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Seward seaport record., 1949-11-04
Nation Prepares For
 Chrisfmus Seal SuIe:, Lccai Quofo $1200.00

The 1949 Christmas Seals, featuring a modernistic drawing of dove in flight, have arrived, according to Mrs. Carl M. Ling, chairman of the Seward Com mittee of the Alaska Tubercu- losis Association.
 This years seal was designed by 27 year old Herbert M. Mey- CTS of Leonia, New Jersey, whose original drawing won lst prize in a nationwide contest conducted by the Society of H. illustrators, a national OrganiZa- tion of outstanding artists, illus tratOrs, and art directors, with headquarters in New York City.
 With the approval and coop eration of the National Associa- tion, the Society sponsored the contest among students of ac- credited art schools all over the country. The selection of MT. Meyers design by a jury of Society officials and Amerl- can artists was cOrroborated by the N t ional l Association $ Christmas Seal Sale Advisory Committee which customarily makes the final choice of the Seal Sale design each year.
 The 1949 Seal Sale, proceeds of which will be used to finance the Seward Committee and the Alaska Tuberculosis AsSocla- tion's program for the coming year, opens on Nov. 20 and will continue until Christmas. The quota for the Seward Committee has been set at $1 10000, the minimum needed for the Asso- ciation's 1850 projects of tuber- culosiS prevention and control.
 As in former years, the Seals are supplied by the National Association, with which the To- cal committee and 5000 other voluntary tuberculosis assocla- tions are affiliated.
 Christmas Seals are sent an nually by the NTA to associa- tions in the 43 states and the three United States territories Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico where the Christmas Seal Sale is conducted.
 Christmas Seals, printed lith- graphically each year in four colorS, are made in two impreS- sions on large sheets of gummed paper to keep costs at a mini mum. The printing is done in four commercial plants in diff ferent parts of the country and the Seals are mailed directly from the plants to make diStrl- button as economical as possible.
 Mrs Ling said volunteers are busy folding seals and preparing envelopes for mailing to Seward residents to reach them by Nov. 2Oth.
Seward seaport record., 1949-11-04

A community that is worth living in is worth doing. something for.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
N. w. Power
 Shortage Still Very Critical
By The Assocaited Press)


 There was still a crucial power shortage in the Pacific Northwest yesterday, but there was no short age of words about it.
 Speakers at conference of util- ity and industrial executives in Seattle placed the blame for the situation on the Bonneville Power Administrations sales to the alum mum industry.
 Kenneth Fisher, an executive of the Fisher Flouring Mills, and l.. E. Karrer, executive -presi- dent of the Puget Sound Power and company, said the BPA over sold its capacity and is dipping deep into the Pacific Northwest power pool to meet its commit mentS.
 Bonneville power administrator Paul Raver bounced a hot retort:
 Ridiculous
 pr. Raver said he doubted util- ity operators were in a position to give an objective opinion on whe- ther too much Columbia River power is going into aluminium pay rolls and production"
 He added that at Ohm Monday the BPA delivered 525,OOO kilo- watts to the private power com panies of the northwest over and above the power it delivered to the aluminium companies and to it's public power agencies. This, he said, was 225,OOO kilowatts more than the administration contrac- tural commitments to the private power companies
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Fishermen Want Split Season

SEATTLE, (P)-Halibut fisher men and vessel owners have re- @nlmended a split season to ex- tend fishing and conserve stocks. . They testified before the inter national fisheries commission which ended hearings here last week.
 The commission decided to re- tain May as the opening date of the halibut season. If the split season recommendation is follow ed, however, the commission would halt fishing after eight to l5 million pounds of halibut is taken, and the season would be closed until June 1.
 This would spread the season and prevent concentration of fish ing in a period of about 30 days as in past years.
 The split season recommenda- tion was among IS changes pro- posed to the commission. Decisions reached by the commission will be forwarded to the federal govern ments of Canada and United States for approval.
 No announcement of the 1949 regulations will be made, said commission chairman c. w. Nick erson of Prince Rupert, B. C., un- til they have been approved by the two governments.
 A conferenee board of fishermen and vessel owners proposed that
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Vast UndevelOped Resources In All arts Of Alaska

Continued from Page One' than Sl.000,000,000 per year to the National income" Morgan stated. With proper utilization of Alas ,-a's natural wealth, the Territory appears to be capable of support tug st least 5,OOO,0OO persons. Ul- timately, Alaska could contribute billions to the national income.
 Plentiful loW-cost power is a must in any mature and bal 3nceu economy" he continued. Tt $ magnet which attracts busi- ness, industry and people. Power IS wealth. Fortunately, present in- vestlgatiOnS indicate Alaska river control systems could produce 50 billion kiloWatt-hours annually equivalent to the amount of power Used by 30,0OO,0OO persons in the United States last year.
 More power can be put into Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage than is now available in any city in the world, regardless of its size" he concluded.
 Potentian annual power produc- .ton in kilowatt-hourS for various Alaska regions follows: South eastern Alaska region, 12,270,OOO,- 900; South central, 18,440, ,OOO, O,OOO; TukOn-KuSkokWim, 14.740,000,O ,O00 md Seward Peninsula 2OO,OOO,O0O.
 The report was written in it's en- tirety by Alaskans about Alaska. Federal, Territorial and local agencies assisted in its compila- Elon by supplying basic informa- tior The Alaska Development Board rendered invaluable aid by contributing genera ldata and edi- tOri9I assistance.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Find Body Of Murdered Girl

TACOMA, (P) - A girls nude frozen body found in a shallow grave in an outlying park was identified as that of l7year-old beauty school student who has been missing for two months.
 The young student, Noreen Me Nicholas, disappeared after leav- ing home Nov 5 to attend beauty school classes. She never arrived.
 Capt. John Kendersi of the Pierce county sheriffS office said a 14-year-old member of the Taco ma Boys club searching party discovered the body. It was cov- cred with moss mad dirt at a spot about 200 yards from the place where the girls clothing was found last Tuesday. Her purse had been found earlier about 200 feet from the grave.
 The name of the youth who found the body was withheld.
 Coroner Paul Mellinger said marks indicated the girl was prob ably strangled.
 McNichOlas said his daughter had left home to walk to work the morning she disappeared.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

JACKSON, Wyo. (P)-The Elk, Wyo., mail got delayed by an elk.
 Jimmie Rains, rural mail carri- CT, reported today he was delayed about two hours recently when a bull elk charged his jeep near a mail box at Elk.
 Rains said the irate elk made repeated lunges at the jeep and he was forced to back his vehicle up to prevent damage to the radiator. The elk finally punched a hole in the side of the jeep before Rains could drive away.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Friday January 2l. ls4s

 700 a.m.-Red Harper 7:15-Sunrise Serenade 7:45-Morning Devotions 8:00-Fred Waring 8:3O-Record Shop 9:00-Morning Melodies 9:l5-G l live 9:30-Coffee Shop 9:45-Bob Carlton 10:00-Turntable Time 10:30-Heard At Home 11:00-Impressions In Melody 1l:30-Album Music 11:45-Personal Album Noon-V Disc Varieties 12:30-WXLN News From Home l:00-Around the World in Music 1:15-Club Fifteen 1:30-You'll Be Surprised 2:00-Musical Varieties 2:30-Westward Ho 3:00-Matinee Melodies 4:00-Remember 4:15-Jack Berch 4:30-One Night Stand 5:00-News
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Thursday. January 20. l949

700 a.m.-Melody Roundup 7:l5-SunriSe Serenade 7:45-Morning Devotions 8:00-Fred Waring 8:30-Record Shop 9:00-Morning Melodies 9:l5-G. l. live
 9:30-Coffee Shop 9:45-Chiquita l0:00-Turntable Time l0:30-Heard At Home ll:00-ImpressionS In Melody l1:30-Album Music l1:45-Personal Album NoOn-V Disc Varieties 12:30-WXLN News l2:45-At Ease
 1:00-Around the World in Music 1:15-Club Fifteen
 l:30-You'll Be Surprised 2:00-Musical Varieties 2:30-WeStWard Ho
 3:OO-Matinee Melodies 4:0O-Remember
 4:15-Jack Berch
 4:30-One Night Stand 5:00-NeWS
 o.l0-Lufn ana AOner / 5:3O-It'S Time for Music 6:0O-Guest Star
 6:15-Words With Music 6:30-Nelson Eddy 7:O0-Noah Webster Says 7:3O-Phil Harris
 8:00-Armed Services Review 8:3O-Baby Snooks 0.0O-VOI, clyoI L,o, T. 9:45-Today's American 10:OO-Broadway Playhouse 11:0O-Sign Off
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
w KILN
Wednesday. January l9. l949

Wednesday. January l9. l949 500 p.m.-News 5:l5-Lum and Abner 5:30-It'S Time for Music 6:00-Spotlight Bands 6:l5-WordS With Music 6:3O-ThiS Is The Story 7:00-JuSt Jazz 7:30-Jubilee
 8:00-Mail Call 8:30-Family Theater 9:00-You Asked For It 9:45-Today'S American l0:00-SuSpenSe l0:30-RhapSody in Rhythm ll:00-Sign Off
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

the annual quota of halibut catches be raised to whatever the grounds can stand"
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

About 10000 people can crowd into the cathedral at Milan, Italy.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
SCIENCE: How High Is the Sky?

than the sun. These giant lights out
line the depth of the fish lying beside
the hole.
InuudibIe Sounds
Sound pitched too high for the
human ear to hear can burn cotton
and float bits of cork in the air.
General Electric engineers per-
formed these stunts at Schenectady,
N. Y, with an apparatus developed
for examining the peculiar properties
of ra-sonics-sounds inaudible to
humans.
Sounds from a tiny whistle were
focused on a point by an ordinary
headlight reflector, as light is focused.
Sound waves from the whistle col
lided with those bouncing back from
the focal point to create a still" area
in which the cork was suspended.
When cotton was held at the focal
point of the sound waves, the waves
agitated the cotton particles so vio-
lently they smOuldered.
The whistle had a frequency oi
$4,000 a second. Engineers say the
human ear cannot hear sounds much
above $1,000 a second.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
In Short

Upheld: BY the Supreme Court,
state laws banning the closed shop in
Arizona, Nebraska and North Caro-
lima
Rejected: BY the Vatican, an offer
from the Red-dominated Hungarian
government to negotiate differences
with the Church.
Charged: BY James E. Edmonds,
former National Guard general, that
War Department officers spread 'de-
featist talk" in National Guard train
ing camps during the months before
Pearl HarbOr.
Estimated: By the 10 governments
in the European Recovery Program
(Marshall Plan), that they will need
S4,347, 900, 900 of American aid in the
fiscal year starting July l, 1949, 10
per cent less than they received dur
ing the current year.
Reported: BY airline industry, an
all-time high in gross revenue for
1948, $643, $4,000.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
Celestial Smog

Astronomers have discovered the
greatest dust cloud in the universe
one so vast it would take 1000 years
for a beam of light to pass through it.
Anyone can see it with the naked
eye in midsummer by looking almost
straight overhead, around midnight,
at the constellation Northern Cross.
In this constellation, right in the glow
of the Milky Way, the cloud is
dark, fsh-shaped patch. The fish is
surrounded by a platter-shaped rim
of light, coming from stars too distant
to be seen.
There are many fog banks in the
universe, but this is the first to have
its depth measured. The discovery
was reported to the American Astro-
nomical Society by ]. J. Nassau and
D. MacRae of the Warner and Swasey
Observatory, Cleveland.
Close beside the fish is hole in the
Milky Way. Telescopes looking into
this hole have spotted 1880 stars
strung out along its depths to i'm
mense distances from the earth. These
stars can be seen more clearly than
most other stars at similar distances
in the skies.
Many of the stars in the hole are
blue-white giants. 100 times bigger
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
Moonshine
Sfoqinq PostWar Recovery

SlGSHtlISl u QStWNAu NSSONSl
Moonshiners are giving the govern
ment a run for its liquor tax money.
Wartime priorities on sugar, grain
and copper forced the bootlegger to
close up shop but now with these sup
plies again available illicit stills are
staging a comeback.
The Internal Revenue Bureau re-
ports seizure of 3,O1O stills during
November, 1948, or 122 more
each month than in the same five
months of 1947.
The confscated stills had a capacity
of 1889 gallons of whisky daily, re-
fecting a 48 per cent increase over
the previous year on a production
capacity basis.
Moonshine arrests by Alcohol Tax
Unit 'RevenOoers" totaled 3,545,
boosting the monthly average about
120 over the comparative period in
1947.
The Distilled Spirits Institute, rep
resenting firms which produce whisky
under government license and super
vision, blames high taxes on legal
liquor for the boom in moonshining.
Most of the arrests are concen-
trated, as usual, in southern states.
"The average federal and state tax
of $1O.42 a gallon boosts the price to
a point where moonshining is made
attractive" an institute spokesman
says.
The institute feels that many drink
ers, perhaps because of inflated living
costs, seem to prefer white light.
ming" or slightly aged illicit liquor al
prices in the So to Sc a gallon range
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
Quotes

Premier Marshal Tito, feuding
with the Cominform: Great
things can never be built by foul
means and in a dishonest way"
Madame Chang Kai shek:
"The year 1949 will probably be
as tortured, as bitter as the year
1948 has been (for China). We
shall pray fervently that our
travail shall not be beyond en-
durance, that we shall not fail"
Walter Bedell Smith, Ameri-
can ambassador to Russia: Il
imagine there are in the Soviet
Union certain leaders who are
more deSirous Of being concilia-
tory than they are of pursuing
the policy of harshness we have
encountered. But it would be
difficult to say who they are"
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
RUtiR: A Harness for Germany's Dynamo

want international ownership of the
valley industries The agreement does
not provide for these.
The American position has been
that Ruhr production is vital key in
the economic recovery of Europe.
There also is the point that until Oc-
cupied Germany and western Europe
become economically independent, the
American taxpayer is footing the bill.
Reactions to the proposed Ruhr
agreement are varied. In Paris there
is a feeling in diplomatic circles that
at least the United States recognizes
a need for security against Germany
as well as the Importance Of Ger
many's economic recovery.
A Russian Protest
Russia denounced the Lond n
agreement because no provision hao
been made for a Soviet share in con-
troll of the Ruhr. Moscow said the pact
has no legality and that the six ma
tions are stealing for themselves
right that belongs to all the Allies,
w doIl444SLO14 "a PCA - soy viz 90 ~
ment easily can be amended to ADD
Russia as a governing pOWer-if Rus
sia decides to join with and not Op
pose western demOCracieS.
There was an upsurge of Germal
nationaliSm in protest at the agree
ment. Some complain they are bein
made the victims of French vindiC
tiveness. "The German people hav
completely lost their sovereignty,
cried the leader of the cOnserVatiV
Christian Democrats.
Western Allied headquarters ar
not paying too much attention to Ger
man protests The US. State Depart
ment comedies that Ruhr controls ar
"strict-justihably strict" In London
one diplomat asked: "WhO started thl
war anyway"
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
, = y = !" - -
Among other

federal programs in the fields Of
education and prepaid medical in
surance, and 100000 new public
housing units in the next seven years.
Asks Cooperation
With many of the new senators
and Representatives regarded as New
Dealish, the President noted: "In the
months ahead / know that 1 shall be
able to cooperate with this Congress" ."
Mn Truman recommended that the
new taxes be levied principally
against corporations. He also called
for higher estate and gift taxes and
increases in personal income taxes in
the middle and upper brackets"
With this was coupled request
for, anti-inhationary- measures, in
cluding standby power to impose
wage and price controls, strength
ened rent control extension, continued
control of consumer credit and more
power ito control bank credit"
New Wagner Act
In place of the Taft-Hartley law,
Mr.. Truman proposed re-enactment
of the old Wagner act with, however,
prohibitions against 'jurisdictional
strikes and unjustifiable secondary
boyc0tts.
As to civil rights, Mr.. Truman is
sued a new call for all the proposals
he advocated last year-proposals
which cost him four southern states
in the election. They include an anti
lynching law, repeal of the poll tax,
and prohibitions against employment
discrimination because Of race, creed
or color.
The President is to deliver his an.
nual budget message to Congress or
Monday.
First Test Of Strength
The Administration won its frs
slsirmish when the new Democratic
majority in the House stripped tht
rules committee of its power to blocl
legislation indefinitely. The major
test in the move brought a roll-cal
vote Of 275 to 142. While 81 southern
Democrats bolted on the roll-call, A
Republicans ignored their part!
leadership TO support it.
Sen. Robert A. Taft retained hi
leadership Of the Senate Republican
Policy Committee, turning back a biz
by self-called liberals under the lead
ership Of Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, il
The vote was 28-14 in the Republican
caucus.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
British on
TightRope

DRITAIN walked a diplomatic
- tight rope in 1913 and expects
to walk another in 1949.
Before last year, the British
Foreign Office says, the Labor
Government bent over backwards
to avoid the impression that it was
siding with other western nations
against Russia. But the last confer
ence of Big Four foreign ministers,
which broke up in London in Decem-
Der, 1947, was such a fascO that the ,
government had to iace the fact it had
better work as closely as possible with
its real friends.
1t came out into the open with what
long had remained an official secret
that Britain and the United States
had agreed to standardiZe arms to
fixed American sizes and. patterns.
This agreement formed the prac-
tical basis for what is expected even
tually. to become the North Atlantic
Pact. It would link the United States
and Canada in a military alliance
with the Union of Western European
nations. These are Britain, France,
Belgium, the Netherlands and Lux
embOurg.
Main Goal Of British
Conclusion of this alliance has be-
come the main objective of British
foreign policy.
Nevertheless, although cOmforted
by the display of anti-Communist soh-
darity in l948, the British expect 1919
, to be another year Of international
tension. E.
, Privately Whitehall sees no hope of
saving China for the west
It anticipates a consequent period OF
heightened insecurity in British pos
sessions throughout the Far East.
Whitehall expects the Communists
to intensity their activities in Burma,
IndOnesia, IndOchina and Malaya,.
To some extent, British diplomats
declare, these Communist gains will
be offset by virtual western control of
EurOpe's industrial cradle which is
west Germany.
Crises Ahead
British foreign experts believe a
period of acute instability still awaits
France, Italy and Greece-but they
predict Communist influences there
will be beaten down, especially as
benefits of the Marshall Plan become
more evident
Whitehall is not at all cheerful about
prospects in the Middle East. It ex-
poets unrest and uncertainty to co2-
tinue for some time in the oil-rich
, eastern Mediterranean.
Britain has experienced some diff
cultieS in relations with her BeneluX
D partners. in the Western Union. Both
the United States and Australia have
2 condemned Hollands war against the
Indonesian Republic.
L Some British officials fear thai
: Dutch policy in Indonesia may ever
n sway a section of American Congress.
sional opinion against the projected
North Atlantic security pact.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14
Ruby
Rurest in the World


The worlds rarest ruby, priceless
BECAUSE it reflects a 12-ray star, is on
display at the American Museum Of
Natural History in New York City.
Six-pointed star rubies are not un-
common. There are even a few with
two stars, close together, each with a
separate center.
But this star has only one center
with u rays branching out in delicate
fingers Of light. The gem is fawless.
deep violet in color, and about the
size Of a small marble.
Nothing like it has ever been seen
before, says DR.. Frederick H. Poush.
curator Of physical geology and mins
eralogy at the museum.
The ruby weighs 25.2 carats, about
lI5 of an ounce. If it we're a usual
six-ray star ruby, it would be worth
about $500. The 12-ray star makes
it priceless, worth whatever COM
noisseur would pay for the only ruby
of its kind in the world.
Already a fabulous story is grow
ing around the gem. Il was found in
the spring of 1948 in the rich Ratha-
Dur mines in Ceylon. At least threG
men owned it without knowing It'd
priceless quality. They were gem
brokers, buying and selling uncut
rubies. In uncut form, gubies look
like gravel.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14

It will decide, for instance, how
much German coal and steel is to be
exported for other nations and how
much is to be kept at home The board
will make the Ruhr one of the most
important instruments in the Marshall
Plan to restore Europe to its economic
feet.
Twin goals of the board are to in
sure that ownership does not become
concentrated in the hands of a few
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-14

ON CHRISTMAS EVE in Lon
~ don, weary western Allied
diplomats laid down their pens.
They had worked since Novem-
ber II on how to harness Ger
many's Ruhr so that products Of
the vast coal and steel center could be
used for peace but not for war.
In the waning days of 1948 the fruit
of their labor was published an
agreement for international control of
the Ruhr. This agreement, still to be
ratified by the six governments repre-
sented at the conference, is COM
promise.
The compromise does not altogether
satisfy the French, who wanted the
Ruhr separated from Germany. That
feeling is understandable in a people
invaded three times since 1870 by war
machines manufactured and supplied
from the Ruhr.
The agreement sets up an interna-
tiOnal authority for the Ruhr with
wide supervisory powers for an in
definite period, even after occupation
troops are withdrawn.
international Control Board
Representatives of six nations will
make up the Ruhr authority. The
United States, Britain and France will
have three votes each. Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg will
have one each.
When a German government is
formed it will have three votes. Until
then the three German votes will be
cast by a representative of the Allied
occupation powers in the three zones
of western Germany.
The Ruhr board will not concern it.
self with detailed management prob
lens but with broad overall policies
on production, ALLEGATION and expan-
sion.