the public reaps huge dividends in
the form of better merchandise at
fair prices. To the average citizen
of socialistic and totalitarian
countries, where I have observed
i that these things are never dupli
cated, these simple facts seem an
unattainable dream. What Ameri
can would wish to exchange this
system for methods that have
never succeeded half so well?
Profit is no parasite feeding on
our economic system. Profit is the
life blood of the industrial • and
business enterprises responsible
for the highest level of civiliza
tion the world has known. Free
dom to compete against skill and
cff;ciency by using better skill and
9 more efficiency means a progres
sive civilization—not a static
economy that either withers away
or makes spoilage for the spoilers.
Fairbanks Votes
Utilities Bonds
FAIRBANKS, (£>)—By a vote
of 526 to 210, residents yesterday
approved a $4,000,000 bond issue
to finance a public utilities system
of water, telephone, heat and
power for Fairbanks and sur
rounding communities.
The area now is provided with
cit^-wide electric service, and
with water, steam and heat in the
business district only, by the
Northern Commercial Company;
and with telephone service by the
Fairbanks Telephone company.
Both companies have asked for
renewal of franchises which ex
pire in three years.
Mayor Hjalmar Nordale said an
investigation into feasibility of
the project will be launched im
mediately.
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Armed Forces
Growing Weaker
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A proper
ly powered striking force ready
for action, and a strong armament
research and development pro
gram were urged yesterday by
Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay as part
of a four-point program of na
tional defense.
The general, on leave from dut
ies with the war department at
Washington, told the chamber of
commerce that the armed forces
of the United States are “growing
weaker instead of stronger while
the power of our potential ene
mies is increasing.’
LeMay said other essentials of
a national defense program were
a strong state department “be
cause when the state department
fails to reach an understanding
with other nations it often leads to
war;” and a strong central intelli
gence system “because we cannot
risk another Pearl Harbor.”
ROSS COOK INFANT
PASSES ON
The infant child of Mr. and
Mrs. Ross Cook, who was flown
in from Galena Monday very ill.
passed away yesterday from an
illness which has taken the lives
of several babies there.
Mrs. Cook is the daughter of
Mary Buck of Candle.
Funeral services will be from
the Federated Church today at
three o’clock, Rev. M. Day offi
ciating.
Apron and plant sale—N. C. Store
10 o'clock, Saturday morning
Home Arts Club
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
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Regular Hospital
Planes Predicted
(By Howard W. Blakeslee)
ATLANTIC CITY, (^ — Regu
lar hospital planes, flying daily
between New York, Minnesota,
Chicago, Boston, the West Coast
and the south, carrying sick peo
ple to medical centers were pre
dicted today to the Aero Medical
Association. Read Admiral J. C.
Adams, president of the associa
tion, made the prediction in out
lining a great, new field of medi
cal research all due to planes go
ing higher and flying faster.
“I look,” he said, “for a great
advance in commercial airline
transportation of the sick. Planes
specially fitted, and carrying doc
tors and nurses, can be made eco
nomically profitable.
The approach to the speed of
sound, Admiral Adams said, also
reaches the limits of certain kinds
of human endurance and skills.
This speed poses problems for the
aviation doctors, both in keeping
military personnel healthy and in
fitting men into the fast planes in
such a way that they can fight ef
ficiently.
He said that the tremendous
force of super' speed planes when
they make turns affects the flow
of blood in a human body. The
blood tried to go the same direc
tion as the outer edge of the
plane’s curving flight. A person
can stand a hard pull on his blood
for a very brief time, but even a
mild pull if long continued may
do harm.
Admiral Adams said that hu
man reflexes will not be fast
enough for some of the fighting
that has been customary. Between
the time a pilot sees an enemy tar
get and the few hundredths of a
second it takes the brain after
ward to push a button or squeeze a
trigger, the distances will be too
much changed for a shot to be ef
fective. Even at present this
change might be at the rate of as
much as 1200 miles an hour and
is likely soon to be faster.
In some combat situations, said
the admiral, the fast plane pilots
may be unable to do anything
more than head the ship in the
right general direction, leaving it
to robot and radar controls to aim
and fire.
With much greater speeds he
said it appears possible that per
sonnel cannot bail out because of
the smashing force of wind they
must face.
Waterfront Tieup
May Be Averted
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — A
i statement by an employers’
spokesman that “everyone’s talk
ing extension” of contracts gave
hope yesterday that negotaitors
will avert a West Coast waterfront
tieup.
The comment, by an official of
the Pacific American Shipowners
Association, was taken to mean
contract extension to June 15,
1948,a year from the date on which
agreements with four CIO mari
time unions and the independent
marine firemen expires.
The association originally re
jected union demands for a 12
month extension. More recently
the employers have been reported
as having agreed with the priviso
that no immediate wage increases
will be asked.
The CIO unions are the interna
tional longshoremen and ware
housemen, the radio operators and
marine engineers.
NAYION WILL FLY ALASKAN MAIL
The first Navion to be delivered to an Alaskan buyer by North
American Aviation, Inc. will be used to fly the mail, according to Bob
Rice, senior pilot of Wien Alaska Airlines, Fairbanks. Rice posed for
photographs in his cold weather flying togs by his Navion in 83-degree
weather at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport, and said the Navion
would be flown by the airline in 20-below zero weather on the mail run
from Fairbanks to Northway, 220 miles east.
ONE KIND OF LIZARD CAN
shed its tail, when in danger, and
slither away leaving the tail to
wiggle for a short time, according
to -the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The wriggling tail often distracts
pursuers until the lizard has
reached safety.
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