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HARDLY A SURPRISE PASSENGER
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It’s Time to Prepare for Visitors ...
CITIES, TOWNS, Chambers of Commerce, civic and
fraternal organizations as well as individuals are
urged by the Governor of Alaska to prepare for the
coming tourist season and do everything possible dur
isg the spring breakup to “assure our visitors that they
will see Alaska with its best foot forward as to cleanli
ness and friendliness. It is imperative that we all make
proper preparation for the reception of our guests, in
order that their initial impressions of our great land
shall be favorable, thereby creating a receptive atti
tude on their part.”
Although April 15 to May 1 is a little early for
this part of Alaska to have its clean-up campaign it is
not to early to start planning and in the planning the !
number one project is to get the necessary repairs to
the pavement on Front Street before the Midnight
Sun Festival.
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|Quick Action Can
Destroy Cancer -
Or It Destroys You
iEditor’s Note: Because of fear, ig
norance and delay 85,000 Americans
who could have been saved die of
cancer each year. In this last of a
series, Arthur Godfrey — Honorary
Education Chairman of the American
Cancer Society's current crusade—
tells how he reacted to the dreaded
diagnosis and recommends a course
of action for everyone.)
By Arthur Godfrey
Written for The Associated Press
Like most people, I’d always
thought of cancer as a disease
that happens to the “other fel
low” until two years ago, when it
happened to me.
How did I react?
With disbelief, horror, haste. In
that order.
The doctor advised surgery. He
said: “The sooner, the better.”
There are no two ways about
cancer. Either you destroy it or
it destroys you. So I didn’t de
lay.
Unfortunately some people are
not informed or are so para
lyzed by fear that they permit
the cancer to destroy them. They
have a horror of cancer that
makes them avoid the family
doctor until it’s too late for cure
—or which even sends them on
a wretched journey to quacks,
charlatans and purveyors of fake
remedies and home cures that
can’t possibly help them.
Without a single research ad
vance, without any new develop
ments in diagnostic and treatment
methods, the doctors could, actu
ally, save 85,000 more cancer
patients a year than the 170,000
they are now saving.
The American Cancer Society
tells me that those 85,000 people
have the kinds of cancer that can
be cured by prompt, proper
treatment. Their lives depend on
knowing what to do — and doing
it without delay.
Improved communications could
save them.
Now this is an area I know
something about, after 32 years
in radio and TV.
What is required is an all-out
effort through all the media
against the fear, ignorance and
supersition which each year kill
85,000 people needlessly — men
ana women whom medical know
ledge can — should — and must
save.
There are barriers to overcome.
One of them is a belief in black
magic and mumbo jumbo that is
not confined to the underdevelop
ed areas. It exists right here, in
the USA; not in the back hills
and remote areas alone, but often
in our big cities, and, surprising
ly enough, even among some
educated and intelligent people.
Some of these men and women
believe that certain foods or liv
ing habits can afford protection
against cancer.
Now a certain amount of fear
is healthy and necessary for self
preservation. That’s the kind of j
fear which leads a man or worn- 1
an to heed a cancer warning sig- |
nal and brings him or her to the
doctor’s office without delay. But
there’s another kind of morbid,
neurotic fear which leads to self
destruction. It keeps people who
are worried about possible cancer
symptoms away from the doctor’s
office.
These morbid fears wear many
masks.
There’s the rationalized indif
ference to cancer — an indif
ference based on terror. Some
people simply refuse to have an
annual health checkup or to learn
the simple facts about cancer that
can save their lives. That’s the
ostrich type, who prefers burying
his head in the sand to looking
facts in the eye.
There s the hale, hearty type
who passes up the annual check
up because he or she “never felt
better.” and if symptoms should
develop, this brave individual sits
it out, week after week, month
after month, heroically ignoring
Former Petersburg Man
Charged with Murder
OLYMPIA. Wash. UP — Bruce
Little, 33, of Petersburg. Alaska,
pleaded innocent in Thurston
County Superior Court Tuesday
to the shotgun slaying of his
half-brother Lee Little, 30, last
March 20.
Little was charged with first
degree murder.
He has admitted in a signed
statement to the Thurston County
sheriff that he fatally shot his
brother during a quarrel at Bruce
Little’s home in Littlerock, a small
community about 11 miles south
of here.
the warning signals until it’s just
too late for cure.
The facts are that an annual
health checkup saves money and
anxiety in the long run. Early
detection can save your life as
well as your savings. A clean bill
of health, which is what the vast
majority of people get from their
doctors, brings peace of mind and
an end to nagging fears.
One-third of all cancer patients
are now being saved. One-half
could be saved by earlier detec
tion and prompt, proper treat
ment.
Convincing people of these facts
isn’t easy. People tend to cling
to ingrained thought habits.
That’s where the mass media
comes in. They can help save
lives. They can take this mes
sage into every American home.
They can help wipe out the bar
riers of misinformation and let
the new, optimistic knowledge
about cancer grip the minds and
hearts of Mr. and Mrs. America.
Much has been done. But so
long as 85,000 people a year die
needlessly of cancer, much more
remains to be done.
! U.S. Rocket Engine
Develops 1.64 Million
Pounds of Thrust
LOS ANGELES UPt — A mas
sive 1.64 million pounds of thrust
was developed recently in a test
of the nation’s most powerful
single-chamber rocket engine.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said yester
day Rocketdyne’s FI liquid pro
pellant rocket engine fired at that
level for 13 seconds on April 6.
The engine is designed to
operate at a thrust level of 1.5
million pounds. This is the same
thrust developed by the eight
engine cluster rocket being de
veloped for the Saturn space ve
hicle.
The F1, in turn, may be cluster
ed for the huge Nova space ve
hicle — still not designed — to
provide 6 to 9 million pounds of
thrust.
Spelling Bee Finals
Will be Held May 3rd
ANCHORAGE UP) — The Alaska
Spelling Bee finals will be held
here Wednesday, May 3, it was
announced today. More than 60
of the state’s top student spellers
will take part in the third annual
event, sponsored by the Anchor
age Daily Times.
The finals will be made up of
two sessions. The preliminary
round will begin at 2 p. m. May
3 at the Multi-Purpose Room of
the Inlet View School. The cham
pionship round will begin at 7:30
p. m. in the Sydney Laurence
Auditorium.
The winner of the state cham
pionship will represent Alaska in
the National Spelling Bee in
ashm'don, D. C. beginning May
29. The champion will be sent
to the nation’s capital for the
Spelling Bee and a week of sight
seeing as a guest of the Anchor
age Times.
Among the entries are students
from schools in Nome, Kodiak,
Fairbanks, Petersburg, Pelican,
Skagway, Petersburg, Pelican,
Yakutat, as well as Anchorage.
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Redstone Rocket Stands
On Launching Pad —
Awaits Space Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. W—
The* Redstone Rocket which the
United States had hoped would
boost the first man into space
stands on a launching pad here.
The Soviet Union beat its firing
date by at least two weeks.
“So close, yet so far,” com
mented a technician who is help
ing groom the Redstone to send
one of America’s astronauts on
a short suborbital flight, hopefully
late this month or early in May.
“If we hadn’t had those troubles
last fall and on the Chimp and
Little Joe shots this year, we
might have made it,” the techni
cian said.
“But you have to give the
Russian scientists credit. They’ve
accomplished a remarkable break
through.”
Project Mercury officials had
hoped to achieve a manned Red
stone flight last December or
January. A series of launch mis
haps necessitated additional
launchings to qualify the system.
Dr. Hugh Dryden, deputy
director of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration,
told the House Space Committee
in Washington yesterday that the
earliest possible date for the
manned launching is about April
28.
Marjorie Morris Resigns
As Director of Welfare
JUNEAU UP — Paul L. Winsor,
State Commissioner of Health and
Welfare, today announced the
resignation of Marjorie Morris as
Director of the Division of Pub
lic Welfare, effective June 30.
Miss Morris came to Alaska
from the faculty of the Washing
ton University School of social
work in St. Louis in October,
1951.
She served in the Juneau Dis
trict Welfare Office for a year
before becoming Director of So
cial Service for the Territorial
Department of Public Welfare. In
September of last year she was
named Director of the State Di
vision of Public Welfare.
Miss Morris said she was not
at liberty to disclose her future
plans at this time.
Secret Service Seeks
Counterfeiters on Oregon
State College Campus
PORTLAND, Ore. UP — The
Secret Service is after a gang of
counterfeiters on the Oregon State
College campus.
“They’re cutting pennies down
to the size of dimes with the use
of acid, and are using them in
vending machines,” Frank Ken
ney, special agent-in-charge of
,he Secret Rervice Office here,
said Monday night.
“A minute number of students
are involved,” Kenney said. He
declined to disclose the number
of pennies that have been altered,
but said “it’s a considerable
amount.”
There have been no arrests,
Kenney said, but federal laws are
strict on the mutilation of coins,
carrying a maximum penalty of
five years in prison and a $2,000
fine.
Girl Scouts Will Hold
First Aid Class Tonight
Senior Girl Scouts will have
a First Aid Class this evening
from 6:30 to 10:30 at the residence
of Mrs. Roy Conklin. Following
the meeting the girls will be
chaperoned home.
Mrs. Ray Decker who has been
outside for medical care returned
home this morning after an ab
sence of over a month.
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