Castro Probes
Report of Finding
Cuban Army Chief
HAVAJMA, i#> — Fidel Castro’s
government ordered an investiga
tion yesterday into the origin of;
a fake report that the missing
army commander, Major Camilo
Cienfuegos, was alive on a small
island off Cuba.
Supporters of Castro suggested
counter-revolutionaries were be
hind the hoax to lure the Prime
Minister into a trap on the unin
habited island 120 miles southeast
of Havana.
The originl report was attrib
uted to two ham radio operators
relaying what purported to be a
message from a navy launch that
said it had rescued Cienfuegos
and called for Castro to fly by
helicopter and pick him up.
The report that the popular
army commander was safe after
being missing a week touched off
a wild, spontaneous demonstra
tion. Shots were fired in the air
in jubilation, and there were un
confirmed reports of seven per
sons being wounded by bullets.
President Osvaldo Dorticos,
after conferring with Castro,
quickly announced that the report
was false and told newsmen: “At
this time we have no news to
give on the whereabouts of Major
Cienfuegos.”
X-15 Explosion Damages
Super Space Craft
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., W) — America’s effort to
send a man to the edge of space
may be delayed because of an
explosion in the X15 rocket ship.
North American Aviation man
ufacturer of the small craft, said
further flights have- been post
poned until the cause of the blast
is determined.
Test pilot Scott Crossfield made
an emergency landing Thursday
after an explosion followed by
fire in the dart$haped craft’s
tail. The plane landed so hard
that its fuselage cracked near the
cockpit. Crossfield was unharmed.
Big Missiles Tested
For Long-Range Flights
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla., UP) —
The big three of U. S. missilery —
Atlas, Thor and Jupiter — effect
ively demonstrated this nation’s
rocket retaliatory power in the
past few days.
All three were launched on
long-range test flight during a 20
hour period. Officials reported all
successfully dropped simulated
warheads on designated ocean
targets.
ENLAND'S BRAND NEW
SUPERHIGHAY ALREADY
RAISES ACCIDENT RATE
LONDON, UP — Britain’s new
superhighway, opened only five
days ago, registered its first deaths
today in a rash of truck and auto
accidents in heavy fog.
Two men were killed and sev
eral persons seriously injured in
half a dozen collisions along the
72-mile road running from Lon
don to Birmingham.
EISENHOWER WILL HAVE
AUDIENCE WITN POPE JOHN
VATICAN CITY, UP — The Vat
ican announced today that Pope
John XXIII will receive Presi
dent ^Eisenhower on December 6.
Informants did not state whether
the audience would be an in
formal private one or a state
affair.
HEAVENLY MUSIC . . .
NEW YORK, {£) — Passengers
aboard a New York-Milwaukee
Minneapolis Stratocruiser flight
will be entertained with live or
gan music starting Sunday. North
west Orient Airlines said Thurs
day the luxury flight between the
three cities will feature a 190
pound organ plus a professional
organist.
The
Report Card
Reading.A
Writing.A
Arithmetic.A
By CONRAD H. POTTER
Superintendent of Schools
The dividends a child reaps
from education are real. The es
timated average lifetime earnings
of a man who has completed col
lege are $268,000. That’s well
above the $165,000 the average
high school graduate will make in
a lifetime, and the $116,000 a per
son completing only eight years
of schooling can expect
+• * *
Worried about Sputnik? . . .
A recent sample of 1,876 public
secondary schools showed that in
the spring of 1958, 66 per cent of
all students in these schools were
enrolled in mathematics courses
and over 59 per cent in science
courses. This would mean on a
national scale that about 6,145,
000 students were taking mathe
matics and 5,500,000 were taking
science. There is an obvious over
lap of these groups, but its extent
is unknown.
• * *
The cost of an hour of public
school instruction in 1958 was
33 cents an hour (including ‘build
ing, supplies, equipment, teach
ers’ salaries, and other costs.
This cost is less than that of the
cheapest alternative — 50 cents
an hour for an untrained teenage
baby sitter with limited activities
and no program — and you pro
vide the furniture, TV, telephone,
transportation, and food.
* * *
James B. Conant has said that
three things are necessary for a
good high school (provided it is
of sufficient size): first, a school
board composed of devoted, in
telligent, understanding citizens
who realize fully the distinction
between policy making and ad
ministration; second, a first-rate
superihtendent, and third, good
principals. He says also that “on
the quality of the teachers (as
suming wise leadership) the qual
ity of the education must ulti
mately depend.
* * *
The 1950 Census reported that
4 million adults who had started
to school had dropped out before
finishing high school.
* * *
A recent Department of Labor
study shows that high-school edu
cation was required for each of 71
SOVIET ARCTIC BASES FOUND i
TORONTO, WPt — Royal Cana-1
dian Air Force reconnaissance!
fliers have photographed Soviet |
scientific 'bases on the polar ice j
many times, Commodore F. S. |
Carpenter said Wednesday night.
The Soviets make no secret of
their Arctic ice stations and reg
ularly publish their locations in
the Soviet press.
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shortage occupations. Greatest
unemployment was among ele
mentary school dropouts.
* * *
At the time of the Korean con
flict, 16 per cent of all recruit^
for military service were rejected
for severe educational deficiency.
* * *
For the U. S. as a whole, the
total bill for public elementary
and secondary schools, 96 per cent
of the cost falls on local and
state governments. Local govern
ments pay 56 per cent; state gov
ernments pay 40 per cent, and the
federal government, 4 per cent.
The debt of local and state gov
ernments has gone up 182 per
cent since 1948. The federal
debt, on the other hand, has gone
up less than 10 per cent in the
same period.
Since 1948, the volume and rate
of juvenile delinquency has
shown a steady increase in the
United States. About a half mil
lion children are now being re
ferred to the juvenile courts of
the nation each year. The rate
of increase of juvenile delinquen
cy has exceeded by more than
four times the rate of population
increase. If this trend continues,
more than a million youngsters
can be anticipated in the juvenile
courts in the near future.
For new and used automobiles,
the «American people have spent
$110 billion in the last ten years.
For tobacco, alcoholic beverages,
and cosmetics in the same period,
we’ve spent $151 billion. For rec
reation we’ve spent $127 billion.
In these same ten years we have
spent $78 billion for public ele
mentary and secondary schools.
WAT E R
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TV Quiz Exec
Explains Rigging
As Desperation Act.
WASHINGTON, UP! — George
Ebrams, a former executive of
Revlon, Inc., testified yesterday
that rigging of the Revlon-spon
sored “$64,000” television quiz
shows was an act of desperation
to rescue the programs from
plummeting viewer ratings.
Abrams indicated that Martin
Revson, former executive vice
president of Revlon, may not have
been aware that the destiny of
contestants was decided in meet
ings between producers and the
sponsors.
Ebrams was called as a witness
before the House Legislative
Oversight Subcommittee in an ef
fort to reconcile earlier conflict
ing statements made by him,
Revson and the shows’ pro
ducers.
He was to be followed by the
heads of the Columbia Broad
casting System and the National
Broadcasting Co.
The committee had questions
ready for the nation’s two biggest
networks on plans for keeping
deceit and fraud off the TV
screen.
Dentist and Assistant
Charged with Giving
Children Candy Laxative
FREMONT, Calif., (£> — The
former dental assistant of Dr.
William _V. Shyne was arrested
Wednesday and charged with
helping to hand out candy-coated
purgatives to youngsters on Hal
lowe’en.
Hazel Engelby, 34, was specifi
cally charged with outraging pub
lic decency and unlawful dispen
sation of drugs. She denied the
charges when she was booked at
nearby Santa Rita.
Shyne, 40, is still sought on
identical charges, which came
abut after the pills were placed
in the trick-or-treat bags of at
least 16 children Saturday night.
Some of the N^hildren vomited;
others came down with diarrhea.
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Chamber of Cofnmerce
Meets Every Mopday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Russell Hermann, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
I_■ Secretary
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