THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, November 15, 1950
THE ALASKA VISITORS ASSOCIATION
(Daily Alaska Empire)
If the Alaska Visitors Association manages to approx
imate the job being down by the Hawaiian Visitors
Bureau, the Alaskan tourist business is due for a sharp
upswing—to the benefit of everyone in the Territory.
A thriving tourist business brings new money to a
community—money that finds its way through all of a
town’s businesses—money that would normally not en
ter the town’s commercial traffic at all.
When George Armitage, Hawaiian Visitors Bureau
executive, spoke before the Juneau Chamber of Com
merce he told of Honolulu’s experiment with ten “tour
ist” dollar bills—and the plan by which their course
was traced through the town’s cash registers.
These dollars bought groceries, went to the movies,
into pay envelopes, paid for taxi fares and hamburgers
and were spent many times over in a single day.
And they were new dollars—new money in Honolulu
—new money that would not have found its way to the
Islands, save for the tourist industry.
Alaska’s chief problem appears to be providing ac
commodations for tourists once they are here.
“Utilize what we have,” suggested Bill Boardman,
Ketchian’s representative at Saturday’s meeting, as he
told of the plan of Ketchikan residents to rent summer
homes to tourists to supplement hotel accommodations.
Undoubtedly, other good ideas will be developed by
the Alaska Visitors Association—ideas that will help
put Alaska’s natural scenic attractions on a sound and
practical commercial basis.
First servious business before the group will be the
raising of the $50,000 or $60,000 necessary to match
whatever appropriation may be made by the Territorial
Legislature.
A cheering note at Saturday’s meeting was the inten
tion of all concerned to keep the group and its activities
out of politics.
We hope that this will not be forgotten—and that
those charged with the task of developing Alaska’s re
source will not permit politics to interfere with Alaskan
interests.
AMAZING U. S. GENEROSITY
Under the Marshall Plan, the United States has spent
$9,932,675,000 for the purchase of food, fertilizer, ma
chinery and other goods and services for the nations
MAKING IT TOUGHER FOR HIMSELF
Boy Scout Finance
Campaign To Start
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a\d cen mothers were recruite l
from the attendance of parents
wirh their sons. It is planned that
three dens will toe organized this
yea ragain, with weekly d^n meet
ings at which boys practice Cub
skills and start hanchcraf4 pro
jects Ahich are complied later at
h a ie.
Nc ire’s Boy Scout troop is sprm
sored toy the Rotary Club, and the
troops is holding regular weekly
n eetings each Thursday evening
at the public school. Former
Scoutmaster Wes Fults will serve
on the troop’s committee this year,
with two of the teachers taking
over the active ^direction of the
troop. Ed Hawkinson is Scout
master, assisted by John Alm
quist. Last year about 25 Lome
beys took par* in the Boy Scuu
program, with considerable prog
ress being reported toy their lead
ers.
| in addition to the Cub Pack s
meeting, Force and Scout execu
i five Maurice Powers from Juneau
attended the regular meeting of
the Nome American Legion Post.
The Legionnaires are considering
re-activating the Explorer pro
gram for Nome berys 14, 15, and
16„ formerly active under spon
sorship of the Marks Base Officers
Club. Organization of an Explorer
group in town would make the
Nome fellows eligible for partici
pation in the annual air encamp
ments held alternately at Ladd
and Elmendorf Air Force Bases.
Legion committeemen will meet
with former Scouts at the high
school to determine their interests
i in the new unit.
This year’s finance campaign
will try to reacn all N* me worK
ers through their place of em
ployment. It is the feeling of the
Boy Scout organization that the
suppeit of Scouting in Alaska is
everybody’3 business, ana not just
the lesponsibility of store owners.
Fe■’oral building employees and
IVL.iks Base workers will also be
contacted through the team organ
ization, Harper said, and he urged
all Nome citizens to bo generous
in their support of the Scout
movement. “Our local leaders
S need assistance from the Boy
Scouts of America in carrying out
a high-grade program for Nome
boys. We can only get this help
through providing the funds that
will make it possible for the Fair
banks field executive to come to
:'o;ne and ass* ’t 115. We als<* need
his help in connection with our
annual summer camp.
I hope everybody in Nome will
back Alaska’s boys by making
their contribution to one of the
volunteer solicitors tomorrow,”
Harper said.
Harper is a member of the
Alaska Boy Scout organization’s
boadr of directors, with other
Nome representatives on the Alas
ka Council including John Mc
Nees and Rev. Treat. Harper re
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NEWS IN BRIEF
FAIRBANKS, </P)—Theaters re
open here tonight after a 12-day
shutdown because of poliomye
litis.
Dr. Robert P. Gorman, city
health officer, lifted the ban—for
adults only—after disclosing that
no new polio cases had been re
ported since the closure.
Schools, closed at the same time
! as the theaters, will reopen next
Monday—the same day on which
children will be permitted to go to
the show.
SEATTLE (/P)—Contractors are
going to get a close-up view here
Nov. 21 of the details involved in
$106,451,800 worrth of Alaska mili
tary jobs on which they will be
bidding soon.
The contracts involve residence
and military installations at Fort
Richardson, Eielson and Ladd Air
Force Bases. Kenai and Whittier.
Col. Lyle E. Seeman, the army’s
! engineer for the Alaska district,
will explain the projects and
| problems to interested contractors. |
I The conference is scheduled for |
! 9 a.m. at the Seattle chamber of j
! commerce. A similar conference
! will be held later at San Francis- j
i
I co.
The Seattle district engineer’s
office, in announcing the meet
! ings, said advance information .
; would be available from it.
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NEW DELHI, India, iff)—Ne
pal’s embassy today announced
i Nepali government troops have!
struck back at rebels at Bhairah- j
wa and inflicted heavy casualties, j
The embassy said the rebels had
been forced to flee.
An embassy communique—the
first official report on the fighting
from the government—said the
rebel leader Capt. B. D. Ari had
appealed for a cease fire.
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ALBANY, N. Y. (/P)—'The per
I son who took the book “Improve
j Your Memory” from the Albany
public library apparently got lit
tie benefit from it.
The book was returned by mail, |
anonymously, exactly six years |
1 after the date it was due.
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HOBOKEN, N. J. (/P) — A 60
vear-old man charged with va
| grancy told a judge yesterday he’d j
| like to go to jail “at least 115 days
• until the winter is over.”
“That’s the sentence.” magis- j
; trate Charles D. Fazio, Jr., told
1 Frank Van Wie. “and I wish you
j a Merry Christmas and a Happy i
' New Year.”
I
\ RANGOON, Burma. </P) — The
1 newspaper Rangoon Daily said to
• day Chinese communist troops j
had crossed into the northern tip
| ports that 16 other Alaskan com- (
! munities have already conducted
j their annual campaigns, with
j Nome, Sitka, Kodiak, and Bielsoii
'Air Force Base binding up the
annual effort this month.
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which have been assisted by the program.
We call attention to the total because never in the
I history of the world has any one country ever expended
; such a stupendous sum in the interest of other people.
I It is just as well for Americans to understand this truth
• even if the people of other countries do not know it is
| a fact.
i This large sum does not include the amounts that this
! country has given to other nations in the form of mili
tary assistance. It represents amazing generosity on the
part of the American Government, backed by the con
• sent of the American people, to help other people over
come the devastation and dislocation of a stupendous
war.
Truman Asks Four
Billion New Taxes
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WASHINGTON, <;p)—Secretary
of the Treasury Snyder today pro
posed a 75 per cent excess profits
tax on corporations to raise the
extra $4,000,000,000 that President
Truman wants to help pay for the
expanding defense effort.
Snyder said he is “confident”
the proposal—a modified! and soft
er version of the 85.5 per cent ex
cess profits tax of World War II
—can be passed at the short-ses
sion of Congress opening Nov. 27.
The treasury chief appeared be
fore the tax-writing House ways
and means committee to back up
Mr. Truman’s plea yesterday for
a $4,000,000,000-a-year profits
levy, retroactive to July 1, as
“part of a sound program of de
fense taxation.” The President ^
said profits are soaring under the
rearmament program.
The committee called in Snyder
to give details on Mr. Truman’s
request as it began hearings un
der a mandate for Congress to try
to produce an excess levy bill as
quickly as possible.
Mr. Truman also has asked for
speed, but prospects for action
this year are none too bright. Sen
timent has been building up for
other methods of boosting govern
ment revenue, including further
increase on individual income
taxes and ordinary corporation
taxes.
Snyder proposed that corpora
tions, as in World War II, be given
the alternative of figuring their
taxes through a “base period
earnings credit” or an “invested
capital credit.”
Either system would set a level
of earnings on which the regular
corporate income tax. which ^
hanges up to 45 per cent, would
apply and leave all profits in ex
cess of that sum subject to the 75
per cent “excess” profits rate.
The M.S. Kotzebue and its storm
weary crew arrived from the
Scammo'n Bay area yesterday.
The ship was not able to enter the
harbor until late last night due to
low water. Returning on the ship
were the men who had taken the *
Helen Lee and barges into that
area where they will remain this
winter.
of Burma in an apparent drive
toward invaded Tibet from the
south.
(This dispatch gave no indica
tion that the newspaper dispatch
was confirmed by official sources).
The newspaper said frontier
authorities had reported to the
government the Chinese had pen
eraated 50 miles and were push
ing toward the northernmost city
of Putao. The authorities were
said to have asked the government
for strong security measures.
Such a drive would be a round
about way of approaching the
Himalayan country the Chinese
Reds have undertaken to “liber
ate.”
JUNEAU, (A*) — The Alaska 1
Fisheries board was to open a
three-day session here today to ob
tain recommendations for the
Territory’s 1951 fishing regula
tions and consider legislation to
be offered the next legislature.
C. L. Anderson, board director,
will preside.
Other board members to attend
include D. C. (Ira) Rothwell. Cor- f
dova; Howard Wakefield, Port
Wakefield; Karl Brunstad, Kodi
ak; J. E. Valentine, Ketchikan;
and William Walton. Sitka.