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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, April 11, 1951
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ONE IN EVERY BLOCK
By George S. Benson
The Bureau of the Census has just published some
of the most important facts ever to come to the atten
tion of the American people. They show that American
government, conceived by the Founding Fathers as a
social instrument for the protection of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness, has grown into a sprawling
^"’'densome bureaucracy that would 'have shocked the
gination of Washington and Hamilton, Jefferson
Jackson.
One of the most disturbing facts about our govern
ment today is its payroll. If the families of civilian
government workers (federal, state and local) were
precisely distributed throughout the residential areas
of the United States there would be one in every block.
There are about as many people on our swollen govern
ment payrolls as there are Swedes in Sweden or Aus
tralians in the whole nation of Australia. Just the sal
aries alone cost American taxpayers approximately
$19 billion a year. This figure is almost unbelievable,
yet it is confirmed by the Census Bureau.
These official figures mean that theoretically each
of the other eight families in the typical residential
block must chip in nearly $400 apiece merely to pay
the salary of the government worker living in the ninth
h'--- in the block. For according to the Census Bureau,
Scientist Reports Seal
Oil Lacks Vitamins
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Dr. Levine Affirms
Seal Oil Has Low
Vitamin A and D Content
Abstracted by Beatrice Shepard
ADH Senior Chemist
“For therapeutic ot prophylac
tic use as a supplement to the diet
of ..ic Eskimo we do not recom
mend seal oil. We do, however,
on the basis of experimental and
clinical evidence advise multiple
v^t-min capsules containing all
the vitamins available at the pres
ent time.”
These -are the conclusions
reached in a recent paper called
“The Vitamin Content of Seal
Oil”, prepared by Dr. Victor E.
Levine of the Department of Bio
logical Chemistry and Nutrition
at the Creighton University School
of Medicine. In this paper Dr.
Levine, who has been doing nu
tritional and other Alaska studies
for many years, discusses thor
oughly the literature and research
results available on the subject of
seal oil.
Stolen Coronation Stone
Turns Up In Scotland
ABROATH, Scotland, (/P)—Brit
ain’s famed Coronation Stone—
or its twin—was delivered today
to the custodian of Abroath Abbey
—a shrine of Scottish nationalism.
The stone had been stolen from
Westminster ’Abbey in London on
Christmas morning.
The people who left the stone
did not identify themselves.
U.N. FORCES DRIVE ON
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of Communist troops. The last
major pocket of Reds was holding
out west of the Imjin River on the
extreme western front.
On the central front, American
troops drove along the southern
shores of Hwachon Reservoir to
ward the big dam and power grid.
Censorship veiled their progress.
Allied and air artillery barrages
wiped out the key Chinese base
of Chorwon cm the western front
I where Wednesday’s most sub
stantial gains were made.
Chorwon, 17 miles north of the
38th Parallel, was the headquart
ers of three Chinese army corps.
It is in the Chorwon-Hwachon
area that the enemy was reported
to have been building up an Of
fensive force of 500,000 combat
troops.
General Ridway was reported
touring front lines with Secretary
of the Army Frank Pace, Jr.,
when word of his new appoint
ment reached Eighth Army head
quarters.
The 56-year-old paratrocrp gen
eral came to Korea to replace fall
en Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker. He
arrived when Allied fortunes were
at their lowest ebb, when itlooked
as if the Red Chinese would hurl
U.N. forces into the sea.
He whipped new confidence into
Allied troops and led them at the
front in their come-back.
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the average salary of the 6V2 million civilians on var
ious government payrolls is approximately $3,000 a
year.
Of course the government worker who may or may
I not live in your block is a tax-payer, too, and undoubt
edly is a conscientious person. But that does not alter
the fact that he does not produce any of the goods and
services that go into making the actual wealth income
of the nation. The money he handles as well as the mon
ey which pays his salary comes out of the productive
efforts of his fellow citizens in private business and in
dustry. His contribution to the so-called general wel
fare is, at best, hypothetical. And by no stretch of the
j imagination do these 6V-i million public workers pro
1 duce benefits that would justify the taxpayers paying
out $19 billion a year just on their salaries alone.
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LUTHERAN MINISTER
VISITS NOMI
Rev. Clarence Solberg, Assistant
Director of Home Missions for the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Minneapolis, Minn., flew in with
Wiens on Tuesday and through
the courtesy o*f the Covenant Mis
sion Church held impromptu ser
vices for all Lutherans that could
be notified.
He- was scheduled to leave with
Rev. Paul Carlson when weather
permits for Teller, Teller Mission
1 and Shishmaref, where his church
has missions, and he will return
to Fairbanks tomorrow if possible.
Hoover and Eisenhower
Comment On Shakeup
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK—Herbert Hoover j
says (Truman’s) action can bring
great tragedy to this country and
does no*t solve primary problem
of ending war with Red China.
VOBLENZE, Germany— Gen.
Eisenhower expresses hope Mac
Arthur will not return home to
become a center of acrimony.
Huntley Endorsed As
3rd Division Marshall
Walter Huntley of Palmer has
won endorsement of the Demo
cratic Divisional Committee for
appointment as Third Division
U. S. Marshal, the Anchorage
Times reports.
I
Calden Westbrook, 13-year-old
son of Rev. and Mrs. Delos Wes
brook of the Friends Church of
Kotzebue, was an outgoing pas
senger today with Pan American,
enroute to Marine City, Michigan,
to visit with his grandparents
there.
Every military quota for whole
blood shipments to Korea has been
filled. More than 32,000 pints of
this life-saving fluid having been
delivered to military processing
laboratories in California since
July.
Sometimes it’s a race to see
which will boil first—the coffee
or the husband.
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Mining Industries
To Be Aided
By Defense Act
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domestic sources of tneUls And
minerals on the strategic Bat.
Direct government loans for
plant expansion, working capital
and production probably Will be
the last Of the various authorized
types of assistance to be pm Into
Operation.
The reasons are two-fold: *
1. The Defense Production Act
Stresses that expansion of pro
duction must be carried out as
much as possible by private in
terests.
2. Loan transactions require
more careful scrutiny for protec
tion of government funds than
other assistance programs.
In all matters except explora
tion contracts, the DMA wffl re
view applications and certify their
necessity to other agencies for
final decision.
Applications for exploration as
sistance may be submitted on
forms to be provided to the De
fense Minerals Administration in
Washington or to the nearest DMA
field eveeutive office. Addresses
of the field offices and the areas
served include: .4
ALASKA— Federal Building,
P. O. Box 2990, Juneau, Alaska.
t
U.S. Commissioner's Court
1
Helmer Olson was given 60
days in the Federal Jail for fail
ing to provide the necessities of
life for his children.
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Most young people have not ed
ucated themselves to getting the
most out of their newspapers.
They skip over the editorial page,
which would give them some
thing timely to discuss with
friends. Yet many young people
write asking how they can be pop
ular with a crowd because they
never seem to have anything to J
talk about. Of course, you will not
always agree with an editorial
writer, but seeing the other fel
low's opinion offers an interesting
challenge.
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