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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, January 23, 1952
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AN EXAMPLE IN COOPERATION
The complete cooperation of the British Govern
ment and the U.S. Air Force in England is an example
of peace-time integration never before achieved by
two first - rate military powers.
In 1948, the first group of United States bombers
was sent to England for a period of thirty days. The
stated purpose of that mission was training, which is
still the ostensible reason for the considerable Air
Force complement in England. That thirty days was
extended to ninety days, then extended indefinitely.
U.S. Air Force groups were rotated in and out of
England, coming one or two at a time, and today the
United States has a complete Air Force, including a
fighter wing and three bomber wings, in England.
The arrangement between England and the United
States concerning these forces is a unique one. No
treaty has ever been concluded and no lease has been
signed. The Americans occupy British bases but are
solely under the operational control of the United
States Air Force.
The British Government attached no condition to
their occupation and the RAF has turned over six of
its best bases and two large depots to the United States
Air Force, free of rent. In addition, everything existing
on those bases when the Americans arrived was given
to our Air Force without charge.
THE SECOND DIVIDEND
The government has paid out almost half a billion
dollars to veterans in the payment of a second G I in
surance dividend. Over 5,000,000 policy - holders have
already collected their share of the dividend. Generally,
checks are being mailed out about two months after the
anniversary date of the individual policies.
Dividends in the current series rarely total more
that $180 or $200 — in contrast to the heavier dividend
payments of 1950 — which often ran as high as $400
or $500. Nevertheless, the influence of this half billion
dollars, and the continuing payments, is having a defi
nite effect on the country’s economy, and current busi
ness prosperity is partially attributable to these G I
dividends.
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Industry is the most successful form of inocula
tion against Communism. ______
Eskimo Scouts
Blister the Range
At 25 Below Zero
FORT RICHARDSON, Jan. 21
— A cold, colorless dawn this
morning found a company of Es
kimo scouts waiting on the rifle
range to open fire at the target
row two hundred yards away.
The time was 5 a.m., the snow
lay 18 inches deep on the range,
and the temperature stood at 25
degrees below zero.
Engaged in the training cur
rently being conducted at Fort
Richardson are representatives of
two Eskimo scout battalions of
Alaska’s National Guard. Arriv
ing here early last week, the
scouts plunged into an intensive
training program under the dir
ection of their unit officers and a
handful of regular Army advisers.
Today, the eighth day of the
two-week encampment, began in
pre-dawn darkness at 5:30 a.m.
Two hundred fifty Guardsmen,
members of Capt. Frank R. Clay
ton’s 1st Provisional Scout Batal
lion, shook themselves awake and
fumbled sleepily with heavy
Army clothes and parkas.
Minutes later they pitched into
a breakfast of scrambled eggs,
raisin toast, cereal, grapefruit
juice, milk and coffee, with plenty
of jam and butter.
Outside the warm steaming
mess hall, pale streaks of light
above the Chugach Mountains
hinted at coming dawn as the
scouts fell into formation. Crisp
orders shouted in English and Es
k i m o put the waiting platoon
through a series of snappily ex
ecuted rifle drills until a convoy
of trucks arrived and 2nd Lt.
Harvey Samuelson of Dillingham,
Alaska, passed the word: “Truck
anun iklluji!”, Eskimo for “Mount
up—Get into the trucks!”
At the range, Capt. Floyd Wil
son of Bethel began his instruc
tions for the morning, addressing
the scouts spread along the firing
line, over a loud speaker. At his
side, Lt. Samuelson repeated his
instructions in Eskimo.
As soon as it was light, Capt.
Wilson issued his firing, order:
“Ready on the right? Ready on
the left? Ready on the firing line!
Commence firing!” echoed by Lt.
Samuelson, “Nootraluji!”
Rifles cracked up and down
the line, sight adjustments were
made, and another day of training
had begun for Alaska’s Eskimo
scouts.
FBI ROUNDING UP 4,570
ONE-ARMED BANDITS
LOUISVILLE, Ky., (£>)—The
Federal Bureau of Investigation
expected to have its roundup of
slot machines in Kentucky just
about complete Tuesday.
A total of 4,570 machines, val
ued at $1,256,750 have been seized
by the FBI.
Meanwhile, the U.S. district at
torney’s office here commented
that a suit filed at Covington Mon
day to suppress evidence and re
cover seized machines would be
useless.
Fifth Grade News
We had a doll show Jan. 15. We
had dolls from Norway, Japan,
and Germany. Even the boys
thought they were interesting. We
also had some home-made dolls.
Carolyn Ceolla just came back
from having chicken pox.
In Art we have been making
snow men with white chalk. We
made other figures with colored
chalk on blue paper. Our room
looks quite colorful.
Barbara Ashley, secretary
Nearly Hundred Delegates
Attend The Democratic
Convention at Anchorage
The Democratic party is largely
responsible for “our great degree
of prosperity, never before
achieved by any nation,” Victor
C. Rivers, temporary chairman,
told delegates to the territorial
Democratic session, in his wel- 1
come address at Anchorage.
He declared that reports tff sub
versive activities in high govern
ment places have been “greatly
exaggerated by the press,” and
the Republicans “have made great
stock of them.”
Nearly a hundred delegates from
all over the territory are attend
ing the convention at the YMCA,
first to be held in four years.
Main business of the three-day
session will be the election of* six
delegates to the national conven
tion. One delegate and two alter
nates will be named from the sec
i
ond and fourth divisions, and two
delegates and one alternate from
the first and third.
In his address Rivers declared
that he is confident of a Demo
cratic victory throughout the na
tion, and called on Alaskans to
set an example to the States in
this respect.
Other business concerned the
appointment of a credentials com
mittee: W. W. Knight from the
first division; Howard Lyng, sce
ond; M. P. Smith, third; and
Frank Barr, fourth. Rivers is a
fifth member because of his sta
tus as a member of the central
committee.
Rivers is acting as temporary
chairman of the convention pend
ing the election of a new leader.
William Bittner was named he-ad
of the steering committee, with
Wendell Kay and Robert McFar
land as members.
An eager French fisherman
hauled up the first submarine
cable across the English Channel
the day after it was laid in Aug
ust, 1850. He thought it was an eel.
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$30,000 For Alaska
Crippled Children
Received In 1951
Sum Includes Federal
Matching Funds
JUNEAU, Jan. 18—A contribu
tion of $5,000 from the Alaska
Crippled Children’s Association
has just been received by the
Alaska Department of Health.
This amount is of actual double
value because of federal matching
funds for aid of Alaska’s crippled
children, according to Dr. C. Earl
Albrecht, commissioner of health.
He said that during the past
year $15,000 has been received
by the Health Department from
the ACCA for matching purposes
in the program for aid of crippled
children.
“If it were not for the hundreds
of ACCA members all over Al
aska doing hours of hard work
in order to raise these funds,
many worthy handicapped chil
dren would not be hospitalized,”
Dr. Elizabeth Bishop said in com
menting on the territory-wide
work of the ACCA volunteers.
Dr. Bishop is director of maternal
and child health and Crippled
Children’s Services for the Alas
ka Department of Health.
Mrs. Marshall Hoppin is presi
dent of the ACCA which has its
territorial headquarters in An
chorage where it was organized
in 1946.
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