Army Secty. Brucker Out of Patience
With Slowness To Provide Winter
Housing For Troops Guarding Korea
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TOMORROW IS
THE BIG NIGHT
Saturday is the big night! The
47th annual Pioneer Roof Garden
will be held in the high school
gymnasium with entertainment,
fun and refreshments for the
entire family.
Frank Morris, general chairman
of the Roof Garden, announced to
day that the TV show will begin
promptly at 8 o’clock, and that the
doors will open at 7 o’clock with
both east and west entrances used.
Following the first TV show
ever staged in Nome, free refresh
ments of ice cream for the chil
dren and coffee and doughnuts
will be served. There will be the
traditional Fish Pond for young
anglers as well as games for the
adults. The Pioneer Women have
again baked delicious prospector’s
cakes which conceal gold nuggets
for a lucky finder. The one-half
pound of gold nuggets, the grand
prize for the Roof Garden, will be
awarded at midnight.
Huge Smelter
Proposed For
British Columbia
VANCOUVER, B. C., — The
Vancouver Sun says in a dispatch
from Victoria that a huge alum
inum smelter, rivalling the Alum
inum Co. of Canada plant at Kiti
mat, “is in the cards for New
Westminster or Squamish.”
The Sun says Continental Can
Co. of New York, major backer of
the proposed $500,000,000 power
dam on the Fraser river, has pro
posed the smelter be built in con
junction with the dam.
“Negotiations ase in the early
stages,” added the Sun,- “but fig
ures mentioned in government
circles for plant investment is in
the neighborhood of $200,000,000.”
The proposed dam would be lo
cated at Moran, B. C., 120 miles
northeast of here. It would be 720
feet high, to produce 3,600,000
horsepower.
Fisheries interests claim hydro
electric development would ruin
the multi-million dollar salmon
run of the Fraser river.
A report published here says it
would cost more than $300 million
to attempt to save the salmon fish
eries if a proposed series of power
dams were built in the Fraser
Thompson river system.
“And even with this tremen
dous expenditure,” says the re
port, “only a fraction of the sal
mon run could be saved ...”
WHO HOOKED THE HOOKS?
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., UP>—
Somebody broke into the E. H.
Peckinpaugh Co. fishing equip
ment store Monday and stole 20,
000 fish hooks. A few dozen live
minnows also were taken.
* WESTERN FRONT, Korea, UP)
—U.S. Army Secretary Wilbur M.
Brucker said today it is “deplor
| able” that numerous American
I soldiers guarding the Korean arm
| istice zone are still housed in
tents.
Brucker said funds had been
appropriated to provide semi
permanent, solid buildings but
“somebody has been too compla
cent along the line and I’m going
to find out what the trouble is.”
Brucker made the statement on
a flying inspection of 24th Infan
try Division units dug in along
some 21 miles of the front across
Korea.
“The housing program is not
moving fast as it should and I’m
just out of patience,” Brucker told
reporters after looking at some of
the tents in which troops are
spending sub-freezing nights.
“Something is going to budge.
We’ve got to have housing for
these fellows.”
Gen. I. D. White, 8th Army
commander who accompanied
Brucker, previously said he hoped
to have the approximately 35,000
! Americans in the field out of tents
by the time severe winter starts
in mid-December.
However, Maj. Gen. S.B. Mason,
commander of the 24th Division,
estimated it would take until the
end of January to complete build
ing 90 per cent of the needed
quonset huts and an additional
month to get all soldiers out of
tents.
New President of NAM
Says U.S. Has Gone
“Overboard on Security”
NEW YORK, —The man who
will head the National Assn, of
Manufacturers in 1956 declared
the U.S. “has gone completely
overboard on security.”
“Everything has to be secured
—jobs, wages, hours,” said C. G.
Parker, NAM president-designate,
in an address prepared for deliv
ery at the association’s annual
convention.
Parker called on the 3,000 in
dustrial leaders attending the con
vention to set an example for the
country by insisting their com
munities refuse to accept federal
government help wherever pos
sible.
“We have no right to criticize
the farmer or the laborer for his
reliance on government unless we
stop doing it ourselves,” he said.
“Let us stop relying on the
great white father, who has no
thing to give us except what he
took away from us in the first
place.”
Parker declared that “in the 41
years from 1913 to 1954 our taxes
were multiplied 45 times — from
two billion dollars a year to more
than 90 billions. Even more im
portantly, Uncle Sam’s bite of this
total widened from 33 per cent in
1913 to 75 per cent last year.”
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