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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, December 5, 1951
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
— A Tribute —
By HOWARD LYNG, Territorial Senator
Pioneers of Alaska! What stirring thoughts these
words call to mind when contemplating these rugged
men and women, who, more than any other factor,
made possible the Territory of Alaska that you and I
now enjoy. Truly, their souls must have been possessed
of that flaming spirit which only high adventure and
conquest of empire could satisfy.
Suffering the severance of family ties, putting
behind them the comforts of civilization, facing what
was to come with tranquility and courage, these sturdy
men and women gave unstintingly of their brain,
brawn and buoyancy of spirit, in the subjugation and
initial development of our great Territory—America’s
last frontier.
The Pioneer has won an honored place in the j
hearts of all true Alaskans. His valiant spirit, staunch
courage, and complete devotion to the land of his
choice, stand forth like a shining light—a beacon to
show the way to those who follow.
The Pioneers are without equal in telling the story
of Alaska’s growth and development, because the
building of things is a part of their actual experience.
They speak of what they know. United in a common
fellowship of rich experience, the Pioneers are looked
to throughout Alaska, for the benefit of their judgment
and experience acquired by long years of service to
the Territory.
The Pioneer’s judgment is not warped by undue!
pride of self, neither is it rooted in the dead issues of
the past, nor colored by prejudice. They do not be
lieve that the wheels of progress should be stopped by
the dead hand of unthinking tradition—change is not
necessarily progress, but ability and willingness to
grow are essential to it. The Pioneers hold fast to the
best of the past, contemplating the future with an
open mind, seeking what is to come with their usual
understanding and enthusiasm. One of the qualities
that makes the Pioneers great is their constant and
unbounded enthusiasm. No organization can transcend
a lack of enthusiasm in its membership, for there is
no substitute for enthusiasm.
When we consider the benefits that have come
to us largely through the efforts of Alaska’s Pioneer
men and women, whose generosity, supreme confid
ence in the future and abiding faith in the land of
their choice was the guiding principle of their lives—
we should indeed acknowledge our debt of gratitude, i
The test of experience is the memory it leaves
us. We should be constant in honoring these memories
of experiences incident to the upbuilding of our Terri
tory by this intrepid band of Pioneers. We should be
ever vigilant to see that this greatest of all purely
Alaskan organizations, does not, through apathy, sink
into oblivion—to see that it marches on through the
years with flying banners, representative not only of
the storied moulders of the past, but also as a vital
voice in the affairs of the present, and a constructive
force in the structure of the future.
WISE AND OTHERWISE
We armed the Russians to whip the Germans, and
maybe we’ll arm the Germans to beat the Russians.
And we ask you, could anything be fairer? —Roose
velt (Utah) Standard.
There is only one point in the current economic
situation concerning which all of the economists seem
to agree. Money saved for a rainy day buys a much
smaller umbrella than it used to.—Davenport Times.
Leading GOPs
Optimistic Over
1952 Chances
NEW YORK, '(/P)—Four lead
ing Republicans, divided over
presidential candidates in 1952,
were united Monday night in
their optimism for a party victory
next year.
The quartet, three governors
and a senator, lashed the Truman
administration in speeches at a
$100-a-plate Republican fund
raising dinner.
But they carefully avoided tak
ing sides, at least for the evening,
in the race for the GOP presiden
tial nomination. The four were:
Govs. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York and John Lodge of
Connecticut, who are supporting
the candidacy of Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower;
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill),
who is Illinois director for the
movement behind Sen. Taft;
And Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll of
New Jersey, who has maintained
silence on the nomination fight.
Dewey, who was host, said “Al
most the sole hope of survival of
freedom on the earth” lies in a
GOP victory in 1952.
In his address, Dirksen des
cribed the Truman administra
tion's record as “one of plunder
ing our moral resources, counten
ancing pale loyalties, liquidating
our vitality at home through
spending and taxing policies
which destroy incentive and the
release of human energies.”
Ore Purchasing Depot
In Alaska Receives
Active Consideration
A proposal to establish a pur
chasing depot in the Territory for
strategic and critical minerals is
receiving active consideration in
Washington, the Alaska Develop
ment Board was advised this
week by Howard I. Young, Dep
uty Administrator for the Defense
Materials Procurement Agency.
Young, who under a recent re
organization is in charge of all
mineral procurement for defense
purposes, notified the Board that
he agreed with it that such a
plan is feasible. He said the pro
posal had been turned over to
James Douglas who is in charge
of the agency’s domestic expan
sion program.
The Alaska Development Board
has been attempting ever since
the defense emergency arose to
have an ore purchasing depot for
all strategic and critical minerals
established in the Territory.
George Sundborg, general man
ager, called on Young while in
Washington several months ago
in this connection.
“Under present circumstances,
even though Alaska has known
deposits of most of these miner
als,” the Board notified officials
in Washington, “the problems of
shipping and marketing are suf
ficiently complex as to discour
age many of the rough-and-ready
sort of people who comprise our
prospectors and small mining op
erators.”
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Judge Dirnond Rules Anchorage
Federal Prison Is Overcrowded
But Not "Cruel and 1111111111311*’
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ANCHORAGE, (/P)—They may
be overcrowded, but 40 prisoners
y
in the federal jail here are not
being held unlawfully, Judge
Anthony Dimond ruled in a writ
ten opinion.
He denied an application for a
writ of habeas corpus made by
Ernest Pickens in a test case for
40 prisoners. They charged they
were held unlawfully because of
overcrowded, unsanitary condi
tions.
In a nine-page opinion Judge
Dimond stressed that the techni
cal legality of detention was not
challenged: that the prisoners did
not complain of their treatment,
but solely on the physical con
dition of the jail.
“The jail structure itself is an
cient and has outlived its use
fulness,” the judge wrote. “Forty
prisoners * are crowded into a
room about 27 feet square. There
is no place for prisoners to move
about, no recreational facilities.
Youths are herded together with
hardened criminals. Even those
who are ‘mental cases,’ unless
violent, are confined in the same
room.”
The ever-present possibility of
fire constituted the feature of im
prisonment which most closely
approaches “crue 1, inhuman”
treatment, the judge wrote.
He pointed out the room is
heated by an ancient stove and
the ony exit is through the kit
chen, which necessarily is locked.
No emergency exit exists.
Dimond said that if the petition
were ^ranted, the “discharge of
the petitioner would almost cer
tainly result in filing some 39
other similar petitions by men ac
cused of crimes running from
murder to traffic violations.”
The list of charges against pri
soners now being held includes
murder, rape, assault, embezzle
ment, white slavery, narcotics
possession and many others.
In concluding the opinion, Di
mond questioned whether con
finement of the men accused of
crime, even under conditions de
scribed, should be called “cruel
and inhuman” when men in the^
armed forces are undergoing haz
ards a thousand more times great
er and suffering “cruel and in
human punishment far more ter
rible.”
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Negro Welterweight
Wins 26 In A Row
PHILADELPHIA, </P)—Punch
ers, boxers, right handers and
now a left hander — they’ve all
tried and failed against young Gil
j Turner, Philadelphia’s welter
weight sensation.
The 19-year-old Negro is still
unbeaten as a result of Monday
night’s victory over Mario Trigo,
Mexican switch hitter from Los
Angeles. While the cards of the
judges, referee and Associated
Press all showed Turner winning
an easy 26th victory, Gil was a
little disappointed.
The victor weighed 146Vfe ,his
opponent 142V£. *
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