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Nome, Alaska, Friday, February 22, 1952
WOULD FATHER APPROVE ?
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U S. FOURTH IN SHIPBUILDING
The Shipbuilders' Council of America reports that
Great Britain is holding her traditional place as the
world’s greatest shipbuilder. The latest study reveals
that Great Britain is building, or planning, 623 vessels
of 5,502,379 gross tons.
This tonnage represents 42.5 per cent of the six
teen reporting maritime nations. The United States
has moved up to fourth place and its firms are build
ing or planning 85 ships of 1,082,990 gross tons.
U.S. building represents only 8.5 per cent of the
total reported by the sixteen countries. In total ton
nage Sweden ranks second and Germany third. The
increase in German maritime construction has been
great in the last twelve months. A year ago, Germany
had orders for 82 vessels, aggregating 280,793 tons.
Today, orders are up to 210 ships of 1,251,668 gross
tons.
WHERE WILD GEESE GO
Despite hunters’ tales to the contrary, the year
ity rate of 1.2 per 100,000,000 passenger-miles, a sub
brandt migrating all across the United States. The four
aerial channels most migratory birds follow were used
by larger flights of birds last year than in several years.
Many of the birds using these routes fly non-stop
for thousands of miles. The Arctic tern seems to be the
champion distance migrator. He leaves islands rim
ming the Arctic Sea, crosses the ocean to Europe, flies
down the West African coast, and return in spring via
South America. Others travel similar distances.
Despite progress in tracing migratory routes, no
one has yet established how these remarkable birds
navigate the same course year after year. American
and Canadian geologists have definitely determined,
however, that the migratory population of these birds
increased in 1951, despite all claims to the contrary
by frustrated duck and geese hunters.
In ap effort to curtail the cost of government in
England,) Premier Winston Churchill starts out by re
ducing his own salary. Here in the United States
officials who want to cut federal expenditures begin
by employing an expert at a salary of $25,000 a year,
with a liberal expense account and a flock of assistants.
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Workers for Secret
North Pole Base
Get $3,000,000
WASHINGTON, {/P)~A Senate
investigation heard Thursday that
workers on a super-secret air base
construction program hear the
North Pole collected more than
three million dollars in wages be
fore even reaching the job.
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Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief
of Army Engineers, defended
these payments as well as sal
aries at a rate of $13,000 a year
for laborers and $17,000 a year
for mechanics on the project.
Questions by Downey Rice,
counsel for the committee—which
was set up as a watchdog group
on military spending — brought
out the salary figures.
Rice did not indicate how many
workers shared the three million
dollars, but said they drew the
pay while enroute to the job by
ship and airplane. He said some
of them left Norfolk, Va., by ship
expecting to be at the job in 15
days but actually were 42 days on
the way.
The project was known by the j
code name of “Blue Jay”—pre
viously publicized as being in
Greenland.
Rice said this project and an
other air base construction job in
North Africa, known by the code
name of “Atlas,” already involved
expenditures of about 100 million
dollars.
Gen. Pick recently has returned
from a tour of these overseas
bases, including those in French
Morocco in North Africa
Rice asked Pick why workers
had been recruited at “premium
pay,” sent to a center and then
sent back home to await orders
while getting “stand-by pay” that
amounted to $317,000 at the rate
of $4 per day per man. Their reg
ular pay began when they left
for the job.
Pick explained that it was nec
essary first “to carefully screen”
each worker after he had been re
cruited, sent to a center to be
briefed and then sent home to
await orders after clearance.
“This was hazardous beyond
anything ever encountered in con
struction,” Gen. Pick said, appar
ently referring to the North Pole
work.
He said it was necessary to
transport the workers by both
ship and airplane and that the
ships needed icebreakers to get
through.
Taft’s Foreign Policy as
President Disagreed Upon
By Republican Senators
(By the Associated Press)
Two Republican senators yes
terday disagreed over whether
Senator Taft would carry out U.S.
obligations in the European de
fense program if he were elec
ted president.
Senator Morse (R-Ore), support
ing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
for the GOP nomination, said Taft
“would defeat the foreign policy
for which General Eisenhower
stands.”
Sen. Brewster (R-Me), a Taft
backer, promptly challenged the
statement. He said the Ohio sen
ator has “made it perfectly clear”
that as president he would carry
out U.S. commitments under the
North Atlantic Pact.
NOTICE
RUMMAGE SALE
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28
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Nenana Reports
On Ice Conditions
Special to the Nugget
Nenana is not issuing sidewalk
superintendent cards this spring
but they are thinking of issuing
river bank superintendent cards.
The pile driving operation there
is causing lots of speculation and
mostly on the part of non-Nenan
ians, who would like to inform
all who are concerned that the
pile driving and repair of the
docks will in no way effect the
ice breakup.
First of all, the pile driving
operation starts below’ the point
where the tripod will be erected
and said operation will continue
downstream. There will be 1,540
feet of new piles driven and this
part of the operation is scheduled
to be finished April 20th, which is
the earliest date of the breakup
in the past 34 years. So it is still
anybody’s guess.
A1 Wright, Nenana Air Service
bush pilot, says there has been a
great deal more snow this year
in the surrounding area than pre
vious years. Walter Minano, own
er of Minano’s Express, measured
the ice over a month ago and it
was thirty inches thick in mid
stream. Recent measurements at
the shore line were 16-18 inches.
Charles Wilson, former Ice
Classic manager, says the ice
increases in thickness with the
coming of spring. Manager Don
Clark is polishing up the meas
uring rod and will have an ac
curate up-to-date measurement in
about a week.
In answer to a few queries they
have received, Nenana reports
that no bridge is being built there
in connection with the repair
work on the Alaska Railroad
docks. The pile driver affects onl£
ten feet of the shore ice.
Also, they would remind you,
do not delve into what second the
ice may deckle to move—only
the exact minute is important.
Moisture-laden winds from the
Aleutians area first drop heavy
rain on Northern California and
then leave the rest as snow in -the
Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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