THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
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_ NOW !F IT ISN’T JUST NOISE
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TIMES THAT CHANGED
Times have been worse—and we mean this liter
ally.
As recently as 70 years ago, a man going only a
brief distance from one community to another might
often find that he had skipped several hours in one
hour’s travel, or arrived at his destination before he
had set out.
Not until November 18, 1883, were standardized
time zones agreed upon by the United States and
Canada—an agreement which led to the time zones
observed today as Eastern, Central, Mountain, and
Pacific, respectively 5, 6, 7, and 8 hours slower than
Greenwich time.
We join feelingly with the American Society of
Civil Engineers in recognizing this boon to standardiz
ation. Anyone who has ever had to plan a journey on
trains or planes which still use standard time after
most communities have changed to summer daylight
saving time knows the complexities of vagaries in time.
Prior to 1883, the ASCE points out, “a traveler
from Portland, Maine, alighting at Buffalo and trying
to match his watch, which read 12:15 p.m., with local
time, found three clocks on the wall. One, reflecting
the time of the New York Central, read high noon.
The second, owned bv the Lake Shore Railroad, stood
at 11:25 in the same room. And the Buffalo local time
was 11:40.”
Even the puzzles of daylight-saving time now look
trivial compared to what we have escaped.
INSURANCE OR CHARITY?
Whether the scheduled hike in the Social Secur
ity tax from 1% to 2 per cent (on employe and em
ployer alike) is cancelled as President Eisenhower has
asked, or goes through as Chairman Dan Reed of the
House Ways and Means committee thinks it should;
we think it is time for our elected leaders to make up
their minds whether it is insurance or charity.
If it is insurance, whoever has kicked in for it
should get it at age 65 — even if he should want to
keep working, and earn $75 or $7500 a month. If it’s
charity, then it shouldn’t go to people with large un
earned incomes.
And certainly, in these times, when brains and
experience are needed, any law that penalizes a useful
citizen for working after age 65 is downright immoral.
Dr. Fatty of University of Alaska
Describes Alaska “As On Verge
Of Great Industrial Revolution*’
SEATTLE, m — Dr. Ernest N.
Patty, new president of the Uni
versity of Alaska, described the
territory Monday as “on the verge
of a great industrial re-volution.” |
He said he feels Alaska may
some day even have an atomic
plant because of the vast power
.potential in the territory.
The educator, a long-time min
ing authority, declared that the
new industrial developments be
ing started in Canada are bound
to have an impact on Alaska’s
economy.
“I am confident,” he said, “that
both Alaskan and Canadian citi
zens will find a means of resolv
ing any problems standing in the
way of joint development of such
proposed power projects as the
Skagway proposal (for a huge
aluminum reduction plant), the
Copper River and Susitna and
great projects on the Yukon at
Rampart and Woodchopper Can
yon.”
He declared there “are vast,
power-hungry areas in both Can
ada and Alaska which look to the
inevitable harnessing of the power
potential of great lakes and rivers
of the north.”
He made his only reference to
statehood in discussing joint Can
adian - Alaskan de-velopment for
mutual advantage.
“If those problems are solved,”
he asserted, “The problem of
statehood for Alaska will solve it
self because of the development
and industrial expansion that will
result.”
He declared the university will
play a ro'le of increasing import
ance. He cited the- extensive re
search being carried on at the
school for the military and de
scribed some of it as being “so
se-cret I don’t know what they
are doing.”
He said the university expects
to double its enrollment under a
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U.S. Hints Direct
Retaliation If
Fighting Renewed
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of State Dulles hinted Tuesday
that U.S. sea and air forces will
retaliate directly if Communist
China openly intervenes in Indo
china or renews the fighting in
Korea.
In a news conference discus
sion of President Eisenhc/we-r’s
decision to pull two divisions out
of Korea, Dulles emphasized that
this government might meet re
newed aggression in Korea or!
open intervention in Indochina by
! striking at the aggressor forces in
places outside of Korea and Indo
china.
He said that while American
power in terms of foot soldiers in ;
Korea is on the decline, its power
in terms of other elements—ob
viously new weapons — is being
increased.
Eisenhower himself had made
much the same points when dis
closing the decision to withdraw
two' divisions from Korea.
Amtericans Work for Yugoslavia?
ATHENS, Greece, UP) — Two
Yugoslav refugees who described
themselves at uranium technicians
said Wednesday that three or four
Americans are engaged in atomic
research in Yugoslav state labor
atories 10 miles outside Belgrade.
Statement of real property own
ership forms available at Nugget.
highly competent faculty and with
additional' new buildings.
He said he could assure Alas
ka’s parents that there will be no
need for their children to go out
side for thoir higher education,
“certainly not for their first two
years, and then only in specific
fields.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Intermittent
light snow \yith occasional clear
ing tonight and tomorrow. Wind
N.E. 10 td 15 mph. Low tempera
ture* expected tonight 3, high to
morrow 10.
Data last 24 hours as of 7:00
a.m. today: High temperature 13,
low -1. Maximum wind 5 mph
from the N.E. Sunrise at 10:02
a.m., sunset at 2:07 p.m.
A year ago today—high temper
ature 16, low 6.
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