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BlondieBy Chic Young
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LETTER I'LL MAIL ALL /EAR, MR.
BEASLEY IT'S MY ANNUAL
CONTRIBUTION TO THE
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY^
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CAB Hearings Start
On Airlines’ Requests for
Far East Travel Routes
WASHINGTON, (3—'Three ma
jor airlines locked battle in a gov
ernment hearing room yesterday
for lucrative travel routes thru
out the Far East.
First to be called, by Civil Aer
onautics Board Examiner Thomas
L. Wrenn, was Northwest Airlines
which wants:
1. Permanent authority to oper
ate its present route through the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska to
Tokyo, Taipei, Formosa, and Man
ila. Northwest’s temporary certi
ficate expires July 31.
2. A 12,000 - mile extension
throughout southeast Asia into
India. Northwest said a link at
Calcutta with the system of Trans
World Airlines (TWA) woilld pro
vide a globe-girdling service to
compete with Pan AmericanWorld
Airways.
3. A permanent route to Hong
Kong, now operated under an ar
rangement with the British-owned
Hong Kong Airways. In the event
the British withhold permission to
serve Hong Kong, Northwest pro
poses to operate through Portu
guese-owned Macau, down the
Chinese coast from Hong Kong.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
last year ruled on the air service
pattern across the Atlantic to Eur
ope and the Middle East. The
current hearing, expected to last
weeks, similarly will outline
routes for the other half of the
world except for U.S.-Hawaii and
U.S.-Alaska.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
House of Representatives
Votes to Give Members
Substantial Tax Relief
WASHINGTON, UP)—The House
of Representatives, which since
last February has kept bottled up
a bill for individual tax reduction,
has voted to give its own mem
bers substantial tax relief.
But the Senate may knock the
plan in the head, as it did last
year.
Without debate and with no
audible opposition, the House^ vot
ed Monday to allow members of
Congress to deduct all their Wash
ington expenses when they figure
out their tax bills. They can de
duct lodging, food, taxicabs, tele
phone charges and so' on for them
selves but not for their families.
For tax purposes, their legal
residences would be in their home
districts, and all Washington ex
penses would be considered busi
ness expenses and deductible for
tax purposes. Congress members
may now deduct up to $3,000 a
year as Washington expenses.
Sen. Williams (R-Del), who led
the Senate fight against the pro
posal last year, said he would
fight it again this year.
Rev. Rolland Armstrong Granted
Honorary Doctor of Divinity Deg.
SPOKANE, UP) — The Rev. R.
Rolland Armstrong of Juneau
was granted an honorary Doctor
of Divinity degree by Whitworth
College at the opening session of
the Presbyterian Synod of Wash
ington.
He is field representative for
the Board of National Missions of
the Presbyterian Church.
What Is The
American
Cancer Society
When deaths from cancer began
to roll onward with increasing
speed, it became apparent that
some sort of organized war against
this killer must be waged.
In 1945 it was decided to inten
sify the war against cancer on
three fronts: First, to educate ev
ery American to be forewarned
with knowledge about cancer and
consequently forearmed against
the disease (this means the doc
tors, too); Second, to bring facili
ties for the early detection of can
cer, prompt diagnosis, and effec
tive treatment within the reach
of everyone; and Third, to carry
on an ever - broadening national
program of research.
Another phase of the American
Cancer Society’s educational at
tack on cancer is keeping the pro
fessional men abreast of current
developments—the A.C.S. is es
pecially interested in the general
practitioner, who sees the patient
first.
The Society publishes several
medical journals of cancer pro
gress; it provides medical speak
ers, produces motion pictures, and
arranges exhibits of all kinds for
meetings of local medical groups.
The more you know, and the more
your doctor knows, the more like
ly you are to live if cancer strikes.
What about the second - front
service? This program does ev
erything to encourage the estab
lishment of such facilities at hos
pitals and elsewhere that offer i
help to the cancer patient.
The third front is manned by j
the smallest group of all—a group ,
that we on-lookers watch with
fascination and suspense. Their
work is veiled by a curtain of
mystery which even they have
difficulty in penetrating. These
are the researchers, and every
day they come closer to the final
raising of that curtain.
Twenty-four and a half million
dollars of your contributions have
supported their work and greater
strides have been made in the
control and cure of cancer during
the last ten years than in the
entire half-century before.
In surgery, new techniques,
along with aids such as antibiotics,
more extensive use of blood trans
fusions and so on, have been re
sponsible for saving thousands of
men and women whose cancers
would have been inoperable five
or ten years ago. For the first
time we can see the word “hope”
supplanting the word “fear.”
People are being taught more
and more about cancer, patients
are being helped, and doctors are
j deeply impressed with the pro- |
gress of cancer research. But still,
220,000 lives are being lost from
cancer every year.
Out of every dollar ycru contrib
ute, 60 cents stays in Alaska. Fif
teen cents goes to the national
headquarters for such things as
medical journals, fellowships for
doctors, scientific conferences, ex
hibits, pamphlets, movies, special
radio and television material and
to pay administration and fund
raising expenses. The other 25
cents is allocated for a national
research program through fellow
ships and grants.
So when you give your dollars,
remember that every penny is
used in a way that helps.
And give with the thought that
every cent is a memorial to the
220,000 who died last year, beyond
the help we some day hope to
give them.
Harry Gottschalk’s Bar
In Kodiak To Get Ornate,
48-foot Mahogany Bar
SEATTLE, UP) — Seattle’s most
glittering fount of pre-Prohibition
gayety—the ornate mahogany bar
of the old Butler Hotel—soon will
be back in business again, in Ko
diak, Alaska.
Warehousemen of the Lyon Van
& Storage So. today were crating
segments of the 48-foot, U-shaped
bar and its 6-by-16-foot mirror
of Belgian beveled glass for ship
ment to the Ship’s Tavern, oper
ated by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gott
schalk.
The bar has been in storage in
the firm’s University branch
warehouse since the hotel, at sec
ond Avenue and James Street,
was razed in 1934. The hotel, built
in 1889, soon after the great fire,
was Seattle’s first “big city” hos
telry.
Raymond Questad, warehouse
foreman, said the crated pieces of
the bar will weigh about 16,000
pounds. It will be shipped in
about a week.
134,000 Jobs May
Lose Protection
Of Civil Service
WASHINGTON, UPi— Chairman
Philip Young of the Civil Service
Commission announced Monday
President Eisenhower soon will
issue an executive order for a
review of about 134,000 jobs, 66,
000 in this country and 68,000
overseas, to determine whether
they should be stripped of Civil
Service protection.
Young said posts involved will
include specialists’ jobs brought
into the Civil Service in 1947 by
an executive order of former
President Truman.
Young said he couldn’t guess
how many present job holders
might be replaced, but said veter
ans won’t be affected. He added,
however, that 1,600 of about 8,000
government attorneys in the group
may be let out.
Monroney said in an interview
he thinks the Senate Civil Service
Committee, of which he is a mem
ber, should call Young before it
for an explanation of the order,
affecting what' Civil Service calls
“Schedule A.”
“I think old-line Civil Service
employees who were placed in
‘Schedule A’ by department heads
who wanted their specialized ser
vices should be protected against
a patronage grab,” the Oklahoma
Senator said.
“I know that many of them
were so classified in the Defense
Department because of the secret
nature of their work and these
career people should be protec
ted.”
Republicans in Congress have
been complaining that they have
found it difficult to get jobs for
party constituents, in many cases
because the appointees of the pre
vious administration who hold the
posts are protected by Civil Ser
vice.
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