Sen. Kerr’s Estate Liable
To Heavy Taxes
WASHINGTON UP — Robert S.
Kerr’s attorney says the late sen
ator apparently never got around
to making a new will and his es
tate may be liable to heavy federal
and Oklahoma inheritance taxes.
William Underhill, the senator’s
Washington attorney and longtime
friend, said Friday that the only
will that has turned up was made
in 1939 when the Oklahoma oil
man was worth much less—“pos
sibly a half million dollars”—than
when he died.
The Democratic senator’s person
al fortune was estimated at $35
million to $50 million when he
died in a Washington hospital
Jan. 1.
Underhill said he had talked
with Kerr many times about mak
ing out a new will, and four or
five actually were drafted to take
advantage of tax-saving charitable
gifts and trusts allowed by the
law.
But Kerr never signed them, he
said, “because he always brought
up something new he wanted in
cluded.”
Refugees Leaving Cuba
Witness Gunplay As
Prisoner Attempts Escape
MIAMI, Fla. — Cuban-Amer
icans fleeing Fidel Castro’s Cuba
witnessed one last flareup of gun
play as they filed aboard a Red
Cross plane with what few pos
sessions they were able to keep
from Cuban police.
The gunfire was drawn by a
handcuffed prisoner who obvious
ly wanted to leave Cuba with
them. He didn’t make it.
Passengers reported after land
ing at Miami Friday that the hand
cuffed captive broke from his
guards at Havana Airport and
raced onto the runway area. One
guard fired a burst from his sub
machine gun.
The slugs apparently did not
wound the fugitive, who flattened
himself on the ground, but spray
ed the right fuel tank of a parked
Russian-built Cuban airlines plane.
Gasoline poured from the bullet
holes in the tank while guards
swarmed from the terminal build
ing. Passengers said the escapee
was corralled quickly and led
away.
Most of the 106 Cuban-Ameri
cans and relatives were aboard the
Pan American World Airways
plane, which delivered a Bay of
Pigs prisoner ransom installment
to Castro, before the outburst of
the machine gun fire.
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New Fairbanks Inn
Will Cost $1 Million
To meet the increasing tcurist
traffic and demand for more first
class hotel rooms, a million dollar
expansion program is underway
on the Fairbanks Inn in Fairbanks.
The project will provide 25 addi
tional rooms by June 1 and a total
of 71 modern twin-bed rooms with
bath by Jan. 1, 1964. The Fair
banks Inn construction is under
the direction of Kenneth Friske,
vice president of Alaska - Yukon
Division of Westours, Inc. The an
ouncement was made by Charles
B. West, president of the company.
The Inn will chalk up some
“firsts” in construction and op
eration such as: (1) first to have
TV in each room; (2) first to use
automatic guest-style phone-system
message service; (3) first to pro
vide an outdoor recreation area;
(4) first to use complete National
Cash Register hotel systems; (5)
first to be engineered and con
structed for seasonal phase-back
in number of rooms in operation;
(6) first to use connecting utilidor
to basement boiler room and laun
dry the entire length of the build
ing for accessibility to all utilities;
(7) first to use plywood as roof
and floor joists (called groove-ply
wood, long-span joists); (8) first
to use stress skinned plywood roof
panels and (9) first to use F. A.
roofing (a new neoprene-hypolon
preparation—a skin-type roofing).
It now costs a U.S. firm an av
erage of $1.84 to send out a busi
ness letter.
Mutt Mothers Bear Baby
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A
bear cub adopted by a mongrel dog
after being rejected by its own
mother has died in the Little Rock
Zoo.
Raymond Squires, zoo director,
said the dog’s milk apparently was
not rich enough for the baby bear
which died Friday.
The bear’s parents abandoned
the cub as soon as it was bom. An
other cub died of apparent ex
posure find Squires got the dog
from the pound to nurse the sur
viving cub.
The dog recently had lost a lit
ter of puppies. It cared for the
cub lovingly, and when the dog
would leave the bed for a few
moments, the little bear yelped.
Hot In Those There Hills
DODGE CITY, Kan. <*> — Freak
ish chinook winds blowing off the
slopes of the Rocky Mountains
warmed Dodge City to an unsea
sonable 86 degrees Friday.
The warming 35-mile-an-hour
'winds also kicked up a dust storm
that turned the sky a dark brown
by late afternoon, and fed a stub
born prairie fire that blackened a
section of land before a wind shift
blew it out.
In the same vicinity of western
Kansas, Garden City reported 84
degrees, Hill City 74 and Russell 70
during the chinook.
All reported between 50 and 60
degree temperature drops Satur
day morning.
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Threatened Strike Against
Boeing Put Off til April 15
SEATTLE UP) — A threatened
strike against Boeing Co. facilities
across the nation is off again until
April 15 at least.
U. S. District Judge Wm. Line
berg formally signed Friday an
order extending a temporary in
junction against a strike by the In
ternational Assn, of Machinists,
AFL-CIO. The extension is to the
full 80 days allowed under the
Taft-Hartley Act. Lineberg granted
a 10-day temporary restrainer Jan.
25.
The judge also called a hearing
Thursday on whether the union’s
maintenance of membership clause
remains in effect during the 80
day cooling-off period. Under the
clause Boeing was required to dis
charge any member who refused
to pay union dues.
The union shop, wages and
seniority were among the top is
sues leading to the strike threat.
Union members rejected the com
pany’s last contract offer by a 4-1
margin.
103 Killed When Roof
Falls In On Catholic
School In Ecuador
QUITO, Ecuador M — The col
lapse of a Roman Catholic school
building at Biblian during chapel
prayer services Friday killed at
least 103 persons, including four
teachers. Their bodies were re
covered by search parties still
looking for others Saturday.
Authorities expressed fear as
many as 130 may have perished.
The disaster struck unexpected
ly at the Heart of Mary College in
Biblian, an Andean mountain
town 200 miles south of Quito,
about 450 children were trapped
in the ruins when the ceiling
caved in during prayer services.
Some quickly freed themselves.
The Bolate nuns of Biblian ran
the school on the second floor of
their building. The first floor had
been under repair, to enlarge the
capacity of the school. Presum
ably the foundations were'weaken
ed as the work progressed.
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BERING SEA LIONS CLUB
Sven Larsen, Pres.
Tom Balone, Secty.
Meets Every Tuesday
at 7:00 pjn.
at the North Star or Polaris
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Frank Couch, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Verna Mickelson
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Werner E. Bohrer, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Roy Snyder
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of VVesy
Month at School
Frank Couch, President
Harriet Amundsen, Secretary
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Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Don Lyle, Pres.