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First Heart Association Campaign
Our local unit of the Heart Association is currently
conducting its first campaign for funds.
Money raised will be used to establish an Alaska
Fellowship at the University of Washington Medical
School heart clinic. In return, the clinic will admit
Alaska heart disease sufferers without the usual cost.
We recommend that you do your share in the 1955
drive now being conducted, as one out of every 16 Am
ericans is afflicted and in Alaska heart disease is the
leading cause of death.
Donations may be mailed to “Heart” care of Post
master, Nome, or given to Mrs. Arv Saario, chairman,
or Dewey Goodrich, treasurer.
WHO’S SMART?
(Christian Science Monitor)
Perhaps over two thousand years ago the Polar
Eskimos designed and started living in air-conditioned
houses. More than a thousand years ago the “cliff
dwellers” on Mesa Verde built and operated a water
collecting and storage system which 20th-century en
gineers, after failing with other devices, had to learn.
The “megalithic” temples and palaces of the Mayas
in Yucatan were built perhaps ten centuries ago, and
the enormous blocks of stone moved into place with
out either the wheel or beasts of burden.
And new explorers and archaeologists have dis
covered that the famous road system of the ancient
Incas was used by a courier system which covered 300
miles from sunup to sunup. That’s faster by 100 miles
a day than the fabulous Pony Express of the early
American West—probably faster than anything before
the electric telegraph.
Every now and then modem man is reminded that
he isn’t quite so smart as he sometimes thinks he is—
that some things, after all, were thought up before
1902. A good thing for us to reflect on. A good thing
to ponder, also, that if Daniel Boone couldn’t drive an
automobile, neither could many pf us find our way
at all through his country.
Humility is a rare and precious attribute.
Everybody and his brother are repeatedly admon
ishing us to be tolerant of other people. But we still
doubt that anybody wants to be tolerated.
Senators Disagree
On Language in
Wire of Protest
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU, WV—The Territorial
Senate is going to start all ovef
again in drafting a wire of protest
to Secretary of Defense Wilson’s
statement against Alaska state
hood.
It ran into disagreement Friday
over a telegram it had instructed
Sen. .J. Earl Cooper (D-Anchor
age> to draw up for transmittal to
chairmen of the U.S. Senate and
House Interior Committees. Coop
er is chairman of the Statehood
Committee, which will rephrase
the wire to meet with approval
of the whole Senate.
The original Cooper version had
said the senators "condemn and
deplore the attitude of high gov
ernment officials.” It brought up
the old bird dog and kennel dog
comparison that once got Secre
tary Wilson into the headlines
and hot water.
"We are not a kennel sitting
type, but if a comparison must be
made we are bird dogs with a
considerable degree of persever
ance and diligence,” the wire
continued.
And it asked the congressmen
to repudiate the attitude shown
by Secretary ilson’s remarks.
Sen. Howard Lyng of Nome, the
Senate majority floor leader who
described his role as one of Sen
ate compromiser, joined in a pro
posal thot "we do this with dig-!
nity” and get full Senate support.
Sen. Mike Stepovich (R-Fair
banks> objected to the language
of the wire. “I’m for sending a
wire and I’m for statehood,” he
said, “but we shouldn’t make fun
of a cabinet member by the bird
dog reference. I don’t think it is
wise and it won’t get us any
where.”
Snowplows Rescue
Greyhound Buses
Stalled in Snow
DENVER l/F—The winter’s worst
blizzard last week left six known
dead and 17 injured.
‘Snowplows broke through to
release the last 25 persons who
had been reported missing as the |
bitter blow all but halted high
way travel in Wyoming.
Rescued near the top of the
Continental Divide on U.S. High
way 30 in southern Wyoming
were a Greyhound bus stalled
with 19 passengers and the driver,
and six men from Craig, Colo., in
a station wagon.
W'orking through most of the
night, big rotary snowplows carved
a path to the marooned bus and
station wagon. It was near there
that another Greyhound bus with
31 passengers and the driver were
rescued late Friday afternoon.
The last bus to be set free was
found with its motor still running
to operate the heaters. Driver
Glen Andrews, about 50, reported
he had nearly 100 gallons of gaso
line left to keep his passengers
warm when they stalled Friday.
Covenant Church Doings
The Covenant Church held a
very well attended Sunday ser
vice yesterday with 226 persons
attending Sunday School and the
morning church service. This was
an increase of 20 over the pre
vious Sunday.
At the evening service special
numbers were presented by Rev.
Don Bruckner and Rev. Roald
Amundsen on trumpet and accor
dian.
Announcement was made of
special meetings to start on the
second Sunday in March.
It was also announced that the
annual Covenant Mission Con
ference will be held at Unalakleet
this year.
The Covenant Navigators are
meeting tonight at 8 when Nuni
vak Island pictures will be fea
tured.
Nationalists Slow
Red Efforts to
Fortify Taishans
TAIPEH, Formosa (tft—Chinese
Nationalist pilots reported Sink
ing 15 motorized armed Commu
nist junks and damaging five oth
ers Saturday in the second day of
heavy air and surface strikes!
against the Reds.
The Air Force said its planes
caught the Communist craft near
the Taishan Islands, 120 miles
northwest of Formosa, which the
Reds apparently are trying to
build up. Twenty-three of the
ships were sighted.
• Peiping Radio charged Friday
night that residents of the aban
doned Tachens, 200 miles north
'west of Formosa, “were murdered
during the hasty flight of traitor
Chiang Kai-shek’s forces.”
• The propaganda broadcast also
charged that Chinese Red troops
occupying lower Tachen Island
found the corpses under a thin
layer of soil. The Nationalists,
protected by the U.S. 7th Fleet,
evacuated the Tachens early this
month.)
The Reds appeared to be mak
ing an intensive effort to build up
on the Taishans which are within
striking range of Nationalist posi
tions on Nanchishan Island.
Newspapers reported earlier
that Chinese Communist troops
and supply ships sunk Friday in
Nationalist China’s biggest naval
victory radioed for air cover but
no Red planes appeared.
Until 75 years ago, man’s only
source of artificial light was the
open flame.
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are
stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on. Rev. 19:11-16
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5 Seamen Killed
In Sub Explosion
SAN FRANCISCO, Two sail
ors were killed and three were
missing and presumed dead in a
battery explosion and fire aboard
the submarine Pomodon at San
Francisco Naval Shipyard last
night.
Four other sailors were injured
seriously and two civilian rescue
workers were hospitalized after
inhaling poisonous gases. One of
the Navy injured underwent sur
gery at Oak Knoll Hospital.
Only a few sailors were report
ed aboard at the time of the blast.
Normal complement of this
snorkel submarine is about 85
officers and men.
Two lesser explosions shook the
gas-filled forward section of the
submarine early today, four hours
I after the initial blast, and work
ers were pulled off the, ship.
Lt. Austin R. Doyle, a 12th
Naval District public information
officer, said the Navy will post
pone search operations until the
Pomodon’s batteries discharge
and the vessel is cleared of explo
sive hydrogen gas.
Beet sugar was developed during
the blockade of Europe during the
Napoleonic Wars when Napoleon
offered a large prize for the de
velopment of a domestic source
of sugar.
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