Deputy District Governor
Visits Nome Lions Club
Deputy District Governor Mel
Harris of the Lions Midnight Sun
District was a visitor in town yes
terday. While here he met with
the local Lions club which held
its regular weekly meeting Tues
day evening,
Mr. Harris is in sales promo
tion with Pan American World
Airways at Fairbanks.
He reminded local Lions that
Nov. 11 will be “Charter Night”
the anniversary of the founding
of the Midnight Sun Lions Club
at Fairbanks and invited the
Nome club to promote a charter
flight and participate in the fes
tivities.
Four new member were in
itiated into Lions. They are Dick
Deems, Leonard Anseth, Francis
Jones, Maurice Kelliher and Ed
Morical. .....
SHADES OF PAUL REVERE
PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y. UP —
Shades of Paul Revere.
Fifty horseback riders will
carry about 3,000 invitations to
a Republican .political rally to
practically every home in this
rural town tonight.
The rally will feature a free
barbecue Nov. 5.
The town administration has
been Democratic for about 45
years.
Mrs. Franklin D. Is 77 Today
NEW YORK UP — Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt is 77 years old
today, but she won’t celebrate it.
Miss Maureen Corr, her secre
tary, said the former First Lady
has decided to mark her birthday
only at five-year intervals.
“She won’t give any special at
tention to her birthday now until
she is 80,” Miss Corr said.
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Cubans Accuse
U.S. of Training
Invasion Forces
HAVANA m — Fidel Castro’s
regime accused the United States
Monday night of training inva-1
sion forces at 20 U.S. bases and
nine Caribbean points for another
assault on Cuban shores. It said
the forces included paratroopers
and were stronger than those cut
down in the abortive landings last
April.
Acting Foreign Minister Carlos
Olivares called in the diplomatic
corps to press the charges in a
1,600-word note. He claimed the
invasion training network extend
ed from Guantanamo Bay to the
Panama Canal Zone. He contend
ed 500 paratroopers were among
the forces being readied in Pana
ma.
Olivares asserted a number of
Cent ral-American governments
were involved and the United
States was setting the stage for
invasion by trying to disrupt re
lations between Cuba and the
other governments through the
use of forged documents.
Except for the details on train
ing of anti-Castro exiles, most of
the charges had been aired by
Castro and his spokesmen in re
cent weeks. Cuba also has sub
mitted a complaint to the U.N.
General Assembly charging the
United States is planning new
aggression against the Castro
regime.
Olivares assembled the 32 for
eign envoys before large maps of
the United States and the Carib
bean on which he pointed out the
alleged training sites.
WASHINGTON UP> — The State |
Department Tuesday denounced
as “ridiculous” and “totally” un
founded” Cuban charges that the
United States is readying an in
vasion of Cuba.
Press officer Lincoln White
said no protest has been received
by the U.S. government from the
Fidel Castro regime concerning
the allegations.
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Every Man Has His Day
... So Do Squirrels!
TAMPA, Fla. Ut) — What hap
pens when a determined man
tangles with a determined squir
rel? Why, the nuttiest things you
ever heard.
Cling Peterson has a pecan tree
in his backyard and a female
squirrel has picked it out as her
personal supermarket.
“I got a couple of handfuls of
nuts off the tree so far this year,”
says Peterson, “but this squirrel’s
cleared a couple of pounds al
ready.
‘Tm willing to share the nuts
with her. I’m willing to split on
a 50-50 basis, but she wants to
take all the pecans.”
To thwart the determined
squirrel, the determined Peterson:
Put a metal mesh wire barrier
on the pecan tree’s trunk.
Cut down an orange treet she
was using for a launching pad.
Trimmed back the plum tree she
moved to after he out down the
orange tree.
Fitted an old wash tub around
the pecan tree’s trunk.
Wired up the branches so the
squirrel can’t leap up to them
from the ground.
“I ain’t going to say I got her
licked yet,” he says. “She’ll think
up something new. But for the
moment I got her checked.”
Phone Gees Out Like a
Light . . . Too Much Gin
PILSWORTH, England UP> — It
was gin that made the telephone
in the Three Arrows pub go
dead around closing time each
night.
“You might say the phone got
dead drunk,” said the manager,
Stanley Payne.
The phone went out like a light
every night and came on again in
the morning. Repairmen could
find nothing wrong.
Then one of them spotted the
gin bottle, upended for quick,
measured service, hanging above
the phone.
During the pub’s trading hours,
they found, drips from the bottle
were falling on the phone. The
gin was seeping into the mechan
ism, putting it out of action.
By morning the gin in the
phone had evaporated „ and the
mechanism worked again.
Payne has moved the phone to
a dry spot.
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Operation Sky Shield to Last 12 Hours
... All Commercial Planes Grounded
WASHINGTON UP) — For 12 j
hours next weekend the skies over
the United States and Canada
will be cleared of commercial
planes and jet fighters will streak
aloft to defend North America
against mock enemy bomber at
tack.
The exercise called Operation
Sky Shield, will last from 1 pm.
(EDT) Oct. 14 until 1 a.m. Sun
day, regardless of weather con
ditions.
U.S. B-52 and B-47 bombers—
minus their nuclear bombs—will
play the part of the attackers.
Operating against them will be
U.S. and Canadian interceptor
planes which will make an esti
mated 6,000 sorties for simulated
strikes against the aggressor
force. This will not be an anti
intercontinental ballistic missile
exercise—for the simple reason
that a defense against ICBMS has
not yet become a reality.
All the resources of the far
flung North American Air De
fense Command will be brought
into play in Sky Shield.
These will include radar, fighter
craft, anti-aircraft missiles, and
communications and control sta
tions, among other things.
Missile crews ringing many
cities will scramble to their battle
stations, but they won’t fire any
of their rockets at the “enemy”
planes.
No live ammunition of any sort
will be used.
The exercise wil spread far
northward to the Arctic and out
to sea. Joining in will be Navy
picket ships off the coasts, the
AiT Force’s radar-carrying patrol
planes and Texas radar stations
out in the ocean.
Three radar warning networks
strung across Canada and the far
north will be brought into play.
These are the DEW (Distant Early
Warning Line) in the Arctic, the
Mid-Canada Line and the Pine
Tree Line close to the U.S. bor
der.
In all, about 250,000 members
of the U.S. Army, Air Force and
Navy and Canada’s Air Force will
take part. The operations will
range over an estimated 14 mil
lion square miles of the earth’s
surface.
The Pentagon estimates that
some 2,100 commercial flights in
the United States and Canada will
be grounded.
Commercial planes will be
barred from entering North
American air space during the
test period and many privately
owned craft will be grounded as
well.
One of the reasons for ground
ing commercial planes during the
exercise is the danger ’that they
might run into trouble from the
electronic counter measures used
by the air defense forces.
Electronic devices are employed
to confuse the radio and com
munications of incoming enemy
aircraft. w
In this test, they could also
confuse the safety devices with
which civilian aircraft are equip
ped, as well as air traffic control
operations from the ground.
The Defense Department said
that commercial radio and TV.
broadcasting will not be affected
by the electronic counter meas
ures.
Provisions have been made for
emergency flight operations re
quired in the interest of health or
safety as, for example, in cases
of fire, flood, accident, or emer
gency medical treatment. Such
flights will be handled by the
Federal Aviation Agency’s Air
Traffic Control facilities on an ad
visory basis.
Oral Polio Vaccine
To Be Marketed
WASHINGTON UP> — The sec
ond of three oral polio vaccines
has been licensed by the Public
Health Service for manufacture
by a pharmaceutical firm.
Pfizer, Ltd., will make the Type
2 Sabin oral vaccine at Sand
wich, England. It also received
the license for Type 1 vaccine
last Aug. 17. The third type of
oral vaccine is not expected to
be available for several months,
the Health Service said.
Surgeon General Luther Terry
stressed that Salk polio vaccine—
given in a series of shots—is the
only vaccine available that pro
tects against all three types of
polio.
Terry said the Health Service
j is ordering 1j8 million doses—at
9 cents a dose—of the tasteless,
! colorless Type 2 vaccine to go in
its epidemic stockpile at Atlanta,
Ga.
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