AT SERVICE BALL CAME — Sgt. Joe Di Maggio
(left) and Chief Specialist Harold (Peewee) Reese (third from
left), autograph baseballs for Vice Admiral R. L. Ghormley (sec
ond from left) and Brig. Gen. William J. Flood at Central Pacific
service game. A naval hospital nine beat the Seventh Air Force. r
COOKING
AHEAD
GEORGE S. BENSON
’rcstdent-JlardiHg College
Searcy, lArkattsar
In these days when money is
talked about in astronomical fi
gures, a $10 bill still looks pretty
good to most of us. It means
something at once in terms of
food or clothing or other things
* we want to buy. But billions are
beyond most people; just some
thing super-big that the govern
ment deals in.
Did you ever wonder how much
larger a billion dollars is than a
million? It takes just as many
millions to make a billion as it
does pennies to make a $10 bill.
Or figure it this way:
When our government debt be
comes 358 billion dollai's, as Sen
_ a'*or Byrd says it will, we can di
vide the amount by America's
135 million population and find
that the debt exceeds $2,500 for
every person living in the United
States; $10,000 per family of
four. Then we begin to see what
this war means in money; why we
should work as well as pray to
bring it to an end.
IT IS NOT
IMPOSSIBLE
But, big as this debt will be,
we can pay it if we can keep
business and industry going full j
blast in peacetime as well as in
war time. And this leads us into
postwar planning to keep factor
ies going and payrolls alive.
But keeping factories running
and the country prosperous calls
for a lot of things. First of all,
the government will be obliged
to do its part in order to give pri
vate business its chance.
Sound post-war prosperity does
not depend on any one thing, but
on a combination of many things.
Some of these are easy to under
stand and can be controlled,
which is good. For instance, the
quick change-back of industrial
machinery to civilian use, so it
can serve as a part of our free
economy — that’s an aim we will
all approve, I am sure. It means
jobs. It means income for indus
trial workers, plen’y of goods to
buy and ready market for what
farmersgrow.
NO SINGLE FOHMULA
How rapidly this change-back
can be made, and how well, de
pends almost wholly on the gov
ernment, on the policy it adopts
in terminating war contracts,
what it does with government
owned tools and equipment now
covering many acres of factory
floor-space; how it gets rid of
huge stock-piles of war materials,
and how it uses the billions of
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dollars’ worth of government
owned factory buildings.
There is a common-sense way
to solve all these problems and
still not gum-up the workings of
open competition. After the
war the government should not
(1) hold back money due on war
contracts until the last rivet is
checked, (2) leave government
owned tools and equipment in
the plants to hinder immediate
reconversion, (3) glut markets
with cast-off goods nor start
“projects” to plague legitimate
business.
Simple and vital as all these
matters sound, they still can get
bogged down in the marshes of
bureaucracy. There should be a
fixed policy to prevent it. Only
Congress can make certain that
the first necessary steps are ta
ken to give America victory in
peace.
Will American workers be job
less when peace comes? Must
American farmers expct their
selling to cease when firing ceas
es? Neither is necessary. I think
Congress ought to take action
now, before a crisis arises, so
that an unmistakable policy may
exist to be enforced.
Most of us will be glad when
we don’t have to hear so much
about billions but I, for one, hope
to remain on handshaking terms
wi’h an occasional $10 bill. If
the right things are done now,
we all may.
WAY TO NOME
Last Wednesday, an Alaska
Airlines plane, a Lockheed Vega,
piloted by Gordon Mackenzie,
enroute from Anchorage to Nome,
was forced down by engine fail
ure on the Rhon river near Fair
well, where the pilot and his
four passengers barely escaped
with their lives. At 3,000 feet
the motor “conked out” and
“Mac” looked for a “soft” spot
to let his plane down.
A small island in the river,
covered with low brush, was the
spot. In landing, the landing gear
was torn off and the plane skid
ded on its belly, finally swerv
ing on its side and cracking open.
The pilot crawled out of his
flaming hatch and ran to the riv
er to put out the fire which was
burning his clothing.
The four passengers, Alvin Po
let, Nome manager for the com
pany; Miss Beverly Morgan,
daughter of Lt. Stanley R. Mor
gan, officer in charge of ACS
at Nome; John Berry, new Chief
of Police of Nome, and an army
officer, all got out of the burning
plane with minor injuries, but
lost all of their personal belong
ings and freight.
The five persons on the little
island were spotted by Jim
Hearst, a passing pilot, who no
tified the Anchorage radio, and
an army rescue squad was sent
to the location.
A rubber pontoon was used to
take the survivors across the ri
ver, from where they had to walk
five miles to the point where a
plane was waiting to take them
to Anchorage.
Manager Alvin Polet said, “I
have nothing but praise and ad
miration for the way Mackenzie
handled the situation, and the
spirit and endurance of my fellow
passengers.”
Mr. Polet and Miss Beberly
were incoming passengers on a
tri-motor plane of the Alaska
Airlines today.
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tAP)—Delegates of the American
Newspaper Guild convention en
dorsed the candidacies of Roose
velt and Truman for president
and vicepresident. I
The action came today as a
voice vote.
SHOES ON SALE!
Shoes — Men's, Women's and
Children's Shoes on sale at Po
let's Store Thursday.
ROBERT JACKSON
VISITS IN NOME
Robert (Bob) Jackson, formerly
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of Nome, paid us a visit yesterday
having flown in from Anchorage
with Jack Jefford, in the CAA
transport. Bob is now living in
Anchorage, where he is employed
as a chief dispatcher at the air
port.
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