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Santa Will Take
Toys to Eskimo Children
At St. Mary’s Mission
KETCHIKAN W — Santa Claus
will take off from Ketchikan abouti
Tuesday with a load of toys and
clothes for the Eskimo children of
St. Mary’s, a Roman Catholic
mission on the lower Yukon River.
Santa will reverse direction be
cause in this case the toys and
other things are being provided
by women of the Church of the.
Holy Name here, a project at
Yuletide each year.
Last year large cartons of toys
and clothing put aboard St. Nick’s j
plane cost more than $50 to trans
port.
There are 168 grade school chil
dren and 47 high school students
at the mission who will receive
presents as a result of Ketchi
kan’s and Santa’s annual “Christ
mas-lift.”
Waiting to receive the gifts with
the children will be Brother Robert
Benish S.J., brother of Mrs. Jack
Thompson of Ketchikan, and
Brother Gerald O’Malley S.J., who
once served as an enlisted man at
the Coast Guard base here and
still is widely remembered in that ■
capacity.
THE SAND PEBBLES IS BOOK
OF MONTH CLUB SELECTION
An exciting and powerful first
novel, The Sand Pebbles, is the
January selection of the Book of
the Month Club. Its author is
Richard McKenna, a 49-year-old
ex-sailor who has spent much of
his adult life as an enlisted man
in the U.S. Navy in the Far East.
Drawing upon his peculiar back
ground, Mr. McKenna tells an en
grossing story with an unfamiliar
but important theme: the emer
gence in the 1920s of modern
China.
In plot and characterization The
Sand Pebbles may remind readers
of The Caine Mutiny, though its
canvas is much broader.
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Pope John Recesses
Ecumenical Council
Until September 8
VATICAN CITY (tfv—Pope John
XXIII, strained by illness but opti
mistic for the future, recessed the
Roman Catholic Ecumenical Coun
cil Saturday and announced his
hope it would conclude in a year.
He looked back over the coun
cil's first two months as "a gooc
beginning." He also looked to the
future and said he was consoled
by anticipation of benefits for
Christian unity.
The 81-year-old Roman Catholic
ruler spoke for 22 minutes to the
council fathers in St. Peter’s for
:he ceremonial closing of the first
ahase of their assembly.
It was a new demonstration of
-he Pope’s recovery from serious
illness. He walked unaided, and
left unaided. He sat on a throne
while he spoke. His voice gained
power midway through his speech,
but became hoarse toward the end.
Later, he appeared at his ap
partment window overlooking St.
Peter’s Square and recited the
noon Angelus Prayer. A crowd of
about 30,000, including hundreds
of purple-robed bishops, knelt in
the square.
Many of the 2,200 council fathers
planned to be on their way home
within hours. Ahead of them was
a nine-month recess ending Sept.
8. But it will not be a rest.
“In the coming months, the
Pope said, “the work will go on
unflaggingly. A heavy responsi
bility rests upon our shoulders,
but God himself will sustain us on
the way.”
If the ocean highway had been
paved, Christopher Columbus
might have made it faster to Am
erica on foot. He averaged aboul
2.8 miles an hour by sail.
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Cuban Gamble
Cost the Kremlin
One Billion Dollars
WASHINGTON l/Pt — The edu
, catcd guess in this capital is thal
| Russia invested something mon
i than the equivalent of a billion
; American dollars in the Cuban
j gamble which didn’t pay off.
On the other hand, preliminary
calculations-—which officials agree
are very rough and made while
the duration of the crisis was
uncertain—is that this country’s
cost might run about $100 million.
This would be expenditure beyond
the normal operating and main
tenance costs of the Navy. Ail
Force and Army.
Ti is estimate conceivably could
be boosted as detailed tally is
made of the vast scope of deploy
m.ent and operation by ships,
olanes, men and weapons.
As an example. President Ken
nedy was told Friday at headquar
ters of the Strategic Air Command
in Omaha that SAC planes flew
20 million miles during the month
in which a massive airborne alert
was maintained.
The estimate of a $1-billion cost
to Russia is based essentially on
the installation of Russian “hard
ware” and personnel in Cuba,
without including such items as
shipping costs and associated fac
tors.
Included in equipment sent to
Cuba were some of Russia’s most
modern weapons. Among them is
the SA-2 anti-aircraft missile.
Some US. experts believe that
high-reaching missile is at least
equal in performance to the United
States' Nike-Hercules missile.
Room Mothers
Plan Christmas Party
The Room Mothers are planning
the Christmas party to be held
Dec. 19. The morning shift will
have their party at 11 a.m. and
the afternoon shift at 4. The classes
that go all day will have their
party at 3 p.m.
These mothers are responsible
for the Christmas! party, Valen
tine party and the party for the
last day of school. They will be
[ calling other mothers to help fur
nish refreshments.
Room teachers are: Mrs. Gillis,
Mrs. Beauchamp, Miss Efta, Mr.
Beaty, Mrs. Lyttle, Mr. Eidem,
Mrs. Hart, Mr. Nerland, Mrs. Po
ling, Mrs. Croell, Mrs. Schnare,
Mr. Lyttle, Mrs. Eidem, Mrs. Hill,
Mr. Maynard, Mr. O’Connell.
Room Mothers are: Mesdames
Hahn, Gelzer, Oliver, Oquilluk,
Towner, Ullrich, Thomas, Walker,
Blanning, Alurac, Oksotaruk, Kun
nuk, Kealiher, Otton, Ellana, Cur
ran, Bachelder, Davis, Karmun,
Johnson, Kakik, Schadler, Amund
i sen, Knight, I. Johnson, Tucker,
Schmidt, Trigg, Scott, Kokoluk,
Tungwenuk, Nagozruk, Sirloak,
Fenstermacher.
Spectacular Hangover
SEATTLE — The most spec
tacular hangover of the year hit
the Seattle waterfront Friday.
The victim was really loaded—
you might say tanked up. And the
hangover was managed entirely on
water.
The victim, in this case, was an
8,000-gallon rail tank car. Its hang
over actually occurred not long
after midnight at the Pier 16 rail
barge terminal.
The tanker was one of 12 rail
cars being loaded aboard the barge
Griffco when it was derailed. The
car, loaded with liquid caustic for
the pulp mill at Sitka, was left
half over the edge of the barge.
It couldn’t be hauled aboard.
The waterfront became aware
of the accident when the tug Tar
tar pushed the Griffco across El
liott Bay toward the big derrick
at Pier 90. The tankcar still
dangled over the edge of the barge.
The tankcar was lashed down
with heavy chains, and she rode
i out the voyage without further
casualty.
Nobel Prizes Are
Awarded In Stockholm
STOCKHOLM, Sweden UP> —
Five scientists — four Britons and
an American — who have pried
open the door to life's innermost j
secrets received the 1962 Nobel
prize of Gold and Honor today. A
sixth scientist got his prize TOO
miles away in a Moscow hospital
room.
The “Cambridge clan” took the j
lion’s share of awards this year. I
The venerable British university, j
at which three of the Britons and
the American did their important
research work, this year shut out
the usually dominant California
institutions.
But California had its great i
j moment at the traditionally glitter
i ing ceremony, where Sweden's
j King Gustaf VI Adolf, just turn
; ed 80, distributed the awards for
the 15th time.
John Steinbeck, California’s au
thor, went forward to receive the j
literature prize, a diploma, a
medal and a check for S49.656. j
Sharing the prizes in medicine
were Cambridge researchers Drs. !
Maurice Wilkins and Francis |
Crick, together with this year’s
youngest laureate, 34 - year - old j
James Watson of Harvard Uni- !
versify, Cambridge, Mass. Watson j
also worked in England on the |
revolutionary discovery of the vital
nucleic acid molecules called DNA
which direct the pattern of animal
life.
Dr. John Cowderv Kendrew and
Dr. Max Ferdinand Perutz, bio
chemists working at Cambridge,
England, shared the chemistry
prizes for their work on mystify
ing elements in human blood and
muscles of certain animals, such
as whales and seals.
Soviet scientist Lev Landau was
presented the prize for physics
in a Moscow hospital, where he is
recovering from injuries suffer
ed in an automobile accident that
left him in a coma for months.
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Alaska’s Biggest
Civil Suit Filed Against
Ketchikan Flying Service
Kr-TCIIIKAN UP) —- A civil suit
seeking $333,161 in damage s
against a Ketchikan flying service
was filed Friday afternoon in Su
perior Court here. Attorneys said
they believed the case to be the
largest of its kind evere instituted
in Alaska.
The complaint was filed in behalf
of Mrs. Edward Olsen, administra
te* >>' the estate of Dan Olsen,
her son who died with three
others in a plane crash near here
last August.
Webber Air, Inc., of Ketchikan
was named defendant.
Going to their deaths in the
tragedy with Olsen were two of
his friends, Don Stenford and Joe
Diamond, and the pilot. Carl
Manzoni. who was also a vice
president of the flying service. All
were from Ketchikan.
Olsen and his friends were bound
>n a goat-spotting expedition when
t' e mishap occurred. No public ex
planation as to the cause of the
accident has been made although
PA A people investigated when
the wreckage was discovered sev
eral days after the accident occur
red.
There were eight causes of ac
tion listed in Mrs. Olsen’s com
plaint. One charged that the acci
dent was caused by carelessness
and negligence.
Manzoni, the pilot, was one of
-he best-known bush flyers in
southeast Alaska.
California GOPs Call
For Non-Support of
Southern Segregationists
PALM SPRINGS. Calif. UP) —
Directors of the Volunteer Cali
■omia Republican Assembly call
ed on the national party leader
ship Sunday to stop supporting
southern segregationists.
In a resolution, the assembly
charged that the National Repub
lican Senatorial Campaign Com
nittee “is supporting and applaud
ng the election of segregationist
candidates as Republicans in the
;outh.”
The resolution called for an all
>ut campaign for votes in the
outh. But it should be “oriented
owards southem progress rather
han toward southern prejudices
nd reaction.”
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