THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME. ALASKA
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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, Friday, August 12, 1949
ALASKA’S FINANCES NOT SO BAD
(Wragell Sentinel)
In comparison with the State of Washington, and a
good many other States for that matter, the Territory’s
much discussed financial situation isn’t as bad as it
sometimes sounds. Down in Washington State, they
find themselves in the red about sixty million dollars
and reports indicate that Gov. Arthur B. Langlie prob
ably will call a special session of the Legislature this
fall or winter to try and find a solution. Washington al
ready has a sales tax, a property tax and many otheF
kinds of taxes that the Territory has not yet found
necessary. It has to find new sources of revenue or
boost the ante on the existing sources. Alaska, on the
other hand, has tapped the sources for sufficient income
but finds itself temporarily embarrassed because of
court action over certain provisions of the new tax laws.
With the income tax law held valid, money is now com
ing in at a good rate to the tax collector but it takes a
little time. Aside from special funds, the Territory’s es
timated revenue for the next six months including next
January is $4,296,000. This doesn’t include about $600,
000 which might come in from the fish trap tax if a
court decision is favorable. Against the four million
plus, the Territory owes a million and a quarter in un
paid bills against the general fund and Territorial Treas
urer Henry Boden estimates the operating expenses for
the next six months at $1,050,000. Therefore, come the
end of January and the Territory’s general fund should
be a million or so to the good. Of course, this is on the
premise that the Board of Administration will not thaw
out any of the approximately five and a half million it
tied up in the recent “big freeze.” This the Board by
resolution has agreed to. It is the premise on which
Treasurer Roden is now going to the banks with the
proposition that the banks take general fund warrants
at face value until enough money comes into the treas
ury to meet them which, he anticipated will not be later
than January. In fact, he’s set January 20, 1950, as the
date he’ll be able to meet all obligations the banks may
hold in warrants. Treasurer Roden summed it up in a
few words the other day before he took off to talk to
Seattle banks on his proposal:
“This situation is temporary only; there is enough
revenue in sight to pay all debts of the Territory if the
resolution of the Board of Administration is adhered to,
and this will be done without doubt!”
WHO’S A SOCIALIST?
(Christian Science Monitor)
What’s black for the pot is black for the kettle.
While Governor Dewey in a New York speech was
complaining about “pet projects of socialism” that
might interfere with the success of the Marshall Plan
in Europe, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of the social
ist government in Britain was complaining to the House
of Commons about the effects of American socialism on
British purchasing power. The irony is not only amus
ing but instructive.
Mr. Bevin said that one of the reasons for the British
dollar shortage is that the United States is a “welfare
state,” with high unemployment insurance, sick pay,
and the possibility of a huge medical service:
“The United States is as much a welfare state as
we are, only it is in a different form.”
Then he cited a specific cause of the dollar drain in
Britain. Government-supported agricultural price in
the United States are causing Britain to spend more
dollars than the British would like to for food.
This comparison between the phases of the British
and American way is provocative. Explored a little fur
ther, it leads us to the fact that American farmers base
their demands for price supports partly on the fact that
| “U. S. Spending Is
Leading Nation To
; Socialisni”~Hoover
PALO ALTO, Calif. OP) — The
nation yesterday had the sober
warning of its only living former
President that its spending poli
cies, if unchecked, will rob pos
terity of its inheritance.
Former President Herbert Hoo
ver, in a significant address, as
serted Wednesday night that the
United States “is blissfully driv
ing down the back road to collec
tivism at top speed.”
“We have not had a great social
ization of property,” he said, “but
we are on the last mile to collec
tivism through governmental col
lection and spending of the sav
ings of the people.”
The country’s President from
1929 to 1933 spoke before an es
timated 10,000 persons in the
beautiful grass-carpeted Laurence
Frost memeorial bowl on the Stan
ford university, campps, virtual
ly in the shadow of the Hoover In
stitute and library on war, revo
lution and peace, founded in 1915.
The occasion was his 75th birth
day celebration, sponsored by the
(university in tribute to its most
famous son, a graduate of its
first class in 1895.
President Truman’s message of
congratulations and good wishes
was among the thousands which
came from all over the world,
some of them came from foreign
lands where Hoover’s administra
tion of relief established his name
as a great humanitarian.
In his talk, broadcast by the
four major networks, he assailed
the cost of government.
“Along this road of spending,
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Hawaii Seizes All
Stevedoring Firms
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this strike.’ It has gone on for 103
days.
Both the government and the
union prepared for the showdown.
Stainback warned: Anyone in
terfering with the Territory’s dock
operation “will be dealt with
swiftly and with all the force of
the government.”
The dock seizure law, passed by
a special session of the Hawaiian
legislature, prohibits any “con
certed activity” interfering with
government operation. Penalties
are $500 fines and three months
in jail.
In a special appearance before
the legislature Wednesday, the
governor asked it to determine if
the law needs more strength,
j Pointedly, he mentioned “criminal
laws.”
One the union side, the ILWU
| asked all maritime union officers
in Honolulu to support the strike
I in the same manner as the CIO
marine engineers. The engineers’
executive board in Washington or
dered members not to work any
ship picketed by the ILWU.
A. O. Lundberg has been in
Nome for the past week from his
home in Candle where he is pros
pecting this summer. Mr. Lund
berg, one of the old-timers of that
! region, and one of the early min
ers of the Candle area, has been
here for medical attention.
: the government either takes over,
w’hich is socialism, or dictates in
stitutional and economic life,
1 which is fascism,” he said.
they must buy industrial products at prices which also
receive government protection. This takes the form of
tariffs, which someone has called the first step toward
socialism.
It’s all a matter of degree, of course. But the point
Mr. Bevin has sharpened should help on both sides of
the Atlantic to clarify thinking about socialism and
American-British economic relations.
World-Citizen Counts Home Countries
of Daily Devotional Booklet Authors
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Nobel prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, searches the globe to enumer
ate the countries represented by contributors to the first international
issue of The Upper Room, the world’s most widely used devotional
guide.
• Honorary president of the World Council of Churches, this famed
, Christian layman was chosen to be the only American among the 60
overseas contributors to the September-October number. Two million
copies are being printed, including editions in Portuguese, Spanish,
Chinese. Armenian and Braille. {
Dr. Mott is familiar with every land where Christianity Is preached,’
having made 110 Atlantic and 18 Pacifte crossings. i
I He holds that Christianity will never be fully understood until be*j
Haven of all races and cultures have made their contribution to ltd;
bterprctation.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
8:00 a.m.—Mass
9:30 a.m.—Mass
10:00 a.m.—At the Base Chapel
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors—Rev. Theron McGrew
Rev. Paul B. F. Carlson
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’ Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Eskimo Speaking
Service.
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday—
2:00 p.m. Children’s Miracle
Book Club.
Thursday—
7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert Treat. Minister
Sunday—
10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
11:00 a.m.-—Morning Worship.
8:00 p.m.—Evening Service.
Tuesday — 10:30 a.m. — Junior
Choir Practice.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
PENTECOSTAL
Third Avenue West
Miss H. E. Brown
Missionary in Charge
Sunday—
Sunday School .10:00 a.m.
Adult Bible Class.11:00 a.m.
Evening Service .7:30 p.m.
Tuesday—
Young Peoples Meeting 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:30 p.m.
Friday—
Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting .7:00 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“The inspiration to better living
must come from some highert
source than ourselves. Go to
Church Sunday.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
l Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.
P eaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language.
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club for
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 p.m. Prayer, Praise and
Testimony.
George Francis Train was the
first person to suggest to inventors
erasers attached to pencils; per
forations between postage stamps,
and steps attached to carriages.