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Two Eskimos With Airborne Infantry
Have The Hottest Jobs In Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon, UR — They
are the unhappiest men in Leba
non—two Eskimos.
There isn’t an igloo in thou
sands of miles and the sun blazes
a trail of tropical temperatures
across the hot sands here. The
two unlikeliest visitors in the
world sat in a scorching sun.
“Mr. Chamoun can take back
his invitation because I’ve had
enough,” said Pfc. Elmer See
tomona, 23, of Nome, Alaska.
“Mister, I’m sweating right out
of my skin.”
His buddy, Pvt. Richard Jones,
23, Wrangell, Alaska, quipped:
“They always tell the joke
about selling ice boxes to Eskimos.
Well, I’m ready to buy one right
here on the spot. I’ve lost 17
pounds in a week and my pants
are getting bigger every day.”
“Charley Company” of the
187th Infantry Airborne Division
sings the two Alaskans to sleep
every night. The words:
“I hate to see that evenin’ sun
go down.”
Up and down the Army grape
vine is passing:
“We got two Eskimos up here.
.You want to see the saddest
sacks in Lebanon. Come up and
see them about noon.
The Eskimos kept repeating:
“Just 288 more days in the
Army. Just 288—and we are
heading for the cool country—the
biggest state in the union and it
ain’t Texas.”
The two are praying for rain
like Arabs in the hills. Every
night the company gets together
and the two Eskimos peel off
their clothes and steal down to
the sea for a swim. They report
again in the morning.
“Mister,” Elmer said, “there
isn’t ever going to be another
Eskimo join the Army when we
get home.”
“They make tailors into truck
drivers. The Army even makqs
mechanics into bakers. But no
body ever sent an Eskimo to the
Middle East. This is one deal
the Army never imagined in all
its advertising.”
Elmer is a gold-miner and
Richard, a teacher at a govern
ment school.
What are their jobs in Lebanon?
The hottest job in the place—
carrying ammunition. Two Es
kimos hauling ammunition in the
Middle East—the hottest jobs in
the world.
Robert Dev
Returns to Nome
After 59 Years
Robert Dey, accountant and
auditor of Salinas, Calif, is visit
ing Nome after an absence of 59
years. Dey, who is in his eighties
and doesn’t look it, left San Fran
cisco in April 1898 and landed in
Kotzebue Sound on August 3rd
sailing on the Bark Alaska.
Lindbloom, one of the discovers
of gold here, was a member of
the crew.
The goldhunters stopped at St.
Lawrence where they built the
John Riley.
Dey recalls the Northern Sa
loon here with its famous Tex
Rickard and also another saloon
featuring the now famous Wyatt
Earp.
Dey recalls while visiting at
Kotzebue Carl von Knobeldorf
volunteered to take out mail for
a dollar a letter to reach the
States the following summer.
When he returned to Kotzebue
he brought word of the gold
strike in Nome.
Mr. Dey found one person in
Nome he knew back in 1898,
Frank Martin who was a prize
fighter at that time and they had
a wonderful visit, recalling old
adventures and friends. He also
met with Mrs. M. J. Walsh who
came to Nome the same year.
“We ate our dogs to survive
the trip overland across Seward
Peninsula that spring. When we
reached Galovin, Mollie Dexter
gave us flour, sugar and other
necessities.”
Also living in Salinas is E. L.
Black, well known bard of the
early days.
Senate Passes Bill
Extending Alaska Law
To Indian Reservations
WASHINGTON, OP) — The Sen
ate Monday passed and sent to
the White House a bill extending
Alaska law to Indian resrvations
within the territory.
California To Gain
7 Seats In Congress
After 1960 Census
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
Census Bureau said today Cali
fornia may gain seven seats in
Congress after the 1960 census—
more than twice as many as any
other state.
Projecting expected shifts in
population, the bureau said nine
states are likely to get bigger
delegations and 14 probably will
lose seats as a result of the re
apportionment which will be
made after the 1960 head count.
In most cases that will involve
redrawing district lines. Some
times, however, an extra con
gressman is elected from the
state at large.
All the changes will be in the
House of Representatives which
has a permanent legal member
ship of 435. Each state by law
has two senators, regardless of
population.
The projection indicated Cali
fornia’s House delegation will
increase to 37 members from the
present 30.
Major losers probably will be
New York and Pennsylvania.
The bureau said they are likely
to lose three seats each. Arkansas
and Massachusetts would each
lose two seats.
The census figures indicated
a gain of three seats for Florida
and two each for Michigan and
Texas. They showed probable
gains of single seats for Arizona,
Indiana, Maryland, Ohio and
Oregon.
In addition, Alaska will have
one House member when it for
mally becomes a state. This
was taken into account in the
projection. However, the census
statisticians made ho allowance
for the possibility that Hawaii
also may become a state by the
time House seats are reappor
tioned.
The bureau said losses of one
seat are in prospect for each of
the following states: Alabama
Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Maine, - Minnesota, Mississippi,
North Carolina and West Virginia.
Plan Cornerstone
Laying Ceremony
| At Federal Bldg.
A brief ceremony has been
planned for the laying of the
cornerstone of the new Federal
Bldg, which is to be held on Sat
urday or Monday.
Into the cornerstone will be
placed a box containing histori
cal or documentary papers in
cluding the signatures of all
citizens who care to have their
names there.
Anyone wishing to be included
must register with the City Clerk
before Saturday.
The time of the ceremony will
be announced in the Friday edi
tion of the Nugget.
Mayor Andersen, who is plan
ning the ceremony states that
a formal dedication ceremony will
be held in October when the
building is occupied, at which
time an impressive program is
planned.
Reds Say Alaska
Statehood Clears
Way for Aggression
MOSCOW, UP) — The Soviet
Army newspaper Red Star said
today statehood for Alaska had
turned it into “a military aggres
sive bridgehead” for an attack
on Russia and other Communist
lands.
In the first Soviet press com
ment on Alaskan statehood, Red
Star said the danger to peace was
especially acute in view of
British-American “armed inter
vention” in the Middle East.
'The paper said that, as a re
sult of its conversion to a state,
Alaska now faced greater U.S.
exploitation than ever.
Asserting it was acting in re
sponse to reader requests, Red
Star traced the sale of “Russian
America” by Russia’s Czar Alex
ander II in 1867 for IVi million
dollars.
The law to make Alaska the
49th state, the paper said, re
flected U.S. striving to find a
new, more effective form of
turning Alaska “into a military,
strategic bridgehead for an at
tack on the Soviet Union, the
Chinese peoples and other social
ist countries.”
British Columbia Fires
Cause Damage Estimated
At Over $26 Million
VANCOUVER, B.C., MV-Brit
ish Columbia is taking a look to
day at a huge bill from its current
heat wave—an estimated $26 mil
lion worth in fire-ravaged tim
ber, damaged crops and lost
wages.
There’s the prospect it may
reach $40,000,000 as dried-up
streams and high water tempera
tures threaten heavy losses to the
$15,000,000 pink salmon run.
The Forestry Department hesi
tated to estimate the value of
huge timber losses across the
province, but some reports placed
it at $20,000,000. The firefight
ing bill is approaching $2,000,000
and the loss in loggers’ wages is
about the same.
An army of 2,900 men is fight
ing 304 fires in B.C.
Already more than 1,000,000
acres of almost every type of
timber in the province have been
burned.
Here Are Primary Candidates For
State And Congressional Offices
JUNEAU, UR -1— There will be
Democratic contests in three of
five races as Alaskans vote Aug.
26 in a primary election to nomi
nate their first candidates for
state office.
The primary on the Republican
side will be only a formality.
The deadline for filing passed at
midnight Monday night with a
single GOP candidate seeking
each nomination.
The Democratic contests will
be in the nomination of candi
dates to the U.S. House of Rep
resentatives, to the governor’s
office and to the office of secre
tary of state.
Democratic candidates were un
opposed for nomination to the
two U.S. Senate seats that will be
open to Alaska if residents ap
prove immediate statehood in
special balloting at the same time
as the primary election. *
For the first time, 19 and 20
year old residents will cast ballots
in Alaska, where cross-voting be
tween parties is permitted at the
primary.
Unopposed in the primary and
slated to run against each other
in the Nov. 25 general election
|or Alaska’s so-called U.S. Sen
ate “Term A” are Democrat E. L.
Bartlett, for 14 years Alaska’s
non-voting delegate to Congress,
and Republican R. E. Robertson,
a lawyer and former mayor of
J uneau.
Former Gov. Ernest Gruening,
was unopposed for his parties
nomination to Senate “Term B.”
He will oppose in November
Alaska’s present governor, Re
publican Mike Stepovich, whose
resignation as appointed territor
ial chief executive was mailed
Monday to the President to clear
the way for his bid to elective
office. '
The length of each of the Sen
ate terms is to be fixed when the
new senators from Alaska are
seated in Congress.
Candidates for the single U.S.
House seat from Alaska will be
Democrats Ralph Rivers, Fair
banks lawyer and Ray Plummer,
Anchorage lawyer, and Republican
Henry Benson of Juneau, present
territorial commissioner of labor.
A three-way Democratic race
for gubernatorial nomination will
be staged among William Egan
Valdez, Territorial Atty. Gen. J
Gerald Williams, Juneau and Vic
Rivers, Anchorage engineer, presi
dent of the last Territorial Sen
ate and brother Pf Ralph Rivers.
The GOP candidate for gover
nor is John Butrovich, Fairbanks
insurance agent and a veteran
territorial senator.
Territorial treasurer Hugh J
Wade, Juneau, and Richard J
Greuel, Fairbanks, speaker of the
1957 Territorial House, will op
pose each other as Democrati
candidates for Secretary of State
Karl Dewey, Juneau, former terri
torial tax commissioner, is the
Republican candidate.
2nd Division
Filings For The
Aug. 26 Primary
Senalor-at-large, 4-year term
Bill Beltz (D), Unalakleet
Chuck Frazier (R), Nome
Senalor-al-large, 2-year term
Art Johnson (R), Unalakleet
Les Bronson (D), Nome
Senator from Districts 21 and 22
Edith Bullock (R), Kotzebue
Eben Hopson (D), Barrow
Senator from Districts 23 and 24
Charles D. Jones (R), Nome
John McNees (D), Nome
For Representatives
District 21
John Nusunginya (D), Barrow
District 22
Rodney Lincoln (D), Kotzebue
Johnny Curtis (R), Kotzebue
District 23
Frank Degnan (D), Unalakleet
Clinton Gray (R), Nome
Bob Blodgett (D), Teller
Charles Fagerstrom (D), Nome
Tom Martin (R), Nome
District 24
John Emel CR), Alakanuk
Axel Johnson (D) Kwiguk
Lawrence Paquette (D), Kwiguk
World Famous
Puppeteers To
Come To Nome
A real treat has been an
nounced for the children of Nome
through the courtesy pf the USO
and the Chandler Bros., world
famous marionette troupe who
are touring Alaska and visiting
military installations.
They are to present their mari
onette (puppet) show here “Por
trait in Miniature Revue” on
Monday evening in the multi
purpose room of the school.
The performance will be free to
all children. After the show the
Chandler Brothers would like
to explain the working of their
marionettes or puppets as they
are sometimes called and show
children how they are made. In
several places they have stayed
long enough to conduct work
shops for not only puppets but
ceramics as well.
They are scheduled to arrive
late Saturday afternoon and the
show is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
If weather conditions make it
necessary to change the show,
an announcement will be made
over AFRS.
Faubus Given
Overwhelming
Primary Vote
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Uft—Gcv.
Orval Faubus yesterday won ai
overwhelming mandate to res: ;t
school integration in sweeping to
a third term Democratic nomi
nation.
“The returns indicate clearly
the sentiments of the peopl ’
Faubus said in a victory state
ment.
Crowds of jubilant supporters
overflowed into the street i.i
front of Faubus’ downtown cam
paign headquarters here and a
sound truck screeched “Dixie,"
the traditionally southern fight
song, as the outcome of the bal
loting in the preferential primary
became evident.
Faubus bowled over two op
ponents by the widest majority
ever ' accorded a gubernatorial
candidate in Arkansas. In this
heavily Democratic state, nomi
nation is tantamount to election.
Faubus amassed 255,086 votes.
Chris Finkbeiner, Little Rock
meat packer, received 56,846
votes, and Lee Ward a state judge
i from Paragould, 57,966.