THE NOME NUGGET
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March 3, 1879.
Wednesday, July 20, 1945
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SPAIN S “BILL OF RIGHTS”
(Anchorage Times)
Out of the wreckage of Europe’s totali
tarianism Dictator Franco of Spain has
emerged to give his country, in a gesture
of democratic generosity, a “bill of
rights.” The bill provides for freedom of
speech, of assembly, and of religious be
lief. Wonderful, isn’t it? But
The “freedom of speech” permits no
criticism of the fundamental principles
of the Falangist State—whatever they
are.
The “freedom of assembly” is only for
“lawful purposes” — whatever that
means.
The “freedom of religious belief” bars
all religious ceremonies except Catholic.
Many of the people under Franco’s
rule led Europe’s first fight against Fas
cism. It is amazing now that Franco
should think that he could content these
people, who are still militantly eager for
freedom, simply by giving them a larger
barred cell to move around in.
But then, as has been suggested before,
perhaps the great weakness of most dic
tators is that they don’t really under
stand the people. j
GENERAL BUCKNER
The latest news from the Southwest
Pacific brought the name of Lt.-Gen.
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., in the cas
ualty list from 10th Army Headquarters
on Okinawa.
General Buckner, 59, was “Bred an’
Bawn” in Old Kentucky, on a little farm
near Munfordvill, Hart County, the fam
ily home. He went to West Point in 1908,
was in the aviation division of the U. S.
Signal Corps during World War I, then
returned to West Point to teach, and fol
lowed this as an instructor in the Army
War College.
In 1940, President Roosevelt gave him
the job of defending Alaska and to pre
pare the Territory against “future” in
vasion. It has been said of him, that “he
is as hard as a hunk of pig iron, and built
like a stone lighthouse.”
General Buckner, the man, was a
friendly, sociable chap, always ready and
willing to be of service to those who
sought 'his aid. He went out of his way to
improve conditions for the men in his
command, even to the last, he was right
with his “boys” in the thick of the fight
ing, leading them to Victory.
The thing the “tired business man” is
most tired of these days is regulation by
forty-’leven government agencies.
People seldom improve when they have no other
model than themselves to copy after.
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“Why did your uncle buy that car? He didn’t
need it, did he?” “No. My uncle didn’t need that
car. But he went into a garage-to telephone, and
he didn’t want to leave the place without buying
something.
THE GREEN LIGHT _____
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OPA Announces
New Auto Repair
Price Regulations
Specific limits have been set on
the hours of labor that automobile
repair establishments may charge
for in computing prices for 56 pas
senger car repair jobs the Alaska
j Office of Price Administration an
nounced today. This action effec
| tive June 14. 1945, is taken to
cheek a tendency in some repair
shops of presenting unitemized
bills or charging customers for
more hours of labor than were ac
, tually required to do the particu
lar repair job. The repair jobs
1 covered range all the way from a
minor brake adjustment to the
complicated job of installing the
crank shaft and bearings.
All shops are required to supply
sales slips or receipts to customers
for any of the 56 listed operations,
regardless of whether or not re
quested by the customer. The slip
or receipt must describe briefly the
service, cite its number in the new
regulation, the shop’s hourly rate,
the number of hours charged for,
the prices charged for parts and
materials and the total charge.
Automobile repair services not
among the 56 listed continue to be
priced as formerly under the serv
ices regulation.
Copies of this supplementary
service regulation and a trade
bulletin explaining its various re
quirements will be distributed
through the local War Price & Ra
tioning Board, for the further in
formation of garage and repair
men. The public too can obtain
any specific information on this
by inquiring at the WP&RB of
fice.
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‘Sure Thing Is’
Poison For Army
Financiers
(SF) Newsfeatures
FORT WORTH ARMY AIR
FIELD, Texas—The Tarranteer,
field newspaper, sent a reporter
burrowing through “bulky piles
of Army regulations, circulars and
assorted directives” to see what
he could find. Among other things,
he found:
1. Finance officers are prohib
ited from betting, “even on a sure
thing in the sixth,” under penalty
of suspension and investigation
“with a view to trial.”
2. An obsolete regulation per
mitted soldiers to draw partial pay
any time a carnival came to town.
3. If a soldier enters the army
on the last day of the month, and
it’s the 31st, he draws no pay for
that month, but if the last day of
the month is the 30th he gets paid.
4. Because enlisted men’s pay
continues after capture, a flying
staff sergeant captured when Cor.
regidor fell, drawing rations and
quarters, would have about $5,228
i Proceeds From
! Infantile Paralysis
Drive Reported
The total amount contributed
! by the communities of Alaska to
the Infantile Paralysis Fund Drive
in 1945, by means of President’s
Birthday observances, and con
tributions, as reported to the of
fice of the Governor of Alaska
was $8,631.97. By communities the
proceeds are as follows:
Fairbanks and surrounding area,
including McGrath .$1129.18
Douglas . 73.00
Ladd Field Officers’ Club 182.50
ANB & ANS, Klukwan.... 50.00
Pelican City . 75.00
Nenana .•.. 146.00
Haines . 134.50
Kodiak . 473.20 4
Craig . 41.90
! Valdez . 100.00
i Wrangell . 45.00
.Nome . 313.00
Skagway . 44.00
Anchorage . 2682.70
| Tenakee . 23.75
■Ketchikan . 832.34
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Revilla Theater, Kecthikan 286.82
Seward . 195.50
Kotzebue . 161.86
Juneau . 1044.87
Capital Theater, Juneau.... 458.64
Sitka . 138.21
One-half of the proceeds are to
be sent to the National Four.da
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tion for Infantile Paralysis. New
York City, and one-half retained
in Alaska for Alaskan children in
need of medical rehabilitation.
Office of the Secretary of Alaska
Lew M. Williams, Secy.
Alaskan Spreads Northern i
Lore In The Tropics
Aboard A Sub Chaser At A Pa
cific Naval Base — The Alaskan
Chamber of Commerce will be
happy to know that Leonard Ky- *
ger, sonarman, third class USNR,
of Anchorage, is spreading the
gospel of the land of the Northern
Lights in the Tropics.
Kyger, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Kyger 1817 South Grant St.,
Denver, Colo, has been ,a resident
of Alaska since 1936 and has a
large farm in the Matanuska Val
ley, 60 miles from Anchorgae. He *
has also worked in Fairbanks,
Palmer, Kodiak, and Nome.
During the year since he joined
the Navy, Kyger has been eight
months in the Pacific. He was *
transferred recently to this vessel
from another of the same type
which was stationed in the Mari
anas. / ’
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coming now.
5. FWAAF has a 1st lieutenant,
I formerly a chief warrant officer,
i who prefers—and gets—a warrant
: officer’s pay of $175 a month, in
I stead of a lieutenant’s $166.67. ^
There’s a regulation that says no •
man shall suffer a pay reduction
by reason of being commissioned.
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