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LET’S STRAIGHTEN IT OUT!
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PRACTICAL — CUM LAUDE
In all the current commotion over higher educa
tion, our crying need for double-domed scientists we
haven’t got, we think it’s high time somebody gave a
thought to the kids—hundreds of thousands of them
across the nation—who do not go to college, and who
will not be going to college, no matter what the in
ducements.
These are the youngsters who must shoulder re
sponsibilities at a tender age, who must prepare them
selves quickly to “help out” at home; the girls who
want to be secretaries, the boys who want to be ac
countants but who may have to get their educations
via the night school route; still others who are frankly
not students, but require some special grooming to
prepare for the battle of life at a modest level. For
these, a government program that would force them
into college would be both heartless and futile—just
as it is tragic today to see young people in our colleges
who are there 'because their parents insist upon it
and can pay the bills.
And let us recognize, too, that no group of our
citizenry contributes more to the nation’s economic
and civil welfare, to keeping the wheels turning in
business and industry and our government functioning
at the national, state and local levels than these busi
ness school careerists. Without them, we should be
in a bad way—but quick! In fact, we can think of
nothing more chaotic and generally insufferable than
a world of double-domes.
NO SUBSTITUTE THE FOR PRINTED WORD
Man’s appetite for news is enormous. We have to
be deprived of it before we fully understand how we
crave this form of mental nourishment.
A news dispatch tells of an ex-American soldier,
captured in Korea, who chose to live in Red China
with his Chinese wife. The one extravagance in which
he indulges is a subscription to a news agency bulletin
printed in English. It costs 15 yuan ($6.30) a month—
one-sixth of his income. He told a reporter “. . . he
felt he must get news somehow.”
Too few persons appreciate a newspaper until it
is hard to get. Most Americans take it for granted.
The ex-soldier has a radio but he finds nothing takes
the place of printed news.
Secty. McElroy Says Our
Military Position Sound
But Urges More Money
WASHINGTON, CR —Secretary
of Defense McElroy told senators
Tuesday that “on the whole our
military position is sound.” At
the same time he urged speedy
appropriation of more than a bil
lion dollars to step up programs
for ballistic missiles and related
defenses.
McElroy was lead-off witness
in a closed door session of the
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee on an emergency money bill
containing $1,260,000,000 of new
funds plus transfer authority on
($150,000,000 of old funds.
' The measure won unanimous
passage in the House last week
and is 'expected to get similar
Senate treatment, possibly with
some additions.
In advance of the committee
meeting Sen. Russell (D-Ga) said
he is afraid President Eisen
hower’s defense budget does not
provide enough military “strength
in being.” He predicted Congress
will put up more money for the
' Strategic Air Command.
“We have got to step up our
Strategic Air Command to in
crease our strength in being,”
Russell said. “Despite the devel
opment of rrjissiles, the manned
bomber is not obsolete. It is going
to be with us a long, long time.”
Wien Airlines
From Fairbanks: Ralph Sac
cheus, Taylor Moto, Wyman Croy,
H. Cor jell, J. O’Guin, N. J. In
gral, Mildred Murphy, Florence
Mayberry, Mr. and Mrs. Chuck
Frazier, Glenn Martin, Donald
Olson and Wm. Dozette.
To Fairbanks: Omie McCarthy,
H. Ootenna, L. W. Pelly, David
Stocking, R. Hommand, H. Lyle,
Geo. McCafferty, Jerry Knoll.
To Kotzebue: Albert Ripley,
Elmer Crowley, Sam Yauser.
From Kotzebue: W. F. Buch
anan, Hudson Sledd, D. A. Hollis,
F. E. Hoffman, and Nana, Chas.
and Wilbur Eisentuck.
Alaskan Army Trainees
Will Now Take Basic
Training At Fort Ord
SEATTLE — Alaskan residents
now entering the Army will be
sent to Fort Ord, Calif., for initial
basic training, according to Capt.
Robert Sprouse, U.S. Army, Alas
ka, reenlistment officer.
Men with prior military service
living in Alaska who reenlist in
the Army will also be placed on
an availability list for assign
ment in the United States.
“The new change applies to all
territorial residents,” the captain
said.
Fort Richardson’s Basic Train
ing Detachment, in operation
since October 1950, closed Jan.
18, after graduating its final class
of 19 soldiers from eight weeks of
basic training.
Wrangell School Board
Refuses to Fire Supt.
WRANGELL, UPI — The Wran
gell school board has refused to
bow to an ultimatum by nine
teachers that it fire school Super
intendent Harold Regele.
Instead, it was announced, the
nine teachers would be given an
opportunity to withdraw their
threat to resign — with the pro
mise that in the future problems
could be discussed over “better
lines of communications.”
The teachers, among 15 on the
staff of the Wrangell public
school, told the school board last
week they would resign next
month unless Regele was re
moved from his post.
Governors of Alaska and Washington
To Promote Tourism In Alaska at AVA
Breakfast In Seattle On February 6tli
SEATTLE, UP> — A common
purpose—promotion of tourism in
Alaska and Washington — will
bring the governors of Alaska
and Washington together at an
Alaska Visitors Assn, breakfast
here Feb. 6.
Gov. Albert Rosellini of Wash
ington has issued a statement
calling upon Washington resi
dents to participate and support
AVA objectives.
And Gov. Mike Stepovich
pointed out the Seattle area is
the gateway for most of the Al
aska tourist travel promoted by
AV^
]\®'or Gordon Clinton of Seat
tle has agreed to proclaim Feb. 0
as . “Alaska Visitors Association
Day” in Seattle.
R. A. (Dutch) Derr, manager of
AVA says that during the past
year more than $29 million tour
ist dollars reached Alaska busi
nessmen. Of that amount, at
least $25 million was used to pur
chase commodities supplied by
the Greater Seattle area busi
ness firms, according to the Stan
ford Research Institute.
The goal set for 1958 is $55
million in Alaska Visitors busi
ness. This will nearly double last
year’s Seattle share.
Irving S. Smith, president of
the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, in a letter to Derr, com
mended the efforts of AVA in
promoting Alaska’s tourist at
tractions.
NOTICE
Sales Tax Reports on retail
sales and services for the quarter
ending Dec. 31, 1957, must be in
the City Clerk's Office by Thurs
day, Jan. 30, 1958.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Pub. Jan. 22, 24, 27, 29.
Bender’s Chief Mission
Is To Do All He Can
For Alaska Statehood
ANCHORAGE, UPi — George H.
Bender, Interior Department of
ficial, said here Monday he has
sent a letter to every senator
and congressmen urging them to
vote for Alaska statehood.
Bender, former Republican sen
ator from Ohio, is in Alaska for
a 12-day visit in the interest of
trade and tourism.
He said his chief mission is “to
do everything I can for statehood.
Considering the times and cir
cumstances, Alaska should have
statehood.”
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