3 I s Fight In Rain At heartbreak Ridge7
5. Eighih Army Headquar
Korea l/P) — A North Kore
>attalion was slashed by
d artillery late Monday
failing to gain in a series
ild counterattacks on the
:entral front.
all day fighting, the Reds
got as far as a saddle between
a Red-held hill and an Allied
held height.
The Allies have dubbed the
location north of Yanggu “Heart
break Ridge” because of the
many attacks and counterattacks
there.
As the Reds fell back down
a trail toward the southwest,
they came under heavy artillery
fire. An Allied officer said re
sults were “excellent.” It was
not known how many, if any,
of the enemy escaped.
On the western front4 Allied
troops supported by heavy ar
tillcry fire, seized control of a
hill northwest of Chorwon. The
Reds withdrew after a two-hour
battle, then fired artillery onto
the hill.
Patrols clashed at several
points along this front. Allied
air observers reported a de
crease in enemy activity, partic
ularly vehicle movements.
Cold rains sweeping across
the peninsula brought Allied air
attacks to a virtual standstill.
The Red counterattacks in the
east began in the light of a
nearly full moon.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1951
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ravity Of Korean Situation Increases
kyo, Tuesday UP) — Gen.
lew B. Ridgvvay notified
Communist High Command
lay he was still ready to
le cease-fire negotiations
m off by the Reds,
wever, the Supreme Allied
nander made a 12-hour flv
rip to Korea to confer with
Eighth Army commander.
James A. Van Fleet, in
lis offer was again rejected,
also saw British Commo:.
h division commanders bo
he returned to Tokyo Mon
tight.
lgway’s terse message to
leds made no mention of
Dng, which he previously
declared unacceptable for
er armistice talks.
Igwav's headquarters at
ight described the Supreme
nander's trip to Korea and
n as “routine."
wever, the gravity of the
ary situation in Korea has
increasing for days. The
have been concentrating
gly on the western front
a Red offensive there was
dered very possible if not
ible.
fy Planes Ready To
•ry A-Bombs
shinglon J* — Acini. Wm.
,eler said today the Navy
has carrier crews trained
indie atomic bombs,
e chief ox Naval operations
i news conference tiiat tiie
s would be used for “tacti
operations of the fleet
ist Naval targets ashore or
said ihe Navy already has
types of planes which can
!e off a carrier and carry
ic bombs. They are ihe AJ
c plane and the P2V nep
palrol bomber.
? Navy started practicing
the use of simulated atomic
s in exercises last spring
vill use them again in the
nt exercises which started
s Atlantic yesterday, Feeh
said.
ring the last year, the nu
fission weapon experts
reportedly developed a
act size atomic bomb which
e handled in comparatively
planes. Thus they could
ed in carrier based as well
jht bombers and possibly
rs of the Air Force.
OR WOMEN'S CLUB
mg women interested in
r Women's Club are re
id of the social meeting
row, Tuesday, night in the
opal Church basement at
o’clock. Anyone interested
vited to attend this first
of the year.
Extend Bush Pilot Flights 5 Years
A? Special Washington Service
Washinglon OP — The Civil
Aeronautics Board today renew
ed the operating authority of
Alaska’s “bush pilots'’ lor a fall
five years.
These airmen own and fly
their own craft in the Territory,
largely serving outlying com
munities and remote settlements
inaccessible to scheduled oper
ators.
The board gave the pilot
owners in Alaska authority to
conduct such irregular opera
tions early in lo48 and since
has renewed these permits on
a year-to-year basis. The action
providing a five-year authority
was recognition of the fact that
a specific need has been devel
oped for this type of emergency
and casual service in the area.
The operating authority,
which was to have expired at
the end of 1351, was exiendcd
to Dec. 31, 1356.
Admit Alaska Nurses
To Natl Association
New York i.-P) — The American
Nurses’ Association today an
nounced the admission of the
Alaska Nurses’ Association as its
52nd member.
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Porter,
ANA president, said the ANA
board of directors at a meeting
late Sunday “accepted unani
mously’’ the application of the
Alaska group to become a con
stituent member.
Notification of the action was
telegraphed Mrs. Elizabeth Fritz
of Anchorage, president of the
Alaska association, which was
formally organized last spring.
The ANA, representing some
175,000 registered nurses, has
constituent members in the 4<j
states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and Hawaii. Addi
tion of Alaska rounds out the
last of U.S. geographical units.
One Billion Dollars for
Hydrogen Bomb
Washington OF — The hydro
gen bomb project became a
billion dollar venture today.
President Truman asked Con
gress for an additional $484,
240,000 for the Atomic Energy
Commission’s Savannah River
plant—where work on the awe
some H-bomb is scheduled to
get underway.
The request brought the total
for the South Carolina project
to $1,180,000,000.
This is now the total estimat
ed cost of construction.
VALDEZ TO HAVE NEW
HOSPITAL
The Housing and Home Fi
nance Agency has approved the
grant of $14,620 to Valdez for
planning a 15-bed general hos
pital under the Alaska public
works program.
The funds, which are to be
repaid should the project bo
constructed, will be used to
blueprint a one-story concrete
block hospital building at the
total estimated cost of $490,000.
Choose Artists For
This Year's
Winter Concert Series
Seward’s Winter Concert Com
mittee is pleased to announce
that the artists for the 1951-52
Alaska Music Trails have been
chos:n. They are very popular
artists in their fields, and either
nationally known or world fa
mous, and Mr. Shapiro, founder
of Alaska Music Trails, is very
happy to present these people in
Alaska.
Seward's first concert of the
series will be held in October
and feautres bass-baritone Don
ald Gramm, who is 24 years
old and American born. The n.xt
concert will be in November
when Tomiko Kanasawa, lyric
soprano, will be heard with Ct
sare Curzi, t_nor, in scenes from
leading operas. The third and
final concert will bring Bronis
lav Gimpel, world famous violin
ist, to our community.
Season tickets aror.ow on sale
by members of the committee;
the price is $6.00 plus $1.20 Fed
eral tax, and the committee
urges your support and early
purchase of your ticket, so that
they may have the necessary
guarantee to bring these artists
to Seward.
Seward's appreciation for en
tertainment of this higher type
was shown by the loyal support
of last season’s series, and it is
remarkable that a community of
this size was able to present the
series and have a cash balance
left of $11.53. Many cities larger
than Seward cannot successfully
sponsor programs of this type,
and it is often necessary to have
similar conc.rts subsidized. In
terest for higher entertainment,
for grownups and children of
the Seward area, was further
shown by the support, of the con
cert given by local talent this
August to raise funds for the
purchase of a piano suitable for
concert use. The committee
wishes to express thanks to the
participants, Paul McMullen,
Mrs. Mary Clements, and Mrs.
Margaret Lee, and to the many
other folks who gave their time,
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Large Increase In
School Enrollment
The Seward Schools opened
the 1951-1952 school year on
Tuesday, September 4, with the
following staff:
Mrs. Virginia G. Ground, first
grade; Miss Joan Terry, first
grade; Mrs. Dorothy Frost, sec
ond grade; Mrs. Blanche Miller,
second grade; Miss Rutn Ander
son, third grace: Mrs. Hilda
Moore, third grade; Ben F.
Frampton, fourth grade and ele
mentary principal; Miss Lurline
Wilkins, fourth grade: Mrs. Lor
ene Mueller, fifth grade; Mrs.
Mayae Purinton, fifth and sixth
grades; Miss Jane McMullen,
sixth grade; Donald A. Daiberg,
seventh grade and P. E. for boy^;
Mrs. Edna M. Younker, eighth
grade.
Walter B. Blue, social science
and Spanish: Mrs. Grace Camp
en, math., chemistry and high
school principal; Carl R. Carl
son, superintendent and Latin;
Mrs. Edna L. Dixon, music; Miss
Nancy Friedrich, home econo
mics and biology; Miss Joanne
Lind, library, P. E. for girls,
English and typing; Mrs. Hazel
Muir, commercial; Miss Marian
Munson, English and general
math.; Hugo A. Tringali, shop
and general science.
Of the above teachers Mn,
Mueller, Mrs. Purinton, Mrs.
Dixon and Miss Munson did not
teach in this school last year.
However, Miss Munson taught
in Seward several years ago,
and has been in business in this
city. Consequently she is quite
well known by the people of
Seward.
Mrs. Mueller comes to us from
the Denver, Colorado, schools.
She is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Wyoming. Mrs. Purin
ton has a degree from Arizona
Stats College at Tempe. She
taught in the Phoenix, Arizona,
schools last year. Mrs. Dixon is
not new to Alaska. She served
as teacher of music in the Ko
diak schools during the last two
years. She is a music graduate
of the University of Wisconsin.
Enrollments at the Seward
schools have taken a great jump
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Anchorage (/Pi — All planes
in the Alaskan Air Command
have been grounded “in the in
terest o£ safety until each passes
an intermediate inspection,” an
Alaska Air Command spokes
man said today.
The order, similar to one
issued by the Navy last week,
follows a series of military and
civilian plane accidents which
have claimed nearly 100 lives
in Alaska since mid-July.
The Alaska Command public
information officer said the
grounding order by Maj. Gen.
Wiilian D. Old, commanding
general of the Alaska Air Com
mand, exempted emergency
flights and applied only to
planes under Olds' jurisdictTcrtl
“Some of the planes have
been inspected and returned to
flying status,” the PIO said. “All
will be back in the air in a day
or two.”
The Navy took similar steps
last Thursday, grounding a
Naval APR squadron at Kodiak
“for morale purposes.”
Francis P. Whitehair, Under
secretary of the Navy, in dis
closing the action, told Rep.
Mitchell (D-Wash.) that three of
four recent crashes involving
Navy P B 4 Y - 2, or privateer, •
bombers were suffered by Patrol
Squadron 9 at Kodiak. The
crashes claimed 45 lives.
At least 12 Air Force fliers
have been killed in recent K-47
transport and helicopter crashes.
Small Nations Demand
Greater Voice
By John M. Hightower
Ottawa UP) — Small nation
members today were reported
demanding a greater voice in
major policy decisions of the
North Atlantic Council.
A Canadian source, linking
the demands of the current con
troversy over G r e e k-Turkish
membership in the alliance, said
it seemed certain some “custom’’
would have to be established
to give the smaller nations
greater power in the early
stages of policy making.
Some of the heat was expect
ed to be taken off the big nations
—America, Great Britain,
France—by expected agreement
on plans to expand the work
of the treaty organization into
political and economic as well
as military fields.
This has been a primary con
cern of both Canada and west
ern European countries.
This feeling is sharper than
usual at present because the
United States has pressed hard
against small nation opposition
for a favorable decision on its
proposal that Greece and Tur
key be admitted to membership.
The Danish and Norwegian dele
gations, the final objectors, are
expected to go along in the end
but only after making clear
their dislike of the whole pro
ject to the council.