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Street Signs for Nome . . .
HPHE MOTHER’S CLUB of Nome, which is both
Nome and home-minded may be a small club, but
they think big wh-rn it comes to the community in
which they live.
They have announced that they will be making
street signs so sorely needed and this is pot a project
which can be done in a day but will involve much
labor and much time to complete. They are to be
praised for tackling the project.
They should be backed up immediately by one
of our several male civic and service orgapizations
with the needed cooperation including climbing the
telephone poles and installing the signs as they are
completed.
The progress of the project will be watched with
v; interest, by everyone and should set the example for
civic improvement not only in the summer but
throughout the year.
Bomb Explosion Damages
Count of Paris* Mansion
PARIS (A — A plastic bomb
exploded Friday night at the sub
urban mansion of the Count of
Paris, pretender of the non-ex
istent throne of France, causing
considerable property damage but
no injuries.
Hie Count and his family were
away at the time.
Although* not active in politics
as such, the Count distributes a
regular bulletin setting forth his
Views on French problems. In it
he has endorsed President Charles
De Gaulle’s policy of self-deter
Algeria, an attitude,
wed by right-wing
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Do-It-Yourselfer . . .
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WICHITA, Kan. UR — Rather
than wait in line at a service
station, a Wichita man decided to
winterize his car himself.
With the job barely underway,
a wrench slipped, breaking a
sparkplug and injuring his thumb.
He borrowed a neighbor’s car
to go buy a new sparkplug and
scraped a fender in backing out
The job Anally completed, he
took his newly winterized car out
for a spin. The engine overheated,
a hose broke and the new anti
freeze ran out. Reason: Thermo
stat was installed backward.
ft Said the red-fabed d^-it-your
selfer: “Please don’t tell anybody
wham it happened to."
Trotsky’s Widow
Asks Soviets for
New Look at Trial
PARIS W — Leon Trotsky*
widow has written to Soviet au
thorities asking for a new look.a.t
Trotsky’s trial and assassination
in the light of denunciations of
[ Stalin at the recent Soviet Com
munist Party Congress.
The letter, disclosed Saturday
by the international secretariat of
the Fourth Internationale, said
in part:
“I ask that you totally and pub
licly revise the Moscow trial in
which tiie chief accused were
Leon Trotsky and my son Leon
Sedoff. I ask a complete and pub
lic investigation on the means
employed toy the GPU (Stalin’s
secret police) against Trotsky on
his assassination in Mexico, and
on those who inspired and ex
ecuted the crime.”
Madame Trotsky also asked the
whereabouts of another son,
Sergi Sedoff, arrested in 1035.
The letter was addressed to the
Presidium of the Supreme So
viet and the Central Committee
of the Communist party.
Trotsky lost a power battle with
Stalin in 1927 and fled to Turkey,
then to Mexico, but was always
in danger from secret police
agents.
In 1940, a Soviet agent invaded
Trotsky’s house, despite heavy
security, and murdered him with
an axe. His slayer was imprisoned
and released in 1960.
Proposed Cut in Federal
Spending Could Block
The Fight Against Cancer
WASHINGTON ito — A pro
posed out in federal spending
could biock a promising avenue
in the fight against cancer—the
use of drugs—a leading surgeon
says.
Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin, past
president of the American Col
lege of Surgeons, said a cutback
in cancer research funds at this
point could make it impossible
to test 23 new drugs developed
by the National Institutes of
Health.
Abraham Riibicoff, Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare,
has announced he will cut $102
million from his over-all depart
ment budget to meet President
Kennedy’s request for less fed
eral spending this fiscal year.
Dr. Ravdin made his statement
at a news conference Friday
toward the end of a two-day
meeting of surgeons and cancer
specialists sponsored by the Can
cer Chemotherapy Service Cen
ter, a division of the National
Cancer Institute.
Joining him in opposing a cut
in federal funds were Rep. John
E. Fogarty, (D-R.I.), and Dr. Sid
ney J. Faber of the Harvard Med
ical School.
Fogarty said $60 million of the
amount RJbicoff plans to cut had
been ticketed for medical re
search, including $15 to $16 mil
lion for cancer.
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Sinclair Lewis Couldn't
Cut the Mustard as
A Newspaperman
SAN FtRANCISCO UP» — Sin
clair Lewis, who won the Nobel
Prize for literature, couldn't cut
the mustard as a newspaperman.
Lewis never forgot it, his bi-'
ographer, Mark Schorer, said Fri
! day night in an address to the
San Francisco Press and Union
League Club.
After graduating from Yale in
1909, Lewis came to San Fran
cisco to work on the Bulletin for
$30 a week. He was dropped after
seven weeks. He lasted six weeks
with the Associated Press here.
Then, Schorer said, “Red Lewis
decided he was a lousy news
paperman and turned to books."
Lewis won the 1930 Nobel
Prize for literature.
“He was irritated when he
didn’t receive the Pultizer Prize
after writing ‘(Main Street* in
1920," Schorer said. “He was more
irritated in 1922, after writing
‘Babbitt,* he wasn’t nominated.
When, in 1925, after writing ‘Ar
rowsmith.’ Lewis was offered the
Pultizer. He said no.”
But all through the years,
through all the honors and fame,
Lewis thought of himself as a
newspaperman, Schorer said.
“Time and time again, in digging
up old records and stories, there
were pieces about Red Lewis going
to a town and calling the local
newspaper editor. ‘I’m Red Lewis,’
the novelist would say. ‘I’m In
town. Let’s get together and talk
—about newspapers.’ ”
NO FREE RIDE . . .
LOUISVILLE, Ky. UP) — 'Hie
Black Mud Volunteer Fire De
partment sped along the Ken
tucky Turnpike Friday to help
fight a brush fire in adjoining
Bullitt County
Before reaching the fire, Chief
j Frank Harden said, the truck was
stopped at an interchange and
I required to pay 65 cents toll.
Said the chief: “I thought it
was kind silly.”
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Army Accepts Maj.
Wflker’s Resignation
WASHINGTON WP» — The Army
accepted Saturday the resigna
tion of Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker,
effective immediately.
Walker was removed from com
mand of the 24th Division in Ger
many last May following an in
vestigation of complaints about
an information program sponsor
ed among his troops. He had been
ordered to a staff assignment at
Army Headquarters in the Pa
cific.
Acceptance of the resignation
means Walker now is completely
out of the Army, without retire
ment pay or accompanying bene
fits but also free to discuss any
subject as a civilian, free of mili
tary control.
To Withdraw Passports
BRUSSELS, Belgium m — The
government has announced it will
withdraw the passports of Bel
gians serving with the armed
forces of the Congo’s breakaway
Katanga Province. Observers said
the step should help the U.N.
Command in the Congo in its ef
forts to rid Katanga’s army of
white mercenaries.
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