Newspaperwoman Tells
Montana Chamber Alaska
Highway Should Be Paved
MISSOULA, Mont. (*> — Brit
ish Columbia newspaperwoman
suggested Saturday that Mon
tanans “turn a little heat on
Washington, D. C.,” to get the
Alaska Highway paved.
Mrs. Margaret Murray, dub
bed “Mrs. Alaska Highway,” told
the Montana Chamber of Com
merce Convention that “I feel
like Montana is the only state that
gives a damn whether we ever
pave the Alaska Highway.”
* She traced the history of its
construction since the idea for it
was bom to her and her late
husband back in 1928.
Today, she said, the 1,226
miles of highway, punched out of
the wilderness for wartime aid
to Soviet Russia is badly in need
of repair.
Mrs. Murray said America spent
a lot of money to build the road
because it wanted protection, but
the war ended, leaving Canada
to maintain the highway at a cost
of from $8 to 14 million a year.
“We want that highway paved
too,” she said. “But so far as
Canada is concerned, not much
can be paved until a lot of high
way is rebuilt.”
She estimated it will take 5-8
years to get the road paved.
Mrs. Murray impressed upon
the audience the vast potential
of the north country, including
the U.S. State of Alaska, and she
■pleaded: “Send us some settlers.
There's plenty of room for 25,000
of them.
“Contrary to some statements
that have been made, we don’t
hate anybody in the United States.
We need you.”
Fin* Job Printing At The Nugget
Rusk Backs Statement
On U.S. Ability to
Crush Any Aggressor
WASHINGTON MB — Secretary
of State Dean Rusk, backing a
Pentagon official’s declaration
that the United States has the
retaliatory power to crush any
aggressor, says any U.S. approach
to negotiation with the Soviet
Union would be from a position
of strength.
Ruak emphatically identified
himself Sunday with the assess
ment of U.S. military power by
Roswell Gilpatric, Deputy Secre
tary of Defense. In a speech Sat
urday night, Gilpatric said the
United States “has a nuclear re
taliatory force of such lethal
power that an enemy move which
brought it into play would be an
act of self-destruction on his
port.”
Appearing on a television inter
view program—ABC—“Issues and
Answers” Rusk was asked what
made it possible for the adminis
tration “to speak out so con
fidently and positively” on U.S.
military power.
“I think this is a point about
which there ought to 'be more
general public understanding,”
Rusk replied.
“The point is that the United
States and its allies are strong,
.Mr. Khrushchev must 'know that
we are strong, and he does know
that we are strong.”
At the same time. Rusk dis
counted speculation that the U.S.
position had hardened in its ap
proach to a Berlm settlement.
Joseph Schenck of Movie
Fame, Is Dead at Age 82
HOLLYWOOD Ut) — Joseph M.
Schenck, who made $4.50 a week
“s an immigrant boy in New York
and a fortune as lord of a celluloid
empire in Hollywood, is dead at
82.
Schenck helped develop such
diverse talents as Fatty Arbuckle
and Marilyn Monroe and had a
hand in founding four major en
tertainment enterprises during his
long career.
He was generally an off-stage
figure.
He died in his sleep Sunday at
his Beverly Hills home.
Communist China is adopting
the capitalistic practice of going
in for brand name products.
Among them are “Far Reaching
Wine” and the ‘^Double Happi
ness” table tennis balls.
Cherry’s
Barber Shop
New Winter Hours
Shop Open
}1:O0 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday & Wednesday
To Accomodate
Tfcs Working Pooplo
Thur. - Fri. - Sat.
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| Midas Missile Sets
| Radio-Reflective
Belt Around Earth
POINT ARGUELLO, Calif.
—A Midas missile-alarm satellite
rocketed into a 2,100-mile-high
orbit Saturday and spewed out
350 million tiny copper needles
designed to spread into a giant
radio-reflective belt around the
earth.
If successful; the experiment
will place in space a five-mile
wide band of hair-like reflectors
which scientists can use to bounce
radio waves half way around the
world on frequencies not now
available.
The Air Force said Midas IV
ejected the needles shortly after
going into an almost circular
2,100 miles height, completing the
3,000-mile circuit once every 2
hours, 52 minutes.
It may be three to four days
before radar can determine how
well the needles, invisible from
the ground, followed the planned
pattern of dispersal in space.
The Midas satellites carry an
infra-red eye able to detect the
heat of a ballistic missile’s ex
haust seconds after launch.
Some astronomers have opposed
the experiment on the grounds
that if the needles go awry in
space they could interfere with
optical and radio observations
of the stars, or even damage satel
lites.
•Despite the controversy, ap
proval for the test was given
earlier this month by President
Kennedy’s scientific adviser, Dr.
Jerome B. Wiesner.
The tiny needles, each 7/10s of
an inch long and one-third the
thickness of a human hair, were
in a six-by-20-inch cylinder in the
tail section of the 30-foot long
Midas.
The firing was a spectacular
one as the missile’s flames reflect
ed from the overcast and lighted
up the countryside.
Forty minutes later the Air
Force announced the booster
dropped away and the second
stage fired on schedule.
The cylinder, after ejection,
was designed to throw out a cloud
of needles that would stretch
within 60 days into a 2,000-mlle
mile* wide and 25
needles was a small
proportion of the payload of the
Midas satellite, fourth launched
ir. ah effort to perfect a metuas of
detecting missile firings from *
space. Only Midas ill was suc
cessful.
UPSIDE DOWN . . . "*Jfc
TROY, N.Y. un — Engineers at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
didn't know Which end was up.
After the cornerstone was laid
for a $9-million science center, it
was discovered that the stone was
upside down.
It bore only the numerals,
“1901,” which college officials
pointed out look the same either
way. Such a mistake would be
hard to make again until 6009,
they noted.
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equivalent distances he'd cover 300 to jjj
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of the most serious epidemics
in history—the "Black Death"
or bubonic plague! It wiped
out more than half the popu
lation of Europe in the Middle
Ages .. . was carried from*
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pests under control. One of the .
effective new pet powders is made
with an insecticide base called
"Drionone." a development of Fair
field Chemicals, FMC Corp. Pet pow
ders made from this base are fatal to 4
fleas yet provide long lasting com
fort and protection to pets.
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