CHARLIE STARTS LIFE
AT BOARDING SCHOOL
GORDONSTOWN, Scotland —
Prince Charles, 13-year-old heir to
the British throne, yesterday start
ed life at a Spartan boarding school
known for its bleak dormitories,
cold showers and commando-like
training.
For a moment at the entrance,
Charles seemed to hang back. But
his father, Prince Philip, the
school’s most famous product, put
an arm around his shoulders and
told him:
“Now don’t walk behind us
Charles, come on.”
Philip flew with his son from
London to the nearby naval air
base at Lossiemouth then drove
with him the few miles to Gor- j
donstown School.
Gordonstown principal, F. H. G.
Chew, was at the gate to welcome
the new boy.
He shook hands with Philip who
interoduced his son simply as
“Charles.”
University of Alaska Coeds
Take National Rifle Title
WASHINGTON UB — The
women’s rifle team from the Uni- ;
versity of Alaska has won the
coed’s national rifle title for the
second successive year, the Na
tional Rifle Assn, announced yes
terday.
The Alaska girls scored 1,108.
Oregon State University won the
men’s championship with a score
of 1,170 out of a possible 1,200.
BELLE AND PACKY WILL
STAY AT PORTLAND ZOO
PORTLAND m — The Portland
Zoo will get not only Belle and her
calf, Packy, but the entire ele
phant herd of Morgan Berry of
Seattle — all for $30,000.
Commissioner Ormoftd Bean said
Berry, who is quitting the animal
business, said he will add Thong
claw and Pet, his two other ele
phants, to the deal.
Berry wintered the animals at
the local zoo, where Packy was
bom early in April.
Berry, who stopped briefly en
route to California, said he is will
ing to wait awhile for the money.
Anyway, he said, "money isn’t
everything. Selling Belle is like
selling one of the family. I want to
know she and her baby are in good
hands.”
The official total checked through
the city treasurer’s office at 5 p.m.
Monday was $18,087.68. That did
not include heavy donations from
weekend crowds that flocked to
the zoo to watch the elephants.
Much of this money was in nickels,
dimes and dollar bills, and Zoo
Superintendent Jack Marks and
three aides were all day counting
and packaging it.
Several groups have embarked
on long-range projects to raise
funds, and Bean said that in de
ference to them, the drive will be
continued until June 1, regardless
of whether the goal is reached be
fore then.
Urge Banning of
Foreign Vessels
To Serve Alaska
WASHINGTON (X — Allowing
a foreign-built vessel to enter the
Alaska trade would break a long
standing rule under which the
maritime industry has operated, a
Senate Merchant Marine Subcom
mittee was told yesterday.
Rep. Thomas Pelly, (R-Wn.), en
dorsed the idea as an important
step in solving Alaska’s transporta
tion problems. Maritime spokesmen
contended it would be a threat to
the entire industry.
The views were expressed as the
committee closed two days of hear
ings on a bill by Sen. E. L. Bart
lett to allow a Japanese-built rail
road car-carrying ship to be regis
tered under the United States flag.
Merchant Marine laws limits
participation in the coastal and in
ter-coastal trade to U.S. flagships
built in domestic yards.
Alaska Steamship Co. proposes
to buy the “City of New Orleans,”
now under Liberian registry, to
link railroad terminals of Seattle
and Alaska.
John Thurman, vice president of
tse Pacific Steamship Assn., told
the committee there is “much more
at stake than the commercial con
venience of one company.”
“If there are to be changes in
the basic provisions for the re
quirement for American construc
tion of vessels engaged in the
coast-wise trade, it should be done
Nixon It For Nuclear Tests
LOS ANGELES UP) — Richard
Nixon, former Vice President, said
yesterday most Americans would
prefer not to have such atomic
tests as those the United States is
conducting in the Pacific, but:
“I completely support the Pres
ident of the United States in
making these tests. We have to
keep our military superiority or
the peace will be fractured.”
The greatest labor-saving device
of today is tomorrow.
in conjunction with an entire study
of the matter,” said Thurman,
adding:
“Piecemeal proposals (such as the
Bartlett bill) are tantamount to a
complete re-writing of the basic
law without giving such law a full
appraisal.”
Marvin J. Coles, speaking for
the Committee of American Tank
er owners, said this kind of ex
ception would threaten the future
of tanker owners as well as do
mestic and dry cargo ships.
“The principal results of this
legislation,” Coles said, “would ap
parently be to give Alaska Steam
ship Co. a windfall by permitting
it to purchase a ship at a fraction
of its American cost”
Pelly said the New Orleans,
capable of carrying 56 railroad
cars, would provide a means to
compete with a Canadian Railway
plan to haul cargo from the United
States across Canada and by rail
barge from Prince Rupert, B.C., to
Alaska.
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He Could Orbit
With No Strain
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. — The U.S. Space Agency
Tuesday revised downward the
record altitude reached Monday by
an X-15 rocket plane — from 255,
000 feet to “about 246,700 feet, or
46.7 milles.”
It was still a record for winged
aircraft. The X-15’s previous rec
ord was 217,000 feet.
Judging from the stresses he
withstood in his 3,443 mph dash
to the edge of space, Walker said
he could “take orbit with no strain
at all.”
He doesn’t think either he or the
X-15 will ever go into orbit. The
X-15 isn’t built for it, and Walker,
41, is going to be tied up for the
next two years seeing just how
high the rocket plane can go and
get back safely.
“There is no question,” Walker
said at a news conference after
his flight, “that we can put a wing
ed vehicle in orbit and land it as
1 did.”
The concept of using a winged
controllable craft instead of a para
chuting capsule to return from
space, Walker said, has been
proved practical. “All we have to
do is build the plane.”
Just such a plane, the missile
boosted Dynasoar Space Glider, is
under construction. The lessons
Walker and other X-15 pilots learn
will be cranked into Dvnasoar’s
design.
Before the year is out the X-15
will fly higher and higher, per
haps to 400,000 feet — 75 miles.
Altitude is no problem to the
X-15. Enginers said it probably
has enough power to reach an
orbital altitude of 100 miles. The f~
tough part is coming down in one
piece.
Walker withstood forces four
times normal gravity — four G’s
the pilots call it — in his steep
climb and five wKgn he pulled
out of the dive back into the at
mosphere.
Educators fret because more
than 20 per cent of junior and
senior high school students now
smoke cigarettes.
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
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Pete Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
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No. 140
Carl Mickelson, W. M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
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Herb Jenks
President
Marc Beauchamp
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