Dean Insists Russia
Does Have A-Bomb
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WASHINGTON, (P) — Atomic
commission chairman Gordon
Dean said flatly yesterday that
‘^Russia does have” the atomic
bomb.
He gave that answer to a news
conference question based on re
cent public discussion of whether
the Soviets actually did explode
an atomic bomb in the summer of
1949.
President Truman announced
in September, 1949, that there had
been an “atomic explosion” in
Russia, but he did not specifically
say an atom bomb had been ex
ploded.
Chairman McMahon CD.-Conn.)
of the Senate-House atomic com
mittee has since said, however,
that a board of experts who eval
uated the report of the atomic
blast blast had agreed unanimous
ly it was a -bomb.
The question was brought up
again recently by Senator Brew
ster OR.-Me.) who said there were
“grave doubts” that Russia had
the bomb.
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uoan aiso was asucu wuctuci
atomic bombs are being made
anywhere except in the United
States and Russia. He said that
question should be addressed “to
the other countries.”
Asked whether Mr. Truman has
yet ordered the AEC to deliver
bombs to the armed forces for
possible use, Dean replied he did
not think he should answer the
question.
One questioner asked if the cost
of atomic bombs was an important
factor governing the strategic use
of the bomb, whether we “have to
be frugal?”
“Even if you had much larger
numbers, ycm would have to be
frugal,” Dean replied.
Nozne Business: en
And Families Will
Be Under S. S. Law
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Nome businessmen and 'their
families will be protected by So
cial Security, starting January 1,
1951, according to James G.
Browne, manager of the Social Se
curity Office in Juneau, Alaska.
Previously limited to wage earn
ers, the Aid-Age and Survivors
Insurance system was extended to
most self-employed persons by the
1950 amendments.
Under the new Social Security
Law, net income from self-em
ployment after January 1 will
count toward Social Security Ben
efits if it is $400.00 or more a year.
Farm owners and certain pro
fessional groups will continue to
be exempt, however, these include
members of the medical profes
sions, lawyers, architects, account
ants, professional engineers, and
funeral directors.
Net earnings for this newly
covered group will count toward
building up retirement and insur
ance protection for their families
in case of death.
I Businessmen will report their
j net earnings for Sooial Security
purposes when they pay their in
come tax for the year 1951, due in
1952. The Social Security contri
bution for self-employed people
will be 2V4 per cent of their net
income up to $3,600.00 a year.
Mr. Browne warned that all
businessmen should have a Social
Security Account Number Card.
In the event they have lost their
card a duplicate may be obtained
in the Juneau Field Office.
A leaflet explaining the revised
Social Security Law may be ob
tained iby writing the Social Se
curity Administration, Post Office
Box 1331, Juneau, Alaska.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPAHT
FAIRBANKS, ANCHORAGE or SEWARD
Christmas Tree
Fund Total $656.75
Chairman Clem Boucher of the
Community Christmas Tree Com
mittee has announced that the to
tal donations received this year
amounted to $656.75. Expenses to
date are $424.26, leaving a credit
balance of $232.41. This will be
added to the $713.50 nest egg for
future celebrations.
650 stockings were filled and
given to the children and 39 Good
Cheer Baskets were prepared for
needy families.
| He stated that the committees
were very co-operative and work
ed hard to make this a good cele
bration. Finance included Chief of
Police Herb Jenks, Bill Ullrich,
and Ruth Gottschalk. Fire Chief
| Laws and his helpers, filled the
sox and baskets with supplies
purchased by himself and the
Chief of Police.
The tree was obtained through
A. Polet, courtesy of Alaska Air
lines and decorated by Olaf Hal
vorsen. The program was in
charge of Helen Dunbar, Ann
Walsh, Mrs. Gallagher and the
school.
Santa was obtained through the
efforts of John Hudert, Conrad
Yenney and Sgt. Kenneth Dewey,
assisted by the Junior and Senior
Class boys.
World Champion
Liar For 1950
BURLINGTON, Wis., (JP) — A
Californian who wandered far
afield for the locale of a weird
story wa serowned today as the
world’s champion liar of 1950.
The Burlington Liars* Club
picked this one by Frank J. Goul
ette, of Alhambra, Calif., from a
pack of lies submitted from all
over the nation and from foreign
lands in its annual contest:
“One winter, while I was work
ing on a. pile driver in North Da
kota it got so cold that one night
a member of our crew froze to
death in bed.
“The ground was frozen so hard
that it was impossible to dig a
i grave. In fact, we never did find
out how far down it was frozen.
But this I do know: Seeing we
couldn’t dig a grave, we dtood the
fellow on his head under the pil
driver—and he had to drive on
him seven days and seven nights
before we got him down far
enough for a decent burial!”
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Pan Am Strike
Still Possible
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NEW YORK (/P>—Further wage
talks Were called for today in ef
forts to settle a dispute threaten
ing a strike of ground crew work
ers against Pan American Air
ways.
A strike originally set for 5 p.m.
yesterday was postponed for 24
hours by the CIO transport work
ers union.
A union official said “there still
is a possibility of a strike” if the
wage talks fail to produce agree
ment.
Involved in the dispute are
about 4,500 mechanics and ground
service workers at airline bases in
New York City, (Miami, San Fran
cisco, Seattle and Brownsville,
Texas.
G. S. MacSwan, of the national
mediation board, who has been at
tempting to settle the dispute, re
quested the strike postponement.
The ground workers are asking
the airline to grant them a volun
tary cost-of-living increase of
eight cents an hour. Their con
tract runs to next Nev. 1 without
a wage reopening clause.
Present wage rates range trm
$1.16 to $2.08 an hour, a union
spokesman said.
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U.S. Commissioner's Court
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George Secco and Sam Pushrak
; were bound over to the Grand
Jury this morning on two charges
of burglary and larceny, having
broken into the Martin Cold Stor
age and, it is reported stolen can
ned goods and cigarettes.
Jacob Smith was given 15 days
for stealing a chicken from Harold
Jacobson.
Willie Mitchell was also sen
tenced for stealing a saw from
Here Edwards which is the pro
perty of Harold Jacobson it is re
ported.
Three drunk and disorderly
cases brought sentences from the
U. S. Commissioner for Tom Uli
gak, Frank Pushrak, and Emma
j Henry.
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C-54 Cartwheels;
No-one Killed
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Six crew
men and two passengers escaped
serious injury when their ice
coated C-54 transport cartwheeled
into a mass of wreckage after an
emergency landing Saturday night
at Yakutat, Alaska.
Eye witnesses said it was a mir
acle anyone emerged alive from
the shattered four-engined plane.
The C-54, one of the 54th Troop
Carrier Squadron stationed at El
mendorf Air Force Base here, .
was forced down at Yakutat while
flying military freight to Elmen
dorf from Annette Island airport,
near Ketchikan.
Unable to maintain altitude be
cause of severe icing on the wings
and propellors, Capt. William
Lewis managed to get his big
plane onto the Yakutat runway
but could not control it because of
wind and its sheath of ice.
The transport slithered into a
pinwheel crash and was demol
ished.
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion workers at Yakutat raced to
the wrecked plane and aided in
removing the eight men aboard.
All were given emergency treat
ment in the airport hangar within
five minutes of the accident.
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SAN FRANCISCO, <#) — Offi
cials of Local 10, ILWU, ignoring
an edict from long-shore union
chief Harry Bridges, have an
nounced that members will start
picking up coast guard port secur
ity badges today.
Bridges has said the ILWU
would do rlothing about the new
anti-communist check for dock
workers until a union caucus Jan.
11 at Longview. Wash.
But George Arms, secretary
treasurer of Local 10, said right
wing members of the local would
get their badges ‘(in the interest of
expediting cargo.”
Waterfront sources say some
5,500 members of Local 10 have
registered for the check on a vol
untary basis and that most of
them have been cleared for work.
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