Top Educators Claim
Education Must Be Retooled
From Top to Bottom
CHICAGO — There is much
to learn, and so little time in
which to Hearn it, that American
education must be retooled from
top to bottom, some of the na
tion's top educators said yester
day.
Oliver Caldwell of the U.S. Of
fice of Education suggested for
instance, that the traditional 12
years of free public education
should be extended to 14 years.
For some students, he said, the
last two years would consist of
semi-professional or vocational
education. For others it would be
the start of advanced academic
training.
Caldwell, in a prepared address
to the 17th National Conference
on Higher Education, also pro
posed a new and more rigorous
college program.
Four-year liberal arts colleges
should be established, he said,
which would start about where
the present junior year of college
work begins.
Graduate work and professional
education thus would be based
on 18 years of formal education
instead of the present 16, Cald
well said.
Caldwell said the present 12
year program of elementary and
secondary education is not strong
enough for an era in which the
body of man’s knowledge doubles
every 15 years.
ALASKA AIRLINES WILL
BUILD NEW HANGAR
AT SEA-TAC AIRPORT
SEATTLE UP — Alaska Air
lines’ plans to build a large new
hangar at Seattle-Tacoma Inter
national Airport, plus shops and
offices, were disclosed Monday by
Dick Gilbert, senior vice presi
dent.
The Alaska air carrier also is
doubling its space in the Sea-Tae
Air Cargo Bldg., Gilbert said.
The Port of Seattle, airport
owner and operator, has leased
Alaska Airlines ground for the
hangar near the southeast corner
of the airport
Gilbert said the airline hopes
to start work on the hangar by
mid-summer. Plans have not been
drawn yet, but officials are talk
ing in terms of a hangar 200
feet by 200 feet in size, large
enough to house two jet-liners
plus other equipment.
No estimate of the cost was
available, but it appeared the fig
ure could be $1 million or more.
Jet refueling equipment already
has been installed near the hangar
site, Gilbert said. Alaska Airlines
now operates one Convair 880
jet and expects to put a second
in use this spring.
The lease for the hangar area
amounts to $8,400 yearly, and for
new and larger space in the Air
Cargo Bldg, to $3,360 yearly.
Gilbert said the airline will
move into the larger air cargo
quarters within a month or two.
B-58 HUSTLER BREAKS
THREE SPEED RECORDS
DOS ANGELES <*« — An Air
Force B-58 bomber has broken
three transcontinental speed rec
ords, uncounted dozens of win
dows and the tranquility of citi
zens along a 40-mile corridor
from coast to coast.
The 1,300-mph jet made the
trip Monday from Los Angeles
to New York in 2 hours, 1 min
ute, took 26-plus minutes to turn
around and refuel over the At
lantic, and streaked back here in
2 hours, 15 minutes.
Total elapsed time for the 4,900
mile, non-stop round trip: 4 hours,
42 minutes, 32 seconds.
Gen. Thomas Power, Chief of
the Strategic Air Command, told
newsmen the flight “should im
press any potential aggressors
with the idea that we have a
choice of weapons to win a de
cisive victory in the event that
war is forced upon us.”
He was less direct when asked
who was going to pay for the
windows broken by the sonic
boom that trailed the B-58. “The
Air Force,” he said, “will comply
with the law of the land.”
The sonic boom — generated
when shock waves created by
compression of air in front of the
plane slapped the ground — was
reported at numerous points in
California, Colorado, Kansas, Mis
souri, Pennsylvania and New
York. Other areas probably felt
the boom but did not connect it
with the B-58 flight.
Seattle Electrical Workers
To Install Amateur Radio
Booth at Alaska?s C21 Exhibit
JUNEAU M — The Seattle
local of International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers has
offered to install and furnish ma
terials for an amateur radio
booth at Alaska’s Century 21 ex
hibit, Rep. Pete Deveau said yes
terday.
Deveau, an amateur radio
operator himself, said all of the
equipment to be used in the
booth will be furnished by mem
bers of the Seattle Amateur Radio
Club.
Visitors to the booth will be able
to use the equipment to call rela
tives or friends in Alaska, Deveau
said. The booth’s radio equip
ment will be operated jointly by
Seattle and Alaska amateur radio
fans.
Should Fight More Often
SAN FRANCISCO UPl — Joe
Louis, former world heavyweight
champion, thinks current king
Floyd Patterson should fight
much more often.
“An active heavyweight cham
pion stimulates boxing,” said
Louis. “It falls with an inactive
one.
“The heavyweight champion
should defend against a logical foe
twice a year.
“He and boxing could benefit
by a fight a month.”
“Gals used to marry for better
or worse—now it's for more or
1 less.” —Arnold H. Glasgow.
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11,800 Men Will
Take Part In
Nuclear Tests
WASHINGTON M — An 11,800
man task force will go into the
Pacific for the series of U.S. nu
clear tests scheduled to begin in
late April.
Most of Joint Task Force 8 will
be based on Christmas and John
ston Islands, which are in the
probable test area. Others will be
manning ships and flying planes.
The task force will have a long
tail, reaching back to ports in
Hawaii and the West Coast and to
atomic laboratories in the United
States.
Much of the actual testing will
be done by Atomic Energy Com
mission scientists and technicians.
Defense Department specialists
will monitor the blasts with in
struments gauging explosive force,
radiation and heat effects.
Instrument-bering Navy ships
and Air Force planes will help
record effects. Planes will take
samples of air after the test de
vices are detonated and ships will
scoop up water samples.
Some ships and planes of the
task force will be on picket duty
to keep out unwary vessels or
aircraft. Officials said warnings
would be given to minimize risk
to shipping.
There was no estimate of the
number of ships and aircraft to
be used in the series, which Pres
ident Kennedy said would be com
pleted within two or three months.
In past exercises of this sort,
the Navy has assigned command
ships, carriers, destroyers, trans
ports, tugs and other kinds, of
vessels to forces supporting nu
clear tests.
The Navy will haul personnel,
food, fuel and materials.
Preparations for the new test
series have been under way' at
least since Dec. 29, when the
Pentagon announced creation of
Joint Task Force 8 and placed it
under the command of Army Maj.
Gen. Alfred D. Starbird.
The full task force includes
6,600 Navy men, 1,700 Air Force
personnel, 600 from the Army and
100 from the Marine Corps.
Most of its 2,800 civilians are
drawn from the AEC.
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