SCHOOL NEWS
HIGH SCHOOL
Tomorrow, January 13 th, is
called the Russian New Year, and
many Alaskan people in Kodiak,
Sitka and southern Alaska still
celebrate the traditional day.
Two calendars have been used
by the nations of the western
world, the Julian and the Gregor
ian. The Julian calendar, named
after Julius Caesar, was started in
B. C. 46. The year of the Julian
calendar was 11.2 minutes too long
making an error of three days ev
ery 400 years. Pope Gregory XIII
corrected this but Russian and
Greece used the Julian calendar
until after World War I. Isolated
settlements still carry on the old
tradition so we find it amongst
Russian descendants in southern
Alaska.
Students all reported an excel
lent two-weeks vacation filled
with plenty of sleep and good
food. Now the students are back
preparing for the semester exam
inaitons to be given next week.
English I students are studying
short stories and poems which are
in the last part of their books.
Civics students have finished
their study of villages and towns.
Volley ball is the game which
the girls an enjoying in physical
education.
The long, clear winter nights
are conducive to the study of the
starry heavens. One of the most
conspicuous configuration of stars
in the sky is the “Great Square of
Pegasus.” It is visible directly to
the south at five o’clock and
about forty-five degrees up from
•the horizon. Pegasus is also called
the “Winged Horse.” The ancient
legend tells us that Andromeda,
the daughter of Cassiopeia was
about the be killed by a monster.
The hero Perseus riding his horse
Pegasus came to the rescue and
slew the monster. The star in the
northeast comer of the square be
NEW NAZARENE CHURCH
DEDICATED IN ANCHORAGE I
Word was received this week of
the combined First Anniversary
celebration and dedication of the
new church building of the An-,
chorage Church of the Nazarene,
under the leadership of Bev. M. R. |
Korody. Rev. Korody will be re-1
membered as the speaker for the
special evangelistic services spon
sored by the Nome Church of the
Nazarene just prior to Thanksgiv
ing last year.
The dedication service will be
held January 14, and visiting Naz
arene ministers from Fairbanks
and Seward will participate in the
exercises. A congratulatory tele
gram sent by the local church
read: “Congratulations and best
wishes on your First Anniversary
and Dedication. May God richly
bless your efforts for Him and His
Kingdom.”
SARAH P. TAYLOR PASSES
ON IN STATES
Word has been received of the
death of Miss Sarah P. Taylor in
Pasadena, California, on Decem
ber 29, after a lingering illness.
Miss Taylor was Deaconess in
charge of Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission in 1939-40.
RONALD VERNON COMES TO
LIVE WITH VERN JACOBSONS
Announcement has been receiv
ed of the arrival of Ronald Vernon
on December 15th to Mr. and Mrs.
Vem Jacobson of Springfield, Ore
gon. Mrs. Jacobson is the former
Olea Olson, who was nurse for
several years at the Maynard Co
lumbus Hospital.
longs to Andromeda and marks
the head of the maiden.
TEEN-AGE DANCE
9:00 P.M~ Saturday Night
Sponsored by Parents
American Legion Hall
Refreshments
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Wiring Materials
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Dig Deep Fellas—
Truman Wants
140 Billion Dollars
To Lend and Spend!
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out next July 1.
As he set it out, this total would
be for actual military and foreign
aid spending plus contracting,
lending and loan guaranteeing au
thority for national security pur
poses. Other government expenses
would be in addition to this.
Mr. Truman said workers must
accept wage restraints and busi
ness men must accept lower prof
its—that no one should seek to
hike his income to escape his share
of the higher tax burden.
He told the legislators, too, that
one million more men and women
may be added to the armed forces
within a few months. The military
manpower goal has been a force
of 3,200,000 by June 30, but only
today thie figure was raised to
3,462,200.
Congress voted a $4,700,000,000
increase in individual and corpo
ration taxes last fall. In Decem
ber, it passed a bill to get $3,300,
000,000 more from corporations
through an “excess profits’* tax
and an increase in existing taxes.
Mr. Truman used no specific
figure for his new tax proposals,
but said the total should exceed
the combined total of these two
bills.
Mr. Truman said it snouid oe
the first principle of policy to
“maintain a 'balanced budget, and
to finance the cost of national de
fense on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ basis.”
he added:
“Corporations should pay much
higher taxes. Individuals should
pay much higher taxes. Excise
taxes should be higher and more
-e$8- yilh.4fi5$njam
He said “large and menacing
forces” led by Russia are “arrayed
against the free world.”
“The great manpower under the
control of Soviet communism is
being driven with fanatic zeal to
build up military and industrial
s‘rength,” he continued. “We in
vite disaster if we underestimate
the forces working against us.”
Danish Reds Tell
Ike To Go Home
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands,
(/P)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
went by plane to Denmark yester
day after talks with Dutch leaders
on Holland’s contributions to his
Atlantic Alliance army.
In a statement to the press be
fore taking off from Schiphol air
port, Eisenhower urged free na
tions to organize for the preserva
tion of peace so that “in an at
mosphere ctf security” living stand
ards can be raised and “social and
political gains be attained-”
Referring to the 12-nation At
lantic Alliance he said “anyone
making a survey of the spiritual
and material resources cannot
doubt of success.”
Two American destroyers, J. R.
Pierce and Moale, arrived in Co
penhagen yesterday morning from
Portland, Eng. They will take
Ensenhcrwer on to Oslo, Norway,
should weather conditions pre
vent his departure by plane. i
Copenhagen police were out all ■
night tearing down posters put up i
by Danish communists urging the
American commander of western
forces to go home. No arrests were
made. I
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Knowland Asks
6-to-l Amy Ratio
In Western Europe
WASHINGTON, </P) — Senator
Knowland (R.-Oalif.) proposed yes
terday a six-to-one ration for arm
ing Western Europe against com
munist aggression with the United
States ultimately furnishing 10 di- i
visions and the other North Atlan
tic nations 60. j
Knowland said it was vital that
Western Europe not be allowed to
fall into communist hands, but he I
held that the bulk of the defen
sive land forces should be furn
ished by the Europeans them
selves.
“If war comes,” he said, “we
must then do with our air, sea,
and land forces what the strategic
necessities require in support of
our commitments. We will not let
our allies down nor must they let
us down.”
In a speech .prepared for Senate
delivery Knowland pleaded for
unity within this country and be
tween the free nations of the
world, saying history has taught
us “We must hang together or be
hanged separately.”
Knowland, a vigorous critic of
administration Far Eastern policy,
strongly urged a reconciliation of
differences between Cong ress
members and the administration
on all foreign issues.
The California lawmaker took a
stand with New York’s Gov. Tho
mas E. Dewey, and John Foster
Dulles, adviser to Secretary of
OLDEST PIONEER* 100
PASSES ON
FAIRBANKS, i/P) ^ Lorenzo
Snepp, believed to be title oldest
Alaskan pioneer died Monday.
He celebrated his 100th birth
fday in September, 1949, and was
toasted on the occasion from the
Pacific Coast throughout Alaska.
Snepp was hospitalized more
than four years ago when he was
found living alone on a home
stead 35 miles down the Richard
son Highway. He was preparing
to face a cold winter although he
was too weak to stand up.
Until three weeks ago he was
keen minded, humorous and ready
to swap a few stories with visitors.
He never gave up the idea that he
would “get well enough to go back
to the cabin and live to a ripe old
age.”
Snepp was born in a covered
wagon enroute from New England
to Texas 12 years before the start
of the Civil War.
He started moving northward
by obtaining work as a cowhand
from Texas to Salt Lake City. He
landed at Dutch Harbor, Alaska,
in 1895 and in 1902 he went to
Fort Gibbon where he served in a
civilian capacity for the army
quartermaster corps.
Snepp arrived in Fairbanks in
1923 and when he was 70 years
old he retired from government
service and bought a homestead.
There are no known survivors.
State Acheson, in opposition to a
foreign policy pronouncement by
former President Herbert Hoover.
All three are Republicans.
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