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THRIFT’S BIRTHDAY
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This is an anniversary year of which thrift is the
birthday cake and security its candles. Its celebrators
are millions of Americans in every conceivable occu
pation, in every economic and social level. They are
the investors in Series E and H Savings Bonds.
Fifteen years ago, in 1941, the U.S. Treasury
Department tentatively began a program to raise
money for national defense and as a brake against
inflation by borrowing from as many persons as pos
sible. Thiis was the birth of the Series E Bonds. It wjas'
the birth also of what was to become the largest thrift
program of all time.
Treasury officials are human, rumor to the con
trary notwithstanding, and none among them could
have foreseen, or even dreamed of, 15 years ago, the
incredible growth of the Savings Bond idea until today
it has become an integral part of the American way of
life.
According to Secretary of the Treasury George M.
Humphrey, more than 40 million Americans today own
more than $40 billion in Series E and H Bonds, the
latter being added to the thrift program in 1952. And
of these bond owners, more than eight million are sav
ing more than $160 million a month thru the payroll
savings plan by mean's of the patriotic cooperation of
•the huge corporations or the small businesses where
they work, and of organized labor as a friendly and
persuasive associate.
It was to be expected in the fervor of the World
War II years that a great many Americans would buy
savings bonds, and a great many did. But when the war
was over, and the fervor gone, they kept on buying
them—that is the astonishing thing, and that is the
astounding commonplace these millions of Americans
are celebrating this year.
Station KFQD
Solti to New
Anchorage Firm
ANCHORAGE, MWWilliam J.
Wagner, president of the Alaska
Broadcasting Co., announced yes
terday the sale of Station KFQD
to Anchorage Broadcasters, Inc.,
a new corporation composed of
eight Anchorage stockholders.
The sale of KFQD, Alaska’s
first commercial station started
in 1924, is subject to approval
by the Federal Communications
Commission.
Members of the new corpora
tion include five local business
and professional men and three
long-time employes of the ABC.
Among the ABC stockholders
are Frank Reed, a leader in An
chorage community affairs, Ken
Sheppard, general manager of
Alaska Concrete Products Co.,
and Claude Bentz, a director of
the Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce.
Wagner said KFQD will remain
an affiliate of the Columbia
Broadcasting System and will also
emphasize service to the commu
nity.
Wagner, a resident of the terri
tory for over 50 years and the
territory’s oldest pioneer broad
caster, retains KFRB in Fair
banks, KINY in Juneau, KIFW in
Sitka, and KIBH in Seward. He
also owns KINY-TV at Juneau
and is a stockholder in Northern
Television, Inc.,
Town Has No
Phone Service
During Strike
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, UPt—This
; Ohio River town of about 40,000
people was without telephone ser
vice today. All calls going in and
out of the city, as well as intra
city calls, were suspended after
incidents of violence in a two
month-long phone strike.
Police Chief Hugh Rudity de
clared an emergency. He ordered
) all police personnel and auxiliar
ies to report for duty.
A local “hot rod" club organ
ized its members to act as couriers
for hospitals in the area.
Telegrams were the only means
by which residents of this south
ern Ohio community could com
municate with friends or relatives
outside the city.
The struck Ohio Consolidated
Telephone Co. closed its exchang
es in Portsmouth and in Scioto
ville, a small village near here,
last night. The company president
said the action was taken after an
attack earlier yesterday on five
supervisors who were repairing
cables in the Sciotoville area.
The five employes needed hos
pital treatment.
The strike by approximately
600 operators and service person
nel began when representatives
of the company and Communica
tions Workers of America were
unable to agree upon a new con
I tract.
Dodgers Shook By Severe
Case of 9th-Inning Jitters
I
BROOKLYN, Wl — The Brook
lyn Dodgers appear to have come
up with a severe case of ninth
inning jitters.
Three days in succession the
Brooks have run afoul of this
strange malady. But the third
time it proved fatal.
As a result, the Dodgers saw
a seemingly 5-4 victory over the
St. Louis Cardinals last night
turned into a 6-5« setback. It
was a bitter defeat to swallow
because of Milwaukee’s 6-4 vic
tory in Pittsburgh that narrowed
Brooklyn’s first place margin to
one percentage point over the
Braves.
"We just can’t seem to get past
that ninth inning without some
thing happening to us,” said
Dodger manager Walter Alston
dolefully.
Eisenhower Administration Offers
‘Best Hope for Peace Without
Surrender’, Vice President Claims
By the Associated Press
Vice President Nixon said yes
terday the Eisenhower Adminis
tration “offers the best hope for
peace without surrender” and
“deserves a vote of confidence”
for its accomplishments in the
past four years.
Nixon addressed a noon meet
ing in Indianapolis, the first stop
in his 15,000-mile campaign trip
thru 32 states. It marked the be
I ginning of an intensified Repubii
| can presidential campaign.
In his prepared remarks, Nixon
said Eisenhower has “ . . . cleaned
up the mess he found, has not al
lowed another to be made, and
will continue to maintain stan
dards that will make every Amer
ican proud of his government. ..”
Nixon pounded the “peace,
progress and prosperity” theme
of the Republican campaign.
Truth Is Sufficient
At Washington, President Eis
enhower told Republican cam
paigners that they need only to
tell the truth about his adminis
tration to win the election.
Eisenhower spoke at a sendoff
breakfast for Nixon and other
Republican leaders setting out on
campaign tours.
The President told the GOP i
members he does not claim per
fection for his administration. But I
he said where it has failed it is
not from lack of trying.
Sen. Knowland iR-Calif), one
of the GOP spokesmen leaving
on campaign tours yesterday, said
he plans to discuss both Alger
Hiss and “Communists in govern
ment” during the campaign
“whenever I think it is pertinent.”
Knowland Sees Close Election
Knowland told reporters he ex
pects a vigorous campaign and a
close election, with Eisenhower
winning. He said he doubts either
party will emerge with more than
a two-seat margin in the Senate.
Present divisions are 231-201
for the Democrats in the House,
and 39-37 for Democrats in the
Senate.
House GOP Leader Martin of
Massachusetts, also departing yes
terday on a barnstorming tour,
Monday predicted a national Re
publican sweep and a 25-man
margin for the GOP in the House
after November.
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Stevenson Goes on Record as
Differing With Truman on Hiss Case
(By the Associated Press'
Democratic presidential nominee
Adlai Stevenson used a Washing
ton news conference Monday to
disassociate himself from a cou
ple of statements by former Presi
dent Harry Truman. Then he
went on to praise Truman as an
asset to the Democratic campaign.
Slf venson said he “never doubt
ed” the jury verdict that convict
ed Alger Hiss. If this puts him at
odds with Truman, he went on,
“that is where the record must
lie, must rest.”
Truman said recently he did
not believe Hiss, a former State
Department official, was a Com
munist spy. Hiss served a federal
prison term for perjury in deny
ing that he passed government
secrets to a Soviet spy ring.
Stevenson also said he would
not have called Republicans “le
gal racketeers,” as Truman did,
but that he fully agreed with the
point he thought Truman was
making.
In Kansas City, Truman de
clined comment on the news con
ference remarks.
Stevenson’s running mate, Sen.
Estes Kefauver, also fielded the
Hiss question in a news confer
ence in Madison, Wis., Monday.
His reply:
“I agree the verdict in the Hiss
case is justified by the evidence.
It showed that Hiss was not loyal
to his country.”
Republican National Chairman
Leonard Hall, Nixon, and other
GOP speakers have been prod
ding Stevenson for a comment on
Truman’s stand on the Hiss case.
Stevenson said this puts them
“back on the same low road”
traveled during the 1954 congres
sional campaigns.
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