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Sitka Woman
Admits Slie Killed
Her Husband
SITKA, —Mrs. Barbara Riv
ers, 42, charged with first degree
murder in connection with the
death of her husband, Paul was
bound over to appear before the
grand jury after a preliminary
hearing in commissioner’s court
Friday.
The dismembered body of a
■nan identified as Rivers was
found in the bay here Dec. 5.
A statement signed by Mrs.
fivers told of an argument, in the
course of which she was pushed
and fell across a bed; of how,
after Rivers had taken sleeping
pills and gone to bed, she took
twine and tied it around his neck
and hands and then to the bed.
The statement continued that
•when she awoke the next morn
ing she found her husband dead.
Becoming frightened she dismem
bered the body and threw it into
the bay.
Bail was continued at $35,000
■and Mrs. Rivers remained in cus
tody in lieu pf bond.
Chicago Airport
Scene of Confusion
In False Alarm
CHICAGO, UR—An excited op
erator got her signals crossed Sat
urday, sent out a false alarm and
had 50 firemen and 12 pieces of
apparatus speeding to Midway
Airport, fearing a plane crash.
When firemen arrived, they
found out what caused more than
30 minutes of confusion at the
world’s busiest airport.
A passenger fainted while
boarding a plane. An unidentified
airport employe rushed into the
telephone switchboard room and
shouted:
“Call the fire department. Call
an ambulance. We’ve got trouble
downstairs on the field.”
Assuming the employee meant
a plane had crashed on the field,
the operator dialed the fire alarm
office: FI 7-1313.
To the airport sped four en
gines, two hook and ladder teams,
other fire personnel and three
police cars. This movement at
tracted a crowd to the airport.
Meanwhile, the passenger who
had fainted recovered and board
ed the flight.
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BIBLE READING
For the Pre-Christmas Season
Dec. 18.... Matthew . 8:19-34
If.. Matthew .. 7:1-29
It.. John .. 3:1-17
18.. . Titus . 2:1-15
50.. .. Isaiah . 11:1-9
S)... Isaiah . 53:1-12
SS. John . 1:1-18
55.. .....Hebrews . 1:1-14
*8..:_.... Matthew . 1:18-25
S5.___ Matthew ..2:1-12
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Antarctic Explorer Says U. S.
Succeeded Where Russia Fatted
InIGY Work at South Pole
WASHINGTON OfP>—Dr. Paul A.
Siple, antarctic explorer who re
ceived the Army Distinguished
Civilian Service Award last week,
told how this country succeeded
in a major polar feat where Rus
sia did not.
Siple said the United States a
year ago had succeeded in setting
up two stations in the interior of
the white continent.
During the same time, he said,
the Russians failed in their ob
jective of establishing stations at
the geomagnetic pole and at the
“pole of inaccessibility” (the cen
ter of the continent), farther in
land than the magnetic pole.
“We each had said we would
put in our respective stations,”
Siple declared. “But they were
way short of their goal. Their
polar technology . . . didn’t work
—ours did.”
“The fact that they were un
able to get (to their objective) in
dicates there must have been
some mis judgment on their mech
anism of how to do it,” he added.
IGY headquarters here told a
reporter the reason the Russians
didn’t reach their objectives last
year was that “they were trying
an overland route without air sup-!
port.” In contrast, the American'
explorers used overland tractor
vehicles, but with aerial support. !
The Russians currently are try- 1
ing again—with aerial support—
and at last reports in early No
vember had penetrated some 700
miles from their base at Mirny—
some 200 miles farther than they
had penetrated last year.
But they still had some 800
miles to go to reach the “pole of
inaccessibility” and some 300 to
reach the geomagnetic pole.
IGY officials here said the Rus
sian route involves “extremely
rough, mountainous terrain, and
very high altitudes. If they make
it, it will be a very considerable
thing.”
An official added: “Last year,
the Russians asked the ‘United
States how we got our (overland)
vehicles to run in extreme cold.”
Siple said the recent failure of j
the American Vanguard satellite
rocket launching is “something in
science that happens.”
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CITY ORDINANCE NO. 3tt
(Published bjr Tffls
to Ordinate of |hf Cityof
»!»•* Alaska, granting to the
Hmufi Teleohona Com&uur« ZaCm
a franchise to operate a system
of telephones for telephone ex
change, to erect poles, lay con
duit, and other privilege?, within
die said City of Nome, *° provide
certain services to the City of
Nome, to establish a basis for use
by the said Nome Telephone
Company of the streets and allays
of said City, to determine the
length of said franchise period,
to provide for a ratification elec
tion, and for other purposes.
Ordained by the Common Coun
cil'of the City of Nome, Alaska.
Second Division, Territory of
Alaska, this 9th day of December*
1957.
s/ Steffen Anderson,
(City Seal) Mayor
Attest: s/ Robert F. Scott,
Clerk
Publish Dec. 11, 13, 16, 1957
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