Military Aide
To Participate In
Dog Mushers’ Trek
HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN
COMMAND, Elmendorf AFB, Al
aska, Feb. 8—One of the few mili
tary mushers in Alaska, Lt. Col.
Alexander C. Field, USAF, aide
de-camp to Lt. Gen. W. E. Kepner,
commander-in-chief, Alaskan
command, will participate in th%
forthcoming Anchorage Dog
Mushers’ Club trek from Anchor
age to Seward.
\ The Anchorage Dog Mushers’
Club is sponsoring a trip by dog
sled along the Anchorage-Seward
Highway in which approximately
six teams will participate in the
mushing caravan that will depart
Anchorage on the 14th of Feb
ruary. It is due to arrive in Sew
ard two days later.
The manager of the Fur Ren
dezvous Committee, John Croul,
has stated that some candidates
for the Fur Rendezvous queen will
take part in the trip scheduled to
return to Anchorage on the 17th.
The purpose of this trip is to
stimulate interest in the Anchor
age Fur Rendezvous among the
residents of Seward as well as to
give the teams participating fur
ther experience for the forthcom
ing dog rodeo to be held during
the week of the Fur Rendezvous.
Other mushers participating
with Colonel Field are: Charles
Cannon, Mac McLean, Bill Cham
berlain, Harold'Gaasland, Lucky
Merik, and John Webb.
Pope Pius Calls For
“Soiritual Crusade"
VATICAN CITY, (ff) — Pope
Pius XII has called for a spiritual
crusade to turn the world from
“paths which sweep on to ruin”
and from a general condition
which “may explode at any mo
ment.”
As Bishop of Rome he addres
sed the Roman Catholics of that
city, but his appeal for a return
to “Jesus Christ, the church and
the Christian way of life” clearly
was meant for all.
Threats to the present genera
tion, he said, are “much more
widespread and grave than pesti
lence and the convulsions of na
ture, even though their continu
ing threat has begun to make the
nations almost insensible and apa
thetic.”
COOLER WEATHER BREAKS
AUSTRALIA'S WORST FIRE
SEASON IN 13 YEARS
SYDNEY, Australia, (^—Cool
er weather brought a break Sat
urday in this country’s worst fire
season in 13 years.
The slight relief came after 17
persons perished the last few
weeks in scattered fires that
whipped through great areas of
eastern Australia’s bush country.
Some 250,000 sheep have been lost
and hundreds of square miles of
grazing land seared.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tobuk are
the parents of a son born Feb. 9.
Mr. Tobuk is with Alaska Air
lines.
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Poor Highways Threaten Security
Source — Bureau of Public Roads
AKRON, OHIO — America’s
prospering economy and very se
curity is threatened by an out
dated system of roads and high
ways, according to Paul W. Litch
field, chairman of the board of
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com
pany, whose organization recently
has undertaken the job of awak
ening America to the inherent
perils of the situation. Mr. Litch
field, who recently celebrated his
50th anniversary with the com
pany, is shown with a chart indi
cating the lack of improvement in
our roads during the last 15 years
while the number of motor vehi
cles has almost douH^
way usage increased 100 per cent.
In calling for immediate action,
the industrial statesman points
out that motor transport carries
80 per cent of interstate passen
ger traffic and takes more than 50
per cent of all workers to their
jobs. It provides quick daily de
livery of 90 per cent of our food
stuffs, a large portion of which is
highly perishable.
“The time has come when we
must do something about better
roads besides talk. The demand for
action must come from everyone
who uses the highways — and
that’s just about everybody,” Mr
Litchfield concludes.
Threats Against President
Increase 33% This Year
WASHINGTON, </P) — Secret
Service cases involving threatsj
against President Truman already ;
have increased 33 per cent this
fiscal year which still has until
June 30 to run.
U. E. Baughman, chief of the
Secret Service, charged with
guarding the President, told the
House Appropriations Commit
tee in testimony made public
Monday — that threat cases rose
from 2,598 last year to 3,629 in
the 1952-52 year.
Of the total threat cases handled
so far this fiscal year by the
service—including harmless let
ters by “cranks” — 85 persons
were arrested, and 79 convicted
and sent to prison or mental hos
pitals.
EASY THERE, PODNER!
VANCOUVER, B.C., (/P)—Bruce
Howard was dressed as a cowboy,
complete with toy guns, for a
fancy dress gathering when he
spotted two men preparing to
drive his car away. When he drew
his six-shooters the men fled and
Bruce went on to the party.
Avalanche Ties Up
Anchorage-Seward Traffic
ANCHORAGE, (/P>— A midget
mountain of snow avalanched over
the Anchorage - Seward Highway
and the Alaska Railroad tracks at
Mile 72 Thursday, blocking both
rail and road traffic. Two passen
ger trains, including the SS. Den
ali boat train, and several freights
were held up until the tracks were
cleared. The slide, 200 feet long
and 10 to 20 feet deep, was un
loosed by warming weather.
100,000 Civilians Claimed
Killed On Hainan Island
TAIPEH, Formosa, (/P)— The
semi - official Nationalist Tato
News Agency said Saturday Chi
nese Reds have killed about 100,
000 civilians on Hainan Island, or
about one - fifth its population,
since they overran the big South
China Sea island in the spring of
1950.
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grow shorter and our anecdotes
longer.
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