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S^Cetos of cAmerica 5 Las frontier
Awakening At Geneva
Final admission from Geneva of
the utter collapse of the Big Four
foreign ministers’ conference re
minds us of the words of Thomas
F. Connor, spoken before a curch
group in Arlington, Ya., on a plea
sant spring evening back in 1953.
“I wonder what it’s going to take
to make <us realize that you can’t
make a truce with evil. What is
fhorally wrong is never politically
right—yet we are being entreated
to sup with the devil.
“The price of survival is the
knowledge, the brutal truth, of the
kind of world in which we are liv
ing. We have been hurt already in
our national life because much of
what is bitter reality has been su
gar-coated.” '
Connor, who first came to nation
' al notice as a newspaper editor
who brought new industry and
fresh hope into the dying coal
town of Scranton, Pa; during the
depression, and later brought ring
ing conviction to the Voice of Am
erica, was not speaking in 1953 of
any chimera such as the “spirit of
GGeneva,” but of our failure to re
sist Communism at home.
He spoke of “the neutralists of
our country . . . who insist there
is no danger in the communistic
threat . . . that we have only to
look the other way, mind our own
business and everything is going
to be all right.” He spoke of the
growing ranks of Americans
shielding themselves behind the
Fifth Amendment' and expanding
acceptance of the idea that it is
impolite, even unconstitutional, to
question suspected accomplises of
the Red conspiracy.”
It is possible thfe Geneva confer
ence will convince us of the simple
fact, so often stated by Lenin and
Stalin, that there is no compromise
with Communism.
SCIENCE W
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! The ancient Greeks pictured the
earth as a flat disc floating on the
Surface of a world ocean.
Today, almost any schoolboy can
describe the earth’s true shape, its
dimensions and its major land and
sea masses. H<e
can probably tell
you something
about the other
planets in our
solar system, too,
and about stars
and galaxies.
The naive con
jectures of antiq
uity have been dis
placed by a body
of precise knowl
edge drawn from centuries of sci
entific observation, experiment, and
exploration. But much is still to be
learned about our physical world.
More than three million square
miles of Antarctica remain unex
plored. The ocean depths still hold
many mysteries. Weather,and cli
mate are not fully understood.
Scientists believe that many of
the blank pages in our terrestrial
book of knowledge will be filled dur
ing J;he forthcoming International
Geophysical Year.
Since the earth itself is the labo
ratory of the geophysicist, nature’s
routine must be observed on a global
scale.
Beginning in July, 1957, scientists
of 39 countries will co-operate in a
simultaneous probe into the physical
nature of man’s environment. They
y.’ ill join in an intensive-exploration
of the Antarctic. A network of ob
servation sites will be established
all over the world. Rockets will be
1 lunched to explore heights up to
250 miles.
From this mass of concerted ob
servations, scientists expect to
* liier data to answer many of the
unsolved questions in our physical
universe? They also hope that the
Geophysical Year will provide a
tommon effort on which all nations
can agree. The planet Earth is,
*>{fc?r the one place that all
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(Continued from page 2)
Vernon and Becky Fathke cele
brated theirr third anniversary
Wednesday. They “did the town,”
chaperoned by Monk Jackson.
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The fishing boat Afognak de
veloped engine trouble while crab
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d towed it to Port Wakefield.
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The Base and Town bus stop
has been changed from in front of
Krafts Supermarket to a location
across the street below the corner
on Brooklyn Avenue! This was
made necessary because of the
“gripes” that the bus was using
too much space on the main drag,
according to Jim Loan, owner of
the Kodiak Transit Company. One
outcome, according to Jim, is that
residents in the Aleutian Homes
area will receive bus service from
now on, as the bus will swing down |
Brooklyn, thence along Seventh j
St., turn right at Mission Road,
heading back to town.
One swallow doesn’t make a sum
mer. Neither does one crime make
a crime wave, but Kodiak has ta
ken on some of the aspects of the
big town the past few weeks with
the imprisonment of the bad check
artist mentioned a few weeks ago.
Alfred Lund, the jailbird in ques
tion, whd attempted running away
from his guards when being re
turned to the jail, has now made a
second attempt. This time he had
saw blades smuggled in to him (we
were sure they were concealed in
a sponge cake or an apple pie, but
no such luck ) The blades were
pushed through a window of the
jail. The incarcerated Lund man
aged to saw two of the cross bars
off, and at one time was about
half way through when he came
back. It seems this lad makes life
interesting for Chief Vickery, who
will havp a dull time when he
leaves. Crime doesn’t pay, but
neither does jailbreaking. Lund’s
case is now in the hands of the
FBI for destroying government
property,
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'^/iek..Metzgar and his wife are
fpr v'i! . * for a jaunt into Arizona
%irf lej^co, where they will re
dial • for the winter. “We’ll go any
where where it is warmer," says
Jack They will return to Kodiak
in April, according to present
plans.
,.-*****
Another interesting little book
let entitled “A Very Merry Christ
mas from U. S. Navy, Kodiak,” has
crossed the Editor’s desk this
week. It is a “Quick” size mag
with a Christmas greeting. It
shows how the people on the
base live, work and play on the Is
land.
Buying or selling—Use the Class
ified Ads—They get results.
OFFICER INSTALLATION
BY KODIAK I^ODCE NO. 295
Installation of officers of the
Kodiak Lodge No. 295, F. & A. M.
will be held at the Masonic Temple
Monday, December 19.
Officers to be installed are John
Pattersen, Worshipful Master;
Florian Briner, Senior Warden;
Clinton Rosengren, Junior Warden,
Emil Knudsen, Treasurer and Mer
rill C. Coon, Secretary.
Wesley Rhoades, Past Master
will be the Grand Marshall. Jules
Radinsky, Past Master, will install
the officers.
'Masons, Eastern Star members,
their wives and friends are invited.
Refreshments will be served fol
lowing installation.
! Read .the Mirror Classifieds
in the many things
money cannot buy - - the
friends at home, - - in other
banks, - - the respect, trust and
confidence that constitutes the
most precious legacy that
any bank can have.
Rank of Kodiak
KODIAK,ALASKA
J. BROWN
UCLA
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UCLA
WITTE
UCLA, with five players, dominates the 1955 Associated Press All-Pacific Coast Conference team selected hv wk „ . ,
the Pacific slope. Stanford landed three players on the team, Southern California had two and Oreeon Stat* nn. ™ f<^°tba11 writers along
Loudd of UCLA and John Stewart of Stanford; guards Jim Brown of UCLA and Orlando Ferrante of Tisr Th® tefm; ends Romraie
ford and John Witte of Oregon State; center Steve Palmer of UCLA; quarterback John Brodie of Stanford- h!m? Wlggin of Stan*
LA and John Arnett of USC and fullback Bob Davenport of UCLA Stanford, halfbacks Sam Brown of UC
(AP Wirephoto)