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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 1944
IT HELPS SOME
The gold mining indus
try will welcome the an
nouncement last week of
Norman Stines that the
War Production Board
will permit operators to
buy materials and equip
ment so that they may
start immediate operation
when the gold mining
closure order is revoked.
Alaska miners have been
particularly affected by
drastic closing of ’ gold
mines. Not only was rev
enue cut off, but much of
their equipment has been
sold to the government for
use in the war effort, and
much of it has deteriorat
ed from lying idle.
Wheels of an industry
can be stopped mucl
quicker than they can be
started again. Maintenance
work with skeleton crews
has been carried on the
last two years on most of
the property to keep the
ditches open, roads in re
pair, and equipment oiled.
But a large amount of
new equipment will be ne
cessary before work * can
be resumed, and with the
time it takes to; get priori
ties, to place orders and to
get them shipped to Alas
ka, it is none to soon to be
gin the purchase of neces
sary items. — (Jessen’s
INDUSTRIAL
EXPANSION
People who have feared
that the bottom will drop
out of American produc
tion and employment, as
the war ends, may take
heart from the business
statisticians. The experts
who have been 1 discussing
the question at Montreal
say that the needs of other
nations will keep the
wheels of American indus
try buzzing for at least a
year after Germany folds
up. And before the afore
said year expires, there
may be more irons in the
fire, and a lot of new pros
pects opened up to keep
the nation, or even the
world, from idleness.
Certainly the world
neecba couiitKessi additions
o its present equipment.
The effort to acquire such
idditions will make work,
and their operation when
acquired should make
still more work. Neither
our own country nor the
world in general has ever
come near getting all the
things it wants or needs.
And in the process of in
telligent acquisition, it is
amazing how one thing
may lead to another.
That is, if men and
groups and nations can be
somewhere near as bold
and enterprising in peace
ful development as they
are in war.—(Fairbanks
News-Miner).
ALONG MEMORY
LANE
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(October 18, 1934)
The passenger list for Nome on
the SS. Victoria, which sailed
from Seattle October 14, was:
Dr. O. A. Braafladt, Mrs. Chas.
Cavey, Mrs. B. Goodrich, Leo
Siedenverg, Emery Martin, R. A.
’I’enerson, Mrs. Joe Wallace, Mrs.
' )eo. Bowles, H. L. Prucha and
rife, H. R. Phillips, Miss Rynn
■ig, Mrs. R. B. Julian and Mrs.
Dan Alvich.
A landmark was razed today
when the vault back of Roust
Airways was dynamited. This
was formerly the vault of the
Northern Commercial Co. erect
ed during the gold rush and has
withstood many disasters, housed
quantities of valuables and with
stood the terrific heat of the fire.
Clyde Armisead and Wm. Lav
ery returned from Russia with
decorations of the Order of Len
in, the highest of the Soviet’s, for
helping in the rescue of the
Chelyuskiners.
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QUITS AN UNDERTAKING
RECONVERSION
PLANS BEING
CONSIDERED
As industry begins reconver
sion the Nome Consumer-Trade
Committee wishes to call atten
tion to the following statement
issued recently in Washington
by Chester Bowles, OPA admin
istrator: i
“No one knows when the Eu
ropean war will cease. But the
news is encouraging, and with
out relenting on the all-out pros
ecution of the war government,
management, and labor are plan
ning for reconversion at an in
teresting tempo.
“The War Production Board
has issued a long list of items,
many of which have not been
manufactured since early 1942.
Manufacturers are to be author
ized by WPB field offices to pro
duce these items, providing the
material, labor and facilities not
needed for war production are
available.
“Business men in all parts of
the country are anxious to know
how these and other reconverted
items will be priced by the Of
fice of Price Administration. All
consumers, including business
men, are anxious to know wheth
er they wpl continue to receive
the protection of effective price
control during the reconversion
period.”
From further information
available to the Committee, Mrs.
M. J. Walsh, chairman, goes on
to state that, The list of 79
classes of scarce consumer goods
to be given ‘preferential treat
ment’ for limited production in
cludes such items as kitchenware,
heating pads, flat irons and vac
uum bottles. Missing from the
list are heavier consumer goods
such as washing machines, me
chanical refrigerators and oil
burners. This means we must
continue to take the best possi
ble care of those we now have.”
The national forests of the
United States include an aggre
gate area larger than all of New
England, New York, Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, and Indiana.
PACER WINS 11 IN ROW
WESTBURY, N. Y.—(API
Top honors at the Old Country
Trotting Association meeting
which ended recently, went to !
imetiable, winner of 11 straight
races over the track once used
for 500-mile International auto
speed
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