GOLD DIGGERS LEAGUE
High team series: Quartet 2191,
Flyers 2157, Fakers 2153.
High team game: North Star
772, C lartet 759.
High individual series, men: D.
Deems 617, G. Beaty 507, G.
Lienard 501. Women. M. Durrett
496. M. Honsberger 496, H. Ray
427.
High individual game, men: D.
Deems 202. G. Beaty 185. G. Lie
nard 184. Women. M. Durrett 220.
M. Honsberger 188. II. Ray 170.
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North Star 33 15
Quartet 28 20
Outsiders 20 28
Polar 20 28
Fakers 16 32
No one really knows at what
time of the year Christ was born,
but Christians h a v e celebrated
December 25 as his birthday since
the 3tV\
Mandelbaum Gate Opens
For Christian Arabs
In Jordanian Sector
JERUSALEM, Jordanian Sector
i.-T' - The ancient Mandelbaum
Gate astride the no man’s land se
parating hostile Jordan and Israel,
was opened today in annual Christ
mas gesture to permit Christian
Arabs from Israel to visit loved
ones in Jordan.
Armed guards stood at each end
of the barbed-wire corridor.
The government of Jordan this
year granted 36-hour passes to
26.686 Israeli Arabs. They are
tak.ng cakes, cheeses and wines to
relatives who fled across the front
ier in the Palestine War. Many are
living in refugee camps.
Some have not seen their kin for
14 years.
The Mandelbaum Gate will
-wing shut for another year at
-unset Christmas night.
Pete Saiher celebrated his 90th
birthday this year by taking a
!r:p to his native Norway and
visiting with relatives. He has now
returned home to Seattle. He spent
us birthday in the little Norwe
t.an town m which he was born.
North Dakotans Sweep
Four Game Series
From Polar Bears
JUNEAU Iff) —The University of
North Dakota completed a sweep
of their four game basketball series
with the University of Alaska last
night by whipping the Polar Bears
76-62.
The Polar Bears made a scrap
of it for the first half only and
left the floor at the midway point
trailing by a mere 33-32.
But that was as far as the Bears
could manage. They traded shots
with the invaders for the first
few minutes of the second half and
then big 6-6 Curt Holt started
hitting long jump shots.
From that point on the North
Dakotans slowly increased their
lead until the final buzzer.
Larry Hanson of the touring
Sioux team led all scorers with 24
points. Teammate John Burckhard
was second with 19. Topping the
Polar Bears was John Springer
with 113, while Franz Sperner came
up with 13.
Decorating with red and green,
traditional at Christmas, traces
back to the early use of red-berried
green holly to “deck the halls.”
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Our JPPRECMJJON for your courtesies this past year
Our heartiest "IMERRy CJUUSJtMJlS" for you and your family.
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Martha Craft
Mabel Walsh
Gordon Osborne
Linda Harding
Jane Couch
Oscar Calvillo
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Don Hoover
Juanita Huffer
Skyboll Sroros
First Successful
Test Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. iT> — !
Streaking more than seven miles
high, a B-52 bomber launehed the
controversial Skvbolt missile Sat
urday on its first successful test
flight in six launchings.
Although the Skvbolt program
was handed a death sentence last
week in the Anglo-American Ba- j
hamas conference, the Air Force j
has several test missiles remaining ;
and intends to fire them in case !
the project is revived at a future
date.
The missile was dropped from
beneath the right wing of the
huge R-52 Stratofortress seconds j
after it swept over Cape Canaveral
and darted over the Atlantic
Ocean.
The 39-foot, 5'ti-ton rocket
plumeted some 500 feet before the
first stage fired as planned. The
sleek projectile shot forward in
an upward swooping curve far in
front of the plane, leaving a trail
of fluffy white smoke in its wake.
After a brief coasting period,
the second stage flashed to life
and the Skvbolt climbed about 300
miles before diving into a broad
ocean area about 900 miles down
range. No attempt was made to
guide it to a precise target.
The Air Force reported success
of the test and said it was the first
time a ballistic missile ever was
launched successfully from an air
craft and flew its full mission
under its own power and guidance.
The announcement said the
rocket was fired at an altitude of
40.000 feet and landed in the pre
selected target area hundreds of
miles down range.
An official hailed the success as
evidence that the highly complex
missile can work despite what
some critics have said about its
capability.
However, the missile was far
from the finished product and much
work would be needed to make it
a reliable weapons system.
The Air Force and Douglas Co.,
Skvbolt prime contractor, had
hoped to fire the missile during the
Bahamas talks last week between
President Kennedy and British
Prime Minister MacMillan because
they were confident a success
might have some bearing on the
discussions. But political decisions
apparently forced a delay until after
completion of the meetings.
Pentagon Says No
More Tests Scheduled
WASHINGTON W — Acting
Secretary of Defense Resell C.il
patrick said Saturday that the
success of the Skybolt missile test
off Cane Canaveral has not caused
any change in the decision of the
Pentagon against continuing the
program.
He also strongly indicated in a
statement that any further testing
of the controversy-involved Sky
bolt is out. He said that “many
additional tests had been planned’’
for the weapon but indicated these
were now ended.”
The statement said:
“The Skybolt flight test that
took place Saturday morning, the
only successful test out of six con
ducted to date, had been scheduled
for sometime prior to the under
standings reached at Nassau by
President Kennedy and Prime
Minister MacMillan.
“Saturday’s single test did not
conclusively demonstrate the ca
pacity of the missile to achieve
the target accuracy for which the
Skylxilt system was designed. This
flight test was one of an extensive
series planned for the research
phase of the project.”
Fred Johannsen, nephew of Chris
Niebuhr, who visited here last sum
mer was so enthusiastic about
Alaska that he has been speaker
at over ,10 different organizations
since returning to home at Sioux
City, Iowa.
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DOREEN
LAURA
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