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The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30
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Mt. Edgacumbs Hospital Mt. KdgSeumbs, Alaska
 March 26, 1851
Dear Girl Scouts:

Dear Girl Scouts:
 We received your wonderful box of Easter baskets, eolorsd eggs and the darling chi ies to put on the baskets.
 The children had a very nice Easter as they had colorsd eggs for Saturday and Sunday breakfast. We had let the school children color eggs, also. This was the first time any of them had ever done this type of thing and it was fun. We were glad to have the eggs which you sent Us as the kiddies love the CO., lored ones and this gave them an extra nice treat They loved the little chicks.
 The cooks had made cakes for each and these were decorated with pretty frosting and candies. Then they had baskets with candies.
 It was so very thoughtful of you girls to do all of that work and make our little cripplss so very
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30

happy.
 I hope that all of you had happy Easter and that you continue in the fine work of the girl scouts. We all thank you for your kind ness and help for the Easter seq son here at the hospital.
 Sincerely yours,
 Mrs. Kate Robertsop
 # #
 The above letter is self-explana- tory and was received as a result of the work of the local girls in making Easter baskets for the Edgeeumbs children.
 a
 Mrs. Frank Webb, girl scout leader, has announced the next scout meeting for Monday. April 30, D. m.. at the city hall. Scouts are requested to bring money for cards and wrapping paper and also back dues. Registration of the troop is in April.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30
Others Veto,

Among the other bills vetoed
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30
OPS REGULATIONS ALLOW
 ALASKANs DOLLAR, CENTS
 MAKEUP; STATES ON PERCENT

JUNEAU---Copies of the ceiling price regulations are being mailed this week to all affected business establishments in Alaska, it was an .nounced today by Fred G. Hanford, Territorial Director of the Office of Price Stabilization.
 Although all sellers of both com modities and services are covered under the act. the main effort at present will be aimed at explain ing the regulation to sellers of re- tail items, Hanford said. Retailers, and wholesalers of items not manu- factured in the territory, are coy cred specifically under Regulation g, which is explained step-by-step in the material being sent out.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30
NOTICE

House deliveries on milk. cream. and buttermilk Mon day, Wednesday. Friday, and Saturday
 Store deliveries daily. All customers please return empty milk bottles to store or truck for refund. Bottles are urgently needed.
 N0RE'S DAIRY
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30
ACCA Meeting Tuesday

The next regular meeting of the iWrangell ACCA chapter will be on Tuesday evening, April 8, at the home of Mrs. H. B. Thornquist. All members and those interested in joining are urged to attend.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
 The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for rspuDl- cation of all the local news printed In thia newspaper, as well as all EP neWG dispatches.
 Entered in the Post office at Wran gsll Alaska, as second class mat ter under Act sf Congress of Mar. 3, 1878.
 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year in advance by carrier or mail. SS.50. per espy, ten cents. AdVtrtising rates and Job printing prices on application.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-03-30
Dollar, Cents Markup

Regulation has been drawn up especially for territories and allows for transportation differentials. AL so, it places retailers on a dollar and-cent markup freeze rather than a percentage freeze such as applies to the states
 The first of a series of public meetings for the purpose of sx- blaming the ceiling price regula- tion directly to business men was held in Juneau last night Other meetings will be held in the major cities of Alaska as soon as feasible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-24

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Try wonderful new cufex lotion Polish Remover
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-24

take "Good work. grunted MIR. Carnegie, but
from on, please be CAREFUL
A CONSERVATIVE Boston banker. apprehensive of the
mounting national deficit broke his traditional long
enough to tell reporters How unfortunate that future
generations be here this the grandose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-24

projects we are launching
with their money" The same
gentleman has evolved a Dip
lomatic formula for remind
ing socialite depositors that
they have overdrawn their
accounts: =
"Madam: AS of May first,
may we inform you that
You no longer are banking
with us; we are banking
with you.'
If RECENT gyrations of oil,
airplane or television securi-
ties have fired you with the
notion of playing the stock
market for the first time,
pause long enough to con-
slider the advice of Bernard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-24

Baruch who has made millions in his day in Wall Street
IF you ready and able to give up everything else
Mr. Baruch, land will study the market and every
stock listed there carefully medical student studies
anatomy and will glue your the ticker tape the
opening of every day of the year and take it off till
night if you do all that and in addition have the cool
great gambler the sixth of carvoyant and
the courage of lion you have Chinamans chancer
Mr. Barch talking about speculation of not bona
fde investment.
THE LAST STRAW. MIR Baruch the guestof honor
and the principal speaker at Thanksgiving banquet
some years ago, a which the late Jimmy Walker,
time New York mayor and author of countless wise
cracks, the POSTMASTER. Walker concluded his
Introductory remarks by observing. ''You have all
been giving your attention to turkey stuffed with
sage. Now have the honor of presenting to you
sage stuffed with turkey"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Asks Full Pay For Workers
During Conversion Ldyoffs

Detroit (LPA)-Walter P. Reu-
ther, president of United Auto
Workers, has proposed that work
ers laid off because of the shift to
defense production receive unem-
ployment benefits equal to their
full pay.
In letter to President Truman,
Reuther urged the chief executive
to push for legislation to provide
extra jobless pay, which added to
regular unemployment benefits,
would come to the regular wages
for a 40-hour week.
Congress has provided subsidies
for industry for new plants and
machinery and liberal tax rebates
guarantee corporation profits dur
ing periods of conversion from civ
ilian to defense production" he
pointed out. workers and their
families, who have little reserves
to carry them through extended
periods of unemployment, are en-
titled to federal aid when they are
laid off as result of government
mobilization orders"
Government orders curtailing the
civilian use of aluminium and cop
per, along with the shortage of
steel, have already caused wide
spread unemployment in the auto
mobile and automobile parts in
dustries because defense work is
not available to take up the slack.
Reuther said. He urged that steps
be taken to accelerate defense work
and that contracts be placed to CO.
ordinate with curtailment of civil
ian production.
Helping workers and their fam
lilies during the conversion must be
considered "a normal part of the
cost of our national mobilization
program" Reuther declared.
Failure to do so, "will force
workers to leave their communities
in search of work in other COM
munities, which in turn will cause
dislocation in the trained labor
force, dissipate skills, and further
intensity the housing, transporta-
tion and school shortages, and
overtax other community facil-
ities," he said.
Reuther said that during World
War III, more than 15 million civil
ian moved from one community to
another between 1941 and 1914. In
the long rum" he commented, "as-
sistance to workers during the con-
version period will effectuate a
real saving for it will insure that
such workers will be available I'M
the major industrial areas when
they are needed on defense produc-
tion."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
NTEA Tries To Back
Tax Dodge By Donor

Omaha, Neb. (LPA)-The Ma
tional Tax Equality Association, a
big business front, claims its pur-
pose in life is to promote tax
equality and justice" But it rallied
to the defense of firm here that
tried to dodge a tax.
The Roberts Dairy Co. gave
NTEA $3.50 in 1943, and tried to
deduct it for income tax purposes
as an ordinary and necessary ex-
pense. The Tax Court denied the
claim, ruling that a substantial
part Of the activities of NTEA is,
and in 1943 was, carrying on pro-
paganda and otherwise attempting
to influence legislation. The court
also ruled that NTEA is not and
was not in 1943 a corporation en-
gagged and operated exclusively for
scientific or educational purposes,
and thus exempt under the federal
Income tax.
Vernon Scott, chief executive of
NTEA, testified that to his know
ledge NTEA did not "ever urge
anybody to write their congress
men about anything" Evidently he
never reads the literature mailed
out by NTEA, according to James
Harmanson, legal adviser for the
National Council Of Farmer CO.
operatives. Chief aim of the NTEA
is to get legislation to tax coop
eratives.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Wire Company Ordered To Rehire
Fifty Fired After Spying

Nashville, Tenn. LPA) - The
Nashville Display Co. here has
been ordered to reinstate with back
pay so workers fired during an or
ganizing drive by the United Steel
workers.
The company, which makes wire
merchandising displays, fired the
workers after C. B. Rollins, Jr., son
of the owner, spied on a union
meeting from a building across the
street from the union hall.
Claims by the company that the
discharges were made because of
a shortage Of material were dis
puted by union members who in
ventoried raw stock after getting
their notices and found at least a
weeks supply on hand. National
Labor Relations Board Trial EX-
aminer Eugent +. Dixon also order
ed the company to stop interfering
with the unionization drive.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
AT&T, Too Poor
To Give Raises,
Faces Rate Quiz

Washington (LPA)-The Amer
ican Telephone & Telegraph Co.
(Bell System) ran newspaper ads
early in 1850 crying it could not
afford any pay raises. In January
1851 its earnings for 1850 were
made public. They were the highest
in the 65-year history of the Bell
System.
And now the Federal Commun-
ications Commission has announ-
ced, on the basis of the profit fig
lures, that the company's rates
"may be so high as to be unjust
and unreasonable and unduly bur
densome on the public" "
Therefore the FEC has ordered
AT&T to show cause by March %
why the FEC shouldn't order long
distance rates reduced while the
FEC investigates further. Initial
hearings will be held April 16
The reaction of H. T. Killings
worth, vice president in charge of
long lines, was that 'long line rates
have been inadequate over a long
period of time" Then he said it
was "a pity" that so many AT&T
officials would have to give time
to answering the FEC order "when
the time could far better be devot-
ed to the defense effort in which
communications play such an i'm
portant part"
During 1850 regulatory agencies
in 81 states granted Bell System
companies $9O,O16,0OO in rate in
creases. Now pending are 20 re-
quests for rate increases in 28
states.
FEC found that Bell System
earnings for the long lines division,
after all taxes, was sos percent
in 1949 and 1882 percent in 1850,
and that earnings are still rising.
(AT&T will not be hit by the ex-
cess profits tax recently passed, as
that was one of the loopholes stuck
into the law. In fact, the AT&T
own report said taxes will be in
creased only somewhat further
due principally to the higher corp
oration surtax law.~
The handling of the story by the
daily press is interesting. The
Washington Post, NY Times and
NY Herald Tribune all used the
same AP story. The Posts story
was on Page 13, second section;
the Tribune's on page 9; the1
Times, on page l.
The Times quoted the FEC sent
ence that "the rates :. may be sol
high as to be unjust and unreason-
able and unduly burdensome on the
public" SO did the Post. But the|
Herald Tribune left that out. The
Wall st. Journal, using the story
of its own correspondent, used the|
unjust and unreasonable" quote.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Fruit Pickers
Strike Florida
Citrus Belt

Tampa, Florida (LPA)-The en-
tire citrus industry is feeling the
effect Of unorganized work stop
page that started with 125 pickers
here and has spread out the Flor
ida orange belt.
On Jan. 2, 125 grove workers
quit their jobs. By Jan. II, 5000
more had joined them to enforce
demands throughout the "ridge
section" for higher wages and
union recognition.
Though some growers said they
would be willing to pay more, none
would agree to a written contract,
union or otherwise. The stoppage
was still spreading, with the pos
sibility Of crippling the entire pack
ing, canning and concentrate in
dustry. A few canning companies
had already laid off workers be-
cause of the fruit shortage.
No change has been made since
1941 in the rate of 10 cents a box
for picking oranges and 30c box
for tangerines. The workers are|
asking for a hike of five cents al
box on all fruit picked. For the
last three weeks they worked they
averaged $50 week.
Noel Hunley, district business
of the United Chem
ical WoSkers-AFL, and Marion
Wiggs, president of the Polk Coun-
ty Central Labor Union, have beenl
acting as spokesmen for the work
ers.
Mass meetings have been held at
Winter Haven, Lakeland, Florence
Villa, Avon Park and Haines City.
The rallying cry is Don't Pick
Fruit" Picket lines have been set
up and the men are determined toI
stay out until their terms are met.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Glass Blowers
Win Big Victory

Philadelphia (ILNS) An import
ant organizing victory was won by
the Glass Bottle Blowers Associa-
tion (AFL) when a majority of
2150 workers at the Owens-Corn-
ing Fiberglass plant in Newark,
Ohio, voted to affiliate with the
union. The vote was 1176 for the
Glass Bottle Blowers Union, SIS no
union, 81 for the American Flint
Glass Workers (AFL) and 20 chal-
lenged or void.
Lee w. Minton, president of the
Glass Bottle Blowers Association,
pointed out that there had been 6
elections at this plant in the last
few years following organizing
drives of other AFL and CIO
unions. In all previous elections a
majority of the workers voted for
no union. The Glass Bottle Blowers
had planned this campaign care
fully, harinS had organizer Her
man McGee working in Newark
since May, 1850.
The union plans to open nego-
tiations for improved wages and
working conditions at Owens-Corn-
ing. Plans are also under way for
an immediate union shop election
prior to negotiations as employers
are not permitted to grant a union
shop under the Taft Hartley Act
unless the workers vote for it in
a special election.
Workers at other large glass,
plants under contract with the
union received wage increases
from 1112 cents to IS cents
an hour during 1850. The winning
of this election brings into the|
Glass Bottle Blowers Association
the great majority of the workers.
in the glass fibre industry through
out the nation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Production Cut
To Ruise Prices

Washington (LPA)-A group of
manufacturers of twine and cord
age products not only consplred to
fix prices, but also curtailed out
put to create scarcity to raise
prices, the Federal Trade Commlss-
ion has charged.
In two complaints, the FTC ac-
cused nine manufacturers Of tWine
products and seven manufacturers
of cordage products. These two
groups, said FTC, have fixed and
maintained prices; cut the work
hours in their plants to curtail pro-
duction as part of a conspiracy to
create a scarcity so as to further
facilitate the fixing, raising, peg
ging and stabilizing of prices.
Involved are makers of cotton
wrapping twines, sewing twines,
polished twines, tobacco tWines,
pea twines, bean twines, hopI
twines, hose cords, cotton sash
cords, awning cords and clothesl
lines in North Carolina, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Maryland, Texas, Mass
achusetts, Alabama and Pennsy-
lvania.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25

unnecessary, Murray told the Gel
Ter committee. Aluminium capacity
should be increased by a million
tons, according to current esti-
mates, or more than double the pre-
sent capacity of $4,000 tons. Of
the extra million tons, about 500,-
600 already have been allocated to
existing and new producers, Muir
ray said, and at least six separate
aluminium makers will emerge in
Guiding the present big three
(Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser). AT
the same time, the same firms plus
others are ready to provide the re-
manning 100000 tons "as soon as
the government is ready to process
the necessary papers"
In addition, the Department Of
the Interior insists that adequate
sources of electric power can be
made available within the bound
aries of the United States to pro-
duce this additional aluminium,
Murray declared. Furthermore, |
am reliably informed that if the
government proceeds without delay
to let orders for the purchase OF
this additional quantity of alum
mum, it can be obtained quicker
here than in Canada"
The Senator didn't go into the
details of the relationship between
Alcoa and Alcan. Recently, after
Ia years of litigation, federal
judge okayed a plan allegedly cut
ting monopolistic ties between the
two, but whether the end will be
accomplished is another matter.
Under the plan, some of the chief
dual stockholders agreed to dis
pose of the Canadian shares-over
a 10-year period.
Among the past mistakes of
which the Senator reminded the
House Committee were the follow
ing:
During World War Ill, the US
bought 1.3 billion pounds of alum
mum from Alcan at three cents
above the market price, providing
the Canadian firm with a vast
bonanza.
Alcan's World War II expansion
consumed so much steel and cleo
trical equipment from this country
that our hydroelectric development
was seriously delayed. (Alcan's
British Columbia project would
have the same effect, Murray point
ed out.)
The government sold it's post
war aluminium stockpile to the big
three producers but failed to en-
courage development of new capa-
city. And during the war, a number
of government plants were so locat-
ed that they couldn't compete eff
fectively with the rest of the in
dustry after the war.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Port OF Philadelphia Reopened
After ILA Ends Two Strikes

Philadelphia (LPA)-A five-day
tie-up at the important port of
Philadelphia was ended when $500
members of the IntI Longshore-
men Assn -AFL returned to work.
Tugboat workers, affiliated with
liza, struck the port in a dispute
over wages. Within "a hours, they
had reached a settlement for a one
year contract including a 15-cent
raise and other benefits.
Before the tug men could go
back, however, another ILA group,
the ship cleaners, had set up a
picket line in a dispute of their
own. The cleaners have won an
agreement providing a greater
share of the work than they were
getting.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Reporter Quits To
Maintain Dignity
OF His Craft

Boston (LPA) - Lawrence G
Weiss, one of the East Coasts best
labor reporters, has been fired by
the Herald Traveller for refusing
to operate a teletype to send edit
ed stories from his city room to
the newspapers radio station.
Larry, former Neiman fellow,
insisted it was reporters job to
gather, edit, or write" news and
not to rob a telegrapher of job
by sending news to others than his
own newspaper.
The Herald Traveller refused to
give severance pay and the Boston
Newspaper Guild is suing for
breach of contract. 1t is the locals
second such severance pay suit in
Ia months. John G. O'Brien was
discharged by the same newspaper
after 13 years. service.
Weiss, in letter to fellow work
ers, said publishers are attempting
to turn the reporter into a jack-
of-all-trades who can be counted
upon to do odd jobs around the
plant whenever the need arises"
Somewhere along the line"
Weiss wrote, someone must stand
up for the dignity of the reporting
ing craft" He warned that unless
the individual reporters dignity is
the dignity of the news
paper for which he works will suf-
fer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Worms Against Repeating World
War II Errors On Aluminium

Washington UPA)-One of the
key materials in the defense pro-
y \gram is aluminium, the "white
|metal" military and transport air.
planes are made of.
But aluminium is subject to near
monopoly private control, observers
have long pointed out. And if we
don't want to strengthen the mon
opoly grip at colossal cost to Am
erican taxpayers we'd better be
careful how we plan aluminium pro-
duction for defense this time, Sen.
James E. Murray Cd, Mont.) told
the House Committee on the Study
of Monopoly Power, Jan. 22. Ger
tainly, he said, we should avoid the
pitfalls we've tumbled into in the
past.
Murray was first of long line
of witnesses scheduled to appear
before the committee. 1t is study
ing the proposed expansion of
aluminium production capacity and
wants to know what the impact will
be on monopoly situations.
Sen. Murray was especially con-
cerned lest the US government
enter into a new agreement with
the Aluminium Company of Canada
(Alcan), which he said was con-
trolled by the same people who
controlled the Aluminium Company
of America (Alcoa), top dog in the
US aluminium industry.
He said Alcan wants to sell the
US billion pounds of aluminium at
current prices, making a small de-
livery in 1858 and upping the de-
: klivery rate in 1854 and 1866. Since
hoo percent of Alcan's present out
(put is earmarked for Britain and
elsewhere, the company would have
to create new capacity including a
vast electric power development to
meet the order, the Montana liberal
added.
Alcan's plans call for building a
city on the coast of British Colum-
bia just below the Alaska line. The
huge amount of power required
would be obtained by diverting the
waters of the Nechako- Nanika
river system through tunnels under
the Rocky Mountains. Bauxite, the
ore from which aluminium is made,
would be brought by ship from Bri-
tish Guiana.
Alcan thinks all this would take
an investment of upwards of $500
million, according to Murray, but
he feels it would cost lot more.
Meanwhile, he says Alcan officials
are hanging around Washington
trying to raise money by selling
some aluminium to the US now.
Moreover, he insists, number OF
top men in the US defense pro-
gram are encouraging them. Under
questioning he mentioned Secretary.
of Commerce Charles Sawyer and
William H. Harrison, head of the
Defense Production Administration,
both commonly tagged big busl-
ness spokesman.
Main trouble with the Alcan Bri-
tish Columbia project is that it's
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Communist Sheet
Seeks Subscribers

New York (LPA) - The Daily
Worker, voice of American Com
munists, has appealed to readers
in a Page l editorial to round up
new subscribers because ''the cir
culation of our paper is dangerous
ly low"
Blaming the drop on Systematic
persecution of the paper and its
readers" the newspaper says the
decline also is due to "the neglect
of the papers readers and friends
to fight for retention of circula-
ton"
1t claims less than $4,000 daily
and $4,000 on Sunday,
with $4,000 subscriptions expiring
within the next few months. "The
existence of the paper" says the
Worker, "is definitely menaced," !"
adding that 1--WE do not intend to be
Recently the Newsdealers' Assn
of NY, representing 500 of the
city's 1900 newsdealers, voted to-
ban the Worker from its stands.