Jet Age Is a Step Nearer With
Boeing and Douglas Ahead in Race
By SAM DAWSON <
NEW York, ttfi—The jet age—
with its problems of noise, crowd
ed airlanes, outdated airports, and
the financing of a IV\ billion dol
lars worth of jet airliners—is a
step nearer today.
While the British bemoan the
loss of their once proud lead in
jet transports, American plane
makers now have firm orders for
188 of the new style speedy air
liners and outstanding options for
35 more.
In this country the race has
been between Boeing and Doug- j
las. With Howard Hughes’ order
this week for eight jets for Trafts
World Airlines, Boeing now has
orders for 83. Hughes says TWA
is talking about 22 more, and
this would bring Boeing to 105.
Douglas counts its orders at
105, and its options of 13 would
make a total of 118. When all the
operations become firm orders,
the American manufacturers will
have 223 jet transports in the
works.
Deliveries of the speedy craft—
Los Angeles to New York in four
hours and 15 minutes—are sched
uled in volume between 1958 and
1961. And it is in that period
that the airlines will have to find
the 11t billion dollars that the
•planes and spare parts are ex
pected to cost.
In addition to orders from most
big American carriers now, the
aircraft makers have orders from
Air France, Sabena, and Belgina
World Airways.
The airlines hope to get their
money back through operating
savings. Jet builders contend
their craft will produce much
more revenue for the airlines be
cause of bigger carrying capacity
and more trips in the same period
because of higher speed.
On the ground is the problem
of old airports which the jet age j
could make obsolete, and the need |
for longer runways which the |
intercontinental jet airliners de- j
manfl.
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St. Peter’s Basilica
Visited by First Soviet
Tourist in Forty Years
VATICAN CITY, —'The first
Soviet tourist in 40 years visited
St. Peter’s Basilica today and
found it mantled in snow — just
like Moscow.
The snow storm was the heav
iest in years. Alexander Soloviev
of Moscow, who acted as inter
preter for the group of about 100
tourists, said “too bad the wea
ther’s like this. It’s just like Mos
cow.”
In the Basilica, the Russians
quickly showed they had prepar
ed carefully for the visit.
They knew what to look for
and where to find it.
They gathered first before
Michaelangelo’s “Pieta,” a statue
of the Virgin Mary holding the
body of the dead Christ.
“Marvelous, simply marvelous,”
they murmured. They spent near
ly an hour in the Basilica.
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Negro Coed Says
School Could Have
Halted Rioting
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. WV-A Ne
gro coed, returning to federal
court in a bid to gain readmit
tance to the University of Ala
bama, charged school officials
could have halted campus rioting.
The action was one of two filed
yesterday in the long legal battle
of Autherine Lucy to attend class
es at the university. Hearings are
scheduled for Feb. 29.
Miss Lucy petitioned to compel
university authorities to re-admit
her to classes, and in a companion
action she seeks dormitory ac
commodations and the right to
eat in the school’s dining halls.
The 26-year-old Birmingham
secretary is the first Negro en
rolled at the 125-year-old state
university. She was prevented
Monday from attending classes
after rioting crowds had stoned
and egged her and school officials.
The trustees declared that she
was excluded as a measure of
safety. But Miss Lucy charged in
the petition that she was exclud
ed solely because she is a Negro,
in defiance of a court order last
July. It was on this order that
Miss Lucy was admitted to the
school.
MARCH OF DIMES
NETS $318.24 HERE
The receipts of the March of
Dimes have been collected by
Chairman Mary Andersen, who
reports a total of $318.24 for the
cause.
Those who forgot to get their
donation in before the containers
were picked up are asked to bring
or send it to the City Clerk some
time within the next week.
City Pedestrian
Obeys That Impulse
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ UP — A
limousine stopped for a red light
at a slushy intersection yester
day blocking a crosswalk.
A woman, waiting to cross the
street, calmly opened the rear
door of the limousine, stepped in,
patted the driver on the back as
she passed, opened the opposite
door, stepped out, and continued
on her way.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT. SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
OSCAR HENRY LAY, deceased
No. 983
NOTICE OF HEARING
ON FINAL REPORT AND ACCOUNT
OF ADMINISTRATOR AND THE
DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Fred
M. Bockman. of Nome, Alaska, the Ad
ministrator of the above named estate
has filed his Final Report and Account,
and that the 11th day of April, 1956, at
the hour of ten o’clock a.m. at the office
of the above named court, Nome, Alaska,
has by court order been fixed as the time
and place for a hearing on said Report
and Account and at such time and place
the court will determine and adjudicate
the heirs of this estate.
Objections, if any there be, to said
Report and Account, and proof of heir
ship will be heard at that time.
DATED this 8th day of February. 195fi.
FRED M. BOCKMAN,
Administrator.
Publ. Feb. 10, 17, 24, Mar. 2, 1956.
Alaskan Trophies
Most Valued by
Global Hunters
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Rothfuss
of Perth Amboy, N.J., who were
here last spring and bagged three
large polar bear, have just com
pleted a two-month trip to Africa
which took them from Johannes
burg in the Union of South Africa
to Cairo, Egypt and which netted
them 45 more trophies for their
home.
Among the animals hunted and
killed were three elephants, a
buffalo, tw'o sable antelopes, a
hippopotamus and a lion. The ele
phant was 75 years old and had a
heart that weighed 55 pounds.
In the spring they plan a trip
to Mexico to hunt jaguar and then
a trip to India to hunt tiger.
Of all their many trophies from
all over the world they prize their
three white polar bear skins most
highly because they were the
most difficult to get.
Alaska Volcanoes
Tell Scientists of
Metals’ Source
BERKELEY, Calif., (^ — Alas
ka’s famed Valley of Ten Thou
sand Smokes has yielded infor
mation which will help scientists
to learn how metals such as cop
per, tin, nickel, lead and zinc
developed in the form of ores,
says a research geologist.
These metallic ores were found
in volcanic cones of the fumaroles
or little craters of the valley, said
Dr. G. H. Curtis, of the Univer
sity of California. Dr. Curtis and
Jack Sheehan, a graduate student,
recently explored the valley.
The fumaroles, which still emit
steam, are a by-product of a grea*
volcanic eruption which in 1912
blew seven cubic miles of rock
and ash into the air. Curtis and
Sheehan measured the depth of
some of the fumaroles and found
that none were deeper than about
40 feet. But the layer of volcanic
debris in the valley, called “weld
ed tuff” is 500 to 600 feet, Dr.
Curtis said.
Visitors to the valley many
years ago believed the fumaroles
extended clear through the vol
canic floor and into the deeper
areas of the earth. Because of
this they were reluctant to con
clude that the metals around the
cones were related to the volcanic
valley floor.
The new findings about the
shallowness of the fumaroles
means, Dr. Curtis said, that
scientists can now link ore mater
ials to lavas of known composi
tion and can look for the pro
cesses by which the minerals
were liberated from the glassy
phase in which they were orgin
inally formed.
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