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Govt. Report
Director Resigns
VV A S H I N GTON. (>P> — Miss
Katherine C. Blackburn resigned
yesterday as acting director of the.
office of government reports, part
of the executive office of Presi
dent Truman.
Miss Blackburn wrote the Pres
ident she was leaving with “great
regret” due to “recent action taken
by the Congress.”
The agency suffered a heavy cut
in funds at the hands of Congress,
which voted $230,000 as compared
with a $600,000 request by Mr.
Truman. Moreover, Congress ruled
that nobody in the agency should
receive more than $7500 annually
in salary.
The President accepted Miss
Blackburn’s resignation with re
gret and praise for her work.
THE SENSE OF SMELL IS
usually only very indefinitely lo
cated in invertebrates, according
to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
In these animals, the sensory cells,
which react to chemical stimuli
are distributed over large areas of
the skin.
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Unable To Raise
Workers Wages
ANCHORAGE. i/T*)—City coun
cil members, still deadlocked in a
labor dispute with electrical work- (
ers and telephone operators, were
told yesterday by Mayor Francis
Bowden that the situation “boils
down to not enough money."
“The city is definitely broke,"
the mayor ^said, adding that the
condition “is no reflection on this
council nor on the previous coun- j
cils."
The union, which turned down
two new’ “final” proposals Wed
nesday, w'as to meet with the coun
cil. Conciliator Leonard Evans of
Juneau was expected to be on i
hand for the session.
Councilmen suggested the possi
bility of dispensing with a consid-1
erable number of the workers and
of raising utility rates in an effort'
to meet the wage demands. No ac
tion was taken however.
The union agreed to continue!
operating switchboards on an
emergency basis at least until last
: night.
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ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Despite a
continued deadlock after seven
and one-half hours of negotiations,
conciliators remained optimistic
today regarding a settlement of
the week-old strike of the city’s
electrical workers.
“The situation is healthy,” com
mented Leonard E.'Evans, of the'
Territorial department of labor at i
Juneau.
“We’re edging gradually closer
together. There is definite prog
ress,” added Larry Lewis of the U.
S. department of labor, Seattle.
Evans said the union had agreed
to take a 40-hour week at the sal-1
ary of $106 a week presently paid
for a 48-hour week.
The original union demand was
increases ranging from 17 to 19
per cent.
CARL GROSS RECEIVES
COMMERCIAL PILOT LICENSE
Carl Gross, operator for the U.
S. E. D. at the Nome Base power
house who has been a student with
the Nome Flying School became a
commercial pilot Wednesday by
passing his flight test with ease.
Other recent soloists were Ray
mond McKinley and Joseph Ma
I lony.
Often we hold friends by hold
i ing our tongues.
mrkmpi
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Nome, Golovin, Unalakleet and St. Michael Aug 9th.
Freight received from July 30th to Aug. 7th, inclusive.
SS. BARANOF scheduled to sail from Sewkrd for Juneau.
Ketchikan, and Seattle, Aug. 8th.
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SS. ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seward for Valdez.
Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle August 14th.
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Reservations made through Anchorage or Nome Agent.
U. S. Musi Control
Food Or Europe
Will “Blow-Up”
W A S H I N GTON, (/Pi — The
United Nations food and agricul
ture organization said today the
choice is another year of govern
mental controls over food exports
and imports or a possible serious
political and social blowup in Eu
rope.
In a report prepared for its an
nual meeting opening at Geneva
August 25, the FAO called for ex
tension of a .system of internation
al collaboration in dividing scarce
foods among shortage areas.
Under this system—due to ex
pire Dec. 31 unless extended by
the more than 30 nations voluntar
ily cooperating—the governments
rather than commercial agencies
largely control movements of
foods.
Stating that world food produc
tion has not recovered as quickly
as had been expected and that
many areas face even slimmer
diets next year than this, the FAO
said global action must be intensi
fied to prevent possible starvation,
particularly in Asia.
New Taxes Hit
Anchorage
ANCHORAGE. (/Pi — The city
government, hard pressed finan
cially, looked to new tax ordin
ances today to raise money for
street improvements, a ball park
and a play ground.
Measures passed Wednes day
night tax beer malt 25 cents a
case, hard liquor 25 cents a gallon,
gasoline lVfe cents a gallon, and
oil five cents a quart, effective im
mediately. •
The liquor tax is expected to
raise from $60,000 to $75,000 an
nually, which will be earmarked
for the ball park and play ground.
The gas and oil tax should bring
in from $15,000 to $40,000, which
will be spent for street improve
ments, council men said.
Liquor dealers had previously
approved a liquor tax by a vote
of 28 to 3, councilman L. McGee
said.
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Persons with some spelling of;
the surname “Smith” lead all
other name groups in the records
■of the federal old-age and surviv
ors insurance program followed
in order by wage earner with
variations of the names “Johnson,”
“Brown,” “Jones/’ and “Wil
liams.”
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Kenai Fire Helped !
Wildlife Preserve
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ANCHORAGE, <£») — Last<i
month's fierce Kenai peninsula
forest fife, which ravaged some
250.000 acres of spruce and other
forest lands, was described by two
U. S. fish and wildlife service re
fuge workers today as “definitely
beneficial to the area’s game—
particularly moose.”
The two men Richard Griffith
and O. Ball, both of Chicago, said 1
that an all-day inspection of the
region from the air and on land
showed little evidence of wildlife
destruction and no apparent in
jury to the soil.
“We feel that only a relatively
small portion of the moose reserve
has been destroyed,” they said, j
“From a game standpoint the fire'
was beneficial as it will result in |
the creation of additional feeding
ground.”
Principal damage was to spruce (
and other vegetation of no value
as moose food. Aspen, birch and
other small shrubs are expecttd
to sprout in the area shortly.
The inspectors said they saw
ducks, swans and geese in the re
gion as well as fresh bear and
moose tracks.
When you write th» surname
“Mail” on hearing it, you have
roughly one chance in 25 of spell
j ing it correctly, according to the
records of the federal old-age and
| survivors insurance system. In
[ these records, there are accounts
for persons of that name with 25
variations in spelling.
Death Foil Mounts
In States Heat As
Weather Eases
• Continued From Page One
tion’s highest temperatures Wed
nesday, 113 degrees. Phoenix in
the same state had 112.
Other points reporting 100 or
more included: Fresno, Calif, and
Advance, Mo. 106; Batesville,
Ark., and Paris, Tenn., 105; St.
Louis, Mo., Shreveport, La., and
Effingham, 111. 104; Little Rock,
Ark., and Pelleston, Mich. 103;
Nashville, Tenn. 101; Grand Rap
ids and Traverse City, Mich. 100.
CHICAGO (P)—After 112 heat
deaths the midwest had a cooling
off period today.
Fever temperatures persisted
however in the south. It was less
warm in the east and the north
west was almost too cool.
The Chicago weather bureau
predicted scattered showers from
the Rockies to New England. The
100-degree region included Mis
souri, Kansas, Arkansas, Okla
homa, Texas and Louisiana where
Shreveport had 106 yesterday.
Midwest and eastern tempera
tures were in the 80’s, and in
Washington, Oregon and Idaho,
low 50s of last night were ex
pected again tonight.
GERMAN MEASELS. OCCUR
ring early in pregnancy, will re
sult in congenital deafness or eye
defects, or both, in the infant in
more than 50 per cent of all in
stances, according to the Encyclo
paedia 1947 Book of the Year.
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