THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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Bigger and Better
THE MIDNIGHT SUN FESTIVAL, which ended
last evening, was a success, everyone will agree.
These celebrations do not just happen, but take much
work and planning for many months ahead.
Last year, the Festival Committee, headed by
Johnny Stephanson and John McNees, got its start,
and the first wedge in the promotion of the event was
driven. Taking advantage of what was learned last
year, the Festival Committee for 1959 made 'a new
start, with more of the townspeople cooperating in the
event. It has taken a while to put over the idea of a
Midnight Sun Festival and promote it beyond the city
limits, but it has been done, and next year’s Festival
will be bigger and better than ever.
Much of the credit this year goes to a group of
active young people who have worked hard and har
moniously, and are deserving of recognition and a
word of praise from each of us. They are Del Kamp
mann of Alaska Airlines, Bob Harwood of Nome Drug
Store and Don Collis of A.C.S.
The community as a whole is already talking about
what shall be done next year to make the occasion
more elaborate and more interesting not only to resi
dents, but to the many visitors who will be hearing
about this year’s Festival by pictures and movies taken
the last three days.
Head - and - Shoulders Standout
IT IS NOT LIKELY that public confidence in the
Federal Bureau of Investigation as it is now con
stituted can ever be shaken. It is important to em
phasize some of the reasons which underlie this well
deserved respect and trust.
Under the dedicated direction of J. Edgar Hoover,
the FBI since 1924 has become one of the world’s
outstanding investigating agencies. Excellent admin
istrative control, thrift, good budgetary and account
ing procedures and careful planning have made it a
model of successful operation — a head-and-shoulders
standout among government bureaus.
From special agent to clerk in the organization,
Mr. Hoover’s personnel policies have created the
highest morale and espirit de corps. The high quality
of the bureau’s operations was highlighted again by
its record for fiscal 1958. During that year, 96.8 per
cent of persons brought to trial in FBI cases were
convicted. In this same period, over $132 million in
savings and recoveries to the Government were made,
as compared with the total of $105.5 million in direct
appropriations approved by the Congress for this
agency. This is something that every taxpayer can
well appreciate.
For outstanding^service and a job well done, every
citizen owes this country’s top investigative agency a
resounding vote of confidence.
GRASSROOTS OPINION
From the Williamsburg, Va., Gazette: Ten years
ago . . . the United States broke a tradition that had
existed since the founding of the Republic. Despite
the gloomy predictions of a minority, the United States
joined a peacetime military alliance — the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Op its 10th anniversary NATO stands as the hope
of the free world. Bitterly reviled and opposed by the
Soviets — as it was — by Russian attempts to weaken
or dissolve it — NATO remains the great and indis
pensable bulwark against aggression in Europe or
North America.
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Fed Up!
THE U. S. PUBLIC is fed up with bureaucrats.
That is the finding of a news poll, made in mid
April. . Those polled were asked whether, based on
their experience, they preferred dealing with the
employes of government or of private business. The
result: private employes, 65.5 per cent; government
employes, 12.5 per cent; about the same, 18.4 per cent;
no opinion, 3.6 per cent.
The critics of government employes, the poll adds,
used such words as “nasty,” “uncooperative,” “un
qualified,” and so on.
There are, of course, many excellent and dedicated
workers in government service. But, that aside,
bureaucracies tend to develop an attitude of indiffer
ence and outright contempt toward the citizens who
foot the payrolls. That good old term, “public serv
ant,” seems to have pretty largely lost its significance.
French Cuties Find U. S.
Necessities Too Dear
LAS VEGAS, Nev., UP) — “Buy
a car. It’s cheaper than taxis.”
“Try and survive without a doc
tor, because even a shot costs $10.
Under no circumstances go into
a hospital unless convinced you
are dying, because it costs $20
a day.”
These are some of the sugges
tions left for a group of curvy
incoming European beauties by a
group of curvy outgoing European
beauties.
The first troupe of girls from
the Lido de Paris show spent near
ly a year here. The new group
arrives next Tuesday.
JUST CLEANING UP . . .
EDINBURGH, Tex., UPt—“There
is no legacy like honesty,” the
sign said.
Below it. on the bulletin board
of Pan American College, were
tacked dollar bills. A student
needing a small loan could take a
bill or two, with the understand
ing it would be repaid as soon
as possible.
1/ all worked fine, officials
said, until four nonstudent juven
iles dropped in. They cleaned off
the board — $27 worth — with
no plans for repayment.
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SMART SOMNAMBULIST . . .
CINCINNATI. Ohio, UPi —
Sleepy Travis Zellis, 28, literally
snored his way out of the county
jail last week.
Zellis had been given a 90-day
sentence May 1 for stealing an
amplifier from a night club.
But soon after Zellis was
jailed, Judge Simon L. Leis and
probation officials began receiv
ing calls from the jail warden,
and the sheriff.
It seemed that Zellis snored
day and night. He couldn’t stay
awake on any job- He snored so
much during the day that other
prisoners could’t work and made j
so much noise at night they j
couldn’t sleep.
Judge Leis decided he had to be
released — on three months’ pro
bation.
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Big Four Recess
Without Progress
In Berlin Deadlock
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
GENEVA, UP) — The Big Four
foreign ministers Saturday re
cessed their conference until
July 15 without breaking the
East-West deadlock on Berlin.
Western ofifcials forecast a new
Soviet drive for the summit fol
lowing the failure of the talks.
They said Soviet Premier Khrush
chev is trying to frighten the
Western powers into a summit
conference instead of offering
concessions on Berlin as a lyre
to the West. •
U. S. Secretary of State Chris
tian Herter and other Western
diplomats are reported to have
decided two weeks ago that this
was Khrushchev’s strategy. West
ern interest in breaking off the
negotiations here dates from that
time.
The West came to Geneva be
lieving it held one trump card
— Khrushchev’s desire for a
summit meeting.
In .Herter’s view the foreign
ministers’ conference took a bad
turn about two weeks ago when
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko proposed a one-year
time limit on Western occupation
of West Berlin. The West de
nounced this as a Soviet ulti
matum.
Eisenhower has taken the po
sition that nothing produced so
far by the Geneva conference jus
tifies a summit session. Prime
Minister MacMillan of Great Bri
tain believes, as he has all along,
that failure here makes a meeting
at the summit even more neces
sary.
Reviewing the six weeks of ne
gotiations here. Western authori
ties insisted that Herter, British
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
and French Foreign Minister Mau
rice Couve de MurvilJe had given
away nothing of substance to the
Russians.
In '.heir view, Khrushchev and
Gromyko had not changed their
insistence on forcing the Western
powers out of Per bn and this
was the crucial issue.
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