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THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL
About 18 million people in the United States get
checks from the federal government, and in addition to
this there are about six million who get checks from
state governments to which the federal government has
contributed.
Way back in 1933, there were less than two million
people getting government checks. At that time, there
were about 600,000 civilians working for the govern
ment, there were only about 150,000 people in the
armed forces, and there were a little more than a
million veterans receiving benefits.
Today there are about four million checks going
to members of the armed services, about three million
to veterans, about four to five million checks being
sent out as Social Security pensions, about five million
relief checks to old people and dependent widows and
children, about two or three million checks to farmers
for following soil conservation practices. »
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The large number of checks sent out by the fed
eral government has undoubtably played a significant
role in each of the elections in the past 16 years. It
should be remembered that the party in power was re
elected in each instance.
FORMOSA, WARNINGS
Senator Lester C. Hunt, Democrat of Wyoming,
and chairman of a Senate Armed Services sub-commit
tee, has warned that the Nationalist Chinese cannot
hold the island of Formosa without U.S. aid, much less
launch offensive action against the China mainland.
This was Senator Hunt’s conclusion after he had
a confidential briefing on the Formosan situation from
General of the Army Omar N. Bradley. Senator Hunt
told reporters that he alone took the responsibility for
issuing the statement that the Nationalists were not
in a strong position and even said he realized General
Bradley would take a dim view of his statement.'
Senator Hunt’s analysis of the Nationalist Chinese
strength on Formosa is certainly a contrast to the
rosy picture painted by some observers, who pictured
some 600,000 Chinese Nationalist troops ready to
spring into action the minute the United Nations gave
the word.
L berty is the one thing you can’t have unless you
give it to others. William A. White
News on Candleites
Olaf Lundberg, Candle’s patri
arch, aged 85 years young, left
last spring for six months in his
motherland, Sweden. There, he
was to meet Andy Nordling,
Candle oldtimer who has spent
the last years in Norway, for a
leisurely tour of Sweden and
Norway plus a visit with nieces
and nephews. Olaf, a successful
miner who came to Candle in the
early days of the camp, expects
to return next September to his
home just under the Arctic Circle.
* * •
Old timer Fritz Weinard, for
many years superintendent for
the Matthews interests a*. Candle
was to meet Andy Nordlund,
and like Lundberg and Nordlund,
a veteran of the drift mining era,
is opening up his placer ground
on Mud Creek, three miles over
the hill west of Candle .His son,
Frederick, is assisting him.
• • •
One of the camp’s veterans,
Louie Hanak, long - time trapper,
prospector and miner in the
Candle, Bear Creek, Haycock area
is spending the summer at his old
stamping grounds. Louie, of late
years, puts in the winters in
balmy Southern California.
* * *
Ronald Gillis, veteran miner of
the Inmachuk and Candle dis
tricts, has been Candle’s post
master and U.S. Commissioner of
the Fairhaven Precinct and Re
cording District for the past 25
years. Mild-mannered Gil, as he
is called by everyone including
the kids, is highly regarded
throughout the northland.
* * *
Another Candle-Inmachuk vet
eran miner, Barney Buck, for the
first time in many years, is tak
ing the working season off in
order to prospect a creek that he
has had his eye on for some
time. Barney and his gracious
wife, Mary, are always glad to
entertain the occasional wayfarer
in their pleasant home.
• * *
M. R. Stirn, Candle manager
for the Havenstrite Mining Co., in
addition to his regular duties,
renders a distinct service to the
community by meeting all planes
landing on his company’s airfield,
a half mile from town. Mr. Stim
convoys the pilot, his mail and
freight to the post office, also the
occasional passenger, and back to
the field when the pilot is ready
to resume his flight. All for free
and a real service.
* * *
George Moline, a sailor in his
youth, left a sailing vessel in
Kotzebue Sound in 1900, and has
resided in the Deering - Candle
area ever since, devoting his time
to prospecting and mining. For a
number of years George has been
developing a coal mine about 20
miles from Candle. He says he
has enough coal to supply Seward
Peninsula if he could only solve
the transportation problem.
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Carl Reinisch, for many years a
Nome resident, who removed to
Candle some 20 years ago, is em
ployed by the Havenstrite Mining
Co. as cleanup and retort man.
Carl, of late years, puts in his
winters in Philadelphia, Pa., with
his sister and family.
• * •
Mr. and Mrs. John Savok, a
smiling, happy, and well - liked
couple, are the missionaries in the
Candle district for the Evangeli
cal Covenant Church. They are
veterans in this field of endeavor,
' having been stationed over the
years, at Elim, Unalakleet, St.
Michael, Golovin, and Deering,
and both are graduates of the
Mission School at Unalakleet.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Gregg,
born and raised along the Arctic
Coast, now own and operate the
Roust Roadhouse. Mrs. Gregg is
an excellent cook and provides
plentiful and nourishing meals for
the traveler. Husband Fletcher
operates a dragline for the Haven
strite Mining Co. during the min
ing season.
* * •
Alfred Karmun, bom and
raised in Deering, is the man
ager of Candle’s store, owned and
operated by the Havenstrite Min
ing Co. Alfred and his wife, the
former Mamie Moto of Deering,
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are the proud parents of four fine
children. * * *
Candle has some 31 children at
tending the ancient, drafty old
building that passes for a school
house. The lovely lady who dis
penses knowledge to these eager,
though at time shivering children,
is Mrs. Henry Xavier, who as
Miss Solveig Rynning, taught for
several years at Nome High
School in the early thirties. She
is now at summer school in the
States, returning in September.
• * •
Many of the native families
migrated early in the spring for
the coast, and the Buckland,
where they engage in hunting,
fishing and berry picking until
their-return to Candle in the fall
for the school year.
Only Handful of Solons
Attend Session As 82nd
Congress Adjourns
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The S2nd
Congress added almost a billion
dollars to an expanded atomic
weapons program Monday and
then voted to quit for good.
Unless President Truman calls
for a special session, the law
making days of this Congress are
over. The next — or 83rd — Con
gress with a lot of new faces,
convenes Jan. 5, 1953.
With most Republicans attend
ing the GOP national convention
in Chicago and many Democrats
out of town, only a handful of leg
islators were on hand when Con
gress adjourned.
During the final day Democrats
did not take advantage of their
numerical superiority. Leaders
said all actions were fully agreed
on by absent GOP leaders either
in advance or by long distance
telephone calls.
In the House there were about
60 Democrats, 7 Republicans; in
the Senate 11 Democrats and two
Republicans. The House has a
total of 435 members: 233 Demo
crats, 201 Republicans, one In
dependent, and the Senate 96:
50 Democrats and 46 Republicans.
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