THE NOME NUGGET
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AMERICANS EATING MORE BEEF
The Department of Agriculture reports the aver
age American may set a beef-eating record this year
—if beef consumption continues at present levels. Be
cause of falling prices the American housewife is buy
ing more beef this year than she has, per mouth to
feed, than at any time since 1909.
In 1909 the average American ate 73 pounds of
beef. Last year the average consumption in the United
States was 61 pounds. That was an increase over 1951
consumption of six pounds, the 1951 average having
been 55 pounds.
Recent figures compiled by the department showed
that for the first six months of this year the average
beef eater in this country had already put away 36
pounds of beef. If this pace is continued in the last
half of the year, the average for the entire year will be
about 72 pounds. That is only one pound short of the
1909 record.
Moreover the drought in the Southwest and the
threat of drought elsewhere may force an increasing
number of beef cattle into the market in the months
ahead. If this is the case, and prices fall even further
as a result, there is a very good possibility that the
average American will consume over 73 pounds of
beef in 1953.
VOTING AT 18
CUTLER-OROSI (Calif.) COURIER
The Republican Party is now making a concerted
move to win a reduction in the voting age throughout
the country from 21 to 18.
They should get a lot of support not only from
the young people but from many others who feel that
if boys of 18 are old enough to serve in the armed
forces they’re old enough to vote. As for the girls,
since they are generally considered to have reached
legal maturity at 18 in most states, they too should be
qualified to vote.
Our guess is that the young voters would take their
privilege a lot more seriously than most of their elders
do. They couldn’t do much worse what with half the
individuals of voting age either not bothering to reg
ister or failing to go to the polls.
Let’s give the 18-year-olds the right to vote.
They deserve it.
Methodist Bishop
Hits Investigators’
“Inaccuracies”
WASHINGTON, (JR—Bishop G.
Bromley Oxnam told the House
un - American Activities Commit
tee today it should “frankly ad
mit its inaccuracies and misrepre
sentations” about him.
And he called on the commit
tee, in a statement prepared for
a hearing which he requested, to
halt “the practice erf releasing
unverified and unevaluated ma
terial for which the committee ac
cepts no responsibility.”
“We cannot beat down the
Communist menace by bearing
false witness against fellow Am
ericans,” the Methodist church
man said. “The Communists want
a divided America, an America
whose citizens are suspicious of
each other, an America without
trust, an America open to infil
tration.
“I believe this committee will
wish to end a practice that plays
into' Communist hands.”
“I have requested opportunity
to appear voluntarily ... to se
cure redress for the damage done
me by the release of information
in the ‘files’ of this committee,”
Bishop Oxman said. “I deeply ap
preciate the grant of this priv
ilege.
“Such releases, made at various
times for a period of nearly seven
years, have contained material,
much of which is irrevelant and
immaterial, some of which is false'
and some of which is true, but
all prepared in a way capable of
creating the impression that I
have been and am sympathetic to
Communism, and therefore sub
versive . . .
“I have been actively opposed
to Communism all my life. I have
never been a member of the Com
munist party. My opposition to
Communism is a matter of public
record in books, numerous arti
cles, addresses and sermons . . .”
The churchman also asked Rep.
Donald L. Jackson (R-Calif) “to
apologize on the floor of the
House for his‘ unprecedented and
untrue statements made there
concerning me.”
Jackson had assailed the bishop
as a man who “served God on
Sunday and the Communist front
for the balance of the week.”
Jackson also made reference to
the committee’s files on Oxnam
and said they mirrored a “record
of aid and comfort to the Com
munist front.”
Oxnam said Jackson drew from
the committee’s files a conclusion
that he held Communist sym
pathies.
“If a member of the committee
can be so misled by this material
it is no wonder that uninformed
citizens are similarly misled,” he
added.
NOME HIGH GRADUATE
TO ATTEND NURSES' SCHOOL
Betty Hurlbert who attended
high school in Nome a year ago,
has taken and passed the required
tests for admission to the Nurses’
Training course at Swedish Hos
pital in Minneapolis. Betty will
start her training in September.
Since graduation from high
school in Bimidji, Minn., last may
Betty has been working as full
time nurses’ aid in the Lutheran
Hospital at Bemidji.
She sends her best regards to
her friends in Nome and says to
tell them that she is very happy
in her work.
Polish Partisans
Fight Red Troops
BERLIN, UP\—The West Berlin
Nacht Depesche said Tuesday So
viet troops had attacked partisan
bands made up of Poles, Czechs
and Germans who seized two
towns in a former East German
region now a part of Poland.
This followed a report in Tele
graf, another West Berlin news
paper put out by the same com
pany that publishes Nacht De
pesche, saying Polish partisans
fought a battle with Soviet troops
last Thursday in a forest near
Niesky, a German town 10 miles
from the Neisse River frontier
with Poland.
There was no confirmation
from Allied sources. They recalled
that previous West Berlin rumors
of widespread Polish rebellion and
martial law in Warsaw and Kra
kow had been discounted later by
western ^diplomatic missions in
Poland.
Niesky, a Polish town, broke
into the news Monday when the
Soviet news agency disclosed 16
of its citizens had been sentenced
to prison for burning down the
local secret police headquarters
and beating Red officials in the
June 17 revolt.
Won’t Discuss Red China
At Korea Conference,
Says John Foster Dulles
WASHINGTON, (^ — Secretary
of State Dulles today gave notice
that the United States would re
fuse to discuss the admission of
Communist China to the United
Nations at the prospective Korean
political conference.
Dulles told a news conference he
did not think this question would
be appropriate to bring before the
conference, which is scheduled to
follow 90 days after an armistice.
It was the administration’s first
definite stand on this issue. Dul
les had indicated earlier that the
United States would be willing
for the conference to consider Par
East subjects besides a Korean
settlement.
The Secretary indicated the
United States will want to discuss
measures to prevent Communist
forces released by the truce from
being used for new aggression in
Indochina or elsewhere.
Dulles avoided any predictions
about the outcome of the armis
tice negotiations. He said a num
ber of matters remained to be
ironed out, such as the mapping
of battle lines, physical arrange
ments for handling war prisoners
and the problems of translations.
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