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AA HAS DROP IN INCOME FOR FIRST NINE MONTHS SEATTLE (R — Net income of Alaska Airlines Inc., for the first nine months of 1961 totaled $70,785, equal to dil cents a share, compared with $063,963 and $1.04 a share for the like period last Tear. The company said reduced earnings were caused by a reduc tion in the amount of the car rier’s contract operations and ex penses involving Alaska Airline’s jet program. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET for the holidays Your Party Clothes Will Look Like New when cleaned by Modern Laundry and Dry Cleaners Dial 2491 r"mi 1 ■ {Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Dies at 89 WASHINGTON UP)' — Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the President who shaped the League of Nations, has died at the stately brick town house where she cared for her stricken husband until his death in 1924. She was 89. The former First Lady, in fail ing health for more than a month, died last night on the 105th an niversary of her husband’s birth. Services will be held Monday —New Year’s Day—at 11 a.m. at the Washington Cathedral. Inter ment will be in the cathedral where her husband also is in terred. The services, open to the pub lic, will be conducted by the Very Rev. Francis Sayre, Jr., grand son of the former President and Dean of the Cathedral. She was stricken with a respira tory ailment Thanksgiving night, and never regained her strength, her physician said. He said she also had suffered from a heart ailment for years. Mrs. Wilson married the Presi dent Dec. 18, 1915, when he was serving his first term. She was with him constantly after that, screened his callers and studied his papers after he suffered a stroke in 1919, and nursed him during his last years. She was to have dedicated the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge that crosses the Potomac River south of Washington, at ceremonies yes terday. Controversy swirled around Mrs. Wilson after husband’s stroke in 1919. The President, in a vain attempt to beat down Senate op position to U.S. participation in THE CHECK BOUNCED . . . PAWNEE ROCK, Kan. m — Bill Levingston found a woman’s purse containing a $92 check, $4 in cash, keys and a Great Bend, Kan., address. He drove the 13 miles to Great Bend twice before he learned the woman had moved to Arkansas City, Kan. Levingston mailed the purse, 'but got no acknowledgement. So he finally wrote and asked if she received it. She wrote back thanking him profusely, and enclosed a $4 check. The check bounced. the League of Nations, undertook a whistle-stop campaign across the nation. But he had to give up because of nervous exhaustion. He suf fered the stroke on his return to the White House. Thus began what critics called “Mrs. Wilson’s regency.” She call ed it “my stewardship.” “I studied every paper sent from the different secretaries or senators and tried to digest and present in tabloid form the things that, despite my vigilance, had to go to the President,” she wrote in a book entitled “My Memoir.” But she added: **I, myself, never made a single decision re garding the disposition of public affairs. The only decision that was mine was what was important and what was not, and the very important decision of when to present matters to my husband.” She was bom Edith Bolling. Oct. 18, 1872, in Wytheville, Va., of one of the south’s oldest fam ilies.' One of her ancestors was said to have been Pocahontas, the Indian Princess who married John Rolfe. After Wilson’s death, she lived surrounded by mementoes, but she continued to live an active life. She sought to carry on the Wll sonier. peace ideals, attended Democratic conventions, and other party meetings and had in terests from charitable work to sewing. Pentagon Sets Up Plan To Carry Out Atomic Tests In Atmosphere WASHINGTON UH — The De fense Department disclosed today it has set up a task force to plan and carry out atmospheric atomic testing if President Kennedy makes a final decision to take that step. The Pentagon in a formal state ment announcing the establish ment of “Joint Task Force Eight” said the action is taken as part of the necessary preparations for resuming tests, under Kennedy’s Nov. 2 order to prepare for that possibility. “Such tests,” the announcement said, “will be conducted only when specifically authorized by the President of the United States and will be in continuation of the current nuclear tests now being conducted underground in the United States. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NUGGET r——— 1111 ... Gold Digger* Bowling League Men’s high individual series: Carl Glavinovich 562, Dick Deem* 502, Tom House 495. Women’s high individual series: Pat St. Amour 465, Sue Deem* 442, Lou Oliver 431. Men’s high game: Carl Gla vinovich 213, Tom House 203, Dick Deems 198. Women’s high game: Sue Deem* 193, Pat St. Amour 183, Lou Oliver 158. Aukruk Lanes 26 18 North Star 22 Vi 21V* Alaska Airlines 22 22 N.C. Co. 17Vi 26V* "West Side Story" Selected As Best Picture of 1961 NEW YORK W — The New York Film Critics Thursday chose “West Side Story” as the best picture of 1961. Best acting awards went to Maximilian Schell for his role in “Judgement at Nuremburg” and Sophia Loren for “Two Women.’ 11 . j! thaj/Tiave been ours to enjoy in the yearj juat I OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH JOHN L. MAAKESTAD. Paator SUNDAY 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School 11:00 a .m.—Morning Worship 7:30 pja.—Evening Service 9:00 p.m. Social Hour s 11:00 p.m. Watch Night Service TUESDAY 7:00 pjn.—Confirmation Claaaea WEDNESDAY 7:90 pjn.—Midweek Meeting 9:30 p.m. Choir Practice THURSDAY 7:00 pjn.—Luther League