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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_,
VOL. LIII No 49 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1951 _Per Copy—15^
House Approves
Emergency Budget
Of $6,468,206,000
WASHINGTON^ {/P) — The
^ House Appropriations Committee
approved today a $6,468,206,000
emergency defense budget and
readied itself to consider another
military request which may ex
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ceed $70 billions.
The amount recommended to
day for.House consideration start
ing tomorrow, is for emergency
purposes growing out of the step
• . ped-up tempo of war in Korea.
Most of it. will be spent during j
May and June. ’
It is in addition, to $48 billions
already voted the military by Con
gress for the fiscal year ending
June 30.
Included in the emergency mea
sure which the committee sent to
the House floor are funds for a
new Atomic Energy Commission,
“Project X” for a quick build-up
in the manpower of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, and the Air
Force; and for a speed-up in pro
curement of the “hardware” for
war—tanks, guns guided missiles,
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and airplanes.
Only Six Projects Alaska
Public Works Program
Definitely Approved
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—Action of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee in cutting $3 million from
a budget request of $10 millions
for Alaskan public works, leaves
only six programs definitely on
the approved construction list.
Rep. Jackson, of the committee,
identified the projects “ready to
go” as:
Fairbanks utilidores $224,000;
Fairbanks schools $470,000; Wa
silla school $600,000; Fort Yukon
school $318,000; Sand Point school
$130 000; and University of Alaska
dormitory, $400,000.
NEW GOVERNOR OF HAWAII
ADVOCATES STATEHOOD
t WASHINGTON, (JP) — Oren E.
Long nominated by President Tru
man to be the new governor of
Hawaii, advocated statehood for
the territory in his first meeting
with a House committee yester
day. Members of the House Terri
tories Subcommittee applauded
after Long described the people
of Hawaii as “thoroughly Ameri
4 can and just about the finest
people in the world.”
PULLMAN CAMPUS FIREBUG
STRIKES FOR 22ND TIME
PULLMAN, Wash., (/P) — The
campus arsonist struck again at
Washington State College last
night. The fire was the 22nd
arson attempt on the WSC campus
since March 19.
The firebug entered a room on
4 the ground floor of a dormitory
and set fire to window curtains.
The fire was extinguished before
it could spread.
VILLAGE OF THE BUND
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TEL AVIV—This could be like<
Job's "Land of Darkness and lhe
Shadow of Death. • . •"
As a matter of fact, Kfar Ivrim
—Hebrew . for "Village of the
Blind"—is a place of hope and| re
newed faith in life.
The settlement was established
only a few months ago amidst the
vineyards and orange groves of
the Israel coastal plain southeast
of Tel Aviv.
A year or two ago many of the
70 blind men and women who are
| now staying here, squatted and
jwrapped in rags, with out
; stretched hands, at street comers
| in southern Arabian towns, in the
! noisy bazaars of Baghdad, in stm
! dried North-Africa or forgotten
Balkan villages—just beggars.
Others were in World War II
concentration camps in Europe. '
Today, the Orientals and the
Europeans, are all proud Israeli
workers; they earn wages and
! support their families. In a few
cases both man and wife are blind.
In most, either the one or the
other is. Their children can see.
The children—there are about
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100 of them—90 to school in. the
nearby old-established colony of
Gederah. Some day they will
make an excursion a few miles to
the south to the ruins of Ascalon,
the ancient Philistince city where
Sampson, the Judge, one of the
greatest blind of history, per
formed many of his deeds.
' - Kfar Ivrim was founded by
j “Malben” and its head organiza
I tion “Joint” (American Jewish
Distribution Committee) which
provided the money through the
United Jewish Appeal.
In Kfar Ivrim workshops the
blind make mattresses, brushes
and wicker products sold through
a special shop- in Tel Aviv. L/ater
j the whole outfit * may be turned
1 into a cooperative.
I Dr. Nissim Ha gel, the respected
j mukhtar (village head), teacher
and arbiter, is a former Warsaw
lawyer who contracted an eye
disease ending in blindness, while
| he was a soldier in World War II.
He is the only one in the village
1 led by a dog—one of seven “See
I ing Eye” dogs now in Israel.
Chief of AP Bureau in
Prague Disappears
LONDON, </P) — William N.
Oatis, chief of the Associated
Press Bureau at Prague, has been
missing since Monday and efforts
to trace him have been fruitless
sa far.
The United States embassy at
Prague told the London office of
the Associated Press by phone to
day that it had asked the Czech
Foreign Office to help locate him.
Oatis, 36, is from Marion, Ind.
One of Oatis’ American col
leagues in Prague said he was
last seen going to an appointment
with Rudolf Popper, foreign press
chief of the Czech Ministry of
Information.
Russel Jones of United Press
reported that inquiries to Popper
about Oatis’ whereabouts brought
“only very vague replies.”
NORTH STAR TO MAKE FIRST
BERING SEA TRIP MAY 12
The M.S. North Star of the ANS
will leave Seattle May 12 on its
first trip of the season into Ber
ing Sea. On that trip stations to
be supplied will include Gam
bell on St. Lawrence Island. The
Pt. Barrow trip is scheduled to
leave Seattle on August 4.
Growing Epidemic of Cholera
In Calcutta Claims 142 Lives
CALCUTTA, India, (/P) — Au
thorities today sought means to
check a growing epidemic of
cholera which has claimed 142
lives in Calcutta during the past
two weeks.
Combatting the ancient scourge
is complicated by general objec
tion to innoculation against chcfl
era and by continued sale of food
from open sidewalk stalls, despite
city laws prohibiting this practice.
New Order To
Roll Back General
Price Levels
WASHINGTON, (jP)—President
Truman called in his top econ
omic mobilization team today for
a conference on what changes are
needed in the Economic Controls
Law. • "
Nearly one fourth of the Ameri
can economy was brought under
0 single sweeping pripe order y^S*
terdayjyhich the government said
wiil roli back “the general Jevel
of manufacturers’ prices.”
The' new'order will bring Some
pfice" increases—mainly for those
who -heeded- the' goverfriherit’s ap-:
peal for “voluntary’- restraint and
then were caught in. the; Jan* 26..
price freeze. But these will be out-,
weighed by 'the rollbacks, Price
Director Disalle said.- - -
Stripped to essentials, each fac
tory’s new price ceiling will be:
the pre-Korean price, plus wage
increases and increased cost of
materials.
On food and farm prices the
present law forbids ceilings on
them below parity—a price de
fined in farm laws as fair to both
producers and consumers.
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Nome Chamber Endorses
Program Induce Tourists
Visit Northwest Alaska
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The Chamber of Commerce held
an interesting noon meeting yes
terday and endorsed the report of
the Tourist Committee and* its
program. The program oalls for
advertising at Fairbanks, Anchor
age and Seward to encourage peo
ple who are on short tours to in
clude the Northwest on their trip.
The program calls for the soli
citing of private homes to take
care of these visitors, as the hotels
do* not feel that they can handle
all that are anticipated this sea
son. Rooms as well as available
small cabins should be equipped
to care for those visitors who
wish to stay a few days.
The spirit of friendliness for
which Nome is famed—should be
emphasized with a cordial and
friendly reception of the tourists.
Everyone living in the commun
ity should enter into the spirit of
entertaining those who come to
see us, sums up the report of
the committee which is headed
by A. Pcrlet.
A. Saario was acting chairman
in the absence of the president and
vice president.
Don Hurlbert reported on the
labor committee to the effect that
there were plenty of people will
ing to work but right now, no
work available for them.
Evelyn Tweet of Teller who has
been enjoying a trip to California,
returned this morning enroute
home again.
Search On For
Bethel Teacher
And 2 Children
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A wide
spread air search continued today
for a light private plane lost since
Sunday in the snowy mountain
region horth of here with a school
teacher and two children aboard.
Military, and civilian aircraft
scoured the Rainy. Pass area for
trace . of the Stinson Voyager
which disappeared on a 400-mile
flight' from McGrath ”16 An6hor
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••v The pilot-was Bert.Gann, Bethel
school' teacher. ;He was believed
tp h^ve bpen flying his. six-year
pld daughter, tp _Anchorage . for
hospital carerfAlso aboard \tfks a
14*yeaf-old boy, one of Gann’s
pupils;-*: ;:.jCnUw*?
The.:.plane’s three : occupants
were not clothed for cold weather
and carried no emergency sup
plies. It was feared that a recent
snowfall would cover traces of
the plane if it was farced down
or crashed.\
Non-sked Airlines Assert
They Are Denied Share
Of Military Transport
WASHINGTON, UP)—A spokes
man for non-scheduled airlines
said yesterday, they have yet to
receive “the large share” of mili
tary transport travel promised
them by the Defense Department.
’ He put the blame on *the big,
scheduled airlines. He said they
have men at the Pentagon work
ing “to undercut the basic policy
laid down by the Department of
Defence. ~ ' • ■ *
The statements were made by
Amos E. Heacock, president of
the Air Coach Transport Associa
tion, in testifying before the Sen
ate Small Business Committee.
The Committee is looking into
the operations of the non-skeds^
and particularly a Civil Aeronau
tics Board order restricting their
flights on certificated routes of
regular carriers. The non-sched
uled lines have complained the
order is a “death edict.”
Heacock said that despite as
surances from the Defense De
partment “no official military
travel or personnel in plane-load
lots has been transported by dom
estic non-scheduled carriers on
domestic routes.”
KOREAN WAR SITUATION
(By the Associated Press)
Allied troops check Communist
spring offensive on eastern front
but TJN forces fall back on entire
western half of 100-mile front.
Counterattacking Allied troops
re-enter Inje but Reds hold high
ground on three sides of city.
Allies abandon Hwanchon in cen
ter. Allied superior firepower tak
ing heavy toll of Chinese lives.
UN officer says Allies could hold
the line anywhere but “It’s a lot
cheaper trading real estate.”
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C.A.P. CADETS vs. BILUKENS
C.A.P. SENIORS vs. 633rd RADAR
, School Gvm ' Thursday, 7:00 pjn.
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