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TO THE CITIZENS OF NOME.
Friday you were sent an anonymous circular giving one side
of a story.
When you people of this community elect a member to the
School Board to represent you in school matters I hope that you
place your confidence in theii: good judgement, otherwise you should
never have elected them.
The circular slates, to maintain the standards of the school
and have effective teaching there must be cooperation among stu
dents. parents and teachers. It was right one hundred percent
in that statement, but that is just exactly what has been missing
the past year, problems were not brought to the School Board. To
the best of my knowledge information was not brought to the at
tention of the board that there was anything amiss in the school
until two days before the closing.
Mention was made of a telegram and parts of it were included
in the circular. I will state here*
that the telegram in question was
handed to the teachers to read
at the meeting May twenty-first.
Quote reyrtel May sixteenth
school principal has only such
authority as may be delegated by
School Board Stop generally prin
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cipal may suspend pupils pending
final action of Board stop Recom
mend you support Superintendent
in all reasonable disciplinary reg
ulations stop law does not require
high school pupils to attend school
and students should obey all reg
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ulations or withdraw from school
school must urge all students to
remain in school but must not
tolerate careless work or constant
infraction of rules stop If student
does not finish school year no
credit for last semesters work
should be allowed stop LEGALLY
SCHOOL BOARD is responsible
agency for the conduct of school
unquote
Your school regulations state
in part, For disciplinary reasons,
pupil may be suspended WHEN
ALL OTHER MEANS have been
taken, the principal may suspend
pending FINAL ACTION OF THE
SCHOOL BOARD.
The Nome School Board must
have had confidence in the school
faculty otherwise one would
doubt if they would have tendered
them new contracts for the com
ing year. One teacher was not
offered a new contract because
the Board was advised she was
getting married this fall and
would not be interested. The
Superintendent was not offered
a new contract.
At the meeting with the teach
ers on May Twenty-first, I be
lieve that the School Board
showed that they were capable
of using good judgement in re
scinding their recent decision. You
were all anxious to know where
your children stood in school and
the Board acted the way they did
backing the old democratic prin
cipal of the GREATEST GOOD
FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER,
thus letting the children return
to school and complete their
work for the year.
Remember the School Board is
YOUR BOARD, and as Dr. Ryan
recently stated at Anchorage.
The School Board is responsible
for public school administration,
all functions are in the hands of
the Board. You sacrifice time
and effort.you have de
cisions to make and they are not
always popular.
THIS IS YOUR COMMUNITY,
YOUR SCHOOL BOARD AND
YOUR CHILDREN.
W. J. Dowd
President, Nome School Board.
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ANNIVERSARY 3
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Monday, 27 May, through Sat- ij
urday, 1 June, has been desig- 1
nated Armed Forces Radio Ser- H
vice Week. Wednesday, 29 May, t
is the fourth anniversary of the !j
AFRS. In commemoration of this |j
date a gala “Command Perform- H
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ance” has been programed. This *)
program will include such stars !j
as: Bob Hope, Slim and Bam, The
Mitchell Boy Choir, GI Jill, Janet
Blair, Donald Crisp, Kay Kyser,
Mel Blanc, Jerry Colonna, Edgar
•Beirgen, IFred MacMurray, and
Bill Goodwin. The show is
in the form of a report of four
years of service and brings in the
highlights of all AFRS programs. I
Your Armed Forces Radio Sta
tion WJLN, in Nome, Alaska, will
feature this special command per
formance from ten PM till 11:30
PM, Wednesday, 29 May. It will
replace the Nome Nugget Dig
gers usually heard from our stu-i
dios at 10:15 and also will replace
your request program, “You
Asked for It.
It is only fitting that the per
Fights Bureaucracy
, , WASHINGTON, D. C.—Deter
mined to build “a first line of de
fense against the tyranny of
bureaucracy/’ Representative Car
roll Reece <R., Tenn.) is currently
waging a stout fight for his bill
(H.R. 2390) to protect business
men’s basic civil rights by amend
ing the Federal Trade Commis
sion Act. Public hearings on the
Pi'l have just been completed be
fore a subcommittee of the House
Committee on Interstate and For
eign Commerce.
“The Reece Bill provides demo
cratic safeguards, particularly
for the small businessman,
against the broad bureaucratic
powers of the Federal Trade Com
mission acting as complainant,
prosecutor, judge and jury.
Rep. Reece points out. How far
reaching FTC powers are is dem
onstrated by the fact that FTC
decisions often involve not only
millions of dollars and the de
struction of valuable trademarks;
but in the case of smaller firms,
sometimes the very existence or
a company.
The Reece legislation would
eliminate arbitrary actiop by giv
ing the courts more poWer over
FTC decisions, would prevent
overlapping authority by elimi
nating the conflict between FTC
and the Federal Food and Drug
Administration in the labelling of
food, drugs and cosmetycs. This
conflict, says Rep. Reece, is hand
icapping the efficient enforce
ment of the pure food and drug
laws and is depriving consumers
of the maximum protection to
which they are entitled.
The Reece Bill would make the
businessman’s right to appeal to
the courts against FTC rulings
! “a real democratic right based on
justice instead of the futile, rub
ber-stamp affair it is now/* ac
cording to the Tennessee con
gressman. By requiring the FTC
to base its decisions on the weight
i or “preponderance” of the evi
dence in any given case, the bill
makes it possible for a business
man to appeal an FTC ruling to
the courts and get his case de
cided in the light of all the evi
RKP. CARROLL REECE
dence — in other words, on its
merits.
“As the law stands now,” Rep.
Reece points out, “the courts
must uphold an FTC decision if
there is any evidence at all to
support that decision. In short,
the courts must ignore conflicting
evidence, and they have admitted
they cannot modify such an FTC
decision even though they find it
unjust.” Thus, when a businessman
is now brought to trial before the
FTC, his lawyer must “literally”
break every Commission witness
in order to win his case. Since
this means long, expensive pro
ceedings, it makes it almost im
possible for a small businessman
to defend himself adequately. Yet
an FTC decision against him may
go a long way toward putting him
out of business.
The Reece Bill has already re
ceived the support of representa
tive business groups. But, Reo.
Reece points out, it is of vital
concern to all that Congress acts
favorably on this legislation which
safeguards one of our most prec
ious democratic rights — unob
structed accesa to th« '■ourta.
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sons whose talents made Armed i
Forces Radio Service such an
overwhelming success should be
heard on an anniversary perform
ance. When you hear “THIS IS
THE ARMED FORCES RADIO
SERVICE” you are in the presence
of the greatest radio operation in,
the world only through the untir
ing efforts of all those who par
ticipated.
The word “electricity” comes
from the Greek word for amber.
The word “telegraph” dates to
300 B.C. and is a Greek word
meaning “to write far off.”
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