THE NOME NUGGET
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WHAT WJLL THE END BE?
The August 23 issue of Life magazine contains a
photograph of a field of circular tents in Texas. They
are on sterilized earth and “inflated” with 1,600,000
bushels of grain each. It is hoped the grain will keep
five years and qualify for price support loans.
The warehouses over the nation are full of grain,
old ships are being cleaned out and filled with grain,
and now tents are being erected.
Foreign nations are taking over our export grain
markets. And still the taxpayers put up the money to
maintain an inflated price for raising more grain than
can be used.
How crazy can a nation get?
AIRPLANES AND MISSILES
In recent weeks, the American people learned that
an Air Force research plane has flown faster than 1,650
miles per hour, and reached a new altitude in excess of
90,000 feet. This plane, flying faster than the speed
of a rifle bullet, knifed through space at the rate of
more than one mile every 2 1-5 seconds.
Some months earlier, an American-built rocket
reached speeds in the neighborhood of 5,000 miles per
hour, and an altitude of some 1,300,000 feet.
These two achievements of products of the United
States aircraft industry stemmed from intensive pro
grams of resarch and development aimed at maintain
ing this nation’s leadership in the air.
Such phenomenal accomplishments bring sharply
into focus the fact that today the aircraft industry is
developing aircraft and missiles which, while their
geneology can be traced back through the original
Wright Flyer, are as different from early airplanes as
modern man differs from the Neanderthal.
SOCIALISM BY INDIRECTION
The Socialist party has given up, so far is being
an active political entity is concerned. It will not put
a ticket in the field in 1956. Its following has steadily
shrunk—where it gained a vote of almost 1,000,000 in
1920, the 1952 total was an insignificant 20,000.
The American people won’t vote socialist. Yet all
kinds of socialist ideas and doctrine have been put over
on the American people by men using camouflaged
labels. In short we have been fed socialism, centralized
government, bureaucracy and debt — by indirection
and by plain deceit.
The people are losing their gullibility. That’s one
of the best signs of the time.
Those who complain that the hometown newspaper
does not print all the news usually find a few times
in their lives when they can thank their lucky stars
for same. —Harmony, Minn., News.
West Point, Miss., Daily Times Leader says: “For
many years we have been demanding more from gov
ernment—and now we are reaping the unsavory har
vest. It was never intended that the government should
support its citizens. In fact, it is our obligation to sup
port the government.”
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Beauty is not a necessity for a woman but it surely
makes life easier for her.
The man who is always up with his work must
have little else to do.
What the country needs is a UMT law. The country
does not need parents who feel they didn’t raise “their
boy” to become a soldier.
Coastwise Line And Luckenbach Co.
Study Feasibility Of Seatrain And
Passenger Service To Alaska
SEATTLE. UP>—Two steamship
companies are studying the feas
ibility of inaugurating joint sea
train and passenger service to
Alaska, the House Merchant Ma
rine and Fisheries subcommittee
was told here yesterday.
The announcement was made
by Coastwise Line and the Luck
enbach Steamship Co. They said
in a letter introduced before the
committee that “it is anticipated
that this study will be completed
within the next several weeks.
Our studies to date indicate a
favorable result.”
The companies did not indicate
what mainland American ports
they would serve but said their
study concerned seatrain - truck
trailer type service and passenger
service either aboard the seatrains
or separately.
Coastwise now operates to Al
aska out of Long Beach and San
Francisco via the Columbia River
and Puget Sound. Luckenbach has
no regular Alaska trade. It is the
nation’s largest intercoastal
steamship operator.
The committee had heard con
siderable testimony earlier about
the plight of Alaska now that Al
aska Steamship Co. is suspending
Draft Board Chairman
Resigns In Protest To
Conviction of Batchelor
BIG SPRING, Tex., UP)—This
west Texas city’s draft board
chairman has resigned because he
does not like the life prison sen
tence meted out to Gpl. Claude
Batchelor.
Batchelor, 22, of Kermit, Tex.,
was convicted by a court-martial
at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., last
week on charges of collaborating
with the enemy and informing on
fellow POW’s while a captive of
the Chinese Reds in Korea.
Draft board chairman H. W.
Wright said he did not condone
collaboration with the Commun
ists but that he thought “brain
washing” and Batchelor’s youth
should have “been considered.”
Batchelor was one of 23 Ameri
cans who chose to stay with the
Reds after the Korean armistice.
Later he and Cpl. Edward Dick
enson of Crackers Neck, Va.,
changed their minds and return
ed to United Nations control.
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passenger service to the north
ern territory.
Several witnesses had mention
ed the seatrain handling of trucks
and railcars as the main hope for
economical freight and passenger
service.
Rep. Pelly (R-Wash) told the
subcommittee he believed the De
fense Department was suppress
ing an important report which
might speed seatrain develop
ment.
The Seattle congressman refer
red to the so-called Wyer report,
a private study financed by the
Defense Department, which deals
with the feasibility of seatrain
to the north. It was completed last
May, Pelly said, but the depart
ment has not made it public.
Pelly told the subcommittee the
report indicates the seatrains
could be operated between Alaska
and the Pacific Northwest ef
ficiently and profitably if com
petion by the Navy’s Military Sea
Transportation Service could be
eliminated.
He said he feels the report has
been suppressed because it might
force retrenchment in MSTS act
ivities. He said he could not div
ulge details of the report.
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Las Vegas Publisher Files
Million Dollar Damage
Suit Against McCarthy
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Wt—A mil
lion - dollar damage suit against
Sen. McCarthy has been filed toy
publisher H. M. Greenspun, who
alleges McCarthy falsely accused
him of being an ex-Communist.
Attorneys said they believe that
because the suit was filed in a
state rather than a federal court,
papers can be served only if the
Senator comes to Nevada.
Filing of the suit Oct. 1 in State
District Court by the Daily Las
Vegas Sun publisher, long a bit
ter critic o'f McCarthy, was dis
closed Monday.
Greenspun alleges that on Oct.
15, 1952, McCarthy said of him at
a political rally, “he admits he is
an ex-Communist.”
The day after the rally the pub
lisher swore to an affidavit say
ing, “It’s the dirtiest lie McCarthy
ever told.” He declared he was
not and never had been a Com
munist nor consorted with Com
munists or fellow travelers.
Two Americans Freed
By Chinese Communists
After Months of Detention
PANMUNJOM, UP)—Two Amer
icans, a Marine flier and an Army
private, were freed today after
months as prisoners of the Com
munists.
The 8th Army identified the
two as Marine Lt. Col. Herbert A.
Peters of Seattle and Army Pfc.
Charles Julius of Orlando, Fla.
The Communists said Peters
had been held since Feb. 5 when
his L-19 liaison plane made a
forced landing near Kaesong, a
Red base.
The Army private was picked
up last May after he stepped on
a land mine a quarter mile north
of the demarcation line, the Com
munists said.
Rear Adm. Thomas Brittain,
senior U.N. member of the Mili
tary Armistice Commission, said
both men appeared to have been
well treated.
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