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e You are ^.’elcomed at the airport with a traditional
Hawaiian lei — driven to your comfortable hotel in
Waikiki (where you stay for 5 days and nights). Toe
tour the island of Oahu, yacht through Pearl Harbor.
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tourist service across the Pacific and each of £ people
sharing a double room with bath in Waikiki.
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Rackets Probers
Hear 5th Invoked
By Beck, Gessert
WASHINGTON Norman
Gessert, cousin of teamsters pres
ident Dave Beck’s wife, today in
voked the Fifth Amendment 40
times in 10 minutes in refusing
to say whether he realized more
than $100,000 from the teamsters
union.
Gessert, a graying, nervous I
man nabbed as a witness after a
two-month search, monotonously
intoned the Fifth Amendment to
a long list of questions by Robert
F. Kennedy, counsel to the Sen
ate Rackets Investigating Com
mittee.
Kennedy said Gessert drew
more than $50,000 in salary and
expenses from the teamsters
union from April 1954 to March
31, 1957—a period in which Ken
nedy said he spent most of his
time doing chores for Beck.
Gessert’s appearance was a
sort of anti-climax to a go-round
with Beck yesterday.
Beck took the Fifth to all ques
tions about his financial affairs,
and the session wound up with
Chairman IVJcClellan urging that
the teamsters union conduct its
own probe to see for itself wheth
er Beck should be booted out as
the union’s president.
14 University Students
Will Spend Summer
In Christian Labor
SEATTLE, UP)—Fourteen stu
dents, cne the captain of the Uni
versity of Washington swimming
team and president of the Associ
ated Students Body, have dis
closed plans to forego summer va
cations and wield picks, shovels,
brooms and mops in Christian
work.
The students, sent by the Uni
versity Presbyterian Church to
distant mission fields as “appren
tice missionaries,” will mostly
do common labor to free mission
aries for other activities, the Rev.
Earl Palmer, minister of youth, \
said.
Carol Helphrev, 21, Spokane, a j
iunior, who will go to Barrow, '
Alaska, expects a “terrific cx- !
perience.”
“I think it is going to be won- j
derful to serve people,” she said. !
Also with her at Barrow will
be Bill Brauer and Darryl Sp r
ing, both of Seattle.
ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVORSON
The tail of a comet streams out ,
behind like a shower of sparksj
from a rocket. There is no medi- j
um to spread the tail, for there is j
no material substance like air in I
interplanetary space and there-1
fore nothing to sweep the tail into
the line of motion.
Explanation of the backward I
sweep of the tail, which is nearly
always away from the sun, is
found in the fact that while the
comet is attracted, the tail is
strongly repelled by the sun.
The rapid growth of the tail
upon approaching the sun is ex
plainable in this way. The main
part of the comet is attracted by
the sun. When the comet comes j
near to the sun to be partly dis- j
sipated into vapor, the highly'
rarefied gas is so repelled that j
gravitational attraction is entire-'
ly overcome. The tail streams vis- j
ibly away from the sun. Probably !
electrical repulsion and direct'
pressure of sunlight are acting
upon the perticals that stream
away from the comet.
CANCER TREATMENT
CENTER FOR ALASKA
IN PLANNING STAGE
“Power for Peace" ts more than
an appropriate slogan for May 18,
1957, the eighth annual Armed
Forces Day. It is also an apt de
scription of the entire American
economy, with its unlimited po
tential for producing either weap
ons of war or the goods of peace,
and of America’s mighty 70 mil
lion member labor force, the fin
est in the world.
This May 18 celebration pro
vides all of us with a double op
portunity. The first is to witness
the effective and modem might
of our armed forces at bases thru
out the nation and to honor the
men and women responsible for
its preservation and advancement.
The second is to consider where
the real strength of America lies
—not only in our military estab
lishment, which must be kept
strong, but in our devotion to the
principles of peace. The price of
that devotion has always been
vigilance.
Armed Forces Day is an oppor
tunity that none of us should miss
to assess the vigilance of our na
! tion in this time of trial.
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Wien Airlines
1 From Fairbanks: G. H. Jensen,
Dr. Grace Field, William Philpott,
Gene Monaco, Mrs. W. Young
blood, Lt. N. J. Beaver, Laurent
1 Saucier, Glen T. Shafer, Walter
: McAuliffe, R. J. Dixon, Pat Webb,
I Larry Webb, Benjamin W. Chase,
I Gene Avidon, Bob Donald, Dan
| Posnam, Don Johnston.
[ To Fairbanks: Calvin Roetzel,
1 Robert Bueltman, Daniel Salis
J bury, Columbus Miller, Ernestine
j Zollman, Bernard Ducharme, G.
i Carlson, Charles Matazel, James
j Super, Grace Fields, E. E. Macy,
I Capt. John Stanhill, John E. Alic,
i Robert Andrews, Monica Meyer,
i Betty Kaplan, Robert Capon, El
j stero Peterson, Larry and Pat
j Webb, Lt. Newton, J. Beaver Jr.
j From Kotzebue: John Beltz, H.
| Moneymaker, Delbert Wells.
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Alaska Friends
Open Seattle
Women’s Home
SEATTLE, {ffi—Ten years of
effort were rewarded Sunday
when a new home for ALaskan
women was opened in Seattle at
67141 Beacon Avenue.
The home has been the major
project of Alaska Friends, Inc., a
group organized by Mrs. Mabel
Adams Sept. 2, 1947.
The organization’s primary ob
jective was “to befriend elderly,
infirm and lonely sourdoughs,
especially women, who had roots
in Alaska and to provide a home
with reasonable comfort, security
and congenial companionship.”
Alaska Friends began with
eight members and now has 300
in Alaska, the U.S. and Canada.
It was incorporated in 1952 and
raised money for the home thru
voluntary contributions, dinners,
sales, collections and programs.
In 1956 the Alaska Friends
bought a two-acre property called
Little Alaska Village, to serve as
a temporary home and as a nu
cleus for the developmtmt of a
social center for elderly Alaskans.
The new home was furnished
by Alaska Friends 60 to 90 years
old, and other members worked
on other phases of the project.
Covenant Church
May 20 to 31
9 to 11:45 am..
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