2 THE NOME NUGGET Monday. March 5, 1956
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THIS GREAT MODERN AGE
RACIAL
GOOD BUSINESS YEAR EXPECTED
Business leaders expect the level of business activ
ity to pick up this summer or fall—well before the
November elections. Salaries and income of all kinds
are still high and the country’s economy is still strong,
even though automobiles, farm income and housing
starts are all subdued at the moment.
It is said that controls clamped on the economy in
1955 might be taken off if the business pace slackens,
to insure a satisfactory volume of activity for the year.
Since the year has begun slower, this would mean
a spurt in the last half of the year—if this analysis is
correct.
The second best year on record is still expected
in 1956.
TO BE WELCOMED '
The fear that automation will create widespread
unemployment flies in the face of history. Every im
provement in production methods, along with every
invention of importance, has ultimately produced not
fewer jobs, but more and better jobs.
The automobile destroyed the horse and buggy
businesses—but an almost infinite increase in employ
ment and opportunity followed. More recently, proph
ets of gloom forecast that dial telephones would bring
a catastrophic degree of unemployment among opera
tors. Yet there are 70 percent more phone operators
than there were 10 years ago.
Automation is to be welcomed, not feared.
A VERSE FROM EACH BIBLE BOOK ?
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"And Elijah came unto all the people, and said,
How long halt ye between two opinions ? e
If the Lord be God follow Him: but if BaaL then follow him."
I KINGS 18:21
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Eskimos Fear Withdrawal Of
Land In Bering Sea Area
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The March 1 hearings on a pro
posal to withdraw 1,879,000 acres
of land on the Bering Sea as per
manent nesting grounds for
waterfowl brought an overflow
crowd to the Bethel school house
last Thursday. I
Among most active partici
pants in the crowd of approxi
mately 125 persons were Eski
mo inhabitants of that area, many
of whom presented their testi
mony through an interpreter.
The public hearings were at the
request of the Fish and Wildlife
Sevice which had recommended
the 15-mile-wide strip between
Hooper Bay and Bair Inlet be
withdrawn from public domain.
The marshy, sea-level stretch of
tundra is said to be one of the
principal breeding grounds of
brant ducks and cackling geese
in Alaska and one of the more
important areas in North America
for perpetuation of these species.
This gave the hearings some
what of an international aspect as
nesting grounds of wildfowl come
within the provisions of an inter
national treaty among United
States, Canada and Mexico on the
subject.
Roger R. Robinson, area direc
tor of the Bureau of Land Man
agement, conducted the hearings.
Eskimos were greatly concern
ed about the future of their trap
ping and fishing rights on the
preserve, Robinson said. Most of
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them could not speak English, but
through an interpreter, they ask
ed very pointed questions and
presented firm arguments in their
own behalf.
“It might be all right now, but
what about ten years from now?
How do we know somebody isn’t
going to write some new regula
tion that will deprive our people
from their rights altogether,”
seemed to be the consensus of ar
guments put up by the Eskimo
people.
The points were well taken by
Fish and Wildlife officials, Rob
inson said, and will no doubt fig
ure heavily in the final recom
mendations.
From the standpoint of whites, j
there will apparently be no con- i
troversial points at issue. The In
terior Dept, has established a
policy of granting mineral leases
on its reserved land and the Fish
and Wildlife is dedicated to strict
est regulatidn whenever wildlife
is jeopardized through the in
dustrial operations on preserves.
The big question then, when a
decision is finally made in Wash-,
ington, will be on the rights of
the aboriginal dwellers in the
area.
Written arguments both for and
against the withdrawal from
Chambers of Commerce, sports
men’s associations and individuals
were read into the official record.
Search Is On for Globemaster With
17 Aboard Down in Atlantic Ocean
LONDON, OP—A U.S. Air Force*
Globemaster with 17 persons
aboard crashed in the North At
lantic off Iceland Friday night at
almost the spot the same plane
narrowly escaped disaster a week
before.
An Air Force spokesman here
said radio messages from a weath
er ship reported finding the first
bit of wreckage from the four
engine plane.
"We know now the Globemast
er crashed into the sea,” the
spokesman said.
The plane had left the Keflavik,
Iceland, airport Friday, bound for
New York.
An oxygen bottle, part of the
plane’s equipment, was recovered
and showed extensive traces of
fire, the spokesman said. The bot
tle was picked up by the weather
ship Alpha about 250 miles west
of the Iceland coast.
That was near the position
where the plane sent “May Day”
messages—extreme distress sig
nals—shortly before midnight.
The last message said three of
the plane’s four engines had failed
and it was losing altitude rapidly.
Dispatches for Reykjavik said
the Alpha also picked up burned
fragments of plywood near the
last reported position of the C-124.
Eight planes scanned the area
early Saturday and were joined
by eight others at daybreak. The
U.S. Air Force sent search and
rescue craft from both sides of
the Atlantic—from as far east as
Prestwick, Scotland, and as far
west as Harmon air base in New
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foundland.
The fact that Iceland has near
ly 12 hours of daylight at this
time of the year helped in the
search, but the weather was de
scribed by an Air Force spokes
man as "pretty stinking."
Eventual destination of the
Globomaster was reported to have
been Warner-Robbins Air Force
Base in Georgia.
At Washington the Air Force
said two new engines had been in
stalled on the C-124 at Keflavik
to replace the two that failed dur
ing the east-west crossing last
week. The airplane itself was
comparatively new, with less than
1,000 hours flying time.
•The Air Force described the
aircraft commander of the C-124
as thoroughly experienced, with
more than 1,100 hours experience
in piloting that type plane.
Rubber used in the landing gear
system of a modern jet bomber is
sufficient to manufacture 100
automobile tires.
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Racial Dispute
Enters Libraries
JACKSON, Miss., (JV—The dis
pute over racial segregation has
spread to Mississippi libraries.
Approved by the Mississippi
House and sent to the Senate is
a bill requiring the state library
commission to buy books empha
sizing white supremacy.
One Mississippi legislator, Rep.
Walter Phillips, called it “thought
control”—a phrase made famous
by Japanese police action during
W’orld War II.
Gov. J. P. Coleman has declined
comment on the two-year-old
measure.
In south Mississippi, a Jones
County grand jury called for a
statewide screening of school and
library books to cull those critical
of the southern segregated way of
life. No action has been taken on
the grand jury request.
Eisenhower Sends Note
To Moscow Urging Start
Of Disarmament Program
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower has sent to Moscow a
new note urging Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin to join him in
making a start on a world disarm
ament program.
The letter constitutes the latest
round in a propaganda duel which
the two men have been carrying
on over disarmament and world
peace for many months.
Eisenhower’s note was due to be
delivered to the Soviet Foreign
Office today by U.S. Ambassador
Charles E. Bohlen. Washington
officials said administi'ation plans
call for it to be made public to
morrow.
The Eisenhower message is both
a negative reply to Bulganin’s re
peated proposal for a Soviet-Am
erican friendship treaty and a
positive reassertion of Eisenhow
er’s own “open skies” disarma
ment plan.
NEW DELHI, India, ifl’i—A
spokesman for the New Delhi
Rotary Club said Saturday a So
viet trade representative, E. A.
Oleinik, has set a precedent by
joining the club. Hitherto the
Reds have regarded civic clubs as
capitalist institutions.
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