2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday, February 7. 1951
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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, February 7, 1951
INDIA MAY BE HUNGRY IF NOT DEMOCRATIC
Faced with the necessity of importing six million tons
of food grains in order to avoid a disastrous breakdown
in the rationing system, Indian Prime Minister Jawa
harlal Nehru has instructed his embassy to request help
from the United States in order to avert what may be a
dangerous sistuation in a few months.
The Indian government expects to import about four
million tons of food for which cash will be paid. It re
quires an additional volume for which it will be unable
to pay the current market price at the present time.
Consequently, there has been something of a change in
the attitude of the Indians toward economic aid from
the United States.
American newspaper correspondents, writing from
India, see the situation as an opportunity to make an ef
fective demonstration of our altruistic intentions. They
caution, however, that assistance to India in her dire
extremity will not change that country’s foreign policy
or “buy the goodwill of the Indian people.” Hope is
held out that our generosity may develop a growth in
friendship and demonstrate that help from the United
States does not always have “political strings attached.”
WHO IS WORKING?
(Author Anonymous)
Population of the United States.135,000,000
People 65 years or older . 37,000,000
• Balance left to do the work. 98,000,000
People 21 years or younger. 54,000,000
. Balance left to do the work. 44,000,000
People working for the Government. 21,000,000
Balance left to do the work.. 23,000,000
People working for various political parties 7,500,000
I ,
Balance left to do the work. 15,500,000
; People in the Armed Forces ...*. 2,500,000
Balance left to do the work .. 13,000,000
. People in State and City Offices.. 12,800,000
Balance left to do the work. 200,000
People in hospitals and insane asylums. 126,000
JUST WHEN WE WOULD! HAVE GIVEN A DIME FOR HIS CHANCES
Korean Situatiou
At A Glance - - -
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used in Korea and elsewhere.
“Elsewhere” might mean a thrust
against the Chinese mainland, to
draw off the pressure in Korea.
There was speculation that spring
would be an advantageous time to
employ Chiang Kai-Shek’s For
mosan troops.
Wednesday, February 7, 1951
Three powerful Allied tank col
umns smash to the last hills
guarding Seoul. Allied artillery
is now in position to -bombard the
former South Korean capital.
In identical notes to Britain,
France and the United States, the
Soviet Union left the door open
for a council of foreign ministers*
conference, but stood fast on her
claim that American rearmament
is the main problem, and the chief
threat of peace.
The notes, delivered Monday,
were made public last night in
Moscow. They were in reply to
i Western query whether Russia
would discuss at a Big-Four coun
cil meeting the basic causes of
! world tension rather than the Ger
| man question alone.
Washington officials interpret
ed the note as making the council
meeting, highly possible, but still
putting into doube the possibility
of full discussions of all questions.
The U. N. political committee
j today hears Czechoslovakia add
! her charges to those of the three
big Soviet representatives and Po
land that the United States is guil
ty of aggression against Red Chi
na. But when the east-bloc charges
I were all heard the* committee was
j expected to throw out the accusa
tions by a lopsides vote of the
anti-communist nations.
— .
Widow of 1st Alaska
I Governor Dies
i _
, NEW YORK, (JP)—Mrs. Eliza
beth Patton Brady, 88, widow of
John G. Brady, Governor of Alas
ka from 1896 to 1906, died in her
| apartment cm Park Avenue yes
| terday after a long illness.
Mrs. Brady, who was born in
Cochrantton, Pa., went to Alaska
i
in March, 1885, and opened the
first government school for na
tives.
She also pioneered in industrial
training for natives and from 1916
to 1920 she served as an agent for
the Indian Service in Sitka.
In 1887 she married Brady, who
had come to Alaska in 1878 as a
Protestant minister following his
graduation from Yale University
and Union Theological seminary.
Her late husband left the ministry
after one year and entered busi
ness in Alaska. In 1896 he was ap
pointed the first resident Gover
nor of Alaska.
Mrs. Brady is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Mary Beattie and
Miss Elizabeth P. Brady, both of
New York; three sons, John G.,
and Hugh P. Brady of Seattle, and
Sheldon Jackson Brady of Patter
, son, N. Y.
Tourist Trade Can
Be Big Business In
Alaska: Sundborg
“A survey shows that 64,000
tourists in Alaska left approxi
mately $9,000,000 in the Territory
during 1949,” George Sundborg,
told Kiwanians at a regular lunch
eon meeting at the Baranof Hotel
in Juneau last week.
Sundborg outlined what other
areas had done to develop the
tourist industry and how it had
come to be an important income
source. He stressed that Alaska
had much to offer visitors and
stated that properly promoted, the
tourist business could become the
leading industry here.
Some of the problems to be met,
he said, were need of accommoda
tions, more transportation, rustic
lodges, and to develop activities
to make the tourist season longer.
Sundborg reviewed the studies
made by the Development Board
and the successful procedures
used by the Hawaii Visitors Bu
reau which promoted the tourist
business there into a $50,000,000
a year industry.
“The Alaska Visitors Associa
tion has been organized and the
present Territorial legislature will
be asked to provide a modest sum,
which will be matched by the
businessmen of the Territory, to
launch a promotion campaign to
bring more tourist dollars here,”
he said.
To Vote on Hawaii
Statehood Feb. 21
|
—
' <(/P) Special Washington Service)
1 WASHINGTON, (£>)—Chairman
Murdock (D.-Calif.) of the House
| insular affairs committee has ten
j tatively set Feb. 21 as the date
for considering the Hawaii state
hood bill.
Earlier yesterday, the Senate
interior committee decided to vote
Feb. 20 whether to report the Ha
waii and Alaska Statehood bills
without further hearings.
Delegate Farrington (R.-Ha
waii) said he expects the House
' committee to act promptly on Ha
waii statehood “without extensive
hearings.” Most committee mem
bcrs are familiar with the legis
lation, Farrington added.
Farrington said he will seek an
amendment, which would ratify
i the action of Hawaiian voters,
who approved a state constitution
at the November election.
The Senate committee decision
was announced by chairman O’
Mahoney (D.-Wyo.)
—
CapL Stanley Morgan, com
manding offices here of ACS, this
! morning stated that the story that
has been circulating around that
| ACS families are being evacuated
I is entirely erroneous.
He explained that three famil
ies are leaving as the men are
ready for rotation, but other fam
ilies are coming in to replace
| them as they leave.
For Good Printing Call Main 12?
i
Balance left to do the work. 74,000
Bums and others who won’t work. 62,000
I
| Balance left to do the work. 12,000
Persons in jail.. .11,998
y _
Balance left to do the work.... 2
TWO? YOU AND I
And you’d better get a wiggle on. I’m getting good
and tired of running this country alone.
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Asks Alaska Banks
Be CertifiedBefore
Receiving Charter
JUNEAU, (A3) — The Alaska
Bankers Association deceided Sat
urday to recommend to the legis
lature that all new banks be re
quired to qualify for federal de
posit insurance before obtaining
charters.
The full membership will be
polled telegraphically on whether
to recommend that existing banks
be required to qualify for insur
ance within five years.
Tt was recommended that the
Territorial banking board's issu
ance of charters be made discre
j tionary, as provided under the
j Model American Banking Code,
j Present Alaska legal procedure
is that the issuance of a charter is
mandatory when paid-in capital
; qualifies.
The Association also recomend
ed that capital requirements for
new banks be set at least at $50,
000, and existing banks be requir
ed to raise their capitalization to
that figure within five years.
With business sessions winding
up during the day, the bankers
gathered Saturday to hear Gover
nor Gruening address their ban
| quet.
The convention drew a dozen
banking executives from States as
far distant as New York.
_
BOEING TO FINANCE MOD
ERNIZATION OF U. OF W.
WIND TUNNEL
(Special)—Boeing Airplane Co.
will finance modernization of the
University of Washington’s F. K.
Kirsten Aeronautical Wind Tun
nel under terms of a contract an
nounced recently. Work on the
propect will start immediately.
The contract, providing for an
initial payment of $20,00 to the
University for improvements to
i the tunnel, was announced jointly
i by Prof. Fred S. Eastman, head of
the University’s Aeronautical En
gineering department and director
of the University’s aeronautical
laboratories and George S. Schair
er, Boeing staff engineer in charge
of aerodynamics and power
plants.
The Boeing Company also will
make advances up to an addition
al $20,000 for the project, if neces
sary, as prepaid rent for use ctf
the University tunnel.
The funds will ibe used ito
soundproof the interior of the
tunnel and to install a new (bal
ance system to provide improved
methods of model testing.
, INTERIOR DEPT. OJC/* MOTOR
| FISHING IN BRISTOL BAY
(</P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, {JP}—The Inte
rior department has reiterated its
decision that powered fishing
boats may operate in Alaska’s
| Bristol Bay.
Last November the department
held a hearing in Seattle on the
regulation issued April 8, 1950,
which permits the use of such
boats which are not more than 32
feet -long.
Operators in the area had pro
tested that replacing the tradition
al fleet of gill-net said boats with
motor boats would threaten the
1 conservation of the salmon run.
Dale E. Doty, assistant secre
tary of the interior, said in a news *
release Wednesday that the April,
1950, regulation is in the public
interest and will stand. *
Doty said the fish and wildlife
service had sufficient enforcement
powers to protect the salmon runs
against undue depletion.