CRUELTY REIGNS . . .
OAKLAND, Calif. UP — Di
vorce decrees were granted to
both Adolph and Constance Oli
ver.
Each charged cruelty.
' Mrs. Olliver testified her
wealthy husband was particular
ly disagreeable every time his
alma mater, Stanford, lost a foot
ball game.
Stanford lost all ten games
last season.
REACTOR WHICH EXPLODED
STILL HAS HIGH RADIATION
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho UP —The
Atomic Energy Commission says
it has filmed close-up shots of a
nuclear reactor wrhich exploded
Jan. 3 and killed the three men
operating it.
The building housing the reactor
still contains a high level of radi
ation, and this has prevented ex
perts from making personal ex
aminations. The AEC said it hopes
to install closed-circuit television
cameras in portholes of the re
actor container to gather further
information.
MISS LAURENE OWENS
CAPTURES THE U. S.
FIGURE SKATING CROWN
COLORADO SPRINGS UP —
Laurene Owens, a 16-year-old
miss from a championship family,
is the new Queen of United States
figure skating.
The Winchester, Mass., high
school senior glided over the ice
in a brilliant free skating ex
hibition Friday night to take over
the crown vacated by Mrs. Carol
Heiss Jenkins, who turned pro to
accept movie offers after winning
the 1960 Olympic Title.
Miss Owen’s sister, Maribel Y.
Owen, joined with Dudley Rich
ards of Boston to win the senior
pairs title Friday night.
BENEFITS WOULD BE BASED
ON EMPOLYE'S WEEKLY WAGE
JUNEAU iff) — Workmen’s com
pensation benefits would be based
soley on an employe’s weekly
wage at the time of his injury
under the terms of a bill intro
duced in the House by Rep. Wil
liam H. Sanders (R-Anchorage).
Coed Won’t Pose in the
Nude to Adorn the
Walls for School’s Ball
OXFORD, England UP) — Ox
ford’s Somerville College today
abandoned a plan to have pretty
girl undergraduates pose in the
nude for paintings to adorn a
school ball.
First to be approached was
shapely Norma Shepherd. 20.
Norma put her foot down and
kept her clothes on, saying: “We
are only allowed a certain amount
of electricity at Somerville, and
I might become frozen.”
“Besides the decor for the
ball is supposed to represent a
temple of chastity and a stark
naked painting would not have
been really appropriate,” she
added.
Somerville is a Women’s col
lege, and the artists who were to
paint the pictures would have
been girl undergraduates. But
men will attend the ball.
After Norma declined, the
ball’s organizers decided to go
ahead with plans to represent
chastity, but she’ll be demurely
draped.
ALASKA AIRLINES SETS
A RECORD FOR DECEMBER
Alaska Airlines carried more
revenue passengers and flew more
revenue passenger miles in De
cember, 1960, than any previous
December in its 28-year history,
President and General Manager
Charles F. Willis, Jr., announced
today.
The carrier flew 8,675,000 rev
enue passenger miles last month
and had a passenger load factor
of 54.3 per cent, Willis said.
SEN. McNEES URGES STUDY ON
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL NEEDS
JUNEAU UP) — Sen. John Mc
Nees introduced a resolution call
ing for the creation of a vocation
al education executive commit
tee to study vocational school
needs within the state and to seek
grants that might support those
needs.
The Secretary of State
would be chairman of the three
man committee. The other two
members would be appointed by
the Commissioner of Education
and the president of the University
! of Alaska.
The committee would be re
quired to report to the Legislative
Council by Aug. 1, 1961, upon
vocational educational needs, and
on the availability of public or
j private funds to meet such needs.
SPECIAL TV TUBE WILL
! TRACE FLIGHT TO THE MOON
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. W) —
General Electric Co. scientists are
working on a special television
camera tube they believe will en
able them to watch man’s 240,
000 flight to the moon.
SNOW IS COSTLY . . .
PHILADELPHIA UP) — It has
cost the city of Philadelphia $2.5
million for snow removal so far
this winter, Mayor Richardson
Dilworth said yesterday.
NOTICE
Sales Tax Reports on retail
sales and services for the quarter
ending Dec. 31, 1960 must be in
the City Clerk's Office by Mon
day, Jan. 30, 1961.
ROBERT F. SCOTT.
City Clerk
Pub. Jan. 23, 25, 27, 30, 1961
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U. S. Readies
Chimps for Rocket
Ride Tomorrow
By Howard Benedict
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UP>—
Six young chimpanzees have be
gun final preparations for a rocket
ride one of them will take to
blaze a trail for human space
travel.
Tonight, 12 hours before Tues
day’s schedule launch time, medi
cal men will decide which of the
six is best fitted physically and
psychologically for the jolting
ride intended to take the ape 115
miles high and 290 miles down
the Atlantic missile range.
If the chimp and his space
capsule come through the 16-min
ute, 4,200-mile-an-hour ride un
scathed, one of America’s astro
nauts probably will take an identi
cal trip into space within two
months.
The upcoming flight is de
signed to determine how the small
passenger reacts under extreme
forces of acceleration and re
entry and during a five minute
period of giddy weightlessness.
The chimps have been trained to
perform a series of lever-pushing
tasks during the ride.
Resembles a Man
A chimpanzee was selected for
the journey because his body and
mind nearly resemble man’s.
Four of the candidates for the
flight are male, two female. They
are between 3Vz and 4 years old,
with weights ranging from 27 to
47 pounds. During the final hours
before the scheduled blastoff of
the Redstone Booster Rocket, they
will undergo repeated medical
checks and bone up on their lever
pushing chores.
“When the time comes for se
lection,” a National Space Agen
sy official reported, “we will pick
a primary chimp and an alternate.
If the primary animal gets cold
feet, we’ll use the other.”
Electronic sensors will be at
tached to the ape’s body. These
will measure heart beat, body
temperature, respiration and task
performance during flight. The
animal will be zipped into a plas
tic couch, with only his head and
arms free to move.
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