EVANGELIST HOLDING
MEETINGS AT ASSEM
BLY OF GOD CHURCH
H. F. RUGWELL
Evangelist Homer F. Rugwell of
Everett, Washington, is holding a
series of evangelistic meetings
Famed Sourdough
Dies In States
CHICO, Calif. </P)—Death in the
obscurity of a rest home came
Tuesday to Eli Smith, 92, oldtime
Alaska sourdough who rode a
dogsled to fame and fortune four
decades ago.
Smith won fame in 1905 on a
ten thousand dollars bet with
promoter Tex Rickard on mush
ing a dog team from Nome to'
Washington, D. C. He completed
the trip two years later with Rick
ard paying off and President
Teddy Roosevelt greeting him.
at the Assembly of God Church
each night, except Saturday, at
7:30 o’clock.
Rev. Rugwell will deal with
topics of vital interest to all. He
has the reputation of being a very
able speaker.
A cordial invitation is extend
ed by Rev. Alvin Capener, local
pastor, to everyone to attend these
interesting meetings.
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Alaska Received
$1,261,000 Federal
1947 Welfare Grant
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Federal
grants to Alaska for health, edu
cation, welfare and social security
in the year ended last June 30
amounted to $1,261,000, the fed
eral security agency reported yes
terday.
The largest grant was $350,000
in old-age assistance.
Oscar R. Ewing, federal admin
istrator, said the grants do not
tell the full story, that in addition
some 5,012 men, women and chil
dren were receiving or had re
veived some individual benefits
or services from the various pro
grams.
The report said Alaska receiv
ed approximately $284,000 for
health and welfare services to
mothers and children and $67,000
for aid to dependent children. Aid
was extended to 559 children in
229 families and old age assist
ance to 1,357 persons.
During the year a total of $450,
000 in benefits was paid to 2,296
unemployed from funds contrib
uted by Alaska employers.
Benefits to retired workers,
their wives and their dependent
children for the year was reported
as $73,000 and monthly benefits
to survivors of insured workers
as totaling $31,000.
The agency said a general
health grant of $47,835 was made
to the Territory in addition to
$108,575 for its tuberculosis pro
gram. Other grants were $10,000
, for venereal disease control and
j $10,000 for surveying needs for
j hospitals and health centers.
The report said the Territory
also received $80,000 for vocation
education and $50,000 for its land
|grant college program.
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Air Commission
Asks Billions More
For U. S. Defense
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(By James J. Slrebig)
((/P) Aviation Reporter)
WASHINGTON. (JP)—President
Truman’s air policy commission i
said today the government should
add billions of dollars to air power,
spending estimates to create a!
force “capable of dealing with a
possible atomic attack on this
country” by Jan. 1, 1953.
A report by the five-man board
declared the air force presently
planned would be “inadequate”
even for the intervening five
years.
It would be “hopelessly want
ing,” the report said, for the
later period when it should be as
sumed that “other nations will
have atomic weapons in quantity
and the equipment to deliver them
in a sustained attack on the United
States mainland.”
The commission said plans
should be expanded all along the
line to call for:
1. An air force of 70 groups in
stead of the 55 groups now blue
printed.
2. Doubling the present total of
3,500 first fine combat aircraft
by the, end of 1949.
3. A $1,300,000,000 increase to
bring air force spending to $4,
150,000,000 for the 1943 calendar
year and to $5,450,000,000 for next
year.
4. An additional $192,000,000
above budget estimates to mod
ernize the navy’s air arm this
year and $310,000,000 more for the
same purpose in 1949.
“We believe,” the commission
said, “that the United States will
HOW TO TRAVEL
AT NO EXPENSE
MEMPHIS, Tenn. i/P)— If you
are enterprising, it’s possible to
take your wife on a year-long
trip to the tropics at no expense.
Catching their breath here be
fore heading southward again,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McBride, of
Los Angeles, told how they did it.
In a small boat they traveled
down the California coast. The
boat was sold in Mexico for ‘“a
big price.” With that stake they
went prospecting.
The gravel deposits of British
Guiana paid off with about 60
ounces of gold and 250 carats of
diamonds, McBride said. That
balanced the books.
be secure in an absolute sense
only if the institution of war it
self is abolished under a regime
of law.”
Clark Orders
Investigation
Of Lobbying
WASHINGTON, i/Pt —Attorney
Genera] Clark Wednesday ordered
a federal grand jury investigation
of lobbying in the District of Co
lumbia.
The attorney general gave hi3
special assistant, Irving R. Kauf
man, powers of a district attorney
and authorized him to go before
the grand jury.
Kaufman has been making an
inquiry into compliance with the
lobbying registration act of 194
That law lequires that persons
attempting to influence legislation
must register with Congress and
file a rtaierncnt showing who is
paying them.
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TROMMERS BEER
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will be closed from
December 15 to about Jan. 15th
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