Spokane’s William and Diana Hottell went on a three-year, 77-nation tour of the world and wrote accounts of their experiences for the Chronicle. The Hottells went on a mountain-climbing venture on Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
The United States Air Force announced the closing of its base in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Ladd air force base was referred to as ‘mammoth sized’, and its closing would involve the inactivation of the jet interceptor squadron based there as well.
Six cottages were smashed and vandalized at the southwest end of Loon Lake. Mrs. Richards, one of the cottage owners, said a $200 reward was posted for information leading to the arrests of the vandals by the property owners on Larson Bay.
Dave Beck was imprisoned to two five-year concurrent sentences for filing two fraudulent union tax returns. The former head of the teamsters’ union surrendered himself to the U.S. marshal in Seattle.
Spokane’s newest public swimming pool was dedicated to Stanley G. Witter, the city’s recreation superintendent for more than 26 years. The Witter pool, originally the Sinto pool, was rebuilt from Sinto’s two old pools built in 1914 at Mission Avenue and Perry Street.
A wrecked railroad car created a large white cloud of toxic smoke in Norman, Oklahoma. The winds carried the smoke, causing more than 8,000 residents to evacuate their homes. The danger was from the phosphorus trichloride leaking from 55-gallon steel drums.
The following area students have been named to the spring dean’s list at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, requiring a minimum GPA of 3.5 and a minimum of 12 credit hours: Markell Agee of Deer Park, Jonah Foo of Colbert, Andrew Steinhart and Maxwell Sadler, both of Spokane.
