America’s Best-Lighted Church
CATASAUQUA, PA.—What
is believed will be the best-lighted
church in America this Christ
mas is the Presbyterian church
here, founded 100 years ago.
Ingenious floodlighting on the
spire and on a 15-inch gilt ball
on top of it (180 feet from the
ground), make them visible four
miles away. The effect has been
described as a “finger pointing to
Heaven.” Nine precious stained
glass windows are also lighted,
inviting passersby to meditate
upon the sacred significance of
the scenes which they depict.
The elaborate lighting system
was developed and given to the
church by Frank M. Tait, a
native of Catasauqua, who is
now chairman of the board of the
Dayton (Ohio) Power and Light
Co. and the Dayton Pump &
Mfg. Co. Tait also has provided
a fund which will enable the
church to be floodlighted even
night as long as it shall exist.
Bernt Balchen Compares
U.S. and Russian Ability I
To Fight In The Arctic
WASHINGTON, UP) —, Because
Russians are more accustomed to
cold climates, the Soviets may
have some advantage over the
United States in Arctic military
operations, Col. Bernt Balchen
said today.
On the other hand, the Arctic
expert said in a copyrighted inter- j
view with the magazine U. S. ;
News and World Report, warm
ocean currents extend farther
north in the western hemisphere.
This gives the United States and
Canada more chance for northern
bases open to navigation for
longer parts of the season.
Whether the Russians have sur
passed this country in technical
development of cold - weather
equipment, he said, “is a question
that we can just guess at.”
Neither side has much advan
tage in the distance from its bases
to the other’s vital areas, he said.
The United States has bases with
in 2,700 nautical miles of Moscow
and the Russian industrial areas,
while Russian bases are about
3,000 miles from the United
States.
Balchen, now assigned to the
Pentagon, was a member of sev
eral Arctic and Antarctic expedi
tions and more recently built and
commanded this country’s Bluie
West 8 air base on Greenland.
Airmen assigned there, he said,
have all the comforts they can be
given on a military base but are
handicapped by isolation and the
Arctic climate.
Men normally are assigned
there for a year, Balchen said,
but “I think that’s too short. A
man then just learns what a cycle
in the Arctic looks like. He does
n’t become an Arctic soldier in
that time.”
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Pilot and Two Students
Killed in RCAF Crash
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, i.P—A
two-engine Royal Canadian Air
Force plane crashed 30 miles
southeast of Winnipeg Friday
night and all three crewmen were
killed. The plane, on a routine
training flight out of Winnipeg,
carried an RCAF pilot and two
navigation students.
Slot Machine To Warm Your Feet
VIENNA, IP—An Austrian has
developed a slot machine to warm
your feet on cold days.
Vienna newspapers report the
first of the machines is to be
installed at a cable car station on
7,000-foot high Mt. Hafelekar
near Innsbruck.
You put a coin in the machine,
stand on a platform and your feet
are irradiated with ultra - short
waves for 15 seconds. It gets the
circulation going and that warms
the feet, the newspapers said.
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Prison Officials
Rack in Control
After 83 Hours
BOSTON, W—Massachusetts pe
nal authorities were back in full
control of ancient State Prison
Saturday as investigations began
into the 80-hour holdout of four
long-term hostage-holding con
victs.
The escape-mad inmates sur
rendered their weapons and their
stronghold inside the prison Fri
day to a seven-man civilian nego
tiating committee in return for
“some glimmer of hope” after
their long prison terms.
Massachusetts Atty. Gen. George
Fingold said he personally will
prosecute the four who face addi
tional sentences up to 20 years
for their action in holding and
threatening with death five guards
and • six fellow convicts.
Spokesman for the negotiating
committee Erwin D. Canham, edi
tor of the Christian Science Moni
tor, said the civic group made “no
bargain or deal” with the convicts
but promised to try “to get some
thing” so the convicts “would
have some hope for the future.”
Canham, whose committee was
chosen by the convicts them
selves, described the tense climax
of the discussions inside the grim
granite jail like this:
“Until the precise moment when
(they) pulled their guns from
their dungarees pockets, slipped
out the clips or bullets, and tossed
them on the table before us, we
did not know whether the men
would choose tragedy or hope.
“We had talked, back and forth,
for some six hours to try and
bring them to choose hope.”
The convicts, among them no
torious bank robber and escape
artist Theodore Green, listed their
grievances for the committee. All
complaints concerned the medie
val facilities of the 150-year-old
bastille which is due to be aban
doned later this year for a new
prison in Norfolk.
With Exercise Snowbird under
way in Alaska Jan. 13-Feb. 13 for
intensive joint training of Army
and Air Force units under sub
arctic conditions, temperatures as
low as minus 50 are anticipated.
Alaska’s Exercise North Star last
February was considered unique
in that extremely cold tempera
tures were present throughout the
period. Temperatures remained
in a range of minus 13 and minus
45. Available Army records in
Alaska indicated that never be
fore had U.S. Army troops partic
ipated in maneuvers or combat
operations under such conditions.
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U.S. Army Private
Survived Soviet Captivity
With Only Minor Ailments
BERLIN, l/R — U.S. Army doc
tors said Friday Pvt. William A.
Verdine of Starks, La., survived
six years of Soviet captivity with
out incurring any serious physi
cal ailment.
Verdine was released from the
Army hospital and placed in the
guardhouse pending an inquiry to
determine iif he is to be tried by
court-martial/
The soldier was released by the
Russians on Thursday and com
plained of stomach trouble and
also expressed fear for his heart.
He also said he hadr suffered
severe coughing spells while
working in Vorkuta labor camp
in Arctic Russia. Biut doctors
.said Verdine’s general physical
condition is good.
The soldier disappeared from
his unit at Coburg, West Ger
many, Feb. 3, 1949. He has been
carried on the Army roster as
absent without official leave. The
investigation now under way is
to determine if Verdine shall be
tried on AWOL or desertion
charges. The latter is far more
serious.
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