Man Ready For
Space Travel But
Machines Are Not
CINCINNATI, UP) — A pioneer
Air Force experimenter in high
speed travel predicts a man will
orbit the earth in a space vehicle
in two to four years.
Col. John Paul Stapp, chief of
the Aero Medical Lab at Dayton’s
Wright Air Development Center,
said Friday night: “Man actually
is ready now for the flight but he
must wait two, three or four years
for the proper machines.”
Stapp told a joint meeting of
three Greater Cincinnati techni
cal societies that “one can hope
that man will progress so that
space achievement will take the
place of these insane drives which
push man into war.”
“Mankind may then pull itself
up by its bootstraps into a new
age of reason and peace,” he
added.
Stapp said his experiments have
shown that “man can stand all
the pressures of space flight. But
we have not found ways to lift
him into space or to bring him
back.
“And I would insist, if I were
the first space man, upon a round
trip ticket.”
Japan Air Lines to Survey
Seattle-to-Tokyo Route
Via Alaska This Month
TOKYO, UP) — Japan Airlines
said today it would make its first
survey flight this month in pre
paration for the establishment of
a new air route between Tokyo
and Seattle.
The survey plane, carrying 41
JAL aviation experts, is scheduled
to leave here January 30 and to
arrive at Seattle February 2.
On the eastbound flight, the
survey, team will stop at Shemya,
Cold Bay, Anchorage, King Sal
1 mon and Fairbanks.
JAL plans to inaugurate its
regular Tokyo-Seattle flight over
( the great circle route by 1961
with a two-flight weekly service.
It hopes to extend this to an
around-the-world route via Se
j attle to New York, London and
Moscow by 1963.
TOKYO, UP) — The Japanese
S ship Soya has plunged into the
Antarctic ice pack and is moving
slowly toward the Japanese base
on Ongul Island near the Prince
Harold coast.
The Soya hopes to get within
: 112 miles of the currently deserted
camp by Tuesday and fly in a 12
man scientific team to spend the
Antarctic winter.
Lido Fire Leaves
20 Homeless
In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, UP — More than
20 persons are homeless and sev
eral businesses were wiped out
in the Lido Hotel fire Thursday
which Fire Chief George Burns
described as “one of the hardest
that Anchorage firemen'lbave ever
fought.”
Salvage has started on certain
portions of the ill-fated building,
an old frame structure.
Burns estimated the total fire
loss at $200,000. This is more than
the total losses for last year which
were $167,255.
There are no definite plans to
rebuild where the hotel once
stood. The owners of the building
are six local businessmen known
as the First Stock Company.
Bill Simpson, owner and oper
ator of the Aleutian Gardens,
night club located in the basement
of the building, said “We plan
another Aleutian Gardens.”
“We suffered extensive dam
age. The roof fell in on the band
stand. The fire burned up an or
gan, two pianos, the drums. A new
act was to open this week. We’ll
be back in business as soon as we
can manage,” Simpson said.
Woe to The Doe
Afloat on A Floe
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., UP! —
Afloat on a floe was a doe. She
was trapped, with no place to go.
A Coast Guard lasso brought
her in tow.
And that was the end of her
woe.
That is the saga of a deer float
ing down the Hudson River on a
cold Sunday afternoon.
The Coast Guard Cutter Mari
posa, out on ice patrol, spotted
the deer and set out on a rescue
mission.
Alarmed by the 180-foot ship,
the doe kept skipping from floe
to floe, like Eliza fleeing the
hounds. It was more than an hour
before the lasso found its mark.
A seamon scrambeled onto the
i floe and tied the deer’s legs to
she wouldn’t hurt herself when
she was hauled aboard.
And then back to the woods she
did .go!
Jet Cadets "Blasting Off" Jan. 13
The theme for the Jet Cadets
on Jan. 13 will be “Blasting Off.”
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[ Tuesday evening at the Nome
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Calif. Outlaws
Hold Family
Hostage 6 Hours
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Two young
desperadoes who held a family
hostage six hours and then donned
sailor uniforms to slip through a
police blockade, were still at
large at the beginning of the week
end.
The officers were called in from
a dozen neighboring communities
when the two youths vanished
Thursday night after a gun fight
with a policeman who tried to
arrest them for a $60 liquor store
holdup.
Twice during the night officers
searching every house and yard
in the vicinity where they dis
appeared called at the home of
| Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Havey to
ask if everything was all right.
Twice Mrs. Havey, 27, assured
them it was.
What the officers didn’t know
was that the two fugitives, one
armed with a shotgun and the
other with a pistol, stood with
their guns aimed at Mrs. Havey’s
two children and her husband.
They had threatened to shoot un
les she kept the police from en
tering.
Also in the house were Havey’s
nephew, and two of his Navy
shipmates from the cruiser USS
St. Paul. From 11:30 p.m. until
5:30 a.m. the gunmen held them
captive. At dawn they put on sai
lor uniforms and forced Mrs. Ha
vey to drive them through the
police lines thrown up in the arga.
Mrs. Havey was released un
harmed at the home of a cousin
in an adjoining town. The men
gave her back the sailor outfits —
having changed into their own
clothes in the car.
THE RIGHT ANSWER
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, UP) — At
the robbery trial of Calvin Lee
Hughes, defense attorney Archie
Brown asked Marvin Laskowski if
he knew what would happen if
he told a lie on the witness stand.
“Yes,” answered Lasowski.
“What?” Brown pursued. “I’d
go to hell,” Laskowski said. Pros
ecution and defense agreed the
10-year-old was qualified.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon al
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO l
Order of Eastern Star
Mildred Harwood
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbai
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
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No. 140
J. A. von der Heydt, W.M
Norv*n ***. Lewis, Sec
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
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C&AQ0& Secretary
i-t/utryT^ Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
ROSCOE WILKIE, President
MARY DIEDE. Secretary.
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