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TIME TO TURN IT OFF
“It’s an 111 wind,-’ grandpa used to quote, “that
blows no one good.” This was slightly puzzling to us
at the time, even though we knew that winds from any
quarter were good for kites unless they blew too strong.
But today comes the perfect example for all to
observe. In Public Law 199, the law that turned parcel
post service topsy-turvy, we have a gust of special
privilege that has taken aback those who sought it as
well as the taxpayers who must support it.
Public Law 199 was passed by Congress in 1951
at the insistence of the 64 railroads that were losing
upwards of 100 million dollars a year on their wholly
owned Railway Express Agency. The express monop
oly had sold the idea to their owners that the elimina
tion of government parcel post would turn railway
losses into profits. So the new law, severely cutting
the size and weight of packages that could be mailed,
went into, effect in January 1952. Parcel post rates
today are more than doubled, some of them tripled.
The Railway Express Agency doubled its own prices
while its service declined as the railroads reduced the
number of. trains and cut off rail service to thousands
of communities.
As a result, people mailed 53 million fewer parcel
post packages (one-and-a-half billion pounds less) last
year than they did in 1951. Nor did Railway Express
get all the business that Public Law 199 divorced from
the post office. The resentment of the nation’s small
package shippers opened a newly profitable field to
freight forwarders and consolidated shippers.
This rather ignoble experiment is costing Ameri
can free enterprise—tax-paying small businessmen,
housewives, farmers—hundreds of millions a year. It
adds something more than 70 million dollars a year to
the postal deficit.
• That ill wind, Public Law 199 is still blowing no
good. Only Congress can turn it off. And since our
• congressmen and our senators have so much on their
minds these days, perhaps we ought to give them a
nudge.
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• By and large, people who don’t believe in hell
should stop raising it.
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Home-Making
Expert Will Visit
Here Next Week
Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen, asso
ciate director of home demonstra
tion work in Alaska, will arrive
next Monday, Feb. 21, for a
week’s stay in Nome.
Her visit is sponsored by the
Mothers’ Club. The purpose of
her trip is to help women in the
area with any home-making prob
lems they may be having and to
inspire them with new ideas and
suggestions.
She will be holding cooking
classes on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday afternoons at 2:30
o’clock. They will be held at the
home of Mrs. Roy Snyder, House
No. 1 in the CAA Area.
These classes are open to any
interested women in the commu
nity. The foods demonstrated will
be inexpensive and practical.
There will be babysitters pro
vided during that time at the
Methodist Church hall on Tues
day and Thursday, and at the
LWY Community Center on Wed
nesday and Friday under the di
rection of Miss Miller.
Thursday evening at 7:30 Mrs.
Fohn-Hansen will give a demon
stration on tying springs in up
holstered furniture. This will be
held at the home of Mrs. Mclver
and is open to all persons inter
ested in reupholstering furniture.
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock
she will meet with the Home Arts
Club at the home of Mrs. Sue
Hermann.
Friday afternoon, Feb. 25, at
2:30 she will speak to the Moth
ers’ Club on a topic which will be
of special interest to all mothers.
During her stay, Mrs. Fohn
Hansen will meet with the Steer
ing Committee of the Mothers'
Club to help make plans for fu
ture activities.
We feel very fortunate in hav
ing Mrs. Fohn-Hansen visit Nome
and hope that many will take ad
vantage of what she has to offer.
For additional information you
may contact Mrs. Curtis Johnson.
Kai-Shek Says
Red Agression Has
Not Been Deterred
By SPENCEH MOOSA
TAIPEH, Formosa, UP)—Chiang
Kai-shek declared Tuesday the
show of strength by the U.S. 7th
Fleet in the Tachen evacuation
would not deter Communist ag
gression in the Formosa area,
even for a short while.
In an exclusive interview with
Fred Hampson, AP chief of bu
reau from Hong Kong, the Presi
dent of Nationalist China indi
cated the off-shore island out
posts his forces still man could be
held against a Red attack.
He again declined to spell out
his version of an agreement with
the United States on joint defense
of Quemoy and Matsu Islands,
saying only “the matter is very
clear to us and to the Commu
nists.”
Hampson reported the General
issimo “seems to feel that during
the Tachen action the United
States got more irrevocably be
hind him in his fight against the 1
Reds than ever before.”
Chiang also said:
1. He is “certain” his forces will
one day launch a counter-attack
against the Communist mainland.
2. The so-called neutral nations
of Asia will not side with the
West against the Communists “. . .
until they have been invaded, and
then it will be too late.”
Chiang gave no indication of
what strategy he will follow now
that the Tachens have been aban
doned to the Reds.
About 9,250,000 U.S. wives now
hold jobs outside their homes as
compared with a peak of seven
million during World War II.
WORLD DAY
OF PRAYER
A P R O C L A M A T I O R
WHEREAS World Day of Prayer
will be observed this year in many
places throughout the world
where humble people, living
against a background of universal
tension and uncertainty, will bow
their heads and lift up their
hearts to Almighty God in prayer;
and
WHEREAS World Day of Prayer
is sponsored by the General De
partment of United Church Wo
men of the National Council of
the Churches of Christ in the
United States of America; and
WHEREAS the United Church
Women of Alaska will join on
this occasion with church women
in communities throughout the
nation and the world to form an
articulate and inspiring chain of
human prayer; and
WHEREAS the troubled peoples
in less fortunate nations than
ours, and, indeed, even in our own
beloved country, need Divine
Guidance as never before, espec
ially as this is stimulated through
prayerful communion:
NOW. THEREFORE, I, B. Frank
Heintzleman, Governor of the
Territory of Alaska, do hereby
proclaim Friday, February 25,
1955, as
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
in Alaska, and I urge our citizens
to observe this day by attending
on February 25, wherever possi
ble, World Day of Prayer services
or by. pausing for a minute of
prayer at high noon to ask God to
give us, in all our humility, the
wisdom and courage to meet and
successfully solve the profound
problems of our times.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the Territory of
Alaska to be affixed . . . Juneau,
Feb. 8, 1955.
—B. Frank Heintzleman
Governor.
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Legislature Passes
Memorial to Speed
Lumber Mill
By JIM HUTCHESON
JUNEAU—Legislative steps to
speed a 2*/fe million dollar south
eastern Alaska lumber mill sped
through both branches ol the Al
aska legislature Monday in fast
time.
The measure, a memorial to
President Eisenhower and Con
gress to grant title to a tidelands
site, was introduced by Sens. Dor
is Barnes and James Nolan, both
of Wrangell, and met no opposi
tion in its day-long course. Jt was
the first measure this session to
be rushed through both Senate
and Mouse the day of its intro
duction.
The Wrangell-sought memorial
has to do with a mill planned by
the Pacific Northern Timber Co.,
! a subsidiary of Georgia Pacific
Plywood Cc., a big-time operator
in the States.
A company official said the mill
might be in operation this fall It
all goes well. The memorial states
it cannot be built on the tidelands
site until title can be obtained,
only possible by congressional
action,
i Earlier in the day, the Senate
! had approved the 1955 version of
| the “Nest E^g” Bill to set aside a
j million dollars a year in a stabili
| zation fund for use by the terri
; tory for public projects in event
1 of an economic setback.
The Senate also completed leg
islative approval of a House mem
orial by Reps. Riley and Dora
Sweeney (D-Juneau) asking Pres
ident Eisenhower and Congress to
include Alaska in the multi-mil
lion dollar highway program pro
posed by the President.
It states that Alaska is excluded
from the original draft of the plan
although the territory has “35
years” accumulated road needs
and does not share in the federal
state program.
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Saviour, Thee we would be blessing. Psalm 103:1
Serve Thee too, as those above. Gal. 5:13
Praise and bless Thee without ceasing, I Thess. 5:17
Glory in Thy dying love. Gal. 6:14
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