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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 16, 1952
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TOMORROW IS ARMED FORCES DAY
Tomorrow marks the third annual observance of
Armed Forces Day, set aside to honor the men and
women of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps.
Although we are not officially at war, American
troops have been fighting in Korea for nearly two
years and casualties continue to pile up.
It is fitting and proper that we give a day to honor
these men and women, many of whom are caused to
delay their ultimate career by service to their country.
THE CLASS OF 1952
Tonight the Nome High School graduates five
students who are all Alaska-born, and who have had
most of their schooling in Nome.
These students have as their heritage the courage
and stability of the pioneers of this area. It is hoped
that those who are going on for higher education will
see fit to return to Alaska and work for it and with it,
putting down the roots their parents and grandparents
have planted for them. Those students who are not
seeking additional training, we hope will take advan
tage of the many opportunities offered in the territory
for high school graduates.
This is a lane of opportunity and Alaska needs its
young people. We wish them a good and useful life,
come what may in this changing world of ours.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
BOY SCOUTS OF ALASKA
As a result of annual meeting
elections held in the four head
quarters cities, Curtis G. Shat
tuck of Juneau has been elected
new president of the Alaska Coun
cil, Boy Scouts of America.
Assisting Mr. Shattuck as vice
presidents are: Milton J. Daly,
Ketchikan; M. J. Whittier, Ju
neau; Douglas Preston, Fairbanks;
ond John F. Gorsuch, Anchorage.
Charles T Burdick of Juneau
continue Council! Commission
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CAB Dismisses Complaint
Against Alaska Airlines’
Family Excursion Fares
WASHINGTON, </P)—The Civil
Aeronautics Board d i s m i s se d
Wednesday complaints by North
west Airlines and Pacific North
ern Airlines against familiy ex
cursion fares proposed by Alaska
Airlines.
The proposal provides deduced
fares on certain days of the week
for members of a family accom
panied by the head of the family.
The Board also has suspended
a proposed reduction in fare by
Northwest Airlines for passengers
traveling from Anchorage to Se
attle on freight-type aircraft. The
fare was suspended pending an
investigation to determine wheth
er it would be discriminatory.
Foreign Aid Bill
Back To Senate
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Fresh
from an initial victory, President
Truman and his foreign aid pro
gram lieutenants worked Thurs
day to build a rampart of Senate
votes against any further cutting
of its billions.
Administration backers beat off
a move to clip 400 million dollars
from the $6,900,000,000 total by
a 7 to 6 vote late Wednesday in
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee.
Thus the bill—already trimmed
a billion from the President’s or
iginal request for $7,900,000,000—
returns to the Senate in the same
form it went to the committee
last Monday. There was plenty
of talk of a floor fight over fur
ther reductions, possibly as low
as an even six billions.
President Truman, in a serious
voiced discussion of foreign aid
and military funds Wednesday
night, said:
“We are winning a cold war,
and I fear very much that if the
Congress continues to follow the
■attitude that it has on these im
mensely important appropriation
bills, we may lose it, and then—
and then these defense appropria
tions will look like a drop in the
bucket.”
Truman, who spoke at the an
nual dinner of the Civil Air Pa
trol, was followed by Air Force
Secretarjr Finletter and House
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Captain Vernon Olson of Nome
represented Nome’s CAP Cadets
at the annual dinner of the Civil
Air Patrol in Washington, D.C.,
Wednesday night. He heard Presi
dent Truman’s speech on foreign
aid and military funds.
Anchorage Special
Tax Not Legal,
Court Rules
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — The
Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals has
held that a special property tax
levied by the City of Anchorage
was not legal.
The special tax was to cover
construction of a large sewer pro
ject.
In a test case, the court Wed
nesday upheld a district court de
cision that a $336 sewer improve
ment assessment against a lot
owned by Arthur E. and Virginia
Ashley of Anchorage was void.
The appeals court said the city
council did not take legal steps
leading to construction of the sew
ers in proper order, following vot
ing and sale of a $225,000 bond
issue for construction of two trunk
sewer lines.
The city council on March 2,
1950, assessed each of the lots in
the city, which were specially
benefited, two-thirds of its pro
portionate share of the cost, the
court pointed out, “only after
much construction was complete.”
The court said this did not com
ply with a 1949 Alaskan statute
which is described as “a very
salutory attempt to protect prop
erty owners from bearing proper
ty assessments based on improve
ments which the council has con
tracted for.”
AIRLINE SUSPENDS FLIGHTS
DUE TO OIL STRIKE
GREAT FALLS, Mont., (/P) —
Western Airlines announced yes
terday suspension of its through
service from here to Edmonton,
Alberta, for the duration of the
current oil strike.
Boatner Assures
Changes For Koje
POW Stockades
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, (JP) —
The outspoken new commandant
of Koje Island said Thursday
“You’re damned right” there will
be changes in running this tur
bulent war prison camp, but “no
sudden revolutionary change.”
After 24 hours on the job, Brig.
Gen. Haydon Boatner said he
thought Communist prisoners had
been treated too leniently.
Hed he seen anything that need
ed to changed?
“You’re damned right I’ve spot
ted some things,” he said. “For
one thing I don’t like those insult
ing signs, and the flags and the
demands.”
The flags were Red banners
flying over some of the 17 barbed
wire stockades holding 79,000
prisoners of war. The demands
were those made for the release
of a former camp commander,
Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd.
“This is one of the toughest
jobs in the Army, right here,”
Boatner said.
He is the 14th officer to hold
the job in 16 months.
“One of my big jobs,” the
stocky general said, “is to* make
certain the POW’s know the Gen
eva Convention. And I’ve got to
make sure they know it from me,
not from someone out there.” He
pointed toward the stockades,
ruled by shrewd, thoroughly in
doctrinated Communists.
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Military Pay Increase
Awaits HST’s Signature
WASHINGTON, (,-P) — Only
President Truman’s signature is
needed to produce a long-prom
ised pay increase for the uni
formed services.
A compromise measure aimed
at ofsetting somewhat the higher
cost of living whizzed through the
House and then the Senate Thurs
day after months of disputes and
delays.
All those in the armed forces,
expected to number about 3Vfe
million duiyig the coming year,
will get a *4 per cent boost in
base pay, which is subject to
taxes, and a 14 per cent increase
in allowances for food and hous
ing, which are not taxed.
The increase will add an esti
mated 484 million dollars a year
to the government’s payroll.
All retired personnel would get
increases of at least 4 per cent as
would West Point cadets, Anna
polis midshipmen, and aviation
cadets.
In addition to the four regular
fighting forces the increases also
apply to officers and men of the
Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic
Survey, Public Health Service and
the Federal Maritime Service.
TIDELANDS OIL BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, </P) — The
House passed Thursday and sent
to the Senate a bill to give the
states clear title to the oil-rich
submerged coastal lands.
The bill is a compromise ver
sion of legislation previously
passed by both the House and
Senate in a somewhat different
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BINGHAMPTON, N.Y., (JP) —
Seven - year - old Susan Burke
wanted no trouble with the law.
She wrote Binghampton’s mayor
Donald W. Kramer:
“I want to run a lemonade stand
this summer. Do I have to have
a license?”
Susan won’t need one, the
mayor said.
College Is Bridge To
Success Is Rotary Advice
To Nome High Seniors
Nome’s High School Seniors
were guests of Rotary Thursday
noon with the program toast-mas
tered by college man Dan Jones,
through a discussion of the ad
vantages erf college.
Katherine Bjornstad said her
favorite subject was Algebra I;
hobby, dancing; favorite sport,
I basketball; and most cherished
career, homemaking.
Clarence Willoya said his favor
ite subject was history; hobby,
sports; sport, baseball; and ambi
tion to be of the most possible
service and to help others.
Bill Boucher stated his choice
subject as math; hobby as auto
mobiles; sport as football; and
ambition to make good in a worth
while career.
Rotarian Ted Duffield gave the
side of the pre-arranged discus
sion favoring a college degree as
the best possible way to a success
ful career, saying it was really a
bridge built by others of experi
ence, who were there to help
youth on their way. It is possible
to swim a stream all by one’s self,
but it takes a great deal of effort,
and the chance of emerging far .
downstream from the goal, great.
Bob Treat, assigned to cham
pion the non-college cause, pointed
out that some had indeed crossed
on their own—Washington, Edi
son, Samuel Clemens, not to men
tion the present President, and
that there were many stepping
stones across the stream for those
who chose to ignore the bridge.
The U.S. Navy has excellent elec
tronics schools, Weather Bureau
and CAA offer certain home study
courses as do other government
agencies, and a carpenter, one of
the highest paid of craftsmen is
open through union apprentice
ship, or local shops.
A survey conducted among
Nome Rotarians showed 400 years
experience in the trades and pro
fessions in which members were
currently employed. These Rotar
ians had spent a total of 69 years
in college. Eighteen said that if
they had the choice again, they
would go to college, five said they
would not go to college, 16 said
they would go to a trade school
c?r apprenticeship, and seven said
they would not go to a trade
school but would like to go to
college.
Other guests of Rotary were Lit.
James Bush, U.S. Navy, Kodiak;
Truman Ellis, Anchorage, and Mr.
Troyer, Seattle, berth of the Swift
packing company; and Dwight
Nelson, Nome.
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