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Nome, Alaska, Monday, December 4, 1950
A TRIPLE THREAT
(Juneau Empire)
It will be a good play if it works.
Stanley Nichols, for reasons with which we are not
familiar, has resigned os U. S. Marshal in the Fourth
Division.
His resignation is to be effective January 1, 1951.
According to a news dispatch from Fairbanks, the
Democratic Divisional Committee has recommended
Frank Barr to replace Nichols.
But the joker is this: Barr is a member of the Terri
torial Senate.
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If he does not resign from the Senate until 40 days
before the Legislature convenes, he can be replaced by
appointment by Gov. Gruening.
And the plan is, according to rumor, that Gruening
has already chosen Warren Taylor, Fairbanks attorney, j
and defeated candidate for the Territorial Senate to re
place Barr as Senator. j
If Barr should resign before December 13, a special!
election to fill the Senate vacancy would be held in
the Fourth Division.
What happens will be watched with interest.
YUGOSLACIA BACKS U. N. j
Yugoslavia, according to Marshal Tito, will adhere to
any United Nations’ definition as to an aggressor nation
if the Korean War results in an outbreak of hostilities
between the United States and Communist China.
This is the declaration of the Marshal to C. L. Sulz
berger, New York Times correspondent, who recently
had an interview with him. The Marshal takes the posi
tion that the United Nations “must decide who is the
aggressor" and that his country will“ adhere to that
body’s decision.”
GREAT RESERVOIR OF MANPOWER
A great reservoir of manpower now wholly unused
will be available to the nation if the Selective Service
accepts a recommendation of the Army Surgeon-Gen
eral’s office that it discontinue its current practice of
disqualifying large numbers of men because of failure j
to meet present requirements. •
Col. Warner Bowers, Chief Surgical Consultant for
the Army, recently told the Association of Military Sur-!
geons, at their convention, that instead of classifying1
registrants as 4-F and thus permanently disqualifying,
them from any service whatsoever, the committee has
recommended that those found unfit for general service;
should be deferred and classified for limited duties ini
accordance with their capacities.
The recommendation has so much sense that it is hard
to understand why it has not been put in force earlier
than this. Hundreds of thousands of men, thoroughly
capable of making , some contribution to the military
services, have been relieved of the obligation of service j
on the ground of physical disability and mental defi- j
ciencies. Practically all of these men can serve in some
capacity and, by so doing, relieve an able-bodied man
for belligerent service, I
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A PROBLEM; NO ANSWER
Forty farm youths from the United States, who spent j
two or three months on European farms during the
summer, give the virtually unanimous opinion that Eu
ropean farmers much mechanize to get on their econo-j
mic feet.
The young men and women from twenty-six states
visited farmers in Western Europe under the sponsor
ship of the Agriculture Department’s extension service
and the 4-H clubs. Many of them were surprised at the
outmoded methods in use on European farms.
The idea that European farmers must mechanize in
Gov’t Needs More
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Revenue; Taxes
Must Go Up
WASHINGTON (/P)—;Secretary
of the Treasury Snyder said today
government outlays may jump 50
per cent to a $67,500,000,000 total
in the next fiscal year starting
July 1.
He said this may be the result
of “vast increases in defense
costs” that will require “very sub
stantial tax increases.”
Snyder, appearing before the
Senate finance committee, urged
enactment of President Truman’s
$4,000,000,000 “excess profits” tax
bill. He said a substitute bill
recommended by the House tax
writing committee would raise
only $3,000,000,000 annually.
“The events of the past few
days in Korea and in other parts
of the world testify to the com
pelling need for the enactment of
additional profits taxes at this
Congressional session,” Snyder
said.
“The over-riding consideration
at this time is the government’s
need for more revenue.”
Truman Sets Up
Defense Bureau
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Without
waiting for Congress to grease the
wheels, President Truman has
pressed the starter on civil de
fense machinery geared to go in
the event of an attack on the
United States.
Just 24 hours after handing the
lawmakers a plan to* put civil de
fense under a single powerful ad
ministrator responsible only to
himself, Mr. Truman Friday is
sued an executive order wtiich:
1. Set up a new Federal Civil
Defense Administration <FCDA), I
and—
2. Named former Florida Gover- I
I
nor, Millard F. Caldwell, Jr., as
its $17,500 a year administrator, j
The President acted while law
makers maneuvered for control of
the bill he proposed Thursday to
create an FCDA and give its ad
ministrator far more power than
now is available.
i Budget Board OK’s
1 Biennial Estimates
For $20,128,311.28
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Alaska Dev. Board .. 120,000.00
(49-5*1 period 80,000.00)
Alaska His., Mus. 38,500.00
(49-51 period 37,750.00)
Alaska Hous. Auth... 100,000.00
I (49-51 period 250,000.00)
Alaska Nat’l. Guard 214,800.00
(49-51 period 75,000.00)
Att’y Gen. of A1. 89,500.00
(49-51 period 64,450.00)
Auditor, Alaska . 125,000.00
(49-51 period 79,406.40)
Comm. Education .... 163,624.80
(49-41 period 132,858.60)
Off., Governor . 37,600.00
(49-51 period 37.600.00)
Pub. Health . 1,159,720.00
* 49-51 period 934,000.00)
j Highway Eng. 52,370.00
; <49-51 period 42,620.00)
! Ter. Dept. Labor 181,632.00
,<49-51 period 112,632.00)
Com. Mines, Assay .. 229,500.00
<49-51 period 280,500.00)
Pioneers’ Home . 510,670.00
(49-51 period 459,100.00
Primary Elections .... 25,000.00
<49-51 period 25,000.00)
Gen. Elections . 15,000.00
(49-51 period 14,500.00)
Pub. Em. Re. fund .... 79,000.00
(49-51 period 20,000.00)
Dept. Pub. Wei. 298,293.34
(49-51 period 200,000.00)
Old Age Assis. 1,224,000.00
(49-51 period 1,100,000.00
Relief of Des. 660,000.00
(49-51 period 300,000.00)
Juvenile Ccrde . 536,840.00
(49-51 period 150,000.00)
Aid, Dep. Children .. 970,776.00
(49-51 period 425,000.00)
Temp. Housing children
(Receiving homes) 20,000.00
(New).
Rescue, Lost persons 10,000.00
(49-51 period 10,000.00)
School Construe. 2,000,000.00
(49-51 period 2,250,000.00)
Dept. Taxation . 607,240.00
(49-51 period 500,000.00)
Teachers Retire. 25,000.00
Off. Ter. Treasurer.. 31,500.00
(49-51 period 74,100.00)
Univ. Alaska . 3,090,267.00
(49-51 period 2,155,730.00)
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order to acquire economic stability states a truth which;
is likewise applicable to thousands of farmers in the
United States. The catch in the proposal, in Europe as j
in this country, is that it takes capital to mechanize and:
many of our smaller farmers do not have the cash and
cannot geti the necessay credit.
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CHINESE PUZZLE; ’51 MODEL
t- ' ■. -■ * '• . i ~ i imi Hi mi
.Will Make Last Big
Push To Get Vote
On Statehood Bill
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mark superimposed.
“I’m going to bring this map
into the Senate and show how 13,
000,000 persons in those countries
live in the same latitudes as Alas
ka, and have developed prosper
ous countries.”
His object, he said, is to answer
opponents who in four days of de
bate have argued that Alaska’s
climate has preve ited its develop
ment and will prevent its devel
opment in the future.
Delegates to Congress from
Alaska and Hawaii said Saturday
they are more than ever con
vinced that the Senate would pass
the two pending statehood bills if
they were permitted to come to a
vote.
Delegate Farrington (R.^Hawaii)
estimated that less than 20 Sen
ators are involved in “filibuster
tactics” blocking a Senate vote on
the motion to consider the Alaska
statehood bill on its merits.”
He blamed “one Republican—
Senator Butler (Neb.)—and the
Dixiecrats.”
Delegate Bartlett (D.-Alaska)
said the chance of passing the
bills at the current session does
not look good.
“But,” he said, “it seems to me
thaj, the Senate debate this week
makes its clear that the opposi
tion is numerically much smaller
than the advocates of statehood
ever anticipated. If the bill comes
to a vote it will be passed by a
bigger majority than we expect
ed.”
Farrington said he is asking
Senators favoring statehood to
make speeches in the Senate “to
demonstrate the overwhelming
support existing for the two state
hood bills.”
Support, schools . 6,286,990.00
(49-51 period 5,386,953.30)
Aid. Libraries . 7,500.00
(49-51 period 5,000.00)
Terr. Bank Board .... 10,000.00
(49-51 period 5,000.00)
Bien. Audit . 25,000.00
<49-51 period 20,000.00)
Bounty, Eagles . 15,000.00
(49-51 period 15,000.00)
Bounty, Hail Seals .. 300,000.00
(49-51 period 100,000.00)
Bounty, wolves, coyotes 125,000.00
(49-51 period 125,000.00)
Delegate, Alaska 2,500.00
!49-51 period 2,500.00>
Emer. Appro. 5,000.00
(49-51 period 5,000.00)
Fish. Exp. Comm. 59,000.00
49-51 period 50,000.00)
Board, Accountancy 4,400.00
(49-51 period 1,000.00)
Board, Al. Soil Conser- 4,690.00
(New)
Board, Alaska Libraries 2,000.00
(49-51 period 2,000.00)
Board, Basics Sciences 1.990.00
(49-51 period 1,990.00)
Board, Chiropractic Ex. 500.00
<49-51 period 500.00)
Board, Cosmetology 1,850.00
(49-51 period 1,850.00)
Board, Dental Ex. .. 30,000.00
(49-51 period 2,500.00)
Board, Medical Ex... 1,200.00
(49-51 period 1,200.00)
Board, Optometry .... 395.00
(49-51 period 395.00)
Board, Pharmacy .. 30,000.00
(49-51 period 3,000.00)
Totals .$20,128,311.00
Approved Estimates
1951-1953 . $20,128,311.28
Anticipated Revenue
1951-1953 . 19,560,750.00
Difference . 567,561.28