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Alaska School Enrollment Up 11 %
Over Last Year; U.S. Average 4%
(Jessen’s Weekly)
Alaska public schools have an
initial total enrollment this year
of 33,916 as compared with 30,476
at the same time last year, accord
ing to figures released last week
by the commissioner of education
at Juneau.
This represents an increase of
3,440 pupils, 11.2%. This is slight
ly below the 12% average in
crease of the last five years hut
far ahead of the national average
of approximately 4%.
District Schools
Twenty-eight district schools
show a total enrollment of 22,928,
as compared with 21,080 in Sep
tember 1956, which represents an
approximate 9% increase.
The number of teachers in dis
trict schools increased from 969
for the 1956-1957 school year to
1,081 for the 1957-1958 year.
Territorial schools operated di
dectly by the office of commis
sioner of education include terri
torial rural schools, Alaska on
base schools, and Johnson O’Mal
ley schools—all operated under a
-contract agreement with the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs.
72 Rural Schools
For 72 territorial rural schools,
the 1957 enrollment shows 3,773,
an increase of 733 over the 1956
initial enrollment, or a 14.2% in
crease. This percent is consider
ably above the average for all
Alaska public schools.
In the territorial rural schools
a total of 216 teachers are em
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ployed for the current school year
as compared to 178 for the school
year of 1956-57.
On-Base Schools
. In the schools operated on the
eight military bases for which all
costs are borne from receipts un
der Public Law 874, the 1954 en
rollment shows 6,588 as compared
tb 5,766 in 1956, for an increase of
822 or 12.4%.
The Alaska on-base schools this
year employed 273 teachers, as
compared with 249 employed in
1956-57.
Johnson O'Malley Schools
The 22 Johnson O’Malley schools
show an enrollment increase of
only 6.3% from an enrollment of
590 in 1956-57 to an enrollment
of 627 for the current year. The
number of teachers in Johnson
O’Malley schools has dropped
from 37 in the 1956-57 year to 36
for the current year.
The enrollment figures given
are initial enrollment figures for
the school year and will probably
increase by an additional 300 to
400 pupils by mid-year, based on
past experience.
It is expected that development
of the pulp mill at Sitka will
cause a considerable increase in
the enrollment in that district by
the end of the school year.
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U.S. IS NEAR TO DISCOVERY OF
ATOMIC ANTI-MISSILE WEAPON
WASHINGTON, UP)—T^e Air.
Force says a scientific team is i
probing the possibility of nuclear j
explosions in space as a possible i
weapon against intercontinental
missiles.
An announcement from Kirt
land Air Force Base, N.M., Friday
night said a group of 16 scientists
is near “a major scientific break
thru, the key to America’s de
fense against an intercontinental
ballistics missile (ICBM).
Col. McPherson Morgan, head
of the group, declined to say
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Reform School Fugitive
Captured, and Admits
Smothering Baby Girl
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Juvenile
officials held in custory Saturday
John Lawrence (Larry) Miller, 15,
who has admitted smothering a
baby ^girl because “I always
wanted to kill somebody.”
The youth, a reform school .fu
gitive, was booked Friday or\ sus
picion of murder after a flight
from Reno, Nevada.
His capture in Reno ended a
widespread search that began
soon after the body of 22-month
old Laura Helen Wetzel was
found in a neighbor’s home Mon
day in the suburban community
of Rolling Hills Estates.
The youthful prisoner grinned,
laughed and gestured with his
manacled hands on his arrival
from Reno.
A police official here said he
“admitted- every detail and told
us he ‘wanted to kill somebody’
but was sorry now that he did it.”
Miller said he got as far north
as Klamath Falls, Ore., and stole
three cars and a bicycle in the
course of his flight.
A hitchhiker he picked up at
Klamath Falls was his undoing.
The hitchhiker told Reno police
he recognized Miller from broad
cast descriptions.
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whether such a blast might be
used to kpock out an I CBM, but
he said.
“There are several interesting
phenomena of a nuclear explo
sion, and some are more affected
by the presence of air than others
.... we feel that we have ways of
destroying nuclear and non-nu
clear rockets out in space.”
New Post Created
Pentagon officials, had no im
mediate comment. Maj. Gen. A
R. Luedecke, who will conduct
the U.S. nuclear tests in the Pa
cific next year, also declined to
comment. Lt. Col. Scarlo Tosti of
the Air Force’s Air Research and
Development Command said in
Baltimore he was “sure such in
formation is classified.”
Disclosure of the Kirtland proj
ect followed by a few hours the
announcement by Secretary of
Defense McElroy that he was cre
ating a special new post to co
ordinate space-age “weapons
projects of the future”—including
anti-missile missiles.
Missile Bases Overseas \
McElroy disclosed plans for the
new job in a news conference
Friday at which he also said that
at next month’s NATO meeting in
Paris the United States will seek
agreements for advance missile
bases overseas.
He said the United States wants
to locate intermediate range bal
listic missiles (1RBM), those with
a reach of 1,500 miles, on foreign
bases within range of “our pros
pective enemy,” obviously mean
ing Russia.
McElroy conceded it “seems
rather obvious that we are behind
the Russians” in missile and sat
ellite development.
Snark Success
Shortly after the McElroy con
ference, the Air Force disclosed
that its intercontinental missile,
the Snark, delivered a simulated
hydrogen warhead on a target
5,000 miles from its launching.
The announcement said the
missile streaked to its target with
“unprecedented accuracy” in an
Oct. 31 test over the South At
lantic Ocean.
Navy Satellite Revealed
At Pasadena, Calif., last Friday
night scientists unwrapped a
Navy-developed satellite which
they said will be launched by the
Army in the first three months of
next year.
The U.S. artificial moon is to be
fired into space with a Jupiter-C
rocket under development at the
Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Ala
bama.
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