THE NOME NUGGET
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Santas Helpers
THE NOVEMBER NATIONAL HOLIDAY is past,
and Christmas planning gets into high gear for
the next three weeks.
In its natural snowy setting, Nome is a perfect
location for many holiday decorative themes.
The Volunteer Fire Department and Community
Christmas Tree Committee each year see that festive
illuminatioh of the business district adds to the holiday
spirit. More individuals should enter in the decorat
ing, with outdoor decorations around their homes, as
the dark hours are many during the month of
December.
Nome is advertised the world over for many
things. Why not have it known as the most attractively
decorated Christmas town in Alaska
Let’s all be Santa’s Helpers !
Lesson From The British
ENGLAND IS SETTING a brilliant example of how
to retreat from Socialist, something that many
experts predicted she would never be able to do. The
Socialist camel that got its nose into Britain’s
economic tent is being pushed back. This, verily,
is a twist! >
The United Kingdom has been freeing its markets
and reforming income tax rates. These measures
have served to invigorate the dwindling interest of the
British workman in work and progress.
The $1 billion tax reduction announced in April
this year makes the third cut in income taxes that
England has given its sorely-harrassed taxpayers
since 1953.
Has the British Exchequer suffered as a result of
these cuts? No! On the contrary, the stimulus that
these tax-cuts have given the British economy has
resulted in a greatly increased tax revenue. For the
next fiscal year, it is estimated tax revenues will be
$5,325 million — 20 per cent above their level in 1952.
Thus, the British government has proved that
' creative tax policies can. build tax revenues while at
the same time goad its people into renewed vigor and
initiative. •
The Congress of the U. S. A. should take a good
look at this British picture. There’s an important
lesson for our Washington legislators to be learned
from this British retreat from Socialism.
N. Y. Newsman Plays Fast
And Loose with City Hall
NEW YORK, W) — Newsman
Eugene Gleason has admitted to
the District Attorney’s office that
he lied when he claimed a high
city official tried to bribe him to
stop investigating the city’s slum
clearance program.
Gleason, a reporter for the New
York World-Telegram and Sun,
told Chief Assistant District At
torney Alfred J. Scotti Monday
that he lied twice about the
“bribe” — first in 1956 to his
fellow reporter, Freci, Cook, and
again Sunday night on a tele
vision program.
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Pete Walsh, Station Mgr.
Late Co-Author of Taft Hartley Left
Blame of GOP ‘Blitz’ to N. Y. Finance
WASHINGTON, OP)—In a long,
confidential analysis the late Sen.
Robert A. Taft blamed New York
financial interests and a propa
ganda “blitz” by influential news
papers for his loss of the Repub
lican Presidential nomination in
1952.
The Ohio Senator estimated he
had 604 delegates—just enough to
win — after the primaries. Too
many of them broke away be
cause of “pressure and persua
sion,” he said, “before and dur
ing the convention.”
Existence of the 2,200 - word
analysis, written almost seven
years ago to exonerate Taft’s
aides and supporters from respon
sibility for the defeat, was re
vealed by the Washington Star in
a story reporting its contents at
length.
Though Robert A. Taft Jr. said
in Cincinnati there never was any
attempt to suppress the analysis,
its extistence had not been gen
erally known until publication of
the Star’s story.
Taft’s efforts to exonerate his
aides of blame for his defeat was
in the light of the view expressed ,
by some political analysts that
Eisenhower won the nomination
partly because of tactical errors
by the Taft camp.
The memorandum records Taft’s
own feelings in retrospect that
his battle was lost before the con
vention started because of “un
derlying causes which had oper
ated steadily for eight months”
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before the delegates met in Chi
cago in July.
Influential financial leaders had
chosen Eisenhower for their can
didate at least a year earlier, he
wrote. He did not name any of
the businessmen.
The press was the second major
cause of his defeat, Taft held. He
wrote:
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.‘The truth is that we were up
against a tremendous publicity
blitz led by four - fifths of the
newspapers of the country, and
all the magazines.” ,
The Star said the memorandum
excited interest ip Republican cir
cles because of the looming con
test between Vice President Nixon
and Goy. Rockefeller of New
York for the GOP nomination
next year.
“In some respects,’ ’the Star
said, “Mr. Nixon’s position at
this time is regarded as some
what similar to that of'Sen. Taft
at a comparable period before the
1952 convention. Now, as then,
there is a challenger having pow
erful but so far unrevealed sup
port among the Eastern interests.
It was such a challenger—Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower — who
blocked the Taft nomination.”
The memorandum said Taft
felt he and his supporters could
not have played their hand other
wise than they did in the conven
tion maneuvering, even though
the results of rules changes and
contests over the seating of dele
gates were costly.
Summarizing the causes of his
defeat, the Senator wrote:
“First, it was the power of the
New York financial interests and
a large number of businessmen
subject to New York influence,
who had selected Gen. Eisen
hower as their candidate at least
a year ago.
“Second, four fifths of the in
fluential newspapers in the coun
try were opposed to me contin
uously and vociferously, and
many turned themselves into
propaganda sheets for my op
l ponent.” ,
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