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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, Monday, October 16, 1950
1950 MODEL WAR CONTROLS
By Clarke Beach)
The government’s war production machine, 1950
model, has now been molded into definable shape.
It is structurally different from what it was in 1940,
when the United States first assumed its historic role
as the arsenal of democracy, although it is designed to
do the same jobs. It is making use, primarily, of estab
lished government agencies to handle the vastly com
plex problems of priorities, allocations, controls, quotas,
etc.
The President, using the control powers in the De
fense Production Act of 1950, set the pattern in his ex
ecutive order of Sept. 9. He delegated his production
powers to various cabinet members and to the Inter
state Commerce Commission (ICC).
To the Department of Interior went the responsibility
for petroleum, gas, coal, minerals and electric power.
To the Agricultural Department went food, fiber, lum
ber, raw tobacco, farm equipment and commercial fer
tilizer. To the ICC went the responsibility for domestic
transportation, storage and port facilities, excluding
air transport and sale water shipping. To commerce
went all other materials and facilities.
The various agency heads have dual jobs:
1. They must see that the materials and facilities go to
the war material producers.
2. They must aid the industries to expand their pro
duction.
Here’s how the thing works in practice:
The secretary of agriculture has created two new
units in his Production and Marketing Administration.
One of them, the Office of Requirements and Alloca
tions, has the job of channeling and parceling out the
food, fibers, etc. The other one, the Office of Materials
and facilities aids farmers to get materials and facilities,
It must get steel from commerce to build farm equip
ment and get from the ICC the necessary transport.
Similar units have been set up in other departments.
All arguments will be settled by the chairman of the
National Security Resources Board, W. Stuart Syming
ton.
An enormous blank space in the mobilization pattern
is still to be filled in. The President decreed that there
would be a new and independent agency to handle price
controls and wage stabilization. It is to be called the
Economic Stabilization Agency. So far no one has been
appointed for the job and no steps have been taken to
set up the agency. The President, obviously reluctant to
impose price and wage ceilings, has said the agency will
not go into action at the present time.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer has established the
biggest of the new agencies, the National Production
Authority, within the Commerce Department to handle
his share of the mobilization job. Heading it is William
Henry Harrison, 58, president of the International Tele
phone and Telegraph Corp.
It has issued two important orders: One establishes
inventory control, forbidding business and industry to
have in stock more than a working supply of 32 war ma
terials, including such items as steel, industrial alcohol
and nylon. The other one porvides priori regulation,
giving defense orders the first call on all productive re
sources for which the commerce seretary is responsible.
NATIONAL LETTER WRITING WEEK
The U. S. Post Office Department is sponsoring its
annual National Letter Writing Week. Our first impres
sion is that the postal department is doing a little adver
tising for itself to increase business, but our second im
pression is that they are doing a service with the
thought “letters bring happiness to our land.”
Letters are important as they span great distances
and bring people together all over the world It’s fun
! Korean Situation
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| a U. S. destroyer, were reported
| to have destroyed two bridges
i and a tunnel in lightning hit and
| run raids.
Meanwhile the U. N. plan to
hold new elections throughout
Korea aft^r the Reds are defeated
j in the north drew opposition from
I South Korean President Syngman
i Rhee and his cabinet. Rhee main
| tained that the U. N. supervised
! election in South Korea last May
30 legally seated his government,
j Only communist refusal to pgrtic
i ipate prevented it from being a
I general election.
“To attempt to discard the
; duly-elected govern m e n t now
seems sophomoric.” Rhee said.
■ His cabinet voted to support him.
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Monday. October 16. 1950
Prongs of Allied drives tighten
| ring on Red capital—Pyongyang
U. S. troops drive to within 46 ■
1 air miles on capital. South Kore- |
ans are 40 miles away. Other
South Korean forces spear north
on the east coast 30 miles beyond
port of Wonsan.
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Gen. MacArthur back in Tokyo
from a meeting with President
Truman, says they discussed Far(
East, particularly Korea, Japan,'
and the Philippines. Military cir
cles speculate the Korean war will
be ended, except for mopping up
operations, within a matter of
weeks after the fall of Pyong
yang and the chase of the Reds
toward the Soviet and Manchur
ian borders.
t
India has voiced opposition in
the United Nations to an Ameri-1
can proposal for the raising of
special armed forces to serve at
U. N. direction. Prime minister
I Nehru told a New Delphi news!
conference such forces might lead
to world war rather than discour
age it.
President Truman in Honolulu
works on his major foreign pol
icy address as the world wonders
just what he and MacArthur dis
cussed.
Truman-M’Arthur i
Talks End; Subject!
Still A Mystery
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might grow out of the spectacular
14,000 mile round trip flight.
Mr. Truman was reported anx-j
ious to build up strong American
support for the spending nece§-|
sary to keep defense appropria
tions moving after the Korean
emergency ends and to rehabili-!
tate and reconstruct Korea as an
example to all the Far East that
the United States and its associ
ates want only peace and stability
for the world.
That thought wil| underline not
only his San Francisco talk but
the one he will make to the United
Nations general assembly in New
York on Oct. 24.
Whatever others may speculate
about the Wake Island meeting,
the President and his advisers ex
ude satisfaction over its results.
And while General MacArthur
exuded less outward happiness as
they shook hands upon meeting
and departing, Presidential advis
ers said the two world figures
got along famously.”
Izvestia, the Soviet government
newspaper in Moscow, declared
the Truman-MacArthur meeting
was arranged to work out plans
to expand “American aggression”
in the Far East.
Mr. Truman called the confer
ence “highly satisfactory.”
He attributed briefness of the
meeting to “very complete unani
r* ity of views.”
Then he went on to say that he
and General MacArthur talked
about “steps necessary to bring
peace and security to the area”
with the view to withdraw U. S.
armed forces as soon as possible.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lencer de
parted yesterday for the States.
According to Mr. Lencer, he
hopes to open up business near
Spokane, Wash., and handle his
Nome business through the Nome
Drug Store by airmail.
Nugget Ads Bring Quuk
to get a letter and should be fun to write one. Sit down
i o
l today and write that delayed letter to a sick friend,
I that note of thanks for a favor from a friend, a letter
; to the old folks at home, or to your family in some other
part of the world, and you will have done a good deed
i with little effort and little cost but a great deal of satis
faction.
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GUESS WHO ?
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BETA SIGMA PHIS
DISCUSS TABLE MANNERS
AND DECORATIONS
Beta Sigma Phi Kappa mem
bers were elated last Thursday
evening when they arrived at the
home of Mrs. Gerald Modrow for
a regular meeting, to find three
beautifully-appointed tables set
with gleaming china and silver,
and sparkling glassware. Two ta
bles had been prepared by Miss
Ellen Waldheim and Mrs. Isak
Jensen, who later presented a
program on “Table Manners and
Decorations.” The third table had
been prettily appointed in pastel
colors by the hostess, Mrs. Gerald
Modrow.
Subduing for a few minutes
their interest in the exciting tab
les, members held a brief business
meeting, during which Miss Eileen
Uttech explained plans of the
Alaska Commission on Children
and Youth, and members voted
unanimously to send a Beta Sig
ma Phi representative to the
Nome committee meeting Tues
day evening, October 17, to help
plan for recreation for the youth
of Nome.
The program committee *b:*n
took charge, with Mrs. Jensen
ably speaking on the informal
breakfast and luncheon, demon
strating her points by a charm
ing table set with gay luncheon
ware and a colorful fruit bowl
centerpiece. Miss Waldheim illus
trated her interesting talk on for
mal dinners with an impressive
ta^e laid with a complete formal
service on a beautiful lace table
cloth. Here centerpiece consisted
of candles and a bowl of ajtur.m
flowers presented for the occa
sion by Mrs. Joe Wallace fium
her own greenhouse.
Menus, service, and use of
flowers and candles were then
mutually discussed, and Mrs. Har
old Harper, Sorority Sponsor,
helpfully contributed practical
suggestions, including how guests
should be chosen and properly
seated at dinner.
Miss Linda Musgrave, “Torch
Girl,” provided a lovely breath
of Autumn in her rendition of a
poem written by a sorority sister
in another part of the country,
r.nd members joined in the ever
inspiring closing ritual, after
which Mrs. Modrow, who had re
centlv observed her birthday, was
assisted by Mrs. Joseph K. Hunt
in serving coffee and birthday
cake.
PLEDGE SUNDAY AT THE
FEDERATED CHURCH
Next Sunday will be observed
as “pledge Sunday” at the Fed
erated Church as this congrega
tion units with people of many
denominations all across the
United States in pledging finan
cial support to their church.
Last year’s “pledge Sunday”
was so enthusiastically support
ed by the congregation that no
further financial drive needed to
be presented. This year the
Church Board is presenting a two
fold plan. First, the pledge on the
part of the congregation to the
general budget of the church. And
second, a special building fund to
which everyone interested is in
vited to contribute for the new
, Sunday School-Social room of the
church.
Mr. A. Polet, Mr. Robert Bald
win, Mrs. Earl Clark, and Mr.
William Cameron were appointed
by the Church Board to be in
charge of the finance program.
| This committee solicits your in
| terest in the community church
that has been serving Nome for
over 50 years.
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