today against the. ravages
of bulbar polio. »
With $32,000 in March of
Dimes contributions, The Na
tional Foundation has brought
Mary Jo along to the point
where she can type slowly,
write, paint water colors, dress
herself “with just a little help." .
and even walk a few steps sup
ported by her crutches.
But above all, the little girl
is devotdd to her labors with
Braille. When she completes
the “bible” that is never far
from her, “Standard English
Using special awl for writing in 3rciile, Mary Jo Phillips
punches out text on fiborboard.
Mary Jo's first line of Braille, written for the blind du>:ng
her seven-year hsspital stay, fighting polio.
Braille in 20 Lessons” (she
sleeps with it under her pil
low), Mary Jo is planning to
transcribe fairy tales and
Mother Goose rhymes into the
pointcd-dct vocabulary of those
who live in darkness.
When four years hence her
home instructor gives Mary Jo
her high school diploma, she
plans thereafter to study the
teaching of Eraple to blind
children. That will be Mary
Jo s inspiring career, a lifetime
of serving selflessly as "eyes
to the blind."