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THE ONLY ROADS
In the view of Undersecretary of the Treasury W.
Randolph Burgess, “So long as we continue along the
roads of economy, lower taxes and honest money, the
public debt need not be a source of fear.”
These are also the only roads that can save us
from more inflation. The greatest domestic achieve
ment of the past two years i^ found in the fact that the
purchasing power of the dollar has been virtually stabi
lized. It we return to policies of unbridled government
spending, the inevitable result will b£ renewed cheap
ening of the dollar's value, at the expense of every
family in the nation.
It takes three people to make a really good con
versation: two of them here and the other one far
enough away so that she can’t hear what is being said.
A hick town is a place where there’s no place to
go that you shouldn’t.
Two Alaskan Backers Ask
McKay Open 28 Million
Acres To Oil Development
WASHINGTON, Mwo Alas
kans, backers of a proposed 465
mile natural gas pipeline to serve
Alaskans, urged Secretary of In
terior McKay yesterday to open
28 million acres in the territory
for development.
The land lies north of the
Brooks mountain range and is east
and south of the Navy’s petrol
eum Reserve No. 4. The acreage
now is withdrawn from public
entry thereby blocking the com
pany from going forward with ex
ploratory work.
Participating in the discussions
were Clinton R. Brown and Wal
ter J. Sczudlo, president and gen
eral counsel, respectively, of the
newly formed Alaska Propane,
Gas & Oil Co. Inc., of Fairbanks.
They urged McKay to take
early action on release of the
land which they said is required
to permit project financing to go
ahead.
Sczudlo said the acreage con
tains known gas deposits but the
extent of the reserves must await
further development. I
Judge Throws Out
Government Key Charge
In Owen Lattimore Case
WASHINGTON, HV-Judge L.
W. Youngdahl Tuesday threw out
the government’s new key charges
in the Owen Lattimore perjury
case.
Youngdahl ruled the accusation
that the controversial Far Eastern
affairs specialist swore falsely in
denying he ever had been a fol
lower of the Communist line or a
promoter of Red interests was too
vague to define an offense or out
line a field for defense.
In different words, Youngdahl
attributed to the new charges the
same faults he found in the gov
ernment’s first accusation that
Lattimore perjured himself when
he denied he had been a Commu
nist sympathizer or a promoter of
Red causes.
The original indictment, mak
ing the latter charge among oth
ers, was returned in December
1952 as an outgrowth of Latti
more’s 12 stormy days as a wit
ness before the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee in its in
vestigation of the Institute of
Pacific Relations.
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GOVERNOR HEINTZLEMAN pictured as he inaugurates March o; Dimes campaign in Alaska
rentagon Submits
Big Revision of
Military Pay
WASHINGTON, LB—The most
far-reaching revision of military
pay schedules to be proposed in
years was submitted to Congress
late Monday by the Pentagon,
which estimated it would cost
nearly 730 million dollars in the
next fiscal year.
The program spelled out details
of President Eisenhower’s recom
mendation to Congress last week
that steps be taken to make car
eer military service more atrac
tive and to halt the loss of experi
enced officers and men.
The Pentagon says the program
was designed specifically to en
courage good men to stay in ser
vice at periods in their careers
when they might be most tempted
to shed their uniforms. Besides
pay boosts of up to 25 per cent, it
calls for extra bonuses for danger
ous duty and additional allowanc
es to members of the regular forc
es.
No increases would go to any
enlisted man until he had served
at least two years nor to any offi
cer until after three years of ser
vice.
The Army private first class,
Marine Corps corporal, Navy sea
man and Air Force airman second
class (which are comparable
ranks) would fare this way as
compared with the present sched
ule.
This man, after two years of
service, would jump $9.98 to $117
monthly, a rise of 9.33 per cent
over existing pay. His next raise,
after four years’ service, would be
15.65 per cent, or $17.94 to $132.60
monthly. Under existing sched
ules he would go up to $122.30
after six years and then to $129.95
after eight years.
Under the new schedule he
would receive no further increase
until after his 10th year when he
would get $137.59, the same pay !
he now gets. Under both old and
new plans this enlisted man
would reach top pay of $152.88
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ALCOHOLIC MILKSHAKE
LONDON, IB — A big London
dairy began production today of
an alcoholic milkshake—a potent
brew of three parts milk and
honey to one p$rt whiskey—to
sell for the equivalent of 35 cents
a four-ounce slug.
Letter-Size File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office, j
ARGENTINA SETS UP
BASE IN ANTARCTIC
BUENOS AIRES, (#—'The Ar
gentine navy said Monday it had
set up a scientific base in the
antarctic only about 800 miles
from the South Pole, the farthest
south ever reached by any ship.
The position was given as 78°
S. Lat., 39° W. Long., which
would be on the coastline of the
Weddell Sea across the Antarctic
Continent from Little America,
which the U.S. Navy icebreaker
Atka is now visiting.
The spot apparently is close to
where a British-New Zealand ex
pedition plans to land later for an
attempted crossing of the conti
nent to the Ross Sea. Weddell Sea
is east of the Palmer Peninsula,
which is included in territory
claimed by Argentina in the ant
arctic, a claim that conflicts with
British and Chilean claims.
The whale probably is as smart
as an elephant.
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Blizzards and Floods
Leave Trail of Havoc
Across Western Europe
LONDON, LP)—Blizzards, hurri
| cane winds and floods left a trail
j of havoc across western Europe
and the British Isles Tuesday.
In Germany, the rampaging
Rhine and Mosel Rivers claimed
11 lives and flood waters menaced
the West German Parliament
! building in Bonn and the famous
Cathedral of Cologne. Thousands
| of persons had to be evacuated
from flood-threatened homes.
Rescue workers carried food to
. marrooned families by boat.
In the northern tip of Scotland,
some 70,000 highlanders were cut
off from the rest of the world by
heavy snow, with some drifts 20
! feet deep. Two Royal Navy heli
i copters, bounding dangerously in
the high winds, made flight after
! flight over the rocky hills to drop
food and medicine.
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