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CONQUERING THE FLU
The Executive Board of the United Nations World
Health Organization recently announced that medical
science is about to conquer influenza. The board be
lieves the year 1954 will see announcements of great
significance in this direction.
The major hope seems to be based on a series of
vaccines, each designed to combat a specific type of
the disease. The complication is that there are so many
variations of influenza that the suitable vaccine is some
what difficult to determine.
The recent epidemic, for example, was termed the
A-Prime virus influenza. Once it was identified, a vac
cine was prepared and was used with some success in
the fight against the threatened epidemic.
There are three main types of influenza, termed
A, B, and C types. If the type can be recognized early
enough, proper vaccines can be made in time and an
epidemic avoided. The Executive Board of the U. N.
Health Organization believes that, by 1954, sufficient
research will have been done to enable quick identifica
tion and mass distribution of suitable vaccines to com
bat influenza epidemics. This should be excellent news
to all those who have sampled the latest flu epidemic.
LIGHT FROM NEHRU
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru charged recent
ly that the Communist movement all over the world
'has become a reactionary one, which pursued old and
obsolete theories despite the changing times. This is
one of the frankest comments yet from the Indian
Prime Minister and one that the democracies welcome.
The prime minister and other Indian officials are
finally appreciating the Communist menace in Asia for
what it is. Even at the time of the outbreak of the
Korean War on June 25, 1950, leading Indian govern
ment officials were attempting to play a strictly neutral
role and were suffering under illusions about Commu
nism. At that time it was the vogue in India for officials
to stress the faults of both the democratic system and
the Communist system.
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1952 Civic Developments
Reported at C of C Dinner
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fire hazard in the present school
building.” He also outlined the
financial angle to the interest of
all present.
Three new members were un
animously elected to the board:
Larry Galvin, Stanley Morgan,
and Carl Glavinovich. It was an
nounced by nominating chairman
Dewey Goodrich that A. Polet had
been originally nominated but had
declined, stating he had served
for 50 years and perferred to act
in an ex-officio capacity, giving
someone else a chance to be on
the board.
City Clerk Carrie McLain re
ported on city finances as follows:
City Finances
For the calendar year 1952 total
income for the city was $124,
486.67. Some of this was derived
from the following sources:
Property taxes, $42,000; fines
$7,300; motor vehicle stickers,
$3,200; liquor license refunds,
$9,500; punch boards, $1,082;
mercantile licenses, $345; sales
tax, over $50,000.
Disbursements totaled $116,947.
Some of the main items were;
Fire Department, $14,000; Pol
ice Department, $17,000; Street
Department, $37,000 (this included
purchase of a $13,000 D-8); grav
eling streets, $4,750; snow remov-;
al, $9,700; Health Department,
82,063; school, S28,000; interest on
bonds, $4,260.
Dan Jones gave a very thorough
and complete resume of mining in j
the area and the report will be j
published in its entirety at a later i
date. He summed up his report |
with remarks on the tremendous
water power in the area which
should be broadcast by the cham
ber as a potential not to be be
littled. He stated that the Tuksuk
Channel, easily dammed, is cap
able of producing 120,000,000 kilo- j
watts of power and is well worth 1
promoting.
The last speaker of the evening
was Judge J. Earl Cooper who'
praised the Nome Visitors Assn,
for their development of tourist1
interest, stating he was amazed
at what they had accomplished
and that “the merchants should
realize they have a terrific po
tential income” from this source
if they will work on it.
He summed up his talk on the
importance of citizenship and
what it really means to be an j
American citizen with the accom
panying rights and privileges. j
Music throughout the dinner!
was provided by Florence\
Kearnes at the piano and tenor
Bob Scott and was greatly en- j
joyed by all attending the dinner, j
Other out-of-town guests in
cluded Raymond Brink, Lt. and
rs. Buckingham and Clark Hile
man, Red Cross • representative
from Fairbanks.
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Shelley Winters Has Baby Girl
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Shelley
Winters’ baby got her birthdays
mixed.
The four pound, 10 ounce girl
was born on Valentine’s Day in- j
stead of St. Patrick’s Day, as ex
pected.
As a result, papa Vittorio Gass
man wasn’t there to welcome his I
daughter, whom her mother has j
named Victoria. Gassman is in i
Rome.
He has another daughter, Paola,
7, With Gassman’s former wife,
Eleanor ‘Ricea, in Italy.
The shapely Shelley married
Gassman in Juarez, Mexico1, last
April 28. Dr. Emil Kribulik said
she and the baby, who was put
into an incubator, are doing well.
Eisenhower
Not Considering
Naval Blockade
Of Red China
WASHINGTON, (ff) — President
Eisenhower said Tuesday he per
sonally is not considering a naval
blockade or an embargo against
■Red China but he supposes such
steps are being looked into by
several government departments.
Meeting with newsmen for the
first time since he took office,
Eisenhower said also:
1. Any tax cuts this year would
probably mean higher taxes in
years to come, and should be held
up until a balanced budget is in
sight.
2. He will ask Congress for new
authority to deal with prices if
there is price gouging or other
unreasonable action by business
freed of federal controls.
3. He wants Congress to nulify
any parts of secret agreements
which have permitted enslave
ment of free peoples. But he
doesn’t feel there should be any
repudiation of long-secret agree
ments such as the Yalta pact as
a whole.
4. United Nations forces can’t
be pulled out of Korea com
pletely so long as a dangerous
situation exists there, but South
Koreans should replace other U.N.
troops in the fighting to the
greatest possible extent.
Addressing 256 correspondents,
mostly on topics he selected him
self, the new Republican Presi
dent also cracked back at the ex
pressed misgivings of Adlai E.
Stevenson that his “business ad
ministration” might become a
“big deal” administration.
Eisenhower told a questioner
he has lived with all Americans,
including fighting men, and can’t
conceive of anyone’s thinking he
is not concerned with the welfare
of all 150 million Americans. He
said he chose his cabinet mem
bers without regard to their busi
ness connections but soley be
cause he was sure they could
supply badly needed businesslike
administration
The President reaffirmed, in
even stronger terms than he has
used before, that he is absolutely
convinced Russia has atomic wea
pons. Ex-President Truman has
expressed doubt whether the So
viets have a workable atomic
bomb.
Eisenhower began the confer
ence by saying he wanted to talk
about four things—farm prices,
secret agreements, controls and
taxes. He added that he’d enter
tain questions later if there was
time. The half-hour he allotted
left time for quite a few.
SABRES DESTROY SEVEN
RED MIG JETS TODAY
SEOUL, (4*) — U.S. Sabre jets
today desti'oyed at least seven
Red MIG-15 jets, the U.S. Fifth
Air FoTce reported.
The Sabres were screening a
massive two-pronged strike on a
Communist infantry and tank
training school near Pyongyang.
Today’s seven boosted to 35 the
number of MIGs reported de
stroyed or damaged in four days
of fierce aerial fights. Of these,
14, were destroyed, five probably
destroyed and 16 damaged.
Two forces totaling 379 Allied
fighter - bombers smashed * the
training center at Kangso.
The Eighth Army reported only
brief skirmishes as temperatures
plunged below zero all across the
peninsula. •
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget !
Sen. Magnuson Calls
For “Better” Highway ,
Linking Alaska to U.S.
SEATTLE, \m—'The Post-Intel
ligencer said today Sen. Warren y
G. Magnuson (D-Wash) has called
for a railway or another highway
to Alaska over which military
equipment and reinforcements >
could be moved, if needed in an
emergency.
He described the present grav
elled Alaska Highway, the dis
patch said, as of doubtful military
value because of its length and
restrictions on the weight of ve
hicle which can use it, compared
with some type of army vehicles
such as tanks.
The paper said Magnuson plan
ned to introduce a resolution to
day to establish an Alaska inter
national rail and highway com
mission to study (1) construction
of a railroad connection with the
United States and (2) Building a
direct, much shorter highway
linking Alaska with the Pacific
Coast states.
Commenting on what might
happen in the “event of hostil
ities,” Magnuson said further, in
support of his proposal:
“Some 50 ships would be re
quired to transport supplies and
equipment, and many more if
tanks, half tracks and heavy field
guns were to be moved.
“Alaska does not have the port
and dock facilities that would be
required for such a fleet of mer
chant vessels.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued cloudy today with
light snow becoming part cloudy
tonight with snow showers. Part
cloudy Thursday. Northeast winds
20-25, occasionally 35 mph, grad
ually decreasing Thursday.
Lowest temperature expected
tonight 15, highest tomorrow 20.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
16, low 9. Max. wind 29 mph
from the NE. Sunrise at 7:49 a.m.,
sunset at 4:44 p.m.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -19 Part cloudy
Kotzebue 4 Cloudy
Wales 2 Cloudy
Gambell 1 Snow
Nome 16 Snow
Unalnkleet 20 Part cloudy
Bethel 28 Snow
McGrath 16 Cloudy
Anchorage 18 Part cloudy
Fairbanks 3 Cloudy
Whitehorse 6 Cloudy
Edmonton 20 Snow
Juneau 23 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 36 Cloudy
Seattle 44 Part cloudy
San Francisco 49 Clear
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