BIRTHDAYS AND A PAN AM
GLIDE FOR ROTARY
Duly observing the birthday of I
Ted Duffield by presenting him
with the little hen that lays the
golden eggs, and with-holding
something else from absentee Ben
Hyndman, the Rotarians took off
on a Pan American World Air
ways trip yesterday. Only this
time they did a long glide with ,
colored slides, seeing something
of England’s cathedrals, Parlia
ment buildings and castles, and
then continued on to Rome. Fit
ting in well with the Pre-Easter
season, the Rotarians had a look
at the places where Peter and
Paul are said to have been exe
cuted for their faith, and also the
churches that memorialize them.
While the Coliseum, site of Chris
tian martyrdom, is only a mem
orable ruin. The flight crew, Bud
Harper and Jim Walsh had plen
ty of visual evidence that Chris
tianity lives on.
Ron Brousseau was the club’s
agent at Juneau, to be sure that
the Rotarians of the Capital city
remembered that the day was all
Alaska or Seward Day. Karl
Dewey got a glad send off for his
forthcoming trip, “outside.”
Guests were Jim Williams, in
structor of the University of Alas
ka’s Extension Mining Course
now in progress, and Hap Eherle,
Marks Air Force Base.
Chapman Looks
For Early Action
On Statehood
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of the Government’s net loss in
farm price support operations
last year, but such surplus items
as dried eggs, dried milk and but
ter are also causing some concern
to Agriculture Department offi
cials. Net losses during the last
fiscal year on agricultural com
modities under the price-support
program amounted to $254,000,000
and potatoes accounted for $203,
000,000 of the loss.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Reports
that President Truman has de
cided to veto the controversial
farm price support measure af
fecting cotton, peanuts and pota
ties yesterday spread rapidly
through the Capitol.
Many Senators and Represen
tatives told reporters they under
stood Mr. Truman had decided to
disapprove the legislation.
The bill was sent to the White
House last week. It was a hard
fought Senate-House compromise
aimed at tightening price props
under surplus Irish potatoes and
allowing increased acreage for
this year’s crop of cotton and pea
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Absentee Voters
May Cast Ballots
Residents of the Territory who
will be absent from their homes
on primary election day, April 25,
may begin their absentee voting
in the office of U. S. Commission
er Ted Duffield, ho said yester
day.
Absentee balloting may be car
ried An this way or by mail
■ through April 22, three days be
fore the polls open for residents
. at home.
Absentee ballots will be mailed
, to those who request them, or an
agent may be sent to notify the
i commissioner’s office where to
( sent the ballot. A personal letter
| is preferred, Duffield said.
An affidavit will be sent with
each ballot for the voter to fill
out. These will be examined at
the time they are counted, to in
! sure the vote’s legality Each is
numbered and the number record
ed opposite the absentee’s name.
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News of the World
At A Glance - - -
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! Spain as extra insurance for a Eu
ropean foothold should Russia at
tack the west.
I
Informed sources at the Hague
| said most of the military leaders
I of the 12 Pact countries want
l Franco Spain to have some part in
j Western defenses. Britain is op
pose dto the move.
Spain is not a member of the
United Nations. Generaliss i m o
' Franco has long been in the inter
national dog house because he
; was helped to power by Hitler
and Mussolini in the heyday of
' fascism.
If the proposal on Spanish air
bases is approved by the military
committee, it must next be en
dorsed by the foreign ministers
council of the Atlantic powers
| meeting soon in London, and
later by all 12 governments con
Icerned.
In Washington, the House of
Representatives is consideri n g
President Truman’s Point Four
program for aid to underdevelop
! ed countries. Secretary of State
j Acheson has asked quick passage
j of an initial $45,000,000 expendi
ture as part of an American cam
paign to stop communism.
Acheson told a Senate eommit
! tee yesterday that Point Four “is
1 not and never will be a big money
j enterprise.” House critics are
I skeptical.
In Taipei, Formosa, Nationalist
Chinese claimed their forces sank
100 communist junks in the past
few days. President Chiang Kai
Shek and his top military advis
ers were reported mapping new
strikes against the communist
held mainland and means of
strengthening Nationalist-held is
lands.
Bars closed down in Bombay,
India, and that city of 3,000,000
population will be legally dry
soon. Prohibition of alcoho lie
drinks goes into effect April 6 in
Bombay province. Then only for
eigners will be able to drink legal
ly
The communist-dominated
Czechoslovak government has or
dered the expulsion of the last re
maining American correspondent
of the United Press in Prague.
Two day ago the Czech govern
ment ordered Nathan Polowetzky,
sole American representative of
the Associated Press to get out.
Both newspapermen were charged
wil “unobjective reporting.” They
denied the charges.
Known TB. Cases
K< *a<* h New High
JUNEAU — The number of
known cases of tuberculosis in
Alaska reached a high of 5,279
this month with the addition to
the records of 11 casse reported
between January 1 and February
1, according to a mid-month re
port by Dr. Grace E. Field. Dr.
F'ield is acting director of the Di
; vision of Communicable and Pre
1 veritable Disease Control of the
Alaska Department of Health.
The report was made from indi
j vidual patient record cards filed
in the Health department’s Case
j Register and showed that 3,184 of
the tuberculous persons are with
out hospitalization. Only 485 of
the known cases are hospitalized
in Alaska’s 439 tuberculosis beds
and in hospitals Outside, the re
j port shows.
Another 568 patients with ar
rested or inactive tuberculosis
are listed as at their homes. The
i
report also shows 1,042 “suspects
registered who are believed to be
tuberculous but in whom the dis
ease has not been positively iden
tified as yet. It states that 646
cases had been closed at the end
! of December, including patients
| who were cured, whose cases
I were “arrested,” some who had
I died, and 63 “suspects” diagnosed
as negative.
While Dr. Field’s report shows
the highest number of known
cases ever on record in Alaska,
' Dr. Albrecht said, “this does not
j mean that there is necessarily
FLEMING HAS NEW MEDAL
LEEDS, England, (/P)—Sir Al
exander Fleming has a new gold
medal for his discovery of peni
cillin. Lord Mayor N. D. Vine pre
sented it to him at a civic dinner.
The famous London specialist
received it for “the most success
ful discovery for the relief of hu
man pain and suffering” under
the will of Hoffman Wood, a
Leeds architect. Wood, who died
in 1931, left $80,000 for scholarly
purposes and for three medals for
achievements in art, medicine^md
invention.
more tuberculosis now than ever
before in the Territory. Rather it
is indicative of results of X-rays,
surveys and other examinations
conducted more strenuously dur
ing the pas few years in an effort
to search out the tuberculous in
order that they may receive care
as rapidly as hospitals and funds
permit.
“The alarming fact right now’,
he said, “is that more than one
half, or 3,1 P.4 of the known cases
are living at home and since most
of them are not confined to bed,
they are mingling with other resi
dnets and thus able to expose
others to infection.”
“Protection of the health of
Alaska’s present and future resi
dents depends upon the care of
the tuberculous and the control
of the disease that we can achieve
now,” the health commissioner
stated.
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slog in the machine.
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