RUSSIAN RETURNS HOME
AFTER DEFECTING
THE HAGUE, Netherlands —
A Russian bio-chemist who defected
in Holland six months ago left
Tuesday for the Soviet Union.
A spokesman of the Dutch
Foreign Office said the Dutch au
thorities had ascertained that
Alexei Golub left of his own free
will.
His defection last fall caused an
airport fight between Dutch and!
Russian officials and led to the ex
plusion of the Soviet Ambassador.
Golub left a laboratory job at
Delft without notice and turned up
Monday in the Soviet Embassy
here.
The 35-year-old scientist asked
for asylum last October while visit
ing the Netherlands with a group
of Soviet tourists. His wife chose
to return to the Soviet Union after
a dramatic meeting with her hus
band at the Amsterdam Airport.
DISAPPEARED IN THE FLOOD
DARWIN, Australia W — Bill
Waudby’s rain guage became fam
ous during the year-long drought
in central Australia.
Twice he advertised it for sale—
as “never used,” later as a
“dust gauge.”
Then the rains came, and deluged
his Central Mount Wedge cattle
ranch.
The administrator of the northern
territory, Roger Nott, sent a tele
gram to Waudby, congratulating
Mm on the 10-inch fall of rain, and
saying there was no need now for
him to sell the gauge.
Waudby replied that the gauge
had “one last despairing gurgle
and disappeared in the flood.”
A cemetery in New Orleans rents
tombs by the year. If at the end of
that time the family doesn’t ante
up another payment, the bones of
the departed are moved to another
location.
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PRICE OF FOOD PUSHES
LIVING COSTS UP
WASHINGTON UP) — Highe
prices for foods pushed living cost
up three-tenths of one per cent ii
February to a new record.
It was the first increase in th(
government’s living costs index ir
six months and the largest increase
since last July.
In announcing it Tuesday, Roberl
Myers, Deputy Commissioner ol
Labor Statistics, said however tha1
the increase did not appear to sig
nify a new price uptrend. He fore
cast continued stability but said
March living costs probably also
will show some increases.
The February increase put the
Consumers Price Index at 104.8
per cent of the 1957-59 base period.
This was nine-tenths of one per
cent higher than a year earlier.
Food prices rose during the
month by six-tenths of one per
cent, and were the most important
cause for the over-all increase. Food
prices had been expected to go
down instead of up, but Myers
said they were influenced by winter
storms in southern states, particu
larly in Florida and Texas.
Unscheduled Landing
SPOKANE, Wn. UP) — A jet air
liner carrying Mrs. Indira Gandhi,
daughter of India’s Prime Minister
Nehru, was forced to make an un
scheduled landing here Monday
night.
Northwest Airlines said the Boe
ing 720, carrying Mrs. Gandhi
Erom Washington, D.C., to Seattle,
showed unusually high oil con
sumption, and the pilot decided to
land.
State Department personnel ac
companying Mrs. Gandhi resumed
their flight within an hour, but Mrs.
Gandhi remained in Spokane over
night.
rOOTH IN ORBIT . . .
NORFOLK, Va. Oft — Ronald
Hackney, 12, has hit upon a space
age way of pulling baby teeth.
He tied one end of a string to
a toy plastic rocket, the other end
to the useless tooth, pumped the
water-filled booster engine about
20 times to build compression,
pulled the trigger, and the tooth
was in orbit.
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March 31 April 7
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Six Attractions
f Await Bonus Book
1 Buyers at C21
| SEATTLE UP — The World’s
| Fair announced Tuesday the first
six attractions available to bonus
book buyers and reported tickets
are ready for distribution in ex
change for the books.
There was a furor recently when
it was reported a magic show and
a wax museum would be the only
performing arts events covered by
the bonus books.
The program announced Tuesday
is much expanded.
Harold Shaw, performing arts di
rector, said shows on which the
bonus book ticket discounts apply
will be announced a month in ad
vance throughout the fair. These
discounts are $1 for adults and 50
cents for children.
The first six attractions are t^e
Ceylon National Dancers, the Royal
Dramatic Theater of Sweden, Dun
ninger the Mentalist, Count Basie
and his orchestra, the San Fran
cisco Ballet and the Rod Sterling
R a y Bradbury Science - Fiction
Panel.
In addition, the following shows
will be open to bonus book buyers
without additional charge: The
Littlest Circus, the Kajar Magic
Show, the Paris Spectacular, the
1,000-Voice Puget Sound Choir and
the Danish Gymnastic Exhibition.
Officials said a mistake was made
on about 30,000 bonus book tickets
and one ticket reads “Paris Spec
tacular,” The Wax Museum. They
said that ticket need not be used
for the museum; it is applicable for
any show available to bonus book
buyers.
Exchanges of bonus book cou
pons for ticket books may be made
at the Logan Bldg, at Fifth Ave.
and Union St., the ticket booth in
front of the Fair’s Headquarter’s
Bldg, at 312 1st Ave. N., and at
Seattle firms from which employes
purchased the coupons.
When persons holding redemption
coupons have received the book
bonus tickets, they may order
specific arts tickets on the discount
plan at the Sherman, Clay & Co.
box office at 1624 4th Ave., or by
mail addressed to Performing Arts,
Box 900-QA, Seattle fr.
Persons outside Seattle who hold
redemption coupons can wait until
they come to the Fair and ex
change them at the gate for bonus
boefcs.
How out-of-town bonus book
buyers can order discount plan
tickets to specific Performing Arts
events hasn’t been decided, an of
ficial said.
Maritime Strike Stitt On
SAN FRANCISCO (*> — Federal
mediation efforts to end the West i
Coast maritime strike collapsed
Tuesday in the face of “very firm
and adamant positions” of both
sides.
Robert Moore, Deputy Director
of the Federal Conciliation and
Mediation Service, announced he
was returning td Washington “in
view Of the futility of further meet
ings.”
The Alaska Steamship Co. is not
involved in the strike.
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COVENANT CHURCH
SCHEDULES CHARTER
FLIGHT TO UNALAKLEET
A charter flight of 40 member;
of the Covenant Church leaves here
next week for a conference being
held in Unalakleet from the 5th
of April to the 9th.
Unalakleet was selected for the
annual conference as it is the 75th
anniversary of the first arrival of
Covenant missionaries there.
In addition to the Nome charter
there will be one from Anchoraage,
Scammon Bay and Wales, it is re
ported. About 175 people are ex
pected to be at the meetings from
White Mountain, Elim, Golovin,
Koyuk, Shaktoolik, Mt. Village,
Hooper Bay, and Nunivak Island.
Special speaker for the confer
ence is the Rev. Robert Honette,
secretary of the Evangelical Church
of America. He will speak at four
services at Unalakleet, according to
Rev. N. B. Londberg, and comes
from Chicago headquarters of the
77-year-old denomination which
administers to 60,000 members.
SENATE'GOPS LOSE OUT
ON EDUCATION BILL
JUNEAU UP) — Senate Republi
cans made another unsuccessful at
tempt today to pull a controversial
education bill out of the Judiciary
Committee.
The measure would set up the
Board of Education as the fiscal
and administrative head of the
State Department of Education.
Sen. Vance Phillips moved that
the bill be taken from Judiciary
and placed on tomorrow’s Senate
calendar.
Sen. B. J. Logan, (D-Cordova),
joined Republicans Vance Phillips,
Brad Phillips, Elton Engstrom, Paul
Greimann Sr., Howard Pollock and
Jack Weise in voting to take the
bill from Judiciary.
Voting against the motion were
Democrats Howard Bradshaw, Les
ter Bronson, Eben Hopson, George
McNabb, R. J, McNealy, John Me
Nees, Irwin Metcalf, A1 Owen, W
O. Smith, Pearse Walsh and Frani
Peratrovich.
Sens. James Nolan, <D-Wran
gell), and John Coghill, <R-Ne
nana), were abiteSt.
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Separate Shirt Collar Goes
NEW YORK UP! — It might have
been expected, what with the de
, dine of the msutache and the watch
' chain, that the separate shirt collar
also would go.
“For all practical purposes the
separate collar is no longer a part
of the American scene,” said
Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. yester
day in announcing it was dropping
the line after 60 years.
Cluett-Peabody & Co., another
large manufacturer, declined com
' ment on its competitor’s announce
ment.
Phillips-Van Heusen says the
separate collar has, in recent years,
been almost wholly supplanted by
the collar-attached shirt. In 1924
it sold 24 million a year, in 1961
just 18,000.
Would Assume Secondary Liability
Payment of Obligation Bonds
JUNEAU UP! — The Senate gave
its approval Tuesday to a proposed
constitutional amendment which
would permit the state to assume
second liability for payment of gen
eral obligation bonds issued by
political subdivisions for the con
struction of public schools, without
ratification of the voters.
As a constitutional amendment,
the measure, SJR43, now must pass
the House by a two-thirds vote asd
then be ratified by a majority vote
of the people. The Senate vote was
14-6.
There is a bit of truth in the old
saying, “An apple a day keeps the
doctor away.” Apples are the only
common fruit which protects the
alimentary canal against attacks ef
both constipation and diarrhea.
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MONDAY and FRIDAY
Flight 309/310
Lv. Fairbanks 8:00 mh> Ar. Kotzebue 8:50 aun.
Lv. Kotzebue 9:30 iJA. Ar. Ndm* 10:20 aun.
Lr. Noma 3:50 pan. Ar. Fairbanks 8:25 pun.
WEDNESDAY
Flight 309/310
Lv. Fairbanks 8:00 aun. Ar. Koiaabue 9:20 aun.
Lt. Kotzebue 10:00 aun. Ar. Noma 11:00 aun.
La. Noma 3:50 pun. Ar. Fairbanks 7:35 pun.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY
and SATURDAY
Flight 311/312
Lr. Fairbanks 8:00 ajn. Ar. Nome 9:05 aon.
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Lv. Nome 10:00 ajn. Ar. Kotzebue 10:50
Lv. Kotzebue 11:20 ami. Ar. Fairbanks 2:80 pjm.
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