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THE MISGUIDED MISTER
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RUSSIA AND THE OLYMPICS
Soviet Russia has served notice that she is out to
win the 1956 Olympics, and she has an excellent chance
of doing so.
At the recent Winter Olympic Games in Italy,
Russia practically dominated the show. The United
States made a creditable showing, but was far behind
Russia and never really in the fight for unofficial team
honors.
Athletic experts in this country have been pointing
out, since 1952, that in Melbourne, Australia, later this
year, athletes of the United States will face the greatest
challenge they have ever faced in Olympic competition.
Russia will send a huge team to the Olympics, and
when it is remembered that the U.S. barely nosed out
the Russians in 1952, it is obvious that competition
in Australia this year will be particularly keen.
The lesson to be learned from this development is
that athletics should be stressed at our colleges, made
mandatory in most cases, and that our lower schools
should also stress athletic development.
Russia has reached its present stage of impressive
athletic attainment solely through a highly organized
state-sponsored athletic training program. It shows
what serious attention to athletic development can
accomplish.
CHARPENTIER. COMPOSER
OF 'LOUISE'. DIES AT 90
PARIS, (jP—Composer Gustave
Charpentier, whose opera “Lou
ise” became one of the music pub
lic’s favorite depictions of Paris,
died Saturday night. He was 95.
Charpentier did almost all his
composing before World War I.
His greatest opera is the love
story of a young Parisian, a “mid
inette”—a poor seamstress—and
her love affair with a poet. Char
pentier said it was his own story,
that he lost Louise when he went
to Rome to study and never found
her again.
In later life he gave much time
to social work, particularly among
the midinettes.
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Father Dies in Church
As Daughter is Married
HADDON HEIGHTS, N.J., UP>—
Edwin C. Spencer, 61, of Audu
i bon, N.J., died of a heart attack a
! few minutes after giving his
daughter’s hand in marriage.
Death came to Spencer sitting
in a pew with his wife as the mar
riage was drawing to a close Sat
urday in the Baptist Church here.
About 100 guests attended a re
ception after the ceremony at the
insistence of Mrs. Spencer.
“He would have wanted it this
way," Mrs. Spencer was quoted
as saying.
There are 300,000 English
words stigmatized as vulgar, low,
etc., and therefore are not re
corded in dictionaries designed
for the home.
Spurt Given to
Soviet Campaign
Against Stalin
By STANLEY JOHNSON
MOSCOW, UPC-The Soviet hier
archy’s growing campaign against
the works and acts of Joseph
Stalin took a dramatic turn Satur
day as the Russian press and
radio loosed a direct blast against
the once revered leader.
The unprecedented attack ap
peared in the text of a free-swing
ing speech by First Deputy Pre
mier Anastas Mikoyan at the 20th
Congress of the Soviet Communist
Party.
The speech, which denounced
Stalin’s political and economic
writings by name, was not printed
until more than 48 hours after
Mikoyan spoke. This indicated
party leaders gave careful thought
before releasing it to the public.
Following the lead of Party
Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev and
others in the Soviet hierarchy,
Mikoyan extolled the merits of
collective leadership.
Khrushchev, who took over
Stalin’s post as the party’s first
secretary, set the tone of the Con
gress in his 50,000-word keynote
speech Tuesday when he blasted
the one-man rule idea.
In his speech Mikoyan rapped
Stalin on several counts.
1. He declared Stalin’s writings
ignored the history of the last two
decades and called for new teach
ings on Communism.
2. He assailed treason charges
Stalin brought many years later
against the one-time Zeroes of the
1918 Bolshevik revolution.
3. He declared Russian foreign
policy had become active, flexible
and calm after Stalin’s death in
Mcrch 1953.
28 KIANANS OF 50
ELIGIBLE COMPLETE
MINING COURSE
Pete Sandvik, of the Territorial
Department of Mines, returned
Friday from Kiana, where he
taught a class of 31 in the Mining
Extension course.
He states that out of a class of
31, 28 completed the course. Inso
much as there are only 50 eligible
persons in the village who might
have taken the course, Kiana cer
tainly holds a record for interest
in mining.
Those who completed the Uni
versity of Alaska extension course
there follow:
Peter and Roger Atoruk, Clyde
and Harry Baldwin, Lorin Black,
Raymond Barr, Robinson Blank
enship, R. Blastervold, Jack Cas
anoff, Enoch Sherman, Karl and
Leo Geffe, George Hasway, Oscar
Henry, Marie and Robert D. Hol
lingsworth, Frank, Henry and
Percy Jackson, Teddy Johnson,
Bob Mulluk, Paul Outwater, Sam
Reed, Donald, Johnny and Martin
L. Smith, Delbert Wells, Clarence
Wood.
Mrs. Sandvik remained in Ki
ana at the home of her father,
W. Blankenship.
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Tony Willoya Sets
Scoring Record In
Base-City League
Last Friday’s night’s basketball
games kept the fans on their
feet throughout the evening. The
ACS Signaliers came from be
hind to win over the Nome Mer
chants 39 to 38 as big Gary Penix
dropped in the telling counter in
the last 12 seconds of play.
Speedy Vern Kugzruk led the
ACS squad with 13 points. Capt.
Bob Ellis didn’t see action until
the second half but he scored 8.
Jim Mahlen and Vince Ahkolik
each scored 7. For the Merchants,
Clyde Nershak was top man with
16 and the galloping ghost, Pete
Larsen was next with 14.
In the nightcap, the dead-eye
kid, Tony Willoya, led the Polar’s
Green Death to an overwhelming
victory over the Air Force Jets,
91 to 67.
Willoya holds the territorial
high school record for average
points per game, and Friday night
he set what is believed to be the
all-time record of points in one
game in the history of the Base
City Basketball League. Tony was
like a wild man as he averaged
more than a point a minute and
walked off the floor with a fab- !
ulous tally of 46 counters. Bobby j
Herman was second with 19 and
Norm Atuk and Dave Bell follow
ed with 10 and 9. For the Jets,
hustling Bob Hinson scored 29
marks as he hit from both sides
and the middle. Bill White and
Chuck Parris were next with 14
and 13.
Tomorrow night will see the
Merchants and the Jets in the
first game and the second game
is expected to be the battle of the
season as the Nanooks clash with
the Hornets—a game that should
n’t be missed by anyone .
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Close Oscar Race
With James Dean,
Borgnine Ahead
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. M —Er
nest Borgnine, whose acting three
years ago earned him only $50 a
week, and James Dean, who is
dead, emerged today among early
favorites in what looks like the
tightest Oscar race in years.
Susan Hayward, who portrayed
singer Lillian Roth in a battle of
the bottle in “I’ll Cry Tomorrow,”
and Anna Magnani, the fiery Ital
ian widow of “The Rose Tattoo,”
rate the same nod for the top fem
inine prize in the annual Acad
emy Awards selections.
Only in the top picture and best
supporting actor and actress cate
gories are single standouts fa
vored. They are: “Marty,” the pic
ture that defied every Hollywood
norm for commercial success; Ar
thur. O’Connell, the trapped bach
elor of “Picnic,” and Jo Van Fleet,
Dean’s madam-mother in “East
of Eden.”
But all face rugged competition
from other nominees named Sat
urday night over a nationwide
NBC telecast.
Three previous Oscar winners,
Spencer Tracy, James Cagney,
and Frank Sinatra, were nomin
ated for the best acting perform
ance. Tracy, a two-time winner,
was named for “Bad Day at Black
Rock,” Cagney for “Love Me or
Leave Me,” and Sinatra for “The
Man With the Golden Arm.”
Jennifer Jones (“Love Is a
Many - Splendored Thing”) and
Katherine Hepburn (“Summer
time”) and Eleanor Parker (“In
terrupted Melody”) were the oth
er three top actresses named. Both
Miss Jones and Miss Hepburn
have won Oscars before.
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