THE NOME NUGGET
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PRESTO!
This pampered nation is beginning to regard
Aladdin as a hardship case! In order to get what he
wanted he had to suffer the exertion of rubbing that
lamp—when all present day Americans have to do is
press the button.
The sale of a billion aerosol containers over the
past ten years—and dispensing a rapidly growing
list of household and personal needs and luxuries—
hias ushered in what you might call the Index Finger
Age—when a single digit is mightier than a pair of
hands! In 1960, we are told, the Finger will release
a billion dollars worth of almost everything you can
•think of except corn-on-the-cob.
Today, the GI who used the first “aerosol bug
bomb” in fighting off the murderous vermin and in
sects of South Pacific jungles can use the perfected
device in shaving, brushing his teeth, shining his
she s, doing his household painting or lubricating
his :ar or his fishing reels. For his wife it now pro
vidfs all manner of cosmetics, even to perfumes and
dusting powders; glass, metal, leather, rug and up
holstery cleaners as well as waxes and polishes. A
wide variety of insecticides and room deodorants are
aercsol-propelled, and even a preparation for de
smelling the family dog. If one of the kids cuts him
self, an aerosol will spray on a bandage, or if an ad
hesive bandage is to be removed, another one will
dissolve the stickum. Medicines put up in aerosol
containers with recently devised metering valves
insure accurate dosage, will put an end some day to
the time-honored question: “How much is / a tea
spoonful?”
Tomorrow, the biggest advance is expected on
the food front. With aerosol, Mother will ice a cake
in tecnicolor, produce ice cream sundaes for Junior’s
birthday party in endless colors and flavors—including
chopped nuts! She’ll spray his cereal—complete with
sugar and cream—into his cereal bowl, squirt batter
into the waffle iron and onto the pancake griddle.
Salad dressings, mustard, cheese, sandwich spreads
will be aerosol-dispensed. Even catsup will be free
flowing at last!
As for father, when he’s ready for a coffee break
he will need only to get a cup of hot water (just hot
enough to suit his tongue, not boiling) and add a
squirt from the container in his bottom desk drawer.
It will be black or include premixed sugar and cream,
as he wishes.
Omar Khayyam said “The moving finger
wriles . .” What a shock he’d be in for today!
TIME TO GIVE THE BOSS A BREAK
Inflation could be checked—deflation might even
be started—without cutting wages or trimming
“fringe” benefits, Vice President Ray E. Wright of
Congoleum-Nairn told the 30th Institute of Indust
rial Relations at the Hollywood Beach Hotel recent
ly. Billions of dollars of employers’ money is now
lost in completely unproductive time—over-long lun
ches, coffee-breaks, smoke periods and water-cooler
visits—he said.
“The principle of a fair day’s work for a fair
day’s pay is traditionally American, in fact, it’s in
cluded in many union contracts today,” said Mr.
Wright. Its revival, he thinks’ could save our econ
omy—and make the workers happier jn their jobs, too.
“Education is the most selfish thing in the world.
The only person who can give it to you is you.
Teachers can lead, suggest, cajole, even browbeat,
• but they can’t make you learn. That you do alone.”
HOW OBVIOUS CAN YOU GET ?
Herter Seeks To
Protect Historic
Fishing Rights
SEATTLE, UR—'Recognition of
historic fishing rights by the
Law of The Sea Conference in
Geneva is being sought by the
State Department, Under Sec
retary Christian A. Herter dis
closed here Friday.
Herter said this would pro
tect Pacific Northwest fishermen
no matter what the conference
does about changing the present
three-mile territorial limit on
offshore waters.
“We are trying to have re
tention of historically established
fishing rights written into the
language of any new treaty
adopted by the conference that
deals with sovereignty over off
shore waters,” the Under Secre
tary told a news conference.
Herter said this would preserve
the rights of Pacific Northwest
fishermen to operate along the
British Columbia coast outside
the present three-mile limit.
Loss of these fishing grounds
would cripple Washington’s fish
ing industry, state officials said.
The Geneva conference appar
ently has deadlocked over a pro
posal for extending the offshore
limit to 12 miles, but Herter said
support is growing for a compro
mise plan by India which would
allow each nation to establish
its own limit between 3 and 12
miles.
“This would permit indepen
dent negotation with Canada
ever West Coast fishing grounds
even if the ‘historic rights’ pro
vision is not adopted,” he said.
International Atomic
Energy Directors
Praise Russia
MOSCOW, UP) — Directors of
the International Atomic Energy
Agency wound up a tour of Sov
iet nuclear installations today by
describing the Soviet Union’s
work in the peaceful uses oi
atomic energy as “most im
pressive.”
W. Sterling Cole, former New
York Congressman who is now
the agency’s director general;
Czechoslavak board chairman
Paul Winkler and other officials
spent a week touring the Soviet
installations.
At a news conference they
praised Soviet cooperation both
here and within the agency. “If
the agency fails to accomplish its
purpose it will be a dark, dis
mal day for the whole world,”
Cole said.
Albert Diede and Wayne Witte
Win Week's- Pass To Nomerama
Winners of a week’s free pass
for two at the Nomerama Theater
in the contest held last Friday
on the production “I Died A
Thousand Times” have been an
nounced as Albert Diede and
Wayne Witte. The picture is
being shown for the last time
tonight.
March 3, 1883 Congress appro
priated funds for construction of
the first steel warships our Navy
ever owned, the cruisers Atlanta,
Boston and Chicago, and the dis
patch boat Dolphin.
Old Newspapers—25c a Bundle
For Packing, Painting or Puppies
For Sale at the Nugget
Ike Likely To *,
Veto $1,890,000
Roadbuilding Rill
WASHINGTON UP) — A meet
ing of state officials called to dis
cuss new highway legislation has
■been cancelled, a spokesman said
Saturday, because there is “such
a degree of uncertainty” that
President Eisenhower will sign
it.
The bill, passed overwhelm
ingly by Congress a week ago,
would pump an extra $1,800,
000,000 into roadbuilding in the
fiscal year starting in July. That
would raise total authorized
spending on federal-state road
j projects to about billion
' dollars.
Sponsors called it a major
anti-recession measure. ,
Unconfirmed reports have cir
culated that Eisenhower will
veto the bill, which was spon
sored principally by the Demo
: cratic leadership of Congress al
though it had bipartisan backing.
The American Assn, of State
j Highway Officials, as is its cus
| tom when major roads legisla
| tion is enacted, had called a
! meeting in Chicago Monday and
| Tuesday at which state officials
' were to discuss the new bill witn
I Representatives of the Federal
j Bureau of Public Roads.
A. E. Johnson, executive sec
I retary of the association, said
| “there is such an air of uncer
| tainty about it (the bill) that we
I cancelled the meeting.”
I The Bureau of Public Roads is
a part of the Commerce Depart
ment. The office of Secretary
of Commerce Weeks declined
comment on reports that Weeks
is preparing a draft of a veto
message.
Sen. Francis Case (R-SD), a
backer of the new highway bill,
told a reporter he had not heard
anything to substantiate rumors
of a veto. Case noted, however,
that Weeks had objected to some
of the bill’s provisions.
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