Readers Back
From Parents’
50th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Reader and
John Reader returned to Nome
Thursday after a three-week visit
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
P. J. Reader of Port Angeles,
Wash., who celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary on the 9th
of November.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reader
and two children, who were also
on hand for the celebration, are
expected back early next month.
Prior to the anniversary party
the group attended the wedding
of Carol Ann Roberts, a grand
daughter, eldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Roberts, formerly
of Nome and now of Paulsbo,
Wash., at the Suquamish church.
On the return to Nome Mr. and
Mrs. Pete Reader stopped in Fair
banks and had Thanksgiving din
ner with their son, LeRoy, who
is a freshman at the University
of Alaska.
All 13 children of Mr. and
Mrs. P. J. Reader came to Port
Angeles to help celebrate the an
niversary. They brought with
them 34 of the Readers’ 52 grand
children and their only great
grandchild, four-month-old Rich
ard Wieser, all the way from
Topeka, Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Reader celebrated
their anniversary with High Mass
at the Queen of Angels Church
on the morning of the 9th, a re
ception in the church social hall
in the afternoon, and a social in
the evening.
Reminiscing over raising such a
big family, the Readers agreed it’s
much easier in the country than
in the city.
“When we lived on the farm,
I raised 80 per cent of all the food
we ate: meat, potatoes, vegetables,
eggs,” said Reader. “I bought
Mom 2,400 pounds of flour at a
time, and that lasted her a year.
She used 50 pounds of flour every
week, baking all our bread.
The Readers were married in
LaMoure, N.D. Mrs. Reader, 70,
was born in Buckman, Minn., and
her husband, 74, in Alexandria,
Minn. They met when she went
to keep house for her brother in
Berlin, N.C.
The family lived on a North
Dakota farm until 1938, when they
came to the West Coast and set
tled on another farm at Joyce.
The couple had 16 children dur
ing their 50 years of marriage, and
the three who have died leave
eight grandchildren between
them.
The Readers are quick to admit
“it takes a lot of hard struggle to
raise so many children, and make
a marriage last 50 years—and a
lot of good times, too.”
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Vigilance Campaign in Russia
Suggestk New Internal Unrest
By WILLIAM L. RY*
AP Foreign News Anallpt
A pattern o£ 18 months ago is
being repeated today in the Soviet
Union, suggesting new internal
nervousness which could lead to
another upheaval.
A new “vigilance" campaign is
being launched, similar in tone to
the one which preceded the arrest
and purge of police boss Lavrenti
P. Beria in June, 1953.
There is stress—as there was
just before and after Stalin’s
death—on urging every Soviet
citizen to guard “state secrets.”
And there is again a scare cam
paign to convince the Soviet peo
ple their country is crawling with
British and American spies.
The Communist Party is stongly
reasserting its authority over ev
ery phase of Soviet life—including
the military. This becomes more
suspicious in view of the fact that
at the past half dozen or more
major functions concerning the
military in Moscow, Marshal
Georgi Zhukov, a deputy defense
minister and World War II hero,
and Marshal Basily D. Sokolov
sky, chief of staff of the Soviet
army, have been missing.
An intense campaign calls for
“state discipline” in both military
and civilian life, plus the neces
sit.v for raising “productivity of
labor.” At the same time, noted
military men have been writing
in the Soviet press on the impor
tance of continued emphasis on
heavy industry.
All this tends to give the im
pression that a couple of post
Stalin honeymoons are over—first,
the honeymoon between the So
viet government and the people,
and second, the honeymoon with
foreigners. It would be no sur
prise if the Soviet government
gradually eased off on its gener
ous admission of western visitors
and on the permission given them
to travel in the U.S.S.R.. Nor
would it be any surprise if the
censorship on foreign correspon
dents in Moscow tightened up
again after a year or so of relative
reasonableness.
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hopelessness of the situation,
gathered in some of the players
who had become lost in the fog,
suggested they call things off until
the next day. They agreed.
“Why, this bloomin’ stuff is
worse than what they have in
London,” said Gelder.
With 600,000 motor cars, 350,000
motorcycles and 250,000 motor
ized bicycles, Sweden claims she
is the most motorized country in
continental Europe.
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