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Educators Criticized
For Over-Domesticating
By Adjustment Approach
■DENVER, UP>—The president of
Rutgers University said yesterday
some educators are making “an
attempt to domesticate all Amer
ica” with their adjustment-to-life
approach to schooling.
Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, in
speaking to the American Assn,
of Land Grant Colleges and Uni
versities, criticized the idea that
general education is learning to
meet the problems of everyday
living.
“I doubt that this is what the
country needs,” he said.
“America has not grown great,
nor will she stay great, only by
promoting happy domesticity and
mere conformist civic virtues. We
need well trained intelligence, ad
venturous minds and courageous
innovators.”
Dr. Ernest Patty
Will Direct 1958
March of Dimes
SEATTLE—Dr. Ernest N. Patty,
president of the University of
Alaska, will direct the 1958 March |
ERNEST N. PATTY
of Dimes thruout the territory, it
was announced Monday from New
York by Basil O’Connor, presi
dent of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis.
The March of Dimes will be
held January 2-31 inclusive thru
out Alaska and in every commu
nity in the United States.
Accepting the territory-wide ap
pointment for the second consecu
tive year, Dr. Patty said:
“The widespread use of Salk
vaccine during the past months
has produced a dramatic drop in
numbers of new cases of infantile
paralysis. There is hope that when
nearly everyone has completed
the series of three vaccine shots
polio may eventually become a
rare disease.
“A successful March of Dimes
also means hope for further recov
ery and rehabilitation for children
and adults already stricken with
polio. Thus, the theme for the
1858 campaign will be ‘Survival is
Not Enough’, and the greatest
share of the funds collected will
continue to assist tens of thou
sands of such patients with their
hospital and medical expenses un
til they reach maximum recov
ery.”
Three B-66 Jets
Prove Air Force
Striking Strength
MANILA, UP)—'Three U.S. Air
Force twin-jet B-66 bombers
swept into the Philippines today
after nonstop flights from theU.S.
West Coast.
The Air Force said the flight
from George Air Force Base, Cal
ifornia, made in just over 17
hours, was part of an operation to
show it can deliver a tactical
striking1 force to help nip brush
fire wars anywhere in the world.
A spokesman said the 8,000
mile nonstop trip was a record for
B-66s, which can carry atomic
weapons. The flight refueled in
the air off Hawaii.
The B-66s were the vanguard of
47 jet fighters and bombers being
moved from various U.S. bases to
Pacific points in an operation
dubbed “Mobile Zebra.”
Thirty-one planes are coming to
the Philippines and 16 others will
stop at Guam.
An Air Force spokesman said
the operation was designed to
show a self-contained tactical
striking force can be moved any
where to meet potential aggres
sion.
The average speed was about
530 mph. The three-man light
Douglas bomber is rated in the
600-700 mph class.
Scandal Magazines
Will Retire From
Expose' Field
LOS ANGELES, OS’)—Confiden
tial and Whisper magazines have
decided to retire from the “ex
pose” field. And, in a develop
ment apparently related to this
decision, they have won dismissal
of one of the conspiracy charges
brought against them.
The magazines announced in
newspaper ads yesterday they will
“eliminate expose stories on the
private lives of celebrities” begin
ning with the March 1958 issue of
Confidential and the April 1958
issue of Whisper.
The ads said the magazines
“never felt such stories violated
any laws,” but nevertheless they
agreed on the format change with
the state attorney general and the
county district attorney.
After the ads appeared, Super
ior Judge H. Burton Noble dis
missed a charge of conspiracy to
commit criminal libel brought
against Confidential and Whisper.
The posecution did not object.
Antonin Zapotocky,
Czech President, Dies
VIENNA, Ufi—Antonin Zapo
tocky. one of the leaders in the
Communist seizure of Czechosla
vokia and its president since 1953,
died early today in Prague after
more than two years of heart
trouble.
The veteran Communist would
have been 73 next month.
Zapotocky was one of the foun
ders of the Communist Party in
Czechoslavakia. That was in 1921,
a year after a meeting in Russia
with Lenin which began a lasting
loyalty to the Soviet Union.
Search Still On
For PAA Airliner
Down in Pacific
HONOLULU, UR—Search for
the Pan American plane which
disappeared Friday with 44 per
sons aboard was resumed at day
break today.
The Coast Guard reported no
clues were discovered in yester
day’s search by the carrier Phil
ippine Sea.
The big carrier, with 29 radar
tracking planes and 12 helicop
ters, completed its first full day
of participation in the wide
spread search yesterday.
Its planes are covering a line
200 miles wide along the airliner’s
route. Four escort destroyers and
two submarines range ahead and
to the sides. After the carrier
planes returned at nightfall yes
terday, the ship also stopped so
l as to resume from the same point
today.
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Nuclear Subs
Urged for All
NATO Members
PARIS, W)—NATO’s naval com
mander, U.S.Adm. Jerault Wright,
today urged that U.S. nuclear se
crecy be modified to help equip
all NATO navies with atomic
submarines.
The admiral told the Atlantic
alliance’s advisory Parliamentary
Assembly that arming the navies
with A-subs should be given top
priority.
He added NATO countries could
equip* themselves without receiv
ing U.S.-built subs if the U. S.
Congress would amend the McMa
hon Act to make more nuclear
know-how available.
Wright told the assembly the
Soviet Union’s submarine fleet is
three times as big as that of the
United States and all its allies
combined.
The Russians are known to have
about 500 subs and the number is
increasing by 75 to 100 a year.
The mission of allied subma
rines now is to try to knock out
Soviet subs if there is a war, said
Adm. Wright.
Freight Rate
Increase Probed
SEATTLE, UP)—Alaska A 11 y.
Gen. J. Gerald Williams was in
Seattle today on a “fact-finding
expedition” in .connection with a
proposed 15 percent increase in
steamship rates to Alaska.
Williams and his first assistant,
David J. Pree, met with officials
of Alaska Steamship Co. and its
attorneys yesterday and another
day-long session was held today.
Alaska Steamship and Coast
wise Lines—the two major freight
carriers to the territory—three
weeks ago announced they would
I ask the Federal Maritime Board
I to approve the increase effective
December 2, 1957.
Atty. Gen. Williams said he was
j “quite surprised” to learn that
Alaska Steamship had prepared a
voluminous exhibit which was de
livered to the Maritime Board
and to Gov. Stepovich.
Gen. Curtis LeMay Sets Record
For Non-Refueling Jet Flight
From Massachusetts to Argentina
ABOARD KC-135 'The Boe
ing tanker transport which set a
jet plane distance record to South
America yesterday took off early
today in quest of a possible inter
American speed record on its re
turn.
With Gen. Curtis LeMay at the
controls and 22 other persons
aboard, the four-engine aircraft
left Ezeica Airport at 4:28 a.m.
EST. Its probably destination is
Washington National Airport.
Accompanying the flight are
three news correspondents: Vem
Haugland, Associated Press; Brig.
Gen. Robert Ginsburgh (ret.) of j
the U.S. News and World Report; i
and Peter Bird Martin, of Time I
i
magazine.
LeMay charted a nearly direct
course for the approximately 5,000
miles to Washington on his way
home from a quick visit to Argen
tina’s National Aviation Week and
a call on provisional President
Pedro Aramburu.
Mr. Halverson
Spots Sputnik
For Third Day
For the third consecutive day
Mr. Olaf Halverson, teacher at
Nome school and amateur astron
omer, has seen Sputnik, the Rus
sian satellite, circling the earth.
He reports his first observation
was on Monday morning at 6:45
a.m. The second appearance was
at 6:51 a.m. Tuesday. He said it
came into view directly south and
45 degrees up from the horizon.
This morning, in spite of cloudy
weather, Sputnik made its ap
pearance at 6:58 a.m., seven min
utes later than the previous day.
Its elevation this morning had in
creased to 68 degrees.
Several Nomeites reported see
ing the satellite this morning.
Among them was Art Sandstrom
of ACS, who messaged the fact
to the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.
The observatory yesterday
asked for sightings from armed
forces personnel.
Maurice Kelliher reported that
“There was no doubt that it was
Sputnik as it appeared larger
than any planet I ever saw in
the sky here and it moved very
fast.”
Mr. Halverson said the satellite
appears approximately seven min
utes later each morning. There
fore in a very few days it will be
obscured by the sunrise. At pres
ent it is visible to the people of
the far north such as Alaskans.
Tomorrow morning, Thursday,
it will perhaps cross directly over
Nome, states Halverson, so ob
servers should look high up over
head. “Begin looking at 6:50 a.m.
to 7:15 ajn.,” suggests Mr. Hal
verson. “My guess is that it will
be about 7:05 but you cannot de
pend on a fixed time.”
By VERN HAUGLAND
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, (A
—Gen. Curtis E. LeMay flew a
giant U.S. Air Force tanker here
from Massachusetts yesterday*
setting a world record in distance
and speed for no-refueling non
stop jet flight.
The Air Force vice chief of
staff, an expert in long-range air
power, said he had flown the es
timated 6,350 miles in 13 hours*
3 Vi minutes. His aides estimated
the average speed for the swept
wing KC-135 tanker at 484 miles:
per hour.
The purpose of the mission was
to demonstrate that the extremely
long reach of United States air
power is well beyond that of any
other country.
But the rumpled LeMay, former
chief of the UjS. Strategic Air
Force who himself held the tank
er’s controls for eight hours of
the flight, said “it was just an
other cross-country flight.”
Smiling a bit wearily as he
emerged from the plane at the
airport here, LeMay recalled he
had visited Buenos Aires in 1938
as part of a bomber group flying
propeller-driven B-17s.
The KC-135, which provides a.
global range to U.S. B-52 bombers;
by refueling them in flight, left
Westover Air Force Base, Massa
chusetts at 4:48 p.m. EST Monday
with the general and a crew of 18.
It touched down here at 5:51 a.m.
EST.
The KC-135, which costs be
tween two and three million dol
lars, is being delivered by the
Boeing Company in Seattle to the
Air Force at the rate of five per
month. The plane is in operation
at two air bases—Castle in Cali
fornia and Loring in Maine.
It is the Air Force’s tanker ver
sion of the Boeing 707 jet airliner
which is expected to gi into com
mercial service late in 1958 or
early 1959.
But it also is adaptable, the Air
Force said, to carrying troops and
cargo at jet speed and high alti
tude.
The trip did not set an official
speed record, because the Inter
national Aeronautical Federation
recognizes only speed tests from
one national capital to aother.
Three Men Killed
In Light Plane Crash
Near Bellingham, Wash.
WOODLAND, Wash, UR—1Three
men, including the president of a
Tulsa aircraft company, were
killed east of here last night when
their light plane zoomed from
rain-washed and dark skies into
a wooded hillside.
The dead were Jack R. Bigler,
president of the Bigler Aircraft
Corp., Tulsa, the pilot; Eugene D.
Kunz, 31, Bellingham, Wash., end
Ronald C. Limbacher, 24, also of
Bellingham.
Kunz operated a mobile radio
repair service. Limbacher was an
expert water skier. Both held pi
lots’ licenses.