Educators to Present
Documentary Film Tonight
Arriving this noon with Wien
Airlines are a group of educators
selected by the Ford Foundation
and representatives of the Uni
versity of Alaska, Who are on
tour throughout the state to study
recommendations for improved
adult education services to be pro
vided through the University of
Alaska.
The study is being financed by
a grant of $15,000 from the fund
for the Advancement of Educa
tion of the Ford Foundation.
In the party were Dr. Julius
'Ncflte, Dean of the Unversity of
Minnesota; Dr. Lloyd Drury, Dean
of Statewide Service at the Uni
versity of Nevada; Dr. George
Worthington Adams, academic
vice president of the University
of Alaska; Dr. Arthur Buswell,
Dean of Extension Service; and
John Nieml, assistant to the presi
dent.
At the Chamber luncheon this
noon Dr. Buswell explained the
growth of the University of Al
aska and its special statewide
programs such as the extension
course, community colleges, edu
cational programs on military in
stitutions and how the program
is continuing to grow rapidly to
meet the adult needs.
Dr. Drury, upon request of Sen.
Pearse Walsh, told the Chamber
of the mining and mineral ex
ploration in his State of Nevada
and was pleased of the support
being given the Western block in
Congress by Alaska for gold sup
port and gold legislation.
Dr. Adams, who has been with
the University for a few weeks,
considers the trip an orientation
trip so that he can see the coun
try and its people and get ac
quainted.
This afternoon the group was
tgken to the site of the State
Vocational School as well as a
tour of the Nome School facili
ties.
This evening at 7:30 p.m. in
te Multi-Purpose Room of the
school they will snow a docu
mentary film, "Alaska and Its
Natural Resources" for adults,
,gnd further discuss ..the education
needs ifor thjs area, including the
'program of' tee State Vocational
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•/>’■ The p^m is encouraged to at
'adult education in addition to the
Say wSjomuvbit
H sentatives of the National Insti
tue of Health passed through Ju
neau yesterday on a trip to west
ward Alaska. While here, they
Conferred with Gov. Egan.
1 Dr, Gordon Seger and Dr. Dale
Lindsay, who heads the National
tnrtftnte of Health's grant-in-aid
'program, plan to visit Anchorage,
Fairbanks, the University of Alas
ka, Barrow and possibly Nome.
Egan said the two scientists are
interested primarily in work in
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WEATHER FORECAST
Cloudy with snow and little
in temperature. Lowest
Omtjn 15, U. 5.5 to
Communist Party
Congress Opens
With 101 Slogans
MOSCOW UP — The Soviet
Union published an appeal for
friendship with the United States,
Britain and France today, within
24 hours of opening of the big
Communist Party Congress.
The appeal was one of the mj»ny
slogans the country publishes each
year in advance of the Nov. 7
celebration of the anniversary of
the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
There are 101 slogans this year.
While the Congress will adopt
a program calling for Soviet eco
nomic and cultural development
aimed at spreading Communism
over the world, the party Central
Committee not only proposed
peace and friendship between
East and West but even invited
friendship with the people of
West Germany.
“Long live friendship and co
operation between the people of
Britain, the United States, France
and the Soviet Union in the in
terests of a stable peace through
out the world,” said Slogan No.
38.
The slogans occuplied the en
tire first page of Pravda, the So
viet Communist party organ.
Among major news items was
one on the arrival of the Chinese
delegation.
The delegation is headed by
Premier Chou En-Lai. But the
Chinese party’s1 No. 1 member,
Mao Tze-Tung, stayed at home.
The ideological schism of the
Soviet and Chinese parties con
tinues and appeared to be re
flected in Mao’s absence and the
cooling of relations between the
Soviet Union and little Albania
which these days is taking its
principal guidance from China.
Supreme Court Knocks
Down Sixth Attempt to
Block Racial Integration
WASHINGTON — The Su
preme Court for the sixth time
in nemSy two years, knocked down
attempts by Louisiana to block
racial integration of its public
schools.
The decision let stand a lower
court criminal prosecution by the
state of people who help or en
courage the sending of children
to integrated schools.
The high tribunal acted with
out hearing arguments. It merely
issued a one-sentence unsigned
ruling—apparently unanimous —
upholding a decision handed down
by a special three-judge federal
court in New Orleans last May 4.
INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT DROPS
FULL POINT IN SEPTEMBER
WASHINGTON Uh — Indus
trial output dropped a full point
in September to 112 per cent of
the 1957 average, mostly because
of auto strikes and hurricane
Carla, the Federal Reserve Board
announced today.
This was the first drop in the
index since February, and the
hoard's summary of business con
ditions showed that the recovery
was advancing slowly—if at all
—in several important segments
of industry.
INSURANCE . . .
TOKYO — A Japanese tex
tile firm is offering anyone buying
its aid outfits; a three-day in
surance policy that pays up to
$140 for injuries suffered while
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Search Made for
Missing B-52G Jet
Bomber in Atlantic
NEW YORK UPi — A bobbing,
yellow object was spotted today
during the search of the North
Atlantic for a B-52G jet bomber
with eight men aboard. It appear
ed at first to be a raft, but turn
ed out to be a Navy oceano
graphic device.
The Coast Guard said the air
and sea search would be resumed
tomorrow—for the third day—in
an effort to learn the fate of the
Air Force straggler from Opera
tion Sky Shield II. The plane has
been missing since Saturday eve
ning.
Shortly after noon today, as
some 22 planes and four Coast
Guard cutters carried the search
850 miles into the Atlantic, the
Coast Guard received a radio re
port that one of the planes had
sighted the life raft at an un
disclosed distance off Cape May,
N.J.
A large freighter, the Mormac
Cove, was asked to go to the scene
there it found an orange-colored
float, donut in shape, eight feet
in diameter, bearing the emblem
j of the U.S. Navy Woods Hole
(Mass.) Oceanographic Institue.
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Pacific Northwest Could
Be The Food Basket
Of the Western World
VICTORIA, B.C. UP! — Recent
discoveries in plant science prove
the northwestern United States
British Columbia, the Yukon
and Alaska could toe the food bas
ket of the Western world, the
Pacific Northwest Trade Associ
ation was told today.
Dr. George D. Scarseth of the
American Farm Research Associ
ation, West Lafayette, Ind., said
the cool, short nights of the area
produce a high sugar concentra
tion in plants—the secret to high
yields and superior quality.
In warmer climates much of
the sugar made in plants during
the shorter daylight hours is lost
I through respiration, which burns
up sugar in the hot and longer
nights. The cool soil of Pacific
Northwest farmlands retains the
moisture.
There are about as many hours
of growing daylight in Fairbanks
during the short summers as
there are in the long summers
of the cornfields of southern Il
linois.
The vastness of the Northwest
and the diversity of areas makes
almost any kind of agriculture
possible, said Dr. Scarseth.
He said there should be no
question of a lack of consumers
because the 200,000,000 people
living in the United States and
Canada will be about twice that
number in 25 years.
Electric Car Will Be
On the Market in 1962
KALAMAZOO, Mich. UO — The
long-dead electric car is being re
surrected.
Stuart Motors Inc. announced
yesterday it planned to market an
electric passenger car.
Barry H. Stuart, president of
the new firm, said the car would
be called the Stuart add would
have a plastic fiberglass body.
Stuart said the car would be
nine feet seven inches long, five
feet four inches wide and would
carry two adults and two or three
children phis cargo. %■.
He said the car, for which the
prices were not announced, Would ]
be available after Jan. 1. • I
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Camel Cart Driver
Is Guest at Vice
President’s Ranch
JOHNSON CITY, Tex. UD — A
Pakistani camel cart driver, pay
ing Vice President iLyndon John
son a visit, took a horseback ride
today.
The ride, first time Bashir
Ahmad had ever been in a saddle,
was a tour of Johnson’s LBJ
ranch, 05 miles west of Austin.
Johnson and Bashir arrived by
plane Sunday night from New
York fra- a two-day Texas visit.
When Bashir awoke this morn
ing, Johnson presented him with
an alarm wrist watch and hur
ried him to a television set which
was showing pictures of the camel
driver’s arrival in New York.
“How can it be here when we
were there?” Bashir asked.
After breakfast, the Vice Presi
dent and Mrs. Johnson accom
panied Bashir to the ranch corral
where two horses were saddled.
Bashir was • boosted aboard a
palomino named Silver, which
carried a red, white and green
western style saddle.
“This just like sitting on a
davenport,” Bashir commented.
“You don’t feel the horse at all. |
You just feel leather.”
The Pakistani interpreter, Sahib
Khan, explained the Bashir had
ridden horses before but always
without a saddle or bridle.
Johnson asked if Bashir would
trade his camel for a horse.
Johnson—ito whom Bashir re
fers as “the deputy king”—first
met the camel driver while the
Vice President was touring Paki
stan last spring. As he shook
hands with Bashir, Johnson said,
“come over and see me.” And
Bashir accepted. American busi
nessmen made the trip possible
under the People-to-People pro
gram.
UAW Resumes Work
At Ford Motor Co.
DETROIT UR — Ford Motor Co.
today began turning out passenger
cars and trucks at half of its
j 16 asembly plants following a
13-day strike by the United Auto
Workers Union.
The company estimated it
would assemble 3,300 cars and
600 trucks today. This is approxi
mately half normal.
(Prospects for resumption of full
production this week brightened
after the UAW leadership per- 1
suaded an insurgent group of tool (
and die makers to return to work :
in Dearborn, Mich.
Soane 850 members of the unit
at first defied union orders to
join the back4o-work movement
of Ford’s 120,000 production em
ployes.
Instead, they attended a meet
ing Jto press their demands for
jab security. They claimed the
company has been farming jobs
to outside shops.
Several hours later, they com
plied with a request that they
return to work.
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Good Enough for a Demo . . .
TRIVANDRUM, India UR —.
U.S. Ambassador John Kenneth
GaUbraith, who is 6-feet-8, was
provided a special bed during a
visit here.
“I understood the bed was made
in a more spacious era of expendi
ture for a British peer,” said the
American envoy. “What was good
enough for a British peer is good
enough for ah American Demo
crat.” : •• J*' V : A-r
Big Four Discuss
Berlin Problem
WASHINGTON — The State
Department said today Western.
Big Four talks on Berlin will be
continued in Washington and that
Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn
Thompson is staying in Washing
ton to participate.
Thompson, the U.S. envoy to
Moscow originally had been slated
to return to the Soviet capital in
time for. the opening of the So- .
viet Communist Party Congress
tomorrow. He has been here for
consultation. •
The Washington discussions
among the Americans. British and
French and West Germans will
be in lieu of a high-level London
meeting originally planned and
then cancelled because of French,
objections.
The object of the London meet
ing was to have been to work,
out common Western positions in
event of any negotiations with the
Soviets on the Berlin dispute.
State Department press officer
Lincoln White said “it has now
been decided to continue the
Western consultations on Berlin
in the (four power) ambassadorial
steering group in Washington,
with such augmentation of the
ambassadorial group as is deem
ed desirable by each foreign of
fice.”
The reason for the switch, in
formants said, was France, which:
objected that it would be pre
mature to get into discussions on
negotiations when the Kremlin
has offered nothing the West can
negotiate about.
Alaska District Office
Of Army Engineers
Transfers to Anchorage
SEATTLE to — Army Engi
neers announced today the Alas
ka District office, in Seattle . .will
be closed and approximately 40
employes will be transferred to
the Anchorage office.
' The Seattle office now employs
89 persons, and 48 of the number
will toe• dismissed or transferred
to other positions, the Depart
ment of the Army announced.
Completion of major military
construction projects for the
Army • and Air Force in Alaska
resulted in a decrease of approxi
mately 130 employes in tfoe U-S
Army Engineer District, Ajpsfca.
from 1080 until now, the an
nouncement said.
“The rear echelon of thp Alas
ka District currently employs 88
persons who are concerned, pri
marily with the engineering de
sign of military facilities. Re
duced requirements for the design
of such facilities makes it neoes*
sary to reduce 48 employes from,
the number currently employed
on this work.
‘"The remaining work, requir
ing some 40 persons, can be
handled more efficiwitjy from
the district office in .Anchorage.
This number of employes, there
fore, will foe offered transfer op
portunity from Seattle to Alaska.
The action will consolidate all of
the Alaska district forces ia the
State of Alarica where all ol the
construction projects are located*
; Japan-South Korea to Negotiate
i TOKYO to — Japan and South
Korea agreed Saturday to resume
negotiations Oct. 20 on normal
izing diplomatic relations be
tween the two countries. The ta^ka
have been held on and off fir
t0 years, but property claims and
other issues have blocked an
agreement! •
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