Joseph Shortell, U.S. Atty.
At Fairbanks, Resigns
FAIRBANKS — Joseph H.
<Jerry) Shortell, Assistant United
States Attorney in Fairbanks, will
resign effective Sept. 15, it was
learned this morning.
Shortell, in Seattle today, was
unavailable for comment. He has
been an assistant U.S. attorney in
Alaska for four years. Part of this
time was spent in the Juneau area.
Russell Holland, from Seattle, is
in Fairbanks now handling the at
torney’s duties during Shortell’s
absence.
The U. S. Attorney for Alaska,
Warren C. Culver, is due to arrive
Tuesday in Fairbanks from An
chorage.
Russia Said Planning to Quit
Trading With Red China
TOKYO (iP — The newspaper
Asahi said Saturday the Soviet
Union plans to stop buying tex
tiles from Red China and switch
to Japan, India, Hong Kong and
Thailand.
Attributing its report to the
Japanese textile export industry,
Asahi said the Soviet Union plans
to buy about 298 million square
yards of cotton, silk, rayon and
linen from the four areas this
year. Most of this business went
to Red China before the ideologi
cal split.
Nikila Said Eager to Prevent
Renewal of Fighting With India
MOSCOW l/P)—Premier Khrush
chev is eager to prevent renewed
fighting between India and Red
China, R. K. Nehru, a ranking
member of the Indian foreign min
istry, tcld newsmen Friday.
But he refused to comment on
reports that Russia has offered
India several types of missiles.
He said he had not discussed de
tails of military aid in talks with
Khrushchev and other Soviet of
ficials.
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Reverse English
Reflected In
Today’s Sayings
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK — The robust
wisdom of a people is expressed
in folk sayings—in proverbs and
mottoes.
“Know thyself,” counseled the
ancient Greeks, and thereby said
it all.
Since then we have become a
great deal more verbose.
Through most of human history,
folk wisdom has been expressed in
direct sayings and forthright ad
vice.
Thus said Benjamin Franklin,
an American wellspring of this
form of knowledge:
“Pennywise, pound foolish.”
“If a man could have half his
wishes, he would double his
troubles.”
“He that teaches himself hath a
fool for a master.”
“Love your neighbor, but don’t
pull down your hedge.”
“If you would know the value
of money, try to borrow some.”
Many a living room then bloom
ed with samplers that said, “God
Bless Our Happy Home.”
Simpler times were exampled by
simpler sayings.
Now we live in a complex and
confusing time, and our folk wis
dom is expressed in complex say
ings with a reverse twist. Our
mottoes have become as schizo
phrenic as our thoughts, and re
flect the double talk that has be
come our normal language.
We communicate by speaking
backwards.
Go into any office or factory in
the land and you’ll see on wall
and desk the clouded counsel of
our day. I have at hand a small
book of these sad witticisms en
titled “Signs Of Our Times.”
Here are a few examples of
what the book calls “the choicest,
most hilarious contemporary signs
ever created:”
“If you don’t understand it, op
pose it!
“In case of nuclear attack, run
like hell!
“It’s better to give than to re
ceive, so what have you brought
me?
“If I weren’t so busy, I'd take
time off to join in the confusion.”
That seems to be the key word
to our attitude today — confusion.
Such mixed-up counsels of despair
we give each other, and seek
thereby a consolation more wry
than ribald.
If people can be judged by their
mottoes, then we dwell in a time
of hollow laughter that echoes an
inner despair.
That’s why psychiatry now
dwells in a penthouse—and philo
sophy inhabits a hovel.
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Report Russia Steps Out
Of Race to the Moon
Because It is Too Costly
WASHINGTON —The Soviet
Union has stepped out of the race
to land a man on the moon be
cause it’s too costly, Sir Bernard
Lovell, noted British astronomer,
said today.
In a copyrighted interview with
the news magazine, U. S. News
& World Report, the director of
Britain’s Jodrell Bank Observa
tory also said:
The Russians are making sin
cere overtures toward cooperation
in space.
Their prime programs now are
to land instruments softly on the
moon, and to orbit a space plat
form manned by engineers and an
astronomer for five to seven days
to view the heavens from a space
telescope.
Sir Bernard said his information j
came in a recent trip to the Soviet
Union and interviews with the
president of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences.
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cial lease on life because a sheriff
had good manners. Sheriff Fred Sut
ton could have shot Billy but didn't
because The Kid's back was turned.
Another lawman finally gunned Billy
down—after he'd killed 21 men.
A fool and his life were soon parted in Billy's
days. A coroner decided one lead-filled victim
had committed "suicide" because he tried to
shoot to death a man armed with a rifle at a
distance of 150 yards.
The age of the gunslinger is
gone, but there's still plenty
of excitement in the west.
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