THE NOME NUGGET
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DEN MOTHERS NEEDED
WANTED—Some mothers interested enough in
their sons to give one hour a week as Den Mothers for
Cub Scouts.
Over 20 boys are eager for Cub Scouting to get
started and more are known to be interested, but to
date only one mother will give one hour a week to
make the program possible.
Cubmaster William Doyle states that unless some
mothers (or other interested women) volunteer soon
the program will have to fold this year.
Cub Scouting is a family affair and is planned
around family participation. It is one way of bringing
both father and mother, through a prepared program,
just a little closer together.
Only two more Den Mothers are needed. Just call
the Bill Doyle residence if you are interested.
TO OUR GOOD HEALTH !
Two and a * half ounces' of milk, less than half a
teacupful, may assume a place in history with the anon
ymous Dutch boy’s finger in the dike, the spider whose
web hid Robert Bruce, the cackling of the geese that
saved Rome, and the pebble with which David slew
Goliath.
The potentially heroic aspect of a half cup of milk
is suggested in the message of Agriculture Secretary
Benson to the recent St. Louis convention of the Milk
Industry Foundation in which he said, “ ... in reality,
there is no milk surplus in the United States. If we
were to consume the amount our minimum dietary
standards require, there would be a shortage.
C. Raymond Brook, of New Haven, Conn., the new
ly elected president of the Foundation, expanded on Mr.
Benson’s theme in a statement to the press. In 1954,
said Mr. Brock, production of milk exceeded consump
tion by 60 pounds per capita, which is 28 quarts. This
means that “a small per capita increase in milk con
sumption—only two and a half ounces per person a day
—would wipe out the so-called surplus.”
Considering that per capita consumption of milk
and dairy products is but a little over 14 ounces (less
than a pint) this would not be nearly enough to bring
us up to nutritional par. Nutritionists are agreed that
a quart a day provides the needs of the body.
U.S. Rejects Offer
Leaving Formosa
Open to Attack
GENEVA, Iff)—U.S. Ambassador
M. Alexis Johnson told Red Chi
nese Ambassador Wang Ping-nan
here Thursday that a Red offer to
renounce force would not be sat
isfactory to the United States un
less it specifically applied to For
mosa and other Nationalist-held
islands.
Johnson delivered the American
reply to the Chinese offer during
the ambassadors’ 25th meeting.
They agreed to meet again on
November 17, next Thursday.
Wang last week told Johnson
that Red China was ready to ac
cept the non-agression obligations
of the U.N. Charter without de
manding simultaneous recognition
as a U.N. member.
This offer left Formosa unpro
tected. The U.N. Charter calls for
peaceful settlement of “interna
tional” disputes. Red China con
siders Formosa Chinese territory,
not an international matter.
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LONDON, W—Red China de
nounced* Thursday the American
demand for a Peiping declaration
barring the use of force in settle
ment of the Formosa dispute.
Peiping radio said the U.S. State
Department is “seeking to abuse
the no-force principle in interna
tional relations “by insisting that
it cover Formosa.
The broadcast, which quoted
the official newspaper of the Red
China regime, Peiping Peoples
Daily, renewed Red China’s claim
“to exercise its sovereign right
over its own territory of For
mosa.”
Brazilian Coup ,
(Continued on Page Two)
ing support of the president of the
supreme court, the presidents of
both houses of Congress and most
army officers in Rio de Janeiro
and the interior.
Luz was rumored to have taken
refuge aboard a navy cruiser, but
other reports said he and several
cabinet ministers had been ar
rested.
The navy ministry was sur
rounded by armed marines with
field pieces spotted strategically
nearby.
Foes of Kubitschek consider him
the political heir of Vargas, who
killed himself in August 1954 after
a coup by some elements of the
armed forces.
Kubitschek was elected Presi
dent in last month’s balloting. He
and Luz, from the same home
state, both belong to the Social
Democratic Party, but Luz was a
member of a dissident party fac
tion which opposed Kubitschek in
the election.
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Lost River Tin Mine Shut Down
Indefinitely for ‘Economic Reasons’
SEATTLE, UP>—The only tin*
mine in the United States, at the
remote Lost River site in north
western Alaska, has been “moth
balled.”
The United States Tin Corp.
office here described the operation
as “temporarily suspended and
placed in a standby condition.”
In short, it is shut down. Only
a caretaker remains at the isolat
ed site northwest of Nome. It is
the operation on which the gov
ernment financing policies drew
‘scorching criticism from a Senate
committee in 1954.
The shutdown was disclosed in
an Alaska Steamship Co. an
nouncement that one of its ships
arrived this week with the last
load of tin “for an indefinite per
iod.” The shipment was 150 bar
rels of concentrate, totaling 2,000
tons. It is destined for the Texas
City smelter.
John J. Gilmour, treasurer of
the U.S. Tin Corp., said the shut
down Oct. -27 was “for economic
reasons; there was no politics
whatever in it.”
He said over-all expenditure in
the mine development, which was
mostly by the government in the
hope of developing a domestic
source of the strategic metal, was
about $3 million, while close to a
million dollars worth of tin was
taken out. Gilmore said the gov
ernment had cut off its financing.
He said the operation did not
prove economic at the prevailing
price of tin, “but we are sure it
would be economic with more
tonnage or better ore.”
Gilmour said the operation had
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been “a joint venture with the
government.”
Machinery has been “moth
1 balled” at the site. Gilmour said
J the mine was producing tin up to
I the closure, but not enough to pay
out under the high costs of far
northern operations.
The- treasurer said the firm
hopes that future action by Con
gress may open the way to re
sumption of operations under “in
centive” legislation. He cited a
bill which won Senate mining
' subcommittee approval at the 1955
session. It would call for govern
ment purchase of domestic tin at
a prescribed rate, which Gilmour
said would be designed to aid in
determining what tin resources
the nation has'
Convention Discusses
Head Bolt Heaters
FAIRBANKS, UP)—'Talk about
head bolt heaters provided minor
diversion Wednesday at the Con
stitutional Convention.
Mildred Hermann, temporary
chairman, read a note from Uni
versity of Alaska President Ernest
Patty that head bolt heaters would
be available for delegates with
automobiles.
Being from comparatively warm
Juneau, she didn’t know what a
head bolt heater is—but northern
delegates knew very well.
It’s a device attached to car en
gines to keep them operable in in
terior Alaska’s cold weather.
Outside Convention Hall it was
16 below zero. ,
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