Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Saturday february 14, 1959 the stars and stripes Page t Capitol engineers take precautions for safeguarding the Heads of state Washington up it is absolutely unequivocally not True  dome of the Capitol is about to collapse and anybody who thinks so must have been peeking at some of its rusted plates and corroded bolts recently uncovered by engineers Here is just one More evidence of the fact that a Little knowl Edge is a dangerous thing. The reason officials have barred tourists from the Capitol Rotunda and Are preparing to ring the dome inside and out with steel scaffolds is not because they Laredo oysters architecturally speak ing. They Are just cautious they want to know for sure whether the cast Iron Structure is tired. They also will sleep better nights after establishing that the 4,664-Square-foot Fresco painted in plaster 94 years ago on the inside of the top of. The dome in t about to come hurtling Down 180 feet onto the Heads of the taxpayers not to mention the members of Congress. No one has seen some of the dome s innermost Structure since it was finished in 1865, an 8,909, 200-Pound cast Iron Miracle of its time and still Capitol officials believe the biggest dome of cast Iron anywhere in the world. Signs of deterioration which inspectors have uncovered How Ever have prompted officials to push Forward at once with a major inspection and overhaul of the dome. At least four of its 36 outer Iron ribs Are to be re moved. If tests show age and stress has taken its toll All 36 ribs will be replaced. The dome work is indirectly related to another big project at the Capitol Extension of the East front. Mcelroy urges Sale of  Alaska communications net Washington up defense Secretary Neil h. Mcelroy has asked Congress for authority to sell the government owned alas Kan communications system valued at $158 million. He sent a Bill to the House armed services committee which would permit the defense depart ment to negotiate without Adver Tising for bids for disposal of any . Sets up Model of turf fans dream new York a a picture of Belmont brought to Broadway Many a horse player s dream of Paradise has been unveiled  mayor s committee on off track betting. Lots of gadgets figure in the scheme electrical circuits and paper tape transmissions almost As complicated As an aircraft warning system a control Center calculating machines posting of up to the minute Odds and armoured cars to carry the currency. Details of the proposed setup were revealed Here by mayor Rob Ert f. Wagner s committee while he was in Albany plugging Forstate legalization of off track bet Ting As a big source of tax Revenue for the City. Suppose the dream comes True. Well you get a hot tip on lunch hour that Lazy Mary is a sure thing in the third race. You be got two Bucks burning a Hole in your pocket. You can t get the after noon off to go to the track. No cashier s window so you just go to a Teller s win Dow just like the Sellers win Dows at the track. You Lay Down your two Bucks and Flash it s right into the parimutuel Pool. But you can t run for a cashier s window the Way you do at the track if you have a Winner. The mayor s committee specified that you have to wait until the next Day for the payoff. This is in order to maintain a respectable r and orderly  the bettor pays his Money at the Teller s window computing machines and electrical circuits jinking Branch betting stations throughout the City feed messages into the control centers. Each station is advised of the current Odds which Are the Sames those at the tracks. The stations receive bets of $2, $5, $10 or $50 to win place or show or on the daily double which Means picking the winners of the first two races. The  gets a ticket on safety paper that can t be altered. Yog can t have your cake and throw it too Clad in her wedding gown mrs. Edith Fisher stares dejectedly at the wedding cake thoroughly battered during a free for All at her wedding reception. It took eight Boston policemen to restore order. Four guests and the Groom were jailed. United press International photo rep. Wright asks 101-year payoff of National debt Washington up rep. Jim Wright a Tex wants to  off the National debt in 101 years. Wright s Resolution declares that the principal of the debt should be reduced by 1 per cent per year starting july j., 1960, the debt now stands at $283 Bil lion with interest on it costing $8.1 billion in the coming fiscal year. If things go along exactly As they have been going without any change in the total debt and with the government haying to  3.5 per cent interest on its borrow Ings in 2n years we will have paid the total amount of the debt but we will still owe All of it he said. 4 killed 28 Hurt in blast at . Machinery Plant Phillipsburg . Up Ingersoll Rand co. Investigators sought the cause of an explosion which killed four men and injured 28 other employees of the heavy machinery Plant. A Turbine driven air Blower exploded on a testing stand and blew out the East end of a Block and a half Long building. It showered debris on route 22 about a Quarter mile away and Shook buildings Over a five mile radius. Two men standing under a 15 foot High testing platform were killed by the explosion. Two others died later at Warren Hospital of injuries suffered in the  other men were reported in critical condition. Six More also were in the Hospital and 20 others were treated at the Plant dispensary for minor injuries and released. The dead were Robert Maccione 32, Francis heft 56, both of Washington . John Donnelley 45, and Richard Sandt 29, both of Easton a. In critical condition were Ken Neth Entsminger 43, of Bethle hem pa., and Stanley Prodes 29, of Phillipsburg. Both suffered Sec Ond and third degree Burns. Or All of the system to private Industry. He said in a letter that the government has attempted to get rid of the system off and on since1913, but Industry has been reluctant to buy it because of the Large capital investment required and the Small potential return. However the development Falaska now has progressed to a Point where the operation of a communications system would appear to be financially attractive to private Enterprise Mcelroy wrote. Furthermore the citizens of alas a should not be dependent on the military for necessary commercial  run by forces the army air Force and fed eral aviation Agency All own parts of the system which handles com Mercial business As Well As govern ment traffic. Mcelroy said the Cost of the system minus depreciation As of last july 1 was estimated at $158 million including $135 Mil lion for the air Force portion $20.5 million for the army and $2.7 million for the Faa. The Selling Price he said could be fixed Only after an impartial Independent appraisal and subsequent  said that before negotiations begin All . Communications firms will be canvassed to determine which Are  attorney general will review the contract before it is signed he  said the Interior depart ment s Alaska Railroad also owns some communications facilities but these will not be sold since the Yare an integral part of the rail Road operation. Proposed Alert system May Cost $30 million Washington a a pro posed air Force communications system to Speed missile attack warnings from Alaska to the other48 states probably will Cost in the neighbourhood of $30 million. This was the preliminary estimate the air Force gave sen. E. L. Bob Bartlett Dalaska the project would provide a two Way link Between the ballistic mis Sile Early warning system station in Alaska and the other 48 states. Some in orbit others off the Wall 34jbeattriks impounded for i if thumping Philadelphia a things were really thumping at the humoresque Coffee shop in one of the City s Bohemian belts the other night. The name of the rendezvous a passer by said May have been inspired by composer Anton Dvorak but what went on inside was More on the wagnerian Side. Like the ride of the valkyries  crash of classical music showed what he meant. Yes classical. No Rock n Roll for these  the humoresque they lolled in beards and leotards played chess along with i i read paperbacks soulfully agonized Over the Low state of human affairs and drank Gal Lons of Coffee. A neighbor Gertrude Fitzpatrick was worked up about a state of affairs too. She complained about noise and about the beat generation s cars parked on her sidewalk. Others in the Vicinity also took their com plaints to the police. Two plainclothes men were sent to see what was  officers Tom Traherne and Kenneth Powell listened in from outside for a while. They heard crescendos then when the music softened a bit cries of Check but it s Art that s right Man i m in  once said Powell with a touch of Awe a couple of these beatniks came out and yelled something up at the sky. We Don t know what it  ,.inside, Tho cops found 24 customers in dress that was nothing if not casual arid Melvin Haifetz 23, the proprietor. The talk was nearly As loud As the music. The topics were intellectual. At least i guess they were remarked Traherne. It was All intense enough to be  they had a Case the policemen arrested everybody including Haifetz and charged most of them with breach of peace Haifetz with running a disorderly House. At a hearing before magistrate Edward Quinn one o the group explained we re not beat. We Reship so hip we re off the  magistrate asked him to make it clearer. You re up on it Man he was  and the other humoresque freq enters were fined $12.50 each. Haifetz was held on 9300 bail for the grand jury. Parents jailed in son s death Birmingham Ala a parents of a 12-year-old boy who died without medical Aid because they said they do not believe in doctors have been jailed on manslaughter charges. Or. And mrs. Aulton Weems of Jefferson Park said they did t obtain medical Aid for David Ful ton Weems because he did t want a doctor. They said it was god s will when the boy died Christmas night after a three Day illness. The parents were arrested and jailed on an. Indictment returned by a county grand jury. Mrs. Weems Mother of four other children said the child May have become overheated while fighting a Woods fire the night be fore he became ill. He lapsed into what she described As a deep sleep the following  the child went into convulsions mrs. Weems said she called in a band of believers from Jefferson Park holiness Church where she and her Hus band Are members and prayers were said. Although the child improve enough to look at his Christmas presents a died about 7 pot