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Nome, Alaska, Monday, 7, 1951
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BYRD URGES SENSIBLE PROCEDURE
Senator Harry F. Byrd, of Virginia, wants a
“single-package” appropriations bill, so that Congress
can act intelligently on the spending program of the
nation.
The “single-package” approach to appropriations
was employed during the second session of the last
Congress but has been abandoned this year is un
wieldy and slow.
Senator Byrd calls attention to the prospect that
the nation will have an over-all expenditure of between
$75,000,000,000 and $80,000,000,000 annually after the
fiscal year 1952. He does not see how Congress can
intelligently pass on the issues involved through a
piece-meal consideration of a dozen or more separate
bills, “brought in one by one over a period of six
months or more.”
The proposal is a business-like one, in which to
apportion public funds. If there is any reason why the
Congress should not adopt the procedure, we do not
know of it. Consequently, we hope that the Congress
will take proper action to make the Byrd plan a per
manent procedure.
ACCEPT WITH RESERVE
From Formosa, via the Chinese Nationalist news
agency, comes the charge that at least three million
persons in two South China provinces have been exe
cuted by the Communists.
Moreover, the Nationalist agency says that the
purge is part of a Communist plan to exterminate
200,000,000 of China’s 450,000,000 population at the
instigation of Moscow. While there is no doubt of re
pressive measures in large areas of China, one finds P
difficult to accept the totals that come from Nationals
sources. It is somewhat difficult to believe that the
Communists have any idea of killing nearly half of the
Chinese now living in that country.
The news item gives us an excellent reason for
doubting some of the dispatches we read. Despite the
admitted purge of thousands, some of the British in
Hongkong doubt that the Reds are having serious in
ternal difficulties. Certainly, if four out of every nine
living Chinese citizens are marked for slaughter, the
Chinese Reds can expect to run into trouble. Conse
quently, until more evidence comes along, it would
be just as well to take the news report with a lot of
caution.
Economy
House Slashes
96 pet. Emergency
Funds for Harry S.
WASHINGTON, (JP)-—Economy
forces in the House pointed to a
walloping 96 per cent cut in
President Truman’s emergency
funds as evidence that they’re
pushing ahead in their drive to
reduce government spending.
The President’s funds came
under the axe when the House
passed and sent to the Senate a
$6,144,450,355 appropriations bill
financing 27 independent federal
agencies for the year starting
next July 1.
The total was $693,137,110 less
than Mr. Truman has asked, and
$24,000,000 of that was slashed
from the President’s own emer
gency money request. The fund
is given the President to meet
emergency needs arising from
domestic or foreign developments
not provided for in specific ap
propriations.
Mr. Truman had requested $25
millions for the fund. The House
Appropriations Committee chop
ped it in half and the House it
self, by a roll-call vote of 160
to 128, whacked it down to
$1 million, but it let the President
retain an estimated $4 million left
over from the current year’s fund.
Big Demand
For Asbestos
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From Alaska
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Current national demand and
accompanying high market prices
should spur further exploration
and development work on chryso
tile and tremolite asbestos de
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posits in the Kobuk river region
and elsewhere in the Territory, it
is reported by the Alaska Devel
opment Board.
More than 30 large asbestos
manufacturing concerns, inter
ested in developing new sources
of supply, have contacted * the
Board during the past month re
garding possibilities of purchasing
asbestos or developing deposits in
the Territory.
A New Jersey company now is
considering ptens to explore ex
tensively the Kobuk river region
from which has come the only
commercial production of asbestos i
in Alaska. Small shipments, ag-1
gregating about 45 tons, were
made from the region in 1944-45,
bringing prices which ranged as
high as $1,000 per ton.
Occurrences of asbestos also
have been noted in the Salcba and
Tolovana districts, the Timber
Creek region near Tok Junction,
the Marshall district and on Ad
miralty Island. Extensive explor
ation is required to determine
whether these deposits have com
mercial value.
Prospectors and others desiring
to be placed in touch with poten
tial purchasers should write the
Alaska Development Board, Box
50, Juneau, furnishing samples if
possible.
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Battle of Jordan Rages
Between Israel and Syria
ISRAEL - SYRIAN FRONTIER,
(JP) — The Battle of the Jordan
raged as Israelis and Syrians
blazed away at each other with
artillery and mortars north of the
Sea of Galilee.
After a lull during the hours of
darkness, the Syrians opened a
dawn attack on Israeli positions,
the Israelis said. An Israeli
spokesman in Tel Aviv said the
Syrians also tried to seize the
comanding height of Tel El Mu
teila inside Israel but were re
pulsed in an 80-minute battle.
A Syrian communique said the
Iraeli lossing in 24 hours of fight
ing were estimated at 27 killed.
The fighting broke out Friday
! only three and a half hours after
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fire. Israel accused Syria of vio-:
lating the cease-fire.
UNDERTAKER is given
"DEVIL OF A TIME"
LITTLE ROCK, {£>) —An in
dignant woman stalked into a
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funeral home and told a bewil
dered clerk:
“That advertisement of yours
outside is in poor taste.”
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He found a man dressed in a
black suit and wearing a skeleton
face standing in front of the
building. And approaching him
was a man dressed like a devil.
It developed that the two were
advertising a revival meeting and
the skeleton, having arrived first,
was simply waiting for the devil.
INDIANS RUN OWN
REVOLVING LOANS
WIDOW ROCK, Ariz., (£>)-—The
Navajo Indians are handling the
tribal money with a loan com
mittee just like Uncle Sam.
The money comes from oil and
other resources. This year the
tribal council appropriated $724,
000 to the revolving loan fund.
The loans go to stock men and
farmers among the 60,000 In
dians and to co-op projects like
tribal trading posts, sawmills and
small industries.
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Gen. Marshall’s TeyT*—~ny
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Communist China, both from the
sea and from the air.
“He would have us accept the
risk of involvement not only in
extension of the war with Red
China, but in an all-out war with
the Soviet Union,” the defense
secretary said, adding:
“He (MacArthur) would have
us do this even though the effect
of such action might expose West
ern Europe to attack by the mil
lions of Soviet troops poised in
Middle and Eastern Europe.”
Marshall, at the outset of his
testimony, said he deplored what P
he called the necessity for testify
ing in contradiction to “a brother
army officer.”
Then in later discussion of Mac
Arthur, he said it is “completely
understandable and, in fact, at
times commendable that a theater
commander should become so
wholly wrapped up in his own
aims and responsibilities that
some of the directives received by
him from higher authority are not
those that he would have written
for himself.”
Typhoon Roars Across
Philippine Island Chain
MANILA, OP)—Red Cross em
ergency crews were ordered to
stand by Friday as a tropical ty
phoon roared across the Philip
pine Island chain. ,t
Communications were cut off
with the southern part of the Bi
col Peninsula, northern Samar,
and the Masbate Islands. They re
ceived the full force of the great
winds.
There were no reports of cas
ualties.
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