2 THE NOME NUGGET Monday. February 27. 1956
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GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG
The reports of the second Hoover Commission on
organization of the executive branch of the government
have all been published. Considerable opposition to
some of the recommendations has appeared.
The reports are long and detailed. But the idea
back of them is pretty well expressed in a single sen
tence, which U.S. News & World Report used as a title
for an interview with Mr. Herbert Hoover: “Govern
ment is too big.”
In the U.S. News interview, Mr. Hoover described
the “philosophic foundation” with which a large major
ity of the commission members agreed: “The whole
social-economic system of this country is based on
private enterprise, properly regulated to prevent unfair
competition and to prevent monopolies; that the gov
ernment should provide those services which the people
cannot do for themselves.” That was the test used in
examining the various government agencies.
Going on, Mr. Hoover said that 3,000 cases were
found in which the government conducts business
operations in direct competition with private citizens.
Most of these enterprises were born in emergency of
war. But, when their job was done and the emergency
ended, they didn’t close up shop. As he put it, . . they
were equipped with a large bureaucracy, in love with
an empire,” and they had powerful pressure groups
supporting them.
What are the chances of the commission’s recom
mendations being effected? Some will become policy
with Little or no change; others will have tougher
sledding. It is significant that the President has directed
the executive departments to set up machinery for
implementing the proposals which are of an adminis
trative character. And, in Congress, there is strong
sentiment favoring many of the others, including those
concerned with unnecessary and costly government
business activities.
A VERSE FROM EACH BIBLE BOOK J
“Why have I found grace in thine eyes, £
that thou shouldest take knowledge of me,
seeing I am a stranger?”
RUTH 2:10b
Santa Claus Arrives
Late But Welcome in
Area Flooded Dec. 25
YUBA CITY, Calif., (fft—The
boys and girls were still talking
today about how Santa Claus fi
nally made it.
“Santa Claus ju§t didn’t know
where to find us,” said 6-year-old
Judy Westcoatt. Dec. 25 much erf
Yuba City was under flood waters
and residents were evacuated.
“After all, he couldn’t spend
all night just looking for us.”
Judy was among 15,000 children
of this area for whom Santa Claus
appeared Saturday—two months
late and in heavy rains that al
most threatened another flood.
Thanks to Lions Clubs through
out California, listeners of radio
station WHTR at Morristown, N.J.
and donors from Seattle, Chicago,
New York and Vancouver, B.C.,
tons of presents were distributed
by a wet but welcome Saint Nick.
NEW EVIDENCE
SMOKING CAUSES
LUNG CANCER
NEW YORK, iff)—A cancer ex
pert says “tobacco smoking, par
ticularly cigaret smoking, is the
single most important external
factor associated with cancer of
the lung.”
Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Sloan
Kcttering Institute ' for cancer re
search Friday described a new
study that he said supports previ
ous reports linking smoking with
cancer.
In a talk at a symposium spon
sored by the American Chemical
Society, Dr. Wynder also reported
that five times as many men as
women get lung cancer. He at
tributed this to a difference in
smoking habits of the sexes.
Wcman Unintentionally
Calls Fire Department
To Arouse Husband
SANTA MONICA, Calif., oW—
Hearing the woman next door
shout “The house is on lire!” Sun
day, Mrs. Ruby Burkholder called
the fire department right away.
Fire trucks arrived, and a cap
tain pounded on the neighbor’s
door.
“Fire?” There’s no fire here,”
the startled housewife responded.
“Oh, my goodness!” she added
sheepishly. “I was trying to get
my husband out of bed and I fi
nally yelled at him, ‘the house is
on fire,’ but I had no idea the
neighbors could hear me.”
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
OSCAR HENRY LAY, deceased.
No. 988
NOTICE OF HEARING
ON FINAL REPORT AND ACCOUNT
OF ADMINISTRATOR AND THE
DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP
NOTJCE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Fred
M. Bookman, of Nome, Alaska, the Ad
ministrator of the above named estate
has filed his Final Report and Account,
and that the 11th day of April, 1956, at
the hour of ten o'clock a.m. at the office
of the above named court. Nome, Alaska,
has by court order been fixed as the time
and place for a hearing on said Report
and Account and at such time and place
the court will determine and adjudicate
the heirs of this estate.
Objections, if any there be, to said
Report and Account, and proof of heir
ship will be heard at that time.
DATED this 8th day of February, 1956.
FRED M. BOCKMAN,
Administrator.
Publ. Feb. 20, 27, Mar. 5, 12, 1956.
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U.S. Radar Warning System to Extend
Around Almost Half the World With
‘Texas Towers,' Radar Planes, Ships
By ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON UP*—The United
States is slowly assembling a ra
dar warning system—in the air,
on the ground, at sea—which will
reach around almost half the
globe.
The Distant Early Warning line
being built in secret places on the
polar rim of the North American
continent is only a component of
the vast system intended ultimate
ly to give warning to this country
of enemy aircraft <and perhaps
later missiles* approaching from
almost any point of the compass.
Stations somewhat similar to
the powerful radar installations
going into the Dewline sites ap
parently are beginning to appear
in far corners of the world—in
Okinawa and other far western
Pacific islands; on islets in the
central Pacific; in the Hawaiian
group; up in the strategically crit
ical archipelago of Alaska; in
Greenland; far southward in the
Carribean.
“Texas Towers" are being built
in coastal waters to extend the
fixed position stations of the ra
dar chains across Canada and the
United States.
Unlike the continental Ameri
can radar systems, the overseas
stations cannot be considered a
warning “chain.” There are, of
course, huge gaps-of thousands of
miles which the mainland and is
land stations cannot cover by
-overlapping the ranges of their
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radar units.
Into these gaps, the U.S., thru
its Navy and Air Force, is putting
plugs. They are planes and ships.
A comparatively large number
of ultra-long-range flying radar
stations now are in operation.
More are being built. Chiefly they
are the four-engined Lockheed
aircraft which the Navy calls the
WV-2.
The Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
says the radar beam of a WV-2,
flying at only 10,000 feet altitude,
searches more than 45,000 square
, miles of surface. The aircraft can
fly much higher than that. It car
ries six tons of radar equipment
including a dozen different scopes
which operate separtely.
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