THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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A Share of Responsibility
' (Contributed by N. W. Medicine)
DEFICIT SPENDING by government has the same
result as running the printing presses to increase
the supply of paper money. Oddly enough, there is a
secondary effect of government spending and high
taxes when business is forced to borrow for expansion
rather than use profits or new equity capital. Taxes
took about one-eighth of corporate profits in 1929,
now take more than half. Private funds which could
be invested in business are depleted by high income
tax. Result of these two forces is borrowing, which
ihas an inflationary effect.
The Federal Government now takes 11.5 per cent
of the gross national product, and hires one of every
twenty persons employed in this country. Prices of
raw materials, equipment and labor, are thus bid up
by government.
Politicians who purchase their popularity by
liberal spending of the money of others must be
assigned their share of responsibility in the destruc
tive process of inflation. The process robs the elderly
of their savings, destroys the worth of insurance,
dissipates the value of pensions, and weakens the whole
economy. The irony of the situation is apparent when
the politicians who spend so freely, try to promote
still more spending to succor the elderly they have
robbed by feeding the flames of inflation.
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Alaska Fish, Game
Is Prime Attraction
JUNEAU — Alaska’s sport fish
and game are a prime attraction
to residents and non-residents
alike, statistics released by the
License Division of the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game
reveal. Forty nine thousand, li
censes and 2,674 game tags were
purchased by residents and non
residents in the six months inter
im since July 1, 1959, when the
new license law became effective.
One hundred and sixty-seven
license officers handle the license
sales. These officers are located
in 120 communities scattered from
Ketchikan on the south to Barrow
on the north and west to Adak
out on the lonely sorm-cuffed
Aleutians. A1 Bloomquist, license
supervisor for the department,
keeps busy supplying licenses and
maintaining contact with the dis
tant and often irregularly served
outposts of his operations.
Residents, during the first six
months under the new law, pur
chased 11,086 sport fishing li
censes; 918 hunting and trapping;
12,545 hunting and sport fishing,
and 1,210 hunting, trapping and
sport fishing licenses.
Nonresidents purchased 7,689
sport fishing; 2,007 hunting; 688
hunting and sport fishing, and
five ($100) hunting and trapping
licenses.
Game tags purchased by non
residents totaled 2,674. The num
ber of tags purchased for each
animal may indicate for one rea
son or another its popularity as a
game animal. Caribou tags num
bered 632, moose 537, black bear
425, deer 350, mountain sheep
329, grizzly and brown bear 269,
mountain goat 138, elk 7 and wal
rus 1. For trophies sheep, brown
bear and moose seemed to be the
most highly prized.
Space Explorer Shot
Halted in Final Seconds
At Canaveral Countdown
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP) —
The U. S. yesterday postponed
an attempt to hurl an interplane
tary probe deep into space. Fuel- '
ing difficulties blocked the effort.
The 90-pound scientific package
was designed to explore space be
tween the earth and Venus.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said a new
firing date for the- probe had not
been scheduled.
As the countdown on the Thor
Able launching vehicle entered the
final seconds, a hold was called
Minutes later the shot was called
off.
If the trouble is minor the rock
et could be fired in a day or two.
Resting atop the 90-foot rocket
was a payload designed to inter
cept the orbit of the planet Venus
and become a satellite of the sun.
The package, called Pioneer V,
is designed to make the most thor
ough study of space ever at
tempted.
It would send back information
while swinging around the sun,
alternately touching orbital paths
of earth and Venus.
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Scientists Propose More Extensive
1960 Season Program of Field Studies
To Complete Project Chairot Detail
OAKLAND, Calif. — A pro
gram of field studies for 1960 in
connection with Project Chariot,
a proposal to simultaneously det
onate several nuclear explosions
in an experimental excavation
project near Ogotoruk Creek in
Alaska, is being drafted by the
Committee on Environmental Stu
dies, Advisor to the Commission’s
San Francisco Operations Office.
The study program is part of ex
haustive surveys started in 1959
to compile detailed information on
plant, animal, fish and bird life
of the land, sea and fresh water
in the area and their relationships
to man’s livelihood. The program
is subject to review by the Atom
ic Energy Commission.
On the basis of 1959 studies the
Committee, of which Dr. John N.
Wolfe, Chief of the Commission’s
Environmental Sciences Branch,
Division of Biology and Medicine,
is chairman, has said that nuclear
detonations could be conducted
under certain limitations. But the
Committee also stated that data
currently available is incomplete
and continuing study during 1960
is required for firm recommenda
tions.
The Committee consideration
was based on conducting the ex
periment “in such a manner as to
minimize the biological cost, and
at such time as to permit obtain
ing adequate data for evaluation
of secondary effects.”
Approval of the 1960 plans by
the Atomic Energy Commission
would result in about 50 scientists
and technicians from universities,
research institutions and federal
agencies participating in land
based work during the year. In
addition, the University of Wash
ington’s Brown Bear, a marine re
search vessel, would operate off
shore during the summer.
Laboratory experts, as noted by
Dr. Edward Teller, Director of the
Livermore Laboratory, in visits to
Alaska last year, expect more than
90 per cent of any radiation
created by, the detonations to be
confined by virtue of the fact the
devices will be buried. The 20-kil
oton devices are planned for a
400-foot depth and the 200-kiloton
device at 700 feet. Other calcula
tions made on the containment of
radiation from devices buried in
the earth range up to 99 per cent
confinement.
While safety studies are being
continued, the Laboratory is con
tinuing its research and develop
ment work related to the program
and currently estimates that if
the devices were exploded the
four 20-kiloton explosions would
excavate an area about 750 by
2,000 feet, and the 200-kiloton de
vice, 2,000 feet diameter.
No construction will be under
taken during 1960. The surveys
and studies conducted to date
and proposed for the immediate
future are to assist the Commis
sion in determining whether an
experiment would be feasible on
the basis of engineering and pub
lic health and safety data.
PRAVDA HIGHLIGHTS
U. S. RACIAL PROBLEMS
MOSCOW, OR — The Soviet
Communist Party newspaper
Pravda yesterday devoted more
than a column to the U. S. Sen
ate filibuster on the; civil rights
issue and comments on wrongs
allegedly inflicted on Negroes in
the United States. The story was
accompanied by a photograph of
Felton Turner, the Negro youth
who said he was seized by white
men in Houston, Tex., and
branded with KKK scars.
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