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Grand Coulee Darn, Wash., (/P)
President Truman declared yes
terday his determination to help
low-cost public power on all the
country’s great rivers and fight
against its use “for private profit.”
“We have embarked, all over
the country, on the task of fully
developing our resources for all
the people,” he said. •
“And we shall have to continue
to overcome the opposition of
those who do not understand the
greatness of our goal, or who fear
the impairment of their selfish in
terests.
“YVe will meet opposition from
the private groups. Many of them
•—there are honorable exceptions,
of course—do not want the energy
of our rivers put to use as power
and sold to the people at cost.”
The President spoke out sharp
ly against the opposition of pri
vate power companies to rural
electrification and other local
public agencies constr u c t i n g
transmission lines for the delivery
and sale of power purchased at
dam sites at cost. He said their
opposition “is wrong.”
The President laid down his
public power development pro
gram in a prepared address for
dedication ceremonies at the site
of Grand Coulee dam, where the
last turbine has been cut in.
He predicted ultimate Congres
sional approval of the proposed
Columbia Valley Administration
to take over the operation of
Grand Coulee and other power
and reclamation projects in the
valley.
“I believe the Columbia Valley
Administration is a necessary
next step in the sensible, demo
cratic development of the resourc
es of the Northwest,” Mr. Truman
said. “I believe the people of this
area think so, too.”
“And when they make their
voices heard, I am sure the Co
lumbia Valley Administration will
be established.”
The President said the private
power companies “would deny
the people the benefits of low-cost
power they themselves have
brought about through public in
vestment.”
The President challenged the
claims of those who attacked
Grand Coulee as ‘a collossal waste
of public funds,” calling it a “co
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The Alaska
Merit System
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JUNEAU— The Alaska Merit
System examinations were ad
ministered this spring to approx
imately 150 high school seniors in
the following schools: Anchorage,
Cordova, Douglas, Fairbanks, Ho
mer, Juneau, Ketchikan. Kodiak,
Kodiak Naval Air Base, Palmer,
Petersburg, Seward, Sitka, Skag
way, Wasilla, Wrangell, Mt. Edge
cumbe Vocational School, and the
Sheldon Jackson Junior College.
The examination consisted of
an aptitude test, a general know
ledge test, a performance test in
typing, and a performance test in
shorthand. Ninety-seven passed
the complete examination for typ
ists, with forty-nine failing. For
ty-four passed the complete ex- j
a m in a t ion for stenographers
(which included the typing* with
twenty failing.
In the aptitude test, two made
scores above 175, with the aver
age score being 11 . In the gener
al knowledge test, four answered
105 or more questions out of the
possible 120, with the average
score being 00. The best typing
: score was 77.2 words per minute
i for ten minutes with no errors.
The average score in typing was
47.5 words per minute with three
errors in the ten minutes. The
best transcription score (with dic
tation at the rate of 75 words per
minute* was sixty words tran
I scribed per minute with no er
rors.
i The high school seniors who
I earned a passing grade in the ex
amination will, upon graduation,
i be eligible for certification to ap
1 pointment in the agencies under
the Merit System—the Alaska De
partment of Public Welfare, and
I the P^mploymcnt Security Com
; mission. These agencies have of
fices in Ketchikan, Wrangell, Ju
neau, Anchorage, Fairbanks and
Nome.
(signed* I. J. Montgomery
Supervisor
lossal mis-statement.”
He outlined at Pendleton, Ore..
Wednesday night a program of
national development aimed at
boosting the income of poorer
working families to $4,000 annu
ally in 10 years.
He said the income of those in
the lower brackets can be doubled
in “real money” and the nation’s
output of goods and services ftft
ed to $350,080,000,000 by 1960.
In train platform speeches, he
continued to insist he is “not run
ning for anything,” that this is a
“non-political trip, but that he
might come back later to do some
“politicking.”
Here at Grand Coulee dam, at
the foot of which is “the world’s
largest power plant,” he called
the project “a great new source of
national strength” and “an invest
ment of democracy, forged to con
tribute to a better life for our
selves and our children.”
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SCHOOL NEWS
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FIRST GRADE
The first grade has had many !
absences because of cold this six
weeks. In one section Ethel Ailuk,
Teresa Gerard, Clarice Hardy,
Billy Joe and Maggie Panek are
the only ones who have been pres
ent every day since April 10th,
the beginning of the six week’s
period.
Gail Forrest dropped from first
grade because her father was
transferred to the States.
Paulette Outlaw enrolled this
last six weeks,coming from Lou
isiana.
First graders have been re
viewing the songs they have
learned this year and find there
are between 25 and 30 on the list.
FIFTH GRADE
The past two weeks have been
spent reviewing our year’s work.
This week we have been taking
examinations.
We have enjoyed watching the
salt plants which we started sev
eral weeks ago.
This year we have had many
letters from children in the States.
We> have enjoyed this correspond
ence and plan to continue through
out the summer.
HIGH SCHOOL
It was in the month of May in
the year 1543 that Copernicus
made his great discovery that the
earth was rotating on its axis. Up
to this time, the ancient Greeks
and Egyptians thought that the
world was the center of the uni
verse.
Ptolemy, an Egyptian astrono
mer, living during the second cen
tury A. D., wrote o book describ
ing how the earth stayed fixed in
a permanent place. Around it re
volved the great hollow spheres
called the heavens. His conclu
sions had been made from obser
vation of the Great Dipper mov
ing around the North Star. Coper
nicus said it was the earth’s turn
ing on its axis which gave this ef
fect.
Nikolaus Coperincus, the Polish
astronomer, was a young man at
the time that Columbus discover
ed America. He said that the earth
itself was a tiny part of the uni
verse rotating on its axis and re
volving around the sun with other
planets.
It was dangerous to give out
such an idea in the sixteenth cen
tury so it was published when he
was on his death bed.
The Junior-Senior Prom was a
great success. The high ceiling
was placed in the center and
beautifully decorated by twisted
streamers radiated out from the
top of the ladder to all parts of
the balcony.
Another successful event this
week was the Junior-Senior Ban
quet held at the Pioneer Hall. A
delicious meal was served and
the occasion will long be remem
bered.
Other events this coming week
will be the Baccalaureate service
on Sunday evening, final examin
ations on Monday and Tuesday.
High School picnic Wednesday,
graduation on Thursday and the
closing day on Friday, May 19th.
Vernon Olson has turned out a
beautiful stand on the lathe. It is
made out of mahogany with an
inlay of maple. Louis Kost has
completed his taboret; Joseph
Felder an end table; and Frank
Sheldon his book rack. Other pro
jects are nearing completion.
The first international horse
shoe pitching contest was held in
Bronson, Kas., in 1909. Frank
Johnson of Blue Mound, Kas., was
the winner. '
FAIRBANKS ASSURED LARGE
APARTMENT BUILDING
SEAATLE, (A*)—Philip A. John
son, president of the Bank of
Fairbanks, said yesterday the
mortgage papers were signed here
last week for a new 210-unit
apartment building in the Alaska
city.
“I hope the digging at the Fair
banks site gets started today,” he
commented. “The mortgage pa
pers should have arrived in Fair
banks yesterday and become a
matter of record.”
He said the work could begin
as soon as the mortgage was re
corded in Fairbanks.
Actually, the final closing, in
volving the signing of federal
housing administration papers,
has not been completed. Johnson
said he expected that final paper
step to be concluded later this
week.
The mortgagee for the project
is the Chase National Bank of
New York. The deal was negotia
ted through Securities Mortgage,
Inc., in Seattle.
May Halve Mine
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Subsidy Program
WASHINGTON i/P)—Chairman
Sabath <0.-111.) of the House Rules
committee moved Wednesday to
cut a proposed $330,000,000 mine
subsidy program in half.
He introduced a bill to author
ize a total of $163,000,000 over a
four-year period for incentive
payments to stimulate exploration
for and conservation of strategic
minerals.
This action came a few hours
after the Rules Committee had
decayed action on a bill backed by
mining states Congressmen to pro
vide for the larger program.
At that time, Sabath told Rep.
Engle (D.-Calif.* that the Rules
committee wanted to help them
but he said “you’ve got to be rea
i sonable.”
| He said he thought their mea
sure was too costly. It would au
thorize $60,000,000 for incentive
payments the first year and $90,
! 000,000 annually for the next
three years.
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