Commander Throws Out Conviction
Of Airman Who Refused Haircut
TOKYO, UP)—A U.S. Air Force
commander yesterday threw out
the conviction of an airman who
refused to get a “white sidewall”
haircut and freed him from a sen
tence of four months at hard
labor, a $200 fine and reduction
to private.
The airman, 20-year-old Donald :
Wheeler of Cortez, Colo., was j
convicted of disobeying an order.
He claimed he had only “chal
lenged” it and said yesterday if
given the order again “I’d prob- |
«bly refuse it ... or I’d challenge i
it ... it would not be a legal
■order.”
As for future haircuts, an Air
Force officer said there’s no long
er any requirement on “white
sidewalls,” prescribed for the
Far East Command honor guard
of which Wheeler was a member
—because the unit has been dis- |
banded. A “white sidewall” strips !
the head bare to the crown.
Col. Charles *W. Johnstone of
Reno, Nev., Wheelerls base com
mander, tossed out the conviction, i
saying he had found legal pro- |
^edural errors in the summary i
court-martial that ended Monday.
“I have talked with Airman
Wheeler and am convinced he has
undergone a considerable change
of attitude,” Johnstone said in a
statement. He said there would
not be another trial.
Wheeler was released from the
| stockade where he had been con
j fined since Monday night. He was
; restored to his rank of airman
| 3rd class.
A public information officer
said Johnstone feels Wheeler has
a sincere desire to be a good air
man . . . “Punishment is designed
to be corrective. A further trial
would serve no purpose and
j would just be hitting the guy on
the head.”
Asked how Wheeler had changed
| his attitude, Capt. John M. Con
j nolly replied, “Ever spend a cou
I pie of nights in jail?”
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SAFETY THOUGHT
AS YOU DRIVE
Drink a glass to Leadfoot Lou:
He hit the curve at 82
And that was when his front tire
blew.
Engagement Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Brown
of Alexandria, Minn., announce
the engagement of their daughter
Betty Lou to Robert W. Havens,
son of the Reverend and Mrs.
Reeves C. Havens Sr., of Ashley,
Pa. Mr. Havens is the brother of
the Reverend Reeves C. Havens,
former pastor of the Community
Methodist Church in Nome.
Miss Brown received a B.A. de
gree in sociology from the Uni
versity of Minnesota, after which
she worked with the Board of
Missions of the Methodist Church.
During the past school year, Miss
Brown has been studying at Scar
ritt College of Nashville, Tenn.
She is now employed at the Van
derbuilt University Hospital of
Nashville.
Mr. Havens received an A.B.
degree from Asbury College in
Wilmore, Ky., and received a
B.D. degree from Drew Univer
sity at Madison, N.J. Mr. Havens
is an ordained minister of the
Methodist Church, and has served
as a minister in Alaska. Before
returning stateside for further
education he was associate min
ister at the First Methodist
Church in Anchorage. Mr. Ha
vens is now attending Scarritt
College where he is studying in
the department of Christian ed
ucation and music.
A fall wedding is planned,
which will be held at the Centen
ary Methodist Church at Ashley,
Pa. The couple plan to return to
Alaska in the spring.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
DEPARTMENT OF AVIATION
ALASKA AERONAUTICS AND
COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Invitation for Bids
( CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT *
Anchorage, Alaska, TERRITORY OF
ALASKA. Dept, of Aviation, July 17, 1957
SEALED BIDS, in duplicate copy sub
ject to the conditions contained herein
will be received until August 2, 1957,
then publicly opened, for furnishing all
labor and materials and performing all
work for development of an Airport
Landing Strip located near HOMER,
Alaska. Plans. Specifications, and Proj
ect Documents may be obtained from
the Director of Aeronautics. Alaska Aer
onautics and Communications Commis
sion, Room 202, Glover Building, An
chorage, Alaska, upon deposit of $25.00.
Bids will be publicly ' opened in the
office of the Director of Aeronautics,
Room 202, Glover Building Anchorage,
Alaska, at 2:00 P.M., A.S.T., on August
2, 1957. Where copies of plans are re
quested. a deposit of $25.00 will be re
quired to insure their return. Guarantee
will be required with each bid as fol
lows: Ten Percent 110 % ). (See Para
graph 7 of Instuctions to Bidden Per
formance bond will be required for an
amount not less than 50% of the con
tract. Payment bond will be required for
■ an amount not less than 50 % of the
contract. Liquidated damages for delay
will be as stipulated in the General Con
tract Provisions for Airport Construction
Specifications. Partial payments will be
made monthly. Minimum wage rates ap
plicable to the contract shall be as listed
in the Special Contract Provisions. Bids
must be submitted upon Proposal Form
and the successful bidder will be re
quired to execute the Standard Form of
Contract for Construction. The right is
reserved, as the interest of the Territory
of Alaska may require, to reject any and
all bids, to waive any informality in bids
received, and to accdpt or reject any
items of any bid. unless such bid is
qualified by specific limitation. Envel
opes containing bids must be sealed,
marked and addressed as follows:
Bid for HOMER. ALASKA - STAGE II
Project No. 9-50-063-02
To be opened at 2:00 P.M., A.S.T.
Date August 2, 1957
Bidder _
Address _
Publ. July 22, 26, 31. 1957.
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PRESENTING
A GROUP OF
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LITHOGRAPHS
by
FRED MACHATANZ
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Hundreds of Japanese Dead as
Rainstorm Dumps Record 29 Inches
TOKYO, (£)—A violent storm
which in 24 hours dumped 29
inches of rain on low-lying, thick
ly populated areas of Japan’s
southernmost major island left at
least 280 persons dead today and
more than 800 missing or unac
counted for.
There were 109 known injured.
Some said casualties may run to
thousands.
Tokyo newspaper correspon
i dents radioed from the flood area
on Kyushu Island that at 1,000
> persons died in the city of Isaha
ya, 15 miles northeast of Naga
j saki. and that scores may have
| perished in Omura, a port a few
I miles away.
A reporter who flew over the
j area said Isahaya, a mountain
ringed city of 57,000, looked “like
a new sea” with only a few high
points and roofs visible above the
water.
i Railroads were washed out or
| blocked by landslides. Highways
- were closed. Thousands of homes
were washed away or flooded.
The 29-inch rainfall was one of
i the worst in Japan’s recorded
j weather. The rain and accom
| panying violent lightning disrup
| ted communications and left
! many areas isolated except for
■ intermittent radio contact.
The storm began Thursday
' morning, let up for a few hours
j late in the day, and then—in the
j
words of one survivor at Isahaya:
“Suddenly an angry bolt of
lightning cut the sky. Pounding
thunder followed. Then the rains
came. Not just by buckets full. It
seemed like someone had dumped
the contents of a lake on us from
a giant barrel.”
As the rain increased, flood
waters began pouring thru Isaha
ya, and Yasujiro Tachikawa said
he watched “the dim outlines of
broken houses and buses drifting
by like a procession of ghosts.”
Chikara Imasato, 25, the first
evacuee brought to Nagasaki,
said: “I lived thru hell . . . the
flood reached the ceilings of my
house in a few moments. Cascad
ing rain mingled with deafening
thunder and the screams of the
dying. I don’t know how I man
aged to swim in the swirling
waters.”
Twenty-year-old Miss Yoko Ko
mori was picked up by a fisher
man clinging to a piece of lumber
at sea 15 miles from shore.
A train with 400 persons aboard
was stranded by high water near
Omura but all were rescued.
The Japanese navy and coast
guard sent 19 fast patrol boats
and Landing vessels to the area to
speed rescue work. The U.S. Navy
sent a helicopter and the U.S. Air
Force ordered two more to the
flood area.
Northern Consolidated
i Asks Mail Authority
!To McGrath and Galena
WASHINGTON, UPC- Northern
Consolidated Airlines, Anchorage,
j asked the CAB Wednesday for
| authority to carry mail between
j the Alaskan towns of McGrath
! and Galena.
The airline provides scheduled
j passenger and cargo service be
tween Anchorage and Galena by
I way of McGrath, and in to Fair
5 banks. It said the lack of mail
j authority between McGrath and
j Galena results in two-day mail
service between the two towns
when only one day would other
wise be required.
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Eisenhower
Disappointed at
School Bill Defeat
i
WASHINGTON, <*>—’The White
House said today President Eisen
hower is greatly disappointed
that the House failed to pass a
school aid bill.
The House yesterday killed a
$1V£ billion school aid bill about
which Eisenhower himself had
expressed some misgivings.
Eisenhower had said before the
vote that he was not fully satis
fied with the compromise bill but
would accept it. The measure, de
| feated by 208-203, differed in sev
I eral major respects from an Ad
minstration bill which would
have provided $1,200,000,000 in
j school construction aid to the
| states.
The House sealed the measure’s
: doom earlier by attaching an anti
j segregation amendment offered
i by Rep. Wainwright (R-NY*. This
! came by a 136-105 standing vote.
; It would have deah •! the pro
posed federal aid to any school
i district with segregated schools
i in violation of the Supreme Court
j integration ruling.
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