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President Eisenhower is still enthusiastic about
his atom-powered “peace ship.” After Congress turned
down his request for 21 millions for this nuclear show
boat that would travel about the globe demonstrating
how friendly fission can be, the President asked the
legislature to reinstate this item in the supplemental
appropriation for the Atomic Energy Commission.
Opponents of the plan objected to the cost and
felt the undertaking would delay the Navy’s plans to
develop more efficient atomic engines. But perhaps the
congressmen failed to consider the vessel’s propaganda
value for America in particular as well as peace in
general. It could double as a floating demonstration of
sturdy, hard-working atoms and American life, too!
Equipped with an electronic kitchen, soft drink vending
machines, the latest movies, automatic washers, dark
glasses, square dancers, hamburgers, a super-market
and a jive band, it might even replace some costlier
efforts at making a global impression.
And, come to think of it, Harold Stassen used to be
a captain in the Navy. He could be the skipper.
THIS MUCH IS SACRED
We understand from experts that the world’s
best-known] symbol of democratic government, the
dome of the U.S. Capitol, rests as firmly on its base of
steel girders as the Rock of Gibraltar—even though
former President Harry Truman predicted periodically
that it would fall on the heads of our law-makers.
Mr. Truman also used to say that it was too big, but
nobody suggested making it any smaller. Now, how
ever, if the House Appropriations Committee has its
way, Congress will authorize an enlargement of the rest
of the building, which should have the same effect. The
east front of the Capitol (where the steps are) is to be
extended about 40 feet, at a cost of about ten millions,
and based on plans submitted half a century ago.
Anyway, we’re glad they’re not going to monkey
with that dome. And perhaps, when the experts gather
to work on the extension, we may find out whether or
not that really is an Indian up there on top!
After you have heard two eye-witness accounts
of an auto accident, you begin to wonder about history.
Stevenson Scores
Ike for Inaction
On School System
CHICAGO, UP) — Adlai Steven
son says President Eisenhower
promised the American school
system “some prompt effective
help” 2Vi years ago, “but nothing
has been done.”
The 1952 Democratic presiden
tial nominee attacked Eisenhow
er’s program of school aid in a
speech last night to delegates to
the National Education Assn, con
vention at Chicago Stadium.
“Instead of {prompt effective
help’ ” Stevenson said, “we await
a conference on education to be
held at the White House next fall.
“Now a conference is fine, and
it will dramatize the great sig
nificance of our educational sys
tem and its critical deficiencies.
But it seems to me a pitifully in
adequate excuse for years of do
ing absolutely nothing about Am
erica’s No. 1 domestic need —
schools and teachers.”
Stevenson referred to the White
House conference on education
slated for this fall, a meeting of
some 2,000 educators of various
creeds, races, occupations and
geographical locations who will
make recommendations on school
problems.
The former Illinois governor
said the Republican administra
tion’s school program was “in
adequate” and “deceptive.” He
added “the chief education of
ficers of 40 states have said it
would be of no help whatsoever
in their states. And Congress has
long since buried the President’s
bill.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly cloudy with occasional
showers today through Saturday.
Little change in temperature.
Winds easterly 10-15 mph. Low
temperature expected tonight 50,
high tomorrow 60.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: highest temper
ature 54, lowest 48. Max. wind 13
mph from the ESE. Sunrise at
1:47 a.m., sunset at 10:24 p.m.
A year ago today, highest tem
perature 45, lowest 38. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 72
in 1925, lowest 32 in 1934.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 36 Part cloudy
Kotzebue 54 Cloudy
Wales 49 Cloudy
Nome 52 Cloudy
Unalakleet 53 Part cloudy
Bethel 51 Rain
McGrath ' 59 Cloudy
Anchorage 56 Cloudy
Fairbanks 68 Cloudy
Whitehorse 62 Clear
Junegiu 50 Cloudy
Proposed That Student From Nome
Exchange With Student From Brazil
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By George Jennings Gale
FAIRBANKS — Recently I re
ceived a letter from a student in
Brazil, Miss Yole Agostini Felis
berto, address Caixa Postal IO,
Alreadosul Deminas, Brazil, who
attends the University of Alfenas,
and she would like to exchange
for an Alaskan student.
I think that it would be very
good advertising for Alaska to
have a representative in Brazil.
It would be built up in the news
papers, radio and television sta
tions all over the states should we
promote and send one, and the
city in Alaska where the student
came from would get a lot of
good publicity especially if in
terested in the tourist trade.
A boy or girl from Nome, from
a real Alaskan town would show
the world that Nome is a real
up-and-coming qommunity.
Brazil is the fastest growing
country in the world. Within a
few years it will have a popula
tion greater than the U.S. and
within a 100 years it will surpass
India or China. Sao Paul 20 years
ago had 200,000 inhabitants but
now it has over three million
population—the fastest growing
city in the world. There are
more rich people in Brazil than
in any other country except the
U.S. but they will pass us in a
few years.
It would be a great thing for
Nome to have the first exchange
►student out of AiasKa to me out
side world and especially Brazil.
Nome is one town that stands
on its own feet—no war boom
has to keep it going. With mining
and tourists, Nome is making a
name for itself as far as towns
go. Of course, it is the business
men in a community that make
or break a city or town.
I found my wife in Nome in
1930, Miss Wilma Neeley, a
teacher over at White Mountain,
and I have a soft spot in my
heart for Nome. Besides that,
Nome has always meant the real
Alaska to me — the friendly
people, the Arctic gray, the old
dredges, malemute dogs, the King
Island Eskimos, and just the at
mosphere of Nome.
Crack Red China Troops
Reported Transferred
To Port in Siberia
TAIPEH, Formosa, Uft — The
Chinese Nationalists’ official Ta
tao news agency said today a
division of crack Chinese Com
munist troops was transferred in
early June to the Siberian port
Vladivostock, near the borders of
Manchuria and Korea.
The agency, operated by the
Interior Ministry and claiming
underground contacts on the
mainland, said the move was
“apparently connected with some
new intrigue by the Soviet Union,
and Red China.”
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