District Engineer Urges
Development Of Private
Industry In Alaska
: ANCHORAGE,' Ult — Col. L. H.
Foote, Alaska District Engineer,
told Governor Heintzleman Fri
day that military construction in
the territory this year is com
parable to 1952 but that it would
start tapering off.
Colonel Foote and Col. E. C.
Itschner, chief of the North Pa
cific District for the Army Corps
of Engineers, advised Heintzle
man to work for immediate devel
opment of private industrV, pre
sumably to absorb the slack
caused by reduction in military
construction.
The governor and engineer of
ficers met in a three hour session
with Chamber of Commerce di
rectors to discuss Alaskan prob
lems.
Fine Job Priming at the Nugget
| BOY SCOUT NEWS
Troop 666 opened their regular
meeting as Robert Summers led
the opening ceremonies. The troop
then fell out into patrol corners.
The Eagles planned a hike un
der the supervision of Lawrence
Oscarson (which took place last
Saturday). The Apaches worked
on their patrol flag, which will
be finished by the next meeting.
The other two patrols worked
on drill formations and the morse
code. Recreation was takert up
with basketball relays and a few
games of dodge ball.
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being frozen in ice.
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Taft Expects Democratic
Support For Continued
High Tax Yield
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senate
Republican leader Taft said Sat
urday he expects Democratic sup
port if the Eisenhower adminis
tration seeks to continue present
high taxes temporarily in its ef
forts to balance the budget.
And Sen. Russell of Georgia,
one of the most influential Demo
cratic senators, said in an inter
view:
“If the President takes the lead
in the matter, it is my judgment
that a majority of the Democratic
senators will give the administra
tion the tax measures necessary
to maintain the revenue yield
where it is.”
TYPHOID WARNING ISSUED
BY CITY HEALTH OFFICER
ANCHORAGE, W)—A warning
was issued Friday by Dr. John
Gentry, city health officer, for
residents and physicians to re
port all illnesses resembling ty
phoid fever.
The warning was issued after
it was discovered that the city
chlorination system was out of
order Tuesday for several hours.
Dr. Gentry said the danger of
typhoid was remote but that he
had no guarantee the unchlorin-'
ated water was free from typhoid
germs.
The average person in Ireland
eats about 3,500 calories a day
compared with an average of
about 3,200 in the United States.
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Atlantic Pact Nations See
No Change In Communist
Threat to World Security
■PARIS, UP) — The 14 Atlantic
Pact nations Saturday told Soviet
Russia that she has not yet dis
played any fundamental change
in Communism’s threat to the se
curity of the free world.
In their final communique on
the North Atlantic Treaty Council
sessions here, the ministers of the
NATO members said they would
welcome “genuine efforts to re
duce the international tension.”
They said that the Commun
ist attack on Laos in French Indo
china was only the latest example
of policies responsible for aggres
sive warfare in several parts of
the world.
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Refrigerator Car Explodes
CALGARY, Alta., UP)—An ex
plosion in a refrigerator car rock
ed a passenger train just after it
arrived in the station here Sun
day night.
An alighting passenger, Mrs.
Charles J. Blake was thrown 14
feet by the blast and killed. Her
husband and three Canadian Pa
cific Railway employes were hurt.
The explosion destroyed the re
frigerator car on the Edmonton
to-Calgary train. It shattered hun
dreds of windows in the vicinity.
Investigators expressed belief
the blast occurred when a railway
worker thrust a gas lamp, into the
car, igniting leaking gas. The car
was loaded with bread and other
food.
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Sabres Used As Dive-Bombers
SEOUL, WJ — Deadly American
Sabre jets flew dive bombing mis
sions in close support of Allied
ground forces Monday for the
first time in the 34-months-old
Korean war.
The Sabres—until recently used
only for air battles with Red MIG
jets—pounded Communist troops
and positions.
Twelve Sabres, flown by the
18th Fighter-Bomber Wing, made
the strike, the Fifth Air Force
said.
Twenty-four U.S. Marine Pan
ther jet fighter-bombers blasted
an ammunition factory at Cin
nampo with 50 tons of bombs
while Corsairs hit a weapons and
storage area at Haeju.
SATURDAY
SEOUL, Ufi—Grim, U.S. infan
trymen, using bayonets, rifle butts
and hand grenades, cut down
about one-third of a 500 to 750
«nan Communist force that smash
ed against Allied lines in cen
-tral Korea Saturday.
Jn the air, Allied warplanes
Friday marked up their third
busiest single day of the Korean
war. Jet and propellor-driven at
tackers smashed at the Commun
ists with 1,370 sorties, turning Red
ground targets into smoking ruins.
U.S. Sabre jets shot down one
Communist MIG jet and damaged
three more, the Air Force re
ported.
The big battleship New Jersey
pumped shells for eight hours Fri
day into the Red east coast city
of Song jin.
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OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of wimWi
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JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
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No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, WM.
Karl P. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON „
Dewey Goodrich, President
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
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