Looky — It’s National
Smile Week . . .
CHICAGO — The Publishers’
Auxiliary, an Editor’s weekly, re
leases a calendar of special days
and weeks for March:
National Buttermilk Bread Sales
Month.
One-Dish Meals with Cheese
Month.
National Home Improvement
Month.
Red Cross Membership and
Fund Campaign, March 1-31.
Easter Seal Appeal — March 6
to April 6.
Hebrew Month.
Spring Millinery Openings begin
March 9.
National Smile Week — March
9-14.
National Rice Week — March
15-21.
Andrew Jackson’s Birthday —
March 15.
National Children’s Week —
March 16-22.
National Wildlife Week —
March 15-21.
St. Patrick’s Day — March 17.
Campfire Girls Founders Day
— March 17.
Campfire Girl Week — March
22-29.
National Teenagers Day —
March 21.
Allied Youth Week — March
22-28.
Honey for Breakfast Week —
March 28-April 5.
Palm Sunday — March 22.
Easter Sunday — March 29.
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U. of A. Pres. Says
Statehood Bill Was
4Well Conceived’
PORTLAND, Ore., OP) — The
President of the University of
Alaska said Monday that the rest
of the Upited States is getting its
first realistic view of Alaska now
that it has achieved statehood.
The educator, Dr. Ernest N. Pat
ty, told a Chamber of Commerce
luncheon forum that for example,
writers now are seriously seeking
facts, not Eskimos and igloos.
“I’ve lived in Alaska most of
my life, and I’ve never seen an
igloo. Neither have the Alaska
Eskimos, I dare say,” continued
Patty, a Portland High School
graduate and a native of Oregon.
Before becoming university
president he was for years in
Alaska mining operations.
“You have to live in Alaska to
understand what it felt like to live
as a ward of the government un
der territorial status,” he said.
“The statehood bill was well
conceived. It gives Alaska the
right to select 100 million acres
of the best land in the territory
for its own. Before statehood the
government owned 99 per cent of
the land and the red tape was such
as to drive you mad if you tried
to acquire title.
“Speaking as a business man, I
do not expect to see any increase
in taxes. We already pay 2 per
cent sales tax in the cities and a
state income tax equal to 14 per
cent of the amount of our fedei'al
income taxes.”
Blueprints and drawings for a
Turbojet Transport plane weigh
250,000 pounds — nearly equal to
the plane’s actual weight.
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Despondent Former Judge
Takes Own Life
SAN FRANCISCO, UP!—William
Denman, 86, retired federal judge
who said life was difficult after
the death of his wife, was found
dead Monday night with a bullet
in his head.
Houseboy Fred Woo told police
he discovered the body of the
retired chief judge of the Ninth
U. S. Court of Appeals lying on
the floor of the study in the Den
man home with a .38 caliber autor
matic pistol in one hand.
Clara Denman, a niece, quoted
the judge as saying life had been
unbearable following the death
February 8 of Mrs. Leslie Den
man, his wife of 52 years. The
couple was childless.
A PROCLAMATION
Governor Hugh Wade "has
proclaimed March 8 to 15 of 1959
as Girl Scout Week, in a Procla
mation released March 5.
The document further states:
“. . . and March 12 as the For
ty-Seventh Aniversarv of the
founding of Girl Scouting in the
United States of America. I there
fore call upon all citizens to give
the Girl Scouts now and in the
coming years the fullest coopera
tion and support so that increas
ing numbers of girls may benefit
from the splendid program of
training in citizenship which the
Girl Scout organization offers.”
1947 Texas City
Blast Laid To
Careless Smoking
HOUSTON, Tex., l#> — A fed
eral judge ruled Monday that a
carelessly discarded cigarette or
match likely caused the freighter
fire which triggered the death
dealing 1947 Texas City disaster.
The decision by U. S. Dist. Judge
Ben C. Connally followed nearly
12 years of legal maneuvering.
It ^favored the United States
government in its efforts to col
lect some 70 million dollars from
the French government and the
! French lines.
Judge Connally said neither the
French government or the ship
| firm is entitled to exoneration or
| limitation of liability in the.fire
: and resulting explosion aboard the
; S.S. Grandcamp.
The French blamed spontaneous
| combustion for the fire in the
French Line vessel loaded with
J fertilizer grade ammonium ni
! trate.
More than 500 were killed and
more than 3,000 injured when the
fires spread through the small
city on Galveston Bay.
In 1931 the world’s first radar
apparatus was developed at the
i Naval Research Laboratory.
HAVANA VICTORS SHOOT
7 WAR CRIMINALS TUESDAY
HAVANA, — Seven persons
were executed Tuesday, bringing
to 399 the unofficial total shot
as war criminals by revolutionary
firing squads.
Those executed included for
mer soldiers of deposed president
Fulgencio Batista and members
of the private army of ex-Senator
Rolando Masferrer.
75 years ago the first capitol
of Alaska was established at Sitka.
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