Elsenhower Medals Going
Like Hot Cakes As Day
iDf Inauguration Nears
By STANLEY JAMES
; WASHINGTON — The “Eisen
hower medal” is proving such a
jhit with the public that extra
help is ‘being hired by Republican
inaugural headquarters to take
care of the flood of orders.
The official inaugural medal
lor President Dwight D. Eisen
hower is being prepared in New
York. The first one, in solid gold,
will be presented to Ike himself.
Bronze copies are being sold at
three dollars apiece. Anybody can
buy one, or a dozen; and hun
dreds of orders are coming in.
Gilbert Hahn, Jr., chairman of
the medal distribution sub-com
mittee, said: "Some people seem
to have the mistaken impression
that distribution of the medals is
to be limited to close friends and
associates of General Eisenhower.
That isn't the ease at all. Any
one Who wants one can place an
order for any number of medals
desired.”
Designed by Walter Hancock of
the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, the medal shows a
profile of Eisenhower on the face
while on the reverse is an 'Ameri
can bald eagle symbolizing peace,
with a border of wheat sheaves
from Kansas, Ike’s boyhood home
st^te.
The first design showed the
General with his lips in a serious
expression. He and many others
~ objected that it made him look
too grim. So the corner of the
lips has been turned up a touch
to indicate the famous Ike grin.
Hahn says the likeness will be “a
bit more relaxed and folksy.”
A sample letter sent in with
one of the orders for the medal is
this one from an Eagle Scout: “I
was at the Valley Forge National
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REDONDO BATTERED BY SEA
REDONDO’ BEACH, Calif., (A
— The mayor of this wave-bat
tered community estimates dam
age from an angry sea at 15 mil
lion dollars and says he is ask
ing Governor Earl Warren to de
clare this a disaster area.
The damage toll, he reported, in
cludes destruction 'to private pro
perty, to streets and sidewalks
undermined by waves, to light,
power and gas installations and to
the Redondo breakwater. The sea
wall, torn in two places by raging
combers has been reinforced ^ith
more than $40,000 worth of rock.
249 Lives Lost When
Crowded Korean Vessel
Sinks In Rough Seas
PUSAN, Korea, UPi—A crowded
Korean passenger ship foundered
in mountainous seas and violent'
Winds Friday night and sank
with a reported toll of 249 lives
just outside this big southeast
Korea port.
'The Korean ministry of trans
portation said only seven of the
256 aboard the 140-ton Chang
Yung Ho were saved when the
coastal vessel went down..
Transportation Minister Kim
Suk Kwang expressed belief that
no Americans were aboard the
ship which plied daily between
Pusan and Yuso, 100 miles to the
west.
The ministry said the passen
gers were mostly a mixed group
of Korean men and women —
farmers and townsmen — coming
to the Pusan markets from out
lying points to either buy or sell.
Jamboree of the Bey Scouts of
America when General Ike spoke
to us. Since then he has been tops
for me ... I believe in him so
much 1 want one of the Ike In
augural Medals.”
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Teacher Fired
For Installing
Kissing Game
PRINCESS ANNE, Md., UP) —
“Gee, I hope we don’t have to
play post office again today,” one
seventh grader told her mother as
she left the house for school.
“Mom, I kissed 11 girls in
school today,” a 12-year-old boy
proudly told his mother.
These sort of statements abrupt
ly changed Louis L. Pund, Jr., oc
cupation from a math and science
teacher to an out-of-work musi
cian.
The mild-manner Pund, who
said he was an ordained minister,
resigned Friday from the faculty
of Washington High School in this
quiet community on Maryland’s
eastern shore and headed Satur
day for Baltimore to find a job
tooting his trumpet.
Pund was asked to resign far
installing a game of post office—
a kissing game — in his two
classes. He explained its purpose
was to 'break down their inhibi
tions because he feared they were
too shy.
it worked this way:
One boy or one girl would go
into the small cloakroom—about
three feet deep and eight or ten
feet long—and would call in one
of the opposite sex. Then the door
was closed.
Pund explained that the young
sters, 12 and 13 years old, had
four choices. They could kiss on
the lips, kiss the other’s hand,
shake hands or refuse to play at
all.
He said he thought of it before
the Christmas vacation when the
students appeared to be restless.
He tried it out when they re
turned to classes last week.
“At first,” Pund explained, “a
lot of them didn’t want to play
it. But the next day practically
all the students wanted to play.”
A parent said Ms youngster
told him the teacher supplied the
sound effects while the boy and
girl were in the closed room by
puckering his lips *and sucking
air into his mouth.
Losing the job didn’t seem to
bother Pund too much.
English spelling is among the
most difficult of any of the world’s
languages, says the National Geo
graphic Society.
Pioneers Install Officers
In Joint Ceremonies
Pioneers of Alaska were guests
of the Pioneer Women Auxiliary
last Saturday evening for a joint
installation. New officers elected
for 1953 are:
For the Auxiliary—President,
Vallee Scott; vice president, Eliza
beth Walsh; secretary, Grace
Roell; treasurer, Louise Walsh;
historian, Carrie McLain; chap
lain, Ellen Waldheim; marshal,
Christie Waldheim; inside guard,
Elda Jones; trustee, Helen Olsen.
Igloo No. 1 — President, Dan
Jones; vice president, Robert
Scott; secretary, William H. Ull
rich; treasurer, A. Polet; chap
lain, Peder Olsen; historian, Chas.
D. Jones; sergeant at arms, Lauri
Mattila; doorkeeper, Carl Hill;
historian, Fred Rohn; Trustee,
Pearse Walsh.
Installing officers were Mrs. M.;
J. Walsh and Charles D. Jones
and marshals were Mrs. Robert;
■Baldwin and Fredrik Bookman. !
Following the ceremony whist ■
was played with the following
winners: Mrs. Richard Lee, Mrs.
Wm. Ullrich and Mrs. Gus Bjorn-j
stad for the women, and Charles
Jones, Bob Scott and Dick Roell;
for the men.
A beautiful cake with the Pio
neer emblem on it, was presented
by the women’s organization to
the pioneers and was cut by in
coming President Dan Jones. The
cake was made and decorations
designed by Ernie Gustafson of
the North Star Grill.
In addition to the presentation
of gifts to the outgoing presidents,
Lillie Lewis and Mike Kelly, sec
retaries Bill Ullrich and Karen
Baldwin, presentations were
made to Gus Bjomstad for his
work in caring for the Igloo build
ing throughout the year.
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JANUARY 2-31 ,
Mere Than 308 ASM Warplane*
Smash Communist fUdi Cantor Ij
SEOUL, IB—Allied warplanes, _
300-strong, smashed a vital Com- "
munist railroad network on the
doorstep to Red Manchuria Sat
urday after 17 B-2® Superforts
bombed the area Friday night.
Waves of fighter-bombers from '
four wings and one US. Marine
air group battered the network
just north of Sinanju in far north- g
west Korea.
On the ground action slowed
across the 155-mile battle front 9
as temperatures climbed and in- V
fantrymen basked in the warmest 1
weather in weeks.
An estimated $28,000,000 in
March of Dimes funds was used
during the year to provide care j
for the stricken, an increase of
$7,000,000,000 ov*r 1951 for sim- §
liar purposes.
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ALASKA CBAPTBR WO. 1
Order of Eastern Star i
' Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month. ^
HAGEN i
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN ,
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
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Northwestern Alaska %
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
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