European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday july. 27/ 195? the stars and stripes life in a split level Igloo Page 3 s and buys Toronto up Eskimo Igloo with electric lights radios and even refrigerators Are giving the Canadian Arctic a new look. It s part of a program by the North Raiskin Nickel mines to adapt Eskimo labor to mechanical jobs at the company s operations at Rankin Inlet territory. In the Northwest according to the no r t h e r n Miner a Canadian mining Publica Tion the Experiment has been highly successful with the eskimos doing Well at the jobs Given them. But the Contact with civilization has prompted some oddities i mining Camp life by the newspaper North Rankin officials have killer of 2 in Virginia a. Apparently dead in fire Ferrum a. Up a barn providing fortress like shelter for sex convict Earl Smith sought by a posse for the slaying of a Man and his infant daughter and the wounding of a woman and a state trooper went up in. Flames Here. As the barn burned a 100-Man posse that had peppered it throughout the evening with Rifle machine gun and Shotgun fire and Cable scheduled in North Atlantic Ottawa a arrangements have been completed for the laying of a submarine Telephone Cable be tween Newfoundland and Green land and Iceland. The Cable is scheduled for completion by 1962, the Canadian Over seas telecommunications corp. Said in its annual report and ultimately will be extended to Britain. Plans to build the Cable were drawn up by the corporation an the great Northern Telegraph co. Of Denmark. Financial arrange ments were not disclosed. Officer floats upward on 1st Parachute jump Dothan Ala. Up an army lieutenant made his first Parachute jump at it. Rucker hour Here but instead of coming Down he went up and floated for 24 officials at the army aviation Center said 1st it Robert far Ris 28, of Montgomery Ala., was unhurt when he was caught Inan up Dratt during a Thunder storm and floated three Miles f rom where he jumped. Furris said he jumped from an l20 Liaison plane at 2,500 feet Altitude but Rose to 3,000 feet. Farris landed in a Cornfield and notified his base he was not injured. Tear Gas grenades stopped the bar rage. Later in a search of the embers police found a charred body tentatively identified As Smith of the. Fire was unknown. It was not set by the posse. The flames were spotted first in a loft containing some Loose Hay. In moments the barn was a Torch. Smith s victims were Marvin Lee Whorley and his daughter Delia,8 months. Whorley s Mother mrs. Marjorie Lee Whorley was wounded in the Chest by the Bullet after it passed through the baby s body. Her condition was reported satisfactory. Shot on Road Whorley a furniture Factor worker was shot while walking along a country Road with his wife to work. Minutes later his baby daughter was killed in the arms of her grandmother who was wounded by the Bullet. Pursued by the gunman the wife ran screaming from the scene and herded three other daughters out the Back door to safety seconds before he crashed through the front door. Smith was recently release from the Lewisburg pa., Federal reformatory after serving 30 months on a whisky conspiracy charge. His motive was not known. The wounded trooper James Martin 27, of Stuart was one of 12 state police who led the Hunt into this area of Franklin county. As they started to search the barn on the property of Luther Smith thiere was a burst of Rifle fire and Martin fell with a Bullet in his Chest. A nearby Hospital said Martin was wounded critically. Gromyko aide Danied London a the official soviet news Agency Tass said Alex Ander Orlov has been appointed Deputy to foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko. The announcement broadcast by radio Moscow gave no details. Built 19 three room housing units which Are being sold to Eskimo employees , but not All Eski mos Are interested in living in White Man s Type of housing an there is still a sizeable number of both company employees and other eskimos at Rankin Inlet who pre Fer to live rent free Fli igloos in the Winter and in skin tents in the summer. Inside igloos the Northern Miner found the oddest assortment of purchases made by the Nouveau Riche of the North. With no Bill for electrical Power freely supplied by the mine electric lighting is commonplace even in some nearby igloos. A Large number of eskimos own radios and Delight in any kind of noise which the squeaking boxes produce others keep screeching record players in constant operation. Refrigerator sales although there is riot yet too much Competition among refrigerator salesmen in the Arctic two Eskimo mine employees have actually purchased them. In the Case the Theof head Eskimo Sheen i took mine manager suspects that Purchase was made Only to. Show that if the White Man can have a cold Box the Eskimo can have one too. Other eskimos have imported washing machines Large electric clocks and most of them now use frying pans electric kettles and even percolators. Mail order purchases although most local needs resupplied by the Hudson Bay Trad ing Post with nearest Competition nearly a thousand Miles Ciway. Eskimo miners Are quickly learning to use mail order Cata logs an make their purchases through the mine office directly from depart ment stores. While the eskimos Are anxious to learn everything they can from the White Man they refuse to Imi Tate his eating habits. They despise Ham and Bee but supplement their Caribou meat and fish diet with canned vegetables. They de Light in carbonated drinks and have exhausted in four months a year s Supply of pop stocked bythe Hudson Bay no american land expropriated yet Cuba official reports Chicago up the executive director of Cuba s land Reform pro Gram sail no american land had yet been expropriated but he declined to give a figure for the amount of land that will be taken Over in the next few months. Capt Antonio Nunez Jimenez 36, director of the program said the aim of the program is to give the farm workers up to 66 acres of land tree. He said this program is not communist inspired but based on the example of Gen Douglas Mac Arthur s agrarian Reform plan i Japan after world War ii. Some of the Campesino far workers have already started to receive land under the program Nunez said. Tine government is now distributing land formerly be longing to the government and to officials of the Batista regime. Nunez said the Campesino could buy up to three times the 66-acreallotment if they wished. He said Cuba was planning co operatives and that the quota sys tem by which sugar Cane had Al ways been planted would be maintained under the new regime. He said the sugar Cane workers had been employed by Large corporations but that the remaining 2 million agricultural workers had rented their land. Fifty per cent of cuban Farmland was owned by 1 per cent of the land owners he said. Those people live in Nunez and his military party All Clad in the Battle Green uni j orms of Castro s officers went to. Indiana to visit cooperatives an farms after the news conference. Nunez said lie planned to visit several farm equipment manufacturers. Of sergeant kills wife son self wounds 2d child Cocoa Fla. A an air Force sergeant shot his wife and son to death then killed himself after a family argument. Another so was critically wounded. Police identified the dead ass sgt Charles d. Monroe 27, his wife Lena 25, and their 2-year-Oldson, Charles Iii. The other son Markes 16 months was reported in critical condition in an Orlando Hospital. Police said Monroe and his wife were arguing in her parents Home when Monroe grabbed a .38-Cal re Volver and shot the two boys he pursued his wife into the front Yard and shot her. Then he ran through the House to the Back Yard and shot himself. Police said Monroe a native of Tarpon Springs Fla., was on leave from Richards Gebaur air Force base to. Graft of dog s artery saves woman in Italy Milan Italy a sur Geon Here was credited with successfully grafting part of the artery of a dog into the Arm of a woman to replace a gangrenous portion other own artery. The patient identified Only As a woman of Middle age was re ported recovering satisfactorily and the risk of gangrene and loss of her Arm was said averted. Paa protests a requested Airport Alert London a crash Crews were galled out at London Airport when an incoming Boeing 707 Jet liner reported failure of its under Carriage indicator Light. Tie plane carrying 110 Passen Gers from new York flew Low Over the control Tower so control offi cers could Cheek the undercarriage. They reported the wheels were Down. Then the plane landed safely. Officials of american air ways complained bitterly after Ward that they had not asked for an Alert. Neither we nor the Pilot re Quested it said one Ameri can official. There was emergency was ordered by Airport reported by idiot the Pilot had radioed that fail ure of an electrical circuit had snuffed out. The undercarriage indicator Light the american official said. Apparently the Pilot had nose rious doubt about the undercarriage itself a piece of equipment which has lately been giving the 707s trouble. Pan american has voiced com plaints recently that London air port authorities appear Over read to Call alerts without being asked. In the past three weeks four Boeing jetliners have developed trouble in their undercarriage . Federal aviation Agency has ordered a special Check. 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