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Though the powerful Indiana State Teachers Association has endorsed federal aid. Governor Harold Handley and his elected superintendent of public instruction, Wilbur Young, do not want it. According to their estimates, the state needs to build somewhere around 1,600 classrooms a year, has actually built more than that since 1955. Says Governor Handley: "I am opposed to federal aid for the primary reason that we can take care of ourselves." Adds Superintendent Young: "We can do it better, we can do it cheaper, and surrender none of our rights in the process...
...system is two deep grooves built into the hull near the ship's stern (see diagram). They converge toward the propeller, and when the ship is in motion, the propeller sucks streams of water from both grooves. As the streams move together, they exert pressure on the wedge-shaped section of hull between them and "pinch" it forward, rather as a watermelon seed is pinched from between two fingers...
...priority jobs approved in advance by Air Force. Defense Department's order will cut costs (average aircraft-factory worker earns $10.84 weekly overtime) but aggravate engineer shortage, now so acute that until recently California planemakers kept engineers on steady overtime. BIGGEST SHOPPING CENTER in southeast U.S. will be built in Miami for $15 million by Alcoa Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89, and other investors. With more than 4,000 parking spaces and 60 chain stores, new Northside Center expects yearly sales of $45 million. Construction starts this fall...
BIGGEST URANIUM MILL in U.S. will be built in New Mexico's Ambrosia Lake area to process ores of Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corp. The $16 million plant will go into operation in 18 months, have daily capacity of 3,300 tons v. 3,000 tons for next largest mill. Kermac has 15 million tons of high-grade proven reserves in area...
...unique distinction of being the only one on which detailed cost figures have so far been revealed. Hydrocarbon's Dr. Arthur M. Squires recently told an audience of oldtime blast furnacemen in Pittsburgh that a 2,200-ton-a-day "H-Iron" plant can now be built in Texas for $23 million or on the East Coast for $24 million v. $47 million for a blast furnace with the same capacity. Squires estimated that fuel costs in gas-rich Texas would be a mere $4 a ton v. $15 there for imported coke. On the East Coast, he said...