Baby Born In Bus
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. UP) —
Thomas Fowler Sargent made his
entrance into the world on a
•bus yesterday.
When a passenger told Robert
Gartland driver of the bus bound
from Hot Springs to Little Rock,
that a baby was being born on
his bus he speeded up for a 25
mile dash to a Little Rock hos
pital.
During the trip Dr. E. Feldman,
a retired physician from Milling
ton, Tenn., unwound the umblical
cord which tangled around the
baby’s head and calmed the moth
er, Mrs. Linda Sargent, 44, mother
of nine other children.
Feldman said “Nothing new to
me. I was a country doctor for
40 years—delivered ’em in barns,
wagons and what have you.”
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To The Nome Nugget:
I will appreciate it if you will
spare space in your paper to allow
me to express my appreciation to
the people in Nome who helped
to make my short stay in the city
so agreeable.
What service I was able to give
during this income tax filing per
iod was due in great measure to
the assistance of your local tax
office and everyone with whom
I came in contact.
Especially I wish to extend my
thanks to those persons in the
Federal Building who were kind
enough to lend their equipment
and time to me so that my work
could be better accomplished.
I am returning to the Fairbanks
office for the last week of the
filing period and then will return
to my regular duties in Seattle at
109 Marion Street.
My invitation is extended to
anyone from Nome to drop in at
that office and make themselves
welcome at any time.
I hope that I may have the op
portunity to visit Nome again, but
not as just another tax collector.
Very truly ycnirs,
Charles W. Bown,
Internal Revenue Agent
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Bill by Sen. Long Would
Close Navy Hq. at Naples,
Save U.S. $100 Million
Washington, m—sen. Long
(D-La), aiming-at what he said
would be a saving of more than
$100 million a year, has intro
duced a bill to force the Navy to
.close its establishment at Naples,
Italy.
Long told the Senate Friday
he had visited the activity and
thought almost all the Navy mon
ey spent there was wasted.
Navy records showed a total of
2,140 officers and men attached
to various commands at Naples,
where Adm. Robert B. Carney,
commander in chief of Allied
forces in southern Europe, has
headquarters.
The U.S. naval eastern Atlantic
and Mediterranean command also
has a Naples sub-headquarters
and there also are naval air and
communications units and house
keeping activities.
The Navy said steps are being
taken to reduce the Naples estab
lishment, but that some opera
tions and services will be needed
as long as the Allies have a senior
headquarters there.
Longer Life Predicted
NEW YORK, LT)—An insurance
statistician predicts an increase of
fcrur or five years in the average
American’s life expectancy during
the next 20 or 25 years.
Dr. Louis I. Dublin, consultant
to the Institute of Life Insurance,
speaking at a meeting of insur
ance officials, said:
Within this generation an av
erage length of life of 73 years
is likely.
Women should live even longer;
they can expect about three years
more than this national level.
Juneau Botonist Dies,
Leaving Largest Collection
Of Alaskan Flora
JUNEAU — Jacob P. Anderson
died Feb. 16 at the age of 79,
but his work will live after him
at the J. P. Anderson Memorial
Herbarium in Juneau.
A quiet-spoken little fellow who
loved Alaska and Alaskan flora,
Anderson devoted a lifetime to.
identifying and mounting thous
ands of Alaska flowers and plants.
And in 38 years he made great
strides in this field—but he would
have said he was just getting
started. That’s the way he was.
While others were seeking fame
and fortune in the territory, An
derson was seeking nothing but
information — information on ev
ery plant, tree, shrub, bush or
flower that springs from Alaska’s
fertile soil and barren tundra.
As this world measures things,
the bespectacled botanist did not
die a rfch man, but his success
in life is attested by the devotion
of those with whom he worked.
Another measure of his worth
is the collection of specimens he
has gathered and mounted in the
course of his life-long task. Since
1914, when he came to Alaska to
work on flora as a thesis subject
for a master of science degree, An
derson has identified 1,434 spec
ies and collected rrtbre than 20,000
mounted specimens from the ter
ritory and nearby Canada.
In his relentless pursuit of in
formation, Dr. Anderson found
more than 65 flora families in
Alaska. Through the work of those
he inspired, the task goes on, and
there is little doubt but that the
J. P. Anderson Memorial Herbar
ium will continue to grow as the
largest collection of Alaskan floral
specimens in existence.
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Vishinsky’s New
U.N. Post May Be
Molotov’s Revenge
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP)—
U.N. delegates differed Saturday
whether the shift of Andrei Y.
Vishinsky from Soviet foreign
minister to chief Russian U.N.
delegate was a demotion or pre
saged a new and tougher Soviet
line in the world organization.
The change was announced by
the Kremlin Friday as Vishinsky
sailed for home. Vishinsky de
clined comment on the Russian
government changes.
Some foreign delegates familiar
with the Russians said Molotov
finally has his revenge on the
old-4ime prosecutor. They said
Vishinsky was being stationed
here to remove him from the Mos
cow scene.
Molotov—once tagged by Lenin
as a top-rate filing clerk—custom
arily spoke disparagingly of Vish
insky as “just a lawyer.” These
delegates said Vishinsky, known
as a protege of L. P. Beria, head
of the Soviet "political police,
helped engineer the ousting of
Molotov as foreign minister on
March 5, 1949, and that Molotov
never forgot or forgave Vishinsky.
Vishinsky was Stalin’s prosecu
ting purge-master in the great
liquidation trials of 1936-37 and
has often spoken against delegates
here as though they were defen
dants in a Moscow courtroom.
The turn of events completely
surprised delegates. Another sur
prising turn was the sudden de
parture of Andrei A. Gromyko,
Soviet ambassador to London,
from Britain for the United States
to take over the delegation until
Vishinsky can return from Mos
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George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
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Karl F. 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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