Truman Launches
Public Housing
WASHINGTON, .(/P)—President
Truman launched the public nous
ing program Wednesday by ap
proving loans totaling $20,375,400
to 108 cities for the planning bf
low-rent homes for a half-million
persons.
The loans will finance the sur
veys and planning for 134,500
dwellings in 27 states, Puerto
Rico, and Washington, D. C.
Mr. Truman’s action was an
nounced by John Taylor Egan,
commissioner of the public hous
ing administration.
Egan said loan contracts will be
signed as rapidly as possible with
the local housing authorities. The
loans, the first to be made under
the long-range housing act ap
proved this summer, are prelim
inary to later financing arrange
ments which will permit the staft
of contsruction.
The housing develop m *e nts
launched yesterday are to be un
dertaken within the next two
years.
j SCHOOL NEWS
SECOND GRADE
At last all pupils have returned
after the measles epidemic, which
dealt our room such a severe blow.
For over three weeks less than
than half of the children were in
attendance.
There are thirty-five pupils in
the second grade at this time.
Lynn Miller and Dion Vesowale,
army children, have moved back
to the States.
Don Clarke is a new second
grader from New Orleans. Don’s
father is with the U. S. Weather
Bureau here.
SIXTH GRADE
Our Hallone’en party on OcL
28th was a fine success. We had
ice-cream, fruit jello, cake, cook
ies, candy, and punch for dessert
Everyone proclaimed they could
not eat supper when they arrived
home.
j We had a contest to see who
' would win the two German dolls,
named Uschi and Peterle, sent
from a school in Germany. Each
pupil was to write a letter. The
Catholic Information
Preventing skids with a St. Christopher medal—
More and more danger on the
road. More and more deaths on
the highway. More and more St.
Christopher medals in automo
biles.
Medals? What good can they do?
Can they put new treads on old
tires? Can they tighten brakes that
are loose? Can they keep blinding
lights from the eye?
They can Not! A medal is inert
matter. It has no power in itself.
But, listed! On it is the likeness of
a saint—a third-century martyr
who, tradition tells us, spent much
of his earthly time in transporting
folks in safety across a turbulent
stream—thereby becoming the pa
tron saint of all travelers.
But what use can a third-cen
tury saint be to a twentieth-cen
ury motorist?
No use in his own right, but lots
of use to him who believes in the
intercession of the saints.
For instance: A Catholic steps
into his car. His eye lights on a
medal which portrays the patron
.saint -.if travelers. Bring thvff re
minded. the motorist prays for
protect it in on his journey to one
whom the Church recognizes offi
i cially as a saint and whom we
therefore know to be near and
dear to God
All prayers are heard. There
fore St. Christopher hears and
carries the petition to the throne
of Him who loves us Such inter
cession from a saint beloved by
God is potent. God hears and an
swers in His own way, which is
always the best way for our ulti
mate good.
So you see, a St. Christopher
medal in a car can do a lot of good.
Indirectly it can stop skids, blow
outs, or any other calamity, if one
has faith in the prayers of a saint
and appreciation of the fact that
God can do anything He wants to
do.
But to. him who has no such
faith, a St. Christopher medal is of
the exact same use as a four-leaf
clover, -a buck-eye. or a rabbit’s
foot—no use at all except perhaps
to reveal openly a silly supersti
tion.
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National Guard
Activities
Word has been received recently
from Washington, D. C., announc
ing the appointment of Daniel A.
Jones, and Robert M. Holbe*g> os
officers in the National Gua-d of
the United States, with the rating
of 2nd Lieuts.
A recent promotion in Hg and
Hg Det. is that of Allan Suseak to
the grade of Sergeant.
The following enlisted mei of
Co. C at Kotzebue have been pro
moted to several grades:
Leo Schaefer, M/Sgt.; Robert
! Curtis, Sgt. 1st Class; Fred Adams.
John Curtis, Fred Hensler, Trygve
Jorgenson, Sgt.; Richard Galli
horn, Wm. Hensley, Cpl.; Dick
Curtis, PFC.
All Guard members are remind
ed that there will be a meeting of
| the Guard at 8:00 p.m. on Monday
i evening.
! letters were numbered and the
j judges did not know who had
! written any one letter. Helen
Marie Glavinovich won the dolls.
The letters of Andrea Hudert and
Lucy Ann Fagerstrom won Hon
orable Mention.
We are sending a box of clean
used clothing to this teacher in
Germany for his pupils. He men
tioned in his letter the need of his
pupils.
We are working on free-hand
drawing colored Turkey designs
1 for place cards in Art Class. We
have finished some tapestry or
rug designs in small colored
squares and free-hand drawings of
scenes around Nome.
HIGH SCHOOL
Oklahoma was admitted to the
Union as the forty-sixth State on
i November 16 1907. For a long
time, Oklahoma had .been Indian
Territory, but when free land in
other sections was gone white pio
neers began to move in. The gov
ernment bought the land from the
Indians. The first night, cities of
tests were raised at Guthrie and
at Oklahoma City. In ten days,
frame buildings appeared. The
towns grew with amazing rapid
ity. Soon Oklahoma had over a
half million in population.
The Christmas Seal sale brought
in a sum of S568.52. The purpose
of the sale is to combat tubercu
losis. Most of the money collected
came from pledges sold to busi
ness firms.
Humorous one-act plays are be
I ing originally written by the Eng.
I class. This type of endeavor
gives play for the creative instinct
which we all possess in varying
degrees. Numerous words which
are most frequently misspelled are
being studied.
A study of volume and how it is
effected with different amounts
of pressure is being studied in the
physics class. Experiments with
Boyle’s Law are being made to
prove that the volume varies with
the pressure.
On November 9th, the High
School basketball team played the
U. S. Mercantile. By clever man
euvering and ball handling they
trounced their opponents with a
final score of 48 to 6.
Surface gravity on the moon is
one-sixth that on the earth. A
man weighing 180 pounds would
weigh ony 30 pounds on the moon,
if weighed by a spring balance.
An athlete who can make a run
I
ning jump of 78 inches or 6Vfe feet
could, with no greater effort, jump
39 feet on the moon. Probably the
deficiency of attraction at the
moon’s surface explains why
many lunar mountains are much
higher than ours. |
"OUT AGAIN—IN AGAIN"
WALLA WALLA, Wash. (/P)—
“Sometimes you meet the darndest
people. . . thought Robert Willis
Eckard, 25, today.
Eckard escaped from the state
penitentiary prison farm early
yesterday Twelve hours later,
while walking down a Walla Walla
business street, he was spotted by
Lowell Evans, prison dairy farm
manager.
Evans escorted Eckard back to
the prison wheer he was serving a
five-year sentence from Pierce
WALRUS CLUB
The Walrus Club held an inter
esting meeting last night with
Wes Welsh, president, in charge of
the meeting. Plans were formu
lated for a Benefit Milk Fund
dance to be held early in Decem
ber, details to be announced next
week.
Ronny Knill, infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Knill. received $26 75
from the milk fund.
county on a second degree burg
lary conviction.
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