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Laurel outlook., 1948-12-15
RANKIN:
Out1Uurd Bound?

Rep. John E. Rankin 3D., Miss.)
one of the foremost house oppo-
nents of President Humans civil
rights program, faces a strong
fight by northern Democrats in
congress to force him off the house
un-American activities committee.
UNDER THE seniority system,
Rankin is slated to become chair
man of the house veterans affairs
committee. The attempt to GUST
him from the un-American investi-
eating group will be based on the
general house rule that the chair
man of a committee may hold only
one committee post.
The northern Democrats will ar
que that if Rankin accepts the vet
erans' affairs committee chairman
ship, he should be restricted to
that.
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RAIN-MAKER:
In the Bag

Perhaps it was in the bag, but
Franklin Fenenga, an archeologist
of California university wasn't say
ing. All he would say was that he
did have the bag.
THE BAG was a complete rain
making outfit he had acquired from
an Indian whose grandfather was a
medicine man.
The bag and its potentialities
came to light when Kern county, in
the southern part Of California's
central valley, had its first rainfall
in eight months not long ago. Fen
enga vas right there in the middle
of the downpour. And, when he re-
turned to Berkeley, the rain came
down there in torrents.
NATURALLY, speculation arose
concerning the properties of the
rain-making bag, for, when the out
fit, including the tail of a beaver,
a bag of snapdragon seeds, a bag
of eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra
and various charm stones and peb-
bles, was brought out of storage,
the rain started.
Fenenga had the bag with him
when he entered Berkeley in a
storm. 1t is now in possession of
the university.
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HIGHER
Some Frightened

Some business men and indus
trialists, who feared a Truman VIC
tory might result in a new sock
the-rich" tax program, shivered
anew as they read a statement by
one of the leading proponents OF
President Humans twice-rejected
plea to impose a modified form of
the wartime excess profits tax.
THE SPEAKER was Wyoming's
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, who
cited the 1929 financial crash as an
argument for boosting taxes on
business profits.
The senator declared that IF cor
porate profits of 1929 had been ad-
equately taxed. this government
would have been in a much better
fiscal position to meet the depres-
Sion."
He pointed out that corporate
earnings now are piling up at the
same rate as in 1929. although the
companies ire bigger. So earnings
are greater than eve before.
HOWEVER, industrialists, lead
ers of the big labor unions, account
ants and economists have been re-
quested to give their views on what,
if anything, congress should do about
profits, estimated at a record 20
billion dollars this year.
O'Mahoney proposed that little
business" or small, Independent
corporations be given special ex-
emptions under any excess profits
tax plan.
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ROBOT EAR:
NeW Magic

Alexander Graham Bell would
have approved. Science had moved
to make his telephone even more
serviceable. Tom Edison also would
have nodded in appreciation, for
these same scientists had tied to-
gether two great contributions to
living to make their convenience
even more marked. more appre-
ciated.
A NEW robot ear that hears the
phone ring and turns on the light
was shown to doctors at the Amer
lean Medical association meeting
in st. Louis.
The ear could be used when no
n is at home to turn on the light
outside the front door. When the
householder got ready to 60 home,
he could call his house, and the
ear would turn on the light. No
one need answer the phone.
THE ROBOT is a box on which
the telephone sets. When the phone
rings, the noise of the bell vibrates
a salt crystal in the box. The vi
bration makes electricity flow in
the salt, and the current is ampli-
fed to turn on the light switch.
The box and phone r set in the
circuit with the light to be turned
on. In this way, the ear could be
used to light any lamp in the house,
or outside.
The device comes from wartime
submarine and surface ship detec-
ton by sound. Nothing but the vi
bration of a phone bell affects this
ear.
Besides doctors, FBI men have
been getting these ears because
they are on call "a hours a day.
Undertakers are getting them be-
cause more people seem to die at
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THE FIRST CONGREGATION.
AL CHURCH

H. C. Hammelmann, Pastor.
"The Church With the Carlton
Sunday, Dec. 10:
Listen to the Carlton, 900.
Sunday school $3.50.
Worship service in English
with Holy Communion 1890. Ser
mon topic: "There was a Gift
Waiting"
Christmas program practice 2
p. m. for all Sunday school pu-
pills.
At 1880 p. m. the cantata "The
Music of Bethlehem" will be pre-
scented by the senior choir and
several Christmas songs will be
sung by the junior choir. A
plate offering will be received.
The public is invited.
Tuesday: Senior choir practice
at 1880.
Wednesday: Play practice at Z.
Thursday: Board meeting at
7 and auditing committee meet
ing.
Friday: Christmas Eve pro-
gram at 7.
Saturday: Christmas day ser
vices in German at 1890. Pre-
sentation of play christmas in
the Cobbler Shop" at 7:30. An
offering will be received. This
play will be given by the mem
bers of our Young Peoples Dr.
ganization. The public is invited.
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OTATOES
No More Doubt

There was no longer any doubt.
Farmers, at last, had a full-blown
portrait of the American house
wife's ideal potato. The U. S. de-
partment of agriculture even sug-
gested that farmers tack it up in
the barn for quick reference.
The department found, after a
survey among $500 housewives,
that farmers and shippers should
see to its that potatoes prepared for
market are:
CLEAN, of medium size, marked
by few "eyes," light in color, I'M
damaged-and of such quality that
they will cook up soft. mealy and
evenly throughout. without falling
apart.
Housewives like medium sized
potatoes because they rate them
easiest to peel and handle, and best
for judging individual portions-the
all-purpose potato. they say.
The survey showed more than a
fourth of the householders dis
turbed by mechanical and ham
ding injuries" to potatoes. Said
the department:
1T is PRETTY good evidence
that too many potatoes are being
dug and handled with improper ma
chinery and tools, and that the po-
tatoes are not properly culled be-
fore being sent to market"
Immediate question to arise: Will
potato growers and shippers do
anything about it?
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
w. P. Gauer, Pastor

Laurel: 9:45 a. m. church
school, all departments. Every
one keep up regular attendance
and earn the Wesley six months
award pin. We allow you 3 un'
excused absences.
Sabbath worship, II a. IN
Nursery for all small children
Sermon topic, "a Pauper's Birth
ROBBED choir, "The Christmas
Song" by Adam and "Silent
Night" by Gruber. Baptism and
membership service. Christmas
offering for world service. Ser
monette, "The Manger Child"
Methodist Youth Fellowship at
5:15 p. M, sanctuary, Jim Will
son, president.
Junior Youth Fellowship $50
Ip. m, parlors, Janet Morrison,
president.
Calendar for next week:
Monday, A p. M, Cub den 5
at Paul Grace's, Cub den 9 at
w. Theodore J%ohnson's; 8 p. m.
New Adult Old Testament course,
parlor. This class is for all
adults and new members. Visual
aids program, "The Three Wise
Men,"
Tuesday, 1915 p. m. Rotary;
a p. m. Cub den 2 at Lester Ger
ards, Cub den 8 at Robert Dea-
toms, Cub den a at Albert Leu
thold's; 7 p. m. choir rehearsal,
sanctuary; 7 p. m. Girl Scouts,
parlors; 8:15 p. m. Adult Bible
Fellowship Christmas party at
w. Theodore Johnston'c home.
Wednesday, a p. m. Cub den 7
at Sam Strands.
Thursday, a p. m. Cub den 8 at
Leslie Dahl's; 7 p. m. Scouts;
7:30 p. m. Christmas program of
the church school. Santa Claus.
Christmas offering for world ser
vice.
Saturday, Christmas day.
Park City: 10 a. m. church
school, Mrs. Rachel Martln, sup
erintendent. Glasses for all de-
partments.
Methodist Youth Fellowship
$50 p. M, Charlotte Mitchell,
president.
Sabbath worship, 1880 p. M,
sermon topic, GA Pauper's Birth"
music. Service of baptism.
Visual aids program, "The Three
Wise Men," Christmas offering
for world service.
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Three years after the war
most veterans, by and large,
are firmly established in civil
ian employment, according to
statistics compiled by the Re-
search Council for Economic
Security, Chicago. Eighty-nine
of the estimated 14.9 million
living veterans of World War ii
were employed as Of last Sep
TENDER. Of these, about 900, 900
were on farms and another 900,-
900 in school. About 100000
we're unemployed, while an adj
ditional 300, 900 were resting
or unable to work.
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WITCH HUNT:
Pumpkin, Too

Like a delayed Halloween cpl
sode, with macabre rather than hui
morous undertones, was the revival
of the spy hunt in Washington. All
the ingredients were there-the
cornfield, the pumpkin, and the
specter of Stain lowering over the
unsavory whole.
But there was nothing funny in
the situation to the house un-Amer-
lean activities committee or to a
federal grand jury seeking to rush
indictments against suspected trail
tors and espionage agents.
THE PROBE committee declared
it had definite proof of n Of the
most extensive espionage rings in
the history of the United States"
Bolstering this assertion was discov-
cry of microflm documents. termed
by the committee of tremendous
Importance" which had been re-
moved from the state department
for transmission to Russian agents.
The microilm was revealed by
Whitaker Chambers, a senior edi-
tor of Time magazine, who admit
ted its possession and declared AL
ger Hiss, president of the Carnegie
Foundation for International Peace,
had given it to him for transmits
sion to Russia. Hiss promptly de-
MED the charge.
PLACED ON the witness stand,
Chambers said he had not had pos
session of the film during the years
after 1897, until recently, and de-
clined to name the persons in whose
hands the film rested before being
turned up in a pumpkin on Cham
berS' farm.
Meanwhile, Sumner Welles, for
mel undersecretary of state, studied
the microilm documents, evaluated
their contents, but declined to di-
vulge their Importance.
Chambers, an admitted member
of a Communist spy ring which OPP
Grated here a decade ago, was
slated for further witness stand ap-
pearances, as was Hiss, who main
tains he was never a Russian agent.
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Forest

Wisconsin, which has set an out
standing record in protecting its
forests against fire, plans a pro-
gram of protection against forest
damaging insects as well. The fight
against forest insects will become
an organized effort similar to that
carried on against the fire menace.
Forest busting or spraying with
DOT and other chemicals by means
of planes will be the method used.
The state entomologist points out
that it is fruitless to protect any
given stand Of forest growth against
fire and then permit it to be de-
stroyed by insect infestations.
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BIKINI:
Still Echoes

Bikini's atomic blast was still
echoing.
President Truman denied a
charge that the White House had
suppressed a final report on the
atomic tests off the atoll.
The Presidents statement, made
at a news conference. was in an
swer to an assertion By a Mr..
Bradley Dewey that the White
House had clamped the lid on the
Bikini findings.
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ST. JOHNS
CHURCH
"'The Church of the Lutheran
Hour"

l. u VI ChO
Hour"
400 Durland Avenue
Martin H. Juengel, Pastor.
Sunday school at 9 a. m.
English service at 10 a. m.
German service at II q. m.
Our Christmas schedule:
Children's Christmas service,
Dec. "a, 7 p. m.
Christmas day, Dec. rs, SER
vices at 10 and IL.
The best observance of Christ
mas hinges upon your attitude
toward the Bible record of Jesus
birth in Bethlehem and its i'm
plications for you. Without this
for your Christmas holi-
days, this celebration sinks to a
mercenary level. You r most
invited to learn to keep
Christ in your Christmas, and do
so by coming to your church to
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ST. u LUTHERAN
CHURCH
"The Church of the Lutheran
Hour"

"The Church of the Lutheran
Hour"
Park City, Mont.
A. M. Bachanz. Pastor.
The Lutheran Hour over KGHL
Sunday, 9 a. m.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Divine services at GAS and IL
a. m.
A Christmas pageant for the
Sunday school and the Walther
League given by the Woman's
Mission Society at 7:15 p. m.
instruction class on Monday
and Wednesday.
Have YOU learned to know
the Christ of Christmas as your
divine Redeemer, as the Prince
of Peace? If you have, then you
have the peace of God that pas
seth all understanding. We cor
daily invite you to come and
hear more of this Prince Of
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gram will be given on Christmas
eve at 7 p. m.
The midnight ~candlelight ser
vice will be held on the 24th,
starting at 11:30 p. m.
The Christmas day service will
start at 10 a. m.
At joliet
Sunday school and Bible class
at 1:45 p. m.
Services at 2:30 p. m.
The children's Christmas pro-
gram and services will be held
on the 23rd at Joliet.
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OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN
CHURCH
JOLIET LUTHERAN CHURCH

JOLIET LUTHERAN CHURCH
C. o. Anderson. Pastor.
At Laurel
Sunday school and Bible classes
at 9:45 a. m.
Services at IL a. m. That Ye
Might be Saved. John 5:31-39.
Communion service at 1880 p. m.
Tuesday, 1880 p. m. the Bible
class will meet on Tuesday in
stead of Monday next week.
Friday (this week. Boys group
at 6 p. m.
Saturday (this week) the Jun
ior Confirmation class will meet
at 1890 a. m.
Saturday (this weekly the Sen
ior Confirmation class will met
at 1 p. m.
Saturday at 10 a. m. the Sun
dav school children will practice
their Christmas program.
The ,children's Christmas pro-
Laurel outlook., 1948-12-15

Poor Richards anniversary, jan
larry II, 1949, highlights the in
fuence of the almanac on Amer1-
can life. Poor Richard was the
nom de plume of Benjamin Frank
lin, whose Poor Richard Almanac
began the popularity of this type
of publication.
In hundreds of thousands OF
homes, rural households especially,
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POOR
Anniversary HighIights Books Effect

the almanac hangs on a peg in
living room OF kitchen. There, al
ready, the 1949 almanac has begun
to hide the 1948 and earlier editions.
The almanac is many things to
many people. 1t carries an anniver-
sary-listing calendar, astronomical
data, information on how to get rid
of rats, raise healthy chicks, how to
stay awake in church.
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CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Fifth at Penn.
James H. Haueter, Pastor.

James H. Haueter, Pastor.
Friday, Dec. II: Choir practice
$50 p. m.
Sunday, Dec. 10: Sunday school
GAS a. m. Morning worship IL
a. m. N. Y. P. S. 6:45 p. m.
Evangelistic service 1880 p. m.
Monday, Dec. 20: Choir prac-
tice 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday, Dec. %: Bible
study and prayer service 1880
p. m.
Friday, Dec. "a: Christmas
program 1880 p. m.
The Friendly Church with A
Vital Message.
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OF GOD
John Gottschalk, Pastor.

Sunday school 10 a. m.
Morning worship II a. m.
Christ's Ambassadors service
$50 p. m.
Evening evangelistic services at
7:45.
Christmas program, Thursday,
Dec. %, 8 p. m.
We extend an invitation to al!
to these services and our special
Christmas program.
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Transforming the Basement

In planning any basement trans
formation. attention should be CIV
en- to use of all hooks and offsets.
Bookshelves will fit under low.
overhanging air ducts and pipes.
The space beneath the stairs pro-
vides an excellent location for a
roomy cupboard. A workshop
and every basement should have
one-often can be fitted in where
the boiler or laundry room pro-
jects into the main part of the
basement.
Laurel outlook., 1948-12-15

Linda Brown, a., of San An
tonic, Tex, has been selected
the poster girl for the 1949
March of Dimes, January Ia to
81. Stricken with polio two and
a half years ago, Linda was
treated at the Robert B. Greene
hospital in San Antonio with
funds derived from the March
of Dimes. She nov walks with
out braces an1 has only a slight
limp.
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-WEEKLY NEWS Analysis
New Spy Ring Data Revives Probe;
Tax Hike Bugaboo Frightens Some;
Berlin Red Vote Tightens Issue

gD1ToRs NoTE: When opinions na.ws are ssprs .s n i'm these nss:ss, ss%wHs They are .hs;s Of
Laurel outlook., 1948-12-15

hear again the message of "the
Son of God made flesh"
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20
Wiese Wouldn't Object To Reds In Unions
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Continued from Page One)
 activities and background of liar ry Bridges, west coast CIO long Shoremen's union head.
 The Junior chamber wrote it's request for an investigation to the House committee on un-American activities and then turned it over also to the two Congressmen here.
 Ralph Westover, J. C. C. vice president, said his organizations written request for a Congression- al inquiry said that if any striking maritime union leader is a com munist "he should be exposed as such. If not a communist, employ CTS should withdraw the issue from negotiations. While the J. C.. C. is not able to find any concrete evidence that striking maritime unions are under communistic domination" circumstantial evi- dence and the pattern of the strike make on investigation 'impera-
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20

tive"
 WieSe testified that he once was connected with two groups which have sometimes been described as e O m m u nist-dominated" - the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the King Ramsey Counter-Def ense committee.
 Kersten asked Wiese:
 Would you object to commun- ists in uniOn?"
 Not if they advocated good, strong labor policy" Wiese re- piled. 'I wouldn't object if it came from Catholic, Mason or anyone else"
 If an agent of the Soviet Union issued you instructions in connec- ton with your union, would you follow orders," the Congressman asked the fisheries council head.
 "I take orders from the execu- tive board of the union, not from any agent of any country" he de- clared.
 If an agent issued orders con- trary to the policy of the United States, which would you follow?"
 Wiese replied: That of the United States, of course"
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20
Ballott Splitting Will Cut Down On All Candidates
(Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) and House races and, in some in stances, in close contests for gov ernorships.
 The Dewey camps feeling is that its candidate will win by what might amount almost to a land slide in electoral votes.
 Some of his more optimistic sup porters are counting close to 400 of the 53l electoral votes in his column. Others scale this down to nearer 325.
 But even with a top-heavy re- suit in electoral votes, most of Dewey strategists don't think their candidate will have a landslide in the popular vote.
 Because of this they are frankly afraid that Dewey's margin in
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20
Rain Floods Out Legion Parade

MIAMI, (P)-As the American Legion returned to the serious side of its convention today after a deluge during it's parade last night damaged musical instru- ments, uniforms and floats but failed to dampen the carnival spir- its.
 The rain, which piled water hub deep along the parade route, caus- d an estimated $7,5OO damage to the Miami Harvey Seeds Post band. Some 100000 spectators were drenched, too.
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20

some states will not be large enough to pull through some Re publican Senators who are under hot fire.
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20

A southern farmer was intro ducing his family of boys to the President. Seventeen boys," he exclaimed. "All are Democrats but John. the little rascal. He got to readin'."
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20
Pilot Missed DOry; Only Survivor Of
 Wrecked Barge

VlVor of inc SkarStone barge trag- edy was awaiting air passage to Juneau and thence to his Seattle home today.
 G. A. Skarbo, told yesterday how he remained with the sinking Skarstone by accident and how four companions who managed to leave the battered barge in a dory were lost when their small boat SWamped.
 Skarbo said he was lowering the dory and it got away without him.
 He was rescued by bush plane yesterday from a beach on which the drifting craft grounded. Milton Odom, head of the An chorage Cold Storage Co.,, for which the shipment was destined, examined the Wreckage and re- ported the cargo, valued at $248,- 900, wa Sa total loss.
 Skarbo suffered a Wrenched an- kle. He was piloting the barge.
 SkarbO said he and his four crew mates had stuck with the floundering barge for 26 hours in mountainous seas when the ill- fated dOry was launched A flood ed engine room left the craft pow erless. Its flooded radio was dead.
 In a matter of minutes the dOry was sWamped. Skarbo immediate ly released another raft and dory, thinking the men might be able to save themselves by cling ing to them.
 It was pitch black in the pre- dawn darkness of Sunday morn ing. He was unable to see what happened to the other four.
 Huge waves continuously pounded the disabled barge, the superstructure was cru m D d away, bit by bit. It was several hours later that the barge ran onto the beach, 22 miles west of Yaka- taga Beach. The tide was low and Skarbo was able to jump from the craft and race across the beach to high ground.
 In a telephone talk with Odom at Anchorage, Skarbo told how they had kept the l05-foot barge behind the protection of Cape Spencer for three days before before heading into the treacher- ous Gulf of Alaska lon a beauti- full day"
 After the storm opened the barge's seams, he said i've all ex- pec.ed the barge to sink within 10 minutes"
 John Penrose and Paul Wang ley, two filerS from Seward who were hunting bears in the area, tried to land on the beach where Skarbo was isolated Monday night, bu: the high wind and the tide prevented it. They landed and picked him up Tuesday and flew him to Yakataga. Cordova Air Service later flew him here.
 He was weary and told his story with difficulty.
 Skarbo said he and Byron Stone, the lost skipper of the barge, or iginally owned it. They sold it two years ago to the Cape Douglas Canning company of Seattle.
 Skarbo said he and Stone had chartered the barpe to carry 900
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20
Alaska Airlines

Scheduled trips week: Monday, We'd nesday, Friday, Saturday. Nome (Moses Point Flag Stop), Unalakleet, McGrath, Farewell Flag Stop), Anchorage Alaska Airlines IS STEADILY INCREASING THEIR SERVICE to the people of Nome and the surrounding districts. We are proud of our dependable service, and in- tend to maintain the BETTER SERVICE to Nome. Low freight rates and even lower rates on produce shipments will help everyone-Merchants, Businessmen, and Housewives.
 Mail service four times a week speeds your Correspondence
 Alaska Airlines maintains a Shopping Service too, for your convenience: TRAVEL, SHIP, THE DEPENDABLE - THE STARLINER ROUTE.
 One carrier service from Anchorage to Candle, Deering and Kotzebue.
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-20

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