Sir Thomas Beecham,
Conductor of Symphony
And Opera Passes Away
LONDON, OP—Sir Thomas Bee
cham, 81, internationally known
conductor of symphony and opera,
died today.
Beecham had been in poor
health for many months, although
.he continued to make recordings.
He died at his London home after
a cerebral thrombosis.
He was Britain’s greatest sym
phonic conductor of the 20th cen
tury and one of the world’s fore
most interpreters of the music of
Mozart, Handel and Haydn. But
he was known almost as well to
music lovers for his caustic witti
cisms, sometimes shocking, usual
ly irreverent, which infuriated or
delighted his audiences.
In February 1960, while under
taking a three-month tour of Am
erica, he suffered a severe attack
of virus pneumonia. He respond
ed quickly to treatment, but it
was obvious that the illness had
made great demands on his
strength.
Metropolitan Opera
House Will be Razed
NEW YORK IT) — The Metro
politan Opera House, a yellow
brick structure known for gen
erations as a world center of
operatic arts, is scheduled to be
razed some time in the winter of
1964-65.
The block-square property on
which the 78-year-old landmark
is located will be turned over to
a group of investors who plan to
erect a commercial building.
The Metropolitan Opera Assn,
announced Monday it hopes to be
in its new home at the center, on
Manhattan’s west side in time for
the 1964-65 season.
FIRST AIR EXPRESS
DELIVERY MADE
The first piece of Air Express,
by the new Division of Railway
Express Agency to arrive in
Nome was delivered to the Nome
Nugget from New York by George
Leinard, station manager for
Alaska Airlines yesterday. It ar
rived from New York City in two
days.
Necessity is still
The Mother of Invention
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When engineers repositioned the fuel tank In the 1961 Chev
rolets they also developed a deep-well cargo space in the trunk.
Necessity being the mother of invention prompted perky Judy
Cooper, Mountain View, Cal., to tie a clothesline onto the raised
trunk lid and fill the new well with water. A washboard and de
tergent completed the “laundry room” for washing out those
things which needed washing during a motor trip. “It worked
quite well,” said Judy, “we didn’t have to carry an extra washtub.”
Alaska's Revenue
Collections Total $4,493,878
For Month of February
JUNEAU UP) — Alaska’s reve
nue collections totaled a record
breaking $4,493,878 during the
month of February, Gov. Egan
said today.
It was the first time in history
that the state’s revenue take ex
ceeded the $4 million mark.
Egan said that revenue Com
missioner Peter Gatz reported
receipts for the eight month peri
od ending Feb. 20 totaled $20,
190,778 as compared with $16,
816,216 collected during the same
period a year ago.
Major increases were recorded
in collections of net income taxes,
up $1,069,450, and motor fuel
taxes, up $1,367,546.
Gatz said the collections repre
sent revenues received from taxes
and licenses fees and do not in
clude state income from oil and
gas leases, land sales and other
such sources.
Cut in Federal Taxes
Fails to Muster in House
JUNEAU UP) — A resolution ask
that Alaskans be granted a 25
per cent cut in their federal in
come taxes to allow for higher
living costs in the state failed to
muster the necessary majority of
votes in the House.
The measure was introduced
by Rep. Frank E. Cashel. The
vote on its passage was 19-14,
with 7 absent.
Rep. R. W. Stratton, Jr. said
the measure would serve to point
out inequities to the federal gov
ernment, which has recognized
high living costs in Alaska by
granting certain federal employes
in the state a 25 per cent income
tax free living allowance.
Opponents argued that federal
employes’ salaries are scaled to
living costs elsewhere in the na
tion and are usually much lower
than salaries in Alaska.
WANTS A PEN PAL . . .
Emmanuel A. O. Shunniyi of 52
Okeqopo St., Lagos Nigeria, West
Africa would like to have a pen
pal from Nome of any age inter
ested in movies, music, animals,
fishing, stamps and hunting.
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Two Executives Released
For “Exemplary Behavior"
PHILADELPHIA UP) — Two of
the seven executives sentenced
to jail in the government’s big
anti-trust case against some of
the nation’s largest electrical
firms were ordered released yes
terday for “exemplary behavior.”
Sentenced to 30 days in jail
each, Charles Mauntel, 60, Drexel
Hill, Pa.; and John Chiles, Jr., 57,
Sharon, Pa., were released four
days early.
Mauntel and Chiles are top
level executives for Westinghouse
Electric Corp. Their attorney
presented a petition to Gilbert W.
Ludwig, Clerk for U. S. District
Court, seeking their immediate
release.
EIGHTH GRADERS
DID PRETTY WELL
MEDINA, Ohio Ub — Dorothy
Spencer says her eighth graders
did pretty well — in fact they did
a little better than a group of
college students on a current
events test.
The junior high school teacher
noted a newspaper story about
the low scores, averaging 47.3 per
cent on a test taken by students
at Kent State University.
Mrs. Spencer got a copy of the
test and gave it to her class. The
eighth graders scored an average
of 49.2 per cent.
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X15 Rockets
To Record Speed
Of 2,650 MPH
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Clafi. UP — A sharp-nosed X15
rocketed to a record speed of
2,650 miles an hour yesterday in
a paint-scorching warmup for
fringe-of-space flights later this
year.
Maj. Bob White, hurtled across
i the desert sky by the mightiest
engine man has yet flown, topped
by 375 mph his own mark of
2,275 mph set Feb. 7 in an XI5
with a smaller power plant.
A heat-indicating paint turned
the X15’s nose from green to
blue, yellow, black then brown as
air-friction temperatures mounted
toward an expected record of 700
degrees.
In open-throttle flights planned
soon, nose temperatures are like
ly to go to 1,200 degrees or high
er.
White was dropped from a B52
mother ship at 45,000 feet over
Silver Lake. Opening the throttle
to 70 per cent thrust, he shot to
75.000 feet, leveled off and cut
to 50 per cent for the speed run.
After 125 seconds, he switched
off the engine and pulled up to
77.000 feet — experiencing 25
seconds of weightlessness at the
top of the arc. Then he jettisoned
his remaining fuel and glided
down for a 200 mph landing.
He was in. the air only eight
minutes.
MIGHTY SMALL . . .
NEW ORLEANS tPl — Secretary
of the Army Elvis J. Stahr says
the Army will seek a larger ap
propriation next year. Stahr said
in a speech Monday the Army is
“as small now as as we dare be.”
Nome Directory
Nome
Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crtnklaw, Sec.
Meets First Tnursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A. E. BOHRER, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina Bachelder, President
Jane Foster, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Lt.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 165
Meetings - Monthly, Last Tuesday 8 p.m.
Staff Conferences - Each Tuesday 8 pjtn.
Group Hdqtrs., Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
Meetings - Each THursday 7:30 p.m.