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THE ONE THING WE CAN’T SEEM TO HOARD _
AIR ACADEMY ARCHITECTURE
Since the cream of American youth will be at
tending the Air Force’s long-awaited Air Academy
and we, as taxpayers, will foot the $126,000,000 bill, it
would be nice to think this West Point of the Air will
be the finest example of American architecture.
The Air Force has unveiled a model of its “dream”
academy as designed by a firm of “modern” architects.
One congressman said it looked like a “cigaret factory.”
Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright called it a “vio
lation of Nature” and a “factory for birdmen.” The
chapel design, a metal and brass creation that looked
like an accordion, was withdrawn quickly when
churchmen protested.
The balance of the design, consisting of stark
looking buildings of aluminum, glass and steel, was left
in a shadowy state. Secretary of Air Harold Talbott
said the design really wasn’t in final form, although
the Air Force had just announced construction would
begin this summer.
It would be sad indeed if General Billy Mitchell’s
dream of an Air Academy turned out to be a nightmare.
This Year’s Salmon Pack
Way Below Last Year s
SEATTLE, wn—The pack of Al
aska salmon so far this year is
considerably below that of last
year at the same time, McGovern
and McGovern, fish brokers, esti
mated Wednesday.
The pack of red salmon to date
has totaled 492,092 cases, against
557,902 last year, a decrease of
65,810 cases. The pack of pinks is
new 130,039, against 151,654 cases
last year, a decrease of 21,614. The
chum total is 10,588 cases, com
pared with 465,810 last year, a de
cline of 315,222 cases.
The overall shortage, based on
last year’s figures, is 402,653
cases.
Mr. and Mrs. David Traniham,
who have been teachers at King
Island for the past two years, have
been transferred to Stebbins,
where they will be teaching next
year.
One of the World’s
Richest Chrome Mines
Producing Near Seldovia
One of the world’s richest
chrome mines, and the only pro
ducer of metallurgical chrome un
der the American flag has started
mining operations in the Red
Mountain area of Seldovia.
This is the property of the Alas
ka Chrome Corp. of Anchorage of
which C. A. Sherman of that city
is president and general manager.
The mine is a comparatively
new discovery and was operated
briefly during World War II.
Known then as the Chrome
Queen, its discoverer, <Juy Kearns
of Seward took out 7,000 tons of
ore and stock-piled it under gov
ernment orders on the beach.
The ore is still on the beach,
never having been transported to
the market by the Metal Reserves
Corp., which at that time was
buying up all strategic metals.
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Many Activities
In Seattles Seafair
Celebration
SEATTLE Iff)—Seattle lifted the
lid on its annual Seafair Celebra
tion this morning and if a visitor
has time to catch two deep breaths
in succession for the next 10 days
he just isn’t trying to keep up.
And greater Seattle, which di
rects the affair, says the visitors
will add up to about a million per
sons.
The 10-day program includes—
quoting Greater Seattle—“a total
of 171 fun-filled events bridging
the 238hours of Seafairtime,
1955.” The activities list has eight
parades, four street dances, a cou
ple of coronations, a stack of
sports events and international
festivals and a nightly stage and
water show called the “Aqua
Follies.”
All of which builds up to the
climaxer: the gold cup speedboat
race Aug. 7 in which the home
fleet of Slo-Mo-Shuns will defend
the trophy against the challenges
of approximately a dozen roaring
water monsters from other cities.
The “Department of Hoopla” is
headed by a “King Neptune” and
his court. There’s also to be a
“Queen of the Seas,” who will be
selected Tuesday night from a
field of 34 contestants. Visiting
queens from Portland, Juneau and
a number of Washington cities
will arrive Thursday to enlarge
the department of beauty.
Present Fishing Methods
Threaten Extinction of
Alaska Salmon Industry
ANCHORAGE, (ffi—The salmon
fishing industry in the Bristol Bay
area will be dead within the next
two years under present fishing
methods, a spokesman for the
Naknek-Kivichak region said here
Wednesday.
Denton R. Moore, representa
tive of more than 500 fishermen,
said something will have to be
done to save the $30 million in
dustry. He suggested a plan he
said would salvage the Bristol
Bay industry. It included further
research into the salmon’s habits;
local control of the fishing season
and restriction of fishing privi
leges to residents of Bristol Bay.
The synonym for prison is
spelled two different ways in
England and in America. In Eng
land, goal; in America, jail. It
is pronounced the same way in
both countries.
CAA Orders Operators Of
Stratocruisers to Install
Vibration Indicators
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Civil
Aeronautics Administration has
ordered airlines to install vibra
tion indicators in all their Boeing
Stratocruisers.
The CAA also has urged that all
Stratocruiser operators replace
the hollow-steel propellers of the
big Boeing airliners with solid
aluminum blades, with the vibra
tion indicaters as an interim
measure.
CAA took the action several i
days ago as the result of “a whole j
series of incidents involving Strat
ocruisers,” a spokesman for the
agency said yesterday.
The spokesman said the hollow
steel propellers have a tendency
to break and set up such a terrific
l imbalance as to tear the engine
out of its mount.
He said the vibration indicators,
which have already been installed
in most of the Stratocruisers, de
tect and identify an engine vibra
tion quickly enough to enable the
pilot or flight engineer to take ac
tion to avert engine destruction.
Pan American Airways and
Northwest Airlines are the major
users of Stratocruisers in the Uni
ted States.
MAN BITES MAN
SAHA, Ikinawa, MPI—Tokuhachi
Namihira like's to get his teeth
into a good hot political argument.
And when he makes a point, he
likes to hang on.
The 48-year-old Okinawan got
into a verbal hassle over relative
merits of Okinawan political par
ties with a friend, Toyoya Mat
suda. It waxed hotter and hotter.
His family finally had to call
officials to resolve the dispute.
Police pried Namihira’s mouth
open and released Matsuda’s arm.
Talbott’s Future
To Be Decided
By Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, The “per
sonal” decision President Eisen
hower says he will make on Har
old Talbott’s future as secretary
of the Air Force apparently will
have to be made without any ad
vice from the Senate.
There was no indication an ear
ly report would be made by the
the Senate Investigations subcom
mittee which inquired into Tal
bott’s about-to-be severed outside
business connection.
The subcommittee wound up its
; hearings yesterday after Talbott
had testifed “I now see that I was
mistaken” in some of his actions.
Talbott dramatically told the
subcommittee he is giving up, ef
fective next Sunday, the partner
ship in the New York firm of Paul
B. Mulligan and Co., which has
paid him $132,032 in the 2Vz
years since he took his Pentagon
job.
Talbott told the subcommittee
that “I have never used my posi
tion as secretary to pressure a liv
ing soul to give the (Mulligan)
company business.”
“In retrospect, however,” he
continued, “I now see that I was
| mistaken in permitting myself to
make phone calls1 or write letters
about the company.”
He had acknowledged telephon
ing from his office and writing on
Air Force stationery some letters
which dealt with affairs of the
Mulligan Company, a manage
ment engineering firm which has
among its clients some with gov
ernment contracts.
The term, Kangaroo Court, was
brought to America by Austra
lian “forty-niners” during Cali
fornia’s great gold rush.
Revive us again; Psalm 85:6
Fill each heart with Thy love; Rom. 5:5
May each soul be rekindled Luke 12:49, 50 |
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