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In Greece’s Golden Age, Aristotle lectured to
privileged pupils while he paced the streets —
the Stoic school met in Stoa Lane of the market
place among vendors, traders, and captive slaves
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2,200 years later in the U.S.,
pioneer children crowded in
to one-room log cabins,
where all grades shared a
single teacher's attention
rifles were kept close at hand
in case of sudden Indian at
Today, more and more spa
cious schools are designed
with modern "curtain wails,"
incorporating such versatile
materials as galvanized (zinc
protected) steel for safety,
lasting strength, insulated
comfort, and economy.
Used as Fallout Shelters
In Alaska Communities
ANCHORAGE UP) — About 300
buildings and other facilities that
could be used as public fallout
shelters have been found in a
continuing survey of Alaska as
a part of a nationwide Civil De
fense program, the District Army
Engineers Office said yesterday.
A completed survey of South
eastern Alaska pinpointed 62 po
tential shelters. Surveys are still
going on in the rest of the State.
Nearly complete is a check of
the Greater Anchorage area, in
cluding Ft. Richardson, Elmen
dorf Air Force Base and the Army
Post.
Post of Whittier. Some 155 build
ings qualified.
A partially completed survey
in Fairbanks, Wainwright, Eiel
son and Alaska Highway com
munities listed 61 potential public
shelters.
| Fifteen potential shelters have
j been found at Kodiak and vi
I cinity, and two have been located
in northern Alaska to date.
The survey is scheduled to be
completed this spring. Structures
meeting national standards for
public shelters will be marked
and set aside for use in an emer
gency.
Dial 2631 for
Arctic Sanitary
Service
Linda Discards Braces, Crutches;
Mother Praises March of Dimes
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Dorothy E. Br««»,
young Columbus, Ohio, mother, felts of
tho remarkable progress made by her
daughter in overcoming the disability
caused by a severe birth defect.)
By DOROTHY E. BREESE
My little Linda has done
far more things in her five
years than most people even
dream of being able to do in
an entire lifetime.
As the March of Dimes 1961
National Poster Child, she met
President Kennedy in person
and rode on a float in his in
auguration parade. She starred
in an hour-long television pro
gram with some of the coun
try’s most popular television
and movie stars.
T.lnria has traveled from
coast to coast and seen her pic
ture in nearly every newspa
per printed. She has autograph
books filled with the signatures
of celebrities and famous peo
ple the has visited.
these are just some of the
things Linda has done that are
beyond the reach of most of us.
But the one tiling we wanted
most for her was something the
average person takes for
granted—the ability to walk
alone and unaided.
There were many times dur
ing the vears that my husband,
Dean, and I thought that Linda
would never be able to throw
away her braces and crutches.
And to be truthful, there were
terrifying moments when we
feared we might even lose her.
Linda was bora with an
opening in her spinal column,
a condition known medically
as spina bifida. As a result, her
body was seriously affected
from the waist down.
When she was only a few
hours old, Linda underwent a
delicate operation that partial
ly corrected this condition. The
surgery was performed at Chil
dren's Hospital in Columbus
where subsequently The Na
tional Foundation with March
of Dimes funds established the
first of its Birth Defects Clini
cal Study Centers in 1959.
When she was nine months
old. it was found that Linds
had water on the brain, which
has the medical name of hydro
cephalus. This condition was
Linda at 39 months aftor two • •. Undo today, now ahla I*
ops rations for birth dofscts. walk without hor crutchas or
And ... Is? braes*.
treated by the insertion of a
“shunt'" tube which drains the
excess fluid from the head into
the blood stream.
You can imagine how much
we worried about our little girl
in those early days, because
we knew she was never far
from death. It could have come
at any time. After all, 250,000
infants are born in this coun
try each year with a significant
birth defect and 21,000 of them
die.
But Linda continued to im
prove. She received specialized
treatment at the March o]
Dimes - supported center- Shi
got her leg braces and crutches
Linda hated them, but shi
learned to use them.
When, though—if ever -
would she be able to run am
play with her sister and tw<
older brothers and the othe
neighborhood children?
The answer to that quesUoi
depended on Linda, her doc
tors, the rehabilitation thera
pists, and us. We all work*
together. We worked long, am
we worked hard, but it wa
worth ft
Only fee other day, Linda
took her first halting steps
across our living room without
her crutches or leg braces. It
was an unforgettable experi
ence. In my excitement, I tele
phoned the good news to every
one I knew—and probably
quite a few I didn’t know. It
was a real shout-from-the
housetops event.
Linda has won through. She
improves every day. Now her
trips to the birth defects cen
ter have been cut to just one
every three months. Best of
all—we have been able to en
roll her in kindergarten.
Dean and I and fee children
remember the gloomy days. We
know that many other pi
of afflicted children are
through similar days of <
and heartbreak right now. But
we also know that The
tional Foundation-March of
Dimes is looking 4or Hie cause
s
led to fee triumph over potto,
and I’m a firm believer in the
slogan feat “Your Dimes Will
Do rt Again.” __
Believe Russians Have
First Cosmic Coffin
FORT WORTH, Tex. UP) — The
chief spokesman for the North
American Air Defense Command
says a satellite now in orbit may
contain a Russian who couldn’t
return to earth.
CoU Barney Oldfield said Wed
nesday the orbiting object, made
up of a nose cone and booster
unit which failed to separate, was
| put up in May 1960. He said the
cone may have been manned.
“If so,” Oldfield said, “the
Russians can claim a first to which
they are welcome.
“They’ve put the first cosmic
coffin in a celestial cemetery.”
Oldfield spoke to an Aviation
Space Writies Assn.
He said U-2 plane reconnais
sance revealed the Russians may j
have had many failures along I
with their successes.
Launching pads centered with
huge rockets were photographed
he explained. In later photo
graphs, only scorched earth show
ed.
“We know they didn’t put any
thing into orbit from these spots,”
he said. “Whatever was there
must have exploded on the pad.”
MARRIES QUIETLY
ROXBURY, Conn. UP) — Play
wright Arthur Miller, 46, whose
four-year marriage to movie star
Marilyn Monroe broke up last
year, has quietly married again.
The new wife of the tall, lean
Pultizer prize winner is Ingeborg
Morath, 38, an Austrian-born
photographer.
The marriage is the third for
the author, whose play “Death of
a Salesman” received a Pultizer
prize.
GLUE POT
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Cigars—Cigarettes
Tobacco
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Candy
Fresh Ice Cream
Every Day
Great Bear “War”
Declared a Draw
ANCHORAGE W ~~ The joint
U.S.-Canadian winter Exercise
Great Bear officially came to an
end Wednesday, and Maj. Gen.
jJ. H. Michaelis, exercise director
declared the “War” a draw.
Michaelis is the U.S. Army
Commander in Alaska.
An airborne company of the
2nd Bn., Princess Patricia’s Cana
dian Light Infantry, took an active
part in Great Bear. The para
troopers engaged an “aggres
sor” force of similar size at Nome
last week and this week spear
headed the “American” force’s
advance in the Tanacross area by
jumping onto a lake between
opposing forces and setting up
strong defensive positions.
The positions were later as
saulted by the “enemy” men of
the 1st Battle Group, 9th Infantry,
from Ft. Wainwright, and “heavy
losses” were reported on both
sides by exersise referees.
The main “American” force
was played by the 2nd Battle
Group, 60th Infantry, from Ft.
Devens, Mass.
The Alaska National Guard also
actively participated in Great
Bear.
The 1st Eskimo Scout Battalion
of the Guard joined with the
Canadians in the Nome operation.
Other Guard units operated with
men of the 7th Special Forces in
patroling and guerrilla activities.
Great Bear turned out to pri
marily a problem in movement
over rugged terrain in severe
cold. Only on the last day of the
exercise did the main forces estab
lish contact and join in “battle.”
On Feb. 12, the first day of the
exercise, the two forces were 160
miles apart.
There were “clashes” between
patrols and guerrilla units but
little in the way of major “war”
in the main maneuver area during
Great Bear.
The Air Force provided tactical
and logistical air support for the
ground units. An Air Force re
serve unit from Hamilton Air
Force Base, Calif., flying C-419
aircraft, provided airlift for the
Canadians as well as other units.
The Canadians are to be airlifted
back to their base at Edmonton,
Alta., this weekend.
The troops in the field will
need several days to make their
way back to their staging areas.
Miltary Air Transport Service
aircraft will return the Massachu
setts men to Ft. Devens, the
spokesman said.
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