Don Lowell Named
Director of Civil Defense
JUNEAU UP> — Don Lowell of
Seward, long active in Civil De
fense activities on the Kenai
Peninsula, Friday night was ap
pointed by Gov. Egan as State
Director of Civil Defense.
Lowell, who will make his head
quarters in Anchorage, replaces
Gordon J. Severson, who main
tained his head office in Fair
banks. Severson has resigned to
return to active military duty.
Lowell, 32, has been Chief of
Civil Defense activities on the
Kenai Peninsula since 1950. For
three years prior to that time he
headed the C-D program in the
Greater Seward area.
He has attended two Civil De
fense courses in the lower 48 and'
assisted in development of the
survival plan for the Anchorage
Seward areas.
Lowell, manager of the Seward
Division of the Alaska Telephone
Corp., also is actively engaged
in a private television business at
Seward.
U.S. Considers Sending
Troops to South Viet Nam
WASHINGTON — The Unit
ed States is considering sending
U.S. troops to help South Viet
Nam fight off Communist attacks,
expected to grow stronger when
the rainy season ends later this
month.
U.S. officials consider South
Viet Nam the main target of the
Communist drive in Southeast
Asia. If the government of Presi
dent Diem should fall, they say,
Thailand, Malaya, Burma and
Cambodia would be dangerously
weakened.
High State Department sources
revealed privately Friday that
sending troops to South Viet Nam
was under consideration.
Press officer, Joseph Reap,
while not specifically confirming
this, did not rule it out.
“We are hopeful that measures
to strengthen Viet Nam’s defenses
now being taken jointly by the
Viet. Nam government and the
United States will prove effec
tive.”
Troops from other countries in
Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza
tion may join in bolstering South
Viet Nam’s defenses.
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Baer’s Almanac Foresees
A Rough Winter Ahead
LANCASTER, Pa. UD — Squir
rels will wear mink coats, rabbits
will wrap up in beaver stoles,
and human beings had better
simply find a cozy corner and
park there for the winter’s dura
tion.
On the lugubrious chord John
Baer’s 1062 Agricultural Alma
nac made its bow Saturday.
In all the 137 years history of
this famed Pennsylvania Dutch
standby, few weather forecasts
have been more numbing.
Shivering at their own sagacity,
the publishers saiy: “We can no
longer call a spade a spade. We’ve
got to call it a snowshovel, and,
brother, will it ever get a work
out this winter.”
If Americans, particularly in
East and Midwest, thought last
winter was tough, they’d better
beware of what’s coming, says the
Almanac, for “old-fashioned win
ter will set new styles in snow,
cold and blows this season.”
Trouble with oil this, however,
is that you have to separate the
grim from the gay. Baer’s, like
most people who swear by it, has
a playful side, earthy, extrava
gant, expansive. One minute it
is solemnly oracular, the next it
if off on an outrageous spoof.
For example it would have you
believe this winter will match one
of old that was so cold a candle
flame froze solid on a Pennsyl
vania Dutchman’s kitchen table.
What did he do? He threw the
flame, now an icicle, into the
woodshed. Next day, the yam
goes, the flame thawed, setting
the shed afire.
State May Help City
Acquire Rock Crusher
Don Perkins of the Street Com
mittee of the City Council, re
ported at Chamber of Commerce
at noon today that following a
conference with BPR District En
gineer Roy Jenkins, there is hope
of a rock crusher being made
available next year to the city
with the aid of the state so that
the streets may be improved in a
more permanent fashion. In ad
dition Perkins noted that the
street from the school to the hos
pital is now being graveled as are
the streets at the east end of
town.
Chamber President Don Hoover
reported that two resolutions
would accompany Ellen Mulvi
hill, Chamber delegate, to the
State Chamber meeting in Ket
chikan. He said they are for
amended reindeer ownership and
grazing laws, and transportation
needs.
U.S. Air Force
Can Shift to Use
Atomic Weapons
RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE,
Germany — The United States
Tactical Air Force in Europe now
can shift from the use of conven
tional to atomic weapons in al
most a matter of minutes.
Training of the supersonic jet
fighter-*bomber and other jet
light bomber crews of the 17th
Air Force with headquarters here
has been revamped in a few short
weeks to pattern it to the new
military policy enunciated by the
Kennedy Administration.
Until the Berlin crisis sharp
ened President Kennedy’s deci
sion to increase conventional fire
power cf all U-S. forces while at
the same time retaining nuclear
strength, much of the training of
the 17th Air Force was in use
of atomic weapons.
Government policy is to pro
vide U.S. commanders in Europe,
both air and ground, with alterna
tive weapons. The United States
has carefully avoided foreclosing
the possibility of applying atomic
weapons when and where a situ
ation might demand.
Maj. Gen. H. R. Spicer, meet
ing with U.S. newsmen Friday,
was asked if the trend has been
to downgrade atomic weapons
while beefing up the convention
al explosive category.
This Spicer denied with a sharp
“we have not.” Then he said that
more practice with standard
bombs, aerial rockets and similar
material has begun. About 95
per cent of the crews of the 17th’s
bombers and fighter interceptors
are qualified for the use of nu
clear weapons, he said.
Castro Said Planning
To Execute Houswives
MIAMI Iff) — An anti-Castro
organization says the Cuban gov
ernment plans to execute house
wives to stop public protest about
food shortages
The first publicly known exe
cution of a woman since Fidel
Castro came to 'power will take
place on Tuesday, according to
the organization, the People’s
Revolutionary Movement (MRP).
The MRP was considered cne
of the most effective under
ground outfits operating in Cuba
'before the unsuccessful April in
vasion. By report, it was forced
to halt operations, along with the
other underground groups, when
the invasion failed, but recently
was reorganized and now is
operating again.
The Omie McCarthy Circle of
the WSCS will meet tomorrow
evening at 8 o’clock at the home
of Mrs. Helen Fagerstrom.
Soviet Astronaut Titov
Claims He Was Seasick
During 25 Hours of Orbit
WASHINGTON UP) — Soviet
astronaut Gherman Titov was
somewhat seasick during most of
his 25 hours in orbit around the
earth, Soviet scientists reported
Wednesday.
They said preliminary indica
tions were that the nausea was
the result of extended weight
lessness.
In a paper for presentation to
the International Astronautic Fed
eration O. G. Gazenko and V. J.
Yazdovsky of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences noted that neither
U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard, who
spent five minutes under condi
tions of weightlessness, nor So
viet astronaut Yuri Gagarin, who
endired zero gravity for more
than an hour, noted any compara
ble disturbances.
One of the medical questions
raised by the prospect of space
travel has been whether the hu
man system could endure long
periods without th*» familiar ef
fects of gravity.
The paper said Titov retained
“a sufficient level of working ca
pacities” at all times and his prin
cipal bodily functions were not
harmfully affected. However, it
continued, he felt during weight
lessness unpleasant sensations as
sociated with the ear chamber.
Balance is regulated in the inner
ear.
These sensations became strong
er and stronger during the flight,
especially when Titov turned his
head sharply or was observing
swiftly moving objects.
For some time after Titov awoke
from his nap the sensations de
creased, but they did not disap
pear until he began to feel the
spaceship’s decelleration on its re
turn into the atmosphere.
“Thus, the sensation of some
discomfort accompanied the con
siderable portion of the flight anc
resembled seasickness.”
POLICE DOG BREAKS”
LEGS CHASING BURGLAR
INDIANAPOLIS UP) — A po
lice dog followed the scent of a
burglar right off a ,roof here Fri
day night and broke both its front
legs in a 20-foot fall.
The specially trained German
shepherd, named Larger, accom
panied patrolman 'Robert Myott
to answer a burglar alarm at a
near downtown building.
Myott said the animal appar
ently caught a scent on the roof
and leaped over a three-foot par
apet into space. Splints were
placed on both broken legs, and
the dog is expected to recover.
The burglar got away.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET
Doctor Found Negligent
In Death of Man—Jury
Orders $50,000 Payment
CLEVELAND UPI — Dr. Stephen
A. Sheppard, one of the operators
of Bay View Hospital in suburban
Bay Village, was found negli
gent by a Common Pleas Court
Friday in the treatment of a man
who later died. The jury ordered
him to pay $50,000 to the patient’s
survivors.
Sheppard is a brother of Dr.
Sam Sheppard, sentenced to life
imprisonment for the bludgeon
slaying of his wife, Marilyn, In
their home July 4, 1954.
Dr. Sam, whose mother com
mitted suicide and whose father
died shortly after his trial, is eli
gible for parole heading in 1965.
Another brother, Dr. Richard
N. Sheppard, and the Bay View
Hospital also were defendants in
the trial, but the jury found them
blameless.
Trial of the suit filed by Mrs.
Melvin Worst of Berea started
Sept. 7. The jury reached its ver
dict after deliberating four days.
Mrs. Worst asked $150,000 for
wrongful death of her first hus
band and $100,000 for pain and
suffering. He husband, who died
july 16, 1956, was Harold Morgan.
Mrs. Worst claimed an opera
tion on her husband July 11, 1956,
had been improperly performed
by Dr. Richard Sheppard in that
less than 50 per cent of the pa
tient’s stomach had been removed
by surgery for peptic ulcers. She
also alleged her husband had
been persauded to undergo the
peration although there was no
bleeding or evidence of ulcer.
Dr. Stephen Sheppard main
tained that Morgan was in part
responsible for his own death be
cause he left Bay View Hospital
“contrary to the advice and rec
ommendations of his attending
physicians.”
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