Suspension of Drivers
Licenses to be Enforced
By State Police
JUNEAU, UP)—State Police were
ordered to increase their efforts
in enforcing driving license sus
pensions imposed as a result of
traffic offense convictions or in
voked under the Safety Respon
sibility Act.
Public Safety Commissioner
Martin B. Underwood, estimating
that 75 per cent of the drivers
whoso licenses have been reoked
are continuing to drive, said a
monthly list of suspensions will
be sent to all state and local
police organizations.
Underwood said another list,
including the names of all drivers
whose licenses have been sus
pended but who have not sur
rendered them, was also dis
tributed in recent days.
The driving case records of
these individuals, Underwood
said, have been “flagged” in State
Police files in Juneau. If any
traffic citations or accident ab
stracts indicating these persons
drove while their license was sus
pended, the District Attorney in
the community where the person
lives will be requested to pre
pare a complaint charging “driv
ing while license suspended.”
The charge, on conviction, car
ries a mandatory 10-day jail sen
tence and an additional one-year
period of suspension of license.
7 TV QUIZ CONTESTANTS
TO BE TRIED FOR PERJURY
NEW YORK, UP)—Seven former
television quiz show contestants
pleaded innocent yesterday to
perjury in denying to a grand
jury that they received questions
and answers in advance.
The cases of nine others, who
have entered motions to test the
legality of grand jury informa
tions returned against them, were
adjourned until Jan. 13.
Pleading innocent were Charles
Van Doren, David Mayer and
Ruth Klein, whose cases were set
for trial on Jan. 18, and Patricia
Nance, Terry Curtis, Henrietta
Dudley and Patricia Sullivan,
whose trials were set for Feb. 8.
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"I DID NOT THINK—
I INVESTIGATED"
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
on November 8, a German professor looked ar
something no one had seen before—the bones of
a living hand. The man was Wilhelm Roentgen who
unexpectedly discovered a new and mysterious
kind of ray that could pass through solid
substances. And by so doing, he gave birth to
the modern science of x-ray—or radiology.
in the history of science have had so
powerful an impact as the discovery of
x-ray ..says the Encyclopedia
Britannica. By allowing radiologists, or
specialists in the use of x-ray, to peer
into the internal structures of the bodv,
x-ray has become an indispensable tool
of 20th Century medicine.
EVEN ROENTGEN was not fully aware at once
of the importance of his discovery. When
asked what he thought when he first saw
evidence of this new ray, he replied:
"I did not think—I investigated.” In 1901,
Roentgen received the Nobel Prize for
physics. In 1923 he died, making a gift of
his x-ray to humanity, seeking no reward
and receiving no monetary gain from his
great discovery.
Former Wife of Gov. Troy
Passes On At Age of 87
PORT ANGELES, Wash., UPV—1
Mrs. Minerva E. Troy, 87, former j
wife of Alaska’s governor in
1933 - 39, died here Wednesday j
after a long illness.
Her marriage here in 1892 to
John W. Troy was the first per- i
formed in a church in Clallam
County. They went to Skagway,
Alaska, in the Klondike gold rush |
of 1897 and were divorced a;
number of years later after re
turning to this state.
Troy purchased the Juneau
newspaper Alaska Empire in 1914
and owned and managed it until
his death in 1942. He was ap- j
pointed governor of Alaska in
1933 by President Franklin D. |
Roosevelt.
Mrs. Troy came to Port Angeles i
in 1890 to join her father, Dr. F.
S. Lewis, pioneer physician for
the Puget Sound Cooperative Col
ony, which settled in Port An
geles in the ’80s.
She served with the Red Cross
in France in World War I and
was a prominent artist, musician
and vocalist here for two score
years. She suffered a crippling
stroke six years ago.
Mrs. Troy’s two daughter, Mrs.
Helen Monsen of Juneau and Mrs.
George Lingo of Anchorage, were
here when she died.
Funeral services will be held
here Saturday in the McDonald
Funeral Home.
Home Arts Christmas Party
The Home Arts Club will hold
its monthly meeting Tuesday eve
ning at the home of Mrs. Don
Hoover with Mrs. Robert Grant
as assisting hostess. This meeting
will be followed by a Christmas
party by the members who are
bringing Christmas gifts for
selected senior citizens in the
community.
DOUBLE SESSIONS SPELL
DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR
TEACHERS. STUDENTS
Double sessions—a last resort
effort in some communities to
meet the classrom shortage — can
be endured for one year in an
emergency but if continued for
long can be disastrous to pupil
learning and teacher morale.
This is the conclusion advanced
by the National School Boards
Assn, in a publication called
‘What Price Double Sesisons?”
The pamphlet is based on a doc
toral study at one high school in
Arlington Heights, 111. That school
was forced into double sessions
while awaiting completion of ad
ditional facilities after enrollment
jumped from 1,100 to more than
1,700.
At Arlington, juniors and sen
iors attended class from 7:25 a.m.
until 1:10 p.m.; freshmen and
sophomores were in school from
11 a.m. until 4:45 p.m. During the
overlap period there were three
lunch periods, so that one-third
of all the students were in the
cafeteria throughout the overlap
period.
The effect on the educational
program, Dr. Oliver found, was:
t A 24 per cent reduction in
the time students spent in class.
t Study hall time was greatly
reduced.
t A striking reduction in the
use of library resources.
t A 27 per cent decrease in
enrollment in music.
t Students spent less time in
school, before and after classes.
t Grades declined slightly, with
the greatest loss to students who
had been above average.
Most striking was a 54 per cent
reduction in student participa
tion in extra-curricular activities,
including athletics, dramatics,
speech, music, publications, stu
dent councils and student clubs.
Most of the upper classmen,
who got out of school in the
early afternoon, liked the ar
rangement; most of the freshmen
and sophomores, in class until
late afternoon, didn’t like it. Our
local survey shows this also.
The study showed that doubling
up had no significant impact on
attendance, discipline, or student
morale. Faculty members worked
an eight-hour day, as usual, but
there was an adverse effect on
their morale, attributed to split
faculty meetings and the lack of
opportunity for the whole group
to meet at one time.
Only one parent in four felt
that the achievement of his own
son or daughter had been ad
versely affected. Some saw ad
vantages in the double shift, such
as added time for a part time job,
help around the house or other
activities. Among the upper class
men, whose afternoons were for
the most part free, 68 per cent
got part time jobs.
The teachers liked the arrange
ment less than any other group.
They complained of the lack of
opportunity to give individual
attention to students, before or
after regular school hours. Cur
riculum improvement programs
which had been planned had to
be abandoned, and there was lit
tle opportunity for experimenta
tion.
Overall, the conclusion was that
when there are double sessions,
“children receive less education
and a poorer quality of educa
tion.” These are grim words when
we realize that at least twelve of
our own classes will be on double
shift again next year.
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Comments from the Capital
CRACKER BARREL COMMENTS O
THE CURRENT COMMUNIST CRISIS «
by Vant Neff
Most commentators and notes analysts neglected to pick up a very
revealing remark which Nikita Khrushchev made on his previous
visit. You will remember, he said . . . We are undoubtedly buying
information from the same international spies. II e should pool
the data and save money. Mr. K. has never admitted to any spy
ing, nor answered any questions, either at the time of the Summit
Meeting or on his lust visit- here.
*****
It’s an old Russian custom — Stalin practiced i*. Khru.hehev does,
too. At Yalta, Potsdam and Teheran, whenever Stalin was asked a
question which disturbed him he simply refuse:! to answer. When
Khrushchev was asked about Hungary he said, “That rat still sticks
in your throat.” Still no answer. Ak much as Mr. K. loves the lime
light, when he’s asked a disturbing question he waves his pudgy
paw and turns away.
It may 1 - that the Communists
are catching up in many ways.
!n one way they are hopelessly
, behind tiie rest of the world.
That way is politeness.
r. K's bad manners in bedd
ing statesmen of other coun
tries when they were speaking
T-rir! from the rostrum shocked even
rfte&the most sophisticated delegates
ffigjjjjj at the UN.
Kg ' Russia has broken 50 of the 52
_ Saji agreements she has entered
into. Now, she would have the world disarm first and consider
a method of control later. How dumb does Russia think the rest
of the world is?
*****
Russia boasts that she has no colonies, but by force of military
might she has: Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Rumania, Albania, Bulgaria, Outer Mongolia, North Korea, not
to mention the strip of land she took from Finland, and the 16
neighboring peoples whom she dominates, all of whom hate her
guts.
*****
What did Powers think he was supposed to do for $50,000 . . . run
errands around the Pentagon? When you think of all the dedicated
men who have given their lives for their country, it seems pitiful
that Powers had to present such an abject picture of himself to the
world. Even Russia’s Captain Abel’s dignified silence commanded
more respect than Powers’ cringing.
*****
Did you ever wonder how a line goes out from Moscow and is
picked up instantly throughout the world? “Slop testing the
atomic bomb’’ appeared everywhere but in Russia. Anything that
interferes with Communistic interests becomes a slogan for the
Reds around the world Lately it’s — abandon our overseas
bases.
*****
It was interesting that when Martin and Mitchell defected to Rus
sia they appeared on TV and said . . . Realizing the horrors of the
atomic bomb, they’d crawl to the moon if it would avoid its use.
Before they used it, I heard the same line by a street corner orator
in Greenwich Village, New York, and again in San Francisco.
*****
Russia feared a thin strip of Finland and so she annexed it by war.
When we gave Cuba to the Cubans, by agreement we reserved
rights to Guantanamo. When pip-squeak Castro threatens us, he
says, defiantly, that the Russians will use their rockets if we de
fend ourselves. I wonder when we will have had enough of Commu
nist threats.
*****
It’s positively mystifying how people hate America the moment
they are taken over by the Communists. CouM it be something
they caught from the Russians?
*****
It’s hard for us, in the midst of freedom, to appreciate how dev
astating are the Communist methods and techniques of brain
washing and one-sided, phony news. No wonder the captured peo
ples believe the impossible.
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