President-Elect Kennedy
And Family to Spend
Thanksgiving at Capital
WASHINGTON, tT) — A small,
quiet Thanksgiving dinner at
home — plus a birthday celebra
tion — is planned by President
elect John F. Kennedy and his
wife.
Kennedy will fly here from his
Palm Beach, Fla., vacation spot
Wednesday to spend the holiday
in his Georgetown home.
And the occasion will include
celebration three days early of
the birthday of his daughter,
Caroline. Caroline will be three
years old Nov. 27.
There was no information from
Kennedy aides as to whether any
other Kennedys will be on hand
for the Thankgiving dinner.
Originally, the Kennedys had
planned to spend Thanksgiving at
their Cape Cod home. But, Mrs.
Kennedy expects her second child
in mid-December and it was felt
it would be easier for her to re
main in Washington for the holi
day.
Mrs. Kennedy has a date with
her doctor to have the baby by
Caesarian section Dec. 15 in a
New York hospital. Her first
baby, Caroline, was delivered by
Caesarian.
DC8 Jet Take-Off Halted
By Flock of Starlings
BOSTON, OT)—An Eastern Air
Line jet plane halted its take-off
at Logan International Airport
today when the big craft collided
with a flock of starlings.
The DC8, bound for Philadel
phia and Miami, had 99 passen
gers and a crew of eight.
The plane had rolled about 400
feet, gaining momentum for the
take-off when pilot M. F. Junger
cut the engines as the birds
splashed into the wings and air
intakes. It had not become air
borne.
Last Oct. 4 an Eastern Air Lines
Electra plane crashed into Bos
ton harbor soon after take-off
with a death toll of 62 of the 72
aboard. Later investigators found
evidence of contact with starlings.
Subsequently the Civil Aeronau
tics Board said the birds may
have damaged one or more en
gines of the Electra. Cause of that
crash is still under investigation.
Examination of today’s plane
showed bird feathers in at least
three of the four engines and
along the wings.
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“Magic Brains” Control Automatic
Pinsetters at Aukruk Bowling Lanes
Six “magic brains” have ar
rived in Nome.
This is neither the signal of an
invasion from Mars nor the an
nouncement of a handy product
for lazy school boys. The “magic
brains” are the “thinking” mech
anisms for Brunswick Automatic
Pinsetters now being installed at
the Aukruk Lanes.
More specifically, the “magic
brains” are ingenious arrange
ments of cams and gears which
operate on trouble-free mechani
cal principles to bring a new level
of precision, dependability and
convenience to bowling.
Each of the six lanes at the
new bowling center under con
struction will be equipped with
Brunswick Automatics. Manager
Marquiss said he expects to have
the Aukruk Lanes ready for a
grand opening about December 1.
“Bowlers who have experienced
the delays and lack of unifor
mity often caused by manual pin
setting are sure to appreciate
bowling against Brunswick Auto
matics,” Marquiss said. “They
will be able to start bowling at
the flick of a switch and com
plete their games at a more sat
isfactory pace.”
Here’s what happens when the
switch is flicked to prepare a
Brunswick Automatic for action:
A green numeral “1” lights on
Husbands by the Dozen
CHICAGO, UP)—A woman ar
rested while living with her 12th
serviceman husband and ac
cused of marrying the other 11
to obtain their government sub
sistence checks has been sen
tenced to a year in jail.
She is Virginia Debus, 32. She
was also placed on probation for
three years Thursday by Judge
Walter J. Labuy of U.S. District
Court.
She was arrested while living
at Great Lakes Naval Training
Center with her present hus
band, Donald. He was in court.
She was convicted of falsely
receiving two subsistence checks
for $157 each.
392 ABSENTEE BALLOTS HERE
Election Supervisor Carrie Mc
Lain reports that she now has 392
absentee ballots on hand and has
received all the official returns
from Districts, 21, 22 and 23.
No returns or absentee ballots
have been received yet she re
vealed from District 24 due to
the mail conditions in that area.
Prison is Pleasure Palace
TOULOUSE, France, UP)—What
the French call the world’s most
modern prison — complete with
swimming pool and a hotel for
visitors — will soon be built in
nearby Muret. The $30 - million
structure, on 24.7 acres, will have
a movie theater, athletic field,
gym, television room and chapel.
Discouraged
PITTSBURGH, UP)—Safe crack
ers gave up trying to open a safe
at a Pittsburgh garage—and it’s
just as well they did.
When employes arrived this
morning, they found a penciled
note saying: “We give up.”
Police said the safe was empty.
the masking unit, indicating to
the bowler that the machine is
ready for the first ball of the
frame.
As the ball hits the cushion
at the back of the pit, the machine
is triggered for action. It lifts up
the bowler’s ball and returns it
to him, at the same time, a deck
is lowered to lift the standing
pins. Then a rake sweeps fallen
pins into the pit, after which, the
deck lowers to respot standing
pins and the machine lights an
amber numeral “2’ on the mask
ing unit to signal the bowler to
roll a second ball.
If the standing pins are off
spot, the Brunswick Automatic
will replace them exactly where
it found them in conformity with
strict American Bowling Congress
regulations. After the second ball
is rolled, the maohine returns the
ball, sweeps the pins off the lane
and sets up 10 pins again for the
next frame.
When a bowler rolls a strike,
the same action takes place ex
cept that the deck does not detect
any standing pins. Recognizing
this ideal situation, the “magic
brain” directs the machine to
lower a new set of 10 pins and
relight the first ball signal.
A trigger button is located on
the ball return rack so that the
bowler can get a new rack of
pins if he fouls on the first ball
of a frame and leaves some
standing pins. This trigger is also
used if necessary to get a com
plete rack of pins after a bowler
rolls his third ball on the tenth
frame.
| Such is the work of the Bruns
wick Automatic Pinsetter, a 2,000
pound mechanical marvel which
takes orders from a “magic brain”
about the size of a breadbox and
responds with power from a sin
gle electric motor.
Yet for all its weight, the
Brunswick unit is so compact that
it is unnecessary to alter the
“kick-back” plates when instal
ling it in a lane. The kick-backs
are the fiber panels at the sides
of the bowling lane pits against
which pins bounce when hit by
the bal. These plates can have a
great effect on whether or not
a bowler scores well.
The unveiling of the six Bruns
wick Automatic Pinsetters at
Aukruk Lanes will bring the full
concept of automation to local
bowlers.
It is with sincere appreciation that I say "THANK YOU"
to all ray good Alaskan Friends for their support in this past
election. The challenge is now up to the men you have chosen.
It is imperative that all citizens support these men in the
development of Alaska and insist that this development be
realized through a progressive and unselfish program.
Though I shall not be privileged to serve you in the
United States Senate, please know that my hand is always
extended to help Alaska and that my efforts will in no way
be diminished by the loss of any election. Your choice has
been a wise one for it was made by a majority of our citizens.
Let this ever be the way of our life.
— DH. LEE L. McKINLEY
In Retrospect... Keeping Our Guard Up!
The late summer and early
autumn of the fateful year 1940
was, for most Americans, a
time of great anxiety and un
certainty. Even now, twenty
years later, the mood of those
days is fresh in the minds of
many of us. Veterans Day,
1960, seems to provide an ap
propriate occasion to reflect
upon this aspect of the passing
parade of U. S. history.
This was the
situation twenty
years ago:
across the At -
lantic, France
had fallen. The
Battle of Brit
ain was raging.
In the Pacific
Japan was on
the march.
Here at home
the U. S. mili
tary establish
ment, long neglected and over
looked. fell considerably short
of adequate standards of oper
ational readiness.
Then in the early fall of 1940
came the greatest mass mobili
zation in the peacetime history
of the U. S. President Franklin
D. lioosevelt ordered out the
National Gua-d — and many of
us can remembe the local units
leaving the armories and start
ing down the long road that
would lead, ultimately, to the
field of battle. This memory
serves to point up che special
significance that Veterans Day,
1960, holds for some 472,000
National Guardsmen of the cur
rent-day force.
Over a period of eight months
during 1940-41, the Guard
brought 300,000 men to active
duty, at once doubling the
strength of the Active Army.
Guardsmen overcame equipment
deficiencies to attain the desired
degree of combat-readiness.
They played an important part
in the expanding citizen army
which went into the field after
Pearl Harbor and won the
global battles of World War II
just as the citizen-soldiers of
the Guard had plaved a similar
role in 1917-18.
Of the WW II Guardsmen, the
then Under Secretary of War,
Robert Patterson remarked,
“Their presence . . . gave the
country a sense that it had
passed the lowest ebb.”
There was, of course, a per
iod of intensive training be
tween mobilization and the bat
tlefield. And if there is any
single and essential lesson to
be derived from this experience
it is that there is no substitute
for a trained and equipped mil
iary force in being.
Numerous veterans — actual
lj, 80% of the officers and non
coms — form the backbone of
the Guard today. The lessons
of the pasf "
not lost
them and
fact that
continue t(
tain their
ciation witl
military is
timony to
deter
nation to
these lessor
good use.
Thanks ™
these vete.rans, to the young
men who have entered the
ranks, thanks to the unstinting
support of the U. S. Army
and U. S. Air Force and of
State governments the National
Guard in 1960 stands at the
very pinnacle of its 300-year
history. It is, indeed, “Keeping
our Guard Up!” in the true
sense of these words for it has
grasped the full meaning of
the lesson of twenty years ago.
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