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WELL DONE BILL BROWN
When people in the community go about their
work efficiently and quietly causing no one to find
fault with what they are doing, they frequently go
unnoticed by those who see them everyday.
Since 1933 Nome has had just such a man, who
has been participating in the flow of commerce by
striving to keep jetties in repair, fighting sandbars,
quicksand, silt and ice damage to keep the channel
open so freight may enter the harbor these past twenty
five years.
This man William Brown, of the U. S. Army
Engineers, has been recognized for his efforts follow
ing a winter spent in other parts of the territory.
He has received one of the top awards, Outstanding
Performance Certificate presented to him by Alaska
District Engineer Col. P. V. Kieffer.
His many friends here join with the Nugget in
congratulating Bill on his well earned award.
Missile Boss Says
U. S. Ahead of Russia
On Over-all Basis
NEW YORK, UPi — The director
of guided missiles for the Defense
Department says the U. S. mis- J
sile program is ahead of the i
Soviet Union’s on an over-all i
basis.
William M. Holaday told the
Society of Automobile Engineers
yesterday that “no one really
knows in what field we are ahead
and in what field we are behind.”
But, he added: “We believe
that over-all we are ahead of
the Russian missile program.”
Hcladay said steps are being
taken to test missiles on the
West Coast as well as Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
“We are putting in necessary
instrumentation and safety parts i
to test on the West Coast,” he
said, apparently referring to a!
range being developed at Point j
Mugu, north of Los Angeles.
iHe estimated the cost of missile
development at about five bil
lion dollars this year and about
six billions next year.
Nowadays when people speak
of the higher things of life they
mean food.
WEEK OF APRIL 13th-19th
PROCLAIMED REALTOR WEEK
A proclamation from the Gov
ernor’s office designates the per
iod of April 13th to April 19th
as Realtor Week.
The proclamation urges the
citizens of Alaska to join in ex
tending warm wishes and con
gratulations to the Realtors of
the Territory because of their
efforts to aid cities in eliminating
slums and blighted areas and
giving in community service by
their efforts toward home own
ership.
Initiation degrees were con
ferred upon Mr. and Mrs. Werner
Bohrer at O.E.S. Monday evening
with a formal ceremony. Fol
lowing the meeting a social hour
was enjoyed with Worthy Matron
Mildred Harwood and acting
worthy patron Luther Dunbar
directing the entertainment.
Former Gov. Devers of Mass.,
Dies of Heart Ailment
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., OP) — For
mer Masachusetts Gov. Paul A.
Dever, 55, 'died today. For many
years he had been afflicted with
a heart ailment.
Dever was the keynote speaker
at the 1952 Democratic national
convention in Chicago. I
Khrushchev Returns From Hungary v
Calls Americans Proud, and Leaders,
“Millionaires Who Want Their Way”
MOSCOW, LPi — Premier
Khrushchev told a crowd wel
coming him home from Hungary
today that the Soviet Union
would never wage war “but we
will always be ready if war
comes.’’
“Wars mean killing people,”
he declared in a speech at Lenin’s
Sports Palace. “Why should we
want war when we have other
means—I mean consumer goods.”
Khrushchev did not make this
point clear, but he intimated
there would be a sharp increase
in consumer goods production for
the Soviet people.
“We will sobn have an an
nouncement,” he said. “We are
calculating the situation now.
And then we will see in the final
analysis who eats most and who
has the most clothes.”
Khrushchev was in a serious
mood as. he called Americans
supercilious and their leaders
“millionaires who always want
their own way.”
He asserted the Soviet Union,
however, would not give up hope
of reaching an agreement with
the United States.
On the question of controls and
inspection flights for nuclear dis
armament, he said, “The Ameri
cans want to fly over our coun
try and want us to fly over theirs.
We want to do neither.”
Khrushchev told his audience
! he had almost talked himself out
■ during his eight-day stay in Hun
gary, but- spoke for 43 minutes
i anyway.
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Experts Puzzled
Over State Of
Nation’s Economy
(By The Associated Pressi
Well, President Eisenhower’s
| figures for March employment
are in, and your view of the
state of the nation’s economy
seems to depend largely on where
you sit.
The President doesn’t sound as
optimistic as he did a couple of
months ago when he thought
March would give sure signs the
recession was being reversed. He
does think the statistics “show
a slowing up of the decline.”
He doesn’t see an emergency
yet which calls for tax-cutting.
In this he is joined by many
other Congressional and govern
mental leaders.
Republican comment follows
that line.
Democrats are just as gener- '
ally inclined to say that while
the emergency may not be as bad
as it could be, it’s still an emer
gency and the government bet
ter get cracking with palliatives.
Labor leaders say the increase
in unemplcyment, though smaller
than in recent months, is not
offset by the increase in employ
ment. George Meany, AFL-CIO
president, failed to see “a single
ray of sunshine.”
The Wall Street Journal in
three different articles, though
warning against complacency,
points out inconsistencies in the
various indexes which might
I cause unemployment figures to
| make things look worse than they
are.
The Daily Telegraph and Daily
I Mail in London both took the
I line Wednesday that it is still
j not clear whether the American
recession is on the wane, and
warned against taking any op
timistic chances with the Brit
ish budget.
The fact^ are that a slightly
larger proportion of the labor
force was unemployed in March
than in February, and that sea
sonal gains were not as great as
normal.
Less bad news, but still not
good, Sen. Humphrey said.
An important part of the bad
news was not included in the gov
ernment figures. Detroit report
ed prospects for the automobile
industry look worse instead of
better, with more layoffs ex
pected.
One reason you can get no
clear view of the prospects for
your own business is the politi
cally partisan approach to eval
uation of the news such as dis
played in Washington. It’s as
though consulting doctors con
sidered the fees to be garnered
from different diagnoses.
And this has its effect in the
whole world, as witness the un
certainity expressed over the
British budget.
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