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STUDENTS AND JOBS
The trend in the United States is for high school
and college students to have part-time jobs in their
off hours. The Census Bureau reports that about one
fourth of the nation’s high school students held jobs
during their off-hours during the past year. This is a
surprisingly high percentage of job holders among
high school students.
At the same time, the Census Bureau reported
that a survey of the 2,100,000 college students last year
shows that about 33 per cent of these students had
part-time or full-time jobs. It has long been a common
practice in the United States for college students to
do part-time work in order to help pay their way
through college.
This is a healthy sign of the times and indicates
the country’s youth is getting its business indoctrina
tion early.
Gen. MacArthur Accepts
$100,000-a-Year Position
With Remington Rand Co.
NEW YORK, (/P) — General of
the Army Douglas MacArthur
Thursday accepted the chairman
ship of Remington Rand Inc.,
manufacturers of business ma
chines and electronics equipment.
The company made no mention
of the general’s salary as chair
man, but it was previously re
ported unofficially he had been
offered 5100,000 a year.
In Washington, the Army said
it had received no request from
MacArthur to alter or modify his
military status. Existing regula
tions required no modification of
his five-star rank unless the gen
eral requests, the Army said.
A spokesman said MacArthur
would continue, as a general of
the Army without assignment, to
draw annual pay and allowances
amounting to $19,548.
. MacArthur said he was “de
lighted to have this opportunity
of becoming associated with rfiy
old friend Jim Rand, and with the
company he has so ably headed.
1 am particularly impressed with
the progressive policies of Rem
ington Rand in the expansion of
foreign markets and in the field
Two U.S. Army ’Copters
Are First To Fly Atlantic
PRESTWICK, Scotland, (JP) —
Two \J. S. Army Sikorskys, the
first helicopters to fly the Atlan
tic, arrived here Thursday after
a 3,300 mile “hop-along” flight
from Westover, Massachusetts.
The two flying windmills had
taken off from Keflavik, Iceland,
on the last and longest hop of
their Atlantic flight.
The experimental flight was
launched by the Military Trans
port Service to test the feasibility
of delivering helicopters to Eu
rope by air.
The planes started from West
over Air Force Base two weeks
ago on a six - stop, 4,000 - mile
flight to Weisbaden, Germany.
The big ships came down here
to make aviation history and
break the official helicopter dis
tance record by more than 200
miles.
On Saturday the two ships will
push on to Amsterdam and then
go to Weisbaden where they will
be stationed with an air-sea res
cue squadron.
of research and development, es
pecially in electronics in which
the company now plays a domi
nant role.”
Six Sailors Drowned
When Liberty Boat
Capsizes Thursday, a.m.
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tions ashore, according to his
testimony.
Airman Second Class C. • Fi u
diker of Nome Field, Air Police
man on duty, plunged into the
surf and swam out to rescue
one sailor unable to make shore
and was in turn aided by Irwin
Greenhalgh, city night patrolman,
while Bill Shepherd made several
trips, all risking their lives for
the exhausted sailors. Some of
those who remainding standing in
the water for almost two hours
included Chief of Police Clyde
Glass, Clyde Godsbe, Harry John
son and many others, and as
the police chief expressed it: “Ev
erybody was ready to give a hand,
thinking nothing of themselves,
and only trying to save the sail
ors.”
Bill Shepherd said: “Every time
I went under it seemed to me
that Tommy Martin was there to
pull me up.”
Another volunteer who assisted
said the visibility was so poor
with the rain and wind that one
sailor would have been missed al
together if he hadn’t yelled for
help.
One of the sailors, after being
rescued, turned back to aid a com
panion, giving him artificial res
piration in an attempt to save
his life, before he accepted help
for himself.
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One of the local rescuers when
asked if he wasn’t cold standing
in the water, said, “You, know, I
never thought about it until it
was all over, and then I realized
I was about paralyzed with cold.’’
L. Chasse of the N.C. Co., made
several heroic attempts to right
the boat and had to be helped
ashore. The boat was finally
righted Thursday afternoon when
the storm had abated.
The tugboat Lucile of the
Lomen Commercial Co., captained
by Johnny Fagerstrom, and a
military LCM attempted a rescue
by sea but the wind was too
strong and the water too turbu
lent. A small boat from the tank
er was also reported to have been
in the water, searching.
The names of the dead, missing
and injured are being withheld
at the request of the Navy.
Equipment and Order Held
Responsible in Court Verdict
The verdict rendered this after
noon after testimony was taken
from the survivors was as fol
lows:
Death caused by drowning with
exposure as a contributing cause.
Said death being due to improper
and defective boat equipment
used during existing rough sea
conditions and the improper or
der compelling the men to return
to their ship with such equipment
under such conditions.
The coroner’s jury consisted of
G. R. Jackson, Lester Bronson,
W. W. Laws, F. R. Harper, Steve
Anderson, and Bill Brown.
Higgins, Builder of World War II
Beach Landing Craft, Dies
NEW ORLEANS, (JP)—Andrew
Jackson Higgins, 65, famed build
er of beach landing craft during
World War II, died Friday.
He was born Aug. 28, 1886, at
Columbus, Neb., the youngest of
10. In addition to his widcfw. Hig
gins is survived by four sons and
two daughters.
There are bands on most fish
scales which are much like tree
rings, dark bands indicating win
ters, when food is short.
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Gen. Vand^hberg Says No
Evidence To Substantiate
Existence Flying Saucers
SEATTLE, (/P)—Air Force chief
of staff Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg
says he doesn’t believe there is
such a thing as a flying saucer.
“They are not machines flown
by men from Mars, nor from any
foreign powers,” Vandenberg told
interviewers Wednesday. “Nor
does the Air Force or any U.S.
military agency have a flying
saucer.”
Vandenberg added the Air
Force has investigated all reports
received since the erld of World
War II “and never has found any
thing to substantiate existence of
such things ...”
Vandenberg conferred here
with officials of the Boeing Air
plane Co.
Hosea Sarber, Fish and
Wildlife Agent, Missing
Near Petersburg
PETERSBURG, (/P) — An air
and and sea search was under
way Wednesday for Hosea Sarber,
Fish and Wildlife Service agent
and contributor to national maga
zines, missing two days on a fish
ing patrol trip.
Sarber and Doyle Cisney were
aboard the Black Bear, patrolling
in the Pillar Bay area Monday.
He left in an outboard motorboat
to* go ahead and was last sighted
late that afternoon near the Pillar
Bay cannery.
Searchers found his boat drift
ing close inshore, with his cam
eras and guns undisturbed. His
wife and two sons, Homer and
Frank, live here. Friends said he
was a nationally known authority
on guns.
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Six Swedish Communist
Sentenced To Hard Labor
For Selling Secrets to Reds
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, f/P> —
Six Swedish Communists were
convicted of selling vital defense
secrets to Russia Thursday and
two were sentenced to life im
prisonment at hard labor. A sev
enth was acquitted.
The Swedish government
charged them with turning over
to the Russians full details of
their country’s northern defenses
against any Russian attack across
neighboring Finland.
Fritiof Enbom, 33-year-old con
fessed mastermind of the Soviet
spy ring, and his chief accom
plice, Jugo Gjersvold, both drew
life terms at hard labor. Other
sentences ranged from eight
months to seven years.
Enbom, editor and agitator, said
he had collected military and in
dustrial information for the Rus
sians for six years, turning it over
to Soviet embassy officials in re
turn for cash.
Fire Destroys Standard
Oil Dock at Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN, (/P) — Fire de
stroyed a pier and warehouse of
the Standard Oil Co. of California
Wednesday and threatened the
city waterfront before it was con
trolled.
Thick smoke darkened the sky
over the city as drums of petrol
eum products exploded. The fire
was still burning early Thursday
from leaking pipes without valves
but firemen said the danger was
past.
A pier, two warehouses and
about a million gallons of petrol
eum products were destroyed but
firemen saved large oil storage
tanks.
Fireman confined the blaze to
the Standard Oil terminal al
though burning oil washed under
the nearby Union Oil Co. pier.
The Ketchikan Chronicle said
the loss was nearly $450,000. The
blaze was believed to have started
in a welding room.
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