EISENHOWER TO SEEK 2nd TERM
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States - Alaska
Phone Cable at
Halfway Mark
Undersea Gable Will
Be Finished This Year
KETCHIKAN, - June 11—T h e
cableship Albert J. Myer today
reached the halfway mark in lay
ing the first undersea telephone
cable system between the United
States and Alaska.
The twin cable system, a $15
million undertaking of the Long
Lines Dept, of American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company, is
scheduled to be placed in service
later this year.
' The Myer has laid the first of
the two cables which stretch
across some 750 miles of ocean
bottom between Port Angeles,
Wash., and Ketchikan. At Ketchi
kan, the AT&T cable system
will be connected with a cable re- •
cently plaoed between Ketchikan
and Skagwav by the Alaska Com
munication System, a division of
the Army Signal Corps that pro
vides long-distance telephone ser
vice for Alaska.
The Port Angeles-Ketchikan ca
bles will contain 39 amplifiers,
called “repeaters.” These repeat
ers, designed to operate without
attention for at least 20 years on
the ocean floor, are spaced about
every 40 miles along the route.
Each repeater amplifies the
voice signals a million times, and
appears as a long tapering bulge
in the cable itself.
The cable system will provide
V, 36 voice circuits—more than
twice as many as are now avail
able between the U.S. and Alaska
over radio and landline facilities:
The new cable system will pro
vide speedier and more reliable
telephone communications be
tween Alaska and the U.S.
The number of hairs on an
adult’s head usually ranges from
129,000 to 150,000.
GETTYSBURG, Pa., OB—Presi
dent Eisenhower is going to run
for a second term.
Republican Senate Leader Wil
liam Knowland disclosed this at a
dramatic news conference on the
Gettysburg College campus Tues
day. Press Secretary James Hag
erty stood by nodding.
Knowland said the President
told a meeting of Republican con
gressional leaders he feels in bet
ter shape than he did when he
made his Feb. 29 announcement
that he would seek re-election.
“We are looking forward to a
very vigorous and active cam
paign under his leadership," said
Sen. Knowland.
“Are you telling us,” a reporter
asked, “that the President is go
ing to keep his hat in the ring?”
“I’m telling you precisely that,”
Knowland replied.
He added Eisenhower “left no
doubt in anyone’s mind” he will
run again despite his June 9 in
testinal operation.
Under questioning, Knowland
said the matter of a vice presi
dential selection was not dis
cussed.
Vice President Nixon, who had
been invited by Eisenhower to
make up his own mind and advise
the President what he wanted to
do, has said he will run. ,
Eisenhower then commented
he was “delighted” by that de
cision. ’ v
Knowland said Eisenhower had
brought up the second term ques
tion himself in the sense that he
said he would wage a vigorous
campaign this fall.
House Republican Leader Mar
tin, who sat beside Knowland as
the Senate leader made the an
nouncement, offered this com
ment on it later:
i i
“I think it’s wonderful. It
means the Republican Party will
have a landslide victory in No
vember.’’ Martin said this as he
and Knowland were interviewed
before television newsreel cam
eras. Knowland said the Presi
dent’s declaration “was received
with great enthusiasm by all par
ticipants in the conference.”
At this, handclapping broke out
among the 50 or more students
and other spectators surrounding
the legislative leaders at the mi
crophones.
Eisenhower himself appeared
before reporters and photograph
ers before and after a strategy
session with the Capitol Hill lead
ers. The session lasted an hour
and seven minutes.
He looked a little pale and ob
viously had lost weight. The
rough-textured sport shirt he
wore was loose around his neck.
But his color was better and his
step was firmer than when he left
Walter Reed Hospital in Wash
ington a week ago last Saturday. |
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