THE NOME NUGGET
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FREEDOM PROVIDES GUNS AND BUTTER
The best weapon that Americans possess is nei
ther very secret nor very new since “it has been on
open demonstration for everyone to see during the
entire life of our Republic.” It is our free economic
system.
This is the opinion of a qualified witness, Charles
Edward Wilson, former president of General Electric,
war-time chairman of the Aircraft Production Board
and former director of the Office of Defense Mobil
ization, who, as “Electric Charlie” Wilson is distin
guished from our present Defense Secretary “Engine
Charlie” Wilson.
It is this “not-so-secret weapon,’’ as exemplified
by our aircraft industry, that has made it possible to
develop “first rate military air power without resort
to wartime controls,” to prove that a “guns-and-butter
philosophy is sound” and that “a free society can en
dure through an age of peril without destroying free
dom.” This, thinks Mr. Wilson, is the acid test. “If the
aircraft industry had failed,” he says, “we might today
be already rushing headlong toward the totalitarian
ism we abhor.”
The staggering achievements by which the indus
try has succeeded in giving us adequate air power
and in maintaining a qualitative lead over the all-out
efforts of the Russians, are related by Mr. Wilson in
the current issue of Planes, official publication of the
Aircraft Industries Association.
He reminds us that total U.S. production in the
1930’s amounted to a few hundred planes a year, that
it was multiplied 50 times in five years — from 180
planes a month in March 1939 to more than 9,000 in
March 1944. During World War II, Americans built
“more than 300,000 aircraft—twice as many as Russia
and three times as many as either Germany or Great
Britain” . . . and then the bottom fell out.
“In 1946,” writes Mr. Wilson, “the Air Force and
the Navy combined were taking an average delivery
of only 139 aircraft per month, a figure below the
1938 rate. Thus began ... the nightmare of the in
dustry . . . Employment dropped from a peak of more
than 1,300,000 in 1943 to a low of 237,000 in 1946.”
With the “police action” in Korea, Mr. Wilson was
called to Washington and made Defense Mobilizer—to
reactivate an industry that was “little more than a
ghost.’’ Enemy jets outnumbered our piston-engine
planes four to one. But, within two years, “American
pilots with their powerful new U.S. Sabrejet fighters
swept the Korean skies clear of the enemy with a
plane-kill ratio that eventually reached 14-1 in our
After Korea came the cold war, when, says Mr.
Wilson, “We asked the American aircraft industry to
do a better job in a free economy than the Soviet
industry could do with the total and absolute powers
of a police state ... It is to the lasting credit of the
industry that this assignment has been carried out
with distinction.”
With competition on our side, we have a big
edge — in the air, on the sea or on the ground —
whether our war is served up hot or cokL_
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FIRST BLOOD!
Mild Earth Tremor
In Northeast Oklahoma
TULSA, Okla., —Thousands
of Tulsans were jarred from their
sleep early yesterday by a mild
earth tremor which also shook
several other northeastern Okla
homa cities. >
Claremore, Sapulpa, Okmulgee,
Chandler and Bristow were said
to have felt the shock, which the
Tulsa weather bureau timed at
4:40 a.m.
Mrs. A. Gahagen, of Hunt, N.Y.,
who is a subscriber to the Nugget,
writes that she misses her many
friends in Nome and the crisp,
cold winters with snow.
She states that one never really
appreciates the snow until you
have spent Christmas without
any..
She sends greetings to her
friends here.
Interior Dept. Studies
Plan to Build Homes for
Needy Alaska Eskimos
WASHINGTON. UP»—An Indian
Bureau spokesman said last week
a proposal to build homes for
needy Alaska Eskimos still is un
der study in the Interior Dept.
The proposal was submitted to
the bureau recently by its area
director in Alaska.
The bureau’s press officer said
further action is awaiting depart
ment conferences to be held when
Alaska’s Gov. B. Frank Heintzle
man arrives here from Alaska.
Among questions remaining to
be resolved, it was reported, is
whether the program should be
administered by the Indian Bu
reau, the Interior Department’s
Office of Territories or by the
Territory of Alaska.
Exact size of the program and
other details were not immediate
ly available. The program was de
scribed, however, as providing ior
outright government construction
of the homes rather than for a
loan program for the Eskimos.
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5 National Guard
Officers to Inspect
Interior Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 27—Five
National Guard officers were
scheduled to leave Anchorage to
day on a flying inspection of in
terior Alaska.
The officers, including Col.
Frank Richards of the Army divi
sion of the National Guard Bu
reau, Washington, D.C., will make
the trip in an Air National Guard
C-47, with stops planned at Dill
ingham, Bethel, Nome, Fairbanks,
and, if weather permits, at St.
Lawrence Island.
Col. Elvis M. Farmer, acting ad
jutant general of the Alaska Na
tional Guard, said the trip was
planned to show the Washington
Guard official that “things are
different in Alaska.”
A spokesman 'said the trip
would give Col. Richards a first
hand look at the reason why Alas
ka National Guard travel orders
include references to such things
as dog sleds, skin boats and snow
shoes.
“He also will get an idea of
what is meaiit by primitive con
ditions in barren wastes, adverse
climate conditions and other oft
repeated phrases in reports on the
condition and problems of the
ALaksa National Guard,” the
spokesman said.
The inspection' team is sched
uled back in Anchorage for the
opening of the two-week training
period of the First Scout Batallion
at Fort Richardson.
Accompanying Col. Richards
and Col. Farmer were Lt. Col.
William S. Coleman, senior Army
advisor; Lt. Col. Michael Burke,
U.S. property and fiscal officer
for Alaska; and Maj. Bjorn T.
Holta, inspector general for the
Alaska National Guard.
NOISY REMINDER
KENNEBUNK, Maine, W—Vot
ers will not be likely to forget it
is Election Day here Nov. 6. The
town fathers ordered the fire
alarm sounded on the hour every
hour while the polls are open.
Objective: a record voter turn
out.
Fire resistive or so-called fire
proof construction is an important
life safety measure. However, se
vere fires may occur in the con
tents of fire-resistive buildings.
This may more than offset the
value of noncombustible struc
tural materials.
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Thursday (PA 902 Boeing
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