.THE NOME NUGGET '
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CIVIC PRIDE IN NOME?
“Don’t the people in Nome have any civic pride?”'
asked a tourist recently.
Visitors can’t be blamed for asking this question j
as they see candy wrappers, beer cans, Popsicle sticks j
and other debris strewn on Front Street.
Keeping our streets clean must be a cooperative j
business and suggestions will be gladly accepted by
the Nugget for publication on how to educate the youth j
on being conscious of a clean community.
THE PROPOSED 23rd AMENDMENT
A proposed 23rd Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, known as the Gwinn Amend-'
ment, consists of one clear sentence: “The government
of the United States shall not engage in any business,
professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enter
prise except as specified in the Constitution.”
The possibilities within that simple statement of
principle are literally enormous.
The government has billions upon billions of dol
lars invested in business enterprises of many kinds, all
of which are performing functions that can and should
be handled by private enterprise. These socialized bus
inesses could be sold, and the money used to reduce
the national debt, or to cut taxes, or both.
But that is only the beginning. Government busi
ness enterprises are tax-free, in an age in which private
business corporations pay up to 52 percent of all their
profits in federal taxes alone. On top of that, it is
common for government business enterprises to operate
at a loss, which means that they must be subsidized by
all the taxpayers. Once they were sold to private enter
prise, the subsidies would end and they would become
major taxpayers. The gain to the nation over the years
would run into tens of billions of dollars.
One big reason for the government’s financial
plight today is that it has gone far beyond Constitu
tional provisions, and into fields where it does not
belong and where its presence is wasteful and destruc
tive. This is not just a matter of economics—super
government is the greatest enemy of human freedom
that exists.. The proposed amendment would give us
the kind of government envisaged by the founders.
Sign in the airborne equipment division of the
research and development group of the Navy’s Bureau
-of Air: “If it works, it’s obsolete.”
—Frederick C. Othman, United Feature Syndicate. ’
79-Year-Old Paroled
; Gardener Returned To
; Prison For Drinking
CHICAGO, 01^—Herbert Spring,
i 70, who was paroled after almost
| 47 years behind bars for a fatal
! shooting while he wtas drunk, is
I being returned to Stateville Pri
j son. He drank too much during
| his freedom. <
| The Illinois parole supervision
| office reported a deputy U.S.
marshal is returning Spring by
i plane from Fairbanks, where he
! spent the last 3Vz years.
| Spring will be detained in the
j prison until the state parole
; board decides whether he is to
j be listed as a parole violator or
I given another chance,
j Here is the story from parole
board records:
Spring, then a 20-year-old tran
sient, climaxed a prolonged
drinking spree in the spring of
1907 by staggering out of a sa
loon in Freeport, 111., and shoot
ing at just anything. One bullet
| Killed a Mrs. Rumelhagen. He
was sentenced to life imprison
j ment. He entered Stateville Pri
! son on July 3, 1907.
He wrote no letters and re
; ceived none, but dring the years
! developed gregt skill as a gardner
j in the prison yard.
: -"■In 1951 a national magazine
j carried a story about Spring’s
i aptitude. Ross E. Kimball, a Fair
| banks contractor, read the article
1 and wrote to prison officials with
an offer of a job for Spring. On
1 Feb. 15, 1954, Spring left prison
; on parole to work for Kimball as I
, a gardner.
Spring resumed drinking. Last
i December he set a fire in his
| roominghouse, but the United
1 States marshal at Fairbanks, his
! parole agent, gave him another
j chance.
The marshal recently reported
1 Spring was drinking again and
! recommended he be returned to
i the prison.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Continued cloudy tonight and
thru Saturday with occasional fog
and drizzle. Little change in tem
perature. Low expected tonight
46, high tomorrow 52.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
50, lowest 52. Max. wind 17» mph
from the S.W. Sunrise at 3:31
a.m., sunset at 8:41 p.m..
A year ago today: high 52, low
48. Extremes this date since 1907:
highest 66 in 1929, lowest 32 in
1937.
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