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Died. The Rev. Thomas Cunningham, 53, weather-beaten Jesuit priest for 24 years in arctic Alaska, who traveled on dogsled with chalice and folded altar to his far-flung parishioners, translated Catholic hymns into the Eskimo tongue; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska. Father Tom was guide in 1958 to a party of 19 U.S. scientists trapped on a narrow ice island when it was dislodged by a storm, kept up morale until the whole party was rescued by plane...
...Smith's four-year-old Hillsdale was bunched with three other horses with only a dozen yards to go in the California Stakes at Hollywood Park, Calif., but responded to the whipping of Jockey Tommy Barrow, won by a nose in a driving finish. The $66,800 winner's share increased Hillsdale's lifetime earnings to $415,095, gave him first place in 1959 winnings with $270,250. ¶ In a dual track meet between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State at Norman, Okla., for the first time in college track history three vaulters cleared...
...Barrow of Fun. In Jefferson City, Mo., convicts at the state penitentiary, lacking a telephone booth, stacked 17 men in one wheelbarrow...
...unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole under water; in Framingham, Mass. Wilkins learned his first lessons in cryogeography on an Arctic expedition with Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who taught him "to work like a dog and then eat the dog." Sir Hubert's 1928 flight from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen-made with Carl Ben Eielson-was the first airplane : ight from North America over the top of the globe to the European area; and the trip under the edge of the Arctic icecap in 1931 was cool enough to chill spines in 1958. A converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins...
...trip, frankly admitted that his basket of good news was calculated to help win the election. In Juneau he announced a long-awaited ban on the hated fish traps, symbol of the control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks. In Point Barrow, he promised a new water line, new National Guard armory, and gas lines, as well as the addition to the local school. For Anchorage and Fairbanks, there will be multimillion-dollar help for the airports, and for Juneau a new federal building. Elsewhere-"a bridge here, a ferry there...