RIDING THE WAVE I
Memorial O.K.’d to Let
Japan Cut Alaska Timber
(Continued from Page One)
The House also passed a bill by
Rep. Wendell Kay (D-Anchorage)
for aeronautical education and
training aid for eligible veterans.
Another bill"' to increase the
present Alaska school tax on em
ployed adults, doubling it ta $10,
appeared in the House Thursday
under sponsorship of Rep. Doro
thy Prior, Anchorage Republican.
An earlier bill proposed tripling
the present tax.
Other bills introduced were:
By Reps. Richard Greuel, Fair
banks and Theodore Duffield,
Nome, both Democrats, to require
an employer to provide transpor
tation from the territory of any
worker brought north.
By Reps. Herald Stringer, AnT
chorage; Fred Eastaugh, Juneau;
and Alden Wilbur, Fairbanks, all
Republicans, for the licensing and
regulating of real estate operators.
Among three memorials intro
duced was one by Reps. Prior and
Edith Bullock, R-Kotzebue) asking
the Interior Department to make
psychiatric facilities at the new
Native Service hospital at An
chorage available for temporary
care for both native and white
mental cases because no other fac
ilities in Alaska are available.
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THE PLIGHT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The New York Times recently made its annual
survey on the public school situation in the United
States. After much research, interviews, and other
investigation, the newspaper found that the schools
are suffering from intense growing pains, unexpectedly
large enrollment increases and a shortage of qualified
teachers—in addition to other things.
It discovered that, in September, a million more
school children enrolled than in the preceding Septem
ber. Moreover, this rate of increase is expected for
another ten years. The survey found that schools are
not being built fast enough, are not being expanded
adequately and, in some cases, not being maintained
properly.
An insufficient amount of funds, partly caused by
the inflationary spiral of recent years, has brought
acute financial problems to many school districts. The
rearmament boom has taken many teachers from the
schools and inflation, caused by the rearmament pro
gram, has reduced the buying power of school teachers’
salaries.
Citizens in this community must keep in mind that
education costs big money and that the number of
children enrolling each September is growing yearly.
Huge outlays will have to be made if the educational
standards are to be met and these outlays will naturally
involve some sacrifice.
All public-spirited citizens must rally to the urgent
needs of 1953 in the public school system. The alter
native is a lowering of teacher morale and this less
efficient teachers, sub-standard facilities, and poorer
citizens.
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WOF&S—
“Barrow or Bust’’ Stubbs
May Get Lady Companion
ANCHORAGE, (AT—Elderly Jes
se (“Barrow or Bust”) Stubbs may
have a woman companion to ac
company him on his trek to Point
Burrow to erect a monument hon
oring his boyhood friend, Will
Rogers.
Mrs. Edith Huddleston Clarke,
who is 52, quit her job with the
Alaska district engineers yester
day. She said she planned to ‘be
in Fairbanks when Stubbs ar
rives on his mushing trip from
Anchorage, and join him there.
Stubbs, who is now believed to
be in the vicinity of Tok Junction,
halfway to Fairbanks, with his
dog sled, has notified friends here
he hus no objection.
RUSSIA’S WAR ON JEWS
Representatives of Arab nations have recently in
formed American officials that the Soviet Union’s war
on Jews is winning the Reds friends in the Middle East.
Because the war between Arab nations and Palestine
is still fresh in the memories of Arabs and because
future trouble between Palestine and these countries
is freely predicted by many, the Russians’ attacks on
Jews have been popular in some Arab nations.
Recent reports indicate the Russians are gaining
influence rapidly in some Middle East countries. These
reports come at a time when the British are urging
the United States to back them more strongly in the
Middle East and when both Britain and France are
having serious difficulties in their Middle East posses
sions and protectorates. The State Department has
already stubbed its toe on this problem on several
occasions, the most recent being when U.S. delegates
to the U.N. refused to join Arab nations in asking a U.N.
investigation of French-Arab disputes in Morocco and
Tunisia.
It seems apparent that U.S. policy in the Middle
East must be not only carefully directed but carefully
carried out. This country cannot afford to side against
Britain or France 'and with a Middle Eastern Arab
country if the Communists are ready to take over as
soon as the British or French grant sovereignty for
Middle East countries.
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Paint must be a good preservative . . . judging
by how women are outlasting the men.
A man is as good- as he has to be, and a woman
as bad as she dares.—Elbert Hubbard.
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Vice, virtue and time are three things that never
stand still.—C. C. Colton.
Our generation was brought up on the wrong
side of the tax.—The Toledo Blade.
West Gets Red Jet
As Polish Refugee
Lands in Denmark
ROENNE, Denmark, UP — The
first Soviet jet fighter plane to
come into western hands undam
aged was brought to a breath
taking landing by a daring young
Polish refugee Thursday on the
Danish Baltic island of Bornholm.
A Polish legation spokesman in
Copenhagen declared angrily his
government would “of course” de
mand return of the jet—believed
to be a Mig 15—as soon as possi
ble. High Danish air force officers
flew here immediately to examine
the aircraft.
The plane, which carried Polish
air force markings, circled low
over Roenne, administrative cen
ter for Bornholm, before the pilot
decided to risk a landing at the
nearby airport.
While airport personnel looked
on in horror, the jet screeched
down safely on the 1,380-yard
long runway—about a third the
length normally required for
planes of that type.
The pilot, a curly-haired blcmd
youth of 23, asked immediately
for asylum in Denmark, saying he
coulchnot stand conditions in his
Moscow-controtled homeland.
Danish sources said the refugee
would be given political asylum,
but disposition of the plane re
mained uncertain.
As he climbed shakily out to
ask for political asylum, the Pole
kept repeating three German
words: “Kommunismus kapott—
•asyl.” (“Communism is finished—
asylum.”)
The star Sirius gives 28 times
as much light as the sun.
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BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop 666 opened their Wed
nesday night meeting with the
recitation, led by Allen Russell, of
the Scout oath and the Scout
Laws.
The new patrol under David
Bill has chosen the name, Hawk
Patrol.
A variety of games were played
during the recreation period.
Several scouts are working on
units required for advancement
in First Aid, the Scout Laws, and
marching drills.
Felix Oscarson led the troop in
singing familiar scout songs.
The scribe reported that there
are now 35 boys in Troop 666.
Four Scouts were chosen to
work with the Cub Scout groups.
They are: Red Enix, Paul Gla
vinovich, Charles Fagerstrom and
Larry Oscarson.
Although kangaroos can grow
to be 7 feet tall, they are less
than an inch long at birth.
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Wm. C. Strand Mentioned
As Top Candidate for Head
Of Division of Territories
SEATTLE, UP) — The Seattle
Times Washington, D.C., corres
pondent reported yesterday that
William C. Strand, former Alaska
newspaperman, is “considered the
leading candidate” for the direc
torship of the Interior Depart
ment’s Division of Territories.
Secretary of Interior Douglas
McKay recently announced that
he was considering Strand for an
“important position,” but did not
identify the post.
Strand, a former member of the
Washington Chicago Tribune Bu
reau, is a former managing editor
of the Fairbanks News-Miner and
returned to Washington to become
city editor of the Washington
Times-Herald.
He opposed immediate state
hood for Alaska, the Times Wash
ington dispatch said. In Alaska,
he wrote vigorous editorials crit
icizing policies of the Interior De
partment and Governor Gruening.
“Thule” is the ancient Greek
and Roman name for what was
then believed to be the most
northerly land in the world.
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