JERRY LOMEN ARRIVES
IN NOME
Jerry Lomen arrived home
Wednesday evening to he an ac
tive part in the Lomen Commer
cial Co. Jerry was recently mar
ried in Seattle to Miss Rosanne
Coyle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
William Jenning Coyle. Mrs. Lo
men will arrive in Nome later in
the season.
FIDDLE FASHIONER
FD'VIONTON. Alberti. i&) —
Though busy as Alberta minister
of trade and industry and of mu
nicipal affairs, C. E. Gerhart still
finds time for his hobby—making
violins. With a jackknife, chisels
and imported wood, he’s finished
one that an American expert has
appraised at $500. and he is work
ing on a second.
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AIRPLANE INDUSTRY’S WINGS
WASHINGTON — The “heavy
heavy” that hangs over the head
of aviation industry today is the
same than was there 28 years ago
— surpluses of war-produced
planes and motors.
In the field of military aviation,
this is probably a far more serious
problem than it was then. Military
aviation at the end of the war was
undergoing a change as drastic as
from the hand grenade to the
atomic bomb.
Chairman Elbert Thomas <D.
Jlah\ of the Senate Military Af
fairs committee, in a recent signed
article in “The American Maga
zine,” said “the Germans’ air wea
pons were ahead of ours at the
start of the war and far ahead at
its end. We won the air war with
muscle—not mind. We smothered
them with the sheer weight of our,
planes.”
Senator Thomas is pleading for
civilian control of airplane devel
opment, or rather air defense, in
cluding all weapons that are flown 1
through the skies. There is no (
need to get into that argument to 1
cite chapter and verse on what is 1
happening to our military plane1
production and development.
It’s practically nil. Unless pres
ent schedules are changed Great
Britain will produce twice as
many military planes as we in
1946; Australia, with about one
tenth our population, will produce
half as many; and Russia goodness1
knows what, but Stalin has prom
ised that it won’t be just a few.
E. E. Wilson, chairman of the
Aircraft Industries Association of
America, declared the other day:
“The planes produced during the
war are now obsolete and national
security now rests on the new
types developed in recent months.”
Contrast that statement with
this fact: Of the 23 airplane en-i
gines turned out in January, two
were experimental—and none was
of the jet or gas turbine propul
sion type.
There isn’t very much on the
record yet to indicate a way out
of this situation. Laboratory ex
perimentation in the United
States is not at a standstill. The
production of experimental planes
and motors is. But even more im
portantly for the progress of avi-1
ation, the wartime surplus buga
boo is here again. Only two com
panies that produced war planes
in World War I survived the
'Twenties and 'Thirties to produce
planes for World War II.
Thanks to the Contract Termi- j
nation Act of 1944 and the team
work planning and administration
of military and civilians involved,!
the aviation industry is far better
off comparatively than it was af
ter World War I.
The air coordinating committee, i
with representatives from the j
Army, Navy, and Commerce de-;
partments, and the Civil Aeronau
tics Administration, has laid out a
pioduction program of 3,000 mili-:
tary planes a year under condi- i
tions of absolute world peace
(about twice that many under ex
isting troublous conditions'.
Those are the facts, as prepared
by industry and government ex-1
pei t.s. The rest is up to Congress.
The nonpoisonous indigo snake
kills and eats the deadly rattler.
GOOD ALASKAN-MADE
CANDY
Yours in only a few hours by air
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Friends from Nome visiting our kitchen tell
us it's some of the finest candy they have ever
eaten. You, too, will agree. Ask your friends
who have tried it.
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1 pound $1.75 Air Express $1.03 Total $2.78
2 pounds $3.25 “ 1.03 ** 4.28
3 pounds $4.75 ** 1.03 “ 5.78
5 pounds $7.75 “ 1.55 “ 9.30
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