Corrects Drinking Problem . » .
PORTLAND, Ore. W — George
O’Sullivan Young, 42, Portland,
told a Circuit Court judge Wed
nesday he has a drinking problem
—but only on weekends.
The judge, Alfred Sulmonetti
sentenced Young to a year of
weekends in the Multnomah
County jail.
Young appeared before Sul
monetti on appeal from a Muni
cipal Court sentence of a year in
jail and a $1,000 fine for drunk
driving.
WAY TO STAY YOUNG . . .
LONDON lift — Big Ben Olu
vole, paramount chieftan of Ni
geria’s Shagamu Ijeb Remo tribe,
said today the way to stay young
is to have children.
At the age of 77, he looks 45.
And says he has 75 children. He
was interviewed while here on a
visit.
“Having all those children,” he
said, “is what keeps me young.
Mind you. I expect to have some
more.”
He declined to say how many
wives he has, or has had.
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(SAN DIEGO ZOO WANTS
OUR WALRUS PUPS FROM
— r a W^JENC' ISLAND
SAN DIEGO, Calif. GP — The
Sand Diego Zoo said it would send
a two-man expedition to the Bering
Sea this spring to bring back four
walrus pups.
They will be flown here and
placed in the zoo’s refrigerated
walrus exhibit, now empty.
The zoo obtained three pups on
a similar expedition to St. Law
rence Island in 1960, but they all
died during the summer of 1961.
One had a heart attack, another an
intestinal disorder, and the third
| pneumonia.
The aim of this second expedi
tion, by Clyde Hall, the zoo’s cur
; ator of mammals, and Capt. Benny
| Kirkbride, head animal trainer, will
| be to obtain two pairs of pups,
! male and female.
Dr. Francis Fay, scientist at the
1 Arctic Health Research Center at
Anchorage has been asked to join
the expedition.
Zoo officials explained the pups
i actually will be caught by Eskimos.
No fixed date for departure of the
two zoo officials has been set.
They will fl” to St. Lawrence
and make their headquarters at the
village of Gambell. The trip will
be made during the period in late
May and early April when the
walruses are passing the island on
their way south from Arctic regions.
COLONEL GLENN'S "BRAKES"-"! feel like I am heading back to
Hawaii," reported It. Col. John Glenn to Mercury Control when
he felt the kick of the three retro-rockets in a candy-striped pack
age strapped to the heat shield underneath the blunt nose of his
space capsule (TOP PHOTO). His words were sweet music to
Thiokol Chemical Corporation employees who built the solid
propellant rocket motors to incredibly exacting Mercury system
specifications. BOTTOM PHOTO shows one of these bucket-size
retros, 12-inch in diameter, 15.5-inch long. The star-shaped cen
r ter in the solid propellant controls the rocket engine's perform
ance. Ignition is provided by two tiny rocket motors (pyrogenes).
Each of the three rockets fired for about 11-seconds, generating
enough total impulse to brake the capsule's orbital velocity by
about 500 feet/see., thus committing Friendship 7 to re-entry
along a ballistic path to the point of landing.
HOUSE OKFHS SABBATICAL
LEA w* TOR ’’’EACHEHS
JUNEAU — Teachers would
be permitted to take sabbatical
leaves for educational purposes
after seven years of teaching in
Alaska under terms of a bill which
passed the House 30-2 Friday.
Teachers would receive half pay
during the leaves, which would
be subject to the approval of school
boards for teachers in independent
school districts, or the Commis
sioner of Education for teachers in
state-operated schools.
Following such leaves, the teach
ers would be required to return
to Alaska for at least an additional
year’s teaching.
The measure was introduced by
Heps. Wm. Erwin and James Par
sons.
House Removes Ceiling on
Teacher's Retirement Fund
JUNEAU i# — The House gave
its OK to legislation removing the
ceiling upon which teachers may
contribute to the teachers retire
ment fund.
Under the present law, teachers j
may make such contributions only
on $7,000 of salary.
The bill also would permit the
payment of interest on monies a
teacher has in the retirement fund
after continuous membership for
only three years, instead of the
present 10.
Toi Electrocuted by Toaster
DETROIT UP> — The electric
toaster was bright and shiny.
Two-year-old Jeffery Goudeseune
climed up on a kitchen chair in
his suburban Nankin township to
see the toaster at closer range.
Jeffery saw his reflection.
Leaning over a metal border
around a formica counter, he
kissed his reflection.
Jeffery fell dead. A coroner’s
I verdict held it accidental elec
trocution.
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pleasure
whenever you
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Navy Plans
Seliool Course
For Six Porpoises
POINT MUGU, Calif. W —
Porpoises have turned out to be
so bright the Navy’s going to send
six of them to school.
They’ll start in an underwater
kindergarten — a 50-foot-diameter
pool now being built beside a
lagoon at this headquarters of the
Pacific missile range, where the
sea-going mammals will be taught
to count, fetch, tow objects under
water and, hopefully, even talk.
While they’re learning, Navy
scientists will be learning, too.
The Navy wants to know how
porpoises can swim so fast — up
to 40 miles an hour — how they
communicate with each other, and
how their prey-spotting sonar
works.
Answers to these questions
could lead to torpedoes and sub
marines now envisioned only in
science fiction. And who knows
what else scientists will learn,
once they start talking with por
posises?
Belief that porpoises can be
taught to speak arose from experi
ments with a young female named
Netty, who died a few months
ago. Netty learned to recognize
the words “ball,” “hat,” “ring”
and “stick,” and to fetch these
items on voice command.
Porpoises apparently communi
cate with each other by means
of beeps they make with the
blow-holes in the tops of their
bulging heads. While Netty was
alive, scientists began recording
their sounds and duplicating them
in an effort to converse with
Netty in her own language.
Despite her achievements, Netty
was a disappointment to Navy
scientists. She wasn’t very fast —
16 knots was her best recorded
speed — and there were rumors
she wasn’t too bright as porpoises
go.
She may have been bored and
lonely. Netty was always kept by
herself in a special tank at Ma
rineland in Los Angeles. The
Navy didn’t want her picking up
the horn-tooting, basketball-play
ing tricks of her show-business
cousins.
Netty’s successors won’t have
a chance to get lonesome, with
six of the 200-pound six-footers in
BELIEVE BEACH MONSTER
IS DECOMPOSED PORTION
OP LARGE MARINE ANIMAL
HOBART, Tasmania — Sci
entists of the Commonwealth Sci
entific and Industrial Organization
expressed belief Saturday the Tas
manian beach monster is only the
decomposed portion of a large ma
rine animal.
They say in an official report re
leased the so-called monster “is not
inconsistent with blubber” and is
neither new to science nor remark
able.
They add, however, that it is
impossible to identify the object by
investigation on the shore and
samples are being taken for labor
atory testing.
A party of five scientists return
ed from the beach on Tasmania’s
west coast after digging the mystery
object out of the sand and studying
The mass of flesh — 20 feet long
and 18 feet wide and 4M> feet thick
—has excited worldwide interest
since the first scientists who stud
ied it after its discovery early this
month said it was like no known
creature.
a pond not much bigger than a
backyard swimming pool.
The pond is almost completed.
Bulldozers have scooped out the
basin and cables have been laid
for cameras and microphones
which will record the porpoises’
speed and speech.
The only thing lacking now is
the porpoises. They haven’t been
caught yet.
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