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DeWITT CLINTON AND $250,000
The Internal Revenue Service has announced it
is going to shrink DeWitt Clinton’s picture a fraction
of an inch. You might not know who DeWitt Clinton
was, or where his picture is used, or you might not even
care whether his picture is shrunk a fraction of an
inch or not. '
However, you should care, since the shrinking of
his picture a fraction of an inch is going to save the
taxpayers $250,000. It is a little hard to realize that the
shrinldng of Clinton’s picture this small amount will
save that much money, but it will.
DeWitt Clinton’s picture is seen on the revenue
stamp placed on every package of cigarets, Some 20,
000,000 stamps are sold every year to cigaret manufac
turers by the government and producing these stamps
oosts the government about $1,250,000.
It is believed that- the C09t can be cut down by
about $250,000 by cutting down on the width of the
stamp. Credit for the idea goes to Franklin L. Thatcher,
chief of the Internal Revenue Service’s publications
branch. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing does
the printing, and it is now in the process of getting
ready for the switch-over.
The cost of special watermarked woodpulp paper
will be reduced because the number of freight carloads
of this paper needed will be reduced. There will be
1200 stamps to a sheet instead of the present 800.
We think it might be a good idea for the govern
ment to give Thatcher a year’s income tax exemption.
In fact, if every government employe were offered
a year’s income tax exemption for every idea he came
up with that saved more than $50,000, we believe the
government could operate more cheaply in the next
few years.
Wilcox (Ariz) Range News: “The American peo
ple can be proud of themselves. Through their untiring
efforts they have brought about the coining of a brand
new word. This word is ‘litterbug,’ and it is to be in
cluded in the new edition of .Funk and WagnaU’s dic
tionary. Is it too much to suggest that each of us sees
how soon the word can become obsolete?”
Rev. and Mrs. Edgar Bibb ar
rived Saturday from Oklahoma
with P.A.A. for the Nazarene
Church to replace Rev. and Mrs.
I^wis Hudgins, who have been
here several years.
The Hudgins, who established
the chur^a here and built it, are
being trMsferred to the States.
The new minister was greeted
by a group from the church who
welcomed him and his wife in
song.
PAN AMERICAN
AIRWAYS
Arriving Saturday with Pan
American were Mr. and Mrs.
George Goshaw, Mr. and Mrs.
Pete Reader Sr., Mr. and Mrs.
A1 Lamereaux, Barbara Carls
son, Mr. Kelly, Jean Longley,
Edna Johnsen, Mary Andersen,
and Myrtle Chambers.
Departing were Irving Reed,
Ken Alter, A1 Heller, D. D. Stew
art, E. Kennedy, R. L. Chappell,
Ace Aillard, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Tripp and daughter Nancy, W.
L. Payne.
BIDS CALLED FOR TWO
TRAINSHIPS FOR ALASKA
SEATTLE, -President D. E.
Skinner of the Alaska Steamship
Co. said Sunday bids have been
called from shipyards for con
struction of two proposed “train
ships” for the Seattle-Alaska run.
The vessels are designed to
transport loaded railroad cars
and semi-trailer vans between
Seattle and Whittier.
The trainships will be the larg
est commercial vessels operating
regularly out of Seattle, each
with a load capacity of 110 rail
road cars and 40 truck trailers.
HOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINERS
BOUND FOR ELMENDORF
LOS ANGELES, l*—A group
of Hollywood entertainers was
scheduled to leave here by air
today to entertain personnel at
Elmendorf air base on July 4.
An Air Force C-54 will take
the entertainers to Alaska, stop
ping at Spokane to pick up singer
Gary Crosby, who 'will have to
leave from Ft. Lewis to appear
in the show.
LENIN’S WILL RELEASED; STALIN
DEBASED, TROTSKY GETS PRAISE
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Bear Attacks Woman in
Downtown St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, Uh—Mrs. Laura
Murphy was attacked toy a Syrian
brown bear in downtown St. Lou
is Friday. “It felt-like Pike’s Peak
was crashing down on me,” she
said.
The 450-pound animal, tied to
a scaffolding outside the Post
Dispatch building where it had
been taken for a television show,
knocked down the woman and
scratched her several times. She
was taken to her home after be
ing treated by a physician.
“I remarked that he looked sort
of vicious,” Mrs. Murphy said.
“All of a sudden somebody
screamed. Then the bear was
right at me, with its paws on my
shoulder.”
The bear was pulled away by
its trainer, Walter Klausner.
CAP Cadet Meetings
Tonight for Parade Plans,
Thursday for Camp
The Nome Squadron of the
Civil Air Patrol Cadets will hold
their regular drill in the A.N.G.
Armory Thursday, July 5, at 7:00
p.m. All members are asked to
attend, as encampment informa
tion will toe available.
Uniform patches and brass can
be purchased at this time.
All Cadets are requested to
bring their money for camp fees
with them.
A special meeting to prepare
for the Fourth of July will be
held this evening at 7 p.m. at the
A.N.G. Armory.
* * *
The following wing officers of
the CAP escorted the group of
girl Cadets to Nome last Tuesday
and Wednesday:
Maj. Peter Stiver, wing co
ordinator of women, Maj. Dick
Chase* wing public information
officer, and Maj. Rpman Malick,
Elmendorf squadron commander.
GIRL SCOUTS RETURN
FOR FAIRBANKS CAMP
Four happy Girl Scouts re
turned with Pan American Sat
urday from Fairbanks, where
they represented the Nome troop
at the Cirl Scout camp. They
were:
Jean Longley, Myrtle Cham
bers, Mary Andersen, and Edna
Johnsen.
Clyde Glass is a beaming
grandfather and is proclaiming
the arrival of Linda Marie In
helder, who arrived in Seattle
Friday, weighing six pounds and
three ounces. Grandmother Glass
is in Seattle with her daughter
Winona for the event.
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* First Praise of irotsky in Kussia
Since Stalin Exiled Him in 1927
MOSCOW, OB—'The Soviet gov
ernment Saturday published the
will of V. I. Lenin, in which he
called for the expulsion of Stalin
as secretary of the Communist
Party.
The will has been suppressed
for 33 years. It has been published
abroad but never before has it
been published verbatim in the
Soviet Union.
“Kommunist,” rule book of
world Communism, published the
text of the will which described
Stalin as rude, rough-mannered
and capricious. In it, Lenin said
Stalin could not be entrusted with
a post as responsible as that of
secretary of the party.
Authoritative Condemnation
Publication of the will was the
latest step in the official process
of degrading Stalin before the
Russian people. Coming from
Lenin, revered founder of the So
viet Union, it was the most auth
oritative condemnation of the late
dictator yet published in the So
viet Union.
Lenin wrote the will in the
■ form of a letter to the 13th Con
gress of the Communist Party.
The letter was dated Dec. 23 and
24, 1922. It carries a postscript
dated Jan. 4, 1923. i
Urged Stalin Be Removed
It was in the postscript that
Lenin urged the party congress to
remove Stalin and place him with
someone “more patient, more loy
al, more polite and more attentive
to his comrades.”
The will also referred to Leon i
Trotsky, favorably and unfavor
ably. Publication of this portion
was well-nigh sensational from
the Russian point of view, since
no praise of Trotsky has appeared
in the Soviet press since stann
exiled him in 1927.
Feared Party Split
In his will, Lenin expressed
fear of a split in the party due to
bad blood between Stalin and
Trotsky.
He said Stalin “had concentrat
ed in his f hands immense power
and I am not sure he will always
be able to exercise sufficient care
in using this power.”
Lenin criticized Trotsky for his
self-confidence, but added—in
words that must be startlingly
revolutionary to Soviet eyes and
ears today—that Trotsky wa^-the
most capable member of the pres
ent Central Committee.”
First Favorable Words
Lenin warned the differences
between Stalin and Trotsky could
lead to a split in the party “and
if our party does not take steps to
prevent it the split could happen
unexpectedly."
Observers immediately raised
the possibility these first pub
lished favorable words about
Trotsky might lead to eventual
rehabilitation of the old revolu
tionary, who was assassinated in
Mexico 16 years ago.
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