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2 THE NOME NUGGET Monday, August 23. 1954
THE NOME NUGGET
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ALMOST SOLVENT!
“We have come over two-thirds of the way to
ward balancing the budget,” declared President Eisen
hower in a statement of federal income and outgo for
the fiscal year ended last June 30. The President’s
report showed that his Administration had cut ten
billions off the “irreducible” budget proposed by the
outgoing former President Truman, and that actual
spending was 6.5 billions below the previous fiscal
year. The deficit was down to a mere $3,029,000,000
which is about 245 millions less than the red ink esti
mated last January.
“These fiscal achievements mean a great deal to
the American people,” said the President. “We have
made possible a program of tax cuts totalling 7.5 bil
lions. We have halted inflation. Our people have new
confidence we are laying a firm base for a healthy and
expanding economy for better national security and
for more jobs for more people.”
In fact, we are now convinced that Senator Henry
F. Byrd is quite right in his contention that there is
no need to lift the present 275 billion dollar debt ceiling
as Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey insisted
was necessary a year ago. Cutting spending down to
fit revenue is the Byrd formula. It seems to work as
well for Uncle Sam as for Joe Doaks.
ERICKSON PLACERS PERFECT
EQUIPMENT FOR NEXT YEAR
The Erickson Placers of An
chorage who have a new process
mining machine invented by Wal
ter Erickson, have received favor
able recognition from mining cir
cles.
Last year the firm mined on
Bangor Creek, a tributary of the
Snake River.
Erickson Placers have complet
ed a larger plant in Seattle, which
it is reported, will be put into
operation cfn the Bangor Creek
property next year.
Although the conquering Span
iards found that the people of
Peru had large numbers of emer
alds, the source from which they
obtained them never has been dis
covered.
Fin* Job Printing at th* Nugg*l
MR. AND MRS. 'X'
DENVER, Colo., Wl—“We have
a woman here who can’t write,”
the registration judge told an elec
tion commission Official by tele
phone.
“How do we register her to
vote?”
Have her make an ‘X’ ” the
judge called back.
“Now she wants to register her
husband. What does she sign
now?”
“Sign it ‘X’ by ‘X’,” he was in
structed.
Sheep Respect Black Dog
BAGILT, Wales., UP>—Jock the
sheepdog was a failure—he had
a pure white coat and the sheep
just didn’t give a baa for him. So
George Pugh, his owner, dyed the
dog black. The result: Jock won
the driving contest at the Welsh
National Sheep Dog trials here.
Legisative Council
Will Consider
Juvenile Code
Charles Jones, senator for the
Second Division, leaves today for
Anchorage for a meeting of the
Legislative Council.
The Alaska Legislative Council
was created by the 21st Legisla
ture in 1953 for the purpose of
studying problems, in the interim,
which will come before the legis
lature.
The council is composed of
throe senators and three repre
sentatives who are appointed
jointly by the president of the
Senate and the speaker of the
House of Representatives. The
council is directed by law to make
studies covering territorial prob
lems and policies and report its
findings and recommendations to
the legislature, and to assist terri
torial senators and representa
tives by making studies and draft
ing bills as a service to individual
legislators.
Members erf the council are:
Sens. Paul F. Robison, chair
man, Anchorage; Doris M. Barnes,
Wrangell; Charles D. Jones,
Nome; and Reps. F. O. Eastaugh,
secretary, Juneau; Richard J.
Greuel, Fairbanks; Charles E.
Fagerstrom, Nome.
Major studies undertaken by
the council since its creation in
clude reorganization of fiscal
branches and procedures in the
territorial government, highway
finance, local government organi
zations and functions, Juvenile
Code revisions, and study of fa
cilities required for detention and
training of juvenile offenders,
legislative aids, industrial incen
tives and numerous other studies
made in connection with legisla
tive proposals sponsored by de
partments and agencies of the ter
ritorial government and individ
ual requests of legislators.
One of the major subjects on
the council agenda in which great
interest has been exhibited by
civic leaders, welfare workers,
and public officials is that of the
adequacy of the Alaska Juvenile
Code and the question of whether
additional laws are necessary to
provide appropriate methods in
dealing with juvenile offenders
and whether Alaska should as
sume the responsibility for pro
viding detention and training
facilities within Alaska itsolf.
BARGE SERVICE DENIED
WASHINGTON, l/PI—The Inter
state Commerce Commission Fri
day turned down an application
by the Alaska Freightlines of Se
attle, for permission to establish a
new barge line service between
Pacific Coast and Gulf of Mexico
ports.
The commission ruled the com
pany had failed to show a suffi
cient public need for the service.
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AUGUST 16 TO 31
83rd Congress Adjourns With
Thanks From White House for
Passage of 65 Requested Bills
WASHINGTON, UP)—After a fi-<
nal burst of legislating and ora
tory, the 83rd Congress has brok
en for home with President Eisen
hower’s thanks for its “record of
accomplishment.”
In its final hours Friday night,
Congress sent Eisenhower a social
security bill just about as he had
asked for it and a federal workers
pay boost bill that Senate Repub
lican Leader Knowland of Cali
fornia warned may be vetoed.
The House ad’ourned with a
whoop and a holler at 7:38 p.m.,
EOT. It won’t return until Jan. 5,
barring a special call from the
President. Meanwhile, most of its
members will be battling for re
election on November 2.
The Senate finished its last leg
islative chore early in the evening
when, by voice vote, it completed
congressional action on a bill to
bring another 10 million persons
under social security and to boost
both benefit payments and the
taxes that support them.
However, the Senate stayed
around for another 3 hours and
12 minutes as some of the senators
got some final remarks off their
chests. The Senate also confirmed
a few more postmasters before
quitting at 10:50 p.m.
Even before the windup, the
White House claimed top honors
for* President Eisenhower and the
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| Republican Party. It said 65 leg- f
islative proposals wore Eisenhow- '
er’s colors this year and that only
11 finished out of the money.
Sen. Ferguson o5 Michigan,
chairman of the Sena*e G°P pol
icy committee, declared that con
gress had passed a program -n
bodying “the basic principles the
party was elected to put in*o ef
fect.”
“I think a majority of th~ peo
ple will favor that program,” Fer
guson added.
But the Senate’s Democratic
leader, Lyndon Johnson of’Texas,
said he believes the actions of the
GOP-controlled Congress will get
a thumbs-down response from the
voters in November.
Johnson predicted Democrats
will find campaign ammunition in
the administration’s farm, labor,
power and business policies.
All House terms expire this
year, and 37 Senate seats will be
filled in November.
The Senate is subject to recall
sometime during the fall to con
sider a special committee’s report
on a eensure move aimed at Sen.
McCarthy.
TOKYO, Iff)—The emperor and
empress of Japan took their first
airplane ride today in a four
engined transport piloted by an
American.
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