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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, Monday, December 17, 1951
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INFLATION IN FINLAND
Finland is experiencing inflation. The cost of living
index has been rising steadily and is now more than
ten times as high as before World War II.
To halt inflation, the Finns have adopted a com
pletely unorthodox plan. First, they have tied wages
to a new cost-of-living index, so that they go up only
as prices rise. This is designed to stop that vicious
circle caused by demanding higher wages because of
the higher cost of living, which, in turn, causes a still
higher cost of living, requiring still higher wages.
Instead of increasing taxes to mop up surplus
money, which would be used to bid for too few goods,
as other countries have done, Finland is reducing
taxes. Where other inflation-stricken countries in
creased bank rates to encourage saving and check
spending, the Finns have lowered their interest rates.
Instead of increasing food subsidies to keep prices
down, the Finns are abolishing the subsidies.
Whether Finland’s plan for fighting inflation will
work or not is questionable. While this plan is a para
dox, it should be remembered that Finland’s whole his
tory since 1945 has been a paradox. She fought the
Russians and lost, yet she is still free while some of
the Soviet Union’s former allies, such as Poland, are
not free.
Economists from all over the world will watch
with interest Finland’s experiment in halting infla
tion. Perhaps, we in America can learn something from
Finland’s experiment.
Judge Murane, Formerly
Of Nome, Dies At Age 84
Cornelius D. Murane, 84, for
merly judge in Nome and widely
known in Casper, Wyo., where
he has made his home for many
years, died last week *after a heart
attack sustained while driving his
car.
Judge Murane came to Alaska
in 1898 and arrived in Nome in
1899 where he opened a law of
fice. Later he became city magis
trate, city attorney and in 1909
was U.S. Attorney and U. S. Dis
trict Judge. He has been in Cas
per since 1914.
Three sons and his wife survive
him ,also 10 grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
CAP & 32d Detach. Win
Friday Basketball Games
Last Friday evening two close
games were played in the basket
ball tournament at the Nor me
School.
CAP scored 39 over Communi
ty Church 30 in the first game,
and the two MAFB teams scored
44 for the 32d and 42 for the 142d.
Tomorrow evening Nome High
will play the Blue Devils.
The High School Freshmen are
playing their first game tomor
row evening against the 7 th and
8th grades’ team and it promises
to be a fast game.
A special tournament game will
be announced in Wednesday’s
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AIRPL 1NE CRASH
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C. Lyons of Miami.
The non-scheudled C-46 plane
took off from nearby Newark air
port and crashed seven minutes
later. It was headed for Tampa
and Miami with 48 adult passen
gers, four children; a three-man
crew and a stewardess.
It was the first crash in 22
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months of a non-scheduled air
liner. The plane was operated by
Miami Airline, Inc. The line has
been in operation since March,
1946, and its five planes have
flown more than 100,000,000 pas
senger miles.
State and federal officials be
gan an immediate probe into the
tragedy, goaded by the white-hort
anger of townspeople who long
have complained of the shudder
ing, terrifying thunder of plane
takeoffs.
Only a few weeks ago, residents
of Elizabeth threatened to block
Newark airport runways with
their bodies to end takeoffs over
their homes. As a result, the Port
of New York Authority — which
operates Newark airport—under
took to build a runway pointing
to the sea instead of Newark and
Elizabeth.
POW Exchange
Negotiators
Get Nowhere
MUNSAN, Korea, IJP) — A
United Nations Command truce
negotiator Saturday accused the
communists of trying to win at
the conference table what they
could not win in battle.
Mai. Gen. Howard Turner lam
basted the Reds after rejecting a
six-point Korean, truce super
vision plan calling for limited
troop rotation.
“You seek to gain through neg
otiation what you could not win
through fighting,” he said..
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“In accepting the restrictions
advocated by the United Nations
Command, you would merely ac
cept a continuation of limits on
your military capabilities which
exist today as a result of U.N.
Command military operations.
“We are not talking as a victor
over the vanquished. We are
talking military realities on which
this armistice must be based,”
Turner continued.
Negotiators appeared deadlock
ed both on plans for policing an
armistice and exchanging prison
ers of war, despite earlier indic
ations that compromise solutions
of both thorny problems might
be near.
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby said
the subcommittees on prisoner
exchange are right back where
they started.
“The net gain was zero. We
are back on page one, paragraph
one. This is where we came in. No
progress at all,” he said.
Libby said the Reds merely re
iterated their demand that the
U.N. Allies okeh their plan for a
bulk exchange of prisoners before
turning over a list of the prison
ers they hold.
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Kotzebue News
Archie Ferguson left Kotzebue
recently to spend a month at his
Seattle home before departing on
a tour of Southern California, and
possibly Mexico.
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The Kotzebue Grill, operated
by Jane Foster and Vera Nelson
since last March, has been closed
and the yillage is without any
restaurant facilities. Pete Lee ex
pects to open a coffee and sand
wich shop in the near future, to
be operated by his daughter Nina.
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Kenny Foote and Bill Lind
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gren, pilots for Gaasland Con
struction Co., who were stationed
at Kotzebue throughout the past
season left for their homes in
Bellingham for the balance of the
winter.
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Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Walker
are moving into their new home
constructed this summer by
Archie Ferguson.
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Willie Foster moved his family
back to Nome after a busy sum
mer of flying and restaurant
work.
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Billy Levy left for Seattle Dec.
1, where he will attend a com
mercial flying school this winter.
He is the owner and operator of
the Midnight Sun Theater in Kot
zebue, which will be under the
management of Walter Dowd un
til Billy’s return in the spring.
Beulah Levy, Billy’s mother, also
left for Seattle to spend the win
ter.
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Jack Bullock, manager of the B
& R Tug and Barge Company,
left for Nome on a short business
trip. .The MS Tula, which was
towed to Dutch Harbor by the MS
Finch, is being held there tern
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving last Friday were Betty
Raine, Juanita Stewart, Barbara
George and Mrs. Pat Reese.
Departing for Fairbanks were
Ted Lippia, Jim Allio; for Seattle,
Bill Munz, Eileen Uttech, Domi
nic Abitabile, F. D. Robinson,,
and Doyle Lath-rum.
Robert Rolzler, deputy commis
sioner of the Territorial Veterans
Affairs Commission, is here for a
few days conferring with veter
ans on Joans and bonuses. He is
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staying at the Polaris Hotel.
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porarily under Captain A. Cas
tel. Two Maloney boys, David
and Joe and Jimmie Dexter are
also with the ship there. The
Finch continued on its trip to
Seattle.
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Bert Neilly, Kotzebue marshal,
left for the States for several
months leave of absence. He will
buy a new car and tour the
States.
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Marjorie Bogard left Kotzebue
for Seward where she will spend
several weeks visiting her fam
ily before continuing on to Seattle
for the balance of her winter va
cation.
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Bert Eaken, mate on the Tula,
has returned to Kotzebue to spend
the winter in the cabin he pur
chased from Don McKinnon this
summer.
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With the return of Predator
Agent Joe Minor to Kotzebue, \
after six weeks absence, announ
cement was made of the engage
ment of Joe and Virginia Larsen,
one of the popular young nurses
at the Kotzebue hospital. A wed
ding is planned for the near fu
ture..
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