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THE BEAR DANCES
From Washington comes a steady stream of guff
and gush about how charming, how well-dressed and
how excruciatingly hospitable are the Mikhail Men
shikovs, lately come to occupy the previously forbid
ding Red embassy and to soften up the silly Ameri
cans for the next Yalta. And the fact that they are
getting such a big assist from newsmen, society re
porters and commentators who are presumed to have
newspaper experience may indicate what troupers
th sse Menshikovs are!
In spite of Mr. Menshikov’s spell-binding efforts
to make us forget the Red enslavement of half of the
world, the Soviet record of total deceitfulness in vio
lating no less than 26 out of 26 agreements with the
US since 1917, its adoption of wholesale murder as
an instrument of policy and most recently, the wanton
butchery in Hungary, another summit meeting looks
no more promising now than it ever did.
If the Reds really want to play ball, all they have
to do to implement disarmament is to accept Presi
dent Eisenhower’s aerial inspection plan and get busy
on fulfilling their 1955 Geneva agreement on German
reunification. And until both of these developments
are put in motion there would seem to be nothing to
say—at the summit or elsewhere.
'In the meantime, let those who have the stomach
for it enjoy their free caviar at the Embassy—and
, forget Mr. Krushchev’s boast: “We will bury you.”
ABOUT A DISHPAN *
The following editorial is from the Cleveland,
Ohio, Plain Dealer:
“Get a load of this, folks. The government has
got out a phamphlet on ‘Tools for Food Prepara
tion and Dishwashing’. And it contains some infor
mation we’ll bet you never thought of such as ‘Dish
pans should be large enough to hold the dishes but
not too large for the sink’.
“Well, what do you know? For years we had
a dishpan that wouldn’t hold the dinner plates and
when we got a new one it was too big to fit in the
sink. Now thanks to this advice from Washington,
we’ll go right out and buy an in-between-size dish
pan and see how that works. We never would have
solved the problem ourselves. And when it comes
time to pay our income tax next year we’ll be espe
cia.ly grateful to the bureaucrat who thought this up.”
Alaskan Worker Sues
For Permanent and
Temporary Disability
WASHINGTON, UP) — Can an
injured worker rightly claim'
compensation for both permanent
and temporary disability arising
out of a single accident under
terms of the Alaska Workmen’s
Compenstation Act?
This issue came before the
United States Supreme Court
Tuesday on a case brought by
Carl E. Jenkins of Anchorage and
the Alaska Industrial Board
against the Chugach Electric
Assn, and the General Accident,
Fire and Life Insurance Corp.
Ltd.
Jenkins lost his left arm, right
leg and four toes of his left foot
when he came in contact with
a high voltage wire while work
ing for Chugach in 1950.
He subsequently was paid
$3,645 over a 38-week period un
der the temporary disability pro
vision of the Alaska Act. This
amount was deducted later, how
ever, from an $8,100 lump sum
payment for total and perma
nent disability arising out of
loss of the leg and arm.
Jenkins then applied to the
board for continuing benefits,
claiming temporary disability on
grounds his left foot had not
healed.
He received a favorable ruling
from the board chairman only
to have it reversed in large part
by the full board. In January,
1954, however, the bbard reversed
itself and held Jenkins was en
titled to temporary compensation
at the rate of $94.50 a week from
October, il950—the date of his
final amputation.
This in turn was reversed in
district court when the utility and
the insurance company appealed
the ruling. The court, in a find
ing later upheld by the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals, said an
award for temporary total dis
ability could n<f! be granted for
physical disability arising from
the same accident in which a
scheduled, lump sum award for
total permanent disability had
been granted.
A good beginning doesn’t
make for a good ending unless
you keep stepping along.
Conservation Groups
Seek Protection For
Alaskan Forests
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WASHINGTON UP) — Repre
sentatives of some of the nation’s I
largest conservation organizations j
have asked Congress to increase j
appropriations for combatting j
forest fires in Alaska.
They cited statistics showing I
that Alaska last year had,
its worst fire season of recent,
years, with fires sweeping over |
five million acres—an area larger j
than Massachusetts. In normal j
years, they said, the toll in Alaska>
covers one to two million acres.
Their pleas were made Monday
to a Senate Appropriations Sub
committee.
■Kennth B. Pomeroy, chief for- \
ester for the American Forestry;
Assn., told the subcommittee the!
Bureau of Land Management has:
done “a Herculean job with the j
meager facilities available,” but |
added: “the bare facts are that]
only one-quarter cent an acre is |
being budgeted for fire protec- j
tion on 225 million acres of pub- j
lie land in Alaska. Yet informed I
sources indicate a minimum of.
one cent per acre is needed.”
Pomeroy said his organization |
recommends adequate fire pro-,
tection for all public lands, but
said if all of Alaska cannot have
the basic protection, the lands
should be zoned in order of
value and adequate protection
given the priority areas.
Stewart M. Brandborg, assist
ant conservation director for the
National Wildlife Federation, said
the bureau should have a regular
appropriation of $600,000 a year
for its Alaska fire program. The
budget for the year beginning
July 1 proposes $375,000.
Brandborg said “In Alaska to
day, we are sacrificing valuable
resources to forest fires just as we
did 50 years ago here in the Uni
ted States. The main difference
is that today, with our swelling
populations, we can see that
within a few years we will place
heavy demands upon these lands.
Yet we have done nothing to
stop this waste.”
Animals living in cold regions
have smaller ears and tails than
those dwelling in wafm or moder
ate regions.
PUBLIC NOTICE
BY
Territorial Board Of Public Accountancy
Notice is hereby given of the forthcoming
examination for:
“CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT”
May 14, 15, 16, 1958
Anyone wishing to take the above examination should
make application to Ray Kohler, Secretary of the Board,
P. O. Box 607, Fairbanks, Alaska, on or before May 1, 1958.
Japan Blames U. S. For
Increased Radioactivity
In North Pacific
TOKYO, OW—A Japanese scien
tist said today almost all the
western half of the North Pacific
has been contaminated by radio
active fallout from the big U. S.
H-bomb blast at Bikini in 1954.
Speaking for a three-scientist
team, Prof. Yasuo Miyake of
Tokyo’s University of Education
told the Japan Oceanography So
ciety it was estimated waters in
the area west of Hawaii to Japan
show a level of man-made radio
active contamination about 10
times that of the Atlantic Ocean.
Miyake claimed the radioactiv
ity is showing no sign of decreas
ing with the passage of time.
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YOUR LIFE !!
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New Worlds To Conquer
The early days of antibiotics were
much like ancient voyages of ex
ploration and discovery. But instead
of new lands, old diseases were con
quered with these exciting drugs.
Blood poisoning, pneumonia, tuber
culosis, scarlet fever and venereal
disease were quickly brought under
control. Today, none of these dis
eases carries the death sentence so
common in the centuries preceding
the age of antibiotics.
Scientists, however, are rarely
—satisfied with any
thing short of per
.1 fection and work
* continually to
make drug action
v safer, quicker and
more effective.
Ten years ago, fqr
example, the pain
of a penicillin in
jection was very
real; today, thanks to pharmaceu
tical research, penicillin injections
are quite painless and the *new peni
: cillin “pills” do not hurt at all.
A prime target has been the
search for substances to speed up
j the curative work of the broad
l range antibiotics. To be most effec
1 tive, these drugs must reach the
i blood-stream quickly. One of the
j largest antibiotic 'research labora
tories in the country has found that
j a substance called glucosamine dnu
; bles the amount of Tetracyn carried
to the blood in the first two hours
after swallowing. This antibiotic en
hanced with glucosamine, called
Cosa-Tetracyn, starts its work more
quickly and does it better.
Oddly enough, glucosamine is not
a test tube creation but a fairly sim
ple substance related to sugar. It is
found throughout nature, in the
human body — most abundantly in
mother’s milk — and, curiously, in
lobster shells. As far as anyone
knows it was part of the planet
Earth long before man. Modern
chemistry’s contribution is in iso
lating and combining it with other
substances to serve mankind better.
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