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MAKING HASTE SLOWLY
Asked to comment on the accomplishments of his
first six months in office, President Eisenhower lec
tured his press conference on his theory of gradualism,
reminded his hearers that you could not have a right
angle turn in a railroad, but must build a gradual curve.
This was necessary, he pointed out, in picking up
where others left off and where there were opposing
policies and ideas after 20 years of another type of
philosophy.
The President stressed the point that not always
must we say that everything that had been done before
was wrong, that he had never said that and no reason
able man would. He said there had been progress in
that the people in the government, regardless of party,
were coming to see eye to eye on the great important
problems that affected the United States of America.
His job as he saw it, the President explained, was
not to create friction and not to accentuate difference,
but to bring people together to achieve more progress.
That, he admitted, was not particularly dramatic,
and it did not mean doing something just to get another
headline.
There was no question about it, he said, we were
making progress, but we had not gone as fast as he
would like, and that was the sum of it.
From such a summary shines the true greatness
of sympathetic understanding, and the unassailable
strength of modesty.
Fingerprints Prove Man
Fugitive From Justice
Living in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Ufi — A fugitive
from Alabama who had been liv
ing here under an assumed name
for three years was arrested by
the FBI last weekend and held in
federal jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.
The FBI said the man, Charlie
Hanson, 34, was wanted in con
nection with the murder of E. C.
Connell and wounding of D. E.
Hood at Montgomery, Ala., in
November, 1946.
Hanson was arrested in a sub
urban bar and denied he was the
man sought. Fingerprints proved
his identity. The FBI said he had
been living here since March,
1950, under the name of Lovelace
Potts and had worked on con
struction jobs.
A warrant for his arrest on a
charge of flight to avoid prosecu
tion was received here last May.
NOTICE
Cub Scouls and their families
will meet at the Q Cab at 6:00
p.m. Friday evening for a picnic
at Dexter. After this they will
attend a Boy Scout council at the
scout camp at 8:00, returning to
town at nine o'clock.
The Q Cab has kindly donated
the bus for the occasion, as Bob
Cannon is a Cub dad.
6,000 Communists
Invade W. Berlin
To Stop Food Gifts
BERLIN, 151 — More than 6,000
Communists, including women,
invaded West Berlin Tuesday and
made three attacks on food sta
tions in an effort to break up the
free distribution of American food
to East Germany’s hungry.
West Berlin police called out
reinforcement, and beat back the
columns of riot gangs with clubs
and water guns in swirling street
battles.
Dozens of heads were cracked,
and about 150 Communists, in
cluding seven women, were ar
rested.
Police said they expected more
attacks. They reinforced their
guards around the free distribu
tion centers and moved mobile
water guns up to strategic sectors.
U.S. High Commissioner James
B. Conant wrote to Soviet High
Commissioner Vladimir Semye
nov inviting Russia to “submit
proposals” to unfreeze East Ger
man funds in American banks to
buy relief food for the East zone’s
18 million Germans.
The U. S. High Commissioner’s
letter was prompted by a speech
to the Eastern Volkskammer (Par
liament) last Wednesday by Pre
mier Otto Grotewohl, in which he
rejected President Eisenhower’s
offer of 15 million dollars of food
as a gift and attacked the U.S.
for blocking Soviet zone funds in
the United States since 1951.
Grotewohl said if the funds
were released and other condi
tions met, his government was
prepared “to buy 15 million dol
lars—or even 50 million dollars—
worth of American food.”
American Mining Congress
To Hold 1953 Convention
In Seattle September 21-24
The Pacific Northwest will have
the eyes of the mining world di
rected upon it when the Ameri
can Mining Congress 1953 Metal
and Nonmetallic Mineral Mining
Convention is held in Seattle,
Septemeber 21-24.
. The National Program Commit
tee, of which P. R. Bradley, Jr., erf
San Francisco, Calif., is chairman,
has recently concluded a meeting
in Seattle at which a program
was formulated. This includes a
thorough discussion of such out
standing problems as U.S. min
eral policies, public land law re
vision and administration, mine
taxation, gold, silver and mone
tary policies, labor law legisla
tion, labor relations apd other
manpower problems, tariff, the
present and future outlook for
minerals and metals, uranium
mining, the status of defense
agencies dealing with mining, and
small mine operation.
Separate sessions will be de
voted to discussions of such im
portant problems of mine and mill
operation as mechanization, rr^ine
safety, rocking breaking, shaft
sinking, modem mining methods,
roof support, milling and metal
lurgy, mineral exploration, and
open pit mining.
Over two thousand delegates
from Canada, Alaska and the U.S.
will be in attendance. High gov
ernment officials, including Cab
inet officers, members of Con
gress and top leaders of the in
dustry have been invited to ad
dress the Convention.
Personal and business size file
folders available at the Nugget.
President, Cabinet!
Join Governors At
Seattle Conference
SEATTLE, GP)—President Eisen
hower and cabinet members join
ed 44 governors Tuesday in a
round table discussion—and per
haps some questioning — on the
stewardship of the nation’s nat
ural resources.
Eisenhower was strictly a listener
Monday night as Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey spoke before
the glittering, flag-bedecked state
dinner of the National Governors’
Conference and—
1. Defended what he called the
administration’s “honest dollar
policy.” He said that higher in
terest rates' benefit everyone, not
just a few bankers.
2. Declared “we are going to do
the best we can to get by” on
the present budget. “If we can’t
we’ll have to call a special ses
sion” of Congress.
The House passed but the Sen
ate decided to hold back the ad
ministration bill to raise the debt
limit to' 290 billion before Con
gress adjourned Monday night.
Eisenhower received a noisy
ovation from the predominantly
Republican governors when he
walked briskly, into the formal so
cial gathering a few hours after
his arrival by plane. In white din
ner jacket and black tie, he had a
smile and a handclasp for each of
the governors introduced by host
Gov. Arthur B. Langlie. To some
he waved.
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
Non-Skeds Accused
Of Giving Public
Poor Service
LOS ANGELES, UPC-Nonsched
uled airlines were accused Mon
day of selling more tickets than
their space allows and of operat
ing a spasmodic service that occa
sionally delivers passengers 200
miles from their destination.
Robert J. Bauer, president of
the Los Angeles Better Business
Bureau, made the charges at a
Civil Aeronautics Board hearing,
and received backing from Dist.
Atty. Don Keller of San Diego.
Former U.S. Sen. Claude Pep
per of Florida, attorney for the
Aircoach Transport Association,
was on hand to defend the smaller
airlines.
The nonscheduled airlines have
rendered valuable service, both to
the Army and to the public, Pep
per told reporters. He said that
their operations would be helped
if each is granted 14 round trips
monthly to designated cities, as
the Senate Small Business Com
mittee has recommended.
Bauer declared that tickets on
some lines are “little more than
hunting licenses permitting a pas
senger to go to the airport and
search out his own transportation
where he could find it.” He also
accused the “irregular airlines” of
using misleading advertising.
The hearing before Ralph L.
Wiser and Richard A. Walsh,
Washington examiners, is part of
the continuing inquiry which the
CAB has conducted in other parts
of the nation for over a year.
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