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Bey Scouts Observe 44th Birthday
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MeOIT SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Official Boy Scout Week Poster
The 44th anniversary of the Boy
Scouts of America will be ob
served during Boy Scout Week,
Feb. 7 to 13, by more than 3,300,
000 boys and adult leaders. Since
1910 more than 21,000,000 boys and
leaders have been members.
Boy Scout Week will highlight
the “Forward cn Liberty’s Team”
theme which seeks to produce a
greater functioning manpower and
provide a higher quality program
for an ever-increasing membr
ship.
In countless communities,
Scouts, their parents, local institu
tions and public officials will pay
tribute to the leaders of 89,000
Units for the contribution they are
making to the boyhood of America.
BACK ON THE BEAM
Disc: pies of the late Horatio Alger, as well as the
fathers A ambitious youths, will be happy at the news
that tiie House Wavs and Means Committee has voted
to fix the income tax so that a dependent is still a
dependent even if he should earn himself as much
as $501 during summer vacation or after school and
Saturdays.
If Congress will only back up the committee,
there’s stiU hope for the good old sterling virtues,
industry, thrift, even business acumen. No more will
dad have to squelch ambition at the $600 mark. The
sky will be the limit!
Pittsburgh Shoppers Pack
Bundles During Strike
PITTSBURGH, OF! — Shoppers
loaded down with bundles re
mained a familiar sight on
Pittsburgh streets Saturday as
deadlocked contract negotiations
pushed a. strike against the city’s
five largest department stores ihto
the 11th week.
About 4,000 members of 11 AFL
unions, including truck drivers
who make deliveries, are off the
job. However, 8,000 other em
ployes have stayed on the job
pending negotiation of new pacts.
There are about 686,000 species
of insects.
SNAKE MAKES PET
DAYTON, Ohio, LT!—Mary Lou
Hull. IB, has a pet blacksnake
named George. She says she would
rather have the five-foot George
’ wrap himself around her arms
i than hold a kitten or a puppy.
Mary Lou has been interested
in reptiles since she was old
enough to hold a garter snake. A
clerk-typist by day, Mary Lou
; studies herpetology in her spare
| time.
Her father, James T. Hull, says,
| “The whole family is enthusiastic
about George.” Her mother, a
| little less enthusiastically, says
| she tolerates George around the
house but “draws the line” at pet
! alligators.
Many Killed As
Big ’Quake Wrecks
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MEXICO CITY, GT)—A strong
earthquake wrecked four towns
in the tropical coffee-growing
state of Chiapas Friday, killed
many persons and spread damage
and terror over an area 50 miles
in diameter, a dispatch from Tux
tla Gutierrez said Saturday.
Mercy planes were reported
flying doctors, nurses, medicines
and other supplies to the stricken
zone, in the rugged jungle coun
try centered 70 miles northeast
of Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital,
and about 100 miles west of the
Guatemalan frontier. Communi
cations were disrupted.
Seismographs in New York,
Boston, Cleveland, Pasadena and
elsewhere in the United States
had recorded a tremor at about
10:24 a.m. <EST) in the area of
Mexico.
The first word to reach Mexico
City came in a delayed telegram
from a newspaper correspondent
in the state capital. He offered no
estimate of the total casualties or
damage, but said the towns of
Yajalon, Tita, Petalcingo and
Chilon were hard hit by the mid
morning quake and hillsides
crumbled.
The correspondent’s account
gave this picture:
Yajalon, center of a corn, sugar
and fruit belt, suffered most. Mar
kets and other buildings in that
town of 2,000 w'ere leveled.
Petalcingo, pop. 1,500, was vir
tually destroyed, many were killed
there and hundreds were injured.
In Chilon, pop. 600, 24 houses
were destroyed and 90 percent of
the rest were damaged seriously.
The villagers, fearful that other
quakes would follow, fled into
the ope-n.
Walter H. Hodge’s
Outstanding Background
Of Law And Civic Service
(Continued from Page One)
Third Division. He served in that
capacity from 1926 to 1929.
Following his term of office in
Alaska, Hodge returned to Seattle
w7here he entered into private
practice from 1930 to 1934, but
the call of Alaska brought him
north again in 1935 and he has
remained in practice in Cordova
ever since.
Hodge has two daughters by his
first marriage, Miss Margaret
Hodge, a student at Snohomish 1
High School, and Mrs. LaVerne I
Johnson of McCarthy, Alaska. !
Following the death of his first
wife, Hodge married the local pub
lic health nurse, Elizabeth Little,
formerly of Youngstown, Ohio,
in 1956.
On receiving word of his nom
ination Hodge said he was “hon
ored and pleased at the announce
ment” and said he and Mrs.
Hodge were “looking forward to
the possibility of making their
home in Nome.”
Active in Cordova local affairs,
Mr. Hodge has been city attorney
since making his home in that j
city and has served as a city
councilman. He is also an active
member of the Cordova Chamber
of Commerce and the Cordova
chapter of the Izaak Walton
League of America.
Fraternal memberships include
the Mt. McKinley Lodge No. 183,
F. & A. M. (past master); Cordova
Lodge No. 1483, B.P.O.E.; and the
Delta Chi Fraternity.
The Hodges are Presbyterians.
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James Roosevelt’s
Lavish Standards
Bared In Court
PASADENA, Calif., UP)—Inti
mate details of James Roosevelt’s
complex financial affairs and his
family’s lavish standard of life
have been hared in a court fight
over temporary support for his
wife and three children.
Lawyers will delve further into
his income and expenditures when
the support hearing is resumed
Feb. 15. Proceedings were recessed
Friday night after an attorney
tried to question Roosevelt about
one of 12 women with whom, his
wife charges, he committed adul
try.
Mrs. Roosevelt’s complaint names
three women as correspondents
and incorporates a letter, signed
by Roosevelt, in which he admits
infidelities with nine other wo
men. Since her suit was filed,
Roosevelt has denied misconduct
with any of the 12.
The day-long hearing, during
which Roosevelt glared at his wife
and she on occasion burst into
tears, brought testimony ranging
from the price of her dresses to
Roosevelt’s assertion that he built
of a deficit of 5120,000 in four
and a half years.
Fine Job Printing ai the Nugget
Air Force Generals
Upped and Retired
WASHINGTON, Iff) — President
Eisenhower today sent a series of
Air Force nominations to the Sen
ate, including selection of Gen.
Otto P. Weyland to be command
er of the Tactical Air Command,
mander of the Far East Air
Eisenhower nominated Lt. Gen.
Earle E. Partridge to be com
Forces. He also recommended
Partridge to be promoted to the
rank of full general.
Partridge would succeed Wey
land in that post. Weyland, as
| chief of the Tactical Air Com
; mand, would succeed. Gen. John
J. Cannon, who is retiring.
Lt. Gen. Orval Cook to be dep
uty commander-in-chief of the
United States Eurpean Command
with the rank of full general. He
would succeed Gen. T. T. Handy,
who is retiring.
Lt. Gen. Edwin W. Rawlings
for promotion to the rank of full
general. He would continue to
serve as commander of the Air
Materiel Command.
Lt. Gen. Bryant L. Boatner to
be deputy chief of staff for Ma
teriel in the Air Force. He would
replace Cook in that job.
Maj. Gen. Truman H. Landon
; to be inspector genc-ral of the Air
Force, with the rank of lieutenant
general. He would succeed Boat
ner.
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