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JUNEAU, (OPS),— April 1 is
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the deadline for bisiness estab
lishments to get their price lists
set up in order to comply with
the new price-control regulation,
it was pointed out today by Fred
G. Hanford, territorial director
for the Office of Price Stabiliza
tion in Juneau.
Definite steps must be taken
by sellers of goods or services in
order to comply. Hanford listed
these important requirements:
1. The seller must prepare and
preserve a statement showing the
categories of commodities which
he sold or offered for sale during
the base period (December 19 to
January 25). “Category” here
means a line of goods, such as
men’s clothing, infants* wear,
canned goods, cosmetics, etc.
2. Sellers must preserve and
keep available records showing
the prices charged during the base
period, together with invoices or
other records showing the cost of
the commodities. Freight and oth
er laying-in charges are added to
the invoice costs to determine
total, or “direct” costs of commo
dities. In figuring costs, all dis
counts or other allowances must
be deducted whether they were
taken or not.
3. The seller must prepare and
preserve in his store a price list
of all articles in each category
which he sold or offered for sale
in the base period, showing the
dollar-and-cent mark-up he took
on each article. This list must
give the model, type, style and
identification of each article. If
the seller is a retailer, he may no
tate on his invoice the selling
price of the article, in which case
he will be considered to have
complied with the act.
4. It is to this dollar-and-cent
markup the seller is frozen. He
may passalong future increases
in invoice or transportation costs
only to the extent of the actual
dollar-and-cent increase.
5. If a seller has followed a
practice of allowing price conces
sions to different classes of buy
ers, he must prepare a statement
showing such concessions or al
lowances. An example would be
of quantity buying by an institu
tion, reduced rates to employees,
etc.
Generally speaking, Hanford
said, the regulation requires a
seller to maintain the same dollar
and-cents mark-up he had before
the freeze. If factory or transpor
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POLET'S STORE AND NUGGET
BURGLARIZED LAST NIGHT
The back doors of two business
houses were broken open last
night. Polet’s reported the theft
of a small amount of petty cash
and some merchandise. The Nug
get reported the theft of a small
amount of cash.
The Marshall’s office was able
to apprehend the juveniles in
volved and had a confession be
fore noon, today. Three boys are
being field.
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Late Breakup Seen
Don Clark of Nenana reports
that the ice is now 38 inches thick.
This is slightly less than it was
last year at this time as it was 41
inches at that time.
There is also about a foot less
snow, it was reported, and ex
tremely cold temperatures recor
ded in March.
Wise old veterans of the area
predict a late break-up this year. *
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No War for 3 Years,
Stassen Predicts
CHICAGO, OP)—Harold E. Stas
sen said today that the odds are
against a world war in the next
three years.
'I he president of the University
of Pennsylvania told the Execu
tives Club of Chicago in b pre
pared speech:
“Careful study convinces me
that if the Soviet Union starts a
war tomorrow or at any time in
the next three years Russia will
be destroyed at home by Ameri- j
can air and atomic strength and
will face a counter-revolution of
many millions of people now im
prisoned in her empire.
“The Kremlin leaders know
this, and therefore I place the
long odds on no world war in the
next three years.”
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12 FILE FOR
CITY OFFICES
The official ballot for the Annu
al Municipal and School Board
Election has been announced.
For Mayor— Lester Bronson,
Mrs. Joe Hunt, Chas. D. Jones.
For Councilmen—J. H. Alex
ander, Fred Cavota, Wallace Mc
Ivor, Wilson Russell, and Pete |
Reader.
For City Clerk—Carrie McLain.
For City Treasurer—A.A.Daue.
For School Board Members—
Raymond Tveter and Clement
Boucher.
Employment Problems
Tackled by NWA
Chamber of Commerce
Don Hurlbert, - who organized
the Nome Employment Bureau
with the aid of Richard Lee and
Bob Reddaway, reports that this
non-profit service sponsored by
the Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce has received
some support from persons in
search of employment, but none
from prospective employers.
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Several applicants for labor are
now on file, and as these men are
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ready to do any reasonable type
of work, it is urged that persons
with odd jobs available call—
Main 11 and give these willing
workers a chance to stay ahead
of the relief lists.
Governor Signs
Three More Bills
JUNEAU, (£>)— Three major
bills passed by the recent 20th
Alaska legislature were signed
into law today by Gov. Gruening.
They provide for reorganization
of the Territory’s financial set-up,
appropriations of $19,544,136 for
operating the government in the
next two years, and a 5 cent tax
per pack on cigarets.
The reorganization bill, in ef
fect, provides for a territorial
financial manager accountable to
a revised Board of Administra
tion. It also eliminates the present
elective offices of Alaska treas
urer and auditor.
The appropriations measure is
the largest in the Territory’s his
tory. Heads of budget framing
committees in the legislature esti
mated it would create a deficit of
$2,000,000 at the end of the bien
nium.
The cigaret tax, increased from
3 to 5 cents a pack, was one of
two new sources erf revenue ap
proved by the lawmakers. The
other was a 50% increase in the
salmon pack levy.
New Tire For Military Vehicles
AKRON — Here's what the well-dressed military vehicle will Wear
this year. These new "high flotation" tires, among the ftrst to roll off
B. F. Goodrich production lines here, are designed to help keep military
vehicles from bogging down in mud or sand. "
Features are low pressure operation and a special tread* outgrowth
of wartime experience with tires designed for desert service. With air
pressure lowered, tilt high flotation tire presents a broader base at
ground contact than dots the conventional miRtary truck tire. When
•ir pressure is increased to normal the tire performs oepeusd seeds
like conventional m§Htary tifei^ > w*a
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Communists Counter-attack
On 38th Parrellel
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New Uses For
Bismuth Revealed
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Fitzpatrick Electric Supply Co.,
444 Irwin St., Muskegan, Mich.,
announces the successful produc
tion of ductile bismush wire and
ribbon which permits engineers
to make useful applications of a
material possessing unique elec
trical properties.
While all the electrical and
physical properties of bismuth
were known at the turn of the
century, no research was possible.
Therefore, no practical use was
developed by industry because
there was no known way to use
bismuth commercially, due to its
brittleness and its lack of tensile
strength.
The company claims to have
overcome these difficulties to a
large extent. They have bismuth
ductile enough to wind on its own
diameter at room temperature, or
about 70° F. However, its tensile
strengh is low—has to be handled
with care—that it, not subjected
to a strain exceeding its tensile
strength. Keeping this in mind, it
is possible to wind coils, make
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CAP Cadets
Hold Benefit
Dance Tonight
The Civil Air Patrol Cadet unit
has been active since January of
this year. The purpose of the cad
ets is to organize a reserve of
young people who will be ac
quainted with and trained in the
relationships of flying. The pre
scribed course of study includes
military drill, dadio operation and
maintenance, meteorology, theory
of flight, map reading, dnd other
aspects concerned with organised
flight. In the event of an emer
gency they would act primarily
as an auxiliary to the Army Air
Force, if ncessary. i
Secondarily, they would be used
by the civilian defense organiza
tion as radio operators, observers,
or in any aspect in which they
could serve, especially in those j
operations concerning flights such
as rescue missions, etc.
j Because of the limited facilities
here, it will be difficult to train
the unit to any great degree of
excellence in some fields; how
ever, the aim of the personnel in
volved is to train the cadets to as
high a degree as is possible at
this time.
The organization is entirely vol
untary and is sponsored by the
Army Air'Force. Each cadet is re
quired to have a uniform bearing
the CAPC insignia. This results in
a considerable financial strain, es
pecially for the girls who canot
use the discarded “GI” uniforms
as the boys are doing. Therefore,
the unit, as a whole, is attempting
to raise money to help those who
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> Friday. March 30, 1951
By the Associated Press
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Chinese Communists opened a
major Korean counterattack for
the first time in six weeks today.
American big guns stopped , the
Reds dead in their tracks in the
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mountainous Uijongbu front, but
the fury of Communist attacks
forced Allied \ troops to give
ground at several other points in
the neighborhood of the 38th Par
allel. t _ :
The Communists threw their
counter-attack at Allied forces on
the western front. Doughboys
spotted the Chinese moving along
a mountain trail north of Uijong
bu and forced them back with
heavy artillery.
The Americans seized a com
manding hill with a hand-grenade
attaek. There was bitter close
range fighting in this western sec
tor
Patrol clashes flared all along
the Korean front. The Reds moved
30,000 fresh troops into front lines
on a 60-mile sector.
Now that the United Nations
troops have reacher the 38th Par
allel, there was mounting evi
dence that the. Communists had
ended their six-weeks-old with
drawal and were mounting heavy
reinforcements aimed at turning
the tide of battle.
The U.S. Eighth Army com
mand says the Reds can at any
moment throw in nine rested or
fresh army corps—some 270,000
men. If they do, it will be their
most potent offensive of the war.
AP Correspondent Leif Erick
son reported that Le. Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway’s Eighth Army
is in the best position of the war
to hold its own against the expec
ted Red onslaught.
One thing might deter the Reds
—a raging smallpox, typhus and
typhoid epidemic reported in
North Korea. An informed mili
tary source in Tokyo said soldiers
and civilians in Red Korea are
dying of disease by the thousands*
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