$l-A-Pound Pork
Chops! — “No!”
WASHINGTON, (/P)_The agri
culture department today dis
counted today talk of $l-a-pound
pork chops with an assertion that
housewives won’t stand for it.
Skyrocketing hog prices merely
reflect a seasonal decline in mar
ketable animals, said Charles L.
Harlan, department livestock price
specialist.
And he told a reporter he ex
pects consumer resistance—meant
h ) use wives with their dander up—
to force a downturn in those prices
soon.
Department economists held to
their contention that food price
kevels reached their post-war peak
la st October, after most govern
ment controls were removed.
“It is possible that prices during
the f:r.st half of the year may hold
their own, or increase very slight
ly," said James P. Cavin, farm and
r food price economist. “But we see
no possibility of their climbing
back to anywhere near the peak of \
last October.”
Some foods already have declin-1
ed in cost since the first of the
year and further decreases are ex- i
pected. In this class are fluid milk,
batter, cheese, evaporated m lk,
dry milk, eggs, poultry, fresh anJ
frozen fish, fresh and processed i
vegetables, and canned fruits.
The department’s economic,
bureau, in a recent food situation
report, predicted a downturn in j
prices of better grades of beef in
the spring and summer, when!
marketings of cattle now on grain !
feed should increase.
“With large slaughter in pros
pect, prices of all cattle are likely
to decline more than seasonally in
the second half of the year, es- J
pecially in late 1947,” the report!
said.
ELUSIVE FIRE
BOISE, Idaho. (/P)—Three fire
trucks rolled out to an intersection
in the business district after an
onlooker reported a car on fire.
On arrival firemen learned the
motorist had leaped into the blaz
ing vehicle and diven off for the
fire station after the alarm was
given. In fact, witnesses near the
fire station said later. The trucks
almost ran him down as they sped
out to answer the call.
The unidentified driver then
turned his smoking vehicle and
followed the engines.
By the time he arrived at the in
tersection from which the alarm
was first given the firemen had re
turned to the station by another
route.
The department is still wonder
ing what happened to the car.
Photostats at The Nugget.
Urg es Relief To Be
Loan, Not Gift
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Former
President Herbert Hoover called
on Congress today to put United
States relief abroad on a loan
rather than a gift basis. He also
urged establishment of the post of
foreign relief administrator to co
ordinate this country’s missions ot
mercy.
Only a day after he recommend
ed that the United States spen 1
$475,000,000 for the relief of Ger
many alone over the 18-month pe
riod beginning last Jan. 1, he was
called to give his view before the
House foreign affairs committee
on a proposed bill to expend $350,
000,000 in five other European
countries and China.
Just back from making a three
weeks’ survey of Europe’s food
needs, Hoover contends that relief
for the other European countries
should not be put at higher levels
than those he recommended for
Germany and Austria.
Britain-France
Sign Alliance
LONDON, i/P) — Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin announced
agreement on a British-French
treaty of alliance in the House of
Commons today.
Bevin said he and French for
eign minister Georges Bidault
would sign the treaty next Tues
day at Dunquerque.
“It is evidence of the bonds of
friendship” between the two coun
tries, he said.
Dunquerque has special signifi
cance to the two countries as a
scene of horror and defeat result
ing from attempted war-time co
operation that fell short of its goal
of stopping the Germans in 1940.
Anthony Eden, conservat i v e
former foreign minister, congrat
ulated Bevin for concluding the
new alliance.
“Close -and enduring friendship
between the two nations is a con
tribution to world peace,” Eden
said, adding that members of the
House “would all be with Mr
Bevin in spirit at Dunquerque.”
The House members cheered.
Bevin’s announcement did not
include a delineation of the’terms
of the treaty, which was agreed
upon in principle last month while
Leon Blum, then French premier,
was here for talks with Bevin and
Prime Minister Attlee.
A NATIVE OF FIJI is obligated
to hand over any object in his pos
session which a friend or neighbor
may desire, according to the Ency
clopaedia Britannica.
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Alaska Orthopedic
Hospital Facilities
Now A Reality
The long anticipated hope of
having orthopedic facilities within
the Territory of Alaska has now
become an official reality. During
the last \£eek in January, an agree
ment was signed by Mr. Don Fos
ter, superintendent of the Alaska
Native Service, and Dr. C. Earl Al
brecht, commissioner of health,
watch was the final step in nego
tiations which have been under
way for nearly a year.
Under terms of this agreement,
the ANS will operate the hospital
at Sitka, which will be modern in
every respect and will comply
with the minimum requirements of
the Children’s Bureau for ortho
pedic hospitals.
A letter from Dr. Albrecht gives
oome interesting facts about the
Hospital and what is expected of
tne Alaska Crippled Children’s
Association in assisting with its
operation. The following is a sum
mary of this information.
Three small islands close to the
Sitka townsite—Japonski, Char
coal, and Alice — are joined to
gether by roads. Facilities on these
islands were transferred to the De
partment of the Interior by the
Navy Department. Since the ANS
i is part of the Department of the
Interior, they have the responsi
bility of operating the facilities,
and will continue to conduct a vo
cational school for children there.
The Navy hospital, a reinforced
concrete, fireproof building, very
adequately constructed and plan
J ned, witn a capacity of eighty or
more beds, will be utilized as a
general hospital to care for sick
children at the school and WILL
SERVE AS OUR ORTHOPEDIC
HOSPITAL.
Eventually a 200-bed tuberculo
sis sanatorium will be built in
such a way that the present ho.
pital which is used for orthopedics
will be included in the construc
: tion.
I There are living quarters for
i nurses and employees as well as
! the professional staff. Equipment
for the hospital will be obtained
by the ANS through Surplus Prop
j erty, supplemented by supplies lo
: cated by the department of health
through Surplus ..Property. The
specialized physical therapy ortho
pedic equipment will be purchased
by the department of health.
| Dr. Albrecht emphasized the
! fact that no equipment at the Sitka
hospital which is or becomes the
property of the department of
health will be transferred to the
ANS. This means that all physical
therapy equipment purchased wit.i
federal funds during the next five
months will remain Alaskan prop
! erty.
The staff will be furnished and;
paid for pract cally entirely by
the ANS. The department of health
however, must supply the ortho
pedic surgeon, the head orthopedi'
nurse, and the medical social
worker.
Dr. Philip Moore, a very we'l
qualified orthopedic surgeon, will
serve as surgeon for the Sitka hos
pital, and will arrive about Ap*T.
1. Dr. Moore is a member of the
American Board of Surgery an 1
eligible to become a member of
the American Board of Orthopedic
Surgery. He will also conduct chn
ics throughout the Territory under
the auspices of the department of
health.
Miss Regina Mendel, medical so
cial consultant for the department
of health, will be transferred from
Seattle to Juneau, and will do the
medical social work for all cases
at Sitka.
The ANS has employed ano'.ier
doctor who will be situated at the
hospital to assist Dr. Moore as well
as to care for any other cases
needing attention. Orthopedic sur
geons from Seattle will serve as
consultants with Dr. Moo: e. The
professional staff of the depart
ment of health and the ANS w'll
likewise be available for special
consultation work at Sitka.
All of the other impoi\u;ii : :••*
tions of the hospital, .sue i i- a J
ministration, operation, ,r ■ : •
ance, repair, nursing service t ■
itor service, feeding or pat »nts,
and heating and lighting, will be
handled by the ANS. For th.*. .
services, which might be c
ered hospital costs, the depa dm
of health, through the crippled
children’s program, will pay th.
ANS $5.75 per day per patient
cared for. This cost is conside’
ably less than we are paying ,
Seattle.
Last fall the Department of
Health requested $26,000 from the
Alaska Crippled Children’s Asso
j ciation. This amount, matched by
funds from the children’s bureau,
will be used to pay the orthopedic
surgeon’s salary, the head ortho
pedic nurse’?: salary, and Dart f
the $5.75 per day for hospita’:?
tion. The funds will be used n >t
only to pay for patients in Sitka,
but for those hospitalized at Sent
i tie.
Opening of the hospital in Sitka,
Dr. Albrecht points out, does not
mean that the Department of
Health is severing relationships
with the Children’s Orthopedic or
the Swedish hospitals in Seattle.
There will continue to be many
cases which will need to be sent
to Seattle for special treatment. “I
feel convinced,” he said, “that
what this program basically means
is that we shall be able to care for
more children.”
It is hoped that most of the
$26,000 asked for will be available
by April 20, in order that the
wealth department budget may be
revised to request the Federal
Government for these funds. For
at least the next two years, the
crippled children’s program will
be double that of previous years,
in an attempt to care for patients
who have waited years for their
treatment.
The admission of the first pa
tients to the Sitka hospital is a
great occasion. For the members
of the A.C.C.A. it means that one
of the goals for which the organ
ization has labored has been
reached. It means also that our re
sponsibilities have been enlarged,
and that now, more than ever be
fore, we need to bend every effort
to increase memberships and build
up funds by arousing an even
g"cater and more wido-rpread in
terest in the program of the
A.C.C.A.
“When I looked out of the win
dow, Johnny, I was glad to see
you playing marbles with Billy.”
“We wasn’t playing marbles,
Ma. We just had a fight and I was
helping him pick up his teeth.”
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