Communication
Pioneer Home,
Sitka, Alaska,
December 12, 1947 !
Mr. A. Polet,
Nome, Alaska.
Friend Tony:
Just a few lines for Xmas. I
hope you are well and prosperous.
Iin in fairly good health so far'
except only I have trouble in
writing.
I’m glad you have a Pioneer Ig
loo Hall again.
Tony, I wish you and all the
members a very Merry Christmas *
and a Happy New Year.
I saw by the paper some time
ago Slim Rydeen left Nome some ,
time ago. And please Tony, a,
Marry Xmas to O. D. Cochran
and Judge Kehoe and please to:
O’Leary family.
Will close now with best of j
wishes and a Merry Xmas and a
Happy New Year to you all.
I remain yours,
As ever, #
Max Rappe.
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BARTON VAN SICKLE
BUILDING NEW HOME
Barton Van Sickle, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Van Sickle, is build
ing a new home in Orinda, Calif.'
President Pleads
For Lower Prices
WASHINGTON. (JP)—A renew
ed White House plea for “many”
industries to lower prices and trim
profits went out to business yes
terday together with urgings for
a long-range policy of “real price
competition.”
President Truman’s three-man
council of economic advisers de
clared in its second annual report
that today’s high-level economy
can be supported by “somewhat
artificial props through 1948 or
longer.”
But businessmen should look
ahead, the report cautioned, to
times when abnormal export and,
military demands, pent-up short
ages. and bad crops no longer
buoy up the market. Hence the •
council said, businessmen now
should seek a pattern of prices
and production that will maintain
a “stable equilibrium of a high
production economy” — in other
words, prosperity without booms
and busts.
“Real price compeition,” the
council asserted, ‘‘means the low
est price consistent with a fair re
turn in a stable economy, rather
Many Killed In i
Train Wreck
FRANKFURT, Germany, <£>)—
Thirty-seven persons perished and
more than 300 were injured last
night when two express trains
jammed with holiday passengers
collided headon at Fahr-Irlich,
near Neuwied, in the French occu-,
pation zone.
Officials of the Cologne Rail
road said 98 of the most seriously
injured were taken to Neuweid
hospitals. German police said all
the casualties were German citi
zens and expressed fear that more
dead and injured might be found
in the tangled wreckage.
Fahr-Irlich lies midway be
tween Cologne and Frankfurt and
all rail traffic on that line was
halted by the disaster, worst rail
accident in Germany since the
war.
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than the highest price that the
traffic will bear in an unstable
economy.”
The Presidential advisers picked
the housing industry as perhaps
“the best illustration of the need
for keener market analysis, and
for a much more realistic pricing,
so that maximum production may j
be sustained.” 1
MRS. STAN BARTLETT AND |
SON RETURN FOR STATES
Mrs. Stanley Bartlett and son
returned from a trip t& California ;
Saturday and are now at home in
the new quarters of the Pan
American on 1st Ave. Mrs. Bartlett
states that she saw many Nome
ites while in the States, including i
Mrs. John Moore at Santa Rosa J
and the Lyman Culver family at i
Berkeley.
HOWARD GREEN MOVES
BUILDING ONTO NEW LOT
Howard Green, local contractor,
has moved an army building onto
PAUL MANDEVILLE8 MOVE
INTO NEW APARTMENT
The Paul Mandeville family
have moved into their beautiful
new apartment over the Modern
Cleaners and Laundry. The apart
ment is reported to be the most
modern in town with many new
innovations and conveniences, as
well as a splendid view from large
vertical windows.
the portion of the former Bon
Marche lot which he bought last
summer, and plans to construct a
large building next summer.
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SEASON’S
GREETINGS
f r o in
Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Capener
From that first Christmas Day until the
present, Christmas has been the happiest and
the most blessed season of the year, because
it is the season of kindness, generosity and
fellowship.
In the age-old spirit of good will, we
express our greetings, and wish you an
old-time Merry Christmas.
FORD DEPARTMENT
CATERPILLAR DEPT.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COMPANY
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