Flaming Fireball
Casts Eerie Glow
Across the Sky
VANCOUVER, B.C. UR — A
giant meteor with a flaming trail
cast on eerie glow in the sky over
British Columbia, Alberta, Wash
ington State and Idaho Monday
night.
The spectacle caused momentary
panic among fans at a baseball
game in Vancouver. Sightings were
also reported at Victoria, Calgary,
Fort Assiniboine, Alta., Spokane,
Wn., and Lewiston, Idaho.
There were as many descriptions
as there were people who watched
the huge fireball streak across the
sky in a southerly direction.
Hundreds of Vancouver residents
jammed switchboards at the air
port and weather office with re
ports of a flaming airliner, an off
course rocket or comet.
But authoritative observers said
it was a meteor.
Research scientist Frank Hughes
of nearby North Surrey, said he
has observed about 200 meteors
and “this one was the largest I
have seen.’'
It was on a 20-degree angle from
the earth, about 10 degrees in
width and traversed about 30 de
grees in five seconds,” said Hughes
who did meteor observation work
for the British Astronomical Assn.
“It was glowing with a white
brightness like a magnesium flare,”
he said. “The different portions of
it glowed with varying intensity.”
Other descriptions were less sci
entific but more spectacular.
“It was as big as an aircraft
hangar,” said a control tower em
ploye at Vancouver International
Airport.
He said the meteor was visible]
for 12 seconds and passed over at
10 A3 p.m.
Fans in the third baseline
bleachers at Vancouver's Stadium
were the first to spot the multi
colored meteor when it appeared
during the 12th inning.
They cried out in panic and Van
couver and Portland Pacific Coast
League players looked up from the
diamsfcd, then ran for the dugout
along with the umpires.
A sports writer at the game said
the players thought the fireball was
headed for the stadium. Play re
sumed after it flashed out of sight.
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FEDERAL TRADE
COMMISSION WILL STUDY
CIGARETTE ADVERTISING
WASHINGTON </P> — A federal
study of cigarette advertising will
provide the springboard for a Fed
eral Trade Commission debate on
whether to require warnings of
health hazards in the industry’s ad
vertising.
Bryan Jacques, Director of the
FTC Bureau of Industry Guidance,
said today the advertising study
should be ready in a few days. He
said any action by the commission
would hinge on the findings of sci
entists and physicians.
Jacques said the FTC is in con
tinuing contact with the Public
Health Service, which is preparing
a report for President Kennedy on
medical evidence on the relation
ship between cigarettee smoking
and lung cancer.
If the FTC decided the evidence
was strong enough to require
warning notices, it could issue an
order which would be subject to
review by the federal courts. At
present, warnings of this kind are
required in the marketing of in
secticides, fertilizers, and a few
other products.
The Public Health Service is
making its study on the motion of
President Kennedy.
AUTO SINKS BOAT . . ,
DETROIT iff — A collision be
tween an auto and a boat sank
them both last night on the Detroit
River. " :?
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Kramer
parked their auto and visited
aboard a friend’s boat at a marina.
The auto rolled down a slope
and crashed into a 22-foot sea
skiff belonging to Anthony Car
niack. Both the boat and the auto
sank at six feel or water. .
Surprise Farewell Party
Last evening a surprise farewell
party was give to Beatrice Lee by
friends at the Fellowship Hall of
the Methodist Church. Beatrice
Lee and her son, Bobby, are leav
ing soon to make their home in
Anchorage.
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Alaska Is Too
Crowded . . . Man
Seeks His Utopia
SAN DIEGO, Calif. UP> — A man
who said Alaska got too crowded
for him sailed with three children
Monday for Australia in a 37-foot
fishing trawler, converted into an
auxiliary schooner.
He is Marion Hergatt, former
Ohio farmer.
He said he sold his farm 10 years
ago and took up fishing in Alaska.
But now, he added, fishing up there
is controlled by one man, whom
he did not name, and that he could
no longer make a living at it.
Then, after Statehood, he added,
“big business — like oil companies
—came in. Taxes started going up.
It cost too much for a man to
live.”
“But the thing that really got me
is the people and stores and stuff
moving in. Alaska used to live a
leisurely pace, but not know. It’s
too crowded.”
Hergatt left his wife and their
third son, Leo, an infant, in San
Francisco. “Maybe she will come
over later when I get a look
around,” he said.
! On the schooner, Nancy, with
him are Nina, 6, Robert, 9, and
Michael, 10.
FRENCH SET UP
NEW MILITARY COURT
PARIS (&) — The French govern
ment today set up a purely military
court to judge secret army terror
ists. -
The new military court replaced :
a mixed civilian-military tribunal
dissolved last week after it spared l
secret army chief Raoul Salan from :
the death sentence.
President De Gaulle was reported ;
incensed that Salan got off with ]
a life term. Salan’s secret army is
waging a bloody campaign in Al
geria to keep that territory French
and to block independence.
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CARPENTER RECEIVES
AERONAUTICAL DEGREE
AFTER 13 YEAR WAIT
BOULDER, Colo. UP) — Astronaut
Malcolm Scott Carpenter received
yesterday the Aeronautical Engi
neering College degree he failed
to get 13 years ago.
President Quigg Newton of the
University of Colorado, Carpenter’s
alma mater, said the orbital flier
missed a final examination in a
course called heat transfer, “per
haps with his mind already on
higher things.”
He said Carpenter’s subsequent
training as an astronaut has “more
than made up for any deficiency
in the subject of heat transfer.” He
then presented the 37-year-old Car
penter with a bachelor of science
degree.
The ceremonies began in the
university football stadium as
hundreds of Boulder residents con
tinued to pour into the seats.
The weather was bright and
sunny, with a few clouds in a
blue sky, and the wind blowing
briskly from the northeast.
Newton entertained Carpenter
and his wife, Rene, in a guitar
playing songfest Monday night.
RUSK - DOBRYNIN TALK
ON GERMAN ISSUES
WASHINGTON UP) — Soviet
Ambassador Dobrynin conferred
with Secretary of State Dean Rusk
today in Washington on German
and Berlin issues. After the one
hour and 50 minute talk, the So
viet envoy said he expected they
would hold another meeting in the
near future.
Asked how today’s talk went,
Dobrynin replied with a smile and
laid: “As usual.”
Past discussions between Rusk
md Dobrynin on the Berlin issue
lave failed to offer any real hope
if breaking the East-West dead
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To Murder and
Suicide Pact
CENTERVILLE, Iowa tfl — Fed
eral investigators maintained si
lence yesterday on reports of a link
between a murder-suicide pact
aboard a Continental Airlines jet
plane crash that claimed 45 lives.
No official would discuss this
facet of the case for the record,
but there were indications that they
were not dismissing this theory.
A briefcase bearing the initials
T.C.D. of T.G.D., found among the
debris after the plane disintegrated
in the air, was in custody of Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
agents.
George Van Epps, head of the
Civil Aeronautics Board crew in
vestigating the crash, said an ex
plosive might have been carried
aboard the plane in the brown
leather case.
The CAB said an explosion oc
curred in a lavatory of the plane
shortly after it passed through a
line of thunderstorms last Tues
day night.
John S. Leak, of the CAB Engi
neering Division, said the blast
was a high velocity explosion in a
concentrated confined space, rather
than a gaseous explosion.
He said since no copper wire or
other evidence of a bomb timing
device was found in the wreckage,
a person must have set off the
blast. Z""W
Authorities have not said, so far,
that a bomb caused the disaster.
They say only that it was caused
by an explosive force inside the
plane.
The Chicago American said the
initials on the briefcase are the
same as those of a passenger who
bought a $225,000 insurance policy
in Kansas City, then went to Chi
cago to meet a woman with whom
he boarded the plane. Both are
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Jennie Frasier Hospitalised
Friends of Jennie Frazier will
regret to learn that this well known
businesswoman of this community
is again hospitalized and is now
in the Providence Hospital, Room
568, Seattle. She will welcome
news from her many Nome friends.
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