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He Changed Our World
IF YOU ARE AGIN’ PROGRESS, and feel you were
born 50 or 100 years too late, perhaps you’d better
remain in bed on February 11. This will be the 113th
- anniversary of the birth of Thomas A. Edison, and a
lot of people are going to be whooping and hollering
over the marvels of the Electrical Age which he defi
nitely invented. In fact, maybe you’d better stay in
bed all week, since it’s going to be National Electrical
Week in his honor.
It’s been estimated that Mr. Edison received
patents at the average rate of one every 15 days from
the time he was 30 until he died at 84 — for a total
of 1,093. And if you wince at the electrification of
the world, consider that the Wizard of Menlo Park
also invented the phonograph (great-grampaw of
hi-fi) the movies — both still and “talkies” — the
stock ticker, the miner’s safety lantern, the medical
fluoroscope, waxed paper and gummed wrapping
tape, to mention a few items. The Edison notebooks
(2,500 of them, of 300 pages each) contain sketches
of what we now call helicopters. And more than half
a century ago he predicted that some day a teaoup
of energy would drive an ocean liner across the seas
and back!
Not only was Thomas A. Edison a man who
couldn’t let well-enough alone, but now, 29 years
after his death, his questing spirit carries on in the
firm that bears his name. We might as well face it,
there will be no end to what he started.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Men
66nnHE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT merits the un
-I. stinted support of every American who wants
to make this,country and his world a better place
in which to live. Its emphasis on community service
and tolerance and world friendship promises a
speedier attainment of the enduring peace among man
for which we all strive.
“By developing among its members both a spirit
of sturdiness, self-reliance and ’ a realization of the
need for cooperative effort in every major enterprise,
the Movement is a prime force for preparing tomor
row’s men for their duty to themselves, their country
and their world. . . .”
— PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.
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Election Code Substitution
Bill Offered In House
JUNEAU, (A*) — The House Ju
diciary Committee has come ' up
with a substitute for the election
code bill introduced two weeks
ago by the Legislative Council.
Chairman John Hellenthal said
the proposed measure will provide
an election code containing “under
one cover ... all state election
laws.”
The committee measure pro
poses administrative control over
elections be placefi in the office
of the Secretary of State rather
than under control of the judicial
branch of government as at
present.
Hellenthal said a continuation
of court administration appears
to be “impractical and likely
illegal.” He said this viewpoint
was supported by State Supreme
Court Justic Walter Hodge, tjvho
appeared before the committee.
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300 Applications Received
For Canadian Buffalo Hunt
TORONTO, UP> — With seven
months to go, more than 300 bids
already have been received for the
100 licenses expected to be is
sued for Canada’s second wild
buffalo hunt this century.
Ed Olson, superintendent of
Wood Buffalo National Prak in the
Northwest Territories, said yes
terday the bids probably will be
awarded on a first-come, first
served basis.
Last September 30 hunters, all
from Canada and the U. S., each
shot one buffalo during the first
hunt ever allowed on the 17,000
sa.uare-mile game reserve’s bor
ders. The buffalo were overflow
from the reserve.
METHODIST BOARD
MEETS TONIGHT
Members of the official board
of the Community Methodist
Church are reminded that there
will be a meeting at the church
at 8 o’clock. All members of the
board are urged to attend.
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BORN US YEARS AGO...
FEB. //, 1847... THOMAS A.
EP/SON, THE GREAT INVENTOR,
HArrr contribute? more to our
SPACE-AGE WAY OF UFE
THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN
HISTORY. FROM THE AGE OF
30 YEARS UNTIL HIS PEATH
AT 04 IN 1931, HE WAS
GRANTS?A TOTAL OF 1.093
PATENTS... AN AVERAGE OF
ONE INVENTION EVERY IS PAYS.
BEST REMEMBERED
FOR ELECTRIC U6HT,
EPtSON ALSO /NVENTEP THE
PHONOGRAPH. MOTION PICTURES,
“TALKIES", THE MICROPHONE, STOCK.
TICKER, THE THIRP-RAIL ELECTRIC
RAILROAP ANP THE MEPICAL
FLUOROSCOPE.
IN AN ENDLESS SEARCH
FOR A BETTER ELECTRIC-LIGHT
FILAMENT, EP/SON EVEN CAR
BON/ZEP HAIRS FROM THE
REPBEARPOF MACKENZIE, A
STATION AGENT. THE LATTER
LAUGHER the LOUPEST WHEN
HIS HAIRS GLOWER BRIGHT REP.
4No Enemy Dares Attack the United
States,’ Testifies Joint Chiefs Chairman
WASHINGTON, UP —- Gen.
Nathan Twining told senators
Tuesday he is convinced that no
nation could attack the United
States now or in the future “with
out receiving unacceptable dam
age.”
The Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff voiced this con
fidence in the U. S. defense pro
gram — and the deterrent author
ity it carries for any enemy — in
testimony to the Senate Space and
Preparedness Committees.
These groups have heard a
parade of high military figures
urge multi-billion-dollar additions
to President Eisenhower’s 40-bil
lion-dollar defense budget.
Only Monday, Admiral Arleigh
Burke, Chief of Naval Operations,
said the Navy wants six more
Polaris missile putomarines and
would ask nearly a billion dollars
for them. But he also said he
didn’t know whether the Defense
Departemnt would back this Navy
view, and that he supported Pres
ident Eisenhower’s budget.
Twining reminded the senators
that it is his responsibility to ad
vise the President, the Secretary
of Defense and the National Se
curity Council.
He also said that he believes
U. S. intelligence estimates are
reliable and that they and result
ing plans are revised almost
daily.
Twining said that it always is
natural for each military com
mander to “like to have just a
little more” than he receives, add
ing that he respects their views
even if he disagrees.
Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss),
presiding in the absence of Sen
ate Democratic Leader Lyndon
Johnson, said the senators wanted
Twining’s advice as the JCS chair
man, former Air Force Chief of
Staff, and as a citizen.
Stennis commented that Presi
dent Eisenhower soon would be
participating in a summit confer
• ence. He said it might be unwise
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to have some parts of the world
“thinking we are second” in na
tional defense and military
strength.
The cry for more money for
defense got new backing from
Democrats in Congress.
Rep. Clarence Cannon (D-Mol,
usually one of Congress’ most
vocal critics of high spending,
called in a House speech for in
creasing the President's 40-billion
defense budget. His main concern
was the airborne bomber alert
advocated by Air Force General
Thomas Power.
“Every city in the United States
is subject to direct attack and our
enemy has the weapons to launch
such an attack now,” Cannon
said.
“By 1963 we will be able to
destroy every major city on the
face of the earth.”
Cannon’s outburst brought re
torts from Republicans that he
was trying to “scare the Amer
ican people to death.” Rep. John
Rhodes (R-Ariz) said statements
like Cannon’s increase the danger
that the Soviet Union could mis
judge U. S. strength and start
a war.
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Joint Committees
Ponder State
Employe Pensions
JUNEAU, Ufl — The Finance
and State Affairs Committees of
the Legislature held a joint exec
utive session Monday to discuss
a proposal for a public employes
retirement system in Alaska.
The bill, to be offered as a
substitute for a bill introduced in
the 1959 session and carried over
for action this year, would create
a retirement plan for state em
ployes only at the start. However,
provisions would ‘be included to
permit employes of various poli
tical subdivisions throughout the
state to enter the program later. .
Sen. A1 Owen, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, said
the closed-door session heard ac
tuarial reports on the cost factors
involved in the proposal.
Meanwhile, the Senate Judici
ary Committee introduced a bill
covering retirement for state
judges.
The bill sets 70 as the manda
tory age limit and provides max
imum benefit allowances of 75 per
cent of the jurist’s monthly sal
ary after retirement. Widows of
retired judges would be eligible
for 50 per cent of the monthly
retirement pay.
Judges would pay 5 per cent of
their salaries into the system, and
retirement benefits would range
from 10 per cent after four years’
service, to the maximum of 75
per cent.
CABLE CAR RIDERS INJURED
SAN FRANCISCO, UPi — Two
riders hanging on the outside got
rubbed off yesterday as a Powell
Street cable car brushed too close
to an automobile.
Phil Doganiere, 26, suffered a
possible fracture of the left foot,
and Louis Lee, 35, was hospital
ized with a possible hip fracture.
The gripman, Levi Allen, 25,
and the car driver, Alfred C.
Bach, 50, of San Rafael, were
not cited.
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