One Short Ride . . .
SEATTLE, te — A taxicab dri
ver and a sailor went to sea Mon
day night in a freighter in, search
of an' alligator suitcase and a
wallet,
Police told this story:
Vern Kelso of San Diego, Calif.,
24, engineer aboard the freighter
JDelpen, was ready to disembark.
He had packed his gear and called
a taxi. Other crewmen had left
the ship.
When Kelso tried to open his
cabin door, it stuck. Hands filled
with seabag and suitcase, Kelso
drew back and whanged the door.
It opened. Out and over the rail
went Kelso, with gear.
Kelso scrambled back on board
and lowered a skiff. It sank. He
climbed back aboard.
Then the cab arrived. Kelso and
driver Roland Gallagher, an ex
Navy man, cast off and eased the
ship into the waterway for a fruit
less search.
By this time harbor patrolmen
found the suitcase floating 300
feet off the pier. The wallet is
missing.
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Army Streamlines Missile
Management In U. S.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., M — The
Army yesterday announced a sys
tem of streamlined management
designed to push development of
the Nike Zeus anti-missile missile
as fast as possible.
Colonel John G. Zierdt, chief
of staff of the Army Ordnance Mis
sile Command, was named deputy
commander of the Army Rocket
and Guided Missile Agency, to
head the program.
The Army announcement said
Zierdt “will in effect become Mr.
Zeus.”
Major General John B. Medaris,
commander of the Army Ord
nance Missile Command, said:
“By installing this management
system, we will be able to swing
as much of the Army’s resources
as may be necessary behind the
Zeus development, whether these
resources are within the govern
ment or our contractor organiza
tions.”
A1 West, of U. S. Smelting Co.,
leaves this week to join his wife,
who is now in California, for a
vacation before early spring
work starts.
The Wests will be with their
daughter and grandchildren
while in California.
HUNTING AND FISHING
LICENSES NOW ON SALE
AT NOME HARDWARE
Home Arts Club Hears
Plans of Legislators
,Mrs. John McNees and Mrs.
Emily Boucher were hostesses at
the monthly meeting of the Home
Arts Club last evening.
This Women’s Federation Club’s
program was legislation, and
guests were Senators Bronson
and McNees. Many phases of
pending legislation were dis
cussed. The group was particu
larly interested in campsites being
made at Salmon Lake, and pos
sibly a national monument at the
lava beds north of Nome, where
Highway 97 may pass through.
These lava beds might be con
sidered one of the outstanding
wonders of the new state, and
should be kept intact for future
generations.
Educational problems, housing
of school children, and vocational
training for those unable to fit
into the present High School
schedules were discussed. The
members voiced their strong sup
port of Highway 97. A keen in
terest in civil service ratings and
merit systems for the new State
was displayed.
All questions concerning pend
ing legislation was ably ex
plained by the two senators.
President Peggy Kelliher stated
the next meeting would be a
party night in February, with
Esther McCoy and Dorothy Grant
as hostesses.
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BIRMINGHAM, England, W) —
Charles Oswald 'Lee, a 51-year
old butcher, collected $70,066 yes
terday for a two-penny bet on the
soccer pools.
The money is all his — tax
free. He won by correctly fore
casting eight drawn soccer
matches last Saturday, the only
one to do it among he millions
who tried.
Informed of his luck, Lee or
dered a pint of beer "to calm my
nerves.” Then he gave free meat
to all his customers and threw a
big party for the neighborhood.
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Schoolteacher Was
Passenger on Missing
Anchorage Plane
ANCHORAGE, UFI — An Illinois
schoolteacher was discovered
Monday to be aboard a light plane
missing since December 31 on a
flight from Anchorage to Dilling
ham, about 350 miles southwest
of here.
The discovery was made after
the school superintendent at near
by Chugiak asked State Police to
investigate the disappearance of
Donna McGladrey, 24, whose
family lives at Waterman, 111.
Previously, it had been believed
only the pilot Richard Newton of
Anchorage, was aboard the plane.
However, friends of Miss McGlad
rey said she told them she planned
to make the flight and she was
seen at the airport shortly befofe
takeoff time.
About 75 miles from Dilling
*ham, Newton radioed he was lost.
He made no mention of a pas
senger at the time.
Civil Air Patrol planes have
£een searching since January 1,
weather permitting.
B-47 CRASH IN KANSAS
HUGO, Kans., Wt — A • B-47
bomber crashed and burned on a
southwestern Kansas farm late
yesterday, killing three of the
four crew members.
The fourth, Lt. Gordon Elton
' White, 25, of Amarillo, Tex., par
! achuted safely.
Observers said the plane lost
altitude and pinwheeled, going
down wing over wing, during a
refueling operation.
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CALIF. SPECIAL SESSION
CALLED TO CONSIDER SMOG
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Gover
nor Edmund G. Brown will call
a special legislative session in
March to consider smog and edu
cation problems. The Governor,
a Democrat, told a statewide ra
dio-television audience last night
that among other things he would
propose installation of anti-smog
auto exhaust devices to clean up
California’s air.
WIFE OF S. C. SENATOR
DIES OF BRAIN TUMOR
WASHINGTON, Wt—Mrs. Jean
Crouch Thurmond, 33, wife of
Senator Storm Thurmond (D-SC)
died today.
, Doctors said she was afflicted
with a Vapidly progressing malig
nant brain tumor.
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