Kenai Children In
Mass Operation
ANCHORAGE — Alaskan in
genuity served well Sunday when
23 Kenai school children had
their tonsils and adenoids removed
in the first “mass” tonsillectomy
held in the Territory.
Dr. Melvin Beltz, Seldovia hos
pital surgeon, performed the work
in about 13 hours. B. V. Bowen,
anesthetist, of Seldovia, assisted.
Mrs. Clara Hickok, executive
Red Cross secretary of the An
chorage chapter, and Mrs. Mary
McLure served as nurses and sur
gical assistants.
Two teachers desks were shoved
together and used as an operating
table in the school library. The
hospital “staff,” ably assisted by
Lyman Allen, principal of the
school, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Lou
ise Mayers, a teacher, set up two
classrooms as convalescent rooms.
After each operation, the sur
gical implements were sterilized
in the teachers quarters, located
upstairs in the school building.
Despite the improvisation, the
operations went smoothly. There
was no hemorrhaging and all the
patients bounced back in % short
order. In fact, Anna Ivanoff, op
erated on Sunday at about 2:30
p.m., was back in school again
yesterday.
Flown to Kenai by Merle Smith
“the flying preacher” of Palmer,
Mrs. Hickok, on Red Cross orders,
• took medical supplies such as
plasma and oxygen. She left a
complete first aid disaster unit in
Kenai, she said yesterday after re
turning here in Smith’s plane.
The Anchorage chapter of the
Red Cross also furnished cots,
blankets, linens, and towels, after
receiving a request from Dr. Beltz
Mrs. Hickok said.
The children were kept over
night in the school, cared for by
the attendants and some of the
mothers while Dr. Beltz and the
nurses were on call.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
U.N. Defeats Soviet
Pal<*8tine-Motion ,
(By Max Harielion)
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y. (JP)—
Despite a threatened Arab walk
J out. the political committee of the
, United Nations assembly defeated
j a Soviet move to have a U. N. Pal
estine inquiry commission draft
proposals for immediate indepen
dence of the Holy Land.
The vote was 26 against the
Russian measure, 15 in favor, with
12 abstentions and two absences.
This meant that the inquiry
j commission would be given a free
! hand to consider all possible solu
tions of the Palestine problem
without any special reference to
the independence question.
The vote came after Faris el
Khoury, Syrian delegate, said out
side the chamber that the Arab
delegations were considering the
possibility of walking out of the
special assembly in protest against
a majority stand on the Palestine
question.
i El Khoury, a leading spokesman
for the five Arab states in the U.
N., told newsmen that if the pres
ent trend in the deliberation of the
assembly’s political committee
continued, the Arabs would adopt
a policy of non-cooperation” with
the work of the proposed U. N.
Palestine inquiry commission. He
| said the Arab delegates might
even leave the assembly.
El Khoury specified that this
eventuality was in the process of
; formulation and that the five
Arab countries had not yet made
1 their final decision.
| The Arab delegations caused
i brief concern when they were not
i in the chamber as the political
committee resumed debate. The
1 Egyptian delegation, however, en
tered four minutes later and was
followed by Syria, Iraq, Saudi
Orabia and Lebanon, which was
24 minutes late.
El Khoury said the Arabs were
i insisting on two points:
| 1. At least a mention of the
word “independence” in the in
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TB Will Increase
If Budget Is Cut
j> ((/P) Special Washington Service)
! WASHINGTON (£>)—Dr.V. Earl
Albrecht of Juneau says Alaska
fcices a serious setback in its cam
paign against tuberculosis unless
! the House slash of $819,000 in
funds for the Alaskan Native
Service is restored.
Dr. Albrecht, health commis
I sioner of the Territory, testified
! to a Senate appropriations sub
committee that Alaska is a “very
j desirable place to live" but the tu
berculosis death rate “is nine
times that of the United States.”
The Alaskan doctor said there
are an estimated 4,000 tubercular
patients in Alaska and that some
400 hospital beds now used for
their care must be cut back if the
House cut goe/ unchanged.
He said much action would
spread the disease among both na
tives and others.
Senator Dworshak (R.-Idaho> |
told other members of the Senate,
group that as a House member he
had visited Alaska in 1945 and
“seen the very fine work that Dr.
Albrecht is doing there.”
Other Senators asked why Alas
ka should not increase taxes to
' offset the federal reduction.
Governor Ernest Gruening re
plied that Territory taxpayers
now are contributing about $440,
' 000 a year for these purposes,
many times the amount they paid
a few years ago.
The House voted the Alaskan
Native service $3,250,000 of a bud
; get recommendation of $4,069,000.
; structions to be given the inquiry
| commission.
2. Reference to the United Na
'• tions charter in those instructions.
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Railroad Says
Yards Clogged
ANCHORAGE — The Alaska
Railroad. Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce and army officials have
again sought an answer to the
congested freight conditions in
♦'ie railroad yards and officials
were asking for more cooperation
from local businessmen who are
partially responsible.
The meeting, attended by about
30 persons, was held in Col. John
P. Johnson’s office.
At the present time the freight
shed, two Butler huts and about
100 freight cars are loaded and
there is no place for an estimated
11,000 tons of freight which is due
within the next ten days.
The, congestion here is the result
of a number of circumstances.
One of these is the fact that An
chorage merchants, fearful of an
other ship tie-up, over-ordered
and now have no storage space for
the merchandise.
Another point brought out was
that goods now arriving here are
not particularly needed at this
time of the year. They were held
up for months in the States and
upon arrival here are not being
picked up.
Many people have refused part
shipments especially when they
have to pay for the full order.
Patterson Testifies
In May Trial
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of war Patterson testffied Tuesday
that former Hep. Andrew J. May
<D.-Ky.» sought his help on sev
eral occasions in behalf of the
$78,000,000 Garsson munitions
combine.
The prosecution summoned Pat
terson as a star witness in the
fourth week of May’s trial on
charges of taking more than $55.
001 in wartime bribes.
On trial with the 72-year old
wartime head of the House mili
tary committee are munitions
makers Henry and Murray Gars
son and Joseph F. Freeman
Washington agent for the Garsson
brothers.
Patterson told the jury that on
March 24, 1945, May asked him to
give an “E” award, for outstand
ing war production, to a Garsson
firm, the Batavia (111.) Metal
Products company.
He said May also contacted him
about a cutback of a Batavia com
pany contract in 1943 and, in Sep
tember, 1945, called him to the
Capitol to protest the army’s ac
tion in withholding $800,000 from
the Erie Basin Metal Products
Co., another Garsson firm. The
money was held up pending re
negotiation of a contract.
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