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COMPETITION GETS KEENER
The Port Umpqua Courier of Reedsport, Oregon,
recently had something significant to say about mer
chandising and salesmanship.
It observed, “The times are just slipping into
history when all a merchant had to do was get hold of
the merchandise and the customers would fight over
who would get- it . . . Competition is getting keener
all the time . . . The merchants and the salesmen who
earn their livelihood in the little towns will have to
get on the ball to hold their friends and neighbors.
They will have to give the same service, the same
bargains and do the same job of selling as their big
citv cousins. Salesmanship is a good thing for al1
of us.”
This view of a small-town newspaper editor, inci
dentally, is a pretty accurate reflection of what leaders
n +he merchandising business have been saying lately
at industry conventions and elsewhere. In both chain
and independent store groups, the consensus is that
there must be better selling—a term that includes
both the human salesman, and such inducements as
appealing advertising and displays. In most fields, a
strong buyers’ market exists today, and progressive
retailing fully recognizes the fact.
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE
5>ome people may wonder why a certain amount
of government financial aid to American merchant
shipping is needed if our flag is to remain on the high
seas.
One set of figures should be sufficient to provide
the answer. A study was made of the difference in
wage costs between leading maritime nations, using
a C-2 cargo ship as a typical example. It was found
that wages ran $4,100 a month on a Japanese vessel;
$5,100 on a German or Norwegian; $5,600 on a British;
and on up to $6,900 on a Dutch ship. By contrast, the
figure was $24,500 a month for an American-flag ship
—three to six times that of our principal competitors.
The situation is comparable in the case of other
costs involved both in building and operating merchant
vessels.
This is why it has long been government policy
to make differential payments to American ships serv
ing the world’s essential trade routes. These payments
have worked out to about 25 cents per year for each
person employed in this country. That’s certainly a
small price to pay for the survival of a service that is
vital in both peace and war.
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Many small boys are just the type their mothers
wouldn’t want them to associate with.
The cooing usually stops when the honeymoon is
oveV but the billing goes on forever.
Looking around at our class reunion, it appears as
though we are entering the “Metallic age”—gold in
our teeth, silver in our hair, and lead in our pants.
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— JOE AMAROK, PROPRIETOR —
! Eisenhower Meets
With Top Advisers
On Indochina War
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower met with his top
strategy advisers for an hour and
,a half in an unusual Saturday
session and presumably a major
to'pic was discussed: what the
United States should do about the
Indochina crisis.
Those who were called by the
White House, members of the Na
tional Security Council, left by
back doors and the President’s
Office made no announcement of
what decisions, if any, had been
reached.
Secretary of State Dulles laid i
down basic points of the Adminis
tration’s attitude Friday night: it
is considering defense commit
! ments which “might involve the
use of armed force” but under
“present conditions” the United
States has no intention of sending
fighting men to Indochina.
Those attending the White House
conference included Vice Presi
dent Nixon; Secretary Of State
I Dulles, Secretary of Defense W'il- (
| son; Admiral Arthur W. Radford,
I chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
i Staff; Allen W. Dulles, director
of the Central Intelligence Agen
| cy; William M. Rand, acting dir
! cctor of the Foreign Operations
; Administration; and Arthur S.
Fleming, Defense Mobilization
director.
Dulles spoke in a nationwide
broadcast Friday night a few
hours after news of the fall of
Dien Bien Phu reached Washing
ton.
NOTE OF THANKS
The American Legion Auxiliary
wishes lo thank all who made the
bake sale such a success.
The lucky recipient of the cake
was Fred Cavota.
ATTENTION REPUBLICANS
Nome Republicans will meet in
the City Council chambers in City
Hall next Friday. May 14 at 8:00
p.m. to select delegates to the
Second Division Republican Party
caucus to be held in Nome, June
7th. The meeting is called by
Nome Precinct committee offi
cials, Mrs. Rita Harper, commii
ieewoman and George R. Goshaw,
committeeman. All Republicans
are urged to attend.
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General Navarre Says Indochina
War Must be Internationalized
If Geneva Conference Should Fail
SAIGON, Indochina, Iff)—Gen.
Henri Navarre, commander of
French Union forces in Indochina,
said the battle against the Com
munists would continue despite
the fall of Dien Bien Phu. He said
that if the Geneva Conference
fails, it will be necessary to in
ternationalize the war in Indo
china. He said he would welcome
any outside help, but warned that
this might cause the Communists
to intervene.
Speaking of the fall of Dien
Bien Phu, Navarre said it was
possible that the Communist-led
Vietminh will move with his
heavy artillery into the Tonkin
Delta after a 15-day rest period.
He said the battle of Dien Bien
Phu, with its heavy artillery, has
turned the Indochina War into an
other kind of conflict.
Navarre said that this new kind
of warfare has made the interna
tionalization of the war a possibil
ity if Geneva fails because France
would be unable to bear the full
brunt of the burden.
He said that Dien Bien Phu fell
because when Dien Bien Phu was
occupied it was to fight one kind
of war. Three months later, be
cause of the Geneva Conference
and the increased aid lent by Red
China, the Vietminh were fighting
another kind of war.
He said French observation
planes Saturday afternoon sighted
columns of men moving north
ward from the fallen northwest
Indochina fortress and he pre
sumed these were prisoners.
Planes flying low over the stilled
battlefield dropped enough food
and medical supplies to care for
the 1,400 seriously wounded sol
diers of the garrison.
The general, speaking informal
ly to newsmen, said he believed
the Vietminh’s losses were about
18,000 men.
The strength of the garrison of
Dien Bien Phu when it fell, he
said, was between 8,000 and 9,000
men.
In a ringing order of the day
read to the 400,000 troops under
his command, Navarre said terse
ly “the fight continues.”
Wispy-moustached Ho Chi Minh,
a longtime Asiatic revolutionary
turned Communist, has, with the
fall of Dien Bien Phu, achieved
his objective: a political victory
on the day that the great powers
were to begin talks at Geneva
aimed at ending the exhausing
Indochina War.
In his message to all the French
and Vietnamese garrisons under
his command, Navarre said:
“After 56 days of continuing
battle, submerged by numbers,
having fought at proportions of
one to five, the garrison of Dien
Bien Phu, commanded by General
De Castries, has had to end its
fight. Its sacrifice has not been in
vain, for in five months a dozen
battalions have fixed and con
tained more than 30 Vietminh
battalions, saving upper Laos
from invasion and preserving the
Tonkin Delta.”
“The defenders of Dien Bien
Phu, the aerial and aero-naval
combattants, have written an epic
in history which has been added
to the most glorious pages of our
army.
“They have given the Expedi
[ tionary Corps (and) the Vietnam
army a new pride and a- new rea
son to fight.
“For the struggle of the free
peoples against slavery does not
end today. The fight continues.”
| Britain Orders Soviet
Diplomats Accused of
Spying Out of Country
LONDON, UP)—Britain today ac
cused two Soviet diplomats of
I attempted spying and ordered
j them to get out of the country
j within 10 days.
The British Foreign Office said
the two envoys—assistant mili
tary air attaches—“had abused
their diplomatic status in the Uni
ted Kingdom by attempting to en
gage in espionage.” It gave no
details except to say that no atom
ic matters were involved, that the
two attempted to spy on certain
unspecified military activities in
Britain.
A_ Foreign Office spokesman
identified the two as:
Maj. Ivan Pupyshev, born 1918,
arrived in Britain in 1951, mar
ried with one child;
Maj. Andrei Gubkov, born 1917,
arrived in Britain in 1951, mar
ried with two children.
Russia keeps 14 military, naval
and air attaches in her diplomatic
mission here, twice as many as
Britain has in Mosco’w.
Red Radio Broadcast Reveals
De Castries Was Taken Alive
TOKYO, UP)—A Vietminh com
munique broadcast by Peiping
radio said today Brig. Gen. Chris
tian De Castries was among those
captured at the Indochina fdrtress
of Dien Bien Phu.
The communique for the first
time mentioned the heroic com
mander by name and confirmed
previous reports that he had been
made a prisoner.
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