THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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NOT FLAT, BUT IT COULD USE A RETREAD JOB
LET’S PLAY BALL !
On every street corner there is a group of boys
of all ages with the all-American bat and ball. There
is no regular diamond for them to practice on.
The older youth and adults too want to play ball
and a movement is on foot for a civic baseball diamond
so that a little league as well as a city wide league can
get organized.
There is much interest being shown and at least
two organizations have offered to spearhead the plan
if others will help to promote the idea and create the
necessary manpower to form a central committee.
Individuals in the community who would be will
ing to participate may leave their names at the Nugget.
Help find a suitable site for the diamond. Let’s
play ball!
SHEER FICTION
Critics of the Administration’s tax bill are calling
it “a rich man’s measure” on the grounds that it doesn’t
hit people with larger incomes hard enough.
Columnist Dorothy Thompson effectively answered
that criticism when she wrote, “No income-tax bill of
present or foreseeable proportions can be paid by the
upper income group for the simple reason that it re
ceives a very small part of the whole national income.”
Another common charge is that giving some tax
relief to citizens who receive income from investments
in corporations will also benefit only the well-to-do.
Mis', Thompson wrote: “This is untrue. In many of
America’s greatest industries small stockholders great
ly outnumber large ones. The old, especially, count
on cmecks from investments and the lower the amount
the more the administration bill will help them.”
It’s high time we got over the baseless illusions
that the solution to the tax problem is to soak the rich
some more—and that most stockholders are in the
mink-coat brackets. These ideas are sheer fiction, with
no basis whatsoever in the hard realm of fact.
The Indianapolis, Indiana, Times says: “Whole
sections of the United States are getting electric power
for less than it costs to make it—with the government
paying the difference.
Patty Inaugurated
At Commencement
Exercise At U. of A.
FAIRBANKS, wn—Dr. Ernest N.
Patty was inaugurated today as
the third president of the Univer
sity of Alaska.
He was formally inducted in
ceremonies at the 32nd annual
commencement of the institution
where he once was dean of mines.
Dr. Patty, a former Seattleite, ac
tually has served as president
since last November, when he
succeeded Dr. Terrence Moore.
Among the speakers at the com
mencement were Col. Bernt Bal
chen, famed arctic explorer flier,
and Dr. Henry Schmitz, president
of the University of Washington.
There were 35 degrees awarded.
Dr. Schmitz lauded the Univer
sity of Alaska’s progress.
“In a brief span,” he declared,
“it has perhaps made more rapid
progress than any other American
university. . . Its School of Mines,
its Department of Geophysics and
its curriculum in wildlife manage
ment are held in highest regard
everywhere.”
He told the departing seniors
that no other group of graduates
from any American university
can be as certain of a bright fu
ture in their home region.
Elmer E. Rasmuson, Anchorage
banker and member of the Board
of Regents, presided at the inaug
uration. In his brief response, Dr.
Patty concluded:
“Science and engineering, dur
ing the last few years, have made
such tremendous advances that
religion, statesmanship, econom
ics, sociology, psychology and the
other arts have been outdistanced.
We must advance these studies so
that we can turn this power into
creative channels—yes, and at the
same time we must teach our
young people to keep their faith,
to hold fast the simple things of
life—the precepts of our fore
fathers—if we want a life with
high assay values.”
Presidential Board
Recommends $150 Million
Be Paid RR. Employes
WASHINGTON, G'Pt—-A Presiden
tial emergency board Saturday
recommended granting health- i
welfare, vacation and holiday pay
benefits worth 150 million dollars
annually to one million railroad
employes. ,
The board turned down other
demands made by the 15 rail
unions in the case, most of them
AFL. The board, at the same time,
approved a number of rail man
agement demands.
The emergency board was named
by President Eisenhower last
December to head off a possible
nationwide rail strike. The unions
had made no pay increase de
mands but confined their program
to “fringe” requests. The case has
been in negotiation for a year.
Saturday’s report to the White
House was the culmination of the
boards study.
MEMORIAL DAY WREATHS
— AT CAVOTA'S
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Armed Forces
Day at Nome
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F-89 Sabrejet costs one million
dollars.
He outlined the intricate plan
of defense from the time of at
tack and the response of the
radar net and inter-relationship
of the various branches of the sev
eral services in defense of North
America.
He urged all patriotic citizens
to participate in the Ground Ob
server Corps and the Civil De
fense program as everyone has a
responsibility in the defense plan.
The Civil Defense program is
not only yital for the rescue of
the injured, first aid, fire control,
etc. but for the morale of the civ
ilian population who cannot de
pend on the military to help them
in time of attack. The enemy, he
stated, wants to destroy cities but
it also works to destroy the mor
ale of the people.
He closed his remarks with the
statement:
“I urge and recommend that
you give the Civil Defense your
full support, it is best investment
you ever will have made.”
The band concert was held from
4 until 5 o’clock in front of the
Federal building although the
west wind was chilly.
An informal banquet at the
Bering Sea Club was highlighted
by the spokesman of the people,
Boyd Harwood, president of the
NWA Chamber of Commerce, and
by our Second Division District
Court Judge, Walter Hodge, who
expressed appreciation to General
Smith as well as confidence in the
ability of the military leadership
to meet the problems of this
atomic age.
Senators Call On Asians
To Form Security Pact
WASHINGTON, OP)—Sen. Fer
guson said today the United
States has provided more than
two billion dollars of aid and mili
tary supplies for the Indochina
war.
Although another 800 million of
aid for France and Indochina is
proposed, Ferguson said in a
speech prepared for the Senate:
“This war cannot be fought un
less the people of the three coun
tries of Indochina have the will
to fight.”
Ferguson, chairman of the Sen
ate Republican Policy Commit
tee, also joined two colleagues
yesterday in calling on the na
tions of southeast Asia themselves
to form a mutual security pact.
In an NBC TV interview, the
Michigan senator said that for
white men to move in militarily
to keep the Communists out
would create more hatred in an
area where there is “great pre
judice” against colonialism.
A sirpilar theme was voiced by
Sens. Knowland (R-Cal) and
Mansfield (D-Mont) on a CBS
radio program.
Mansfield said the Asians
should be the ones to set up
a coalition, backed by the United
States and her western allies, be
cause “if we don’t bring those
people primarily concerned into
this picture then I think the out
look is pretty hopeless.”
Workmen Killed at Dam
THE DALLES, Ore., UB—A huge
concrete bucket weighing several
tons broke loose from a crane and
fell on a group of workmen at the
Dalles Dam Friday evening. Two
men were killed and six were
injured.
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