THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Brx 618
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E. P. B( HER . Managing Editor
Entered second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, June 23, 1952
WILL THEY EVER GET TO ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION ?
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TAX FOR JOBLESS MISUSED
It does not seem right for the federal government
to tax employers for unemployment insurance, and
then use part of the money for other purposes. Yet
this has been going on since state unemployment in
surance began operating in 1938.
Many millions collected for the help of the jobless
have never reached their territory. Estimates of this
amount run from $686,000,000 to $972,000,000. Legis-'
lation to correct the slir now up in Congress.
Unemployment insu ,iee is a federal-state pro
ject, mostly state. Each slate sets up its own system,
appoints its staff, administers it, decides what it will
give its jobless, and furnishes the cash for their pay
ments.
The taxes differ from state to state. In several
they have climbed to the top rate of 2.7 percent on the
payroll, |as in the case of Alaska |, and yet that doesn’t
seem enough.
The federal government provides the funds for
administrative expenses and exercises a power of re
view. Its appropriations pay the salaries, rents, etc.
It lays a 0.3 percent payroll tax on most employers of
eight or more persons, outside of agriculture.
The federal tax, as it has turned out, brings in
much more money than is needed for administration.
The surplus goes into the general revenue and is used
for all kinds of expenses.
FIGHTING RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA
One of the falsifications that our State Department
is faced with continuously by Kremlin propaganda is
the Moscow theme that international Communism
stands for freedom, for escape from exploitation and for
anti-colonialism.
Through the Voice of America, the State Depart
ment claims to have exposed this lie over and over
again, but the department admits that “it does not die
easily” and that it remains “one of our greatest prob
lems in colonial and newly independent areas.”
While the State Department’s Education and In
formation program is not meeting with complete suc
cess everywhere, it is serving a very useful purpose in
this mixed up world of propaganda.
The potential audience for the Voice of America
a part of the USIE program, has been estimated at 300
million. Sometimes as many as 40 thousand letters are
received from listeners in a single month.
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Cargo-Handling
System in Seattle
Undergoes Change
Special to the Nome Nugget
By Louis R. Huber
A revolutionary cargo-handling
system has made its appearance
on the Seattle waterfront, for Al
aska operations only at present,
but giving promise of cheaper and
more efficient water transporta
tion for the entire world.
Dramatically, this development
was launched just as a strike of
the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific
<AFL> temporarily closed down
operations of Alaska’s oldest com
mon carrier, the Alaska Steam
ship Company.
Seattle already has witnesed
ocean-going truck trailers which
are hoisted into the holds of
streamlined deep-sea barges and
then hauled at the >. ds of tow
lines by tugs.
Alaska Freight Lines, Inc., has
been hauling cargoes to Valdez,
Alaska, in this manner since 1950.
At that port the trailers are set
on the dock, coupled to a truck
tractor and hauled over Alaska’s
highway system to Anchorage -or
Fairbanks.
This was revolutionary in itself,
providing an expedited, refriger
ated door-to-door freight service.
Now comes a new company,
Ocean Van Line, with trailer bod
ies or “vans.” specially construc
ted so as to nest one atop the
other in a ship’s hold. This saves
much valuable cargo space be
cause not only the truck-tractor
but the trailer chassis waits at
each end of the ocean route.
Two specially-fitted ships —
the Alaska Cedar and the Alaska
Spruce — carry their own trav
elling cranes for lifting the vans
into and out of the holds. OVL
has $3,000,000 invested in the two
ships and 200 of the vans, which
measure 30 feet long and hold
1,545 cubic feet. Each ship can
carry 66 vans.
Initially OVL will ply between
Seattle at one end and Valdez,
Seward and Anchorage at the oth
er. At Valdez, the vans will take
to the Alaska highway system,
going mainly to Fairbanks.
At Seward they will be loaded
onto railroad flatcars for ship
ment anywhere on the 500-mile
long Alaska Railroad. At Anchor
age they will become truck-trail
ers again, for delivery mainly in
that defense area.
Here, again, a door-to-door re
frigerated (or heated) service is
provided. Detachable cooling (to
! five degrees below zero) or heat
ing (to 65 degrees above zero)
units can be attached to the vans.
Col. L. B. DeLong, head of
OVL, say:
“For 200 years mankind has
been lifting freight up and setting
it down dozens of times for ocean
shipments—from factory to truck
to dockside to slingload to ship
hold to* slingload again to dock
side to truck and finally to con
sumer.
“This repeated handling is vary
BLACK MAN TROUBLE
LIVERPOOL, Eng., <>P) — The
police court clerk called the name
Black Man Trouble, Monday and
up rose a middle-aged Negro.
Yes, he said, his name really
was Black Man Trouble and he
really was drunk Sunday night.
The judge said he’d have to
trouble Trouble for a fine of ten
shillings ($1.40).
GOLFING HAZARD
ST. PAUL, Minn., (/P)—Every
body agreed that Ray Schmidt of
Stillwater, Mfnn., had an un
playable lie Sunday in the Min
nesota State Open Golf Tourna
ment.
Schmidt hit a six iron over the
18th green', the ball struck a tree
by the Somerset course swimming
pool, fell to a walk round the
pool and rolled into a corner in
the women’s shower room.
costly. With our vans, however,
we cut out the handling except
for putting things into the vans
and taking them out when the
shipment- is at its destination.”
, Overseas Van Line, Alaska
Freight Lines and Coastwise Line
are busy hauling freight today
while the veteran Alaska Steam
ship Co. is idled by the SUP
strike. The reason: the newcomers
are not members of the Pacific
Maritime Assn.
OVL officials do not hesitate
to point out that they prefer to
remain outside PMA and conduct
their union business separately.
“Our relations with the unions
are very cordial all around and
we intend to keep them that
way,” says Col. DeLong.
Actually, crews of the newcom
er lines belong to the same unions
as those serving Alaska Steam —
but, in some cases, to different
units of those unions, and under
separate contract arrangements.
OVL’s unlicensed crewmen —
sailors, firemen, and cooks and
stewards, for example — belong
to the Seafarers’ International
Union, which is the parent body
of SUP and an AFL affiliate.
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Congress Will Attempt To
Adjourn Before GOP
Convention July 7
WASHINGTON, (/P>—Ctfngres
sional leaders told President Tru
man today they will do every
thing possible to wind up this
legislative session before the Re
publican convention. If necessary,
they said, they will keep Con
gress in session on July 4 and the
Saturday following.
The Republican convention
opens July 7 in Chicago. Much
legislation must still be passed,
including the measures that will
provide the “money to run the
government in the fiscal year be
ginning July 1.
Alaska Steam Cancels
Sailing of Steamer Alaska
SEATTLE, (JP) — The Alaska
Steamship Co. announced Friday
it has cancelled the scheduled
June 26 sailing of the passenger
steamer Alaska because of the
west coast sailors’ strike. The
company said 1,600 passenger res
ervations have been voided by
sailing cancellations since the
strike began May 26.
It is estimated that salmon lay
about 1,000 eggs for every pound
of weight of the fish.
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Quality is often sacri
ficed for quantity.
Apparently this also
applies to government.
Let’s have a little less
and of better quality.
CALL
MUNZ
AIRWAYS
for
Dependable
Air Transportation
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Announcing New DC-3 Schedule
EFFECTIVE MAY 4, 1952
EACH MON., WED., THURS.. SAT. & SUN.
leave Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. arrive Kotzebue 10:30 a.m. !
leave Kotzebue 11:15 p.m. arrive Nome 1:00 a.m.
leave Nome 6:0G p.m. arrive Fairbanks 9:3H p.m.
THIS MEANS A 5-KOURS LAYOVER IN NOME '
ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY
leave Nome 1:45 p.m. arrive Kotzebue 3:00 p.m.
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I leave Kotzebue 3:45 p.m. arrive Nome 5:00 p.m. 1
OUR NEW MAIL SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE APRIL 21
By Cessna 170, 195 and Norseman
EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
1 leave Nome 7:00 a.m.
arrive Deering 8:15 a.m.
leave Deering- 8:45 a.m.
| arrive Candle 9:00 a.m.
leave Candle 9:30 a.m.
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leave Kotzebue 11:15 a.m.
arrive Candle 12:00 N
leave Candle 12:30 p.m.
arrive Deering 12:45 p.m.
leave Deering l:15'p.m.
arrive Nome 2:30 p.m.
I PAUL SPURLOCK, Station Manager |