$678,000 Shortage Closes
Desert Resort’s Bank;
Track Owner Arrested
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif.,
W)—A $678,000 shortage has shut
down this Mojave Desert town’s
only bank, and its vice president
cashier, who also is a race horse
owner, is under arrest on an em
bezzlement charge.
Asst. U.S. Atty. Ray H. Kinni
son said an audit disclosed the
shortage at the Joshua National
Bank, a seven-year-old institution
serving 3,200 residents of this
community and a nearby Marine
Corps training camp.
The bank official, Roscoe D.
Coon, 46, was arrested Monday by
FBI agents at his Del Mar Race
Track stable in San Diego County.
He was specifically charged
with embezzling $10,000 of the
missing $678,000.
He was taken before U.S. Com
missioner Betty G radon is San
Diego for arraignment. Coon was
remanded to the San Diego Coun
ty jail in lieu of $50,000 bail’:
Coon, a short, ruddy man wear
ing a flowered sport shirt and
slacks, told newsmen at the jail:
“I don’t know what the charges
are against me. I’m still in the
dark about this whole thing. . . .”
Preacher’s Snakebite
Death at Revival Meeting
Ruled To Be Suicide
ALTHA, Fla., The death of
a 75-year-old preacher bitten by
a snake he handled at a revival
meeting was ruled a suicide.
The Rev. George Went Hensley
of Albany, Ga., picked up a rat
tlesnake at a church service Sun
day to demonstrate his faith in
his religion. He believed that be
cause of his faith in God he was
immune to the snake’s venom.
He collapsed soon after he was
bitten, but refused all medical
, treatment, and died Monday
morning. *
County Judge Hannah Gaskin
ruled the aged minister’s death a
suicide on the ground he volun
tarily picked up the poisonous
snake and refused medical care
after he was bitten.
An associate, the Rev. O. M.
Lassiter, said Hensley had told
him that he had been bitten at
least 400 times by poisonous
snakes in the past 55 years but
had never suffered any ill effects.
* HUNGRY HUSBAND *
At a party the other night we
overheard a young lady admonish
her husband, “That’s the fourth
time you’ve gone back for more
ice cream and cake. Doesn’t it em
barrass you?”
“Why?” asked her spouse. “I
keep telling them I’m getting it
for you.”
Artesian wells sometimes spout
salamanders and other creatures
that frequent underground wa
ters.
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WEATHER FORECAST
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Fair with variable high cloudi
ness tonight and Thursday. Little
warmer. Winds W-NW 8-12 mph.
Low temperature expected to
night 50, high Thursday 64.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
56, low 48. Max. wind 18 mph.
from the SE. Sunrise 2:51 a.m.,
sunset 9:26 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 55, low 46. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 71 in 1926,
low 34 in <1929.
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Kotzebue 40 Drizzle
Wales 42 Cloudy
Nome 54 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 54 Rain
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McGrath 54 Rain
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Fairbanks 59 Rain
Whitehorse 62 Part cloudy
Edmonton 53 Cloudy
Juneau 52 Rain
Ketchikan 54 Rain
Seattle 65 Part cloudy
San Francisco 55 Clear
Canadian Atomic Reactor
Damaged During Test
OTTAWA, —Canada is with
out a high-power atomic energy
reactor for the second time since
1947.
The experimental pile at Chalk
River, Ont., 125 miles northwest
of Ottawa, was shut down Mon
day after being damaged during a
test with a special uranium fuel
rod.
HELICOPTER 'RESCUE'
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., UR—
Lt. Paul Smith, pilot of a Coast
Guard helicopter, saw a man wav
ing frantically from the beach.
Trained in rescue missions,
Smith descended until he was
hovering a few feet from the sand.
The man and his friends fo
cussed cameras, took several pic
tures and waved Smith on his
way.
FIRST JAPANESE SHIP
SINCE WAR VISITS ALASKA
TOKYO, UR—The first Japanese
ship to visit Alaska since World
War II returned here today from
Wrangell with 270,000 cubic feet
of lumber.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
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MINERS & MERCHANTS
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NOME ALASKA
Property Ta$ Systems
Administration Called
Scandalous by Langlie
SEATTLE (tf)—A complete over
haul of local property tax systems
was advocated by Gov. Langlie of
Washington at'the 61st annual Na
tional Conference of Government
Monday.
“In most states,” Langlie told
some 2,000 delegates attending
the conference, “the administra
tion of the property tax, mainstay
of local finance, is scandalous.”
“The inequity and unrealistic
level of (property) assessments,”
Langlie continued, “make a mock
ery of constitutional and statutory
provisions for uniformity and as
sessment standards.”
Langlie tied in his appeal for an
overhaul of property tax systems
with, an attack on what he termed
a trend toward centralization of
government at the federal level.
He said tihe trend threatens to
wipe out state and local govern
ment.
Eisenhower Announces
He Expects His Fourth
Grandchild At Christmas
WASHINGTON, UP) — A beam
ing President Eisenhower an
nounced at a news conference
today he expects to be a grand
father ' for the fourth time.
Newsmen greeted the Presi
dent’s disclosure with applause
and cheers.
Eisenhower broke off a discus
sion of the Big Four conference
to say with evident happiness
that immediately upon his return
from Geneva his daughter-in-law,
Barbara, told him that if all goes
well she will have a fourth child
next Christmas time.
Barbara, wife of the Presi
dent’s only son, Maj. John Eisen
hower, now has three children—a
boy and two girls.
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