VQL LPi No. 155NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY’ DECEMBER 30. 1957 Por Copy—15?
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Administration OKs Billion-Dollar
Program to Bolster Education
GETTYSBURG, Pa., UV-A bil-<
lion-dollar four-year program to
bolster eduoation was approved
today by President Eisenhower.
It contemplates 10,000 federal
scholarships each year and 50-50
matching grants to states.
The plan was released after
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Folsom conferred an
hour with the President.
Folsom said the federal pro
gram would try to correct defi
ciencies in education “which if
allowed to continue would seri
ously weaken our national secur
ity effort,” and is an answer to
Russia’s continuing buildup in
the science field.
But, in a news conference, Fol
' som made it clear science and
mathematics would not be the
only subjects stressed. He said the
program aims to bring thousands
more students into colleges.
The program calls for appropri
ation of $225 million in the first
year with a four-year total of
a billion dollars.
In a report to the President,
Folsom said the program seeks to j
overcome “a tragic waste” of a j
most valuable resource—the tal- j
ent of youngsters. It was designed j
to forestall the alarming number
at drop-outs among top high
school students who do not go on
to college.
The report stressed that “the
main support for education must
come in the future, as in the past,
from state, local and private
sources.”
First Spaceflight Man
Must Withstand Much
Pressure of Publicity
LOS ANGELES, (£>—1The first
man to enter outer space and re
turn will first have to satisfy sci
entists he can “fight off publicity
barrages, a swelled head and the
Ed Sullivan show.”
So says Donald W. Conover, a
specialist in the study of the hu
man factor in space flight.
He says all candidates for the
first trip will be screened careful
ly to make sure they’ll be able to
withstand the socialogical pres
sures of having been the first man
|n space.
If he succumbs to such pres
sure, Conover told graduates of
USC’Si School of Aviation Safety
yesterday, “we’d have to bury
him after he came back to earth.”
Bob Hope Entertains
From 17,OW Ft Overhead
HOLLYWOOD UH—‘Th^ crew of
a weather ship 1,000 miles out in
the Pacific was treated to a spe
cial Bob Hope show from the
comedian’s plane 17,000 feet over
Three Believed Drowned
As Wave Smashes Boat
SEATTLE, UP)—A heavy comber
crashed over a 40-foot crabbing
boat last night near the entrance
to Gray’s Harbor on the Washing
ton coast, sweeping the three
crewmen apparently to death.
An all-night search at sea and
along the shore, aided by para
chute flares dropped from a cir
cling plane, failed to turn up any
trace of the three men.
The boat was splintered by the
breaker about a mile offshore.
92% of Alaska
Land Valued at
Average $2 an Acre
WASHINGTON, (£>—Reports of
six government agencies holding
more than 92 percent of Alaska’s
land area value the land and its
improvements at less than $2 an
acre.
In listing holdings of 338,430,972
acres, the six agencies value the
land at $438,429,749 and improve
ments at $218,041,108.
Alaskans total land area is 365,
481,600 acres.
Heavily weighting the valuation
is the $1.27 an acre average value
placed by the Dept, of Interior on
! its 338,260,646 acres..
By contrast, the Post Office De
; partment values its 6.9 acres at
$798,619—more than $114,000 an
acre.
The four other agencies listed
in the report, their holdings and
total value are:
CAA—91,168 acres; $48,683,941.
Coast Guard—77,986.1 acres;
$16,236,000.
Welfare Dept.—451.8 acres; $25,
056,265.
Bureau of Public Roads—712.3
acres; $2,500,032.
In addition the Defense Dept,
holds 3,512,788 acres valued at
$5,478,000. There is no estimate of
value on the improvements.
For the Dept, of Agriculture,
whose holdings include Tongass
and other national forests, Alaska
is grouped with Puerto Rico for a
total of 20,752,969 acres with an
estimated market value of $72,
000,000.
Fire in Juneau
Takes Man’s Life
JUNEATJ, UR—A Juneau man
was burned to death and a second
seriously injured in a fire which
gutted a two-story building here
late last night.
Dead was Paul J. Culinan, 44,
a ships cook.
The fire, spread rapidly and en
gulfed the first floor of the build
ing within minutes after discov
ery.
The cause of the fire had not
been determined.
Next Budget of
$74 Billion Sets
Peacetime Record
-WASHINGTON, WV-The Eisen
hower Administration’s first post
Sputnik budget may total nearly
$74 billion—a new peacetime rec
ord.
And Congress, alarmed by re
cent signs of Russian strides in
missiles, satellites and space sci
ence, is expected to give a friendly
reception to at least the military
part of the budget request for the
fiscal year starting next June 30,
Defense items probably will ac
count for about $40 billion of the
new budget total, an increase of
more than a billion dollars over
the current spending rate.
Whatever budget cutting Con
gress may undertake may be
aimed at requests for civilian pro
grams. Present indications are
that these requests may be held at
previously levels, but not reduced
appreciably.
Eisenhower will send Congress
his 1959 budget early next month.
Congress reconvenes Jan. 6.
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Tiny Himalayan Kingdom
Will Manufacture Scotch
CALCUTTA, UK—Premier Rus
tomjee Dewan of Sikkam says his
tiny Himalayan kingdom is going
into the scotch business.
Reports reached Calcutta today
quoting the Premier as saying ex
perts believe Sikkam’s water
closely resembles Scotland’s, and
so it “would not be difficult to
distill good quality scotch.”
Sikkim’s seven-year plan gives
top priority to construction of a
distillery. The government hopes
the final product will become an
important export.
AIR FORCE PLANS INCLUDE
DETAILS ON USE OF IRBM’S
IN THE EVENT OF A WAR
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Reds to Laupch
New Moons Soon
MOSCOW, —Lt. Oen. Anato
ly Blangonravov, the rocket ex
pert of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences, says Russia will launch
new earth satellites in the near
future.
Blagonravov, in an article in
Soviet aviation, said the launch
ings would be followed by send
ing the first unmanned rockets
to the moon and other planets. He
set no time targets.
“The time is not distant,” he
added, “when complex radio
equipment and other automatic
instruments carried by artificial
earth satellites will be powered
by atomic electric batteries.”
Application of nuclear energy
to transport, he declared, would
open up the arctic and antarctic
and vast stretches of Russia’s
northern territories.
Season’s Coldest Weather
Moves Into the U.S.
(By The Associated Press)
The winter season’s coldest
weather held a firm grip on
northern Midwest areas today as
a slow-moving mass of arctic air
headed into the mid-continent.
Temperatures near the Minne
sota and Dakota border were from
10 to 22 degrees below zero.
The nation’s coldest spot this
morning was International Falls,
Minn., on the Canadian border,
with a teeth-chattering 24 degrees
below zero. ! Ha !
The icy air was expected to
spread across the Central Plains,
most of the Mississippi Valley and
the Great Leakes region.
Australians in Sydney
Welcome Rain After Heat
SYDNEY, Iff)—Sydney was \SO
overjoyed to see rain today after
the worst drought since 1888 that
thousands walked happily around
without coats or umbrellas.
The light, steady rainfall broke
the heat wave in Sydney, which
had seen temperatures well over
100 degrees.
► WASHINGTON, <**—The Air
Force’s constantly revised strate
gic plans now include detailed ar
rangements on how and where
intermediate range ballistic mis
siles CIRBMs) would be used in
event of war.
The operational plans are un
derstood .to have been completed
and incorporated in the over-all
wartime plans of the USAF about
six months ago, even tho the
IRBM weapons may not become
part of the available arsenal for
another year.
The Air Forre maintains three
basic strategic, blueprints which
cover periods ranging from the
next 60 days to as much as three
years. They are the short range
“wartime capabilities plan,” the
mid-range “wartime plan” con
taining D-Day data up to four
years in the future, and the “long
range wartime objectives plan.”
The air-breathing Snark guided
missile, with a range of 5,003
miles, is now considered opera
tional and launching sites are be
ing organized.
While the Snark has the rarfge
of the still-developmental inter
continental ballistic missile (the
ICBM), its speed is below that of
sound and its operating altitude
is down in the earth’s atmosphere.
The Air Force expects the first
deliveries of the Thor IRBM—
with a maximum accurate range
of 1,500 miles—to be made late in
1958.
The details of the war plans
folio, or course, are highly secret
but an IRBM list might include
potential targets as deep in central
Russia as the munitions complexes
in the area of the Ural Mountains,
if launching points from Turkey
were used. From bases in Britain
and Free Europe, Moscow would
be within range of IRBMs.
Churchman Ends
Visit in Alaska
With Servicemen
SEATTLE, Uh—The Rev. Dr.
Edwin T. Dahlberg, president of
the National Council of Churches,
returned yesterday from a Christ
mas visit to the armed forces is
Alaska with praise for the moral
3£d spiritual insights of the mili
tary men in the territory.
Dr. Dahlberg recalled that in
the first century of the Christian
era the men in the Roman army
camps were a chief factor in the
spread of Christianity thruout the
Roman Empire.
“Why should that not happen
in America?” he asked.
He said there is a “far greater
togetherness” of Protestant de
nominations in the Alaska Com
mand than in the average civilian
community.
He added that “integration of
tlfe races shows far more progress
among the men and women in
uniform.”
HILLARY’S OVERLAND PARTY NEARS SOUTH POLE}
AUKLAND, (£>—Sir Edmund
Hillary’s party trekked to within
nearly 150 miles of the South Pole
today in its overland hike thru
antarctic wastes.
Hillary’s latest radio message to
Scott Base, his camp near McMur
do Sound, was picked up here. It
said the four-man tractor team
covered anotlier 44 Vi miles dur
ing the night and was traveling at
an altitude of 11,000 feet at 23
degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
The extreme cold caused the
vehicles to labor, the report said,
but their light loads enabled them
to push steadily on.
The four-man group has aver
aged from 40 to 50 miles for the
past few nights.
Hillary is now retracing the
200-mile stretch covered by Capt.
Robert F. Scott on his ill-starred
attempt to reach the pole in 1911.
The Scott party perished on the
return trip and no one has made
the overland trek since.
Reports from another team
headed by British Dr. Vivian
Fuchs were not so good. Travel
ing towards the pole from the op
posite direction with a British
Commonwealth antarctic team, he
had made only 35 miles Saturday
since Wednesday and had almost
500 more to go.
Scott base reported that Fuchs
was sending out a two-man scout
ing party with dog teams to mark
danger spots in the snowpack. The
main party is following in a mo
torized caravan.
In addition, a Russian team has
set out from the Soviet base in 30
vehicles.
Moscow radio said it would
split up, one section heading for
the south geomagnetic pole and
the other for the geographical
center of Antarctica or the so
called pole of inaccessibility.
The United States maintains a
scientific station at the geograph
ic South Pole.