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The following letter is one of several being directed to Wash
ington, D.C., in relation to tin and expresses plainly the
need for action.
July 14th, 1955
Hon. Walter Rogers, Member of Congress
Chairman, Subcommittee, Mines and Mining
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I address you and the members of your committee
on the subject of the tin mining industry of Seward
Peninsula, Second Judicial Division, Territory of Alas
ka, relative to its further development.
As well you know, our United States is almost
wholly dependent upon imports of tin from foreign
countries and, should there be an emergency, such
imports could almost cease. Our own continental pro
duction, most of which is mined in this northwestern
most section, is very small in comparison with our
imports.
Here, costs of labor, equipment and all required
supplies are high and ever on the increase. The pound
price of tin fluctuates and at times is so low
that mines cannot operate; then again, when foreign
tin is priced very high, even though the cost of product
ion is actually low, then the price soars and tin mining
and development is on the upgrade.
In ths Seward Peninsula area, the majority of
mine employees are Eskimos, who reside in the district
—their families live at or near the operations. The
continued operation of the various tin properties and
its further development means much to the economy
of this section of Alaska. Continued operations will
remove innumerable Eskimos and the families from
the Public Welfare payrolls; a portion of such assistance
is paid by the Federal Government and when workers
are denied employment will ever be on the increase.
Should known tin deposits be further developed
throughout the year, hundreds of our Eskimos would
be employed, and their families would live in a more
healthful manner than many who just exist in the
isolated villages.
I sincerely believe that the members of your com
mittee should, in every known way, encourage the
development of our tin resources. And in order to
President, in Pre-Takeoff Talk, Urges
Nation to Pray for Success at Geneva
WASHINGTON, UP—President
Eisenhower flew across the Atlan
tic Saturday, after expressing the
hope that mankind’s greatest step
toward peace and prosperity may
be taken at Geneva in the next
few fateful days.
Aboard the President’s personal
plane, the Columbine III, were
Mrs. Eisenhower and their son,
Maj. John Eisenhower.
The Eisenhower plane reached
Keflavik, Iceland, Air Force Base
about 10 hours after taking off
from Washington at 5:18 p.m. The
Eisenhower party had lunch with
President and Mrs. Asgeir Asgeir
son of Iceland and others, includ
ing John Muccio, the U.S. minis
ter there.
In a dramatic White House
broadcast less than an hour before
taking off from Washington, Eis
enhower all but pleaded with the
Russians to make good on their
recent tolerance and conciliation
pledges.
He spoke in moving terms of
the latest speech by Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin:
“He talked of conciliation and
tolerance and understanding. I say
to all the world, if the words that
he expressed are truly reflective
of the hearts and minds of the
men in the Kremlin . . . then there
will be no trouble between the
Russian delegation and our own
at this coming conference.’’
And, said the President with
deep seriousness, if the distrust
which has poisoned relations be
tween countries can be dispelled
;----—
at his meeting with the Russian,
British and French leaders start
ing Monday, then:
“We will have taken the great
est step toward peace, toward fu
ture prosperity and tranquillity
that has ever been taken in all the
history of mankind.”
He spoke of the conference at
tempting “to prevent war ... to
keep from us this terrible scourge
that afflicts mankind.”
It is clear, he said, that in the
short time of the conference “we
cannot settle the details of the
many problems that afflict the
world,” but he added later:
“We want peace. We cannot
look at this whole situation with
out realizing first that pessimism
never won any battle, whether it
was in peace or whether it was
in war.”
He had a suggestion for well
| wishers: Go to church and pray
for success of the Big Four con
ference. If all Americans did that,
| he said, it would “demonstrate to
all the world the sincerity and j
depth of our aspirations for peace.
“This would be a mighty force.
None could then say that we must
preserve armaments because we
want to. We preserve them be
cause we must.”
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greatly assist in such development there should be
incentives, such as an assured fair per-pound price and
market for our Alaska tin. I believe further that you
should recommend and see to it that the Government
establish a purchasing station at Nome so that compan
ies and individuals mining tin can immediately dispose
of their tin ores and thus have access to their money
returns for payrolls and other expense accounts of
operation and further development.
I further call to your attention that our Govern
ment loaned forty million dollars to Bolivia for the
construction of its roads and highways so that its re
sources be better developed, repayment of the loan to
be in tin ores. There have never been any well-con
structed roads in the tin mining section. Every operator
did his own expensive hauling of machinery, food or
other supplies. There is no road from Nome to the tin
mining district, nor even needed roads to open other
mineral properties, nor even a dirt road to connect
Nome with the Alaska Highway at Fairbanks. There
can be no mineral development under such conditions.
With these and other facts before you, Mr. Chair
man, all of which, no doubt, are fully substantiaied by
Alaskans now engaged in the mining of tin, also Federal
and Territorial officials, I most respectfully urge upon
you and the members of vour committee prompt and
favorable consideration of the legislation now before
the committee.
I have been a resident of Alaska for over fifty
years, engaged at times in gold placer mining, retail
general merchandise and fur businesses. For thirty
years I operated my business within fifty miles of our
tin mines, furnishing manv of the Eskimo miners and
laborers when operations first started a few years ago.
I am fairly well familiar with the tin operations at Lost
River, Cape and Buck Creeks, however do not own
stock in, or have any financial connection with, any of
the operations.
The military defense requirement for tin alone
should cause every Government agency and every
member of Congress to go ALL OUT to assist and
encourage the further development of tin tonnage in
Alaska.
Yours very sincerely,
George R. Goshaw
Edward R. Murrow
Escapes Injury in
Airliner Accident
YAKIMA, Wash., (AV-Fifteen
persons including newscaster Eld
ward R: Murrow and family
walked away unharmed Friday
when an airliner in which they
were traveling crashed into a pole
and lost six feet of wing tip after
a landing.
The Northwest Orient Airlines
twin-engined DC-3 set down dur
ing a thunderstorm at 6:30 p.nu
on a flight from Seattle. Two
thirds of the way down the run
way, Capt. Jack Taylor, the pilot,
found his brakes would not hold
against a sudden 40-mile-an-hour
gust of wind.
The big plane sailed right along
for several hundred yards after
the runway terminated, scraping
across a fence post and finally
striking the utility pole.
The impact sheered off the
wing tip and broke a power line,
but the plane stopped and the 12
passengers and the 3 crew mem
bers alighted without difficulty.
Murrow, 47-year-old board mem
ber of the Columbia Broadcasting
System, said later he considered
it a beautiful landing because “I
consider hny landing I walk away
from beautiful.”
With him were his wife, Jan
nette, and their son Casey, 9.
Murrow was enroute to Spo
kane to visit his brother, Dewey,
after visiting his mother, Mrs. R_
C. Murrow at Bellingham.
Glass Sliver Comes Out
Of Foot After 39 Years
SALT LAKE CITY, UTl — Mrs.
Emma Eckly wiggled her foot.
“Hasn’t felt so good in years,”
she’ said.
Thirty-nine years to be exact. It
was that long ago when, as a
child of 8, she stepped on a bot
tle, which broke, sending a sliver
of glass into her foot.
Since then the foot has bother
ed her considerably, itching and
aching.
Yesterday a small sore devel
oped and she removed the li .tie
glass sliver—picked up 39 years
j ago.
Cigarettes burn more slowly at
8,000 feet in the air than on the
ground.
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