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Wednesday
4:05—Baseball
6:00—Ifews
6:15—Sports Caravan
6:30—Re venuers’ Romp
7:30—Greatest Story Told
8:00—E. Power Biggs
8:30—Rest of Hope
9:00—News
9:05—$64,000 Question
9:30—John Steele, Adven.
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—Martin Block
11:00—News
11:15—Masters of Melody
11:30—Land of Dreams
12:00—Sign Off
Thursday
6:58—Sign On
7:00—News
7:15—Weather Roundup
7: ip—Rise & Shine
8:15—Morning Devotions
8:30—Breakfast Club
9:00—Coffee Concert
10:00—News
10:05—'Turn Back the Clock
10:30—Spotlite on a Star
10:45—Rex Koury
11:00—Bob Crosby
11:15—Latin Americana
11:30—Make Up Your Mind
11:45—Bobby Ham mack
12:00—News
12:15—Behind the Story
12:30—Platter Parade
1:00—Hillbilly Jamboree
2:00—Tennessee Ernie
2:30—Music a la Carte
4:00—News
4:05—Baseball
6:00—News
6:15—Sports Caravan
6:30—Revenuers* Romp
7:30—Could This Be You?
8:00—Portraits in Music
8:30—Our Miss Brooks
9:00—News
9:05—Gunsmoke
9:30—FBI in Peace L War
10:00—One Night Stand
10:30—Martin Block
11:00—News
11:15—A Joy Forever
11:30—Land of Dreams
12:00—Sign Off
Friday
6:58—Sign On
7:00—News
7:15—Weather Roundup
7:18—Rise 4c Shine
8:15—Morning Devotions
8:30—Breakfast Club
9:00—Coffee Concert
10:00—News
10:05—Turn Back the Clock
10:30—Spotllte on a Star
10:45—Rex Koury
11:00—Bob Crosby
11:15—Swinging thru Dixie
11:30—Make Up Your Mind
11:45—Musical Express
12:00—News
12:15—Behind the Story
12:30—Platter Parade
1:00—Hillbilly Jamboree
2:00—Tennessee Ernie
2:30—Music a la Carte
4:00—News
4:05—Baseball
French Will Take Part in Tamed
Canal Users’ Association; Oct. 1
Set for Third London Conference
LONDON Wl—The French Cab
inet decided Saturday to partici
pate in the blunted Suez Canal
Users’ Assn. iSCUA) but with the
reservation that it must not weak
en insistence on the principle of
international administration of
the waterway.
At the same time British For
eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd is
sued formal invitations fixiqg
October 1 as the date for a third
London Suez conference to settle
the machanical details of putting
SCUA into action.
On Ambassadorial Level
The conference will be on the
ambassadorial level and invita
tions went to the 17 other nations j
which attended the just-aban
doned meeting that founded the
association. Counting France, at
least 12 of the 18 attending na
tions have lined up to join the
new international agency.
Adherence to the agency by
France, which had insisted on
strong action against Egyptian
President Nasser, was placed in
question Friday when the French
charged most of the association’s
teeth had been pulled before it
was born.
Toll Plan Dropped
The French were particularly
annoyed because a plan for SCUA
to collect tolls paid by all mem
bers was dropped. The French
press in general voiced disap
pointment.
The British too had wanted to
keep as much revenue out of Nas
ser's hands as possible. But For
eign Secretary Lloyd officially
went along with the tempered
version. There still was much dis
satisfaction among staunch gov
ernment supporters.
French 'Liberty of Action'
Despite French agreement to
join, a Paris communique after a
two-hour cabinet meeting de
clared France would continue to
“conserve her liberty of action."
There was no indication of what
specific actions the French had
in mind.
There was speculation in the
Egyptian capital that Nasser’s
Arab neighbors, fearing a shut
down of the canal or its dimin
ished importance would cut their
own oil revenues from the west,
were putting pressure on him to
come to an agreement.
India the Middleman
Some informants in Cairo have
been hinting that SCUA came
close to meeting Nasser’s ideas,
and there was much curiosity
about the forthcoming visit to
London of India's roving ambas
sador, V. K. Krishna Menon.
Menon, who embodies India’s
hopes of bridging the gulf be
tween Egypt and the West, Sat
urday wound up an intensive
week of soft-shoe diplomatic bar
gaining with Nasser in Cairo.
Alaska Airlines Asks
Permission to Suspend
Service to Ungalik
WASHINGTON, —A 1 a s k a
Airlines asked the Civil Aero
nautics Board Friday for permis
sion to suspend scheduled service
at Ungalik, Alaska, on its Anchor
age-Nome route.
The airline said that if it is re
quired to continue its twice-a
month service at Ungalik it will
be “just a matter of time before
a serious mishap occurs,” because:
1. Summer landing conditions
are “extremely difficult.” The
landing area—only 1,000 feet long
—is on top of a ridge between two
knolls with each end higher than
the center, and the prevailing
winds are always cross-winds, the
line said.
2. Winter operations on the
river below the ridge are “•prob
ably even worse” because of
overlows and tilted ice.
Furthermore, the airline said,
the present scheduled service is
“entirely for the convenience of
the two sole occupants of Ungal
ik.”
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government is giving away bil
lions of dollars to foreign coun
tries.”
Statehood Only Remedy
Statehood for all Alaska, Gov.
Gruening pointed out repeatedly,
is the only remedy. He said that
statehood would benefit every
man, woman and child in Alaska.
It would bring development and
prosperity which Alaska, and
Nome and the Second Division es
pecially, have not had.
Gruening said statehood should
not be made a partisan issue, that
the great majority of Democrats
and Republicans favored it, and
that he planned to campaign for
the Senate on a non-partisan ba
sis. However, it was a great shock
to Alaskans of both parties, he
said, to note that President Eisen
hower, who had pledged his sup
port of statehood before his elec
tion four years ago, had now re
versed himself and had also
shown his complete lack of knowl
edge of Alaska by saying in a re
cent press conference that nearly
all of Alaska’s population was
concentrated in the “southeast
comer” of Alaska and that that
part only should be made a state,
leaving the rest under the control
of the military. Gruening read
from an editorial in the Fairbanks
News-Miner, a Republican paper,
the statement that the President
had displayed “shocking ignor
ance” of Alaska.
President's View 'Unjustified'
Gov. Gruening then pointed out I
how “completely unjustified” was
the President’s view that Alaska
could be better defended as a ter
ritory than as a state. He pointed
out that the Defense Department
could at any time withdraw what
ever areas of Alaska it needed for
defense. But that not only had it
not done so, but had actually
abandoned its defenses along the
coast, such as at Nome, on the
ground that they were too near
Russia to defend. He pledged
himself, if elected on Oct. 9, to
fight for statehood for all of Alas
ka and to oppose depriving the
northern and western parts of
Alaska from statehood’s benefits
which the President had indicated
should be done.
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tomers happy, American Express
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American Express likes to re
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ceptability of the cheques, which
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The Arab refused. However,
when the man presented an
American Express travelers
cheque the desert chieftain ac
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One advantage of travelers
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