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That’s Opportunity Knocking, Mister
THERE’S NO-O-O PLACE LIKE HOME
Working early and late on the “home-stretch” last
week, the Congress was still struggling with the vision
of August 1 adjournment.
“I wonder how many times men like Willis Smith
(the North Carolina senator who recently died of a
heart -attack) have to drop dead,” Sen. Clinton P. An
derson (D-NM) asked his colleagues, before the ses
sions are shortened.
But Sen. William F. Knowland, the acting Repub
lican leader, who would probably make the best full
back in the Senate, didn’t seem a bit tired, and said
he didn’t think the grind was too tough.
Whichever is right, we can’t help wondering what
this annual endurance contest has been doing to the
American people- Every year, just as our lawmakers
get down to the most serious problems of our time, and
always including the spending bills, somebody looks
at the calendar, somebody else reads in the paper that
John Doaks has fried an egg on the Pennsylvania Ave.
sidewalk, and the big push for adjournment is on.
Maybe senators and congressmen work better
under pressure. Certainly they work faster. But,
having provided them with air-conditioning and an
annual salary, we could wish they’d be a little more
deliberate about our billions.
CURING BY DOING
We have just discovered there’s a new player on
America’s medical team. OTR are the initials. They
stand for Ocupational Therapist Registered , . . which
is a young person who supplements, with special talents
and training, the work of physicians, surgeons and
nurses.
Among the special talents required are such things
as modern dancing, pottery making, wood - working
and/or proficiency in any number of arts and crafts.
Training includes a specialized four-year college course
and another year of clinical training similar to a young
doctor’s internship.
The OTR’s job is to help people to whom medicine
and surgery have given their best to find their way
back to normal living; to show those handicapped by
polio or cerebral palsy, war wounds, heart disease and
many another ailment how to live again—and want to.
The pay is good, the spiritual compensation is in
finite . . . and 5,000 OTR recruits are needed, righ now!
U.S. Rejects
Russia’s Protest
On Downed IL-12
WASHINGTON, l— The United
States Saturday rejected Russia’s
protest that American pilots shot
down a Soviet plane. Instead, the
State Department said, Russia
bears the responsibility for send
ing the plane into “the Korean
zone of hostilities.”
The Russian protest, handed to
U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen
in Moscow yesterday, claimed the
plane was destroyed and 21 lives
were lost when four U.S. fighters
attacked it over Chinese territory
north of the Korean boundary
last Monday, about 10 hours be
fore the cease fire became effec
tive.
The United States replied to
day that the attack by a U.S.
fighter plane under the U. N.
Command actually occurred “in
side Korean territory approxi
mately eight miles from the Yalu
River.”
This, it said, was in the Korean
combat zone.
The U.S. reply was contained
in a note sent by messenger from
the U. S. embassy to the Soviet
foreign office in Moscow. The
State Department released the
text of that note plus an unofficial
translation of the Soviet note.
There was no denial on the
part of the United States that the
big Russian transport, an IL-12
type aircraft, had been destroyed
by fighter fire. In fact, the inci
dent was fully disclosed by the
U.N. at the time. The issue raised
by the Russians was over where
the attack occurred.
They delayed filing their com
plaint for four days. This led
State Department officials to
speculate that perhaps the Rus
sians were seoking to divert at
tention from another plane shoot
ing of last Wednesday.
In the note on the IL-12, the
United States told Russia this na
tion “can only deplore the loss of
life incurred in this incident.”
“In view of the fact, however,
that the incident occurred in the
Korean zone of hostilities,” the
American note added, “the re
sponsibility therefor must rest
with those Soviet authorities who
flew the Soviet aircraft through
Korean territory.”
•COMMUNIST - CONSPIRACY
TRIAL DEFENDENT FOUND
DEAD IN HIS HOME
SEATTLE, (£*—William S. Pen
nock, president of the Washington
Pension Union and one of seven
defendants in a government Com
munist-conspiracy trial, was found
dead in his home late last night.
Cause of death was not deter
mined immediately.
Pennock, the first defendant to
take the witness stand in the pro
longed trial, was testifying Fri
day when the trial recessed. He
i was scheduled to undergo cross
examination when the trial re
convened.
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Air Force Reveals Russian Planes
Have Appeared 12 Times In Past Year
Over Polar Rim Of North America
WASHINGTON, W — Russian,
planes have appeared over the
polar perimeter of the North Am
erican continent and Greenland,
where the U.S. has air bases and
other defenses, about a dozen
times within the past 12 months.
And the average of similar
scouting expeditions over Japan
averages about one every two
weeks, a well-informed Air Force
source said Saturday.
This information was made
available in answer to questions
arising out of the incident two
days ago in which Soviet planes
shot down an American bomber
which U.S. officials said was fly
ing off the Siberian coast over the
international waters off Japan.
The information was received
before Russia formally protested
that four U.S fighter planes shot
down a Soviet passenger plane
with 21 aboard near the Chinese
Korean border last Monday.
The exact number of incidents
involving forays by Soviet planes
in the arctic, the time, location
and circumstances—none of this
data may be given. But in only
one instance, already reported,
were shots fired by American air
men against the Russian aerial
reconnaisance parties — when the
foreign craft made a firing pass at
the U.S. plane which discovered
them.
Last November, two F-84 jet
fighters, on patrol at 16,000 feet
over eastern Hokkaido, Japan, en
countered an LA-11—a Soviet
made, propeller-driven fighter —
bearing Russian markings. The
U.S. Air Force planes’ closed in
and flew alongside the Russian
aircraft until it crossed the inter
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national boundary, headed for
home.
Last Feb. 17, two Russian planes
of the same type were discovered
by U.S. Air Force interceptors
above eastern Hokkaido. The So
| viet planes made a firing pass.
The two F-84s returned the fire,
with one of them hitting and ap
| parently damaging one of the
LA-1 Is. Neither American plane
! was hit. The February incident
was at least three miles inside the
international boundary separating
Japan from the Russian-held Kur
ile Islands, where the Red air
force reportedly maintains big
bases for fighters and long-range
bombers.
This contrasts with the Russian
attack two days ago on the B-50
which the U.S. contends was 40
miles beyond Soviet territory and
far out over international water.
Reconnaissance flights over
Greenland and the northern areas
of the continent presumably are
made by long-range, four-engine
aircraft.
The Soviet air force has a thou
sand or more TU-4 bombers capa
ble of flying to those areas from
Soviet bases in Russia and Siberia
and islands held by the Russians
north of the Eurasian land mass.
SEVEN PERISH IN
TEXARKANA HOTEL FIRE
TEXARKANA, Tex., (yfl—Seven
persons perished early this morn
ing when fire swept through a
second-story hotel on the Texas
side "of this border city’s business
district.
Cause of the fire was unknown.
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