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WHAT IS SO RARE AS HIS DAY IN JUNE
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WHEN McKAY VISITS SECOND DIVISION
Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay will be in
Nome on July 23rd and we trust the weather will give
him a better reception than it did Secretary Krug, who
has a similar rushed schedule and who failed to make
a landing.
As the Secretary will have an exceptionally brief
stay in Second Division it will be difficult to present
to him the many outstanding needs peculiar to this
area. From statements made during the statehood
hearings by several senators it is plain that the people
of Second Division must show that they are American
speaking people, on an equal with stateside Americans.
He should know from the people themselves that
they know they are in a “no-man’s land” as far as
defense is concerned and that a road from the interior
must be built to unify Northwestern Alaska with the
rest of North America.
He should learn that some of the hydro-electric
power should be developed in this area to help build
a permanent economy, a growing area, of steady devel
opment not retarded by remote control and political
favoritism.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce would
be glad to accept communications with suggestions for
Secretary McKay and the Nugget would be glad to
publish letters expressing the constructive ideas of all
of the people of Second Division.
GRASS ROOTS OPINION
Las Vegas, N.M., Daily Optic: “The rule that Presi
dents kill themselves on the job has a happy exception
in the case of Herbert Hoover, who is performing val
uable service to the nation 21 years after he left the
White House. Earlier Presidents came back for brief
periods of service in the Executive Department and
the Congress, but of all the list Hoover has contributed
the most in his post-presidential period.”
Views and Reviews
It is easy to go to war, but ending the thing is
more compliated.
The risk attendant to child-bearing has reached
a new low in the United States, according to the Public
Health Service. It would be nice if the same could be
said for the risk attendant to being born.
Soviet Airman Named
Bakhchiavanzhi Was First
To Fly Jet—It Says Here
LONDON, —A Russian, radio
Moscow said today, was the first
to fly in a jet plane.
In a Soviet aviation day broad
cast, the voice of the Soviet Union
said:
“In 1942 the Soviet airman
Bakhchiavanzhi was the first in
the world to perform a flight in
a jet aircraft, which was of home
design by Bokhovitinov and pro
vided with a jet motor by Dush
kin, thus establishing priority for
our country in the field of appli
cation of jet-propelled aircraft.”
The broadcast made no mention
of Air Commodore Frank Whittle,
British inventor who started re
search in jet propulsion in 1937
and had jet engines pushing
Goucester planes around the skies
in 1941.
Soviet Chess Team Romps
To 5 to 1 Lead In First
Round Over Americans
NEW YORK, Lfl — A team of
Russian chess masters romped to
a 5-to-l lead early today in the
first round of a match with Am
erica’s top players.
The Russians, playing on U.S.
soil for the first time, won four
of their games and drew two in
an encounter that lasted well
past midnight.
Two matches, being played by
Americans Donald and Robert
Byrne, were not finished when
the time limit of five hours ran
out.
This is the third American
Russian meeting. The Russians
have won twice, once in Moscow
and once in a match played by
radio.
Senate Has No Time
For McCarthy Ousters
WASHINGTON, L5>)—'The sec
ond attempt in a week to oust
Sen. McCarthy from his commit
tee chairmanships seemed destin
ed today to join its companion in
a freezer in the Senate Rules
Committee.
Sen. Jenner (R-Ind) Rules Com
mittee chairman, made plain he
expects to see no action on the
matter when he voiced “doubts”
that time remains for it this ses
sion of Congress.
Jenner’s apparent lack of en
thusiasm for the McCarthy ouster
has matched that of Senate lead
ers, both Republican and Demo
crat, who yesterday saw to it
that a resolution offered by Sen.
Lehman (R-NY) was shunted off
to the Rules Committee.
Last Friday, Sen. Flanders of
fered a motion likewise sent later
to the Rules group.
This year there will be an es
timated 530,000 new cancer cases
in the U.S., the American Cancer
Society estimates.
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Bobo Rockefeller
Gets 5V2 Million
Divorce Settlement
NEW YORK, (jf)—Babara Sears
(Bobo) Rockefeller departed her
Park Avenue apartment — pre
sumably for Reno and an end to
her Cinderella marriage.
The coal miner’s daughter who
married into one of Ameria’s
greatest fortunes was silent.
But sources close to the dom
estic wrangle said her lawyers
and those of husband Winthrop
Rockefeller reached a financial
settlement and divorce agreement.
They said she will get 51^ mil
lion dollars, plus a $500,000 trust
fund. The 37-year-old blonde will
have custody of the couple’s son,
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 5, but
the father will have fixed visita
tion rights.
In January, Rockefeller offered
her either a $500,000 trust fund or
a fixed $70,000 a year income in
addition to the 5V& million dol
%
lars, and she elected to take the
trust fund.
Rockefeller, in Akransas, and
his representatives here declined
comment.
The marriage in 1948, was the
second in high social and finan
cial circles for Bobor, whose father
was a Lithuanian immigrant.
Her first husband was Richard
Sears Jr., scion of an old Boston
mercantile family.
The marriage was the first for
Rockefeller, 42, a grandson of
John D. Rockefeller who built a
fortune in oil.
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Transcript of McCarthy
Army Hearings Run to 35
Volumes, 1,645,000 Words
WASHINGTON, (B — If words
were dollars, the record of the
Army - McCarthy hearings would
rate as a million-dollar produc
tion.
Up until today, the official
transcript ran an estimated 1,645,
000 words in length—filling 35
volumes of testimony each the
size of a .big city telephone direc
tory.
That’s twice the size of the
Bible — the King James version
running 774,746 wrds, according
to the Library of Congress.
If the hearings grind to a halt
today, as seems likely, the trans
cript should not exceed 1,700,000
words.
The statistics on the hearings
into the row between Sen. Mc
Carthy and high Army officials,
while impressive, aren’t a record.
They are surpassed by such in- 1
quiries as that into the Pearl Har
bor disaster and the firing of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur by former
President Truman.
The Pearl Harbor investigation
in 1945-46 ran 70 days and heard
43 witnesses and compiled a rec
ord of 10 million words.
The inquiry into the dismissal
of MacArthur ran 42 days in mid
1951 and took over two million
words of testimony.
SAW FISH?
CHESTER, Calif., IB — Work
men at a sawmill cut into a huge
rotted log and out poured about
1,500 live fish from 1 to 8 inches
long. The fish probably were
trapped inside the log while it
floated in the mill pond, sawmill
men said.
Every day 620 Americans die
of gancer, American Cancer So
ciety statistics show.
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