Queen Elizabeth Uses C47s
LONDON Lfl — That trusty Old
American Packhorse—the C47—
is still good enough for Britain’s
Queen Elizabeth, who will use
two of the World War II vintage
planes during her state visit to
Nepal next month. The C47s are
the biggest planes that can land
on Katmandu’s short runways.
Flying theaters: Some airlines
are planning to entertain pas
sengers by showing free first
run movies during jet flights. . . .
As usual, we suppose, the profit
will come from the popcorn.
THE KITCHEN SINK TOO ! ! !
KANSAS CITY, Kan. UP —
Police here are looking for thieves
who steal abandoned houses —
brick by brick, board by board.
Among several city-condemned
properties which have vanished
piece by piece were two apart
ment buildings.
The thieves took anything that
can be knocked loose .including
bathroom fixtures and kitchen
sinks.
Dr, McKinley will be in Nome
Jan. 20 lo 23 for denlisiry.
GUILTY CONSCIENCE
PEORIA, 111. t/P) — State’s Atty.
James V. Cunningham’s campaign
to collect delinquent personal
property taxes is having some
success. County records show the
state’s attorney Thursday paid his
own past due personal taxes —
$12.73 for 1955 and $25.30 for
1960.
Government prosperity note:
When Thomas Jefferson became
the first U. S. Secretary of State
the Department consisted of three
people . . . now it has more than
35,000 employes.
...the only car
in its field
beautifully built to go...
miles between lubrications
30,000 is the most famous num
ber of the year. It’s every ’61
Ford owner’s license to save.
How can Ford do it? Conven
tional chassis lubrication fit
tings have been replaced with
metal plugs that help protect
each lubrication point against
abrasive mud, dirt and dust.
And then, for only about $4
and about 20 minutes your Ford
is ready for another 30,000!
This is just one of the many
ways the ’61 Ford is built to
take care of itself.. Your Ford
Dealer can show you more.
raw division.
HERE’S HOW THE *6! FORD
TAKES CARE OF ITSELF
Lubricates itself—You’ll normally go 30,000 miles
between chassis lubrications (which cost only about
$4.00 and take about 20 minutes) because Ford
has replaced conventional grease fittings with a
sealed-in lubrication system.
Cleans its own oil—You’ll go 4,000 miles between
oil changes because Ford’s Full-Flow oil filter gives
you filtration through fibers . . . trapping more dirt
than any other type of filter made.
Adjusts its own brakes—New Truck Size brakes
adjust themselves—automatically.
Guards its own muffler—Ford mufflers are double
wrapped and aluminized to last three times as long
as ordinary mufflers.
Protects its own body—All vital underbody parts
are specially processed to resist rust and corrosion,
even to galvanizfhg the body panels beneath the
doors.
Takes care of its own finish—Just wash and clean
Ford’s new Diamond Lustre Finish and it continues
to glisten like new. It never needs waxing.
Only FORD is beautifully built to take care of itself
#
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COMPANY
MUSHES’
THROUGH
WASHINGTON
Associated. Press Special Service
WASHINGTON M — Alaska,
once an important producer of
gold, can boast today of only a
handful of working gold mines.
“It’s not that the gold is gone,”
says Rep. Ralph Rivers, “but the
fact it’s too costly to mine strict
ly for gold at today’s low price.”
Most of the gold coming from
the 49th State now is a by-product
of mining for other minerals, he
said.
Considering present concern
over shrinking American gold re
serves, Rivers has come up with
a proposal to give a boost to both
gold miners and this country’s
gold hoard.
He introduced a bill to raise the
Treasury payment for newly
mined domestic gold to $70 an
ounce from the $35 set in 1934.
The bill also provides that the
Treasury charge $70 an ounce for
gold going into domestic indus
trial, professional and artistic use.
Rivers said his bill is designed
to do three things:
(1) Stimulate new domestic pro
duction through the price rise.
(2) Increase the income of gold
producers without cost to the gov
ernment.
(3) Induce dealers in gold to
buy abroad.
“They would prefer to pay $50
or less per fine ounce, for ex
ample, from foreign sources than
pay $70 per fine ounce from the
U. S. Treasury,” he said.
This foreign buying for domestic
uses, he said, would relieve the
Treasury from having to part with
gold for non-monetary purposes,
enabling it to retain an estimated
$80 million worth a year now sold
for such use.
Added to this gold retention
would be an increased supply of
newly mined gold.
“All this would be accomplished
without disturbing our interna
tional arrangements for settle
ment of trade balances and re
demption of foreign dollar credits
on the basis of $35 per fine
ounce,” Rivers said.
* * *
A bill introduced in the House
would give Alaska a federal
judge in addition to the one it
Undersea Missile Shot
Deliberately Destroyed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. MV
A Polaris missile shot off course
and was destroyed by the range
safety officer Saturday about one
minute after it was launched
from under sea by the nuclear
submarine Robert E. Lee.
This was the second time in
three days that a Polaris fired
from the Lee was deliberately
destroyed. Trouble occurred Wed
nesday in the first stage. Satur
day’s malfunction was in the sec
ond stage after the 28-foot rocket
had broken to the surface and
streaked to an altitude of about
12 miles.
Fiery pieces of the shattered
rocket tumbled into the Atlantic
Ocean.
The submarine launched the
missile from a keel depth of
about 90 feet while gliding 30
miles off Cape Canaveral.
The Navy reported the com
pressed air ejection and in-flight
ignition were successful. Cause
of the malfunction was not im
mediately known.
Dan Karmun, who was injured
in the plane crash at N. E. Cape
last month, has improved suffi
ciently to be discharged from the
hospital, and is now up and
around.
now has. The bill seeks a total of
63 new judgeships for the United
States.
When Alaska was a Territory,
and before it set up a State Judi
cial System, it had four federal
judges .
• • •
Final figures from the Census
Bureau place Alaska’s popula
tion in 1960 at 226,167, in increase
of 97,524 from the 1950 census.
Of this total, 85,767 persons, or
37.9 per cent, were listed as
living in urban areas and 140,400,
or 62.1 per cent, in rural areas.
Back in 1880, the report adds,
the territorial population was a
mere 33,426.
The report also gives these
figures for four major communi
ties:
Anchorage had a 1960 popula
tion of 44,237, compared with 11,
254 in 1950; Fairbanks 13,311,
compared with 5,771; Juneau
6,797, compared with 5,956, and
Ketchikan 6.483, compared with
5,305.
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