$35,<536,041 Damage Suit
Brought Against Boeing
NEW YORK m — Relatives of
■nany of the 130 persons killed in
a plane crash near Paris last June
•re suing the Boeing Co. for
$35,036,041.
The suit was filed Friday in Fed
eral Court by the law firm of
Kreindler and Kreindler, which re
presents 29 sets of plaintiffs.
Most of the victims were cultural
and civic leaders from Atlanta, Ga.
The complaint accused Boeing,
which sold the 707 jet to Air
France, of careless design and
manufacture in the assembly of the
plane. It also claimed that the
plane was not safe.
The victims included 121 Amer
icans, many of them women, re
turning from a tour of European
museums and art galleries spon
sored by the Atlanta Art Assn. The
jet crashed on takeoff from Orly
Field last June 3.
The Temper of a Man Is
Book of Month for July
A new biography of the brilliant,
enigmatic Francis Bacon, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen, is the
Book of the Month Club selection
for July.
Bacon was born in London more
than 400 years ago. He is known
to have been ambitious and have
made many enemies. He is also
known to have taken bribes and
to have been imprisoned in the
Tower of London by King James
I. One of his detractors, Alexander
Pope, called him long after his
death “the wisest, brightest, mean
est of mankind.”
But there are those today who
rank him, for all his shortcomings,
among the greatest geniuses Eng
land has produced. Mrs. Bowen’s
brief, lively book traces his
astonishing career as courtier,
statesman, essayist, philosopher,
scientist and wit.
“What is my loftiest ambition?
I’ve always wanted to throw an
egg into an electric fan.”
—Oliver Herford
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“Pregnant Guppy” Will
Fly Top Stage of Saturn
Rocket to Cape Canaveral
VAN NUYS, Calif, — To gel
the 40-foot top stage of the Saturn
rocket from its California factory
to Cape Canaveral, Fla., takes
three weeks — by barge.
John Conroy thought of a better
way — fly it.
At the risk of the million dol
lars it cost, Conroy and his Aero
Spacelines built a plane which
could do it.
It was nicknamed the “Preg
nant Guppy” because of its swollen
midsection. Conroy took an old
Boeing Stratocruiser, almost
doubled the size of the midsection,
and hinged it in the middle so the
Saturn could be fitted inside.
“Private capital was invested in
the airplane on a gamble,” said
Conroy at his firm’s Van Nuys
headquarters. “We knew only
there was a tremendous need for
such a plane, but had no assur
ances of a contract.”
The gamble paid off Friday.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration awarded
Conroy’s firm a $194,850 contract
to fly the Douglas S-IV Saturn
stage from California to Florida.
The trip will take 12 hours. Flights
will start as soon as the big
bellied plane passes its Federal
Aviation Agency certification tests.
“We have been flying the plane
since last September,” said Conroy.
Jackie Gets Her Wish
VIENNA, Austria W) — Jacque
line Kennedy wrote the head of
Austria’s famed Spanish riding
school that she would like to ride
one of its Lippizzan horses after
seeing the white chargers perform.
She will get her wish next spring.
Col. Alois Podhajsky, the school
director, revealed Mrs. Kennedy’s
wish Friday and said it would be
granted when 18 of the rare horses
are flown to the United States in
April. They will perform at the
World’s Fair in New York, at Bos
ton and Washington.
Mrs. Kennedy saw the horses
in 1961, when President Kennedy
and Premier Khrushchev conferred
in Vienna. The Lippizzans, brought
to Austria from Spain centuries
ago, go through pirouettes and such
other intricate tricks as the ca
priole, a kick of the hind legs
at the height of a leap.
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
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6. Monks
12. One’s hus
band or wife
14. Litte girl
15. Has life
16. Utter
17. Squatted
18. Spoken
19. Italian river
20. Petty
quarrels
22. French
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ing wheel
25. Creek
26. Calyx leaf
28. Gems
30. Building
wing
31. Make lace
32. Weighing
device
34. Step
37. Moccasin
38. Seized
40. Exist
41. Vested
43. We
44. Monte—:
Alpine peak
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47. Stern: naut.
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city
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a fire
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letter .
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pronoun
State: abbr.
16. The sun
19. Small ball
21. Utter
foolishness
23. Corridor
24. Maxims
27. Serenity
29. Recreation
area
32. Aquatic
animal
33. Small houses
35. Over
36. Abandon
39. Not in
41. Precipitation
42. Palm fruit
44. Wander
7. Light beams 45. Italian river
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9. Assault
10. Lariats
11. Collections
13. Egg-shaped
48. Gave food
49. Container
51. That thing
52. Cobalt:
chem.
Astronaut Glenn
Wows Japanese
On Recent Visit
By Kenneth Iahil
TOKYO OB — John Glenn Jr.,
the first American to orbit the
earth, has wowed them in Japan.
The personable Marine lieuten
ant colonel wound up a 25-day
visit last week, leaving behind
a record that gave the U S. image
in Japan a tremndous boost.
Many Japanese agreed his trip
did much to counteract unfavor
able publicity for the United States
about such things as racial strife
and nuclear weapons test. Glenn
received great amounts of news
paper space and television time.
There was one marked contrast
between Glenn’s visit and that of
Maj. Yuri Gagarin, Soviet space
man who visited this country a
year ago.
The Japanese were pleased to
see Gagarin, but he was kept
under close wraps by accompany
ing Russian officials.
Glenn traveled casually. He
talked with groups ranging from
school kids to scientists and high
officials. He was accessible to al
most anyone who wanted to ask
him a question.
The contrast led the influential
ecenomic newspaper Nihon Keizai
to comment an editorial:
“Maj. Gagarin was in uniform
from the beginning to the end of
his visit. . . He was accompanied
by several Soviet officials all the
time, and his actions and speeches
gave the impression that he was
under some restrictions. His re
plies to questions were reserved
and he skillfully dodged the most
important points.
“In contrast to this, Lt. Col.
Glenn was dressed informally in a
civilian suit wearing a bow tie
of his liking. He was active and
decisive in his attitude, giving
the impression of dauntlessness.
Everything about him was openly
candid.
“Maj. Gagarin, as an individual,
must have wanted to talk freely.
We felt rather sorry for him that
he was not given that freedom. In
such an instance, too, the differ
ence between the Soviet Union’s
principle of secrecy and America’s
principle of openness was clearly
indicated.”
While Gagarin’s speeches and
comments had heavy political over
tones, Glenn concerned himself
more with what Japanese wanted
to know—details of his experi
ences in orbiting the earth three
times Feb. 20, 1962, and of the
American space program in gen
eral.
Glenn’s remarks were not with
out political content, especially
when he was asked to compare
the U.S. and Soviet space efforts.
He replied repeatedly that, while
the U.S. program is largely open, a
comparison is impossible because
the Russians refuse to divulge de
tails about theirs.
The Alaska Dept, of Highways
is the only state highway agency
in the country that is responsible
for maintenance of dog sled trails.
Last winter 235 miles were staked.
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Princess Patricia
Becomes Coastal
Luxury Liner
VANCOUVER, B.C. (#1 — Once
a familiar Vancouver-Seattle
ferry, the Princess Patricia sailed
into port here Friday looking like
a coastal luxury liner.
And she is, painted white from
stem to stern and fresh inside
after her .million-dollar reconstruc
tion for the Alaska tourist trade.
The Princess has undergone re
novation in Victoria to replace the
veteran Princess Louise as the
CPR’s northern cruise ship.
The Pat -was launched on the
Clyde in Scotland in 1948, built
for the day run between Vancou
ver, Victoria and Seattle to carry
pasengers and cars.
She originally had only 50 state
room, but now boasts 152 to give
346 first-class passengers deluxe
accommodation.
He former car deck, coffee
lounge and ballroom have been
converted into cabin space, 80 per
cent with private toilet facilities.
In every respect, the Pat now is
a tourist liner, with beauty parlor,
solarium and passenger elevator.
She left Saturday under the
command of Capt. Harry Murray
for the first of 12 scheduled
cruises to the north this summer.
All are reported heavily booked,
mainly by American tourists.
LAST MEETING OF
SEASON FOR OES
Alaska Chapter No. 1, Order of
Eastern Star will hold its last
meeting of the season tonight at
8 o’clock after which the organiza
tion will recess until the third
Monday in September. All mem
bers are urged to be present as
the men are honoring the women
for a delayed Mother’s Day enter
tainment.
Eight Cent Tax on Cigarettes
HARRISBURG, Pa. UP) — A five
per cent tax — highest in the na
tion—and an 8-cent-a-pack ciga
rette tax went into effect in Penn
sylvania Saturday.
Sign over a Chinese bar in New
York: “Please try to make your
problems original.”
Kristina Ludwig Wins Scholarship
Miss Kristine Ludwig of Fair
banks, daughter of Mr. and lira.
Dick Ludwig, formerly of Nome
and with the U.S. Smelting Co.,
was the winner of a $2,000 scholar
ship from the Fairbanks Chapter
of the National Foundation. She
will enroll in Oregon State Uni
versity and is taking up nursing as
her vocation.
According to a bulletin from the
Alaska Dept, of Labor, insured un
employment in Nome decreased to
148 from 213 during the week end
ing May 25. The figure for the
comparable week in 1962 was 89.
The rate of insured unemployment
was 33.5, down from the 48.2 of
the previous week but above the
16.8 for the comparable week last
year.
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