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Notice of Time a”d Place of Hear
isig the Petition for Tetters of
Administration with Will An
nexed.
No. 6:3
In the Predate Court In and
For the Cope Nome Precinct, Sec
erd Division: Territory of Alaska
Ir. the Matter of the Estate o
EMIL C. STROM (sometimes
Charles Strom), Deceas
is hereby given that ;
Kels Swanberg. Sr., has filed in
this Court a petition for letter-:
of administration with will an
nexed to be issued to him in thv
above entitled matter, and that
the 20 h day of June, 1041, at
the hour of 10 o'clock A. M., is
the time set for hearing said peti
tion, the place of hearing to be
the courtroom of the above nam
ed Court at Nome, Alaska. Any
person interested may contest
the petition on the grounds of in
competency of the petitioner or
assert his own right to the ad
ministration and pray that letters
be issued to him.
C. C. Tanner,
(SEAL) Probate Judge
Publish June 9, 1941.
BIG | OB—Complete of the
Mount Rushmore memorial in
Black Hills, on which Gutzon
Borglum was working at time of
death, is now in hands of his
son, Lincoln (above), 28.
Subscribe for Tbe Nome Nugge- j
Cafe Meal Prices
In Fairbanks
Zoom Upward
Fairbanksans who dine in
down-town cafes found new and
higher price quotations on menus
in most establishments.
Former meal rates, almost
standard throughout the city,
were 50 cents for lunch and $1
for dinner. In some instances
these have been boosted to 65
;ents for the midday meal and
il.25 for dinner.
Restaurant operators at large
predicted rates eventually will
find a new “standar dlevel” at ap
proximately 30 percent over
which prevailed until a few
weeks ago.
The boost in food prices was
i3id to the signing of an agree
ment with local union members
■ailing for increased wages coupl
ed with a general rise in com
modity prices quoted as from 12
,o 13 percent.
Two eating establishments
closed after operators refused to
eel the demands of the Hotel
and Restaurant Employee's Inter
national Alliance and Bartenders'
nlernational League of Ameri
ca, Local 879, were still inoperat
.ve a. d propr.etors have given
no indication they plan to re
sume business on the AFL terms.
These were Gerald's and the Ti
voli Cafe.
2 Restaurants
Close After
Strike Vote
Doors of two Fairbanks restau
rants were close after 30 employ
ees of the establishment walked
out on strike.
The strike was said to be due
‘o failure among operators and
members of a local AFL union to
concur on terms set forth in an
agreement drawn up by the Ho
tel and Restaurant Employees’ In
ternational League of America,
Local 879.
Seven other meal-serving es
tablishments reportedly signed
the agreement.
■Closed were Gerald’s and Tiv
oli Cafe. Restaurants whose op
erators were said to have signed
the agreement were the Model i
Cafe, Co-op Fountain Lunch,
Chena Grill, Husky Grill, Midget
Cafe, Green Apple Pie Cafe, and
the Wagon Wheel.
Principal points in the agree
ment placed before the operators
called for recognition of Local
879, increased wage scales in sev
eral departments, and reduction
of working hours.
I
The Washington
News-Letter
Mary Lee Council,
Secretary to the Delegate
The Interior Department Ap
propriation bill for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1942, came be
fore the House of Representativ
es for general dhcussion and de
bate on April 30. Delegate Di
mend spoke at some length on A1
aska problems in connection with
his appropriation bill. The Terri
tory’ was denied $50,000 in the
estimates for new road construc
tion for the reason that the Com
mittee was not given definite in
form a lion as to where it was pro
p-'sed to construct this road. Mr.
Dimond spoke as follows on the
subject of road construction as the
major economic need of the Terri
tory:
“. . . It cannot be repeated too
often that in Alaska roads are
our first economic need. Without;
roads we can accomplish little.
With roads we can achieve the
full measure of our possibilities.
It is of no avail to have millions
of acres of first-class farming
land in Alaska—which we have—
unless the settlers on such lands
can be supplied with roads. I
have in mind especially an area
nearly 100 miles long and from
10 to 20 miles wide lying on the
shores of Cook Inlet, on the west
side of Kenai Peninsula, where
the soil is fertile, the climate'
mild, with ample rainfall, suit
able in every respect for agricul- :
ture, and yet it is of no present
use to us because settlers in that
area are virtually locked up in a
prison because there is no road
leading into the region or thru
it or across it to connect the po
tential farms with each other,
and with the settlements and cit
ies in that part of Alaska in
which sale could be found for
the produce of the farms.
“The Department of Agricul
ture reports that there are 750,000
acres and upward of excellent ag
ricultural land in the Forty Mile j
country, but it is safe to say that
not 100 acres of it are under cul
1 tivation because of lack of roads.
At the present time this excel
lent land might just as well be in
Africa or South America, so far
as Alaska is concerned. A road
to connect the Forty Mile with
Fairbanks would make it all
available for settlement and cul
tivation.
“It is not alone in the potential
farming areas of Alaska that
roads are needed, but also the
mineral lands of Alaska so that
they may be adequately develop
ed and operated, and thus add to
the wealth of the Nation. Two
men, Alaskans, Carl Whitham
and Asa Baldwin, sturdy pioneers |
journeyed to Washington last
year to appear before the Sub
committee on Appropriations I
considering the Interior bill to ,
point out the pressing need of
converting into a highway the ;
now-abandoned railroad between
Chitina and McCarthy, Alaska, :
and the construction of a bridge '■
to span the Chitina River near
McCarthy. The whole job could
probably be done for $300,000.
Such a road would adequately
take the place of the railroad by
which the McCarthy mineral
bearing area, including the Niz
Big Blaze Rages
For One Hour
At Ketchikan
KETCHIKAN, June 4 — Fire
of a mysterious origin gutted the
Ala-1.a Steamship Company ware
nouse ar.d stores on the street
side of the same building.
The Walker Drug Company,
Hunt's Book Store, Charles In
surance Agencies and Kubley's
Liquor S ores and Beer Parlo;
have all been wrecked along with
the steamship company's office
in the same building, and three
apartments upstairs.
The fire spread so swiftly, star,
ing after 10 o’clopk that the apar.
ment tenants had to be taken out
by ladders.
Dr. Norman R. Walker lost all
prescription files and was able to
get only his cash register after
.he fire was brought under con
trol, which about about an hour
after it started.
Smoke damaged the stock of
the adjoining Ryus Drug Com
pany.
Two Coast Guard boats joined
the Ketchikan Fire Boats and De
part ment in fighting the flames.
The loss is estimated unofficial
ly at $75,000.
Although guards have been
pat: 1 ling the waterfront, appar
ently to guard against sabotage,
there is no official inclination to
credit saboteurs with starting the
blaze even though the origin is
uncertain.
Jesse Jones, Secretary of Com
merc : “No motter how fast de
fense production climbs, it will
not be fast enough to meet the
needs or to satisfy our state of
mind.”
Thr‘ unique and numorou*
and typical Alaskan stationery
"Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have beei
orought strictly uptodate, and ar
row available at the Nugget oth
se.
ina gold-producing country, was
formerly supplied. There is im
mediate need for construction of
the road and bridge mentioned.
This is only one example, Many
others could be cited.
“May I repeat that roads are
the outstanding and prime im
mediate economic need for the
development of Alaska, a com
plete road system extending from
the now-existing roads in the
Dominion of Canada into Alaska,
tiiere to connect with such roads
as we now have in the Territory,
and the extension of the Terri
torial roads into a completely in
tegrated highway system to fur
nish access to the pripcipal min
eral and agricultural regions of
the Territory.
"With such a system of roads
connecting the United States
with Alaska and extending to
those parts of Alaska which con
tain the greatest natural resourc
es of soil and minerals, there
would be, I am confident, a con
stant procession of our sturdy cit
izens from the States to Alaska
similar in type to the great mi
gration which settled the land be
yond the Alleghenies, and then
the Great Plains, and finally the
Pacific Coast.”
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Continued fair tonight and Tues day with a slight increase in
cloudiness Tuesday night. Little change in temperature.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 66 Lowest te mp — 41 Precipitation — 0
Total pireoip this month — 0 Total since Jan. 1, 1941 — 1.80
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight____ 48 71 E 5 Pt Cldy
gam___ _ . 52 69 S3 Clear
12:30 p m____ - 52 71 SW 7 Clear
Tomorrow: Sunrise 1:27 a. m. Sunset 10:38 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 72 Lowest te mp — 56 Precipitation — 0