THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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THE FINE PRINT
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SMELL ANYTHING?
In signing into law the bill extending the excess
profits tax for the balance of the year, President Eisen
hower emerged victorious from a long and bitter pol
itical siege.
But it was no occasion for dancing in the streets.
Never before in our history had so many of our leaders
fought so hard to preserve a tax that all of them re- j
garded as unfair, vicious and a mistake in the first j
place. But the President and his supporters were j
fighting for something a little more elevating than
the $800,000,000 the universally-hated tax will pro
duce. They were fighting to achieve the GOP election
promise of a balanced budget.
Their opponent, 78-year-old Rep. Daniel A. Reed
of New York, senior member of the House and chair
man of the powerful Ways and Means Committee,
believes in keeping election promises too. He says the
Republicans promised to cut taxes and they’d better
start doing it. As for budget balancing, his theory is
that the way to cut expenditures is to cut income
first. As long as the money is coming in, the govern
ment spenders will toss their noble theories of economy
back and forth like a medicine ball.
But we haven’t got that balanced budget. The
administration admits it may be two years away. We
have no tax relief, either corporate or personal. And
the Republican party must wear about its neck the
redolent albatross of unfulfilled pledges.
And, since Congress feels it must pack up and go
home, that bird will grow no less aromatic as the
remaining months of 1953 drag by, leaving Mr. Eisen
hower’s vessel “a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”
SIMPLIFIED INCOME TAX RETURN
DILLON (S. C.) HERALD
The new administration’s Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue is planning a simplified form of tax return
for persons with incomes of $10,000 or less. This is
wonderful ! The man who can make income tax paying
as simple and effortless as the paying of state, county
and municipal taxes will be listed among the immortals.
What has become of the annual row over women’s
skirts?
Tony Schwamm Urges
Alaska Aviation School
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their training in the States, which
restricts training to few of the
native-born Alaskans.
Schwamm estimated that an av
erage of three planes a day are
being brought into the territory,
or about a thousand a year, also
that there are now about 1,100
seaplanes in the Anchorage area
He urged Alaska Chambers of
Commerce to support Delegate
Bartlett in his efforts to get the
Federal Aid appropriation thru
Congress, as these funds have
been frozen under the present ad
ministration and the continuation
of the Airport Federal Aid Pro
gram is being held up. The Sen
ate committee has recommended
$175,000 but the Appropriation
Commitee has not sanctioned the
recommendation to date.
Schwamm suggested that Gen.
James Doolittle, chairman of the
National Committee of the 50th,
Anniversary of Powered Flight,
be invited to Nome as part of the
observance cf the anniversary.
General Doolittle will be in An
chorage this fall to attend the
dedication of the new Interna
tional Airport.
He also commended local bush
pilots for their excellent service
to remote parts of the Second
Division.
Withdrawal of Opposing
Armies From Buffer Zone
Continues Smoothly Today
SEOUL, uP1—The withdrawal of
two mighty armies from the Ko
rean demilitarized zone continued
smoothly today as the Thursday
night deadline approached.
Enemies a few days ago, Allied
and Communist troops worked
within shouting distance of each
other, salvaging material and
wrecking fortifications that took
months, sometimes years, to build.
Although Allied troops were
warned by the 8th Army against
fraternization with the Reds,
there were reports of friendly
contacts all along the war-shat
tered front.
B-47 Crosses Atlantic,
Maine To England, In
4 Hours and 45 Minutes
FAIRFORD AIR FORCE BASE,
England, u'Pi—An American B-47
Stratojet bomber flashed across
the Atlantic from the United
States to England today in the
record-shattering time of 4 hours
and 45 minutes.
The sleek,’ swept - wing 6 - jet
atom bomber, called the world’s
fastest, whooshed from Lime
stone, Maine, air base to Fairford,
a distance of 3,120 miles non-stop
at an average speed of about 609
miles .an hour.
- The flight clipped 37 minutes
off the pevious record of 5 hours,
22 minutes, set last June 6 by an
other B-47.
A large party of U.S. Air Force
officers and photographers were
on hand to cheer the plane in.
As its wheels hit the runway with
a loud squeal, the pilot pushed a
lever popping a parachute out the
tail end to slow the big plane.
The plane will join the U.S. Air
Force’s 306th Medium Bomb Wing
—45 planes in all—which arrived
here early in June for a 90-day
tour of duty.
A British Canberra jet bomber
flew the Atlantic in less time sev
eral months ago but the route
was shorter—from Laborador to
Ireland.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
Regulations Ftfr Shooting
Migratory Fowl In Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP) — Interior
Secretary McKay has announced
regulations for shooting migratory
waterfowl in Alaska, where the
season in some areas begins as
early as September 1st.
Alaska’s shooting hours will be
one-half hour before sunrise to
one hour before sunset, except
that shooting the opening day be
gins at noon.
The season on ducks, geese,
brant and coot in the Second Div
ision is. from September 1 to De
cember 15.
The- daily bag limits for scoters
and eiders is 10 singly or in the
aggregate and the possession lim
it is not more than 20 singly or
in the aggregate of all kinds.
The daily bag limit for Ameri
can and red-breasted mergansers
is 25 singly or in the aggregate of
both kinds with no possession
limit after the first day of the
season.
Limits for other ducks, seven
a day, 14 in possession.
Other limits: coot, 15 a day, 15
in- possession; brant, 3 a day, 6
in possession, and geese, 3 a day,
6 in possession of one kind or in
the aggregate of all kinds.
Gasperi’s 8th Italian
Government Falls In
No-Confidence Vote
ROME, W*>—Premier Alcide de
Gasperi’s eighth government fell
Tuesday in a no confidence vote.
It was the first time that the
72-year-old Christian Democrat
leader suffered such defeat since
he took the reins of Italy’s gov
ernment on Dec. 10, 1945.
The vote was 282 to 263 against
de Gasperi. There were howls of
delight from the Communists and
extreme Left as the ballot was
announced in the Chamber of
deputies.
Now de Gasperi has to' submit
to President Luigi Einaudi the
formal resignation of the govern
ment he recently agreed to form
two weeks ago after the national
elections. The constitution re
quires that the government have
the confidence of both the Sen
ate and the Chamber.
Britain Still Advocates
High-Level 4-Power
Talks With Russia
LONDON, UP) — Prime Minister
Churchill’s top deputies told
Parliament today Britain still
wants high level 4 - power talks
with Russia. They denied this
conflicts with administration
views in Washington.
Addressing the House of Com
mons on behalf of the ailing
Churchill, acting prime minister
Richard Butler said “We have
achieved unity of aim and policy
on behalf of the three Western
governments supported by the
NATO'governments and Western
Germany.”
He said Britain, France and the
United States had invited the So
viet government to a foreign min
isters’ conference on German
unity and an Austrian treaty and
a reply is being awaited.
“In any case,” he added, “the
possibility of high level confer
ence is not excluded and would be
welcomed by the British govern
ment.”
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