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Polio Vaccination Makes Sense
Suppose someone took you aside and said: “You
have an enemy who may waylay you and cripple you
for life. But I know how you can' stop this enemy.
'You’ll have to act fast. It won’t cost much money—
only $2.00—and it will take only 180 seconds of your
time.”
If you knew the facts were true, you’d take him
up on it, wouldn’t you?
Well, the facts are true. The enemy is paralytic
polio. If you’re under 40 years old, you’re a possible
victim. If polio strikes, you may face a life shattered
by disease and disability.
There is no cure for paralytic polio, but there is
a way to prevent it. The preventive is the Salk vaccine.
It is safe and it works. Three properly spaced shots—
at 60 seconds a shot—gives you protection.
Over 45,000,000 Americans have been smart
enough to get this protection. But 60,000,000 in the
susceptible age group have been foolhardy enough to
neglect it.
Don’t be one of the foolhardy ones. The polio season
starts soon. You still have time to safeguard yourself
and your family if you act at once. Go to your doctor
or your clinic now.
Vaccinate—before it’s too late !
HAPPY WITH HIS LIBRARY
During the traditional early morning walk on his
latest visit to New York, former President Harry Tru
man revealed to the customary trail of reporters that:
“I wouldn’t take New York if yen gave it to me.” Which
of course, should settle any plans of that sort which
New Yorkers might have been making.
He also revealed that he walked for exercise and
“would walk even though you fellows did not come
along with me.” Maybe he would, too.
“We continue to insist that there is too much law,
too much coddling of youth as well as the older folks. |
It’s time we get back .to basics ... let kids work, earn
money and realize its value. Allow teachers to punish
intractable students. Forget some of this psychology
about raising kids and start raising them with a hair
brush. And it’s time for the older folks who are not
already accustomed to do so to set a proper example.
—Gilbertsville (N.Y.) Otsego Co. Journal
ACS Announces
Rate Increase
Starting July 1
The ACS has announced that
telegraph rates will be boosted
oq July 1st.
The last previous rate boost
was a token increase in 1951,
amounting to about five percent.
Since then, rapidly rising oper
ating costs have necessitated an
other increase.
A minimum charge of 70 cents
for intra-Alaska messages will
also go into effect on July
Historical Background
During the Klondike gold rush
of 1897-1900, with the resultant
influx of people into Alaska, the
U.S. government found it neces
sary to establish a military de
partment of Alaska, with garri
sons at various points to maintain
law and order in the territory.
In order to provide telegraphic
communications between isolated
garrisons and the department
headquarters, Congress in the Act
of 26 May 1900, authorized the
War Department to construct the
1 necessary telegraphic lines and
| cables.
j In the autumn of 1901, a Signal
Corps trouble shooter was pulled
I out of his assignment in the trop
| ics and sent to the WAMCATS
j'Washington Alaska Military Ca
i ble and Telegraph System). This
trouble shooter was Lt. William
Mitchell. Some years later, as
j Brig. Gen “Billy” Mitchell of the
Army Air Corps, he stated: “He
who holds Alaska, holds the
world.” ,
The period 1902-1941 saw con
siderable expansion of the sys
tem. Submarine cables connecting
Alaska with the U.S. were laid.
As the art of radio communica
tion developed, some cable and
telegraph lines were replaced by
this new means. By 1930, the sys
tem was authorized a number of
high-power radio stations.
With the advent of World War
II, the Alaska Communication
System suddenly expanded into
a combination Army theater and
major tactical communication
system.
Today, the U.S. Army Alaska i
Communication System operates
and maintains a communication
system consisting of wire, cable
and radio channels.
With other circuits leased from
Canada, communications are ex
tended thru that country to the
U.S. and connected to points in
Canada.
In addition to the facilities of
the AOS, the are other circuits
in Alaska designed to serve a
specific military or governmental
function. The airways and air
communications service of the Air
Force and the Civil Aeronautics
Admin, have systems by which
air traffic within and approach
ing Alaska is controlled. The
Alaska Railroad and other gov
ernmental agencies to a lesser de
gree supplement and extend the
communications provided by the
system.
Portland Grand Jury Submits 69th
Indictment, Says There’s Much Yet
To Do in Fighting Corruption
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House Speaker Rayburn
Predicts Budget Cut
That Will Help Everyone
WASHINGTON UR—Speaker of
the House Sam Rayburn told a
group of Democratic governors
Saturday Congress is going to cut
President Eisenhower’s budget
and give the people a tax cut that
will help everybody.
Rayburn was quoted as saying
that Congress hopes to cut from
three to five billion dollars out of
the spending budget of $71.8 bil
lion “without hurting the coun
try.”
The breakfast meeting was
closed to newsmen.
Rayburn was quoted as saying
he had served in Washington un
der seven Presidents and consid
ered the administration the “most
inept and most partisan” he had
ever seen.
Minnesota’s Gov. Orville L.
Freeman reportedly brought a
laugh from the gathering when
he said he had heard a rumor
that if Eisenhower went on TV
and radio to defend his budget
the Republicans would ask for
equal time. He was referring to
Republicans in both houses who
have criticized the size of the
Eisenhower budget.
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> PORTLAND, Ore., UP)—A vice
investigating grand jury ran its
score to 69 indictments Saturday
and told Portland it still has a
long way to go before corruption
can be wiped out here.
The busiest of four grand juries
to investigate vice in the past
year, the jury submitted two final
indictments and a lengthy report
critical of Dist. Atty. William
Langley, Mayor Terry Schrunk
and local police.
Langley has been convicted of
failing to prosecute gamblers. He
faces six other indictments. May
or Schrunk faces five.
In a surprise move the grand
jury also recommended that Atty.
Gen. Robert Y. Thornton be re
placed in the probe.
“The appalling inability of our
attorney general to perceive the
emergent public need for forceful
action . . . has been increasingly
evident to us . .
Narcotics and prostitution should
be high on -the list of the next
grand jury, the report said, add
ing: “The interrelation of under
world characters and the overlap
of criminal activity indicate to us
the existence of a substantial
traffic in narcotics and its coexis
tent evil, commercialized prosti
tution.”
The report spoke of “gross mis
uses” of law enforcement machin
ery “by the misalliance of Dist.
Atty. Lingley and Mayor (and
former Sheriff) Schrunk.”
Schrunk and Langley assert
they are being framed by Gam
bler Big Jim Elkins because they
would not protect his activities.
It was Elkins’ story, a year ago,
accusing Langley, Schrunk and
others of having a hand in Port
land vice that started the investi
gation. Elkins repeated his story
before the Senate Rackets Com
mittee earlier this year.
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