Condition Described as Good
BOSTON UR — The 71-year-old
mother of President Kennedy was
reported progressing satisfactorily
today in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
after yesterday’s operation to re
lieve a hernia.
Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy’s con
dition was described as very
good.
HOUSEBROKEN . . .
SUDBURY, Mass. UR — The
Charles Munde family keeps a
horse in the house while Mrs.
Munde hopes for an early spring
so the horse can be put outdoors.
How come?
Seems the animal, now 100
pounds and about the same size
as the family’s great dane, is the
offspring of a Shetland pony and
a saddle mare who’d rather for
get it.
In any case the mare had no
time for 5-weeks-old Sonny Boy
so the Mundes, who own six
horses, took pity and bottle-fed
him.
Yup, he’s housebroken.
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Castro Admits
To Drastic
Food Rationing
HAVANA UP) — Prime Minister
Fidel Castro, admitting his 3
year-old revolution faces serious
problems, announced drastic ra
tioning of food and other staples
Monday night and declared: “We
are ashamed of not fulfilling the
promises made.”
Castro blamed the current hard
ships on counter-revolutionary
elements and “the brutal economic
blockade” — the U.S. embargo
President Kennedy ordered last
month on shipments to Cuba of
nearly all American goods except
medical supplies.
The bearded Prime Minister
also admitted his regime had made
a serious blunder in planning “be
cause we had made subjective
analyses.’
“The most serious problem of
the revolution is that of supplies,”
be told the Cuban people in a
radio - television speech. “This
problem will put to the test the
capacity of the revolution and the
revolutionaries. There are thorns
n the path.”
Castro was unsmiling and his
:one was often bitter as he re
neged on his promise last July
that food rationing in Cuba would
and toward the middle of the
pear.
He said nation-wide rationing
of rice and all types of beans —
basic items in the Cuban diet —
and of lard and cooking oils will
begin next Monday.
Every Cuban will be limited to
six pounds of rice and IVz pounds
of each type of beans a month, he
said, lard and cooking oils had al
ready been rationed in most of
Cuba.
Castro said soap, toothpaste and
detergents will go on the ration
list in the major cities. The limit
will be one bar of toilet soap and
one box of detergent a month
! SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
At the School Board meeting
! Tuesday evening the resignation
of Mrs. Helen Dunbar was ac
cepted with regret. The resigna
tion is effective as the end of
this school year.
The board voted $350 perform
t ance bond for two surplus build
ings offered for sale by the Army
Engineers, the old ANG Armory
and the firing range. The build
ings are 20x60 and 20x120 and
if acquired will be used by the
school for storage.
Supt. Potter discussed with the
board the call for bids for the
| construction of the addition to
the Gillis Addition, which ap
pears elsewhere in this issue.
The board authorized transpor
tation and per diem for one mem
ber of the school board to at
tend the State Teachers Conven
tion in Fairbanks next week.
Would Help Cuban Refugees
WASHINGTON W — A bill
which would permit use of $10
million in foreign aid funds to
help Cuban refugees was passed
by the House yesterday by voice
vote and sent to the Senate. In
the past, financial aid for the
refugees has been provided by
the President’s emergency fund.
The three items nave long been
scarce.
The stiffest measures will affect
Havana’s more than one million
residents. Beef will be limited to
three-quarters of a pound per per
son a week. Vegetables, eggs, milk,
fish and chicken also will be ra
tioned, but milk cutbacks will be
delayed a week “because the milk
is a little more complicated.”
Havana radio said children 7
and under will be allowed a daily
allotment of one liter of milk, or
slightly more than a quart. Others
will be allowed one liter dailj
per 5 persons or six cans (siz<
unspecified) of evaporated or con
densed milk a month, presumabl;
per 5 persons.
THIRD IN SERIFS OF
BERNSTEIN CONCERTS
TO BE SHOWN THURSDAY
Tomorrow night at 8:00 will be
the last chance to enjoy the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra
performing. This will be the third
and last of a series of three con
certs presented by the Ford Motor
Co. This final concert was filmed
in West Berlin on Thanksgiving
Day, I960 at the Berlin Culture
Festival.
The theme for this concert is
Beethoven’s C Major Piano Con
certo conducted by Leonard Bern
stein. It is regarded as the most
powerful presenation of the
series. The muscial score is so
perfect that it gives the feeling
of witnessing the screen literally
“come to life” in the passages
of piano and orchestra in typical
Beethoven musical surges of
sweeping themes.
“The Universality of Music”
is the theme of Mr. Bernstein’s
comments during the presenta
tion. The audience participating
in the filming of the concert was
composed of music students from
40 West Berlin schools attending
the Berlin Culture Festival.
As before, the film will start at
8 o’clock, Thursday, in the multi
purpose room. With the exception
of band and chorus students who
have been invited, this showing
will be for adults only.
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| LAST WEEK WAS 43.7 PCT.
j JUNEAU ur> — State Labor
j Commissioner Gil Johnson said
Tuesday Alaska’s insured unem
ployment rate during the week
ending March 3 was 20.2 per cent.
The rate during the previous
week was 17.3 per cent. The rate
during the same week a year ago
was 22.1 per cent.
Johnson said new unemploy
ment totaled 606, while continuing
unemployment amounted to 6,773.
The insured unemployment rate
by area included Anchorage, 19.1
per cent; Fairbanks, 21.7; Juneau
18.2; Ketchikan, 18.6; Nome, 43.7;
Petersburg, 42.7; and Sitka 12.2.
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