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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 23, 1952
HOW MUCH CAN IT TAKE?_
A PENALTY AGANST WORKING
Back when Social Security was set up there were
too many workers and not enough jobs. Accordingly,
the Congress decreed that any person over 65 years of
age, who earned more than $15 from his own efforts
in any month, would be denied the benefits of the
Social Security law.
The law has since been changed. Now if an em
ployed person over 65 years of age earns more than
$50 a month, he cannot accept a Social Security check.
If such a person owns and manages his own business
he must be over 75 to receive Social Security benefits.
The conditions which prompted such regulations
are entirely different than they were when the law
was enacted' in depression times. Defense industries
are absorbing all available hands. Older men are much
in demand, where they are still physically fit. Men not
in the best of physical condition are needed for main
tenance jobs and other tasks where they can earn ex
cellent wages. But the law says they cannot earn more
than $50 a month and accept the social security to
which they contributed during their more active years.
It is perfectly all right for persons with income from
property, from stocks and bonds and other investments
to accept such income and also social security benefits,
but they must not work and earn more than $50.
This law is unwise and should be repealed, or
else the limits should be raised, as one member of
Congress seeks to do. It is idle to talk about employing
older people and maintain a law which discourages the
practice.
Many older people would be able to live decently
if they could earn something in addition to their Social
Security. They would be happier in the thought that
they are contributing to their families and to the na
tion’s welfare.
It is time to modify this depression-born regula
tion and permit persons on Social Security to take em
ployment so they can at least have as much to live
on as they had before the dollar started decreasing
in value.
Uncontested
Control of POW
Camps Ordered
TOKYO, iJP)—Gen. Mark Clark
said Friday he had given orders
to the U.S. 8th Army “to obtain
uncontested control” of the United
Nations prisoner of war camps at
Pusan and Koje Island.
“The hard core of the rebellions
leaders at Pusan already have
been isolated from the other pri
soners,” the United Nations com
mander said in his first interview
since taking over from Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway.
When Clark assumed command
May 12 he learned the Commun
ist prisoners in the compounds
were running the camps almost
to suit themselves. Several riots
had to be put down by force.
“The prisoners’ flagrant disre
gard of our instructions will not
be tolerated any longer,” Clark
said.
“It was an intolerable situa
tion.
“The prisoners of war have cer
tain obligations and we expect
them tc? comply. It was in further
ance of this policy that I ordered
the 187th Airborne Regiment to
Koje Island.”
Daniel L. Goldy Appointed
Employment Security Director
WASHINGTON (#>)—Daniel L.
Goldy, Portland, Ore., Wednes
day was appointed Pacific North
west-Alaska regional director for
the Labor Department’s Bureau
of Employment Security with
headquarters at Seattle.
Proclamation
WHEREAS, in the past thirty
five years, the young men of our
city have been called upon to help
turn back a threat to America
on foreign battlefields, and,
WHEREAS, our young men an
swered this call with high courage
and patriotism, some of the finest
of them laying down their lives
in the nation's defense, and,
WHEREAS, the memory of
these men and their sacrifices
should live forever in our hearts,
and,
WHEREAS, our memory for
our war dead and the honor in
which we hold them is individual
ly expressed by the annual wear
ing of the Memorial Poppy,
NOW THEREFORE I, Charles
D. Jones, by the power vested in
me as Mayor of the City of Nome,
do hereby proclaim THURSDAY,
May 29th, POPPY DAY in the
City of Nome and do urge all
citizens to observe the day by
wearing the Memorial Poppy.
Charles D. Jones
Mayor of Nome
NOTICE—DANGER AREA
May 26 and 27, 1952
There will be rifle firing on
the north end of the North-South
runway at Nome Field. Firing
will be to the west.
All persons are cautioned to
stay clear of this area on these
dates.
Commanding Officer,
62 Nome Field
Arctic Lunch
Now Under New Management
Will Open Thursday
7 A.M.
Breakfast as you like it
(Even to Waffles)
Lunch 8c Dinner
Gen. Van Fleet Predicts
Complete Control Soon
Over Red Captives on Kije
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, UP) —
Gen. James A. Van Fleet said
Thursday the 80,000 stubborn
Communist captives on riot-torn
Koje Island shortly will be “under
complete control within their
compounds.”
The UJS. Eighth Army comman
der briefly visited this prisoner
of war Camp No. 1, where die
hard Reds two weeks ago seized
and held the camp commander as
hostage for 78 hours.
A few hours after Van Fleet
left Koje a prisoner attempted an
escape from notorious Compound
76 but was forcibly dragged back
by other prisoners. The Reds sta
tion their own guards inside the
enclosure to prevent anti-Commu
nist POW’s from fleeing. The man
who attempted to slip through the
barbed wire was one of the Reds’
own guards.
Filth Air Force Bombers
Smash Red Supply Area
SEOUL, Korea, <JP)—U.S. Fifth
Air Force'fighter-bombers, in an
all - out, hour - by - hour attack,
smashed a huge Communist sup
ply area Thursday between the
North Korean capital, Pyongyang,
and its port, Chinnanpo.
The attack began at dawn and
continued throughout the day.
The Air Force described the tar
get area as a huge wor materiel
manufacturing and supply area.
Fighter pilots from the First
Marine Aircraft Wing and the
Royal Australian Air Force 77th
Squadron took port in the big
strike.
On the ground, U.S. Patton tank
rifles shot up Red fortifications
along a 20-mile sector of the cen
tral front Wednesday.
A U.S. Eighth Army staff offi
cer said the tanks blasted 250
Red bunkers and inflicted 354
casualties.
ANNOUNCING ...
The Summer Opening
of the
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Thursday, May 29
i 6 p.m.
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