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| - BEGINS TO TRAVEL —
r' IS POSSIBLE that Nikita Khrushchev has heard
of Horace Greeley. We hope that Mr. Khrushchev
is also aware of a bit of Mr. Greeley’s philosophy: “It
is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible
reading people. The principles of the Bible are the
groundwork of human freedom.”
The nineteenth annual observance of National
Bible Week was held frorp October 19 to 25. The
theme for the week was, “The Bible and You.”
Said Mr. H. E. Humphreys Jr., chairman of the
board, United State Rubber Company, and national
chairman for Bible Week obervance, “There is no
better guide, no better set of principles or source of
inner strength than the Holy Bible. It is the answer "
for us as individuals, as a society and as a world,
searching for the truth.”
Dec. 15 Set for
Paris Conference
PARIS, UP) — The Western sum
mit meeting will be held in Paris
about December 15.
Foreign Minister Maurice
De Murville, announcing this yes
terday, in effect confirmed a
statement made earlier by Pres
ident Eisenhower. The meeting of
President Eisenhower, President
Charles De Gaulle, Prime Minister
Harold MacMillan and Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer is designed
as a preliminary to an East-West
summit meeting.
Couve De Murville, in a report
to the Fodeign Affairs Committee
-of the National Assembly, reit
erated De Gaulle’s stand that the
East-West summit should take
place next spring.
He said Premier Khrushchev’s
visit to France, previously an
nounced, will be in the first
three months of 1960.
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Castro Revives
Blood-Bath
Military Courts
HAVANA, UPi — Fidel Castro’s
cabinet yesterday ratified the re
vival of military tribunals which
sent 555 of his enemies to execu
tion before firing squads.
Fears of a new blood-bath grew
with an estimated 200 persons al
ready in jail awaiting investiga
tion or trial as counterrevolution
aries, and unconfirmed reports
circulating of more and more ad
rests daily.
Prime Minister Castro abolished
the controversial military tribu
nals in July in favor of civilian
courts. Though the latter had
power to impose death for acti
vities- against the revolutionary
regime, the heaviest sentences
meted out were 30 years.
A power failure plunged most
of the capitol into darkness and
fresh anxiety after the six-hour
cabinet session ended just before
2 a.m. The blackout was traced
to an equipment failure, the
American-owned Cuban Electric
Co. said, adding there was no im
mediate indication of sabotage.
The power went on again over
most of hte city after about two
hours.
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By CONRAD H. POTTER
Superintendent of Schools
American Education Week —
November 8-14, 1959
What is it?
Every November, during the
| week which includes Veterans
I Day, an event known as Amer
| ican Education Week is observed
throughout the United States. It
' is an audit, or annual report
| time — during which the schools
tell their owners, the general
public, about their purposes,
methods, achievements, needs,
and problems.
How did it begin?
American Education Week grew
out of the revelation, during
World War I, that a shocking
percentage of the American people
was illiterate and physically un
fit. Representatives of the Na
tional Education Association and
the newly formed American Le
gion discussed this problem, and
their talks led to the observance,
in 1921, of the first American
Education Week. The event was
part of their plan for “securing
for Americans a program of edu
cation adequate to meet the needs
of the 20th Century, and which
will give every boy and girl that
training and equipment which is
rightfully his under our demo
cratic government.”
From 1922 on, the observance
has been co-sponsored by the
U. S. Office of Education (for
merly the Bureau of Education).
In 1958, the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers became
the fourth national sponsor.
Many other groups participate,
farm, labor, business, professional,
civic, religious, fraternal, service,
library, welfare and general cul
tural organizations help plan and
finance many AEW projects and
activities.
What is the purpose of it?
The basic purpose of American
Education Week is to make every
American aware of the important
role education plays in a demo
cracy . . . and to help him realize
that good schools are his per
sonal responsibility.
Specific purposes are: to in
crease public understanding and
appreciation o feducation; to ex
plain the modern school—today’s
curriculum, current teaching
methods and materials; to in
crease pupil appreciation of their
school; to reveal school prob
lems and needs; to strengthen the
{ bonds of cooperation between
J school and community.
How are these purposes
! achieved?
By encouraging the public to
visit the schools, and by explain
ing the achievements and prob
lems of the schools through a va
j riety of media, to those who do
not visit schools.
Twenty-six million adults vis
ited their local schools during
i American Education Week in
j 1958. Other millions were told
about school problems and
achievements through newspa
pers, magazines, radio and tele
vision, sermons, motion pictures,
plays, posters, and booklets.
WHY DON’T YOU VISIT OUR
SCHOOL DURING EDUCATION
WEEK THIS YEAR? We will hold
“Open House” Tuesday, November
10, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Dave Beck Now Collecting
Parking Lot Quarters
SEATTLE, UP> — Dave Beck,
who once directed the affairs of
the mighty Teamsters’ Union, is
now taking quarters in a down
town Seattle parking lot.
It is not out of any need,
though. Beck owns the block
square lot. Besides, he still re
ceives an annual pension of $50,
000 from the Teamsters.
Beck said he decided to take
over active operation of the lot
because business was “not build
ing up the way it should” with
hired help.
Beck, 65, puts in a full day at
the lot. It is located across the
street from the Teamsters’ Union
building, where he once made his
headquarters and from where he
now gets a lot of parking big
ness.
The portly ex-Teamsters’ chief
currently has an appeal pending
i his February 19 conviction of
evading $250,000 income tax for
years 1949-53
“That business of the income
tax was all baloney,” he said. “I
made 10 times as much on real
estate as the Teamsters ever
paid me.”
European Thor Squadron
Abolished by U. S.
WASHINGTON, OP) — The De
fense Department today an
nounced the elimination of one
of five squadrons of Thor inter
mediate ballistic missiles origin
ally scheduled for bases in
Europe.
The United Kingdom has agreed
! to take four squadrons, each con
taining 15 of the 1,500-mile-range
j weapons capable of carrying a
hydrogen warhead.
Delivery of the missiles to the
British is nearly completed and
all of the bases in the British
! Isles are expected to be ready
I for operation next spring.
In announcing the cutback, the
Pentagon said only that “the
reduced requirement for the Thor
represents an adjustment of pro
grams that assures a balanced
use of available resources.”
The reluctance of some of the
Western Allies to have nuclear
weapons based on their soil, and
the high cost of construction
bases and extensive supporting
equipment, were understood in
official quarters to have prompted
the cutback.
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Underworld Fight
Promoter Pleads Guilty
In New York Court
NEW YORK, iff) — Frankie
Carbo, underword figure in box
ing, interrupted his conspiracy
trial today to plead guilty to#
three counts of a 10-count indict
ment.
He pleaded guilty to acting as
a manager in a boxing match
without a license and acting as a
matchmaker without a license.
Judge John A. Mullen held
Carbo for sentencing November
30. The 55-year-old defendant
was sent to the City Penitentiary
hospital on Rikers Island because
he suffers from diabetes.
The plea came after a one
hour conference among Judge
Mullen, Carbo’s attorney, and
District Attorney Alfred Scotti.
In his opening at the trial yes
terday Scotti told the jury that
Carbo’s underworld grip in box
ing was so tight that he once rep
resented both fighters in a cham
pionship elimination bout.
“The power Carbo had to, se
cure boxing matches stemmed
largely from his great influence
over the now-dissolved Interna
tional Boxing Club,” the prose
cutor continued.
Scotti said Carbo was spokes
man for both Virgil Akins and
Isaac Bogart in secret meetings to
arrange their fight on March 21,
1958. Akins eliminated Bogart
and won the world welterweight
championship on June 1, 1958.
Union Contracts Extended
With Aluminum Firms
PITTSBURGH1, WV-‘The United
Steelworkers yesterday announced
indefinite contract extensions with
the Aluminum Co. of America,
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical
Corp. and Reynalds Metals Co.
A spokesman for the union said
the agreements can be cancelled
on a 10-day notice -by either side
on or after November 1.
The Alcoa, Kaiser and Rey
nolds contracts with the USW ex
pired last July 21. The USW rep
resents 20,000 workers at Alcoa
plants, 9,000 at Kaiser and 9,000
at Reynolds.
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Street.
2 Whistles — West of Division
Street.
(Division Street runs between
Morgan’s and Wien Airlines.)
I IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN!
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