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The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
Eisenhower Asks Congress to Help Health insurance

WASHINGTON, R-President Eisenhower today asked Congress to help bolster and expand pri- vate health insurance plans as part of a broad program for a healthier America
 In special message, Eisen- hover proposed a federal reinsur- ance service through which pri- vate companies could share the risk of experimental and expand ing plans to:
 l. Extend health insurance to farm families.
 2. Provide more protection against costs of prolonged illness.
 3. Insure low income families against the costs of medical care in the home or physicians office as well as hospitals.
 Eisenhower called it "a pro- gram which involves no govern ment subsidy and no government competition with private insur- ance carriers"
 He asked increased aid for nurse training, authority to make grants for mental health projects and a system of government mort gage insurance for private con- struction of clinics, hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities.
 As for the controversial propos- al for government underwriting of private health insurance plans, the President said the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare has been working with specialists from the insurance in- duStry, experts from the health professions, and with many other interested citizens in an efforts to perfect a sound reinsurance pro- gram.
 While he gave no figure, the Presidents budget includes an item of 100 million dollars to launch this program. Secretary of Welfare Hobby will give Congress more details later.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
Defending Force Awaits 'AgreSsors' on Airfield In Operation SnOwbird

TALKEETNA, R-A huge, inn provised snow airfield took shape in this central Alaska wilderness yesterday and defending" force of Army paratroopers awaited an "agressor" force in the Operation Snowbird maneuvers.
 The last of 1,500 paratroopers was dropped Saturday. Jumping conditions were almost ideal and another "A tons of supplies and equipment also plummeted down from planes of the 11th Air Force. Planes dropped III tons onto the airhead Friday, first day of the landings.
 Work on the airfield, built of compacted snow and brush, had been started almost immediately and continued around the clock.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
Judge Rules It's Not
 Against Law to Ask Girl For Date in Public Place

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, R-When Air Force Sgt. James Wesley asked Miss Bonnit Maird for a date on a downtown street she had him charged with disorderly conduct.
 But Municipal Judge Berry J. Sisk ruled Friday the 26-year- old airman's right of free speech was violated.
 In dismissing the charge, Silk held on old Sioux City ordinance which prohibits men from trying to pake the acquaintance of wo- men in public places was uncOn- stitutional.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
CAB Asks Congress
 For Power to Fine Lines Which Violate Regulations

WASHINGTON, R-The Civil Aeronautics Board asked Con- ress yesterday for power to- fine airlines which violate it's econOm- ic regulations.
 The CAB, in it's annual report to Congress, recommended legis- lation giving it authority to inn pose civil penalties for violations of regulations applying to rates, fares, the keeping of accounts and similar economic factors.
 The authority would be similar to that already held by the Civil Aeronautics Administration to impose fines on airlines for safety violations.
 The CAB also asked Congress for:
 l. Authority to issue air line certificates flor supplemental service" The CAB currently has no right to limit airline certifi- cates as to schedules or types, of aircraft, and therefore it permits nonscheduled airlines to operate only under special exemptions from the regulations.
 2. Authority to regulate freight rates and passenger fares of US. airlines operating abroad, and of foreign airlines operating in the United States.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
JUN. Council President Proposes Red China Take Part in Peace Talks

UNITED NATIONS, NY, tR- Sir Leslie Knox Munro of New Zealand, president of the LIN Security Council, proposed today that Red China be invited to send a representative here to take part in the debate on a Formosa cease fire.
 Monro made his proposal inn medately after the council refused to consider a Soviet demand that Nationalist China be barred from the debate.
 The New Zealand diplomat sug- gested that the council suspend it's discussions until the Chinese Communists can get a representa- tive here
 The council ran into it's first controversy when Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev tossed in his demand to bar the Chinese Ma tionalists. The vote was 1O-1 with only the Soviet Union voting to consider excluding Nationalist China.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
Drain on Unemployment Fund Is
 Running at Rate of s4O,OOO a Day

5 JUNEAU, R-Employment Se- curity Commission officials ad- vised the Senate Finance Commit tee at weekend conference that the drain on the Unemployment Benefits Fund is running at the rate of $4O,O00 a day.
 The pay-out during January has exceeded a million dollars.
 Sentiment was expressed by some of the senators for revising the law to cut down on the pay ments to persons earning big money in Alaska for the summer season, and then going outside to draw maximum monthly benefits.
 The federal law prohibits any outright discrimination between the unemployment benefits to AL askans and to persons who work in Alaska and then go outside after the open season in the north
 Sen. John Butrovich cited a case of a worker who showed checks for $8,OO0 or more made during work in the interior, while the man bragged about how he would go outside and continue to draw unemployment benefits dur ing his off winter months.
 Art Hedges, aide to the Employ ment Security director, A. B. Phillips, said the reports that the percentage of unemployment ben efits going outside Alaska is de- creasing are deceptive. Although the percentage is decreasing, the amount actually being paid to nOn-Alaskans is increasing.
 It was 112 million dollars in 1854 compared with $1,800,000 in 1853 although the percentage, out of total payments from the fund. dropped from g to 31 percent. That was because total overall benefits paid rose from $5,640,000 to S7,758,560 Back in 1850, the low year in recent years, only $1,784,00O was paid out
 The Senate committee held the conference in considering the res- olution calling upon the governor to ask for a federal loan to assure the solvency of the territorial fund, which has been drained from a peak of more than IT mil lion dollars in 1949 to $2,650,O0O.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
Senate Group Decides On Statehood Hearing For Next Monday

WASHINGTON, R-A Senate subcommittee decided today to open a hearing next Monday on Alaska and Hawaii statehood.
 Chairman Jackson D-Wash) of the territory subcommittee said the hearing is expected to be brief
 Tt may last three or four days, not over a week." Jackson told newsmen after a Senate Insular Affairs Committee meeting this morning
 Tn addition to representative of the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Interior, Jackson said the subcommittee will hear anyone for or against statehood" providing they haven't testified before"
 we don't want to clutter the record with duplicate material" he said, referring to more than 5000 pages of Hawaii testimony and 2,500 pages concerning Alas ka which have been amassed in previous statehood hearings.
 The House Insular Affairs Com mittee, meanwhile, continued the hearing it began last week, large ly in the nature of a review for the benefit of II new committee members.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31
Nome Reindeer Herd Arrives
 At Grazing Area

The Nome Reindeer Herd Of about 800 deer, which was taken from the Selawik herd about Nov 10 and which has been on the way since then, arrived at Penny River, which is part of the grazing area allotted to the new herd.
 No wolves were reported along the 4OO-mile trek by Pete Larsen, owner of the herd, who arrived in town yesterday, leaving the herd with his sons, James and Peter Jr.
 About 40 deer were reported lost in the Candle area, otherwise Larsen reported the herd in ex- cellent condition The lost deer strayed from the herd and the herders were not able to catch them.
 Returning with them was Fred Goodhope who is assisting with the herding.
 The new herd will be located between Sinrock and Solomon and when it has increased suf- ficiently will provide this area with reindeer meat and skins and will also be a tourist attraction during the summer
 All along the 400 V mile trek, various dog teams assisted the Larsens in keeping the new herd together and Louie Jake was dis patched from Nome to meet them in the Kougarok.
 A regular camp will be set up at Sinrock, stated Larsen, and the sale of meat, which is now limited because of the need to build up the herd, will be through the US Mere, having been arranged by Dale Belcher, ANS reindeer supervisor. Other stores will be supplied when the herd is larger.
 The hardest part of the trip was due to blizzards when the going was soft and a total of 24 days were lost due to the weather.
 From the Kougarok to Black Point (headwaters of Nome River) the herd experienced their most difficult time, due to the soft snow conditions and wet weather.
 Pete Larsen, who had early training in the reindeer industry with his father 30 years ago, is lean from his trip but confident that his family is permanently established in a sound business venture.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-31

manager plan, said such mana ger would appoint the heads of most administrative departments and they would be directly re- sponsible to him, as he would be responsible to the elected legisla- tors.
 The bill would also abolish the boards which now name the heads of such departments as Health, Welfare, Taxation, Education, Ag- riculture, Fisheries, Aeronautics, Employment Security and Veter- ans, and turn that power over to the business manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Frank E. Gunnett
Is Injured in Fall

ROCHESTER. N. Y. April 16
R.-Frank E. Gannett. 7s-year-
old newspaper publisher. was in
Highland Hospital today with a
broken vertebra suffered in a
fall at his home yesterday.
A statement issued by his ofiice
said Mr.. Gannett would be CON
fined for some time"
His condition was not believed
to be critical.
Mr.. Gannett is president Of the
Gannett Co.. Inc. parent organ
ization of the Gannett group
which controls % newspapers
and seven radio stations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Baptist Drive
In I'd Week

Washington Area B Baptist
Churches viii enter the second
week Of their simultaneous evan
gelistic crusade today. Services
viii be held at 7::45 and 8 pm
daily this week.
The local churches are part of
drive conducted by 29,500 con-
gregations affiliated with the
Southern Baptist Convention.
The campaign viii end next
Sunday.
Last week 1858 persons
attended services sponsored by
District Baptist Conventions
churches. The A Washington
and nearby Maryland churches
reported AT additions to their
membership. 800 by baptism and
127 by letter.
Fourteen Of 81 nearby Virginia
churches will continue their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17

Miss Katherine Scrivener. d.
rector Of elementary education
for the District public schools.
win be guest speaker at a meet
ing Of the parent study group
of the Truesdell Parent Teacher
Association at / pm. Tuesday,
at the school at Eighth and
Ingraham streets NV.
Miss Scrivener's topic will be
"Hostility-How 1t Develops in
Children and How it Can Be
Controlled"
Other PTA meetings during
the week, all scheduled to begin
at 8 pm. unless otherwise in
dicated, are as follows:
Tomorrow.
Anne Beers PTA-Election of
officers at the school at Thirty
sixth place and Alabama ave-
nue. Sc.
Tuesday.
Raymond hool-Meeting of
chairrhen of delegations to the
Golden Jubilee Convention in
May of the District Congress Of
Parents and Teachers at the
state office in the school at Tenth
street and Spring road NV. at
/ pm.
Bladensburg Primary School
PTA-Regular business meeting
at the Bladensburg MD Junior
High School.
University Park PTA-Walter
B. Emery. legal counsellor to
the Joint Commission on Edu-
cational Television, will be guest
speaker at the elementary school
on Underwood street. University
Park. Md.
Riverdale MD Elementary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
PTA EVENTS CALENDAR

School PTA-Regular meeting at
the school In Riverdale.
Wheaton High School PTA-
Nomination Of officers in the
school auditorium at Wheaton.
Md.
Wednesday.
Sleepy Hollow Elementary
School PTA-Regular meeting at
the school in Falls Church, Va.
Gordon PTA-"Activity night. :"
student participation and ex-
hibits Of club work at the school
at Thirty-fifth and T streets
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17

evanselistie drive through next
Sunday.
Among the visiting Eyangelists
at churches this week are DR..
Paul Aiken Of Atlanta. at East
Washington Heights Church:
DIR. Warren Filkin of Chicago, at
Fountain Memorial Church; the
Rev. John F. Dunlap Of Norfolk.
Va, at Grace Church. and the
Rev. w. d. burlington Of Boston.
at Hyattsville Church.
Or. c. Y. Dossey. assistant Sec
Rotary. department of evangel-
ism of the Home Missions Board.
Southern Baptist Convention, is
directing the crusade here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Nothun to speuk

Robert r. Nathan. recently re-
turned from Q round-the-world
trip. viii speak at Q meeting
called to provide information on
the Guardians of Israel organ
ization at $3.50 pm. tomorrow
at 703 Russell road. Alexandra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17
Donish Film PIunned

Carlo Christensen. cultural
attache Of the Danish Embassy.
will present q Aim on Denmark
at an open forum ct st. Peter
Claver Center, 814 Seventh street
S.W., at 8 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17

TONY BENNETT NAMED RECORDING PERSONALITY
with
Alvin
Armstrong
contribution
q the
Evening star., 1955-07-31

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Evening star., 1955-07-31
You're A Railroad Problem
If You're a Moforisf

operating income OF billion, eight nundred thirteen MIL
lion on freight service they lost $7o4 million passenger
service Most of that was due you But don't worry.
They won't be publicly bitter about youthere are too
many of you depending upon and enjoying the automobile
They con get TO you, more ways thon one, by going
ofter trucks.
The kind of trucks the rails want to eliminate pay big
share Of highway Getting rid of them way the
railroads get your personal transportation cost with
out taking single direct shoe YOU
Everyone Stonds TO Lose
Whoever you ae reading this you should be interested
The housewife should be interested Everything she buys
costs less and arrives faster freher and greater variety
because of truck service Did you freight
serving your grocery
The wose-eurner, and fhe professional community
which depends upon him and his Job for It's livelihood
should be Interested Once before when The railroads
had the managerial freedom to decide which COM
modfies, which cities, sfufes and regions should or
should not be given special low ruses, business
destroyed. II will be ogoin under their uttempt
TO muzzIe and ehuin The public woteh dogs who now
protect you.
Farmers should be interested 1t the farmers in the
final analysis after years of being victims who brought
about the Interstate Commerce Act which is now pro.
posed to weaken and virtually destroy.
Manufacturers and shippers should be interested.
OnIv nulic regulation of rnFes encbes
them TO know and be protected the cost Of Ioyns
down a product In any murket place. Without that
proseetion-h rate control In the hands Of men who
can be pressvred and Influenced they helpless.
everybody involved In itl
Evening star., 1955-07-31

Railroads have some problems. Who hosn't?
Railroads ueiuolIy were in trouble for mony years
due TO wotered stock, over-bulding Of Duplicated f0
eilites, reckless nter-ruIrood competition and Just
poin bad management that their so-eoIIed plight
has become legend. So has the hshIy-pubieized
impoet Of their competitors q reason therefore.
But the current facts don't confirm the legend. And this
time in history sctle the pattern Of regulation
which has made this the greatest agricultural and indus
trial nation earth, with fairy tale reason.
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Truck Competition Has
Benefited Rolls

Back in the twenties before truck competition the
railroads were in bad shape Many big lines in bank
uptcy or recevershp Since then truck competition has
come along Has it hurt the railroads?
Dow-Jones averages for depression low points and
rent averages for the key stocks in the Dow formula
show 20 railroads 80 industrals and IS utilities Look at
Evening star., 1955-07-31
Working capitaI 3 Times Thar
Of 1879

A post card, letter or call will get you,
promptly, more detuiIed oeeovnt Of how
one segment Of big business pIuns to elimi-
nose competition. Write TO American Truck
ing Associations, Inc, Washington 6, D. c.
Evening star., 1955-07-31
What Do The Railroads
Really Want?

Some enlightened railroad leadership is aware of this
realizes the chaos which would result in transportation
and in whole economy abandon the formula of
regulation under which this nation has propered But
the monopoiis In rairoadng insisting that the rules
be changed. In their favor.
Evening star., 1955-07-31

ALI of this strength 1.-The refnancing which has been
done improve their position in recent years and their
emegence from receivershp which you note in the press
all of this has been in the face of the kind of competition
which they now want to eliminate by changing the rules
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08

GOLFERS :. ssLincoln's attempt to pene-
trate the big-car market more deeply is
based on more than prestige. Lincoln is
big car, yet it conveys an impression of
small-car maneuverability barely five
feet high, it has ound-hugging appear
ance. Horsepower boosted to 285, and there
are new safety devices"
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08
TIDE WATER OIL PLANT
Begin Construction of Two More
Units at New Tide Water Refinery

Begin Construction of Two More
Units at New Tide Water Refinery
Construction has begun on two
more refining units-a polymeri-
zation plant and sulfur recovery
plant-at the site of the 100000
barrel-per--day Delaware Flying
"A Refinery of Tide Water Asso-
ciated Oil Company, being built Is
miles south of Wilmington. Foun-
dations are being poured and un-
derground piping is being placed
for the polymerization unit which
is of Universal Oil Products de-
sign. The polymerization unit will
permit the manufacture of high
test gasolines by catalytic pro-
cess by which the chemical COM
bination of two or more light
molecules is formed to make larg-
er molecules called polymers. This
involves a building-up process as
distinct from the separating pro-
cess of distillation and the break
ing-down process of cracking. The
sulfur recovery units foundations
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08
General Organization Planning
Christmas Events

On Thursday night, December
Is, the General Organization in
Smyrna High School is planning
to entertain the members of the
7th and 9Th grades at their an
nual Christmas Party. This year
for the first time a theatre party
will be an added attraction. After
completion of the movie the group
will go to the gymnasium for re-
freshments and dancing.
On Friday night, December 16,
the annual Christmas Dance
sponsored by the General Organi-
zation will be held in the gym
nasium for students of grade 8,
10, IL, 12. The music for the oc-
casion will be furnished by the
Silver Knights, popular local orch
estra. Mrs. Lucia, art instructor,
will direct the making of decora-
tions for this holiday dance. The
theme of the Christmas Dance
will be "Winter Wonderland" and
this will be carried out by use OF
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08

are also being poured. This unit
will be the largest yet built. 1t
was designed by the Ralph M.
Parsons Company. At this unit,
hydrogen sulfide, a chemical COM
bination of two parts hydrogen
and one part sulfur, will be cond-
verted into elementary sulfur.
This sulfur is collected in molten
form, stored either as liquid or
solid, and then sold commercially
to the chemical and other indust-
ries. Other units under construc-
ton include the 1O2, ,000-barrel-per
day Orthofiow fluid catalytic
cracking unit, the 130,000-barrel
crude unit, the 2,000-barrel fluid
coking unit, and the vapor re-
covery gas plant. More than :
900 construction workers are now
employed at the site.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08
SCHOOL
REPORTER
Basketball Team Drills
For Campaign

The 1856 edition of the Smyrna
High School Basketball team is
hard at work practicing for the
coming court campaign. Coach
William Horney will trot out his
third edition of the Eagles on
Tuesday night, January 8, when
) they travel to Milford to oppose
the Bucs.
At this writing no starting
team has been selected, but from
all indications it will have three
seniors and two juniors on the
starting five. At forwards the
Eagles have been using Karl Geb-
hart, a senior, and Ben Solloway,
a junior. Senior Turk Orvis is
holding down the center post, and
at guards Jay Knight, a senior,
and David Deakyne, a junior,
have been very impressive. Coach
Horney is planning on carrying
a ten-man squad with the other
five players being selected from
seniors Fred Corso and Kendall
Hudson, and juniors David Reedy,
William Pritchard, Paul Loder,
David Comegys, and Robert Hurd,
The first taste of outside COM
petition will be a scrimmage with
FELTON, High School on Friday af-
ternoon at 3:35.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08
Junior Varsity Basketball
Team Shows Promise

The Smyrna Junior Varsity
Basketball team has more than
days of practice under its belt
at this time, and by the first
game should be ready for the
Milford test. Coach Charles Will
liams hopes to carry a ten-man
squad of sophomores and fresh
men for the coming campaign. To
date Coach Williams has two
squads about on a par. The first
group of sophomores includes
William Cassell and Robert Spen-
Ger at the guards, Larry Ellery
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08

at center, and Willard Cauffman
and Dale Reedy at forwards. The
freshman group is made up of
Kenneth Poore and Ronald Mccoy
at guards, Ralph Warner at CEN
ter, and James Persinger and
Zane Robinson at forwards. Other
players under consideration are
Robert Lof1and, Steve Peddrick
William Slacum and Richard Cole
The same afternoon that the var
sity group scrimmages FELTON, the
Junior Varsity team will also
scrimmage the FELTON, Junior
Varsity.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08
Senior Band

The Senior Band members have
elected Gerald Mood as student
leader. Also, Mary Meleri, SAM
my Jacobs, and David Reedy have
been elected by the band members
as a band committee. The band
committee will help in planning
the band programs and in exam
lining new cadidates for the SEN
ior Band.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08

the shape of leaf. They made
turkey trays and table favors
from pine cones and pipe clean
ers. These favors made a festive
note for the guests at Scott's
Nursing Home on Thanksgiving.
They also contributed to the cloth
Smyrna times., 1955-12-08

a huge snowman in the center of
the floor spotted by blue lights.
A picture of the Christmas scene
will be spotted on the wall and
this will be surrounded by glist-
ened snow flakes.