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SAY, MISTER!
Castro's Cuba Depicted
As Secret Hotbed of
Missile Installations ,
MIAMI, Fla. UP — Premier Fidel
Castro’s Cuba was depicted as a j
secret hotbed of Soviet-bloc troops j
and missile installations in a joint
report by four major Cuban un
derground groups.
The 20-page statement, released
in Miami on Friday, said that more
than 10,000 foreign troops have
landed: large missile bases will be
completed in 60 days; and Cuba
thereafter will join the Warsaw
Pact, the Communist counterpart
of the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization.
Signing the report were leaders
of the People's Revolutionary
Movement, National R ecoverv
Movement, Christian Democratic
Movement and Revolutionary
Unity.
The exile leaders said that when
troop landings in Cuba are com- j
pleted, the island nation 90 miles
from Florida will be garrisoned
in the west by Chinese, in the j
central portion by Russians, Hun
garians and Czechs, and on the
Isle of Pines by Africans.
They said missile bases under |
contstruction in Cuba will have
a striking range up to 400 miles. |
Dunking Party . . .
HOLLYWOOD UP — Actor Peter |
Lawford, brother-in-law of the j
President, w a s dunked fully-!
clothed Friday night in a swimming
pool.
Lawford said he merely fell in.:
Other bystanders insisted he was j
playfully pushed by his wife, Pat, j
sister of the President.
Occasion was a movieland party
given by Texas playboy Bob Neal
in honor of the Lawfords. Last
June, the Lawfords were guests
of honor at a Washington party at
the home of Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy.
At that party, three people re
portedly got dunked — Mrs. Ken
nedy, White House aid Arthur
Schlesinger Jr., and Mrs. Spencer
Davis, a close friend of the hostess.
fustifiable Homicide
DALLAS, Ga. — A 21-year
)ld Negro woman was free Satur
lay after a coroner's jury ruled
hat the slaying of a 25-year-old
.vhite man during an armed night
rider invasion of a Negro home
was justifiable homicide.
The ruling Friday night in the
death of Leroy Parks of Dallas
freed Mrs. Rebecca Wilson, who
had been held on an open charge
since the slaying.
Six other white men, arrested
in connection with the raid and
slaying, were free on $3,500 bonds.
Parks was shot to death Wed
nesday night as he stood on the
oorch of Mrs. Kate Philpot's house
rbout two miles from Dallas, offi
cers said. Mrs. Wilson, youngest
if Mrs. Philpot’s 11 children fired
i pistol into the darkness when
ane of the group of masked men
:hmst a pistol through a crack
n the door, said Sheriff Jerome
May. He added Mrs. Wilson had
men held for her own protection.
Plans Made to
Harvest Sea Otter Pelts
David Green. Anchorage furrier,
is the state’s first $l-a-year man.
aov. Wm. Egan appointed him to
assist and advise the Alaska De
partment of Fish and Game in
harvesting and marketing sea otter
pelts from the Aleutian Islands.
Sea otters, once believed nearly
extinct, have been protected since
1911. Fleshing and drying of hides
will be done at the University of
Alaska Experimental Fur Farm at
Petersburg. New Method Fur
Dressers in San Francisco will do
the tanning. Green said auctions
in New York and Seattle may
bring the state $200 to $500 a skin.
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Design to S$e Made j
| Of Proposed
Rampart Dam
Designing a concrete gravity dam
! for the proposed Rampart Canyon i
j hydroelectric development of the
Yukon River in Alaska will start
this fall.
It will be a preliminary design
accomplished by engineers of the
Alaska district and the North Pa
cific Division of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
The design will be submitted
with a project feasibility report to
Congress for consideration in 1964
or 1965. It will be the basis for
detailed estimates of construction
costs. Early estimates have estab
lished the maximum cost at $1,300,
000,000, which may be reduced by
several million dollars based on
the refined data developed by the
design.
Tiie preliminary design work
will be completed next year. At
that time, all of the numerous
studies of the project will be com
pleted. Most important of these are
the engineering and market studies.
The Alaska district has made the
engineering study starting in 1959.
A private consulting firm, Re
seources and Development Corp. of
New York City, has completed an
evaluation of the market for Ram
part's 5,000,000 kilowatts. The study
was carried out on a world-wide
scale and it designated the pri
mary market for use by industrial
processors of basic metals, such as
steel and aluminum. A study of
the project’s conservation aspects
is being made by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service in coopera
tion with the Alaska Department
of Fish and Game. General engi
neering and economic studies are
being made bv the Army Engi
neers into such important aspects
of the project as navigation, flood
control, water supply, recreational
uses and others.
District officials say that the pre
liminary design is not for con
struction purposes, although it v/ill
serve as a basis for the detailed
designs needed for construction. It
will be adequate for determining
quantities of supplies and equip
ment that will be needed for con
struction — cement, reinforcing
steel, generating equipment and a
fantastic array of other things.
Early estimates indicate that 8,
000,000 to 10,000,000 barrels of
cement will be required to con
struct a dam described as slightly
smaller than the Grand Coulee
Dam, the largest on the continent.
In case you are interested in
how big a pile of 10,000,000 barrels
of cement would make—it would
fill a bin 52 stories high with a
ground size of a regulation football
field.
Polio Epidemic in Pasadena
PASADENA, Calif. (#> — Medical
authorities battling a polio epi
demic in Pasadena gave oral vac
cine to thousands of residents of a
65-block area Sunday.
Six cases of paralytic polio have
been reported here in four weeks
—the first cases in Pasadena since
1959.
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Japanese Imports from
Alaska Show an Increase i
In support of a congressional j
appropriation of $56,000 to operate j
a Commerce Department field of- j
fice in Anchorage, Sen. E. I.,. Bart- |
left said recently Japan's imports
from Alaska rose from $2.8 million
in 195!) to some $15 million in 1960.
Japan's exports to the state rest
from $200,000 in 1959 to $1.3 mil
lion in 1960. He said the bulk of
Alaskan exports to Japan have!
been timber, pulp and coal.
U.S. Customs Service reported
foreign trade exports and imports
through Alaskan ports showed an
increase in the first five months
of 1962 over the comparable period
the year before. Exports January
through May totaled $10,800,000,
which was 19 per cent over the
1961 figure of $9,100,000. Imports
were up 146 per cent, being valued
this year at $3,200,000.
RUSSIANS SEIZE
FIVE JAPANESE BOATS
TOKYO 0P> — Japan's Maritime
Safety Board said Saturday that
26 Japanese fishermen and their
five boats were believed captured
by Soviet authorities near Russian
claimed territorial waters off Hok
kaido.
The board said the nine-ton Ya
sakae Maru with five crewmen
aboard was believed seized Thurs
day off Soviet-held Iturp Island,
off the eastern tip of Hokkaido,
Japan’s northernmost main island.
Four other missing boats were
believed seized by the Russians on
Friday.
No Need for Call-Up
OSLO, Norway OP) — Secretary
General Dirk Stikker of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization said
today there is nothing in the pre
sent world to cause President Ken
nedy to call up 150,000 reserves
immediately.
WITHOUT INCIDENT . . .
BERLIN 0P> — Soviet guards let
U.S. troop convoys through to West
Germany from Berlin today with
out incident, an American Army
spokesman said.
There were 391 officers and men,
moving over the Communist con
trolled highway in 62 vehicles on
their way from West Berlin to
West Germany for training.
Train Kills Four Women
FINALE LIGURE, Italy UP> —
Four women where struck and
killed by a passenger train Sunday
night as they chatted on the tracks
outside the Riviera community.
Police said the woman walked
under a bar lowered at the track
crossing. They were so involved in
their talk they didn’t notice the
train until too late, the officers
said.
Saturday Evening Post Moves
NEW YORK UP — The Saturday
Evening Post’s editorial staff is
scheduled to start work at 666
Fifth Ave. today, marking official
completion of the magazine’s move
from Philadelphia.
In all, 66 editors and 54 other
employes made the move from the
city where the magazine had pub
lished since 1728.
A dab of cologne or perfume on
an electric light bulb will sweeten
the air of the room when you turn
on the light.
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New York 85
Minnesota 82
Los Angeles 79
Detroit 72
Chicago 73
Baltimore 70
Cleveland 69
Boston 66
Kansas City 63
Washington 56
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Crime has the strongest union in
the world. But its members pay no
dues, attend few meetings, carry
no cards—and are automatically
retired if they are caught working.
High School Drop
Oiils l>r!iin<f On
Lifetime Earnings
It costs the average teenager
$43.3(54 for failure to complete high
school, according to Commerce
Clearing House, in a study of life
time earnings taken from US.
Dept, of Labor Statistics.
The loss amounts to 2- per cent
of \ehat the teenager could earn in
his lifetime if he continued to
graduation, the CCH report said.
The official figures show that,
high school graduates earn $257.5.17
during their working lives. But
those who quit high school before
they graduate earn only $211,193
in the same period.
In the basis of annual income,
the high school graduate can look
forward to earning an average
$5,567 a year. The high school drop
out's average is only $4,618, CCH
said.
Statistics for 1959-60 also reveal
a wide gap of more than 3 to 1
between graduates and drop-outs
who lose their jobs. Sixteen of
every 100 who leave high school
before graduation remain unem
ployed for periods of six months
or longer, compared with five such
unemployment experiences among
high school graduates.
The national unemployment rate
as of October, 1961, among high
school graduates was 16 per cent;
among high school drop-outs, 30
per cent.
Official estimates are for 26
million young people to enter the
nation’s labor force in the ’60s,
some 7 million more than in the
prior decade. In 1970, the fore
cast is for 20 million workers under
age 25, up 46 per cent over I960.
Of these, IV2 million will not
have completed high school. If the
current drop-out trend continues,
government figures indicate that of
the 2.4 million children children
entering the first grade this fall,
at least 800,000 will be drop-outs
before their class graduates in 1975,
the CCH report said.
33.4 PCT. INCREASE
The U.S. Office of Education re
leased figures predicting that by
1965 Alaska will have 73,000
school-age children between 5 and
17, as contrasted with the 1960
population of 54.703, or a 33.4 per
cent increase.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fho .? —
Emerson Rupert, Republican op
ponent of Sen. George Smathers
in the November genen 1 election,
sent a telegram to President Ken
nedy on Friday saying Florida was
in danger from more than 200
Russian missiles on Cuban soil.
Rupert said in the telegram that
ho had talked with many Cuban
refugees in the Miami area who
told him that the missiles are
ready for launching in under
ground silos on military bases in
Cuba.
Rupert called for President Ken
nedy to “enforce and maintain an
immediate arms blockade around
Communist Cuba to “quarantine”
the enemies which physically and
economically threaten the safety
of Florida.
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