THE NOME NUGGET
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CANDY IS DANDY, BUT ...
Open up those pearly gates. Millions of eager citi
zens, their fists bulging with gold pieces, are pursuing
thfe tax collector!
This may sound like the opening scene for a TV
spectacular, yet it’s not as far-fetched as it appears.
For taxes are about to be made popular.
We’ve just read a banner-headlined news story
in the Indianapolis Star which reports that Indiana’s
Gov. Harold W. Handley has obtained the services of
an advertising agency “to take the ‘fantastic’ label off
the state budget.”
The agency’s reported function will be “to drama
tize taxes in a way that will make the people eager for
more of them, like children for candy.”
New York’s Gov. Averell Harriman, meanwhile,
is quoted by the Associated Press as stating: “People
need to be educated to the satisfaction of paying taxes.”
If this thing spreads, there’s no telling where it
may end. We can almost hear the commerciHs rmw.
This one might be esoecially oooular with fillin'" station
operators faced with dramatizing the 40 percent or so
tax on gasoline:
Our gasoline is best / For it’s coated with taxes.
They’re a cinch to digest / If the patient relaxes.
Eventually the nation’s business would come to e
standstill as consumers discovered it is more fun to
pay taxes than buy goods. Tax ration stamps would be
issued for the bread line, while bigger and better ad
agencies struggled to pull the country out of depression
by “undramatizing” taxes and again making them
unpopular.
A LIVING THING
We hear much of racial discords and injustices.
We should hear more of the opportunities this country
offers to people of divers colors, creeds and nationalities.
Recently a Hindu, born in India, was elected to
Congress. One may approve or disapprove of his par
ticular partisan allegiance. But what the Chinese
World, published in San Francisco, said of this occur
rence is of much greater importance:
“In the United States any loyal citizen who devotes
himself to public service has an equal chance with
other Americans to attain public office.”
It added that the new congressman is making a
trip to India “ ... to inform the peoples of Asia that
in Ameriba democracy is a living, active thing, and
not just a theoretical device to serve propaganda
purposes.”
Ike’s Search for Sun i
Is Successful on Second
Day of Atlantic Cruise
i
EN ROUTE WITH EISEN
HOWER, UP> — President Eisen
hower’s search for the sun was
successful Saturday. He found
plenty of it in the Bahama- Islands
area on the second day of his
meandering cruise to Bermuda.
It was a welcome change from
Friday, when intermittent rain,
a murky overcast and moderately
rough seas kept Eisenhower in
his cabin all day aboard the Navy
guided missile cruiser Canerra.
The cruiser’s position shortly
after 9 a. m. Saturday was about
300 miles southeast of Florida
and about 85 miles east of Nassau.
The sun was bright. The tempera
ture was 78 degrees and headed
into at least the middle 80’s.
The sea was calm and the breeze
gentle. All in all, Saturday’s
Only Six of 30,000 Refugees
‘Tainted,’ Says Head of
Immigration Commission
NEW YORK, UR — Only six of
30,000 Hungarian refugees ad
mitted to this country in the last
four months have been “tainted”
of Communism, according to the
U. S. Commissioner of Immigra
tion.
Gen. Joseph M. Swing, the com
missioner, said last week he would
“stake my reputation” on the thor
oughness of screening given to
weed out refugees with Commu
nist leanings.
“These Hungarians,” Swing said,
“have been better screened than
any group of escapees who have
come here in the last nine and a
half months.”
weather looked like just the sort
of thing the doctors ordered to
build up his health.
I
High Winds
And Rain Hit
Texas Coast
Bv the Associated Press
Torrential rains and winds of
hurricane force lashed the Texas
Gulf Coast yesterday. At least
one person drowned when heavy
rains flooded streets and highways
and a tornado injured several per
sons and caused scattered dam
age in the Galveston area.
More than 10 inches of rain
fell at Texas City, where every
street was flooded for a time by
knee-deep water.
Winds up to 80 miles per hour
knocked down power poles, un
roofed homes, cut off telephone
and electric service at several
towns in Galveston County.
Twisters also were reported yes
terday at Houston and near San
Angelo. Lighter rains fell over
most of east Texas and rain fell
at San Antonio and Bryan.
James J. Simpson, 45, of Texas
City, drowned when his car went
out of control on a rain-covered
highway and careened into a cul
vert filled with more than five
feet of water.
A Negro caretaker, S. S. Martin,
and his wife and three children,
received minor bruises when a
twister cut a 4-mile path across
the Boyd Ranch, seven miles east
of Port Bolivar. Their frame
house was blown off its founda
tion. Other buildings in the area
received slight damage.
The turbulent weather came
when thunderstorms rumbled
across the state as moist air from
the Gulf collided with a cool
front moving down from the Tex
as Panhandle. Only traces of rain
fell in west Texas, however.
Philippine President Dies
Tn Crash of Plane
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charred suit and his wrist watch.
Two U.S. Air Force helicopters
made the hazardous landing on the
jungle-shrouded slope about 100
yards from the wrecked C-47.
Two U. S. Marine helicopters
were dispatched to the scene to
day and began carrying out the
bodies.
The sole sole survivor of the
crash —; Nestor Mata of the Phil
ippine Herald — told his paper
the plane had exploded before it
hit the mountainside.
The Herald said, however, his
account contained discrepancies
and judged he was suffering from
shock when he dictated it. Hos
pital authorities said Mata was
suffering from second and third
degree burns and had a 50-50
chance for survival.
Air Crash Rescuers
Hampered by Snow
On Japanese Mt.
TOKYO, tPi — A four-man res
cue team today reached the wreck
age of a U. S. Air Force C-47 on
the snow-covered slopes of Mount
Yarigatake.
- An Air Force spokesman said
the position of the wreckage and
the danger of avalanches kept
rescuers from completing a search
for the four men who presumably
died in the crash last Tuesday.
The C-47 vanished while on a
training flight over Japan.
There still was no trace of a
KB50 tanker plane with 10 men
aboard which disappeared Wed
nesday on a training flight from
Japan to Wake Island. Navy anl
Air Force search plailes have made
daily flights over the Pacific
area without finding a sign of the
missing four-engine plane.
New York Newspaper
Will Increase Price
From 5 to 10 Cents
NEW YORK, UP) — The New
York World Telegram said
today it would increase its price,
effective tomorrow, from five to
10 cents a copy.
It will be the first such increase
by the newspaper since 1944.
Since then, the newspaper said,
“the ov,er-all cost of producing the
World-Telegram and Sun has
more than doubled.”
There were unconfirmed re
ports, meanwhile, that other—
if not all — of the other New
York City daily newspapers also
were planning increases in news
stand prices of daily editions.
B'd Forms Available *
At Nugget Office for
Coast Guard Contracts
Bid forms for several contracts
in this area offered by the U. S.
Coast Guard are available at the
Nugget office.
They include:
Maintenance of entrance buoys
at Koyuk River.
Maintenance of Golovin Bay
Buoy No. 1 and Cheenik Spit
Buoy No. 2.
Fish River Flats Buoys.
Port Safety Range lights, rear
and front.
Port Safety Buoys.
Nome Harbor Range Lights,
front and rear.
WEATHER REPORT
Compiled, by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly cloudy tonight, cooler
Tuesday. Temperature falling to
night, reaching 15 to 20 Tuesday.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a. m. today: Precipitation .01
inch. Month total .57 inches. Tem
peratures: highest 31, lowest 28.
Maximum wind 29 miles an hour
from the northeast. Sunrise at
6:10 a. m., sunset at 6:12 p. m.
Slalion Temp. Weather
Barrow -7 light snow
Kotzebue 19 light snow
Wales -2 fog
Gambeli 8 light snow
Nome 29 light snow
Unalakleet 39 partly cloudy
Bethel 25 light snow
McGrath 33 light snow
Anchorage 37 overcast
Fairbanks 24 partly cloudy
; Whitehorse 33 cloudy
| Edmonton 31 cloudy
I Juneau 33 light rain
Ketchikan 42 partly cloudy
Seattle 44 ground fog
San Francisco 59 clear
‘Singspiration’ Pastor
Wishes Congregation To Be
‘Happy, Singing People!’
By R. STROM
A friendly invitation for all
Nome to participate in the Festi
val of Gospel Singing at the Cov
enant Church was extended
through a notice in Friday’s
Nugget.
Those who attended were in
spired to join with more than 100
enraptured voices in harmonious
concert, with one informal theme
—giving thanks to God.
Heard above the hearty chant
ing was the stirring voice in song
of Rev. Roald Amundsen, Pastor
of Nome Covenant Church, com
forting to the timid, formidable
to the lackadaisical, but conveying
a personal implied message to ev
eryone, which seemed to shout:
“If you can’t sing good, sing loud
. . . Join us in song . . . You are
amoog friends in God’s House. . . .”
Calling upon the congregation
to unmask its blooming talent.
Rev. Amundsen introduced a string
octet which unleashed its collec
tive art to entertain its audience
with the beauty of hymns that
had their origin in the old Scan
dinavian world.
Small groups of choraleers, in
cluding a strikingly melodious
male quartet of “6-footers,” aptly
dubbed “24 feet of harmony,”
sang in colorful unison from the
Book of Gospel Songs; and Mr.
Isaac Eben, bright-eyed and eager,
related his message of hope and
cheer to those afflicted and in
misery, with a comforting remind
er—“There is no magic that
Christ cannot accomplish.”
—
I Helicopter Blades
Blow Stranded Boats
Off Jamaican Sandbar
NEW YORK, UP) — A hovering
helicopter whipped up a breeze
strong enough to blow two
stranded boats off a sandbar in
Jamaica Bay yesterday.
Three persons in two outboard
motorboats were stuck in a half
foot of water when a police heli
copter spotted them.
The pilot lowered the p’ane un
til the wind from the whirling
blades shoved the boats into
deeper water.
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