Trucks Are For The Bird's
REGISTERED HOMING PIGEONS, like typical flock heading for
. landing at cote (below), nowadays ride to races in style not en
joyed by their feathered ancestors. Trucks specially equipped to
provide birds all comforts of home lofts transport superbly con
ditioned racers to liberation points up to 1,000 miles away.
TRUCK TRANSPORTATION’S
alliance with the sport was
started in Chicago where
fanciers of strain noted for
speed, homing instinct num
ber 900, include young, old.
AIR’S DENSE with beating wings as fast-flying birds, kept at
competitive peak on highway journey, are released from coops
stacked beside International trucks. Because uncanny birds take
so well to mobile surroundings, pre-race travel-weariness—old
havoc—has disappeared. Flights of 500 miles a day at mile-a
minute speed have resulted.
Corsi’s Charges
On Immigration
Called Reckless
WASHINGTON, tfV— Secretary
of State Dulles said Tuesday Ed
ward Corsi made reckless charg
es after his dismissal from a State
Department job. Dulles added
that Corsi’s ouster was in no way
dictated by a desire to get along
with Congress.
Corsi, special adviser to Dulles
on immigration matters, lost the
post Sunday when Dulles abol
ished the assignment. Dulles said
it had been temporary all along.
Corsi, Italian-born veteran of
public office in New York State,
came back Monday with a letter
to the secretary turning down the
offer of another post. He said “an
intolerant minority both in Con
gress and within the department”
have sabotaged the administra
tion’s refugee relief program.
Dulles referred to this as a
reckless charge.
Corsi named Rep. Walter (D-Pa)
specifically in his complaint about
congressmen’s actions, and later
criticized by name W. Scott Mc
Leod, chief of the refugee pro
gram, in discussing what Corsi
said went on in the department.
Tuesday Dulles told a near
record number of reporters at a
news conference Corsi was dis
missed because he wanted to be
named administrator of the pro
gram to admit refugees into this
country. That, the secretary said,
would have been in defiance of
the law which gives the job to
the department’s security chief—
McLeod.
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Gold-Seeking Prospector
Is First Person to Shoot
Hells Gate Rapids
NORTH BEND, B.C., (£>—A gold
seeking prospector who last week
became the first person to shoot
the terrifying Hells Gate Rapids
of the mighty Fraser River, says
he’ll never try it again.
Bill Deziak, in a tiny, 6-foot
boat, made the 200-foot run thru
smashing waves and whirlpools
in less than two minutes. He
wanted to gain access to river
sandbars in his search for gold.
Hugh Dunlop, for 12 years the
keeper of the Hells Gate Fish
ways, said Tuesday it was the
first time he had ever heard of
anyone trying to shoot the rapids.
Dunlop, the lone witness to the
38-year-old Deziak’s feat, said the
prospector “just made it by the
skin of his teeth.”
The Fraser, in its mad rush
thru Hells Gate, plunges down 11
feet within a few hundred yards.
The depth of the water at high
level has been estimated at 25
feet. . The rapids are 85 miles
northeast of Vancouver, B.C.
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to the music of our new pianist
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Icebreaker Atka
Returns From
Antarctic Voyage
BOSTON, UR — The Navy ice
breaker USS Atka was back home
today after a 30,000 - mile, 4Vz
months voyage to select shiftable
bases in Antarctica for this coun
try’s part in the world-wide geo
physical year program of 1957-58.
The Navy’s cherished accolade
“well done” was bestowed on the
long-gone vessel as she docked
yesterday at a pier crowded with
an official reception committee
and scores of friends and relatives
of the crewmen.
Included in the reception dele
gation was Rear Adm. Richard E.
Byrd, U.S.N., the famous polar
explorer, who read a joint mes
sage f^om the Secretary of the
Navy, Chief of Naval Operations
and the Secretary of Defense ex
pressing “congratulations on the
successful completion of a voyage
to Antarctica.”
Only one mishap saddened the
ship’s company of 237. That was
the death in a helicopter crash of
Lt. John P. Moore of Lenoir, N.C.
He crashed on his return to the
ship after ferrying Father Daniel
Linehan, S.J., the noted seismol
ogist, ashore at Little America.
Father Linehan said he measur
ed the thickness of the ice by
creating synthetic earthquakes
with dynamite and found the ice
was 1,200 feet thick with solid
rock beneath it at one location.
Atka scientists said they found
the blade of a wind generator—
set up by Adm. Byrd in 1934—
still turning. They brought it
back for him.
The Navy plans to send five
ships to the region next year to
land supplies and equipment for
the main project the following
year. Thirty-eight nations, includ
ing Russia, are participating in
various parts of the world in the
geophysical year project probing
natural phenomena.
Uncle Sam Owns Over
$30,000,000,000 Worth
Of Real Property
WASHINGTON, UP)—Uncle Sam
owns more than 30 billion dollars
worth of real property including
land, buildings and various types
of facilities, the Senate Appropri
ations Committee reported Tues
day.
Included in the total is all such
property acquired by the federal
government up to Dec. 31, 1953.
The holdings involve property
at 11,493 federal installations that
are scattered over the nation, and
include 58,500,000 acres of pur
chased land and 428,786 buildings.
Not included is 346,600,000 acres
of public land, including the na
tional parks and forest lands. This
property was held by the govern
ment from the beginning.
All told, 405,100,000 acres are
owned by the federal government
—about 21 percent of the nation’s
continental land area.
The inventory was the first
such stocktaking since 1937. The
General Services Administration
called it the most complete ever
made. GSA prepared the report.
The time seems to be approach
ing when more cars will be
wrecked beyond repair than will
be worn out through use.
Though like the wanderer. The sun gone down.
Darkness be over me. My rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I'd be. Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Nearer, my God, to Thee. Nearer to Thee! a
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