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“IT TAKES MEN ...”
Every now and then someone with nothing better
to do heaves a shuddering sigh about the supposed
evils of the Machine Age. Dark fears are voiced that
mechanization and assembly-line techniques may be
eroding away such sturdy old virtues as self-reliance1
and pride of craftmanship.
We refer these timid souls to the recent remarks
of Harlow H. Curtice, president of General Motors,
at the annual Scholarship Award Bafnquet of the
Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild in Detroit. The dinner
was in honor of those youngsters who. spent long hours
fashioning model automobiles for the contest spon
sored by GM’s Fisher Body Division.
The Machine Age, Mr. Curtice noted, has not
abolished the “great need for men who have an abiding
belief in their own ability to do something better than
it has been done before — and the plain fortitude to
finish what’s been started.”
“Machines can’t design themselves,” he reminded
the youngsters. “New products cannot design them
selves. Businesses cannot run themselves. It takes men
to make things happen—in industry—in science—in
government.”
Whatever fears some aging head-shakers may ex
press, we believe most of our young people agree with
Mr. Curtice’s common-sense observations.
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THE LATEST ON FROSTBITE
Old-timers in the Good Samaritan arts of first aid
received the shock of their lives recently. A new
supplement to the first aid textbook of the American
Red Cross, now being issued to its more than 87,000
instructors, reverses traditional ideas on tourniquets
and treatment of frost-bite.
The Red Cross now recommends that tourniquets
be used only where loss of blood threatens life. If it
must be used, it should be placed close to the wound:
and once tightened is not to be relaxed until a physician
orders.
Frozen members should now be warmed quickly
in a pan or tub of warm (not hot) water, rather than
thawed out slowly in cool water as heretofore. And
don’t keep the victim out in the cold.
Make a note—if you have one of those 4,400,000
first aid books now obsolete.
Link Seen With
Other Crimes In
Wells Murder Case
FAIRBANKS, (A»)—Both District
Attorney Ted Stevens and Police
Chief E. V. Danforth denied Mon
day that the gun used to kill Cecil
Wells, prominent auto dealer, had
been found.
Meanwhile, all local law en
forcement agencies Tuesday con
tinued their investigation of the
crime committed the morning of
Oct. 17.
Mrs. Wells told of two men be
ing in the apartment when she
awakened before dawn. She was
beaten badly.
There was evidence that auth
orities were attempting to link the
sensational killing with the mur
der of Tommy Wright, a promi
nent bar owner who was shot by
two thieves in his home here last
February.
Police also indicated they were
still investigating the machinegun
murder kidnaping and robbery of
Earle Hausmann, a grocer, in Dec
ember of 1951.
In the Wells’ killing, the Wright
shooting and the machinegun
holdup of the grocer, two intrud
ers were involved. The first two
crimes also remained unsolved.
Wright was shot before the
eyes of his wife by one of two in
truders who surprised him in his
home when he arrived there short
ly after midnight. Housmann was
held up at the point of a machine
gun when he arrived in his home
about midnight. He was forced to
accompany the two gunmen
downstairs, where he opened the
safe in his store for them.
Because of the similar reports
of two intruders in all three cases,
officers here believe there may be
a link among all three.
Meetings Aim To End
Chiseling On U. C. Funds
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because of a project close-down
at the end of the summer season.
Moore told of an Anchorage
couple “not construction work
ers,” who- he said, left recently
for the states, both drawing un
employment benefits.
Robert L. Anderson, the ESC’s
chief of benefits, said from the
gallery there is a fraud section
within the agency that attempts
to run down any applications for
benefits to which they are not
entitled, and to deny such bene-,
fits.
When Moore declared construc
tion workers should not be con
sidered seasonal, commission
chairman Robert L. Jemer,
Ketchikan, asked if the employ
ers he represents would be satis
fied to have their payment into
the unemployment fund increased
from its present 2.7 per cent of
wages paid to 5 per cent.
Walter S. Sharpe, assistant
manager of the Alaska Salmon
Industry, Inc., contended admin
istrators in the office of the Em
ployment Security Commission
had been lax.
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Campaign Under Way To Convince
Interior Department Alaska Needs
More Than $7,500,000 In Public Works
ANCHORAGE, (S*—A territory-^
wide campaign to convince the
U.S. Department of the Interior of
Alaska’s need for more than the
expected 7V£ million dollars in
public works funds was under
way Tuesday.
Anchorage city officials, cham
ber of commerce spokesmen and
representatives of the League of
Alaska Cities laid plans for the
campaign at a meeting here over
the weekend.
The meeting was called after it
was reported unofficially that the
Interior Department had slated
only 7 million of 28 million avail
able for public works projects in
Alaska next year.
It was decided that the League
of Alaskan Cities sho Id be given
the leading role in the campaign,
with the other organizations called
on for support.
Anchorage city officials agreed
to ask other municipal govern
Treasury Borrows
Near to Debt Limit
To Finance Gov’t
WASHINGTON, UP—'The Treas
ury will borrow two billion dol
lars this week to finance the gov
ernment through the end of the
year, pushing to within its last
thin half billion dollars of borrow
authority.
Nevertheless, a spokesman said,
the Treasury expects to get by at
least until January under the 275
billion-dollar debt limit which
Congress refused to raise last
summer.
The official indicated, however,
that Congress would probably be
asked again next session to raise
the debt ceiling. Last summer, the
Treasury asked for a new ceiling
of 290 billion dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey announced the new
borrowing late Monday. He said
in a statement that two billion
dollars of 7-year and 10-month
bonds, to be dated Nov. 9, will go
on sale tomorrow and that they
would pay 23A percent annual in
terest.
Humphrey also announced meas
ures designed to keep speculators
from playing with the issue arti
ficially boosting or depressing its
market value, and reserved the
right to reject subscriptions the
treasury deems are not from bona
fide investors.
Korea, with 30 million people,
is the 12th most populous nation
in the world, says the National
Geographic Society.
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merits to join the campaign and
chamber heads here indicated that
they would contact other cham
bers throughout the territory with
the same plea.
All will be asked to prepare
studies showing projects for which
the money could be used and the
reasons why the projects are need
ed. The studies will be submitted
to the convention of the League of
Alaskan Cities next month at Cor
dova.
During the meeting, William
Bordwell, Anchorage city admin
istrative assistant, told the group
this city alone has applications
pending for approximately 8V2
million dollars.
It was estimated the applica
tions pending before the Interior
Department total about 34 million
dollars throughout the territory.
Lee Bettinger former Kodiak
mayor, pointed out that Congress
has placed a five-year limit on al
location funds and that this is the
final year coming up. Money not
allocated this year will revert
back to the Treasury, he said.
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