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WHERE TO GET A JOB
One ever-present problem to young people when
they finish schools and colleges and start out into the
larger world is where to get a job.
Today 'there is a tremendous opportunity in the
field of marketing, according to authorities. Young
people in growing numbers are turning to retailing as
a career. It has been observed that marketers need
“the best youth in the country to become salesmen.”
Retailing, like all other branches of marketing, is
as competitive an enterprise as anyone can imagine.
The day when all that was necessary was to put goods
on display and then wait for the eager customers to
come flocking in has long since passed. Successful
stores are putting more and more stress on better sell
ing, better advertising, better inducements and promo
tions of every kind. Young people with the right apti
tudes and a willingness to work and learn can earn
good incomes to start with, and opportunities for future
progress are virtually unlimited.
Retailing has always been a business which has
brought its leaders up from the ranks. As an example,
the top men in the big chain systems began, for the
most part, at or near the bottom—as clerks, warehouse
attendants, and so on. That’s also true of other kinds
of stores. And today the field is bigger and more prom
ising than ever.
THE DESTROYER OF LIBERTY
If you think the menace of super-government is
new in the world, read this: “The way to have good
and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but
to divide it among the many . . . What has destroyed
liberty and the rights of man under every government
which has ever existed under the sun? The generaliz
ing and concentrating all cares and power into one
body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia
or France or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.”
That was written in the early days of this Repub
lic, by one of our greatest statesmen, Thomas Jefferson.
What Jefferson fought and argued for was true lib
eralism—as contrasted with the phoney “liberalism”
of today which urges all-powerful government—the
kind of government that has brutalized and enslaved
hundreds of millions of people in the last 30 years.
Big Earthquake
Causes New Stream
To Flow in Desert
DIXIE VALLEY, Nevada,
In this desolate, arid valley,
where water has been found only
in minute quantities, a warm
stream now spurts from the
mountain fastness and races
along an awesome gash in the
valley floor.
Deep scars slash the valley floor
as if an angry giant had attempted
to pull the mountains from their
roots.
Scientists say either the snow
capped peaks have been shoved
upward a few feet or the valley
itself has dropped.
These are results of the violent
earthquake born in this isolated
spot Dec. 16 and felt in five west
ern states.
‘The quake was without doubt
one of the most important ever
recorded in the United States,”
Professor David Slemmons, Uni
versity of Nevada earthquake ex
pert said. By this, he said, he
means in terms of ground dis
placement.
Slemmons is among the scien
tists who have converged on Dixie
Valley to study the effects of the
quake. He flew over the area—
some 50 miles east of Fallon—
mapping the gaping scars caused
by newlv-opened faults.
One slash extends for 26 miles.
Slemmons found part of a new
fault where one side is 20 feet
lower than on the other side. He
called this possibly one of the
greatest vertical shiftings of earth
ever recorded in the United States.
The area is sparsely settled, and
for all its fury the quake brought
no casualties.
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Western Powers Reject
Charges U.S. Violated
Big Four Pact on Austria
VIENNA, Austria, tf)—The three
Western powers Tuesday rejected
Soviet charges that the United
States had violated four-power
agreements by keeping troops in
Austria’s French occupation zone.
Russia had demanded their with
drawal.
Representatives of the Big
Three rejected a Soviet resolution
presented at a special meeting of
the Allied Control Council which
would have put the body on rec
ord as declaring the U.S. troops
“represent a violation of the exist
ing control agreement on Austria.”
U.S. High Commissioner Lewel
lyn Thompson Jr. denied the
charge. He said only a small Am
erican communication force was
stationed in the French Zone to
“maintain communications with
Italian ports to U.S. forces in Aus
tria.”
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“X” FOR CHRISTMAS
By Ray H. Tveler
The meaning of Christmas is much more, to me,
Than music and greetings and gifts 'round a tree.
For me it’s the mem’ry of Jesus Christ’s birth—
True Deity deigning to dwell here on earth.
If Christmas has meaning 'if Christ is the one
Who Scripture relates is the Father God’s Son'
If He’s come to counsel, to love and redeem,
Then surely we’ll give Him due praise and esteem.
Leave “X” out of Xmas and put in CHRIST’S name.
Permit Him to order our lives, in us reign,
That love like our Saviour’s may be our true guide,
And the CHRIST of our Christmas all year may abide.
Greenland Troops
Live in Big Tubes
Built on Snow
WASHINGTON, W—Somewhere
in Greenland several score men
are living in a series of connected
tubes, 18 feet in diameter and of
varying length, which are sinking
slowly into the arctic ice cap.
The Air Force said the quarters
include sleeping space, mess hall,
recreation room and a kitchen. It
said they are in an area where
standard buildings could not be
erected on the packed snow.
Since the tubes are heated to
about 72 degrees and the outside
temperatures go as low as 75 de
grees below zero, the Air Force
said, the tubes can be expected to
sink into the snow at a rate of
about three feet a year.
In Miami, Florida, retired Brig.
Gen. Robert G. Lovett, who super
vised the construction, said the
quarters were built 18 months ago.
He estimated they could be used
for 15 to 18 years before they will
have to be abandoned.
The Air Force said the men liv
ing in thcrrj make weather obser
vations and collect other informa
tion. The-exact location was not
given.
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Secret Unit Seeks
‘Blind Spots’ in
Radar Screen
By Vern Haugland
WASHINGTON, (#)—'The Air
Force disclosed Tuesday that a
small and hitherto secret unit has
been searching out “blind Vpots”
in the Canadian-U.S. radar screen.
The intent is to find and plug
all the gaps in the radar chain,
designed as a continuous system,
across Canada to spot possible at
tacking planes.
An Air Force spokesman said
the unit also has been testing elec
tronic counter - measures—means
of jamming an enemy’s radar and
radio transmissions and of count
ering enemy attempts to do the
same.
The unit was identified as the
4677th Radar Evaluation Flight.
It has been working for a year out
of Hill Air Force Base near Og
den, Utah. A flight is the smallest
of Air Force units, less than a
squadron of planes.
The Central Air Defense Force
at Grandview, Mo., said the pri
mary mission of the flight is to
calibrate or measure the exact
coverage of radar equipment.
Accurate mapping of the radar
range would pinpoint any blind
spots caused by interference of
one kind or another, so that de
fense planners could identify the
area to be covered by other means,
such as by ground observation or
by auxiliary radar units.
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