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ADLAI STEVENSON DINES AT MONICELLO,
SHRINE HOME OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
By ART EDSON
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., WV
Not in 136 years has the old house
seen anything like this.
Here in Montecello, the be
loved home of Thomas Jefferson,
Adlai Stevenson dined in high
style Monday night. The last sim
ilar dinner, according to the cu
rator at Monticello, probably took
place in 1824.
That was when Jefferson—old,
tired and feeble—held a dinner
for General Lafayette on one of
his return visits to America. After
Jefferson’s death in 1826 the house
was sold, and while entertaining
was done, it was on a much small
er scale.
For years now Monticello has
been a national shrine, closed at
5 pjn.
Stevenson, the Democratic pre
sidential nominee in 1952 and
1956, is here to make a Founder’s
Day speeoh at the University of
Virginia, set up according to the
plans of Jefferson.
Monday night Stevenson was'
joined by 21 other guests, some
of them students at the Univer
sity, and they ate in a manner
as like Jefferson’s as can be dup
licated in this complicated time.
The place was lit by candles—
there’s no electricity in the up
stairs of Monticello—and the food
was brought in from the outside
by a caterer. Unlike the old days,
when slaves prepared the meals,
the food was passed from hand
to hand somewhat in the nature
of the old fire bucket brigade
from downstairs to the elaborate
dining room above.
To a hungry reporter, let in to
observe the great occasion but not
allowed to share in the food, it
was a maddening experience.
Course after course was floated
in and as Jefferson was a great
lover of good wine, each course
was washed down with a new
delicacy.
Japanese Alpinists
To Attempt Climb Of
Mt. McKinley In May
VANCOUVER, B.C., UB — Five
young Japanese alpinists who ar
rived here Tuesday will attempt
to climb Mount McKinley, highest
mountain in North America.
They are members of a joint
expedition sponsored by Waseda
University of Tokyo and the
Japan Alpine Club.
They brought their equipment
with them aboard the M.S. Yama
kiku Maru and also a small Ja
panese-built omnibus in which
they will drive to Anchorage.
They plan to spend the month
of May in their ascent of the
mountain.
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Cuba Airliner Crew
Seeks Political
Asylum In U.S.
MIAMI, Fla., Wl — A Cubana
Airlines flight crew brbught their
airplane to Miami on a regular
run Tuesday then asked for polit
ical asylum.
The three crew members, join
ed^ by one passenger, said the
Cuban government was infiltrated
by Communism and they wanted
no part of it.
Fifteen other passengers — 11
aliens and four U.S. citizens —
were unaware of the drama in
the making during the Havana
Miami flight.
The plane landed safely but
two of its engines burned out
after it reached the ground.
The crew was greeted by Ed
uardo Whitehouse, Cuba’s civil
aviation chief under the ousted
Batista dictatorship. He said he
had a hunch for a couple of days
that the defectors were enroute.
The crew members added that
another reason for their disen
chantment with the government
of Premier Fidel Castro was that
they were forced into the Cuban
air force although employed at
the same time by Cubana.
U of A Given Contract
To Study Flora and Fauna
At Alaska Blast Site
WASHINGTON — The Atomic
Energy Commission has awarded
the University of Alaska a $127,
327 contract to study the flora
and fauna of the Cape Thompson
Pgotoruk Creek region where a
giant atomic explosion is planned
to blast out a harbor.
The earliest date at which this
experimental blast could be con
ducted is the spring of 1862, ac
cording to Gerald W. Johnson,
head of the Lawrence Radiation
Laboratory, which is preparing
for the so-called Plowshare pro
gram. If the Cape Thompson bfast
succeeds, a second blast for a
small harbor near Katalla on the
Gulf of Alaska is being planned,'
he said.
Fresh details of the planned
atomic test at Cape Thompson
were supplied to the Congression
al Committee on Atomic Energy
in a rundown of planned use of
nuclear explosives for excavation,
power and water resources.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President '
ALASKA CHAPTER' HO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
I_Secretary
Meets. first and third Mondays
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No. 140
BYRON O. REED, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
MhJi flrtt and Third Thursday
of Each Month %
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Ash Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meats last Tuesday of orory
month at School.
WERNER BOHREH, President
VESTA SUHDSTROM. Sacty.
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