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GENERAL OF THE ARMY Dwight D. Eisenhower
(whose rank was restored by Act of Congress
after his tours of civilian duty in the White House)
has launched another crusade.
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Crusade of Understanding . . .
This time, not in Europe or just in America, but
globally — a new sort of holy war whose objective is
peace and which might be called “Crusade of Under
standing”.
More specifically, this is the Eisenhower Interna
tional Peace Scholarship Fund and it is announced by
president Vincent Sutliff of the Americana Corpora
tion along with the news that Ike has accepted the
post of chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board of
the Encyclopedia Americana.
The fund will provide for ten annual scholarships
of $3,000 each to five graduate students in the U.S.
and five from the world-at-large whose careers prom
ise substantial contribution to the achievement of
Gen. Eisenhower’s life-long goal of world peace and
understanding. “I know of nothing,” he wrote in ex
plaining his new crusade, “which intrigues my in
terest more than the exchange of scholars in these days
when the cause of mutual understanding among na
tions must be so urgently advanced ”
The advancement and dissemination of learning—
which Gen. Eisenhower so forcefully supports as the
hope of the modern world—'has, logically enough,
been the pole-star of Americana editors since 1829
when the encyclopedia’s first editor wrote:
“if the present work shall conduce to the diffusion
of knowledge in this fortunate country, whose happi
ness is founded on its liberty and whose liberty is to
be preserved only by wide-spread information ... I
shall receive the most gratifying reward for the many
laborious days which have been devoted to the pre
sent undertaking.”
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Top U.S. Scientist
Claims War Threat
Has Been Eased by
Red Nuclear Tests
ITHACA, N.Y. — The threat
of war might have been eased
rather than increased by Russian
nuclear tests last fall, says one
of the nation’s top nuclear sci
entists.
Dr. Hans Bethe of the Cornell
University faculty said Friday
night if Russia succeeded in per
fecting a “secure secondary strik
ing force it will contribute to sta
bility and will remove any incen
tive to strike first.”
The tests “may well have re
duced rather than increased the
danger of war,” he said.
He said the Russian test ap
parently were aimed at develop
ment of a warhead for a missile
similar to the U.S. Minuteman,
which is stored underground.
Most of Russia’s missiles are
vulnerable because they now are
stored above ground, he said.
Bethe addressed aproximately
2,000 persons at the first of a
series of public discussions,
sponsored by the Cornell faculty,
on the danger of nuclear war.
He said the United States could
reduce its arsenal of nuclear
weapons to a “few hundred in
vulnerable missiles,” widely dis
persed and in protected locations.
“The value of tests has been
grossly exaggerated,” Bethe said.
“We already know so much about
atomic weapons that there is very
little more to learn.”
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For Airport at Barrow
The Division of Aviation has
made a request to the U.S. gov
ernment for a land release at
Point Barrow for the purpose of
constructing an airport, Mr. Eu
gene Roguszka, Director of the
Division of Aviation announced.
The proposed Barrow Airport
would be located adjacent to the
village of Point Barrow. The tract
requested comprises a total of
725.5 acres which lie within the
Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4.
The state legislature appropri
ated money for a preliminary
survey which has been completed.
The final planning will go ahead
after the land is obtained from
the U.S. government and when
money is appropriated by the leg
islature for construction.
Lousy Court . . .
LONDON {Rh — Historians have
always had the idea that King
Henry VIII had a lousy court.
Now experts have the fleas to
prove it.
Archaeologist Michael Green
found the mummified bodies of
the fleas during excavations on
the site of Henry VIII’s Palace of
Whitehall.
One part of the palace may
have been a court dressmaker’s
room. It was there Green found
numerous thimbles, dress pins,
leather and pieces of cloth. The
mummified fleas were found in
the cloth.
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Kennedy Proclaims
1962 as Homestead
Centennial Year
WASHINGTON MB — President
Kennedy Saturday proclaimed
1962 as Homestead Centennial
Year.
He called on governors, mayors,
other public officials and inter
ested organizations to celebrate
with appropriate ceremonies the
100th anniversary of a law that
opened millions of acres of public
land to the people.
The year also marks the 150th
anniversary of the establishment
of the General Land Office, now
the Bureau of Land Management
in the Interior Department. Ken
nedy asked the Department and
other federal agencies to join in
the celebration of this anniversary
and the Homestead Centennial.
The Homestead Act was signed
jby President Lincoln on May 20,
11862. Kennedy said this law and
I supplemental ones “are unique
and distinctively American.” He
said they stand as a tribute to the
wisdom of those responsible for
their enactment, “in providing for
the settlement of public lands and
thereby contributing to our free
enterprise system by offering
landless and laboring people an
opportunity to acquire lands to
provide for the needs of their
families.”
Nome Has One of
Lowest Accident Rates
JUNEAU — Approximately
13,800 Alaskans a year suffer ac
cidental injuries that require hos
pital attention according to a study
conducted cooperatively by the
Alaska Department of Health and
Welfare and 28 hospitals in the
state. This is a rate of 61 acci
dents per very 1,000 residents.
Areas with highest rates, as pro
jected by the study, were the
Kodiak Election District with a
rate of 137.9 per 1,000 residents,
Bethel Election District, 102.9 and
Barrow Election District, 101.2.
Election districts with the lowest
rates were Nome, 37.4, Wrangell
Petersburg, 17.2 and Kenai-Cook
Inlet, 8.8 per 1,000 residents.
Two Newspapers Fold
Up in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES ig) — Los An
geles lost one of its four metro
politan dailies Friday. Another
went Saturday.
That leaves two — in a city of
2Vfe million.
First to go was the Evening
Los Angeles Mirror. It published
its last edition Friday.
The Los Angeles Examiner, a
morning paper, published its last
edition Saturday.
Surviving are Morning Los An
geles Times, the rich and vener
able older sister of the Mirror,
and the Evening Herald-Express,
a sister-publication to the Ex
aminer.
The statements from both
papers’ top executives gave the
same reasons for the closings —
the fact that they were losing
money. Neither paper mentioned
the other.
Long Gone . . .
MADISON, Wis. tin — Many a
serviceman has vowed to settle a
grievance with his sergeant if he
ever met him in civilian life. But
an airman at Truax Field Air
Force Base was not content to
await such an unlikely chance
meeting.
Moments after receiving his
honorable discharge Friday, Air
man Sidney Harding marched
back to his company headquarters
and punched his sergeant.
Sgt. Cletus Lewis sprawled
through a window. It took eight
stitches to close a cut in his head.
By the time he was patched up
and signed an assualt and battery
complaint with the district at
torney, Harding, his wife and two
children were long gone and
headed for their home in Vir
ginia.
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