factories on this earth. And that is
the reason why we, as a people,
have the highest standard of liv
ing of any nation in the world. No
other system in any country, at
any time, by any other means has
ever produced so much for so
many at such little cost as our
‘capitalistic’ business does in
America.”
Why Make A Prcfii?
The company says frankly that
it made money in 1946 — about
seven and one-half cents on every
dollar’s worth of products sold.
While this record is termed a nar
row margin that calls for economy
along the line, the report makes it
plain that the company expects to
keep on making money. All this,
midst healthy competitors that
cause them to keep putting out
better products for less money.
Tribute is paid to the keen compe
tition they meet as an effective |
price regulator.
“A company that can’t rr*ike
money is like a ship that can’t
float. Neither is safe for you and
your family. A company may lose
money for a short time, just as a
ship may spring a leak and take in
water for a short time, but if the,
losses and the leak can’t be stop
ped soon, the ship sinks and the
company goes out of business.
Passengers on the ship that sinks
and employees of the company
that fails are victims of disaster.”
William F. Park Student
At Univ. Of Maine
ORONO, Me. — William F. Park |
from Council, Alaska, is among;
the 1,409 registered for courses at;
the annual Summer Session now in
progress at the University of,
Maine.
A teacher at the Council school, i
Park holds the B.S. degree from
Pennsylvania State, from which he’
graduated in 1926, and the A.B.
degree from the University of
Alaska, where he graduated in;
1938. He is a veteran of the First
World War. 1
Flashes of Life
WOMEN NO 'FARE'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (A*) — Now
that the war is over a motorman
is still a motorman in Memphis,
says A. D. McWhorter, general su
perintendent of the Street Rail
way company.
The company advertised for 100
women car operators, got 16, and
half of them quit.
“When women operators are
good they’re relly good,” Mc
Whortle says, but when they’re
bad, they’re awful.”
He added that now that the man
power shortage has ended “the
women want to stay home.”
SOLVES KNOTTY PROBLEM
MAXTON, S. C. (>P)—The Army
is teaching glider pilots to tie
bowlines, double baker bowlines,
and reverse half-hitches. The
course was designed to wipe out
the cause of pilots finding them
selves gently nudged from their
seats by too-loosely lashed quar
ter-ton trucks.
"GROUND'* FOR DIVORCE
PALESTINE — The Arab wo
men of Palestine have found a new
weapon in their fight against the
Jews. Mrs. Map Amin el Husseini,
wife of the grand mufti and chair
man of the Arab Higher Commit
'tee, has advised Palestinian wo
men to divorce their husbands if
they even show any inclination to
sell their land to Jews.
This may turn out to be an ef
fective bar to land sales. Very few
men, Arabs or otherwise, are in
clined to do much talking or sell
ing in the face of an irate spouse.
But on the other hand, it offers a
golden opportunity for men who
want to get rid of their wives.
If Mrs. Husseini’s advice is
taken, readers might be able to
watch the box scores in the Arab
Jewish struggle by just reading
the lists of divorce applications.
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Phone MAIN 144
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Or DAILY TRIP
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I _
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Phone BLACK 166 — Evenings
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Plan To Make Port
Chilkoot Alaska’s
Greatest City
(By William E. Lowell)
R/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, RP)—The head
of a veterans group engaged in de- j
veloping a colony at Port Chilkoot.
in Alaska Saturday commended
Rep. Crawford <R.-Mich.> for a
statement encouraging settlement
of the Territory.
Crawford, chairman of a public
lands sub-committee considering
Statehood for Alaska, recently said
Alaska “should be homesteaded,!
colonized and settled as quickly
as possible.”
Burke Edwards, former air
force major and president of the
Port Chilkoot Co., which bought
Chilkoot barracks at a surplus!
sale, said in a statement:
“We need people who think as'
Mr. Crawford does and we are
getting them.”
He said “Some of the advance
party” already have arrived at
Port Chilkoot, which is 75 miles
north of Juneau, the Territorial
capital. He said he communicates
nightly via amateur radio with
Martin A. Cordes, resident mana
ger at Port Chilkoot.
“Only Wednesday night,” he
said, “Cordes reported a new party
had arrived with a four-year-old
daughter and dog. via the Alaska
Highway.’ The newest arrivals
were not identified.
Harry B. Gauss, of the Interi
or Departments bureau of lan 1
management, said the department
is encouraging settlement of the
Territory and is drawing attention
to possibilities for development
through use of areas along tne
highway, recently released to pub-1
lie use.
“We are pointing out the possi-!
i
bilities of settlement but not neces
sarily homesteading,” Gauss told;
a reporter. “Homesteading re-'
quires some farming and the farm
ing opportunities are limited, j
Along the highway, though, there
were opportunities for service
stations and other activities.”
Edwards, too, noted these possi
bilities. The property taken over
by his company includes 400 acres
and 86 buildings.
“We have the makings of Alas-,
ka’s greatest city,” he said. “We,
have the essentials of a complete
town situated on a peninsula with
100-foot deep fiords on either side,
from which 4,000 and 4,500-foot
peaks rise straight up. This natu
ral setting, plus the already in
stalled necessities for modern liv- i
ing. will make Port Chilkoot the
economic and vacation center of
America.”
He said inquiries had been re
ceived “from all over the country”
from doctors, nurses, school teach
ers, dairymen, laborers, farmers,
and ministers.
Makes Monkey
Out Of Patrolman
D'ETROIT, (/P)—Patrolman Al
ger Borders, 210-pounds of animal
expert, came out second best in a
day-long skirmish with a small
but agile monkey.
Borders answered a call Sun
day morning that the monkey,
owner unknown, was cavorting in
a backyard. With four big bags of
peanuts and a 20-foot dog snare
as his weapons, Borders went
forth.
At dark, out of peanuts and with
his dog snare drooping limply,
Borders retired in defeat. When
last seen, the little animal was
still at its monkeyshines in the
safe perch of a tree.
Rescued From Jungle
ALBROOK FIELD, CANAL ZONE—(Soundphoto)—Survi%-ors of
the army B-17 which crashed in the Nicaraguan jungle are shown
with their rescuers. Eleven men have been rescued; 3 men are still
unaccounted for. Left to right: 1st Lt. I’aules, pilot of the helicop
ter which brought in the survivors, Sgt. Ray English of Blair, Ncbr..
and Sgt. Pate Reale of Nashville, Term., members of the lost bomber’s
end'Lt. AndersOn, another helicopter pi!
Cub Planes Start
Flight Around
The World
TETERBORO, N. J. </P)—A pair
of tiny, single-engined planes pi
loted by former army fliers took
off Saturday on a 21,350-mile flight
around the world—the first at
tempt of planes of less than 575
horsepower to make the circuit.
The 100-horsepower cub planes
followed one another down the
Teterboro airport runway, the first
becoming airborne at 10:10 a.m.
<EST\ and the second two minutes
later.
The pilots—George Truman, 39,
of Los Angeles, a former army
flight instructor, and Clifford V.
Evans, 26, of Washington, D. C.,
who flew in the China-Burma-In
dia theater during the war—said
Friday they expected the trip to
take 200 to 220 flying hours and
from 30 to 45 days.
The planes, which have a cruis
ing speed of 100 miles per hour,
are equipped to carry 138 gallons
of gasoline, 100 more than the
cub’s normal load.
First stop on their route is
Goose Bay, Labrador, where they
hope to land Saturday night.
Other stops are planned in Green
land, Iceland, England. Europe.
Egypt, India, Burma, China, Japan
and the Aleutians.
They said they planned to fly
together so that “if one of us goes
down the other can either radio
or fly to the nearest stop and re
port his position.”
Harry—If you want a stable
friend, better buy a horse.
(One-Way!
Passenger Fare $60.00
(Plus Tax>
Freight 14c lb.