Metropolitan Opera to
Close for 1901 -(>2 Season
Due to Labor Dispute
NEW YORK li'P — Music lovers
reacted in somber tones to the
announced closing of the Metro
politan Opera for the 1961-62
season and the cancellation of the
Met’s annual spring tour.
Words like “disgrace” and “ir
reparable blow” came from some
of the world’s greatest opera
singers. One appealed directly to
President Kennedy to help settle
the labor dispute which the Met
blamed for the closing.
More optimistic patrons of the
arts recalled, however, that two
others announced cancellations in
recent years never went into ef
fect. Labor troubles, blamed then
too. were subsequently ironed out
In making the announcement.
Met general manager Rudolph
Bing said “I see no hope” of
saving the 1961-62 season. He was
gloomy about prospects for the
1962-63 season.
“We cannot have a season with
out these singers,” Bing said.
Adding that as many as two dozen
of the more than 100 artists on
the roster “already have been
lost.”
Bing, calling the cancellation a
“catastrophe,” blamed Local 802
of the American Federation of
Musicians saying it had demanded
a weekly salary for musicians of
$248 for six performances plus
other benefits, as against last sea
son’s rate of $170.13 for seven
performances.
Government shorthand: “Oper
ation Kiss” designates the pro
gram of the U.S. Bureau of Naval
Weapons to improve its communi
cations system. It stands for
“Keep it simple, stupid.”
NOTICE
The property and lives of many
people are endangered when the
navigational lights at the Jetty
are wantonly broken. Anyone
having information who is doing
this malicious mischief is asked
to notify the City Police. The
destruction of these lights is a
violation of the federal law, and
anyone seen tampering with them
will be referred to the United
States Coast Guard. We solicit
the cooperation of all citizens to
assist us in preventing any fur
ther damage to these lights.
Bob Oliver,
Chief of Police
58-Ton Door Atop Titan
Launching Silo Slams
Shut Killing Five Men
DENVER Iff) — A 58-ton steel
and concrete door atop a Titan
missile launching silo slammed
shut with an earth-shaking crash,
killing five workmen and injur
ing eight others Monday.
Three bodies were recovered.
Two others were pinned between
the door and the edge of the huge
silo. A spokesman at Buckley
Field, scene of the tragedy 15
miles east of Denver, said “it
may be as long as 72 hours be
fore the door can be raised.
“It presents a considerable en
gineering problem,” said a spokes
man for one of the civilian con
tractors on the SI 60-million con
struction job.
Witnesses said some of those
who were injured leaped into
safety nets placed at intervals in
the 165-foot silo.
The massive door was one of
a pair which are raised hydrau
lically as a missile rides to the
surface.
OCEAN LINER HITS
WHALE AT FULL SPEED
STAVANGER, Norway Iff) —
The Norwegian - American line
luxury liner Oslofiord hit a whale
while sailing the Atlantic at full
speed from New York Aug. 2,
Capt. Bjoernulf Egeland reported
yesterday.
The 5,432 passengers had just
been served dinner, when the ship
shuddered. People ran on deck.
Seamen reported blood flowed in
the wake of the liner.
“I have sailed since 1938, and
nothing like this ever happened
to me before,” the captain said.
“Whales usually keep their dis
tance. That whale must have been
sick.”
EXERCISE "SWIFT-STRIKE"
PATRICK, S. C. Iff) — Exercise
Swift-Strike has barely begun, but
C. H. Hicks of Jefferson said
troops have found the melons in
one of his fields so tasty he must
file a reimbursement claim with
Uncle Sam.
The federate are prepared,
however, Col. R. M. Gray of the
3rd Army’s Judge Advocate sec
tion heads a staff of men sent
here to process damage claims
by landowners during the two
week war games now under way.
Gray said the government will
pny Hicks for the melons.
MIT Scientist Says U.S.
Ahead of Soviet Union
In All-Over Space Field
STANFORD, Calif. UP> — Thu
United States is ahead of the So
viet Union in the over-all space
field says C. Stark Draper, head
of the Aeronautical Engineering
at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Draper expressed his belief
Monday after Soviet Cosmonaut
Titov landed from his space
flight.
Speaking at the American
Rocket Society’s national confer
ence, Draper described as “ma
larky” reports that Titov con
trolled the course of his Vostok II
during his orbiting of the earth.
“That boy didn’t do anything
more than Alan Shepard Jr. did
on his ride,” said Draper. “He
didn’t have the thrust aboard to
go out of his orbital path. 1 think
what they <the Russians! mean
was that he was changing the at
titude of the capsule — just like
Shepard did in the sub-orbital
test.”
“Years ago,” he said, “we made
the decision to build big, broad
organizations which will have big
quantities of production when
they get going.
“We shouldn’t be surprised or
dismayed if this takes longer
than the other way.”
Funeral Services for
“Rhinoceros of Malines“
To Be Held Thursday
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Fu
neral services will be held Thurs
day for Joseph Ernest Cardinal
Van Roey, 87, the third Prince
of the Roman Catholic Church to
die within a week.
The Belgian Prelate died Sun
day after a lingering illness.
Cardinal Van Roey was known
as “The Rhinoceros of Malines”—
the name of his archepiscopal
palace — because of his strong
personality.
Before World War II he open
ly opposed Belgian fascist leader
Leon Degrelle. During the Ger
man occupation he criticized Nazi
occupation policies and objected
to Allied bombings of Belgium.
In postwar years he fought social
ist movements and frequently
came under fire from the left
wing press.
The Belgian Prelate’s death re
duced the College of Cardinals to
81 members.
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Trans World Airlines
Piles $115-Million Suit
Against Howard Hughes
NEW YORK iyp — Trans World
Airlines yesterday filed a $115
million antitrust suit against
Howard Hughes, head of the
Hughes Tool Co., and Raymond
M. Holiday, a TWA director.
The suit, filed in U. S. District
Court, charged them and the
Hughes Company with illicit acts
to seize control of TWA ‘‘for their
own purposes.”
The complaint said the defend
ants had conspired since 1939 to
restrain commerce by providing
financing for TWA acquisition of
aircraft on condition that all such
aircraft be acquired from the
Hughes firm.
The suit identified Holliday as
chief operating officer of the
Hughes Company and Hughes as
the company’s sole stockholder.
The defendants were charged
with violating the Sherman Anti
trust Act by requiring TWA to
boycott all suppliers of aircraft,
including jet planes, except the
Hughes Company.
NOTICE
Anyone having information
about the owner or home port of
a GREEN painted Boat No. 9854,
about 15 feet long, equipped with
a 5 horse Evinrude outboard motor
is asked to forward such informa
tion to Bob Oliver, Chief of Po
lice, City of Nome.
The boat and motor were found
on the beach, just east of Smrock
River Sunday afternoon by Al
vin Kayouktuk and party.
Due to the condition of the out
board motor it was removed from
the boat and brought to Nome and
is now located at the City Police
Station.
Bob Oliver,
Chief of Police,
Scarcity of Land Is
One of Greatest Roadblocks
To Alaskan Development
SEATTLE UFl — Scarcity of land
in settled areas has been one of
the greatest roadblocks in the
path of Alaskan development the
head of the new state’s Natural
Resources Department said here
yesterday.
“Alaska has suffered from land
scarcity in the face of abund
ance,” Roscoe E. Bell told dele
gates to the Western States’ Land
Commissioners Assn, convention
here.
Bell blamed the scarcity on in
flated prices in areas surround
ing Alaskan cities.
An effort is being made, he said,
to state lands available for de
velopment purposes.
Bell said the state lands will
come from a total of 105,500,000
acres of public-domain lands al
lotted by the federal government
to Alaska when it became a state.
State officials are now in the
processing of selecting suitable
tracts for development, agricultu
ral, recreation and other pur
poses.
Income from the property will
go to the state’s general fund, its
schools and its mental-health pro
gram.
Bell said about 9,500,000 acres
already have been chosen. But
added
“I don’t know if there are 105,
500,000 acres worth selecting in
Alaska. That is a real question.”
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FAIRBANKS
— NOME —
KOTZEBUE
Flight 311 DAILY Flight 312 j
Lv. Fairbanks *8:00 ajn. Ar. Nome 9:10 aon.
Lv. Nome 1:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 2:15 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 2:45 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *5:35 p.m.
Flight 309 Flight 310
DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY
Lv. Fairbanks * 2:30 p.m. Ar. Kotzebue 4:05 p.m.
Lv. Kotzebue 5:00 p.m. Ar. Nome 6:10 p.m.
Lv. Nome 7:00 p.m. Ar. Fairbanks *10:55 p.m.
* Alaska Standard Time—All other times Bering Standard
POLAR SEA TOURS
--- Start June 5 ---
Twice weekly - Nome to Barrow
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