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The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-11

edl hereby declared to be maxi mum. conditional appropria-
 tions and. to the extent of the re- spective amounts for which such respective appropriations are made, shall be payable in full if neces- sary. and then only in the event the aggregate revenues to be col leeted and available during each fiscal e year of the bieunium T
 which such appropriations may be made are estimated by the Board of Administration to be sui ficient to pay all appropriations in
 full. The Board of Adminis- tration is hereby given full power and authority to examine and sur yey the progress of the collection of revenues. and from time 10 time. to declare and determine which of such -. appropria- tions shall be utilized. The
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-11

Board of Administration is directed so to administer this Act as to prevent any overhaul or deficit. and
 WHEREAS. the Board has made such survey. as shown by the min utes of it's meeting of April 1, 1947 and finds that Territorial revenues for the biennium ending March 3l, l949. will fall short about three and three-quarter million dollors of meeting in full the more than ten million dollars appropriated by the Eighteenth Legislature; and
 WHEREAS, the Board has de- termined that it will take eeonom- ical administration to meet current obligations in the following fields which are specifically exempted in the above cited Act from action by the Board.
 1. Maintenance and operation of public schools.
 2. Public asylums or public homes.
 8. Allowance for aged persons.
 f. Relief and rescue of lost per sons.
 3. Support or relief of indigents CT of dependent children.
 6. Payment of salaries of Terri torial officials and employees.
 [. Payment of necessary admin istrative expenses of Territorial of fees.
 S. Payment of bounties.
 NOW THEREFORE, it is OR DERED that all appropriations for the biennium ending March 31. 1949, are hereby frozen and not to be utilized except those specifieal- ly exempted as above set forth and except as to contracts already let No new construction contracts O. any kind can be allowed with Ter ritorial money at this time, which includes schools, university, hos pitals. roads. airfield, floats or small boat harbors. (The airfie q and road fund is subject to this freeze only to the extent of the $400,0OO appropriated therefor and is not affected to the extent that it is made up of motor fuel tax receipts earmarked for said fund.)
 TT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this directive is effective i'm mediately and shall remain in eff feet for at least one year and for the entire balance of the biennium unless and until and to the extent modified by further order or ord CTS of the Board.
 Done at Juneau, Alaska, this 7th day of April 1947."
 The order is signed by Lew NJ. Williams. Acting Governor and
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-11
SAYS KRUG CAN SPEED
 UP ALASKA PULP INDUSTRY

SEATTLE - 4 suggestion that Secretary of Che Interior Krug can speed the day when a newsprint or pulp and paper mill will be builr in Alaska by disposing of aborigln al native Indian claims to owner ship of Alaska's best pulpwood timber" is made editorially in tn April issue of Pulp and Paper In- .dustry, national magazine publish ed in Seattle.
 The editorial says
 Secretary of Interior Krug and other government officials speak ing before newspaper publishers and other eager audiences. have re- gently been painting enticing pie lures for a pulp ad paper industry in Alaska Certainly al Ithey say about Alaska's timber and power resources and the suitability of pa- tive Indians for jobs of responsi- bility in a pelp and paper mill are loo per cent true. Some day there will be a paper industry in Alaska of real importance - il is as true as the rising sun.
 But that day can be speeded if Secretary Krug will take some ac- tion himself to dispose of aborigin- al native Indian claims to the own .ership of the best pulpWood timber in Alaska claims which were fos- tered by his predecessor. Harold Ickes. and which are still a men ace to anyone who would dare to invest $25,OOO.O0O or more in a mill in Alasl1a. %
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-11
WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN
 POPPY POSTER CONTEST

The American Legion Auxiliary his week announced winners of heir annual Poppy Poster Contest. which is conducted the the school or pupils from the fourth to the twelfth grades.
 Alvin Kaer and Juanita Stokes were winners for the fourth, fiflh and sixth grades; sharon Bakka and Carolyn Mickelsen won in the aeyenth, eighth and ninth graTes und Gordon Mason was winner in the upper grades. The posters will be on display in down town win dows Poppy Day is the latter part of May.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-11
BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION ORDERS TERRITORY TO
 TIGHTEN ITS BELT

Revealing the financial eondi- ton of the Territory as the result Of the recent legislatures failure to balance the Territorial budget, the Board of Administration this week issued the following order.
 TO all Territorial Departments. Boards. Commissions and lnstitu- tiOns.
 WHEREAS. Chapter 27. Ses- sion Laws of Alaska. 1887, pro yides as follows:
 All appropriations now or hereafter made payable out of the general fund or public school cur rent fund of the Territorial Treas ury are lexcept as hereafter not
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-11
TASK FORCES FIND
 NEW EQUIPMENT NEEDED
 FOR ALASKA DEFENSE

WASHINGTON The War Depart ment said this week that Alaska maneuvers have proved the Army must develop a lot of new equip ment if il expects to be an effi- cient fighting force in frigid oli- mates.
 Summarizing findings of task forces 'Williwaw" and 'Frigid" which will return soon from bases on Adak and at Fairbanks. the Department said the equipment in- cludes:
 A light. portable shelter sturdy enough to stand heavy rain, fine snow and hurricane winds; mo- tor oil which won't freeze at tenn peratures lower than 30 below zero and clothing which is warm without being too bulky to permit freedom of movement.
 IL must also include tundra and mountain-crossing vehicle which can carry personnel anu supplies and is strudy enough ta need little maintenanee; self. heating can for rations and a dii- ferent kind of tank from those used in temperate zones.
 Tanks Impractical
 The current Armored Cavalr, Journal quotes Colonel Paul V. Kane, who commanded "Frigid" as saying flatly that tanks are thor oughly impractical in the Arctic"
 Critics of such armor say tanks quickly bog down in the soft Al. eutian tundra, the rough Alaskan terrain immobilizing them, the lub- ricants freeze. and the 60 degrees below zero seems to be the break ing point for their crews.
 Efficiency Falls
 The Journal account said Kane estimated man loses his ef- ficiency at the rate of 2 per cent for every degree under zero. One officer spent six hours in a tank at sub-zero temperatures and re. ported his efficiency at the end or the period as nil.
 Major Myfon Johnson, tank test officer of "Frigid," and CaptaiL George J. Skeets, commanding Company B of the 66th Tank Bat .allion, disagreed with Colonel Kane. They said the present tank can be modified to surmount Arc lie conditions
 The War Department disclosed that ''Williwawy will sail April l6 from Adak for Seattle. "Frigid' will return in two groups. The first will leave Fairbanks April Is for san Francisco and the second will embark May 10 for Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-11

chairman of the Board of Admins tration and Ralph J. Rivers. At torney General and Secretary of the Board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
Split On Reparations

Answering Russia's Foreign Minis
ter Molotovs charge that the United States
and Great Britain are profiteering at Ger
many's expense, Secretary of State Mar
shall told the Soviet Union, as represented
by Mr. Molotov, that neither country has
pocketed "one penny" from the sale of Ger
man exports Inevitably, Mr. Marshall
would not have made this statement if he
was not prepared to back it with cocu-
mented proof. Can Russia produce such
proof, itself?
Mr.. Marshall's statement to the Council
of Foreign Ministers on December 10 indi-
Gates that Moscow cannot do so. In wes-
tern Germany, Mr.. Marshall said at that
time, the United States and Great Britain
are pouring in food to keep the Germans
alive" He declared the cost of this under
taking to be $7O0,000,000 year.
cat the same time," he added, Gin east
ern Germany assets are being taken out a
the rate and value which we estimate to b'
over $500,OO0,OOO year."
Furthermore, the American Secretary
State said, German businesses, through on
device or another, are being brought unde
Soviet ownership and placed in glgantl
Soviet trust. Thus, in effect, much OF IN
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
The Hospital Controversy

The nursing staff of James Walker Me-
mortal Hospital is to be commended not
only for accepting the services OF the con-
ciliation branch Of the State Labor Depart
ment jointly with the hospitals manage
ment, but for postponing the previously an
nounced date of its mass resignation at
least until the conclliators have completed
their Investigations and submitted their
recommendations for settlement.
It is to be hoped that the hospital board
and the nurses can find common ground
in these recommendations and the opera
ton of the hospital continue without inter
ruption, particularly as the price OF failure
would have to be paid, neither by the
board nor the nurses, but by the people OF
the Wilmington area needing but denied
disqualification.
But if Cancellation should fail, then in the
cause of humanity arbitration should be
undertaken, with both sides in the contro-
versy agreeing in advance to accept the
decision reached by board on which bott
management and nurses should have rep
resentation as we'll as the people to whom
in the last analysis, the hospital belongs
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16

German economy operates for the Soviet
| account. -
AS of today Mr.. Molotov has not, nor is
Moscow likely, to offer proof to the con-
trary
In his December 10 statement, Mr..
Marshall made clear declaration of the
position of the United States on reparations,
the subject on which the Foreign Ministers
Council probably will be unable to agree.
What he said well deserves to be quoted
here. Said he:
"I have already stated that the United
States Government considers that the ques-
tions of reparations were finally settled at
Potsdam. We will not agree to the program
of reparations from under current produc-
ton which under existing conditions could
only be met in one of two ways The first
would be that the United States would pay
for such reparations, This the United States
will not do. The only other method of obtain
ing reparations from current produc-
ton from Germany at the present time and
for the foreseeable future would be to de-
press the German standard of living to such
a point that Germany would become not
only a center of unrest in the heart of
Europe but that this would indefinitely, IT
not permanently, retard the rehabilitation
of German peacetime economy and hence
the recovery of Europe"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
Marshall ToThe Pilgrims
An Editorial fro1 the New York Times

In his thoughtful speech last
night at the Pilgrims dinner al
London, Secretary Marshall
touched upon two points that are
of particular interest to an An
glo American audience at this
time. He noted first that those
(he could have mentioned the
Russians here) who see the close
and even fraternal relationship
between Britain and the United
States as 'evidence of calculat-
ed political combination" are
confusing cause and effect. The
political partnership is not
cause. It is effect. 1t is the ma
tural result Of confidence be-
tween "two peoples enjoying a
common outlook on the funda-
mentals of human society,"" Bri-
tish and American statesmen,
Mr.. Marshall might have said,
are so notably and so consist
emily united in opposition to Rus
sian totalitarianism not because
they have conspired to that end,
but because, in opposing the
spread of Russian totalitarian-
ism, they are reflecting the deep
seated and automatic instincts
of their people. "There is no
more natural relationship in in
ternational life," Mr.. Marshall
said last night, 'than that be-
tween the United States and the
British Commonwealth. This re-
|lationship requires no special
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1s47
Star Program,

State ports with Wilmington favored
in nroportion with its resources, to IN
clude public terminals, tobacco stor-
age warehouses, ship repair facll1les;
nearby sites for heavy industry anu
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
CITY auditorium large enough 10
meet needs for years to come.
Development Of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets ana
food processing. pulp wood produc1lon
and factories.
Emphasis on the regions recrea.
ton advantages and Improvement OF
resort accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Caroiina's farm -to-market and prl-
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head Is
land.
Continued effort to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization OF Bluethenthal
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina's health facilities, especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and in
Guiding Negro Health center.
Encouragement Of the growth OF
commercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City and Count,
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
Third Party Strip-Tease
By STEWART ALSAP

trusters of the third party
movement. Only f ew days be-
fore Wallace spokeup, Foster
had used less double talk thar
usual in telling a convocatior
of the faithful in New York that
a third party headed by Wal
lace must be their main pre-
occupation in the coming
months.
AS Foster and his party
strategists know, the creation Of
their third party will have two
entirely foreseeable results. Il
will make the nomination ano
election of a right-wing Repub'
lican far more probable, since
it will certainly drain off mod
crate Republican and Demo
cratic support. 1t will also cause
the Communists to be isolated
and enfeebled still further ir
their main stronghold in the la
Dor movement, the CLIO.
A vast sea change has al
ready taken place almost unno'
ticed in the C.I.O., particularly
since Walter Reuther's smash
ing victory in the automobile
workers. convention. Except fol
those unmos like the electrica:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16

WASHINGTON, - Henry A..
Wallace has let the cat Except
possibly for the tip of its tail)
out of the bagg. He has stated
flatly this week that there will
be a third party in 1948, unless
the administration unexpectedly
adopts the Wallace formula for
abandoning most o the world
to the cornintern. He has stated
further that he will upport this
party. He has been coy about
whether he will head the ticket,
but this coyness was wholly un-
necessary, since he is the only
possible candidate. What this
amounts to, of course, is that,
bar miracle, Wallace will run,
as predicted in this space for
more than a year. Since Sena-
tor Claude Pepper has cautious
|1y ducked the No. 2 spot on the
Wallace ticket, the egregious
Senator Glen Taylor is probably
cast for the role of Sancho Pan
"a to Wallace's Don Quixote.
All this must please Mr.. Will
liam z. Foster, Communist
party chief, whose cohorts, as
has also been documented in
this space. are the real brain
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
Unmitigated Gall

The bandit who stepped aboard swank
New York Central express just before it
was due in Chicago and robbed the pas
sengers, some of whom were high in the
professions, then casually dropped off as
the train slowed had something that, if
used in the right place, may well have
earned for him the highest decoration OF
every nation
How this lone man had the gall is even
stood he was of opposite kue to those in
the Pullman he robbed He didn't attempt
to pass as porter and obviously he wasn't
a passenger in this all-reserved Pullman.
Yet he got on the train at its next-to-last
stop, robbed the passengers systematically
and casually dropped off as the train
neared its final station
The news of this flashed throughout the
world shortly after it happened. More or
binary events were cut off while this flash
was sent over the nations services.
Only seasoned veteran, it seems, q
man who knows how to assume that feeling
of here goes" win, lose or draw, could
have done it. The Federal Bureau of In
vestlgation agents shook their heads, SO
the dispatches said over this one
Hunger alone could not have been the
motive. 1t must have been thrills the de-
sire to impress others of the underworld
that prompted this bandit TO- chance SC
much to rob in the night. an interstate
train en- route over state lines which is
just about the whole book, if he is caught
and convicted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
y I5a7
Septic Poison
Starts In Germ,
By EDWIN P, JoRn.r

Blood poisoning, Or ~ D.
cemla, means that an irfsaa sept
with germs has invadn5 da5c>lon
blood stream, The condit..' G TIE
also called septic noiso ,ion Is
Germs are probably often t,'.las nm
ent in the blood, but roSt 4 p pres
time the blood's natural rot, VI N,
OF Q, resistance serve to el.po;Dsr' pU~sr'
them rapidly, SO that blood 'd3'Ina'. ma
oning is not present. wv P0I''
Germs enter the b,oos
many different WAYS, A 'ou W.. n
an a injury in the skin will ~, w.. o.
them to be brought to tba S;1 S;IoF
stream, either direct fror, ''.o' !.
object producing the jniI,rr ~, u.
because germs, which ars ~ o o
ways present on the s,,rf.o. d.
the skin, are carried ' ~ q q
deeper layers. Germs aIeo ne
into the blood il several T. ss'
eases, such as pleumonis Wy, Wy,
spinal meningitis. '-'
Germs which are preseD. :.
the air, on the ground or :
common implements. such Va w
an axe, are not harmful ia ~
unbroken skin, but NAV hs y. ".'
tremely dangerous if thew "a, "a,
into the blood. Some germ. S.' :"
particular are dangerous ,,s n
may conquer the defensss ~
the blood rapidly the e,u,.
blood poisoning.
The most common and dan,
erous germs responsible -.
blood poisoning are called streO'
tococci. Septicemia caused 5r
these dangerous microbes usn.
ally starts suddenly. A feeln,
OF chilliness, perhaps with actin
al shaking, comes earlv III,
body temperature rises racidlv
to 1O4 or los degrees, and ii,
heart beats rapidly.
Up to recent years, a hjh
proportion of those who deyel.
| oped streptococcic blood poison.
ing died, often within an ey.
tremely short period. TODAY. Il
victims of septicemia can n
treated early with one of II,
sulfa drugs or with penicillin
the majority recover.
Another germ which is 7ome.
times responsible for a very dit.
ficult kind of blood poisoning il
called tn e staphylococcus
Staphylococci are even more
widely distributed on common
objects and on the skin than tn,
streptococci. Penicillin can nov
be given for many staphvlococ,
ci infections with good results
Although much can be dor.
for person who is struck down
by blood poisoning, carelessneS
is still dangerous, Accidents,
which break the skin and allow
germs to come in contact with
the blood stream, should re,
ceive prompt and proper treat
ment, as this may prevent Hlood
poisoning. If a chill or fever fol.
lows and injury, blood poisSonmt
must be suspected and apprO.
pirate treamtent should b.
started at the earliest possible
moment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
Piedmont Recertified

In recertifying Piedmont Aviation, Inc.
of Winston-Salem 10 operate between
T .ouisville and Cincinnati on the west to
Norfolk. Morehead City and Wilmington on
the east the Civil Aeronautics Board yes
terday gave all cities along the route ano
especially Wilmington. Christmas pres
ent of inestimable value.
! The board had previously certified Pleo-
mont for this service but State Alrunes
protested and succeeded in having the case
raopened. AS a result, Wilmington has gone
without the east-west air service 1t rlcnly
deserved throughout the long months 1t has
taken to get a new ruling. The financial
loss both to Piedmont and to Wilmlngtonl-
ans is incalculable, and reflects no credit
on Wilmington groups which encouraged
State Airlines to fight thu ough the courts
and before the CAB the earlier decision
that Piedmont was best qualified to give
the service.
In combination with the north-south
service now given by National Airlines,
Piedmont will afford Wilmingtonians and
the residents of all communities within its
sphere of operations air connection with
all regions of the country.
Having protested Piedmont's certifica-
ton once, State may try again, but it is
reasonable to believe that having con-
firmed it's initial ruling, the CAB will moi
easily be moved to change its decision. II
is equally reasonable to think that the
courts, which reopened the case at States
behest only to have the CAB stand by its
original award, would not welcome Sec
ond plea by State.
Certainly any further protest should
Piedmont.
Note the service confirmed by this CAB
recertification. Starting at Cincinnati, the
northerly point on Piedmont's map, one
branch provides stops at Portsmouth, Ash
land Huntington Charleston. Beckley,
Princeton, Bluefield, Roanoke, Lynchburg
Charlottesville, Richmond and Norfolk.
Again starting at Cincinnati, the map
shows a southwark flight to Lexington and
northerly extension to Louisville. Again
starting at Louisville, and back to Lexing-
ton, southeasterly flight reaches Bristol
with two branches diverging, the one to
serve Winston-Salem, Greensboro-Hi gh
Point, Raleigh-Durham, GoldSboro, New
Bern and, during the vacation season.
Morehead City; the other swinging south
ward to Asheville, Charlotte, Pinehurst-
Southern Pines, Fayetteville and Whining
ton, with Wilmington the lines southern
terminus. Connecting flights are provided
between Greensboro and Roanoke, and
Fayetteville and Raleigh.
AS Piedmont has announced it is ready
to go whenever the green light turns on
we may expect an announcement, or more
properly a timetable to be issued from
Winston Salem any day.
Santa Claus, impersonated by the CAB
has been good to North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-16
Tokens For Sales Tax

So much legislation is framed either dur
ing legislative session, or Immediately
. before, that many measures deserving
adoption even though they may reach the
reading clerks desk, seldom get the atten-
: ton they merit.
e There is much besides the drafting of a
bill that goes into its enactment. It must be
explained to the legislators in both
branches, it merits extolled.
. Preliminary missionary work is indispen-
sable, and the sooner it is started the surer
is its passage, provided it represents a for
ward step in the states progress.
This is why the present is good time
to start movement for revision of North
~Carolinas method Of collecting the sales
tax Some energetic legislator has a chance
to initiate program that would make col
lection more equitable, and he, whoever he
may be; ought to be at work well before
the next session of the General Assembly.
The Star has long advocated the use of
tokens in connection with the sales tax, as
is the custom in other states, but has not
gotten to first base. While there are many
LEGISLATORS who admit the advantage of this
system none among them has undertaken
to get the necessary legislation adopted
We have Mr.. Charles Johnson's coura-
-geous declaration that North Carolina can
not reasonably hope to abandon the sales
tax any time soon. And nobody has more
sensitive finger on the states economic
pulse than he It is reasonable then to ex-
'pect that any improvement in the system
and this other method OF collection has
proved successful and equitable in other
-states--should be ptomo'ed IN the interest
of the purchasing public
s The per cent tax is not eAhorbitant
but when huvers of 10 cent articles are re-