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REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN ?
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SCHOOL BOOKS TO BOOST MORALS
The Golden Rule series of elementary readers for
character education are being used for the first time
this fall in the first three grades in various cities around
the country. According to the publishers, these readers
teach—but do not preach—cooperation, courage, fair
ness, friendliness, honesty, kindness, patriotism, per
serverance, responsibility, reverence and unselfishness,
at the beginner level where first impressions are most
lasting.
These new books are the result of years of the most
exhaustive and comprehensive research ever made into
the reading habits, interests and enthusiasms of chil
dren, financed by a grant from the Palmer Foundation
to “foster and promote principles of morality through
the public schools.” The description sounds like some
thing made to fit the need of the age that has been
overrun by materials that have contributed but little
to those qualities above mentioned.
—Jeffersontown Jeffersonian (Ky.)
McELROY REVERSES MILITARY
ORDER CUTTING RESEARCH
By JOHN A. HARRIS
WASHINGTON (if)—The Defense
Department has ordered the mili
tary services to make no cuts in
the $1,700,000,000 which Congress
voted for basic research in the
current fiscal year.
Secretary of Defense Neil H.
McElroy, who took office Oct. 10,
Monday announced modification
of an Aug. 17 economy memoran
dum issued toy his predecessor,
Charles E. Wilson.
The Wilson memo had the ef
fect of curtailing some basic re
search spending, altho Pentagon
aides said this had not been in
tended.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Sputnik—a
major factor in the quickening in
terest in U.S. research—silently
•orbited the earth at 18,000 miles
an hour. The red moon was sent
op Oct. 4.
The sphere’s radio ceased trans
missions four days ago,1 and there
have been no U.S. sightings either
of Sputnik nor of its rocket sec
tion in the last few days because
their orbits do not now bring
them across this continent during
twilight or dawrf.
In the latest of a series of an
nounced technological advances
by the military, the U.S. Army
disclosed some information Mon
day about its new Hawk missile,
which is designed to blast low
flying planes out of the sky.
An announcement said the mis
isle has a radar device that ig
nores stationary objects and
speeds the weapon toward moving
aerial targets. The Army said the
Hawk can destroy invading air
craft even at treetop level.
The missile is not yet ready for
combat issue and an Army state
ment said the Hawk “must be
brought forward rapidly.”
Thirty-seven places in the U.S.
are called Berlin; 21, Rome, and
19, Vienna.
Soviet Domestic Upheaval Means
Free World Alert, Says Dulles
WASHINGTON, UP>—Secretary
of State Dulles said yesterday in
a period of domestic Russian up
heaval the United States and the
rest of the free world must be on
the alert for possible foreign
moves by the Soviet. *
Dulles told a news conference
he would not want to give the im- j
pression that war is just around |
the corner. He said he does not j
really think that is true.
But whenever a great nation
has internal troubles, he said, it
is historical fact that such trou
bles sometimes lead to external
acts. Under such conditions, said
Dulles, the United States is al
ways on the alert for what the
Soviet Union might do.
No Special Alert
The present situation—revolv
ing around the mystery of the
reasons for Marshal Georgi Zhu
kov’s dismissal as defense minis
ter—has not required any special
alert, Dulles said, because all the
top people in the U.S. government
are aware of the possibilities.
Dulles also made these state
ments on the current Soviet situ
I ation and other international is
j sues:
j 1. If President Eisenhower is in
i vited to attend the NATO council
| meeting in Paris in December he
| will give the invitation sympa
I thetic consideration.
Up To Eisenhower
2. If the Soviet government pro
j posed Marshal Zhukov as ambas
srdor to Washington, it would be j
up to Eisenhower to determine
whether he was acceptable be
ra',t;a the President always makes
decisions on ambassadors. There
.. .. oeen some speculation the
Russians might make such a pro- j
posal. Zhukov and Eisenhower j
were associated in World War II. i
3. Projected new division of de- ;
fense duties among the United1
States and its allies will not in- j
volve any reduction in defense j
spending in this country but may
mean some shifting of funds
among military projects. Dulles
also said the United States intends
to maintain its manpower com
mitments in Europe and the Far
East.
50 Passengers Get
Jittery Ride With
Runaway Prop
BOSTON, UP>—A runaway pro
peller, causing a fire in the en
gine and teeth-chattering vibra
tion, gave 50 passengers and nine
crew’men a nervous three hours
aboard a Scandinavian Airlines
DC-7C over the Atlantic last night.
The episode ended happily, how
ever, when the four-engine liner
turned back and made a perfect
landing at Boston.
The plane was enroute to Scot
land and Denmark from New
York City.
Two hours out of New York,
the left outboard propeller began
to rac'e out of control.
Turning back, the pilot jetti
soned 20,000 pounds of fuel and
reduced altitude from 21,000 to
6,000 feet. The passengers were
moved to the rear of the plane for
better balance.
The passengers accepted the
situation wonderfully, said the
pilot. “The vibration was tremen
dous,” he said. “It shook the
whole ship. The engine caught fire
but we put it out with our ex
tinguishing equipment. It kept
flaring up and we kept putting it
out.”
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Grenade Blast in
Israeli Parliament
Wounds 5 Leaders
JERUSALEM, W—Police found
two more hand grenades today in
the village home of a young Jew
who hurled a grenade into the
Israeli Parliament last night,
wounding five government lead
ers. '
The find raised police suspicions
that the bombing was planned
methodically and was not merely
the act of a deranged mind.
The blast seriously injured Is
rael’s social welfare minister
Moshe Shapiro and wounded
slightly Premier David Ben-Gur
ion, Foreign Minister Golda Meir
and two other Cabinet ministers.
Police said a young girl told
them she saw Moshe Ben Jacob
Douek, 25, a former mental pa
tient, digging something out of
his garden at his home in a village
just before he left for Jerusalem.
Souek was seized in the public
gallery soon after the grenade ex
ploded on the floor below.
In a raid on Douek’s home last
night, police found old Commu
nist literature, including a book
written by Lenin.
Police quoted Douek as saying
he had a grudge against Youth
Alyah, an immigration organiza
tion which helped him migrate
from Iraq to Israel several years
ago.
Italian Aviation Pioneer
Gianni Caproni Dies of
Heart Attack at 71
ROME, UP>—Gianni Caproni, a
pioneer of Italian aviation, died
Sunday of a heart attack. He was
71 years old.
Caproni’s airplane projects be
gan in 1908 and the first flight by
one of his planes was made on
May 27, 1910. In 1912-13 he estab
lished many Italian and foreign
records for speed and duration of
flight with one of his monoplanes.
In 1914 he built a tri-motor bi
plane, the first multi-motor plane
ever built.
Caproni was given a medallion
and scroll by the U.S. Air Force
four months ago. He had made his
library on the history of aviation
available for study by U.S. schol
ars. His aviation enterprises oncd
included a plant at Baltimore.
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