Tornado Rips Through
Rochester, Minnesota
n 1/ TUe Associated Press
The weather showed its gentle
side today, after a tornado ripped
like a buzzaw Sunday through
Rochester. Minn.
Mild rains washed many parts
of the southeast and central por
tions of the nation, while 70-degree
weather stretched from North
Carolina in a belt nearly across
the continent to California.
The twister in Rochester reduced
' * wreckage a quarter-mile path.
100 feet wide, through the south
eastern Minnesota city.
Thirteen persons were injured
Four were still hospitalized today.
Nine homes were wrecked and the
Red Cross estimated damage at
$300,000.
Most of the residents were asleep
when the twister struck.
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U.S. Asks Courts to Forbid
Racial Discrimination In
Federal-Inipacted Schools
WASHINGTON A" - The fed
eral government asked the courts
today to forbid racial discrimina
tion in Prince Georges County,
Va , public schools attended by
children of federal employes. It
' m aned it had a direct interest be
cause morale of federal employes
was involved.
The Justice Department an
nounced the filing of the suit in
l.'.S. District Court in Richmond.
' Va.
The schools get federal aid as
an impacted area, but Attv. Gen.
Robert Kennedy emphasized in a
statement that no threat to end
aid to the schools is involved.
He said the purpose of the suit
1 was "to seek an end to unconsti
tutional school segregation in an
area where such segregation direct
ly affects the armed forces."
U.S. Detonates No. 50
WASHINGTON (T—The Atomic
Energy Commission fired a nu
clear explosion underground Fri
day at its Nevada testing area.
The test — the 50th to be an
nounced in the Nevada series and
the first since Aug. 24 — was de
scribed as a low-yield explosion,
having a blast force of less than
20.000 tons of TNT.
The odds against a player get
ting four cards of a kind in a
poker hand are 4.104 to one.
Spotlight for Schirra
PRETORIA. South Africa i.T
Cmdr. Walter Schirra .Jr., who is
scheduled to be America’s next
astronaut, may see a lij^ht from
the Durban area on the Indian
Ocean coast of South Africa on his
fifth and sixth orbits around the
earth.
A 140-million candlepower light
is to be located at Louis Botha
Airport, near Durban, and will
burn for three minutes during
Schirra’s final orbital flights.
A U.S. Air Force Globemaster
brought tiie light to Durban. It
it filled with zenon — a gas similar
to neon. When only partially in
operation the light can be seen
from a distance of 60 miles.
The purpose of the experiment
is to determine whether Schirra
can distinguish the light while
in orbit.
NOT THAT OLD . . .
TOKYO i.4» — Mrs. Shizu
Tsumura wishes government of
ficials would get her age straight.
They keep telling her she is 106.
She is only 06.
| "I have asked the people at the
| town office again and again to
j correct my age on their records
i but they refuse to listen,” she said
; after receiving a citation Saturday
| on Old Folks Day.
1 The Tokyo Census Bureau says
; Mrs. Tsumura, widow of a Su
I preme Court justice, was born Feb.
! 15. 1856. But she says her birth
date is Feb. 15. 1866.
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Atomic Plant Produces
Electricity for City in N.Y.
BUCHANAN, N. Y.'t/pi — The
Consolidated Edison Co.'s Indian
Point atomic power plant pro
duced its first electricity Sunday—
15,000 kilowatts for use by its
customers in Buchanan.
The Indian Point reactor —
fourth commercial size atomic
plant to be placed in operation in
the nation — has successfully un
dergone an extensive series of tests
since it first achieved a sustained
nuclear chain reaction last Aug.
The plant will be brought to its
full power of 275,000 kilowatts over
the next few weeks, then placed
in commercial operation to serve
New York City and Westchester
County customers.
Other commercial atomic power
plants are in Shippingport, Pa.,
Dresden, 111., and Rowe, Mass.
Eat Like 15,600 Elephants
NAIROBI, Kenya dF — Some
15,600 elephants living in 16,000
square miles of Tsavo National
Park are eating an estimated 2,600
tons of vegetation daily. But the
Royal National Parks Executive
Committee has ruled out an im
mediate campaign to thin out the
elephant population.
Col. Mervyn Cowie, parks di
rector, said the government will
ask funds from international wild
life organizations to determine
how many elephants the park can
support. “These vast elephant
herds are the world’s heritage,”
he explained.
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Dorset Tribe*
Sites Uneovered
Near Aretie Circle
EAST LANSING, Mid',. i/Pt — A
Michigan State University arche
ologist — almost by accident —
gained some significant knowledge
of pre-Eskimo people near the
Arctic Circle this summer.
After being forced to land on
an unknown inland lake when ice
blocked his original destination, Dr.
Moreau Maxwell and five com
panions came upon 19 separate
pre-historic Dorset tribe sites on
land near Jewet Island, west of
Greenland.
. Maxwell returned to the cam
pus last week from his expedi
tion into the frozen Arctic.
Digging beneath the tribe sites,
Maxwell found what had once
had been lush Arctic vegetation.
The vegetation, he said, insulated
many objects below it which were
found frozen solid and well pre
served.
Among the objects were fur,
skin, feathers, woods and parts of
clothing — the yarn for which
came from musk-ox wool, Max
well said.
He also found hunting equip
ment and household goods, and
considers himself fortunate because
many of the tools, made from
stone, still had handles. Previously
discovered tools, he said, were
found without handles, making it
difficult to deduce what they were
used for. Maxwell theorizes it may
may have been frozen cedar and
birch below the frozen vegetation
line. Today’s driftwood in the
area is mostly fir and spruce,
typical of a colder climate.
The archeologist described his
discovery as a “dramatic thing”
and added “we’re going to learn
more about pre-Dorset people than
we have from any other ever ex
cavated in the Arctic.”
Sea Dragon In Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU — The nuclear
submarine Sea Dragon, which re
cently met the submarine Skate
under the Arctic ice, returned to
Pearl Harbor Saturday to mark
the second anniversary of the Sea
Dragon’s first Arctic exploration in
August and September 1960.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pete Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Carl Mlckelson, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Roy Snyder
Pseaident
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of IVery
Month at School
Dorothy Grant, President
Harriet Amundsen, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo Na. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Ralph DeLong, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Meetings - Each Thursday 7:06 pja