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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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NOT A PRETTY PEDESTAL
Girl Scouts Celebrate 46th Anniversary
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Congratulations to Girl Scouts, their leaders and
volunteer workers on their 46th birthday.
Do you realize that there are more than three
million girls and adults in Scouting today and with
enough leaders, there could be five million by 1965,
it has been estimated.
It’s a wide-awake globe-girdling organization of
international stature that is quite as modern as the
age of space.
It is now active in 43 countries. Just little pat
rols of six or eight girls, such as we have here are
doing much to bring the world together with bonds
of friendship.
Each year an American Girl Scout goes to Switzer
land, Mexico, London, to hostels owned by the World
Association of Girl Scouts.
Nome’s group was organized in 1945 by Mrs. V.
Booker, wife of the pastor of the Community Methodist
Church.
Then the patrol was composed of one small group
of girls. Today more than 100 girls are participating
and Nome is fortunate in having a specially trained
leader in Mrs. Nelda Leibig. Scouting is also indebted
to Mrs. Mildred Harwood, who has been the steering
wheel of the organization through the years.
Recognition of all leaders should be made as they
give their time, their talents unstintingly to enrich
the lives of little girls everywhere and do much thru
youth toward a better understanding among nations.
Puerto Rico offers special tax inducements to
U.S. industries — and some 450 new factories have
been opened there during the past five years.
For every billion dollars cut from the federal
budget, the Tax Foundation figures, the average fam
ily of four could keep $19 which otherwise would go
to Washington in taxes.
The Tax Foundation finds that in every year but
one between 1946 and 1956 consumers spent more to
support government than they spent for food.
According to a late Trendex News Poll, Ameri
can parents believe higher pay for teachers is more
important than improved buildings and facilities.
Ministers Agree on
%
Steps Before A
Summit Meeting
By JAMES CARY
MANILA, UP) — The Western
Big Three foreign ministers ag
reed today to continue to push |
for an East-West summit meeting j
but again underscored the need
for adequate preparations before
hand.
A spokesman for the U.S. dele
gation at the Southeast Asia
Treaty Organization conference
said Secretary of State Dulles,
British Foreign Secretary Sel
wyn Lloyd and French Foreign
Minister Christian Pineau were in
general agreement about what
preparatory steps are necessary.
The three foreign ministers
discussed a summit meeting to
day and probably will propose
preconference procedures to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion Council “very soon,” the U.S.
spokesman said.
He added that President Eisen
hower is expected to answer So- j
viet Premier Bulganin’s latest j
summit conference letter within
10 days. The spokesman said that
in the Eisenhower reply “we may
propose that we get going” on de
finite summit conference prepar-1
ations.
Disarmament remains the sub
ject most likely to dominate a J
conference the spokesman said.
Before the Big Three foreign
ministers met Dulles declared
that the United States would wel
come a summit meeting that
would not be a “mere spectacle”
and that offered prospects of pro
gress toward peace.
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February Unemployed Reach 5,173,000
Pentagon To Ask
%m Billion Hike
In Military Budget
WASHINGTON, UR—'The Pen
tagon intends to ask Congress to
increase President Eisenhower’s
$39,100,000,000 military budget
lor 1958-59 by approximately \Vz
billion dollars.
Secretary of Defense McElroy,
disclosing plans for the added re
quest, told newsmen “I don’t say
that it is going to be more than
lVfe billion but it will be at least
as large as the supplemental for
the current year.”
Congress recently authorized a
$1,300,000,000 supplemental ap
propriation for the Defense De
partment for the year ending
June 30.
McElroy, returning from a 9
day trip in the west, indicated the
Joint Chiefs of Staff have com
pleted a study calling or priority
projects that will need more mon
ey than was recommended in the
President’s budget.
McElroy didn’t spell out how
the extra money would be spent.
He has said previously if addi
tional funds were granted he was .
considering speedups in submar
ines to fire the Navy’s 1,500-mile
range Polaris Missile, in the Air
Force’s Titan ICBM and in the
Snark intercontinental guided
missile.
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ROUGH GAL
MEMPHIS, Tenn., UP! — Miss
Myrtle Johnson, 34, was arrested
for throwing here boyfriend to a
sidewalk.
“I work hard six days a week,”
she told the judge yesterday. “I
think a girl has a right to re
laxation and exercise on her day
off. That’s all I was doing.”
Judge Bevrly Boushe dismissed
assault and battery charges with
a warning that she be more gen
tle with her boyfriends.
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» WASHINGTON, UP> — The gov
ernment reported today that un
employment jumped in February
to 5,173,000—the highest level in
16 years.
An increase of 679,000 was re
corded for the month. February
is a month in which unemploy
ment normally does not rise or
fall.
“Continued layoffs in durable
goods manufacturing and unus
ually bad weather in some areas
which affected construction and
other outdoor activities accounted
for a major part of the rise,” said
a joint statement by Secretary of
Commerce Weeks and Secretary
of Labor Mitchell.
The figures meant that 6.7 per
cent of the civilian working force
was jobless, compared with 5.8
per cent in January and with a
range of 4 to 4V£ per cent during
most of the previous two years.
* “The rate is now higher than
at the peak of the 1954 business
downturn — then around 6 per
cent—but about the same as in
the later stages of the 1949 re
ceWon,” the annoucement said.
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G. Thomas, Fred Sours, Roy
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From Anchorage: Audrey Bay
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lard Mecklenburg, Frank Topsea
kok, H. Groven.
Children Fire Large
Gasoline Tanker
COVINGTON, Ky., (J) — The
children who tossed a match into
a tanker filled with gasoline are
lucky to be alive. Fire chief A.
Rassche said the only reason
there wasn’t an explosion was
because the tanker was full, leav
ing no room for fumes to develop.
The children scattered when
the gasoline caught fire. None
were injured, said Rassche after
his department put out the fierce
blaze yesterday.
“I can only say this to par
ents: for God’s sake, watch your
children.”
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