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ALASKA GOPs’ POLICY HELPING DEMOCRATS?
(Anchorage Daily Times)
The territory’s treasury is bulging with dollars.
Periodically announcements are made by the treasurer
showing more and more millions of dollars laying
around idle. Collections are exceeding expenditures.
The last statement said the surplus was $9,000,000.
While the operating agencies are starving for
money, the territory has nothing but money in the bank.
The situation is miserly in that the desire to have cash
seems to be greater than the desire to spend the money
for some good purpose.
The legislature is in the position of having its
assets tied up in cash while its operating agencies are
curtailing services and Alaska starves for lack of some
of its fundamental needs.
People don’t elect legislators to go to Juneau and
build a big baftk account for the territory. People
don’t pay taxes for the sake of creating a cash surplus.
They want the money to be used for -the good of the
people.
The best thing the territory couia do is to develop
a sound program for the use of the surplus. Some of it
should go to restore the dwindling services of the ad
ministrative agencies. But most of it should go into
capital projects—things that will be permanent im
provements and provide some of the basic needs for
developing Alaska.
Roads are one of the most important of these basic
needs. It will be a glorious day when the territory
sees fit to launch a multi-million-dollar road program
to augment the funds spent here by the federal govern
ment.
A road will do more good for more people than will
a fat territorial bank account. Once it is built, it will be
useable for many years, opening new areas for develop
ment, creating new employment, more trade and com
merce and a stronger economy.
The bank account will work against the Republi
cans when they face the voters. They can’t campaign
for reelection on the argument that they have run up
a huge bank balance. Voters will see the lack of the
services they want, not the figures in a bank statement.
Too, the bank account development policy will
play into the hands of the Democrats should they win
the next election. The Democrats have never been
famous for hanging onto cash. They have often ap
peared to be colorblind in failing to distinguish between
red ink and black ink on their financial statements.
They are famous for spending. Nobody has ever topped
them in that field.
If present territorial policies are continued, it is
r?ie to predict that the Republicans are building a fat
bank account for the Democrats to spend.
BYRD WARNS OF HIGH TAXES
Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia Democrat, recently
raid Congress would have to raise taxes in 1954, or see
'he national debt increased by another $10,000,000,000.
These words from a recognized economic expert are
disappointing to those who hoped the budget could be
balanced in the current fiscal year.
The Virginia senator predicted spending in the
r’Trent fiscal year would reach approximately $74,
000,000,000. He doesn’t think receipts will exceed
i '*4.000.000,000. Since the national debt is already
5272,000,000,000 (and limited to a total of $275,000,
(00,000 by the law) he feels that either taxes must be
raised or the debt ceiling raised in the next twelve
months. j
Dulles Asks AFL Partnership To Blast
Communist Myth Of Paradise For
Workers Behind Iron Curtain
ST. LOUIS,'UP — Secretary of<
State Dulles called Thursday for
a “closer partnership” between the
government and the American
Federation of Labor in a world
wide campaign to “explode the
Communist myth” of a workers’
paradise behind the Iron Curtain.
He said the Reds had used this
myth effectively to extend Soviet
power.
In a speech prepared for the
American Federation of Labor
convention here, Dulles pictured
Soviet Communism as being actu
ally an exploitation of the worker.
“No task is more important for
us than that of exploding the
Communist myth,” he said.
He told the AFL gathering that
“you have done more than any
other single body to explode the
Communist myth,” and added:
“In this matter there should be
closed partnership between us.”
Dulles also declared on specific
foreign policy issues:
1. Russia has met American ap
peals for armament control—now
more urgently needed to meet the
hydrogen bomb threat—with re
petition of “their old refrains” but
the United States will persist in
its “quest for peace.”
2. Atomic and hydrogen wea
pons may have given Communist
rulers the possibility of setting off
destructive forces which could
threaten “the survival of civiliza
tion as we know it.” Mankind,
Dulles added, faces “an ultimate
peril” never known before.
Col. Williams Honored
At Wednesday Dinner
(Continued from Page One)
Superintendent of Nome School;
Robert Scott, American Legion;
Antonio Polet, N.V.A., and Clin
ton Gray, Arctic Native Brother
hood, who responded in Eskimo.
Military men paying tribute
were Col. William Boyd, chief of
staff 11th Air Division, Col. Rad
bury of Ladd A.F.B., Sgt. Arthur
Tucker, U.S.A.F., Sgt. Robert
Haymes, U. S. Army, and Sgt.
Horace Posey, AFRS.
Special remarks of appreciation
and acknowledgment were made
to George Goshaw for his excel
lent engineering of this banquet
and for other work with the Nome
Visitors Association throughout
the past summer.
Special music was provided by
Pfc. John Shumaker, tenor, ac
companied by Robert Heath, and
Harry Gabrielson.
Tug and Barge with 50
Men Aboard Helpless In
Mississippi Hurricane
NEW ORLEANS, (0t—The Coast
Guard reported today that a tug
and its tow barge with 50 men
believed aboard, was helpless at
the mouth of the Mississippi River
as a hurricane plowed through the
Gulf of Mexico about 430 miles
south of Pensacola, Fla.
A Coast Guard report said the
tug Margaret Roote and her 263
foot barge, Herman B. were in a
position were they couldn’t get in
or out of the river and were at
the mercy of the wind and sea.
The Coast Guard Cutter Nike
was at the scene but "did not have
sufficient power to aid the tug,
and was standing by the helpless
craft.
Personal and Legal Size File
Folders on Sale at the Nugget.
3. The Chinese Communists
“seem to be pursuing tactics of
delay” in negotiations to bring
about a Korean peace conference
but the United States and its al
lies will do everything possible to
bring about a conference and
make it successful.
4. Recent French steps to grant
full independence ttf the Indo
Chinese states have made it pos
sible for the United States now
to contribute substantially “in
money and material to the suc
cessful conclusion” of the anti
communist war in Indochina.
5. The recent overthrow of the
Mossedegh government in Iran
has created a new opportunity for
Iran to tackle pressing internal
and foreign problems largely re
lated to its long dispute with Brit
ain over oil nationalization.
6. Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer’s spectacular victory in West
Germany Sept. 6 constituted an
endorsement of the policies” of
tying West Germany to the West
ern world which the United States
has pursued jointly with its allies
and with the West German Re
public.
Methodist College
Location In Alaska
Still To Be Chosen
(By the Associated Press!
Dr. Gordon Gould, superinten
dent and director of Methodist
missions in Alaska, said Thursday
more information will be needed
before a decision can be reached
on the location of a new Metho
dist college in Alaska.
He said a special subcommittee
of the Alaska College Committee
has been set up to obtain the in
formation. He added a decision
must be reached in time to' be pre
sented to the January meeting of
the Methodist Board of Home
Missions.
Anchorage and Juneau, he said,
appear to be the leading contend
ers for the location of the college.
He described those two cities as
“more aggressive” than other
communities which have offered
sites for the colleges.
Questions needing clarification,
he said, mostly were of a “legal
type” concerning acquisition of
the site. Dr. Gould indicated a
member of the subcommittee
“may feel it necessary to go to
Alaska to sit down for frank dis
cussions” with community leaders.
He said it was hoped to raise
$2,000,000, half to be used as an
initial endowment, and half to
erect the college’s first buildings.
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