CLINTON GRAY APPOINTED
TO SCHOOL BOARD
The Nome City Council and
the Nome School Board met to
gether yesterday and ironed out
its difficulties concerning the va
cancy created on the School
Board by the resignation of
George Bayer.
Clinton Gray’s appointment by
the Council was accepted. The
board now consists of Ash Craft.
Roy Snyder, Robert Oksoktarok.
newly elected member Paul Man
deville and Clinton Gray.
WIEN AIRLINES TO
HAVE CIRCLE TOUR
Wien Airlines wil initiate a
new circle tour on May 12th when
a chartered F27 will leave Fair
banks for Barrow where they
overnight, proceed down the coast
to Kotzebue where they will over
night and on Sunday will spend
several hours in Nome before re
turning to Fairbanks. This circle
trip is one that has long been an
ticipated and has now been made
possible by the Wien Airlines
F27s. The plane has been chart
ered by a group from Eielson
AFB.
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ANNUAL SCHOOL PLAY
PRESENTED FRIDAY NIGHT
The annual school play was
presented Friday evening in the
school auditorium under the di
rection of Karl Wombacher.
This year the play was a mys
tery entitled “Drums of Death”
with a cast of 10 students.
A poll of the Nugget newsboys
gave JoAnne Reed the most out
standing player with Clarice
Hardy and Curtis Chunn not far
behind.
All the players were well cast
and thoroughly enjoyed by the
audience.
Stage crew who kept the eerie
sound effects going were Tom
Boucher, Nick Longley, Grant
Doyle, Clint Gray Jr., and Jeff
Grant.
The cast enjoyed a party fol
ving the play at the home of
.he director.
NOTICE
A regular meeting of the Order
rr Eastern Star is scheduled for
this evening. A social hour is
p anned following the meeting.
All visiting members are specially
invited to attend.
—Barbara Martin, W. M.
ANB MEETING
THURSDAY — 8 P.M.
ANB HALL
STUDENTS PRESENT
SPRING PIANO RECITAL
Mrs. Boyd Harwood presented
her first and second year piano
students in recital yesterday at
the Lutheran Church in a spring
recital.
Students participating were
Walter and Laura Maakestad.
Debby and Carrie Ann Ullrich,
Peggy and Barbara Schick, Greg
ory Bayer, Michael and Jean
Blanning.
Each year Mrs. Harwood in
vites a former student to parti
cipate in the program as a guest.
This year Pamela Mulvihill was
the guest and participated with
a clarinet solo.
Accompanists for the duets
played were Mrs. Jim Blanning
and Mrs. Harwood.
25 TOUR AGENTS TO
ARRIVE HERE SUNDAY
Tour season is starting and one
of the earliest scheduled state
side tours will be a group of tour
agents from key points totaling
about 25 who will arrive here
next Sunday and spend about
five or six hours during which
they will be given lunch and a
tour of the city. From Nome they
will go to Kotzebue where they
will stay overnight and be enter
tained. The tour is headed by
Frank Whaley of Wien Airlines.
Planning Commission
Holds Its First Meeting
The Nome Planning Commis
sion appointed by the mayor
recently held its first meeting
Saturday and organized into a
functioning group with Howard
C r i n k 1 a w as president, Don
Hoover as vice president, and Ella
Tanner as secretary.
A regular schedule of meetings
to study Nome’s needs in the way
of development as well as indus
try incentive will start next week.
Arrivals and Departures
Leaving for Fairbanks were Jim
Patterson, Roy Wright, D. Stog
ncir, John Langhausen, Don Hall,
John Reader, Margaret Swan
berg, Jack Coulter, Rev. Opsahl,
Corinne Snyder, Donna Kline and
Chuck Titus.
Arrivials from Kotzebue are
Sally Gallchorn, Earl Towner,
Walter Jerde, Bill Whitney, Eu
gene Romzek, John Lustman, Bes
sie Kanooka, Paul Dawson, John
Gill and Virgil Passanti.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Jeffrey Sanders,
Abraham Takrak, Sally Gallehorn
and infant.
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Former Unalakleet Man
! George Kootuk Passes
| ANCHORAGE — George Koo
tuk. who according to a daughter,
was over 100 years old. died last
week at the Alaska Native Hos
pital.
Records at the hospital, based
on information given them by
Kootuk when he entered there in
October 1959, indicate he was 78.
i But his daughter, Mrs. Eula
Keith Kenny of Anchorage, said
Kootuk was born in the Kusko
kwim River area more than a
century ago. She said she is the
; only survivor of his 14 children,
12 of whom lived to maturity.
Kootuk was a lontime resident '
, of Unalakleet, she added.
Mrs. Kenny told doctors that |
in 1960 a friend of the family,
then 85 years old, related how,
while as young boy, he remember
! ed Kootuk as a grown man.
| JUNE ERXLEBEN AND
ART SANDSTROM WED
June Erxleben, daughter of
Mrs. Edith Lacey of Port Angeles
I and Art Sandstrom of the Alaska
Communications System here
were married in Seattle on April
! 24 it was anounced today, at the
Chamber of Commerce meeting, j
The bride is expected to join her |
| husband here soon.
ARRIVALS
Peggy Kelliher returned from i
! Juneau where she has been at- |
j tending a special meeting of the :
' Board of Education. Also arriving
I were E. P. Murphy, Don Hoover,
Boyd Harwood, Dick Abel, Earl
Bott and Chuck Titus.
Dan Jones of the Department
of Land Management arrived
with Julie Gibbins who will open
the local office starting today.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gallehorn
are the parents of a son born
on April 28.
Trans World Airlines To
Purchase 26 Boeing Jet Airliners
SEATTLE (/P> — Trans World
Airlines announced today the
purchase of 26 . advanced-model
Boeing jet airliners and the lease
of four more at a cost of $187
million.
The Boeing Airplane Co. said
the order brings to 400 the num
ber of 707, 720 and 727 jet trans
ports sold to 25 of the world’s air
lines and the U. S. government.
SMOKE, BUT NO FIRE . . .
PHILADELPHIA Uf) — Offi
cials of the suburban Clifton
Heights School Board were work
I ing overtime on school business
Sunday night when the building
filled with smoke.
They went from classroom to
classroom but couldn’t find a fire.
An alarm was sounded, summon
ing three fire companies.
The firemen couldn’t find a
fire, but they got rid of the smoke.
They reversed the air intake
system that had drawn in smoke
from bonfires in the area.
NOME BOWLERS. INC.
The annual meeting of stock
holders of Nome Bowlers, Inc.
will be held at the City Hall,
Nome, Alaska, on the 9th day of
May, 1961, at 8:00 p. m., for the
purpose of electing directors, and
for the transaction of such other
business as may be brought be
fore said meeting. The stock
transfer books will be closed at
5 o'clock p. m.. April 27th, 1961,
and remain closed until 10 o'clock
a. m.. May 10th, 1961.
Charles W. Frazier,
Secretary
Pub: April 28, May 3, 8, 1961.
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