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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Monday, January 7, 1952
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G.O.P. NEEDS 4 MILLION VOTES
Government statisticians have estimated that the
Republican Party will need about 4,000,000 more votes
than a G.O.P. candidate has ever received, if they are
to win the 1952 Presidential election. The statisticians
estimate that of the 73 per cent of the voters with a
firm party affiliation, 41 per cent of them are Demo
crats and 32 per cent are Republicans.
Independent voters make up the other 27 per cent,
and these voters usually decide Presidential elections.
The statisticians estimate the total eligible voter-po
tential in 1952 at about 90,000,000. The two parties
will be satisfied if 60,000,000 people, two-thirds of the
potential vote.
In 1948, both parties hoped for a 60,000,000 ballot
election, but these were optimistic estimates and only
48,833,680 turned out. The largest number of votes
ever polled by a Presidential candidate was the 27,
476,673 polled by Mr. Roosevelt in 1936. The largest
number of votes ever cast for a Republican candidate
was 22,304,400 for Wendell L. Willkie in 1940.
If the G.O.P. gains 4,000,000 votes over its record
vote, it would still be under the all-time record set by
President Roosevelt. Most observers agree, however,
that if the Republicans gain 4,000,000 votes, their
chance of electing a President will be good, since the
Democratic candidate is not expected to set an all
time vote-getting record.
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Does anybody want to go back to the time when
people worked twelve and fourteen hours for a dollar
a day?
When a candidate hedges, it is safe to say he is
fixing his political fences.
You wouldn’t worry about what people think of
yGU if you knew how seldom they do.
Most of the trouble in the world is produced by
those who never produce anything else.
The most expensive part of poverty is in trying
to hide it.
Life for most of us is a continuous process of
apt.tinp used to the things we hadn’t exnected.
ANG to Hold Field
Training Camp
Jan. 13 to 27
Headquarters, Alaska National
Guard, Juneau—The Alaska Na
tional Guard is undertaking its
third winter field training camp
at Fort Richardson, Alaska, with
the 1st and 2nd Scout Battalion
participating, during the 13th to
27th of January, 1952.
Eskimo troops make up the ma
jority of personnel assigned to
the two scout battalions. For their
field training camp, all troops will
be moved from their isolated vil
lages in the Seward Peninsula,
Bering Sea and Kuskokwim areas
by bush plane and dog team to
Nome, Bethel and Unalakleet,
where they will again be moved
by the Alaska Air Command to
Fort Richardson, Alaska.
National Guard personnel from
the island of St. Paul in the Pribi
lofs will also attend this camp.
They will fly by charter aircraft
direct to Fort Richardson. Guards
men from the Seward Peninsula
will come from the villages of
Elim, White Mountain, Koyuk,
Shaktoolik, Teller and Wales
which is the outermost village on
the western tip of Seward Penin
sula facing northern Siberia ac
ross the Bering Strait. The re
mainder of the National Guards
men will come from areas sur
rounding Unalakleet and Bethel,
Alaska.
During the two weeks of train
ing the scouts will be afforded the
opportunity of receiving instruc
tion in rifle firing, small unit tac
tics, patrols, which are modified
for tundra conditions, map read
ing and compass, road marches in
volving the technique in the us
age of snowshoes. The troops will
be housed in quonset huts at Fort
Richardson. Technical training
such as personnel and administra
tion as well as radio on-the-job
training will be given.
Captain Frank Clayton, acting
battalion commander, 2nd Scout
Battalion, Bethel, Alaska, will
assume command of all troops
during the two weeks of field
training.
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Texas Seeks Recogition
As Coldest State In Union
Texas may be about to be
eclipsed by Alaska as the largest
state in the Union, but Texans ap
parently are preparing a new
claim to fame, according to the
Alaska Development Board.
What Texas seems to be after
now is recognition as the coldest
state in the Union.
Among inquiries received this
week at the Alaska Development
Board ofice in Juneau was one
from two girls, ages 13 and H,
at Grand Prairie, Texas, asking
the price of “Eskimo coats.”
“We thought we might be able
to buy one,” the girls wrote, “be
cause this Texas weather is get
ting us down. We don’t see how
the Eskimos can stand the cold,
for we freeze down here.”
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Attorney General Orders
Grand Juries Investigate
Organized Crime
WASHINGTON, (#>) — U.S. dis
trict attorneys throughout the na
tion mapped plans Monday for
the convening of special grand
juries to investigate “racketeers,
gangsters and organized crime.”
Attorney General McGrath sent
out orders over the week-end for
the calling of special grand juries
in each of the 93 federal judicial
districts “as soon as possible.”
McGrath specifically directed
that underworld figures be
brought in for questioning.
Some observers viewed Mc
Grath’s move as another step by
the administration to take politi
cal ammunition away from gang
sters.
It came at a time when some
critics were saying McGrath has
not been vigorous enough in deal
ing with corruption in govern
ment.
OPS Grants Higher
Ceilings For Ford Cars
WASHNGTON, (JP)—The gov
ernment today approved higher
ceiling prices for Ford Motor
Company passenger cars.
It refused, however, to grant
the full rise asked by the com
pany under the Capehart amend
ment to the Economic Controls
law.
The Office of Price Stabiliza-* 4
tion said the company has not in
dicated whether it will put the
increases into effect.
OPS approved a 4.97 per cent
hike on Fords compared with 5.39
-asked by the company. For Mer
cury cars, a 3.45 per cent hike
was approved compared with 4.37
per cent asked. For Lincoln, 5.19
per cent was okayed, compared
with 8.13 per cent request.
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Admitted— Samuel E. Wesley.
Discharged—Nora Billiken.
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