Seattle Firm Files Suit
Against Wenner-Gren Co.
For C-21 Monorail Project
VANCOUVER, B.C. UP) — The
company building the monorail
project for the Seattle World’s
Fair contended in court Friday it
“hasn’t been paid a penny” so
far for its work. t
An attorney for the Howard
Wright Construction Co. of Seat
tle and the National Bank of
Commerce of Seattle made the
statement in a suit brought against
the Wenner-Gren, BC., Devel
opment Co.
The action involved 750,000
shares of Wenner-Gren Peace
River Power Development Co,
stock. The shares were pledged to
the Wright firm as payment for
monorail construction by Alweg
Rapid Transit Systems of Wash
| ington Inc., a unit of of the Wen
ner-Gren industries.
However, since the monorail
job was started, the British Col
: umbia government has taken over
plans of the Peace River Company
to build a multi-million dollar
hydro-electric project.
Justice Harry Sullivan of the
I British Columbia Supreme Court
ordered the Wenner-Gren Co. to
pay $375,000 into court, pending
.outcome of the suit. Hearings will
begin here Dec. 21.
The court was told the $1,400,
000 monorail project now is 90
per cent complete.
BOOBY-TRAP KILLS MAN
MIAMI, Fla. Iff) — Josph Ro
sario, 39, who booby-trapped his
car to give gas thieves an elec
tric shock, was killed by the de
vice. His wife, Yvonne, 35, who
H tried to save him was hospitalized.
Rosario, a teacher, had led a
110-volt line from his house to
the carport in hopes of shocking
thieves siphoning gaB from his
automobile. He was barefooted
and standing on a wet surface
when he turned on the current
and touched the
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Castro Lashes Out
In Bitter Attack on
Panama and Colombia
HAVANA W — Fidel Castro
lashed out Saturday with a bitter
attack on Panama and Colombia
and challenged them to sever dip
lomatic ties with his Cuban
regime.
The Cuban Prime Minister, in
a midnight television speech, also
assailed President Kennedy’s
scheduled trip to Venezuela and
Colombia, charged it is aimed at
defending the U.S. “repressive
policy against workers.”
Castro told a cheering audience
of graduating school teachers he
was issuing the invitation to his
two Latin-American neighbors
“on a silver platter" to accom
modate the wishes of the U.S.
State Department.
Castro called Panama “another
government of traitors and ac
complices of the Yankee imperial
ists.”
“Let them break relations with
us, these unlawful ones like Pana
ma and Colombia,” Castro said.
Colombia this week called for
a foreign ministers’ meeting to
discuss the problem Cuba poses
for the hemisphere. Panama re
cently relayed to Cuba a diplo
matic note from Guatemala in
which that nation threatened to
permit establishment of a Cuban
government in exile unless ex
president Jacobe Arbenz is ex
pelled from his exile in Cuba.
Eleven nations of the Western
hemisphere have broken with
Charged Interest . . .
GARY, Ind. tfft — A Gary con
fectionary operator, who police ac
cuse of charging Interest on
nickels and dimes loaned to school
children to play pinball machines,
faces a preliminary charge of con
tributing to the delinquency of
minors.
John Pearson, 33, was arrested
in his confectionery across the
street from Emerson School on
Gaiy*9 east aide. /JpP'
Officers said Pearson charged a
penny interest for each nickel
he lent pupils to play his pinball
machines. Many of the young
sters paid their debt with part
of their lunch money.
MUSHES’
THROUGH
WASHINGTON
By Fritz Witti
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON <*) — Alaska’s
three-man congressional delega
tion is making a determined effort
to ease size and weight limitations
on parcel post shipments in the
49th State.
Their argument boils down to
the fact that although Statehood
brought many changes, it has not
had any effect on the basic ship
ping and transportation problems
of the former territory.
Alaska is a transportation-poor
state, they say, and its residents
are highly dependent on parcel
post shipments.
With statehood, the parcl post
size and weight limitations in the
other states became applicable to
Alaska. The result was that the
package limits of 100 inches in
length and girth and 70 pounds,
allowed for the territory, fell tc
72 inches and 20 pounds.
Sens. E. L. Bartlett, and Er
nest Gruening and Rep. (Ralph
Rivers, formed a united front in
giving arguments for a Post Of
fice Department conference today
on proposed revision in parcel post
regulations.
The Department favors a re
turn to the 100-inch, 70-pound re
gulations for Alaska and the dele
gation endorsed the proposal in
statements prepared for the con
ference.
The three are also sponsors of
bills now before congressional
committees which would put the I
size and weight limitations back
to where they were 'before State
hood.
“People in Alaska,” said Bart
lett, “still depend to a great ex
tent upon mail-order purchases
—for various domestic supplies
and for numerious items such as
replacement parts needed for the
conduct of their businesses. There
fore, they have been and they
continue to be enthusiastic pa
trons of the parcel post service.”
Gruening said Alaskans “are
entirely dependent on imports of
almost all commodities they use,”
and that the tighter limits on par
cel .post have become “an onerous
hardship.”
Rivers noted that the proposal
has been endorsed by the Gover
nor, Chambers of Commerce, sev
eral organizations and many in
dividuals while he has received no
communications in opposition.
Fur Processing Plan!
The three Alaskans are also
pushing the establishment of a
plant to process Pribilof Island
seal skins in Alaska.
Their recommendations were
made to Stewart Udall, Secretary
of the Interior, after he announced
the department was dropping its
contract for the work with Fouke
Fur Co., St. Louis, Mo., at the
end of next year.
All three urged that a plant lo
cated in Alaska, near the seal
grounds, would be more econo
mical and efficient and would pro
vide needed employment in the
state.
Udall told Bartlett careful con
sideration would be given to the
recommendation and a detailed
study made of the matter.
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Stomach Surgery
Performed on Madman
Who Swallowed Spoon
MIAMI, Fla. Vh — Stomach sur
gery was performed Saturday on
a madman who swallowed a spoon
handle while awaiting transfer
to New York where he is accused
in the slaughter of his brother
in-law’s family.
Mat Ivanof, 37, a Yugoslav im
migrant, underwent the operation
at Jackson Memorial Hospital
where he was moved after swal
lowing the 3Vfe inch spoon handle
in his cell at Dade County jail.
Ivanov, lodged in the jail as
a federal prisoner, was served a
meal Friday, along with other pri
soners and was given a spoon.
Jail attendants in a corridor re
ported hearing later a scraping
noise as if something was being
sharpened and when they enter
ed Ivanov’s cell, they found he
had broken off the spoon handle
and swallowed it.
After attempts to remove the
spoon handle failed, Ivanov un
derwent stomach surgery, police
said.
The FBI identified Ivanov as
the man wanted in Mineola, N.Y.,
for the Nov. 25, bayonet massacre
of five persons.
Ivanov was picked up by Im
migration authorities Dec. 5 on
charges of illegal entry into the
United States. He was found pos
ing as a Cuban refugee in a row
boat near Marathon in the Florida
Keys.
BILL SCHAFER NAMED
SALES MANAGER FOR NWA
Northwest Orient Airlines has
named Martin (Bill) Schafer of
Anchorage as Alaska sales mana- j
ger.
Schafer, who has been Anchor
age district sales manager of
Scandinavian Airways System,
will succeed A. B. Hayes, who will
retire from NWA service on Dec.
31. Following his retirement from
active service with Northwest, j
Hayes will be retained by the air
line on a consulting basis.
| “The Christmas Story” ...
PENSACOLA, Fla. (A) — Chris
topher Brock, a 9-year-old third
grader, was instructed to write a
Christmas story.
His story, a prize-winner at
Montclair School, was entitled
“The First Christmas” and was
written this way:
“Once there was a lady who
was very young this happened
2,000 years ago her name was
Mary.
“She lived in Mazareth.
“One day she kneeled down to
pray then all of a sudden a angel
apperd. She was lightened for a
minute then angel she said bail
i full grace the Lord is with thee.
“She didn’t know at first what
tiie angel meant.
“He said you are going to have
a great baby you are going to
call him Jesuse.
“One day Cesar who the em
peror of Bethlehem ordered every
body who was bom there was
going to have to 'be in rolled.
“May was in the House of
David. Joseph was from the House
of David which was in Bethlehem.
“He met Marry on the way and
got married.
“When they got there all the
hotels and motels were filled up.
They asked a man who owned a
stable if they could rent it until
Mary had her baby.”
End of story.
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