THE NOME NUGGET
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CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THAT OLD QUESTION: WHICH IS FIRST ?
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WHO BENEFITS?
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Who benefits most from advertising? YOU do—
you, the consumer.
Why are you the chief beneficiary of advertising?
Well, it works this way:
Let’s take a well known article of daily life—tele
vision for example. Let’s assume the first television
set has just been made. No one except a few scientists,
perhaps, has ever heard of it.
The first set cost many thousands of dollars in
inventive labor and materials. Until there is a market
for it, it’s.just an expensive toy. Only a very few rich
people can ever afford to buy it.
How is a market created? By advertising.
The advertising makes many people want this fas
cinating new invention. The demand for many sets
cuts the cost per unit to a few hundred dollars by the
well known principle of mass production. It thus comes
within the reach of everyone.
Until many people own television sets broadcast
ing would be unprofitable. Thus advertising has created
a new industry and a new way of life.
This story has been repeated countless times
throughout American history. Automobiles and wash
ing machines; radios and wrist watches; electric stoves
and automatic furnaces—all the things that only the
rich could enjoy if they were not mass produced —
have become available to all of us through advertising.
Thus it is no accident that the United States, with
the highest standard of living ever known in world’s
history, spends more- than $40 per capita in all forms
of advertising. Abroad, Sweden spends about $6.50
■and the United Kingdom about $5. In the miserable
countries behind the Iron Curtain, of course, there is
no advertising. You take what the all-powerful state
hands you—and like it, if you know what’s good for
you. Tell this to your leftish friend the next time he
talks about the “parasitic cost” of advertising.
Eisenhower-Stalin Meeting Likely
' Only If Soviet World Intentions
First Undergo a Clear Change
A
Sen. Lyng Asks Repeal of
Gold Act; Ipalook Road
Request Okayed by Senate
By JIM HUTCHESON
Measures passed just before j
House adjournment Wednesday
included a Senate-approved bill
to allow a person to bequeath an
eye for surgery so it can be ob
tained immediately after death
without family consent.
The House also approved two
Senate resolutions, one by Sens.
Howard Lyng (D-Nome) and Ger
dt Snider (R-Wasilla) asking for
congressional action to repeal the
Gold Act and allow free sale of
gold and another resolution by
four Third Division senators ask
ing road improvements in the Pal
mer-Wasilla area.
The Senate approved a resolu
tion by Percy Ipalook (R-Kotze
bue) seeking a seven-mile road for
a new Kotzebue water supply be
cause doctors have condemned
the present water supply as un
safe.
IKE GOLFS IN GEORGIA SUN
AUGUSTA, Ga., UP — President
Eisenhower put aside White
House cares and golfed in the
warm Georgia sunshine Friday.
Starting the first full day of a
week-end vacation, the President
was up early and hustled out to
the practice tee at the Augusta
National Club shortly after break
fast. He planned an 18-hole round
later in the day.
Eisenhower arrived here by
plane from Washington late yes
terday. The sun . was out after a
week of rain and the President’s
good weather luck held again to
day.
SEN. CHARLIE JONES ASKS
NENANA - SEWARD PEN. R.R.
IN MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS
JUNEAU, UP—Senate president
Charles D. Jones, Nome Republi
can, introduced a memorial yes
terday asking President Eisen
hower and Congress to take im
mediate steps toward the building
of a railroad from Nenana to' the
Seward Peninsula.
He said it would be a vital
artery to a strategic metals area,
including the continent’s only tin
mine.
The resolution also asks the re
turn of Alaska’s vast northeastern
sector to military rating as a vital
defense area and “that it be treat
ed accordingly.”
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
The Senior Intermediate Girl
Scouts held their Valentine party
at the school from -7:15 to 9:30
on February 12.
We had heart-shaped cakes,
cookies and Jello with strawberry
Kool-Aid and potato' chips.
We have finished our clerk
badge and we are going to start
on another badge soon.
—Sadie Bell, Scribe
WASHINGTON, UP>— President
Eisenhower and Premier Stalin
may eventually meet at a cold
war peace conference, but all evi
dence here vindicates that Soviet
world intentions will first have
to undergo a clear change.
That was the plain import
of Eisenhower’s news conference
comment Wednesday on a possi
ble meeting with the Soviet lead
er. It is also the word that comes
from U.S. diplomatic authorities
who may not be named.
Sen. Mundt (R-SD) said Presi
dent Eisenhower’s comment put
the next move up to Stalin.
Periodic Russian displays of in
terest in a top-level session are
regarded here as propaganda
moves which could turn into a
diplomatic trend if not handled
with extreme care.
To hold a meeting in the ab
sence of prior proof of Soviet sin
cerity, authorities here feel, would
be to court two grave dangers:
1. If the U.S. and allied western
powers were committed to make
the session successful but Russia
was not, then success could be
bought only at the price of new
concessions to Russia.
2. If, on the other hand, the U.S.
and its allies as well as Russia
went into a conference cynically
expecting only to make propa
ganda against the other side, then
the resulting failure to realize
world hopes for peace would al
most certainly increase the danger
of a new world war.
In the latter part of his admin
istration, former President Tru
man habitually replied to- ques
tions about a meeting with Stalin
by saying he would be glad to
see the Soviet premier in Wash
ington. No one expected Stalin to
come here.
Eisenhower’s position, as stated
Wednesday, was that he would
be willing to meet Stalin halfway
— presumably between Moscow
and Washington. In the past, the
Russian premier has shown no
willingness to go beyond the lim
its of Red army power. Such top
level talks have been held at
Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam.
Document Shews Russia
Ordered War in Korea
SEOUL, Iff) — Clarence Ryee,
director of the Republic of Ko'rea
information office, Thursday de
clared a confiscated Red docu
ment proves Soviet Russia ordered
North' Korea’s war-launching in
vasion of South Korea in June,
1950.
Ryee said the Allies seized the
document in the Red Korean capi
tal, Pyongyang, in late 1950 in
their abortive drive to the Yalu
River.
BRITAIN'S SUB-KILLERS
LONDON, Iff)—Britain is rush
ing work on a fleet of high-speed
torpedo boats powered by jet-like
engines and capable of destroying
the most modern submarines.
Taft Makes Prediction
Military Spending
Will Get Deep Cuts
To Balance Budget
WASHINGTON, UR —Sen. Taft
(R-Ohio) preducted Thursday that
Congress will cut deeply into mil
itary spending in an effort to bal
ance the budget—a task President
Eisenhower has described as ter
rifically difficult.
The Ohioan, the Senate’s Re
publican leader, told reporters he
doesn’t believe the military can
claim exemption from some sharp
budget cuts in the year beginning
July 1. Sens. Byrd (D-Va), Fergu
son (R-Mich) and Dirksen (R-Ill)
agreed cm that score.
House members who heard Sec
retary of Defense Wilson testify
Tuesday in a closed session said
they got the impression he be
lieves few substantial reductions
can be made in the $46 billion
dollar military program outlined
in former President Truman’s $76
billion dollar budget.
Told about this, Taft retorted:
“I think the military budget
will be cut.”
Byrd said he is convinced the
new administration’s fiscal offi
cers, including Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey and Budget
Director Joseph Dodge, have lost
none of their determination to
slash spending.
It is his understanding, Byrd
said, that they are aiming for an
overall reduction of about 10 per
cent in Truman’s estimates for
the coming year and in the back
1 o g of appropriations already
made by Congress.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forthcoming
Municipal and School Board elec
tion. shall be open WEDNESDAY,
February 18 th. Qualified regis
trants must be thirty (30) days in
the precinct and one year in the
Territory. Election date: April 7,
1953. —Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Pub. Feb. 13, 20, 27, 1953
NOTICE TO MOTORISTS
Motor vehicle drivers are given
until MARCH 1st to secure their
City Driver's License and car
sticker. Chauffeur Licenses of
taxis or cabs are also required by
that date. Anyone driving without
them is subject to arrest and a
tine. —Clyde D. Glass
Chief of Police
Pub. Feb. 13,20,27, 1953
NOTICE
1953 Automobile Licenses are
now being issued at the Nome
Branch Office of the Department
of Taxation. Sect. 12 of the Alas
ka Motor Vehicle Act requires
that after February 28, 1953, all
vehicles now in operation must
display 1953 license plates. Non
compliance is a misdemeanor.
Motor Vehicle Division
Department of Taxation
Territory of Alaska
Pub. Feb. 23, 25, 27,1953
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