Burlesque Returns
To New York City
NEW YORK, 1*1—Burlesque—
•without th# strip tease, bumps or
grinds—returned to New ‘ York
tity Wednesday night after a 19
■jrear exile. "
“Nothing offensive,” comment
ed License Commissioner Bernard
J. O’ConneTl after he Witnessed
the 2 Vi-hour opening night per
formance at* the Columbia Bur
lesque Theater. The show drew a
half-capacity crowd,
t O’Conhell and two aides viewed
the performance to make sure the
show’s management upheld its
pledge to' keep1 it clean. The late
'Mayor Motello' H. LaGuardia
banished burlesque from the city
scene in 1937 on grounds it was
lewd and unsavory,
v The shew, appropriately titled
^“Welcome. Exile,” stuck to the
new script. The baggy trousers,
burlesque skits and bare midriffs
Were there. But the spots where
strippers once cavorted were
.filled with attempts at ballet.
Crown Zellerbach and
Time Inc. Will Build
$31 Million Paper Mill
NEW YORK, OB—Crown Zeller
bach Corp., one of the nation’s
■largest paper-makers, and Time
Inc. announced Wednesday they
have set up a jointly owned com
pany to build a $31 million paper
mill.
The new concern, at St. Fran
cisville, La., will produce ma
chine-coated magazine printing
paper, according to the announce
ment by Charles L. Stillman, ex
ecutive viceq president of Time
Inc., and Reed O. Hunt, Crown
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Smithsonian Scientists
Weigh Shooting Star
In Arizona Desert
WASHINGTON, lifi—Smithson
ian Institute scientists have con
cluded that the giant shooting star
which dug he famous Arizona
meteoritic crater weighed at least
12.000 tons. That would be a
chunk about the size of an aver
age house.
The Smithsonian, in a report
yesterday, said the scientists also
found evidence that the great
fragment which flew in from
outer space between 5,000 and
50.000 years ago came from a di-.
rection slightly south of west.
Previous weight estimates had
ranged from 10,000 to 10 million
tons. The line of approach had
been figured as slightly west of
north.
The weight calculation • was
based on the amount of meteorite
particles found in earth samples
from the floor of the crater, tak
ing into consideration the area
over which they were collected.
The crater, 600 feet deep, is
4,100 feet in diameter.
Zellerbach’s executive vice presi
dent.
The mill will be managed by
Crown Zellerbach. Half of its out
put will go to Time Inc. to sup
plement its present paper sup
plies for Time, Life, Fortune and
Sports Illustrated, and the other
half will be marketed by Crown
Zellerbach in the mideast and
east.
The mill will draw on a wide
variety of white southern hard
woods which previously have had
little economic use and which are
in abundant supply in the area.
2 U.S. Newsmen
From Look Are
In Red China
HONG KONG, OH—Two more
American newsmen—a reporter
and a photographer—yesterday
were reported to be in Peiping,
capital of Communist China.
The Peiping correspondent for
a British news agency cabled
Hong Kong that Edmund Stevens
and Phillip Hollington. both of
Look magazine, arrived in Pei
ping Wednesday from Moscow.
The U.S. State Department has
long banned travel in Red China
by Americans. It reaffirmed its
order last August after a Peiping
government invited about two
dozen American reporters to tour
the Chinese mainland. The de
partment said the ban was con
tinued because Red China was
holding 10 US. citizens as “polit
ical hostages.” The invitations
were the first issued by the Com
munists since they overran China
in 1949.
N.J. Congressman
Dies at His Home
CAPE MAY, N.J., Uei— Rep. T.
Millet Hand, a veteran of six
terms as a Republican member of
the House, died of a heart attack
Wednesday night while sitting in
a chair in his home on nearby
Cold Spring. He was 54.
Hand’s wife Elizabeth was ly
ing on a couch near him when the
congressman fell to the floor and
died instantly.
He had no record of heart trou
ble, tho he underwent an opera
tion recently for a kidney ailment.
His death leaves the lineup of
the House at 233 Democrats and
200 Republicans with two vacan- ,
cies.
Del. Bartlett’s Daughter
And Rep. Burke Riley
Marry in Washington
WASHINGTON, MV-Miss Doris
Ann Bartlett, daughter of Dele
gate and Mrs. E. L. Bartlett of
Alaska, and Burke Riley, Haines,
Alaskan lawyer, were married in
Ryland Methodist Church here
last night.
The ceremony climaxed a sur
prise announcement made to
friends upon the couple’s arrival
in Washington Monday.
Riley, a native of Olympia,
Wash., a former secretary of Alas
ka, is now a member of the terri
torial House of Representatives.
His bride has been on the staff
of the Juneau Independent.
Miss Sue Bartlett, the bride’s
sister, was her only attendant.
The ceremony was followed by
a reception in the officers’ club
at Bolling Air Force Base.
After a brief honeymoon trip,
the couple will return to Haines
for the convening of the Alaska
legislature later in January.
I'M MY OWN GRAN'PA
BISHOP AUKLAND, England,
—In a wedding Christmas Eve,
Douglas Harris married his step- ]
sister and sister-in-law.
The bride, Joyce, was given i
away by her stepfather, who be- j
came her father-in-law.
This the background:
In October 1955, Walter Harris
married Mrs. Elizabeth Gill.
Eight months before, Harris’
daughter, Irene, had married
Mrs. Gill’s son, William.
Now Douglas Harris, Walter’s
son, has wed Mrs. Gill’s (actually
Mrs. Harris’) daughter Joyce.
In other word.., a mother, son
and daughter have married a
father, daughter and son, re
spectively.
Tanker Plane
Crashes, Burns
On Bald Mountain
ANCHORAGE, im—‘The Alas
kan Air Command reported yes
terday that a four-engine tanker
plane carrying eight men had
crashed northwest of Willow, 50
miles north of Anchorage.
It was not known whether there
were any survivors. A ground
party was enroute to, the scene.
The plane, a KB-29, crashed on
Bald Mountain just minutes after
taking off from Elmendorf AFB
Wednesday night on a routine
training mission, the Air Force
said.
The KB-29 is a tanker version
of the fi-29 and is used for re
fueling other planes in flight.
Before the Air Force acknowl
edged that one of its planes had
gone down, a huge explosion and
fire was reported in the vicinity
of Bald Mountain by residents of
the area. The explosion was heard
and the fire was seen many miles
away.
NEW AIR FORCE JET
MAKES FIRST FLIGHT
WASHINGTON, (JT>—'The Air
Force announced yesterday that
the Convair F-106A—a new,
delta-wing, high-speed jet inter
ceptor—made its first flight at
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.,
Wednesday.
The Air Force announcement
said the faster-than-sound fighter
is designed to hunt down attack
ing bombers in any kind of
weather, day or night, using new
electronic aiming devices.
The announcement contained
no details about the plane.
However, it was understood the
F-106A used a Pratt and Whitney
J-75 jet engine which produces
10,000 to 20,000 pounds of thrust.
PRESTON TUCKER DIES
YPSILANTI, Mich., UB—Pres
ton Tucker, 53, whose plans to
revolutionize auto-making raised
his hopes and heartaches, died at
a hospital here Wednesday.
With him perished the fading
hope that his “Tucker Torpedo”
might yet be seen in the nation’s
garages.
The controversial Tucker, in
the early years after World War
II, forced auto industry leaders
to take note when his plan for a
rear-engine car gained wides
pread publicity.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
A.LAMKA CHAPTER n. I
Order of Eastern Star
Mrsti 1st a 3rd Monday of each month
Batty Edwards
Worthy Matron
Halen Dunbar
Secretary
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