Federal Reserve
Lowers Interest
Rate to Banks
WASHINGTON, fJPi — The Fed
eral Reserve Bank in Philadelphia
and San Francisco .yesterday cut
their discount rate from 4 to 3V4
per cent.
The rate is the charge when
member banks borrow money
from the Federal Reserve System.
Thus the cut represents a move
ment toward lower interest rates
generally.
A spokesman for the boafd of
governors of the reserve system
said the action is a reflection of
“the decline in inflationary psy
chology."
This is the first change in the
discount rate since last Septem
ber when it was increased from
3 Vi to 4 per cent at all of the 12
Federal Reserve banks.
Russia Woos France with
New Disarmament Plan
LONDON, (jT> — Russia, in a
clear bid to flatter France, today
proposed a new starting point in
her program for ending the world
arms race.
A revised disarmament plan
submitted to foreign powers sug
gested top priority for measures
to control satellites, rockets, air
craft and other vehicles able to
deliver long-distance nuclear
weaons.
President Charles De Gaulle
has been urging his American,
British and other allies to adopt
this idea as a starting-point of
Western disarmament policy. But
the United States and Britain
have been opposed to it, consider
ing the proposal to be imracticable
in the first stage of an all-embrac
ing arms deduction program.
Closing Covenant Bible School
Program to be Held Tonight
The closing program of the Va
cation Bible School, conducted the
past two weeks, will be held at
the Covenant Church this evening
at 7 o’clock. Correlating hand
craft completed will be on dis
play after the exercise.
HOME ARTS PLANT SALE
AT N.C. STORE TOMORROW
The Home Arts Club with Opal
Baldwin as chairman announce
that there will be a wide choice
of blooming plants and vegetables
at the plant sale tomorrow.
The pubic is reminded that
plants anyone wishes to contrib
ute may be picked by calling
Mrs. Baldwin. The sale will start
at 11 a.m. at the N.C. Store.
ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Maggie Oquillok, Lars Segoonik,
Richard Elam, Wallace Otton,
Lillian Woodward.
Discharged — Alice McKay,'
Beverly Gelzer, Shirley Aukon
and* infant, and Nina Arnold of
Noorvik, who is being transferred
to Anchorage.
SOFTBALL MEETING
TUESDAY — • PM.
CITY HALL
Ike Will Count on Scouts
To Help Him In Traffic
WASHINGTON, UR — President
Eisenhower has a personal interest
in both the service and training
of Boy Scouts.
Addressing a banquet Wednes
day night celebrating the 50th an
niversary of the Boy Scouts of
America, the President lauded
their idea of service.
“I might say that after I finally
lose the loving care of the Secret
Service,” he smiled, “that should
I be standing one day on the cor
ner of a busy street and a Boy
Scout sees this rather elderly
looking fellow looking a little
doubtful, if he offers to take me
across the street, he can do it.”
The President also recalled an
incident involving his son, Lt. Col.
John Eisenhower, to illustrate the
value of Boy Scout training. He
told of the self-condifence that
John gained at the age of 12 by I
making a 14-mile solo hike to meet
Scouting requirements.
NOME NOW PART OF
MIDNIGHT SUN COUNCIL,
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
The Western Council of the Boy
Scouts of America has grown so
large that the Council has had to
be divided. ,
Anchorage, which has been the
headquarters for the Council, now
has two districts and the new Mid
night Sun Council will be acti
vated in July as a new Council
of which Nome will be a district.
Ken Jury, who heads the West
ern Council, will move on to Seat
tle to become district executive.
A new. executive from Wenat
chee ,Wash., will replace him and
Ira Hill, now in Fairbanks, will
head the Midnight Sun Council.
Locally, the Scoutmaster, John
Bandy, who is being transferred,
is being replaced by Sgt. Leslie
of the A.C.S.
Ctiy Offers Building
Owners Chance to Remove
Dilapitated Structures
In conjunction with—the City
Clean-up, the City Health and
Fire Committees announce that
any buildings that are in such bad
repair that they cannot be consid
ered safe, will have to come down.
The City will, in certain cases,
destroy buildings or sheds if the
owner requests.
If anyone desires this service
they are asked to notify the City
Clerk and the pioperty will be
checked and arrangements made
to improve the property by re
moval of such buildings.
The committee said that owners
should bear in mind that the
Health Officer, the Fire Chief, or
the Board of Electrical Inspectors
can, if they deem necessary, con
demn buildings. If condemnation
action is taken then the owner
must either improve or remove
the cause. And it is pointed out
it is hoped that many owners of
structures in poor repair will take
advantage of this city offer to
remove the offending buildings.
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Wormy Fish
Harmless When
Properly Prepared
JUNEAU — The question of
“wormy fish” was brought to the
Alaska Division of Health Labora
tories again this' spring after
some early fishermen found small
round whi$e worms in their
catches. They asked whether these
made the fish unsafe to eat.
Few worms of fish except some
of the tapeworms will live in
human bodies even though they
are transmitted from fish to man
through consumption of raw or in
sufficiently cooked fish, according
to Ralph Williams, director'of lab
oratory services. He said the
worms are “more unaesthetic than
unsafe,” and that they are of mi
nor importance in view of the
great nutritional value of the
fish food.
Both salt and fresh water fish
are subject to infestation by a
great many varieties of worms, he
said, but thorough cooking of the
fish prevents transmission of para
sitic worms or their larva to man.
Fish is considered “thoroughly”
cooked when it flakes easily in the
thickest part or next to the back
bone if it is being cooked with the
bone in it, Mr. Williams said.
Freezing for 24 to 48 hours at a
temperature of -10 degrees centi
grade or 14 degrees Fahrenheit
is considered adequate to destroy
tapeworm larva and prevent infec
tion, according to an article on the
subject in “Alaska’s Health” for
February, 1952, by Dr. Everett
Schiller, formerly a parasitologist
on the Arctic Health Research
Center staff.
“Although,” he stated, “thor
ough cooking is generally consid
ered desirable, the fact remains
that many people prefer raw fish.
Ingrained customs are difficult to
eradicate -and, in addition, living
conditions in certain areas of Alas
ka preclude much preparation.”
House Committee Outlaws
Suspect Food Coloring
WASHINGTON, W>—The House
Commerce Committee Thursday
voted to outlaw food, cosmetic and
drug colors when laboratory tests
show they can cause cancer in test
j animals or humans.
A similar prohibition already
applies tg food additives.
In approving a bill extending
the anticancer provisions to color
additives, the coinmittee beat
down efforts to permit setting of
tolerances that would allow ques
tionable colors to be used in lim
ited quantities.
Secretary of Welfare Arthur
S. Flemming, who strongly backed
the bill, told the committee . last
month that scientists don’t know
enough about cancer to say how
much or hw little of a substance
that can induce cancer in test rats
is safe for humans.
HOTTEST EVER AT
OAKLAND, Calif., (fl — The
temperature reached 107 degrees
at 1 p.m. Thursday, the hottest
ever officially recorded here.
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Fairbanks Chamber
To Visit Nome’s
Midnight Sun Festival
(from Jeisen't Weakly)
FAIRBANKS—The plan of the
Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce
Golden Days Committee to visit
the Midnight Sun Festival to be
held at Nome June 17, 18 and 19,
is. an excellent one and will fur
ther solidify the friendly spirit
which exists between our two
icties.
The Nome event is the most
spectacular celebration of the year
in the Seward Peninsula city on
Norton Sound, just as the Golden
Days Party is here.
In effect, the committee from
Fairbanks will be inviting its
neighbors to drop over for Golden
Days July 20-24.
Wien Alaska Airlines has of
fered a special reduced fare for
those who wish to make the trip.
Reservations may be made at the
Chamber of Commerce. The trip
will include a goodwill overnight
stop at Anchorage and the party
will return to Fairbanks Sunday
evening.
Goodwill trips are rapidly be
coming the poular thing as the ci
ties see in such junkets the build
ing of better understanding and
bigger attendances for the various
events.
Russia Will Raise
Value of The Ruble
MOSCOW, UP) — Russia will re
vamp its price scale and raise the
gold content of the Ruble before
Oct. 1, Tass, the Russian govern
ment news servjje, said Thurs
day.
Tass quoted a newspaper article
by the Soviet Minister of Finance,
Vasiliy Garbuzov, which said a
change in the price scale was
necessitated by the swift growth
of -Russia’s economy.
Garbuzov wrote neither the
population nor the state would
suffer any damage from changes
in the price scale. He said the
population’s real savings will be
fully’ preserved?
New tariff lists will be issued
and salaries and other forms of
payment will be recalculated,
Garbuzov said. I
Rayburn Reopens House
Expense Account Records
WASHINGTON, W! — House ex
pense account records were or
dered reopened for public inspec
tion yesterday as a crackdown on
improper spending went into
effect.
The short-lived secrecy order
was countermanded by Speaker
Sam Rayburn in the wake of dis
closure of apparent irregularities
and indiscretions on the part of a
few members in charging for ex
penses of “official busines” trips.
Rayburn tied several conditions
to his order to House Clerk Ralph
Roberts that the expense records
be again made available to news
men. Hereafter, he directed, the
records may not be photographed
and may not be physically re
moved from the official files.
Roberts’ order padlocking the
files was issued about a week ago
after a weekly magaine photogra
pher was detected photographing
them.
LARGE TOURIST GROUP
The first big tourist group of
the season arrived yesterday with
Wien Airlines on two flights. They
include a group from the Cali
fornia Farm Tours, headed by
Ken Gay.
Two members of the party, Dr.
and Mrs. Elmer Struebins, over
nighted here. '
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