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It’s Kite Flying Time . . .
APRIL IS KITE TIME in Nome and some of the
young people have been trying out their kites al
ready. Here are some don’ts for the paper aircraft
that take off for the wild blue yonder:
1. Don’t fly a kite writh metal in the frame or tail!
2. Don’t use tinsel-string wire, or any twine with
metal in it!
3. Don’t fly a kite in the rain!
4. Don’t pull on the string or climb a power pole
to loosen a snagged kite!
5. Don’t fly a kite over TV or radio aerials!
6. Don’t fly a kite near electric or power plants!
7. Don’t run across streets or highways while
flying kites!
8. Don’t touch fallen electric wires!
Ideal spots are the sandspit and Red Hanger
areas.
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yet finished so q ii h’v!
All ready for you io iron and
pul away — including blankeis
and slipcovers!
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— MACHINES DO YOUR JOB!
Ike Says “Not Necessary
To be First in Everything’*
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. W
\ — Former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower ended a golfing holi
day i:i the California desert by
expressing opinions at a train
i side press conference:
The Soviet Union has not dealt
j a major blow to the United States
i prestige by orbiting a man in
I space because "it’s not necessary
' to be first in everything.”
Tanned and rested from his
two months in Palm Springs, Ei
senhower chatted amiably at the
press conference.
However, when asked about the
Soviet feat of putting a man in
space, Eisenhower said, seriously:
“It’s not necessary to be first
in everything,” adding “o u r
people are to be congratulated
for doing as much as they have
in the space program.” He said,
“after all, it’s not supposed to
be a contest.”
Eisenhower said the Soviets
have been working on their space
program since 1945 — 10 years
before the United States started.
He said 1955 was the first time
anyone mentioned a satellite pro
gram to him and that was in con
nection with the geophysical
year.
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Castro’s Private Pilot
Seeks Asylum in U. S.
MIAMI, Fla. UP> —Cuban Prime
Minister Fidel Castro’s private
pilot and an air force major have
| asked asylum in the United States.
Guillermo Verdaguer, Castro’s
pilot, and his brother, Major
Roberto Verdaguer, landed a
Cubana Airlines cargo plane at
Jacksonville Friday on the pre
text of engine trouble.
Cuban sources identified the
men. Edward Ahrens, District
Director of the Immigration Serv
ice, confirmed the landing but
declined to identify those aboard
Their plane was headed for
Toronto with a load of airplane
parts.
SHOTGUN GUARD . . .
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. Wl —
Service station attendant Monty
Layton decided a shotgun would
be a good investment. He’d been
robbed twice in two weeks. But
it wouldn’t happen again, said
Layton.
So there sat Layton, shotgun
across his knees. Crack! Some
one sneaked up behind him,
struck him on the head with a
pistol butt.
And off dashed the latest rob
ber, with not only $400 of Lay
ton’s money but also with his
shotgun.
A Century of U.S. Army Defense . . .
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Army
FORT POINT, left, a classic example of early fortifications for defense, faces its modern
cour,.3rpart, a NIKE HERCULES site on the hills of Fort Barry, across the famed Golden
Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. During the Civil War, Fort Point served its pur
pose by simply existing as a silent watchdog against Confederate warships.
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Economic Observers Feel
Rising Production Will
Stalemate the Recession
WASHINGTON iff* — Economic
observers [eel that rising steel and
auto production and a whopping
increase in home building may
be leading the United States out
of the recession.
Although ;he index of industrial
ou nut edged up only sightly in
March, the Federal Reserve Board
reported Friday that the reces
s'on seems to have touched bot
tom in February and now is mov
ing up.
A number of economic observers
recently have voiced the opinion
the recession had hit bottom and
soon would move up.
Another sign of the easing econ
omic pinch came from the Labor
Department. It reported that the
number of workers drawing un
employment compensation bene
fits dropped during the week
which ended April 1 for the sixth
straight week.
A spurt in both new and used
automobile sales during March
caused manufacturers to step up
April production schedules, the
Federal Reserve Board said in its
“national summary of business
conditions” for March.
Iron and steel output, another
major factor in the index of in
dustrial output, also continued to
rise in early April.
The Commerce Department said
that private home starts during
March climbed to an annual rate
of 1,283,000 dwellings, 8 per cent
above February and 15 per cent
higher than March. 1960.
Bike riding is becoming a fad
again, both with college students
and middle-aged people looking
for exercise. The United States
now has more than 27 million
bicycles.
ORDINANCE NO. 410
An Ordinance of fhe City of
Nome, Alaska, creating a City
Planning Commission, prescribing
the qualifications and method of
election of its membership, defin
ing certain specific duties for the
said City Planning Commission
and prescribing the necessary of
ficers and the method by which
the City Planning Commission of
the City of Nome, Alaska, shall
conduct its business, and setting
an effective date.
Passed by the Common Council
of the City of Nome, Alaska, ai
regular session assembled on the
10th day of April, 1961.
(Seal) Steffen Andersen,
Mayor
Attest: Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Pub. April 12, 14, 17, 1960
JFK Administration More
Wormed on Latin America
Sccia!-Economic Problems
BRASILIA, Brazil (J'l — Presi
j dent Janio Quadros says the Ken
; nedv Administration “seems to be
1 '.letter im'onried about the social
and economic problems” of Latin
America than previous U. S. Ad
ministrations.
The: neutralist leader of South
America’s biggest country 1old
a news conference Friday that
the United Slates in the past
“lacked the human touch” in deal
ing with Brazil and failed to
understand “the principal aims of
our people.”
On the Cuban issue, Quadros
said the Cuban people “have the
right to self-determination and
Brazil will defend that right in
the United Nations or before the
Organization of American States.”
NO SPEED LIMIT IN HELL . . .
FAST LANSING, Mich. UP) —
Motorists are driving too fast
through Hell, says a complaint
to Michigan State Police.
Commissioner Joseph A. Childs
received the complaint from Mel
Reinhardt, manager of the play
land recreation area in the tiny
Livingston County community. He
asked for a proper speed zone.
Reinhardt said a lot of teen
agers visit the play area in the
summer months and he wants to
make sure they are protected.
Nursing Home in Valdez Will
Be Ready by Late Spring
The Harborview Nursing Home
in Valdez is scheduled to be
ready by late spring to receive
patients transferred from Morn
ingside Hospital in Portland.
The opening date of the Alaska
Psychiatric Institute in Anchor
age is planned for July 1962.
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