THE NOME NUGGET
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MORE MOUTHS TO FEED
Our “bumper baby crops” continue. Some four
million new American citizens are coming into the
world each year.
From a business point of view, this means that
the potential market for all manner of goods and
services is increasing at a tremendous rate. It is one
of the reasons why most forecasters are convinced that
the American economy, far from being mature, will
keep on expanding—and keep on bringing better living
standards to the masses of people.
At the same time, certain inescapable problems
are involved. In addition to the bumper baby crops,
our senior citizens are living longer and the indica
tions are that the U.S. population will touch 215 million
in 20 years—a jump of about 50 million over the
present figure. Producers in all fields have a real
job ahead to compensate for that. Meat is a good ex
ample, inasmuch as it is a basic item in the eating
habits of almost everyone. Our per capita consump
tion is now running around 154 pounds a year. 'If that
rate is to be maintained, it is estimated that produc
tion will have to be increased by as much as 15 per
cent in the next 15 years and 30 per cent in the next
20. The livestock and meat industry is thus faced with
a task of the first magnitude.
ONE FAT, FEARFUL SUM
“Suppose that each of us was assessed in one
lump sum the same amount we now pay in hidden
taxes. This lump sum would have a pretty sobering
effect, and those of us who clamor for more and more
government services and subsidies would be likely to
revise our thinking considerably . . . The inescapable
fact is . . . that the people have to pay for what their
government spends. The amount they pay is going
to be the same, whether it is taken from them a cent
at a time or in one fat, fearful sum.”
—Boothbay, Me.. Register
Norwalk, Conn., Hour: “Automation does not nec
essarily mean fewer jobs. It means greater production
by more skilled and better trained workers. It alsoj
should mean a higher standard of living for the workers
who can qualify as the new operatives, as well as to the
public generally through greater production.”
Captain Fined
For Hunting
From ’Copter
FAIRBANKS^Capt. M. D.
Lord, stationed with the Army’s
30th Engineer unit at Kotzebue
on a mapping project, has been
fined $500 for killing a mountain
sheep with use of a helicopter.
The judgment was made in U.S.
Commissioner’s Court in Kotze
bue. Capt. Lord also received a
suspended six months’ jail sen
tence.
In the later part of June, Capt.
Lord flew a technician onto a
mountain top near Kotzebue.
While waiting for him to complete
his assignment, Lord, who was
standing near the helicopter,
sighted two sheep. He killed one
and strapped it to the outside of
the craft for transporting to Noa
tak. Capt. Lord gave the sheep to
a family in that village.
Through an anonymous lead,
agents of the Fish and Wildlife
Service at Fairbanks were able to
narrow the search down to the
30th Engineers.
“This case has no reflection on
the 30th Engineers as a whole,”,
said Ray Tremblay, wildlife en
forcement agent. “They have a
good conservation program and
indoctrinate their men carefully
before sending them onto the var
ious mapping jobs. Capt. Lord
was acting on his own, despite the
briefings given him by the group
officials.”
Commie Questioner of
Gen. Dean in Korean War
Condemned to Death
SEOUL, l/P»—A South Korean
army court martial yesterday
condemned to death Lee Chang
Kwang, one of the first Commu
nists to interogate Maj. Gen. Wil
liam F. Dean after he was cap
tured in the Korean War.
Lee was convicted of giving aid
to the enemy by passing to the
Communists information alleged*
ly obtained from Dean.
President Rhee as well as high
er military tribunals will have to
approve the death sentence be
fore it can be carried out.
Lee was an intelligence officer
of the local Communist Party
near Taejon, where Dean was
captured in the early days of the
Korean War. The general wan
dered for 10 days, seeking rem
nants of his shattered 24th Divi
sion, before he was betrayed by
two Korean farmers and caught.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: E. A. Hoff
man, Jannett Faires, Mrs. G. R.
Jackson, J. Norbert, N. Talbot,
Mrs. N. Talbot, Bert Talbot, Fred
McGinnis, Mr. and Mrs. F. Fisher,
B. C. Harwood, F. S. Williamson,
F. Lieles, W. S. Nelson, A. W.
Smith, N. R. Herman.
To Anchorage: Lt. Liedholdt,
Carl Quisberg.
To Kotzebue: C. Mendenhall,
Robert Morgan, T. Simineo, M.
Simineo, C. Simineo, C. H. Fiscus,
Velma Brown, R. Rogers, Warren
and Marvin Thomas.
From McGrath: Mrs. Lam
brecht, Robert and Carol Lam
brecht. To Moses Point: Charlie
Auliye. From Unalakleet: Lenora
Sagoonick.
BLIZZARD DOWN UNDER
SYDNEY, Australia Lf)—Wintry
gales swept New South Wales
and Victoria yesterday as South
east Australia recorded its worst
blizzard of the year. The storm
left huge snowdrifts in the South
ern Australian Alps.
FATHER AND SON NIGHT -
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Frank
Blandowski, 67, got more than
one jolt when he collided head-on
with another car Monday night.
The driver of the second vehicle
was his son, Raymond, 20.
Neither was injured seriously.
Blandowski was driving to a
grocery store and his son was on
his way home when the two cars
met on a curve.
MONDAY BASEBALL
National League
Chicago 1, Brooklyn 0
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 4, Seattle 3
Hollywood 4, Portland 1
What’s My Line Guest
Spotted as Auto Thief
NEW YORK, UR—A television
panel on the CBS show “What’s
My Line?” managed Sunday night
to guess that the slim dark-haired
young man’s occupation was that
of an elephant handler. ,
Nine hundred miles away in
Royal Oak, Mich., two viewers
thought they also recognized him
as something else and they called
the FBI in Detroit. Monday he
was arrested on charges of auto
theft.
Two hundred and twenty-five
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