Alaska Leads Western States In
Cost For Educating Each Student
And Higher Pay For Teachers
JUNEAU — Possibly due to the
higher cost of , living, Alaska
spends more per pupil to educate
its children than any of the west
ern states and pays its teachers
a higher annual salary. Strange
ly, New York state pays more per
student for educating than even
Alaska.
Don Dafoe, commissioner of
education, reported in a recent
study that in 1956-57 Alaskan edu
cation cost $463.77 per student.
Coming nearest, to that figure on
the West Coast was Wyoming,
with $400.
Figures released by New York
State, however, show that in 1956
that state spent over $700 for each
child’s education.
Amounts spent by other west
ern states range from a low of
$236 in Idaho and $258 in Utah
to $362 in Nevada, $364 in Ore
gon, and $400 in Wyoming.
Dafoe notes in his report that
costs in the Territory are from
22 per cent to 57 per cent above
Seattle’s and that these cost dif
ferentials are figured on costs in
cities, not in the isolated villages
where many of the schools are
operated.
Additional costs arise because of
expensive transportation of supr
plies and for providing supervi
sion to the isolated schools, he
pointed out.
The Territory contributes 53.16
per cent of costs of schools here.
This percentage is higher than
any of the western states but
lower than that in several states
and territories.
The Virgin Islands pay 97 per
cent, of the cost of schools. Puer
to Rico. 83 per cent, and Dela
ware, 65.9 per cent.
The federal government share
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is higher in Alaska because it
pays the entire costs of operating
funds for the schools on military
bases and for a number of schools
in the villages. In addition, the
government pays amounts for
other funds.
In 1956-57 the federal govern
ment’s share of school costs was
26.28 per cent.
Average salary for teachers in
1957-58 in Alaska was $6,200, far
above the western states. Cali
fornia pays a high salary along
the West Coast of $5,750 on an
average, while Idaho pays a low
of $3,900.
Case of Sherman Adams
Packed With Drama
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
NEWPORT, R. I., UP) — Whether
Sherman Adams quits or stays,
it’s one of the strangest cases in
a long time — packed with drama.
As was the case 10 days ago,
right after the Republican political
disaster in the Maine elections,
no one close to President Eisen
hower at the Summer White House
would bet you that Adams will
weather the storm and continue
as Eisenhower’s chief aide.
Those in the inner circle insist
they just don’t know. What is
more, they insist that Eisenhower
himself doesn’t know — simply
because, they say, Adams hsn’t
told the President.
There is the drama. These Presi
dential lieutenants in Newport
have said repeatedly that Eisen
hower never will take the initia
tive and tell Adams he is through.
They said Adams will have to
make up his own mind.
They picture the wiry white
haired Adams as going through
the greatest agony of his 59 years
in trying to reach a decision.
For the first time since Adams
returned to his Washington office
Monday after a 10-day variation,
the President and Adams talked
Wednesday — ’by telephone.
They had not consulted since
Sept. 6, when Eisenhower inter
rupted his vacation and returned
to the capital for a few hours.
That was two days before the
Maine elections.
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| ‘Bertlia’ The Whale
Dead Because She
‘Lied’ About Age
NEW YORK, UR — Bertha the
whale, flown here from Alaska
early this month by the Coney Is
land-Aquarium, is dead. She died
because, as females sometimes do,
she fooled men about her age.
In her few days of life here,
Bertha was the pride of the aquar
ium and the only live whale to
be exhibited in New York since
1897.
Aquarium experts estimated
her age at 14 months, chiefly be
cause of her size and eating hab
its. She was 6 feet, 7 inches long
and weighed 400 pounds.
So she was offered a fish diet
appropriate for a whale young
ster of 14 months. Bertha gobbled
the fish as if she were really that
old. Unfortunately, she wasn’t.
She really was only an infant
whale, less than a year old. The
fish were too much for her deli
cate digestive system because she
I was not out of the milk diet stage.
Bertha died of gastritis.
Her true age was determined
from an examination of her teeth
after her death.
Judge Enforces The Law
Even If He Does
Not Agree With It
WALNUT GROVE, Calif., iff) —
Judge Milo E. Dye, who will be
76 November 12, says he favors
state controlled--houses of prosti
tution.
The judge made that statement
to newspapermen Thursday after
assessing a total of $650 in fines
from a man and four women who
had been arrested in a brothel
raid.
He had to enforce the law even
if he did not agree with it, he
declared.
State-controlled houses, he con
tended, would protect “our juven
iles and virtuous women.”
The judge mentioned the large
numbers of transient workers in
his area, which is about 70 miles
northeast of San Francisco. He
said they “should have the oppor
tunity, perhaps, of obtaining per
sonal satisfaction.”
The judge is retiring Dec. 31
to go fishing and said his state
ment was an “idea I want to leave
with the boys.”
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Soviets Say American
Pilot Threatens To Drop
A-Bomb On Them
LONDON, U?\ — The Soviet Em
bassy in London said Thursday
it has received a letter from a
man claiming to be an American
pilot and threatening to drop an
atomic bomb on the Soviet Union.
The letter also contained a
threat to drop a hydrogen bomb
on Poland, the Embassy said.
Earlier this year, the Soviet
Embassy said it received a letter
from an American pilot threat
ening to drop a bomb in the North
Sea off the English coast. But
nothing happened.
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Colorado’s GOP
Looking For
New Candidate
OURAY, Colo., UP) — Repub
licans in Colorado’s 4th Congres
sional District began looking to
day for a new candidate to op
pose Rep. Wayne Aspinall (D
Colo.) in November.
■Con F. O’Farrell, Ouray hotel
operator, withdrew after winning
the GOP Congressional nomina
tio without opposition a week
ago.
“I find that the pace and pres
sure of a vigorous campaign
would be just too much for my
health at this time,” O’Farrell
explained.
Last week Carl S. Becker of
Denver withdrew as the Repub
lican candidate in the 1st District
where Rep. Byron Rogers, Den
ver Democrat, is seeking re-elec
tion. Becker said his wife has be
come seriously ill.
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