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The Nome nugget., 1955-04-06
Mrs. Ray Klementsen HOnored At Shower

Friends of Mir. and Mrs. Ray Klementsen, who were recently married, gathered in the Julius MatSon home last evening for a shower party in honor of the new lyweds. Mrs. Klementsen is the former Mary Ellen Pierce and MT. KlementSen is from UnaIakieet, now employed at the US. Smelt- ing Company.
 Interesting games were enjoyed by the group under the direction of Mrs. Earl Towner and Mrs. Wallace McIver. followed by the presentation of many attractive gifts to the honored couple.
 The hoSteSseS, Mrs. MatSon and Miss Eleanor Holm, served deli cious refreshments 10 the follow ing guests:
 MT. and Mrs. Kiementsen. MT. and Mrs. Peter Adsuna, MeSdames Jim Oksoktaruk, Roald Amund~ sen, Jacob Ahwinona, Wallace McIver, Earl Towner, Kay Han- diland, Fritz Carlson,and Misses Rebecca Nuglene, Bessie Aukon. Helen Nagaruk, Marion Wilkal- kia, Ruth NerShak, Pearl Trigg, Augustine and Pauline TacktOo, Edna Aukon, Bessie Estep. Lola Ost, and Barbara Carlson.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-06
Hopes Alaska Railroad Will Make So Much $$$ Somebody Will Buy It

WASHINGTON, R - Interior Secretary Mckay said Monday he hopes the Alaska Railroad twill make so much money somebody will want to buy it.''
 Al one point, Mckay was dis cussing his belief 1t is "socialis- tic' for the government 10 operate such things as power plants for profit. A ques!ioner asked him if j. wasn't true his depar;men: was operating the Alaska Railroad at a profit.
 Mckay replied the railroad made $750,OOO profit last year and would bring in even more this year, adding he hopes lit will make so much money somebody will want to buy It."
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-06
Laws Are Sappingg g Unions Strength, Delegates Told

LONG BEACH, Calif., R TIT Delegates to the Independent In ternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union have been warned by their officers that the Brownell-Bu Law, the McCar- Walter Act, the Taft-Hartley Act and right-to-work laws all are aimed at taking away organ ized labor's right to fight.
 Unions are not receiving a frontal assault today" said the officers report to the 11th bien- nial convention yesterday. They are getting a much more subtle treatment which is less intended at moulding or reshaping them into compliant. rubber stamp or ganizations.
 Of the Brownell- Butler law, the report said its purpose is not to dissolve the union ''but 10 find the entire union guilty and to strip it of its ability to fight as it sees fit."
 The officers report, which was concurred in by president Harry Bridges in his keynote address, said the objective of the ILWU is clear. We must hang on to our refusal to let any government board, politician, judge or agency -0r any other force outside the union. determine our policies"
 Bridges, who faces a civil action in San Francisco June 20 to can- eel his citizenship, told delegates he has no plans to step down.
 Bridges is not going to retire except the hard way" said the 54-year-old union leader. If you want him out, throw him out; you have the power"
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-06
DEMOS WIN PRESIDENCY OF ST. LOUIS COUNCIL

ST. LOUIS, R Democrats grabbed the presidency of the St. Louis board of aldermen yester- day for the first time in l6 years in sweeping municipal election victory.
 Donald Gum, 46-year-old at- torney, led the Democratic land. slide by busting Republican in- cumbent Chas. Albanese from the top aldermanic spot by a margin of 2-1.
 Fourteen aldermen were also elected and leaves the Republi- cans with only five elective of- ficials in the entire city.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-06
Bill Would Raise Pay Of Territory Governors

WASHINGTON, A bill to raise the salaries of the governors of Alaska, Hawaii. Virgin Islands and the Panama Canal Zone to $22, 500 year was introduced in the House Monday by Delegate Bartlett of Alaska. They now get S15.OOO.
Evening star., 1955-07-20

timers among the Washington corre-
spondents always felt little extra pleas
ure at being addressed by their first
names when Jim Farley walked into any
gathering. There would be no disputing
the charm of Senator Margaret Chase
Smith, or the various virtues of Speaker
Rayburn and Senators George and Rus
sell Of Georgia, Symington of Missouri
and Hill Of Alabama. 1t is just too bad,
though, that in describing the attributes
OF this perfect politician" Mr.. Kefauver
did not include the quality Of persistence
that has marked his own pursuit of
criminal types-adult or iuvenile-and
presidential primary votes. Strike up
''The Tennessee Waltz" please, there's
campaign Just around the corner.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
The Perfect Politician

1t was indeed fine picture Of the
composite perfect politician" that Ten
nessee's Democratic Senator Kefauver
sketched for Picture Week magazine.
President Eisenhower's smile and Adlai
Stevenson's wit, for example, charmed
lot of voters in 1952-although the smile
seems to have won wide edge over the
word on that occasion. And President
Truman is remembered widely as the
man with the common touch"-whether
whistle stopping or letter-writing. To
attribute extraordinary mental agility"
to Senator Morse is hardly an exaggera-
tion-when one recalls his fast change
of pace from Republican to independent
to Democrat within two years. And old
Evening star., 1955-07-20
Unprecedented Limitation

The restrictions placed by the House
District Committee on a proposed pay
raise for the Superintendent of Schools
are without local precedent. The House
bill would grant the present superintend-
ent, DR.. Corning, an increase of $4,000
over his current salary of $4,000 year.
The Senate-approved teachers pay
measure would give him $4,000 a year.
The Star does not know whether the Dis
trict school superintendent should be
paid $4,000, $4,000, $4,000 or some
other figure. Presumably the bill to raise
the pay of this important Office was based
on study of comparable salaries in other
cities.
Whatever the proper figure, it should
be fixed solely on the basis of such an
objective study, not with regard to per-
Sonal considerations. The wording of the
House committees amendment of the
Senate bill indicates that the conditions
respecting college degrees inserted in the
clause affecting the superintendent's pay
were spelled out for the specific purpose
of preventing DR.. Corning from being
promoted to the $4,000 rank. The clause
provides that a superintendent without
masters degree would be entitled to
$4,000, one with masters degree $16,-
600 and one with an earned" doctorate
of philosophy $4,000. DR.. Corning has
learned" bachelor and masters degrees,
but his two doctorates are honorary, not
earned" We hope the House will elimi-
nate the unnecessary extraneous condi-
tions affecting the superintendent SAL
ary before passing the teachers pay
legislation.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
Not All Big Operators

Samuel Bauer writes that
transit workers demands are
selfish" I was burned up at
first but concluded that Mr..
Bauer must not be a family
man or else is well of finan-
cially. Can he realize the prob
lem Of raising three children,
providing a balanced diet.
meeting the usual household
expenses, providing medical
and dental care for a family
of five on $75 a week, which
is average take-home pay"
Why even Mr.. Wolfson admits
the men deserve a raise.
1t has been necessary for
me to help supplement my
husbands income for the past
five years. We cannot afford
a sitter for the children so
that we could at least 60 to
work at the same hours. Our
arrangement is for one Of us
to be at home while the other
works. We manage to get to-
gether about twice a week for
a meal without rushing off.
We have not had an evening
out together since Christmas
for relaxation simply because
we can't afford it. I make most
of our clothes to stretch our
funds, sitting up until wee
hours to get it done.
Operators Wife.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
Stretching Social Security

Almost from the time of initial en-
actment of the social security program
in the early 1930s there has been non-
partisan acceptance of the idea that the
system should be strengthened and ex-
panded in its coverage. There have, in
the years between, been legislative ac-
tions which implemented this intent
supported by Democrats and Republicans
alike.
The Democratic controlled House
has now taken another long step in this
direction-so long, in fact, that proper
question arises as to whether the legisla-
tion has been given adequate study and
consideration. In brief, the bill now
passed on to the Senate would do the
following: ~ Reduce the age eligibility
of women for social security retirement
benefits from IS to 81; (2) continue
monthly benefits for disabled children
after they reach the age of 10; (3) extend
old age and survivors insurance to an
estimated 100000 self-employed profess
sional persons; (4) provide full social
security benefits to disabled insured in
dividuals at the age of so. This legisla-
tion Of far-reaching effect was reported
out of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee after six days of closed-door
consideration, without public hearings.
1t came to the floor of the House under
40-minute limitation of debate, with
no amendments permitted. 1t was passed
there by vote of 372 to 81, but only
after House Republican Leader Martin
had expressed the hope that the Senate
would produce better and safer" bill.
The Senate Finance Committee already
has announced it would hold public
hearings on the measure, with the clear
implication that the financial obliga-
tions involved in such an extension
of the system would be given serious
consideration.
There appears to be a compelling
reason for such consideration. For ex-
ample, cost estimates on the provision
for expanding adult disability benefits
vary from 81 billion annually to twice
that amount. Actually, both figures
seem to be more guesswork than other
wise. Lowering the retirement age for
women may cost an additional 81 billion
annually. Obviously, the extension and
improvement Of coverage must cost
additional dollars, but there is point
at which increased cost-translated into
tax liability-could become so high as
to destroy any sound insurance principles
in the system. Such result would not
spell social security for any group.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
BrickIoyer's Glass House

One Of your recent corre-
Spondents, John Nichols, a
bricklayer, wanted to swap
jobs with a teacher. It's al
ways the people who know
least about a job who imagine
they can do 1t most easily.
For his information, / should
like to straighten Mr.. Nichols
out on one or two things: The
teachers four hours daily work
he mentions are more nearly
10 hours and with no such
thing as pay for overtime.
Many of these hours are put
in while Mr.. Nichols is enjoy
ing himself watching Tv or
out with his friends, perhaps
bowling. The lush three
months vacation he mentions
is more in the nature of a lay
of without pay. The rent and
food bills must still be paid
during this vacation" and,
consequently, teachers must
take various odd jobs in order
to make ends meet.
Mr.. Nichols also seems to
place the entire blame for ju-
venile misbehavior at the door
Of the teachers. But if he'were
to take over the easy" job of
teacher for awhile, he would
soon discover that children
aren't like bricks; each child is
different and all children can
answer back. 1t isn't the job OF
the teachers to give training to
children that parents should
have done long before school
Evening star., 1955-07-20
More Sensible Approach

The chief advantage of the new bill
proposed by Mr. Broyhill, aimed at set
tlement of the transit strike, is that 1t
makes use of trike-Settlement pro-
cedures already established by Congress.
It borrowS them from the old Railway
Labor Act and from the Taft-Hartley
Act of 1947. Both have been tested in
the courts, and both of them represent
the alternatives to seizure in peacetime,
and the implications of compulsory ar
bitration, that Congress has refused to
accept in the'past.
Under terms of the Broyhill bill,
which it is understood that Mr.. Mcmillan
is ready to cosponsor, the Commissioners
Gnstead of the President) would appoint
fact-finding board to obtain and re-
port to the public, with its own recon-
mendation, the positions of both sides in
the dispute and the facts which support
them. The Commissioners Gnstead of
the Attorney GeneraD would be en-
powered to seek an injunction in District
Court designed to bring about resumption
of service, pending permanent settle
ment. At the end of about five months
"a period covering the interval of con-
gressional adjournment) the injunction,
If obtained, would be dismissed-regard-
less of the ability of both sides to agree.
The bill avoids the complications in
herent in seizure. 1t offers, in our opin-
ion, more hope for permanent settlement
without getting the District government
involved in operation and ownership OF
the transit company. 1t relies on fact
finding, conciliation and mediation-the
only peacetime processes that Congress
has been willing to accept for the Nation
in its attempt to preserve labor's right
to strike and an employers right to take
strike. At the same time the bill re-
moves all doubt as to the power of the
Public Utilities Commission to go ahead
now and reach an immediate decision on
whatever fare increase it finds war;
ranted. For it confers that power, pro-
vided the company gives 10-cent wage
increase, which the company has already
agreed to do.
Mr.. Broyhill's bill was written with
the help of men experienced in utility
regulation and the labor disputes involv-
ing utilities. It is greatly to be preferred
to the seizure bill, avoiding dangers in
vited by that extraordinary measure. It
should receive prompt attention.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Life Saving Bug From Spoiled Pop
By THOMAS R. HENRY

a microscopic bug obtained
by Department Of Agriculture
chemists from a bottle of soured
root beer has become a basic
factor in production Of q sub
stance that may be q prime
life saver in any future great
national emergency.
This substance is 'fermenta-
ton gum" or dextran. q gum
like combination of sugars
which is found in minute
quantities In sugar beets and
is produced by bacteria during
the fermentation process in
wines and various other prod
uctS.
For several years it has been
advocated as the best available
substitute for blood plasma as
a blood volume expander, the
prime necessity for preventing
shock in serious wounds. Dur
ing the last war about the first
step taken when a wounded
man was brought to a first-aid
station was giving a plentiful
amount of plasma.
Substitute For Plasma
During the past few years
the Importance of dextran has
been enhanced. Results Of
field trials by the Army in
Korea, in addition to large
scale tests in military hos
pitals both in the United States
and Europe, have led the Army
to announce that it will be
used In large measure in place
Of blood plasma. The tests
indicate that it is equal to
plasma in prevention and
treatment of shock-probably
a more serious killer in all
wars than the direct effects
of wounds, per Sc. An impor-
tant advantage Of dextran is
that it does not transmit a
virus type Of jaundice, as does
plaSma in a small percentage
of cases. This jaundice be-
came q major military prob
lem. especially in Europe, dur
ing the last war. Besides, a
sufficient supply Of plasma al
ways will be difficult t9eob-
tain.
The problem has been to
manufacture enough dextran.
Supplies in nature are quite
difficult and rather costly to
extract. The substance is pro-
duced during the fermenta-
ton process by a number Of
bacteria which differ greatly
in their efficiency. For several
years the Bureau of Chem
istry's Northern Research
Laboratory has been building
up a collection of all sorts of
microscopic organisms which
bring about changes in agri-
cultural products. When need
arises q census of these or
Evening star., 1955-07-20
Russians in the Midwest

Soviet propaganda in the past has
depicted the average American farmer
as a toil-worn Serf barely managing to
exc out an existence in miserable sur
roundings imposed upon him by cruel
"capitaliStic exploitation" However,
whether or not they have ever believed
in such claptrap, the IL Russian agricul-
tural experts now touring Iowa and other
points in the Midwest are seeing with
their own eyes what they would like to
see much more of in their own country.
For what they are seeing, on both
big and little farms, is enormous pro-
ductivity and great material well-being.
And they are seeing how all this is being
achieved with less and less human labor,
and more and more machinery, and how
the regions homes-relatively spacious,
handsome, full Of comfort-creating gadg-
cts like electric refrigerators and wash
ing machines-refiect way of life as
different from their own brand of Serf-
dom as day is from night. More than
that-and this is point in which they
have expressed intense Interestingly are
being shown that private enterprise and
the profit motive are prime stimulators
of the efficiency and Incompatible vol
ume and variety Of our country'S
agricultural output
These RuSSians-whoSe earneStneSS,
geniality and friendliness seem to be
making great hit in the Midwest-can
hardly fail to be educated by things of
this sort. After all, in their own country,
with its incentive destroying collectivized
farms and state ownership, agriculture
is in comparatively bad way. The grain
situation is gravely deficient, and live
stock production is critically backward,
judged by our own standards Thus, for
example, it Is fact that the Soviet
Union, despite its tremendous increase
in population, has fewer head of cattle
today than in the time of the czardom
40 years ago. The Kremlin itself has
acknowledged this astonishing condition,
and other conditions like it will undoubt-
edly be seen by the group of American
farmers now visiting the USSR
So the Russian experts looking over
our Midwest must surely be impressed
They have come over here to observe and
learn what they can, and no American
will begrudge Russia any of the good
ideas they may take back home with
them, including new and better ideas
about our way of life and about the key
role played by private initiative and the
profit incentive in promoting efficient
and large-scale farm output Actually,
visits of this type-back and forth be-
tween the United States and the Soviet
Union-are wholesome things, and more
and more of them should be encouraged.
In their own way, by promoting mutual
understanding, they can contribute much
to the cause of world peace.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

chestra, it spends much time
working up new programs.
People will stand listening to
the same music only so many
times, then they want some
thing new. 1t is the fly in the
ointment. 7 H
It may be looked at an
other way. 1t may be regarded
as the salvation Of music, be-
cause it makes certain that
there will always be new
music. No matter how much
of a music lover one is. and
no matter how wonderful the
music he knows. and. in the
case Of records, he has in his
possession, he still grows tired
of it, and longs for the new
thing. This is the opportunity
of composers. Without this
aspect of music, the poor COM
poser would never be pub
lished and especially he would
never be played.
X \ X y
Templeton Jones solved his
problem easily, placidly and
without fuss.
He found that his records.
containing some Of the worlds
most beautiful music, were
now passe, out of date, gone.
verboten. done for.
Everybody. especially with
the newer records. sneers at
the old records. Jones found
he couldn't get even seven
cents for his.
One man said he would come
and take them away for / cent
apiece.
Another promised to take
them if given to him. Others
refused even to come.
Jones has shed tears over
some of those records.
"Ill keep them" he said.
So he built cases all around his
garage. and has filed his old
records away.
He never expects to play
any of them again, except now
and then. maybe. but he is
blamed If he is going to give
them away.
They cost too much, and are
still too good. and, anyway. he
likes 'em.
So there they stand, or
perch. whatever record albums
do, solemnly waiting for the
time for them to spring into
sound again.
Shades of Beethoven, Mo-
zart, Wagner, Sibelius. Ravel
and many another, wait pa
tiently, for they are immortal.
and know they can wait.
Evening star., 1955-07-20
On Seeing
Nv First Euwn

The tat0n tOas loUely as a song
OF long green summer in
the tuood
And though ! did not quite
belong,
/ somehow shared a brother
hood
With this brown fawn and all
pine trees,
That set my prairie days
apart
From all the mountain things
like these,
Letting me take hills to my
heart
For hauino knoiDn kinship NTH
a taDn
Which took to pine moods and
D1s gone.
AnobeI Armour
Evening star., 1955-07-20
CHALLENGES Martial Law

The Presidents defense Of
his proclamation of martial
law, reported in the Star of
July 6, makes gloomy reading.
With so cities destroyed"
in the mock alert, he declared
he had no recourse except to
take charge Immediately (by
martial law). Why?% There
would still be courts and po-
lice forces operative and addi-
tional courts could be conSti-
tuted - more police reserves
could be provided. But ap-
parently there has been no
thought or preparation to this
end. Apparently the President
is thinking of the future as
a military man. He should be-
come aware that he is now a
civilian President, sworn to
uphold and defend our Con-
stitution. He should make his
preparations in conformity
with this sacred oath.
And why would Congress be
dispersed or destroyed? Would
Congress be left to the last
moment to fend for them
selves, all transportation hav-
ing been used in the Pentagon
exodus?
He said the situation called
for immediate and forecful
action. Does immediate and
forceful action mean only one
thing to the General: martial
law? If he is right, then Amer
leans have been living for 172
years under the delusion that
they had a strong, stable and
adaptable government.
Article I, Section 8, provides
that Congress shall have pow
er to make laws for the gov
erning of the military and
naval forces of the United
States. Even if Congress
passed a law comforting on
the President the authority to
apply martial law to American
civilians, that law would be
unconstitutional. It is one
thing for troops to be used
in a temporary emergency, as
an arm of the civilian govern
ment, with all rights, such as
trial by jury, preserved; and
quite another to declare mar
tial law. In the latter case
the civilian becomes subject
to the Articles of War. The
fact that he is subjected to
the articles Illegally will be
small comfort to the man shot
on the order of a military
court.
william M. Burdette, Jr.