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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29

BIG FEATURE, IS
BILL AT CAPITOL

battle-ground" is real. 1t tells the
story of the average GIL, around
whose foXhole world history was
made during the crucial Battle of
Bastogne in 1914, when American
troops, surrounded and outnum-
bered, held the surprise Nazi break
through.
This feature starts at the Capitol
Theatre Sunday.
battle-ground" is story about
men. the little, almost anonymous
men. the gripping, foot-slogging in
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29
TRAINING JETS LAND
IN WESTERN GEP JANY

FRANKFURT, Germany, July %
R-Eight T-33 jet planes arrived
at U. S. air bases in Western Ger
many today from the United States.
Air Force authorities said the
planes, two scatter versions of the
F-80 jet fighter, will be used for
training purposes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29

Glover's Spruce Delicatessen and
Lockers will be open all three days
Of the Salmon Derby. Plenty of
fresh frozen Tee Harbor herring
available for bait. Beans and
bread. too, for the sportsmen who
forgot to shop. 66-2t
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29
FISHERMElI

Stop at the COUNTRY CLUB
FOR breakfast and dinner. Box
lunches to go. Open ALL NIGHT!
66-2t
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29
FISHERMEN

Stop at the COUNTRY CLUB
for breakfast and dinner. Box
lunches to go. Open ALL NIGHT!
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29

Sewing machines for rent at the
White Sewing Machine Center
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29

Fresh herring-Sturm's Locker
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-07-29

WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10
BARNETT-MORGAN WEDDING SUNDAY

The wedding of Mrs. Mary Ann Barnett and MT. Percy Morgan of Anchorage is set for Sunday afternoon, Nov. 12, at the Assembly of God Church. A reception will be held at the Chop Suey House on Sixth Ave- nue at pm.
 Mrs. Barnett is the widow of "Whitey" Barnett who was lost in his plane off Yakutat two years ago. They had lived for several years in and around Seward.
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10

weather stations, his own scat tered auxiliary bases, and his sketchy radar outposts to give him a few minutes warning. His ready-duty fighters can scramble to take off in as little as three minutes-no easy feat in the heavy cold of Alaskan winter, where both plane and fuel must be carefully preheated. Accord ing to legend, the best Arctic ground crewman is the one who warns blowtorch in his hut so he can light the torch to warm the preheater, which preheats the plane.)
 Once warned, Bill Kepner's jet fighters can range we'll out over the Alaskan coast. But warnings are far from certain. In mock attack last September, "aggressor" aircraft swept thru gaping radar holes with little difficulty, theoretically strafed Alaskan bases for 20 minutes before the air raid sirens went off.
 On the Ground.
 The Armys prime job in Alas ka is to defend airfields, not land masses. Kepner has the tough, trained 4th Infantry Regi- ment as the nucleus of his ground strength, and a meager assortment of quadruple .5O- caliber machine guns, 4O- and 9O-mm. antiaircraft batteries. In any or all of its aspects ground fighting is brutal, fearful busi- ness in the winter cold.
 Trucks, guns and tanks can be Winterized to work at 50 de- grees below zero, although some times a sound-looking tire will collapse with a frozen crunch as the truck begins to roll. The bursts of ordinary bombs and shells are smothered in the deep snow. (The Army will soon try out proximity fuses for sub-
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arctic use.) At 50 below, a sol dier is only 10 per cent efficient. At minus 52, he behaves like |; battle shock case: his eyes glaze and he wanders in aimless circles.
 Cold Facts.
 Kepner needs more soldiers, more planes, more guns and more radar to fend off any "one- shot deal" That, like every thing else in Alaska, is more difficult than it sounds. The Pentagon can't send more people until there is more housing. AL ready at lonely Eielson, troops are living in portable Fiberglas and canvas shelters. At Fort Richardson, HOO men are cram med into new 5O0-man bar racks; officers and noncoms with families live in squalid novels, pay extortionate rents. The Air Force had long to beg Congress for it's Alaskan housing money. Now costs are enormous: a pre- fab house that would cost $9,8OO in the US. costs $50,OOO by the time it is freighted to Alaska from Seattle and erected at the going wages of the territory's h O hp r. cod carpantarS and plumbers.
 Last spring, Ike Eisenhower told Congress that Alaskan de- lenses were in no shape to meet the potentialities of war. Kep- ner, for all of his awareness of what his command lacks, pro- fesses not to be SO gloomy. "If the enemy invades, we'll hand him quite a jolt" he says la conically.
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10
WERNER APARTMENTS SOLD

WERNER APAHTMENTS SOLD
 The Werner Apartment build ing on Sixth Avenue was sold last week by Henry Hinie) Werner for the sum of $25,OO0. It was purchased by Hans Fur sureth and Oliver Backlund.
 MT. Werner remodeled the building about two years ago, and it has been occupied ever since. The new owners plans for the house have not been revealed.
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10

It seems futile to preach highway safety, but we often wonder what the slaughter would be if there were no preaching at all.
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10
LUTHERAN LADIES AID

The regular meeting of the Lutheran Ladies Aid will be held Tuesday, November IA, at 7:3O in the basement of the Lutheran Church. All those in- terested are cordially invited to attend.
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10

High-power engines furnish as much horse power as ever in this country, but too many olks who control it have no lOrSe sense.
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10
Na+ionoI Magozine Places Seword In S+ru+eqicuI Area


 show the masses of empty tundra stretching inland from the vest ern coast like sloshy, moldy pud. ding. No map could hint the subzero temperatures that could cripple an army, taunt it with frostbite, hold it to mile-a-day advance through roadless moun- tains and plains.
 Alaska is a battle-ground for airmen, the Joint Chiefs de- cided; in 1947, it turned com mand of the theater over to the Air Force. The primary enemy thus became enemy airplanes, the primary defensive position, US. air bases. Let Russia or anyone else slip ground troops - airborne or seaborne - into such islands of tundra" as Nome or Point Barrow, said the air men, and you could isolate them like the mighty Japanese bases of Truk and Rabaul were iso- lated in the Pacific war. You would bomb the planes and shelters and leave them all shiv- ering in the cold with no place to march to. Don't make US. airplanes vulnerable by scatter 1 ing them through the wilderness, they said. Let them range from Lo~~~%1orI
 Man of Practice.
 The theory seemed bold and simple. The complexities in car rying it out fell to a wiry, weather-beaten Air Force Lieu tenant General named William E. Kepner, commander in chief of Alaska (CINCAL). Bill Kep- ner ran his taut command from birch-walled office on the first floor of thick concrete com mand center at Anchorage. Around town it was known as "The Kremlin,' much to his distaste ("There is nothing Rus sian in my command; I know of no Kremlin in it," says he gruffly).
 At 57, Airman Kepner was remarkably well fitted to be top boss in a crucial tri-service operation. As youngster he had done a hitch in the Marines, later had marched with the Army infantry on the Mexican border. In 1917. he was com missioned End lieutenant in the cavalry, fought through the toughest land battles of World War I in France and won a D.S.C. for leading patrol into a German machine-gun nest. Be- tween wars he became an Army expert in ballooning Gin 1884 got to 6O,613 feet in the "Ex- plorer T. before she ripped aparD, was subsequently, trained in airships by the Navy. Also a topflight airplane pilot, in World War II he first commanded a fighter outfit in Europe, then became boss of a bombardment division. Even his knowledge of the atom bomb is intimate: he was deputy commander for all Army and Navy aviation at Operation Crossroads, the Bi- kini bomb test.
 The Heartbeat.
 The beat of Bill Kepner's heartland is the take-off roar of his ESQ Shooting Stars, F-82s and his all-weather F-94s based at his three key airfields. Big, sprawling Elmendorf Air Force Base lies next to Kepner's "Kremlin" at Anchorage. Ladd's runways mark the flat, far northern Panama plain just south of the Yukon River. Lonely, bleak Eielson, 26 miles south east of Fairbanks, is the home of the weather reconnaissance B-29s that regularly fly the "Ptarmigan hops" to the pole. Eielson, with the worlds longest i Q4,600 feeD runways may one day have another chore: ham, | dino R26c ch,Iptipo over the
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10
From Time" Magazine. Nov. 6

Just ahead of the winter freeze-up, the broad-bottomed barges cast off from Nome's \ weather-beaten docks and tagged southward behind their tugs toward the Boring Sea. Towns men ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock and barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base - once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings and goings of commer- cial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city, just 30 jet-driven minutes from Si- berian fighter outposts, last week found herself 500 miles out in front of the new US. defensive position.
 Nome had company in her shivery loneliness. All the way across the Aleutian chain, most of the old World War II air bases were deserted, their torn Quonsets flaping and creaking before the storms. South toward the States, on the foggy, moun- tainous coastal strip - never much good for air bases-the last attachments of troops had been moved out of Ketchikan and Sitka, and out of Juneau, the capital of the territory. Un- der the armed forces new strat- egy for defending Alaska, the U. S. was coiling it's strength it's winterized jet fighters, it's cadres of weather-wise pilots and it's supporting Army troops into one tight defense net in the Alaskan heart.
 Road Fed and Ice Free.
 The heartland is 500-mile- long loop of sea, plain and jagged mountain, notable be- cause-in Alaska's trackless cen tral land mass-it is stitched together by year-round trans portation. It begins in the south west at the island naval base of Kodiak, encompasses the ice free ports of Seward and Whit tier, fans up along the 471-mile Alaska Railroad, and there hooks on to the Alaska (Alcan) Highway, last segment of the 2.35O-mile overland route from the US.
 Here, and only here, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had decided, could the US. build base that D could be supplied through the paralyzing winters, 9 would be strong enough to defend It. self, 3 would be central enough to defend Alaska against attack. In any future world war, Alaska would be a prize in transpolar air warfare. Here the US. would first intercept Russian planes curving eastward out of the Chukotsk bases (where the So- viets have been building up fuel supplies), bound for such atom worthy targets as the Hanford plutonium plant in eastern Wash ington, or the West Coast air craft plants-or possibly indus trial targets in the upper Mid west. Extensively, Alaska was a strategic refueling point for transpolar B-36s.
 Non-Global War.
 Why, then, was the US. fall ing back to Alaska's inner core! It had been different in World War II. The Japanese, landing on Attu and Kiska, had tied up ten U. S. divisions. The Navy, hard-pressed at the crucial battle of Midway, had nonetheless spared five cruisers, 13 destroy CTS and six submarines to defend the big peninsula against dl- ,,ore;o,ory raid Air bases were
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10

Tip to motorists: Four wheel brakes are useless without a fore-sighted driver.
Seward seaport record., 1950-11-10

Those who live the fastest are the first to reach the finish line.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16
$40 Billion u. S.
Budget Seen In
Next Ten Years

Continued pressures on the Fed
eral Government to increase ex-
penditures could result in a Fed
eral tax burden of $40 billion or
more annually within the next 10
years unless the public puts a
bride on them This is the con-
clusion of the Council of State
Chambers of Commerce. Here are
some of the facts assembled by the
Councils research team which
lead to that conclusion:
Scores of new Federal spending
measures are now being urged
upon Congress. If passed, they
could add as much as S25 billion
eventually to the nations annual
tax burden.
The presidents 1851 Federal
Budget Message calls for a total
expenditure next year of more
than $45 billion, including So bill
lion for social security programs
financed by payroll taxes. But
that's just the beginning.
The proposed budget contains
almost 81 billion 1886 million to
be exact to initiate "a new Fed
eral spending programs. Many
Of these would carry on indef-
initely and grow much larger. 1t
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16
Commencement
Set For May I9

Commencement exercises for
the eighth grade of the Deercreek
Township School, Lafayette, will
be in the school auditorium at 8
o'clock, Friday evening, May 19.
The program includes, Salutat-
ory by Rheba Miller; Glass His
tory, Mary Jane Lambert; Class
Will, Gerald Baynes; Class Poem,
Orville Pence; Valedictory, Rog-
er Flannery; Presentation
of Diplomas, George Jon e 5,
president of the Board of Educat-
ion; Address, Glenn H. Isenbarger
of Springfield; Benediction, the
Rev. H. H. Hitch, pastor of the
Lafayette Methodist Church.
Butcher Gibson is principal ot
the school.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16

The Department Of Defense,
through its unification program is
coming to the aid of the manu-
facturer looking for government
business. Would-be contractors
confused by the detail and chann-
els connected with Armed Ser
vices contracting may take heart.
Thanks to unification there's
going to be a new stream-lined
procurement system.
Louis Johnson, Secretary of
Defense, has announced that
shortly the Army, Navy and Air
Force will be operating under uni
form procurement policies.
A new office has sprung up in
the Pentagon in Washington.
Called the Military Procurement
Information Office, it has been set
up to guide bothered contractors
through the maze of government
procurement. The office is staffed
with Army, Navy and Air Force
personnel, working in harmony
! to make life easier for the Ameri-
can business man.
For the first time, the Army,
Navy and Air Force will be coor-
dinating their purchasing instead
of competing with each other. For
example, the Air Force and the
Navy are now exchanging inform
alton on the percentage of profit
charged. The two services are
comparing accounting practices
with an eye to working out Q
common system. Effort is being
made to eliminate red tape and
iron out differences in order to
present a unified position to con-
; tractors dealing with both.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted for all of the military SER
vices to use the facilities of others
to inspect materials being pur-
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16
Time Short For
Bonus Claims

With the deadline of June 80,
for filing applications approach
ing, Director G. Schimger urged
all eligible Ohio World War II
veterans and all eligible next of
kin of deceased Ohio World Wor
II veterans who have not filed
for the Ohio Bonus to do SO immedi
ately. The deadline for filing ap-
plications is set by the Constitut-
ional Amendment providing for
the payment of the Bonus and
may be changed by vote of the
people.
The Director said, I'm an effort
to see that all eligible Ohio World
War II veterans who are physi-
cally or mentally incompentent are
paid a bonus, all Veterans Admin
istration Hospitals in the United
States and all Ohio welfare In
stitutions have been contacted to
determine whether applications
have been filed for Ohio World
War II patients"
The next of kin or closest
friend of all physically or men,
tally incompetent Ohio veterans
were urged by the Director to
determine if applications have
been filed for these veterans.
$3.50, ,2O7, ,843.56 has been paid
to 728,675 living veterans and
30,673 next of kin of 21,713 de-
ceased Ohio veterans through the
month of April 1850.
A total of 2,027 living Ohio vet
erans of World War II now living
or stationed in 60 foreign countries
have been paid the Ohio bonus.
The largest number of payments
were forwarded to Ohio veterans
now living or stationed in Ger
many, Japan, Hawaii, Canal Zone
and Alaska, in the order named.
Through April 80, 1850, 26,658
claims have been disallowed. The
majority of these claims were dis
allowed because the applicant did
not serve 80 days between Dec
ember z, 1941 and September 2,
1945 or did not meet the residence
requirements.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16
Ohio State Centennial Fair
To Feature Armed Forces Dau

is estimated that they would even-
tually add S4 billion a year to pre-
sent Federal tax burdens.
Then there are the Presidents
proposals for expanded Social Sc
curity benefits and for National
Health Insurance system, often re-
ferred to as ''socialized medicine
Financed by payroll taxes, they
would require an estimated out
lay of S13 billion annually when
fully under way And the cost
would increase with the passing
years.
Congressional approval is being
urged for the Brannan farm SUBJ
sidy plan. Promoters of this plan
have offered no estimates of its
probable cost. A conservative es-
innate by several authorities
places it at S. or S6 billion a year.
Legislation authorizing nearly s.
billion in new public works pro-
jects has been approved by both
houses of Congress. This expendi-
ture is to be spread over period
of years. Congress also has be-
fore it more than 800 bills provid-
ing for a wide variety of new
Federal grants-in-aid to States
and local governments. If all the
programs covered in these bills
were to win approval, they would
eventually add over $6 billion a
year to the Federal spending bud
get.
Meanwhile Uncle Sam finds
himself with insufficient tax re-
venues even to balance his 1850
and 1851 budgets. Latest Budget
Bureau estimates indicate a $512
billion deficit this year and an
other of equal size next year. This,
of course, unless Congress makes
substantial cuts in appropriations
Where, then, would the Federal
Establishment obtain the addition
al taxes needed to support a To-
billion-dollar-ayear spending pro-
gram? Except for the Administ-
ration's two social welfare meas
ures which would be financed by
payroll taxes, the advocates of new
spending legislation offer no an
SWer.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16
THE MADISON COUNTY DEMOCRAT LONDON OHIO
sTREAM-LINED PROCUREMENT TO
ASSIST W0ULD-BE CONTRACTORS
ranpen1entS

chased when such arrangements
will save money.
Competition among the armed
services for aircraft production
has been eliminated by the estab-
lishment of a special Aircraft
Committee whose business it is to
assign to one service or another the
responsibility for procurement at
particular aircraft plants. This
eliminates the possibility of two
armed services bidding against
each other for the facilities of the
same airplane manufacturer. The
Committee also established stand
ards and uniform supply and
maintenance practices and pro-
ducerS.
The Aircraft Committee, furth-
er, sets up among the service,
single-service purchasing respon-
sibility for items of aeronautical
equipment. The manufacturer can
write to the various services and
obtain purchasing guides outlin-
ing the items procured by that
service, and the steps to take in
obtaining contract.
A cataloging agency is at work
combining fifteen item classifi-
cation systems into one. No long
er will a piece of aircraft equip
ment be known by one nomencla-
ture and number in the Army and
by entirely different designations
in the Air Force.
A standards agency develops
agreements among the services on
standard designs of equipment and
component parts. The aim is 10
achieve interchangeability of sup
plies and equipment, and easier
and less costly stock-piling.
Contractors will find it much
less nerve-wracking to take on
government business now that un-
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16
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ification is clipping the red tape.
! Contract clauses are being
standardized, and more attention
is being given to writing uniform
contract provisions.
Accounting for government
property, long a prime headache
among contractors, will be simp-
Ter now that all services are
calling a spade a spade and giving
it the same number.
In coordinating and combining
functions such as these, unificat-
ion is smoothing the rocky road
to defense, and making industry
part of the team.
That industry is ready, even
eager to Team for Defense" has
been made evident in plans for
the Armed Forces Day Open
House slated for Sunday, 81 May
at Wright Patterson Air Force
Base.
To date, IS local industries have
requested space for exhibits in tne
giant Armed Forces Fair"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16

Columbus-A Veterans and
Armed Forces Day will be among
the many new features and at
fractions at the 1850 Ohio State
Centennial Fair, August 26 to
September i, it was announced
today by Howard S. Foust, Dir
ector of Agriculture and the Fair.
Foust said opening day, Satur-
day, August 26 has been set as
the day to honor all Ohio war vet
Grams and Buckeye members of
armed forces.
War veteran organizations of
Ohio and armed forces officers
will cooperate with state fair
officials in the daylong program
that will feature cash prizes to
competing musical units, bands,
and drum and bugle corps of any
Ohio veterans organization, Foust
said.
Brig. General Francis Brink,
commander of the 5th military
district, and Major General Leo
NJ. Kreber, adjutant general of the
Ohio National Guard, together
with officers of the Marine Corps
and the Columbus Naval Dis
trict, will help stage the first an
nual Veterans and Armed Forces
Day during the Tooth Anniversary
State Fair, Foust said.
Four thousand dollars will be
awarded veteran organization
bands and drum and bugle corps,
Foust said. Bank competition will
receive $4,000 and drum and
bugle corps will vie for an addit-
ional $4,000.
Musical contests will start at
$3.50 a. m. and continue until a
D. m. at which time a Great Par
ade will be staged by all compet-
ing musical units as we'll as other
bands. Display units representing
the Army, Navy and Marine Corps
will join in the huge parade.
Ohio's own 37th Division band
will be in the parade.
This is the first time the Ohio
State Fair has honored. the states
war veterans and the armed SER
vices" Director Foust said. I'VE
hope that it becomes an annual
event and a big feature OF all
future fairs"
The armed forces and the Ohio
National Guard will present a
weeklong comprehensive military
display to augment the opening
day show, Foust added.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-05-16
Tuesday, May TO- 1850

We talked about the county
softball league, but decided not
to be in the league.
We also made motion that we
would work on our community
projects.
Mr.. Moore discussed all our
projects after other business was
discussed, the meeting was ad-
journed. Refreshments were serv-
ed and then we played games.
Our next meeting will be May
22nd at the home of Teddy
Meeker. 3s
Jay E. Straley.
News Reporter