$5 Million in
Social Security Benefits
Paid to Alaskans
JUNEAU — Gov. Egan said
Tuesday he had been advised that
some 7,000 Alaskans will have
received some $5 million in So
cial Security benefits for the fis
cal year ending June 30.
The monthly benefits fall un
der the Old-Age, Survivors and
Disability Program.
Egan said the estimate was made
in a letter from Abraham Ribi
coff, Secretary of the C. S. De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Alaska received a total of $11,
479,607 in grants in aid during
the same period for programs of
the office of Education, Public
Health Service and the Social
Security Administration.
Protests of High Shipping
Rates from Japan to Alaska
Gov. William A. Egan said
the State of Alaska has protested
to the Trans-Pacific Freight Con
ference against discriminatory
shipping rates in effect on ship
ments from Japan to Alaska.
“The discriminatory freight
rates arbitrarily set for Japan
Alaska trade at 30 per cent above
other West Coast ports has no
justifiable basis either in time,
distance or trade,” read a cable
gram sent earlier this week to a
conference meeting in Tokyo.
“Finalizing the temporary
freight rates at this time would
prove damaging to our economic
development and foreign com
merce.”
BEER STAINED . . .
ASTON ROW ANT, England UP>
Police found a piano abandoned
on the main highway near this
Oxfordshire village today. “We
have only one clue as to how it
got there,” said a police spokes
man. “It is all stained with beer.”
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MacArthur and
Romulo Presented
Freedom Plaques
NEW YORK UR — General of
the Army Douglas MacArthur
blamed the failure of the United
States to follow up its military
advantage in Korea for the
emergency of Communist “as a
mighty military colossus to threat
en the future freedom of all
men.”
The prepared statement waS
read by Gen. Courtney Whitney,
MacArthur’s aide, at a “Soldier
for Freedom” award luncheon.
The luncheon honored Mac
Arthur and Philippine Ambassa
dor Carlos P. Romulo. who re
ceived “Soldier of Freedom”
plaques from the Morris Morgen
stern Foundation.
MacArthur’s statement said, in
part: “A great nation which vol
untarily enters upon war must
fight it through to victory or
eventually suffer all of the con
sequences of defeat. We failed to
follow that immutable principle
and thereby established Red
China a mighty military colos
sus to threaten the future free
dom of all men, when we had
within our grasp the control of
its ability to wage modern war
for generations to come. Let us
not make such a mistake again,
lest we perish.”
It was a difference of opinion
between MacArthur and former
President Harry Truman over the
grand strategy for fighting the
war in Korea that led Truman
to relieve MacArthur from his Far
Eastern commands.
MacArthur advocated bombing
China and Manchuria and attack
ing the Chinese Red mainland
with Chinese Nationalist troops.
He also wanted a Naval blockade
of China.
Truman said if MacArthur’s
policy were followed “we would
be runing a very grave risk” of
starting World War III.
The awards were presented to
MacArthur and Romulo at Mac
Arthur’s apartment in the Wal
dorf Towers. The luncheon, which
MacArthur did not attend, fol
lowed.
WESTERN AIRLINES FIRES
130 STRIKING EMPLOYES
LOS ANGELES UR — Western
Airlines yesterday fired all its 130
striking flight engineers. The com
pany said they will be replaced
by pilots trained to handle their
duties as fast as possible.
The company last Saturday got
a federal court injunction order
ing the flight engineers to return
to work. The engineers didn’t re
turn.
Reindeer, Alaska’s
Growing Industry
By Robert Grant
Vegetation on reindeer ranges
comprises a mixture of lichens,
shrubs, sedges, weeds, grasses and
mosses. Lichens are the prefer
red feed for winter range.
Hummocky ground predomi
nates on the lower slopes. Alder
is found along the stream courses.
Some dwarf willows are found in
open tundra country.
To reach lichen forage in the
winter, reindeer will paw through
several feet of snow. Lichen will
always be found at the spot where
they paw. The lichens are high in
moisture and are particularly
relished when both water and
snow are lacking.
Female reindeer will return to
the same area each year for fawn
ing. This makes a herd exception
I ally difficult to hold during the
' first year of establishment. Dur
| ing fawning season (mid-April
! through May) the females may be
j found grouped by themselves.
| Males whose antlers are soft at
this period will also be grouped
together.
In early summer reindeer select
windswept areas and water to
escape insects. Later in the sum
mer, latter part of July and the
month of August, the reindeer
gain rapidly in weight. Steers will
be in prime condition by No
vember. Bulls fatten the fastest,
are in top condition in September
and lose weight from then on
through the rutting season which
ordinarily ends in November. The
older males drop their antlers al
most immediately following rut
ting season. Yearling males may
carry their antlers until early
spring. Females drop their ant
lers following fawning.
Easily Herded
Reindeer are quite tractable
and easily herded in one locality
during winter months if the feed
is good. Herding is done on foot
with a minimum of aid from herd
dogs. The nature of grazing areas
is such that reindeer can be near
ly impossible to herd during a
mosquito and warble-fly season
in summer months.
From 30 to 100 acres might be
required for year long grazing of
each reindeer, depending upon
how much of the terrain is cov
ered by lakes, the types of vege
tation available, and how much
of the terrain is suited for sum
mer range, how much for winter,
fall and for fawning range.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Washington
Newsletter
(From the Office of
Senator Bob Bartlett)
Proposals calling for an agree- |
ment on gold among world na- i
i tions and production of more gold ■
was brought to the Senate’s at
tention this week by Senator
Bartlett who termed the ideas as
“worthy of consideration” which
“ought to receive the attention of !
those who guide our money |
policies.”
The propositions were contain- |
ed in a recent editorial from the
Independent Editorial Services,
Ltd. which declared that an esti
mated half billion dollars worth
of gold could be produced every
year on the North American con
tinent which the editorial stated
“would just about match that of
Russia.” Increased production
could come about, the editorial
stated, by either raising the price
of gold or giving special bonuses
or subsidies.
“Gold production everywhere in
the free world could well be sti
mulated without inflating the dol
lar,” the editorial stated, “by an
agreement with all the nations of
the free world now linked to the
dollar for an advance in the price
of gold simultaneously in all cur
rencies. Inflation is a relative
term, and with all the nations
with whom we trade acting si
multaneously no special advantage
would be given any of them in
dealing in the dollar.”
SOVIETS HAVE NEWLY
FORMED NEWS AGENCY
MOSCOW UP) — The newly
formed Soviet news agency will
be called Novesti, the Russian
word for news. Tass, until now
the only Soviet news agency, said
Novesti is designed to promote
understanding between nations. It
gave no details of Novesti’s plans.
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Organized Labor
Losing Ground for
New Members
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. W — A
report that organized labor is
losing ground in making union
members of American workers
brought a self-appraisal in the
AFL-CIO yesterday that it could
spell union labor’s “obituary.”
Organizing Director John Liv
ingston told AFL-CIO chiefs
gathered here for a winter meet
ing their unions are staging a
losing battle in wooing workers
to the union cause.
Livingston reportedly told the
AFL-CIO executive council at a
closed session that where all the
nation’s union had enlisted 40
per cent of organizable workers
in the work force five years ago
the proportion is now down to
38 per cent.
Independent unions, meaning
those unconnected with the fed
eration like the Teamsters and
Mine Workers Unions, are winning
bigger groups of new members
proportionately than the APL
CIO’s own unions.
Livingston explained the de
cline in union organizing prow
ess is partially due to the rapid
ly changing composition of the
nation’s work force — with the
number of manual workers de
clining along with a corrolary in
crease in white collar, or office
and technical workers.
SEEKS BROTHER
Mrs. Sam Kaufman. 43 Seaway
Drive. Pt. Pierce, Florida is seek
ing of her brother, John Hrones,
who works as a mechanic some
where in Alaska.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Nome Directory
Nome
Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crinklaw, Sec.
Meets First Thursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
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Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A. E. BOHRER, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina Bachelder, President
Jane Foster, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Lt.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 165
Meetings - Monthly, Last Tuesday 8 p.m.
Staff Conferences - Each Tuesday 8 p.m.
Group Hdqtrs., Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
Meetings - Each THursday 7:30 p.m.