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Nome, Alaska, Monday, April 28, 1952
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by GEORGE $, BENSON
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^ President—Harding College
Jt Searcy. Arkansas
A SLOGAN FOR 1952
This is the story of a
little red - white-and-blue
lapel tag inscribed “I Have
Voted! Have You?” It was
mentioned earlier this year discussing a get-out-the
vote project developed in the Harding College Freedom
Forums. One of the suggestions in the project was
that every community in America use the little tags
for tagging voters on election days throughout 1952—
as a stimulator to get people vote conscious.
Our government in America is no better than the
people we elect to public office. Only half the people
of voting age vote in presidential elections; only 20
per cent vote regularly in all elections. Twenty per
cent of the people are making the election decisions
for the other 80 per cent. This is neither democracy
nor representative government. It is a minority gov
ernment and its continuation endangers the very right
to vote that maintains all our freedoms.
“I Have Voted! Have You?” This is a ringing
•challenge to all good Americans. Let’s make it a
national citizenship slogan for 1952._
U.N. Gives Communists
“Overall Solution” To
Deadlock In Korea
By ROBERT TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, UP) — The United
Nations Command Monday gave
the Communists what it called an
“overall solution” to the . three
critical issues blocking a Korean
armistice.
Details were not disclosed, but
the Communists, after agreeing to
keep the full dress negotiations
secret, asked for an indefinite re
cess. Presumably they want to
•submit the plan to Peiping and
Pyongyang.
Blocking progress in the 914
months of truce negotiations are
the issues of prisoner exchange,
nomination of Russia by the Reds
as a neutral observer during any
armistice and a U.N. demand for
restrictions on air field construc
tion.
Wolf Control Plane
Crashes Near Umiat
JUNEAU—Joe Miner of Fair
banks and Doyle Cisney of Peters
burg escaped injjury recently
when the Piper Super Cub with
which they were engaged in a
wolf control operation crashed
near Umiat, it was reported here.
Assistant Director C. Howard
Baltzo of the Fish and Wildlife
Service received word by tele
gram from Miner of the mishap
at Umiat.
The plane was reported as “ser
iously'’ damaged. Baltzo said this
meant it may or may not be sal
vageable.
The plane, one of three being
gained considerable fame and re
used in an operation which has
suited in the elimination of about
200 wolves, was piloted by Miner,
with Cisney serving as gunner.
Dramatic Rescue of Crew
Of Wrecked Freighter
In High Seas Off Japan
YOKOSUKA, Japan, (JP) — The
captain, his chief engineer and
five would-be rescuers were re
moved Saturday from the strand
ed stern section of a wrecked U.S.
freighter after two earlier at
tempts were foiled by heavy seas.
. The dramatic rescue was car
ried out by the U.S. Navy tug
Arikara.
The freighter William Eaton
ran aground 12 days ago on rocks
off To-Shima, an island SO miles
from the Japanese coast. The
crew was removed but Capt. Fred
Solomon and chief engineer John
Williamson, remained aboard.
Thursday an attempt was made
to get them off. It failed when a
storm broke the ship in two. Three
would-be rescuers were saved.
Saturday five more crewmen
reached the hulk but lost their
boat.
Chief Boatswain Jeffie N. Pruett
made the final and successful res
cue attempt with a whaleboat and
raft. At one point his effort al
most failed. A giant* wave lifted
the whaleboat and raft completely
over the sinking wreck. On the
second try Pruett got the raft
alongside, the men jumped to it
and he towed them to safety on
the tug.
Reds Build “Siegfried
Line” Across Korea
SEOUL, (#*) — Stormy weather
held air and ground action in the
Korean war to a minimum Mon
day.
Allied night fliers had poor
hunting. The Fifth Air Force said
pilots destroyed 29 Red supply ve
hicles at Wonsan on the northeast
coast but generally air strikes
were fruitless.
In Tokyo, Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgeway’s headquarters said the
Reds have built a defense belt—
a crude “Siegfried line” — across
Korea since truce talks began 9Vfe
months ago.
An official Army analyist said
the Red buildup does not yet pose
a threat to U.N. forces. The re
port placed Communist troops
strength at more than 750,000
men, mostly Chinese, and said
more than half the Red Air Force
of 1,500 planes was jet-powered.
Former Revenue Man
To Testify “Or Else”
WASHINGTON, (>P) — Former
Revenue Commissioner Joseph D.
Nunan, 64, was under stern orders
to meet his twice-delayed date
with House tax scandal investi
gators.
Following an independent med
ical check of Nunan’s health after
his own doctors said he was too
ill to appear, investigators late
Friday directed the former top
tax official to be on hand for
questioning May 5.
Some members intimated they
expected him to appear, “or else.”
Nunan’s activities, as well as
unexplained sources of large
amounts of money traced to him
between 1945 and 1950, are under
inquiry by a House Ways and
Means subcommittee investigating
revenue scandals. Nunan’s affairs
are also under grand jury investi
gation.
Movies Rough on Paris Cabbies
PARIS, {JP)—Paris taxi drivers
want gangster films banned.
Such movies, said the Taxi
Drivers’ Union, give people ideas
about beating up drivers and rob
bing them. There has been a
growing number of such attacks
on drivers here.
RE-ELECT
Howard Lyng
to the
Democratic Ticket
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"By their deeds you shall know them."
This is an old saying, but still true. It applies to all walks
of life, including members of the Legislature, also to politicians,
whether they be honest or crooked, or just plain stooges.
During my legislative terms, in addition to the several mil
lions of dollars I have assisted in bringing to Nome and the
Second Division, for roads, trails, airfields, harbors, hospitals,
and other public purposes, listed here are several special items
that assisted the City in Nome in time of need.
When the $100,000 appropriated a number of years ago for
the construction of Nome's present school building failed to pro
vide for building of the gymnasium, I was one of four who
introduced the measure (1935 Legislature) and succeeded in
securing the $75,000 additional funds which built the splendid
gym in use these many years for the benefit of Nome's school
children, as well as the grown-ups, for it has been used over the
years, also for dances, shows, the Annual Fair, a temporary
armory and drill hall, and generally speaking, as a community
hall.
A great part of Nome burned down in the disastrous 1934
fire. In the following legislative session I personally introduced
a measure providing for a direct appropriation to the City Council
of Nome, of $10,000. The City's share of the cost of operating the
Nome school, (Va) was at that time approximately $5,000 a year.
This $10,000 meant that the taxpayers of Nome were relieved of
the school burden for a two-year period while rebuilding their
business properties and homes.
In the 1939 session the Second Division House group of four,
of which I was one, secured another $10,000 for Nome's School.
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It was used for enlarging the manual training and home econ
omics quarters.
Several years ago, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior
came from Washington, D.C., to hold hearings at Nome on the
question of native reservations. He was accompanied by Don
Foster, then Director of the Alaska Native Service. At this time
also, the Nome Native School was to be shut down and the
pupils transferred to Nome's Territorial School. At this meeting,
after speaking on the reservation question, I requested that the
Native School Building be turned over to the City of Nome by the
Dept, of Interior. A short time later this was done, in time to be
used as a temporary hospital following the loss by fire of the
Maynard-Columbus Hospital. In the 1949 Legislature, Senator
O. D. Cochran and I got a memorial to Congress through the
Legislature, requesting transfer of ownership of the large Native
School grounds from the Federal Government to the City of
Nome. Today the City of Nome owns both buildings and grounds.
The City of Nome lor many years has had to pay $2,500 each
year to the U.S. Harbor Engineers in charge of Nome Harbor
work. The Alaska Legislature, through a bill passed a number of
years ago, contributed this money to our city. Several years ago
Alaska's federally appointed governor, Ernest Gruening, notified
the City of Nome and the U.S. Engineers, that the Legislative
Act was illegal, and no further funds would be forthcoming.
I introduced a bill in the 1951 session of the Legislature calling
for the City of Nome to receive $2,500 a year from the Fuel
Tax Fund, which can be spent only for roads, airfields and har
bors. The bill was passed by the Senate in full, but was
amended in the House to read "for a five-year period."—So for
the next five years this measure of mine will save the taxpayers
of Nome $12,500.
Your support and votes will be appreciated
Sincerely,
HOWARD LYNG
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He Stands for Clean, Efficient Alaskan Government
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PRIMARY ELECTION
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1952
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