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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, October 17, 1951
RAISE IN GOLD PRICE NEEDED
(ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS)
The recent announcement by the Canadian gov
ernment’s finance minister, Douglas Abbott, that Can
adian gold producers have been given the right to
sell gold on the world market, has stirred renewed
interest in this country for similar privileges.
What is good for the Canadian gold miners is
good for us, is the feeling that is evidenced both state
wide and in Alaska.
It would help Alaskan gold miners because it
would have the effect of raising the price of their
commodity which has been fixed, most unfairly to
the gold miner, since pre-World War II days. The
price has long been $35 an ounce but in the meantime
operation costs have increased without limit until it
is no longer possible to produce gold. A double blow
was added as World War II started when the adminis
tration closed all gold mining as a non-essential indus
try. During the three years the ban was in effect,
the machinery and installations of small mines rusted
and rotted away. In some cases the military, under
stress of necessity, commandeered machinery and
equipment and moved it bodily away from the mine
sites.
Most of the Alaska mining industry never recov
ered from this blow, although there might have been
some chance had the miner been able to offset costly
new equipment by a higher selling price for his product.
Meanwhile, the production of gold in Alaska has fallen
to less than one-third of what it was prior to govern
ment interference.
Now some partial relief seems to be in sight if the
government relaxes its ruling against exportation
of raw gold. Delegate Bartlett has recently urged
initiation of such a move by the Secretary of the
Treasury. In this respect he points out that “whatever
the argument might be regarding an increase in the
price of gold, it is difficult to understand what harm
could possibly result if the gold miner were permitted
to offer his product at the highest price available.”
Hand in hand with this move is a more sweeping
program regarding gold. It is the formation of strong |
groups all over the nation to return the United States
to the gold standard. This is being fostered through
the Gold Standard League of America which is headed
by Phillip M. McKenna, president of Kennametal of
Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
The purpose of the league is to return to the
people the right to own gold which was taken away
from them “through the seizure of the public purse”
by the government in April, 1933. Alaska now has a
chapter with its headquarters in Anchorage.
With a gold dollar behind every paper dollar the
program of spending ourselves into prosperity comes
to an end. Competition in world trade again comes
into its own, the huge public debt disappears and
people once more exert the proper powers over the
government which now rules more by directives than
bv statute.
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This restlessness to do something about gold mav
O O ty
be the turning point upon which this nation will swing
away from the strong trend toward a socialistic state
it now seems destined to become.
Manders Named Chairman
Of Gold Standard League's
New Alaska Chapter
John E. Manders, of Anchorage,
has been appointed chairman of
the Gold Standard League in
Alaska.
The Alaska chapter will follow
the national organization’s general
policy which has for tsi purpose
policy which has for its purpose
research, publication and dis
subjects involved in the science
of sound monetary economics, Mr.
Manders said.
Its ultimate objective is to bring
about through its research the
return of a gold coin standard..
The national president of the
Gold Standard League is Philip M.
; McKenna, president of Kenna
I metal Carp, of Latrobe, Penna.
GOP Conference
Considers Boycott
Of Cheap Imports
SEATTLE, <JP) — Republicans
yesterday considered demands for
a government boycott of cheap
labor foreign goods and a protest
against “concealed attempts” by
the United Nations to govern Am
erican fisheries.
These proposals and others with
a western tang were placed before
an 11-state Republican regional
conference called to work out
vote-getting strategy for the 1952
elections.
The resolutions committee, head
ed by George Hansen of Salt Lake
City, recommended that the par
ty’s national platform also:
Support immediate statehood for
Hawaii and allow Alaskans to
elect the territorial governor, now
appointed by Washington.
Oppose the Valley Authority
method of river basin develop
ment because it would put almost
unlimited powers in the hands of
appointive officials.
Favor U.S. return to the gold
standard.
Conference delegates turned to
the resolutions after a heavy
round of speechmaking themed to
why the Democrats should be
kicked out of office—and how.
Governor Arthur B. Langlie of
Washington said the country just
can’t stand another four years
under a Democratic regime.
There was a touch of harmony
yesterday when western members
o*f the Republican National Com
mittee voted confidence in the
honesty and integrity of Chair
man Guy Gabrielson.
Washington News - Letter
Delegate in Congress fiom Alaska
Secretary to E. L. <Bob) Bartlett
By Mary Lee Council
PARCEL POST
If the Senate agrees to action
taken by the House this week, the
territories and military post offices
will be exempt from the proposed
limitations on the size and weight
of parcel post packages.
The bill has now gone back to
the Senate for concurrence to
House amendments. The legisla
tion as passed by the House would
limit parcel post shipments to no
more than 72 inches in length and
girth combined, with weight con
fined to 40 pounds in the first
and second zones and 20 pounds
in the third and eighth zones.
The Senate version of the bill did
not exempt territories and over
seas post offices from the provi
sions of the bill and applied the
terms of the measure to packages
mailed to and from first and sec
ond class post offices. The House
version, in addition to excluding
the territories from the limita
tions as urged by Delegate Bart
lett, also exempted packages mail
ed to and from second class post
offices.
If the Senate does not accept
the House amendments, the bill
will go into conference between
the two houses.
* * *
Kenneth J. Kadow of Juneau,
vice president and general man
ager of the United States Tin
Corporation operating in the Sew
ard Peninsula, called on Delegate
Bartlett while in Washington this
week.
* * *
Orrin A Scovill, temporarily of
Anchorage but who claims resi
dence in the Seward Peninsula
country, was a Washington visitor
this week.
Old Newspapers For Sale
At The Nugget Office
Volunteer Scanners Aid
In Search For Missing
MATS Stratofreighter
LAGES FIELD, Azores, (/P) —!
Clerical and other non-flying Air
Force workers today are serving
as volunteer scanners in the in
tense search for a missing Strato- j
freighter plane with 11 aboard.
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Visibility was good as United j
States and Portuguese military
planes combed the North Atlantic
for a distance of 855 miles west
of here.
But no sign has been found so
far of the Military Air Transport
Service plane reported missing on !
a routine flight from here to West- j
over Air Force Base in Massachu
setts, Monday.
The rescue planes are conduct
ing “route and area search,” fly-;
ing at an elevation of approxi
mately 500 feet above sea level.
At this altitude visibility over
the search area is good, according ,
to rescue control officers.
The search plane crews are ’
augmented by volunteer scanners, i
working in shifts of two hours.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jefford are \
the parents of a daughter born
yesterday at Anchorage. Jack,
who is a well-known pilot for the
CAA, now has four lovely dau- '
ghters. i
DENTIST QUITS ALASKA
SENATE FOR ANS DUTY
KETCHIKAN, (ff)—Dr. N.R.M.
MacKenzie of Ketchikan an
nounced his resignation yesterday
from the Alaska Territorial Sen
ate.
He said he was resigning to
accept appointment as dental dir
ector of the Alaska Native Serv
ice, effective at once.
Dr. MacKenzie, a Democrat,
was elected to the Senate in 1948.
He served in the 1949 special and
regular sessions and in the 1951
legislatiure. He has served sev
eral years as president of the
Alaska Dental Board. He helped
organize the first Lions Club in
Alaska and was the first Alaska
district governor of it. He also
has served as secretary of the
public utilities board here.
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