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WE ALREADY HAVE A SPACE PLATFORM
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Cuban Teen-Agers Forced
To Watch Executions
MIAMI. Fla. Iff* — A newly ar
rived Cuban refugee youth says
teen-agers are forced to witness
executions of anti-Castroites in his
homeland.
He said Wednesday that young
Communists relish the spectacle
but the others like himself found
it repugnant.
“Before the firing squads go to
work, some young people taunt the
victims with statements like ‘take
a last look at the caskets in which
they are going to put you’,” said
Luis Torres Perez, 17, who es
caped his homeland by small boat.
Torres said that in Santa Clara,
where he lived, "this macabre
spectacle is set up two or three
times a week."’
INDIA PLACES ORDER
WITH KETCHIKAN PULP CO.
JUNEAU Iff! — India has placed
another order for pulp from the
Ketchikan Pulp Co. through the
U.S. Agency of International De
velopment, Sen. Ernest Gruening
said Thursday.
The new order involves $177,684,
Gruening said in a wire to the
Associated Press from Washington.
In June, India placed a $75,058
order with Ketchikan Pulp.
Both orders were financed un
der a United States development
loan to India under agreements
administered by the Agency for
International Development, Gruen
ing said.
SHARP TRANQUILIZERS
MOSCOW OPl — Soviet doctors
reported Wednesday they have re
moved 130 nails and 340 needles
from an Armenian woman who
swallowed them in an apparent ef
fort to cure her nervousness.
The official news agency Tass
identified her as Antaram Khacha
Tryan, 40. She was quoted as say
ing that “evil spirits” told her to
swallow the nails and needles.
Tass said the needles penetrated
her liver and other vital organs,
but that she is recovering.
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!8 Persons Perish
In River Boat Fire
BUENOS AIRES. Agentina W) —
A 33-year-old river boat carry
ing 421 or more persons broke
into flames in the Platte River
estuary 50 miles from Buenos
Aires Thursday and company of-1
l’icials said at least 18 persons
perished. They reported 370 res
cued.
Passengers and crewmen dived
overboard into the chilly, muddy
waters of the estuary. Fog compli
cated rescue operations. The com
pany said four of the rescued were
critically injured.
The flames burst out in the 33
year-old Ciudad De Asuncion
<City of Asuncion) on an overnight
run from Montevidio, Uruguay.
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Mansfield Charges Vietnamese
Discredit American Reporters
WASHINGTON l/P)—Democratic
j leader Mike Mansfield has charged
South Viet Nam with “a continu
ing effort to humiliate and to dis
credit American press representa
tives and to discourage them in
the honest performance of their
responsibilities to the people of the
United States.”
And, Mansfield said Tuesday on
the Senate floor, “The support of
our newsmen by our own officials
on the spot leaves much to be de
sired.”
Commercial Appeal . . .
MEMPHIS, Term. OP — A letter
sent by a Memphis miss to the
Commercial Appeal:
“Would you please send me a
list of the world’s 50 richest single
men over 50 and under 50. I
would appreciate it if you could
find out their addresses if possible.
Please send it as soon as possible.”
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Canada Plans to
Set Up Arctic Sub
Warning System
WASHINGTON iff — Canada
apparently is going ahead on her
own with plans for setting up an
Arctic area submarine warning
system.
Pentagon officials said Wednes
day they had no information to
indicate that the United States has
a part in the planning at this point.
Vice Adm. Herbert Rayner,
Canada’s navy chief, disclosed the
plan in a report Tuesday to the
House of Commons in Ottawa, but
details were not made public.
Ottawa press dispatches said
that anti-submarine installations
would serve as a warning system
against Soviet submarines in a
manner similar to the hostile air
craft warning system in the Dis
tant Early Warning Line (DEW
Line) operated by the United
States in the Canadian north.
Speculation in Ottawa was that
the Canadian submarine warning
system would consist of under
water hydrophones and other in
struments. It was not clear wheth
er such a submerged network was
intended for the Arctic Ocean
basin region or at specific points
in the Arctic and sub-Arctic, such
as the entrance to Hudson Bay.
An integrated, complete system
offshore of the Canadian mainland
and islands could be a major proj
ect in terms of engineering and
cost.
The United States has similar
warning systems at the approach
es to its primary harbors and out
ward toward the Continental Shelf
at points. But the Arctic Ocean
basin is deep, even relatively close
to the coastline with depths of
10,000 to 15,000 feet not unusual.
Permanent or moving ice fields also
would complicate the laying of
cable for a hydrophone system.
On the other hand, the strategic
ally important area of Hudson Bay
would be simpler for operation of
a system.
The U.S. Navy presumably will
delay, at least for the immediate
future, on whatever surveillance
patrols it makes under Arctic ice
with its nuclear attack submarines.
These have the advantage of roam
ing over wide areas and using
ultra sensitive sonar equipment,
together with other detection and
identification devices.
Under-ice operations by the
U.S. atomic submarines have been
carried on by the Navy since 1958.
It Will Be a Long Time
TOKYO Ifi*) — Red China admit
ted Thursday that it will be a long
time—probably 10 to 20 years—
before it achieves industrializa
tion and has a modern army.
Peking disclosed this in an
article in the Communist party
organ, Red Flag, which appeared
to indicate that Chinese nuclear
armament is also far off.
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$2 Million Distress
Fund for Teachers
WASHINGTON UP! — A $2 mil
lion distress fund for teachers is
being raised by the National
Education Assn.
The drive was spurred by a
dispute in Utah where teachers
are boycotting public schools pend
ing settlement of a dispute with
Gov. George Clyde about increased
state appropriations for education.
The dispute could throw 8,000
10,000 teachers out of work next
fall.
Although Utah is the only place
where the fund may be needed
now, the NEA said it would be at
the disposal of teachers elsewhere
should the need arise.
The fund was authorized at a
closed session of the NEA’s board
of directors in Detroit last week.
Big Schools of Salmon
JUNEAU UP — A ship captain
with some 20 year's of sailing in
Southeast Alaska waters behind
him said today he saw some of the
biggest schools of salmon he’s seen
in years in Chatiiam Strait.
“Huge schools of salmon were
traveling right down the middle
of the strait, making the water
boil,” Capt. Charles Goodwin of
the Alaska Steamship Co. freighter
Tatalina said after docking here.
$2 Million Fisheries Vessel
WASHINGTON UP> — Senate and
House conferees on the Interior
Department appropriation bill have
approved $2,650,000 for construc
tion of a fishery research vessel
for use in the North Pacific and
Bering Sea.
The vessel will be operated by
the Bureau of Commercial Fish
eries, primarily in Alaskan waters.
The item is subject to Senate
and House concurrence.
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MISLAY SPACE EQUIPMENT
LONDON W — Britain’s state
owned railway system has mislaid
research equipment safely re
trieved from space, a scientist com
plained Thursday.
Dr. R. C. Jennison of the Lodrell
Bank Observatory said the equip
ment was in a rocket fired from
the Woomera Range in Australia
June 5.
The equipment was recovered,
flown to London and handed to
the state railway system for the
160-mile journey to Jodrell Bank.
The consignment last was heard
of June 12, Jennison said.
Played Santa Claus . . .
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY. (*> —
The man said he was Santa Claus.
He was dressed like the patron
sairit of Christmas, and he carried
a bag of toys.
So the family of William Storms
didn’t argue with the old gentle
man when he appeared Wednesday
night at the Storms’ home in a
depressed area here. The family
had no Christmas last year.
The visitor distributed toys to
the Storms children—three daugh
ters and a son age 8 to 14 — and
then departed as mysteriously as
he had come.
Son Born to Robert Erwins
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Erwin an
nounce the arrival of a son yes
terday at Anchorage who has been
named Robert Cecil, according to
the maternal grandfather. Clement
Boucher of FA A, who returned to
Nome today.
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