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The Nome nugget., 1946-10-11
REINDEER SERVICE SHIPS SURPLUS DEER

Doug Johnson, superintendent for the Reindeer Service who has been busy for four and a half months at Nunivak Island round ing up and slaughtering the sur plus deer returned Monday eve ming on the Pan American.
 MT. Johnson states that there are forty tons of Reindeer on the North Star for the Nome market. The SS. Square Knot took several tons to the States and a capacity load will be on the southbound North Star for Aklutna, Sitka, Wrangell Institute and the Juneau hospital.
 Early in July, Jack Connors of the Wildlife Department flew over the island for six hours and was only able to see signs of about 2,000 deer and musk-ox. It was felt that some disaster had oc- cured and the reindeer had been lost, either by drifting out to sea on the ice of possibly by starvation due to lack of food.
 However the roundup and ac- tUal count revealed l2,000 deer on the island.
 Approximately 4,000 were pro- cessed for shipment and the hides were salted and shipped to San Francisco for processing.
 When tanned the hides will be returned to the Native Arts and Crafts department, at Nome and one hundred skins for St. Law renee Island.
 The Reindeer Service will have for sale around 400 skins, suitable for heavy parkaS and sleeping bags.
 Many officials called on the is land during the summer and in cluded Alfred D. Edgar, agricul- tural engineer from Ft. Collins, Colo, who studied soil samples, lichens and sedges; D. A. Savage, from the U. s. Range Station of the Bureau of Plants Industry, Woodward, Okla, interested in animal diseases; l. M. C. Ander- son, from the Farm Security Ad- ministration from Anchorage, in terested in the process of slaugh- tering; Dr. M. Lantis, of the Arc tic Institute, Washington, D. C., who studied the Nunivak Eskimo from a psychological stand; Don C. Foster, general supervisor of the Alaska Native Service and l.. C. Peters, director of Native Re sources from Juneau.
 MT. Johnson stated that his de- partment is particularly inter ested in seeing that Nunivak Is- land is not overgrazed, hence the large quantity of deer killed this
The Nome nugget., 1946-10-11
PRESIDENTIAL PLUMS

KANSAS CITY, Oct. II. (P)- A jar of regular damson plum pre- serves with special label brought a high bid of $2 at the woman's city club annual harvest festival here.
The Nome nugget., 1946-10-11

The preserves were contributed by Mrs. Harry S: Truman, and bore White House label. Mrs. Arnold w. Falls was the high bid- der.
The Nome nugget., 1946-10-11
Hospital Notes

New patients at the hospital are Mrs. Charles Blachford and twins, and Helen Larson.
The Nome nugget., 1946-10-11
PROPERTY TRANSFER

B. B. Mozee has purchased the lot east of his home on 1st Ave, from o. D. Cochrane.
The Durant news., 1946-12-19
LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Bass plan to
spend Christmas in Arkansas City,
Kansas.
Mr.. c. F. Drake was business
visitor in Lexington Wednesday.
The many friends of Mr. William
A. Billy) Bacon, of Jackson, will be
interested to learn he has been
elected president of the VS. Mems
Club, a national organization. He
presided as the POSTMASTER at the
annual Christmas banquet held there
Wednesday evening. Billy is the son
of Mrs. Zouella Bacon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Rush and children
Margaret and Virginia, spent Sun
oay in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Clarence Robertson, and
Janice shopped in Kosciusko Friday.
Mrs. Joel Gulledge, of Bowling
Green. visited her daughter, Mrs. Ed
Rush, Saturday.
Miss Ann Montgomery is now
located in Jackson where she has
accepted a position in the office of
ledOlIlS QSpdl tiiiSiit StoiS'
Mr.. and Mrs. R. H. Bowie had as
their weekend guests, their children,
Miss Mary Bowie, from Jackson,
Robert Horace, of State College, and
Ralph, of Ole Miss.
Friends of Mr.. Hugh Mcclellan re-
gret to know he has been quite i'll
this week.
Mrs. ]. R. Cargill has returned
from an extended visit in Yazoo
City. She was accompanied by her
daughter, Mrs. Jesse Sweeny, who
remained for visit in the home OF
her sister, Mrs. ]. M. Howard.
Mrs. j. l.. Longinotti and Mrs.
Marcus Love shopped in jackson
Tuesday.
Mrs. L. c. Lipsey left this morn
ing by plane for Fort Worth, Texas,
where she will spend the holidays
with her cousins, Miss Marie Brown,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Brown.
Miss Gladys Rhyme of Memphis
spent the weekend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Rhyme. MISS
Lucille Rhyme Of Jackson spent
Sunday with her parents. Edward
Rhyme was a Jackson. visitor last
Wednesday and Thursday.
The Durant news., 1946-12-19

Mrs. Florence Majors was a Jack
son visitor Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. Joe Byrd and dau-
ghter, Amy Louise, of Winona
spent Sunday here with his mother
Mrs. j. H. Byrd and sister, Mrs. w
c. Stokes.
The Durant news., 1946-12-19
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The midland journal., 1946-06-21

WASEINGTON.-With new uses
for potatoes being found, along with
a heavier consumer demand, Is
keeping the government out of the
market for support purposes to a
greater degree than department of
agriculture officials expected. in
view of the unprecedented potato
shipments this spring.
One of the reasons for increased
demand is the entry of the distilling
industry into the buying field. Dis
tillers are buying potatoes from the
growers at prices above government
support prices in order to convert
into alcohol.
Potatoes were successfully used
for livestock feeding in 1887, 1889,
1910 and 1941, officials pointed out,
and in view Of the feed shortage,
may 60 into this channel. When
processed into flour, potatoes also
make an excellent poultry feed.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
People Are Buying More

Recently, I said over the air that
America was eating better, and
eating more than it had ever eaten
before. Immediately received a
squal Of stormy letters, vehement
ly denying my statement.
All Of the writer's regaled me
with the same tale which my wife
brings home each day - that the
grocer's and the butchers shelves
are almost bare.
Nevertheless, America is eating
better and more food. Americans
who ate a yearly average Of 127
pounds of meat before the war are
now gobbling it at the rate Of $50
pounds apiece. This statement is
from Fortune magazine, periodi-
cal not noted for making false state
mentS.
You and / cannot get everything
we want, but we aren't all of Amer
lea by a long way. You and ! have
always had meat virtually every
day in the week.
But millions Of people in this
country never had meat more than
once or twice a week. These mil
lions of people have more money
today than they have ever had, but
you, if you are one of the people
who wrote me, probably never were
conscious of that fact.
The little graph shows the facts.
These figures on which it is based
are compiled by the department Of
commerce, and the most anti-admin-
istration banker you know won't
doubt them.
They show, as you see, that in
1899, the public's spendable income
was SO billion dollars. The estimate
for 1946 is 139 billion.
Now your common sense will tell
you that the people who ate meat
every day didn't get all of that II
billion dollar increase in their
spending money. The low-income
groups got a large part of it. In
other words, America Gas a whole)
is eating more meat (and other
things) than it ever did before, and
because so many MORE people are
eating SO much MORE meat, there
isn't as much left for the people
who ate all they wanted before.
The discussion of how much
America is eating arose in connec-
tion with the question as to our abil-
!. ity to help feed starving Europe and
Asia. Some people believed that be-
! cause they couldn't buy as many
things at the store as they were
accustomed to buying, America
didn't have enough to SPARE -
But the people tyou and y who
The midland journal., 1946-06-21

tration of its powers, until said
agency has little more control over
prices than man over skidding
car on an icy pavement.
And yet, according to recent polls,
80 per cent of the public is in favor
of ''holding the line" The March
survey by that reliable poller,
MORO (National Opinion Research
Center of Denver university among
other similar groups, points this out.
When the house virtually stripped
OPA of its powers late in April, let
ters poured in supporting the agen-
cy, since then its head, Paul Por-
ter, using the publicity machine
built up by his predecessor, Stablli-
zation Director Bowles, has omit
ted no word or act to keep his side
Of the arguments against ceiling
smashing before the consumer. Al
though congress is not now being
needed as heavily as it was at the
peak of the house debate, plenty OF
people are still asking for OPA con-
tinuation.' +'
At the same time, Of course, anti
control forces are keeping up their
pressure, both through lobbyists Of
the interested groups, and through
the paid advertising Of the National
Manufacturers association, and
other industrial organizations.
But as far as any one can gauge,
the people themselves still want
price control. Nevertheless, con-
gress has managed to whittle it
down, and many observers, at this
writing, consider it as, among the
dead already.
Up until the unions threatened to
tie up the railroads and ignored gov
ernment orders, there was no
chance to get. any labor control
measure through congress. But the
people wanted something, and when
the President offered it, he received
a response in the way of letters and
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
NEW USES FOUND
Demand for Potatoes Is Heavy

Starch, -four and glucose are other
potato products for human con-
sumption.
Potatoes manufactured into alco-
hol yield about 20 per cent in by
product livestock feed.
Shipments from potato producing
states have broken the all-time high
of 1,514 carloads day on four sue
cessive days this spring. California
has been the heaviest shipper.
To meet the situation, the depart
ment has set up support buying Of
fees in California, Arizona, Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Virginia. While peaks
were reached last week in several
states, North Carolina, California
and Virginia marketings are ex-
pected to run even higher this week,
with Oklahoma, Arizona and Ar
kansas just coming on.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21

Support buying at the announced
price levels reached about 500 car
loads last week, officials estimated,
with 200 cars purchased in North
Carolina alone. But the demand
from all types Of consumers, includ-
ing distilleries, prevented the buy
ing program from reaching the pro-
portions such heavy marketing
would normally mean. The market
can normally absorb only about
1000 carloads day, compared with
last weeks daily average Of 1,717
carloads.
The department will use some of
its surplus for school lunch pro-
grams and relief needs, but it is ap-
parent that the bulk win 60 for out
side needs. Officials hope that a
considerable amount will 60 into in
dustrial uses other than the manu-
facture of alcohol, but admit that
some may 60 to distillers. 8
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
PuBLIC'S SPENDABLE INCOME DOUBLED
Personal Mail Exerts Big
Influence ON Congressman
BY BAUKHAGE
Netcs analyst and Commentator.

kilograms such as the White House
has not known in the memory Of its
present staff, some of whom have
served there since the days of Wood
row Wilson.
A lot Of letters I receive indicate
that a great many people think con-
gress pays no attention to the voter.
This is laughably inaccurate. The
voice of the voter is the one thing
a congressman obeys. In spite of
this fact, 81 per cent of the people,
if our old friend, MORO, is right,
as it has proved to be on many oc-
casions, believe that congress de-
pends more on its own judgment
than on public ppinion.
OF course, the reason for this i'm
preston is that the organized
voters, the ones which some organ
ization controls, form the congress
mans judgment because they are
the most vocal. They make them
selves heard in person, through
their membership, and the people
whom they influence.
In the two recent questions !
have mentioned: labor control and
price control, you have two power
full lobbies at work - the unions and
the industrial organizations, but
pulling in opposite directions
am not saying that either is
right or wrong in the views they
express and the causes they advo-
cate. I am saying that they are
active and powerful. And also that
they naturally promulgate ideas in
their own interest. If these inter-
ests happen to be the public's, as
well, fine. If not. ..
Most Of the congressional Sec
retaries know well enough to talk
with frankly support this view. Ex-
cept, of course, when some strange
political deal is involved, whereby
the congressman feels 1t safer to
displease some Of his constituency
because Of its Indifference, than to
disregard the pressure brought upon
him by other forces In or out of
congress.
This particular inquiry by the
Quarterly showed legislators rated
the various influences on them, as
follows: .Ec
(1) personal mail; (2) visits TO
the public; (3) newspapers; l4) vis-
it's FROM the public; and (5) pub
lie opinion polls.
The bearing which these figures
have on the Importance of writing
your congressman, in my opinion,
is this: they show that mail is i'm
portant, and that when letters at
one end of the spectrum of impor-
tance jibe with the poll Cat the
other end), il certainly puts a burr
under the legislators vote.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21

can't get all Of what we want are
in no danger Of starving. We can
get things we may not like, but
which will be just as good for us.
And also, we can be assured that
the people, who, in Americas past,
have been near the danger lines,
are getting a lot more than they
ever had before. And they weren't
starving then, either.
So don't think that we haven't
enough to spare for the invisible
guest.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21

sleuths are try
ing to solve. Re
cent reactions of
congress pre-
sents a paradox.
In fact, a pair of
paradoxes.
Gradually, one
by one, like a
m alden pluck
ing daisy petals
to learn her fate
and fortune, con-
gress has been
stripping tn e
poor office of
price adminis-
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
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The midland journal., 1946-06-21

The spools and shelves now may be
practically welded together with new
easy.to-use types of glue. The wire or
cord is then run through, as shown here,
so that the shelves may be hung in cor.
ner ready to hold articles of considerable
weight.
NOTE-Mrs. Spears has designed an
actual-size pattern for these three grace.
fully curved corner shelves which are
graduated in size. This pattern also con.
tains complete directions for cutting and
joining these shelves as well as a pattern
for another larger set of spool shelves
Ask for Pattern No. 255. Address:
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
Spool Shelves for
Interesting Trinkets

THESE graceful corner shelves
L are 10 inches wide and 2 inches
deep at the bottom. Just the right
size to hold the quaint match hold
er, the old-fashioned china doll
head and other interesting trinkets
that you have been treasuring.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
NEWS REVIEW
Rats Cost Half Billion a Year
But New Rat Killers Found;
1916 Crops Depend on Weather
GRAINS:
Bet on Prices

Det ON FT1CcS
In, Chicago, those who buck the
board of trade are betting that the
OPA extension bill will eliminate
basic commodity farm prices from
control. Bidding is constantly high
er on wheat, oats and rye and are
going higher.
The Kansas City board of trade
from time to time has prohibited
all grain futures trading on the ex-
change except in settlement of open
commitments. Purpose Of the ac-
tion, the directors said, was to pro-
tect traders against losses caused
by the increased ceiling prices es-
tablished by the federal govern
ment.
CUBAN SUGAR:
Price Pledge Given
If prices Of U. S. foodstuffs i'm
ported into Cuba 60 up next year,
the U. S. government has given
that country assurance of a higher
price for Cuban sugar in this coun-
try, says Oscar Siegle, president of
the Cuban sugar commission.
The basic price agreed on for this
years sugar crop will continue to
be 3.675 cents pound, Sigele said.
Any increase in American foodstuff
prices, because of changes in the
OPA, would be reflected "perforce,
on the price of sugar." Siegle re-
ported after trip from Havana to
Washington .ez7 ss' Z 81 i7 = LIS Z
TO TOKYO:
New ATC Airline
The American fiers who spanned
the oceans and flew the hump"
have inaugurated a new airline to
Tokyo over the stop of the world"
saving more than 18 hours of flying
time each way. They are the pilots
of the Air Transport command.
In announcing the new route for
passenger and cargo planes, the
ATC stated the trip will take 26
hours flying time.
The new line. will follow a one
stop route from Seattle to Tokyo by
way of Adak in the Aleutian islands.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21

XX|HEN Functional Nervous Dis
w turbances such as Sleepless-
ness, Crankiness, Excitability,
Restlessness or Nervous Headache
interfere with your work or spoil your
good times, take
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
NO. 1 ENEMY:
Rats Increase

hdtS increase
The rat population of the United
States shot up during the war, due
to a shortage of chemicals for
rodenticides, and we now have over
Is million rats. They do an annual
damage of 500 million dollars to food
and property, exclusive of sickness
and death caused by disease they
spread.
Government officials estimate
that from 1871 to Is billion pounds
of grain a year are consumed or
destroyed by rats on farms. Each
rat eats about 100 pounds year,
and spoils at least another hundred.
Scientists of the interior depart
ment are making use of two potent
rodenticides developed during the
war. One is "1080," or sodium flu
oracetate, said to be the most ef-
fective rat poison known. The other
is "antu," an abbreviation for al
phanapthylthicurea.
WEATHER:
Rains and DrOuth
The government weather report
shows that recent rains in the Mid
die West have benefited small
grains, but that more sunshine and
warmth was needed for best growth
and development.
Crop estimates are up. One ex-
pert predicts winter wheat produc-
ton this year, as of June l, at 751
million bushels, or million bushels
more than the government estimat-
ed last month. Spring wheat was
estimated at 1858 million bushels,
slightly less than the 300 million
bushels in 1915.
In many places in the Mississippi
valley, wet weather slowed all farm
work and especially corn planting.
The extremely wet spots were rare,
however, and in many places rains
were needed.
WAR BABIES:
May Curb Influx
The bringing of very young babies
of war brides from Europe to the
United States may be halted, II a
recommendation of special army
board which investigated recent
outbreak of diarrhea on the trans
port Zebulon Vance when 80 babies
were stricken and eight died.
The army may halt transportation
from Europe of all babies under
one year of age. More thorough
physical examinations have been
requested for war brides and their
children at European staging areas
before departing for this country.
The war mothers themselves are
somewhat to blame, it is reported,
because of laxity of sanitary hab-
it's which might have contributed to
the epidemic.
CANNED MEAT:
500 Set Aside
A new government order provides
that federally inspected slaughter
ers may not produce canned meat
for civilian consumption unless they
deliver to government agencies go
per cent of each weeks total
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
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There is great mail mystery In
Washington which public reaction
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
TO TOKYO:
New ATC Airline
Oddities in the News

With a full-sized hornets nest
built tightly against the outside Of
the breakfast room window Of their
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
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The midland journal., 1946-06-21
CANNED MEAT:
6O% Set Aside

A new government order provides
that federally inspected slaughter
ers may not produce canned meat
for civilian consumption unless they
deliver to government agencies so
per cent of each weeks total
output. The order is designed to
provide more canned meat for for
eign relief shipments.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21
FARMS AND RANCHES
SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC.
WANTED TO BUY

FEATHERS WANTED
Goose and duck feathers, new and old.
Mail samples for prices.
p. r. MITCHELL CO., Cincinnati, Ohio.
The midland journal., 1946-06-21

BUILDING MATERIALS

MAKE your own concrete blocks. Perfect
block made quickly. Fastest and cheapest
way; no pallets required. Price $25.
Mack Steel Products, Richmond, Missouri.
The midland journal., 1946-04-26
The History Of Coffee

to the Venetians in 1916, the French
in 1914, the English and Viennese
in 1850, and it was brought to North
America in 1868. But promptly the
power of the beverage to stimulate
clear thinking and plain talking con-
verted the popular coffee houses into
discussion clubs. And political de-
bate that exploded into dissension,
direct action and resistance made
coffee houses the targets of tyrants
like Charles II of England, who
termed them seminaries of sedition
But, according to Disraeli, London
and Paris coffee houses of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries held
the mirror to ''the manners, the
morals and the politics of a people"
Here in colonial United States, too,
the coffee house became the meeting
house of the town fathers, and after
a time changed from purely social
centers to focal points of merchant
trade and political discussion. Daniel
Webster called Boston's Green
Dragon Coffee House 'the headquar-
ters of the American Revolution"
The Dutch took the coffee plant to
South America back around 1718,
with a result that every sixth grader
knows. Today's coffee plantations in
Pan-America produce three-fourths
of the worlds coffee And because
we are the worlds greatest coffee
drinkers, of course we're the biggest
customers for the Pan-American
yield. All previous invoices were
topped in 1945, when the United
States imported 20,279,69O bags of
coffee, each containing 1872 pounds!