Jackie Jensen’s
Brilliant Athletic Career
Appears to Be at an End
BOSTON Uf) — Jackie Jensen’s
brilliant but controversial athletic
career, which included football
stardom and one of baseball’s
highest awards, appears to be at
an end.
The 34-year-old outfielder in
dicated to his Boston Red Sox em
ployers Friday night that he will
retire from baseball and devote
his time to business in Nevada
and California.
The apparent decision follows
by only a few days announce
ment by the Red Sox of a unique
travel schedule, designed to fit
around Jensen’s much publicized
fear of airplane travel. The club
also had mailed him a contract.
The seeming decision to quit
baseball was not much of a sur
prise.
Jensen quit the club with one
game left to play at the end of
the 1959 season — only one year
after he was named the Ameri
can League’s most valuable play
er. But he came back after being
out the entire 1960 campaign and
played most of the 1961 schedule.
Early last season he jumped
the club again but returned sev
eral weeks later. He had little
success at the plate, however,
ending the season with a .263
batting average for 137 games.
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Applications Available
For Coast Guard Academy
JUNEAU — Less than one
month remains for those young
men desiring to participate in the
annual examinations for entrance
to the U S. Coast Guard Academy
at New London, Conn. Completed
applications must be received by
Coast Guard headquarters in
Washington, D.C., not later than
Jan. 10, 1992.
Successful applicants will be
admitted July 1962, to the four
year course of instruction, which
has provided career officers for
the regular Coast Guard since
1876.
An applicant must be a high
school senior or graduate, who
has reached his 17th but not his
22nd birtrday on July 1, 1962.
Applicants still in high school
must graduate by June 30, 1962.
Applicants must be in excellent
physical condition, between 64
and 78 inches in height, with pro
portionate weight, and have not
less than 20/30 vision correctable
to 20/20 vision.
An information booklet and ap
plication forms for entering the
Coast Guard Academy may be ob
tained by riting to the Command
er, 17th Coast Guard District, Box
2631, Juneau, Alaska, or to Coast
Guard Headquarters, 1380 E St,
Washington 25, D.C.
HE GOT CLOBBERED . . .
! NOTTINGHAM, England (A —
When Albert Gretrex offered
Frank Bartlett 300 pounds—$840
—for Mrs. Bartlett, Frank hauled
off and hit him with a wrench.
Nottingham magistrates were
told Friday that 51-year-old
Frank, father of three children,
had been happily married for 19
years. Then his wife, Veronica,
37, left him to live with Greatrex.
The magistrates ruled that
when Bartlett hit his rival, he was
acting “under great and extreme
provocation” and dismissed
charges against him on the con
dition that he behaves himself in
th* future.
? YEARS WITHOUT
TRAFFIC FATALITY’
TRAIL, B.C. W — This town
of 11,250 was brightened all day
Friday as motorists drove around
with their headlights on in cele
bration.
Trail was celebrating the com
pletion of seven years without a
traffic fatality — a record for
North American cities of more
than 10,000 population which is
expected to be recognized by the
National Safety Council on Jan. 1.
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Dog Musher Loses
Bulldogging Foray
With a Cow Moose
ANCHORAGE W — "Never try
to bulldog a cow moose.”
This was the advice former
rodeo performer Bob Pool gave
his mushing buddies Saturday as
he related the story of his en
counter with a cow moose on the
mushing trail.
"We were heading down the gas
line right-of-way between Huff
man and Dearmound Rd.,” he
said. "It was snowing hard and
I never dreamed any moose would
be stirring aboui, but the next
thing I knew, Snuffy, my lead
dog, was tangled with a kicking
frightened cow moose.”
Pool said he first tried to un
hitch his dogs, but the moose
jumped around so much that he
was able to free only five of the
lil-dog team.
“When the mose kicked Snuffy
I went after it,” he said. “I grab
bed the moose by the neck and
tried to wrestle it to the ground,
but it just can’t be done.”
Finally, with dogs barking and
Pool shouting, the moose un
tangled itself from the harnesses
and drifted off through the woods.
Pool said he gave up rodeoing
In 1957 after the Palmer Fair, but
prior to that time he worked
rodeos in nearly every state of
the union.
“I wasn’t a bulldogger even
then, but I can tell you that no
bulldogger would able to handle
a frightened cow moose,” he said.
National Figures ot
Military Aviation Pay
Tribute to Wright Bros.
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (&—
National figures of military avi
ation paid tribute to the first men
to fly at the birthplace of power
ed flight Saturday.
Sixteen Air Force and Navy
super-sonic jets thundered over
the Wright Bros. Memorial in
double diamond formation at
10:37 a.m. to mark the 58th an
niversary of the first flight of
Orville Wright.
The jets returned minutes later
for a low altitude pass in trail
formation.
Among spectators was Brig.
Gen. Paul Tebbetts Jr*; pilot of
the bomber that dropped the first
atomic bomb on Hirosrima In
1945. Tibbetts was the official'
representative of the Air Force. -
The flyover included planes
that can move twice the speed of
sound/ almost 200 times as fast
as Orville’s 12 second, 120-foot
first flight 58 years ago.
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Bulgur Wafers to Be
Placed in CD Shelters
WASHINGTON UP) — The De
fense Department said Friday it
would buy about 150-million
pounds of bulgur wafers — a sur
vival biscuit made of crushed
wheat which can last at least five
years without spoiling.
A Civil Defense official said the
bulgur — a parched wheat that
draws its name from a Turkish
area — is “probably one of the
most ancient foods.” The wafer
itself was developed by Agri
culture Department research sci
entists at Alasbany, Calif.
The two-inch square wafers,
tasting a little like graham crack
ers, will be placed in shelters now
being marked across the country.
ROARING and HOWLING . . .
MOSCOW W — The animals
in the Moscow Zoo are roaring
and howling louder than usual
and the newspaper Moscow Prav
da said Saturday it is because
they are hungry.
The paper, organ of the Moscow
region Communist party, charged
the zoo director took money 'bud
geted for food for the animals and
bought 5,000 copies of a pamph
let entitled “Among Animals and
Birds” for distribution to zoo
visitors. Author of the pamphlet?
The zoo director, said Moscow
Pravda.
“Behind every successful man
there stands a woman and the
Internal 'Revenue Service — one
to take the credit, the other the
ARCTIC OIL
DELIVERY
— AUTOMATIC SERVICE —
Alaska Tourist
Boom Foreseen
(From Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer) — Seattle’s Charles B.
West, who is grossing $5 million
a year from tourists who want to
see Alaska, and who themselves
contribute $1 million to the econ
omy of the 49th state, expects
this coining season to be the most
crowded since the days of ’98.
The impact of the Seattle
World’s Fair will ring cash regis
ters as far away as the Arctic
Circle, according to advance re
servations with Westours, Inc.*
parent company of West’s diverse
travel organizations.
By sea, the tourists will have
their choice of 38 sailings of the
steamers Glacier Queen and the
Yukon Star, formerly the Coquit
lam and Chilcotin. They are oper
ated toy the Westours subsidary,
Alaska Cruise OLines, Ltd., from
Vancouver, B.C., to Haines, Alas
ka. Each carries 120 passengers.
“Our figures Indicate, rather
accurately, that the average tour
ist these days spends $400 in
Alaska on food, lodging, gifts,
services and entertainment,” West
says. “And there will be more
tourists than ever this coming
season.”
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U.S. Population Increases
WASHINGTON UPl — The pop
ulation of the United States has
increased by approximately 28
million in the past 10 years.
As of Nov. 1, the Census Bu
reau said Friday the estimated
total population, excluding armed
forces abroad, was 183,995,000.
The estimate on Jan. 1, 1952, was
155,790,000.
The Nov. 1 estimate represents
an increase of 4,672,000, or 2.6
per cent, since the most recent
census on April 1, 1960.
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