2 THE NOME NUGGET Friday, May 25, 1956
THE NOME*NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
, NOME, ALASKA
£. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Telephone: Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box 618 $16.00 A YEAR
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1878_
A LOOK BACKWARD
History is always interesting—and sometimes it
makes sad reading.
Take, for instance, the history of the individual
income tax. In 1929, the tax on a $2,000 income was $2
—and for a married person with two children and a
$10,000 income it was a mere $40.
Now the tax begins at 20 percent, on the lowest
taxable income levels. From there it goes swiftly up
the ladder, reaching 91 percent at the top.
It’s no wonder that people still talk, wistfully and
nostalgically, of the good old days. Who dares to pre
dict what taxes will be 25 years hence, with government
functions being expanded like the proverbial green
bay tree? ' _____
B.C. Businessmen
Encouraged to Trade
With Far East Countries
VANCOUVER, B.C., UPI—British
Columbia businessmen are being
encouraged to look to the Orient
lor future markets.
Premier W. A. Bennett, at the
annual conference of the Pacific
Northwest Trade Assn, in Victoria
recently, urged “a more realistic
approach" to trade with Asia.
In Vancouver, Thomas Fletcher,
Canada’s trade commissioner in
Hong Kong for the last seven
years, said this country’s best
prospects rest in the British col
ony and the Chinese mainland.
One Vancouver executive now
is in Red China and last week sent
an enthusiastic cable to his office
here from Peiping: “Negotiations
excellent. Substantial business
will ensue.’’
, Premier Bennett said the logi
cal, undeveloped market for B.C.
and the northwest United States
was southeast Asia, the Philip
pines, China, Japan and Siberia.
He said the province has done no
business at all with Soviet Siberia
since 1947. •
“This vast area of Asia has a
population in excess of 800,000,000
people. I.t now is in the precess of
industrialization which will un
doubtedly create demands for cap
ital goods and raw materials on an
unprecedented scale.”
Mickey Mantle Wants
To Play in All Games,
Chance to Break Records
DETROIT, (#>—Mickey Mantle
leads the American League in al
most every hitting department,
but he says what impresses hirn
most is that he has played in ev
-ery game.
“I don’t set any goals as far as
hitting goes,” said the New York
Yankee centerfielder. "But just
once in my life I’d like to be able
to play in every game of the sea
son. Then maybe I could do some
of these other things people are
always talking about.”
Not since Mickey came to the :
major leagues in 1951 as a 19- I
year-old sensation has he played '
in more than 147 games a season. !
And in many cases his appearance j
was nothing more than to pinch- j
hit.
“These things” that other peo- I
pie talk about include breaking
Babe Ruth’s record of 60 home
runs, and winning the triple [
crown—-batting, runs batted in,
and home runs.
U.S. and Canada
To Talk Over
Water Problems
WASHINGTON, UP—'The State
Department announced today the
United States and Canada will
'meet later this year to talk about
the waters which flow across their
boundary.
This will be the first such meet
ing since the Boundary Waters
Treaty of 1909. This treaty set up
the international joint commission
which has been handling water
problems along the U.S. - Canada
border for 46 years. The site of
the meeting was not fixed.
The conference, department of
ficials said, is an outgrowth of a
discussion between President Ei
senhower and Canadian Prime
Minister Louis St. Laurent at the
recent U.S.-Canada-Mexico “sum
mit meeting” at White Sulphur
Springs, W.Va.
Eisenhower and St. Laurent
talked then about the Columbia
river which rises in Canada’s
western reaches and flows into
the U.S. northwest.
U.S. officials have expressed
concern at a suggestion Canada
might divert some of the water.
The State Department announ
cement said development of the
Columbia, St. John and Yukon
basins—all of which lie across the
boundary — require “the solution
of various complicated legal, ec
onomic and engineering ques
tions.”
HOW TO SLEEP NIGHTS
WINTERBOURNE KINGSTON,
England, l/Pt — Mrs. Sophia Well
stead tossed off her usual sleep
ing potion of a tall glass of gin
and port wine last night after
celebrating her 105th birthday.
“It has never done me any
harm,” she told a reporter, “and
it is too late now to start won
dering if it might.”
Coming Soon
To The Theater
JAPAN FACES TIME
FOR DECISION IN HER
RUSSIA RELATIONS
TOKYO, (iP—Japan is moving I
rapidly toward a decision on its 1
future relations with the Soviet j
Union.
The Russians have a lever in a i
new 10-year fisheries pact that j
could:
Force Japan to sign a World |
War II peace treaty or live under
a serious threat to its food supply;
Seriously divide Japan’s Con
serative government;
Cause a major reshuffling of
the cabinet, with ousting of the
strongest anti-Soviet elements,
particularly Foreign Minister Ma
moru Shigemitsu; and
Compel Japan to give up claims
to the southern Kuriles, occupied ,
by the Soviets since the end of
World War II.
The key to this possible chain
reaction is a provision of the fish
eries agreement, signed by Agri
culture Minister Ichiro Kono in
Moscow, that makes it effective
only upon restoration of normal
relations.
Japan feels it must have access
to northwest Pacific waters, which
the Soviets have threatened to
close to "unlicensed” ships to
bring in an adequate catch of
, salmon. The Japanese largely de
j pend upon fish as a source of pro
tein in their diet.
A Million Workers Get A
Cent-an-Hour Wage Boost
From Rise In Living Index
WASHINGTON, 9PI — The gov
ernment reported today living
costs increased slightly in April.
The rise of two-tenths of one per
cent was enough to give about a
million workers a one-cent-an
hour wage boost.
The wage rise will go to auto
and other workers who have
union contracts tied to the gov
ernment’s index.
The Labor Department said the
April rise in its living costs index
was chiefly due to seasonally
higher food costs for the average
American family.
The index kept by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics rose to 114.9
per cent of the 1947 - 49 base
period.
This is one-half of 1 per cent
below the peak set in October,
1953, when the index was 115.4
Ewan Clague, Commissioner oi
Labor Statistics, said the prospect
for the summer months is a fur
ther gradual rise in food prices
with perhaps lower prices for
some consumer items such as
automobiles and household ap
pliances.
He said he hesitated to fore
cast living costs will continue to
rise through the summer but saw
no sign they will decline at least
until fall.
Subscribe to the Nome Nuqaei
It's Bronson courtesy
And service first
To fill your tanks
And quench your
thirst.
BRONSON
W A T E R
DELIVERY
RHONE MAIN 19
. i
Russia Invites U. S. To Send
High Level Officers to Russia
For Aviation Dav On June 21
WASHINGTON, UP — A White
House spokesman said Thursday
he “wouldn’t be surprised” if the
joint chiefs of staff should pay
a visit to the Soviet Union if
the Russians invited them.
Synder commented on a report
in a copyrighted story published
in the New York Daily News that
Russia has sent word “it would
welcome a visit by the entire U.S.
joint chiefs of staff for an inspec
tion of the Soviet armed forces.”
The Daily News story, under the
byline of Peter Wallenberg, said
the information came from United
Nations sources.
Presumably the Soviets would
expect a similar invitation from
the United States for their own
military leaders.
Snyder said at first, when
asked about the report: "There
has been no invitation.”
Later, however, after making
some checks with the government
officials, he said that since the
Geneva conference “there have
been informal discussions about
high officials of our government
visiting Russia.”
Snyder declined to say which
officials are involved in the talks.
An inquiry at the Russian em
bassy brought a response that
Marshal Sokolovsky, Soviet army
chief of staff, has invited Gen.
Nathan F. Twining, U.S. Air Force
chief of staff, to send a high level
delegation of two or three officers
to the celebration of Aviation Day
in Russia on June 24.
This was reported by the office
of Col. Philip Bachinsky, air at
tache of the embassy.
VERSES FROM NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS *
Earnestly contend for the faith ... ^
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who
were before of old ordained lo this condemnation . . .
denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 3, 4
ARCTIC Oil. DELIVERY
Why Worry ? — Call us and Relax !
Office
Black 76
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
NOW
Portable!
No longer need a typewriter be drab. Express your
personality in one of Royals new pastel colors:
Flamingo
Pink Ankeny I_I
Blue
Sunbeam
Yellow
. ,
Green
ONLY
ROYAL, THE RUGGED PORTABLE, £ Q C
THE MOST PREFERRED PORTABLE. ^
In a recent on-campus survey by Taka 18 months to pay.
the Gilbert Youth Research Or- '
ganization taken in schools
throughout the nation, it was re- Complete with
vealed that more students would aid^trZf.'fiber,gla,
like to own a Royal Portable than carrying •- *
the next 3 makes combined. casc•
The Standard Typewriter in Portable Size
Come in and try a Royal at: