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WE JUST DON’T MAKE SENSE
A REALISTIC APPRAISAL
OF THE GOLD SITUATION
Most sought after of all the metals
throughout the ages has been gold, and its his
tory has been most turbulent.
It has featured in the creation and crumbling of
empires, as men fought and died for its possession.
It has been the foundation of personal and national
wealth and it has never been equalled, either as a
standard of monetary value or medium of exchange.
Although the Gold Standard disappeared nearly
thirty years ago and national currencies are no longer
backed by this precious metal, individuals, even
nations retain their long-lived confidence in it. A
universal criterion of worth is “as good as gold.”
There have been thousands upon thousands of
words written in recent weeks by news analysts and
financial experts about the current gold situation in
the United States: why the U.S. gold reserve is being
so rapidly depleted; who is at fault, and the reasons
for the ominous gold buying by foreign sources.
The only realistic answer, which in our opinion,
is to get more new gold into the treasury, is never
mentioned by the experts. Do that and the gold
crisis will be over.
In our opinion, one way to keep from disturbing
the world market, would be to subsidize the miners
who produce the gold—guarantee a subsidy for a
certain period of time so that the mining industry
can invest in efficient machinery, put the lagging
industry on its feet, and the United States back on
an even keel. Then the crisis would no longer exist.
It’s an issue that must be faced, and the sooner
the better. The time for theorizing is past!
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Sectionalism Seen
As Major Prolem
In 49tii Stale
SEATTLE, l/P) — Peter Francis
Gilmore, legislative representa
tive at Juneau for the Skinner
Corp. of Seattle, told the Alaska
Division of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce Monday that sec
tionalism is a major problem in
the new state. He said important
population centers are isolated
from one another by great dis
tances and by lack of interac
quaintance, two factors which
hamper understanding.
Gilmore, an observer of the Al
aska legislative scene for some 20
years, is a native of Alaska, the
son of Ketchikan pioneers.
Seattle, the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, and particularly, the
Alaska Division, Gilmore said,
have suffered from time to time
in Alaska because it can be pol
itically profitable to attack “ec
onomic Puget Sound parasites.”
“This kind of attack comes
from individuals who are more
interested in the total vote count
than in some vague resemblance
to the truth,” Gilmore said.
The recent Alaskan elections,
he said, indicate that the voters
generally are turning toward a
politically balanced representa
tion, despite their sectional dif
ferences. Alaska’s first state leg
islature was overwhelmingly De
mocratic. There were 18 Demo
crats in the state senate and two
Republicans; in the house, there
were 34 Democrats and six Re
publicans.
Although the official ballot
count is not yet concluded, it
seems now that the new legisla
ture will have 12 Democratis in
the Senate and eight Republicans.
The house will see 22 Democrats
and 18 Republicans.
“This better balance will re
sult in more vigorous argument
out of which can only come legis
lation for the better benefit of
Alaska,” Gilmore predicted.
Factors which may have af
fected the voting, he said, could
well have been the action of the
freshmen legislature in voting
$3,000 annual salaries for the
60 - day session, plus $40 per
day expenses; concern over the
rate at which some $26 million in
federal statehood transition funds
is being spent, and legislative re
peal of the blanket primary,
which for 12 years allowed terri
torial voters to cross party lines
on the ballot.
Townspeople Extend Invitations
To Northwind For Thanksgiving
Invitations were received at the
Alaska National Guard office for
over 25 men of the U. S. C. G.
Northwind to have dinner with
families here. However, due to
ice conditions it was thought best
not to give shore leave for
Thanksgiving.
Appreciation was expressed
however to those who were so
thoughtful for the visitors in the
roadstead.
TOUGH TEEN-AGE KILLER
RIVERSIDE, Calif., UP) — The
teen-age killer heard a jury con
demn him to the gas chamber and
then snarled at the judge: “Why
didn’t you have guts enough to
do it yourself?”
David J. Sieterle, 19, and two
younger boys were charged with
the slaying last Aug. 11 of sales
man Charles Duvel and his wife.
Karl Gentry, 17, and Thomas N.
O’Hara, 16. pleaded guilty and
were given life sentences,
mended the jury on its verdict.
Judge Russell S. Waite com
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BEDFORD, Mass., Wl — Things
are not always what they seem
at the big U.S. Air Force research
installation at Hanseom Field, a
harried public relations man re
ported today.
There are five generals at this
base and one of them is not I
General Dougherty. General
Dougherty is a technical sergeant1
in the regular Air Force. This is
one source of confusion.
Just to complicate things fur
ther, Major Brooks is a civilian,
an Air Force employe. The
trouble is, there is another Major
Brooks, and he is an officer. And
folks who are looking for Major
Robert L. Brooks every now and
then are confused when they
find themselves talking with just
plain Major Brooks.
Editor’s Note—Not too many
years ago, Nome had its Colonel
Riley and Admiral Sims.
WARD BOND'S WILL LEAVES
SHOTGUN TO JOHN WAYNE
LOS ANGELES, iff) — Actor
Ward Bond’s will was filed for
probate and listed his estate as
worth more than $10,000. It
named his widow as executrix,
and bequeathed his favorite shot
gun to his friend, actor John
Wayne.
Bond died Nov. 5 of a heart
attack in Dallas, Tex.
The master of TV’s “Wagon
Train” left other guns and fish
ing gear to friends Ben Harrold
and Avery Rennick. He gave
Wayne an option to purchase
Bond’s interest in two Kern
County, Calif., ranch properties
totaling 400 acres.
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One-third of 61,000
Alaskans Voted
Party Tickets
JUNEAU, l/F — Approximately
one-thjrd of the some 61,000 Al
askans who cast ballots on Nov.
8 voted a straight party ticket,
figures compiled by the Associ
ated Press indicate.
Five precincts in the state gave
all of their regular votes to the
Republican presidential candidate.
Richard Nixon, and only one,
Stebbins precinct in District 23,
gave all of its votes to the Demo
cratic candidate, John F. Ken
nedy.
The figures were compiled from
official state election records car
rying the regular vote for 143 pre
cincts which tabulated the num
ber of straight party ballots cast.
Absentee ballots do not figure in
the totals.
Of the 37,101 votes cast in those
143 precincts where straight party
ballots were counted, the Demo
cratic party got 6,875 and the Re
publican party got 4,976.
The Democrats got their big
gest batch of straight party bal
lots, 1.558 of them, in the 19th
(Fairbanks) district and the Re
publicans picked up their biggest
bundle, 1,843, in the 10th (An
chorage) district.
The Stebbins precinct cast 25
votes for Kennedy and not a one
for Nixon, but the Vice Presi
dent made up for it in the five
precincts which gave him all of
their votesi and blanked Kennedy.
Those five precincts, and the
number of votes Nixon picked up
in each, were Baranof, in the 3rd
district, 12; Kohanok Bay, in the
15th district, 18; Kwigillngok, in
the 16th district, 61; Quinhagok,
also in the 16th district, 86; and
Koyuk, in the 23rd district, 39.
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