Skip Collins looks ready for anything. Is he ready
for polio?
Last spring he received a vaccine designed to pro
tect him from infantile paralysis. Some time this
year, after studying records on Skip and nearly
two million other youngsters, scientists will know
if the vaccine works. Skip’s a football-playing
laboratory, helping them out.
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the vaccine trials possible, they also give a chance
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Test Pilot’s Body
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Found on Mojave
LOS ANGELES, tfWThe body
of world speed pilot James B.
Verdin, 36, who bailed out of his j
bantam jet bamber six miles"
above the earth Thursday, has I
been found after perhaps the big
gest search ever made on the i
Mojave Desert.
The Douglas Aircraft Corp. test
pilot lay 2Vfe miles from the
wreckage of his A-4D Skyhawk
when ground searchers reached
the body Friday. The wreckage of
the plane had been found the
night before.
Verdin’s unopened parachute
was still strapped to his body. The
plane's ejection seat lay nearby,
indicating the pilot had cleared
the seat as he began his 30,000
foot fall to earth.
Col. Howard Knapp, surgeon
general at Edwards AFB near the
crash scene, said Verdin appar
ently died on impact rather than
aloft.
B-36 Bombers Land
In Guam at Start of
Air Base Exchange
GUAM, (J>'—The first group of
B-36 intercontinental bombers of
the 5th Strategic Reconnaissance
Wing landed Saturday after a 32
hour nonstop flight from Travis
Air Force Base, Calif.
Brig. Gen. Stanley J. Donovan,
commander of the U.S. 14th Air
Division, was aboard the lead
plane. He described the flight as
routine and uneventful.
One of the huge bombers was
diverted to Hickam Air Force
Base in Hawaii early Saturday
after reporting an oil leak.
The flight was part of a trans
pacific exchange of bases. Two
groups of B-36s of the 92nd Bom
bardment Wing left Guam after
a three-month tour of duty, the
first group landing at Fairfield
AFB, Spokane, late Thursday.
The Japanese population is in
creasing at the rate of more than
a million a year.
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Nationalists Bomb
China Mainland
And Tienao Island
TAIPEH, Formosa, l/P)—Chinese
Nationalist four-engine bombers
struck at the Red China mainland
Saturday for the first time since
September and, for the sixth
straight day, blasted Tienao Is
land.
The defense ministry said two
waves of bombers hit Haimen,
175 miles south of Stanghai. They
were met by anti-aircraft fire, but
no Red fighters challenged them
although jets are based 80 miles
to the north.
The ministry said huge fires
were visible at Haimen after the
raids.
Nationalist bombers also struck
at Tienao, 15 miles north of the
Tachens.
The ministry reported that de
spite heavy Communist anti-air
craft fire all planes returned safe
ly to their base on Formosa. The
raid was made in darkness. The
ministry did not say how many
bombers took part.
Tienao is a possible staging
point for an invasion of the Na
tionalist-held Tachens, 200 miles
north bf Formosa. The island has
been a daily target since a rela
tively heavy Communist air at
tack on the Tachens.
Coast Guard Starts
Search for Brothers
Gone Four Months
SEATTItE, UP)—Four months
after two brothers, Ben and Mil
ton Stites of Everett, dropped
from sight aboard their little tug
boat Adelphus. the Coast Guard
has been asked to conduct a
search for them.
Coast Guard officials said the
pair left Everett Sept. 15 for
Alaska, presumably Juneau or
Anchorage, and never were heard
from again.
No one raised an alarm though
until friends began to worry last
week. Then a few days ago, the
Coast Guard received a call from
Patricia Stites, daughter of Ben,
who is living in Ontario, Calif.,
with her mother, and attends
Chaffee College.
Patricia became concerned, she
reported, when she failed to re
ceive the usual Christmas card
from her father.
SNOWFALL HELPS POLICE
SALT LAKE CITY, UP>—For of
ficers investigating a $33 hotel
robbery yesterday it was relative
ly simple to walk across a parking
lot and arrest the culprit in his
hiding place between two steel
pillars along the wall of a build
ing.
Seems the bandit had forgotten
about the two inches of fresh
snow on the ground, in which his
footprints were clearly outlined.
NEW USE FOUND FOR
SUPERMARKET CARTS
FAIRBANKS, UP—A new use
was found for those supermarket
carts by burglars when they visit
ed the postoffice substation in the
Nevada Kid Market Friday night.
They trundled the safe out to
a waiting car or truck on a gro
cery cart. An undetermined
amount of cash and other items
were taken.
Father Dies on Birthday
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., UP—
The dinner was ready, the cake
was lit. It was Herbert Soots
man’s 63rd birthday Sunday.
Sootsman had excused himself
from the family gathering half an
hour before dinnertime. He said
he wanted to lie down.
“Dad,” called a daughter, Mrs.
Gerald Cliff, “Happy birthday,
we’re ready to start.”
“Dad” didn’t answer. He had
died of a heart attack.
Galen, Greek physician of the
second century A. D. observed
cancer.
Alaska’s “Oil Rush”
Brings Leases for
250,000 Acres
ANCHORAGE, W—Alaska’s un
abating “oil rush” brought appli
cations Friday from the nation’s
capital for leases on nearly 250,
000 acres in the Yakutat Bay area
at the base of the Alaska pan
handle.
The applications, accompanied
by checks for nearly $60,000 to
cover rentals and filing fees,
came from the Yakutat Develop
ment Co., of Washington, D.C.
They were filed with the land
office here.
The development company rep
resents a number of applicants
wl*o filed leases on land in the
same area in 1953. The leases
have been held up because of
conflicting Indian claims, and
Friday’s are expected to also have
to await the outcome of the In
dian claims case.
The Yakutat Development Co.
applications were the largest
block filed this year, but land
office officials estimated three
dozen other oil lease applications
have been received in 1955.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Perry Ka
goona, James E. Ryan, Louis H.
Green, John M. McKinney, May
Brassetton, Elwood Hunnicutt, F.
Renkel, Stanley Bochemskie, F.
P. Zyniewicz, L. M. Terrell, E. G.
McGlynn.
To Anchorage: Capt. Skidmore,
Chas. Fagerstrom, Dr. E. Schiller,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tveter and
four children, Keith Wilson.
From Unalakleet: Mr. Ford,
Joseph H. Peck, Emily Milli
grock, Susie, Sylvia and Martha
Milligrock, Lt. Col. W. J. Borden,
Sgt. Chas. Katchatag, Sgt. Oswald
Washington, John Cheemuk, Sgt.
Alvin Ivanoff.
To Unalakleet: Maynard Lond
borg.
To Moses Point: Flora Murray,
Julia McCafferty, Edward Cook,
1 Henry Harrison.
Couple, 100 Years Old,
Married 80 Years
BARNESLEY, England, UPi— j
Anna Adcock celebrated her 100th I
birthday Saturday with her hus- j
band, John, who will be 100 in J
November. They have been mar-1
ried 80 years.
“Clear Evidence” Is
Only Issue in Bridges’
Case, Judge Says
SAN FRANCISCO, (ff—A fed
eral district judge says the only
important issue in the govern
ment’s suit to denaturalize and
deport Harry Bridges is whether
there is “clear and convincing
evidence” to justify the action.
At a pre-trial conference be
tween opposing attorneys Friday,
Judge Louis E. Goodman over
ruled a defense challenge byAtty.
Richard Gladstein questioning the
legal sufficiency of a 1949 affida
vit by John P. Boyd, Seattle
immigration and naturalization
official.
Goodman said the affidavit,
which charges the longshore lead
er with being a member of the
Communist Party for 10 years
before his admission to citizen
ship in 1945, is sufficient b^sis
for the government to bring suit.
The government honored a de
fense request to have U.S. Dist.
Atty. Lynn Gillard supply the
names of prospective witnesses,
but rejected another request for
names of “any and all persons”
who might have provided infor
mation against Bridges.
During Alaska’s Exercise Snow
bird, Jan. 13-Feb. 13, the* Army
and Air Force are providing in
tensive joint training of units
under sub-arctic conditions. Ex
perience during past Alaska man
euvers shows that operations can
be conducted for prolonged per
iods at temperatures to 45° below
zero if wind movement is not too
great.
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