99-Year-Old Physician
Gives No Thought to
Retirement from Practice
WAYNESBURG, Pa., UP) — Dr.
Lindsey S. McNeely, at 99 pos
sibly the nation’s oldest practicing
physician, gives no thought to re
tiring.
“Who would take care of my
patients,” he asks. He has been
practicing almost 70 years.
Dr. McNeely observed office
hours as usual on his 99th birth
day Saturday. He declined a pro
posed community celebration in
favor of “just another day” at his
office-home in nearby Kirby.
JAL DC-7 Flies 1,500 Miles
With One of Four Engines Out
TOKYO, UPi — A Japanese Air
lines DC-7 carrying 50 passengers
flew 1,500 miles with one of its
four engines out and landed safe
ly at Wake Island Saturday.
Airline officials said fire erup
ted in the No. 3 engine about 3
hours after the plane had left
Tokyo for Honolulu. The blaze
was quickly extinguished and the
plane diverted to Wake.
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Refrigerated Vessel Leased
To Alaska Steam Reverts
To Maritime Admin.
SEATTLE, 141 — The Palisana, j
government - owned refrigerated i
ship chartered by the Alaska j
Steamship Co. for 1.1 years, is
being returned to t the Maritime
Administration, the company an
nounced Saturday.
The Palisana, the last common
carrier refrigerated ship in the
Alaska trade, completed her last
voyage to Alaska in September,
1958.
“We have found that we can do
a lpetter job of meeting Alaska
merchants’ requirements in mov
ing perishables through our con
trolledTtemperature van service,”
Melville McKinstry, vice president
and general manager of the Alas
ka line, said.
Removal of the Palisana will
leave 14 ships in the Alaska line
fleet. The company owns seven
Liberty ships and four Cl-M-AVIs
and charters three other Cl-M
AVIs from the Maritime Ad
ministration.
ALPS AVALANCHE BURIES 8
SONDRIO, Italy, IP) — An ava
lanche crushed a wooden con
struction camp barracks in the
Alps last night, burying eight
workmen. By dawn rescuers dug
out seven bodies. The eighth man
was found alive and hospitalized.
Beans & Cocoa Provide
Sustinence For Youths
Snowbound In Montana
MISSOULA, Mont., UP> — Cocoa
and boiled beans they found in
an abandoned cabin provided the
only nourishment for two young
college students trapped for more
than two days in a Montana blizi
zard.
The storm swirled down on
Rich Maxwell of Warm Springs,
Mont., and Robert Amick of Bill
ings, Mont., while they were
hunting elk in the primitive
mountain country of western
Montana. v
Maxwell finally hiked six miles
through waist-deep snow to find
help Friday. Amick had a lame
knee.
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Panamanian Ambassador
Hurries to Washington
PANAMA, LP) — Panama’s am
bassador to the United States, Ri
cardo Arias Espinosa, is hurrying
back to Washington as a result
of current tension between the
two countries over the Canal
Zone.
Espinosa has been on leave for
several weeks to prepare for his
campaign next year as the presi
dential candidate for the admin
istration’s National Patriotic Coa
lition Party.
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Kodiak - Bound
Navy Ship Blows
Stack, Limps Home
SEATTLE, Ufi — The 14,000-ton
Navy attack cargo ship Skagit,
which wallowed helplessly with
out power Friday in the North
Pacific 100 miles off Vancouver
Island, was limping toward port
under her own power Saturday.
None of the 350 crewmen and
Marines aboard the Skagit was
injured early Friday when the
ship’s No. 1 boiler exploded. The
No. 2 boiler failed later and the
ship was left powerless.
Late Friday night the No. 2
boiler was repaired and the Ska
git started a long, slow run to the
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at
Bremerton, Wash., the vessel’s
point of departure for Kodiak on
Tuesday.
The Marines were being trans
ported to Kodiak to take part in
“Operation Totem Pole,” a cold
weather amphibious exercise,
scheduled to start November lS,
which they now will miss.
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Sally Carrighar’s New
Book Debunks Popular
Conception of Wolves
The much - maligned breed of
wolves would not give their name
to some of the—shall we say, less
responsible members of the hu
man race if real wolves were
more widely known, says Sally
Carrighar, writer and naturalist,
whose new book, “Wild Voice of
The North,” is the chronicle of a
Husky dog, part - wolf, that was
Miss Carrighar’s companion for
seven years.
Miss Carrighar has known some
> full-blooded wolves too, and she
writes of them with the same af
fection, even admiration, that il
luminates the reports of other
field biologists whose experience
has brought them in close touch
with those feared creatures.
She 'believes that wolves simply
are not the voracious, blood
thirsty animals that legend pic
tures them. “On the very few oc
casions when they have attacked
men it is probable that the wolves
were suffering from rabies, to
which they are very susceptible,”
says Miss Carrighar. “Tamed
wolves show an unmistakable
longing to be the friend of man.
It could not be otherwise, for all
dogs are descended from wolves,
and early man would not have
taken wolves into their homes to
share their hearths if wolves nor
mally were hungry for human
flesh.”
Bobo, Miss Carrighar’s Husky,
proved that a wolf-dog is more
independent than most dogs,
more demanding but also more
generous, with a more under
standing temperament—not a dog
for every owner but rewarding
for those willing to make the
necessary adjustments.
INSPIRATION . . .
LANCASTER, Pa., UP) — When
the auctioneer offered four in
spiration books for sale Friday,
Mrs. R. W. Beeler got them for
50 cents.
While the auction coninued,
Mrs. Beeler examined her new
possessions.
Between the pages of one she
found five $50 bills wrapped in
tissue. "
She promptly gave the money
to the auctioneer who decided to
give her a reward — a china mug
valued at $25.
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS, W.M.
Norvja v*. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third' Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ast Craft
President
Herb Jenks
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
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Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Secty.
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