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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postofiice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, June 14, 1950
STATE GOVERNMENTS NOT SO PROSPEROUS
The wave of prosperity which hit the states of the
Union in 1948, when a majority of them had more rev
* enue than expenditures, is passing, according to figures
released by the Census Bureau, which shows that in
1949 thirty-three states had larger expenditures than
revenue.
Last year the forty-eight states spent 11,782,000,000.
This is nearly twice as much as in the war year of 1945.
The largest single item, including public assistance and
veterans’ bonuses, took $4,972,000,000. Aid to local gov
ernments, nearly half of which was for school purposes,
t o o k $3,544,000,000. Capital outlay, nearly three
fourths of it for highways, totaled $1,827,000,000.
In line with the decline of revenues, the states have
increased their indebtedness. Outstanding debts
reached a new high of $4,090,000,000 in 1949, compared
with a postwar low of $2,367,000,000 in 1946.
G. M. SETS NEW LABOR PACE
General Motors Corporation, biggest and most suc
cessful manufacturing company in the United States,
has set a precedent in the field of labor management re
lations by signing a five-year contract with the United
Automobiles Workers, which represents 275,000 mem
bers employed by the Corporation.
General Motors Corporation has 400,000 employees,
18,000 independent dealers and 435,000 stockholders. It
made 2,767,347 cars and trucks last year and had a net
profit of $656,4344238.
The general impression in business circles is that
this five-year pact indicates that, in the opinion of those
involved, business will be good for some years to come,
that deflation is not a serious menace and that with ex
panded output, the possibility exists for rising living
standards in this country. It also indicates a fifth round
of raises in industrial compensation for workers, which
according to the financial experts, will probably range
between eight and ten cents an hour.
The union estimates its wage gains as a nineteen-cent
an-hour “package,” which would rise to thirty-five
cents by 1955.
The company also agrees to add enough to social sec
urity to guarantee pensions of $100 a month at sixty
five to workers with twenty-five years of service.
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The significance of the agreement and its effect in
the worker-employer field can hardly be over-estima
ted. The largest company in the United States, willingly
and without a contest, grants to its workers advantages
which were considered radical demands not many years
ago.
Classified ads are what many people use to sell old
articles and unused material. Very often they result in
some surprising sales.
Somebody figures out that the average girl spends
$5 a year on cosmetics. That’s money well spent, in most
instances.
The man or woman who is able to control desire and
one-fourth prejudice.
What this country needs badly is more humor on the
part of so-called humorists.
So far as the editor is able, theNugget tries not to
publish hokum as news.
Notice from the Government: The man who discov
ers uranium can rest comfortably on his ores.
Everybody agrees that the country needs reforms,
but no two persons agree upon what the reforms ought
to be.
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parliament suspended Max Rei
mann, west Germany’s No. 1 com
munist, for 30 days after a noisy
Red outburst broke up a session
of parliament’s lower house.
In Wiesbaden, the Rev. Martin
Niemoller, president of the Evan
■ gelical Church in the state of
Hesse, said he did not agree that
! a war against communism is nec
essary to “save the Christian
Church and Christianity.”
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Wednesday, June 14, 1950
Soviet Union has earmarked
| the equivalent of $19,850,000,000
for defense this year. This repres- i
ents 18.5 percent of her total ex
penditures.
This was disclosed in the bud
get speech of finance minister A.
G. Zverev to the Supreme Soviet
(Parliament) last night. Prime
Minister Stalin and members of
the foreign diplomatic corps were
i present.
By contrast, Zverev said, the
Soviet Union spent 32.6 percent
of its income on defense in 1940
and 24 percent in 1946. The fig
uie last year was 19 percent.
There is no easy standard to
■ compare what the United States
and the Russian governments con
sider defense items. The current
U. S. budget calls for an expendi
ture of $13,028,000,000 for defense
j which is 30.6 percent of the total
j budget. Comparative figures be
tween the U.S. and the U.S.S.R,
vary because experts disagree on
the ruble’s purchasing power in
relation to the American dollar.
Speaking in Dallas, Tex., U. S.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
charged the Russians are using
their military preparations and
communist plotting to break down
the resistance of non-Soviet na
tions He accused the Soviet Union
of holding a “poised bludgeon”
over the weak nations to soften
them for absorption by Russia. He
added:
“I do not believe this creates an
immediate danger of war. but it
is being used as a poised bludgeon
to intimidate the weak, and it
does confront the world with the
possibility that the Soviet leaders,
whenever they feel that they are
strong enough, may be tempted
to make use of military force
an instrument of their policy.
Elsewhere in the global news
pi ture:
YUGOSLAVIA— Premier Mar
More Liberal
Soe. See. Asked
WASHINGTON, U-P) —Senator
George <D-Ga.) said today a more
liberal social security program is
needed to protect additional mil
lions of citizens and give them
reasonable retirement benefits.
Chairman of the Senate finance
committee, he opened debate on
a bill which fould add nearly 10,
000,000 persons to the 35.000,000
now covered by the old-age and
survivore insurance system and
sharply increase benefit pay
ments.
Administration 1 e a d e r s are
hopeful that the Senate will fin
ish with the bill early next week.
It is a revised version of a meas
ure passed by the House last Oct
ober. Its enactment is a key part
of the administration program.
George said that a higher level
of benefits is long overdue. He
noted that the retirement sys
tem’s benefit formula has been
unchanged since 1939 “despite the
sharp increase in prices and wage
levels that have occurred since
that time.”
shal Tito’s government protested
to the Russian embassy in Bel
grade against a Soviet blockade
of Yugoslav shipping on the Dan
ube.
FINLAND— The Soviet Union
and Russia have signed a five
year trade pact in Moscow am
ounting to -320,000.000. It is Fin
land’s biggest commercial pact.
ETHIOPA— Rescue parties in
cars are ploughing throug.. a
roadless jungle in wild lion and
leopard country to rescue six Am
ericans, including a woman and
child, whose plane crashed near
the Somaliland border Sunday.
JAPAN— It was predicted in
London diplomatic circles that
British commonwealth countries
will urge a soft peace for Japan.
The policy is intended to induce
Japan not to tie up with Russia
and Red China. Commonwealth
governments concluded a 17-day
conference on Japan last month.
In Tokyo police prepared to
deal with any leftist anti-Ameri
can demonstrations here next
week when U. S. defense secre
tary Johnson and Gen. Omar
Bradley visit the city.
In Formosa the nationalist Chi
nese newspaper Chuen Min Jih
Pa expressed hope the visit of
American defense leaders to Jap
an may bring reconsideration of
the U. S. hands-off policy towards
Formosa.
THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON
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U. S. COUHT OFFICIAL HOLDS
ALASKA CONFERENCE
Elmore Whilehurst. assistant
director of the administrative of
fice of the United States courts
meets in Anchorage this week on
an Alaskan judicial conference
which includes Judge John R.
Biggs, Jr., chief judge of the
Third District Court of Appeals,
i from Deleware.
Judge Anthony Dimond will be
host for the conference with Jud
ges Joseph W.Kehoe, Harry Pratt,
and George Folta attending.
! Received, U.S. Land Office, Nome,
Alaska Date: Aug. 1, 1944. Hour:
11:55 a.m. Mineral Entry No.0972.
IN THE UNITED STATES
I LAND OFFICE FOR THE ROME
j LAND DISTRICT. NOME, AL
i ASKA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1890
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Ralph Lomen by and through
his attorney-in-fact, Ira D. Orton,
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application for
a United States Patent for the
No. 3 Below Discovery placer min
ing claim situated on Newton
Creek, No. 1 a tributary of Dry
j Creek, a tributary of Snake River,
i in the Cape Nome Mining and Re
cording Precinct, Territory of Al
aska, and designated as United
! States Mineral Survey No. 1890
and particularly described in the
official plat and field notes now
on file in the said Land Office
with magnetic variation at each
corner of the survey of mean val
ue of 17 degrees 12 min. E., as
follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 ident
ical with Cor. No. 2, Survey No.
1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor.
No. 17, Survey No 1310, Great
Western Group Claim Placer from,
whence U.S.L.M. No. 11, bears S.
86 deg. 33 min. W., 7290.75 rt.; E.
edge Anvil Rock bears N. 40 deg.
24 min. W.; Newton Rock bears
N. 1 deg. 35 min. W.; Radio Tower
at Nome bears s. 43 deg. 24 min.
W.; U.S.L.M. No. i399 bears S. 23
deg. 44 min. W.; thence N. 17 deg.
17 min. E., 1041.66 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 81 deg. 08 min. E.,
J 661.90 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S.
i 16 deg. 01 min. W., 1587.19 ft. to
i Cor. No. 4; thence N. 45 deg. 37
I min. W., 333.0 ft. to Cor. No. 5;,
thence N. 55 deg. 33 min. W^
347.52 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
of beginning, containing an area
j of 18.223 acres.
I here are no conflicting claims,
i The adjoining claims are:
On the N., Survey No. 1335,
1 “Doyle Fraction”.
On the E., Survey No. 1182, No.
7 Below Discovery.
On the S., Survey No. 1166, No.
4 Below Placer.
On the W., Survey No. 1310,
Great Western Group Claim Pla
cer.
The original certificate of loca
tion of said placer mining claim
is recorded in the office of the Re
corder of said Mining District and
Precinct in Vol. 216, Page 79 of
the records of locations of said
District.
The mineral monument to
which this claim is tied is de
scribed as follows:
U.S.L.M. No. 11 is a fir post,
6 in. sq. 5 ft. above ground in
stone mound. It is situated about
70 ft. east of the Bessie Road from
Nome and about 2.7 miles N.E. of
the mouth of Snake River, and is
in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min. N., Long.
165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated the 1st day of August,
1944.
Mrs. Helen M. Bockman
Acting Register
Pub. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5,
' 12, 19. 26, Aug. 1, 8, 15.