Wife of Navy Man
Gives Birth To Quads
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Delano
■Currington, 29, a Navy machin
ists mate, expected multiple off
springs, but . . .
“I like to fainted when they
told me it was four.”
The quadruplets were born
Tuesday to his wife Mae, 22.
They already had three sons and
a daughter ranging from 7 years
to 20 months.
Her quads were two boys weigh
ing 4 pounds, 6 ounces each; an
other boy 4-11; and a daughter,
2-11. All were reported, in excel
lent condition.
Multiple births are nothing new
to Mrs. Currington.
She has 13 brothers and
sisters.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Japan Pulp Makers
To Back Sitka Plant
TOKYO, iff) — Japan’s major
pulp makers have decided to par
ticipate in management of the
Japanese-owned Ala^Jca Lumber
and Pulp Co. in Sitka, the eco
nomic newspaper Nihon Keizai
reported yesterday.
The new pulp factory of 120,
000 tons annual capacity, is being
built for Japan at Sitka by How
ard S. Wright and Co. and Guy F.
Atkinson, Co., both of Seattle. It
is expected to be ready for op
eration next fall.
Nihon Keisai says Japan’s ma
jor pulp companies have been
critical, if not hostile, of the Alas
ka project.
Opposition is based on the fact
that rayon pulp will be exported
to Japan, while the Japanese ray
on industry is suffering from a
recession and reduced operations.
The 55 million dollar Alaska
Lumber and Pulp Co. plant was
started in 1957 by Japanese Ray
on, paper and lumber interests.
They have long wanted Japanese
pulp makers to participate to in
sure its success.
Shoppers Panic
In Bogota Dept.
Store Fire
BOGOTA, Colombia, UPi — Fire
bred panic in a Bogota depart
ment store crowded with Christ
mas shoppers last night, and' sent
scores of panic-stricken men,
women and children to death.
Officials said 82 persons were
killed- and 50 injured.' Most of
them made a fatal wild scramble
for a rear stairway that led only
to a mezzanine.
Explosion of holiday lights had
fired the clothing of sales girls
and sent a curtain of flame across
the center of the long, narrow
store.
About half of the dead were em
ployes of the store. The remainder
were mostly women shoppers. It
was estimated 10 children died
in the fire, which raged for two
•hours before being brought under
control.
The panic was heightened by
the crowd’s difficulty in getting
out of the store, which was quite
long but only 23 feet wide.
The fire broke out in the middle
of the store. Those in front es
caped to the street. Those in the
back of the store were cut off by
a sheet of flames.
Fire extinguishers along the
walls were ignored.
SALESMANSHIP
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., UP) — John
Richard Gilmore, 19, paid a $15
fine for stealing nine old tires
valued by the owner at $18. But
police figure Gilmore still made
crime pay. He had peddled the
tires for $137, officers said.
A.N.B. Takes Leading
A.C.S.-C.A.A. Five, 55-45
Last night at the local High
School gym the A.N.B. five de
feated the front-running A.C.S.
C.A.A. club by the convincing
count of 55-45. The winners had
little trouble keeping ahead
throughout the contest; although
the losers pressed with much de
termination.
The second contest showed an
improved National Guard club go
ing away to a 53-34 win over the
Polar Hornets.
In the first tilt the winners
showed good scoring from several;
with Gary Longley and Ike Lar
sen hitting for 14 each, and Amie
Castel with 11 and Pete Larsen
with 10. Ralph Zweigle was top
man for the losers with a blis
tering 21. Frank Austin, the
C.A.A.-A.C.S. captain hit for nine
tout also showed extreme class
with his play-making and re
bounding.
Top man for the winning Na
tional Guard was Dave Bell with
14 scores, followed by Bill Cald
well and Vern Kugzruk with nine
each.
Mr. Hank Ulrich has announced
that there will toe a special con
test on the night of December 27,
contestants to toe stated at a later
date.
Jet Bomber and Crew
Lost in Tampa Bay
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., W) —
A stricken B-47 jet bomber carry
ing a crew of four crashed and
exploded in Tampa Bay Tuesday
night, moments after veering
away from a heavily populated
residential section.
No survivors were found. One
body was recovered.
A witness said it appeared the
pilot, Capt. George E. Whitney of
Tampa, guided the six-engine
craft away from iand seconds be
fore the crash.
The plane crashed about 10
minutes after takeoff from Mac
Dill Air Force Base, across the
bay at Tampa.
Helicopter Hoists For
Hazardous Hurdles
NEW ORLEANS, La., iff) — A
helicopter pilot had to dodge two
trains in picking up three shiver
ing pipeline crewmen last night
from icy Lake Ponchartrain.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles Mayes had
set his Coast Guard helicopter
down on the only firm spot near
the beach — between the double
tracks of the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
Two' trains approached from op
posite directions. Mayes went
aloft until the trains passed, then
returned to pick up the men and
take them to a hospital.
The crewmen swam ashore to
summon help after their crew
boat began sinking.
The crewboat was less than a
mile from shore on a return trip
from a pipeline laying site across
the 2'5-mile-wide lake.
Panama Extends
Coastal Limits
'PANAMA, UP) — Panama’s na
tional assembly gave its final ap
proval Monday night extending
the country’s territorial waters 12
miles out from its shore. The terri
torial limit has been three miles.
The bill now goes to President
Ernesto De La Gurdia for his sig
nature.
The extension completely sur
rounds the two seaward ends of
the 10-mile-wide Pnama Canal
Zone. The United States by its
treaty with Panama has jurisdic
tion over Canal Zone waters only
out to the old three-mile limit.
The United States in the past
has refused to recognize territorial
claims beyond the three-mile
limit.
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