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18,893,000 VETERANS IN THE UNITED STATES
The Veterans Administration recently announced
that there were 18,893,000 living veterans of all United
States was, not including the Korean campaign, and
announced that the total was growing monthly. The
VA also announced that veterans and their families
now make up about thirty-three per cent of the entire
U.S. population and that, by 1955, they will probably
comprise forty per cent of the population.
There are today about 3,418,000 World War I
veterans and 15,310,000 World War II veterans. The
VA, looking to the future, points out that, by 2000,
elderly World War II veterans will require much more
extensive medical and old-age assistance than is pro
vided World War I veterans today.
The importance of the growing population of vet
erans and their families is also likely to influence both
major political parties in this country and U.S. foreign
policy in the coming years.
All in all, the veteran and his family is a tremen
dous consideration in the U.S. budget and when one
realizes that of the proposed $85,000,000,000 budget,
$6 billion dollars is earmarked for veterans’ care and
veterans’ projects—the third largest item in the bud
get—the scope of the program is apparent. Only the
$51,000,000,000 defense and military construction item
and the proposed $11,000,000,000 foreign aid and oper
ations item are larger than the request for veterans’
programs.
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Military Mission In Spain To
Negotiate Use of Ports, Bases
MADRID, Spain, {JP)—An eight
man U.S. military mission headed
by Maj. Gen. August W. Kissner
arrived here by. plane Friday >to
negotiate the right to use Span
ish ports and air bases.
SPECIAL MEETING
Church of the Nazarene
Rev. Mrs. B. V. Seals will be
speaking tonight on the subject,
"The Light of the Fire*"
Sunday morning Mrs. Seals will
be speaking on the subject "Will
God Spare America?" Sunday
evening subject, "The Skeleton in
The Closet."
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Truman Fires McGrath
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as calmly as you please at a tur
bulent jam-packed news confer
ence. •
So—Home to New York goes
Morris and — in his own good
time—McGrath was going back to
Providence, R.I., after a public
career that once seemed pointed
toward the Supreme Court bench
—but one that left him the sixth
man to depart from the Truman
cabinet in a rattle of fireworks.
Both men may be coming back
soon under different circum
stances. ,
Rep. Chelf (D - Ky) said his
House Judiciary subcommittee,
which is investigating the Justice
Department, may call for more
testimony from McGrath and may
want to hear Morris as well.
Truman said and repeated that
McGrath resigned voluntarily.
But this turned out to be just a
polite gesture toward a longtime
political ally.
McGrath himself made it plain
he’d been forced out for disagree
ing with the boss—Truman—over
the conduct of Morris’ cleanup
campaign.
Republicans hooted at the
whole performance.
It came 24 hours after Truman,
McGrath and presidential press
secretary Joseph Short held a
heated, sometimes fist-pounding
huddle in plain view, but out of
hearing of top officials and diplo
mats at the airport welcoming
ceremonies for Queen Juliana of
the Netherlands.
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Latest Report On
Ice At Nenana
By BURMA ANDERSON
NENANA — Final predictions
from Nenana indicate an early
breakup of the Tanana River
here. Old-timer A1 Linder says
that our recent cold spell is the
last one we shall have this spring.
Manager Don Clark gives the
final statistics on the thickness
of the ice. The shoreline ice is
three inches thick; main channel,
11 inches; three feet thick off the
channel and four feet thick up
stream just above the tripod.
Three old-timers, Quincy Steel
man and George (Sure Shot) Ken
nedy of Nenana and Pete Knud
sen at the Pioneer Home at Sitka,
all agree that the tripod will move
on May 8th after midnight.
April 5 the wheels of Nenana’s
spring industry will gain momen
tum and everyone in Nenana will
be in high gear.
Anchorage Exempts
13 Sales and Services
From 1% Sales Tax
ANCHORAGE, (A1) — The city
council has approved exemptions
on 13 types of sales and services
under the proposed one per cent
sales tax for Anchorage.
The tax is proposed as a means
of raising $3,100,000 for munici
pal buildings and street improve
ments. It will be put on the April
29 election ballot if the city coun
cil gives final approval.
A similar levy also is before
the school board is a propisal for
the school district, which em
braces large areas outside the
city. It is suggested for raising 5
million dollars for school build
ings.
Exemptions under the city tax
proposal would include: all foods;
medical, dental, hospital and fu
neral costs; utilities; union, club
or lodge dues; school events, in
cluding athletics; community
sponsored events; insurance sales;
gross receipts of real estate sales.
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Bering Sea Fishermen’s
Union On Strike Against
Alaska Salmon Industry
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Members
of the Bering Sea fishermen’s
union, estimated at 70 per cent
of resident fishermen of Bristol
Bay, went on strike Tuesday
against the Alaska salmon indus
try, it was learned here Wednes
day.
The strike status will be main
tained until the fishermen nego
tiate a signed contract with the
industry, Jim Downey, business
agent for the AFL - affiliated
union, said in Dillingham.
The salmon industry has offer
ed 1952 contracts based on last
year’s agreement to eight unions
but did not include the BSU. The
1951 contract called for payment
of 40 cents a red salmon plus
fringe benefits.
No agreement has been reached
with any of the eight unions. The
BSiFU claims to represent about
1,200 fishermen, most of them
Alaska natives.
At Seattle, a spokesman for the
industry said the reason no offer
was made to the Bering Union
was that it failed to send repre
sentatives to conference in An
chorage two weeks ago.
Three-Way Compromise
Would Clear Way For
Armistice In Korea
MJUNSAN, Korea, (#*) — Truce
negotiators hinted Friday they
were working toward a three
way compromise that would clear
the way for an armistice in Korea.
These developments led observ
ers to predict an agreement may
be finally in sight:
1. Secret negotiations on how
to exchange prisoners of war
were recessed indefinitely to de
velop “additional avenues” for
breaking the long deadlock.
2. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
top Allied commander, said he
thought progress was being made
in the truce talks. He hinted that
a compromise may be in the off
ing.
3. Communist newsmen at Pan
munjom said Red delegates in ef
fect offered to withdraw their
nomination of Soviet Russia as a
neutral inspector if the U.N. Com
mand would give up its demand
for a ban on airfield construction.
Allied negotiators found no such
offer in a statement Friday by
Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang,
but in the past Communist corre
spondents have reflected official
Red thinking.
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