THE NOME NUGGET
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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, May 4, 1951
WORK AFTER 65
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Evidence of the undesirability of automatically
laying off employees at the age of 65 regardless of
their ability continues to develop. The Bureau of Old
Age and Survivors Insurance finds that most people
work as long as they can and retire only because they
are forced to do so. Generally they need the money.
The Social Security Bulletin cites studies of the retire
ments of the beneficiaries of the government’s insur
ance showing that only about 5 per cent left their jobs
of their own accord, in good health, to enjoy leisure.
Many fortunately manage to locate other work.
The United States Census Bureau reports that in Feb
ruary of this year 768,000 men and women of 65 years
and over were employed. They make a big and invalu
able contribution to production.
Several desirable policies are indicated by these
facts. First is retention by management of the em
ployee who at 65 still gives first-class performance.
Second is a program for better shaping of job condi
tions by industry and retraining to enable qualified
older workers to continue producing. Third, the state
may furnish a specialized counseling and placement
service to locate suitable job openings and connect
older people with the opportunities.
COPPERPLATED FOLLY
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Only a nontaxpayer with a strong sense of the
ludicrous could enjoy some of the strange ways the
United States goes about girding for defense. One of
the strangest is the tariff on copper which the House
Ways and Means Committee has voted to suspend.
During the war the import tax of two cents a
pound was suspended. But last July the suspension
was allowed to lapse—just when the defense program
was demanding tremendous quantities of copper, one
third of which must come from abroad. When a tax is
put on these imports, domestic producers can raise
prices. So consumers pay extra on every pound used.
The argument for the tariff is that a subsidy for
domestic producers is required to keep them produc
ing. Even the present bill to suspend the tax is only
mildly helpful. For it provides that the tax shall be
reimposed if the price falls below 24 cents a pound, j
Before the trouble started in Korea domestic produc-j
ers were doing all right on a price of I&V2 cents. More- i
over, one might suppose that if national security were;
the object it would be well to encourage imports and
conserve domestic deposits. ■
Congress should stop being an ally of pressure;
groups in price gouging. ;
OPS Basic Reports
Restaurants, Bars
Are Due May 5th
The following communication
was received from Fred G. Han
ford, territorial director of the
Office of Price Stabilization:
“A check on compliance by
operators of restaurants and other
eating places, with the require
ment that they file basic reports
with OPS district offices by
April 30, was ordered this week
from Washington headquarters of
the Office of Price Stabilization.
Edward P. Morgan, national head
of enforcement for OPS, in
structed district enforcement of
ficers throughout the United
States and territories to give
warnings to all restaurant and
other operators who are covered
by Regulation 11 who have failed
to file their reports. Morgan said
that unless reports are received
by district offices within five
days after the warning, action
will be started against violators.
“Those covered by Regulation
11, which includes bars and tav
erns as well as restaurants, must
file a statement as to the selection
of a base period for computing
the ratio of their food cost per
dollar of gross sales, a statement
of their gross sales for the base
period, a statement of food costs
during the base period and a
statement of special charges such
as minimum, service, cover, etc.
“Deadline for filing this infor
mation was April 30, and Morgan
said this regulation must be en
forced if the OPS is to do any
effective price stabilization job {n
the important food and beverage
field.”
THE JUDGE
Asserts Chiefs of Staff
Approved Korea Strategy
(Continued from Page One)
day of testimony, Senator Know
land protested there had been too
much censorship of MacArthur’s
testimony yesterday dealing with
restrictions on American air oper
ations in the Korean war.
Knowland said Defense and
State Department ‘combers” had
deleted portions of yesterday’s
records which he believed should
have been made public.
Knowland’s protest dealt with
messages exchanged between
MacArthur and the Pentagon
about bombing operations in Ko
rea itself.
MacArthur told the Senators
yesterday that he was first in
structed not to bomb within five
miles of the Yalu River, the boun
dary between Korea and Man
churia.
MacArthur said this first order
was changed after he protested
vigorously and he then was al
lowed to bomb to the border. He
testified his planes then were per
mitted to bomb to the middle of
the bridges over' the river.
Knowland said he wants to ex
plore the matter with the Depart
ment of Defense.
The 71-year-old general showed
no signs of fatigue from the stren
uous day he put in on Thursday
when for five hours he poured
out, often in emotional terms, his
bitter disagreement with the Tru
man administration policies on
the Korean war.
Bids Opened On
Alaska RR “Loop”
And- Repair Shops
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — The J. C.
Boespflug Construction Co. of
Seattle and J. S. Ramstad Con
struction Co., of Anchorage, were
low bidders on two big Alaska
Railroad projects.
The general repair shop will
house buildings destroyed by a
fire here January 13. The struc
ture also will include a large
erecting workshop for locomotives
and machine, pipe, sheetmetat,
welding, tin and other shops.
Revision of the loop area line
would eliminate 1.1 miles of track,
five bridges, a tunnel and a snow
shed which are costly for the
Alaska Railroad to maintain. The
program calls for 2.2 miles of new
line construction.
For Good Printing Call Main 125
Wins $10,000 Judgment
Against Alaska Steam
SEATTLE, (JP) — Henry Lems,
62, Renton, was awarded a $10,000
judgment against the Alaska
Steamship Company by a jury
in Superior Court.
James D. McCutcheon, Jr.,
Lems* attorney, introduced evi
dence that Lems was trapped be
tween a truck and a bulkhead
while the truck was being moved
on the deck of the Steamship
Baranof May 15, 1950, as the ves
sel was south of Ketchikan.
Lems, a deck maintenance man
on the Baranof at the time suf
fered permanent injuries to his
right elbow and wrist.
Forecast And
Weather Report
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Friday. May 4. 1951
Forecast Nome: Continued clou
dy and mild light rain tonight.
Moderate NE winds.
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Lowest temp, expected tonight
32, highest tomorrow 45.
Maximum wind 25 mph. from the
W. Sunrise at 3:21 a.m., sunset at
8:39 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
30, lowest 11. Extreme tempera
tures on this date since 1907: high
est 48 in 1926, lowest 6 in 1922. p
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Hope 32 Clear
Kotzebue 33 Fog
Wales 25 Fog
Gambell 31 Cloudy
Nome 38 Cloudy
Bethel 34 Rain
McGrath 44 Cloudy
i Anchorage 39 Cloudy
Fairbanks 51 Partly cloudy
Whitehorse 46 Partly cloudy
Edmonton 56 Partly cloudy
Juneau 45 Partly cloudy
Ketchikan 46 Partly cloudy
Seattle 55 Rain & snow
San Francisco 02 Partly cloudy
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Nome, Alaska
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