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CLEARANCE
Ladies Dresses
Sizes 9 to 20
Vs TO i/2 OFF
Pranksters Plant Panties
Atop Parliament Precints,
Putting Police in Pursuit
LONDON, IP—A pair of filmy
black nylon panties fluttered atop
the houses of Parliament yester
day and London cops played hide
and seek with a pair of young
pranksters who decided it was
time to liven up the city skyline.
Anthony Read, a 20-year-old
artist’s model from London’s Bo
hemian Bloomsbury quarter, and
18-year-old Rodney Bewes rowed
across the River Thames shortly
after midnight and scaled the
scaffold-shrouded Big Ben tower.
To the lightning conductor atop
the 320-foot tower they fixed
their filmy flag.
A passing policeman spotted
the pair as they shuffled across
the lighted face of the clock on
their way down—and the chase
was on.
Seven squad cars of bobbies
turned out from Scotland Yard. A
police launch on the river pinned
Bewes and Read to the building
with a searchlight.
“It was lovely,” said Anthony.
“I thoroughly enjoyed myself.”
The two were carted off to Scot
land Yard and questioned three
hours. They were released.
Know Your
Candidates
Information Concerning
WILLIAM H. SANDERS
Candidate for Attorney General
William H. Sanders is a promi
nent young attorney of Anchorage
and has practiced there for more
than fiye years. He was admitted
to practice in Alabama in 1947.
Sanders, 35, is a past command
er of the American Legion in An
| chorage and has held the office of
'judge advocate of the American
Legion in Alaska for four years.
He is a captain in the Alaska
National Guard and is editor of
a national-wide semi-annual pub
lication for attorneys. He is a
member of the Kiwanis and Elks’
Clubs and the VFW in Anchorage,
a member of the American Bar
Assn., and the Republican Club
of Anchorage. He is unmarried
and is a Methodist.
Sanders served with the U.S.
Counter-Intelligence Corps dur
ing World War II and saw service
in seven European countries.
His education includes a B.S.
degree in public finance, business,
and commerce. He has a law de
gree which includes studies in
many fields.
SCORCHY SMITH
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4,300 Top Seniors
Win Certificates in
U. S. Competition
EVANSTON, ILL, The Na
tional Merit Scholarship Corp.
yesterday released the names of
4,300 top high school seniors who
won Certificates of Merit but
failed to qualify for the 504 schol
arships available this year.
The NMSC said the names of
the scholarship winners will be
announced about May 1.
Winners of scholarships and
certificates of merit are the high
est ranking among the 60,000 se
niors nominated by their high
school principals to .take the first
NMSC test last October.
The NMSC, which conducted
the nationwide hunt for students
deemed best able to benefit from
a college education, will circulate
the names of crtificate winners
among colleges, universities and
other scholarship granting agen
cies in the United States.
It said these students are esti
mated to be in the top one half of
one percent in ability of all high
school seniors.
The NMSC program is financed
mostly by grants from the Ford
Foundation and Carnegie Corp.
and by contributions from 16 lead
ing U.S. corporations. In the com
ing school year it will spend $3
million on scholarships.
Following are Certificate of
Merit winners from Alaska and
the fields in which they want to
specialize:
Anchorage: James L. Anderson,
engineering; Bruce Hardin, engi
neering; Carolyn Willard, educa
tion; Robert Zumwalt, engineer
ing; Fairbanks: Katherine Ragle,
library science; Juneau: Mary
Cartmill, elementary education;
William DeArmond, electrical en
gineering; Pierre Sundborg, elec
trical engineering; Spenard: Bar
bara Tegstrom, designing and in
terior decorating.
j BEAR WINS WAR OF NERVES
1 WITH WOODCHOPPER
TRENTO, Italy, Itf)—Woodchop
per Lionello Troggio looked up
from his work in a nearby forest
and saw a bear watching him.
Troggio thought it best to con
tinue chopping. Maybe the bear
would leave.
1 He chopped for five hours. The
bear watched.
Then Troggio’s nerve cracked.
He dropped his ax and ran to
safety.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
George Bayer, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Sec
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
ALASKA CHAPTER RO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Mcctfl 1st A 3rd Mond&y of each month
Betty Edwards
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
nANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Harry A. Lewi*. W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, See.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month