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THE LOWER JHE CANDLE BURNS
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LET S BACK NOME’S BASKETBALL TEAM !
Next Friday and Saturday Nome High School will
be host to the Palmer High School basketball team
which is the first time in many years that there has
been a visiting team in Nome.
To help defray the expense of bringing the group
to Nome, the High School has sponsored a ticket sale
through the cooperation of the business houses. If you
are a basketball fan, you will be there and need no
urging, and if you aren’t you should be there anyway
for at least one of the games to join in the cheering and
extend a welcome to the visiting team.
DEMOCRAT SENATE LEADER A TEXAN?
Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas appears to be
the front-running candidate for selection as the Demo
cratic floor leader in the new Senate, which will have
a Republican majority of either one or two votes.
Johnson is reported to have thirty of the 47 Demo
cratic Senators pledged to him, obviously a big major
ity, so the only question remaining is: Does he want the
job?
Alben Barkley, the retiring Vice President who
came close to being the presidential nominee, was the
Democrats’ Senate leader from 1937 to 1948 — and
proved effective, thanks to his geniality.
Johnson lacks Barkley’s fund of jokes, but has a
driving force for leadership.
Since the Senators from the South and border hold
a majority of Democratic seats, the leader’s role could
easily go to Senator Richard Russell of Georgia.
When he was a young Congressman, Johnson was
a favorite of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He won his Senate seat by a margin of only 87 votes
in a hot 1948 primary with Gov. Coke Stevenson.
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low pockets and short arms.
Sleep, riches and health, to be truly enjoyed, must
be interrupted. —Anon.
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Lost Over Gulf of Alaska
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that mysterious radio transmis
sions are not uncommon and have
proved valueless in searches.
From Middleton Island to the
mainland is about 50 miles of
water. Then to Anchorage the
route is edged by what veteran
fliers call same of the “most rug
ged country in the world” with
glacier covered peaks of 12,000
feet or more.
The MATS Globemaster. big
as a five-room house, made its
last report over Middleton at 9:47
p.m. Saturday on a 1,400 -mile
flight to > Elmendorf from Mc
Chord Air Force Base.
The chain of aeriel disasters to
U.S. military planes began 17 days
ago when a C-119 Flying Boxcar
crashed into Mt. Silverthrone,
north of here, and carried 19 men
to their death.
On Nov. 14, another C-119
struck a Korean mountain peak,
killing 44. The next day 11 more
men died in a C-46 crash in Ko
rea, and 20 were swallowed up
when a third C-119 was lost on
a 250-mile flight from Anchorage
to Kodiak.
A fourth C-119 cracked up Nov.
17 near Billings, Mont. Eight of
the 16 men aboard perished.
Eskimo Scouts
Called Alaska’s
1st Line of Defense
FT. RICHARDSON, Alaska, (JP)
—Eskimo scouts of the Alaska
National Guard, here from remote
outposts of the territory, were de
scribed Friday by Maj. Gen. Wm.
M. Miley as Alaska’s first line of
defense.
Gen. Miley, commanding gen
eral of the Army in Alaska, told
the 300 members of the First
Scout Battalion “if anyone attacks
Alaska you men are going to be
the first to know it, and we are
going to count heavily on the in
formation you can give us.”
His talk to the battalion was at
the close of the National Guard’s
annual encampment here. A giant
airlift which brought the Guards
men to Fort Richardson will op
them
| home.
Gen. Miley spoke only a few
I sentences at a time, pausing while
i Lloyd Ahvakana of Point Barrow
acted as interpreter for the scouts,
many of whom understand no
English.
The general said he had heard
“nothing but good” about the
scouts from Army officers who
inspected their units.
“They have been enthusiastic
about your training in your vill
ages,” he said.
“I was particularly pleased w'ith
the story of the group from St.
Lawrence Island which hiked 65
miles in order to attend camp,”
he went on. “I want to tell you.
fellow Guardsmen, that seeing the
Guard operate in Alaska has made
me proud to say that I am a
fellow Guard member.”
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Gen. Van Fleet
Favors ROKs to
Replace Korea GIs
NEW YORK, (JP)—Gen. James !
A. Van Fleet says “we can pro- i
duce many more” fighting South !
Korean divisions in addition to !
the 10 divisions which already !
are manning the bulk of the Kor-1
ean front.
Declaring he favors “increased i
use of native troops to defend I
their own lands and to replace j
the American soldier wherever I
possible,” the Eighth Army com
mander in Korea writes
Nov. 23 issue of “This
“For the type of defensive war
fare in which we are engaged —
static positions with little move
ment in mountainous terrain —
the ROKs are as good, man for
man, as U.S. troops.
“And you can train, feed and
pay 16 ROKs for the price of one
American.”
In his magazine article, Van
Fleet writes that already 60 per
cent of the 155-mile battlefront is
being manned by ROK (Republic
of Korea) troops, another 15 per
cent by other United Nations
troops, leaving Americans respon
sible for only 25 percent of the
line.
Furthermore, he says, there are
2,500 South Korean “KATUSA’s”
—'Korean augmentation to the
U.S. Army)—in each U.S. division,
thus reducing still more the share
of fighting now borne by Ameri
cans.
“The next time you read that
an American outfit has smashed
a Red attack,” he writes, “just
remember that three or four out
of every 12 ‘Americans’ were
South Koreans.”
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‘Ava Catches "Bug" In Africa
LONDON, (/P)— Screen actress
Ava Gardner flew into town Mon
day for medical treatment of a
“bug-’ she picked up v/hile mak
ing an African picture with Clark
Gable in Kenya.
'Her condition is not serious.
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