ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
Jupiter is the largest planet in
;6iir solar system. It is now a
'bright celestial object in the
Southern sky visible any clear
night after sunset. It is now about
10 degrees west of the constella
tion Leo.
This has been an ideal winter
for observing the movements of
Jupiter (because it has been in
close proximity to the fixed star
Regulus. Regulus is the bottom
star in Leo. It will be two years
until Jupiter will be close to an
other fixed star and that will be
Arcturus, located about 60 degrees
further east.
Perhaps many of you noticed
that early this winter Jupiter was
on the east side of Regulus and
was moving rapidly eastward
•along its expected course. Since
then, Jupiter has had a retrograde
or backward movement until now
it is west of Regulus. This is only
an apparent movement caused by
the earth’s rapid movement along
its own orbit.
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E. WELLS ERVIN DIES
FROM INJURIES OF
AIRPLANE CRASH
ANCHORAGE, (/R—E. Wells Er
vin, Anchorage businessman, died
Wednesday of injuries received in
an airplane crash near Cordova
Monday afternoon.
Ervin arrived at a Cordova hos
pital at 5 a.m. after a doctor had
to travel on snowshoes to reach
the plane wreckage southeast of
Cordova.
Haake Christensen, the pilot of
the plane in which Ervin crashed,
was killed outright. The 53-year
old air service operator and Ervin,
one of Alaska’s best known busi
nessmen, were on a Seattle-An
| chorage flight when their twin
engined Grumman amphibian
cracked up.
Ervin’s death brought the two
; day Alaska air toll to eight. Six
other persons died Monday when
a Cordova Airlines plane plunged
into mountainous terrain on the
Kenai Peninsula while on an An
chorage-Seward trip.
Falconry is said to be the oldest
sport in the world.
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[ White House Hits Back at Truman’s
Calling Ike a ‘Do-Nothing’ Executive
The White House hit back with
sharp words yesterday at former
President Harry Truman’s charac
terization of President Eisenhow
er as a “do-nothing” executive,
and announced Eisenhower will
open up his active re-election
campaign with a Washington
speech next Tuesday evening.
Eisenhower’s vacation head
quarters in Augusta, Ga., said the
President will address a dinner
for 800 Republican Party leaders
in the capital.
In the same news conference at
which the speech announcement
was made, Press Secretary James
C. Hagerty was asked for com
ment on the address made by Tru
man the night before in Des
Moines, Iowa.
Truman in that speech called
Eisenhower a “do-nothing presi
dent” and accused him of compil
ing “pne of the most amazing rec
ords of political betrayal” on farm
matters that Truman had ever
seen,
Hagerty responded to the re
quest for comment:
“I don’t believe that Mr. Tru
man, by his own standards, can
recognize accomplishment when
he sees it.”
The long - distance exchange
poured more fuel on the political
fire already roaring over farm
affairs.
Truman cut loose at Eisenhower
—calling him a “do-nothing presi
dent”—during a speech at a Dem
; ocratic fund-raising dinner.
“Gen. Eisenhower has personal
i ly been doing all he could to keep
prices fanners get,” Truman de
clared.
“This is one of the most amaz
ing records of political betrayal I
have ever seen in all my years of
public life.”
Truman said he doesn’t know
“what Ike is going to do” with the
farm bill. But, he suggested, Eis
enhower “may well decide that
it’s the better part of valor to sign
this bill in an effort to get re
elected.”
Hagerty still would not talk
about whether Eisenhower will
sign or veto the farm bill which
Congress passed, but he let stand
his report that the President still
doesn't think the measure “meets
the test of a good bill.”
For the moment, at least, the
sharpened farm controversy—
which promises to figure import
antly in the coming presidential
campaign—overshadowed the con
test between Adlai Stevenson and
Sen. Estes Kefauver for the Dem
i ocratic presidential nomination.
Valdez Chamber Votes
To Consider Court Action
Against Alaska Railroad
VALDEZ, WV—The Valdez Cham
ber of Commerce voted Wednes
day to consider taking court action
against further operation of the
government-owned Alaska Rail
road in protest to what chamber
officials called “rate manipula
tions.”
The members said the railroad
seeks “to cripple the private en
terprise trucking industry which
serves Fairbanks and the entire
interior out of the port of Valdez.”
In support of this, chamber offi
cials said the railroad once made
a practice of dropping rates in the
summer when the Richardson
Highway was open between Val
dez and Fairbanks and increasing
rates when the highway was
closed in the winter.
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AT NOME PUBLIC SCHOOL
FOR FIFTH 6-WEEK PERIOD
First Grade — Mrs. Nerland —
Patrick Adams, Frances Aresac,
Harold Asitonia, Kathleen Bell,
Michael Blatchford, Harvey Mil
ler, Walter Petgrson, Norman *
Scott, Helen Sulkoke, Elizabeth
Walsh, Donnie Young.
Third Grade — Mrs. Carlisle —
Al^ce Atuk, Dorothy Bell, Walter
Simon Jr., Richard Young.
Fourth Grade — Mrs. Glavino
vich — Stanley Andersen, Andy
Miller, Helen Moses, Carol Oksok
taruk, Allen Reed.
Fourth Grade—Miss Carlsson —
Nellie Amandelooktuk, Steffen
Andersen, Harriet Henry, Simon
Jack, Bobby Lee, Timothy Kun
nuk.
Fifth Grade — Mrs. Walsh —
Sharon Reader, Mike Simon, Mar
garet Nagozrok.
Fifth Grade — Miss Wilson —
Michael Cannon, Carol Doyle,
Glenn Goodrich, Janet Jone#,
Kenneth Herman, Barbara Mc
Iver, Carol Miller, William Nui
pok, Janet Tocktoo, Sally Walk
er, Diane Wilkie, Brian Friese,
William Greene.
Sixth Grade — Mrs. Dunbar —
Gerry Cavota, Douglas Davis,
I Pearl Johnson. Ronnie Locke, Gail
Mclver, Alfred Moses, Richard
Munz, Richard Norbert, Danny
Rockne, Shirley Trigg, Gabe Wil
kalkia.
High School — Virginia Doyle,
Robert Dunbar, Charles Fager
strom, Lucie Fagerstrpm, Suzanne
Fagerstrom, Alice Glavinovich,
Helen Glavinovich, Ruth Glavino
vich, Charlene Hudgins, Loretta
Johnson, Lorene Larsen, Sigfred
Larsen, Vivian Larsen, Diane Lee,
Margie Lincoln, Arlene Muller,
Janet Muller, Donald Munz, Floyd
Nagozruk, Lee Oman, Joseph
Senungetuk, Stanley Senungetuk,
Carol Tanner, Jacob Titus, Gerald
Trigg, Elin Waltersen, Patricia
Yates.
HIGH SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL
The following high school stu
dents are on the honor roll for
the fifth six-weeks period:
Virginia Doyle, Robert Dunbar,
Ronald Engstrom, Helen Glavino
vich, Ruth Glavinovich, Diane
Lee, Floyd Nagozruk, Sigrid Ol
sen, Elin Waltersen.
THEFT AS YOU LIKE IT
UTICA, N.Y., UP—Ralph Deni
cola reported his automobile stol
j en yesterday. He got it back a few
' hours later—with a free $10.50
| wheel alignment.
A garage employe, sent to pick
up a neighbor’s car, took Deni
cola’s by mistake.
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Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
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Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st ft 3rd Monday of each month
Belly Edwards
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
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Harry A. Lewis, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month