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The Nome nugget., 1962-12-17
SkybOlt Missile Fol. Britain Is In the Works

LONDON lR - A reappraisal of Britain's defense policy - hitherto linked to the Skybolt missile-was reported in the works Saturday..
 As Defense Minister P ter Thorneycroft. canceled a visit to Germany and planned to fly home from the Paris NATO conference, British aircraft chief. warned that any replacement for Skybolt should be British.
 Sir Roy Dobson, leader of Bri- tains aircraft contractors, said in a letter j. the Times that the government should not rely on the United States to provide Polaris submarine missiles as replace ment for Skybolt.
 We have seen where so-called interdependence has led us," he said. Before falling into the same trap again let Us see what we can do on our own. -
 Sir Roy is managing director of t h e HaWker Siddeley Aircraft group and president of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors.
 The Skybolt, a bomber borne missile designed to be fired 1000 miles away from the target, has cost the United States nearly $500 million and has had a string of five firing test failures. Britain abandoned her own plans to develop similar missile and agreed to buy the Skybolt to keep here V-class bombers from becoming obsolescent. Bombers provide Britain's only atomic punch at present.
 The United States, however, is considering dropping the Skybolt because of the cost and the time lag in development
The Nome nugget., 1962-12-17

If you take your wife to Las Vegas, New, don't bring her there in moccasins. A survey showed that women could play the slot machines for only 211 hours at a stretch when wearing high heels but four hours in flat shoes.
Evening star., 1962-09-24
THE MYSTERY REMAINS
Suicides Close PoroIIeI Robbery Files

Meanwhile. Mr.. Fox daughter
got loose from her bonds, un-
tied her mother and called po-
lice. The alarm was sounded
and a force Of 200 police and
FBI men converged on the
bank branch in Cleveland's
West Side.
The holdup man shot and
killed himself.
His fingerprints told the story
He was William Ansley. 30, last
known address, Indianapolis
Ind, with q record Of burglary
assault with intent to kill ant
robbery. His fingerprints werI
sent to Washington and FB,
technicians found them to b
identical with the prints taker
from the holdup note used il
the Potomac Federal Saving:
and Loan Association a yeal
before. The file of William
Donald AnsIey was closed for.
ever.
The parallel story had It's
beginning on April 25, 1861
when another lone robbel
walked into the association of.
flee on Fourteenth street. Thi'
time it was a neat, clean-shaver
Negro, wearing e gray fedors
and a tan trench coat.
He got away with $4,000
leaving behind one fingerprint
but it didn't match any in
FBI files.
Evening star., 1962-09-24

A whole year passed and the
second robbery report was
gathering dust among the un-
solved crimes when the second
suicide occurred under circum-
stances nearly. as violent as
those leading to the death Of
the first robber.
Corpl. Robert Kirby Of the
Maryland State Police was on
patrol near Hancock. Md, when
he saw two men burglarizing
q roadside telephone booth. He
captured them without undue
difficulty and was waiting foI
help when a third man drove
UP and shot him twice. Corpl
Kirby fell, wounded in the left
arm and right leg and the three
men escaped.
Later that afternoon, q
search party came upon the
body of the gunman near ar
old building foundation. He
had shot himself fatally
through the right side of the
head.
His fingerprints were for
warded to the FBI Identified
ton Division here. One of
them was identical with the
lone print taken from the bath
room doorknob at the Potomac
Federal Savings and Loan AS
sociation.
The dead man was identified
as Lawrence Sorell Johns, "a
Evening star., 1962-09-24
Burglar Alarm
TripsAfter-Hours
Shopping Spree

A District man, who appar-
emily was locked in Lansburgh's
Department Store in Shirling-
ton when it closed Saturday.
was arrested yesterday when a
burglar alarm went off and
police found him in the store
with $1,400 IN merchandise
piled near q loading platform,
Arlington police reported.
The man. George c. Hunter,
~, Of the 1900 block Of Third
street NV. was charged with
breaking and entering.
Arlington police also reported
that two men had taken a truck
from the Barnes & Kimel
Furniture Co., 4040 s. Four
Mile Run drive, and used it
as q battering ram to open
the steel bars protecting a
window at Roesental Chevrolet,
on the same block.
The men took $50 and an
electric sanding machine and
eluded investigators using dogs,
police said. The burglary was
discovered by a Barnes & Kimel
employe who noticed the truck
and the two men at the Rosen-
thal office, police said.
Evening star., 1962-09-24

The Identification Division
of the FBI processed the note
for latent fingerprints and came
up with 13 impressions. But the
prints could not be matched
with those Of anyone in their
vast file.
But on the morning Of Sep
tember %, 1859, q bizarre plot
to rob q branch of the Cleve-
land Trust Co. erupted into Q
fierce gun battle climaxed BY
the sudden suicide Of one Of the
robbers. That episode begaT
when Herbert Fox, manager o.
the bank branch, was surprised
at breakfast by q man and
woman who tied up Mrs. Fo1
and their 1S-year-old daughter
Marilyn. The man placed be-
side the two women a device HI
said was o bomb that woulC
explode If Mr.. Fox did not CO.
operate in helping them rob hi
bank.
Later it turned out that the
device was q harmless assem-
bly, Of two dry-cell batteries, q
ticking alarm clock and a box
Of coal dust.
The hoStage-manager opened
the bank branch for the armed
pair who then terrorized en-
ployes Of the trust company
and took $4,000 from the
cashiers cages and vault
Evening star., 1962-09-24

status report on right-of-way
acquisition;
Bridge to washington Boule-
vard-all whole takings" Of
complete pieces Of property to
be in the possession Of the
Highway Department by the
end Of this year. Many of these
parcels would be taken by fill
ing declarations of taking
and depositing funds for the
property so it can be used while
courts are settling the price.
Between Washington boule-
ward and Nicholas street-ap-
praisals and title searches un-
derway. Two parcels already
taken, with court cases pending
to settle price.
Between Nicholas street ano
the Arlington County line =
State engineers are making
their own estimates Of threG
routes which could be used fol
the freeway. No final decision
on general route yet.
Between the County line ant
the Beltway = acquisition anC
title searches underway.
Evening star., 1962-09-24

between the Capital Beltway
and the Potomac River.
This first section viii be a
relief valve" taking some Of
the traffic off Arlington and
Wilson boulevards and provid-
ing a high-capacity roadway
to the Theodore Roosevelt
Bridge. The bridge is scheduled
for completion in early 1864.
The northern third Of the
freeway should be finished first
because a priority has been
placed on acquiring the right
of-way.
Charles Owen. Virginia High
way Departments a assistan n t
right-of-way engineer, said he
expected to have completed
acquisition of much Of the
property between the bridge
and Washington boulevard by
the end Of the year.
Right-Of-Way Snag
Enough money is available
to put the entire sac million
freeway under contract this
year. However. knotty right-of-
way problems probably will pre-
vent start of construction on
the Smile northern section un-
til 1864. he said.
Another thorny question that
will have to be answered is how
much additional right-of-way
will be needed for. the National
Capital Transportation Agency
The width of the freeway
generally will be around zoe
feet. counting a 20-foot grassy
strip in the middle. Transpor-
tation Agency officials have
indicated they want a right
of-way Of 40 to SIS feet, anc
this will be considered by the
highway officials.
At any rate, total land &C.
QUESTION and preparation o.
detailed engineering design
win not be ready until the con,
struction season Of 1854. Count,
ing the usual two years from
start Of construction to com
pletion, the 3-mile portion
should be ready by 1866.
The entire freeway from thu
Beltway to the Potomac should
be completed by 1869 or 1870
Opened in Segments
If the freeway were closed
until all parts are completed
the Roosevelt bridge part woult
be open for six to seven years
before the interstate route wa,
opened. On the District side
officials have opened parts oi
their interstate highways ir
"useable" segmentS.
Mr.. Owen gave the following
Evening star., 1962-09-24

The weird story came to
light today Of how two men
who never knew each other sue
cessfully robbed the same
Washington savings and loan
association nearly three years
apart and subsequently COM
mitted suicide.
Why these two men, one
white and one Negro, took their
own lives remains a mystery.
One of them shot himself to
death while besieged in a Cleve-
land bank he was robbing q
year after the first Washington
holdup. The other put q bullet
into his right temple near Han
cock, Md, last month about a
year after he too successfully
robbed the Washington insti-
tuition.
The strange tAle was dis
closed in the records kept by
the Federal Bureau Of Investi-
cation of all bank robberies.
It all started on August 8.
1858, when a small. bald man
walked into the Potomac Fed
eral Savings and Loan Associa-
ton at 730 Fourteenth street
NV.
He handed a printed note to
the manager, James P. McAleer.
and pulled a rusty SO caliber
pistol out Of a small shopping
bag.
He escaped with Sill, leaving
the note behind.
Evening star., 1962-09-24
Tobriner
Luuds New
Health Chief

Walter N. Tobriner, presi-
dent of the District Board of
Commissioners who returned to
his job today after a European
vacation. said that he believes
DR.. Murray Grant will be able
to provide "the general tight
ening up" needed in the Dis
trict's Public Health Depart
ment.
Mr.. Tobriner said that DR..
Grant, who was selected re-
Gently by the other two Com
miSsioners as the new director
of the Public Health Depart
ment during Mr.. Tobriner's alb
sence, ''is a capable public
servant who can make the con-
structive changes needed in the
health department"
The Commissioner said that
the choice of DR.. Grant, Prince
Georges County health officer,
to succeed DIR. Daniel Finucane
in the top District Health De-
partment job met with his full
approval.
Asked what he thought
needed tightening UP in the de-
partment. Mr.. Tobriner said
he was referring to the large
scale theft of drugs from Dis
trict General Hospital.
Mr.. Tobriner also said he is
hopeful that the House and
Senate District Appropriation
subcommittee will propose "a
fair and constructive District
budget for fiscal 1863"
He said that he is convinced
that Senator Byrd, Democrat
of West Virginia. and Repre-
sentative Watcher, Democrat of
Kentucky, chairmen of the
respective appropriation SUBJ
committees, are public spirited
men who are genuinely con-
cerned with the District af-
fairs"
Evening star., 1962-09-24
Apple Butter Maxim Tradition Linqers On

sugar, and oil Of cloves and
cinnamon.
Relaxing away from their
stirring chores. the apple-butter
makers sat down not on the
bare ground. but on rustic lawn
furniture. and curled their feet
in the lawn.
There was no mongrel Ger
man Shepherd or big Collie
to bark at strangers coming
through the fields, but a small
French poodle with its black
coat shaped by a veterinarian
yapped at every passing motor
scooter.
Cider or moonshine hasn't
become fashionable In Exurbia
yet, not even when you make
apple butter. Bourbon-on-the-
rocks Is there to stay, even
though old water hand-pumps
are being used as mailbox
stands, and wagon wheels dis
play family name plates.
Peeled by Machine
Last year the church fair
workers peeled and cored their
own apples. But this is chang
ing. too; the apples this year
were freshly peeled and cored
by machines and sealed in plas-
tic bags by a wholesaler.
The talk was not of crops, OF
local legends that become more
involved with each telling
around a bubbling vat of apple
butter. but of the problems OF
committing and expected prof.
its from the church fair.
The 80 quarts from Satur-
days cooking were sealed in
Mason jars and stored with 43
other quarts made q week ago,
The Spread-excellent on hot,
homemade biscuits or pam
cakes-will sell for 81 a quart,
AS the apple butter was
emptied from the great cauld-
ron, dirt was kicked over the
wood fire. Mr.. Armentrout car
ried the pot back to Gunston
Hall. He cleaned it out with
tomatoes, salt and vinegar and
lii was ready for next autumn.
Evening star., 1962-09-24
THINGS HAPPENED

THINGS HAPPENED
pretty fast after that. 1t
turned out that the pilot had
set a course over his an
cestral acres and had decided
to do a little flat-hatting.
It's forbidden, but he had in
mind buzzing the old home
stead to give his family a
thrill and that was why he
was diving when I woke up.
"Of course, when he landed
at the air base, he looked
back to see how I was do
ing and I wasn't there. He
couldn't imagine how he had
lost me and you can imagine
the shock to his system to
perceive an empty cockpit.
"The upshot Of it was that
he reported me missing and
I reported him missing and
it took the Army and Navy
quite a while to sort out the
sequence Of events.
"The episode cost me my
extra uniforms, shirts and
socks and both of us our
peace of mind.
Somehow we ironed it out
and when we got back to-
gether again to complete the
trip to California. He was a
shaken man, that pilot, and
he earnestly requested me
not to Jump out Of his plane
again"
From that day to this, the
captain said, he has never
again jumped out of a NOV
ing airplane. Unless the plane
really crashes, he said, it is
too hard to explain.
Evening star., 1962-09-24

'WE TOOK OFF and
headed West and I must say
that I slept through most Of
the ride because Of the sun
and the drone Of the engine.
'I had no idea where we
were when 1t happened but,
all Of q sudden, I woke up
with a start and it came to
me that the pitch Of the en-
CINE had changed and we
were diving toward the earth
at a steep angle from a great
height.
81 tried to talk to the pilot
on the intercom, but it wasn't
working and, still half asleep,
I was convinced we were
power-diving to our deaths.
It was a matter of seconds
for me to yank the canopy
back from the rear seat.
First, I threw my bags
over the side. I unbuckled
the seat straps, climbed over
the side and hit the silk. The
chute opened all right and ]
landed In the middle of q
wheat field without mishap,
although I had never made
a parachute jump before.
mot knowing where I was,
I just started walking and
pretty soon I came to a
farmhouse. I told the farmer
I had just escaped from a
doomed plane and asked to
use his telephone to report
the crash.
II got the nearest military
base on the phone, having
learned I was in central
Nebraska, and sadly reported
being the sole survivor Of
a crash. I gave my location
so they could come and get
me.
"The farmer aked the
pilots name. I told him as !
slipped a cup of coffee and
the farmer said, That's
funny. There's a fellow by
that name in the Army Air
Force who was raised on the
next farm from here
Evening star., 1962-09-24
Candidates to Appear

Republican candidates for the
Montgomery County Coucil,
Congress and the State Senate
will meet upper county voters
at 8 tomorrow night at the
Poolesville High School. The
event is sponsored by the newly
organized Rural Women's Re-
publican Club.
Evening star., 1962-09-24
MARYLAND Democrat
Feud Flares Anew
Roosevelt Bridge Link
Moy Open by 1866
Dute Would Be Years Ahead
Of Schedule for Entire Freewoy
BY LEE FLOR
star staff Writer

3-me section Interstate Sc between Theodore
Roosevelt Bridge and Washington boulevard be completed
by 1866. officials said today
This would be much four years ahead of the unof-
cial schedule for completion Of the entire 98me freeway
Evening star., 1962-09-24

resume his column on his return.
folk, Of topping each others
war stories.
did you ever hear" he
asked, about the time I
jumped out of a perfectly
sound Army Air Force plane
over the middle of Nebraska,
lost all of my luggage and
nearly cost the pilot his
sanitya
Lesser ranks are not likely
to tease the captain but the
Navy has no shortage Of
admirals SO we viii withhold
the name Of the principal.
"I was very new in the
Navy in 194l and appropri-
ately youthful when the op-
portunity came for home
leave in California. I was
stationed In the East and the
best way to get home seemed
to be hitching . ride from
Boiling Air Base here in
Washington.
Space was so tight in the
plane that I had to put my
luggage in my lap after
buckling on my parachute
and strapping myself into
the seat.
Evening star., 1962-09-24
BY JOHN SHERWOOD
star staff Writer

Autumn is in the air and it's
time again to linger in the
afternoon shadows and make
apple butter in great copper
kettles over slow wood fires.
But this traditional rite Of
autumn has moved from the
farmyard to the backyard. The
age-old recipe is the same, but
in many cases the cast and
staging have been changed.
Saturday was apple-butter
time at Duke Klein's new brick
ranch house at Hallowing Point.
in Fairfax county. Mr.. Klein
and a dozen Exurbanites took
turns at stirring the 30-gallon
mixture to be bottled for the
September 20 Pohick Church
Country Fair.
A touch of authenticity was
added by Cecil Armentrout,
custodian at historical Gunston
Hall. He was using the recipe
Of his parents who, in turn,
got it from their parents.
Apple butter isn't made on
the farm much anymore like
when I was a boy" he said,
while pushing and pulling on
a wooden 10-foot pole that
turned a scraper inside the
black pot so that the sliced
apples would not stick to the
sides. Two women, clad in
bright Capri pants, were lined
up behind Mr.. Armentrout and
helped work the pole in its
slow rhythm.
Evening star., 1962-09-24
Music and Cider

The apple-butter authority
spoke of his youth on the farm
when the fresh night air was
filled with fiddle music, songs
and cider during apple-butter
boilings. corn shucking dances.
wood-chopping suppers and
barn raisings.
Nov the kids 60 to drive-in
movies" he added. land the
last thing that's on their minds
Evening star., 1962-09-24

is apple-butter boilings."
The project in the Klein
backyard lasted for Z hours as
Evening star., 1962-09-24
The
Rambler
Learns Why
Captain Jumped
BY JERRY o,LEARY, JR.

The Navy captain, a man
with gray hair, many ribbons
and the chest insignia Of
both a suhmariner and an
aviator, sat in the comfort
able den Of his Arlington
home with a cool drink in
his hand and a twinkle In
his eye.
We were playing the game,
so common to middle-aged
Evening star., 1962-09-24

George Kennedy is iII. He viii
resume his column on bis return.
The Adak sun., 1962-07-02
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Tundra times., 1962-10-15
By THOMAS SNAPP Times Staff Writer

Without doubt, Mrs. Olivia COL lie)'. Palmer, Eskimo mother of five from Anchorage, is Alaska's cham pion hat.maker. ~. :. -.5s-.- ..-.: ,' .s z
 For the past four years in a row, she has won the top prize at the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous for making the most unusual hat.
 This year she won the top award with black seal skin hat shaped like tea kettle.
 The striking simplicity of the hat is exceeded only by it's practicality. The hat also doubles as a purse.
 Just take off the top of the tea kettle hat and there is place for odds and ends of the wearer.
 Sun Bonnet
 Formerly of Pt. Hope, Mrs. Palmer first entdred hat design competition in 1859 when she be- came employed by Jonas Brothers of Anchorage. That year she made a fur sun bonnet that was the rave of the states largest city. ..-. For hours she worked on the hat, fashioning on wire framing 25 gray fox tails. After the contest, the eye catching broad brimmed hat was placed on exhibition at Jonas Broth CTS but is now on exhibit for thou sands of tourists at Seattle's World Fair.
Tundra times., 1962-10-15
|NUP|AT PA|T0T STARTS THURSDAY
Hedda Hopper of the Arctic AIaska's Champion Hat Designer
Silver Fox

0hIVCE
 The second year, 1860, Ollie made a hat in 15 minutes. She simply tucked the head of silver fox skin inside, wore about half the skin and the tail hanging down her back, hooked the two hind legs underneath her chin. And again she walked off with the blue ribbon! It is little wonder that she is known as the "Hedda Hopper of Alaska" Scores of people compli- ment her on her hats and she sim ply answers, Only crazy people make crazy hats"
 When I think of that silver fox hat, l sometimes wonder how had enough nerve to model it." Ollie says.
 King Crab
 Last year Ollie again amazed the crowds and astounded the judges at the Fur Rendezvous with hat in the shape of giant king crab. She made the legs and the pinchers out of wire stiffeners covered with rabbit skins. sewed on some eyes, and put on sonic stiff threads for whiskers.
 The king crab hat, which was pink then but now has turned white, is on exhibit at the Anchorage U.S.O.
 (Continued on Page 8
Tundra times., 1962-10-15

blooded Eskimo from Nome recent ly appointed tribal operations offi-, cer.
 The meeting will begin Thursday with a public session at which del- egates will air the problems of their villages and the session will be fol- lowed by committee workshop ses- sions. The meeting will conclude Saturday with the reading of for- mally adopted statement.
 Here are the delegates slated to attend the meeting:
 George Washington. Sr., Buck land; George L. Dan, Stebbins; Ed- ward J. Shavings, Mekoryuk; Alex ander Vaska, Kalskag; Bill Amuak, Marshall; Carl Kwagley, Bethel; Herman Rexford, Barter Island.
 David Kayak, Wainwright; Hank Kanayurak and Guy Okakok, Bar row; David Frankson, Pt. Hope; Herbert Onalik. Noatak; Simon Paneak, Anaktuvuk Pass; Felton Commack, Kobuk; and Jonah To- kianna, Wales.
 David Sacclleus, Film; Willis Walunga, Gambell; Frank Desnan,
 (Continued on Page 8