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THE LONG LAST FLIGHT
Be Ready To Fight Cancer
WHEN YOU GIVE A DOLLAR to the American
Cancer Society:
Twenty-Five Cents pays for national planned re
search projects through fellowships and grants.
Fifteen Cents pays’ for the production of exhibits,
pamphlets, movies, and other tools for professional
and public education produced nationally, as well as
national library, statistical, administrative, publicity,
fund-raising, and special consultative services.
Sixty Cents remains in Alaska to:
1. Promote an extensive public education
program, including distribution of films
and pamphlets to familiarize the geenral
public with facts about cancer and early
symptoms as a means of saving lives by
timely diagnosis and treatment. This
public education program includes sup
plying the secondary schools with in
structional material for biology and
health classes.
refresher courses for Alaskan doctors,
dentists and nurses, and the latest in
scientific knowledge through distribution
of literature and films.
3. Defray cost of our “Service to Cancer
patient” programs.
Be ready when you are called upon this week or
next, by volunteers in the Alaska Cancer Campaign.
Alaska Social Service
Director To Be Honored
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Miss Mar
' jorie Glendenning Morris, director
of social service, Alaska Depart
ment of Public Welfare, will be
presented with a citation by her
fellow alumni from the Washing
ton University School of Social
Work, at a meeting in San Fran
cisco on Wednesday, May 27.
Miss Morris will be in San
F'rancisco to receive the citation,
presented by the School of Social
Work Alumni Association for out
standing service in the field of •
social work. The ceremony is
is being held in conjunction with
the 86th annual forum of the
National Conference on Social
Welfare, in session all this week.
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By FRANK W. VAILLE
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON, UP)—When the
Western Council of Teaipsters
held a breakfast recently to talk
with Pacific Coast members of
the House concerning the Ken
nedy-Ervin labor bill, Rep. Ralph
Rivers didn’t get an invitation.
An abashed Smith Troy, council
counsel, showed up in Rivers’
office .later in the day to confess
he had forgotten Alaska now had
a vote.
The reason for Troy’s red face
was twofold: Cl) the former Wash
ington State attorney went to law
school with Rivers at the Uni
versity of Washington and (2) he’s
the nephew of John Troy, former
territorial governor of Alaska.
Rivers went to breakfast the
next day for another group of
congressmen,
* * *
Rep. Leo O’Brien has risen to
the defense of Alaska’s women.
Back from Fairbanks where he
received the only diploma of the
University of Alaska ever made
out in green ink, O’Brien tells
of his meeting with a New York
writer now gathering source mat
erial in Alaska.
The writer, a woman, protested
that Fairbanks’ members of her
sex were not style conscious. To
back up her statement she noted
the number of women seen on the
city’s streets in slacks.
O’Brien—recalling the slacks
clad women frequenting New
York resort areas—had a ready
answer.
“Somehow,” he said, “Fairbanks
women seem to fit theirs better.”
Sounds like he deserves a new
award — possibly a Croix de
derriere.
— • * *
Alaska Sens. Bob Bartlett and
Earnest Gruening have asked a
Senate appropriations subcom
mittee to reinstate $532,000 cut by
the House from an administration
request of $3,696,000 for the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs’ relocation
program.
Although Alaska would come
in for only $170,653 of the over
all amount, the senators said re
tention of the cut would make it
impossible for the bureau to
assist in the relocation of Bristol
Bay natives for whom govern
ment employment is being sought
as an alternative to their nor
mal fishing activity.
If such jobs are found, Bart
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Eisenhower Nominates
Negro for Major Gen. Rank
WASHINGTON, UD—Brig. Gen.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr., Negro
Air Force officer, has been nomi
nated by President Eisenhower to
be a major general — highest
rank ever held by a member of
his race.
Davis is now deputy chief of
staff for operations for the U. S.
Air Force in Europe. His head
quarters are at Ramstein Air
Force Base in Gemany.
His father was a brigadier gen
eral before retirement shortly
after World War II.
lett said, “substantial amounts of
money will be required for trans
poration and subsistence before
their first pay checks.”
Rep. Ralph Rivers has appealed
to President Eisenhower to give
the “tragic economic depression
in the Bristol Bay area . . . your
immediate personal attention.”
In a letter to the President,
he said the closing of Bristol Bay
to commercial fishing has cast
from 2,000 to 3,000 residents into
a situation where they have no
way to provide even a subsistence
type living for themselves and de
pendents.
Rivers told the President of a
letter from the chief of Non
dalton village, signed by 25 vil
lage men, pleading for works
projects.
Urging the President to use the
powers of his office to initiate
such a program on an emergency
basis, Rivers said:
“Our country cannot afford to
allow this frontier so far to the
north and so strategically located
to be abandoned and become a
shambles, where once there was a
healthy and thriving economy.”
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ACS Proves Worth
With 59 Years of
Service to Alaska
SEATTLE, (ACS) — Fifty-nine
years ago, May 26, 1900, to be
exact, ACS was born. That was
the day an act of Congress was
approved providing Brigadier
General Adolphus Washington
Greely, the chief signal officer,
with the authority and funds re
quired to bring to life his dream
of a communications system that
would tie together the military
garrisons of Alaska, and eventual
ly connect them with Washington
through an all-American tele
graph and cable system.
During the years since that
memorable date, ACS has ex
panded into an extensive and com
pletely modern communication
network. The submarine cable,
stretching from Port Angeles,
Wash., to Skagway. inaugurated
on December 11, 1956, in coopera
tion with the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, is the
most up-to-date submarine cable
system avaialable today.
The most recent improvement
in long distance telephone serv
ice is the inauguration of opera
tor toll dialing between Alaska
and the other states. By means
of modern switching equipment,
long distance operators may now
dial direct the distant party with
out requiring the assistance of
other operators along the way.
This means faster and more effi
cient service to the telephone
customer.
Thus ACS has completed an
other year of building and im
proving its facilities in order to
provide top quality communica
tion service for the rugged indi
vidualists who are inhabiting and
pioneering our great 49th state.
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