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Nome, Alaska, Friday, January 6, 1950
SAYS 1950 WILL BE “GOOD” YEAR
As 1949 came to a close, it was refreshing to hear the
prediction that 1950 whll be a relatively good business
year.
The statement came from Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt,
economic research director of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, who expresses the view that
the Federal budget deficit may not be as inflationary, in
the short run, as some have assumed.
The economist seems to believe that private savings
may not be absorbed by investment in production and
other facilities and that the governmental deficit may
be financed, to a greater degree, out of money savings i
rather than the creation of new money. He finds most
market indicators pointing upward, with installment
credit three times that of 1929 and bank loans beginning
to expand again.
Dr. Schmidt offers little comfort to consumers. He
does not expect them to fare much better in 1950 be
cause wage and pension agreements raised employers’
costs and government supports will prevent farm prices
from going much lower. Nevertheless, he finds that per
sonal income has been maintained with remarkable sta
bility, consumer prices have remained fairly stable and
the stock market has a favorable outlook.
CENSUS QUERY CAUSES DISCUSSION
When the census is taken in 1950, the enumerators
will ask every fifth person, over fourteen years of age,
questions about his, or her, income. The Census Bureau
says the figures will be confidential, not even open to
tax collectors or the Federal Bureau of Investigaiton,
but vigorous protest has been raised by some Ajnericans
against the inquisitive procedure.
In 1940, a similar question was put to wage-earners
making less than $5,000 a year. Those who preferred not
to give the information personally to the enumerator
were permitted to mail it to the Census Bureau. Only
190,000 persons out of 38,000,000 questioned, asked for
the privilege of mailing their replies.
SAYS ENGLAND HAS A-BOMB
A London newspaper intimates that Great Britain
has the atomic bomb but the news arouses no sensation
and nobody in the United States is concerned.
There is no occasion for surprise in this connection
because Sir John Cockroft, head of atomic research in
Great Britain, discovered the particle that split the
bomb’s atoms. He worked on the American bomb pro
ject during the war and it seems incredible that there
are any secrets about the bomb that he does not share.
Certainly, the ability of the British to stockpile atom
bombs is not a threat to the United States or to the free
peoples of the world. As a matter of fact, possession of
the bomb by the British constitutes another strengthen
ing of the military might of the democratic nations.
BIG BUSINESSES ESCAPE TAXATION
Public attention is again directed to the volume of
business income that escapes federal taxation through
exemptions in existing law and the liberal interpreta
tion of regulations. The Treasury Department recently
estimated the amount involved at $10,000,000,000 a year
but Representative Noah M. Mason, of Illinois, says that
$50,000,000,000 is nearer the right figure.
Mr. Mason contends that imposition of income taxes
on all business incomes of all tax-exempt organizations
and corporations would produce more than $1,000,000,
000 in new revenue.
Obviously, there is no excuse for a charitable corpo
ration, operating without the payment of taxes, to go
into the business of manufacturing piston rings and
making macaroni, oor to operate a department store, or
Communication
Nome, Alaska,
January 3, 1950
Committee Military Affairs,
U. S. Senate,
Senate Office Building.
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Information has reached Nome
to the effect that the Military Post
here is to be abandoned with the
exception of a small token force.
As a Territorial Senator from
the Second Division and as a resi
dent of Nome for fifty years, I
protest the people of Nome, my
self and family and grandchildren
being considered unworthy of pro
tection by My Country and the
Territory I have lived in and help
ed to try to develop as worthless
and unnecessary in the economy
of my Country.
It would seem that if BILLIONS
are necessary for the protection
of Europe from the Bolsheviks,
that we who are trying to develop
its Back Yard should receive a
more sympathetic and understand
ing consideration.
A well appointed airfield is
maintained on the Siberian side,
about one and one-half hours’ fly
ing time from Nome. Several
alerts have been sounded at the
Base here on planes flying over
head coming in from the North
west. Submarine pits are reported
to have been constructed in the
cliffs opposite St. Lawrence Is
land. DC-3’s, Vs, and the biggest
plane operated by the Navy as a
transport has landed here at
Nome, the former two types here,
at Moses Point and Unalakleet. All
three of these fields are from two
to three hours’ flying time from
Fairbanks or Anchorage; planes
from these points MUST defend
them from a possible foe. Again it
might be a case of TOO LITTLE
AND TOO LATE.
It is not pleasant to thnik that a
section of a country which has
RELATIVES CAN NOW VISIT
RESIDENTS ON OKINAWA
Relatives ol' residents on Oki
nawa may now visit their families
I for the first time since before the
war, Pan American World Air
ways officials in Seattle have been
advised by military occupation
authorities.
Travelers cannot go to Okinawa
unless they have relatives there.
They are strongly advised to take
along their own food, due to
shortages on the island where
some of the deadliest and bitterest
fighting of World War II took
place.
Okinawa visits are good for 60
days, after necessary permits,
passports and transportation have
been arranged.
Ralph Johansen, Pan American
district sales manager in Seattle,
said the airline will have full de
tails of the steps necessary to ar
range air travel to Okinawa from
Seattle.
- i
Mary Ann Amarok. daughter of
Joe Amarok, owner and operator
of the Nome Laundry left with
Pan American Wednesday for Has
kell Institute to continue her edu
cation on a two-year scholarship.
Mary Ann Amarok is a gradu-!
ate of Nome High School and the
good wishes of the community go
with her for continued high scho
lastic standing.
I
produced and sent to the United 1
States over two hundred million
in gold alone, or the lives, proper
ty and happiness of the people
who live and work there are not
worthy or worth the duty of their
Government to protect them from
possible foes. This duty cannot
HONORABLY be repudiated.
I earnestly request a serious
consideration of this plan by your
Committee before it is adopted.
Sincerely yours,
Chas. D. Jones,
Territorial Senator,
Second Division of Alaska
to buy the real estate of corporations under sale and |
promptly lease it back to the corporations. Nor should !
corporations be allowed to finance their operations
through non-taxpaying charitable trusts or move to '
Puerto Rico in order to dodge the payment of income I
taxes.
We have no way of knowing whether the Treasury
Department estimate or that of Mr. Mason is the correct
figure. Probably, the truth lies between the two estim-;
ates. The growing number of business enterprises that
operate without paying income taxes invites the prompt
attenton of Congress.
AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Masses:
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11:15 a.m.
10:00 a.m.—M. A. F. B. Chapel
DAILY MASS SCHEDULE
Monday and Tuesday—7:30 a.m.
Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday.7:00 a.m.
Saturday .8:00 a.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION (METHODIST)
Rev. Paul B. F Carlson, Pastor
Esther McCoy, Director
Rev. Robt. Treat. Methodist pastor
Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Eskimo Speaking
Service.
11:00 i.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday—
2:00 pan. Children’s Miracle
Book Club.
Thursday—
7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert Treat. Minister
9:45—Sunday School.
11.00—Morning Worship.
3:00—Evening Vyorship.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
10:00 to 11:40 a.m. — Combined
Sunday School and Morning
Worship.
7:30 p.m.—Evening Worship.
Tuesday—
3:30 p.m.—Junior Young Peoples.
7:30 p.m.—Prayer Service.
Wednesday—
7:30 p.m.—Bible Study.
Friday—
7:30 p.m.—Senior Young Peoples.
Everyone Welcome
“The family that prays together,
stay stogether.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language.
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club tor
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 p.m. Prayer, Praise and
Testimony.
Passenger ships are often built
relatively unstable so that long
gentle rolls promote passenger
comfort, but naval architects find
such ships hard to adapt to use as
fighting ships because naval ac
tion presupposes some damage
and a ship safe enough for civilian
use might capsize when partially
flooded.