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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIV No. 49. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1952 Per Copy—15c
Men Live Through
Giant A-Bomb
Test Blast
ATOM BOMB SITE, Nev., (/P)—
For the first time men have lived,
unhurt, who stood under and
looked up into the flaming hollow
heart of the cloud that rushes up
ward from an A-bomb.
This happened to soldiers and
officers close to the giant ex
plosion Tuesday at Yucca Flat.
It also happened to five con
gressmen who went into trenches
with the troops. They are W. Cole
tR-NY>, Olen Teague <D-Tex\
Melvin Price CD-Ill), Chet Holi
field (D-Calif) and Carl Hinshaw
(R-CaUf).
What they saw and learned is
the first chapter in a new atomic
chart for survival.
This bomb was greater than
anything in Japan or Bikini, and
just over or under the most pow
erful we have fired in the United
States. That particular bomb’s
identity is secret.
The fire - cloud followed the
fireball, and swelled to* miles in
diameter, with red flames and
yellow gases swirling in whirls
bigger than Niagara Falls.
"We looked right up inside,”
said one. “It was hollow, but you
could not see daylight through the
hole. It was like an umbrella and
whirling crosswise like a smoke
ring.”
The desert under the bomb was
moist from rains Saturday and
Sunday. The flash of heat lasting
three seconds — baked this area
white with alkali giving the color.
For more than two miles in all
direction the bomb started fires in
Joshua trees—a cactus about 10
feet high. There was the smell of
scorched brush all around. The
blast that followed the heat flash
blew out most of the fires.
U.S. Worker Has Five
Times the Buying Power
Of Russian Counterpart
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A Russian
industrial worker must put in 16
hours to make enough to buy a
pound of tea.
He must work two hours and
12 minutes to buy a pound of
beef, 4Vz hours to buy a pound
of butter and an hour and 50
1 minutes for a pound of sugar.
These figures were released
Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The bureau has collect
ed data on countries in western
Europe, Russia and the United
States.
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Its conclusions:
1. The American worker has it
the best of all.
2. The Russian worker has it
the worst of all.
The labor bureau says it thinks
■with the same amount of work,
an industrial worker in this coun
try can buy more than five times
as many groceries as a Russian
worker can buy in a Moscow state
store.
Newspaper Editors Ask
Congress Define Powers
Of Seizure by President
NEW YORK, (yP)—A plea that
Congress make “plain and explicit
by law” the President’s powers
with respect to seizure of private
property was voiced Wednesday
by the head of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association.
Charles F. McCahill, ANPA
president and general manager of
the Cleveland News, cited in a
prepared address the recent seiz
ure of the steel industry and
President Truman’s remarks on
the possibility of taking over news
media.
The ANPA’s federal laws com
mittee reported that forces are at
work to whittle away America’s
freedoms “as surely and as pur
posefully” as in Nazi Germany
and Soviet Russia.
Dr. Albert Gainza Paz, editor of
the Argentine Daily La Prensa,
until its seizure by the Peron gov
ernment, added a stirring voice of
experience to the publishers’ ap
peals for freedom of information.
People all over the world “want
to know . . . what is going on,”
he said in a prepared address.
... It is the duty of newspaper
men to satisfy it.”
Taxes In 1951 Amounted
To About $362 For Each
Person In The U. S.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The gov
ernment collected more taxes last
year than ever before—about $362
for each man, woman and child in
the nation.
The Internal Revenue Bureau
announced Monday that 1951 col
lections totaled $56,093,339,425.69,
an increase of 40 percent over
1950. It was 28 per cent above
the previous record of almost 44
billions collected in 1945, the last
year of World War II.
Individual income and social
security taxes last year totaled
about 30 billion dollars, compared
with more than 21 billions in
1950.
Corporation income and excess
profits taxes jumped to $16,564,
712,955 last year.
Various other taxes took in
about 10 billion more.
Non-Union Workers Paint
The Capitol Dome
WASHINGTON, i/P) _ Non
union workers start painting the
capitol dome Tuesday and the
AFL Painters Council can’t quite
figure what to do about it.
Pickets are forbidden on Capitol
Hill, and since a strike at federal
employes is illegal, the union is
barred from calling its men off
other government jobs here in
protest.
I>avid Lynn, capitol architect,
said the dome-painting job was
awarded on a low bid contract
of $38,000. The law requires that
the low bidder get the job, re
gardless of whether he uses union
or non-union labor.
Ike Forces Claim
Lion’s Share N.Y.
And Penn. Voting
(By the Associated Press)
Eisenhower-for-President lead
ers staked a claim Wednesday to
the lion’s share of Republican
presidential - nominating votes in
New York and Pennsylvania,
where the general scored lop
sided election victories Tuesday.
In the Pennsylvania popularity
poll, Gen. Eisenhower drew 825,
922 votes in 8,127 of 8,421 pre
cincts.
This compared with 166,451
write-ins for Sen. Taft and 117,
596 ballot votes for Stassen.
In the race for 60 Pennsylvania
district delegates, the Eisenhower
forces led 6 ter 2. Taft’s name was
not on the ballot—he kept it off
and urged his supporters not to
write it in — and his backers
called the results “meaningless.”
* But Eisenhower leaders hoped
this showing plus 17,712 votes the
general drew among Democrats,
might bring the state’s 70 votes
his way at the GOP convention in
July.
In New York, friends of Eisen
hower won seven of 11 primary
contests, indicating he will re
ceive at least 85 of the state 96
convention votes.
Sen. Kefauver got the bulk of
the write-ins in the Pennsylvania
popularity poll—81,442 and Presi
dent Truman scored 21,358. Even
so, Kefauver had no guarantee of
any of the 70 Democratic dele
gates from Pennsylvania.
W. Averill Harriman, Mutual
Security Director, had most of
New York’s 94-vote Democratic
delegation sewed up.
Eisenhower was quoted as say
ing the government’s answer to
excessive control “is more con
trol,” and that there has been
federal “a buse of the taxing
power.”
Three Fairbanks Boys
Rescued After Night
Out In Swamp
FAIRBANKS, (£>)—'Three boys,
lost in a swamp overnight and
suffering from exhaustion and
cold, were rescued. Monday by
10th Rescue Squadron helicopter.
The boys were soaking wet from
a night spent in thawing snow.
Five stray dogs had joined them
and the boys helped keep warm
by huddling with the animals.
The boys, Richard Galliarti, 9;
Allen Lahti, 11; and Ellice Lahti,
3, were reported lost late Sunday
night after failing to return from
a bicycle trip on the Steese High
way. They had wandered from
the road into deep snowdrifts.
Monday they were sighted by
Pilot Charles Hubbs of the Alaska
Flying School in the swamp six
miles northeast of here.
Four rescue parties reached the
scene almost simultaneously—the
helicopter, a dog team mushed by
Gareth Wright of Fairbanks, a
searcher on snowshoes, and Hubbs.
105,000 Persons Driven
From Home by Rampaging
Mississippi and Missouri
KANSAS CITY, (/P) — Flood
workers built their levees higher
at Kansas City today—spurred by
the Missouri River’s fresh de
struction upstream and a contin
ued pattern of rain.
They said the extra height
wouldn’t be needed, but they
wanted to have it—just in case.
The mighty Mississippi flung
its weight at towns along the Iowa
border. And along the wild Mis
souri, the flood brought almost
hourly crises.
So far, the Red Cross estimated
26,538 families or about 105,000
persons have been forced to flee
their homes in the two major
floods.
The extra protection being built
on -top of levees at Kansas City is
the same kind of wooden “flash
boarding” used to save Omaha,
Nebr., and Council Bluffs, la., last
week.
There was nothing in sight,
however, to indicate another dis
aster like the one that hit Kansas
City last July causing huge in
dustrial losses.
Recent Quakes in Oklahoma
Believed Boost Oil Output
OKLAHOMA CITY, (/P) — Oil
men and geologists won’t say for
sure, but they believe the recent
earthquakes gave Oklahoma oil
production a shot in the arm.
Production, since the quakes,
has increased almost 3,000 bar
rels a day to over 531,000 barrels
daily. The theory is that the
quake loosened formations, allow
ing the oil to flow to the surface
more quickly.
$5,700,000 Rebuild
Job onWhiteHouse
Opened To Public
WASHINGTON, </P)—“Wonder
full.” “Beautiful.” “Magnificent.”
That’s the reaction of John Tax
payer, his wife and the kids to
their first in-person look at the re
constructed White House.
They had read about the $5,
700,000 cellar-to-garret rebuild
ing job ,and they had seen pub
lished pictures of the new interior
but not until Tuesday did all
comers get a chance to see for
themselves what the carpenters
and decorators had done with all
that tax money.
All told, 5,544 persons were
clocked in the first public show
ing of the new decor. They came
from all over the country and from
lands as far away as Iran and
India. One thing the visitors
'couldn’t agree on was what they
liked best.
Ten to noon, Tuesdays through
Saturdays, will be the regular
visiting hours hereafter. You don’t
need a ticket, a letter from your
congressman or anything else.
Just go to the east gate and say
you want in.
After all, it’s your $5,700,000
that paid for it.
Recommend Rail Link to Alaska
HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, B.
C., (/P) — The .Washington State
Reserve Officers Association
wants Congress to appropriate
funds to build a rail link between
the United States and Alaska.
A resolution adopted at their
weekend convention said such a
railroad was a “logistical neces
sity in time of war.”
Lost River, America’s First Productive
Tin Mine, Will Supply Two Percent Of
The United States’ Domestic Needs
By Louis R. Huber 4
Special Correspondent
For the Nome Nugget
After nine days at Lost River,
near the tip of Seward Peninsula,
this writer is stall agape, amazed
and thoroughly impressed. There
are so many striking things about
Lost River that it is perhaps best
to enumerate them.
1. It is America’s first produc
tive tin mine.
2. It has enough tin in evidence
to supply two percent of United
State’s domestic needs as soon as
it gets into substantial production
—which could be within the next
two years.
3. It has enough tungsten in
evidence, ditto, for four or five
percent of U.S. domestic needs.
4. It has lots of flourspar, im
portant in supplying what is need
ed for production of synthetic cry
olite, used extensively in the man
ufacture of aluminum.
5. It is North America’s only
Arctic lode mine.
6. It could not operate, in all
probability, but for the employ
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ment of Eskimos in capacities
ranging from plain labor to the*
higher skills required in mining.
7. It has licked Arctic winter
for the first time, have kept going
continuously since last July in
spite of everything.
8. It has the whole-hearted sup
port of the Eskimos, who see in
Lost River an economic base upon
which they can build a better
socio-economic structure.
The fore-going facts were estab
lished through the cooperation erf
the Bureau of Mines and the Geo
logical Survey, plus the venture
of the recently-formed U.S. Tin
Corporation. This private com
pany, with offices in Juneau and
Seattle, has used the highest type
of engineering imagination and
corupled it with a recognition of
social values.
The result is something for the
entire nation to be proud of.
From the first landing of sup
plies last July six and a half miles
away on the Bering Sea beach,
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Thrilling Mystery-Gomedy
FRIDAY, April 25
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Nome High Auditorium
Curtain at 8 p.m.