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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, March 28, 1952
SUNDAY — SEWARD DAY
On March 30, 1867, the treaty
of purchase of Alaska by the United
States from Russia was concluded.
At that time Senator Sumner specifi
cally dedicated Alaska to future
statehood in the union.
It was not until Secretary Sew
ard visited Sitka two years later that steps were taken
to give Alaskans “inalienable privileges of American
citizens.”
» The original price of $7,200,000 paid to Russia
has been repaid by the people of Alaska many times
over but Statehood has not been achieved.
In 1950 alone the salmon pack was valued at
$83,307,000; $3,905,850 in fur seals were sold; and
$8,929,000 in gold was mined.
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YOUR BUYING POWER IN 1939 AND NOW
Government experts say that the average U.S.
income, in terms of buying power, goes forty per cent
further today than it did in 1939, the year World War
II broke out in Europe.
With this statement, many citizens are likely to
express sharp disagreement but government experts
say they can prove it. The Government’s statisticians
say per capita incomes in 1939 averaged $526. Last
year, they averaged $1,443. After the government ex
perts deduct taxes and translate the cheaper 1952
dollar into the equivalent of a 1939 dollar, they come
up with a figure of $750. This $750 is forty per cent
higher than the 1939 average of $536.
During the war, when goods were comparatively
scarce, Americans saved money and bought many war
bonds. They had more cash and fewer goods and
luxuries. However, that trend ended with the end
of the war and the resumption of civilian production.
Today, more people have deep freezers, television
sets, and other luxuries and conveniences than ever
before and, as a result, have less cash. In other words,
they are making their average per capita income (in
terms of 1939 dollars) of $750 do more than the aver
age $536 did in 1939.
Who was it said Bob Taft’s job now is to make
the campaign- so hot that Ike won’t feel the draft?
Soviet Papers Ridicule
Ridgway’s Warning To
Japan of Russian Threat
MOSCOW, (JP) — Soviet news
papers Thursday ridiculed Gen.
Ridgway’s recent statement to
Japanese editors on the danger to
Japan from Russian forces in Si
beria.
The papers said the supreme
Allied commander in Japan tried
to “frighten his hearers with the
most awkward fabrications on the
numerical strength of the Soviet
armed forces ‘at all key points in
Siberia’.”
“Striving to hide the aggressive
plans of the United States, Ridg
way hypocritically declared that
the American armies continue to
occupy Japan allegedly ‘for de
fensive purposes’ although it is
well known that the U.S has cov
ered the whole country with war
bases, that from Japanese air
dromes American planes carry out
barbarous attacks on the peace
ful villages and cities of Korea
and American garrisons are lo
cated in many cities of Japan.”
Ridgway’s statement was term
ed an “awkward attempt to de
ceive Japanese public opinion.”
The general told a group of
Japanese newspaper executives
last week the Russians had sta
tioned strong forces “including
many tighter planes” at two
points facing Japan.
One massing point, he said, was
near Vladivostok, the big port
and base in the Siberian maritime
province. The other was on south
ern Sakhalin, formerly held by
the Japanese.
Cool Pilots Land Flaming
DC-4 In Kansas Field But
Modestly Disclaim Credit
HUGOTON, Kas., UP) — Two
pilots guided a flaming airliner
with' 50 persons aboard to a per
fect landing in a wheat field Wed
nesday, then brushed off the feat
as an ordinary job.
The Braniff Airlines DC-4 came
down with one of its four engines
gone and a wing in flames. Only
one passenger was injured.
Chief Pilot Jack Stanford com
mented tersely:
“The only sensible thing to do
was land.”
Minutes after the 45 passengers
and five crew members scurried
out, flames consumed almost the
entire plane.
Neither. Stanford nor Co-Pilot
John Beakley of Dallas, Texas,
would take credit for an extra
ordinary job. They had little to
say.
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
SHOWS LONG MIGRATION
IN BAND RECOVERIES
A white-fronted goose which
was banded on the Innoko River
in Alaska and killed in Durango,
Mexico, made one of the longest
migrations represented in the lat
est migration information which
has been compiled by U. C. (Pete)
Nelson of the Fish and Wildlife
Service at Anchorage.
The goose was one of 21 bag
ged, banded birds on which re
ports have been received since the
last compilation.
Included in the species of band
ed geese bagged were white
fronted, cackling, lesser Canada
and brandt, while the ducks were
green-winged teal and pintail.
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aska. For full details write:
Alaska Chinchilla Ranch, Box
188, Anchorage, Alaska.
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ALL ALONE BY THE TELEPHONES . . . Eula V. Ray of
Chicago has ,48 to keep track of each day.
By EDWARD S. KITCH
CHICAGO—Miss Eula V. Ray is a bachelor girl waiting for a
call on 48 telephones.
Each of the telephones on her desk gives a different ring or
buzz. Miss Ray has trained herself to recognize the individual signals
in conducting her secretarial business. Among her clients are lawyers,
decorators, accountants, business machine repairmen and salesmen.
Miss Ray says she started her super-secrefarial service in 1938
when, due to the slack times, secretarial worK was scarce. A former
employer then suggested she start her own service by telephone.
“So I decided to take a gamble for six months,” she said. “I began
with one telephone and a desk. After six months were up, they
broke out a wall to give me more office space.”
How she keeps tabs on 48 telephones, her clients and their cus
tomers is a marvel even to her clients. She keeps inventory records,
order sheets and catalogues at hand for a few of them. Customers
can order goods by telephone and pay by mail. Miss Ray often
handles the invoices and deposits checks at the bank when clients
are out of town.
The secretarial telephones are connected to the same lines of
the clients’. After the third ring, she answers by repeating the
number and client’s name. If a phone doesn’t ring for a period
of time, she checks to see if it is operating correctly.
Professional men find they can conduct business although they
are away from the office on business or vacation. Miss Ray now is
taking calls for an architect who is spending his vacation in Florida.
The architect calls her once a week to learn who has called him.
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FIVE COAL MINERS DROWN
WHEN MINE SHAFT FLOODS
POTTSVILLE, Pa.,'(/P) — Five
mine workers, about ready to quit
for the day, drowned Thursday
night after a dynamite explosion j
which filled the bottom of a small
! independent coal shaft with
water.
Two survivors of a seven man
party were walking from a tunnel
138 feet below the surface of the
earth when their companions set
off the blast. The two told mine
inspectors the walls collapsed and
water rushed in from a nearby
abandoned mine.
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TWINS COME DOWN WITH
( CHICKEN POX TWICE
IN SIX WEEKS
LONDON, (j*P) — A doctor re
ported Thursday twin five-year
old boys came down with the
chicken pox twice in six weeks.
Second attacks of chicken pox are
rare, because a first attack al
most always confers immunity.
C. Spencer Whitehouse, writing
ir the British Medical Journal,
said the twins lived in Birming
ham. They caught the disease the
first time lust Nov. 12 and the
second time Dec. 28.
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Communists Holding Up
Armistice Just to Argue
MUNSAN, Korea, UP)—An Al
lied truce negotiator said Friday
the Communists appear to be “un
necessarily holding up the armis
tice just to argue.”
Col. Don O. Darrow said argu
ment ranged from the key issue
of whether Russia should help
supervise a truce down to which
words should identify United Na
tions forces and Korea.
There were strong indications
staff officers would hand the
Russia problem back to top level
armistice negotiators.
Darrow said the Reds were “not
interested in discussing the prob
lem among staff officers.”
The Reds insist that Russia
serve on a neutral inspection com
mission which would check troops
and supplies moving into Korea
during a truce. The Allies say
Russia is wholly unacceptable.
The Russian question and the
problem of how to exchange pri
soners of war are the two pri
mary current obstacles to an ar
mistice.
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