THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postpffice at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879
TIME TO STEP UP AND START BATTING
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A NATION OF MEAT EATERS
Americans constitute a nation of meat eaters. At
present, our per capita consumption of this universally
desired food runs around 145 pounds a year.
Obviously, it’s a big job to produce, process and
distribute that huge supply. Each day 65,000,000
pounds—enough to fill about 2,500 railroad refrigerator
cars—find its way into the homes of consumers. Much
of it travels great distances, for the reason that the
bulk of our livestock is raised west of the Mississippi
while most of the meat is eaten east of the river. Luck
ily, we have a highly competitive meat industry which
performs that job day in and day out, with high effi
ciency, as a matter of established routine.
That industry is forever growing. The country
is now in the midst of a population boom. There are
7,000 more people sitting down to dinner each night
than dined the day before—which means we are adding
a state the size of Maryland to our population every
year. If current levels of meat consumption are to
be maintained, production will have to be expanded
by 2,000,000,000 pounds by 1960. And if we are to
reach an annual consumption goal of 175 pounds per
person, which is recommended by the Department of
Agriculture, the expansion will have to be around
6,000,000,000 pounds.
In any event, there can be no doubt that the
industry will continue to meet whatever demands we
place upon it. It is an integral part of our free
enterprise system—the system which makes for greater
abundance and higher living standards than any other.
A BUCK WITH A MESSAGE
Few people think of a dollar bill as a piece of
paper with a message printed on it. But there is a
picture story on the back side that suggests the need
for keeping eternal vigilance over the union of states.
Observe the unfinished pyramid and the eye above.
The pyramid represents the growing of the Union,
and the eye, its guardian.
With the national debt almost at the present legal
limit, and with government spending still exceeding
income, it’s high time we thought seriously of guarding
the Union from financial chaos. And to do that we
must not only demand economy in government, but
must cheerfully accept the effects of economy on
ourselves.
French Coming Around
To Soviet Position On
Make-up Cease-Fire Com.
By EDDY GILMORE
GENEVA, UP) — French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault and
Russia’s V. M. Molotov were re
ported by French sources to have
had a “useful” exchange of views
today on supervision of the pro
posed Indochina cease-fire.
The two met for 50 minutes in
what was described as “a cordial
atmosphere,” but were unable to
reach an agreement on composi
tion of a commission to police the
cease-fire.
The French were reported how
ever, to have come around to the
Soviet position that at least one
Communist nation would have to
be included in the supervisory
agency. Molotov was reported to
have insisted upon this as a mini
mum.
French sources said Bidault
no'w believes something can be
worked out by taking three Asian
nations—possibly India, Pakistan
and Ceylon as a basis and adding
one Communist country and one
Western nation to the commission.
Bidault was understood to have
told Molotov he was firmly op
posed to any commission on which
the Communists and non-Com
munists would be evenly divided,
such as the neutrfl nations super
visory commission in Korea.
New Postal Facilities at
Portland Will Supervise
Alaska Postal Operations
WASHINGTON, GP) — New re
gional post office facilities at
Portland, to supervise postal op
erations in Alaska, Oregon, Wash
ington, Montana, and Idaho, may
be opened by June 30, Sen. Cor
don (R Ore) said Friday.
The new office, established un
der the Post Office Department
decentralization policy, will have
a staff of some 40 persons and
will be headed by Sam Schwartz,
formerly of Cottage Grove, Ore.
District offices under the juris
diction of the Portland regional
office will be established at Port
land, Seattle, Spokane, Butte,
Boise and Anchorage.
Head of Jantzen Mills,
Early Day Fairbanks
Pioneer, Dies In Calif.
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., UP)—
John Richard Dodson, 85, vice
president, treasurer and chief
stockholder of the Jantzen Knit
ting Mills, died at his home Sun
day of a heart ailment.
Dodson was born in Blooming
ton, 111. As a young man he went
to Alaska and was credited with
leading the first expedition to a
remote area that now is the city
of Fairbanks.
With $5,000 he saved in Alaska
he invested in a small firm known
as the Noland Knitting Mills in
Portland, Ore. This company
mushroomed into the present
Jantzen firm.
He is survived by his widow,
Pearl, and a son, Brig. Gen. G.
Robert Dodson, chief of staff of
the Oregon National Guard in
Portland.
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Sevenson Says U.S.
Is Suffering From
‘National Neurosis’
NEW YORK, UP)—Adlai Steven
son said Saturday America is suf
fering from a “national neurosis”
of self-doubt and may be at the
crossroads of democracy and to
talitarianism.
“That we are not invulnerable
... is, I think, demonstrated bv
many symptoms,” he said, “of
which McCarthyism ... is only
one.”
The 1952 Democratic nominee
for President told a bicentennial
conference of Columbia Univer
sity he has been disturbed “by
what seems to me the chorus at
home and abroad of irrational
criticism, abuse and mistrust of
America, its motives and its peo
ple.
“I don’t mean just the attacks
on academic freedom, the pres
sure for conformity, our failures
in the field of foreign affairs, or
the present wretched manifesta
tions in Washington of our na
tional neurosis, he said in a pre
pared address.
(Although he did not say so,
the “manifestations” he referred
to apparently were the hearings
involving the Army and Sen. Jo
seph McCarthy.)
“Rather I am talking about mal
ice, distemper and the new fa
shion of being cynical, sarcastic
and skeptical about America, or
about fellow Americans in large
groups.”
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U.S. to Step Up
Military Aid
To Turkey
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
United States and Turkey jointly
announced Saturday an American
decision to step up military assist
ance to the strategically located
middle eastern nation.
A joint communique on talks
held last week by Prime Minister
Adnan Menderes with President
Eisenhower and other top U.S. of
ficials reported the decision. It
also disclosed that the adminis- «
tration has promised to continue
doing everything it can to main
tain future economic as well as
military help to Turkey.
The effect of the agreement as
explained by U.S. informants is
that military aid to Turkey in
the 12 months beginning July 1
will be greater than that which
the Eisenhower administration
had recently planned. Delivery of
a half billion dollars worth of
arms and equipment previously
programed for Turkey also will
be speeded up.
The communique was issued
following Menderes’ departure
from Washington for Ankara. He
had conferred here for four days.
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