Gov. Egan Opposed to
Legalized, Wide-Open
Gambling in Alaska
JUNEAU iff) — Gov. Egan said
yesterday that his position on
legalized gambling was made well
known to everyone earlier this
year and his previous attitude
has not changed. In answer to a
question at his regular news con
ference the Alaska Governor re
plied “to enlarge gambling acti
vity is not a good thing for the
state of Alaska. I don’t believe
that legalized, wide open gamb
ling has contributed to the pro
gress of any area in the United
States or elsewhere. Alaska has
too much to look forward to in
the development of her natural
resources to think of going on the
gambling route.”
In another statement issued, but
not mentioned at the news con
ference Egan said the seven mil
lion dollars received by the state
in a land sale Tuesday will im
prove Alaska’s financial position
but he disputed reported state
ments that the lease sale revenues
would make tax increase voted
by the recent Legislature un
necessary.
GOP Leaders Blast
JFK's Spending Proposals
WASHINGTON UP — The Re
publican congressional leadership
said today President Kennedy is
taking the country into “a jungle
of uprecedented spending and
loose fiscal policy.”
They said they are convinced
that no one in the administration
knows what Kennedy’s welfare
programs will cost but that pros
pects are the federal budget ‘‘will
reach at least $125 billion by 1965,
if not sooner.”
This compares with prospective
federal spending, on the basis of
current programs, of about $85
billion in the fiscal year begin
ning July 1.
Senate and House Republican
leaders blasted at Kennedy’s
spending proposals after their
weekly conference.
Soviets and West
Undecided on New Orders
For Truce Commission
GENEVA UP—The Soviet Union
and the West were divided today
on whether to send the Truce
Commission in Laos new instruc
tions to help it stop the contin
uing clashes between forces of the
pro - Western royal government
and the pro - Communist Pathet
Lao rebels.
The Indian - Canadian - Polish
commission, which certified two
weeks ago that a cease - fire
existed and thus got the Geneva
conference started, sent word
from Laos that fighting was still
going on and asked for fresh or
ders. The commission said both
sides have complained of viola
tions and added that the tangled
jungles in Laos make policing of
the truce difficult.
The commission so far has
shown no sign of putting military
observers into the frontline areas
and it is believed the Pathet Lao
is refusing to admit them to the
territory it holds.
What is the most costly gem?
A diamond may 'be a girl’s best
friend but, carat for carat, a
flawless emerald is more expen
sive.
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IAF B-58 Convair Hustler
| Shatters Trans-Atlantic
Speed Records
PARIS UP)—An Air Force B-58
Convair Hustler shattered trans
atlantic records today with a
flight across at speeds sometimes
twice the speed of sound.
The plane flashed over famed
Le Bourget Field—where Charles
A. Lindberg landed 34 years ago
—and set down 6 hours 15 min
utes after taking off from Cars
well Air Force Base in Texas.
The plane made the New York
Paris leg of the trip in 3 hours
and 20 minutes. The average
speed for the trip was 1,105 mph.
The flight was planned in con
nection with the Paris Aviation
Exposition, now under way, to
mark the anniversary of Lind
bergh’s New York-Paris flight in
1927. Lindbergh’s time for the
journey in the single-engine prop
plane ‘Spirit of St. Louis” was
33V& hours.
The needle-nosed Hustler will
be put in display at the Paris air
show.
The best previous transatlantic
flight time was 5 hours 45 min
utes by a Boeing 707 commercial
jet.
Jacqueline Buys Paris Gown
WASHINGTON UFI — The White
House said today Mrs. John F.
Kennedy has bought a Paris
I gown.
It’s a long white evening dress,
beaded, with coat and was or
dered by Mrs. Kennedy from the
Paris couturier Givenchy.
Mrs. Kennedy has named New
York designer Oleg Cassini as her
exclusive designer, but has said
she might supplement his work
with that of other designers from
time to time. So far, this is the
1 first indication that Mrs. Kennedy
is buying elsewhere.
50 YEARS TOO LATE . . .
BURGESS HILL, England UPt—
Roberta Bolling, 68, who survived
the sinking of the Titanic nearly
50 years ago, finally got a check
Friday in compensation for losses
and suffering she endured that
night.
The check, from trustees ad
ministering the compensation
fund, was for $280. Mrs. Bolling,
who has been bedridden with
arthritis for 11 years, said: “It’s
not much use to me now” and in
vested it in government bonds.
Moonlight Bowl Scheduled
For Monday Evening
The Aurora Women’s Bowling
Assn, announced a Moonlight
Bowl starting at 7:30 Monday
evening. Anyone interested in
competing is welcome and prizes
are being donated by the Billi
kin Shop and Hagen’s Jewelry.
The main purpose of the event
is to raise maney for the City
Association.
PISCATORIAL CHAMPS
TOKYO OP* — Who caught the
most fish? The Japanese. They
took about 20 per cent of the
world catch estimated at 32 mil
lion tons last year, the Agricul
ture-Forestry Ministry reports.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Named National
Father of the Year
NEW YORK UR — Adlai E.
Stevenson, who has three sons,
one grandson and two grand
daughters, was picked yesterday
as the National Father of the
Year.
The National Father’s Day Com
mittee said Stevenson was honored
for his “forceful and eloquent
presentation of our country’s posi
tion on key issues before the
United Nations.”
Stevenson, twice the Demo
cratic candidate for President, is
U. S. Ambassador to the United
Nations.
The committee also announced
these other designations:
Woman of the year — actress
Kim Stanley.
Television father of the year—
Actor Fred MacMurray.
Sports father of the year —
Ralph Houk, manager of the New
York Yankees baseball team.
Stage father of the year —
comedian Phil Silvers.
Radio father of the year —
Phil Rizzuto, baseball announcer
and former Yankee shortstop.
Husband-and-wife team of the
year — Stage and TV stars Mar
tin Gabel and Arlene Francis.
Literary father of the year —
Author Evan Hunter.
Today's Highlight in History
On this day in 1781, the Bank
of North America was established
in Philadelphia. Organized by a
Welshman, Robert Morris, the
bank was chartered by the U. S.
government the following De
cember. It supplied vital financial
aid to the government during the
closing months of the Revolution
ary War.
• • *
On This Date . . .
In 1790, the area south of the
Ohio River was organized as the
Southwest Territory.
• • •
In 1868, the impeachment trial
of President Andrew Jackson
ended with acquittal.
* * *
In 1924, President Calvin Col
lidge signed an immigration bill
including a Japanese exclusion
provision.
* • •
In 1942, Britain and Russia
signed a 20-year Treaty of Alli
ance.
It was John Stuart Mills who
observed, “A state which dwarfs
its men in order that they may
be more docile instruments in its
hands, even for beneficial pur
poses, will find that with small
men no great thing can really be
accomplished.”
Ants-Roaches
Insect Pests of all kinds
BUHACH
California’s Great Insect Powder — 80
Years Old — still Best and Safest.
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Memorial Day
Weekend Bargains
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Men’s and Boy’s
Tennis Shoes as marke<i
We have on hand a nice
supply of hand-made
Alaskan
Flowers — Jewelry
for the entire family
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Post Main 75
Scoring and Timing of Indianapolis
500-Mile Race Is a (Complicated Business
By Dale Burgess
INDIANAPOLIS W — Scoring
iand timing the annual 500-Mile
i Memorial Day race at the Indian
apolis Motor Speedway is a com
bination of electronics and musi
cal chairs.
The complicated business oc
cupies the entire second floor of
the big control tower.
It hit a peak of frenzy last year
when the lead changed a record
29 times before winner Jim Rath
man finally roared past Roger
Ward with 10 miles to go.
There actually are two sepa
rate operations in keeping a rec
ord of the cars’ positions.
The final official standings
come from a paper tape, running
through an electric timer which
marks each cars’ passage through
the beam of an electric eye at the
starting line. The car number is
entered manually.
The more frantic activity is a
long adjoining room where 33
men sit in a row facing the start
ing line. Each is assigned to a
single car and has a bundle of
200 numbered cars — one for
each lap around the 2^-mile
track. He flips a card each time
his car goes past.
That’s just the beginning. The
men with the cards start out sit
ting in the starting order. Tues
day, for example, the man with
the cards of Eddie Sachs, pole
position winner in the time trials,
will start out in seat No. 1. If Jim
Hurtubise, in third place, scoots
into the lead, Sachs’ watcher will
hop out of his seat and Hurtu
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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
MAY 22 — JUNE 2
SUNDAY—Award Day
9:45 a.m. Church School
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
7:30 p.m. Evening Service
MONDAY
Vacation Bible School
Begins at 9 and 10:30 a.m.
TUESDAY—Vacation Bible School
7:00 p.m. Jr. and Sr. Confirmants
WEDNESDAY-Vacation Bible School
7:30 p.m. Mid-Week Meeting
8:30 p.m. Choir Practice
THLTRSDAY—Vacation Bible School
7:30 p.m. Luther League
FRIDAY—Vacation Bible School
2:00 and 7:30 p.m. Women of the
Church Circles
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! bise’s boy will jump into it.
This musical chairs game will
go on for about four hours. The
card-flippers will be identified
by numbers on their backs and
scoreboard operators will make
adjustments by watching the
shuffle.
All 33 positions are shown on
a 75-foot vertical electric score
board along the main stretch and
one hand-operated boards at other
points.
The main chance for error is
when a car goes into the pits for
tires and fuel. The pit apron, al
though part of the course, is not
crossed by the electric eye beam
and a car’s pit stop lap is not
recorded on the tape. This is done
by hand — one of the things that
has to be watched closely by
Richard E. Sauer, the director of
scoring and timing.
The unofficial finish announced
at the end of the race often is
revised after the all-night study
of the tape. But the winner never
has been changed.
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Time For Coffee
Two-story percolators — so high they go right through toe ceihng
brew instant coffee at the Maxwell House plan* in Hoboken, New
?rsey, the world's largest. They work just like the family coffee.-?? at
ome, despite their size — but there the resemblance ends. Con1’ uous
operations keep these percolators brewing coffee 24 hour* a day V
satisfy the nation's thirst. From here the coffee goes to g*ont snv'
dryers where it is converted into soluble form. Instant pnochv?* now
account for a third of all U.S. coffee consumption, according to the
manufacturer.