Adm. Radford Advocates
Increasing Military Aid
To Chinese Nationalists
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WASHINGTON, (ff>) —- Adm.
Arthur W. Radford, Pacific fleet
commander, said today deliveries
of military aid equipment to the
Chinese Nationalists on Formosa
have been “disappointingly low.”
He told reporters that w’as one
of the reasons why he is in Wash
ington for a series of conferences
with military officials here.
To news conference questions,
Radford said he assumed deliver
ies of arms to the forces of Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek were
slow because of <1> the necessity
for setting world wide priorities
under the general military aid
program and (2) the fact that pro
duction deliveries are slower than
originally expected.
Did he think there was too
much preference given European
requirements?
“From where I sit, I think the
priorities could be readjusted,”
Radford replied.
CLEANUP NOTICE
June 16 to 30 has been desig
nated by the Nome Common
Council as CLEANUP TIME.
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Property owners are requested
to clean their premises during this
period and place debris, which
must be sacked up or in cartons,
near the sidewalk where it can be
picked up by City truck.
The City WILL NOT handle
debris that is in 50 or 100 gallon
drums.
The Health Committee of the
City Council, the Chief of Police
and other City officials will make
a survey of the town from time
to time and report those who fail
to cooperate in this attempt to
make the town a cleaner place to
live in and to improve sanitary
conditions, guarding to some ex
tent, against disease.
Health Committee
Nome Common Council
By W. C. Mclver,
72 Chairman
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BIG THREE TALKS CENTER
ON PROPOSED MEETING WITH
SOVIET ON GERMAN ISSUES
WASHINGTON, {JP) — The
Western Big Three powers were
reported seeking final agreement
among themselves today on the
precise conditions under which
they would be willing to discuss
German issues with Russia.
State Department officials said
after talks between Secretary
Acheson and the British* and
French ambassadors ' here that
there was no basic disagreement
on the subject of a Big Four
meeting “provided certain condi
tions are met.” They did not spe
cify the conditions, but declared
that none of the three Western
powers was willing to agree to a
session on Soviet-dictated terms.
Warner Peterson, contact rep
resentative of the Veterans Ad
ministration, has announced that
he will be in Nome at the Wallace
Hotel from June .18 until June 21
to assist veterans and their de
pendents with any problem they
may have which come under the
jurisdiction of the^'VA.
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Hardy Musk Ox May Survive aind
Produce on Thin New England Soils
MUSK OXEN to be imported from Arctic
By Ray Bearse
AP Newsfeatures—
HUNTINGTON, Vermont —
Some New Englanders are looking j
to the Arctic for aid in rebuilding
the thin-soiled, rocky fields of
their abandoned farms.
Vilh.ialmur Stefannson, famed
explorer and author of “The
Friendly Arctic,” is the sparkplug
of the idea that the musk ox can |
do the job. He hopes the hardy ;
Arctic animals can be kept with
less expense than other breeds !
and thus make possible the use of j
land otherwise unproductive be
cause of low fertility and severe
winters.
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It is thought the musk ox can
live outdoors comfortably even
through the severe New England
winters and forage for its own
food. Thus expensive buildings
arc not needed.
The major part of the work is
being undertaken by John J. Teal,
Jr., anthropologist and explorer.
Teal and Stefansson insist the
beast they are after is not a musk
ox. They say it should be called
ovibos. But when Teal flies north
next fail to capture eight calves
in Ellesmere Island, he will be
after the kind of animals which
are called musk oxen in diction
aries.
Nexc fall’s trip will come after
five years of negotiation by Ste
fansson and W. Douglas Burden,
a Vermont farmer. The musk ox
is nearly extinct. Permission to
capture the eight calves was diffi
cult to obtain from the Canadian
government.
When and if a musk ox breed
ing herd is set up on Teal’s farm
it will become a project of the
Vermont Animal Research Foun
dation.
They are sure the big animals
can be domesticated easily. The
reason they are almost extinct is
they have been slaughtered by
many peoples for their excellent
beef. Stefansson, who has lived
on them for long periods during
his many exploring expeditions,
says most people cannot tell ovi
bos from ordinary beef.
But ovibos produce wool as well
as beef. Tests made by Alfred F.
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Barker, professor of textiles at
Leeds University, and by woolen
mills show it is soft as cashmere,
Stefansson says. It has the wear
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ing quality of fine sheep's wool
and will not shrink when washed.
Barker believes that if it were
available in quantity it could
command prices higher than
sheep’s wool of the best grade.
Previous attempts to domesti
cate the ovibos have not been
made because explorers and sci
entists who knew the worth of
the animal did not have the mon
ey to carry out their projects, the
Vermont group says.
Eisenhower Reported As
Favoring $40-Billion Tax
Cut Over Next 2 or 3 Yrs.
(By the Associated Press*
After Eisenhower met Wednes
day with New York and Maryland
GOP delegates, he was quoted as
saying he favors a 40-billion dol
lar tax cut over the next two or
three years.
Federal levies are now about
80 billions, President Truman has
requested an 85 - billion - dollar
budget for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1 and some Republican
legislators have proposed a 10
billion-dollar tax reduction.
Eisenhower reportedly said at
the closed-door session he believes
a budget reduction would ease
inflationary pressures and, as a
result, the threat of war.
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