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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1945T
ENCORE, ENCORE,
MR. ICKES.
It’s mighty disconcert
ing when fighting a battle
against a terrible enemy to
find another enemy stand
ing at your side augment
ing your efforts.
That apparently was the
situation recently in Con
gress when Bob Bartlett,
Alaska’s delegate, fought
against a proposal to trans
fer the territory from the
interior to the navy de
partment.
Bartlett must have felt
the urge to protect his
flank as he launched the
attack on the measure be
cause there was Harold
Ickes standing at his side.
Disconcerting is no word
for it.
May we take this oppor
tunity of publicly thanking
the undersecretary of the
interior for helping our
delegate stand off the
enemy. And may we ex
press hope that the day
will come again, when we
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Third Thursdays
Each Month
LUTHER DUNBAR, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
NOME LODGE
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GUST CARLSON, N. G.
ROBERT BALDWIN, Sec.
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
O. D COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House la Opposite Us
Phone Main 49
find Mr. Ickes once more
representing the best in
terests and welfare of
Alaska. We always go for
the unusual. — (Anchor
age Times).,
MORE BUNDLES
FOR CONGRESS
The proposal by Repre
sentative Vinson to in
crease the pay of members
of Congress by $5,000 an
nually and that of the
President of the United
States by $25,000 annually
ds unworthy of serious
consideration.
The congress should
have a sufficient sense of
duty—and sufficient mem
ories—to deny it serious
consideration.
Few members' now in
Congress who were mem
bers when the infamous
“pensions for congress
men” measure was passed
a few years ago, and the
subsequent “bundles for
Congress” campaign devel
oped, have forgotten that
experience.
It will prove to have
been a very pleasant ex- j
perience, by comparison
with public reaction to the
congressional and presi
dential pay increase plan
now proposed.
By Congress’ own act,
the wages of most of the
American people have
been frozen, not merely
at levels far below; the pay
of congressmen but at
levels in many cases tak
ing little or no account of
the rising costs of wartime
living.
And out of their frozen
wages the people are pay
ing the highest taxes in!
history, buying War Bonds
and supporting many wor
thy humanitarian enter-!
prises always demanding
their attention.
The American people
are complacent about
many of the shortcomings
of congress and even some
of its derelictions, but they
are not in a temper to let
Congress go to the head of
the line in the matter of
higher, pay.
When that line forms,
Americans with the best
case for higher pay should
come first—and Congress
is nearer the tail than the
head of that list.—(Seattle
Post-Intelligencer).
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Housing Agency was re
ported iin our last issue as
including Nome in his itin
erary. He is on a project of
surveying the housing
needs of the various im
portant towns of the Ter
ritory.
It was learned yester
day that Mr. C. W. Coplen
has decided not to come to
Nome, although he was
sent a special communica
tion from the Chamber of
Commerce urging him to
be sure to come.
This is to be regretted,
since Mr. Coplen came as
far as Fairbanks. Housing
is probably the most out
standing need of this com
munity today. Without
some relief in this direc
tion there is little hope of
further development as
people must have homes
and ordinary comforts in
order to carry on.
Many families of work
ing men have been unable
to make Nome their home
as there is no place to live
and no material with
which to build a home.
It is regrettable that
the planned survey will
not be completed.
"Around the World Newt In
Pictures" appears regularly In
The Nugget.
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PROSPECTING
FAVORED BY
ALASKA HEDS
Over a period of year the Ter
ritorial Department of Mines has
received numerous requests for
information on prospecting in
Alaska from persons unfamiliar
with conditions that would be
met in carrying on a search for
mineral deposits in the Territory.
The object of this series of ar
ticles is to answer as briefly and
completely as possible the ques
tions common to such inquiries.
Prospecting is essential to the
continued welfare and growth of
the mining industry of Alaska.
Efforts of the personnel of the
Geological Survey assigned to
work in Alaska are devoted prin- j
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cipally to recognizing and map
ping the general geology of an
area rather than the location of
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specific commercial mineral de
posits. Engineers, whether they
be governmental, Territorial or
private, examine known mineral
occurrences and do not search for
new ones, although they may at
tempt to locate extensions of
known bodies. The burden of lo
cating entirely new deposits
therefore falls upon the prospect
or. Prospecting is alluring to the
type of individual who loves the
rugged life of the open and the
gamble at long odds for possible
high stakes. There are instances
where the discovery of one com
mercial mineral deposcit has re- *
suited in its owner becoming fi
nancially independent for life.
A person who is unwilling to ac
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