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A NOTEWORTHY BIRTHDAY
We salute the Bov Scouts of America on its 45th
birthday, now being observed during Boy Scout Week,
February 6 to 12.
Since its founding in 1910, the organization has
enriched the lives of over 22.750,000 boys and adult
leaders. Truly Scouting represents a living cross-sec
tion of American life.
Boys of every race, religion and economic back
ground are attracted to Scouting. ‘ Today we find 2,700,
000 boys in its ranks. Add to that impressive figure
the 960,000 adults of good character who give gener
ously of their time and talents to serve as leaders of
units, Merit Badge Counselors and in many other
capacities. There is hardly an American family that
has not felt its influence
Dr- Arthur A. Schuck, the Chief Scout Executive,
a leader in the organization since 1913, feels that it is
of vital importance to train the boys of today to be
ready for positions of leadership as they grow to
manhood.
“Strong character, participating citizenship and
physical fitness,” he says, are needs of our boys and
young men who are served by the program of Scouting
in cooperation with the home, the school, the.church,
and all other community institutions actively interested
in trainng our future citizens.”
Scouting’s purpose, stated in the Federal Charter
granted by Congress in 1916, is to promote the “ability,
of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train
them in Scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism,
courage, self-reliance and kindred virtues.”
o Every member of the nation’s 95,000 Scouting
units is indeed “having some kind of experience that
is adding to his equipment to meet the problems of
adult life.”
It is that training that we heartily endorse on this
noteworthy birthday.
Petaluma, Calif., Argus-Ceurier: “The Argus
Courier could produce a lot more papers than it now
does, but it would have difficulty selling them. Why
shouldn’t we continue to produce more papers and
let the government pay us to store the surplus? Such
a program would make just about as much sense as a
continued high price support program for The farmer.”
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New Red Premier
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J hydrogen bombs with “suiefo sue
©egg that the United States could
appear backward.”
He announced there will foe a
joint military command for the
European nations Moscow leads.
This is an outgrowth of the recent
Moscow security conference, and
; is a Russian answer to plans for
i the rearming of West Germany.
A gallery packed with intent
diplomats in the great palace of
the Kremlin heard Molotov ar
raign the United States. His bitter;
address must be regarded as a
major statement of foreign policy.
He backed Red China to the hilt:
on the Formosa issue. He accused
the United States of having cap
tured Formosa and the Pescadores
and said this must be considered;
as aggression. He also accused the.
United States of being intent upon;
world domination through the;
capitalist system, “and this means;
preparation for war.”
Molotov's speech came in the
afternoon session after Bulganin
received the premiership. The j
session was marked by a great i
ovation for Khrushchev personal-]
ly, the biggest of the day.
It was Khrushchev who nomin
ated Marshal Bulganin for the
premiership, presenting one of the
most remarkable displays of per
sonal influence since the Soviet
“collective leadership” took ovei
after the death of Stalin.
Malenkov, stepping down from
the post he assumed 12 hours
after Joseph Stalin’s death in
March 1953, confessed himself a
failure in the field of agriculture
and announced that the only cor
rect course for the Soviet Union
is concentration on the develop
ment of heavy industry.
In a statement to the parlia
ment, he acknowledged the need
to turn over his post to “another
comrade with greater experience
in state work.”
He expected this would provoke
“slanderous inventions” in the j
West. He expressed faith in the!
“monolithic” unity of the Com
munist Party.
Malenkov is taking a new job
but what it will be was not an
nounced.
The new Premier,* white-beard
ed Bulganin, was the Communist
in direct charge of Soviet armed
forces—under Stalin—during the
World War II. He is 59. Khrush
chev is 60 and Malenkov 53.
Some western diplomats saw in
the choice of Bulganin a further
evidence of the growing strength
of the Army in the Soviet govern
ment. Others speculated that Bul
ganin would serve as a sort of
chairman of the board rather than
a personal leader. All of those
present took due note that the
nominating speech was made by
Khrushchev and that he had been
greeted by a big, standing ovation
at the outset.
Khrushchev said Bulganin was
the unanimous choice of the Com
munist Party Central Committee
and the Council of Ministers.
The Parliament gave its unani
mous approval to the designation
of Bulganin.
Immediately after that Molotov
launched into a speech on Soviet
foreign policy. The 33-year-old
! Malenkov, seated between Presi
dent Klementy Voroshilov and
Khrushchev, listened intently as
the foreign minister bitterly and
repeatedly accused the United
States of trying to impose “an
iron curtain and an iron heel” on
the Western Hemisphere.
Khrushchev has been person
ally identified with all the most
important events in Soviet life
during the past year. Among
other things he has had personal
charge of the new agricultural
program with its stress on mech
anization and the opening of vir
gin lands in central Asia and else
where in Siberia.
Also he has headed the recent
drive for concentration on the de
velopment of heavy industry.
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Airman Hangs from
Cargo Plane Wing
To Repair Landing Gear
DAYTON, Ohio, US—'The Air
Force has disclosed the story of
an airman who dangled at 4,(WO
feet from the wing of a C-124'
cargo plane in freezing weather,
to save the ship from crash-land
in* with 31 persons aboard.
M. Sgt. Floyd A. James of Cave
Ci:y, Ark., worked in sub-freez
ing weather to repair the plane’s
landing gear before it could land
Monday at Wright Patterson Air
Force Base here. He wore no par
achute because wind pressure
would drag on it.
The plane had just taken off
from Alaska's Ladd Air Force
Base when the landing gear trou
ble cropped up.
Ma.i. Louis W. Baker, the pilot,
said a heavy jolt occurfed when
he ordered the tricycle landing
gear raised.
“It felt like we hit another air
plane,” Baker said.
Baker and Sgt. James, senior
crew chief aboard, edged out on
a catwalk over the gear retraction
well, and saw that a lock pin was
i missing from the landing gear,
i With the Alaska temperature 38
degrees below zero they decided
to continue to Wright-Patterson,
as scheduled.
When they were 40 minutes
from Dayton, Sgt. James lowered
himself head down through the
well and in about 12 minutes was
able to replace the pin with a
spare.
Two airmen held his feet dur
ing the operation.
The plane was slowed to 13S
mph during the repairs.
ACS Gets Distinctive
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia .
SEATTLE, Feb. 5—The Alaska
Communication System, an Army
Signal Corps organization with j
headquarters here, has been auth- j
orized a distinctive shoulder i
sleeve insignia for wear by rriili- j
tary personnel, Army officers said
today.
It features a white staf" on a
blue background representing the
North Star, with radiating flashes
depicting the Alaska Communica
tion System’s home in Alaska.
The colors of orange and white
also represent the traditional col
ors of the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
The ACS insignia is now being
worn by its military personnel at
133 widely separated points thru
| out the Territory of Alaska.
While the Alaska Communica
[ tion System has been long recog
nized as a strong sjlent partner in
the growth of Alaska, this highly
rewarding insignia is a well-de
served salute to personnel of the
ACS for their outstanding accom
plishments during the past 55
years of service.
The Alaska Communication J
System is a vast UJS. Army Signal
Corps organization with head
quarters at Seattle and communi
cations operating centers at Seat
tle and in principal towns and
cities in the Territory of Alaska, j
It handles not only military but i
commercial and other govern
mental traffic as well. Through*
inter connecting arrangements
with commercial companies in
Seattle, telephone calls and tele
grams to and from all points in
the world served by these com
panies and their subsidiaries are
exchanged with Alaskan points
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Tam Changes .
I 'for
Tobacco, Fuel Oil
By JIM HUTCHESO*
JUNEAU, W—Tobacco and motor
fuel oils, with tax changes pro
posed Tor both, vied for attention
in Alaska’s House of Representa
tives and Senate yesterday.
The suggested changed cigaret
taxes promised to generate con
siderable smoke but the real fire
developed in hot House debate
over the motor fuels. Half the
members got into action.
Finally, leaders decided that it
would be wise to sleep on the
matter overnight and the bill was
made the first order of today’s
, busjrwss. It proposes a 3-cent in
crease in the present 2-cent tax
on fuel for highways users, a 1
eent increase for aviation gasoline
and no increase at all for boats or
stationary engines which do not
use highways.
The biggest debate, almost ex
plosive at times, came over pro
posed exemptions to the fuel tax
increases.
Earlier, on the tobacco front, a
House Ways and Means Commit
tee measure was introduced which
proposes ways to tighten present
tobacco tax law evasions. Plug
ging such holes, Chairman Ken
Johnson said, should bring in an
additional million dollars a bien
nium for the school fund but he
admitted it was a controversial
subject.
Under it, wholesalers would be
made 'responsible for the tax col
lections and thorough licensing
system be set up to catch anyone
who bought from other sources.
The tax would be 2x/z mils a
cigdret, or five cents a pack as at
present, but inasmuch as it is the
system used by federal agencies,
Johnson said, it should enable the
territory to get a double check on
how many cigarets are being
shipped* into Alaska.
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