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THE ECONOMIC FUTURE
A joint congressional committee recently released
its conclusion after making a prolonged study of the
economic future of the United States. The joint com
mittee says the future of the country is most promising.
Among other things, the committee predicted that
by 1965 the nation’s population will have gfown to
190,000,000 'and that taxes will be lower, work hours
shorter and wages higher.
The report, entitled the “Potential Economic
Growth of the United States During the Next Decade,”
takes into consideration the fact that the war-baby crop
of the 1940s will swell the country’s population consid
erably very soon now.
Although many people do not realize it, the crop
of college graduates, and therefore the number of new
families now appearing in this country, is now much
lower than it will be a few years hence.
The very large baby crops of the late ’Thirties and
the huge crops in the early 1940s will soon make them
selves felt. In another five years, for instance, the
babies born in 1941 and 1942 will be eighteen years old.
Some of them will have already entered the job market
and others will be about ready to marry. The resulting
number of new families will, therefore, be much larger.
This, and the steadily growing population of the
country, plus other factors, seems to insure a vigorous
and expanding economy in our country for decades.
Mental Health
Bill Introduced
With no solution for Alaska’s
mentally ill forthcoming at the
last session of Congress, Alaska’s
Delegate Bartlett has placed a bill
in the House hopper for consider
ation by the new Congress which
convened last week.
Bartlett’s bill would transfer
the care of Alaska’s mentally ill
from the Department of the In
terior to the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
It would continue federal re
sponsibility for care and treat
ment, and would provide modern
hospitalization and commitment
procedures.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Capt. Still
well, Lt. Wm. Quirk, Mr. Gray,
Ralph Brown, John Heafer, John
Boise.
From Kotzebue: Clara Ken
nedy, A. Kowinna, A. Toogak,- L.
Geffee, I. Smith, J. Adams, K.
More, L. Rife, T. Gregg, L. Cleve
land.
To Fairbanks: Harold Prosser,
Mrs. Lucille Ashton, Sgt. Floyd
Mullen, J. Y. Ford, J. Cook.
From Deering: Mr. Stanley and
Ralph Bailor.
DIES ON 100th BIRTHDAY
BENEVENTO, Italy, (JV-Mrs.
Rosa Del Grosso died here Satur
day on her lOGth birthday.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Little America
Wins Tug-of-War
With Ice Field
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arrived at Little America to find
many old landmarks changed or
gone.
Just eight years ago, Sullivan
and this writer were there togeth
er on the 1946-47 expedition. The
ultimate death of Little America
—shipping to sea as a fantastic
iceberg—was apparent then.
The explanation is simple be
cause Little America is just part
of the seaward edge of the Ross
Ice Shelf. The shelf is a gigantic
icecube formed by glaciers spill
ing down from the 10,000-foot
polar plateau, 400 miles to the
south.
The glaciers keep pushing north
ward toward the sea, and contin
ual snows make it a flat-top ice
cube.
This moving shelf grinds over
Roosevelt Island, buried deep be
neath the ice. The grinding mo
tion twists part of the shelf so it
turns to flow westward.
This part of the shelf formed
the eastern cape or edge of the
Bay of Whales. The western cape,
however, keeps moving north to
form the other icy jaw of the bay.
Both jaws moved about four
feet a day. Th6 Little America
jaw moved westward to press
against the western jaw.
At some time since 1948 the
two jaws met and battled.
When Titans meet something
has to give.
Adm. Byrd in an interview last
month said he though the Little
i America jaw was strong enough
to win. He apparently was right.
The western cape has gone to
sea. A great triangular section
extending 16 miles southward to
ward the pole has crashed into
the sea, Sullivan reports.
Merchants, Army Bruins
Beat Jets, School Nanooks
In Friday Night Games
Last Friday evening in the local
gym the Nome Merchants won
over the Air Force Jets by the
score of 68 to 58.
The victors led all the waj\
with most of their players making
the scoring column by three or
four baskets.
High-point men for the Mer
chants were George Bell, Harold
Bell and George Kost with 17, 11,
and 11 respectively.
In the second game the Army
Bruins downed the High School
Nanooks by the score of 55 to 39.
The much shorter Nanook team
had trouble holding down the tall
Bruin men and lost the game on
tip-offs under the basket.
For the winners Keiser and
Roberts made 23 and 18 points
respectively; for the Nanooks,
Herman and Dave Bell made 12
and 10 points respectively.
The game was rebroadcast over
AFRS later in the evening. The
sportcasters’ running commentary
of the court action gave listeners
a realistic picture of wrhat went
on.
John Reed Home
Destroyed hy Fire
John Reed, well-known old
timer, lost everything he owned
in a fire at Teller on Thursday,
Jan. 13.
According to the report sent in
by Johnny Kakarak, the fire was
one of the worst Teller has ever
had. Fortunately the wind was
favorable or the buildings across
the street would have been de
stroyed, as the tar was running
from the building paper on the
side of one of the buildings from
the heat.
All the town turned out to fight
the fire which resulted in a total
loss to Reed—not only all person
al effects and home but a tractor j
as well. • '
Rep. Ellsworth, Oregon, Tells CAB
It Would Be Far Better to Expand
Alaska Service Than to Curtail It
WASHINGTON, (An—Rep. Ells-'
worth (R-Ore) told the Civil Aer
onautics Board Saturday that
with a reduction in alternate
means of transportation between
the Pacific Northwest and Alaska
“it would be far more reasonable
to consider the expansion of ser
vice from Porrland and Seattle to ;
Alaska than to curtail it.”
In a letter to Harmar D. Denny
acting CAB chairman, Ellsworth |
cited recent elimination of pass- j
New Federal Pen
Will Accomodate
Alaska Prisoners
ANCHORAGE, I*—A new fed
eral prison camp which eventual
ly will accommodate up to 150
Alaska prisoners has been estab
lished at Elmendorf Air Force
Base here, officials announced
Friday.
Only prisoners with terms of
less than a year and those con
victed of misdemeanors will be
lodged at the camp. Those serving
terms for serious crimes will be
confined in the States, as in the
past.
Plans for the camp were worked
out by Roy V. Casey, superinten
dent of the Alaska Jail System,
and Col, Horace D. Aynesworth,
base commander.
Prisoners will be used for work
on Elmendorf “details,” but Casey
said they will not replace employ
able labor in any jobs, and they
will do menial tasks where they
will not be in contact with mili
tary personnel.
The new camp, complete with
living quarters, dining hall and
recreational facilities, will han
dle 45 to 50 prisoners the first few
months.
It is similar to one operating at
Maxwell AFB, Ala., which Casey
says has been successful.
Ward G. Kern, formerly chief
jailor at the federal jail in An
chorage, will be camp supervisor.
More than 45 per cent of U.S.
deaths now occur in hospitals
compared to about 33 per cent
in 1936.
enger steamship service to the
territory and the reduced dumber
of non-scheduled air carriers.
“Next summer, due to the rapid
expansion of tourist trade gener
ally, Alaska should be able to
look forward to a rich tourist bus
iness but the thousands of people
who formerly traveled to Alaska
by water must now go by air,”
Ellsworth wrote.
“ ... If the scheduled air ser
vice is reduced the Territory of
Alaska will be in a sad state in
deed so far as transportation is
concerned.”
Ellsworth’s letter resulted from
reports the board is ready' to rec
ommend elimination of Pacific
Northern and Alaska Airlines
from the States-Alaska service,
leaving the field to Northwest
Airlines and Pan-American World
Airways. It followed shortly a
similar letter from the entire
Washington-Alaska congressional
delegation to President Eisenhow
er and the board urging retention
of all four carriers and present
route structures.
Ellsworth tied the case into two
portions of the President’s State
of the Union message.
One was the President’s sugges
tion statehood for the territory be
delayed until its “complete prob
| lems” are solved.
“Surely the curtailment of
transportation service to Alaska
can only serve to further compli
cate the problems of the territory
and might, in fact, reasonably be
interpreted as in direct opposition
to the expression of the Presi
dent,” Ellsworth wrote.
He noted the President also re
ferred to a thorough examination
of existing transportation policies
now under way by a cabinet com
mittee, and asked:
“Will the Civil Aeronautics
Board be acting wisely and in co
operation with the President and
the administration if it now, be
fore the President’s committee
has an opportunity to study the
situation and offer its suggestions,
proceed to make drastic modifica
tions of our federal transportation
policy so far as the Territory of
Alaska is concerned?”
WINTER SCHEDULE
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j MONDAY, TUESDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
NOME TO KOTZEBUE
TUESDAY AND SATURDAY
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BUSH FLIGHT FRIDAY
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BUCKLAND AND KOTZEBUE