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The Nome nugget., 1949-06-13
ADMINISTRATION HEALTH BILL

(SOmerSet Penna., DAILY Amerlcan)
What's the use of spending billions of dollars to
bat communism in Europe and Asia when have in
the White House man willing to sell the American
people down the river to Moscow under the pretense
that he will give his fellow countrymen health?
The Truman health bill is not even cleverly arranged
1t obviously attempt to bride for the Truman
administration following that the President expects to
continue indefinitely in office regime that smells to
high heaven.
If the number of people who cannot provide for their
own medical needs sufficiently great to warrant
governmental action the place to begin would be in the
smaller political units
There is such need.
The Presidents health program is undisgused eff
fort destroy self reliance among the American people
and enslave them to the government.
Perhaps there is natural relationship between the
Truman health program and the decetfu policy the
Truman administration has pursued in Germany.
The issue in Germany was between the Socialists de-
manding strong central government and conserva-
tive group standing for states rights and home rule
France has feared and yet fears strong Germany,
and strong central government has been viewed by
the French as step towards another
Secretly the United States betrayed the supporters
Of states rights and consented the viewpoint
The result is a situation that always arises when
principle is surrendered for eXpedency.
The Presidents health bill is another step towards
strong central government and the ensavement of the
American people.
Its tax feature is on itself vicious.
Few American families spend as much for medication
the health bill would require them to pay in taxes
The idea in America has always been that each Amer
lean should be free to spend his money he
fit TIE should be free to it and free to dispense it,
That is basic freedom.
Whatever palaver the President may employ to pro-
mote his nefarous project the fact remains that he
aims at destroying American freedom, at ensavng the
American people to tyrannical government while pre-
lending to work act of mercy upon them
The American peoples intelligence is entitled to
credit than the President is willing to give them.
His predecessor laid payroll tox upon the wage
IO1 he trpnd
the government will have taken out of the pay envelope
all there is in it bore gets to the wage Yet
President Franklin D. Roosevelt said: All taxes are
paid in the sweat of toll"
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-13
HOW YOUR COMMUNITY BENEFITS
FROM SPRING CLEANUP

Starting today and continuing until Sunday, June
49, is Cleanup Week in Nome Let's make this really
pang-up" Cleanup Week, and make Nome a clean
little city which will be attractive to the many tourists
expected to visit Nome during this our Golden Ami
versary Year Besides making Nome Clean attractive
place people like to visit
Cleaning up vacant lots in your neghborhood will
provide play space for children thus reducing
juvenile accidents and crime 1t will also breed
ing places for flies mosquitoes, rats and other disease
bearers
Tfdying up your home and getting your neighbour
hood to clean up their yards will reduce fires improve
public health and reduce neighborhood blight
clean, tidy neighborhood is better place tolve in.
|. The nations fires cost 10000 lives and nearly
three-quarters of billion dollars year.
An increasing number of these fires is caused by rub
Dish and litter In other words plain negligence.
You can help keep your home and community free
from fire by giving them a thorough Cleanup this
Spring. Remove fire hazards that have accumulated
during the winter.
What You Can Do
/. Clean up your own home and yard
g. Join your friends in neghborhood project to cor
rect eyesores and fire hazards your block or your
street. .
g. Take active part in any civic group that cooperaes
in organized Spring Cleanup campaigns.
| Work hard, be stingy and hang on to your money
your children will have the time of their lives flnging
it over the country faster than you made it Sporadic
interest in the welfare of others in commendable but
systematic work for social Improvement will do more
fer the unfortunate in Nome. We told not so
long, ago. that people tired of reading about cond-
tons in other countries We just can't believe our peo-
pie are that thoughtless.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-13
Advisory Commit
tee Drafts ''POsitive
Alaskan Policy"
Continued from Page One)

ton.
The committee also "reaffirmed
its unequicoval stand that there
that there must be no discrimina-
ton whatsoever between Indians
and non-Indians in the admins
tration of social security"
La Fargo said the committee
condemned a bill submitted un-
successfully in the 80th Congress,
"or any similar proposal" to pro-
vide the settlement of native land
titles in Alaska "by an arbitrary
procedure which insured the loss
to the natives of all but a fraction
of the lands and fishing territories
to which they have just claims,
and upon which they depend for
their very existence"
The committee said lit is the
duty of the secretary of the inte-
rior to define and establish as
rapidly as possible the title of ma
tives of Alaska to adequate lands
and natural resources, including
fishing grounds, to insure a sound
economy, with due regard TO their
existing possessory rights"
The policy declaration added:
ITO this end the secretary
should negotiate with the native
communities, and where suitable,
with individuals, to establish by
agreement the territories to be
patented to them, such agreement
to go into effect when ratified by
vote of the communities concern
ed.
LAS cases will occur in which
agreement cannot be reached, an
impartial tribunal should be es-
tablished, made up of persons ap-
pointed by the President and rati-
, fled by the Senate, with authority
to determine the territories TO be
patented to the natives concern
ed, the findings of that tribunal to
be final in regard to lands.
ANY natives who feel them
selves aggrieved should be en-
abled to enter suit for indemnity
in the u. S. courts of claims.
Trust patents should be issued,
without any fixed period Of ter
mination of trust. AS for the In
dians of the United States gener-
ally, patents should be issued TO
individuals or to communities ac-
cording to the wishes of the
groups concerned. AS for the ma
, tives of Alaska, trusts should be
terminated as the groups concern
ed become ready to compete with
/ the non-Indian community on
even terms.
"In view of the fact that the
possessory rights of the native an
tedate the establishment of the
national forests, lands inclosed
within forest boundaries should be
patented to the natives on the
same basis as any other lands.
LAS the natives rights derive
from aboriginal occupancy, any
reservation of mineral rights to
the federal government in the
lands patented should include pro-
vision for payment of reasonable
| royalties TO the land owners"
La Fargo said that "if the bros
principles set forth by the adv
DRY committee are put into effer:,
Evening star., 1949-04-24
Truman Plans Means
ToiaIiiarian State,
Taft Tells Editors

President Trumanx fair deal
program. particularly his farm
and health plans. Was described
yesterday hy Senator Taft. Re-
publican. OF Ohio. rs a program
for q complete totaiitarian state. {"
He addressed a session Of the
American Society OF Newspaper
Editors in the Hotel Statler.
Senator Taft estimated the al
ministration's farm program VIII
cost 5000. 900 900 annually and
would completely deprive the
farmer OF all liberty IN running
his farm"
Cites Experience Of British.
Mr.. Truman's health program
would cost a like amount. Senator
Taft said. He based both eSti-
mates on the experience OF Great
Britain, translated into the larger
terms Of the United States popu-
lation.
The Ohio Senator also informed
the editors that they. more than
any other group. viii determine
the future d the Republican party.
You can't kill a party as long
as it has principles and a reason,
! to exist" he asserted. don't see
any particular reason TO be dis
couraged."
THE Democrats don't admit
they're against human liberty. bu;
the program which is being pre-
sented TO Congress today is a pro.
gram for a complete totalitariar
state
Hits G0verpment Business Plan
Senator Taft ticked of major
elements of the Truman legisla-
tive program. including price and
wage controls. ALLEGATION OF scarce
materials and the proposal to put
the Government into business in
amy industry If the Government
doesn't like the way the industry
is running"
He referred to Mr.. Truman g
proposal that the Government be
given power to erect plants. such
as for the production of steel. II
private industry is unable to pro-
vide necessary quantities.
The Government = In business
proposal. Senator Taft said. would
destroy the liberty of any industry
Evening star., 1949-04-24

Charles Irsian' Jr. pint OF blood
J the wartime program.
Two months ago his son Charles,
jr. was injured seriously when the
motor bike he was riding collided
Evening star., 1949-04-24

50 Affected" "nooocy would enter
q aeic Of industry Il ne faced
competition from the Government
Itself.
Free Enterprise Acclaimed.
He sasd that 20 make TIRE Bran
nan plan 10 support farm income
xork the Government must have
the power 10 teis the farmer whai
he can plant. what he e&nro'
plant. and how nueh he car
plant
Senator Taft declared II vc4aic
be ''sdlotic" for America 10 turn
away from the free enterprise sys-
tenn under which IL has attained
unparalleled living standards II
order 10 experiment with wei
fare state under which Ilse GoF-
@nmsnt undertakes 20 give all Tire
people al the things II thinks
they ought 70 have. financed out OF
general taxation
Evening star., 1949-04-24
BLOOD Bonk Aids Injured Son
OFF, udge Who Hell ped Stortlt

with q truck on Georgia avenue.
The boys right wrist was broken
as was his left arm. his right knee
cap and cheek bone. To speed
his recovry, Charles has been fur
nished five pints of blood by the
Red Cross. The youth still Is in
Suburban Hospital.
Thankful that he helped estab-
lish the blood donor. program In
the county. Judge Irelan is help
ing the current drive for recruits
for the bloodmobile visit to Mont
gomery County on Wednesday
The bloodmobile will be at st
Johns Episcopal Church. Be-
thesda, from 10 am. to 4 pm
that day. John r. Carr is chair
man of the Montgomery County
Red Cross blood program.
The blooodmobile will visit
Prince Georges County Thursday
It will be at Arundel Hall, Uni
versity Maryland from 10 am
tn 4 pm.
Evening star., 1949-04-24
Revenue Aide Admits
'EmbezzIemenf Of $500
To Pay Hospital Bills

Harrassed by his wife's hospi-
tai bills. an internal revenue col
Iector embezzled $500 in Alabama
collections to pay them oil, ne
admitted here yesterday.
Hewell P. Jones, 38. of the 1000
block of~Kalorama road NV,
announced his guilt to United
States Commissioner Cyril s.
Lawrence. Jones, revenue
employe for IA years. was charged
with embezzling the collections
last June and September while
serving as a zone deputy collector
in the field Office in Walker
County. Ala.
He was arrested yesterday on
an Alabama warrant on his re-
lease from three weeks treatment
for stomach ulcers at Bethesda
Naval Hospital.
Commissioner Lawrence set
bond at 81 900 and continued the
case to May to give Jones time
to arrange for restitution and
plead guilty In District Court here.
as the defendant requested.
Jones said he needed the funds
to pay for the birth Of his baby
nine months ago, and also to pay
for his wife's appendectomy six
weeks after that event. He de-
scribed himself as an Army veteran
of two years service in the Italian
campaign where he was awarded
a Purple Heaft because of a
shoulder wound.
Evening star., 1949-04-24
Shokespeore's Birthday
Is Marked in Strotford
sy The As,eeioted Prsss

STRATFORD-O -ON-AvON. Eng
land, April 23.-The 385th ami.
versary of Shakespeare's birth was
celebrated today in this tourist
packed town. Representatives OF
more than 80 nations took part.
The observance began at dawn
when bells rang out from Holy
Trinity Church where the poet
was baptized and where he Is
buried.
Evening star., 1949-04-24

the wartime program.
Two months ago his son Charles.
ir. was injured seriously when the
motor bike he was riding collided
spokesmen said, that another sub
committee, headed by Senator
Hill, Democrat, Of Alabama. viii
deal separately with noncontro-
versial elements of the omnibus
health proposals. and possibly re-
port them for Senate action IN
separate bills. Specifically, the
subcommittee will deal with moves
to expand basic public health
services and to provide more
Federal aid for hospital construc-
tion--both OF which are supported
by both opponents and proponents
of the compulsory insurance plan.
Insurance Plan Proposed.
Senator Hill heads q group Of
Senators who have introduced a
voluntary health insurance plan"
to care for the medically INDECENT
through the purchase Of medical
and hospital service policies from
approved voluntary, nonproflt
insurance plans.
Three other members Of the
Dor Committee. Republican
Senators Taft of Ohio, Smith of
New Jersey and Donnell of Mis-
souri,, are sponsoring still another
measure in opposition to the COM
pulsory proposal. It would give
Federal aid to States which set up
their own programs to deal with
hospital and medical costs-while
also providing for aid to medical
education, hospital construction
projects, research and public
health activities.
Sponsors of these latter two
bills comprise seven members OF
the Labor Committee majority
of its 13 members
Thus, chances for the admins
tration's compulsory plan appear
slim at the committee level. But
II committee approval fails. its
supporters say they will offer 1t
from the floor when other health
bills come to the Senate for a vote.
Evening star., 1949-04-24
100000 Is Raised
For Building at
Visitation Convent

approximately $1,000. 900 has
been raised for a new classroom
building at the Georgetown Vista
ton Convent, Miss Christabel E.
Hill. chairman Of the schools
alumnae association, announced
yesterday.
The announcement. made dur
ing the final day of the Convent S
sesquicentennial celebration, noted
that $4,000 of this sum was
raised during the observance, held
at Georgetown University. Goal
of the drive Is $500
The Most Rev.. Patrick A.
O'Boyle, Archbishop Of Washing
ton, praised the work OF the Sis
ters of the Convent at luncheon
yesterday at Georgetown Univer-
sity.
Here we have women who
give up their entire lives for this
work" Archbishop OBoyle told
the gathering. He also paid tri-
butte to the $50 years Of achieve
ment shown by the school, first
Catholic school for girls In the
original l3 colonies.
Several hundred alumnae re-
turned to the school this week fol-
its four-day celebration. Mrs
Frank A. Allen of New York Is
president of the Alumnae Asso-
citation.
The Rev. Hugh McCarron, s
j., of Holy Trinity Parish, in his
sermon at solemn pontiflcal
mass yesterday at the Convent
traced the history of the school
and discussed its place in Ameri-
can education.
Archbishop O'Boyle pontificated
at the mass. The Most Rev. John
M. McNamara. Vicar General oi
the Washington Archdiocese, pre-
Sided
Evening star., 1949-04-24
Form Vocation Proerom
Pushed in Eostern Stotes
~ re A,se<sesss e.s.s

NEW YORK. N. Y.--An unusual
plan for the summer which will
increase farm incomes and broad
en- understandings between urban
and rural people has been pre-
sented by Grange organizations
10 members in IL States from
Maine TO Virginia
The plan encourages farmers
who have two or more, spare
rooms 10 take IN city yacationers
on q paying basis. and thus de-
yelop a new type Of resort bnsi-
ness In rural areas.
Evening star., 1949-04-24

MOntS y III e ! J
Cou n ty, has
aided the re-
covery of his
W ho was in
15-year-o old son
jured recently.
AS chairman
of he Mont
gomery County
r e d c r o S S
Chapter early
in the war, Mr..
Irel n W a 4
among the first
to d on a tie a
Evening star., 1949-04-24

The Rec oss blood donor pro-
gram tina ormer Judge Charles
M. Irelan of Orphans Court,
helped form eight years ago in
Evening star., 1949-04-24

The English word tattoo comes
from the Tahitian word tatau
meaning mark.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-03
POVERTY AND PROSPERITY

The United States has just passed through period of relative prosperity New York City the great metrop thing of an economic bellwether of the nation
 With these introductory remarks, call attention to the fact that out of every nine children in New York received assistance last year from the City De- partment of Welfare total of 132 300 children live in their homes according to The New York Times and ceive grants from the City enabling the parents or other relatives to hold the homes together.
 The City of New York is certainly to be commended for providing 282O0000 out of the $69 800 900 sar for the children but the fact that than eleven per cent of the children in great American city have to depend upon public funds for proper living ditions is somewhat amazing.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-03
Former Alaskan In Barex Expedition

Commander John Backland, U. s. N. R., who has spent the ma jor portion of his life in Kotzebue, Wainwright and other towns on the northwest coast of Alaska has been recalled to active duty by the Navy for four months to eval- uate and advise on the ice condi- tions in and around Point Barrow, Barter Island and other waters through which the Navy's Point Barrow Resupply Expedition will pass.
 Commander Backland has been assigned duties with the expedi- tion to resupply Alaskan installa- tions every year since the expedi- tion was begun in 1944. He was in command of the first eXpedition which consisted of two suppl. ships and which made its way without the aid of ice breakers. He gained the name of Ice Man in naval circles because of his far north Alaskan home and his long experience with ice conditions.
 Before he joined the navy in April, 194l, Commander Backland operated commercial shipping line from the northern coast of Alaska to points south, which his father, one of Alaska's famous piO- neers, started in 1906.
 During the war Commander Backland served in Greenland as commanding officer of the U.S.S. BouidOin, a Photographic ship, and also spent several months in the south and central Pacific.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-03
NOME DRUG STORE
 CHANGES OWNERSHIP

The Nome Drug Company, which for the past three and a half years has been operated by Gladys Seeds and Boyd C. liar wood as partners, has undergone change in management. Mrs. Gladys Seeds has sold her one half interest in the partnership to MT. HarWood, who will continue the operation of the business.
 It will be remembered by Nome residents that Mrs. Seeds took over the management of the Nome Drug Company through the gener- OSity Of former employer, Frank Dunham of the Red Cross Drug Store at Fairbanks. Mrs. Seeds formed a partnership with Mr. Harwood and they jointly have
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-03
Polio Shows
 Sharp Increase

Continued from Page One) diana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The 1,l23 cases in Texas did not include the number stricken in the last week of July.
 New York State reported 539 cases, with 424 in the New York City metropolitan area, the larg- est number of cases in any big city. California reported 794 cases; and Oklahoma 498.
 The national foundation for in- fantile paralysis has advanced S3,55l 1865 to it's 40 chapters up to Aug. this year, twice as much as granted in a similar period in 1948.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-03
Gold Price Boost
 Has Slim Change
Wrangell SentineD

Alaska miners hopes for boost in the price of gold as a stimulus to the gold mining industry in the territory isn't very bright. Reports from Washington indicate gold is going to remain begged at $35 an ounce. Any raise in the price of gold would devalue the American dollar, according to the financial experts, and this isn't looked upon with favor at this time, the good old American buck as it is, being about the most important thing in the world at the moment. The last Legislature in a memorial sug- gested that a bonus of $l5 an ounce on all gold mined in Alaska be paid in an effort to bolster the industry, which has been begged down by high costs in the Terri tory.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-03
SHOULD WE SELECT IMMIGRANTS?
 (BV Hugo S. SimS)


 There has been nsstent demand in this country that the United States open it's doors to the displaced persons of Europe and Congress sometime ago provided for the admission of 205,000 persons
 Josephine Ripley, staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor is back in this country after trip to Europe to observe the way displaced persons being handled She reports that Canada Australia, Belgium, Great Britain and other countries have missions at the various displaced persons camps in Italy, Germany and Austria. They carefully select the type of immigrant that will meet the national need The United States, however, has no such program and the matter of pick ing and choosing immigrants is left largely to voluntary agencies.
 The legislation passed by Congress has been de- nounced by representatives of various and re- gions discriminatory. Even President Truman de- clared that it discriminatory against Jews and Ro man Catholics. The correspondent however, says that this does not show in immigration shipping lists. On the ship on which she returned were 329 Roman Cath ocs 268 Jews 168 Protestants 81 Orthodox "A Greek Catholics, l Evangelical, Lutherans two Greek Or thodoX, two Aventists and one Mennonite.
 The majority of shipping lists, she says, show sim liar religious and racial makeup, with little VariatOn. Miss Ripley points out that the requirement that im grants have specific job assurances has little meaning because there is nothing binding about the contracts Neither the prospective employer the displaced per son is under legal obligation and either both, may change their minds The requirement for farm labor is being literally interpreted.
 Speaking about the quality of the immigrants the Monitors correspondent says that there are many fine prospective Americans among all races and religions but that there others who simply out Ito make a lot of money. She concludes that the United States is letting itself in for very deal quality" and advocates that workable program should be evolved to select the individuals to this try.
The Nome nugget., 1949-08-03
FACTS AS TO EMPLOYMENT

The prediction is freely made that the number of un- employed will rise to five million if nothing is done to boost employment. The estimate is based the fact that in May, there 3289,0O0 unemployed.
 This fact is important but should overlook the employment of 59,694 900 persons in the same month This is larger number than in any previous month of