THE NOME NUGGET
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ROCKING THE BOAT
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Taxpayers’ Burden
THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS helps
Eskimos over 18 years of age and under 35 to
leave Alaska and locate in several large cities in the
lower forty-eight States. The Bureau pays their fare
and provides them with jobs when they get there.
This is done by the re-location office, with Jens For
shaug heading the project in this area. Whole families
have been uprooted from St. Lawrence, and now some
of the promising young men of Diomede are consider
ing taking advantage of a free trip and a job. Some
young people left last winter from Nome. Some of
these were unemployed when they left, others had jobs
at the time they were given this gift from Uncle Sam.
Although there is some merit to the program for
people in crowded areas, Alaska needs its young people
to be encouraged to stay in Alaska, to help build it for
the future. In this era of overburdened taxpayers,
great care should be exercised in giving expense-paid
trips. Money appropriated for this purpose could well
be turned into the much-needed boarding schools near
high schools and vocational schools, which are so badly
needed, and which could serve more than the few
individuals who benefit by relocation.
Socialism With The Creeps
FEW LIVING MEN have seen so much history, both
as participant and observer, as Herbert Hoover.
A short time ago he spoke before a religious
group. He pointed out that Marxist thinking was
plaguing the country, and that “more leaders of the
Christian faiths need to realize the ultimate end of
this infection among us.”
Then he made a memorable observation: “The
real meaning and purpose of socialism is the govern
mental operation of all commerce and industry and the
reduction of life to pure materialism.
“This infection creeps through our nation by
deluded and misled men and by disguised organiza
tions, fronts and cults. These agents of infection are
like hermit crabs which crawl into such terms as
‘liberal,’ ‘progressive,’ ‘public electric power,’ ‘man
aged economy,’ ‘the welfare state,’ and a half-dozen
others.”
Japan Communists
Stage New Assault
On United States
By GENE KRAMER
TOKYO, Ui — Chant^ of “Yan
gee Go Home” res_ .'iced in To
kyo Saturday at a demonstration
organized by the Communists to
mark the 10th anniversar; ol the
start of the Korean ,r nd de
nounce he presence _»i American
troops in Asia,
The marchers, well drilled and
orderly, turned out right on
schedule as planned by leftwing
groups.
Nearly 5,000 Communists,
workers and students marched
past the American Embassy, Par
liament, the Cabinet building and
through downtown Tokyo. They
were unopposed by police except
at the Embassy, sealed off by sev
eral hundred guards.
Openly organized by the Com
munist Party, the demonstration
was smaller than many preceding
it in Tokyo's two-week wave of
daily leftist parades. In contrast
to the earlier demonstrations,
U. S. policies in Asia were di
rectly assailed with placards and
slogans such as "America, get out
of the Far East . . . Get out of
Taiwan 'Formosa! . . Return
Okinawa . . . Take back your
black jets <U-2> and your army.'’
Pro-Comunist Korean residents
also staged rallies in more than
50 Japanese cities airing the Com
munist line that South Korea,
backed by America, started the
Korean war and that withdrawal
of U. S. forces from Korea is the
only way to peace in that di
vided country.
The Korean theme was just a
breather for Japan’s left wing. It
is planning a new series of dem
onstrations this week in a pro
longed campaign against the new
ly-ratified U. S.-Japan military
alliance and Prime Minister
Kishi. who has announced his i
intention to resign shortly.
Hou se Passes
4 Billion Dollar
Tax Bill
WASHINGTON, CP)—’The House
today passed legislation continu- J
ing four billion dollars worth of
taxes that would expire Thursday
midnight unless Congress acted.
The bill went to the Senate,
which is expected to send it
promptly to the White House with
the final favorable congressional
vote.
The measure, which also sets
the national debt limit at 293
billion dollars for the next year,
is a compromise between versions
passed earlier by the House and
Senate.
It continues at the present rates
the corporate income tax and var
ious excise taxes largely stem
ming from the Korean war period.
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House Members
Ordered to Limit
Per Diem Expense
WASHINGTON, UPt — House
members have been ordered to
limit their government-paid liv
ing expenses to $25 a day while
on Congressional trips.
The new ceiling adopted by the
House Administration Committee
will become effective July 1.
Employes of the executive
branch are limited to $12 per
diem allowance while on govern
ment trips. The committee said
Thursday that any members who
plan to ask more than the $12
a day for expenses such as hotel
rooms, meals, laundry and tips
must get approval from their
committee chairmen in advance.
But it said up to $25 a day
could be paid “where necessary
subsistence costs are unusually
high” or where hotel bills alone
would use up the $12. Members
staying within the $12 limit do
not have to list their expenses in
detail, but those spending more
than that will have to itemize
their costs.
The ceiling on expenses was or
dered following a series of copy
righted stories by the Knight
newspapers. The series said some
members spent as much as $103
a day on hotel accommodations,
food and drink while on Con
gressional trips.
NENANA EXPECTED TONIGHT
The first boat, the SS Nenana,
is scheduled to arrive tonight, dis
charge perishables and cool room
freight and proceed to Port Clar
ence to take off a deck load of
freight. It is expected to return
to Nome in a couple of days.
Action Delayed on
Homesteaders*
Mineral Rights
WASHINGON, (/PI — The Inter
ior Department has been asked to
suspend action on Alaska home
stead entries for which waivers
of mineral rights have been de
manded.
Sen. Ernest Gruening said Fri
day the request was made by
Chairman James Murray (D-Monti
of the Senate Interior Committee.
The committee is considering a
bill by Gruening on the matter.
The measure would put off ac
tions which might deprive the
homesteaders of mineral rights, or
of existing rights in homesteads,
because of failure or refusal to
sign waivers of oil and gas rights,
Gruening said.
Murray told Secretary of the
Interior Seaton in a letter that
the committee staff will study the
matter during the adjournment
of Congress and that the commit
tee intends to deal with the situa
tion early in the next session.
Gruening’s bill would grant
mineral rights to about 250 home
steaders who had valid rights be
fore discovery of oil on the Kenai
Peninsula in July, 1957. Without
the legislation, those who sub
mitted their final homestead pa
pers after the discovery would re
ceive only surface rights to the
land.
Hilma Devine, a resident of
Nome 18 years ag, is visiting here
with her neice Mrs. Carl Ander
son, from her home in San Fran
cisco. Mrs. Devine operated the
Lincoln Hotel for several years.
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