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ALASKANS TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
Most Alaskans may be Uncle Sam’s step-children,
but for the first time some of them will vote for Presi
dent this fall.
We refer to those fortunate G.I.’s who now call
Alaska home who will take advantage of the oppor
tunity to vote for the man of their choice.
We sincerely hope that all of the men in service in
this area accept their responsibility and get a ballot
from their own home town. They will be the envy of
the civilian Alaskans deprived of this privilege when
election day arrives.
THE WINNER GETS A HEADACHE
Whether General Dwight D. Eisenhower or Gov
ernor Adlai Stevenson wins the general election, the
victor is letting himself in for a big headache. Immedi
ately facing him will be the end of the war boom, which
will threaten to throw the economy into a recession.
If Gen. Eisenhower wins, it will be a new exper
ience for the Republicans. They have not known any
thing like the present situation, which will face the
inhabitant of the White House. The last Republican
President, Herbert Hoover, had a government civilian
payroll of 600,000, a military force of 240,000, a 4.7
billion-dollar budget and a government debt of 19.5
billion. If the next President is a Republican, he will
have to manage a government civilian payroll of 2.5
million, an armed services strength of 3.5 million, an
annual budget of 85.4 billion, and a government debt
of 263 billion dollars.
The job of being President of the United States has
become such a stupendous undertaking that political
scientists are beginning to question whether one per
son can do an effective job in that post. As President
Truman knows, two terms in the White house is
enough to wear out any man and more than two is
likely to kill most of them. Thus, the office is Amer
ica’s highest honor, though the job is one of the most
strenuous in the world today.
Motor Vehicle Toll
In 730 days, according to the National Safety
Council, 72,600 persons in the United States were
killed by automobiles and 280,000 were permanently
injured, prompting President Truman to call the pri
vate automobile the “world's deadliest weapon."
Presidential
CampaignTakes on
Southern Accent
(By the Associated Press)
The presidential campaign took
on a southern accent Monday,
with things popping in four Dixie
states and the Republican nomi
nee eyeing prospects in that Dem
ocratic stronghold.
At Jackson, Mississippi Demo
crats were pulling three ways as
they gathered for a state conven
tion. One faction backs Demo
cratic nominee Adlai Stevenson,
the other is for GOP nominee
Eisenhower and the third prefers
a third-party Southerner to either.
In Alabama, the first serious
GOP threat since 1928 had Demo
cratic party leaders whooping it
up for Monday’s homecoming of
Sen. John Sparkman, the Demo
cratic nominee for vice president.
In Arkansas, Democrats were
told they could be suspended for
two years if, after having voted
in the Democratic primary, they
supported the GOP ticket at the
polls on Nov. 4.
In Louisiana, Republicans or
ganizing Eisenhower’s state cam
paign rain into an upsurge of
party strife. Still at odds were
Eisenhower backers and support
ers of Ohio’s Sen. Robert Taft.
'At Denver, it was learned Ei
senhower is arranging an unprece
dented whirlwind invasion of
perhaps a dozen major cities at
at least seven Southern states.
The Stevenson headquarters at
Springfield, 111., was also astir
with speechmaking preparations.
Sen. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma
said a team of 100 orators will
range country-wide.
Stevenson was in the congrega
tion yesterday when Rev. Richard
Paul Graebel, a personal friend of
his, accused Illinois’ Republican
Sen. Everett Dirksen of telling a
“blatant lie.” The minister men
tioned no name in the sermon but
told reporters he meant Dirksen
and the Senator’s statement re
cently that Stevenson was “the
worst governor we’ve had since
the turn of the century.”
The decision to. campaign in the
South followed Eisenhower's con
ference with an eight-state dele
gation from below the Mason
Dixon Line at Denver a week
ago. The general reportedly was
convinced he could crack the
solid south — just as Herbert
Hoover did in 1928 without per
sonally campaigning there.
One of FBI’s “10 Most
Wanted Men” Captured
DETROIT, t/P)—John Thomas
Hill, 49, listed as one of the FBI’s
“ten most wanted fugitives,” was
captured Saturday by FBI agents
while sleeping at a rooming house
in suburban Hamtrack.
Hill, a Negro, was arrested on
charges of flight to avoid prose
cution. He is wanted on a murder
charge in the hammer killing of
an elderly storekeeper in Wil
loughby, Md., and on a felonious
assault charge in Portsmouth, Va.
James A. Robey, Detroit FBI
chief, said Hill admitted he was
“one of six men who went into
the store at Willoughby where the
slaying took place” in 1950.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
Arctic Sanitary Service
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PITTSBURGH—A prismatic tilt-type rear view mirror, developed
by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company research scientists in cooperation
with Standard Mirror Company, is now available for motor cars, it was
announced by Russell G. Whittemore, product development director of
the glass company.
The mirror operates with a simple flip motion, bringing into focus a
secondary or “ghost” image which removes the stinging glare of head
lights approaching from the rear.
The secondary image provided by the prismatic mirror is sufficiently
bright to permit the driver to clearly observe the maneuvers of cars
following him without eye-strain.
Typhoon Winds Sweep
Korea’s West Coast
SEOUL, (/P)—The center of a
typhoon—with winds up to 100
miles an hour — Monday hit
Korea’s west coast at Kunsan,
80 miles south of Seoul, and
roared across this peninsula to
ward the Sea of Japan.
There was no report of damage
but the ship - wrecking storm
brought torrential rains to all of
South Korea. Four to five inches
of *rain were predicted for the
battlefront Monday night.
Before sweeping inland, the ty
phon wrecked one ship near Okin
awa. A second ship is two days
overdue after radioing it was in
trouble.
RESTAURANT HAS
ONE-PRICE MEALS
WINNIPEG, Canada, (>P) — A
restaurant group here offers a
monthly meal ticket on which you
can eat four steaks a day — or
anything else—at your choice of
three restaurants.
A $45 meal-ticket entitles the
purchaser to any number of meals
a day, and choice of foods, every
day for a whole month.
Many regular customers ex
press satisfaction with the plan.
All eat regularly, and eat food
much the same way as if they
were eating at home, with no
leanings toward expensive table
items or fancy steaks.
One of the purposes of early
automobile clubs was to overcome
antagonism of livery stable oper
ators who frequently barred
“horseless carriages’’ from their
premises.
I Anti - Sub Helicopter
Being Built By Navy
WASHINGTON, (^P) — The
Navy is building a new type of
helicopter, apparently designed to
war on submarines.
The project was revealed Satur
day when the Helicopter Council,
trade association of makers, re
leased a new list of helicopter
designations.
The Navy’s new flying wind
mill, still marked classified or
secret, carries the Navy desig
nation XHSSl and the commer
cial designation S58.
No details were given except
that it is a modification of some
present designs, and is reportedly
an anti - submarine craft.
In ancient times, sulphur was
called brimstone, that is, burn
stone, because it burned when
lighted.
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