Ketchikan Woman
Would Rather Sit In
Jail Than Pay Fine
KETCHIKAN — Mrs. Wini
Silko of nearby Mountain Point
went to jail Wednesday rather
than to pay a $10 fine imposed
when she refused to by a $2.50
city automobile windshield sticker.
Mrs. Silko was released from
jail after about two hours when
a friend paid her fine.
Earlier, District Magistrate
Richard Lauber had given her 48
hours to make up her mind on
whether she would pay the fine
or go to jail.
Mrs. Silko had been assessed a
$10 fine early in December and
Lauber granted a 60-day stay of
execution. When she failed to
pay on time, he signed a warrant
for her arrest and she was arrested
by a state trooper. The latest
charge was a contempt of court.
Mrs. Silko immediately put up
$25 bond but refused to be finger
printed.
Wednesday, Mrs. Silko went al
most immediately to the detention
home after appearing in court.
She said she was determined to
serve two days in jail rather than
pay the fine.
She was finger printed, issued a
jail garb and was settling down
for a two-day stay when the re
lease order came through.
Mrs. Silko insisted that she and
other persons living outside the
city should not be required to
purchase car stickers.
Stedman Hotel to Close
. . . Blame New Wage Act
KETCHIKAN UP) — The Sted
man Hotel, a part of the Ketchikan
downtown scene for more than
half a century, will be closed
March 1 because of the new and
higher state wage and hours
laws which became law this
week, the management announced
Wednesday.
Gordon Zerbetz, manager of the
Stedman Hotel Co., said the new
and higher minimum wage rates,
plus overtime provisions, made it
impossible for the firm to con
tinue in the business profitably.
The firm also operates the Gil
more Hotel which will not be
closed, Zerbetz said.
Zerbetz said six persons who
otherwise had year-round jobs
will be discharged and the city’s
only public rest room will be
closed.
Fine Jab Printing At Ths Nugge!
Arctic’s Deep Snows i
Could Serve as Shelters
To Protect Food Supplies
CHICAGO MP> — The ossibility
that the Arctic’s deep, hard
packed snows could serve as
nuclear bomb shelters to protect
food supplies was suggested.
A report by the Armour Re
search Foundation of Illinois In
stitute of Technology said an on
the-scene study showed snow is
an excellent medium for absorb
ing or dissipating sudden releases
of tremendous energy.
“It is not conceivable that huge
populations could rush to the dis
tant Arctic in the event of a
world nuclear war,” commented
Mrs. Hyla Napadensky, ARF proj
ect engineer.
“But it is possible that food de
posits, seeds and other life es
sentials, even valuable national
records, could be preserved there
as a legacy to a surviving popu
lace.”
She said such supplies, if
buried deep in Arctic snow, could
be kept safe from radiation con
tamination as well as nuclear
blast.
Flooded Shelter . . .
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. UPi —
Wheeling his fuel oil truck into
position, the driver stuck a hose
into a pipe at the side of L. H.
Jackson’s home Monday and
turned on the flow.
Sensing something amiss after
too long a wait to fill a 275
gallon tank, he shut off the
valves and knocked on the door.
He and Mrs. Jackson found the
family’s fallout shelter almost
filled with more than 1,000 gal
lons of fuel oil.
The pipe was the air exhaust
for the shelter. The fuel oil com
pany pumped out the oil and
dumped it and said it would get
rid of the oil odor in the house.
“The funniest thing I’ve ever
heard,” said Jackson, who said
he had planned to put the three
year-old shelter to other use any
way. “I felt sorry for the driver,”
said his wife, “he looked so up
set.”
The average U.S. family spends
about SO per cent of its net in
come for food, 27 per cent for
housing, 15 per cent for trans
portation, 5 per cent for medical
care and 7 per cent for recrea
tion. That leaves 16 per cent for
savings, insurance and inci
dentals.
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Jackie’s Project
In White House
Points Out History
WASHING-TON {/P> — President
Kennedy says his wife’s White
House refurnishing project will
bring Americans more intimately
in contact with the men who lived
there.
After all, he points out, his
tory is people, and seeing such
items as President Grant’s table,
Lincoln’s bed or Monroe’s gold
dinner set makes these men
“more alive.”
Kennedy said he considers U.S.
history a source of strength and
anything that dramatizes the
great story of America, “as I think
the White House does,” is worthy
of the closest attention and re
spect.
Joining Wednesday night at the
end of Mrs. Kennedy’s hour-long
television tour of the White
House and the restorations she
has made, the President said he
was glad his wife had undertaken
the project.
He said he hoped future oc
cupants, like past First Ladies,
would continue to try to make
the White House “the center
really of a sense of American his
torical life.”
The President confided that he
thinks iistory is sometimes “a
dull subject” with so much em
phasis on dates.
If American boys and girls
come to the White House, he said,
and “in a sense touch the people
who have been here, then they’ll
go home more interested, and I
think that they’ll become better
Americans, and some of them
may want to someday live here
themselves, which I think would
be very good.”
“Even girls,” he added with a
grin.
Mrs. Kennedy, accompanied by
CBS commentator Charles Col
lingwood, took American TV
viewers on the tour which was
taped a month ago. She also gave
a personal narative of White
House history.
The First Lady said she felt
the President’s home should dis
play “all the things we did so
well, pictures, furniture—I think
this house should be the place
where you can see them best.”
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Of) —
The prosecutor suddenly stopped
court proceedings and stared at
the defendant, Raymond Roberts,
on trial for burglary.
Turning to Judge Riley Gra
ham, the prosecutor said: “The
coat this man is wearing is mine,
it was stolen from my home a
tew weeks ago.”
Roberts, 34, was held for grand
jury on the case which sent him
to city court — and later was
charged with burglarizing the
home of prosecutor Joe Dirisio.
When Lt. Col. John H. Glenn
is shot into space later this month
he will travel around the earth
and pass over California IVz hrs.
earlier (local time) than his take
off time at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Tax Tattlers Help
U.S. Collect Millions
A total of 12 million dollars in
federal taxes, penalties and in
terest was recovered as a result
of information furnished by tax
informants during the year ended
June 30, 1061, according to Com
merce Clearing House.
Each of the 706 informers whose
stories proved up received and
average of $777, an $88 increase
over 1960 payments made to 758
informants.
Claims for rewards were filed
by 4,145 tax tattlers. But 3,439
were rejected because they were
not proved, or they were not eli
gible under the rules.
The tax rules provide that IRS
officials may approve such re
wards as are deemed suitable for
information that leads to the de
duction and punishment of per
sons guilty of violating internal
revenue laws.
The amount of the informer’s
award represents what the dis
trict director deems to be ade
quate compensation. Normally, the
reward does not exceed 10 per
cent of the additional taxes,
penalties and fines recovered as
a result of the information.
PATTERSON OFFERED ONE
MILLION TO FIGHT LISTON
LOS ANGELES (41 — Promoter
George Paranassus will offer to
guarantee world heavyweight
champion Floyd Patterson one
million dollars to defend his title
here against Sonny Liston, the
Los Angeles Times said yester
day.
Paranassus told the newspaper
he will make the offer to Julius
November, Patterson’s attorney.
“If November is serious so am
I,” Parnassus said. “But I’ve
wired offers to November and
Patterson before and never ever
had the courtesy of an answer.”
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Province Secession
Comes to End in Katanga
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga,
The Congo UP) — After a stormy
four-hour session, the Katanga
Parliament agreed Thursday to
end the province’s secession but
demanded that the Central Congo
lese government line up with the
free world against Communism.
President Moise Tshombe went
before the assembly to lash U.S.
policy in the Congo, accusing
American financial interests of
trying to turn the nation into a
colony under their domination.
The Katanga assembly met in
a shabby building still showing
the scars of last December’s
fighting. Most of the windows had
| been broken by bullets and
shrapnel and glass still litters the
hall.
The legislators were called by
Tshombe’s government to approve
the Kitona agreement — subject
to three pages of conditions the
Katanga authorities have since
demanded.
Tshombe signed the Kitona
agreement with Prime Minister
Cyrille Adoula at the end of last
December’s two-week battle with
United Nations forces. If carried
; out it would virtually end Ka
tanga’s 18 months of independence.
OUR SAVIOR'S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
John L. Maakesiad, Pastor
S U N D AY
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 aon.
Luther League Committee
2:30 pan.
Evening Service 7:30 pan.
I TUESDAY
I Confirmation Class 7:00 pan.
WEDNESDAY
! Mid-Week Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Choir Practice 8:30 pan.
I T H U R S D AY
f Kindergarten 10:00 aon.
Youth Choir 7:00 pan.
Luther League 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Women's Circle 7:30 pan.
NEW SCHEDULE
Effective September 18,1961
Monday & Friday Fit. 309/310
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 «.m. Ar: Kotzebue 8:50 a.m.
Lv: Kotzebue 9:30 man. Ar: Nome 10:20 a-m.
Lv: Nome 2:40 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks 6:25 p.m.
Wednesday Fit. 309/310
Lv: Fail banks 8:00 aon. Ar: Kotzebue 9:20 amu
Lv: Kotzebue 10:00 a on. Ars Nome 11:00 ■"»
Lv: Nome 3:50 p.m. Ar: Fairbanks f»as p.*™,
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
Flight 311/312
Lv: Fairbanks 8:00 aon. Ar: Nome 9:05 ajn.
Lv: Nome 10:00 ajm. Ar: Kotzebue 10:50 »—»
Lv: Kotzebue 11:20 a.m. Ar: Fairbanks 2:30 pj«.