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Legion Supports
Plan For Military
Reorganization
ST. LOUIS, UP) — The Ameri
can Legion’s support of Presi
dent Eisenhower’s Pentagon re
organization plan was pledged
t>y the organization’s national
commander. But he said more
men and arms are needed to in
sure the nation’s security.
John S. Gleason Jr. of Chicago
said in a speech prepared for
an American Legion Founder’s
Day celebration there is “com
pelling cause to be concerned
about national security.”
“If Russia is now denied and
can be prevented from attaining
superior nuclear, missile and air
strength,” Gleason said, “it cer
tainly commands unchallenged
supremacy in conventional mili
tary arms.”
Russia has an estimated 2V£
million in its Army, he said, while
the U. S. Army by the end of
next month will be down to
870,000. Russia has three times
as many submarines as America,
Gleason said.
Guest of honor with Gleason at
the event commemorating the
founding of the nation’s largest
veteran’s organization in St.
Louis 39 years ago was a blind
linotype repairman.
George Douglas West of the
Lafayette (Ind.i Journal-Courier,
lost his sight six years ago under
mortar fire in Korea. He is the
only blinded veteran to hold a
journeyman’s card in the Inter
national Typographical Union.
Diiector of Poland’s
Lottery Fired
WARSAW, — The deputy
director of Poland’s lottery was
reported fired Saturday for
helping other people win money.
According to the paper Kurier
. Polski, he and three other lottery
officials published a book called
“Eighty Ways to Win”.
In fact, the paper said, they
knew of 81 ways—they had pla
giarized the book from an East
German author and pocketed
heavy royalties.
Airlines Increase Freight
Shipments From Portland
PORTLAND, (ff> — Two air
lines disclosed Friday night they
have stepped up freight ship
ments here to Alaska because of
a warehousemen’s strike i n
Seattle.
Pacific Northern Air Lines
said that since the strike began
it has scheduled five freight ship
ments a week to Alaska.
The latest shipment .came Fri
day night when 4,000 pounds of
produce, including crates of let
tuce, left for Alaska, sales man
ager Walter Morgan said.
The .other line is Alaska Air
line, whose Portland manager
Bob St. Helen said his firm’s
DC6C craft were carrying extra
freight loads.
St. Helen said the latest flight
was Thursday, when a plane
left for Alaska with 2,500 pounds
of produce, furniture and auto
mobile parts.
The cargo originally had been
scheduled to leave from Seattle,
he said.
Both lines said they probably
will put on extra flights to handle
the increase in Alaska^bound
cargo.
CAT-LIMIT ORDINANCE SET
UP EY GLENDALE COUNCIL
GLENDALE, Calif., UPl — How
many cats is enough and when
does a kitten become a cat?
After a week of speeches and
a public hearing, the Glendale
City Council has come up with its
answer:
Three cats is enough. To
have more—according to the
council’s ordinance—you’ll have
to get a permit.
Now, about kittens:
If you have three cats, you
can keep as many kittens as
occur. Until they get to be four
months old. At that time, by
order of the city of Glendale,
they become cats. Illegal cats.
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Khrushchev' Turns
Thumbs Down On
Dulles’ Flails
MOSCOW, m—Premier Khru
shchev says he still wants to sit
down with other heads of govern
ment but he isn’t about to ac
cept Secretary of State’s Dulles’
list of what should be discussed
at the summit.
Declaring the Soviets have
“nerves as tough as Alpine rope,”
Khrushchev told diplomats and
officials at the Czechoslovak
embassy’^ National Day reception
Friday night it would take more
than world tensions to frighten
the Russians.
Western correspondents were
not invited to the reception, but
other newsmen present gave this
account:
“We want summit talks,” the
premier said. “We want them in
the same degree the Western
powers should want them. But
if they want to maintain a tense
situation, then it must be that
way. We can live in tension
too.”
Commenting on summit topics
proposed by Dulles and endorsed
this week by Atlantic Alliance
foreign ministers, Khrushchev
asserted “none of them is accept
able.”
“He wants the German Demo
cratic Republic (East Germany)
to be liquidated,” Khrushchev
commented. “It is impossible, it’s
madness. We don’t want our
heads on the chopping block.”
At the windup of their three
day meeting in Copenhagen Wed
nesday, the 15 NATO foreign
ministers suggested that the sum
mit parley deal with reunifica
tion of Germany and other key
East-West issues. Moscow con
tends that German reunification
should be discussed directly be
tween the satellite regime and
the West German government
in order to protect the Communist
government from being sub
merged in all-German free elec
tions under the Big Four.
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Now It's !>puce Sickness
That queasy feeling called mo
tion sickness, which often creeps
up on car, air and sea travelers
with upsetting results, may soon
have a 20th Century counterpart:
space sickness.
One important reason Soviet
scientists sent a dog aloft with
Sputnik II was to test her reac
tions to living without weight - a
condition which will affect humans
during most of any flight m space.
Recent tests con
ducted by the U.S.
Navy School of
Aviation Medicine
indicate that
‘weightless’’ peo
ple may find them
selves dizzy, sick
and disoriented.
About 25 per cent
of the test sub
jects had this reaction, another 50
per cent reported themselves ex
hilarated - but again, disoriented
- by the sensation. Only 25 per
cent seemed indifferent to it. But
since the longest of the tests lasted
only 45 seconds, U.S. scientists do
not know whether a rocket pas
senger would remain indifferent
in a longer space flight.
Scientists would also like to
know whether the most effective
Earthly motion sickness remedies,
such as Bonadettes, would offer
the same protection against space
sickness as they do against car, sea
and air nausea. It’s even possible
that some such experiment was
conducted aboard the Soviet satel
lite, Sputnik II.
However the little dog Laika felt
about weightlessness, it seems
likely that human beings will soon
be finding out about it themselves
- 25,000 miles out.
First Recession
Combatting Contract
Let In Yosemite
WASHINGTON, (£) — The In
terior Department today an
nounced the first construction
contract for a national park pro
ject under an accelerated pub
lic works program designed to
help combat the recession.
The department awarded a
$1,738,225 contract for moderni
zation of a road in Yosemite
National Park, California.
Seaton announced March 12
that 5 projects in 30 states and
Alaska would be accelerated by
various Interior agencies from
previously appropriated funds
which had been held in reserve.
Construction on these projects
had originally been programmed
for the year beginning July 1
or later.
Estimated cost of the 5 pro
jects is $25,061,408.
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Night Flying Proves
Risky For Birds
URBANA, 111., UR — Crowded
airlanes make night flying risky
business, even for birds.
That’s the finding of a paper
Jack A. Ellis of the Illinois State
natural history survey presented
Friday to the State Academy of
Science.
Every mile of an Illinois fly
way’s width is used by more than
a half-million birds in a single
night of migratory season, Ellis
estimated.
He based the figure on the
number that didn’t reach their
destination because of a 83-foot
television transmitting tower
near Seymour.
Ellis said 486 birds of 51
species died in collisions with the
tower in a single week.
Bird Nest In Chimney
Causes Death of Five
BYDGOSZ, Poland, UR —Two
jackdaws were blamed for the
the death of five women.
The birds built a nest in the
chimney of a state farm dormi
tory. The chimney smoked—and
the five women sleeping there
died of carbon monoxide poison
ing.
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