Frontier Legend
Born at Valdez . •.
$1,000 Foot Race
VALDEZ UP> — Shades of the
old Klondike and the jumping
frog of Calaveras County!
A new frontier legend was born
here Wednesday with a high
noon, $1,000 foot race down the
main street of this Alaskan city.
Winner of the 100-yard race
dubbed the “Valdez Olympics”
was Ralph Pedersen, a Cordova
fisherman whose wife is in Long
view, Wn., and no man could use
' the $1,000 for a better purpose.
He plans to use the money, plus
the money he has made fishing,
to send his wife to the Mayo
Clinic for treatment of cerebral
palsy.
After he had defated Sven Jo
hanson, 37, famed Seward mara
thon and Olympic skier by a half
step, he telephoned his wife.
“Honey,” he said, “you're going
to walk!”
The race was born Tuesday
night in a bar owned by Chuck
Egan, brother of Alaska’s Gover
nor, William Egan. It started as
conversation, and before the eve
ning was over, John Goeres, Cor
dova fisherman, declared:
“We’ll put up the best runner
we have here against the best you
can find around Anchorage or
Fairbanks.
Goeres and his wife, Sandy,
put up the $1,000.
They called Johanson and ofr
fered to pay his way to Valdez,
and the Seward marathon runner
accepted.
As a large crowd lined the
street and cannery whistles blast
ed encouragement the two men
lined up, Pedersen was wearing
long trousers and Johanson wore
shorts. Both raced in tennis shoes.
No one thought to time the
racers.
g There was a holiday spirit in the
little town anyway as fishermen
are enjoying the first salmon
bonanza in many years. Wednes
day was a closed fishing day.
After the race, Pelersen offered
Johanson half the purse. (His of
fer was refused.
“Keep the money for your
wife,” Johanson said.
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America’s Biggest
Rocket Flunks Its First
Public Demonstration
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. Uft — After 18 successful
secret test firings, America's big
gest rocket engine flunked its
first public demonstration.
The mighty FI, on which Amer
ica has pinned its hopes, of being
first to put men on the Moon,
burned for only 1 Vz seconds Wed
nesday before a malfunction
forced it to stop.
It was scheduled to at least
equal its longest previous burn
ing time of 20 seconds.
In even that brief period, how
ever, insiruments showed it built
up a thrust of a million pounds—
almost three times the power of an
Atlas Intercontinental Missile.
When working properly the FI
engine has a thrust of lVfe million
pounds.
Engineers explained after the
failure that the extreme vibration
of the engine had damaged a
switch on a fuel valve, causing
an automatic shutdown.
It was the first time newsmen
had been allowed to witness an
FI firing.
The FI is being developed by
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration for the
Nova Moon vehicle. Eight FI’s,
developing 12 million pounds of
thrust, are to be clustered as the
first stage of a 400-foot-tall
rocket which is expected to boost
a three-man Apollo space craft
to the Moon by 1067.
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Now ... A Frozen
Martini on a Stick!
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa 10 — A
Cedar Rapids firm says it has
successfully developed a frozen
martini on a stick.
Cherry-Burrell Corp. explained
that it was only a by-product its
research engineers turned out in
fun while testing ultra-cold pro
cessing of food.
While submerging bourbon,
vodka and beer into liquid nitro
gen scaling 320 degrees below zero
fanrenheit they came up with
bourbonsickles, vodkasickles and
beersickles.
Roy Follett, a company official,
said the process can toe used on
foods, including fruits and baked
goods.
Follett said bourbonsickles,
martinisickles and other alcoholic
beverages would burn like dry ice
when frozen at 320 degrees below
zero.
But he said when they are al
lowed to warm up to about 80
| degrees below zero they can be
consumed without pain.
They must be sorted in dry ice,
he said, because they would melt
at temperatures in the ordinary
home freezer.
Federal income taxes take more
than seven times as much out of
the average wage earner’s dollar
today than in 1941.
U.S. Navy Plans
Fleet Expansion Program
WASHINGTON W) — The Navy
announced Thursday a fleet ex
pansion program which will bring
a net gain of 43 combat and sup
port ships.
This will increase the size of the
active fleet to 861 ships, includ
ing 383 warships and 478 non
combat types.
The fleet expansion is part of
the U. S. buildup of conventional
forces to meet emergencies which
may arise anywhere in the world.
The fleet expansion is to be ac
complished by retaining some
ships instead of decommissioning
them as previously scheduled,
bringing others out of mothballs
and putting new ships into com
mission.
THEY LIKE IT HERE . . .
Pat Tobin and Jeff Nelson,
came from Sioux Fall, S. D., last
month on a tour and liked this
part of the country so much that
they returned again last week
for another look around and to do
sofne prospecting, bringing with
them two friends, Bob Barnett,
also of Sioux Falls and Bob Stew
art of Yankton, S. D. They stated
they have enjoyed the trip des
pite the cold weather.
, CASTRO BOASTS OF
CUBA'S PROGRESS PLAN . . .
HAVANA — Prime Minister
Fidel Castro claimed yesterday
the Cuban revolution is showing
it can accomplish in one year
what the United States plans to
do in ten through President Ken
nedy’s alliance for progress plan
for Latin America.
Referring to the plan approved
at Punta Del Ehte, Uruguay, by
the United States and all the Latin
American countries except Cuba,
Castro said: “Imperialism is talk
ing about 10 years . . . but the
Cuban revolution will show it
can be achieved in one year.”
BANS BATHING SUITS . . .
RiO DE JANEIRO, Brazil UP) —
President Janio Quadros, seeking
to “moralize” Brazil, banned
bathing suit posing in beauty
contests. The Guanabara state
censor went further. He banned
such exhibits from TV.
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