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2,000 YEARS YOUNG
Of all the forms of energy, coal is among the oldest
so far as human experience is concerned. It is referred
to in the writings of Greek historians of 2,200 years ago.
But great age does not necessarily mean obsolete
or obsolescent—and coal certainly isn’t either of those.
Secretary of the Interior McKay, much of whose work
is concerned with energy supplies and needs, is the
authority for the statement that coal is the fuel the
nation “must rely upon in the years to come.”
Actually, coal is used, and in large quantities, in
ways that few of us realize. To take random examples,
more than five tons of coal are used to manufacture the
steel that goes into a modern six-room house. It takes
about eight tons of coal to produce a single ton of
magnesium. Last year about half of all our electricity
was generated from coal—and in many areas, including
some of the major industrial centers, coal accounts for
all or virtually all of it. Chemicals derived from coal
are used in making plastics, perfrgmes, paints, and for
thousands of other diverse products.
The use of these and all the other commodities and
services which depend in one way or another on coal
will steadily expand in the future. And that means we
must have a coal industry capable of meeting the
demand—which, in turn, means a coal industry able to
earn a fair profit.
ARMY USES BLACK WIDOW SPIDERS
Proof that the Army is not hide-bound, at least in
all phases of its operations, comes in a revelation that
the military service is now employing a hundred black
widow spiders. The spiders are used to spin fine, tough
web-strands and these strands are superior to anything
the much-vaunted industry of the United States can
now produce.
The strands are used by Army engineers to replace
cross-hairs for surveying instruments, microscopes and
telescopic gunsights. These strands are only about
one-hundredth of the diameter of a strand of human
hair. They are superior in strength to anything that
science can now produce—of the same size.
Poison, Montana, Flathead Courier: “In socialistic
and communistic countries the representatives of gov
ernment pull the strings and puppets jump in a
mechanical way that does not lend the enchantment
of freedom to the work of the citizens.”
U.S. Air Force
To Withdraw Four
Units From Korea
TOKYO, UPt—'The Far .East Air
Forces today identified four units
whose withdrawal from Korea
will be completed this year.
The four, all bomber or fighter
bomber wings, will move to Jap
an, Okinawa and the Philippines.
They are:
The 3rd Light Bomb Wing, to
Johnson Air Base near Tokyo.
The 17th Light Bomb Wing, to
Miho Air Base on Southwest Hon
shu Island.
The 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing,
to Itazpke Air Base on Kyushu
Island.
Headquarters of the 18th Fight
er-Bomber Wing, to Clark Air
Force Base in the Philippines.
Two tactical squadrons and sup
port units of the 18th will be sta
tioned at Kadena Air Force Base,
Okinawa.
Elements already withdrawn
from Korea include the 49th
Fighter-Bomber Wing and the
15th Tactical Reconnaissance
Squadron, both in Japan, and the
51st Fighter-Interceptor Squad
ron Wing, now on Okinawa.
The 319th Fighter-Interceptor
Squadron was moved to Johnson
Air Base in August. The 35th
Fighter-Interceptor Wing, previ
ously stationed there, was trans
ferred to nearby Yokota. The 98th
Bomb Wing left Yokota for the
United States in July.
U.S. Scientists
Are First to Reach
Magnetic Pole
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, W—The
New England fishing schooner
Monte Carlo came back from the
Arctic Friday and her amateur
mariners claimed they were the
first party to reach the magnetic
North Pole.
The Rev. Daniel Linehan, a 50
year?old Jesuit priest internation
ally known as a seismologist and
director of the Westou Observa
tory at Weston, Mass., said he has
records to prove their claim.
He said that the pole—a region
where the magnetic force pulls
vertically downward—was sus
pected to be on the west central
part of Prince of Wales Island in
Canada’s northland. Nobody had
ever go't there. It had been meas
ured at a distance.
The island is about 1,100 miles
south of the true geographic pole.
Scientific evidence shows that
the pole slowly changes position.
In 1947 the U.S. Air Force report
ed it had found no fewer than
three magnetic north poles in an
elliptical field 450 miles long and
200 miles across on Prince of
Wales Island.
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United Nations
Takes no Action on
U.S.-Soviet Dispute
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., W—
The U.N. Security Council ad
journed Friday night without tak
ing any action on an investigation
into the shooting down of an Am
erican bomber off Siberia by Rus
sia fighters Sept. 4.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief
U.S. delegate, and Russia’s Andrei
Y. Vishinsky engaged in a bitter
exchange. Vishinsky served notice
the Soviet Union would refuse to
allow the Security Council to con
duct any investigation into the
plane incident, no matter what
the council said about his right to
vote against an investigation.
The Soviet delegate also denied
Lodge’s charge that his country
claimed the right to shoot down
planes over the open sea.
He said the Neptune bomber,
out on a weather patrol when it
was shot down, was over Soviet
territory. He added that Russia
will defend its territory against
any “peeping planes,” and that
other countries also have asserted
they have the right to shoot down
planes over their own territory.
Lodge argued to' the council
that the plane was over interna
tional ocean territory and the
nine other members accepted his
statement. Lodge suggested that
the world court take over adjudi
cation of the dispute which he
said was the latest of a pattern of
unprovoked attacks on American
planes since 1950.
AUGUST WEATHER SUMMARY
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U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
August was unusually cloudy
and rainy. The average sky cover
Of 9.6 during daylight hours was
much greater than usual.
The total precipitation was 7.78
inches, more than twice the nor
mal for August, and was within
0.04 inches of the record for 48
years, 7.82 in August 1951.
Temperatures were normal, with
only 23 degrees range between
the highest and lowest for the
month.
McCarthy Claims
Right to Call Sen.
Flanders ‘Senile’
WASHINGTON, W—Sen. Mc
Carthy said Saturday he had “a
perfect right” to call Sen. Flan
ders “senile” in response to “ob
scenities” McCarthy said Flanders
leveled at him.
Back on the witness stand for
another day of cross examination
by the Senate committee investi
gating censure charges brought
against him by Flanders, McCar
thy readily agreed he had applied
the word “senile” to Flanders.
“There’s no doubt I considered
him senile and referred to1 him as
senile,” McCarthy said.
He added he considered he had
“a perfect right to say I thought
he was senile,” and declared that
“being a United States senator
puts him in no special category
off the Senate floor.”
McCarthy did not say what “ob
scenities” he had reference to.
Flanders, in a Senate speech
June 1, accused McCarthy of Hit
ler-like tactics which Flanders
said had sown division and con
fusion in the nation, besmirched
responsible government, and cre
ated “foreboding” among such
minorities as the Jews. Flanders
added:
“Were the junior senator from
Wisconsin in the pay of the Com
munists, he could not have done a
better job for them.”
ANS EDUCATOR IS
TRANSFERRED, PROMOTED
William H. Olsen, area director
of Alaska Native Service, an
nounced last week the promotion
and transfer of Victor E. Hill,
principal of the Mt. Edgecumbe
Boarding School, to the position
of superintendent of the Chem
awa Boarding School, Chemawa,
Oregon. Hill leaves the ANS
Branch of Education after 13
years’ sorvice. Hill has held suc
cessive positions as day school
principal, boys’ advisor, principal
of the White Mountain Boarding
School and Wrangell Institute.
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