THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY .".. Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
post office at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879.
PRICES AND HUMAN EFFORT
As everyone knows, prices have risen substan
tially in late years and, on the basis of the most re
cent reports, the trend is still upward.
In spite of that, the average factory-worker has
•gained almost an hour of purchasing power since 1952.
A food chain association tells the story. It took
a typical bag of food, consisting of dairy products,
smoked and fresh meats, canned and fresh vegetables,
and other products in universal use. In 1952, that
bag cost $9.17, and a typical worker could earn the
money in five hours and 41 minutes. In April of this
year, the bag cost $9.24. But the worker could earn
it in four hours and 44 minutes—a gain of nearly an
hour.
It is certainly true, as an association officer has
said, that “the best way of measuring prices is against
the amount of effort required to earn the product.”
In the case of food, increases in pay have outrun in
creases in price. Various factors have contributed to
that situation—and one of them is intense competition
in retailing. Every retailer has been forced to do
everything possible to hold the price line.
What is true of foods is true of other retail busi
ness. Human nature being what it is, we naturally
complain about price increases. But mass distribu
tion is doing a first-class job of giving us top value for
our money.
IT COULD BE YOU
When you see a fire engine go roaring by, you may
wonder for a second or two “can it be headed for my
house.” Then you dismiss it from your mind. You
might not be so complacent if the figures on fire
losses were placed before you in b^g red letters.
During 1956, there were 865,561 reported in
communities of 2,500 or more population which means
that a fire started every 3 seconds.
Almost everything you own, from a house down to
a dishpan, costs twice as much today as it did a com
paratively few years back.
In most cases, even though you are carrying
double the insurance you carried 15 years ago, you
would still be out of pocket in replacing the things
destroyed by fire. Your best protection is to see that
every possible hazard around . your property is re
duced to the minimum. It is cheaper to call in an
electrician or furnace man to make needed repairs
and replacements than it is to call the fire department.
LEESBURG, FLA.,* DAILY COMMERCIAL:
“This weekend you may hop into the car to take the
family for an early spin in the country, or get out
into the garden while your wife does spring cleaning
or get the screens-in shape. While you’re doing that,
200,000 individuals will have been added to the popu
lation of the world. For the current rate of increase
—births over deaths—is somewhat more than 100,000
a day . . . It’s far past the time when we should be
thinking soberly and continuously—and demanding
that our statesmen do the same—about the problems
this growth brings in its train.”
TUESDAY BALL SCORES
American League
Detroit 12, New York 5
Boston 5, Kansas City 2
Washington 5, Cleveland 4
Baltimore 4, Chicago 3
National League
Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 1 j
Pittsburgh 6, Los Angeles 2
Sun Srancisco 1, Philadelphia 0
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 1, Spokane 0
Portland 5, Seattle 4
Salt Lake City 8, San Diego 5
Vancouver 5, Phoenix 1
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ONE DAY NEXT NOVEMBER
“One day next November,” says Fortune maga
zine, “an American Boeing 707 will soar away from
New York’s Idlewild Airport on the first scheduled
jet-powered transatlantic flight. Its spare, swept
back wings will carry the world’s international air
lines into a spectacular new phase of their brief but
already spectacular history.”
These jets will mark a tremendous step forward
over the piston-engined planes we know. They will
be larger, quieter, more comfortable in ,all respects.
They will fly in the smooth air of enormous heights—
up to 40,000 feet. They will be fantastically fast—the
crossing to Paris will be made between lunch and
dinner.
Most important, by making it possible for more
and more people to see the world, the jet age offers
every prospect of a new era of international under
standing. There is nothing like bringing vast num
bers of people together—typical people, from every
land—to banish a destructively distorted view of the
outside world.
But the jet age is bound round with problems.
Fortune’s article is entitled “International Airlines:
The Great Jet Gamble.” The cost of the planes will
'be several times that • of. piston-driven equivalents.
The secondary expense—maintenance, specialized per
sonnel, longer, runways, etc.—will also be great.
And they must be flown at full or near-full load many
hours a day if operating costs are to be held to an eco
nomic level.
Eighty-four airlines handle 85 per cent of all inter
national traffic. And last year, Fortune says, their
net profit was but a little more than one per cent of
total revenue. It isn’t all beer and skittles in the
world’s air!
“Rep.” Rivers On -
Way To Alaska
WASHINGTON, ’ “Rep.”
Ralph J. Rivers, one of Alaska’s
three-man unofficial Congres
sional delegation, headed back to
the soon to-be state Tuesday.
One of the group sent to Wash
ington two years ago to push for
statehood, he already has an
nounced his intention of seeking
the Democratic nomination for
Alaska’s first voting seat in the
House.
Rivers, accompanied by his
wife, Martha, said he expects to
reach Alaska about the end of the
first week in August.The couple
left by car and plan to stop en
route before leaving Seattle for
Alaska via the Hart Highway
through British Columbia.
Other members of the group,
“Sens.” William A. Egan and
Ernest Gruening, are expected to
head for Alaska later this week
or early next.
Goldfine Lawyers Ask
That Case Be Taken
Before Judge
WASHINGTON, — Bernard
Goldfine’s lawyers asked a House
subcommittee Tuesday to halt
hearings and take to a judge
the fight over Goldfine’s refusal
to answer some questions. Chair -
I man Oren Harris tossed cold
! water on the idea.
I The move marked the start of
j Goldfine’s sixth day of testimony
j on charges that he got favored
j treatment from federal regula
I tory agencies through his friend
ship with Presidential aide Sher
man Adams. He and Adams
deny this.
The subcommittee has threat
ened to cite Goldfine for con
tempt for not answering 23
questions about his financial af
fairs. Goldfine says the ques
[ tions involve his private business
j and have nothing to do with the
! House inquiry into how regulatory
j agencies carry out the law.
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