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Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21
Entrants Sought For Horse Show

Plans for the August 5, Wild West Show at Kalsin Bay were near completion this week as workmen completed construction of the arena and chutes at the site, John Gib- bons, co-sponsor of the event announced.
 The show will feature bronc busting, COW riding, roping, horse races and other rodeo events. Tom Nelson is the other sponsor. Prizes will be awarded to winners of the various events.
 The starting time of the show has been set but will be announced at a later date. Persons wishing to enter the events may do so by writing John Gibbons, Kodiak.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21
Bulletin

A meeting to make plans for an extermination program against rats will be held to- morrow at 3 pm at the City Hall, Mayor Lee c. Bettinger announced late yesterday.
 James A. Westbrook and E. K. Day of Anchorage arrived here yesterday to help start the program. Volunteer work CTS are needed and interested persons are urged to attend the meeting.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21

A man from the Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage is due to arrive to supervise the batting program which will be done with the coopera- tion of the Public Health Ser vice, Alaska Department of Health, FWS, the Navy and City Council.
 John Gibbons, president of the Kodiak Health and Well fare Council, and Mary Jane Hurley, public health nurse, have worked tirelessly for the extermination of the rodents.
 Oscar Drake, former seventh grade teacher in the local school, became alarmed at the rat population early this year and started a campaign to make residents conscious of the danger they faced.
 Numerous new cases of the disease have been reported since Westbrook made his survey. Dr. Gaub did not re- veal the actual count of cases to date but said a full report would be made when he con- pletes his survey.
 Dr. Gaub expects to be in Kodiak for two or three weeks to complete his study.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21
camps.

Anchorage-A district court warrant was ordered for the arrest of Paul Wise, former U. s. Commissioner at Kenai. The action was taken after Wise failed to appear to face charges of embezzlement of $4, 900 of public money be- tween April 1949 and Febru- ary 1851.
 Bail in the amount of $5, GOO was ordered forfeited. Also in Anchorage, the trial of Eu- gene Lanier, former mayor of Seward, was continued until
 continued on page 9
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21

Cach Rastopsoff was flown from the cannery at Shear water to Griffin Memorial Hos- pital Tuesday evening for treatment of a lacerated finger.
 Bob Hall of Kodiak Airways brought the injured man to the hospital. Rastopsoff was discharged from the hospital on Thursday.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21

residents to thoroughly wash all fruits and vegetables be- fore eating them.
 In Westbrook's report 1t was shown that 25 cases of Wells disease were known in Kodiak.
 Following his report the City Council ordered a supply of Warfarin and Red Squill to combat the rats. The poison arrived and is now at the city dock.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21
Doctor Studies Kodiak Rat-Caused Sickness

Kodiak has the dubious dis. tinction of being the first locality in Alaska where Wells disease has been de- tected, according to Dr. w. H. Gaub, U. s. Public Health Service representative of the Arctic Health Research Gen. ter in Anchorage.
 Dr. Gaub arrived in Kodiak Monday to conduct a survey and study of the numerous cases of Wells disease here. His study is to ascertain the actual causes of the disease. While it is known that rats are partly responsible, it is also known that other animals caused the spread of the disease in other areas.
 Mans best friend can be his enemy" Dr. Gaub de- clared. He referred to dogs, of which Kodiak has a large population, and said they have been known to carry the disease.
 Late this winter or early spring the first case of Wells disease was detected in Ko- diak. While the presence of the sickness had been sus- pected it was not possible to obtain definite evidence be- cause no laboratory facilities were here, Dr. Gaub said.
 The causative agent for Wells disease is contained in the blood and urine of patients and the feces and urine of rats, James A. Westbrook, assistant director, division of sanitation and engineering of the territory, reported after a survey was conducted here early in May. ]
 The disease organism has a high penetrating capacity, Dr. Gaub said. He urged all
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21
Marine Monster
 Found At ShUyak

A 3O-foot unidentified mann maj on the beach near Point Banks on Shuyak Island created considerable interest and speculation this week.
 It was discovered by a fisherman for the Washington Fish and Oyster Company at Port Williams. He reported his find to employees at the can- nery and a crew went to the beach and measured and photo- graphed the strange sea dWeller.
 The head of the mammal is missing and the body is re- ported to be covered with hair or fur approximately three quarters of an inch in length. Its color is "brownish-yellow" and there are two front feet" with digit extremities like a human hand.
 It has a tail like a whale, and two fukes which measure 72 inches each.
 Kodachrome photographs and the measurements have been forwarded to Fish and Wildlife Service office in &c., attle. It is believed that the bears on Shuyak Island had been chewing on the mammal as parts of it's body and head were missing.
 Thursday morning MT. and Mrs. Bob Hall, MT. and Mrs. Kim Clark and Mel Crawford flew to Shuyak to view the strange sea-creature.
 The mammal is beginning to disintegrate but the feet" which resemble an unusually large human hand, are visible. The feet" measure approxi- mately 45 inches across.
 The party ot five made the trip in a Kodiak Airways (formerly Bob Hall Air Ser vice) Widgeon.
 Clark obtained samples of the flesh and several pieces of bone from the hairy odorous creature.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21

George R. Carr, deputy col- lector for the Bureau of Inter- nal Revenue, is in Kodiak this week. He is assigned to the Anchorage office.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-07-21
Late Bulletins By Associated Press

Washington Congress and the Army promised swift ac- tion in pushing housing legis- lation to end the squalor and rent gouging around military camps.
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
Negro Population Of
Georgia Is Decreasing

Warrington, D. c. (NNPA) -
The cclored population of Georgia
decreased by 2 per cent between
1910 and 1850, in contrast to an
increase of 1853 per cent in the
white population, according to fl
cures from the 1850 census re-
leased last Tuesday by Roy v. Peel,
director of the Census Bureau.
While the Census Bureau gave
no explanation of this decline in
the colored population, it can be
attributed only to the migration
of colored people from the state to
northern industrial centers where
better employment opportunities
and higher wages are the attrac-
tiOnS.
Georgia's colored population of
1,O85, ,445 in 1910 has dwindled to
1,O64,OO in 1850, the Census Bu-
reau reported, while the white
population increased from $685.
278 to 2,38O,573. The colored pop
ulation is approximately 80 per
cent of the states total population
Of 3,444,578.
Of the total colored population,
491 ,536 live in urban centers (places
of $500 inhabitants or more), and
the remainder, 572, ,469, live in ru-
raj areas. A total of sos, ,951 are
males, and 558,054 are females.
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
Urban League
Works To Create
Job Opportunity

The Phoenix Urban League is
now engaged in a concerted effort
to open to Negroes of this COM
munity, greater job opportunities
in all fields. Visits are constantly
being made to every possible en-
ployer with the aim of selling the
idea of fully using Negro man.
power.
"Tt is vitality important" says
John H. Stewart, chairman of the
Leagues Employment Committee,
"that all of the colored people we
place as 'firsts' on a job be very
well qualified for that job" The
Urban League urges everyone who
has an interest in bettering his
lob situation to make an effort to
attend one or more of the evening
classes at Phoenix Technical High
School. This added skill in any field
will make placement on new jobs
much quicker and more effective.
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
Funeral Rites
For MRS. Hooks

Funeral services were held yes
terday in the Chapel in the Valley
for Mrs. Arnell S. Hooks, who died
last Saturday. Rev. ]. D. Daniels
officiated. Mrs. Hooks, 33, who
resided at 2215 E. Seventh Avenue,
died upon arrival at a local hos
pital where it was found she suf-
fered from a lung hemorrhage.
Mrs. Hooks was born in Tatum,
Oklahoma, in 1920, and moved to
Phoenix in 1912.
She is survived by her parents,
Addie and Dock Wilson, Phoenix;
four children, Lee, Barbara Ann,
Karie, Jr., and Wayne c. Hooks,
ali of Phoenix.
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
Senator Hayden Says
Filibuster Amendment
Rules To Be Heard

Washington, D. c.. (NNPA) =
Hearings on several resolutions to
amend Senate rules to curb fill
busters will start October 2, Sen
ator Carl Hayden, of Arizona,
chairman of the Senate Rules and
Administration Committee, an
nounced Last Wednesday.
The hearings, which will be held
before the full committee, were
scheduled to open October 1, but
the committee changed the date
because that date is an important
Jewish holiday, Senator Hayden
said.
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
Jobs Open For
Skilled Workers

New York = Global - Officials
of the Committee to End Discrim-
ination in Science and Health, this
week listed a number of good po-
sitions that are available for quail
flied men and women.
The Committee is a volunteer
group of professional people whose
concern over the lack of oppor-
tunity for Negroes in scientific
fields brought them together for
the purpose of devising means to
meet the situation.
An official, attending the recent
Convention of the National Tech
nical Association here noted, how
ever, that at the present time the
committee is experiencing diff
Guilty in finding persons qualified
to fill positions which have come
to the attention of the committee.
In an attempt to cope with the
situation, the committee has set
up filing system to keep records
of job opportunities and of people
qualified for technical positions.
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21

Mr.. specialist IN Courtesy is
the label given Robert Van Ars-
dale, 1874 E. Monroe Street, Phoe-
nix, a steward on the Santa Fe
dining car running between Phoe-
nix and Ash Fork, Arizona.
Mr.. Van Arsdale was featured
recently in the Republic and Ga
zette, local daily papers, by Harry
Montgomery, executive editor, who
paid glowing tribute to the steward
by nominating him as the one
man who knows more AriZonans
by name than anyone else in the
state.
Mr.. Montgomery classified Mr..
Van Arsdale as specialist in cour-
tesy and commended him for his
"know-how' in handling the public.
The article in the Republic and
Gazette was reproduced in the cur
rent issue of the Santa Fe maga-
zine.
Upon reading this article, the
Arizona Sun was reminded of COM
ments which have been made by
many persons, visitors as well as
hometown people of the courteous
service accorded them by Mr.. Van
Arsdale and his crew while eating
on their diner.
Mr.. Van Arsdale came to the
Phoenix-Ash Fork run 81 years
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
NAACP To
Sunday

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
will hold its regular monthly meet
ing which was postponed from Sep
'tember 2, to Sunday, September %,
at the Elks Home, 1907 S. 7th Ave-
nue., at $3.50 pm.
DR.. R. B. Phillips, president, said
this meeting will be of special i'm
portance since the association is
arranging to file suit against the
Phoenx High School Board for re-
fusing to enroll Negro students.
The entire membership and pub
lie are specially urged to attend
to help make preparations to push
the segregated school case to a
successful conclusion.
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21

A special NAACP defense fund
committee announced that stren-
uous effort will be made to OBJ
tain the money within 30 days. The
committee emphasized the need
for reaching their goal speedily
because the anti-segregation case
is expected to go to trial this fall.
Attorneys in the case said the
case would be tried by special
three-judge federal court.
"It is up to us here in Phoe-
nix and Arizona to finance the
case through the lower court" ex-
planned Lincoln Ragsdale, chair
man of the NAACP defense fund
committee "Then, and if the case
is appealed to the u. S. Supreme
Court, we feel we can count on
the National Association and other
sympathetic organizations to help
out with necessary funds" Mr..
Ragsdale said.
The legal action to break down
segregation barriers against Ne
groes in the public schools of Phoe-
nix was decided upon by the local
branch of the NAACP following
refusal of elementary and high
schools to accept nine Negro chill
dren as students. The high school
board ruled that no action could
be taken to desegregate unless
there was a public vote on the
question. The board took this po-
sition despite the contention of at
torneys for the NAACP and
Greater Phoenix Council for Civic
Unity that the provision for a
public vote was expressly repealed
by recent legislation making de-
segregation permissive.
The Civic Unity Council this
week notified the NAACP of its
unqualified support" of the anti
segregation lawsuit.
Ragsdale said letters appealing
for contributions for the special de-
fense fund are going out immed-
lately. He said the appeals are be-
ing made to hundreds of people in
the Negro community of Phoenix,
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21

to other NAACP chapters and
members in Arizona and through
out the nation, to prominent Ne
groes outside of Arizona and to
non-Negro sympathizers.
Ragsdale and his committee
urged people to send their contri-
buttons Immediately to NAACP
headquarters at 535 E. Jefferson
in Phoenix.
"We need the money right away
to get the case ready for trial and
to make as good showing as
possible in court" he explained.
"We need every dollar and every
penny we can get. Give until it
really hurts, because you're giving
to the most important cause we
have ever undertaken"
"This is fight which we all
knew we would have to wage
(Continued on page 81
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
NAACP LAUN CHES FlYANCIAL
DRIVE FOR LAWSUIT CASE
Campaign TO Raise S., 1000
For Suit Against School
Boord Gets Underway

A campaign to raise $4,000 for the financing OF
lawsuit attacking school segregation in Phoenix was
this week by the Marcopa county chapter of the
National Association for the Advancement of Coored
People.
special NAACP other NAACP chapters and
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21


known Katherine Dnho% the schools heed @ und
should flexible recognize the students interest and need
Children
Arizona sun., 1951-09-21
Santa Fe Magazine Praises
Dining Car Steward

ago, from the New York Central
and has run in charge for sew
eral years out of here.
Evening star., 1951-12-30

goes into effect January 6. en-
ployes with less than three years
service get 13 days annual leave:
those with 3 to Is years service
receive 20 days, and those with
IS or more years of service get
26 days. All employees receive
13 days sick leave a year which
may be accumulated without max
imum limitation.
LEAVE CREDIT-Employes with
less than three years service are
credited with four hours annual
leave each pay period indicated
by heavy lines on chart). Employees
with three, but less than Is years
service are credited with 6 hours
annual leave each pay period. but
in the last full pay period they re-
ceive 10 hours credit to make ur
the full 20 days leave. Employees
with Is years or more of service
are credited with 8 hours annual
leave each pay period.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Possibility of Negligence
Under Study in BIost

BENTON, III, Dec. 90 (P).-
States Attorney Joseph w. Hick-
man of Franklin County said today
he is making study to determine
whether there was criminal neg
ligence in the West Frankfort
mine explosion.
If the evidence is such that !
am satisfied within myself that
there has been criminal negligence,
I will not hesitate to petition the
circuit court for a grand jury in
veStigation," Mr.. Hickman said.
LAS to whether there was any
criminal negligence l have not
made up my mind one way or
another"
Mr.. Hickman's comments were
made after he attended a four
hour closed meeting of Federal
and State investigators who are
preparing their findings.
Contributions continued to pour
into six relief funds established
for relatives of the explosion
victims. with cash and checks
already totaling about 100000.
Officials say the figure even
tually may run to 100000.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
; Washingionians 10 Help
Select Book Award Winner

Three WashingtonianS are
among five prominent persons
named to select the winner of the
1851 National Book Award for
nom fiction.
They are Huntington Cairns,
official Of the National Gallery Of
Art, author and lawyer; Luther
H. Evans, Librarian Of Congress,
and Marquis Childs, journalist
and author.
The other two judges are Crane
Brinton and Horace M. Kallen.
The award will be made jan
uary 20.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Suspect Sought in Theft
OF Checks al Portsmouth
BY the Associoted Press

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 29.-Vir-
ginia Beach and Norfolk County
police are seeking a man charged
with breaking into the Associated
Naval Architects Office in Ports
mouth last week end and stealing
checks which he repeatedly has
been cashing in Virginia Beach.
The man, Paul Malenowsky, also
is suspected Of being the compan-
ion of another man and woman
who we're arrested in Norfolk this
week and are awaiting grand jury
action on 13 check forging charges
each.
These defendants were listed as
John o. and Frances Irene Mat
thews. Matthews, it is reported
also is known as Warren Weldon
Ketchum, under which name he
escaped from the State prison
camp at Buffalo Gap last June Is
He was serving a siX-year term i'm
posed earlier this year in Ports
mouth for forgery.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
U. 5. Agriculture Official
Named Point -Four Chief
By The Associated Pres.

Stanley Andrews, foreign rela-
tions expert of the Agriculture
Department. will take over the
mission of the late DR.. Henry G.
Bennett. Point Four program Off
cial killed in a plane crash at
Teheran.
DR.. Bennett was engaged in in
specting and expanding the Point
-Four program of assistance to
underdeveloped countriesin Africa
the Middle East and Asia at the
time of his death.
Selection of Mr.. Andrews was
announced by the State Depart
ment today.
A native Of High Point, Mo, Mr.
Andrews was made a special con-
sultant to Secretary Of State
AcheSon.
Jonathan B. Bingham, Deputy
Administrator of the Point Foul
program under DR.. Bennett, viii
continue to serve as acting ad-
ministrator, position he has held
for several weeks.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Forouk Appointment Stirs
Protests in Three Towns

CAIRO. Egypt, Dec. % (P.-
New demonstrations protesting the
appointment of Hafez Afif1 Pasha
as chief Of the royal cabinet broke
out in three Egyptian towns today
Press reports said the demon
strators were dispersed without
casualties at Shebin FL Kom, Ia
gaZig and Banha.
Gen. Saadeddin Sabbour, Egyp-
tian army liaison officer, an
jnounced an agreement with the
British command to observe a no.
mans land six miles wide on the
Cairo-Suez road to avoid clashes.
The buffer zone begins 81 miles
outside Cairo. The closest British
checkpoint is Sc miles from Cairo
and n miles outside Suez.
The independent newspaper Al
zaman reported today that the
British cabinet had discussed a
proposal to name Lord Mountbat-
ten as a mediator in the British
Egyptian dispute. But London
Foreign Office officials said they
had never heard of the suggestion.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Bottle Clubs Property
To Be Sold January 10.
For $500 Back Taxes.

Property of the Stagecrafters
Club, including a massive ma
hogany bar. will go under the
auctioneer's hammer January 10
unless it's operators pay off $4,000
in personal property taxes and
costs owed the District.
The club, noted for its after
hours drinking activities at 433
Third street NV. has been pad
locked since last Wednesday, ac-
cording to District Tax Collector
Guy w. Pearson.
Vault to Be Opened.
Mr.. Pearson said the action
climaxed three months of fruit
less negotiations with club Of
ficals and their lawyer, James J.
Laughlin. Taxes are due for 1949,
1850 and 1851, Mr.. Pearson added.
AS far as he knows. the tax col
lector added. there is very little
liquor" in the place. Some, how
ever, may be in a vault on the
premises which is due to be
opened Wednesday. Mr.. Pearson
said.
Whiskey May Be Claimed.
All sealed whiskey bottles will
be sold, he added. Those bottles
his men find open. and labeled
with a club members name, will
be returned to the proper claimant,
Mr.. Pearson said.
The club last year won a court
fight in which the Federal Gov
ernment sought to dissolve its
charter as charitable and educa-
tional organization. Last May, the
club and two of it's officials were
convicted Of keeping and selling
intoxicants without a license.
Evening star., 1951-12-30

space for the date on which it is
used.
Thus. if you see one hour of
annual leave. you would write
down IA" II you used q full
days annual leave, you would re-
cord ga" If you used two hours
of sick leave. you would post "2-S." !"
Monthly tabulations can be
made in the space at the bottom
of the chart, and there is space at
the top for recording the entire
years leave used so that you know
exactly how much you carry over
into the next year. 1t should be
remembered that the ceiling on
annual leave accumulation is 60
days. This means that annual
leave may be carried over from
one year to the next providing
that it does not exceed the 60-day
limitation. All leave in excess Of
so days will be forfeited on De-
cember 81 Of each year.
Under the new system, which
Evening star., 1951-12-30
.IrreguIaritY Charged
In Iraq Conviction Of
z Jews in Bombing
BY The Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The
American Jewish Committee said
today it had called the United
States State Departments atten-
tion to "a long series of irregu-
larities" in the trial of two Iraqi
Jews sentenced to death in a
bombing case.
The committees charges includ-
ed one that confession by one
of the convicted men, on the basis
of which both were found guilty,
was extracted under extreme
physical torture"
The committee said its informa-
ton from "Iraqi sources exclu-
Isively' revealed that the death
SENTENCES against the men, i'm
posed last month, had been con-
firmed several days ago by an
Iraq appeals court.
In Washington the Israeli En-
bassy confirmed the upholding of
the death penalties. 1t gave the
names of the convicted men as
Yussef Ibrahim Basri and Shalom
ISaleh Shabana.
They were accused the commit
tee said, Of placing bombs and
explosives in three buildings in
Baghdad last spring including the
buildings which housed the United
States Information Services Of
fees.
| The committee said its repre-
sentatives had discussed the case
with State Department officials
in Washington, but did not dis
close further details of these talks.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
'Truck-Car Crash Kills
Man Near Lynchburg
BY the Associuted Press

LYNCHBURG. Va, Dec. ga
heavily loaded tractor trailer and
a car collided near here late today
killing a North Carolina man and
injuring his wife and daughter.
State police identified the dead
man as Malcolm Hodges Leffew
80, Leakesville, N. c. Injured were
Mrs. Ruby Leffew, 80, and Yvonne
Leffew. IA.
The driver of the truck wa:
listed by State police as Ray Harl
of Danville. He told officers he
was driving south on Route 2!
six miles north of here when 9
car slowed in front of him.
When he applied his brakes, Mr
Harr told State police, his trucl
swerved into the left lane ant
struck the Leffew car, which wa
headed north.