AA HAS DROP IN INCOME
FOR FIRST NINE MONTHS
SEATTLE (R — Net income of
Alaska Airlines Inc., for the first
nine months of 1961 totaled
$70,785, equal to dil cents a share,
compared with $063,963 and $1.04
a share for the like period last
Tear.
The company said reduced
earnings were caused by a reduc
tion in the amount of the car
rier’s contract operations and ex
penses involving Alaska Airline’s
jet program.
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{Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson Dies at 89
WASHINGTON UP)' — Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, widow of the
President who shaped the League
of Nations, has died at the stately
brick town house where she cared
for her stricken husband until his
death in 1924. She was 89.
The former First Lady, in fail
ing health for more than a month,
died last night on the 105th an
niversary of her husband’s birth.
Services will be held Monday
—New Year’s Day—at 11 a.m. at
the Washington Cathedral. Inter
ment will be in the cathedral
where her husband also is in
terred.
The services, open to the pub
lic, will be conducted by the Very
Rev. Francis Sayre, Jr., grand
son of the former President and
Dean of the Cathedral.
She was stricken with a respira
tory ailment Thanksgiving night,
and never regained her strength,
her physician said. He said she
also had suffered from a heart
ailment for years.
Mrs. Wilson married the Presi
dent Dec. 18, 1915, when he was
serving his first term. She was
with him constantly after that,
screened his callers and studied
his papers after he suffered a
stroke in 1919, and nursed him
during his last years.
She was to have dedicated the
new Woodrow Wilson Bridge that
crosses the Potomac River south
of Washington, at ceremonies yes
terday.
Controversy swirled around Mrs.
Wilson after husband’s stroke in
1919. The President, in a vain
attempt to beat down Senate op
position to U.S. participation in
THE CHECK BOUNCED . . .
PAWNEE ROCK, Kan. m —
Bill Levingston found a woman’s
purse containing a $92 check, $4
in cash, keys and a Great Bend,
Kan., address.
He drove the 13 miles to Great
Bend twice before he learned the
woman had moved to Arkansas
City, Kan.
Levingston mailed the purse,
'but got no acknowledgement. So
he finally wrote and asked if she
received it.
She wrote back thanking him
profusely, and enclosed a $4 check.
The check bounced.
the League of Nations, undertook
a whistle-stop campaign across
the nation.
But he had to give up because
of nervous exhaustion. He suf
fered the stroke on his return to
the White House.
Thus began what critics called
“Mrs. Wilson’s regency.” She call
ed it “my stewardship.”
“I studied every paper sent
from the different secretaries or
senators and tried to digest and
present in tabloid form the things
that, despite my vigilance, had to
go to the President,” she wrote
in a book entitled “My Memoir.”
But she added: **I, myself,
never made a single decision re
garding the disposition of public
affairs. The only decision that
was mine was what was important
and what was not, and the very
important decision of when to
present matters to my husband.”
She was bom Edith Bolling.
Oct. 18, 1872, in Wytheville, Va.,
of one of the south’s oldest fam
ilies.' One of her ancestors was
said to have been Pocahontas, the
Indian Princess who married
John Rolfe.
After Wilson’s death, she lived
surrounded by mementoes, but she
continued to live an active life.
She sought to carry on the Wll
sonier. peace ideals, attended
Democratic conventions, and
other party meetings and had in
terests from charitable work to
sewing.
Pentagon Sets Up Plan
To Carry Out Atomic
Tests In Atmosphere
WASHINGTON UH — The De
fense Department disclosed today
it has set up a task force to plan
and carry out atmospheric atomic
testing if President Kennedy
makes a final decision to take that
step.
The Pentagon in a formal state
ment announcing the establish
ment of “Joint Task Force Eight”
said the action is taken as part
of the necessary preparations for
resuming tests, under Kennedy’s
Nov. 2 order to prepare for that
possibility.
“Such tests,” the announcement
said, “will be conducted only when
specifically authorized by the
President of the United States
and will be in continuation of the
current nuclear tests now being
conducted underground in the
United States.
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Men’s high individual series:
Carl Glavinovich 562, Dick Deem*
502, Tom House 495.
Women’s high individual series:
Pat St. Amour 465, Sue Deem*
442, Lou Oliver 431.
Men’s high game: Carl Gla
vinovich 213, Tom House 203,
Dick Deems 198.
Women’s high game: Sue Deem*
193, Pat St. Amour 183, Lou
Oliver 158.
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North Star 22 Vi 21V*
Alaska Airlines 22 22
N.C. Co. 17Vi 26V*
"West Side Story" Selected
As Best Picture of 1961
NEW YORK W — The New
York Film Critics Thursday chose
“West Side Story” as the best
picture of 1961.
Best acting awards went to
Maximilian Schell for his role in
“Judgement at Nuremburg” and
Sophia Loren for “Two Women.’
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11:00 p.m. Watch Night Service
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WEDNESDAY
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9:30 p.m. Choir Practice
THURSDAY
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