2THE NOME NUGGETFriday, August 23, 1957 j
THE NOME NUGGET |
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SET ’EM UP IN^THE OTHER ALLEY!
THE BIG SCHOOL PROBLEM
Stewart Alsop, the liberal-minded writer on cur
rent affairs, recently made a little tour of subsurban
schools, He was motivated by the proposal that the
federal government provide funds for construction of
classrooms.
At the beginning of his trip, Mr. Alsop was in
clined to agree with the proposal. But at the end of
it, he was no longer so sure.
One reason for that is that the school situation,
while serious’ in many places, “is not quite so desperate
a crisis as it has sometimes been painted.”
Another is that “If the federal government does
move in, the federal government will stay in, despite
the President’s fond hopes.”
Finally, Mr. Alsop came away from his tour with
/this impression—“that the teachers and officials I met,
all admirable people,' were a little too much interested
dn the buildings the children were taught in. and not
enough n what they were taught.”
All of these moderately phrased observations' are
important—and the last is the most important of all.
We will put the cart before the horse with a vengence
if we lay heavy emphasis on the physical characteris
tics of our schools—and only secondary emphasis on
what goes on in the classrooms.
DOUBLE DUTY
Wherever U.S. surplus foods have been distributed
thru the joint efforts of the Catholic Relief Services,;
National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the U.S. I
Department of Agriculture, industry has followed nu- j
trition.
In none of the underprivileged countries, including J
• Spain, Portugal, Pakistan, Korea, Bolivia and. Peru, I
have the empty cans that contained the food been j
thrown away.
A collection of kitchen and household utensils j
made from the precious tinplate of these cans is on !
display in the headquarters offices of the Catholfc Re-;
lief Services in the Empire State Building. These par-'
ticular examples of the handicraft of grateful and
needy people include such items as ladles, cups, scoops,
flower pots and air-tight kitchen containers. There
are, besides, a beautifully handcrafted milk pail, a set
of nesting ash trays, and a flour sifter.
Frank Brewster
Sentenced to
1 Year, $1,000 Fine
WASHINGTON, UV—Frank W.
Brewster, western boss of the
Teamsters Union, yesterday was
sentenced to a year in jail and
fined $1,000 for contempt of Con
gress.
The sentence, the maximum for
contempt of Congress, was im
posed by Federal District Judge
John Sirica, who rejected a plea
for probation.
Judge Sirica, however, allowed
Brewster to remain free on $1,000
j bond pending the appeal outcome.
Brewster’s conviction June 26
grew out of his refusal to produce
records and answer questions be
fore the Senate Investigations
Subcommittee in January.
Brewster, 60, challenged the
subcommittee’s authority to in
vestigate internal affairs of labor
unions.
Brewster told Judge Sirica yes
terday he did not believe and still
does not believe the subcommit
tee had authority to question him.
Mountain Near
Anchorage Offered
To Museum Director
ANCHORAGE, UPt-—1To Dr. R.
Bruce Inverarity, director of the
new Adirondack Museum, Blue
Mountain Lake, N.Y.:
You have cast your bread upon
the waters, and it. is returning to
you a hundredfold.
Recently you asked for a sliced
off mountain peak to display in
your museum so frustrated moun
tain climbers could satisfy their
yen to see the real thing. Alaska
heard you, sir.
An ENTIRE mountain is yours
—all 11,029 feet of lava spouting
Mt. Spurr, some 70 miles west of
here.
This Alaska metropolis would
be glad to get rid of it. Four years
ago it blew its stack and shrouded
Anchorage in enough soot and ash
to supply a Lilliputian Pompeii.
There’s just one catch. You’ll
have to pay the freight.
The Way of All Flesh?
The Tungik Club, Nome Wom
en’s reducing cooperative, met
Tuesday for their weighing in
and after all was said and dome,
reported that a total of 12 pounds
was consigned to limbo, or some
where. All the members lost
weight, no one had to pay a fine
as the battle of the bulge grinds
on~ *
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'Foremost Canada
| Mountaineer Dies
In 250-Foot Fall
TERRACE, B. C., UP>—One of
; Canada’s foremostt mountaineers
! died in a fall while attempting to
1 scale an unclimbed peak in north
| era British Columbia, it was re
i ported last night,
j Fellow-climbers arrived here to
] tell of the death Tuesday of Maj.
i Rex Gibson of Saanichton, B.C.,
president of the Alpine Club of
Canada, in a fall 250 feet down a
gully of 9,000-foot Mount How
son, 40 miles east of here. Two
others of a five-member climbing
party also were injured in the fall.
The climbers said the body of
i the major was left tied to a rock
! at the scene. A rescue party flew
there today in a helicopter to re
cover the body.
Other members of the climbing
party were Dr. Sterling Hendricks
of Silver Springs, Md., and Don
Hubbard of the National Bureau
of Standards, Washington, D.C.;
Dr. Alex C. Baberge of the Uni
versity of Missouri, and Alvin
Peterson, also of Washington.
Hendricks suffered a broken
arm and Hubbard a broken knee
in the fall.
“Three of us were climbing the
gully on one rope with Maj. Gib
son leading,” said Hendicks. Hub
bard was the third member.
“A small rock falling from
above hit Rex on the head, and
we all fell about 250 feet down
the gully.”
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VENGEANCE
Vengeance, how all-consuming is
this passion; •
’Tis sweet, they say,
’Twill satisfy the soul, i
’Twill bring me to my goal.
Vengeance, now avidly men pur
sue this fashion;
Gladly they pay,
Yet never does a soul
Happ’ly win a self-made shoal.
Vengeance, O horrible, ugly pas
sion;
Remorseful day,
A hopeless man grows foul,
Is mindful of his shoal.
Vengeance, O brother, shun this
evil bastion;
Forgive, this day,
Let not they wrathful soul
Remorseful dig a hole.
—By Willard Mecklenburg
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