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HERE WE GO AGAIN !
AUXILIARY FOR THE HOSPITAL
THE MAYNARD-McDOUGALL MEMORIAL Hos
pital is the only hospital in Northwest Alaska
operating without racial discrimnation. It is main
tained by the Women’s Division of the Methodist
Church, which turns away no one needing hospital
care.
Last year records show over 10,000 patients were
handled, including 714 hospital patients, 4,220 hospital
days and 6,000 outpatients.
Members of the Advisory Board of the hospital,
at their monthly meeting last week, reviewed the
annual budget of over $200,000—two-thirds of which
is paid in salaries to 32 employes and professional
workers. Fuel oil alone amounted to $8,000. Most of
money spent stays right here in the community.
A program instituted about three years ago, to
train Eskimo aides, has proved very successful, said
administrator Robert Reed. The training is not only
educational and provides jobs for young people with
limited education but makes for better homemakers.
The hospital is a vital part of this community
and a new program is being planned which will give
local women an opportunity to share in the work.
During the past winter several women have given
their time mending, repairing, making new hospital
clothing and medical supplies. It has been such a help
to the hospital that an auxiliary is being planned so
that a selected group of volunteers may assist in the
hospital work.
In addition to the sewing group, training will be
given in hospital bedside manners for those who would
volunteer to read to patients, write letters for them,
provide'reading material and other housekeeping ser
vices according to their skills and ability. This is an
opportunity that many women in the community will
welcome and it should prove to be a most rewarding
service.
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I America's Containment Policy
Toward Soviet Union Backfires
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON, UP)—It was like
drawing a circle around a frog
and telling him not jump out of
it. This is what the United States
did with Russia. And it worked,
too, until the frog jumped.
And that’s what put America in
its latest dilemma.
Back in 1947, when George F.
Kcnnan was head of the State
Department’s policy planning
staff, he outlined an American
plan followed ever since. As he
said, it meant “holding the line
and hoping for the best.”
The idea was to ring Russia—
then infinitely weaker than the
United States — with military
bases and alliances to keep it
from pushing or overrunning her
neighbors.
At that time, 13 years ago, the
Soviet Union had no hydrogen
bomb, no missiles, and Red
China didn’t exist. The mainland
was still being run by Chiang,
Kai-Shek, the American ally. But
Kcnnan was doing some wishful
thinking.
1. That this containment pol
icy — military encirclement —
would not only keep the Russians
behind their own frontiers but ;
would put internal pressure on
the Soviet government.
2. That the pressure might has
ten Soviet collapse internally or
at least force a change of direc
tion or intent because, Kennan
felt and wrote, Russia contained
within itself the seeds of its own
destruction.
Up til now the containment
policy has kept the Russians from
bulldozing their immediate neigh
bors. But contrary to Kennan's
hopes, instead of collapse the So
viet Union’s internal development
has been phenomenal.
Now, 13 years later, the Rus- !
sians have the hydrogen bomb,
missiles probably capable of hit
ting America, and industrial pro
duction second only to that of the
United States, and a population
apparently content and loyal.
They still can’t, without risk
ing war, push directly against the
American circle drawn around
them. So they have done the ob
vious and next-best thing for
them. They have leapfrogged out
of the circle.
They have done it not only by
the usual propaganda and in
trigue but by promises of both
economic and military help to
countries on the American side
of the circle. This is the most
Increase Noted In Use
Of U.S. Mails to Defraud
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Post
Office Department says arrests
for postal violations reached a
record high of 9,113 in the 12
months ended June 30.
Arrests of persons using the
mails for fraudulent activities in
creased 33t/fe per cent over the
previous year.
glaring example: The economic
deals with Prime Minister Cas
tro’s Cuba and a warning to the
United States to keep hands off.
Thus the Russians, without re
sorting to war to smash the circle,
have hopped over and are trying
to set up shop in America’s back
yard.
This almost certainly is only
the beginning of such efforts to
penetrate, by one means or an
other, the Latin American world.
And Russia’s efforts to penetrate
Africa will be even more bare
faced.
The American government can
hardly dissuade the Russians
from encroaching in areas close
to the United States by com
plaining this is our backyard.
The Russians can answer by
pointing out that for years the
United States has linked itself to
the Soviets’ next-door neighbors
with economic and military help
an even military alliances.
For example: if the Russains
sent troops into Africa at the re
quest of 1he Congo government,
they can remind the world that
the United States sent troops into
the Middle East at the request of
the government of Lebanon.
There would be a difference, of
course. There were no United Na
tions troops already in Lebanon
to keep order as there are now
in the Congo.
And the worst is yet to come.
Mainland China, now in Red Chi
nese hands, in a few years with
Soviet help, should be militarily
strong enough to inflict the mis
eries on the American contain
ment policy in the Far East.
Where does it all lead to? Some
guesses can be made.
The United States will need
new ideas in dealing with the
Communist world. Kennan him
self a couple of years ago was
shifting around to the idea of a
pullback in Europe.
This country will probably, in
some fashion, have to make re
visions in its containment policy
and develop new programs to
keep the rest of the world neu
tral or out of Communist hands. |
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i Letter to the Ed itor
As a newcomer to Nome I don't
have much say in your town. But,
as a person who has just left
about the most progressive state
in the Union, I would like to
have my say in the closing of
the USSR & M swimming pool.
As nearly as I can see, you as
a town, have no youth facilities
such as we know them. No tennis
court, no general playground, no
youth building. Of course, you
may have these facilities but in
my numerous walks around town
I have failed to find them.
I would like to ask the Depart
ment of Sanitation if the reason
they closed the warm water pool
is because of a certain tourist
woman’s remark I overheard:
“Do the children have to swim
in that? Don’t they have a city
swimming pool?”
As a bystander I think this
pool is the best youth recreation
deal there is in town.
—Jo Decker
To be Used In Case of Shipwreck
LONDON, l/PI — Two doctors
wiriting in the medical magazine
Lancet came up with this conclu
sion. If the ship is about to sink,
a couple of stiff jolts may help
you survive. They said tests car
ried out with 10 sailors showed
a little alcohol could be a big
help to those who must abandon
ship in cold water.
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