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Anchorage High School Band Having
A Great Time In. Southern California
ANAHEIM, Calif., UPi—'The An
chorage high school band played
a 40-minute concert at Disney
land’s Magnolia Park yesterday
•before a large and highly-appre
ciative crowd.
Patrons of the famed amuse
ment center applauded all eight
selections offered but appeared
most receptive to two novelty
numbers “Relax” and “Wing
Ding.”
Band members — 41 girls and
61 boys whose average age is 15
—were guests of the management,
receiving free rides on amuse
ment devices both before and af
ter the concert. Later the group
visited Knotts Berry Farm at
nearby Buena Park, which boasts
an authentic recreation of a
western ghost town.
The band, invited to California
by the Music Educators’ National
Conference, will play a concert
for that organization this morn
ing in Los Angeles’ Philharmonic
Auditorium. Featured selection
will be “Alaska’s Flag,” sym
phonically arranged by Paul
Yoder especially for premiere
presentation at the conference.
It is Alaska’s official song and
is being recorded for commercial
sales in the near future.
Band director Jack McGuin
told a reporter: “It’s amazing how
people down here have taken to
these kids. In the hotel . . . every
where people have broken their
backs to do things for them.”
The band arrived Friday night
on two chartered airliners. The
group was given an official wel
come to the movie capital by
blonde Sandra Giles, budding
movie actress.
MIKE TODD DIES
IN CRASH IN
NEW MEXICO
GRANTS, N. M., UP) — Heavy
earth moving equipment churned
into a muddy stream today to dig
for clues to the cause of the crash
which killed producer Mike Todd.
“The plane hit at an awfully
steep angle — practically straight
down,” said Phillip Goldstein, in
vestigator in charge of the Santa
Monica, Calif., office of the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
Unofficial theory blamed the
crash on icing, which pilot Bill
Verner, 45, had reported only a
few minutes before the Saturday
morning crash. Some pilots on
the scene said it appeared only
one engine was working when the
Lockheed Lodestar — “the Lucky
Liz” — smashed into the ground
and exploded.
The plane, named for Todd’s
wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor,
was scattered over half an acre.
One engine and other portions
were buried feet deep in the
muddy soil in a fused mass.
Identification of Todd’s re
mains were made in a telephone
comparison of dental charts be
tween an Albuquerque dentist
and Todd’s New York dentist.
The remains of screen writer Art
Cohn, 45, were identified by a
money clip he carried.
An associate of pilot Verner
and co-pilot Tom Barclay, 34,
identified them.
Simplifies Birthday Parlies
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I., lM
—A daughter was born yesterday
to Mrs. Vincent Monti — the
fourth member of the family born
on March 23.
Mr. and Mrs. Monti and their
first daughter, Diane also were
born on March 23.
Defense Dept. Asks
Approval For 51
Arctic Armories
WASHINGTON, UR — The De
fense Department has asked the
House and Senate Armed Services
Committees to approve construc
tion of small armory-type build
ings in 51 Arctic villages for use
by Native Scout Battalions of the
Alaska National Guard.
Col. George N. Kibler, instal
lation^ branch chief of the Army’s
National Guard Bureau, said the
biuldings would cost roughly
$20,000 each.
He estimated committee accept
ance or rejection of the request
would not come for another three
weeks and added no request
would be made to the Budget
Bureau for funds until after the
committee acts.
Kibler said the request requires
only committee concurrence and
not action by Congress. Money
for construction, he said, would
come from already appropriated
funds.
Russian Scientists Visit
Chicago Zoo, Ask To See
Skunk and Rattlesnake
CHICAGO, UR—Three Russian
atomic scientists visited the
Brookfield Zoo yesterday — at
their request because they said
they had heard of it in Russia.
The scientists asked zoo at
tendants to see “something that
smells very badly.” They were
shown a skunk. They talked with
excitement when they heard the
rattle of an American diamond
back rattlesnaek.
The scientists from Moscow
University, Drs. Victor Spitsyne,
I. T. Aladyev, and S. V. Mami
kojan, came to Chicago last week
to attend the 1958 Nuclear Con
gress.
Filing For Municipal and
School Board Election
Closes At 5 p.m. Today
Filings at press time today for
the Municipal and School Board
Election were:
For Councilmen: Roscoe Wil
kie and Fred Cavota for the two
year term, and Gordon Osborne
for the one-year term.
For Mayor, Steffen Andersen.
For City Clerk, Robert Scott.
For Treasurer, Wm. Tuttle.
For Utility Board, Bill Haley.
For School Board, Willie Fos
ter, one-year term; Mrs. Dorothy
Grant and Earl Towner, three
year term; and Roy Snyder, five
year term.
The filings will close at five
o’clock this afternoon.
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Alfred Wells of
Noorvik Wins Dog
Races at Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, UP> — A 36-year
old Eskimo from Noorvik, a tiny
village above the Arctic Circle on
Alaska’s west coast, won the
North American Grand Cham
pionship Sled Dog Races here yes
terday on his eighth attempt.
For the past seven years Al
fred Wells has been trying for top
spot in the three-day 70-mile
race. He has always finished in
the money, but never before in
first place.
The race is run in three heats,
20 miles each on the first two
days and 30 miles on the last day.
Wells came in first Friday and
Saturday but finished fourth yes
terday in the 30-mile race. His
time for the 30 miles was 143
minutes and 30 seconds and his
combined time for the 70 miles
was 310:19. This netted him the
championship trophy and $2,300
in prize money.
Winner of the 30-mile race was
Dr. Roland Lombard, 46, of Way
land, Mass., the New England
champion musher. He drove his
team in the near record time of
141:23. He wound up in second
place in overall time with 313:06
and won second place money of
$1,650.
Third place in total time went
to former champion Wilbur
Sampson of Noorvik, nephew of
Wells. Sampson defeated his
uncle in 1955.
Negroes Reward White Rescuer
MEMPHIS, Tenn., UR—Negroes
here presented $200 to a 17-year
old white youth yesterday to
show their gratitude for his hero
ism.
Charles Kent Bridges dashed
into a blazing house last month
and rescued an aged Negro coupe
trapped by the flames.
Matthew Thornton, 84-year-old
blind “mayor” of famed Beale
Street who sponsored the fund
raising drive, made the presenta
tion.
Senate Rackets Committee Reports
Five Million Dollars Misused By
Officials Of Five Labor Unions
By G. MILTON KELLY
WASHINGTON, L3V-1The* Sen
ate Rackets Investigating Com
mittee reported today “some 10
million dollars in union funds
have been either stolen, embez
zled or misused” in 15 years by
officials of five labor unions.
It said this averaged out to
“five dollars out of the pocket of
every member of the unions cov
ered in this report.” Elsewhere
it listed them as the Teamsters,
Bakery Workers, United Textile
Workers, Operating Engineers,
and Allied Industrial Workers
Unions.
But the report, signed by seven
members of the bipartisan Senate
committee, drew a sharp dissent
from the eighth member.
Sen. McNamara (D-Mich) ap
pended a report of his own call
ing the money figures “phony”
and assailing what he termed
“anti-labor bias” in the majority
findings.
McNamara said “the colorful
language and some of the find
ings in these chapters are more
related to the old Police Gazette
than to a supposedly objective
congressional report.”
McNamara, former president of
Detroit Local No. 636 of the
Pipefitters Union, dissented also
on some other scores, but he
said he did agree with many
things the majority stated.
The committee singled out em
ployers in seven states for what
was dscribed as “union busting”
tactics. The employers were ac
cused of using Labor Consultant
Nathan Shefferman’s services for
this purpose.
McNamara said he didn’t think
the committee went far enough in
its probe of management mis
conduct. He suggested that in
dustry should consider the AFL
CIO example of adopting a code
of ethical practices.
Without going into detail, the
report urged Congress to consider
legislation in five fields: (1) to
regulate and control pension,
health and welfare funds; (2) to
regulate and control union funds;
Continued on Page Three
Rickover Scores
U.S.’s Progressive
Education System
WASHINGTON, UP>—Rear Adm.
H. G. Rickover says the country
soon may have to choose between
better education or a lower stand
ard of living.
Rickover, father of the atomic
submarine, made the statement
yesterday while voicing strong
criticism of “progressive educa
tion and the teachings of the late
John Dewey.
He said Dewey’s ideas have led
to the abandonment of academic
subjects and the substitution of
“trivial, recreational and voca
tional subjects alleged to be of
more practical value.”
Rickover said the replacement
subjects “barely touch the mind,”
even for average pupils.
Dewey, the achnowledged lead
er of the progressive education
school, held schools are primar
ily social institutions and edu
cation is “a process of living and
not a preparation for future liv
ing.”
Rickover said the nation could
assure a high standard of living
for future generations by full util
ization of human resources.
“But it cannot be done with
180-day school years, driver’s
training courses and print shops
in high school,” he added.
Demo Senator
Plans Revitalize
Mining Industry
WASHINGTON, UR — A Senate
Interior subcommittee today
opened a hearing which Sen.
Murray (D-Mont) said is aimed at
replacing the Eisenhower admin
istration’s mining program with
one that would “re-establish the
mining industry upon sound ec
onomic foundation.”
Murray, chairman of the sub
committee’s parent committee,
said unemployment is “more
rampant in mining than any other
general field.”
“Hundreds upon hundreds of
small mines have closed dovrn
completely in recent months,”
Murray said. “Our larger mines—
those which employ hundreds and
thousands of workers each—have
heen forced to curtail production.
“Dividends from mining opera
tions are rapidly becoming only
conversation topics that are re
called when there is discussion of
the good old days.”
Murray said the “so-called long
range minerals program” submit
ted by the administration last
year “proved to be fictional ra
ther than real” and industry
spokesmen termed it an inade
quate program which would hurt
rather than help domestic min
ing.”
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