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In Seattle
SEATTLE, April 1. </*»>— Four
Seattle hospitals barred all visi
tors as two new cases of smallpox
were added to the growing list of
persons becoming infected. The
death toll now stands at five.
County health officers reported
a total of twenty-four cases in
Seattle and its suburbs. Dr. fiinil
Palmquist, city health officer, re
ported two new infections, one of
them described as light. “We ex
pect to have more. This thing will
keep going until at least eighty
live percent of the people are vac
cinated.” Palmquist said.
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SMALL SCHOOLS MAY TAKE
VETS' EDUCATION OVERFLOW
WASHINGTON —This month
the Veteran Administration, with
the heln of the Office of Educa
tion, is conducting a survey which
may go a long way toward solving
the critical problem of higher ed
ucation for veterans under the
GI Bill of Rights next fall.
Nearly 2,000 senior and junior
colleges will be surveyed for ed
ucational and housing facilities
for veterans.
The idea is to channel veterans
seeking college educations into
these smaller schools. More than
•40 percent of the veterans now
getting higher education under the
bill are attending 38 of the larger
and better known colleges and
universities. Many smaller schools
have so few that they aren’t even
tabulated. Several larger univers
ities are already so overcrowded
that they have refused to take any
more students until accommoda
tions can be enlarged and facul
ties increased.
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At the same time, the Veterans
of Foreign Wars are opening a
campaign to expand the nation’s
educational system through feder
al subsidies. Presumably a large
portion of the funds would go to
smaller colleges.
The “name” institutions, already
crowded to overflowing, are look-;
ing forward with some distress to
what will happen when the post- i
war flood ebbs. Caught with vast-i
lv increased facilities and enlarg-'
ed staffs, they would face bank- j
ruptcy. Sixty ot 30 students added |
to each of the 1.500 to 2.000 small- j
er colleges probably could take j
care of the additional veterans
above normal enrollment next au- i
tumn, and even take some of the
load off the big schools.
VFW points out that by the end
of this year, 13,000,000 veterans j
will have been discharged. Certain
it is that hundreds of thousands of
these have become college-con
scious.
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The increasing number of un
employed veterans 'now estimated
at more than 1,000,000) is another
factor. Many of these are bound
to want to take education grants
in the hope that they will lead to
security.
The report of the VA survey of
smaller colleges will be interest
ing if it ever is made public. The
survey might show just how much
of the higher-education system
has survived the war to carry on
in the emergency ahead.
* * *
Speaking of higher education,
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz has
so many invitations to deliver
commencement addresses that he
can’t fill them all. Nearly a dozen
of them fall within date and geo- i
graphical limitations that make
only a few of them possible. The
problem: how to accept any invi
tation without offending all the
rest of the schools.
NOT TO MENTION
THE CUSTOMERS
DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (/P)—Per
sons who complained they smelled
onions in the Dandridge Post Of
fice for weeks weren’t wrong at
all. A large bowl of sliced raw;
onions was kept in the lobby to
help keep down the flu.
Ask For More
Transportation
To Alaska
WASHINGTON, April 1, UP>—
The House Merchant Marine Fish
eries committee will be asked to
make a thorough study of steam
ship rates from United States to
Alaska, and the possibility of pro
viding more transportation facili
ties to the Territory. Hep. Jack
son (Washington Democrat) said
he would ask for the investigation.
He said the War Shipping Ad
ministration were operating the
lines to Alaska at a loss of several
million dollars a year, and he I
would ask the House committee'
to determine whether an increase
in the rates were .justified, and
would suggest they consider whe
ther the payment of a subsidy to
the lines would be advisable.
Delegate Bartlett said his bill to
Authorize the Alaska Railroad to
operate ocean-going vessels s.em
ed to be blocked in the House, and
said Chairman Bland of the ma
rine fisheries committee had noti
fieri him he would object to it be
ing considered under the unani
mous consent agreement when it
was reached on the House calen
dar, because the Maritime com
mission was opposed on the
ground it would be subsidizing
steamship operation and against
the government policy.
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Might Work This Way
DECATUR, 111., (/P) — Pig <_ons
don’t hang around the Decatur li
brary. S. F. Hiser, janitor, placed
a line of mouse traps and artifi
cial snakes along a ledge at the
top of the building. “When the
traps go off they make a snap,”
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Hiser explains. “That scares the
pigeons and, if the trap has nip
rfteumatism he makes a bee line
a snake and think they’ve been
bitten. They’re afraid of snakes,
and they don’t come back after
an experience like that.”
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