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PRICELESS POSSESSION
Fifteen million Americans are hard of hearing. Yet
only 1,250.000 use hearing aids! Why is this? A recent
survey showed up nine different reasons, but the
principal one is vanity. For some mysterious reason,
people seem more self-conscious about their hearing
than their vision—even though one is just as impor
tant as the other to “life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.”
No doubt there are a lot of people who should
wear glasses—and don’t. But there are many times
15,000,000 who do live behind “cheaters” . . . and we
doubt if any of them really enjoys having windows
hooked over his ears and riding the bridge of his nose
. . . windows that get spattered when it rains and
smeared every day in a dozen different ways.
We think being “wired for sound” would be much
less annoying than wearing glasses, and certainly less
conspicuous—now that hearing aids are so much
smaller and lighter than they used to be. And then
too, an aid has one great advantage in common with
radio and TV. When you don’t want to listen, you can
turn it off!
Stringfellow Withdraws
Hat From Ring After
Service Record Confession
(By the Associated Press*
Utah Republican leaders have!
scrapped the re-election bid of
Douglas R. Stringfellow, the one- j
term congressman who has ad
mitted posing falsely as a cloak :
and dagger hero of World War II. 1
The State Central Committee,
meeting in emergency session 4P> j
hours after Stringfellow dramat- |
ically admitted his hoax, accepted j
his resignation as a candidate.
Named as a last-minute ballot
replacement for Stringfellow was
Dr. Henry Aldous Dixon, presi
dent of Utah State Agricultural
College. He’ll be opposed in the
Nov. 2 balloting by former Demo- j
cratic Rep. Walter K. Granger.
Stringfellow, a disabled veteran !
who now says his military career i
was quite routine, got a standing |
ovation from state committeemen.
Hugh Duffy, Holder of
Batting Average Record,
Dies at 88 Years
BOSTON, tm—'Hugh Duffy, 88,
one of baseball’s all-time groats
whose batting average of .438 in
1894 never has been equalled,
died today.
Duffy, a native of Cranston,
R.I., set his record while playing
with the Boston National League
team.
He was a member of baseball’s
I hall of fame.
Duffy was a Red Sox scout in
j recent years, working through the
1953 season.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
FTC Cracks Down on
Insurance Companies for
Misleading Advertising
WASHINGTON, Wl—The Fed
eral Trade Commission iFTCD
Tuesday accused 17 companies in
the health, hospital and accident
insurance business of “false and
misleading advertising.”
Together, the 17 firms—includ
ing the four largest in the field—
represent annual premium pay
ments of more than 300 million
dollars, or about 1/3 of the total
health and accident policies writ
ten on individuals in the country.
Among those named in the FTC
complaints—which grew out of a
10-month nationwide investiga
tion—were the Bankers Life and
Casualty Co. of Chicago- <the
White Cross), Mutual Benefit
Health and Accident Assn, of
Omaha, Reserve Life Insurance
Co. of Dallas, and United Insur
ance Co. of Chicago.
FTC Chairman Edward F. How
rey said the action is aimed at
false or deceptive advertising
claims concerning the extent of
insurance protection and benefits
payable.
Howrey said in a statement this
first broad inquiry o-f its kind
grew out of “a flood of letters”
sent by policy holders who he
said complained the insurance
coverage they received was not
:he same as advertised.
357-POUND WOMAN DRIVER
MUST PAY $3,300 DAMAGES
TO PEDESTRIAN VICTIM
DETROIT, (/Pi — Mrs. Sarah
Reeves, 39, was ordered by De
troit traffic court yesterday to
pay $2,700 hospital bills and the
S(i00 cost of an artificial leg for
a pedestrian.
She was convicted of felonious
driving for losing control of her
car, running over a curb and
striking Henry Mills, 57.
Mrs. Reeves, who weighed 357
pounds at the time of the acci
dent, May 2, said her 46 - inch
waist prevented her from con
trolling her car.
Floods in British Isles
(By the Associated Press)
Two days of heavy rain brought
the worst floods in 20 years to
parts of Scotland, Northern Ire
land and northern England Tues
day.
Reparations Bid Rejected
MANILA, (/PI—Sen. Claro M.
Recto Tuesday reaffirmed that
the Philippines has rejected Jap
an’s 400 million dollar repara
tions offer and will seek a higher
amount.
MAN TAKES OWN LIFE BY
CRANKING WINDOW ON NECK
CHESTER - Le - STREET, Eng
land, I,fl—A Coroner’s jury de
cided Monday Ernest Hogg, 48,
took his life by putting his head
out his car window and cranking
it tightly against his throat. He
died of strangulation.
WOMAN KILLED IN
ATTACK BY SIX PIGS
BRIXHAM, England, UP) — An
attack by six pigs was blamed
Tuesday fo'r the death of Miss
Florence Stackhouse, 59. Wit
nesses at an inquest said the ani
mals set upon her as she was
walking through a neighbor’s
field.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: James A.
Williams. To Anchorage: Mrs. M.
Wacha, Charles Myton.
From Kotzebue: Scott Botall,
Harry Carle, Charles Belcher.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Polio Foundation
Will Risk Money
To Buy Vaccine
NEW YORK, ItPl—The National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
—taking a “calculated financial
risk” has contracted to purchase
enough Salk polio vaccine to treat
nine million children and preg
nant women next year.
Foundation President Basil
O’Connor announced the contracts
Monday. -
“The National Foundation,” he
said, “is taking a calculated fin
ancial risk in purchasing vaccine
before it has been found to be
effective,” he added.
O’Connor said the injections
will be made available free.
Authorizing the purchase at
this time, O’Connor explained,
will make supplies available so
that the vaccine can be given as
soon as the results of tests of its
effectiveness are known next
spring. The foundation thereby
will not have to wait 70 days to
get the vaccine produced.
Scientific evaluation is now be
ing made to determine whether
the Salk vaccine is effective in
protecting against paralytic polio.
The study is being carried out at
the University of Michigan under
direction of Dr. Thomas Francis
Jr., world famous cpedemiologist.
Results are not expected to be
known until about April 1.
O'Connor said the purchase—to
cost about nine million dollars—
will enable pharmaceutical manu
facturers to retain specialized per
sonnel and facilities, and thus be
prepared to produce promptly a
substantial quantity of vaccine to
be available through usual com
mercial channels.
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Anchorage Man One Of
Two Killed In Premature
Blast At Uranium Mine
PORTERVILLE, Utah, WT—Two
men were killed yesterday in a
premature blast in a uranium
claim they were working near
Porterville.
They were identified as John
Kippen, about 50, of Porterville,
and William E. Lewis, 34, of An
chorage, Alaska.
Grant Nelson, Morgan County '
attorney, said the men were tamp
ing explosives into drill holes in
their uranium mining claim in
Hardscrabble Canyon, about two
miles off the road west of Porter
ville. He said the powder being
tamped exploded, killing both
men outright.
Alaska Seal Skin Prices
Down 13.6% Since Spring
At St. Louis Auction
ST. LOUIS, UPt—A total of 40,226 .
fur seal skins brought $2,378,701
Monday at the autumn auction at
the Fouke Fur Co. here.
G. Donald Gibbons, president
of the firm, said prices were low
er than last spring but the drop
was “nothing spectacular.’ He
attributed the decline to a normal
| fluctuation in the market from
1 last spring’s unusually high fig
| ures.
Alaska seal skins sold for the
U.S. Government brought an av
erage of $76.92, down 13.6 per
cent from spring. Cape Hope seal
skins sold for the Union of South
Africa brought a $26.64 average,
down 16.5 per cent.
MATCH BOOK MESSAGE
DENVER, UP)—Albert Cohen,
candidate for the Colorado House
o'f Representatives, spent all day l
Monday passing out 500 match
books advertising his candidacy.
The books bore a smiling pic
ture of Cohen, and a plea to vote
for this Republican candidate.
Tuesday, Cohen was trying to
collect the match books again.
He’s a Democrat.
WIDOWED INDIAN PRINCESS
CHOOSES DEATH BY FIRE.
REVIVING ANCIENT RITE
NEW DELHI, India, (Ah — Re
ports from Jodphur today said a
widowed Indian princess flung
herself on the funeral pyre of her
husband yesterday and burned to
death in the ancient but now out
lawed Hindu ritual of suttee. It
was the first reported suttee in
years.
FEM COP'S POCKET PICKED
MANCHESTER, England, (Ah—
Fred Pearson, 42, was sentenced
to six months in jail Monday for
stealing 6 pounds ($16.80) from a
policewoman’s handbag while be- «
ing questioned as a suspected 1
shoplifter.
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BIBLE VERSES USED FOR WELL-KNOWN HYMNS
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD IS JESUS
"Then spake Jesus again unto them saying ... "I am
the Light of the world. He that followeth Me shall not
walk in darkness but shall have the light of life."
John 8:12 paid Adu.
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