THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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DEFINING NEEDS
In a day when the United States has brought some
criticism on itself with its wholly well intentioned but
not always wisely directed efforts to help peoples
abroad, a story recently told by President Eisenhower
deserves attention.
Pointing up how good intentions may backfire
when the needs of other peoples are not fully under
stood, the President told the American Council on Edu
cation about a modern village he found in North Africa.
The village was completely empty. The people of
the region had deserted it, refusing to live there.
Why? Running water had been provided in all
the houses, the President explained, thus depriving the
women of their small adventure of going to the village
well for water. Since that. excursion had given them
their only excuse for leaving their houses and getting
together with their neighbors, the women rebelled.
This is not an argument for turning a cold shoulder
to the legitimate needs of others, the President made
clear, but for getting “educational people and groups of
all countries” to “see these problems and get into it
to help.”
Being willing to help a neighbor in terms of his
own needs without requiring him to change his ways
to one’s own appears a$ the great lesson still to be
learned by many would-be helpers, whether their field
be social work at home or global aid abroad. Such
willingness opens the way for real needs to be defined
—and met.
“Communism cannot be overcome by argument
alone—it must be outlived.” —Frederick Barry, writer.
TWO-WAY STRETCH
UNEMPLOYMENT FUND THREATENED
Walter Sharpe testified recently in Juneau that
the 2.7 per cent tax which Alaskan employers have
been paying into the Unemployment Insurance Fund
will not keep the fund solvent, the way it is now
being expended.
In five years from 1949 to 1953, up to December
31, 1953, this fund will have paid over 17 million dol
lars to unemployed Alaskan workers. Of this amount
over six million dollars has been paid to those who
worked in Alaska but who were living in the States
when they received their benefits. At the rate the
money is now being paid out, there will be none left
for bona fide residents should hard times hit the
territory.
This fund is provided entirely by the employers.
Employees pay no part of it and Alaskan employers
pay the maximum 2.7 per cent, while stateside em
ployers average 1.4 per cent of every dollar they pay
their employes up to $3,000 per year.
It is time serious consideration be given to the
complex problem before the fund becomes extinct.
Mrs. Diane Wells
Charged With
1st'Degree Murder
FAIRBANKS, Uft—In a surprise
legal maneuver Mrs. Diane Wells
was arranged and charged with
first degree murder here Wednes
day night in United States District
Court.
Two attorneys representing her
immediately moved for a change
of venue, that the indictment be
dismissed and that the cases
against the two accused parties
be separated.
Mrs. Wells, 31-year-old mother,
is charged jointly with Johnny
Warren, a Negro drummer and
singer, in the slaying of Cecil
Wells.
The attorneys are seeking a
change erf venue to some other
division of Alaska on grounds
that a fair trial would not be
possible before a jury of Fair
banks citizens.
The court continued Mrs. Wells’
bond of $5,000.
Attorneys Walter Sczudlo and
Charles Clasby represented Mrs.
Wells. J. Edmund Quigley of Seat
tle, who recently joined the corps
of defense lawyers, was not pre
sent. Quigley has said he could
not find a single evidence capable
of bringing Mrs. Wells to trial.
Warren, the other defendant, is
under arrest in Oakland, Calif.
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman has
signed a request to the governor
of California for extradition of
Warren to Alaska to face the
charge against him.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nuggei
Peculiar Transportation
Problems of Alaska Steam
Outlined by Skinner
SEATTLE, UPi — Seattle’s pecu
liar transportation problems were
outlined by D.E. Skinner, presi
dent of the Alaska Steamship
Co., this week.
One of the big problems, Skin
ner said, is a lack of adequate
dock facilities, even at Seward,
where cargo is transferred from
ships to the Alaska Railroad at a
pier that is more than 40 years
old.
“While facilities at Seward are
deteriorating,” Skinner said, “the
volume of cargo is increasing.
Large sums are being spent for
developments in Alaska, but no
thing on the docks over which
the cargo for those projects must
move.”
Another problem cited was the
small amount of cargo which is
unloaded at small ports.
While 500 tons of cargo is con
sidered the minimum that a ship
can unload economically in some
trades, Skinner said, many Alaska
Line voyages go into a port to un
load less than 100 tons.
“Bui we have to do it to give
the people the service they need,”
Skinner added. “If we waited un
til we had 500 tons of cargo for
fjme towns, the people would go
T ree or four months without a
si ip*
About half of all employed per
sons in the United States use their
c.rs to help them earn a living.
Alaska Has Unobligated
Balance Of $6,227,753
(Juneau Independent)
In a report of the general
condition of the territorial treas
ury, Treasurer Henry Roden re
veals that the territory has a net
cash balance of $11,695,571.05 as
of October 31.
Of that amount, $5,467,817.30
was encumbered in special funds
and funds incorporated in the
general fund which are not avail
able for the general operation of
the territory. These funds have al
ready been set aside by territorial
or federal law for specific pur
poses.
Accordingly, the unobligated
balance in the general fund as of
Oct. 31 was $6,227,753.75. This
fund cannot be tapped except
when so authorized by the terri
torial legislature.
ARMY WILL HAVE TO
MAINTAIN OWN TERMINAL
FOR ALASKA-BOUND TRUCKS
SEATTLE, UP) — The Seattle
Port of Embarkation Command
announced yesterday that the
military freight terminal at Great
Falls, Mont., will go on inactive
status Dec. 31.
The announcement by Col.' Ed
ward H. Connoc, Jr., said the de
velopment of commercial truck
ing service on the Alaska High
way makes it necessary for the
Army to maintain its own ter
minal for handling Alaska-bound
cargoes.
Undercover FBI Agent
Tells Senate Group GE
Plants Had Communists
BOSTON, —A 53-year-old up
holsterer, who testified he was an
undercover FBI agent while a
member of the Communist Party
since 1941, told a Senate investi
gating subcommittee Thursday he
had worked in a General Electric
plant in Fitchburg, Mass., and that
there were Communist cells there
and in GE plants at Lynn and
Everett, Mass., and Schenectady,
N.Y.
William H. Teto, of Ashby, Ma&j.,
created a sensation in a televised
hearing conducted by Sen. Mc
Carthy when he pointed out a
man in the hearing room as a
Communist member at a Lyhn
GE plant.
The man pointed out was Nat
Mills. McCarthy said Mills re
fused Wednesday to' say whether
he was or was- not a Communist.
Mills heatedly refused again
Thursday to give a yes or no an
swer and was removed from the
hearing room with his counsel
after denying he was guilty of
espionage.
McCarthy said earlier everyone
knows the importance of G E
plants and that he was disturbed
about security precautions that
General Electric is taking.
The U. S. federal government
owns more than half the land in
Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho,
Oregon, and Wyoming.
Huge, Glowing Object
Tracked By Radar
High Over England
LONDON, GPl —t- An object de
scribed by observers as huge and
glowing and probably metallic has
been tracked by radar high over
England twice this month, the
War Office disclosed Wednesday
night. . .
Official reports of the sightings
have been made by members of
two Army radar crews who esti
mated the object was 60,000 feet
up.
A British Air Ministry spokes
man said Wednesday night every
such report is investigated “but
we are not prepared to comment
on individual reports.’’
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