Truman Proclaims
State of National
Emergency
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insurance.
“I summon every person and
every community to make, with a
spirit of friendliness, whatever
sacrifices are necessary for the
welfare of the nation,” President
Truman said in his proclamation.
Events in Korea and elsewhere,
he said, constitute a “grave threat
to the peace of the world and im
peril the efforts of this country
and those of the U. N. to prevent
aggression and armed conflict.”
The*President added:
“World conquest by communist
imperialism is the goal of the
forces of aggression that have been
loosed upon the world.”
If this goal is achieved, he said,
Americans will forfeit the “full
ahd rich life” they have built, the
blessing sof freedom of worship,
of speech an dthe “right to criti
cize their government,”
Mr. Truman said communist
conquest would cost the American
people “the right to choose those
who conduct their government,
the right to engage freely in col
lective bargaining, the tight ,to en
gage freely in their own business
enterprises, and the many other
freedoms and rights which are a
part of our way of life.”
“The increasing menace of the
forces at communist aggression re
quires that the national* defense
of the U. S. be strengthened as
speedily as possible,” the procla
mation said.
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Says Truman
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4. (Mr. Truman said the economy
will (be expanded, too, and kept
- on an even keel. This, • he said,
means very high production tar
gets and the willingness of make
an all-out effort to reach theau
He said the defense effort would
push prices up unless positive ac
tion is taken to keep them down.
Further taxes will be needed and
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non-military expenditures must be
cut to the bone.
The government, said the Presi
dent, is starting to impose price
controls at once on some materials
and products, and will also un
dertake to stabilize wage controls
in the same fields, as the law re
quires. V
At President said he is setting
up on office of defense mobiliza
tion to direct the government’s
mobilization activities.
Discharged from the hospital
are (Meta (Muller, and Daisy Jack.
Daniel Wright has been admit
ted to the hospital.
Nome To Have
Good Roads Assn.
Chapter
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president, and Ted Duf field, sec
retary-treasurer.
Their first official act was to
send a wire to Col. John Noyes of
of Alaska Road Commission in re
lation to the Nome-Solomon road
which reads as follows:
December 15, 1950
Col. John Noyes, »
Commissioner of Roads
Juneau, Alaska.
Nome Chapter of the Alaska j
Good Roads Association today
unanimously voted to request you
to use all means possible to have
appropriation for Nome-Solomon
Road reinstated. Road of utmost
economic importance to this area.
Alsa important strategically. Oil
delivered by road is $3.50 per
drum. With road out, transporta
tion by air costs $15.00 per drum,!
making any type of industry ut
terly impractical. Three communi
ties will lose their livelihood if
road is not built as old road now
washed out and in places beyond
repair. Please advise to whom
copies of this wire Should be sent
to help the cause....
Signed — Don Lyle, president;
Grant Jackson, vice president;
Ted Duffield, secretary-treasurer.
A large charter membership is
planned as aU present at the meet
ing were unanimously in favor of
the organization which has al
ready been accepted in most of the
towns of Alaska.
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The horizontal red, w^iite and
blue stripes of the Neehtrlands
flag originally were orange, white
and a lighter blue.
Rocket Fails In
Altitude Attempt
White Sands Proving Ground,
N. M. <(jF)—The sixth Navy Viking
rocket fizzled out yesterday in an
assault on the world altitude rec
ord of 114 miles for a one-stage
rocket.
The Viking cut itself off after 65
seconds of flight—just 10 seconds
short of a new altitude mark of
115 miles. The 114-mile record
was set Dec. 17, 1946, toy a Ger
man V-2.
The biggest of all American
rockets reached a peak of 68 or
69 miles—well below the 106.4
mile height attained last May 11
by a Viking fired from a warship
in mid-flPacific. Another 10 sec
onds at its estimated speed of
2,750 miles an hour would have
set a new record.
A doubleheader—or two-stage
rocket—last year soared to the all
time record altitude of more than
250 miles. In that firing, a small
"Wac Corporal” was launched
from the nose of a V-2 high in the
sky.
Dr. tMilton Rosen, rocket expert
in charge of the shoot, said radio
signals sent back during the flight
would tell what went wrong.
Additional information will be
obtained from the instrument
loaded head which officials hoped
to recover yesterday.
The Viking winked like a blue
star as it seemed td disappear in
to the star capella. A radio signal
was transmitted to the ground
three of four seconds after the
power plant turned itself off at
12:05 a.m. Rosen said he suspects
the .trouble was in the power
plant.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
Monday, December IS. 1950
WILL BE TEN HAPPY .
CHRISTMAS DINNERS
Ten Nome homes know what
they are going to have for Christ
mas dinner. Larry Galvin states
that turkies have been given by
his stores to Rev. M. Troutman,
Carl Newman, Vera Huff, Lou
Healy, Dan Jones, Earl Scott,
Charlie 'Moon, Bessie Bourdon
and Theodore Duffield. Another
turkey is waiting to be claimed.
WILL SPEND $3004)00,000 ON
ALASKA DEFENSE NEXT YEAR
JUNEAU *(/P)—A federal official
said last week that $300,000,000
will be spent next year for Alas
ka defense construction.
The estimate was made by Ken
neth Kadow, chairman of the
Alaska field committee, which acts
as a coordinator for federal agen
cies. It was made upon his return
here from a conference in Anchor
age with Col. L. E. Seaman, dis
trict U. S. army engineer, - and
other government and civilian of
ficials.
Kadow said steps will be taken
to break bottlenecks on priority
problems concerning projects di
rectly or indirectly affecting the
antional defense picture in Alaska.
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