SCHOOL NEWS
First Grade
One group of first graders has
completed the first reader “Our
New Friends” and is using supple
mentary readers.
Another group is using “Down
Our Street” first reader with its
accompanying workbook.
Marlin Hawk has moved to
Aniak; Margaret Weyanna to Tel
' ler Mission; and Ethel Kungesuk
has gone to Mt. Edgecumbe for a
short time.
Bessie Piscoya accompanied her
mother to Wales recently. Bessie’s
grandfather is ANS teacher there.
Jim Jack went with his mother
to White Mountain for their
church conference. He was quite
impressed with the many trees
he saw.
Leslie Green has re - entered
school after an extended illness.
Second Grade
Since the 19th of February,
nine pupils have perfect attend
ance records. They are: Joe Bar
ber, Mark Brown, Carol Doyle,
Carolyn Hudgins, Pauline Larson,
Nicky Longley, Carol Miller,
Johnny Payenna and Allen Reed.
We are reviewing arithmetic
and spelling. The children have
each been presenting two words
that they wish the class to learn.
We have had to discard many
new words much to the disgust of
the class.
We have our room decorated
with Easter bunnies, eggs and
baskets. Our main decorative ab
ject is the Easter Tree decked
with colored eggs and little
chicks. The base of the tree is
covered with Easter grass, with
more colored eggs, rabbits, East
er candy and baskets. We plan to
have an Easter party Friday
afternoon.
High School
We had our annual skiing party
last Friday and it proved to be a
lot of fun. Some of us who' didn’t
have any skis or didn’t know how
toboggan.
to ski, slid down the hill on a
The play cast has been busy
working on the annual school
play—rest assured, a comedy in
three acts, by Donald Payton.
Some of the classes have al
ready started their general review
as we are nearing the end of this
six-week period.
Several of the students in short
hand and typing are entering the
all-Alaskan commercial test which
is ,being given next week.
"OPERATION LITTLE SWITCH"
M-UNSAN, W—'The U.S. Eighth
Army has named the proposed
exchange of sick and wounded
prisoners of war operation “Little
Switch.”
The overall exchange of prison
ers will be known as operation
“Big Switch” if it takes place.
178,000 More Acres Of
Oil Leases Filed On In
Anchorage Land Office
anchorage, wi—More oil
lease applications were filed at
the Land Office here Wednesday
and a Shell Oil Company repre
senative said his company plans
to drill for oil in Alaska next
month.
Anthony Zappa, Jr., who al
ready has filed on thousands of
acres for a number of persons,
made applications for 173,000
acres for 35 other persons Wed
nesday. He paid 25 cents an acre
for the leases, totaling $44,060.
Two of the applicants named on
the papers filed by Zappa were
Phyllis and Cecelia Pamey. Zappa
who works in the District Engi
neers office, said the Farneys are
members of the Wurlitzer family,
manufacturers of musical instru
ments.
He said the leases were being
filed because he and his family
are interested in Alaska and want
to develop local sources of fuel
oil for increasing the population
in the territory. He said explora
tion will begin this summer and,
if warranted, drilling would fol
low immediately.
V. W. Finch, division explora
tion manager for Shell, said the
oil company should have its drill
ing operations underway by mid
May. He and James Berry, oper
ations supervisor, have been in
Anchorage lining up field parties.
Finch said there is no doubt
that oil is available—the problem
is where to sink a profitable well.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with intermittent light
snow becoming partly cloudy to
morrow. Winds light, variable.
Lew temperature expected to
night -10, high Saturday 20.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation .06 in.
High temperature 32, low 15. Max.
wind 7 mph from the north. Sun
rise at 5:11 a.m., sunset 7:00 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 11, low -14. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 38 in 1938,
low -23 in 1949.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -2 Light snow
Kotzebue 4 Light snow
Wales -9 Part cloudy
Gambell 0 Part cloudy
Nome 16 Light snow
Bethel 15 Cloudy
McGrath 28 Cloudy
Anchorage 34 Cloudy
Fairbanks 36 Cloudy
Whitehorse 38 Cloudy
Edmonton 39 Part cloudy
Juneau 40 Light rain
Ketchikan 44 Part cloudy
Seattle 45 Clear
San Francisco 58 Part cloudy
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President May Continue
Truman Restriction On
Government Information
WASHINGTON, UFi — President
Eisenhower talked Thursday as if
he might continue a 16-months
old restriction on government in
formation. Aides declined to in
terpret his remarks.
A news conference questioner
wanted to know whether the
President intended, as had been
Jeported in recent weeks, to re
scind or amend the order issued
by former President Truman in
December, 1951.
This order gave civilian agen
cies the power to classify as sec
ret and thus withhold from pub
lication official information whose
release they felt would prove
damaging to the nation’s security.
Heretofore, only the Pentagon and
State Department had such au
thority.
Eisenhower told his conference
the order was one of the things
that had been mentioned in his
official family, but no decision
had been reached.
He went on to say that if any
reporter ever knew of a specific
instance where the order was ap
plied to the detriment of the press
he wished the matter would be
brought to the attention of his
press secretary, James Hagerty.
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