THE NOME NUGGET
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OUR FOREFATHERS DID BETTER
We applaud the statement of Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., in which he told the U.N. that Vish
insky in his recent 37 minute tirade against this country
“missed another one of several great opportunities in
his life to keep quiet.”
And we must agree with Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles in the dissatisfaction with the U.N. which
he expressed before the American Bar Association con
vention in Boston.
Mr. Dulles said this Noble Experiment was encum
bered with “a pre-atomic charter,” suggesting that the
rules would have been different had we known in 1945
what was coming.
“We now see,” he said, “the inadequacy of an or
ganization whose effective functioning depends upon
cooperation with a nation which is dominated by an
international party seeking world domination.”
We could remind the secretary that there were
those who saw this pretty clearly back in 1945. But
we prefer to emphasize the fact that there is just one
legal instrument that Americans have not, through the
years, found wanting. That is the Constitution of the
United States. It is a document that Mr. DullCs has
sworn to uphold and defend.
SOMEBODY’S NUTS
Washington, D.C., August, 1953—If you like a
salted almond or filbert now and then, you may be
interested in the current hassle between the nut grow
ers and the Peanut and Nut Salters Association before
the U.S. Tariff Commission.
Or if you object to having your tax money used to
rescue American nut growers from their own marketing
mistakes . . or if you think the growers of Italy and
Turkey—whose countries we are supposedly helping
to get on their economic feet—should have a chance to
sell their nuts here when our growers have none to
offer . . the problem is brought a little closer home.
In fact, it gets right to your own pants pocket.
According to Willard H. Giles, vice president of
the association, the almond industry has failed to prop
erly market its crop, and government paternalism and
protectionism have promoted a “take it easy, the tax
payer will bail us out” attitude. % As an example, he
says, top-quality almonds which had been selling for
60 cents a pound were offered last June for 13 cents—
if a government subsidy were forthcoming. In August,
the government refused to grant the subsidy, the 13
cent offers were withdrawn, and the nuts sold abroad
for 26 cents. “Why,” asks Mr. Giles, “were’nt they
exported in the first place, instead of asking the tax
payers for a handout?”
The filbert situation, it seems, is somewhat the
reverse. Mr. Giles told the commission that filbert
shelters were sold out last April, that the new crop
will not be on the market till next November or Dec
ember. Yet, on June 10, import restrictions were es
tablished (which operate mainly against Italy and
Turkey). This year, says Mr. Giles, estimates indicate
a drop of 39 percent below the 1952 crop.
Thus the Nut Salters think restriction during the
coming year “would not be justified,” and respectfully
urge the commission to lay off. Mr. Giles also told the
tariff gentlemen that he didn’t expect “aggressive mer
chandising” from the almond growers “until the gov
ernment tells the almond industry it is no longer an
infant and must stand on its own feet.” He thinks
it would help if the Agriculture Department again
refused to subsidize the industry, and that the commis
sion recommend against import restriction.
In ether words, perhaps next year you can actually
eat the nuts you pay for.
IN THE BALANCE
THE PETROLEUM AGE
Just a century ago, six years before the first oil
well was drilled, a lumber company at Titusville, Pa.,
made an arrangement with a local citizen to gather
the “rock oil” that seeped from a spring on their prop
erty and make it useful.
This first “oil operator” gathered three to four
gallons of petroleum a day, and used it for lighting
the saw mill and lubricating the machinery.
Today, when two million oil industry workers are
providing America with more than seven million bar
rels of oil a day, petroleum is still used for lighting
and lubrication. In addition, more than 53 million
cars and trucks and busses burn up about 46 billion
gallons of gasoline a year, household oil-burners con
sume more than ten billion gallons of fuel oil, and our
whole defense establishment, on land and sea and in
the air, is petroleum-powered.
But there are a thousand other places where petrol
eum and its derivatives contribute to the needs of to
day’s world. You would hardly expect, for instance,
to find it in your telephone, the wrapper on your bread
or the milk carton in your icebox, in your lipstick and
face-cream, as well as in your tires and the upholstery
of that super-comfortable new furniture you’re so proud
of. Petroleum is also an ingredient of plastics of all
sorts, and accounts for about 25 percent of all the organ
ic chemicals in the United States.
Thus, in the sense of depending on jetroleum for
their jobs, millions of people are “oil men” today
without realizing it. And similarly, no one in all of
America could list completely, all the ways in which
this substance lubricates his life. But when the indus
try celebrates, in October, its annual “Oil Progress
Week,” you will have plenty of reason yourself to
throw your hat in the air too.
BOY, 10, KILLS SELF
PLAYING WITH REVOLVER
BELVEDERE, Calif., UP) —Peter
Lamont, 10, found a .38 caliber
revolver of his stepfather, ^Deputy
Sheriff Sherry Graywood.
Then he found a bullet, inserted
it, and pointed the gun at his face.
A playmate warned “Don’t do
that, Peter! It might go off.”
It did.
Peter was rushed to a hospital
where he died last night.
'COPTER RESCUES AIRMEN
DOWNED IN DESERT
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ari
zona, (#)—An Air Force helicopter
dropped down into a sandy desert
wasteland near the ghost town of
Sundad, Ariz., early Thursday and
rescued nine stranded airmen.
The flyers, who parachuted
from a plane damaged in an aerial
collision Wednesday, were flown
back to an auxiliary field west of
Tuckeye, Ariz., and were reported
“all in good shape.”
WEDNESDAY SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 6, Cincinnati 0
New York 8, St. Louis 3
Philadelphia 2, Milwaukee 0
Chicago 8, Pittsburgh 7
American League
New York 9, Chicago 3
Cleveland 2, Boston 1
Detroit 8-1, Philadelphia 2-7
St. Louis 3-1, Washington 0-2
Coast League
Los Angeles 6, S. Francisco 3-9
Portland 2, San Diego i
Hollywood 3, Oakland 2
FOR THE BIRDS
FAYETTE, Mcf, (#>—1The spar
rows and starlings were getting
so thick around the courthouse
that people stayed away in droves.
Firemen tried to hose them
from the trees.
The birds loved the water and
flocked to the area in even great
er number.
Anyway, the sidewalks were
cleaner for a while.
Judge Folta Rules
Sand And Gravel
Are Not Minerals
ANCHORAGE, UPl — Sand and
gravel are not minerals and you
cannot discover something which
is in plain view, a federal court
judge ruled Wednesday in a de
cision officials said may have far
reaching consequences throughout
the United States and its terri
tories.
The ruling was made by Judge
George W. Folta, who dismissed
suits brought by three local firms
attempting to obtain clear title to
territorial school lands near here.
The judge, in denying that sand
and gravel are minerals, closed
the door to the staking of any
future mining claims on this basis.
Unless reversed by a higher court,
the decision would affect any pub
lic domain in the States or 1:erri- „
tories.
Four families joined three years
ago in staking mining claims on
the school land, claiming that they
had discovered gravel in the area.
Two other companies also staked
claims to portions of the land,
which it is . estimated would be
worth $2,000,000. The gravel was
valued at $750,000. ' *
After defining sand and gravel
out of the mineral class, the judge
denied a claim that the land had
been “discovered” in the sense of
the word used by Congress in
enacting mining laws.
“To say that a discovery of
gravel may be made in a large
area of gravel open to view is to
say that there can be a discovery *
of water in Cook Inlet or snow on
Mt. McKinley,” he said.
Judge Folta said he believed the
discovery rule was made by Con
gress with the intent of limiting
appropriation of public land yet
stimulating prospecting by re
warding the prospector who finds
valuable minerals in a traditional
sense,” he said. “It is difficult to
conceive of a discovery not atten
dant with great hardship, effort,
and expense.”
29-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF 9
TO REPRESENT NEW JERSEY
IN MRS. AMERICA CONTEST
ASBURY PARK, N.J., CP)—Mrs.
Anna Spada, 29-year-old moth'er
of nine children, will represent
New Jersey in the Mrs. America
contest here Sunday.
Shivering in a nylon crepe bath
ing suit, she won the title of Mrs.
New Jersey over six wedded
beauties at Palisades Amusement
Park Thursday night.
Spada, a soap works foreman,
wasn’t on hand for his wife’s vic
tory.
“I told him to stay home and
take care of the children,” Mrs.
Spada said. >
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Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew, Mr.
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Ryan.
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