THE NOME NUGGET
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DEEP IN THE HEART OF WASHINGTON
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GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY IS THE WORST
President Eisenhower succinctly explained one
big reason for his opposition to monopolistic federal
electric power development in these words: “Monopoly
is always potentially dangerous to freedom — even
when monopoly is exercised by government.”
Of this, the Saturday Evening Post said editorially,
“Indeed, President Eisenhower might have said,
‘particularly when exercised by government.’ Govern
ment can restrain private monopoly, but who shall re
strain the excesses of government monopoly?”
/ Any government-owned enterprise is beyond the
reach of the people. To all practical purposes, it is
often also beyond the effective reach of Congress or
the Executive branch. If federal domination is exer
cised in a so vitally essential field as a region’s power
supply, local government, local enterprise, and local
citizens are helpless. The entrenched officials who
operate the monopoly hold what amounts to life and
death power over agriculture and enterprise.
Carry this far enough, and we have tyranny.
Honest liberals will always fight monopoly — and
ftionopoly by government most of all.
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John Barrymore Jr.
To Be Sentenced for
Reckless Driving
' LAS VEGAS, Nev., Of*—Actor
John Barrymore Jr. must appear
in court next Monday for sentenc- j
ing after being convicted Monday j
of reckless driving.
Maximum penalty would be a
$500 fine and six months in jail.
He is at liberty on $300 bail.
The officer who arrested Barry
more Dec. 22 said he ran over a
pedestrian >; traffic isle and was
weaving in heavy traffic. Barry
more denied the charge.
; “Do you intend to call the offi
cer a liar?” asked Asst. City Atty.
Murray-Posin. **
j>‘“Jf you want-to put the words
in ray:-mouth, I’ll say ’em,” replied
Barrymore.- *: : '
rvHis wife,-jthe former Cara Wil
liams* corroborated him, as did a
friend, actor* Allen Foster.
More Use Planes Than
Ships to Cross Oceans
For First Time in 1954
LONDON, (jP—For the first time
last year more passengers crossed
oceans of the world by air than by
sea, according to Sir Miles Thom
as, chairman of British Overseas
Airways Corp.
The BOAC chairman did not
give sea figures but he did give
the industry’s preliminary esti
mates of 1954 air travel:
Total revenue was $2,002,000,
000, 10 per cent more than 1953.
Seventy-one airlines in the In
ternational Air Transport Assn.
(I AT A) carried 44 million passen
gers a total of 28 billion passenger
miles.
Twelve airlines operated 15,000
flights over the North Atlantic, an
average of one transatlantic hop
almost every half hour, day and
night, throughout the year.
Andy McCafferty
To Be Buried on
Seward Peninsula
FAIRBANKS. (/PI—A student pi
lot, who loved all children and
had eight of his own, will be bur
ied this week in the lonely fast
ness of the Seward Peninsula near
where his single-engined plane
carried him to his death in a flam
ing crash Dec. 31.
The decision to bury Andy Mc
Cafferty, about 35, where he died
was told by a 74th Air Rescue
Squadron crew on their return to
Ladd Air Force Base. *
McCaffetry, a Civil Aeronautics
Administration employe at Moses
Point, on Norton Sound, was
killed outright in the crash of his
Taylorcraft near Bluff, about 40
miles east of Nome.
The Rev. Rcald Amundson of
Nome, who was directed to the
scene by the Air Force search
plane, said he found an elderly
couple standing beside the burned
wreckage of McCafferty’s plane,
grieving over his death.
The couple [Mr. and Mrs. Billie
Nelson] told the flying pastor that
McCafferty always circled their
home at Bluff on his flights to
Nome so he could see if they were
all right.
They said that just as McCaf
ferty finished his loop around
their house and headed toward
Nome last Friday his plane burst
into flames. It crashed four miles
beyond.
The SA-16 Air Force search
plane from Ladd AFB was dis
patched to the area Saturday after
McCafferty failed to arrive in
Nome. The wreckage of his light
plane was sighted late in the day,
but a 30-knot wind prevented two
paramedics from dropping to the
scene. The SA-16 then radioed the
Civil Air Patrol in Nome for as
sistance. Mr. Amundson, a CAP
member, was flying in the area
and was directed there.
Only a few days earlier, Mc
Cafferty had made a special flight
to the native village of Koyuk,
near Moses Point, so the children
there would get toys for Christ
mas.
His widow and six children live
at the CAA station at Moses Point.
NOTICE
Public Health Office Hours
— Daily —
11 a.m. to 12 noon and 4 to 5 p.m.
— Tuesday —
Well Baby Clinic 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
NOTICE
Sealed bids for furnace and
stove oil by the gallon, for the
City of Nome, on a calendar year
basis, are requested to be in the
City Clerk's Office by 5:00 p.m.
January 10, 1955. The City re
serves the right to reject any and
all bids.
City of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Pub. Dec. 31, Jan. 5, 7.
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Texas’ Sam Rayburn
Unanimously Chosen
By Demos for Speaker
WASHINGTON, Sam Ray
burn of Texas was unanimously
chosen by Democrats Tuesday to
i be speaker of the House in the
84th Congress convening at noon
today. *
His selection at a party caucus
assured his election when Demo
crats take over control of Con
gress today %
Rayburn, who will be 73 years
old Thursday, already has served
as speaker longer than any other
man in history. He first was elect
ed to this office in September 1940
and has held it ever since except
when Republicans controlled the
80th and 83rd Congresses.
Rayburn will take over the
gavel from Republican Joseph W.
Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, wh|>
will step dovyn to the post of mi
nority leader. Martin is the unani
mous choice of Republicans to be
speaker but ran second in today’s
formal balloting. Democrats out
number Republicans 231 to 202
and the voting follows straight
party lines.
—
X ray Team Expresses
Appreciation To Nomeitesj
For Cooperation Here
Dr. • and Mrs. Johan Wenberg
and K. Kennedy, who composed
the special X-ray team which was
here through the holidays, took a
total of 1,300 X rays during their
15-day stay and 69 large films.
They left for Anchorage where
another mass x-ray is scheduled
to start soon.
Before leaving they requested
that a special expression of ap
preciation be given the people of j
Nome for their splendid coopera
tion during the program, and to!
the following for their assistance:!
Dr. Fred Langsam, Dr. W. Knick
er, personnel of Nome Light and
Power Utilities, personnel of
Nome Field for transportation;;
Home Arts Club members and
other volunteers who assisted;
AFRS and the Nome Nugget; the
public health nurse, Margaret Mc
Donald.
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Security Program Given
As Cause For Low Morale
In The Foreign Service
WASHINGTON, Sen. Wiley
(R-Wis) said today the govern
ment’s security program and a
“lack of vigorous management
leadership” in the State Depart
ment appear to be “factors that
contribute to low morale” in the
foreign service.
Wiley, the outgoing chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, solicited the views of
foreign service personnel while
on a fact-finding mission last fall
among U.S. diplomatic missions in
Europe. In a statement he said
was ba^ed on views expressed to
him, Wiley declared:
“It is believed that reductions
in force, the pending integration
program, the security program
and lack of understanding by
other Americans of the job being
done by the foreign service are
all factors that contribute to low
morale.”
Alaska School Teachers
Prepare to Ask Legislature
For Raise in Basic Pay
ANCHORAGE—Alaska’s school
teachers are preparing to ask the
Territorial Legislature to increase
their basic salaries and revise the
teachers’ retirement plan.
These and other proposed teach
er-benefit measures were outlined
by the Anchorage Federation of
Teachers Dec. 28 in appealing to
the Anchorage school board for
support of their cause. The board
took no official stand.
The proposed pay scale would
set the minimum salary—for
teachers with three years’ training
and no experience—at $4,750 in
the Third Division, $4,410 in the
First, and $5,010 in the Second
and Fourth.
It would make the maximum—
for teachers with a master’s de
gree plus 30 hours credit and 11
years’ experience—$8,600 in the
Third Division, $8,200 in the First,
and $8,860 in the Second and
Fourth.
It would increase the annual in
crease in salary from the present
$100 to $250.
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