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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.
We Only Hope Our Goose Isn’t Cooked
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A Man and a Law
(Christian Science Monitor)
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Is this security? N
Karl Latva was born in Finland, and came to the
United States when he was 13. Eighteen years later,
in 1934, during a strike, <he joined the Communist
Party, which he understood was helpful in “organizing
unions” and supporting strikers. Four months later,
after paying a total of 90 cents in dues, he withdrew
from the party.
Latva today is married to a native-born American
woman, and has two sons who served with the United
States armed forces in World War IT. A year or two ago
he disclosed his brief Communist Party membership
to a naturalization investigator. As a result, his de
portation to Finland was ordered by the United States
Immigration Commissioner. This decision has now been
sustained in U.S. District Court by Judge Charles E.
Wyzanski, Jr., who indicated that his sympathies lay
with Latva but that he was compelled by duty to apply
the “letter of the law.”
The law in this case is the McCarran Act of 1950,
passed over a presidential veto. One purpose of the
law was to protect American security by keeping sub
versives out of the United States. The President and
much of the nation’s press at the time it was enacted
pointed out the multiple opportunities it offered for
injustices to innocent Americans and harm to Ameri
ca’s reputation. Rigidly applied since then by officials
who may well be fearful of public smearing if they de
part by a hair’s breadth from the “letter of the law,”
it has led to such situations as that which now confronts
the hapless Mr. Latva.
Is this the way to safeguard the rights and free
doms of Americans?
Is this “security”?
Educational Level
•On the basis of data compiled in taking the 1950
census, it is revealed that among the 87,675,000 Am
ericans aged 25 or more, 7 out of 10 finished elemen
tary-school, 1 of 3 finished high school, and 1 of 16
was a college graduate.
Worry is like a rocking chair — it will give you
something to do but it won’t get you anywhere.
The pursuit of happiness is complicated by not
knowing when we’ve found it.
American Express
Surveys Alaska for
Tourist Facilities
JUNEAU — Norman Crowley,
vice president of American Ex
press Company’s planning depart
ment, arrived in Alaska to make
a survey of tourist facilities which
will be used as a guide for the
future promotion of the territory
by the nation’s largest tour oper
ators.
“Because of the vast amount
of individual inquiries received
by our various 250 offices about
travel to Alaska, the American
Express Co. felt it imperative to
send a personal representative to
Alaska to seek first-hand infor
mation on what is available to
the tourists,” Crowley said.
“American Express feels there
is a tremendous potential market
in Alaska,” he stated, “and after
I determine what is offered I
can make recommendations for
the promotion of the territory.”
Crowley explained some of the
methods which American Express
has utilized in promoting other
vacation areas. In addition to
sales literature and various bro
chures, they employ movies and
lecturers who cover the womens
and service clubs throughout the
nation.
While in Alaska Crowley will
be aided by Alaska Visitors As
sociation and Arctic Alaska Tours.
In addition to Juneau, he will
travel to Seward, Anchorage, Mt.
McKinley Park, Fairbanks, Nome
and Kotzebue.
• This Crowley’s second trip to*
the territory. He came to Alaska
about 30 years ago as a student
on a summer vacation.
OPA Boss To Tour U.S.A.
To Get Public’s Opinions
On Price Controls
(By the Associated Press)
Tighe E. Woods, the nation’s
new price boss, said yesterday he
will ask the President to lift price
controls if he finds the public
doesn’t want them.
He told reporters he will make
his determination of the public
attitude by touring the country
next month. He said he’ll ask
housewives and others what they
think about controls.
But Woods emphasized that he,
personally, believes the price
'curbs should stay in effect.
“Many say that the people don’t
care about controls,” Woods said.
“I want to find out whether there
is an apathy toward the Office, of
Price Stabilization program or
whether the people just don’t un
derstand it.”
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Indonesia has treasures of rub
ber, oil, sugar, spices, minerals
and fibers which have,barely been
touched, says the National Geo
graphic Society.
Wonder Drug Increases Pork Production
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You may have taken aureomycin for a strep throat, but pigs get this
“wonder drug” to help them grow faster. There’s no arguing the fact
that the two pigs on the ri^ht side of the scales weigh almost the same
as the three on the other side.
They’re from the same litter, and received the same diet (peanut
meal and corn), except that the two heavier ones also received aureo
mycin and vitamin B12. Farmers throughout the country are using
feeds containing this antibiotic to speed up the growth of pigs,
chickens, turkeys and calves.
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USSR Names Zorin
Her Chief Delegate
To United Nations
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (/P)—
Soviet Russia has named Deputy
Foreign Minister Valerian Z. Zor
in, who staged the Red coup
Czechoslavakia, as her chief dele
gate to the United Nations. Jacob
A. Malik, the present delegate, is
going home for “rest and reas
signment.”
U. N. officials announced last
night that the Soviet government
told them of the forthcoming
change in a note addressed to the
international orgainization’s sec
retariat. Zorin is expected to ar
rive by Sept. 15, just a month
before the General Assembly
opens its annual fall session.
Malik, who has been suffering
from a heart ailment for some
time, was originally scheduled to
return to Mosco\V\on leave early
this summer. He has cancelled
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his passage twice, but the Soviet
announcement of his replacement
came as a surprise which obser
vers could not immediately evalu
ate.
Zorin has spent most of his for
eign diplomatic service in eastern
Europe. Born in 1902, he first
made a name for himself in the
Young Communist League and in
educational work among the
younger party members.
IN COMMISSIONER'S COURT
Mary Assila was given a sen
tence of 20 days in the Federal
Jail for disorderly conduct.
Emery Bourdon was held to an
swer to the grand jury on a
charge of larceny.
August Retail Food
Prices Were Highest
In U. S. History
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Mid
August retail food prices, the
government’s Bureau of Labor
Statistics reports, were the high
est in U. S. history.
During the first half of this
month the Bureau’s index went
up almost 1 per cent to’ 235.6
per cent of the 1935-39 average.
On the basis of figures collected
in eight cities, the Bureau said
foods now are about 16 per cent
higher than when the Korean war
began in June, 1950.
In another economic develop
ment, the government Thursday
suspended price controls on
radios, television sets, record play
ers, carpets and bedding. The
latter includes studio couches,
davenports, mattresses, springs
and pillows.
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AN ALASKAN REPUBLICAN
says
That every day you have to pay the highest prices
for all the necessities of life than ever bofer, and this is
entirely due to the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
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