Maxwell Taylor
At Capital To Be
New Army Chief
WASHINGTON, tfV-Gen. Max
well B. Taylor, arriving in Wash
ington to become the new Army
chief of staff, was greeted cere
moniously Thursday by top level
officials of the Army. Outgoing
Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens
and outgoing Chief of Staff Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway were in
cluded.
Taylor told newsmen the prob
lems with which he expected to
deal included determination of
the “proper role and contribution
of the Army” to national defense.
Taylor said he just heard by
radio while flying here this morn
ing of the resignation of Stevens
and the nomination of Wilber M.
Brucker to succeed him.
He said he regretted the depar
ture of “my old and respected
friend” Ridgway. He also said “I
regret the departure of Mr. Bob
Stevens, my friend, but welcome
the opportunity of working with
Mr. Brucker.”
Taylor said, “I had a lump in
my throat on leaving Japan and
Korea, particularly Korea” where
he served in combat with his
troops. He said that Japan “re
quires our most careful consider
ation” in the plans for the Far
East.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with occasional light
rain and fog patches tonight and
Saturday. Warmer Saturday. S.W.
winds 5-10 mph becoming N.E.
10-20 mph tonight. Low tempera
ture expected tonight 41, high to
morrow 55.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: precip. trace, month
total .95 inches. Highest tempera
ture 51, lowest 41. Max. wind 11
mph from the S.W. Sunrise at
1:20 a.m., sunset at 10:49 p.m.
A year ago today: high tem
perature 43, low 40. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 75
in 1943, lowest 32 in 1910.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Barrow 44 Cloudy
Kotzebue 38 Cloudy
Wales 33 Rain
Nome 47 Cloudy
Unalakleet 50 Cloudy
Bethel 50 Cloudy
Seattle 58 Cloudy
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CAB Authorizes First
Commercial Helicopter
Service in Territory
WASHINGTON, Uft-The Civil
Aeronautics Board has authorized
H-S Copters, Inc., of Anchorage,
to inaugurate the first commercial
helicopter service in Alaska.
The CAB granted the company
temporary exemption from regu
lations with the provision the hel
icopters shall not operate over
regular routes where scheduled
air services are available. It also
said the company must make only
casual or infrequent flights be
tween any pair of cities.
H-S Copters owns one three
place helicopter and plans to ac
quire two more.
William A. Hilbert, president,
said there is a great need in Alas
ka for a commercial helicopter
service. He said there were 65
helicopters in the territory last
year, 45 of them operated by the
Army Map Service and the others
by various government groups.
Three airlines in Alaska, Cordo
va, Northern Consolidated and
Wien Alaska, asked the CAB to
deny the application of H-S Cop
ters, or to defer action pending a
hearing. They complained that the
company planned operations of
“broad and substantial scope.”
The CAB said letters favorable
to helicopter operations were re
ceived from the Anchorage Cham
ber of Commerce, the U.S. Army,
the Dept, of Territorial Police, the
Justice Dept., the City of Anchor
age, and the Interior Dept.
The CAB said the authority it
granted would have little if any
adverse effect upon any sched
uled Alaskan airline.
English Sewing Circle
Making Nightshirts
For Canadian Eskimos
SITTINGBOURNE, England, UP>
—Ladies of the local sewing cir
cle are making nightshirts for
Eskimos of Canada’s far north
west—where the nights are six
months long.
Normally, Eskimos don’t bother
much with nightshirts. Fur is the
fashion. But the cloth garments
are needed when they go to a
hospital, a missionary explained
on a trip here recently from Can
ada.
The 12 Sittingbournt sewers set
to work immediately. So far their
score is 16 flannelette nightshirts
and 14 pairs of paqamas, in both
plain and striped material.
One problem was size. Said
Miss Margaret Sellen, a sewing
circle leader:
“We understand that Eskimos
are rather small so we’ve used
patterns for rather large children.
We do hope they’ll fit.”
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Nehru, Bulganin
Jointly Make
Policy Agreement
MOSCOW, GP—The premiers of
Russia and India came out jointly
Thursday for a ban on nuclear
weapons, a U.N. seat for Commu
nist China and the surrender of
Formosa to the Chinese Reds.
The declaration was signed by
India’s Prime Minister Nehru and
Soviet Premier Bulganin, and
published yesterday momijig at
the end of Nehru’s 17-day visit to
the Soviet Union.
The statement contained little
that the two men or their gov
ernments had not said before. But
it was the first time they had said
it together.
Nehru and Bulganin called also
for a “simultaneous and substan
tial reduction of conventional
armaments” with “effective inter
national control.” They cited the
recent Soviet disarmament pro
posals as a “substantial contribu
tion to peace.”
The document was published
less than three hours before Neh
ru boarded a plane for Warsaw to
spend three days before pushing
on to Belgrade, Vienna, Rome and
London.
Nehru was accompanied to the
airport by Buganin, Soviet Com
munist Party Chief Khruschev,
Deputy Premier Georgi Malenkov,
Defense Minister Zhukov, and
other Soviet leaders.
Bidding the Indian leader fare
well, Bulganin hailed the joint
document as “a solid basis for
further development between our
two countries and as an example
to the rest of the world of peace
ful coexistence.”
Communist Imprison
Editors and Proofreader
For Party Line Error
BERLIN, UO—Four employes of
Communist East Germany’s lead
ing newspaper were reported be
hind bars today for printing an
“error” which completely re
versed the party line on peace.
Their newspaper, the party or
gan Neues Deutschland, Wednes
day printed this statement:
“From day to day, in all lands
of the earth, the number of per
sons who have signed the Vienna
(Communist) appeal for prepara
tion of an atomic war is growing.”
What had actually been meant,
the paper explained yesterday,
was “prevention” of an atomic
war, not “preparation.”
The West Berlin Telegraf said
East German secret police arrest
ed three of Neues Deutschland
editors and a proof reader.
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SCHOOL PRINCIPAL PROPOSES ELIMINATION
OF 7th AND 8th GRADES AS OUTMODED
LHICAG O—An elementary
school principal here is advocat
ing the abolition of the 7th and
8th grades.
Charles H. Schutter, principal
of the Delano Elementary School,
writes in the May “School Execu
tive” that the elementary school
program should be condensed into
six years.
“The present cirriculum for the
7th and 8th grades,” the principal
maintains, “consists mainly of re
views of the work of the preced
ing grades, or an introduction to
subjects which will be taken up
in high school.
“... Much of the repetition and
review work of the upper grades
could well be omitted. It might
have been necessary to spend
eight years on elementary educa
tion in 1880, when the attendance
per enrolled student averaged
only 81 days a year, but it is
wasteful nowadays when the stu
dent attends for 151 days.” (The
eight-year system was started in
the U.S. about 75 years ago..)
Mr. Schutter points out that
many European and Latin Ameri
can countries have operated six
year elementary schools.
Condensing the eight-year pro
gram, says the Chicago school ex
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ecutive, would “provide time and
opportunity for some real and
great enrichments in education
for all students. The average child
could thereby enter the regular
four-year high school when he is
12 years of age.”
The child could then graduate
at 16 and obtain two years of
liberal education by age 18. At the
same time, Mr. Schutter says, the
youngster would be ready to enter
compulsory military service. Both
the teacher shortage an<T building
shortage would be alleviated, he
said.
Mr*. Ross J. Kinney, formerly of
Nome, is helping out at the office
of the Alaska Brokerage Co. in
Seattle of which Mrs. Muriel Dus
tin is manager. Mr. Kinney is ex
tra busy in his garden which is
having one of its best years under
his “green thumb.” He is prepar
ing it for inspection by General
James Gordon Steese, who is ex
pected to arrive in Seattle around
June 10 from Washington, D.C.,
enroute to Alaska.
The Hawaiian Islands are the
tips of volcanic mountains that
extend 13,800 feet above sea level
and 10,000 feet below it.
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