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STIU DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS
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OUR CHRISTMAS HERITAGE
The Christmas season always brings back the
sweetest memories of youth to those who enjoyed the
fantasy and sparkle of the Santa Claus story. In addi
tion, it brings a more significant observance, a respect
for the Christian principles of life, which are too often
forgotten in the rush of modern living.
The real Christmas spirit is one of unselfishness
and giving. Thus, the people who enjoy the scene
around the Christmas tree, on Christmas morning, and
the emptying of stockings, more than the children,
are the mothers and fathers who watch this exciting
moment once a year.
As Christmas Day, 1952, approaches, the time
seems highly appropriate for a new dedication to the
principles of Christianity. The United States, of all the
countries in the history of the world, today enjoys
more blessings and more of the good things of life than
any other nation. Yet, we live in troubled times, when
American boys are dying on faraway battlefields and
when superweapons threaten to devastate large areas
of the world in an instant. The ominous scene which
can result from the use of these new weapons is al
most too terrible to attempt to describe.
OUTSTRIPPING THE MINT
This is the time of year when silver dollars, the
“cartwheels” of an earlier era, come into their own.
Popular for gifts, the demand is far outstripping the
supply in the states and taxing the production of the
mint. Although commonplace in Alaska, the silver dol
lar is a rarity in most states.
Similarly, and for much the same reason, crisp
new bills are also harder to come by, the Christmas
run on them at the banks having already started. One
solution is the gift certificate. Another, which also has
a patriotic motif, is the practice of giving United States
Defense bonds.
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Investigators Say
Military Wasteful
And Extravagant
By JACK RUTLEDGE
WASHINGTON, (JP) — House
investigators, saying many mili
tary installations are too plush,
suggest the armed forces are
capitalizing on the Korean war
to wheedle money frorr^ Congress
for construction that isn’t really
needed.
A House expenditures subcom
mittee, after an investigation of
15 major U.S. bases, said in a
report released yesterday that it
had found evidence of waste, ex
travagance, “plushness,” unneces
sary “frills” and improper plan
ning.
The report specifically men
tioned “over-elaborate construc
tion” it said the watchdog group
found at Limestone Air Base,
Maine; McClellan Air Base, Calif.,
and Kelly Air Base, Texas.
The subcommittee, headed by
Rep. Hardy (D-Va), said in some
cases the services have shown
“haste and anxiety” to replace
useable temporary structures with
new buildings, and that inter
service rivalry for new buildings
has “overshadowed the desire to
get the most defense for the least
cost.”
The subcommittee also suggest
ed that Congress had voted ap
propriations on the basis of mis
leading information. Military
men, it said, have been describ
ing their needs in “inadequate,
inaccurate or misleading” terms.
The Air Force, the group said,
constructs its barracks with hard
wood floors, built-in frame clos
ets and drawer space, which it
explains as “an inducement to at
tract personnel to make a career
in the Air Force.” The subcom
mittee questioned whether such
“extras” o-r “frills” are essential.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: | Ethel Frost,
A. Illanna, Donald McDonald, Lt.
R. L. Wildman, J. O. Slay, M. G.
Whiles, D. W. Forsythe, F. E.
Harper, H. L. Stapleton, H. Fra
zer, Mr. Guenter, C. G. Fuller,
C. Hait.
From McGrth: Harry Knudsen.
To Anchorage: Mr. and Mrs.
John McNees and infant, R. L.
Wildman, Dr. E. Schiller.
To Unalukleet: Ed Maloney.
Early Public Health Nurse Dies
JUNEAU, t/P)—Mrs. Manghild
Oygard Bogue, one of Alaska’s
first public health nurses in the
Health Department, died Friday
in Craig.
She came to Alaska in 1931 and
joined the Health Department in
1938. She came here from Ever
ett, Wash., and was born in Nor
way in 1897.
Republican Appointed To Succeed
V.P. Nixon in the Senate
SACRAMENTO, Calif., (/P) —
Governor Warren today selected
California’s 42-year-old State
Controller, Thomas H. Kuchel, a
Republican, to succeed Vice Presi
dent-elect Richard M. Nixon in
the UJ5. Senate.
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A PRESENT WITH A FUTURE
“Miss America of 1953M is trimming her tree this year with U. S. e
fense Bonds—“the present with a future.” Pretty Neva Jane Lavr.ley
knows that Defense Bond gifts are practical gifts, which will help protect
the security of her country.
Red Condemnation
Murder of POWs
Rejected by U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., </P)
—The United Nations Assembly
in a wearied, pre-dawn vote to
day turned down a bitter Russian
demand for condemnation of the
United States for the alleged mass
murder of Red prisoners of Pon
gam Island in Korea.
Immediately after, the assem
bly adjourned until Feb. 24, after
the inauguration of U.S. Presi
dent-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Red-eyed after a tense all-night
debate, assembly delegates voted
45 “nays” to 5 Soviet bloc “yeas”
against the Russian proposal. Ten
members of the Arab-Asian bloc
abstained.
The Soviet bloc gained no sup
port outside of its own tight little
group lor the resolution, which
was denounced by U.S. Delegate
Ernest A. Gross, as a “sickening”
and “shabby midnight propagan
da stunt.”
Gross, replying to charges
launched at midnight Saturday
by Soviet delegate Andrei A.
Gromyko, said the riot on Dec.
14 in which 87 persons were kill
ed was engineered to help the
Kremlin cover up the fact that
“the aggressors and their spon
sors have rejected peace in Ko
rea.” He said the guards fired at
I the rioting Reds to quell them
and to avoid greater casualties.
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at the Nugget
Ike Feels Businessmen
In His Cabinet Will
Assure Savings
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tee, a former chairman of the
board of North American Avia
tion Company and a former presi
dent of the Dayton Wright Com
pany. During the second world
war he served as director of air
craft production for the War Pro
duction Board.
Eisenhower also named Roger
M. Kyes, 46, of Bloomfield Hills,
Mich., deputy secretary of de
fense. Like Wilson, under whom
he will serve, Kyes is a General
Motors executive—general man
ager of the corporation’s motor
truck and coach division.
All of the defense high com
mand appointees are Republicans
except Anderson. All are resign
ing their private jobs.
Aides said Eisenhower is de
lighted about the business back
grounds of all the men and that
he feels their experience should
assure savings without endanger
ing national defense.
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