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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, July 25, 1951
$1 A DAY PER FAMILY
If Congress votes a weak control law, Eric John
ston, Economic Stablizer, predicts that it will add $1
a day to each family’s cost of living. Thus, he explains,
if Congress prohibits further price rollbacks, as it has
done in the one-month stop-gap statute now in effect,
the cost of living would increase twelve billion to
fourteen billion dollars.
In addition, Mr. Johnston points out that the added
inflation would move defense costs upward, adding
more than $3,000,000,000 to the defense budget. This,
he asserts, is not a “political issue” and adds that blame
for the tangled situation might be fixed on those in
the Economic Stabilization Agency because they have
“not brought home to the people the dangers ahead.”
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Scouts Enroute Toj
World Jamboree
Visit Algiers
ALGIERS, Algeria, i/P) — Boy
Scouts from all parts of America j
sailed for Naples Monday night j
after a day visiting the old pirate j
lairs of this ancient North African 1
city. I
The Scouts, 50 of them, are en
route to a world jamboree in Bad
Ischl, about 30 miles east of Salz
burg, Austria, beginning Aug. 3.
They landed here Monday mor
ning on their chartered ship, the
S.S. Argentina, after a 10-day
crossing “without a case of sea
sickness,” Scouts reported.
Scoutmaster Charles Heinstand
of New York termed the arrival,
here “a thrilling experience,” and !
led the boys off to see the Kasbah
and the Moorish quarters of the
city. |
Eskimo Drowns in Chena;
Bill Tautuk, age 27, drowned
last week at Fairbanks when he
fell from the stern of a speeding
motor boat on the Chena River.!
The boat made a turn and the j
Eskimo lost his balance, falling1
into the water and vanishing.
Bill Tautuk was distantly re- j
lated to Mrs. Sam Tucker of this j
citv. J
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Report Andrei Vishinsky
Recovers From Illness
MOSCOW, (/P)—A British dip
lomat reported that Foreign Min
ister Andrei Vishinsky is almost
completely recovered from his
month-long illness and shortly
will return to full time duty at
the foreign ministry.
Babies for Jane Powell |
And Maureen O’Sullivan
HOLLYWOOD, (JP) — It’s baby
day in the movie colony—No. one
for Jane Powell and No. seven
for Maureen O’Sullivan.
Miss Powell, wife of insurance
executive Geary Steffen, gave
birth to a seven-pound two ounce
boy. He will be named Gerhardt
Anthony Steffen III.
Miss O’Sullivan gave birth to
an eight-pound girl named Ther
esa. That makes four girls and
three boys for the Irish-born act
ress and her husband, director j
John Farrow.
U. S. Editor Demands
Investigation of Head Tass
News Agency in Capitol
HAMILTON, N. Y., f/P)—Alex
ander F. Jones, president of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, yesterday demanded a
government investigation of the
head of the Tass News Agency in
Washington.
Jones, in a talk prepared for
the third annual foreign policy
conference at Colgate University,
charged that the Soviet govern
ment had assigned Mikhail Fed
orov to Washington -because of his
Politburo training rather than his
journalistic skill.
“Federov is not 3 newspaper
man at all,” Jones said, yet “he is
listed as a member of the con
gressional press corps and is en
titled to walk into the White
House.”
In Washington Federov de
scribed Jones’ statement as a
“crazy idea” and “most irrespon
sible.” Federov said Jones “h3s
no foundation for saying I had no
training. I worked in the Moscow
office of Tass.”
Korea Soldier Is Pen Pal
To 57 Young Women In
United States and Canada
TOKYO, ijpy—Cpl. Leonard I.
George, Peoria, 111., is a pen pal
on a mass production basis.
, George is corresponding from
Korea with 57 young women in
11 states and Canada. To keep the
record straight, he maintains a
big black book listing each girl’s
height, weight, color of hair and
eyes, and other vital statistics.
George says he “just likes to re
ceive mail.” He answers each let
ter. One day not long ago, he got
36 at once. It took him three days
to reply to them all.
Texas Oil Man Is Not
Interested In Alaska Oil
JUNEAU, (/P)—W. S. S. Rogers,
chairman of the board of direc
tors of the Texas Oil Co., in New
York, left for Seattle in his pri
vate DC-3 plane last Friday after
inspecting company seismograph
explorations in Northern Canada.
He said he had no interest in
Alaska possibilities.
“Restrictions on acreage by the
government is too small to pay a
b^g company,” he said. “There are
no restrictions in Canada, where
they encourage American capital.”
‘Bob’ of ‘Egg and I’
Killed In Fight
OAKLAND, Calif.; (JP) — Police
today blamed jealousy for the
knife-slaying of Robert E. Hes
kett, 55-year-old divorced husband
of novelist Betty MacDonald.
Officers S3id Heskett was stab
bed by Omas J. Blake, 37, Visalia,
Calif., bulldozer operator, in a
quarrel over Blake’s ex - wife,
Thelma, 35.
Heskett, an Oakland carpenter,
was “Bob” in Miss MacDonald’s
i best selling “The Egg and I.”
Heskett was divorced by Miss
MacDonald in 1935 after eight
years of marriage and two daugh
ters. She was awarded custody of
both.
Investigators said Mrs. Blake
told them:
Blake came to Heskett’s apart
ment Sunday, demanding to see
her and “my babies.” She said she
and daughters Peggy Lou, 5, and
Shirley Marie, 7, had moved in
with Heskett a week previously.
Heskett ordered Blake to leave,
j There was a fight. Heskett col-1
I lapsed, stabbed in the heart.
Blake told police he stabbed
Heskett in self defense because
Heskett had swung at him with a
hatchet.
P:3y Adm. Sherman
Is Enroute Home
NAPLES, Italy, (/P) — A four
engine U.S. Navy transport took
off from Naples airport yesterday
carrying the body of Adm. Forrest
P. Sherman on its last flight home.
A few minutes before the big
plane was airborne an Italian
armed forces guard and band ren
dered last honors to the veteran
officer whose 33-year Navy career
began and ended in the Mediter
ranean.
The 54-year-old admiral, young
est man to become U. S. Chief of
Naval Operations, died after two'
heart attacks Sunday in a Naples
hotel. He had been making a rapid
tour of Atlantic Pact countries
and had just finished talks with
Generalissimo Franco about U. S.
sea and air bases in Spain.
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OPS to Undertake Survey
Of Wholesale and Retail
Grocery Costs in Alaska
JUNEAU — Surveys of whole
sale and retail grocery costs in
Alaska will soon be undertaken
by the Territorial Office of Price
Stabilization, it was announced
this week by Fred G. Hanford,
Territorial OPS director.
The survey is intended to* es
| tablish a basis for a possible pro
1 gram of posted dollar-and-cent
j “community prices” in Alaska
j grocery stores. Hanford said he
had been advised by J. Herbert
Meighan, director of Region 14
in Washington, D. C., that the
survey will be similar to o*ne now
under way in the states, although
not as extensive in scope.
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“Temperamentality” in movie
actors and actresses can be cred
ited more to temper than men
tality.
Chamber Meeting
Hears Mining Man ^
Walter Erickson of the Erick
son Placers, Inc., was a guest orf
the Chamber of Commerce at their
noon luncheon Tuesday. He com
pared mining here with mining
in the Black Hills of Dakota, stat
ing that he was favorable im
pressed with the possibilities in
placer mining here, especially with
the new equipment which he has
been demonstrating to mining men
here for the past week.
A. Polet reported on his meeting
in Juneau with the Alaska Devel-J
opment Board. He said the entire
Board was sold on the urgent nec
essity of developing the strategic
minerals in this area and that they
were taking all possible stetps to
place our resources before the in
vesting public in a convincing
manner.
He also reported that the Board
went on record to make every
effort to bring before the proper
authorities the urgency of the
need of roads and assist us in
presenting our case before Con
gress with renewed effort as we
know our arguments are convinc
ing and justified.
A committee was appointed to
investigate the prolonged absence
of the district attorney who has
spent little time in the district
during the past year. Boyd Har
wood and Charles Jones were ap
pointed to head the committee.
Another committee headed by
Bud Harper was appointed to in
vestigate the necessity of closing
the land office in this mining dis
trict, handicapping the people in
this area.
RICHMOND, Va., (;P)_The tall
gentleman was returning from his
vacation.
He walked up to his front door
fumbled in his pocket and found
he’d forgotten his keys. He rap
ped on the door he pushed the
bell. No answer—the lady of the
house was out.
A policeman assigned tb the
area happened by. Luckily, he had
a key.
And the tall gentleman — Vir
ginia’s Governor John S. Battle—
stepped into the governor’s man
sion.
City Council Notes
The City Council met on Mon
'day evening with Mayor Jones
presiding.
Clyde Kammerer was highest
bidder on the old police wagon
with a bid of $161.00.
Regulations for taxicabs were
discussed in view of the fact that
the city has at this time no ordi
nances covering them. Plans were
made to formulate a code cov
ering their activities in the city.
A complaint of disorderly con
duct and disturbing the paace at
night was lodged by Mrs. Axel
Edman against her neighbors in
the Arthur Triggs residence. The
council advised her that the police
patrol would check there regu
larly.
The City Clerk announced that.,
the delinquent tax roll this year
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on real and personal property in
cluded about $1600.00, consider
ably less than last year.
The council went on record as
endorsing the action of the Cham
ber of Commerce in regard to the
school obtaining an instructor
qualified to direct and train the
children for orchestra or band
work.
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