Reindeer in Florida . . .
LAKELAND, Fla. UP) — Ship
ping a team of reindeer from
Alaska to Florida is much the
same as taking a bathing suit to
the North Pole.
However, that’s exactly what a
committee of Lakeland business
men plan to do.
The committee, headed by John
Warren, voted to spend $16,000
for the team of nine reindeer, a
santa claus suit, a sleigh mounted
on rubber wheels, costumes for
elves and other items for Christ
mas decorations next December.
Ironically, all of this planning
took place during a 90-degree
heat wave in Lakeland.
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President Designates
Udall to Approve Land
Selections by Alaska
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy yesterday designated
Secretary of the Interior Stewart
L. Udall as his representative to
approve selections of public
lands by Alaska.
The Alaska Statehood Act, ap
proved July 7, 1958, authorized
the state to select 102,550,000
acres of land.
The act provided, however, that
no selections are to made in the
area north and west of the nation
al defense withdrawal line with
out the approval of the President
or his designated representative.
In an executive order, Ken
nedy designated Udall as his
representative for this purpose.
FEELING "VERY WELL"
WASHINGTON UP) — President
Kennedy told a news conference
questioner today that he is feel
ing “very well, very well.”
Kennedy chuckled when the
question came up, and laughingly
turned toward his press secretary
seated nearby. Said Kennedy:
“I am feeling better even than
Pierre Salinger.”
Bank to Take 4-Day Holiday
The Miners and Merchants
Bank announced today that due
to the fact that many business
houses are closing on Monday,
they will take a four-day holiday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday of next week.
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A Busy Schedule
In Honolulu
HONOLULU iffi — “I came
because my dad had to sign all
the bills and stuff like that.”
That was 14-year-old Dennis
Egan’s explanation for the ab
sence of his father, Alaska Gov.
William A. Egan, and his role as
his state’s representative at the
National Governors’ Conference.
“I don’t really know if I
should go to the meetings,” Den
nis said in an interview in his
hotel room. “I might be in the
way. But I think they’d be in
teresting.”
Dennis did not attend the open
ing night reception and buffet at
the home of Hawaii Gov. William
F. Quinn. “But I’m going to go
to everything from now on,” he
said. “ I want to see what a luau
(Hawaiian feast) is and I want
to see Vice President Johnson.
How about meetings on trans
portation or natural resources,
both major items in the largest of
all 50 states? “Yeah, those would
be good, too,” he said. “I’m in
terested in those.”
“I went to a breakfast with
Western governors Sunday where
they talked about federal re
funds on resources,” he said.
“Boy, that’s a complicated prob
lem. I didn’t understand much
of it.”
(Western governors considered
a resolution to increase state
royalties on federally owned
mineral leases from 37Vfe to 90
per cent.)
Dennis said he filled in for his
father when, at the last minute,
he had a lot of work to do. The
Legislature just finished and he
had to clean up. You know, there’s
a lot of work to do. I came be
cause my dad had to sign all the
bills and stuff like that.”
The teenage representative
traveled to Hawaii aboard the
aircraft carrier, USS Ranger, ar
riving Saturday. He’s returning
to the mainland aboard the car
rier Thursday.
How does he like the confer
ence and the prestige of repre
senting his state? “It’s a lot of
fun,” Dennis said. “I’ve been
going around with a lot of gov
ernors’ kids. We’ve been going to
the beach and going swimming,
even at night.”
H i s biggest impression of
Hawaii: “The water’s pretty
warm. You know, it’s almost hot.
“We don’t go swimming very
much at home. Too much ice and
stuff like that.”
What is home without an oikol
ogist? That is the U. S. govern
ment’s job title for a housekeeper.
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Justice Dept. Issues 13
Indictments Against
Horse Race Betting System
WASHINGTON UP) — The Jus
tice Department announced yes
terday indictments against 13
men for using illegal long-dis
tance telephone hookups to con
ceal a nationwide horse racing
betting system.
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy
said a 20-count indictment, re
turned by a federal grand jury in
New Orleans, grew out of illegal
calls to or from these 10 cities:
New Orleans and Baton Rouge,
La., New York City, Chicago, Los
Angeles, Las Vegas, Atlantic City,
Miami, Biloxi, Miss., and New
port, Ky.
The indictment charged that
the defendants — described un
officially as including some of
the biggest names in horse race
lay-off gambling operations—paid
telephone company employes to
fix switchboards so that wager
ing calls went through free and
unauthorized.
The indictment charges them
with conspiring to defraud the
government of taxes and to cheat
the American Telephone & Tele
graph Co. of toll charges. The
Internal Revenue Service investi
gated the case.
America may have more dieters
than any other land, but it also
has the world’s largest sweet
tooth. In 1960 it produced over
three billion pounds of candy —
2,000 varieties—gobbled up by the
public at a cost of $1.2 billion.
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Dept, of Public Works
Is Making Complete
Survey of Equipment
JUNEAU UTI — The State De
partment of Public Works is in
the process of making a com
plete survey of all its equipment,
G. R. Lubking, Director of the
Division of Property and Supply,
said yesterday.
Lubking said the division is
trying to determine which pieces
of equipment will be retained
and which pieces will be sold as
surplus property.
He estimated that more than
100 pieces of equipment from all
sections of the state will event
ually be sold.
Much of the equipment being
inspected was transferred to the
state from the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads when Alaska as
sumed control of its own highway
program last July 1.
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